Chapter 68: Finding the Crater
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After packing up their things, the four of them rode on the sika deer, took the four sika deer carrying the goods, and continued to walk forward. The other sika deer, led by the lead deer, rushed back to their homes.
Now, Zhu Yan is not ready to dig up the old ginseng anymore, it is not easy for these spiritual materials in heaven and earth to grow, and it is even more difficult to cultivate into refinement, he really can't bear to hurt wantonly. Besides, he has collected hundreds of deer antler velvets, which is more than enough to open the spirit stove for the teachers of the whole school, so try not to hurt the students if they can.
However, Zhu Yan did not want to go down the mountain immediately, as there are more than a dozen active volcanic craters in this Changbai Mountain, each of which is where radioactive materials are concentrated. I wonder if these craters are the birthplace of Changbai Mountain's vitality?
Before, he and Chen Lan had guessed that the high-energy rays in the volcano were Yuan Qi. If this active crater is really the birthplace of vitality, then this hypothesis has undoubtedly been confirmed.
The sika deer under Zhu Yan was in touch with him, and immediately understood his intentions, and it rubbed his body with its mouth to express its agreement with his opinion, and then ran forward.
The birch forest in front of us is even thicker, and the road is getting harder and harder, but there is no road at all. The fallen plants and trees were originally left behind by the animals when they walked by.
Fortunately, the four of them were riding on the tall sika deer, and the bushes that were more than one person tall could not block their sight at all. Moreover, with the sika deer as an expert guide, everyone does not have to worry about getting lost in the big forest.
Looking at this strange procession, the animals in the forest dodged one after another, and Zhu Yan and they were not attacked in any way. However, they also have to beware of the thick leaves under their feet, these dead leaves that have accumulated over an unknown number of years, as if they are natural traps that can swallow people at any time.
Zhu Yan and Chen Lan both turned on the spirit stove and carefully searched their surroundings. Sure enough, they found several natural pits, hidden under thick fallen leaves, like traps carefully arranged by hunters.
In addition, they found many dormant animals, such as black bears, leopards, martens, foxes, squirrels, etc., but there were no signs of tigers. In addition, they also found some old ginseng, most of which were decades old, but one plant was hundreds of years old.
The old ginseng, which has been hundreds of years old, really has a bit of spirituality, not only has a lot of spiritual crystals in the roots, but also the rhythm of its air breathing is somewhat similar to that of human beings. If it grows for a few hundred years, I wonder if it will really take on a human form?
No wonder there is a legend at the foot of Changbai Mountain, saying that there is a 10,000-year-old ginseng king living on this mountain, and a group of white and chubby ginseng dolls wearing red belly pockets. It is also said that if a mortal eats a ginseng doll, he can live forever; If you eat the old ginseng king, you can fly to the fairyland.
Although this old ginseng can't be compared with the ginseng doll, if mortals eat it, it is inevitable to prolong their lives; If a cultivator eats it, he can increase his strength for decades, to say the least.
Of course, Zhu Yan and Chen Lan didn't pick it and eat it, for them, the skills of these decades were nothing. Heaven has the virtue of a good life, so let this spiritual thing continue to grow!
And just like that, everyone continued to move forward. After passing through dozens of miles of bushes, the terrain gradually steepened, as if climbing a mountain peak. There are also much less vegetation, but the trees are thicker. Zhu Yan checked with his heavenly eye, and the old trees that were more than 100 years old abounded, and the vitality around them was becoming more and more intense.
Everyone finally climbed the mountain, and there was still a large primeval forest in front of them. Compared with the previous forest, the trees here are taller and more lush, almost the entire forest is covered tightly, so that the weeds and shrubs in the forest are reduced a lot.
Now, the sika deer finally let go of their runs, and everyone climbed higher and higher. Suddenly, the figure of the sika deer that Zhu Yan stepped on froze, then turned around and ran to the left.
Zhu Yan didn't stop it, he guessed that the deer might have found something, so he beckoned the others to follow.
Sure enough, after following the deer for a few kilometers, they found the skeleton of a large animal in the forest. The skeleton of this animal was more than four meters long and more than two meters high, with a huge skull and strong limbs, and it weighed at least six or seven hundred pounds when it was alive. Its flesh has completely rotted away, and it is estimated that it has been dead for a long time.
Zhu Yan and Chen Lan noticed that the eyes of the two senior brothers were wide open, and their eyes were full of excitement and incredulous expressions, obviously they had recognized this skeleton.
"This is the skeleton of a Siberian tiger! And looking at this posture, it must be the Tiger King. The second senior brother Zhao Qu was more anxious, and he screamed at the exit.
"The Tiger King of the Siberian Tigers?"
Zhu Yan and Chen Lan were taken aback, this Siberian tiger is extremely rare, it is said that there are less than ten in the entire Changbai Mountain, and the tiger king is even more difficult to pick one in a hundred, and they don't want to meet the bones of a tiger king here.
In the world of traditional Chinese medicine, tiger bones have always been extremely rare and valuable, one is because of its good medicinal effects, and the other is because of the rarity of tigers. Among them, the tiger bones of the Siberian tiger are of the best quality. Generally, the market price of tiger bones can be sold for 100 yuan per gram, while the price of tiger bones of Siberian tigers can reach more than 200 yuan per gram.
If this is an ordinary Siberian tiger skeleton, weighing hundreds of pounds, it can reach millions of yuan according to the market price. But this is the skeleton of the Tiger King, and the price will more than double.
This is because the medicinal effect of the keel is related to the age of the tiger, and the older the tiger, the stronger the medicinal effect. The lifespan of a Siberian tiger is about 15 to 20 years old, while the king tiger can live to be about 30 years old.
Of course, for Zhu Yan and the others, what they were most excited about was not how much this tiger bone could be worth, but the richness of the vitality spirit crystal contained in this tiger bone, which was almost equal to the sum of those blood mushrooms.
Zhu Yan knows that the strength of the medicine in traditional Chinese medicine actually depends on the amount of vitality contained in the medicinal materials. The most medicinal value on the tiger's body is the tiger bone, which means that the tiger's vitality is mainly stored in the bones, just as the practitioner stores the vitality in the dantian. The older the Tiger King's tiger is, the more abundant the vitality stored in the tiger bones will naturally be, just as the greater the practitioner's merit age, the higher the cultivation will be.
Whether it is the blood mushroom, the old mountain ginseng, or the current Tiger King, the reason why they are produced here is nothing more than because there is an unusually rich heaven and earth vitality here. According to Zhu Yan's perception, it was only three or four hundred meters away from those active craters. This seemed to confirm their original suspicion that the source of the vitality might be in those active craters.
Climb the hill in front of them and they will reach the first active crater! They don't know what kind of miracle will be in the vicinity of that active crater?
Zhu Yan's eyes were shining with excitement......