In the southern world, your life is so ordinary, primitive and boring, repeating day after day, a few years of time here seems very short, although every day someone will die, there will be people who will be born, and there will be people who will be born but the survivors always work day after day, and there are deficiencies that bring vitality, showing a very primitive and quaint form, which is the result of natural selection.

This is also the result of natural selection, healthy people will be healthy, and birth, old age, sickness and death do not leave much room for people to avoid and procrastinate. In the wilderness tribes, there are many people who may only do one or a few things in their lifetime, because there is not much to do, and in fact they will not be more, so it is often possible to refer to a person or a tribe by what they do.

For example, Wu Ding, the ancestor of the tribe, once opened the way for Ba Jun, and later generations of people took Lu as his surname. Another example is the people of Youyu Village, who mainly make a living by fishing, and later the clansmen were all surnamed Yu. But the changes in the wilderness also came unconsciously, so that many people were not clearly aware of it.

Soon after Yuliang and his elite men disappeared, the elders of Yuyu Village realized that they had suffered an accident and would never return. This is a heavy blow to Youyu Village, which means that their plan to sneak attack Huahai Village or the tribe has failed, and they may no longer be able to fully confront the tribe and dominate the barbarian tribes on their own.

If there is another inside story in this matter, it may lead to bloody revenge, and there will be a disaster of killing and exterminating the family. So the patriarch Yu Dahu made a decision, and Yu Youyou, the best of the faction and his most important junior, left Youyu Village. Yu Yuyou led a group of clansmen to cross the difficult and rugged road with the most precious artifacts inherited from the tribe through the generations, as well as the rare products collected in the wilderness, and went down the mountain to Ba Yuan.

At the end of that road is the territory of the current Xiangmu Province of the Five Kingdoms of Bayuan, and the fish shell asks the fish to swim to find the messenger who came to the tribe last time, Lord Etsugeng. Ariyumura offered or bribed with the power of the clan, hoping to get a promise from the lord to help Ariyumura quell the strife among the barbarian tribes and establish a tribal alliance that would be loyal to the monarch of the Aimuro country.

Since the division of Pakistan, there has been no co-owner of the barbarian tribes in the surrounding mountains, and there has been almost no occurrence in the past hundred years. Lord Yuegeng was surprised to see Yu and Yu's party, and he immediately thought that the king would be very happy if he knew that such a group of "messengers" was coming. What they sent was secondary, but it was very significant.

Yue Geng deliberately asked the dozen or so clansmen in Youyu Village to wash and rest first, and let them all put on shoes and change into a few new clothes. But in order to show their identity, they were also dressed in their original leather robes, and the clothes were still the same, but they were dressed more neatly and formally. Yue Geng taught them some etiquette that needed to be paid attention to, and took Yu and You and others to meet the king.

Yu Yu Youyou's identity has changed, he is no longer simply here to give gifts to Lord Yuegeng, but to pay tribute to the monarch on behalf of a tribal alliance in the wilderness. The monarch of the Xiangmuro was really overjoyed, and rewarded Lord Yuegeng generously, and rewarded Yu and Yu and the others and the so-called "tribal alliance" in the wilderness with a lot of things.

Yu and You took the opportunity to tell the monarch that not only was there civil strife in Ba Yuan, but the situation of the various tribes in the wilderness was also very chaotic, and there were many disputes among the tribal alliances and they refused to obey the common master, so they had not met the monarch and asked the monarch for forgiveness for many years. Some of these words were thought by Yu Youyu himself, and some were taught by the Yuegeng-sama to say them.

If the people of Youyu Village want to achieve their goals, this is the best choice, and Lord Yuegeng can't accept their benefits in vain, so he will naturally try to help them.

Because of the long distance and the underdeveloped production, in those times and places, it was often slow to do something, but as long as there were no accidents, people would continue to do it. The monarch put Lord Yuegeng in charge of this matter, and at the request of the Youyu clan, he first gave them a batch of weapons and products from Ba Yuan, and sent someone to escort the team back to Youyu Village.

For Ariyumura, the most important thing is not what the king rewards, but the people sent by the Prime Muro country. Originally, a visitor with a very ordinary status in Bahara was treated as a guest in Yuyu Village.

Among those people were farmers, who taught the people of Yucun how to use the farming tools they brought, tried to open up fields nearby, planted crops in Ba Yuan, and imitated and made more new farming tools. There were also military divisions among them, teaching the sturdy men of Yucun to use weapons, and most importantly, battle formation drills, and some sharp weapons were brought from Ba Yuan.

The Emperor of the Prime Room did this, on the one hand, to show off the prestige and grace of the country, and on the other hand, it was also for the benefit of the future. As long as each clan forms a stable alliance led by the Yuyu clan, it will be possible to recruit warriors and collect various unique products here in the future, which will of course contribute to the strengthening of the country. Moreover, there is more than this piece of wilderness around Bayuan, and if you use this as a basis to recover the other wilderness departments in the same way, the country will be very powerful. So it's not just a sign of resign, it's also a beginning.

As for Yu and You, he did not follow his clan back to Youyu Village, and this young beginner monk made a request to Lord Yuegeng at the behest of the big shell of the fish, hoping to find a master on the Bayuan and learn more powerful secret methods, and asked Lord Yuegeng to introduce him.

This is also a retreat left by the big shell, if the conflict with the clan evolves into a decisive battle in the future, although it has an absolute chance of winning, it also has to consider other outcomes. In case the fish clan is finally defeated, the last bloodline seeds are left, so that the clan will not be completely wiped out, and there is even hope for revenge.

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Time passed imperceptibly, and Baoyu still didn't know anything about these things. Although the mountain god Li Qing Shui saw everything that happened in the wilderness, he didn't tell the child anything, nor did he remind Ruoshan and the others of anything through Baoyu. Because he and Baoyu agreed not to tell everything about Taihao's ruins, of course, including the fact that Baoyu could "see" the mountain god here.

The children of the tribes of the wilderness, boys until the age of twelve, and girls until the age of ten, usually do not participate in collective work, and their task is only to grow up healthy and become a new force in the tribe in the future. They learn a lot of things that adults do, such as watching people in the village process all kinds of utensils and help them out appropriately, but more often than not, they still play, and play is also a kind of exercise.

Baoyu and Xiaotian are the two most special "children" of the tribe, they run far every day, and occasionally do not return to the village for the night. A dog usually lives only in his teens, and by the time he is in his teens, his life has often entered his twilight years, and he may no longer be called a "child".

But the clan has never had a dog before, Xiao Tian is the only dog in the clan, he has grown up with the clan since he was a child, and he thinks he is a member of the clan, so his mentality and behavior are like a child in the clan. On the other hand, since the opening of the spiritual wisdom to cultivate, Xiao Tian's longevity has also changed unconsciously, and it cannot be measured by ordinary dogs, relatively speaking, it is still in a special period of childhood.

Shortly after they returned to the village from the Taihao ruins, Baoyu discovered something, and the scars on Xiaotian's body disappeared. As long as you don't die, sooner or later you will be healed, and the wound will heal, but some traces cannot disappear completely. Xiao Tian has two wounds on his body, one on his shoulder, which was scratched by the sharp beak of the strange bird when he was three or four years old, and he almost saw the bones at that time, although he was healed by Granny Shui, but the scars can still be seen. The other wound was on the side of the waist, and on the way to the ruins of Taihao, he was injured by the strange snake that suddenly sprang out.

After the second wound was completely healed, there was no scar, and so it was fine, but the original scar on the shoulder was gone, and even if you used your fingers to pick up the dog's hair and look carefully, you can't find that it has been injured. This made Baoyu feel very surprised and happy, but now that he knew what cultivation was, he didn't make too much of a fuss, and secretly thought in his heart that maybe this was the effect of refining the body.

This is indeed a cultivation skill, but it is usually not so magical, and the main thing is the powerful spiritual effect of the five-colored divine lotus root. Xiao Tian used the appropriate method to refine and absorb those spiritual effects at the right time, although it was not as perfect as Baoyu, but the benefits obtained were also huge. Otherwise, when it breaks through from the first realm to the second realm, the onset of old injuries will make the dog very uncomfortable, and even tortured and become an obstacle that cannot be broken through, because the cultivation of the second realm is mainly to cleanse the muscles and bones, and the old injuries and dark diseases are all hidden dangers.

Soon after Xiao Tian returned from the Taihao Ruins, the Nine Transformations of the First Realm successfully entered the Second Realm and continued its journey of self-realization cultivation, the process was very smooth, and he did not encounter too much trouble, but for it, the years of cultivation in the Second Realm may be longer than that of the First Realm. Baoyu was on the way back to the second realm and nine turns, but he was still cultivating in the second realm, not only full of energy, light and healthy, far from injuries, but also always felt so comfortable and refreshing. That's what Baoyu wants, or he doesn't need to think about it.

Another three years have passed, and in these three years, Baoyu has always been cultivating the second realm, and he has already turned nine times to perfection, but it doesn't matter whether he is perfect or not, it is in such a natural mixed state, and he is very happy every day. He quietly went to the Taihao ruins every month or two, not too often, and did not arouse the suspicion of the clansmen. It may be that everyone has long been accustomed to him always running outside to play, and gradually turned a blind eye, and Baoyu will take Xiaotian with him every time.

In that "cultivation treasure land", there are twelve dragon's blood trees, five Langji trees, eighty-one five-colored divine lotus flowers blooming in the pool, a total of nine hundred and seventy-two lotus leaves around the lotus flower, and eighteen lotus pods with lotus seeds. Baoyu was in the realm, and the strange little world of Shenqi was integrated, and everything here was already very familiar, although it was not clear what their names were. But that's okay, everything in heaven and earth was nameless in the first place.

In the past three years, the petals of 12 five-colored lotus flowers have fallen into the water, and the stamens have formed lotus canopies, and at the same time, 12 lotus canopies have matured and fallen off. The reason is very simple, Baoyu and Xiaotian ate lotus root stems a total of twelve times. The five-colored lotus is a flower of gratitude, and every day it will open at sunrise and reintegrate into buds at sunset. If Baoyu and Xiaotian hadn't broken into here, I'm afraid it would still be the case for another thousand years, and no petals would fall, and no new lotus pods would appear.

Although this small world is extremely magical, the spiritual pool built by Emperor Taihao Heavenly Emperor, the spiritual breath of heaven and earth that it gathers can only grow so many five-colored divine lotuses, and it has already reached a constant state. After the lotus root stems are picked, there are new changes that occur, with new lotus roots beginning to bud and grow, and ripe lotus pods falling into the water.

Zhu Ming reminded Baoyu at the right time to quickly pluck the long green stem under the lotus canopy from the lotus root in the soil, which will remain green and incorruptible in its original state, so as to be used in the future. Otherwise, the green rods that are still left on the lotus root will melt away in the water, and no trace will be left, as if they have returned to the spiritual breath of heaven and earth.

As for the lotus canopy, Zhu Ming would also tell Baoyu to quickly pick it up and put it away, and put it on the white jade altar, it will always be fresh. Otherwise, after a few years after falling into the water, the lotus pod and lotus seeds will also melt away. Baoyu once saw with his own eyes that after the petals of the five-colored lotus flower fell into the water, it did not wither and wither, it was still as bright as ever, but it naturally slowly dispersed in the spiritual spring, and it could not be fished up.

Zhu Ming knows the characteristics of the five-color divine lotus, from the germination of the lotus seed to the opening of the flower, it takes a hundred years to grow, and from the opening of the lotus flower to the maturity of the lotus seed, it takes another hundred years. When the number of five-colored lotus that can be held in the lotus pond reaches the limit, no new flowers and leaves will grow, unless there is an unexpected change, such as being taken by someone. As for the five-colored lotus flowers and lotus pods here, many of them have not changed for thousands of years.

The petals of the five-colored lotus flower melt when they enter the water, and Baoyu is often not present when the petals fall into the water, so he does not have time to collect them. Only once when the timing was right, he was reminded by Zhu Ming to let Xiao Tian enter the lotus pond, and when the petals did not fall into the water, he caught them on his head, and thus collected fifteen pieces and put them together with those lotus pods and lotus stems.

The lotus pod will dissolve after a few years of water, but not all lotus seeds are like this, for thousands of years, many lotus seeds have fallen into the soil of the spring of Changqing for thousands of years, without any signs of decay. When the number of lotus seeds accumulated in the soil reaches a certain number, the newly fallen lotus seeds will not be left, so Zhu Ming will tell Baoyu and Xiaotian to put away the fallen lotus canopy quickly.

If someone could turn over all the soil under the spring water, they would find that there were a total of 1,071 lotus seeds buried in it, which happened to be the sum of the number of lotus flowers, lotus leaves, and lotus pods, which were dropped thousands of years ago when the five-colored divine lotus was still growing. Now, when a lotus stem sticking out of the water disappears, a lotus seed sprouts again in the soil.

Therefore, the things that Baoyu has collected in the past three years can be said to be the accumulation of many years in this ruin, its value is immeasurable, and it is impossible to grow in a short period of time, fortunately, there are enough five-colored divine lotus here. Zhu Ming was really generous to this child and this dog, and let them eat lotus root stems twelve times, just as a meal, because there was no other food in and around this Taihao ruins.

The twelve lotus pods that mature and fall off, each of which has nine lotus seeds, make a total of one hundred and eight. In the past three years, Baoyu and Xiaotian have come to the Taihao Ruins a total of 49 times, of which 12 times they ate lotus roots, and the remaining 37 times they took a lotus seed for each "person", which Zhu Ming told them to eat.

The white lotus seed flesh has the miraculous effect of nourishing vitality, and the cyan lotus seed core bud can detoxify all the poisons in the world. The lotus seed flesh is sweet and crisp, melts in the mouth, and is very delicious, but the lotus seed core bud is extremely bitter, and it cannot be eaten at all, this "bitterness" is simply beyond the concept of taste, making people's whole body constrict into a ball of breathlessness, bitter to the spirit, astringent to the soul, taking it is a great test and torture.

The only thing that can solve this kind of suffering is lotus seed meat, if you don't eat it with lotus seed meat, I'm afraid you won't be able to chew and swallow the core buds, and you must chew the core buds completely, otherwise you can't absorb its spiritual effect. Zhu Ming told Baoyu that he couldn't just eat lotus seed meat, he had to eat it with lotus seed core buds every time, and practice gong cultivation in the fixed realm. Xiao Tian was very reluctant to eat this way, it wanted to eat only lotus seed meat, but Baoyu had to stare at it every time and chew the core buds and swallow them, which was the order of the mountain god.

The five-colored divine lotus, its petals, stamens, lotus leaves, lotus stems, lotus seeds, lotus pods, lotus stems, and lotus root joints are all legendary elixirs of immortality. From the perspective of alchemy, the most essential part is the petals and stamens, but if you want to eat it directly to help the spirit, the edible part of the essence is the lotus root stem and lotus seed.

Baoyu has taken so many lotus roots and lotus seeds in the past few years, what kind of effect it has, Zhu Ming is not clear, because no one has ever tried it like this, and this is not something that a mere Second Realm monk can imagine. Anyway, Zhu Ming is very willing, and besides, the five-colored divine lotus here will still grow, and it would be a waste not to eat it. As for how much energy is wasted after eating - don't think about this boring question!

Baoyu can completely integrate the spiritual effect of the five-colored divine lotus into the divine form, even if it can't play a full role now, it can also appear when it is cultivated higher in the future. Its refining and absorption process has become Baoyu's long cultivation process. Xiao Tian is obviously not as perfect as Baoyu did, but there are also many benefits left in the future.

Zhu Ming even doubted that the flesh and blood of this person, a dog, and especially that child, had also become an immortal elixir in another sense? Among all the parts of the Five-Colored Divine Lotus, only the spiritual power of the lotus root and lotus seeds was absorbed by Baoyu in this way, and they represented the state of endless vitality and circulation. And the rest of the part is not allowed, if the realm is not enough to take it forcibly, there will even be special damage, so Zhu Ming let them all stay.

As for the Langji tree, its branches and leaves are inedible, even if it is Xiaotian's dog teeth, it can't be gnawed, and the so-called immortal elixir refers specifically to the Langji fruit. There are still Langji flowers on the current Langji tree, and that is because Zhu Ming had picked some Langji fruits before, and the new immortal elixir has not yet grown. However, if no one picks the ripe fruit, it will never fall off, even if it is another 10,000 years.

If the tree is full of fruit, it doesn't look like it will grow anymore, but will remain alive for thousands of years. The so-called elixir of immortality, as long as it grows in a suitable environment, will have an inexhaustible lifespan, and it is a plant and tree that will never wither.

There are plants in the world that have a long life, such as the green oak in the deep mountains, many old trees are thousands of years old, it is said that some of them can grow for tens of thousands of years, but their longevity always ends. And immortal elixirs such as Langji Tree and Five-Colored Divine Lotus, Shou Yuan is endless, or there is no concept of Shou Yuan at all.

Xiaotian is very greedy, although the lotus seeds are delicious, they are accompanied by the core buds every time, so he always wants to eat the lotus root, how good the taste is, how comfortable it is after eating! So in the past three years, Zhu Ming has asked them to pick the lotus root stems a total of 12 times, each time three sections.

But Xiao Tian never had the idea of Lang Ji Guo, because he didn't know that it could be eaten. Moreover, the Langji tree is the light source in this strange little world, and if the tree is broken or killed, there will be nothing to illuminate, and the flowers in the pond will probably not be able to grow. Therefore, the "clever" Xiaotian never touches those Langji trees, and this dog has learned how to avoid the suspicion of getting into trouble, for example, it never chases roosters and hens in the village now.

Baoyu was already eleven years old, and on this day he once again came to the Taihao Ruins to sit and cultivate. After finishing the practice of Zhou Tian, he suddenly asked in his heart: "Mountain god, can you eat the fruit on the tree, and why does it never fall?"

As long as Baoyu didn't speak, and there were no other changes in his cultivation, Zhu Ming rarely spoke to disturb him. At this moment, Zhu Ming replied: "These fruits, if no one picks them after they are ripe, they will not fall." ”

Baoyu: "Can I pick one and try it? I'm afraid that after picking it, the tree won't shine." ”

Zhu Ming smiled in his thoughts: "How do you see it?" If there is no ripe Langji fruit on the Langji tree, the whole tree will no longer shine, and the more ripe the Langji fruit, the brighter its light will be. Now, although there is still a Langji forest on the Shude mound, there is no Qionglin glow, because the ripe Langji fruits have been picked by Baisha.

Baoyu replied: "In the fixed realm, the divine energy merges with this small world, and I feel the things in this world as if I feel myself. I found the light of these trees to be very strange, and it seemed to shine through my form in the realm, but it was not the visible light, and I felt as if I was being trained. This light fluctuates with the day, sensing the fruit from the tree. ”

Zhu Ming praised: "You have sensed the rhythm of vitality, if you pick all the ripe fruits on the tree, the tree will not shine, and the flowers in the water next to it will no longer grow." But now that the fruit of these five trees has been hanging for many years and has borne enough fruit, it will not affect you to pick some of them.

This fruit is really not something that ordinary people can touch, if you have to pick it by hand, before this thing lands, it will turn into a light and escape, and it will become the aura of heaven and earth again, so this thing must be picked by immortal magic and Taoism, and it will not work with your hands.