Chapter 387: Unripe Purple Fruit
Taking this opportunity, Qingyang also taught the Spirit Swallowing Technique he bought in the Fang Market to the Iron Arm Spirit Monkey, although this Demon Beast Technique is very simple, but the Iron Arm Spirit Monkey is only a low-level demon beast after all, and many things are particularly difficult to understand.
It took Qingyang a lot of effort to make the iron-armed spirit monkey master the basic movement method of the spirit devouring technique, and looking at the monkey king's similar luck devouring aura, Qingyang's heart was full of relief.
The efficiency of the Monkey King's cultivation was not very high, but he finally took the first step, much faster than his own cultivation by relying entirely on instinct and growth. In the future, if he has too many pills, he can also try to teach him to absorb the refining pills, then the cultivation speed will be faster.
Unconsciously, two months have passed, perhaps because there are more people walking on this part of the journey, and the surrounding area has been explored countless times by trial disciples, and it is very difficult to find good things, and occasionally I find some fish that have slipped through the net, and they are all low-level spirit grasses that have only grown for a few decades.
The demon beasts also killed a few, but they were all some unadvanced demon beasts, not to mention that the material value was not high, and they still occupied the place, and they were all killed by Qingyang to eat meat, which can be regarded as improving their lives, and taking Bigu Dan for a long time is not very suitable for low-level monks like them.
Therefore, Qingyang's harvest during this period of time is not very large, a spirit grass of several decades is worth about one spirit stone, plus some demon beast materials that he can barely look at, and all the harvest adds up to less than ten spirit stones. Getting ten spirit stones in two months is a bit higher than the reward in the cultivation courtyard, but it is much worse than the price paid for it.
For example, Chen Biwang, in order to participate in the trial of the Chaos Demon Valley, gave Lu Dingshan and Qingyang 600 spirit stones in exchange for the Demon Seeking Order, if it is also a harvest of this level, it is estimated that he will be angry to death.
Strictly speaking, Qingyang is not without other gains, in this more than a month of cultivation, his cultivation has improved a lot, and it is easy to feel that this period of time is much more efficient than cultivating outside. Qingyang estimated that if he put aside other things and concentrate on cultivating, he would definitely be able to break through to the fifth layer of qi refining before the end of the trial.
Of course, this is impossible, and it is impossible for Qingyang to make such a choice when he finally gets a chance to try. At Qingyang's age, what he lacked was not the time for cultivation but the resources for cultivation. If this trial in the Chaos Demon Valley only had this gain, it would have been better to sell the Demon Seeking Order and exchange it for an elixir, and stay in the sect to cultivate like Lu Dingshan.
Maybe it's the accumulation, maybe it's the time for Qingyang to really come to operate, on this day, Qingyang turned over a stone ridge and inadvertently came to a depression. This depression is tens of thousands of acres, perhaps it is because there are too many wild thorns growing around it, and it is more troublesome to clean the road, so it has been ignored, right? With such a large area, you may not know how good things are in it.
Qingyang has not gained much since entering the Chaos Demon Valley, this time it was difficult to find a place that no one else had been to, how could he easily miss it? Qingyang suddenly became interested, took out the green bamboo sword, cut through the thorns, and gradually opened a road.
As he went deeper, Qingyang found that his choice was indeed right, and soon he was picking a spirit grass that had grown for more than a hundred years. This spirit grass can be used to refine a special elixir used by qi refining cultivators, it is very common in the immortal cultivation world, and the value is not too high, it can be worth about twenty spirit stones, despite this, Qingyang is also difficult to get excited in his heart, and the value of this spirit grass is much more than his previous two months of harvest.
In the next few days, Qingyang was completely spent here, exploring the path during the day and finding a safe place to cultivate at night. The scope of the cultivator's divine thoughts in the middle stage of qi refining is only a dozen zhang, a depression of tens of thousands of acres, and if you want to search it all, it is not possible to complete it in a short time, not to mention that you have to cut through thorns and thorns to open up a road, and in four or five days, you have only searched most of the entire depression.
However, Qingyang's harvest was not small, in the past four or five days, he found a total of three spirit grasses here, of which there were two that were more than a hundred years old, and one that was less than a hundred years old, and the total estimated value reached fifty spirit stones. Fifty yuan in five days, it's nothing more than killing people and robbing the road, right? If you can have this harvest every day in the future, this trial will really be developed.
Looking at the remaining half of the area, Qingyang's interest was even higher, wielding the green bamboo sword to split a path in front of him. In front of it seems to be a flat land, in the middle of the flat land, there is a lonely elixir, this elixir is more than three feet high, the rhizome is thick, and there are many purple painting patterns on it, at first glance, it is old.
This...... Isn't this the plant that grows the purple-striped fruit? Qingyang couldn't help but stop, looking at the three-foot-tall elixir in front of him, as well as the five green fruits with purple spots that were only the size of a dragon's eye, and couldn't help but set off a storm in his heart.
When they were in the secret land, they and the Tiger Gang had picked a few purple fruits, and at that time, the Immortal Master of Naxi Ying said that the purple veined fruit was one of the main medicines for refining Zhuji Dan, and a purple-veined fruit was worth hundreds of spirit stones, but at that time, Qingyang was still an ordinary man, and he could only watch the purple-veined fruit being taken away by the people of Lingxi Valley.
I didn't expect to see one here, the only regret is that this purple fruit has not grown for a long time, and it has just borne fruit, and it is still a long time before it matures.
It takes about 500 years for a purple fruit to grow from seed, germination, flowering, fruiting, and finally ripening. Each plant can produce about four to five fruits, and it can only bear fruit once, and if the fruit is removed, the plant will die quickly.
If the fruit of the purple fruit is not picked, even after it is ripe, the plant will not wither, but will always remain alive. Of course, this will consume the medicinal power of the purple veined fruit, and when the medicinal power of the fruit is completely gone, the entire purple veined fruit will completely die.
According to Qingyang's rough estimate, this plant in front of him has been growing for at least five hundred years, and it will take about twenty or thirty years to wait until all the purple veined fruits are ripe.
If someone else encounters this purple-veined fruit, it will definitely be very difficult, because the fruit of the purple-veined fruit is not fully ripe, so pick him now, the medicinal power of the unripe fruit is less than two percent of the ripe fruit, and the sum of five fruits is not enough to refine a tsukidan.
But if they leave the purple fruit here and don't pick it, they will definitely not have a chance to come back in the future, won't this good thing be cheaper for nothing?