374, point the trick, cultivate an epiphany overnight
Sheng Long had sensed the unique and pure physical properties of the droplet, and said with surprise and joy: "Mr. Cheng, what kind of immortal means are you, and what kind of treasure is this?" ”
Cheng Tianle smiled: "You should have seen it clearly, what I used was not a clever method, but a method of taking things and refining." The white mist is called jade dragon smoke, which is also called refining dragon marrow when it turns into droplets, and it is a kind of elixir that is a specialty in the mountains here. I've already demonstrated how to do it, why don't you try it too? …… But it's not easy to find the Jade Dragon Smoke, and you need to be lucky. As he spoke, he handed the white porcelain bottle to Sheng Long, and taught him how to collect and refine the jade dragon smoke and the effects of this elixir.
For monks, it is a pleasant blessing to know how to take an elixir and how it works, and to be able to find it. For Sheng Long, it was not only that, he was like a child who had been given fun and novel games and toys, and immediately took the white porcelain vase and searched the mountains with enthusiasm. His talent is good at treasure hunting, and he is good at sensing all kinds of pure and special physical properties, but the jade dragon smoke is mixed in the misty clouds and mist, and it needs his divine sense to discover, so this is also a test of the depth of his skills, and he is actually cultivating the method of external scenes.
Luckily, they were just in time for the spring to rise in the mountains, and many of the resin beads buried in the ground turned into mist and drifted into the valley. Sheng Long worked hard for a day, collected and refined a total of eleven drops of refining dragon marrow, and seeing that there was no more to discover, he happily handed over the white porcelain bottle to Cheng Tianle.
Cheng Tianle took the porcelain vase and nodded and praised: "Yes, your divine sense is much stronger and clearer than when you first entered Taihang Mountain." Mana is also more refined. You've been looking for Jade Dragon Smoke here all day, have you found that it's the hardest thing to collect? ”
Sheng Long replied: "I just don't know when and where it will come out, it looks like smoke from a distance, and it can only sense the difference when the divine sense sweeps it." It is mixed with clouds and mist and drifts in the wind, it really comes and goes without a trace, and it is completely a matter of luck to try to collect it. We still found a lot of tricks in collecting cold needle cui in Taihang Mountain, but we collected jade dragon smoke in Dabie Mountain. I'm afraid it's purely a gamble on character. ”
Cheng Tianle smiled again: "Of course, doing things depends on character, but it also depends on ability and means, the better the character, the greater the ability, and the higher the means." The more you will reap. …… You've been wandering around the mountains all day, and have you noticed a very rare tree growing here? ”
Sheng Long was slightly stunned, blinked his eyes and said, "Are you testing me?" Let me think about it! "And then he pointed to a snowflake dragon tree next to him as if he had discovered a new world." It is this kind of tree, its woody physical properties are very special, very dense and tough, delicate texture and vaguely solidified effect. In my opinion, this small tree has been growing for at least 200 years. ”
Cheng Tianle nodded with satisfaction and said: "Yes, this kind of tree is called Snowflake Dragon Tree, it grows very slowly, and the hundred-year-old trunk is only the thickness of the mouth of the bowl, and it is what I asked about just now." Although cultivating the appearance of the Yuan Shen is to concentrate on the outside, it is also necessary to be good at observing all things in heaven and earth. This is very useful for exercising your natural powers. And the jade dragon smoke we are looking for today seems to have come and gone without a trace, but in fact, its appearance is related to this snowflake dragon wood. ”
Cheng Tianle didn't tell Sheng Long the cause and origin of the jade dragon smoke at the beginning, but just let Sheng Long collect the refining dragon marrow by himself. When Sheng Long was most interested, he asked him if he had noticed the snowflakes falling on the dragon wood? Then he introduced the relationship between the jade dragon smoke and the snowflake dragon wood and the best way to take it.
Sheng Long suddenly realized: "I see! I said, how could such a thing happen in the mountains? No matter how mysterious a phenomenon may seem, there must be a cause. Thank you Mr. Cheng for pointing out the secret, otherwise I wouldn't have thought of it! Cheng is Cheng Quan. How did you find out? ”
Cheng Tianle: "Don't praise me, this is not what I discovered, but the record in the inheritance method." ”
When he said this, Cheng Tianle didn't feel too ashamed in his heart, but more just sighed. Some of the mysteries, once explained, seem to be bland. But how difficult it was for the people who discovered it in the first place! For example, when he got the pill of Lu Wu Shenlun Dan, it was already difficult to refine this elixir, but who wrote this pill back then, and how many kinds of elixirs had the person who invented this elixir refined?
Cheng Tianle and Sheng Long's "treasure hunting" today seems to be arduous, but in fact, they are already enjoying it.
Sheng Long blinked his eyes and thought, "Who can discover such a mystery?" Maybe it's the incredible supernatural powers, maybe it's the subtlety of everything, or it's a coincidence, or maybe it's a combination of all three? ”
Cheng Tianle asked rhetorically: "Sheng Long, your natural power is good at searching for the world's heavenly treasures, in your opinion, what kind of person will be the predecessor who discovers this mystery?" ”
Sheng Long narrowed his eyes: "It's very likely that he is also a demon cultivator, if he happens to live in such an environment, he has built a cave underground, and he has seen the resin beads turn into a white smoke." After he cultivated into a demon, he naturally knew the origin of the jade dragon smoke. ”
Cheng Tianle was secretly stunned when he heard this, he had never thought of Sheng Long's guess, but as soon as he said this, it made people feel that it was a matter of course, as if things should be like this in order to get the most reasonable explanation. At this time, Cheng Tianle didn't think that the senior who left the magic recipe was an ancient demon, but thought that since that senior was proficient in the method of demon cultivation, he must have also dealt with all kinds of demons in the world, and it may be the origin of the jade dragon smoke that he learned from the mouth of such a demon cultivator.
He was pondering it, when he suddenly saw Sheng Long bowing respectfully in front of him, and hurriedly said, "The year has already passed, why did you suddenly make this big salute?" ”
Sheng Long: "To thank Mr. Cheng!" ”
Cheng Tianle: "You helped me take the elixir so dedicatedly, I should thank you, what do you thank me?" ”
Sheng Long replied very seriously: "First of all, thank you for the guidance of the world, it was you who brought me from Ningbo to Suzhou and told me how a demon cultivator should cultivate in the red dust; The second is the grace of Xie Chuanfa, who is guiding me to pass on the secret; Finally, I would like to thank you for your good intentions and sending me such an opportunity! Today, I heard the origin of the jade dragon smoke, which is really like a trick in the chaos.
What you have done for me is much more precious than this chaotic trick! If you hadn't said that just now, I might never know where the Jade Dragon Smoke came from, even if I have been searching for it in the mountains all my life and collecting more Jade Dragon Smoke, I am actually just trying my luck. Your guidance and enlightenment are the key to this avenue, Sheng Long has enlightenment, how can you not worship? ”
When Cheng Tianle heard him say this, his heart moved, and he vaguely sensed that this little golden-threaded rat demon had ushered in the opportunity of the wind and evil tribulation, so he didn't say anything more, and stood there with his back hand to be worshiped by Sheng Long.
That night, he still sat down in the deep valley surrounded by smoke and clouds. The next day, Sheng Long followed the new trick to find the resin beads, and they still turned into golden light into the ground, which was very similar to the method of collecting cold needle emeralds in the Taihang Mountains, and the cooperation between the two was already extremely skillful.
But the resin bead is very different from the cold needle emerald, and if the cold needle emerald buried in the ground is not touched, it will still be there even if it is another thousand years away; However, the state of the resin beads is very unstable, from the time they are formed to the end of the white mist and disappears, and the time they remain underground varies, at most it is only a few years. Therefore, it is impossible for Sheng Long to collect as much as the Cold Needle Emerald, and at the same time, it will not prevent others from continuing to collect in this way here in the future.
The resin beads are buried in the soil layer, but the soil layer in the deep valley gully is shallow, mainly formed by weathered mountain rocks and historical vegetation humus, and washed by rain to the relatively gentle terrain between the high mountains and deposited. In this fault zone, the situation underground is very complex. The distance that Cheng Tianle's divine sense can follow the hole drilled by Sheng Long varies greatly in different terrains, so he also reminded Sheng Long to always pay attention.
In comparison, the resin beads were much smaller than those of the Chill Needle Jade, but they were much easier to collect, and in just one day, they collected more than a hundred. Cheng Tianle took local materials, processed several wooden boxes with the wooden core of the thousand-year-old snowflake dragon wood, and sealed the resin beads according to the method recorded in the prescription, so that they would no longer turn into smoke and fog for the time being, and about 120 resin beads could just fill a wooden box.
The volume of a resin bead was much larger than a cold needle emerald, and refining a Lu Wu Shenlun Pill only required at least eight resin beads to form the refining dragon marrow, and their harvest this day was already considerable. After nightfall, still pranayama and recuperating mana and divine energy, Cheng Tianle always paid attention to the Sheng Long in the meditation and the surrounding movements, guarding against any abnormal situation, because he knew that the wind evil calamity of this little golden thread rat would come at any time. But there was no movement this night, Cheng Tianle breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time felt a little disappointed.
The next day, another place where there might be resin beads distributed, Sheng Long turned into golden light and continued the carpet search, and found more than a hundred resin beads, which happened to fill another wooden box. Cheng Tianle made a total of ten wooden boxes this time, and he and Sheng Long took five of them and put them in their backpacks. At their speed, as long as the resin beads are distributed in a large enough place, they will be able to return with a full load in ten days.
Using Cheng Tianle's method to collect jade dragon smoke, if you change people, the harvest will be greater than the original, but it is unlikely to be so exaggerated, because there is no such golden thread rat to help. It is difficult to dig a lot of gravel in the deep mountains, and be careful not to break the resin balls, and it is difficult to take them on a large scale.
That night, the clouds in the mountains had become very faint, and when I looked up, I could occasionally see the faint twinkling of stars, and Sheng Long was sitting in meditation. Cheng Tianle suddenly felt that the aura of this golden-threaded rat demon had changed, and immediately stood up quietly and watched on guard. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )