Early the next morning, Chu Muyu and Xiao Ran set off for the Wolong Ancient Grottoes.

Along the way, they talked and laughed, and when they rested, they practiced their own exercises.

Three days later, they arrived at a large village on the southernmost coast of the mainland, where most of the people lived were fishermen who caught some fish at sea all year round to make a living.

Chu Muyu and Xiao Ran were strolling around the village market, this village is the largest village by the sea, and there are more ships going to sea than ordinary villages, so it is the largest market in the south, where many foreign merchants and people in the village sell or exchange items.

The main reason why Chu Muyu came here was because the Wolong Ancient Cave was on an isolated island overseas, so they wanted to find a ship here that could send them there.

There were a lot of seafood in this bazaar, as well as some ordinary medicinal herbs, Chu Muyu was not very interested in these, he just wanted to find a suitable boat quickly.

They walked up to a bald vendor's stall and looked at what he was selling, all of which were relatively ordinary medicines.

"What is this?"

Xiao Ran suddenly reached out and picked up a small black flower, the stem and petals were jet black, but the heart of the flower was red like a drop of blood that had just dropped.

"Do you know what this is?" Chu Muyu looked at Xiao Ran, who had been observing the flower she was holding in her hand.

"Brother Mu Yu, this is the 'Corpse Blood Flower'. ”

"What is the corpse blood flower?" Chu Muyu took the flower in Xiao Ran's hand and observed it carefully.

The merchant looked at the flower in Chu Muyu's hand and said, "This little beauty has good eyes, this corpse blood flower is a top-grade medicinal material." Little brother, you have to be careful, a petal is very precious, don't break it. ”

Chu Muyu glanced at the businessman, and then asked Xiao Ran: "Xiao Ran, what is the purpose of this flower?"

"Brother Mu Yu, this flower belongs to the level of cold attributes, it grows on the 'Ice Corpse Mountain' in the north all the year round, there is a small village at the bottom of the mountain, and there is a very strange custom in the village. ”

"What does this strange custom have to do with this flower?"

"Boss, how much does your corpse blood cost?" Xiao Ran asked.

"Three hundred taels!" replied the boss haughtily.

"Three hundred taels, so expensive?"

Chu Muyu hurriedly put down the corpse blood flower in his hand.

"Let's go, Xiao Ran, it's too expensive. ”

"Na...... Is it enough?"

Xiao Ran took out three ingots of gold from his waist and handed them to the merchant.

"Enough...... Enough!" his eyes were shining with golden light, and with that greedy expression, he didn't have time to look at Xiao Ran and Chu Muyu in front of the stall at all.

"Xiao Ran, where did you get so much gold?"

Chu Muyu looked at Xiao Ran suspiciously.

Xiao Ran picked up the corpse blood flower and carefully wrapped it in a silk cloth.

"When I came out, my grandfather gave it to me!"

"Hey...... What are you buying this for?"

"Brother Mu Yu, last time you went back in the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons, didn't you still have a leaf of seven-colored grass left?"

"yes, it's still on me. ”

"The leaves of the seven-colored grass and the corpse blood flower, with the addition of another herb, can refine a kind of yin and cold attribute elixir, although it is not an immortal product, but it is also a top-grade elixir, which is of great help to the improvement of the heart-loving exercise. ”

"How did you know about this herb?"

"This kind of medicinal materials needed to refine the Yin Cold Pill, we actually have a lot of them in the Demon Soul Sect, but they are not very complete, Grandpa sometimes rewards some refined pills to his subordinates, I will know if I see more." ”

"Oh, then doesn't this Corpse Blood Flower Demon Soul Sect either? ”

"Although it is not a fairy elixir, the growth environment is very harsh and it is not easy to grow. ”

"How harsh?" Chu Muyu didn't know anything about medicinal materials and refining pills.

"Ice Corpse Mountain, in fact, is an ordinary snow-capped mountain. Because there are a lot of corpses frozen on the mountain, it is called Ice Corpse Mountain. ”

Chu Muyu shuddered, Xiao Ran looked at Chu Muyu's expression and couldn't help laughing.

"Brother Mu Yu, are you scared of this? Then let me tell you, those corpses are all alive when they are frozen?"

"Living?" Chu Muyu looked at Xiao Ran in surprise and stopped.

"Hmm...... There is a custom in the village that if their parents have not died by the age of 60, they will be sent up the mountain, and they will be slowly frozen to death on the mountain, and finally turned into ice corpses. ”

"So cruel?" Chu Muyu didn't believe his ears a little, his greatest wish was to find his parents, but there were people in this world who sent their parents to death, what a terrible custom this was, and he didn't dare to imagine how desperate those old people who were sent up the mountain were at that time.

Xiao Ran saw Chu Muyu in a daze, and laughed even harder.

"Haha...... Brother Mu Yu, you are so cute, you are scared and stunned......"

"No, I just think it's too cruel. ”

"So, this corpse blood flower is very precious, and this is only the first step in the growth of this flower. ”

Chu Muyu and Xiao Ran continued to wander around the market.

"If it happens that there is a corpse blood flower growing around the old man's frozen side, it will absorb the last drop of blood that was not frozen before the old man turned into a corpse, so the heart of the flower is like a drop of blood. Then the corpse was frozen, and the corpse qi emitted was slowly absorbed by the corpse blood flower, until all the petals of a white corpse blood flower turned black. ”

"So, the Corpse Blood Flower was originally a pure white flower?"

"Yes, if you go to the Ice Corpse Mountain, the white corpse blood flowers are not difficult to find, but they are of no value. A black corpse blood flower is hard to come by. If the absorption of corpse qi and human blood belongs to yin qi, it survives on icebergs all year round, which makes it have a strong cold aura. ”

"Corpse gas! human blood! It's really cold, use it for alchemy...... Who's going to eat it?"

Chu Muyu was a little scary to think about, how could anyone want to eat the elixir refined from this herb.

"You're ......"

"What? I eat ......"

Chu Muyu had a refusal on his face.

"Don't be afraid, refining the elixir will be very helpful to you. You'll know later, so let's go find the ship first. ”

"Well, as long as you don't let me eat it. ”

Chu Muyu and Xiao Ran walked through the market to the dock where the fishermen went to sea, where many fishing boats, large and small, were docked, and there were also a few fishing boats that had just returned to calculate the day's harvest.

Chu Muyu walked towards what looked like a relatively large fishing boat, and at the bow sat a girl who looked about the same age as herself, dressed in pink, with a twisted braid hanging down to her waist, loose curved bangs, a tall nose on her melon seed face, and a pair of breathtaking eyes looking at her.

"Excuse me......" As soon as Chu Muyu's words came to his lips, a shirtless man walked out next to him.

"Out-of-towners, do you want to rent a boat?"

Chu Muyu looked at this person and looked at it, it seemed that he should be the owner of this ship.

"Big brother, I want to rent a boat to go to Wolong Ancient Grotto. ”

"Wolong Ancient Caves? I don't know, are you talking about Dragon Island?"

Chu Muyu looked at Xiao Ran, Xiao Ran didn't tell him that the Wolong Ancient Cave was on that island.

"Yes...... Yes!"

Xiao Ran hurriedly replied.

"Dragon Island is far away, all the fishing boats here have my ability to go, ten taels of silver per person, give the silver to the boat." ”

Chu Muyu took out twenty taels of silver and handed it to the boatman, and then he and Xiao Ran stepped onto the fishing boat.

The boatman counted the silver and muttered, "Why do you all go to Dragon Island?" ”

And the girl sitting on the bow of the boat kept looking at Chu Muyu and the others.

"They want to go to the Wolong Ancient Caves, probably not good people......" The little girl lay down on the bow of the boat.

The owner of the fishing boat prepared for a while on the shore, brought some food and drink, and went on the fishing boat with two more helpers.

"I'll tell you, it's not early, our distance is not close, there will be high tide at night, my fishing boat happens to have two rooms, you assign it yourself, I don't expect to encounter big winds and waves, and I can arrive at Dragon Island early tomorrow morning." ”

All the fishing boats on the sea were slowly approaching the dock, and only Chu Muyu and the one they were sitting on slowly squeezed out of the many fishing boats and headed overseas.

Soon, the sky slowly darkened, and Xiao Ran pulled Chu Muyu to choose a room first.

"Xiao Ran, why don't I go to the splint to rest, you can rest in the room. ”

"Oh, what are you afraid of, aren't we all together in the cave and in the broken house?"

Because there were still many people on the ship this time, he didn't want to destroy Xiao Ran's impression in the hearts of others.

Xiao Ran's repeated insistence, Chu Muyu couldn't refute it, so he could only acquiesce.

But Chu Muyu still returned to the deck.

"Let's get something to eat, shall we?"

Chu Muyu turned around and saw the girl sitting on the bow of the boat just now with food and wine in her hands.

"Uh......" Chu Muyu stood stupidly, not knowing how to respond to the other party's invitation.

"Come on, come to my room, call that sister, and we'll have something to eat together. ”

Chu Muyu has never rejected a girl, and neither will he.

"Well, thank you then!"

"It's okay, you go call my sister, I'll wait for you in the room!"

With that, the girl went back to her room with the food and drinks.

Chu Muyu also walked into Xiao Ran's room, Xiao Ran was cultivating the Mind Cult Exercises. Chu Muyu was inconvenient to disturb, so he sat aside and waited.

"Brother Mu Yu, you're back!" Xiao Ran opened his eyes.

"Hmm...... The little sister on the boat invited us over for a bite to eat. ”

"Wow!

"You ......" Chu Muyu thought that Xiao Ran would refuse, but she didn't expect to hear that there was something to eat, but she was ecstatic.

"Hey...... Let's go, you little glutton!"

Xiao Ran stuck out her tongue and grimaced at Chu Muyu, and then left the room in a hurry.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

Chu Muyu knocked politely on the door.

The girl opened the door for them, and the first thing they saw when the door opened was the little girl's bright smile.

"Brother, sister, come in and sit down, I asked the boatman for some ingredients, and I made two dishes and a little wine. ”

A roast chicken on the table, and two sea fish.