Chapter Eighty-Three: Two Hundred Miles Away
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There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, the sky outside had just revealed a glimmer of light, and there were bursts of greeting voices in the valley. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Hearing the movement, Ye Zhuo and Li Qiu in the cave also held the exercises and opened their eyes, and before the two of them could stand up, they heard Linghu secretly waving at them: "Come here, show you some good things." As he spoke, he looked at the entrance of the cave, as if he was afraid that others would find out the slightest clue.
This guy didn't come back until the second half of the night yesterday, and after he came back, he went back and forth in the cave several times, Ye Zhuo was muttering in his heart at that time, I don't know what this guy wants to do without resting, and then I know that this guy wants to show off, and I don't want to interrupt my cultivation with Senior Brother Li Qiu, so I have been holding back for so long, and it is difficult enough for him.
Laughing secretly in his heart, Ye Zhuo, who got up, said very knowingly: "What kind of baby, let Senior Brother Linghu value it so much, I really want to see it." ”
Li Qiu didn't speak, but he smiled cooperatively and walked towards Linghu with a mysterious face.
When the two approached, Linghu looked back at the entrance of the cave a few times, and didn't see anyone, so he took out a small bag from his arms and spread it out in front of the two, revealing three dead grass stalks, with a few yellow leaves scattered on them.
There was no fluctuation of aura, only bursts of pungent smell escaped, and Ye Zhuo and Li Qiu looked at each other with some doubts in their eyes.
Seeing that the two were speechless, Ling Hu said very proudly: "I don't know." Let you know about cultivation and cultivation, I missed yesterday's excitement, but fortunately I went, otherwise I would have missed this good thing. ”
"Senior Brother Linghu, if you have something to say, hurry up, don't say that we are going out!" Ye Zhuo pulled Li Qiu to leave
"Cut, I won't regret killing you when I go out, I'll tell you, this thing is called dragon bait grass. ”
"What is the use of dragon bait?"
Ye Zhuo glanced at Ye Zhuo with disdain and said: "I haven't seen the dragon bait, you always know the bait, the bait is used for fishing, what do you say the dragon bait grass is used for?"
"Isn't that nonsense, isn't it possible that there is a dragon for you to fish? Even if there is, with a few of us can catch it, a sneeze will blow us out of 108,000 miles. "The name of the dragon is well known in the world, and all the ordinary emperors regard themselves as dragons, but it is like the name of the five grains in Chi Tianzong, Qingniu Lihuang, they are all legendary existences, no one has really seen them at all, and even their images do not know whether they are made up or fabricated by their predecessors, more often than a symbol.
"And, the loss depends on the detailed rules you took a detailed article, didn't you see that there is a demon beast called the fish dragon?"
"Yes. After all, it was not as professional as Brother Qian'er, and he was despised repeatedly, Ye Zhuo lost his interest in praising it, and pouted: "The fish and dragon are second-grade demon beasts, can they still be greedy for such grass?"
Linghu was extremely proud when he heard this: "Hehe, this is one thing down one thing, take one person, today the three of us get three fish and dragons back, it's strange not to scare them to death." Remember, as long as you find the traces of the ichthyosaur and set this dragon bait grass on fire, you can wait for the rabbit, Li Qiu is no problem, Ye Zhuo, you kid, don't see the ichthyosaur and let it run away, yesterday I got these three so easily, if you don't succeed once, there will be no more dragon bait grass for you. ”
"Thank you, brother, for thinking so much about us. By the way, Senior Brother Linghu, where did you get these dragon bait grasses, and no one else got them?"
"Do you think anyone is as knowledgeable as me, the fish dragon bone ornament, few people may not be able to recognize it in front of them, not to mention that the person still showed it inadvertently. ”
"What kind of person, not a disciple of Chi Tianzong?"
"Nonsense, of course not, if they were, would they let it out for me? It's a few mountain monks, who specially sent some special products to eat yesterday, and also performed a lot of strange programs, not to mention, although their realm is very low, some of the methods are really not bad, no wonder they can stay here in Hei Shuize all the time, and they are so nourishing. ”
"Monk Yamano, are you still there, I haven't seen it yet?"
Chi Tianzong stayed for so many days, including the previous rampant thousands of miles on the road, Ye Zhuo had heard more than once that the mountain monks or loose cultivators were monks, saying that they were monks, in fact, many people did not agree, at least Ye Zhuo heard disdain in Chi Tianzong, just like Linghu, and added the word mountain and field in front. Just because most of these people are actually people who were not qualified enough to enter the mountain gate in their early years, some people will return to the world to live their original life if they can't enter the sect, and some people will find a place to secretly practice penance after seeing the magic of the monks.
Nantian Domain is not Liyun Island, although it is not as rich as the aura of heaven and earth in the mountain gate of Chi Tianzong, but there are also many places that can be called the gathering of spirit elements, otherwise there would not be so many demon beasts and so many spirit grasses. Moreover, the introductory mental method is not rare, even if the Chi Tianzong Qi Induction Technique, it takes some effort to find the hand, if you have enough perseverance, you can always gain something on the way to refining the qi. However, unless such a person has some unfortunate luck, such as finding a super-grade spiritual grass, or discovering an ancestral cave, nine out of ten people will not have a very good future, ten or twenty years or even a lifetime of cultivation, and the realm is not high, but it is only the second and third layers of qi refining.
Ye Zhuo suddenly became interested, just because if he hadn't been able to persist until the end, he would have been a mountain monk in Linghu's mouth now. However, after entering the Chi Tianzong, Ye Zhuo had never thought about this idea anymore, if it weren't for the fact that he suddenly heard Ling Hu mention it at this moment, Ye Zhuo would have forgotten that he had such a plan earlier.
"I left last night, if you want to see it, you can wait until the last day, they will definitely come to treat them again, but there is nothing to see, if you are in the mountain gate, they are some miscellaneous disciples. ”
"I was a handyman two days ago. Ye Zhuo didn't take a sentence angrily, and then reached out and took a dragon bait grass that I didn't know if it was really useful and looked at it a few times.
At this time, Li Qiu, who had been silent, suddenly said: "You can't underestimate loose cultivation, there are very powerful ones." ”
As soon as he heard this, Ye Zhuo didn't react, Ling Hu was interested first, and asked excitedly: "Li Qiu, have you ever seen a powerful loose cultivator, how powerful is it, how is it better than us?"
"I've seen it, it's better than us, it's better than several senior brothers, and it should be about the same as the elders. Li Qiu thought about it for a moment and replied very seriously.
After listening to this, Ling Hu was stunned for a while: "Is it comparable to the elders? Is it really fake?" It's not that he suspects that Li Qiu is scolding, Ling Hu just subconsciously can't believe it, the mountain and field monks, who have always looked down on the disciples of the sect, how can there be such a character, really have such a character, is it still a loose cultivation? It's almost enough to start a sect.
Ye Zhuo didn't have much feeling, if he really didn't go to Chi Tianzong, after a few years, Ye Zhuo didn't think that he would be much worse than the outer disciples of Chi Tianzong, but he didn't have so many resources, and it was difficult for him to have any hope of breaking through the foundation before the age of thirty.
"The man I met told me that his goal was to build a foundation. Li Qiu had a lot of rare words today, and while talking, he picked up a dragon bait grass.
Hearing this, Ye Zhuo's heart moved slightly, and he wanted to ask Senior Brother Li Qiu again, but saw that he had already walked towards the entrance of the cave.
It seemed that his interest was hit, and Ling Hu lost his interest in showing off, so he reached out to put away the last dragon bait grass, patted Ye Zhuo's shoulder and went out, the sky was already bright, and it was estimated that the three of them were the last to set off.
Sure enough, when I went out to make a few points, there were no other fellow disciples in the valley, only Senior Brother Longyou, who was in charge, was waiting there with a serious face.
After some admonition, the three of them walked towards the exit together, and before they got out of the valley, four figures came in, all of them were tall, majestic, and high-spirited. After seeing a few people, Ling Hu leaned into Ye Zhuo's ear and whispered: "It's all guys from the Discipline Palace, do you see it, the one over there is called Xiahou Cheng, Xiahou Jiang's cousin, the fifth layer of qi refining, don't be caught by anyone." ”
", what trick do I have to arrest people, is it possible that they still dare to plant a trumped-up charge against me? Glancing at Linghu, Ye Zhuo pouted and said, having said that, he still looked at the person Linghu was pointing to, and he was really a little similar to Xiahou Jiang, but he was a little thinner.
Ling Hu smiled and didn't say anything, and Ye Zhuo swept up and down a few people opposite, and a few people on the opposite side were also looking at the three of them, the two elders of the Law and Martial Hall of the Discipline Hall did not deal with each other, and it naturally had an impact from top to bottom, and when he was wrong, he could still hear a few imperceptible snorts, as well as a faint cold gaze.
Leaving the valley, the three of them galloped all the way, and after a short time, they stood again on the mountain ridge that they had been here once yesterday, and turned down the gray-brown and hazy black water.
"Ye Zhuo, where are you going? Without going down the mountain immediately, Linghu who stood still asked Ye Zhuo first, and when he spoke, Li Qiu also looked at Ye Zhuo from the side.
understood that the two of them wanted to take care of themselves and let themselves choose first, but Ye Zhuo's participation in the sect assessment was piggybacking, mainly to find the place where the spearhead master died, and he had no intention of going deep into Heishuize at all, so he immediately waved his hand at the two and said: "The two senior brothers don't need to pay attention to me, I just came to open my eyes, one hundred and twenty merit points, I can always make up enough, by the way, there is nothing to do at night, and I shouldn't go back to the valley." ”
"Yes, whatever you want. Remember to activate the law and force order when you encounter danger. Dropping a sentence, the two of them jumped off the cliff, and soon their bodies were covered by the gray-brown miasma, and they couldn't see it really.
Ye Zhuo didn't learn from the two of them to jump down directly, and they still walked sideways along the mountains outside the miasma like yesterday, but in the opposite direction from the side they went yesterday.
After walking for more than two hours in a row, calculating the distance of no less than a hundred miles, Ye Zhuo finally stopped, his face could not hide some disappointment, just like yesterday, there was no blood induction, and the spearhead owner was not on the way by himself.
"Still farther away, or in the depths of the Black Water?"
Ye Zhuo threw a Qi Gathering Pill into his mouth and thought to himself while refining.
After thinking about it for a while, after feeling that his true qi had recovered after a few weeks, Ye Zhuo got up and said to himself: "Do your best to obey the destiny of heaven, and walk another hundred miles, if you haven't done it yet, I can only say I'm sorry." As he spoke, Ye Zhuo walked forward again, still not entering the gray-brown miasma-filled black water.
For more than two hours, Ye Zhuo, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground again, shook his head.
According to Pi Yuanshan's previous confession, the spearhead was obtained by him from a senior brother of the outer sect, and that senior brother was accidentally met near Heishuize when he participated in the sect assessment and took it back. Yesterday it was nearly a hundred miles, and today Ye Zhuo walked sideways for more than two hundred miles, adding up to three hundred miles, which is only a lot more. Normally, it would not be possible for the people of Chi Tianzong to participate in the assessment go so far, hundreds of people were sprinkled into the black water thirty miles deep, even if they could not travel together, they would have to gather at least two miles with each other, and the range of not a hundred miles would be enough to accommodate everyone. Lack of strength, just thinking about the assessment is almost the same anywhere, there is no need to bother to go to such a far place, really strong and confident, more thinking about crossing the thirty-mile limit to go deeper into Heishuize, and will not deliberately go around such a big bend horizontally.
After recovering his true qi again and recuperating his spirit for a while, Ye Zhuo did not stubbornly walk along the mountain range anymore, threw another Qi Gathering Pill into his mouth, and then turned around and jumped into the gray-brown miasma.
"It's well deserved. Just landed and didn't take a few steps, Ye Zhuo sighed secretly, he could only see that it was no more than ten zhang when he raised his eyes, and there was a foul smell through his nose between his breaths, as well as a slight but very tough corrosive force, this is the power of miasma, that is, the monk has a true air rotation to resist, and ordinary people will be poisoned without two breaths.
The poison of miasma is still a trivial matter, anyway, there is no way to avoid it, there is no way to hide, you can only suffer, the most troublesome thing and the most important thing to pay attention to is the foot, the name of Hei Shui Ze is not blind, although it is still on the periphery, but it can already feel the slightest softness and powerlessness, only those bare stones, fallen wood can stand firm with strength. And all kinds of dangers in Heishuize are also lurking in those mud, this kind of place is not only a threat to demon beasts, a small insect, a few inconspicuous flowers may be in mortal danger, things that grow in the miasma, nine times out of ten are highly poisonous things, and the only remaining one or two percent is the target of the disciples of Chi Tianzong.
While always on the lookout for a safe place to stay, and at the same time, you have to sniff carefully to find the slightest aura hidden in the miasma, which means that there is a spiritual grass or spiritual wood nearby, and from time to time you need to throw a few stones into those soft mud swamps to see if there are inconspicuous demon beasts in it.
Stop and go all the way, the speed is far less fast than when the mountains come over, an hour is only a dozen miles back, and the luck is not very good, according to the map, Suo Ji encountered more than a dozen spirit grasses, but unfortunately they are not in the stream, and they can't be exchanged for one or two Qi Gathering Pills when they are brought back to Chi Tianzong, and it is only three or two points at most for so many merits.
I thought that completing the assessment was just a convenient thing, but I didn't expect things to be so simple, if it went on like this, fifteen days would be just enough, Ye Zhuo didn't plan to bring back such a large number of unpopular spiritual grass and spiritual wood, the shame was still secondary, Ye Zhuo felt that it was not cost-effective, so all the spiritual grass that did not enter the stream was squeezed out of the juice and entered the mouth, turning into wisps of true qi to supplement Ye Zhuo's consumption, and his direction of travel was slightly deviated from the direction of the depths of Heishuize.
"Hehe, this is not bad. Walking out of more than a dozen zhang, looking at a swaying red flower at the tip of a lump of mud and stone two zhang away, Ye Zhuo's eyes suddenly lit up, and there was a record of a taste of spiritual grass in the detailed rules.
Just as he was about to step over, Ye Zhuo's figure was stunned, staring intently at the crack in the stone for a moment, and his face showed a smile one after another: "This is a good thing in pairs, there is still something to guard?"
Although he didn't see what was hidden under the crack in the stone, but with just a trace of breath that it had just revealed, Ye Zhuo had already concluded that it was a little demon beast that did not enter the stream at most, and it was not necessary to make a big move to deal with such a small thing. There is no need to specialize in cultivating the Green Mang Thorn, and there is no need to specialize in cultivating the Green Mang Thorn, and the power of the true qi condensed so casually is not much worse, but the speed is just a little slower.
"Quack. In the midst of the cry, a palm-sized toad came out of the crack in the stone, its back was covered with bright bumps, and the toad that jumped out ignored Ye Zhuo, and rolled towards the red flower with its tongue stretched out.
It turned out to be a master who wanted money and didn't want to die, so that Ye Zhuo, who had already urged his true qi to defend against its venom attack, was stunned, but it was easy to find a spiritual grass that had been entered, where could he swallow it again, Ye Zhuo's fingertips, who shook his head, flashed again, and another scream, the toad's belly twitched a few times and lost his breath, and soon fell into the mire and disappeared.
The safflower spirit grass has already been dragged out of the stone crack by Ye Zhuo and thrown into the baggage, and the two meritorious points are in hand, as for the toad just now, Ye Zhuo didn't pay attention to it because it is not of enough grade, and the spirit grass and spirit wood that do not enter the stream can be thrown into his mouth to refine it, but a toad, it is still worth it.
"Huh?" got a spirit grass, and Ye Zhuo, who had walked out a few feet, suddenly paused, and turned his head to look at the position behind him where the toad had just disappeared.
There was only a puddle of mud, and there was no trace of the toad, as if nothing had happened. This kind of thing in Hei Shui Ze is normal, but Ye Zhuo looked at it as if he wanted to see the flowers there, and his brows furrowed slightly.
After a long time, he didn't see anything, Ye Zhuo finally retracted his gaze, shook his head and muttered: "A toad that doesn't eat the product actually knows to guard the spirit grass and not eat it?
After muttering a word, Ye Zhuo once again scanned the surroundings, looking for the next spirit grass spirit tree or the next demon beast that entered the product.