Concurrently, Wang Hao shared another piece of news.
Earthlings were slowly awakening, discovering that various unknown medicinal plants were emerging from the mountains and fields of Earth.
A farmer, while toiling, ate a bright red fruit and immediately opened his Qi vortex, stepping into the Qi Refining realm.
Before this, the farmer had never practiced any cultivation techniques, possessing only an unknown cultivation talent.
A five-year-old child, having accidentally swallowed a wild strawberry that grew overnight by his doorstep, developed a high fever that day. The next morning, his parents were shocked to find that their child had grown by dozens of centimeters, transforming from a five-year-old into a child of eleven or twelve!
His skin had also become fair, his lips and teeth rosy, his eyes clear, and he had directly become a Qi Refining realm cultivator!
Various pieces of news were posted online, causing the unsuspecting masses to buzz with excitement.
Many people began to speculate that these must be the legendary heavenly treasures, which could aid in cultivation, and perhaps even lead to immediate ascension to immortality!
No wonder those cultivators from Da Gan wanted to enter Earth for training; they were actually searching for these heavenly treasures!
Upon learning the truth, people became excited and began venturing out, searching the outskirts and wilderness for heavenly treasures.
That day, over a dozen news reports emerged about individuals being admitted to intensive care units after mistakenly consuming poisonous plants and mushrooms.
The comment sections were filled with netizens' jokes, advising people to distinguish between poisons and heavenly treasures, and to avoid stuffing anything they found into their mouths. At the very least, they could search on Baidu.
If they couldn't find any information, it was likely a newly emerged heavenly treasure, signifying good fortune, and consuming it would directly boost their cultivation and turn them into cultivators.
Of course, there was another possibility: it was a new species indigenous to Earth, yet undiscovered. In that case, it also signified good fortune, as the plant could be named after them, thus achieving fame.
Influencers, eager to capitalize on the trend, also began to educate their audiences about dozens of highly poisonous plants.
There were unfortunate souls who mistakenly consumed highly toxic plants, and there were also genuinely lucky individuals who found heavenly treasures and immediately experienced a significant surge in their cultivation after consuming them.
This greatly encouraged everyone, and more and more people joined the ranks of heavenly treasure seekers.
"Brothers and sisters, heavenly treasures belong to whoever finds them first. Why aren't you all searching? If you're late, those Da Gan cultivators will have plucked them all!"
"Damn it, why was my mushroom poisonous? It looked so bright and beautiful, with patterns on it, so much like the description of heavenly treasures! Now I can only lie in the hospital and can't go searching for heavenly treasures!"
"My classmate found a spiritual herb, took it, and became a Qi Refining cultivator on the spot. I'm so envious."
Once an opportunity was discovered, no one could remain idle. Everyone began to move, heading to the mountains and fields to search for heavenly treasures.
Globally, at least hundreds of millions of people were mobilized. Even those without cultivation talent joined in the excitement.
Perhaps they might find a miraculous medicine that could grant talent to those who lacked it?
Even if they couldn't consume them, these spiritual herbs themselves possessed immense value.
Already, wealthy individuals were offering exorbitant prices in the tens of millions, purchasing spiritual herbs worldwide without restriction. Soon, financial groups and institutions followed suit, offering increasingly higher prices.
The highest even reached over a hundred million!
This further motivated those searching for heavenly treasures. If they found one, they wouldn't have to sell it to these organizations; they would achieve financial freedom!
One hundred million! That's enough to last a lifetime without spending it all!
After listening to Wang Hao's account, Chen Wu's expression also turned serious.
"Earth has too many people. Hundreds of millions have joined the search for heavenly treasures, more than in the Great Wilderness. However, they are not cultivators and cannot sense spiritual energy, so their search efficiency will definitely be lower than ours," Chen Wu said.
"We should act quickly. Spiritual herbs won't be this easy to pick in the future."
Chen Wu nodded, and without further ado, led his group and turned into the mountains, beginning their search for spiritual herbs.
As for the demonic gods and evil deities who had slaughtered millions, they couldn't manage them. They deliberately avoided that area, lest they be crushed by a single finger from a demonic god.
With countless people joining the search for spiritual herbs, conflicts were inevitable.
For instance, if multiple groups discovered the same spiritual herb simultaneously, they would begin to fight over it, ultimately resulting in casualties!
The murderer, having seized the spiritual herb and realizing they had killed someone, panicked and fled into the forest, disappearing without a trace.
News of similar incidents was endless, causing a huge stir on the internet.
Gradually, everyone began to form teams and carry weapons to prevent themselves from being targeted and robbed.
This was because, by this point, the authorities could no longer intervene. The search for spiritual herbs took place in the wilderness, far from any surveillance cameras, and the sheer number of people involved made it impossible to manage.
This also made the governments of various countries realize that the era of cultivation had truly arrived. Many previous laws and orders were no longer suitable for the current times.
In the West, within the borders of a small country where the tragedy had occurred.
Special forces from Western countries, led by the United States, were assembling. Though not numerous, they were all elites and also a suicide squad.
They were now preparing to enter the most core area, a canyon.
The ground here was entirely covered in black soil. Upon closer inspection, one would notice that this soil was black with a hint of red and exuded an extremely strong smell of blood.
The soil, which should have been yellow, was now black because it had been saturated with a vast amount of blood.
The blood of all the deceased people in the entire small country seemed to be converging towards this canyon.
It was as if the canyon possessed a gravitational pull, drawing and draining the blood of all living beings within the country.
"Are you all ready!?" the commander asked with a solemn and stern tone.
"Ready!" the soldiers replied with resounding voices.
Their expressions were resolute, as if they were ready to die. Before coming here, they had already written their last wills.
Because this mission was a matter of life and death!
Their task was to pinpoint the location of the deity responsible for this massacre. If the deity was found to still be present, they were to transmit a message immediately.
Upon receiving the news, strategic bombers, nuclear submarines, and land-based nuclear missile silos would launch nuclear weapons, striking the so-called deity at speeds seven to eight times the speed of sound, eliminating the threat!
They themselves could not retreat and could only perish under the nuclear bombardment.
But such a sacrifice was worthwhile; at the very least, they would drag a deity down with them in death, and simultaneously eliminate a significant threat to Earth!
"Move out!" the commander said without further ado, leading his team, weapons in hand, deep into the dark, abyssal canyon.
The deeper they went, the blacker the soil underfoot became, and the more pungent the foul smell of blood grew.