The herb grounds was in a different space than the trial grounds, to get there you need to pass through the eerily mist forest but once you were reaching deep inside mist forest instead of getting swarmed by stronger demonic beast you see a vortex and entering it transports you directly to the herb grounds, it was the only way to reach the herb grounds but you had to fight the swarm of demonic beasts at the entrance to the mist forest.
The herb grounds was in a different space altogether while the trial grounds was eerily dark and always night time , the herb grounds had a bright day, five beautiful mountains with a certain herb growing all over each mountain, it had a beautiful waterfall , and on this particular day you could see several people on each mountain, at this particular time they all seem to be irritated by something, two lower realm disciples approaching the herb grounds a place where only disciples of late beginning or early earth realm were welcomed who were these two who had even lower cultivation of the people on each mountain top one of the mountain in which disciples of the celestial sword sect took refuge one of the disciples spoke up and from his tone and clothes he wore he seem to be a status disciples they had seven disciples on this mountain he called for two of them and said
" Kill the two disciples approaching, if they are seeking death by coming here let's grant their wish "
They replied
" Understood"
They waited sneakingly at the entrance of the vortex to ambush the lower realm disciples approaching the disciple who have this order was named Wang xuan and he was the status disciple of the celestial sword sect and had averted his attention from the approaching disciples as he expected his surbodinates to completely obliterated them but to his surprise, immediately the lower realm disciples appeared they incinerated one of his two disciples .
It was Zhou Yu and fatty having taken care of the first one the second held back thinking he could escape but before he could make another move fatty had already condensed essence on his fist and used the phantom punch to put him in the ground, everyone was shocked and surprised this was not the outcome they were expecting Wang xuan was even more furious but could not do anything about it since he made a move without verifying the strength of the ones approaching and it had cost him two disciples and now the celestial heaven and celestial sword were short two people , fatty and Zhou Yu looked for yingyi and Wang fei immediately they spotted them they tried flying and it was possible they flew towards the mountain in which yingyi and Wang fei sat in waiting as they reached yingyi called for Zhou Yu , as he reached he asked why he was called and Wang fei asked about Liu Yang, Zhou Yu made a gesture using his fingers and Liu yang body flew out from his bag of holdings, Wang fei said
" Is your grudge so great you couldn't wait till we got back to the sect to settle it if we fail this trial you will give the sect leader an explanation"
Zhou Yu replied
" Stop sounding innocent you guys started it and I only ended it and suddenly I have to give an explanation to the sect leader and what will you give for starting this in the first place if the sect leader judgement is bias I'll leave the sect "
Wang fei laughed a bit then said
" How is it that we came to this world together but our comprehension of it are so vastly different he only needs to wave his hands to put you in a cage and you thought you could leave if you want fool, if you want fairness don't even come out of the trial grounds die here"
The golden bird told Zhou Yu
"He's completely right and after you defile his daughter if he doesnt chop you to bits and feed you to the dogs you'd be very lucky"
Zhou Yu was shook to his core he said
" what the hell are you talking about "
The golden bird replied
" Don't try to deny it if I can tell without you saying much do you think mu yong won't be able to unless you intend to die the celestial heaven sect is no longer for you"
Zhou Yu replied
" let's think about that on the eleventh month I have a far more pressing crisis "
Yingyi stepped in and stopped the both of them she said
" The both of you that's enough look "
Immediately they turned they found all watchful eyes on them they stopped and on the mountain where the disciples of the celestial beast taming sect where gathered a particular person eyes was fixated on these two it was yao guang and he was happy to see that the two people who ganged up on him were now fighting when suddenly we hear a clap , everyone sitting in cross legged position opened their eyes everyone chatting stopped , it was Wang xuan he said
" Since the members of the celestial heaven sect have finally arrived its time to proceed to the next stage the fifth mountain peak contain a lot of jade white grass which is the main ingredient for making spirit pills the rest can still be found outside the trial grounds only this jade white grass grows here you all know the rules so I don't need to repeat them so which sect is stepping forward "
Suddenly everywhere went deathly silent no one spoke up no one came forward even to Wang fei this was something he did not know about and he suddenly called out to yingyi and asked her what was going on if thats was the main ingredient why was no one stepping forward and then yingyi explained
" to approach the mountain peak is to first break the formation guarding it and even if you do successfully break it you would probably have very little essence left without spirit pills to replenish essence immediately do you think all the sect here will let us pick the jade white grass in peace unless you were a formation master who could break the formation without even using one percent of your essence the risk for this reward was too high most times all the sects wait it out here for months and months when they can't wait anymore they'll suggest joint breaking after that its survival of the fittest "
Then Zhou Yu spoke up
"what if I have a way to break the formation "