Yao Lao said with a little sadness: "Dumb has been with the old man for almost six hundred years, and he has never enjoyed any blessings. This is the first time that I have left the old man for so long, and to be honest, the old man is really a little reluctant. So, I beg Brother Li Hua, help me and carry Dumb to the stone bed in the cave, and then we will go again. ”

Li Hua thought for a while, and wondered: "It's not that I don't want to help you." It's just that if I carry Dumb into the cave and the big rock at the entrance of the cave falls, how can I get out?"

Yao Lao smiled: "You kid is playing stupid with me, right? You can come in, you can't go out yet?"

Li Hua thinks it's right, just wave Dumb's arm.

So, he carried Dumb, who was still foaming at the mouth, to the stone bed, and as soon as Dumb's body entered the hole, the big stone fell, and the hole was dark.

Yao Lao explained: "This big stone has existed since I founded Baicao Mountain 7,000 years ago, and it is precisely because of its spirituality that I chose this cave entrance as my cave house. So far, it has only been able to follow the commands of me and Dumb. ”

Li Hua hurriedly grabbed Dumb's arm and waved it from the bottom up, if this method didn't work, he wouldn't be able to get out.

"Don't be too nervous, as long as the nerves in Dumb's arm don't die, the stone door can be opened. ”

Sure enough, the big stone blocked at the entrance of the cave "snorted" and rose up.

"Yao Lao, take me out now!"

"It's simple, you hold the purple gourd with your hand, and I will transmit the map in my consciousness to your consciousness. ”

Li Hua held the purple gourd with his hand according to what Yao Lao said, and a trace of cool air flowed down the tendons and veins in Li Hua's hand and flowed into his brain. When he reactivated his consciousness, he found that sure enough, there was a clear map in his consciousness.

"You're amazing, that's okay!"

Yao Lao smiled: "You come out of the cave, I'll show you my Baicao Mountain." ”

As Li Hua walked, he asked, "I heard you say Baicao Mountain several times just now, is this Baicao Mountain? Why haven't I heard of such a place near Huahui City?"

"When you go out to Baicao Mountain, you will understand why Baicao Mountain is near Huahui City, but no one has found out. "Yao Lao deliberately sold a pass.

He said slowly: "Let me first introduce you to the history of Baicao Mountain! Seven thousand years ago, I was successful in the field of Chinese medicine, and it took me three thousand years to promote my cultivation to a bachelor's degree. As for cultivation, as long as it is about the same, I am satisfied. So I put all my energy into researching Chinese medicine. In order to be able to do better research, I traveled to many places in the Rhapsody Continent and finally settled on this place. From the perspective of sunlight, soil, water and many other aspects, this is the most suitable place to grow medicines. That's why I've been here for almost 7,000 years. ”

"Wow!" Li Hua said in surprise, "In the past seven thousand years, have you cultivated a lot of precious medicinal herbs? For the sake of our relationship, can I just pull out a few elixirs in the mountains and fields? By the way, do you have any magic medicine here? If there is a magic medicine, I will definitely make a fortune!"

Yao Lao sighed and said regretfully: "If it was when Baicao Mountain was the most prosperous, although I didn't have a magic medicine here, it would not be too difficult to find a few high-grade elixirs. It's just that high-grade elixirs are all in the cultivation period, and they still need to wait for thousands of years to mature. If you want to be in a hurry for quick success, the high-grade elixir allows you to take it casually, and it is no problem to get it to you. ”

Li Hua's face was overjoyed, and he said a little greedily: "Then hurry up and let me get a soft hand! I have several storage bags!"

Yao Lao emphasized: "Attention, what I am talking about is when Baicao Mountain is at its most prosperous. ”

Li Hua said nonchalantly: "I know, I don't want to take so many things now, anyway, it shouldn't be a problem to find a few high-grade pills, right?"

"When you get out of the cave, you'll understand. ”

Yao Lao's tone revealed boundless desolation, which had made him unable to express it in words, and perhaps expressing it would only bring him endless pathos.

Li Hua walked for another ten minutes, and a small bright spot gradually appeared in front of him, and as he got closer and closer, this small bright spot became bigger and brighter.

Finally, Li Hua took one step, and the whole person was in the ocean of light.

But this divine light made Li Hua faintly uneasy, and he couldn't say why.

Slowly, Li Hua's eyes adapted to the light, and he looked at the thriving Baicao Mountain in his imagination with joy. Unexpectedly, the undulating mountains in front of me were endlessly desolate.

Everywhere the eye looks, there are barren mountains and wilderness, full of charred trees and black land, deserted, without traces, where is it like a mountain of herbs planted with medicine?

Li Hua rubbed his eyes, thinking that he was dreaming, Yao Lao wouldn't have guarded such a broken place for seven thousand years, right?

"Yao Lao, are you kidding me......? This place is a good place that you have found after all your hard work in the Rhapsody Continent? Why am I like a no-man's land where birds don't? This is really Baicao Mountain?" Li Hua was puzzled.

"The old man really didn't lie to you, this mountain is indeed genuine, like a fake Baicao Mountain. It's just that it has long lost its former appearance. Its former glory has long been ruined!"

Yao Lao had no body, Li Hua could only hear Yao Lao's voice, and naturally he couldn't see his expression. But Li Hua could read from Yao Lao's silence his deep, deep sorrow in the depths of his life.

The medicine elder sighed, "People have lived for a long time, and everything has to be a long story. ”

Li Hua walked in the direction of the exit according to the map that Yao Lao had transmitted to his consciousness, looking around on the devastated Baicao Mountain along the way, and slowly listening to Yao Lao's story.

"About 600 years ago! My old friend and old enemy, Huo Lao, came to Baicao Mountain with the nine poisonous fires that had been newly refined, and burned all the hard work of the old man and me for 7,000 years. Yao Lao endured the huge pain and continued, "It's all because I have only cared about planting medicinal herbs for so many years, neglecting to cultivate and improve my strength, so I let those old opponents have a chance to take advantage of it, and they all surpassed me in strength." It's my fault that I don't have the power to protect those beloved herbs!"

Li Hua listened carefully, and after listening, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Yao Lao, I found that in your heart, there is no such word hatred. Huo Lao burned your life's work, and you don't treat him as an enemy, but as an adversary. For that alone, I can admire you for the rest of my life. ”

"Don't flatter the old man, I can't give you any good. For 600 years, Dumb and I have spent all our time and energy just to be able to restore the appearance of Baicao Mountain as soon as possible. You can turn a barren mountain into a medicine mountain. Hundreds of years have passed, and we still haven't even restored the soil here. ”

Li Hua couldn't help but ask, "Why are you so bothered? Why don't you find a suitable place anymore?"

"This mountain was originally a spiritual vein, but it became what it is because of my personal reasons. So even if I use all my life, old man, I still have to fulfill this responsibility that should be my own. ”

Li Hua agreed: "That's right, you can help me quickly improve my cultivation now, and when my strength is enough, I will definitely do my best to help you fulfill your wishes!"