Chapter Twenty-Six: Poria (1)
"Hey, second brother, why did you let it run!"
The conversation between the two was confined to consciousness, so no one else knew what they were saying. Seeing the demon rat jump down and burrow into the soil, Zi Yuhan thought that Bi Lingxiao had let it go and hurriedly said.
"It's okay, the little guy is going to help us dig up those two Nine Turn Ginseng plants! And you can keep the two ginseng plants alive, if I come, it will be a waste!" Bi Lingxiao said lightly.
It hadn't been more than a minute since the demon rat burrowed into the ground, and he saw a large piece of land around the Four Realms Phantom Spirit Grass, along with the Four Realms Phantom Spirit Grass, suddenly disappear out of thin air. Zi Yuhan looked at the big crater that appeared out of thin air with a depth of several meters and a diameter of almost two meters, and was dumbfounded.
"What's going on, how did this place suddenly become a big pit!"
"Boss, I'm done!"
At the same time, the voice of the demon rat sounded in Bi Lingxiao's mind, and he saw it crawl out of the big pit and jump back into Bi Lingxiao's hand.
"Don't be nervous, the Nine Turns Human Face Ginseng and the Four Realms Phantom Spirit Grass have all been stored and haven't disappeared!" Bi Lingxiao explained with a smile to the unknown crowd.
"I'm scared to death!" Hearing that the Nine Turns Human Face Ginseng and the Four Realms Phantom Spirit Grass were fine, Zi Yuhan nodded with a sigh of relief. "Since the little thing has this ability, let's put it there, let's go find another one called what is Ling! There are less than 4 months left, if my brother and I absorb the Four Realms Phantom Spirit Grass now, it won't be fun if we retreat for 6 months like my eldest brother!"
"Little sister is still very sensible!" Bi Lingxiao said with a smile. Although the good things are in front of her, she still has a clear distinction between priorities and priorities. Mochen had already taken out the map and looked around to draw an area.
"Since Poria lives in an extremely arid zone, there is only one place in this abyss, which is a desert out of this swamp, I think we should go directly over there, right?"
"What plants are in these areas, I think the demon rat should know best!" poked the demon rat's fleshy buttocks, Bi Lingxiao said. "Little one, don't you have any clues?" a strange voice immediately sounded in his head.
It said that there was indeed a Poria cocos in the depths of the desert, and that it was probably the only one in the abyss. After listening to the description of the demon rat for a while, Bi Lingxiao looked at everyone and blinked. "It's just that it's the Red Flame Golden Scale Snake Group that guards it!"
"It is also marked on the map that this desert is called the Red Flame Desert, which should be the same as the nature of the Poison Dragon Valley, and it is the settlement of the Red Flame Golden Scale Snake Group. Mochen looked at the map and nodded.
"What is that Red Flame Golden Scale Snake, is it powerful?" Zi Yuhan had never heard of this race, and was very curious.
"The Red Flame Golden Scale Snake Group is a high-level family comparable to Poison Dragon Valley, it is a very rare fire attribute snake, and it belongs to high-level monsters. Seeing Mo Chen and Zi Yuhan's very curious appearance with their ears propped up, Bi Lingxiao deliberately paused. "The strongest Red Flame Golden Scale Snake King recorded in the information has even reached the peak of the 10th order!"
"10, 10th order peak! Isn't that the same as the third grandfather!" Zi Yuhan was taken aback.
"The number of Red Flame Golden Scale Snakes is very rare, but they can keep pace with the Poison Dragon Clan, they must be expensive soldiers, not expensive!" Bi Lingxiao spread his hands. The Netherworld Abyss is the gap between the Three Realms, and the creatures here are exceptionally powerful because they have grown in twisted energy for so long. To be able to become a hegemon in such a field of crisis, it is natural to have unparalleled strength. What's more, according to the records of the books, the number of the Red Flame Golden Scale Snake is extremely small, even so, in this Netherworld Abyss, it is conceivable that this race must be exceptional.
"What should we do then! If this Poria is the only one in the abyss, we have to go, but how do we take it out?" Hearing that the Red Flame Golden Scale Snake Clan was so powerful, Zi Yuhan immediately collapsed.
"One step at a time. Without further ado, let's go!" Bi Lingxiao said with a smile, his mood not particularly heavy.
Since they came to the abyss, it is inevitable to encounter powerful monsters, and the purpose of their coming is to test, so what else is there to try if they blindly avoid. The Red Flame Golden Scale Snake is no less than the Poison Dragon Clan, and it is impossible for the Purple Pine Forest to even befriend the Red Flame Golden Scale Snake King, it seems that it will definitely not be easy to collect the Earth Poria Cocos, but at least try it, after all, this may be the only one in the abyss. When the time comes, if you really can't do it, then run!
Thinking of the possible obstacles, the crowd cheered up and headed northwest in the direction indicated on the map. No one knows how big the Netherworld is, because no one has ever walked through the entire abyss alive. Just two adjacent places on the map, the group walked for 5 days. As the destination approached, the damp land became drier, and when you got out of the wetland—perhaps it shouldn't be called a wetland, after all, the soil was gradually drying out later—next to it was a desert that stretched the sky—the Red Flame Desert.
"From here, it's the edge of the territory of the Red Flame Golden Scale Serpent. These monsters are usually hidden under the sand, so we have to be more careful!" Looking at the vast desert with nothing empty, Bi Lingxiao reminded.
This is a sea of barren sand. The endless sand dunes seem to have no end. The moonlight casts down, and the delicate grains of sand emit a thin silvery shimmer. As far as the eye can see, there is not a single grass or tree, and there is an endless sea of sand everywhere, and the wind sweeps by, bringing up a layer of sand like cicada wings, like endless waves.
The first thing you feel about this place is quiet. There was a deathly silence, no sound could be heard except the friction between the grains of sand in the wind, and even after walking for so long, they could not even feel the breath of a creature.
"**Quiet. ”
Stop. A layer of sand blew at his feet, and Bi Lingxiao looked at the infinite stretch of sand dunes one after another and felt that something was wrong.
"Even if there were no other monsters, how could there be a Red Flame Golden Scale Snake, right? But after walking for so long, we haven't touched anything. Mo Chen also frowned.
"This is strange! I remember that in the Poison Dragon Valley, didn't I see other poisonous dragons other than Xiaoqing and Lao Gu, don't these monsters usually stay in their habitat?" Zi Yuhan was also puzzled.
In the Poison Dragon Valley, they only saw Xiaoqing and Lao Gu, if the other poisonous dragons were still in the valley, it didn't make sense that Gao Hong and they would not appear if they caused such a big movement.
"The last time I came, wasn't that the case in the Valley of the Poison Dragons! For a race with a fixed territory like this, most of the clansmen will stay in the territory, and even if they are looking for food, a small number of people will go out. What's more, the territory of this Red Flame Golden Scale Snake is equivalent to their foraging place, and it is impossible for all the Red Flame Golden Scale Snakes to run out to find food to eat. There are only two possibilities for the existence of the lords in the territory, "the purple pine forest stretched, "one is that they have been exterminated. And the other is that they are at war with another tribe!"
The Poison Dragon Valley didn't see any poisonous dragons other than Xiaoqing and Lao Gu, could it be such a coincidence that the poisonous dragon and the Red Flame Golden Scale Snake had started a war? Bi Lingxiao was strange. The poisonous dragon was located on the outskirts of the Netherworld Abyss, far away from the Red Flame Desert, and besides, the Red Flame Golden Scale Snake would not leave the hermitage land, so he really couldn't think of the reason for the feud between the two clans.
"So there are no poisonous dragons in the Poison Dragon Valley, is it because the members have all run here?" Zi Yuhan asked.
"Probably, who knows!" Purple Pine Forest didn't care much. "But whatever, isn't that a good thing for us?"
What he said was exactly what he thought, Bi Lingxiao nodded.
"It's been so long in vain. Let's hurry up, we don't know when the Red Flame Golden Scale Snake will suddenly come back!"
Time suddenly became short. Whatever the reason, since the Red Flame Golden Scale Snake was not in the territory at this time, this would be a great opportunity for them! Everyone changed their previous caution and sped up to the center of the desert, flying towards the place where the Poria cocos grew through the guidance of the demon rat.
The journey was very smooth, and the group entered the heart of the desert without any hindrance. It was really easy to find something with obvious characteristics in such a place where there was no grass, and from a distance, Bi Lingxiao saw a purple-red shadow at a glance. It was a plant less than 10 centimeters in size with purple-red hexagonal leaves, standing out among the grains of sand. That's the other material they're looking for, Poria cocos.
"It seems that the Red Flame Golden Scaled Snake Clan has encountered a great challenge, otherwise why is there not even a single snake left in the entire territory, and even the Red Flame Golden Scaled Snake King does not seem to be there. The three elders carefully sensed the surroundings and made sure that there was no monster's breath.
"That's not right, let's hurry up and take our things and leave!" Zi Yuhan smiled, she didn't expect the purpose of this trip to be solved so easily, and she was worried all the way!
With the vigilance of the three elders and not afraid of a sneak attack, everyone did not stop, and came to the side of the Poria in three or two steps.
"This Poria cocos, can you also store it in your space like the Nine Turns Human Face Ginseng?" Bi Lingxiao asked the demon mouse in the spirit world.
"This really doesn't work! Poria needs a lot of water to feed it if it wants to survive, and they absorb water every minute and every second of the day, 24 hours a day, so the place where this thing is usually located is a desert. The desert didn't form naturally, but it sucked up the moisture of the soil!If I dig it out and put it in my space, it will surely dry up in less than a day!" The shrill voice of the demon rat in his head was a little apologetic.
No wonder it grows only in extremely arid places. It turns out that it is not because they like drought, on the contrary, they are the root cause of drought! Bi Lingxiao was surprised. However, the rarity of the Earth Poria Cocos is higher than that of the Four Realms Phantom Spirit Grass, at least not in the Demon Realm. Because there are no deserts in the demon world—although there used to be, but it is said that it was tens of thousands of years ago, and then those deserts disappeared—it was not easy to find such a plant, and it would be a pity if it couldn't survive for a day.
"Isn't there any other way?"
"Boss, this Poria has been alive for tens of thousands of years. The reason why it has survived for so long and has not turned the entire abyss into a desert is because it has absorbed all the other Poria cocos in this desert area, so I said that this may be the only one in the abyss!"
"Tens of thousands!" Bi Lingxiao's jaw almost fell to the ground.
Those two Nine Turns Human Face Ginseng have lived for tens of thousands of years, which is terrifying enough, how can this Poria cocos actually survive for tens of thousands of years! According to human beings, the higher the year, the stronger the medicinal power of the medicinal herbs, and tens of thousands of years old, it is not heavenly!
Swallowing his saliva, Bi Lingxiao wanted to cultivate this Poria cocos even more, but how to take it away was still a problem! Just when he was extremely entangled, the voice of the demon rat sounded at the right time.
"However, after absorbing so many of the same kind, this Poria cocos has also undergone abnormal changes, and it has its own spiritual wisdom. When I came here to eat its roots, this guy suddenly said, 'Where did the little mouse come from?' and I was so scared that I ran away. Just ask him, maybe you can find another way!"
"You even have a wit?"
Bi Lingxiao didn't know what kind of expression he should put on, but thinking about it, he had lived for tens of thousands of years, and it wasn't particularly amazing to have spiritual wisdom, right? There were really all kinds of strange things in this abyss, even a plant could speak! He immediately knelt down and flicked the purple leaves of Poria with his hand.
"Hey!"
"Second brother, who are you calling?" Zi Yuhan was stunned for a moment, looked at the side, and then looked at Bi Lingxiao, who was fiddling with the ground with his head.
"I'm talking to it. Hey, I know you're smart, you don't have to pretend you don't know!"
Seeing that the grass didn't react, Bi Lingxiao pulled the corner of the hexagonal leaf hard.
"Hey, hey, it's so painful, don't pull it!" The purple plant really made a painful sound, and then pulled out the leaves that were pinched by Bi Lingxiao. "Where did you come from, how do you know that I have intelligence!"