Three days later, Duan Li and Sovereign Thatched Mountain bid farewell to Luo Chen and departed together. Purple Spirit Island was left with only Luo Chen and Sang Jiugong. Meanwhile, Black King roamed the nearby seas, hunting low-tier demonic beasts and hauling their corpses back to the island.0

Within the island's basin-like valley, Luo Chen and Sang Jiugong crouched on the ground, carefully harvesting three Purple Monkey Flowers shaped like monkey brains. 1

Including the one on the cliff, that makes four… Looks like they're mine now. Luo Chen carefully stored them away in jade boxes, then watched as Sang Jiugong buried the mangled demonic beast corpses beneath the soil of the basin, including the body of the Abyss Crocodile King. Of course, Luo Chen had already removed every valuable material from the beasts, whether demon cores, scales, or wings. Only their blood, flesh, and bones remained untouched.4

After burying the corpses, Sang Jiugong covered them with thick layers of soil before taking out a jade bottle in front of Luo Chen and pouring about a bowlful of green liquid onto the land. Only after finishing everything did he finally let out a breath of relief. "The spirit veins here aren't anything special...1