Back to the Taoist temple.

Cao Yi took out the Ganoderma lucidum from the purple gold red gourd and looked at it calmly.

The appearance is as fiery red as a flame, and it is not big, and it looks like a small pocket umbrella that is missing part of it.

Take a light breath, the rich woody aura rushes to drill into the nostrils, and the unique vitality of the woody aura instantly fills the whole body.

"It's worthy of a year-old Ganoderma lucidum!"

Cao Yi ran the gold liquid return method and absorbed it.

About twenty minutes later.

As if sensing the presence of Lingzhi, the room was filled with a chaotic fluctuation of the sky, or rather the egg.

Cao Yi, who didn't plan to dry up and fish, stopped absorbing it, and planted Ganoderma lucidum in a somewhat damp place in the corner of the wall.

Then, go to the room and give a little woody aura to the egg.

The egg immediately emitted a cheerful ripple.

After a while, the woody aura was gone.

The egg shuddered.

"That's all for today"

Cao Yi dropped a sentence, left the room, and closed the wooden door with his hand.

In the next ten days, Cao Yi's figure may appear in the green waves of the forest, or attached to the cliffs and cliffs chopped by knives and axes, or wander among the mountains and rocks of various shapes, or stroll in the fascinating karst caves.

He has encountered poisonous snakes, tigers, wild wolves, wild boars, and rescued hunters, shepherd boys, and woodcutters.

The harvest is just average, and many spiritual plants are either not old enough, or they have been plagued by wild beasts and birds.

……

Today, it's a sunny day.

The sky was like a piece of blue paper, and a few white clouds seemed to be sunburned, slowly floating with the wind.

At the foot of the mountain, the weeds on both sides of the long dirt road were sunburned listlessly and bent down.

If nothing else, it's been another hot, monotonous morning.

Suddenly, hundreds of horsemen appeared at the end of the dirt road, and soon spread with the sound of dense horses' hooves.

In the middle of the hundreds of horsemen, there was a half-driven wagon, coming at a constant speed, the hooves of the horses clattering against the ground and splashing with puffs of sand.

"Stop"

A majestic voice came from the carriage.

"The prime minister has an order, stop"

Next to the carriage, a middle-aged man with a strong face and a slightly dark face raised his rough hand and roared.

Hundreds of cavalry reined in one after another.

Cao Cao, who was in his fifties, with a little white temples and a few beads of sweat on his forehead, poked his head out of the car window, looked at the green mountain, and asked, "Zhongkang, is this it?" ”

The middle-aged man, that is, Xu Chu, swept around the mountains and forests with a pair of tiger eyes, and suddenly arched his hand: "Back to the prime minister, it's in this area"

Cao Cao got up and prepared to get out of the carriage.

Xu Chu immediately said: "The mountain road is difficult, and a certain generation of prime ministers enters the mountain." ”

"It is rumored that this person has a strange temperament and a huge shelf, and the old man is not close, so it may be difficult to invite him."

Cao Cao opened the thin curtain and got out of the carriage.

Xu Chu followed and dismounted.

Hundreds of cavalrymen, neatly dismounted, showed that this was a well-trained cavalry.

"Leave a hundred men to watch the horses"

Cao Cao dropped a sentence and walked towards the path up the mountain.

Xu Chu and the soldiers naturally wouldn't really let Cao Cao go ahead, most of them gathered around Cao Cao to protect, and a small number of them went to the front to explore the way.

Half an hour later.

In a forest, rays of sunlight shine through the layers of branches and leaves, and the ground is covered with large and small spots of light.

Cao Cao and his entourage are enjoying the cold, and today, the weather is too hot.

Suddenly, there was a flute sound, and the tone was very cheerful.

"Let's go and see"

Cao Cao got up and walked over.

Xu Chu and the soldiers got up one after another.

The group had not gone far before they found the person playing the flute.

He was a shepherd boy of about ten years old, and he was enjoying the shade under a large pine tree that was unknown how many years old.

On the side, a sturdy ox was grazing with its head down, its thick tail occasionally wagging to drive away flies.

Cao Cao stepped forward and asked, "Does the boy know that there is a hermit here?" ”

When the shepherd boy saw so many people coming, he instinctively felt a little nervous, and was speechless for a while.

Xu Chu was about to scold.

Cao Cao glanced at him lightly, and the latter's words came to his lips and swallowed them back.

Cao Cao looked at the shepherd boy and said with a pleasant face: "We are not wicked people, we are envoys of the imperial court, and we have come here to find a hermit surnamed Cao." ”

When the shepherd boy heard the word hermit, there was a hint of surprise on his face: "What you are looking for is a gentleman who always wears a blue robe?" ”

"Exactly, do you know where he lives?"

Cao Cao was even more pleasant.

When the shepherd boy heard this, he looked back at the dense mountain forest, scratched his head and said, "I don't know, I just occasionally see him collecting medicine on the mountain." ”

Cao Cao turned his head to look at the mountains and forests with no end in sight, frowned, and asked, "Do you know where Mr. often picks medicine?" ”

The shepherd boy seemed to be stumped by this question, thought for a long time, and shook his head with a distressed face: "It's in this mountain, in a place shrouded in clouds. ”

Cao Cao's brows were locked together, no matter how big the mountain was, he could always find it, but he could wait, his youngest son Cangshu, who was already seriously ill, couldn't afford to wait.

At this moment, the cries of all kinds of wild beasts came, including wolves, tigers, leopards, and wild boars......

"On Alert"

Xu Chu gave an order.

Hundreds of soldiers immediately raised their crossbows and waited for the battle.

In a few moments, an astonishing scene occurred, and dozens of beasts leaped out of the bushes and rushed in this direction like madness.

Such a large-scale beast appeared at the same time, and the brave Xu Chu also changed color, and immediately protected Cao Cao behind him.

After a while, dozens of beasts rushed forward, and when they saw so many people blocking the front, they immediately pounced.

At this moment, a faint sound of flute drifted from the sky.

Dozens of beasts fell into chaos again and again.

"Put"

Xu Chu waved his hand.

Hundreds of crossbow arrows came from the hands of hundreds of soldiers, and the sound of swishing was incessant.

In the blink of an eye, many beasts were hit by arrows and fell to the ground one after another.

Not far away, a wounded colorful tiger roared and rushed over.

Xu Chu greeted him with a knife.

The colorful tiger is fierce, and the injured one is even more ferocious and abnormal, almost injuring Xu Chu.

After a few rounds of fighting, there was a muffled sound, and the knife in Xu Chu's hand stabbed into the body of the colorful tiger.

The bright red blood quickly stained a piece of fur, and the colorful tiger struggled a few times before moving away.

……

Several miles away, Cao Yi took a cracked flute and came to a woodcutter who had been eaten by a wild beast and was leaving a pile of bones.

After reciting the Sutra of the People, he hastily buried the person and left.

Back at the Taoist temple, Cao Yi did not return to the temple, but sat directly on the stone bench to practice the golden liquid return pill method. Wisps of spiritual energy floated over from a piece of spiritual grass on the side of the courtyard.

With the passage of time, I don't know why the exercises, there was still a breakthrough, and Cao Yi entered a state of emptiness and cut off contact with the outside world.

The colorless gas composed of woody aura permeated within one meter of Cao Yi's body, forming an invisible barrier.

As the saying goes, there are unforeseen storms and clouds in the sky, and the rain suddenly falls, dripping, like cow hair, like flower needles, like soft hair...... The rain and fog were filled, and the raindrops were strung into a curtain of beads, enveloping everything like smoke and clouds.

Half an hour later, a dense sound of footsteps appeared outside the Taoist temple.