Chapter 7: Picking up a living treasure halfway

What happened to Ling Xiao and the rest of the Ling family was almost at the same time, they were both assassinated by the man in black, but the ending of the Ling family was more than a thousand times more miserable. In the early morning of the third day after leaving home, Ling Xiao sorted out his rare outfit and continued to embark on a long journey.

The City God Temple, three hundred miles away from Fengye City, is nearly eight hundred miles away from the next nearest city. With Ling Xiao's current speed, he has to sleep in the open for one night.

Although Ling Xiao is gifted and intelligent, he has no worries about food and clothing since he was a child, and he doesn't know how to take care of himself, and now he is exiled by his family, so he can only rely on himself to slowly grope for a living.

Walking less than twenty miles away, Ling Xiao's stomach began to gurgle in protest, and then looked up at the nine rounds of scorching sun hanging high in the sky, his heart was even more irritable, and he looked around for a while.

Who is called Taiyan Continent is vast and sparsely populated, sometimes it is normal to walk for half a month without seeing people, for a young master like Ling Xiao, it is really not easy to eat with a mouthful of food.

Just as he was feeling helpless, a small spiritual ginseng field in the distance appeared in Ling Xiao's line of sight.

"Aha! There is no endless road, and today I can barely gnaw a few spiritual ginseng to survive. ”

The land where ginseng is planted is almost completely submerged in grass, and it is really difficult to spot it if you don't look closely.

It can be seen from this that the people who grow this piece of ginseng are lazy and irresponsible.

Ling Xiao casually uprooted a spirit ginseng, took off the gourd with water on his waist, rinsed it carefully, and bit it down.

I was about to pull out the second ginseng, but I suddenly thought that it was wrong to do this, so I wrote on a big stone on the ground: Ling Xiao came here for a visit, borrowed three ginseng plants, and today he is so down, he will repay ten times the day!

"Crunchy! It tastes good, there is a strong spiritual power integrated into the meridians, but this thing doesn't seem to be the taste of ordinary spiritual ginseng?"

Just as Ling Xiao was eating happily, an urn sound rang out in the distant woods.

"Who dare to steal my family's spiritual ginseng, don't you see a sign on the edge of the spiritual field?"

Ling Xiao said in his heart that the weeds in this place were about to flood people, where could I still see the warning signs? I didn't expect to be caught by someone for the first time I borrowed someone else's things, and if it was spread out, I really had no face to see my mother.

Three thousand plans to run are the best plan, Ling Xiao grabbed two spirit ginseng with his hand, and ran away.

"Bah, boy, you stop me, and if I catch it, I promise not to feed you squirrel poop." ”

Ling Xiao turned his head and saw that the person who came was a young man of five big and three thick, but his appearance was honest, slightly immature, about fourteen or fifteen years old, but he was about 1.8 meters tall, his muscles were knotted, his skin was dark, as if he had crawled out of the coal pile, only a pair of dark and shiny starry eyes were exposed, and the young man was only wearing a pair of big flower pants all over his body.

"Haha! Stupid big one! If you have the ability, you can catch the master first! Bye-bye, don't send it!"

The two chased and fled, constantly going over the mountains and mountains, tossing and turning, and after an hour, they had run out of more than 80 miles.

Ling Xiao's cultivation qualifications are good, he is only thirteen years old, and he has already practiced the eighth layer of the spirit period, which is more than several times higher than the strength of the fourth layer of the spirit training period seen by Shangguan Luo'er and others. He used the spiritual power in his body to endow his legs, and Ling Feng used the Void Body Crossing Method, and it was even easier and faster to run.

Don't look at the big man who fell behind him is honest and stupid, but he is a master who is not easy to bully, chasing all the way, he has always maintained a distance of more than ten meters from Ling Xiao, no matter how hard Ling Xiao does, he can't shake off the tail behind him.

"Boy, don't run! Just let me catch me, I promise not to kill you!"

As soon as he heard this, the speed under Ling Xiao's feet increased a few points again, so that the fool didn't run, didn't he die, he could be disabled, right?

Another three hours passed, and countless flashes of light and mountains flashed quickly past the two of them, and the sky was gradually overcast, as if it was already evening.

Ling Xiao and the honest big man had both reached the limit of their spiritual power consumption, and now they were jogging completely with their physical strength, and the energy provided by the spirit ginseng had long been exhausted.

"Stupid big one, don't chase it, okay? Just three spirit ginseng plants? The young master doesn't have no spirit stones on him to pay the debt, you should be kind and charitable, and the rivers and lakes will help the emergency, right?"

Ling Xiao's footsteps became heavier and heavier, from jogging to dragging his pace, and finally he couldn't hold on anymore and sat on the ground.

"Boy, you still have a spirit ginseng, and I'm not a mallet, why do you want to save the rivers and lakes. I don't want money, I don't want spirit stones, I just want spirit ginseng. ”

The honest big man walked up to Ling Xiao, twisted his collar, and was about to grab him from the ground, but he followed Ling Xiao for more than four hours, and his body was as weak as he was.

Ling Xiao took out the two spirit ginseng that he grabbed when he escaped, and bit one spirit ginseng in his hand one by one, and the depleted spiritual power and physical strength in his body slowly recovered a little, and after he had the strength to escape again, he handed the other spirit ginseng to the honest big man.

The honest big man subconsciously closed his eyes and ate the ginseng into his stomach, and when he opened his eyes with some strength, he found that he had eaten half of the ginseng, and he was stunned for a while.

"Hey, hey, my mother, my family's 100-year-old spirit ginseng, one needs a thousand lower-grade spirit stones. ”

The honest big man, after being stunned for a while, suddenly howled and cried, crying bitterly, with a painful expression like eating squirrel poop, Ling Xiao was speechless and at a loss.

"Hey, stupid big man, are you okay? Don't scare Young Master Ben! Say, what do you want?"

Ling Xiao has seen the little beauty who was teased and cried by others, and he has also seen the old man who was bullied and cried by the gentlemen, but he has never seen a young man who can eat spiritual ginseng and cry his father.

"My family's century-old ginseng, this is planted by my grandfather's grandfather, this is my belongings for my daughter-in-law, you still have my ginseng, you still have my daughter-in-law. ”

Ling Xiao wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and finally understood that he had become a great traitor who ruined other people's marriages. How big is it? Does the three spiritual ginseng have a half-dime relationship with the daughter-in-law?

"Stupid big one, Young Master Ben didn't steal your daughter-in-law, the words can be made clear, these three spirit ginseng plants are all bought by me, you say, how many spirit stones?"

The honest big man, when he heard Ling Xiao's words, immediately stopped his seizures, his eyes widened, as if there was a mountain of spirit stones in front of him.

"Are you serious? You didn't lie to me? That's okay, you can give me 3,000 spirit stones. ”

After that, the honest big man stretched out a hand and stared at the storage bag on Ling Xiao's waist with burning eyes.

Ling Xiao touched the back of his head embarrassedly, and said with some weakness.

"That...... Big brother, the little brother has been a little tight lately, and he is really penniless, otherwise he wouldn't have borrowed your family's spirit ginseng, or you should keep an account for the little brother first, and when the little brother earns the spirit stone, he will definitely pay it back tenfold, how about it?"

The honest big man slapped the ground, stood up with a swish, and pointed at Ling Xiao is a burst of saliva.

"What's the matter? You kid can't repay the debt, don't think I'm stupid and easy to cheat, are you borrowing? I recognize that the small cloth bag on your waist is a space storage bag, and it is worth thousands of spirit stones, and you say you don't have spirit stones?

Ling Xiao was also very single, he took off the small cloth bag on his waist, and took out all the things in it, a pure gold casting table more than one meter high and two meters long and wide, a small black and gray hammer more than one meter long, a one-meter square stove, a furnace with a diameter of half a meter, a few pieces of dark refined iron ore, a few sets of clothes, and nothing else.

"How about it? There are really no spirit stones, right? There are a lot of refining materials, why don't you just pick a few pieces to pay off the debt?"

When the honest big man saw the pile of items, not only did he not show disappointment, but his eyes lit up, and he looked back and forth around the things on the ground with great interest, and finally knelt down in front of Ling Xiao with a thud.

"Master is above, please bow to the apprentice!"

Ling Xiao was puzzled, and he didn't know why, he took two steps forward, stretched out the back of his hand, and touched the forehead of the honest big man.

"Don't have a fever? Is there something wrong with this fool's head?"

The honest big man kowtowed a few times in a row, and looked at Ling Xiao with hopeful eyes.

"Master, your old man is a refiner, right?

Ling Xiao suddenly realized that this kid wanted to learn the art of casting with him.

"Silly big man, who do you say is an old man? Young master, I am still a minor this year, please call me boss in the future. ”

The honest big man nodded hurriedly, bowed down and bowed again.

"Boss, please bow down to the apprentice!"

Ling Xiao nodded slightly and continued.

"Silly big one, do you know that the refiner is broad and profound, and it is very difficult to become a refiner, compared to those alchemists, the refiner not only needs a strong physique as the support of casting, but also needs a strong spiritual power to guide the spiritual power to depict the inscriptions and magic circles and array talismans on the magic weapon, so as to form the core of the magic weapon that can be used normally, and the most important thing is that the refiner must have keen insight and a serious and careful attitude, so as to successfully refine the magic weapon and become a qualified refiner. ”

"Boss, don't worry, I'm stupid and careful, not afraid of tiredness or hardship, in addition to not having children, cooking, laundry, sweeping, chores, running errands and everything, ask the boss to accept me!"

The honest big man continued to insist, and Ling Xiao didn't know why this kid was so persistent.

"Then tell me, why do you insist on learning alchemy?"

The honest big man touched the back of his head and said with a little blush.

"Because the refiner in the Taiyan Continent is respected and admired by tens of thousands of people, the most important thing is that he can earn a lot of spirit stones, and with spirit stones, he can get a daughter-in-law and raise a lot of babies! ”

After speaking, the honest and big man's expression became a little lonely, but he still looked at Ling Xiao with hopeful eyes.

"Okay, Young Master Ben allows you to follow me in the future, but only if you can saddle the horse and stand hardships, and work hard. ”

Ling Xiao's words didn't look like he was accepting apprentices, but like accepting slaves. But his words made the honest big man excited.

The honest big man continued to kowtow a few times, then stood up with a whoosh, grabbed Ling Xiao and was about to walk back and forth.

"What are you going to do, why are you going back?"

The honest big man blinked his eyes in a daze, touched the back of his head with a big hand, and asked a little puzzled.

"Boss, there are still hundreds of hundred-year-old ginseng in my family's field, and I can sell hundreds of thousands of spirit stones to say the least, don't we need spirit stones when we are in a hurry?"

The young master is the young master, along the way, Ling Xiao never thought of earning spirit stones to live, he was completely at ease with what he encountered, and he had the attitude of what to eat, where did he know that life is easy, life is easy, and life is not easy.