One second.
Just one second! That's how close Chu Sheng was to being discovered by Mu Xiong as he entered!
If he had been discovered, given Mu Xiong's Eighth-Grade Realm Cultivation, Chu Sheng would have faced certain death.
There was no way Chu Sheng could have absorbed the Void Escape Lotus from the Spiritual Spring on the spot. An Eighth-Grade Spiritual Plant like this would probably take him dozens of minutes to drain completely.
That's why Chu Sheng's plan was to uproot the entire thing.
The higher the tier of a Spiritual Plant, the more difficult it is to preserve, as its environmental needs are much more demanding. Once picked, without a proper storage method, it would likely wither and lose all its potency.
