Chapter 16: Digging for Treasure in the Mountains
I had hoped to walk a little further along the beach and find a place where there were people, but that was not the case.
The reality is that after walking on the beach for a long time, Xiao Tian felt too bored, except for the seawater, it was sand, so he planned to head towards the forest. He had heard some common sense, there were many powerful demon beasts living in the forest, and although they didn't dare to go inside it, there was no problem on the outer edges.
After consideration, it is only possible to cross a maximum of five mountains, and it is not going deeper. Since the decision had been made, Xiao Tian immediately turned around and walked towards the forest.
These places are primeval jungles, with a variety of tree branches running across the road ahead. Xiao Tian took out the Longquan Treasure Knife and held it in his hand, and all the small branches that stood in front of him were cut off with a single sword.
This time, the goal was to visually inspect the mountain about 200 meters in front of you, and if you stand on the top of the mountain, you can see far away. If a village is not far away, then it is easy to find and there will be a place to go.
After walking some distance, he finally came to the foot of the mountain, and along the way he met some beautiful looking birds, but he couldn't name them. Looking up at this peak, more than two hundred meters, it is not high, it is not low, after all, it is equivalent to the height of more than sixty or seventy floors.
If you let a person climb the seventy floors, it is estimated that he will climb until his legs are weak, crying dad and calling his mother.
At this time, the special pair of hiking shoes with steel spikes that Xiao Tian bought worked out. You don't need such shoes in ordinary places, so I don't wear them, but now when I want to climb the mountain, I can naturally come in handy.
I took out my shoes, took off the original ones on the spot, put on steel spikes, and patted my feet a few times with my hands, which felt quite appropriate. Then he jumped a few more times, although it was a little heavier than the average shoe, but for him, it was not a big problem, and now he has strength.
I chose a gentler slope, carried a knife, and slowly climbed to the top of the mountain.
After ten minutes, I finally climbed to the top of the mountain. As for why it is so fast, these steel-spiked hiking shoes play a part, stepping between the rocks and not slipping at all. In addition, Xiao Tian's own strength is very strong, and he has a great advantage here, if it is the strength of ordinary people, it is impossible to be so fast.
Most of the trees on this mountain are pine, some poplars, and a small number of other species. There was a bold squirrel who was not afraid of Xiao Tian at all, a stranger, eating pine nuts on a tree, staring at Xiao Tian at the same time, leisurely.
Xiao Tian took out the binoculars and looked around, and the final result was that the mountains were still mountains, and the sea was still the sea. I had been prepared for a long time in my heart, so I was not too disappointed.
Descend the mountain and continue along the coastline to target a selected peak.
Soon after, he diverted from the beach and into the forest. As he walked, he came to the foot of the mountain, and at this time, he found a strange thing, a monkey was picking up soil with his hands under a tree vine, could it be that there was any treasure underground? Xiao Tian was interested, and wanted to see what it was doing.
The monkey also spotted Xiao Tian, so he opened his teeth and claws at Xiao Tian and made a gesture, as if he was demonstrating. Seeing that the other party did not make further moves, he was relieved and continued his own digging operations.
After a while, the outline of something was picked up, the monkey screamed a few times, and then another monkey came running, and the two monkeys picked up the soil together, the speed was much faster, and Xiao Tian became more and more energetic.
Finally, through the efforts of the two monkeys, something was dug out of the ground. It was a strange thing that looked like a humanoid, with vines attached to one end, and its head was two palms long. Seeing the digging out, the two monkeys screamed with joy, and after a while, one of the monkeys tore off the vine with his hand and left with the thing.
What the hell is this? I've never seen it before, and ginseng isn't like that.
"Xiao Yin, what did those two monkeys dig up?"
"Oh, a hundred years of He Shou Wu, equivalent to a thousand years on the earth, does the master want it?
Xiao Yin replied very blandly, the taste has changed a little.
When Xiao Tian heard this answer, he couldn't help but exclaim in surprise: "What? thousand-year-old He Shou Wu? This, this, actually let the two monkeys poach !!."
Xiao Tian didn't know how much he Shou Wu could sell for a thousand years, but just by listening to this name, he knew that he had become a thousand years on the earth. Scarcity is expensive, even if the price is low, it will not be low. However, although he also wanted it, he did not want to snatch something from the monkey's hand, it would be too humiliating.
He Shou Wu has a considerable yield on the earth, and it is easy to grow artificially, but the year is not enough, and the value is not high. It has many effects, calming the nerves, nourishing blood, activating the nerves, black hair, strengthening muscles and bones, tonifying the liver and kidneys, and is a relatively common precious and fine Chinese medicinal material.
And the older the year, the more valuable it is, and those on the earth that are old have been almost dug up, and it is almost difficult to find them again. However, the cultivation realm is different, these places are rarely visited, and many of them have been gone for a long time.
The monkeys here are also very smart, and they all know how to dig He Shou Wu to eat. Xiao Tian couldn't help but be interested, and tried to see if he could dig out a few He Shou Wu from the previous year. Not only can you eat it yourself, but you can also take it home and sell it for money.
He didn't deliberately look for it, just followed the established route, always paying attention to whether there was any He Shou Wu to dig up.
After walking a distance, a He Shou Wu vine fell into Xiao Tian's eyes. Running a few steps to the vine, as soon as he stretched out his hand, a small shovel appeared in his hand, and he dug up the soil with some anticipation in excitement.
The difference between humans and monkeys is that they have tools and they don't, and the efficiency of having tools is naturally much higher than that of not. Xiao Tian's speed was many times faster than that of a monkey, and it didn't take long for him to hold a human-shaped He Shou Wu in his hand, two hundred years old.
Since the plants in the cultivation realm are nourished by aura, even the effects of ordinary medicinal herbs are ten times that of the earth. This 200-year-old He Shou Wu is equivalent to 2,000 years of the earth, and if it is brought back to the earth, it will definitely be robbed madly.
In this way, I dug He Shou Wu all the way, dug five or six plants halfway, two of which were divided into 100 years, and the other ranged from 10 to 50 years, and the harvest was okay.
On the shady side of a mountain peak, Xiao Tian stopped in front of a plant, but this plant was not Polygonum multiflori, but another particularly precious Chinese medicinal material: ginseng!
Most people live in the city and have never seen what a ginseng plant looks like. However, when Xiao Tian passed by this ginseng, he was reminded by Xiao Yin. Because Xiao Tian was interested in these precious Chinese medicinal materials, he deliberately explained to Xiao Yin and did not let go of good things when he encountered them.
Wild ginseng is not easy to dig, and the roots are very valuable. But Xiao Tian couldn't control it so much, so he didn't have the heart to dig slowly here, directly around the ginseng radius of ten centimeters, a whole piece of soil was dug out, and after a few strokes of the soil, the rest was handed over to Xiao Yin.
"Xiao Yin, you use that dust removal spell to clean all the dirt on this ginseng!"
As soon as Xiao Tian gave him an order, Xiao Yin began to work, and soon a clean life appeared in front of Xiao Tian.
"How many years is this?"
"One hundred and ten years or so, master. ”
"Well, it's not bad!"
Xiao Tian put away the ginseng, and on the next road, there was one more item in the great cause of mining. It's just that there are not many places where He Shou Wu grows, and even fewer places where there are ginseng, and at the end of the day, the harvest is just like that.
In the evening, after a day of hiking, Xiao Tian randomly chose a place where the beach and the forest meet, ready to spend the night.