Chapter 203: Collecting Medicine in the Valley

"Miss, it's hopeless, let's move on!" the deputy captain of the herb collection team, who was over fifty years old, sighed and suggested.

Ling Xue nodded, stood up and said, "Everyone, the Blood Forest is extremely dangerous, and it is inevitable that there will be all kinds of accidents, but you can rest assured, the deceased will not die in vain, the Ling family will compensate your family with 100,000 taels of silver, and the others will each have 10,000, if I am unfortunately killed, it will be equally effective."

"Miss is such a good person! ”

"Well, as a cultivator, it's normal for something to have an accident, but I'm afraid that my family will lose my support. ”

Among the members of the escort team, there are only six people from the Ling family who are in the middle stage of qi training, and the rest are all medicine collectors who have cultivated several levels of qi, with their strength, even if they go to hunt demon beasts every day, and go over the mountains and mountains to collect elixirs, it will take several months to earn 100,000 taels of silver, but this is impossible, who can stay in the place where the demon beasts gather every day, I am afraid that they will be hunted and eaten in less than three days, and who can pick herbs in the deep mountains and old forests every day, so normally speaking, it takes more than five years for ordinary Qi cultivation realm monks to earn 100,000 taels, and this will always be able to immortalize, after all, when you are unlucky, you may encounter a high-level demon beast, and you can't escape。

Now Ling Xue compensated the deceased's family with 100,000 taels of silver at once, which was equivalent to cutting off their worries, so that they didn't have to worry about the future life of their families, and those who survived also had 10,000 taels of silver, which increased their fighting spirit.

"This woman has the temperament of a superior person. Ling Xue's actions made Li Heng nod secretly.

The dead are dead, and the rest of the people still have to keep on their way. As we go deeper, we feel as if we have come to another world, completely cut off from the bustling city. The Bloody Forest deserves the title of Bloodshed, and thirty miles away, everyone encountered four waves of demon beast attacks.

The first wave is three underground demon rats, which are first-level demon beasts. The second wave is a large group of silver kraits, which are first-class demon beasts. The third wave is five scorpion-tailed wolves, which are first-class top demon beasts. The fourth wave is a blind mighty giant bear, a second-level demon beast.

Under the attack of the third and fourth waves of demon beasts, no one died or even was injured, but the first and second waves of demon beast attacks killed four people in the escort team and the medicine collection team, if it weren't for Li Heng and the others to react quickly and act in time, it would not be impossible for more than half of the casualties to be killed.

The strength of the underground demon rat is not strong, if it is encountered normally, the seventh or eighth layer cultivator of the Qi Realm can defeat it, and it does not need to take much effort, but when it lurks underground, it is a nightmare for the cultivator of the Qi Realm.

In the escort team, a cultivator who had reached the ninth level of the Qi Cultivation Realm was dragged into the deep cave by the underground demon rat without any resistance, and the screams continued for a long time before stopping. And the second and third underground demon rats were unlucky, and they actually targeted Li Heng and Yuan Xuemei, and before they could get out of the soil, they were discovered by the two of them, and they were shocked to death underground, so scared that the other one also ran away.

If the underground demon rat made everyone's hearts have a shadow, then the second wave of demon beast attacks, a large group of silver krait snakes made them fearful. Silver krait, originally just an ordinary poisonous snake, but in this blood forest actually transformed into a first-class demon beast, their heads are oval, the whole body has white rings and black rings arranged alternately, the white rings are narrow, the tail is slender, the body length reaches three or four meters, the arm thickness is thin, the poison is weaker than the dark green poisonous dragon spider, but the cultivator in the Qi training period is bitten, and he will suffer respiratory failure in a short time, and he will naturally die after a long time, and it is very troublesome to treat.

The attack of the krait snake is very strange, from the treetops, in the grass, under the fallen leaves, from all directions, causing a sound like a raging storm, crazy and crazy.

At the critical moment, it was Wang Feng who used the storm knife technique, where the knife strength passed, the speed of the silver krait snake immediately slowed down, and those who got close were cut into pieces of meat, flying sideways in all directions, blocking most of the silver krait snake with the strength of one person.

Li Heng and Yuan Xuemei were not vegetarians either, and they all used their own means to kill the silver krait snake ten steps away.

Unfortunately, the scope of protection for a few people is limited after all, and a member of the medicine collection team and two members of the escort team were bitten by dozens of silver kraits, and they died of poison at that time and fell to the ground.

Ling Xue's face was very pale, not only because there were more and more demon beasts near the depths of the Blood Forest, but also partly because there were too many dead people and the amount of compensation that needed to be compensated was too large, it was not that she was stingy, this time just hiring five loose cultivation masters in the late stage of Qi cultivation cost 100,000 taels of gold and 50 Bigu Dan, with a total value of nearly 250,000 taels of gold, which is 2.5 million taels when converted into silver, and now the five people who died will be compensated 500,000 taels, and the survivors will each have 10,000 taels, adding up to more than 3.5 million taels, and if some more people die next, this number will exceed 5 million taels。

Some people may say that cultivators all rely on absorbing spiritual power to cultivate, so why do they need so much gold and silver for their possessions. Don't cultivators need to dress and eat, of course, and they have to eat well and eat a lot. If the food contains too many impurities, it will accumulate in the body and affect the cultivation speed, like Li Heng, the disciples of a big sect, the inner disciples are all issued Bigu Dan, even if they eat, it is demon beast meat and spirit valley.

Scattered cultivation and ordinary small and medium-sized families naturally do not have this kind of resource to enjoy, but they also eat some precious meat and a small amount of Lingshu and Linggu, and these require a lot of money, of course, spirit stones are also needed, about a piece of low-grade spirit stone is equivalent to one hundred taels of silver, that is, ten taels of gold, so it is not a small amount to convert into spirit stones, of course, it is nothing for Li Heng, the total tyrant.

For the Ling family, a small and medium-sized family, five million taels is enough to break the muscles and bones, and it is easy to have a bad turnover, and a poor turnover usually makes a small family go bankrupt, even to a medium family like her, it is not much stronger, if there is a lot of loss, maybe you will have to live a tight life.

Biting her lower lip, Ling Xue expected a good harvest next. After walking for ten miles again, Li Heng suddenly felt that the aura of the heaven and earth around him was much richer, and a faint mist appeared in the distance.

Ling Xue obviously felt the change in her aura, and said excitedly: "The place where the medicine is collected is almost here, everyone try harder." ”

"Oh!" Everyone in the Ling family couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, all the way over, their nerves were tense, and they didn't dare to relax at all, for fear that if they slackened, they would become the prey of demon beasts, and they would never be able to leave the Blood Forest and return to their warm home. Fortunately, there is always a reward for the effort, and it should be much easier to go back when the medicine is collected.

A moment passed.

Everyone came to a huge basin, looking around, the whole basin is several miles in size, which is lush and full of all kinds of elixirs, there are black ring grass, silver bell grass, golden bead iron blood grass, star flower, centipede flower, Zhu Guo, black snake fruit, seven-star Lianzhu grass, three-color jujube tree, no winter jujube tree, nearly hundreds of herbs of all sizes, rich and small gathered in the sky, forming a faint mist, looming, like a fairyland in the world, the fog is victorious.

"A lot of elixir. "The members of the medicine collection team have their eyes shining one by one, their breathing is accelerating, these elixirs may not be worth much, but the number is very terrible, if they can all be collected back, they can be sold for one or two million taels of silver without refining the medicine, and if they are refined into pills, the price will increase tenfold, and it is not a problem to earn ten million taels of silver, and some precious herbs can be more than this price, such as the golden bead iron-blooded grass that refines the healing pill is a rare herb, and one can be sold for a thousand taels of gold, which is more expensive than a good magic weapon.

Ling Xue showed joy on her face, but she was not carried away by the excitement, and ordered: "Two members of the escort team protect a member of the medicine collection team, separate from each other, don't make your own decisions if there is any situation, report it to me immediately." ”

"Yes!"

Along the way, the members of the escort team have made a lot of contributions, if it is not for them to protect the members of the medicine collection team in the center, there will be more people who will die, but everything is worth it, in addition to the silver they should get, each person can also get an additional 10,000 taels of silver, which is equivalent to the usual harvest of several months.

After arranging their respective work, Ling Xue herself also joined the ranks of collecting herbs, and from time to time she exclaimed in surprise, obviously there were some herbs that were very valuable.

Yuan Xuemei smiled and said: "This basin is full of vitality, maybe there are some demon beasts, the five of us will patrol everywhere!"

Li Heng nodded, "That's right, everyone is responsible for each direction." ”

"Okay. ”

Taking people's money to eliminate disasters for others, the five of them each occupy a position, patrol back and forth, and occasionally pick some needed herbs and put them in storage bags.

As Yuan Xuemei expected, there were indeed some demon beasts hidden in the basin, including a fist-sized life-killing bee, a thousand-changing dragon that freely changed the color of its skin, a vajra bird that usually hid in the trunk of a tree and slept, and a rock armor beast that launched a rage and rampage. Fortunately, the level of these demon beasts is not high, and the number is very small, so that a few were injured and none were killed.

At this time, Li Heng began to slowly show his strength, under his powerful divine sense, all dangers were hidden, he held a flying needle in his hand, and he could attack with a flying needle every hundred steps, the power was similar to that of an ordinary foundation building cultivator with all his strength, and he could easily save people from fire and water, and from time to time, he used two or three purposes, sending out several flying needles to help the members of the medicine collection team and the members of the escort team in all directions.

Snort!

As the last two life-killing bees were shot down by flying needles, Li Heng was thoughtful. It seems that the closer to the center of the basin, the greater the chance of the demon beast appearing, the group of life-killing bees just now was drilled out of the hive in the depths of the basin, each one is only one-third larger than the ordinary life-killing bee, and the flying speed is comparable to that of birds in the sky, it is difficult to dodge. It can be said that if Li Heng hadn't been here, this batch of medicine collection teams would have to reduce their staff.

"Guys, pick herbs on the periphery of the basin first, wait for almost that, and then go deeper. Li Heng's voice spread several miles away, and it sounded as clearly as in his ears.

Ling Xue then said: "Li Shaoxia is right, everyone will first finish picking the herbs on the periphery, and then come to me to concentrate." ”

In fact, there is no need for Li Heng to remind them, the members of the medicine collection team already know that the depths are not complete, but they know that sometimes when they see precious herbs not far away, they can't help but walk over, go deeper and deeper, and completely forget the existence of danger.