Chapter 14: I'll Go Down
The clouds and mist in the canyon were only two or three feet high from the top of the cliff, and soon, Hou Jian's figure disappeared into the clouds.
"Slow down, slow down, put more than a meter and stop for a while" Su Qing stood beside the few people who operated the winch, and kept instructing.
When the rope was lowered for more than ten zhang, I heard Hou Jian shouting below: "Senior Brother Su, stop"
"Stop" Su Qing hurriedly shouted, and hurriedly walked down the cliff and shouted: "Brother Hou Jian, what's the matter?"
"There are a few medicinal herbs next to me, I don't recognize them, but they look a little different, do you need to pick them down?" Hou Jian said loudly underneath.
"Pick one plant first and tie it with the string in your hand," Su Qing said.
After a while, a medicinal herb tied to the string was pulled up.
"This?" Su Qing looked at the medicinal herbs and frowned.
It is a plant about a foot tall, blue all over, with a finger-sized trunk and a pinch of blue leaves of two centimeters at the top, which resembles a miniature version of a coconut tree.
"Senior Brother Su, what kind of medicinal herb is this?" the white-haired old man leaned over and asked.
"Hmm" Su Qing pondered for a moment, and then said: "I don't know this medicinal herb either, but I feel that this medicinal herb must be a good thing."
Su Qing's ability to distinguish medicinal materials was not limited to those he knew on the atlas. What's more, because he has become a cultivator, he can feel the aura on the medicinal herbs. According to the size of the aura on the medicinal materials, the grade of the medicinal materials can be distinguished.
And ordinary people who can't cultivate the truth definitely don't have this ability, and the aura feels like air in them, and at most it feels a little refreshing.
But the other biggest secret that Su Qing was able to find the location of the precious medicinal herbs was that he had a feeling in his heart, as if something in his body was giving him a hint.
Standing on the flat ground, you can see very clearly the height of those mountains and what is on them. But if there is a big pit ten miles away, then no one can see it. Unless it's not a pit, but a huge lake.
This is also the main reason why these lay disciples in the group can't understand why they can find this canyon.
Su Qing was also a little skeptical that he had such an ability, whether it was related to that small vase.
Elder Dong had carefully used his divine sense to probe in his body, and there was no such bottle in his body at all. The divine consciousness of the monks in the foundation building period can even probe the stone wall more than two meters thick, let alone a small human body, unless it is those high-level cultivators who shield their bodies with their true qi.
But this little bottle is neither in his body nor in his body, in what form does it exist, not only can he cultivate himself, but also can make himself have this kind of induction, as soon as he thought of this, Su Qing's heart became even more dazed, and he simply didn't think about anything.
"Senior Brother Su, you don't know either, so is it a medicinal herb?" Huang Yan also leaned over and asked.
"I guess, I don't think he's the same. Su Qing replied vaguely.
"Oh!" Huang Yan saw that Su Qing was also guessing, and he was a little disappointed, like everyone else, he was not interested in this medicinal herb.
"Brother Hou Jian, how many are there below?" Su Qing shouted towards the bottom of the cliff. He felt that the aura fluctuations on this medicinal herb were much larger than those third-level medicinal herbs he picked yesterday, at least there was a fourth-level, and even a fifth-level might be, so he was very excited. This kind of medicinal herb is too low to be used now, but if it is handed over to the sect, this one plant alone may be even greater than the harvest of yesterday.
"Hey" Hou Jian replied at the bottom: "One, two, three····· , Senior Brother Su, a total of seven plants"
"I've put the ropes down, be careful, take them all off, be careful yourself"
"Okay," Hou Jian responded. It seems that the collection has begun.
Who knew that less than a minute had passed, he heard Hou Jian's "ah" cry in horror, "What is this? Hurry, hurry, hurry····· Then he shouted in panic.
"Quick, pull up" Su Qing was also anxious, and shouted at the winch.
Everyone was busy for a while, and finally pulled Hou Jian up.
Hou Jian, who was pulled up, was already unconscious at this time, his flesh and blood were blurred, and the clothes on his body were obviously rubbed into strips on the mountain wall when they were pulled up by force.
Su Qing hurriedly untied the rope on Hou Jian's body and checked Hou Jian's body.
After taking a look, I found that although there were many wounds on Hou Jian's body, they were not too serious, just some small scratches. But there was a wound on the back the size of a bowl, and it looked like a piece of flesh had been torn off, revealing the white bones inside.
Su Qing saw it, and hurriedly took out a small stone bottle from his body, poured out some white powder from it, and sprinkled it on Hou Jian's various wounds.
The white powder in this small stone bottle was the wound medicine that Steward Cui assigned to them when they left the sect, and it was prepared to prevent these lay disciples from getting injured when they collected medicine.
But for cultivators, these wound medicines are of course the lowest level.
But this medicine doesn't matter how high or low it is, after all, it is used by cultivators, and the effect is really good, the powder is sprinkled on the wound, just in the blink of an eye, the wound will not bleed out.
The herb picker haunts the barren mountains and mountains all day long, and his head is almost tied to the trouser belt, in order to save his life, he does not dare to miss the same things he should bring, and he can't fall off the bandage or something.
Su Qing used the bandages he collected to tie Hou Jian's body tightly, touched Hou Jian's pulse, and saw that his pulse was stable, so he was relieved.
Everyone fed Hou Jian some more water, and Hou Jian slowly woke up.
"What the hell is down there?" asked Su Qing.
"Okay, it's scary, yes, it's a snake, this, it's so thick" Hou Jian wanted to gesture with his hand, only to find that he was tied with a bandage and couldn't compare: "Thank you, thank you, Senior Su, brother, be slower, my life, but I will explain it here."
"Don't think about this yet, you are also going down for all of us, if we don't care, then how can we do it?"
Next, Hou Jian intermittently compared what attacked him.
This is undoubtedly a big python, more than half a foot thick, and how long it is, Hou Jian didn't see it clearly.
Fortunately, this is a big python, it is not poisonous, if it is a poisonous snake, Hou Jian would have died now.
Looking at Hou Jian's current situation, there is no major problem, and it is estimated that it will recover after a while. But before he reached the bottom, he encountered this big python, and it can be expected that the danger at the bottom of the valley is more than that.
If this blue medicinal herb hadn't been discovered, Su Qing might have led everyone to a new place. But now I know that this medicinal material alone, Hou Jian found seven strains just now, and it is not far from going down, if it really reaches the bottom, maybe there will be something better.
Everyone looked at Su Qing and waited for Su Qing to come up with an idea.
Although he didn't tell everyone clearly, Su Qing was completely sure that the blue medicinal herb in his hand was definitely not simple. Not to mention other things that he didn't know, just the remaining six plants, Su Qing was really reluctant to throw them away.
But now Hou Jian faced that big python, just in the blink of an eye, he almost lost his life, although the people here seem to be thinner than him, but after all, he is a young man in his twenties. This sudden kung fu has become like this, and there must be few others who can be better than him.
"Senior Brother Su, what should we do?" Huang Yan couldn't help but ask when he saw that Su Qing didn't speak for a long time.
"What else can I do? This python is too powerful, whoever goes down will be sent to death, let's change places, right? A little less income is better than sending a life" The white-haired old man is now old, but he is even more afraid of death. Moreover, as he gets older, he has gained a lot of yesterday's day, and it is estimated that it is almost enough to support his retirement, and he doesn't want to take too much risk.
"There must be something good down here, if there is no python, it would be great" The other younger ones did not give up.
Su Qing hesitated for a long time, hesitated again and again, and suddenly said: "Come, tie the rope to me, I'll go down."
Although others can't see it, Su Qing is a cultivator after all. After staying in the sect for three months, Su Qing knew that the path of cultivating truth seemed to be infinite, but if you want to really reach a certain height, it is absolutely impossible to achieve it without risk. Look at the biographies of those famous cultivators, which ones didn't fight in the storms of your life and death.
From a person who was completely unable to cultivate the truth, with today's opportunity, he almost died in the case of Elder Dong's thoughts, to today, isn't it a test for himself to conquer heaven and earth?
If you leave like this today, you will definitely be unwilling in the future, and it is more likely that because of your withdrawal today, the light of fate may leave you.