Chapter 18: The Escaped Tree

Seeing that the white jade rhizome was retracted into the soil, Li Xuanji was surprised.

With a shot like electricity, his palm quickly plunged into the soft soil, pinching the rhizome that had not yet had time to slip away.

It's just that before Li Xuanji could turn over the soil to see what it was, a huge force came from the white jade rhizome in his hand, and he actually broke free from Li Xuanji's palm, quickly shrank into the depths of the soil, and couldn't find it anymore.

Li Xuanji laughed at himself, knowing how could something that could move not struggle. However, Li Xuanji was not disappointed, but marked the location of the four elixirs he dug up in his mind, and then carefully searched for them within this range.

What Li Xuanji is looking for this time is not the mysterious plant, it is still a thousand-year-old elixir!

When Li Xuanji finally found a thousand-year-old ginseng tree in a bush, he couldn't help but smile on his face.

As long as it is a rare elixir, it will not be able to escape 'its' greed in its territory. Li Xuanji's fingers lit up with a slight fluorescence, and he gently pinched the corner of the thousand-year-old ginseng branch and leaf - the Soul Exploration Finger!

In an instant, the image of the entire thousand-year-old ginseng plant was all reflected in Li Xuanji's mind, and it was extremely clear. After the previous epiphany of cultivation in front of the jade tablet, Li Xuanji's Soul Exploration Finger attainments were much deeper than before. Every leaf, every ginseng seed, and every root of the thousand-year-old ginseng are clearly presented in Li Xuanji's own consciousness. Every trace of ginseng's vitality and every medicinal power can be easily grasped by Li Xuanji.

It only took the blink of an eye for Li Xuanji to smile.

'You' are there!

Li Xuanji did not dig this thousand-year-old ginseng. The first is because this will alarm the 'it', and the second is that this ginseng is actually in vain, and the medicinal power accumulated in it for thousands of years has long been stolen by 'it'.

Li Xuanji took a gentle step and squatted down lightly three feet away from the ginseng. The fingers of his right hand spread out and pressed against the dirt, closing his eyes and feeling it carefully.

Suddenly, Li Xuanji opened his eyes, his palm was inserted into the ground like an eagle's claw, and he grabbed a white rhizome from the ground, pulled it out of the ground, and squeezed it tightly in his hand. The white rhizome was as thin as chopsticks, white as jade, and it was constantly shrinking and struggling in Li Xuanji's hands.

"Look where you're running this time!" Li Xuanji closed his eyes, activated his spirit fingers, and everything about this white jade rhizome was reflected in his mind!

"It turned out to be you!" Following the rhizome of white jade, Li Xuanji found its source in his mind. It turned out to be a small tree no more than half a foot tall!

The small tree in my mind was inconspicuous, with sparse branches and leaves, but only half a foot tall, not as tall as many flowers and plants. It has a green fruit the size of an egg. The main thing is that its rhizome is not a whisker-like root like other plants, but a long strip like a white jade in its own hands. Although there are only a dozen roots, these rhizomes are extremely long, interspersed with each other, and then connected together, forming a vast underground network. These rhizomes are sucking the essence of more than a dozen elixirs at the same time!

What kind of monster is this? It is completely above all elixirs, and it can be called the top of the food chain!

Li Xuanji let go of the rhizome in his hand and walked towards a corner with lush flowers and plants not far away. Aside from the lush flowers and plants, Li Xuanji finally saw the main owner!

A small tree as thick as a wrist grows under a tall orchid, the height of the tree is really only half a foot, but the body of the tree is like an ancient tree that has experienced thousands of years of wind and rain, the branches of the wrist-thick tree are coiled, and the bark is full of fine textures. The branches are short, and in the center of the green leaves is an egg-sized fruit, which is a thick green fruit like a leaf. If you don't pay attention, it's really not easy to spot.

When Li Xuanji was about to walk in front of the little tree, the mysterious little tree quickly wrapped the green fruit in the center with its branches and leaves, turned it into a ball, and then escaped directly into the soil!

You can still run!

Li Xuanji quickly pounced on the side of the cave entrance, stretched out his hand and grabbed it, but the small tree was long gone, and only a few rhizomes had not had time to 'evacuate'. Li Xuanji activated the Spirit Exploration Finger again, and the whereabouts of the little tree appeared in his mind again.

Li Xuanji flew up and jumped towards another flower. Among the flowers, there was a thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum that was inexplicably pushed out by the soil underground and fell to the side. A bowl-sized 'mud ball' lurked in the soil, and when Li Xuanji was reached, the 'mud ball' disappeared into the ground again. Li Xuanji had to reach out again and grab the rhizome in the cave that had not yet escaped and launch the Soul Exploration Finger to find its next direction.

The mysterious little tree kept running away and escaping along its rhizome, and Li Xuanji kept launching the Spirit Finger to find its traces. The two were like cats chasing mice, gradually leaving a dozen holes in the ground.

Every time the mysterious tree escapes, it will remove a rhizome, and there is no escape route. When Li Xuanji chased the mystery novel and used the Soul Exploration Finger more than a dozen times, the mysterious little tree finally had no way to retreat, and the whole shrank in the middle of the flowers like a ball of mud, and never ran again.

Li Xuanji was also tired and sweating profusely. Launched more than a dozen soul exploration fingers, which is very huge for spiritual consumption. And the chase of the mysterious tree can't stop for a moment, otherwise it will be lost directly. Capture, soul exploration, and tracking, the three steps were done, and they were done more than a dozen times in a continuous cycle, and Li Xuanji's current body was really a little unbearable.

But looking at the 'mud ball' hiding in the dirt, Li Xuanji still smiled happily.

Li Xuanji approached the 'mud ball' and was about to pick it up, but saw the 'mud ball' trembling all over his body, and the dirt on his body fell in a flutter.

Huh? Still want to run?

Li Xuanji was shocked, the boiled duck couldn't fly!

Li Xuanji hurriedly made a move, and when he was about to grab the mysterious little tree in his hand, he saw that the 'mud ball' slightly opened the central branches and leaves, revealing a gap, and a fiery red fruit the size of an egg was spit out. Then the mysterious little tree hugged his body tightly, and dozens of white jade-like rhizomes were all wrapped around his body, and his body gradually shrank and dried up, turning into a ball made of dead branches!

Li Xuanji picked up the fiery red fruit on the ground into the palm of his hand, and it seemed that this was the cyan fruit he had seen before. When the fruit grows on a mysterious tree, it looks like a green egg, which is very ordinary and unnoticeable. But now the fruit has turned fiery red, not only bright and dazzling in color, but also exudes a very strong aroma, which caused the gluttonous insects in Li Xuanji's stomach to move.

But Li Xuanji didn't dare to eat it. Li Xuanji, who is proficient in elixir and alchemy, understands quite well that the strange flowers and fruits that grow between heaven and earth, since they have strange growth, must have strange effects. It is taboo to use it rashly before the effect is determined! If you can cultivate and multiply after eating, you will naturally be happy, and if you eat it, you will be poisoned and turned into blood water, then it is called injustice!

Li Xuanji didn't know the fruit in front of him. But what is certain is that this fruit must be extraordinary.

The mysterious little tree sucked more than a dozen thousand-year-old elixirs at the same time to give birth to this fruit, and at the last moment, it was forced by Li Xuanji to have no way out, and directly injected the essence into the fruit and quickly ripened it. I don't know how much medicinal property is in such a small fruit. Li Xuanji had to carefully pack the fruit, for fear of squeezing it. When you get out of Wolong Mountain, you must buy a jade box and put it away.

Li Xuanji squatted down, picked up the 'withered branch ball' on the ground in his hand, gently patted the soil on it, and wiped it as clean as possible with his sleeve.

This mysterious little tree may have gone into a deep sleep. Its branches formed its main trunk into a ball, and then collected a dozen long rhizomes and wrapped its main body into a ball. From those narrow crevices, you can see that its original green leaves have become dry and yellow and withered, and the rhizomes that were originally as white as jade have also become dull, and at first glance the whole tree really looks like a child making a toy out of straw.

Although it is very rough and ugly in appearance, Li Xuanji will not underestimate it. It's just a life-saving trick, and when the right opportunity arises, it will still wake up. Getting such a mysterious and magical little tree made Li Xuanji happier than getting those rare elixirs. Say no, and you will get countless benefits from it in the future.

"Brother, where are you?"

When Li Xuanji was still fiddling with the small tree in his hand, he heard Jin Ning's call to Li Xuanji.

"I'm here!" Li Xuanji replied in a loud voice.

"I've found you. Where have you gone? There are so many flowers and plants here, it takes a bit of a hassle to find someone. Gee, how old are you and you want to play like a kid with a ball on a twig!"

Jin Ning heard Li Xuanji's voice and quickly found this place, followed by the mysterious girl and Long Da and the other four people, and couldn't help but say with disdain when he saw the 'branch ball' in Li Xuanji's hand.

Li Xuanji: "......"

"Li Gongzi is really good Yaxing! But Li Gongzi is young, and it is normal for him to be playful. The girl couldn't help but smile when she looked at the 'grass ball' in Li Xuanji's hand. After the scarf was no longer covered on his face, the smiling face was really overwhelming.

“......”

Li Xuanji felt that he was really wronged. Is it true that a teenager holding a 'ball' must be for fun?

"Li Gongzi, Miss Jin and I have already searched all over this cave. The only exit from the cave is the cave above your head, and you can only get out if you fly. Long Da and I were about to leave, but I thought maybe you and Miss Jin needed our help, so I came to ask. ”

The girl's kind inquiry made Li Xuanji's heart warm.

"Thank you Miss Long for your kindness, it's time to leave. To be honest, it really took a lot of effort to get out with the humble cultivation of my senior sister and me. Then there is Miss Lao and the four eldest brothers. But before I leave, there's one more thing I'd like to try. ”