Chapter 1173 - 1273: The Panicked Crowd

After all, the resources outside the wall and the resources inside the wall are the same.

Some plants are common, some plants are uncommon. Everyone figured, as long as they took away the uncommon plants, that was good enough. Who cares whether those plants are truly precious or not? At least they're relatively rare.

As long as the plants are rare, then taking those plants is obviously much better than taking the common ones. After all, if those common plants run short, you can just risk going outside the wall and pick some of those ordinary plants directly.

But for those scarce plants, if you want to risk going outside the wall to get them, you'll have to search carefully, and keep searching for a long time before you can find them.

So everyone only went for the kind of plants that you just can't spot with a single glance once you're outside the wall, and as for the kind you can see at a glance, they decided they'd just come out and pick them when they needed them. After all, people with stronger cultivation can still show up outside the wall for a short time.

Never mind using Zero Force to block these Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and other negative auras—just relying on Magical Treasures alone is enough to hold out for a while. And in that short window, those high-level cultivators can easily find those plants. Besides, Tai Chu Zhenren also has the Chaos Treasure Lotus. If they're short of some relatively rare plant, they can still go outside the wall to look for it.

And once they have the Chaos Treasure Lotus, the amount of time they can stay outside the wall increases by a lot, instead of just that tiny moment.

Everyone started methodically searching for the plants they felt were relatively rare.

But no matter how "orderly" you try to make it, with that many people, it will slowly turn into chaos. And that's exactly what happened now: people started to disagree on how to classify certain plants.

"This one is rare. I've never seen this type outside the wall at all. And look, when you glance around, can you see anything like it?"

"No, this plant isn't rare. Look over there, you can see another one just like it."

"What the hell, that one is totally not the same. Their petals are different. Didn't you notice that plant's petals are khaki, while the one I'm holding is light khaki?"

The person who'd just been refuted looked at the so‑called light khaki in this guy's hand, and then at the khaki plant he'd pointed to before, and was instantly struck speechless.

"Oh, screw you!" After staying silent for a moment, he suddenly lashed out with a vicious kick at this guy who'd started spouting nonsense about khaki versus light khaki, for no other reason than that the guy clearly had something wrong with his brain.

What normal person even talks about the difference between khaki and light khaki? And what the hell is khaki anyway? What color is that? Isn't it just yellow‑brown? And yet he insists on calling it khaki.

But that one kick instantly broke everyone out of their busy rhythm.

They'd already been extremely panicked when they came here. They didn't really know what they should take and what they shouldn't, and were just going off their own gut feelings. Once things turned chaotic here, some people who couldn't make up their minds started kicking too.

And just as everyone started panicking, time ticked away, second by second.

By the time Tai Chu Zhenren appeared outside the wall, a full seven minutes had already gone by. In other words, during those seven minutes, they hadn't achieved any results at all, and had simply wasted seven minutes.

"What are you doing?" When Tai Chu Zhenren saw this scene, he exploded on the spot and shouted at everyone.

Only when they heard Tai Chu Zhenren's voice did they finally stop, then looked at him somewhat flustered, like they'd done something naughty and gotten caught red‑handed.

Which was exactly the case—they had messed up. Tai Chu Zhenren had already told them not to lose control, but they still descended into chaos anyway, and even wasted a full seven minutes for nothing.

If they hadn't wasted those seven minutes, they might already have taken away most of the important plants by now. But there was nothing they could do—they'd already thrown away that much time, and completely for nothing. During their panic, they'd even smashed quite a few plants.

Some plants had already started leaking Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and other negative auras, which made things extremely dangerous for them. After all, once those negative auras of Demonic Qi and Evil Qi invade their bodies, someone is bound to suffer qi deviation, and then they'll really start killing each other.

That would lead to massive casualties. Meaning they'd gone out just to pick things, but ended up causing huge losses. No matter what, Tai Chu Zhenren would never agree to something like that—especially when those casualties were completely avoidable. That's why, when he saw this scene, he got so furious and scolded them.

Once everyone heard Tai Chu Zhenren, they quickly stopped and then resumed searching for rare items in an orderly fashion.

The reason they were able to jump back into work so quickly after stopping was that, when Tai Chu Zhenren saw them freezing up, he took the chance to shout at them again: "Why did you stop? Our time is already tight, and you've already wasted seven minutes. Don't tell me you're planning to waste another seven minutes?"

When they heard that, everyone hastily returned to searching. And this time, they didn't start arguing again. Instead, they packed up everything they personally felt was rare, and before packing, they used an Array to place a Seal on these things. After all, if they didn't Seal them, the Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and other negative auras on these plants alone would be enough to devour everyone.

At this point Tai Chu Zhenren also joined the search. However, he knew full well that as long as these people showed up outside the wall—as long as the few people locked onto by the Power of Heaven and Earth outside the wall appeared out there—the reaction of the Power of Heaven and Earth would become much faster. But there was no other choice; Tai Chu Zhenren didn't dare let them continue searching on their own. Someone had to keep an eye on them, otherwise what had just happened would happen again: they'd start arguing, and waste even more time.

The other members of the Chang Sect saw that Tai Chu Zhenren had joined the search team, and hurried to join in as well. After all, they knew the Power of Heaven and Earth outside the wall was locked onto them, and since Tai Chu Zhenren had already gone in, there was no need for them to stay outside.

Because as long as any one of them appears in the qi‑locked zone, the Power of Heaven and Earth outside the wall will activate at high speed. No matter how many of them go outside the wall, it always operates at maximum speed.

Once the Sect Leaders of each Sect joined in, everyone's movements instantly sped up a lot—at least several times faster than when the Sect Leaders hadn't been there.