The next day, Kong Biao sent someone to invite Xu Chen to Tianshu Palace.

Xu Chen followed this god warrior on the road with a nervous mood, and he secretly muttered, thinking that it couldn't be the god king who told Kong Biao all about the matter, right? You know, he is just a god warrior, and in terms of qualifications, it is not Kong Biao's turn to personally send someone to invite him.

When he entered the Tianshu Palace, he found that dozens of divine warriors like him had gathered in the hall.

Seeing Xu Chen coming, Kong Biao stood up and said, "Yun Shuiling reported to me, there has been a shortage of medicinal materials in the medical hall recently, I hope you can go into the mountains to collect medicinal materials and replenish medicinal materials for the medical hall in case of emergency." Would you like to complete this task?"

It turned out that this was the case, Xu Chen let go of his uneasy heart, nodded his head again and again, and the others also expressed their willingness to go to the mountains to collect medicine.

According to the practice of the sacred mountain, this kind of task of hard labor is arranged for the divine warrior with a low cultivation level to complete. In addition, a few days ago, these people, including Xu Chen, participated in the promotion tournament, and they were more or less injured to varying degrees, and now that there are no medicinal materials in the hall, how can they not go.

Xu Chen's injury had not yet healed, and he was afraid that Aunt Yun would not have any medicine there to delay his treatment, so he took the lead in asking Kong Biao to assign him the most difficult task, and Kong Biao arranged for him to be the captain and took the other three partners to complete the task of picking twenty Ganoderma lucidum trees that were more than ten years old.

There's nothing dangerous about this task, it's just a bit time-consuming. Ganoderma lucidum has always been a rare thing, not to mention that the requirements are more than ten years old, Kong Biao knew that it was difficult to find it, so he gave them ten days.

Considering the large number of Shenshan disciples who needed to be healed recently, Kong Biao was worried that Xu Chen's team would not have enough Lingzhi to collect, and after Xu Chen left, he assigned the same task to another team with stronger abilities.

After Xu Chen went back, he explained the matter to Nangong Muyang, Nangong Muyang's sword frowned slightly, he was a person who knew his senior brother Kong Biao better, when they were about the same age as Xu Chen, they had lived in the same house for three years.

Nangong Muyang glanced at the apprentice meaningfully, and then said, "Be careful when you go into the mountain to collect medicine, pay attention to safety." ”

Xu Chen replied nonchalantly: "Master, please rest assured, it's not the first time that the apprentice has done a task, and Lingzhi is a bit laborious to find, but it's just a few more days of grinding." ”

"I'm not worried about collecting medicine, I'm worried about Senior Brother Kong'......" Nangong Muyang was stunned for a moment, and then said: "My senior brother, it can be said that everything is good, but the amount of qi is a little narrow. Recently, because of you, he fired two of his apprentices one after another......"

"Hehe, they brought it on themselves. Master, don't worry, this is a very normal task, there are many people participating, and Uncle Confucius is not trying to embarrass me. ”

Xu Chen pursed his lips, but he secretly thought in his heart: If this was before, I was really a little scared, and now Kong Biao wants to make things difficult for me, but I am afraid that I don't have the courage, with His Royal Highness the God King as my master, Kong Biao will not dare to easily fix me even if he eats the bear's heart and leopard gall.

"I hope I'm too worried and come back for dinner sooner. Nangong Muyang's eyes were filled with mist.

"Don't worry! There are no demons and monsters in the mountains, what is there to be afraid of!" Xu Chen smiled, didn't talk any more nonsense, picked up the medicine basket and went into the mountain to collect medicine with the three junior brothers in the team.

This time the collection of medicine was not smooth, Xu Chen and his party searched in the mountains for a morning, not to mention ten years of Ganoderma lucidum, and they didn't even see the shadow of an ordinary Ganoderma lucidum.

In the end, they came to an open area, and seeing that everyone was tired, Xu Chen instructed a few juniors to rest in place, and by the way, discussed with them a suitable place to find Lingzhi in the afternoon.

A few people were eating dry food, and another team of brothers and sisters looking for Lingzhi also came here. They and Xu Chen were looking for different paths, and they were very lucky, and they all picked four Ganoderma lucidum trees that were more than ten years old in the morning, and one of them was at least more than 20 years old.

Seeing that Xu Chen's team had found nothing, these people were suddenly a little proud, and their eyes were a little different.

"Senior Brother Xu, how about you look at the quality of this Ganoderma lucidum that I picked for more than 20 years?" Their captain Zhao Fei deliberately took the old Lingzhi to show off in front of Xu Chen.

Xu Chen knew that he was showing off, and after rolling his eyes, he continued to eat dry food in a muffled voice.

"At our rate, it is estimated that the task can be completed in two or three days. Zhao Fei saw that Xu Chen ignored him, so he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Senior Brother Xu, we have to go back to rest." If you can't pick Ganoderma lucidum in the afternoon, tell your brothers, and we'll help you tomorrow. ”

Xu Chen didn't know if what he said was true or not, but he always felt a kind of ridicule in his ears, so he replied coldly: "Don't give me any wrongs, I don't want your help." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a rustling sound behind him, and when he looked back, his expression suddenly froze.

A bucket-thick golden python sprang out of an old tree with lush foliage and landed in the grass, and the snake scales on its whole body shone like a golden luster when the sun shone like this.

This guy is six or seven feet long, and I don't know how many years he has lived. Xu Chen said a few words of good luck in his heart, glad that he didn't rest under that tree just now, otherwise he would have been harmed by the python hiding in the canopy.

The golden python circled around the grass a few times, then crossed its head and spat out scarlet letters to the crowd in a threatening gesture.

On its triangular snake head, a pair of small horns actually grew, and the fierce murderous aura emanating from the red snake eyes seemed to warn Xu Chen that if anyone dared to take a step closer, they would immediately attack him!

"It's such a big python, it's all cultivated to perfection. Xu Chen glanced at his companions and signaled them to be vigilant.

Zhao Fei shook his head and said, "This is not a python, it's a python! You see that it has horns on its head, and I am afraid it will not be long before it will turn into a dragon." ”

It is rumored that after cultivating for 500 years, Jiao will become a Jiao, and Jiao will be able to ascend to Jackie Chan after diving into the abyss and practicing for another thousand years. Zhao Fei is right, this is a worm that is about to become a Jiao, hiding here to cultivate, Xu Chen and the others have trespassed into its territory without authorization, so they naturally want to come out to drive away these idlers.

"It's strange, it's a creature that lives in a big river, what is it doing in this dry land?"

"yes, that's weird. Zhao Fei couldn't figure out the reasoning.

"There is a demonic spirit!" a junior disciple shouted, the person had already pulled out the steel sword, his cultivation was not high, and he was only promoted to a first-order divine warrior this year, so he often carried a weapon to defend himself.

It doesn't need his reminder, and everyone knows that this golden dragon has become a demon. But Xu Chen's attention was no longer on this tree, and his gaze fell on the root node of the old tree where the golden dragon fell.

In the dark grass, something seemed to be exposed. It was more than half a foot tall, with a semicircular umbrella at the top, something like a mushroom, and the whole plant was colorful in color, with deep wrinkles in concentric rings, and a faint purple halo in between.

Xu Chen suddenly lost his voice and shouted: "Millennium Ganoderma lucidum!"

He immediately understood why the golden giant was here. Master once said that there are spiritual objects around the rare Lingzhi as guards, and it turns out that this demon is specially here to protect this thousand-year-old Lingzhi.

Ordinary Lingzhi will not have spiritual objects to protect, only Lingzhi that has grown for more than five hundred years, its head crown can exude the spiritual energy of heaven and earth absorbed by itself, forming this beautiful halo that Xu Chen saw, and at this time, the spiritual objects will be induced to protect it.

This is a special symbiotic relationship, mutual benefit and reciprocity, Lingzhi needs the intimate protection of this big dragon, and the demon also has other plans, it can absorb the essence of Lingzhi to enhance its own demon law, and at the same time wait for those greedy prey to appear, take the opportunity to eat them to fill their stomachs.

It's just that this time, the situation encountered by the demon is a bit tricky, firstly, there are a large number of people, and secondly, Xu Chen and they are all cultivators, and they are not as easy to deal with as ordinary birds and beasts.

When the others heard Xu Chen's shout, they also discovered this rare thousand-year-old Lingzhi, and their faces showed expressions of surprise.

"Wow, I'm going to get rich now!"

"Tsk, give this Lingzhi to the medical hall, these guys don't know how many elixirs they can refine. ”

"When we pick it, the task is overfulfilled, Master Kong is happy, and he will definitely give us a rich reward!"

As if it could understand human speech, the golden dragon became angry, and it opened its bloody jaw, and a burst of black mist sprayed at them!

The fishy wind was everywhere, and the black mist blew towards everyone along this demon wind, Xu Chen only felt a feeling of nausea, and he smelled a very foul smell, similar to the smell of the dead corpse when it was rotting.