Chapter 172.

“Look for more.

It’s not harsh if we can’t find it, we’ll look for one more day at most.

A day later, the first poisonous mist will come pouring in, and if we still haven’t found it, we’ll set off and head to the Nine Heavy Mountain.

There, there is a fourth-grade spiritual plant for sure.

Even if we can’t have it all to ourselves, if we can pick one, two, two thousand years of Enlightenment Tea Tea Leaves, it will be considered a worthwhile trip.”

Immediately after, that Liu Xishan only really opened his mouth, revealing an uplifted look and said.

“Then why don’t we go over there now?

If we go late and the Enlightenment Tea is picked empty, wouldn’t it be a pity?”

At this time, that Qu Ying then couldn’t help but ask.

“We can’t pick it even if we go now.

That Earth Demon Bear isn’t a vegetarian.

It needs at least five Early Foundation Establishment cultivators to join forces before it dares to fight.

Even if we go over now, we can only wait ……”

Liu Xishan obviously had a plan in mind and shook his head, “Generally speaking, the Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators who enter the Divine Wind Valley have a tacit understanding.

That is to treat the five days before the first surge of poisonous mist as a period to collect treasures.

During this period, no matter which team it was, they all collected all kinds of spiritual materials and spiritual treasures and Foundation Establishment Spiritual Objects as much as possible.

It was only after the fifth day, after the first poisonous fog came, that they would consider going to the place where each fourth-grade spiritual plant was located, that is, the core of the spiritual veins of the four regions.

Because wherever a fourth grade spiritual plant is located, there will inevitably be a certain number of powerful demonic beasts guarding it.

Generally speaking, they were the most powerful demonic beasts of each region.

For example, the Earth Demon Bear in the Nine Heavy Mountains, the Bloodthirsty Berserk Wolf in the Black Dense Forest, the Purple Ink Poison Mang in the Poisonous Mist Swamp, and the Flying Divine Eagle in the Yellow Stone Territory.

All of these demonic beasts, at their weakest, were mid-stage Foundation Establishment Realm or above existences.

Fighting alone, no Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator would be a match.”

As Liu Xi Shan spoke, his gaze suddenly flickered and looked in a distant direction.

It was only then that his gaze shifted away, a trace of doubt appearing on his face.

tan san silently vanished from the ground, secretly lamenting in his heart, the perception of a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator was really sharp, he had only subconsciously dropped his gaze on the other party’s body, and it was detected by him at the first moment.

Fortunately, he had been maintaining his Breath Convergence Technique, Stealth Technique, and other means, which prevented him from being exposed.

“So, those Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators have long understood the conditions within this Divine Wind Valley.

Knowing that the only place where Spirit Plants above the fourth grade are found is at the core of the Spirit Veins of the four major regions.”

After leaving, tan san’s brows could not help but wrinkle slightly.

However, thinking about it, he himself was able to grade geomancy, search for dragons and points, and with that mountain and river terrain map, he was able to see the structure of the spiritual land in the entire Divine Wind Valley, so naturally, other people could as well.

Not to mention, such a Divine Wind Valley roundup, which occurred every ten years, had already been conducted ten times.

“However, the core place of the spirit veins in this black dense forest is actually harboring a Bloodthirsty Berserker Wolf that is above the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.

It seems like it’s not that easy to successfully obtain that piece of fourth-grade spirit plant that might exist.

Not to mention, fifty years ago, a Fourth Grade Spiritual Plant Divine Fruit had already been born here, and it was precisely the Divine Wind Valley Marketplace’s Marketplace Master, Ye Yanxiu, who had taken it over.

Fifty years, this place is not necessarily able to give birth to a fourth grade spirit plant again ……”

tan san calculated in his heart, but his face did not change much.

He didn’t have much hope for this in the first place.

When he encountered a Foundation Establishment demonic beast on the road, he avoided it as much as possible, and naturally, he wouldn’t fight with a demonic beast above the mid-Foundation Establishment stage because of the fourth-grade spiritual plant.

That wasn’t taking a risk, it was looking for death.

He is still adhering to the previous idea, all the way to explore the terrain, check the direction of the earth’s qi, and observe the spirit vein nodes …….

A piece of third-grade spirit plant was then pocketed by him.

“Hmm?

The spiritual qi here is obviously much more abundant.

It seems that I have entered the center of this black dense forest, the Spiritual Vein Core Land area.”

The moment tan san stepped into a certain area, he sensed something amiss in his surroundings and instantly realized.

Here, it was precisely the Spiritual Vein Core Region of the Black Dense Forest.

He followed the direction of the influx of earth qi, observed the direction of the spirit veins, and after judging the new spirit vein node, he carefully approached it.

After tens of breaths, his eyes lit up.

“Third grade spirit plant, purple linden.

This is a good item for enhancing qi and blood and strengthening the strength of the physical body.

This Purple Bodhi, grows for three hundred years, blossoms for fifty years, bears fruit for fifty years, and takes a full four hundred years to completely mature.

This Purple Bodhi plant has already produced Bodhi fruits, and there are a total of nine Bodhi fruits, almost three hundred and eighty, three hundred and ninety years of growth.

It is only more than ten years of annual time away from maturity.”

tan san muttered, and his gaze naturally searched the surrounding companion demonic beasts at the first opportunity.

Under the Derivation Technique, the source of the danger was sensed even earlier, so very quickly, he discovered the demonic beast’s trail.

“Foundation Establishment demonic beast, Black Striped Leopard!”

Even though the other party was hiding extremely deeply, it happened to be hiding on top of a large tree.

The tree, pitch black all over, even the leaves, were black in color, the most common black fir wood in this black dense forest, but it was still tan san who saw through the other party’s hiding at a glance.

“It’s a bit tricky.

A Foundation Establishment Realm Great Demon is not as easy to deal with as a first grade high level demonic beast.”

Despite saying this, tan san did not give up because of this.

If you can’t beat it, then run.

Although this Black Striped Leopard was also a Foundation Establishment Realm Great Demon, in his opinion, its strength was still weaker than the Blue-eyed Poisonous Inferno Mang that he had killed earlier.

As usual, the black-striped panther was hiding amongst the black cedar wood, lying there leisurely and very cozy.

As a top hunter within the Divine Wind Valley, it did not worry in the slightest that it would go hungry.

Every day, all it needed to do was to hide in the treetops and carefully conceal itself, and there would be countless fools that would see that Purple Bodhi Tree and quickly approach this way.

And whenever this time came, all it needed to do was to pounce downwards, and it would basically be able to have a hard full meal, without the need to go out to forage for food again.

The only thing that made it a little bitter was that the poisonous mist had dispersed again.

Every time this time, there would be a group of hateful guys that would come over and disturb its life.

I remembered that last time, there was a group of people who came over, and the one at the head was really difficult to deal with, causing it to suffer injuries and recuperate for several years before it got well.

Good thing, that group of people finally turned into its snacks, let it is very full meal.

That flavor, this thought, it was really a bit nostalgic.

Suddenly, its eyes lit up.

There is a person over?

This is to know the leopard master I am hungry, come over to deliver food?

But how is this person a little strange, jumping and jumping, a little abnormal.

No matter what, first eat a full meal before saying.

Without the slightest hesitation at all, it fiercely scurried out and slapped its paw fiercely on that person.

Puff!

That figure was instantly slapped to pieces and turned into a cloud of Yin Qi.

The black striped panther was instantly confused, not a person?

Then the next moment, its eyes went black and it couldn’t see anything, instinctively, it moved and quickly dashed to the side, but it only felt its body sink, as if a thousand pounds of pressure had fallen, and immediately after that, it felt like it had crashed into a cage and was locked in it.

Rumble!

In the next moment, endless thunderbolts, rapidly bombarded its body.

“Roar!”

The Black Striped Panther roared, and with a swipe of its claws, it had shattered the cage, and was about to scurry out when it saw three flying swords charging in a zigzag pattern.

Boom!

Its body lurched, and the endless heavy pressure, once again descended, then its eyes once again went black, and then the familiar cage landed.

Then it raised its head openly, and with a spray from its mouth, endless astral winds instantly erupted from its mouth.

Sure enough, in the void, once again, endless thunderbolts blasted down, colliding with its astral wind.

It was just that it defended itself from above, but failed to defend itself from below, as three flying swords flew across its body.

Bared bared bared!

Sparks shot out in all directions!

Its fur was too tough, and when ordinary flying swords landed on it, even the fur was hard to break through.

Two of the flying swords, however, were very sharp.

Poof! Poof!

One slashed directly at its throat, while one stabbed viciously along its ear.

Instantly, its tilted head dropped violently.

In the next moment, it felt a pain in its eyes again, and then it fell into endless darkness.

Dead!

Quickly! Quickly! Quickly!

tan san obediently leapt down from under a large tree, and his face could not help but show a hint of surprise.

He also didn’t expect that this time, his decapitation of this Foundation Establishment Realm Great Demon would go so smoothly.

First, he had used a spirit talisman to summon a hairy stiff to attract the other party’s attention, and then he had taken the opportunity to utilize the Black Sky Technique, Gravity Technique, Dungeon Technique. Small Five Elements Thousand Thunder Art, Small Three Talents Sword Art ……

A door spell that could be described as swift and incomparable, always playing out just the right amount of time.

So much so that this Black Striped Leopard, who hadn’t even been able to detect his figure at all, had already fallen and died in his hands.

“Perhaps, I’m a little stronger than I thought I was?”

tan san muttered, and since he did as he had done, he stripped out the demonic pills, the skin and fur of this Black Striped Leopard, before making use of the Spirit Seizing Technique in a smooth manner.

One can, two cans, three cans ……

A full five cans of demonic beast spirit liquid were then extracted by him.

Destroying the bodies with his Fireball Technique, tan san then arrived in front of that Purple Bodhi Tree.

“Five Purple Bodhi, just one step away from maturity.

However, judging from the traces on the fruit tree, this Purple Bodhi Fruit Tree should have originally borne a full nine Purple Bodhi.

Unfortunately, a full four of them were picked early and stolen and eaten.

If I’m not wrong, it should have fallen into the mouth of this Black Striped Leopard, otherwise, although its fur is tough, it wouldn’t have been able to make even my top-grade magic weapon flying sword, unable to penetrate to the extent that it did.”

Although tan san had some pity, he also knew that this was something unavoidable.

Although the demonic beast actually knew that this Purple Bodhi was bound to be at its best when it was ripe.

However, the Purple Bodhi was growing right there, emitting a tantalizing fragrance every day, so how could an ordinary demonic beast endure it?

For this Black Striped Leopard to be able to leave behind five Purple Bodhi and stay until this time, it was already very rare and precious.

“Three hundred and eighty-seven years old, only thirteen years until the four hundred years vintage ripens.

It’s quite fast to cultivate.”

tan san gathered his emotions, then hastily made a Yearning Wheel Technique.

Then, without the slightest hesitation, he quickly poured the Demonic Beast Spiritual Liquid that had just been extracted from the Black Striped Leopard’s flesh and blood into the Purple Bodhi Fruit Tree.

While pouring in the demonic beast spirit liquid, he also cast a spell to raise the fruit tree’s annual cycle time.

One year, two years, three years ……

Soon, the age of the Purple Bodhi Fruit Tree was raised to over three hundred and ninety years.

Then it was three hundred and ninety-one years, three hundred and ninety-two years, and three hundred and ninety-three years ……

“It’s true, the longer the duration of this yearly cycle, the more demonic beast spirit liquid that needs to be consumed.

The Demonic Beast Spiritual Liquid that was just extracted from this Black Striped Leopard is surprisingly not enough.”

tan san quickly took out some more Demonic Beast Spiritual Liquid out and poured it within the fruit tree.

Then, as he used his last Nian Rou Technique.

Buzz~!

The Purple Bodhi Fruit Tree’s Annual Wheel Time quickly broke through the three hundred year limit, reaching four hundred years of Annual Wheel Time.

Immediately afterward, there was immediately an endless amount of essence power that quickly poured into the five Purple Bodhi growing on the fruit tree.

Immediately, it caused those five purple Bodhi to completely transform into pure purple, and also become large and round, filled with a tantalizing fragrance.

At the same time, auspiciousness descended, and in the void, pure power of creation was immediately born and spread out in all directions.

tan san hurriedly and frantically operated the Pure Yang Five Elements Technique, quickly absorbing this pure power of creation, and then summoned his spirit dog Little Blackie and spirit insect Golden Armored King Flying Cicada to enjoy the baptism of this power of creation together.

One breath, two breaths, three breaths ……

Suddenly, tan san’s heart stirred and he violently opened his eyes.

Almost in an instant, he saw that in the extreme distance, there was a line of people rapidly rushing towards this side.

At the head of the group, tan san also recognized them, and had even dealt with them.

It was none other than the son of this Divine Wind Valley Marketplace’s Marketplace Master, Young Marketplace Master Ye Pingan.

Beside him, there was a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator, also from the Ye Family, said to be Ye Qianyuan, the second uncle of Ye Pingan, the younger brother of the Market Master Ye Yanxiu.

In addition to these two, there were seven or eight other people, either belonging to the same Ye family cultivator, or following some of Ye Pingan’s scattered cultivator powerhouses, and each of them was very weak.

Obviously, they were all attracted by the auspicious qi triggered by the maturity of the purple bodhi.

At this time, when they saw the five purple lindens growing on top of the fruit tree, their faces all showed excitement, among them, that Ye Pingan even shouted, saying, “I am the son of the workshop master, Ye Pingan, if you are willing to offer these five purple lindens, I will be willing to take you in and allow you to work behind me.

And recruit you as a Ye family envoy, enjoying all the cultivation benefits.”

tan san, however, didn’t pay any attention to it, reaching out and quickly plucking all five purple Bodhi, quickly placing them into a jade box and sealing them with a sealing talisman.

Immediately after that, he reached out and waved his hand, hurriedly putting away the Spirit Dog and the Golden Armored King Flying Cicada, and then he executed his Divine Walking Technique to the extreme, swiftly transforming into a spirit light, quickly running into this endless dense forest.

“Stop! Stop!”

Seeing this, Ye Pingan instantly became enraged and shouted sternly.

“Good guts, where to run?” Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator Ye Qianyuan’s face also changed, and with a throw of his flying sword, his entire body immediately leapt up.

Then he quickly chased after tan san in the direction where he was.

Only, the Black Dense Forest, lived up to its name.

There were extremely many trees here, and the shrubs were dense.

tan san’s speed was already extremely fast, and with the three spells of Convergence Art, Stealth Art, and then Transportation Art being performed at the same time, as long as the other party’s Divine Sense didn’t manage to lock on to him, even if it was a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, it would be difficult to track him down.

Therefore, in a short while, Ye Qianyuan turned back and sighed, “Letting him escape.”

“Second uncle, it’s not your fault.

I also saw his speed, it was indeed extremely fast.

If Second Uncle didn’t fly with his sword, he probably wouldn’t even be able to catch up.

It’s normal to run away.

However, although this person used a magic weapon straw hat to cover his face, for some reason, it always gave me a sense of familiarity.

Perhaps, it has been seen before?”

Ye Pingan waved his hand in relief.

Although he was interested in that Purple Bodhi and hoped to use it to enhance his qi, blood, and flesh power, it was not a must-have.

As the son of a workshop master, he had similar treasures to strengthen his body, and there was no shortage of resources.

It was just that the treasures that appeared in front of his eyes and disappeared all of a sudden made him a bit unwilling.

That is why he put his main gaze on that figure, vaguely, always felt somewhat familiar.

Only to recall it carefully, but never managed to recall it.

“Within the marketplace, any strong person will always show his head.

This person is at the ninth level of Qi cultivation, his strength is not weak, and his speed is so fast, it is very likely that he is one of the strong cultivators that we know within the market.

It is quite normal to have some familiarity.

Moreover, even if he is an unknown hidden powerhouse.

But just now, we have already seen his two spirit pets, a black spirit dog, and another, which seems to be a spirit insect, the Golden Armored King Flying Cicada?

With such characteristics, we will be able to quickly recognize this person once he reappears in the future.”

Ye Qianyuan’s face was calm as he spoke.

“Second uncle is right.

At that time, when I stand in front of him again, I would love to know what his reaction would be.”

Ye Pingan smiled faintly, his face filled with confidence.

“Take in? Follow? Become a Ye Family Offering?”

tan san’s figure burrowed out from beneath the ground, his face filled with a cold smile.

Back when he was in the middle of the black market, when he appeared as the Rune Maker Feng Hua Shangren, this young workshop master, Ye Pingan, had given this kind of promise, which he had rejected at that time.

And now again?

It seemed that this was his usual trick.

If it was an ordinary cultivator, he might have been moved.

After all, it was good to ride under a big tree, and by becoming a Ye family envoy, one could almost be unfavorable within the Divine Wind Valley Marketplace.

However, tan san didn’t care, his strength, means, relied on his own efforts little by little.

Regardless of what kind of power he joined, as long as it allowed him to cultivate peacefully, it made little difference to him.

Immediately after, tan san didn’t stay in the same place for long, and once again utilized his geomancy technique, the Dragon Pointing Secret Technique, to observe the spiritual veins and earth’s qi.

Soon, a spiritual vein node was found once again.

It’s just a pity that it was taken first.

Then the second, the third ……

“The spirit vein nodes around the core of this black dense forest spirit vein have almost all been raided by others.

Now only …… remains.”

Between the flickering of tan san’s gaze, he thought about it and still moved closer.

After an incense stick was burned.

tan san hid at the top of a large tree and looked remotely towards a place of a depression ten miles away.

A huge demonic beast that was two feet tall and had unparalleled athletic limbs instantly surfaced before his eyes.

“Bloodthirsty Berserk Wolf!

A mid Foundation Establishment stage demonic beast!”

tan san looked at the other party, even though it was just standing in place, it gave off a sense of heart-stopping fear.

Moreover, around it, there were many wolf demons.

It was clearly all led by it, occupying a large area around it.

“If the Fourth Grade Spiritual Plant was really born around its lair, then there’s no need to even think about it, it’s simply impossible to get your hands on it.

Unless, as Liu Xishan said earlier, at least five cultivators above the Foundation Establishment Realm join forces ……”

tan san just watched from afar, and knew that it was simply impossible for him to snatch that so-called Fourth Grade Spirit Plant under the eyes of the other party.

A tiger’s mouth grabbing food, that also depended on what kind of tiger it was.

In the end, don’t let the food not be snatched, but instead give the other party a mouthful of human snacks ……

“Earth Yin Lingzhi, Two Color Flower, Earth Mother’s Root, Heavenly Harmony Spirit Fruit, and Darkness Flower …… are three types of Foundation Establishment Spiritual Plants, as well as two Third Grade Spiritual Plants.

In other words, around that Bloodthirsty Berserker Wolf’s lair, there are a full five types of third grade spirit materials ……”

As tan san watched, he also utilized the Spiritual Eye Technique to continuously probe the spirit materials around it.

Almost no corner was spared, and even more so, he changed his position from time to time.

Finally, he was sure.

“There are no fourth grade spirit plants!”

It was not known whether it was a blessing or a regret.

In this way.

It was rather reassuring.

Without a fourth-grade spirit plant, he naturally wouldn’t be able to take the risk of messing with this bloodthirsty rabid wolf.

As a matter of fact, this was also what was in the minds of most of the cultivators who were spectating from afar.

They hid in the distance early on, observing everything around them.

After realizing that there were no Fourth Grade Spiritual Plants, they naturally retreated with them.

This included the Qingyuan Sect’s group that tan san had encountered earlier.

tan san also intended to leave.

His gaze then moved away from above that Great Foundation Establishment Demon.

Then, because of the relatively high position he was standing in at the moment, he happened to see the route he had taken all the way from the Nine Heavy Mountain.

Saw the locations of the Spirit Vein nodes that, one by one, he had marked and picked Spirit Plants from.

“If we take each Spiritual Vein Node as a base of the formation, then where the True Eye is located should be the core of the entire Black Dense Forest.

It is the most likely place to give birth to a fourth-grade spirit plant.

But why, from my orientation, the formation eye of the entire Black Dense Forest, or rather, the center of the spirit vein, is not the location of that Bloodthirsty Berserker Wolf’s lair?”

tan san was stunned.

Ever since he had studied Formation Techniques, and even more so, mastered the art of geomancy, searching for dragons and pointing out points, and obtained that map of mountains and rivers, he had come to understand one thing even more.

That was that in everything, there were laws.

The extension of a spiritual vein, its direction, would all follow a peculiar law.

Its true core area was inevitably the place where countless earth qi, spiritual qi, converged.

It was the absolute center of the entire spiritual vein.

However, when he looked with his Spiritual Eye Technique at this moment, judging from the direction of the surrounding earth qi and spiritual qi, the center of the entire black dense forest, although extremely close to the Bloodthirsty Berserker Wolf’s lair, was not there.

To put it in detail, it was at least ten miles away.

Although they belonged to the same Spirit Vein Core Region, they belonged to the two poles of this region, divided into two extremes.

“Where, is the true node of the Spiritual Vein Core?

The place where the Earth Qi, Spiritual Qi, and the power of creation converge?”

tan san observed, compared, and also calculated.

Constantly calculating from whichever direction, all were correct.

With a stirring in his heart, he didn’t bother to hesitate and hurriedly carefully approached over towards that one orientation.

Half an hour later.

tan san saw a group of people from afar, standing in a clearing, and his heart sank, “Oh no.

Discovered by the others first?

Moreover, it’s still that old acquaintance from the Ye Family, Ye Pingan.”

tan san’s face, immediately became ugly.

However, he soon realized that it was just a coincidence that this group of people had gathered here.

Or rather, they actually saw something, but after searching around, they didn’t find anything.

It was also at this time that the wind and clouds suddenly changed.

A huge wave of wind suddenly swept in from the distance.

Immediately afterward, an endless poisonous mist quickly filled the air, quickly enveloping the entire Divine Wind Valley.

Even the color of the sky darkened several times in a blink of an eye.

As far as an ordinary cultivator’s eyes could see, it was only thirty feet at most.

“The first wave of poisonous mist gas, it’s blowing in!”

Everyone’s hearts sank.

Some even took out their antidote pills quickly and swallowed them.

tan san hid on top of a tree, his Stealth Technique Convergence Technique performed to the extreme, and also silently swallowed an Antidote Pill.

His condition was much better than the others, under the Spiritual Eye Technique, the impact wasn’t too great, and he was clearly visible hundreds of feet away.

“Let’s go, to the Nine Heavy Mountains.”

“A fourth grade spirit plant was taken away from this place fifty years ago by the workshop master, it’s impossible for a second plant to be born so soon.

Instead of wasting time here, why don’t we go ahead and rush to the Nine Heavy Mountains and seize that Fourth Grade Earthly Treasure, the Thousand Year Enlightenment Tea.”

“Good! Go!”

Suddenly, only one person could be heard greeting.

A group of people from the Ye Family immediately began to respond.

Thus, they quickly left under the leadership of Ye Pingan, Ye Qianyuan.

It was only after confirming that they had gone far away and that there were no other cultivators around them that tan san smoothly arrived at the location where they had stopped before.

“From the records of the three books of Mountain and River Terrain Map, Dragon Point Searching and Geomancy, this is indeed the place where the earth’s qi is condensed, and it’s only right that it’s the place where the spiritual qi of the entire Black Dense Forest converges.

But why, here not only did not grow any spiritual plants, and even the spiritual qi, are not really abundant.

It’s not even as good as some ordinary spirit lands ……”

tan san carefully probed his surroundings, sensing the fluctuations in the surrounding spiritual qi, a trace of doubt appearing on his face.

Could it be that the records of those disciplines that he had obtained from Zhao Shanhe were wrong?

However, the Third Grade Spiritual Plants that he had harvested earlier were not fake.

The actual ones were all included in his storage bag.

“It’s not above ground, so is it underground?”

tan san quickly had a guess, and without hesitation, he directly utilized the Evasion Technique.

He only saw a flash of spiritual light on his body, then his figure lurched.

Then in the next moment, his figure had disappeared into the ground.

“Spiritual energy is depleting so quickly, the soil here is so hard?”

As soon as he disappeared into the ground, tan san quickly made a discovery.

That was that the depletion of the Spiritual Energy in his body was beyond his imagination, it was as if it was very difficult to penetrate through the incredibly hard Spiritual Energy ores.

However, he was not surprised, but rather pleased.

The more unusual it was, the more it could prove that there were secrets hidden within this underground.

He flew through the underground and then quickly made a discovery.

“Roots, so many roots.

It’s thick and strong.

And it encompasses an extremely wide range.

Most importantly, I finally found out what the problem is.

It turns out that the spiritual qi and earth qi here have all been absorbed by these rhizomes.

No wonder the aura above doesn’t show ……”

Within tan san’s eyes, a color of incomparable surprise immediately surfaced.