Chapter 698: Tomb World (1/2)
”Nethergrass?”
Leon shortly found a name for the colored black grasses on the plain after a quick mental search in the Archive.
According to what he found out, Nethergrass only exists in environments with a heavy density of Darkness Profound Energy.
Back in his past life, the only place with such Darkness Profound Energy could only be found in the Divine Demon Region, the north region of the Divine Realm, a place forbidden by most races beside demons.
It was no surprise that all herbs local to such a place were foreign to him.
Leon shortly crouched down and harvested a few stalks of Nethergrass with tints of red glows on its tips, causing Aria and Darlene to pause beside him and glance over curiously.
”Is there something special about these black grasses, Leon?” Aria asked.
”Un,” Leon nodded before he said, ”But rather than special, I'd say it is simply interesting. Have you heard about the Law of Devouring?”
”The Law of Devouring?” Aria muttered, taken aback before she furrowed her brows and asked, ”The Law of Devouring is a Higher-order Law of Darkness, right? But what does it have to do these black grasses?”
”These stalks of Nethergrass contain the power of devouring, allowing them to devour other elements and absorb them. Nevertheless, the power of devouring is so minuscule, these stalks of Nethergrass can only devour a single type of element each,” Leon explained.
”For example, this stalk of Nethergrass with red tips contains some fire attributes after devouring fire elements, while these blue tips contain water attributes after devouring water elements.”
That being said, Leon had yet to find a usage for the Nethergrass.
Their ability to devour specific types of energy seemed helpful in cultivation somehow, but he had yet to figure out if they can be used for pill concoction in alchemy.
”I see…” Aria uttered while gazing at the stalks of Nethergrass in Leon's hands.
After a moment, she furrowed her brows and said with a frown, ”From what I can see so far, this Eternal Night Secret Realm seems to benefit demons more than it does humans.”
”Well, we've only seen one part of it so far. Perhaps there will be something useful to us in other areas,” Leon said before adding, ”Although I doubt it will be much different if it's called the Eternal Night Secret Realm.”
”Still, the Battle Masters all utilize Darkness Profound Energy to cultivate their bodies, so this sort of environment is also perfect for their cultivation.”
That being said, none of the three practices the Dark Continent's body forging methods, which is why Aria could not see the benefit in them.
A few minutes, Aria knitted her brows and muttered, ”I wonder how far this field of Nethergrass is going to extend.”
”We can only find out once we reach the end of it—whenever that is,” Leon replied.
”More importantly, looking at the alignment of stars in the skies, it doesn't seem we are still on Gaia, but at the same time, I don't think we left Gaia either… How strange…”
”There seems to be something up ahead!” Darlene suddenly tugged Leon's sleeve and pointed into the distance ahead.
”Hm? Let's check it out.”