Such a loss can no longer be simply accounted for in Spirit Stones. Among the herbs that were burned, over a dozen were more than 6,000 years old—older than most people in the Hidden Stream. Divine Soils like the Breath Soil are exceedingly rare after all, and the herbs in the Immortal Plant Garden were truly grown year by year.
The worst part is that among the highly precious herbs in the six warmhouses, four have already died completely. The Blood Parasol tree is struggling on the brink of life and death, and even with the best Pill Masters tending to it, it remains in critical condition, liable to perish at any moment.
The Pill Masters listened with hearts bleeding, and every high-ranking official of the Hidden Stream bore an expression cold as frost.
Following that, an official from the Thorny Hall, responsible for investigating the scene, stepped forward to report:
