Chapter 6: Death

White skull grass, also known as white bone grass. It is named because of its white body and resembling white bones. It has the effect of soothing muscles and strengthening bones.

Although the effect of the White Skull Grass is simple and common, it is superior to its strong medicinal power, it has a powerful effect on mortals and human-level cultivators who have not cultivated, and the side effects are short and can be effectively neutralized, and it is also the main material for refining the powerful Bone Forging Pill, so it can be regarded as a precious foreign grass in both reality and on the Nino Continent.

If you want to maximize the effect of the White Skull Grass, refining it into a powerful Bone Forging Pill is undoubtedly the most suitable way to dispose of it.

As far as Ning Yuan knew, the pharmaceutical refining methods in reality mainly relied on various gas refining machines powered by source stones, supplemented by artificial methods, while according to the realm line memory, the Nino Continent mainly relied on alchemists, supplemented by the manual refining of various alchemy tools.

Both methods have their own advantages and disadvantages, but for the current Ning Yuan, both methods are too far, so they can only think about it.

Ning Yuan wasn't sure if the next action would go well, and it would take five days or more to get out of the Dragon's Blood Forest, and then enter the Dragon Head Mountain Range to find the entrance to the opportunity, get the opportunity, and finally return to the player group safely.

The journey was very long, the time it took could not be determined, and the safety during the operation could not be guaranteed, Ning Yuan was not sure that he would be able to hold the White Skull Grass until the day when it was refined into a pill.

Moreover, without a proper preservation method, the medicinal effect of the white skull grass will gradually lose from seven days after harvesting, and after seven days, it will completely dry up and become a useless mustard. Therefore, in the absence of effective means of preservation, even if everything goes well in Ning Yuan, the white skull grass may have become a useless dead grass before it becomes a pill.

So if you want to use it when the White Skull herb is effective enough, Ning Yuan has only one means and two methods to choose from at the moment.

The means is very simple, it is to eat. Take it directly by mouth, bite it and swallow it. The two methods are to find a matching combination of other herbs to neutralize the side effects of White Skull, or ignore the side effects of White Skull and swallow it directly.

Ning Yuan's realm memory did have information about neutralizing medicinal materials, but there were no other medicinal materials that could neutralize them in the abandoned lair that he was obviously hiding. There must be one in the dragon's blood forest outside, and if you meet Ning Yuan, you can definitely tell it. But letting Ning Yuan specifically look for these specific medicinal materials could only be thought about.

Not to mention the dragon's blood forest at night, even if it was the dragon's blood forest during the day, Ning Yuan didn't dare to pay special attention to the medicinal materials that might exist on the roadside during the journey.

This is a Dragon's Blood Forest, not a city-wide park. This is the fifth largest gathering place of fierce beasts in the Longshan Domain, not to mention Ning Yuan, who has not cultivated, even those human-level cultivators alone only dare to wander on the edge, and they have to be cautious when approaching the periphery, there are no more than ten or twenty people, and at least two veterans who have reached the human level will definitely not dare to go deep into Ning Yuan's current position. Although Ning Yuan's current position was very close to the boundary between the periphery and the edge of the Dragon's Blood Great Forest. But this short space of a few dozen miles is the difference between heaven and hell.

It sounds alarmist, Ning Yuan has indeed not encountered any accidents in the two days since his arrival, even if he almost met a wandering demon beast during the day, he avoided the past in time.

But is that really the case?

The sheer size of the stars is unimaginable. In terms of the average quality of the creatures living above the stars, humans are the most mediocre. However, even the most mediocre human beings, ordinary people with below-average quality, can walk 300 miles in a day. And although Ning Yuan's quality has not reached the point where it can be called strong, it is also above average. Then you can imagine how much Ningyuan's normal trip in a day can reach.

It can be said that if you don't calculate the factors of demon beasts, and if you don't count those natural danger factors in the forest, even if you need to confirm the direction of nearly a hundred times a day, Ning Yuan can advance at least about one hundred and fifty miles in a day under the many restrictions of the forest. That is to say, under normal circumstances, Ning Yuan can walk from the place of arrival to Longshou Mountain in a day and a half at most, pay attention to walking, not running.

But what does this look like? Ning Yuan only traveled thirty miles on the first day, and the situation was slightly better on the second day, only thirty-five miles. Thirty miles compared to one hundred and fifty miles, at least one-third of the thirty miles are still in a state of galloping and running, so do you still think that the danger level on the periphery of the Dragon's Blood Great Forest is alarmist?

After two days, Ning Yuan seemed to be unscathed, but in fact, the loss of physical strength and energy was very huge, not that the Dragon's Blood Great Forest was not dangerous, but that Ning Yuan avoided all the dangers that he would encounter with 100,000 points of caution and prudence at the cost of more than five times the normal time and spirit.

Taking the north and south banks of the Luoning River as the mark, three thousand miles north of the Luoning River is the dividing line between the Longshou Mountain Range and the Dragon's Blood Forest, and the hills about forty miles in the middle are the buffer zone between the two, and it is also the marking point in the memory of the Ningyuan boundary line.

The boundary between the outer areas of the Dragon's Blood Great Forest starts from the hilly terrain and the edge of the forest terrain inward for thirty li, and ends about three thousand five hundred li south of the south bank of the Luoning River. That is to say, the entire Luoning River is located in the northern periphery of the Dragon's Blood Forest.

The range of 2,500 li on both sides of the Luoning River is the absolute control range of the Spirit Clan, and it is also the landing point of large and small city-states, and between 2,500 li and 2,800 li, 300 li belongs to the radiation range of this Spirit Clan's forces. That is, the field area that can be selected on the system map and can be self-descending. And the autonomous advent point chosen by Ning Yuan was the edge of the three-hundred-mile radiation range, the closest to Longshou Mountain.

If calculated in a straight line, the distance from the forest lake where Ning Yuan descended to Longzui Mountain in the Longshou Mountain Range is only about two hundred miles, excluding the forty miles of the hilly terrain, the distance of the forest is only about one hundred and sixty miles, it can be said that Ning Yuan is already on the periphery of the periphery of the dragon's blood forest.

However, in this way, the number of demon beasts that Ning Yuan glimpsed in a day was no less than fifty, and the number of each time was basically more than three to five, and there were few demon beasts that acted alone. And Ningyuan's advance route has not exceeded the range of three miles to the left and right. From this, one can imagine the density of the distribution of demon beasts in the dragon's blood forest. To be honest, this level of density has far exceeded the memory of Ning Yuan's realm.

Since there were no auxiliary medicinal materials that could neutralize the White Skull Grass, Ning Yuan's only choice from the beginning was to ignore the side effects of the White Skull Grass and eat it.

The medicinal effect of White Skull is very strong but quite mild in nature, and apart from temporary side effects, it does not cause discomfort to ordinary people in a normal state.

"If it's a long-term or permanent side effect, it's okay, but if it's a mild and short-lived side effect, it's fine. Even if the side effect is blindness for three hours. ”

Ning Yuan's initial good fortune may have been officially exhausted when he got the White Skull Grass. At noon on the third day, Ning Yuan ushered in his first death after entering the game.

Here's how it happened.

Ning Yuan, who woke up in the morning, immediately checked the system records to understand the effect of the White Skull Grass:

"The player has taken the high-grade White Skull Grass.

Due to the effect of the White Skull, the player's Constitution has been enhanced.

Since the player has not yet cultivated and is unable to fully absorb the full medicinal effects of the White Skull, the remaining seven layers of medicinal effects will be hidden in the player's body and gradually dissipate (at the time of one hundred and twenty crowns).

Due to the side effects of White Skull, the player is temporarily blind (at the time of the first crown).

Since the player has not yet practiced and is unable to fully absorb the full effects of the White Skull, the duration of the side effects has been extended (at the time of the second crown). ”

Ning Yuan looked at the two timing discs that appeared below the system record in his mind, the disc was composed of one scale ring, and a small disc without a scale in the middle showed the number of days, and then they were the scale ring representing the four crowns of the day, the scale ring of the twelve earthly branches of the day, the scale ring of the ninety-six quarters of the day, the one hour of one hundred and twenty minutes, and the one minute and sixty seconds. The five hands point to the five scale rings and move counterclockwise.

One of the two chronograph discs has a twenty-nine in the center and the other is not.

Obviously, the disc with no number represents a countdown to the side effects of the White Skull, while the other is a countdown to the dissipation of the medicinal effects of the White Skull.

Since the countdown representing side effects in his mind has not disappeared, it also means that Ning Yuan is still in a state of blindness.

Ning Yuan, who turned his mind, returned his consciousness to his body and found that he was still blind.

Ning Yuan once again focused his consciousness in his mind, looked at the disc representing the side effects and calculated in his mind, and found that five earthly branches and three quarters of an hour had passed since the side effects had taken effect, that was to say, there were still five quarters of an hour, and the side effects would disappear.

Thinking of this, Ning Yuan's nervous mood relaxed slightly.

While waiting for the side effects to disappear, Ning Yuan tried the strengthened body, except for the eyes that looked godless because of blindness, the whole person's face was full of surprise.

Although the effect of white skull grass is only said to be to loosen muscles and strengthen bones, it is obvious that it has a certain strengthening effect on the whole body.

Perhaps because Ning Yuan has not yet cultivated, it seems that the overall improvement effect of the body is more obvious than that of scaring muscles and strengthening bones. At least Ning Yuan couldn't accurately feel the effect of soothing muscles and strengthening bones, on the contrary, the improvement of physical fitness, strength, speed, and dexterity was very obvious, or the degree of surprise that Ning Yuan felt.

As far as Ning Yuan's self-feeling is concerned, his previous self could only bully and bully the wild boar that would only ramp and turn slowly if he was to the beast before, but now he can at least fight against the lone tiger wolf and be undefeated for a short time. Although facing any demon beast is still the end of nine deaths and one life, it has at least strengthened Ning Yuan's confidence in walking out of the Dragon Blood Great Forest.

Perhaps it was from this moment that Ning Yuan's mentality began to slowly relax.

After the side effects were over as scheduled, Ning Yuan started the third day's trip with a mood that had unconsciously relaxed.

Although he was still very careful and cautious, Ning Yuan, who had improved his body, was subconsciously amplified in terms of movements, not as cautious as he was in the previous two days.

Especially after dodging several waves of demon beasts more easily than the previous two days, Ning Yuan's movements had obvious ups and downs, becoming less concealed and slight.

After Ning Yuan confirmed the direction again, he inadvertently stepped on a branch when he got down from the tree, and at this time, a wolf-like demon beast happened to pass by a hundred meters away from the blind corner of Ning Yuan's sight.

Originally, Ning Yuan would never ignore the range of movements that should be paid special attention to when going down the tree and the circular observation of the surrounding environment, but this time he was unconsciously negligent.

What's even worse was that when the wandering wolf demon beast heard the movement and casually glanced over, Ning Yuan didn't stop because of the broken branches, but wanted to get down the tree at a faster speed.

Then when Ning Yuan descended to the treeside, the eyes of the Qingfeng Wolf, who had originally glanced at him casually, instantly glowed blue, and he rushed over without any hesitation.

When Ning Yuan went down to the bottom of the tree and turned around when he heard the movement, he saw a large mouth of blood basin overflowing with sharp teeth passing through his eyes.