After listening completely to Shauna' report he pondered on what to do with her for now. He could have her go back and continue with her normal life.
Thinking this he suddenly had an idea, " Have you heard about Maroon fungus?"
After hearing this Shauna suddenly went into a deep thought process and after a minute said, "Master I think I have heard or even seen the herb you are talking about but just to be sure can you describe it's characteristics to me"
"It's maroon all over like its name says it grows on Model tree..." Knave slowly started to explain what Maroon fungus looked like.
After hearing what her master was saying the light in Shauna's eyes were almost sparkling. Nobody knew that as this was the first task her Master had told her to do she didn't want any kind if the mistake in it.
So hearing that what she had thought turned out to be the thing he Master needed made her glad.
" Master I know where this herb you are talking about grows, about half a year ago I was on a mission to kill some demonic beast and it was there that I had seen this herb.
There were a lot of this herbs growing there so I just want to confirm whether it is the herb Master wanted. Also I have another question about this herb but I don't know whether to ask or not?" Shauna asked.
"Oh! ask away" Kanve said.
"Master, there was a plant in there on which a herb you described was growing as well but the thing was its colour was red, not maroon," Shauna said.
As soon as he heard her say that the colour was red it was like a bolt of lightning had flashed past in his mind.
He suddenly started to remember about some of the final passages of the book that had mentioned about the Maroon fungus.
'From my search on this catalytic herb I have by chance come around with a Red Fungus. It's only growing on a thousand-year Model tree from my research, but as you know a model tree can live for at most 1000 years itself meaning that if you do not harvest the herb within a year it will become useless.
But as I researched more I found out that not all thousand-year Model tree has a Red fungus as it has many factors affecting it.
Still from my pill concoction, I found out that if you use this while making a Dantain opening pill, it not only increases the chances of pill concoction by a third.
It also improves the quality of the pill by a grade. But finding this herb is as hard as breaking through the Spirit refining realm itself as it depends on luck.'
Recalling the last page of the book of the alchemist gave the answer he was looking for. Suddenly, his face was filled with joy because of this news.
As he was spirit cultivating with his spirit root his aptitude could be considered a 3rd grade, meaning that his chances of breaking through the Spirit refining realm can also be considered at the same level until he can find a cultivation derived towards spirit soul.
From his memories, he recalled all that he had learned about the requirements for breaking through the Spirit refining realm. There were three methods to breakthrough this realm.
First, you could slowly try to grind the shackle that was present on the dantain with your efforts with a cultivation that was meant for a spirit refining realm cultivator after one reaches the peak of the shackled realm.
But this step in itself requires a lot of time as a person can only cultivate for six hours a day in spirit cultivation before his body tires out and as the person is cultivating a higher Rank cultivation manual the time decreases even more.