The gnome burst forth from the Illusion Bead, closely followed by Violet.
Emma and Debby had already seen the two appear like this before, so their sudden appearance didn't take them by surprise.
The gnome led them to go deeper inside the Barren Mountain.
"I found something good,"
the gnome said with enthusiasm.
He dashed forward, clearly excited.
Austin and the three girls quickened their pace to keep up with him.
Moments later, they stopped in front of a hole which was a hundred meters wide.
"There is spiritual grass down there," the gnome said.
He jumped down into it.
Austin and the girls activated their bodily movement skills and followed him.
They went down for over a hundred meters. After quite some time, they finally made it to the bottom.
There were a dozen patches of green grass on a flat area. Each featured seven leaves with a vivid pattern of a demon.
Austin spotted these herbs immediately.
"These are seven-demon spiritual grasses," he exclaimed with unabated joy.
The seven-demon spiritual grass was a grade-eight herb which could be used as an ingredient for elixirs which could enhance cultivators' spiritual sense or heal their souls.
Since these herbs were extremely rare, they weren't typically for sale in the market.
Because of this, the eighth-grade seven-demon spiritual grass was actually much more expensive than some ninth-grade spiritual herbs.
Austin had only ever heard about it.
But now over ten seven-demon spiritual grass were in front him, and he was elated.
As he was about to pick up these herbs, he stopped and furrowed his eyebrows.
Many black shadows showed up and came at him and his companions.
'Demonic dogs again!
There are over sixty of them.
Looks like they're everywhere!' Austin thought.
With a wave of his left hand, he collected all the seven-demon spiritual grasses and stored them into his Space Ring.
He unsheathed out his Lightning Sword with his right hand and waved it at the demonic dogs.
Streaks of thunderbolt sword aura he had released came at his targets, each one being fifty times as fast as the speed of sound.
With the blasts of thunder and lightning, all the demonic dogs hit by the sword aura instantly transformed into gusts of smoke and dissipated into nothingness.
"Those demonic dogs were as strong as Astral Realm cultivators,"
Violet murmured.
'Austin took care of these powerful demonic dogs effortlessly.
If it were another Astral Realm cultivator, he would have ended up being ripped to pieces before picking up those seven-demon spiritual grasses, ' she surmised.
"Here you are."
Austin took out five seven-demon spiritual grasses and handed them to Emma.
'Emma and Debby are kind people, and they are here too. They deserve these, ' he thought.
"Well, we can't take them..." Emma refused immediately, shaking her head adamantly.
Austin's reaction caught both Emma and Debby by great surprise.
'Grade-eight spiritual herbs are too precious. We surely can't take them, ' the two girls thought.
"Sir-- Austin, we only need to find the elixirs which could cure our father's illness.
You don't need to give us other things," Emma said.
She was aware that Austin was the entire reason that she and her sister were able to look for elixirs in the Barren Mountain without getting hurt or killed.
So she thought it inappropriate for them to take other precious natural resources Austin had found.
"Just take them.
Now that you're with us, of course I should give some to you."
Without waiting for Emma's response, he took her hand and pressed the spiritual herbs into her palm.
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