Chapter 17: In the Evergreen Mountains

The evergreen mountains, with many grasses, rocks and trees, and a small trail that winds deep into the mountains, some of the roads are covered with weeds and shrubs. Along the way, Qin Feng paid attention to whether there were any medicinal materials he needed on both sides of the road, and at the same time used Jiangang from time to time to clean up the grass and trees covering the road, so as not to step on the horse's hooves, the black wind horse in front, the white green horse in the back, one person and two horses, unhurriedly walked through one tortuous path after another, and gradually approached the depths of the Evergreen Mountain Range.

It was almost noon, all the way, constantly using Jiangang, Qin Feng was also a little tired, so he found an open space to rest, took out the dry food cooked food prepared before, and ate some at will, as for the two horses, they each chewed the grass and wild flowers around the clearing from time to time.

Because I traveled all the way, I only paid attention to both sides of the road while hurrying, so I didn't encounter the medicinal materials I needed, some ordinary herbs, but I saw a lot, but the young man was too lazy to pick and dig. After eating the dry food and cooked food, Qin Feng let the two horses continue to gnaw grass around the clearing, and he searched within a radius of 100 meters with the clearing as the center. Soon Qin Feng returned to the open space with a few herbs in his hands, and his luck was good, and he found a few herbs recorded on the pill of Yishou Dan. Unfortunately, there were not many of them, but fortunately, it was better than nothing, and while comforting himself, he put the herbs he found into the empty cloth bag prepared in advance.

Sit down and rest for a while, see that the two horses have eaten almost, get up and ride the black wind horse and continue to move forward, along the way when you see the herbs you need, you will get off the horse and pick, as for what small animals you see and run away, you have no interest in hunting and eating, one is that Qin Feng has eaten too much in the past twelve years on the mountain, and it is a little greasy, and the other is that I don't want to delay too much time, and it is important to collect medicine in a hurry. However, if he saw any wild fruit hanging on the tree, Qin Feng still picked one first with great interest, tasted it, felt that the taste was okay, and there was no toxicity, so he picked a few more pieces and put them in a cloth bag, if the taste was almost or felt a little poisonous, he threw it away and continued to hurry.

In this way, in the evening, a few more herbs and a small bag of fresh wild fruits were harvested, and seeing that the sky was gradually darkening, Qin Feng found a flat grassland, dismounted and found some dead branches, built a bonfire, and turned around in the woods around the meadow, found some insect-repellent herbs, put them around the bonfire, and waited for these herbs to dry up. After doing this, ignoring the two horses and the burning campfire, he turned and went deep into the surrounding woods, carefully searching for medicinal herbs.

Although the sky was dark, Qin Feng's internal qi cultivation was profound, and he had long been able to see night as day, so it didn't affect his search for medicinal materials. The location now is the central area of the Evergreen Mountain Range, and it is inaccessible, so there are more rare herbs, and I will continue to rush tomorrow, so I have to use the time of rest at night to expand the scope to search.

An hour later, Qin Feng found a lot of herbs needed to refine Yishou Dan, Yiqi Dan and other pills, as well as some hundred-year-old goblins, Shou Wu, which can be said to be full of harvest. I felt that it was almost over, and I was about to go back, when I looked up and saw a few red marble-sized fruits on a cliff twenty or thirty meters away, faintly exposed among the rocks and grass.

Qin Feng hurriedly used his body technique, went to the cliff where the fruit was growing, and looked down, and sure enough, it was the nine-leaf Lingzhi fruit. The nine-leaf Ganoderma lucidum fruit is the main flavor of Yishou Dan, with it, the medicinal materials recorded in Qin Feng's Yishou Dan Dan are basically ready, but he is currently unable to refine them, and the master Lao Xiang estimates that it is enough.

Looking at the few lovely Ganoderma lucidum fruits swaying in the wind, Qin Feng was worried about how to refine Yishou Dan, it was not realistic to go back and ask Bai Rushuang to refine it, forget it, pick it first, and then talk about it, anyway, it is not urgent to use it for a while. At the moment, put aside his thoughts, carefully dug out the fruit along with the whole pearl of nine-leaf Ganoderma lucidum, nine-leaf Ganoderma lucidum, in addition to the fruit can be refined Yishou Dan, its own roots and leaves are also rare medicinal materials, but it can't be wasted. After collecting the nine-leaf Ganoderma lucidum and its fruits, it was done, and without stopping, he used the Qiankun Teng Movement Method to rush to the direction of the leveled grassland just now.

Before the people arrived, they saw a few figures shaking around the bonfire from a distance, and they accelerated their speed, a few ups and downs, Qin Feng returned to the bonfire, and saw five people sitting around the bonfire, one of whom was adding dead branches to the bonfire, as for the campfire, the herbs used to repel insects had also been lit and put aside.

Seeing someone coming, the five people stood up one after another, one of the old men hugged his fists and said: "Presumably this bonfire is made by Xiaoyou, the old man and the five, come to this mountain to collect medicine, when it is dark, I see this place There is firelight, so I came here, I only saw the horse luggage, I didn't see people, I was curious, so I sat here and waited, if there is any disturbance, please forgive Xiaoyou." After speaking, he looked at the lit Cordyceps repellent on the side, and then looked at the cloth bag in Qin Feng's hand, and then said: "I see that Xiaoyou also understands medicinal properties, could it be that he also came here to collect medicine, and there are two horses here, why don't you see Xiaoyou's companions." ”

Qin Feng saw that the old man's tone was sincere, not like a treacherous person. Seeing that there were indeed a few cloth bags containing medicinal herbs on the meadow, but I didn't see the horses of the five people, I said curiously: "I was just passing by, not specifically to pick grass, why don't I see your horses?"

"Oh, you don't know, deep in the mountains and forests, dense jungles, there are no roads to find in many places, and horses are not suitable for walking, so our horses are placed outside the mountains and taken care of. The old man opened his mouth to explain, and seeing that the young man had not dispelled his concerns, he smiled and said: "The five of us are all from Xuanyin City, and we come here every year to collect medicine, and after returning to the city, we will exchange for some money and materials. It's rare to meet in the mountains, if the little friends don't dislike it, everyone sits down and chats slowly. ”

Qin Feng thought about it, let down his guard in his heart, found a clean grass and sat down, and put aside the cloth bag containing the herbs in his hand. At the moment, the six people roughly introduced each other, the old man Zhao Kang, and the remaining four people are all the sons and nephews of the old man, a small family from Xuanyin City, who will come to this evergreen mountain range every year to collect medicinal herbs. When he learned that Qin Feng was alone and was going to cross the Evergreen Mountain Range to Xuanyin City, Zhao Kang raised his thumb and praised the young man's high and courageous skills, knowing that there are often some fierce beasts in the depths of the Evergreen Mountain Range, and ordinary people dare not stay alone in the depths of the mountains overnight.

The other four also looked at the young man curiously, Zhao Kang pointed to the silver spirit long knife hanging on Heifeng's horse, as well as the bronze spirit long sword hanging on the side of the white green horse's back and some luggage packages, and praised the young man for being worth a lot of money and not afraid of encountering robbers.

Qin Feng thought to himself at the moment, the robbers he encountered had all been dealt with by himself, and the silver spirit long knife was a trophy, otherwise he really couldn't afford to buy this knife with his own net worth. Of course, Qin Feng would not say it in his mouth, he only said that he was lucky and did not encounter any danger. Then, I asked Zhao Kang about the situation in Xuanyin City, I had never been to Xuanyin City, so it was good to know a little about the situation in advance.

Seeing Qin Feng mention Xuanyin City, Zhao Kang immediately enthusiastically introduced it to the young man, picked up a branch on the ground, and on the grass, while roughly drawing out the layout of Xuanyin City, he told Qin Feng where this is, where is it, it is very detailed, and it can be seen that Zhao Kang is very familiar with Xuanyin City. Qin Feng was on the side, listening carefully, nodding from time to time, and after listening for a while, Qin Feng asked if there was a place to build weapons in the city, and Danfang, a subordinate of the Tiandan Sect.

As soon as Zhao Kang heard this, he pointed out an area on the sketch map on the grass, saying that it was a subordinate weapon shop of the Heavenly Refining Sect, which not only sold finished weapons, but also helped people customize and build weapons, and then pointed to another area, saying that it was the Danfang, a subordinate of the Tiandan Sect. After pointing out the location, Zhao Kang asked Qin Feng if he was buying the pill or if he planned to sell the medicinal herbs in his hand. If you sell medicinal herbs, you can help you introduce them. While thanking Zhao Kang, Qin Feng said that he didn't plan to sell medicinal materials, but wanted to buy pills.

After talking again, Qin Feng felt a little hungry in his stomach, from noon to now, he hadn't eaten yet, he was going to pick grass and come back to eat, but he met Zhao Kang and the five people, and he forgot to talk for a while. So, Qin Feng took the package containing dry food cooked food from the back of the white green horse, as well as the wild fruit cloth bag picked on the road, put it on the grass, and invited Zhao Kang and his five nephews to eat, Zhao Kang knew that Qin Feng had not eaten dinner at a glance, although he and others had eaten some, but now they were also a little hungry, so he immediately asked people to bring dry food packages, spread them on the grass, and the six of them ate together.

While eating, they talked casually, and soon they were all almost finished, and they put away the dry food package and put it back on the horse. A few people chatted again, most of the time it was Zhao Kang who was talking, Qin Feng and the other five were listening, and Zhao Kang's four sons and nephews would occasionally interject to ask some questions, or make some additions. Qin Feng has always been a person who doesn't talk much, and his personal experience is not so rich, so he listens to the guest with relish, and echoes the old man from time to time, and a few people can also be said to have a good conversation.

Zhao Kang then asked Qin Feng why he went to Xuanyin City, after all, a teenager who traveled thousands of miles alone, Zhao Kang was still quite curious. Qin Feng said that Xuanyin City was just passing by, and he had to rush to the Heavenly Sword Sect to apprentice. When Zhao Kang heard this, he raised his thumb again to praise the young man's ambitions, wished him a successful apprenticeship, and lamented that he had no ambition back then, etc.

It can be seen that Zhao Kang is a talkative person, Qin Feng is not bored, and always maintains a posture of being willing to listen, rarely interjecting. After a while, they gathered a large number of dead branches around the campfire, leaving one person to keep vigil, and the rest to rest. Qin Feng didn't practice again at night, and he didn't dare to sleep to death, and he continued to be half-asleep and half-awake.

Before dawn, Qin Feng got up alone, looked around, the bonfire was still burning, and the night watchman was also dozing off, so he left lightly to find a water source, washed up a little, jumped on a tall tree, sat cross-legged on the branch and practiced the Qiankun Mind Method.

An hour later, after finishing the work, the whole person felt refreshed, and he couldn't tell that he hadn't slept well all night last night. Seeing that the sky was already dawning, he floated down the tree, landed lightly, washed his hands and turned back. When they returned to the place where they rested last night, Zhao Kang and the five of them also got up, saw Qin Feng returning, and said with a smile, I didn't see the boy when I got up, and I thought I had left alone, and I saw that the horses were still there, and guessed that it should be convenient to go. Qin Feng said that he was used to getting up early, so he went to find a water source to wash just now. Then he said goodbye to Zhao Kang and the others, saying that he would leave for Xuanyin City as soon as possible.

Zhao Kang originally wanted Qin Feng to wait for a day or two, and he and the others would go back to Xuanyin City together after picking the herbs, so that they could take care of each other. Qin Feng thanked and excused himself, saying that he was in a hurry, but Zhao Kang didn't insist anymore, and said goodbye to each other at the moment, and Zhao Kang also left his address, so that Qin Feng had the opportunity to go to his home as a guest. Qin Feng nodded in agreement, and led the two horses to leave alone.

Choosing the direction, he continued to hurry, looking for medicinal herbs, and encountered some poisonous snakes and beasts along the way, as long as he didn't attack him, Qin Feng didn't bother to do anything;

When you are hungry, you will eat some dry food, when you are thirsty, you will eat some wild fruits, or find a water source to drink some water, and at night you will build a bonfire and rest on the side, of course, you will not let go of your cultivation, the difference is that you have not met a medicine picker like Zhao Kang. In this way, one man and two horses, after a five-day trek, finally crossed the Evergreen Mountains.