"Judging by how familiar you are with this place, you must have been here before," Zhu Yanyi said, looking at Yan Aohan with certainty.
Yan Aohan smiled faintly. "You should know. Only those madmen think they can hide from me."
Zhu Yanyi realized she had said too much. It seemed every move of the madman and the Yang family was under Yan Aohan’s watch. Yet, those people were smug, thinking they had escaped his notice. People could be proud, but blind self-satisfaction was dangerous. The Yang family and Yang Guanjing were clearly that kind of arrogant.
"Landing here is indeed safer," Zhu Yanyi said. She had learned from the plants why Yan Aohan chose this spot.
No one came here. It was barren, perhaps due to neglect, disdain, or confidence that no one would land here. The area was overgrown with weeds. Ordinary people avoided it, fearing not getting lost, but poisonous snakes in the grass.
But Yan Aohan and Zhu Yanyi were not ordinary. They walked here without being detected by anyone on the island.
"This place is actually quite good. And there are treasures here," Zhu Yanyi said with a mysterious smile.
She had learned from the plants that a Linglong Grass grew in the weeds.
Linglong Grass, also known as Flying Immortal from Beyond, was a heavenly wonder drug. Its seeds were not grown from earth, but gifted by heaven.
The seeds had to come from meteorites. When a meteorite fell, most things burned up. But this seed absorbed the meteorite’s vitality to survive. It grew over a long time, maintained not by humans, but by the meteorite itself.
Zhu Yanyi judged that this small island was actually a remnant of a meteorite. No one knew this secret.
"What kind of treasure?" Yan Aohan asked. Seeing her happy expression, he guessed it was a rare herb.
"Don't ask. Follow me, and you will see," Zhu Yanyi said. She led Yan Aohan and Gu Jun forward and soon found the Linglong Grass.
The grass was purple-red. Its leaves were oval with serrated edges. The veins in the center were bright red like blood, resembling human meridians. At the top, a flower bloomed with seven petals in seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple.
Zhu Yanyi approached carefully. She took out a jade shovel and dug up the Linglong Grass gently. She placed it in a jade box, added the surrounding soil, and closed the lid.
Gu Jun was speechless with shock. "Little Yan, was that the heavenly wonder drug, Linglong Grass?"
Zhu Yanyi nodded slightly and smiled. "Let's go. There is another one nearby, though younger. That one is for you, Brother Gu."
"For me?" Gu Jun couldn't believe there was a second one, nor that he would receive it.
"Yes. Good things are shared. I know that," Zhu Yanyi said. They walked about a hundred meters and found another one, smaller than the first. "Do you need a jade shovel?"
"I have one," Gu Jun said, his face full of excitement. "Really for me?"
"Yes," Zhu Yanyi nodded. She was not greedy. With her Ruyi Space, she could try planting and breeding Linglong Grass. She did not worry about lacking it.
If it were something else, Gu Jun might have declined. But Linglong Grass was rare and hard to find. He did not refuse. He took out his jade shovel and began to work.
As a disciple of the Saint Academy, he always carried such tools.
Gu Jun carefully dug up the Linglong Grass, placed it in a jade box, treated it like Zhu Yanyi did, and stored it away.
"There are such good things here, yet no one knows. That madman is looking for herbs, but he didn't even find this heavenly wonder drug right at his doorstep," Gu Jun said, feeling a bit of schadenfreude.
Zhu Yanyi said, "It depends on luck. This shows the madman has no luck. Otherwise, how could she have missed it?"
She thought for a moment, then said to Yan Aohan, "What if we flood this isolated island?"
Yan Aohan looked at her. "Why not check his laboratory first? You might find some useful data."
Zhu Yanyi tilted her head. "Of course I will go. Let's visit first, then flood the island."
That was quite willful. But Yan Aohan did not object. He nodded in agreement. "No problem. If you wish, we can flood it, or even burn the island down."
Zhu Yanyi giggled, happy with Yan Aohan’s support.
Gu Jun could not stand it. "Lord Yan, spoiling her like this is wrong. Why do you agree to everything she says? It’s like someone commits murder and arson, and you hand them the knife and add fuel to the fire."
Yan Aohan glanced at Gu Jun. "I am willing. I spoil my own wife. If you want, you can find your own wife to spoil."
In Yan Aohan’s heart, Gu Jun was just jealous.
Gu Jun laughed in anger. "I won’t marry a wife now. I mean, is it not bad to indulge her like this?"
"My wife is perfect in every way," the Venerable Yanluo said directly, siding with his own.
Gu Jun: (⊙o⊙)…
What kind of person was this? How could he be so willful?
Zhu Yanyi giggled beside them, very happy. She made a face at Gu Jun, showing off that she had a backer, and she could not even catch up in jealousy.
Gu Jun could only smile helplessly. Meeting this shameless pair, others would always suffer.
Yan Aohan led Zhu Yanyi and Gu Jun past the defense line. Zhu Yanyi looked at it. "This defense line is well-made. It has the feel of an army."
Yan Aohan sneered. "The madman bribed a group of international mercenaries and some domestic veterans. That is why there is this defense line."
Zhu Yanyi said, "They say honest people have nothing to hide. But this defense is so strict, and she is not an important figure. Why make it so rigorous? There must be something suspicious in the laboratory."
Zhu Yanyi became curious. She definitely needed to investigate the situation here.
"We will know once we go in," Yan Aohan said softly to Zhu Yanyi.