Volume 4: Feather Trial II: Quite Rewarding
If you look down from the sky, it is really difficult to identify this place among the greenery of the mountains, and it is also a map of the loss of money, otherwise it is really not easy to find here.
The valley is cool and pleasant, with all kinds of mountain flowers and fragrant.
After walking a few steps, Yan Xuan suddenly stopped, looked at a valley wall, and said in surprise: "Yanxin vine, it's so big!" ”
Several people looked in the direction that Yan Xuan was looking, but no one could recognize what Yan Xuan was talking about, until Yan Xuan walked close to the valley wall and touched it with his hands, then he saw a vine that grew in the crack of the valley wall with a knot and bent like an old tree root.
"This thing ......" Lu Pingchuan approached curiously and stared at it, in his eyes it was just an inconspicuous tree root, "Sister Yan, this is also a spirit grass?" ”
"Well, of course," Yan Xuan said as he took out his storage bag and flipped through it, "There are also plants in our Spirit Grass Garden in the sect, which grow among the stones, but I have never seen one that looks so thick, and it is considered a top grade with the thickness of an ordinary wrist, and it is the first time I have seen such a thick one." ”
"What's the use of this core vine?" Li Jian also took a closer look and asked curiously.
"Hmm...... Scrape off the rough skin on the outside, use only the core inside, and grind it into powder finely, which can prepare several medicines, and several of them are also life-threatening medicines. ”
Yan Xuan said and took out a small knife with serrated teeth from his storage bag, it seemed that it was used to pick this core vine, Lu Pingchuan saw it and grabbed the vine and said, "Don't be so troublesome, I can pull this one out?" ”
"No, Brother Lu, this core vine can only be used as medicine outside the stone, and the inside of the stone is useless, and if you keep the inside of the stone, it will grow again, we remember this place, and we will come back to get it in the future."
After speaking, Yan Xuan used the knife in his hand to stick to the valley wall and patiently and carefully took down a piece of vine more than two feet long, her tools were combined, but it was not effortless, the core vine taken was enough to be the thickness of Lu Pingchuan's arm, and after taking it off, he used the back of the knife to scrape the rough skin on the outside of this section of the core vine and put it away happily.
All this was seen in Qian Chao's eyes, which made his heart slightly wider.
Although he flew into the air several times after coming out, he also found a few spirit grasses after all, but when did he see Sister Yan smile like this? It seems that such a stout core vine must be a good thing, and the good thing was born in a conspicuous position at the mouth of this valley, and it was not picked by anyone, so there is at least sixty percent certainty that no one has come here yet, so even if you can't find that kind of white branch in it, you have the opportunity to find some other good spirit grass, which is better than the previous few times.
But, having said that, if no other monks had been here, if there had been something good waiting to be taken, there might have been some danger hidden in it, and they could have seen the signs of a fierce fight there in a place where the white branches had grown to-day.
Thinking of this, after Qian Chao paused slightly, a small black shield the size of a palm appeared in front of him and began to slowly patrol around him. This is a spiritual weapon used for the defense of Qian Chao, prepare in advance in case there is a hidden demon beast sneak attack.
Tang Ping noticed Qian Chao's actions, was stunned for a moment and understood Qian Chao's intentions, and when she turned back to hold Yanxuan's arm, a yellow light jumped on her shoulder, it was the little golden monkey named "Rhubarb", which sat on Tang Ping's shoulder, and made a grimace at Qian Chao, and then began to look around uncertainly.
Li Jian also noticed Qian Chao, and after being stunned, he understood, and saw that Tang Ping and Yan Xuan were still about to walk towards the valley, so he walked in front of the second daughter in a few steps.
A few people had been winding along the direction of the valley for less than twenty zhang, when they heard Yan Xuan surprise again, "Bai Qianzi!" Then I saw Yan Xuan let go of Tang Ping's arm and walked a few steps to a mountain tree where there was a green grass.
Yan Xuan leaned close and squatted down, looked at it carefully, and then said with a smile: "Sure enough, it's Bai Qianzi, the Bai Qianzi in our garden won't leave it to grow so strong, it's really good luck, alas, Senior Sister Min is really right, if you want to find a good spirit grass, you really have to go outside the sect to find it." ”
Yan Xuan's surprise provoked a few people to come over and take a look, in Qian Chao's eyes, the white front plant looked like an ordinary grass, but the leaves of the grass were dense, and the pieces were just like willow leaves.
"Hey, this is also a spirit grass?" Lu Pingchuan looked at it and scratched his head, "That is, Sister Yan can recognize it, and I look no different from ordinary weeds." ”
"Weeds!" Yan Xuan said with a smile, took out a futon and spread it next to the white preale and sat down on his knees, "This white prefect is old and grows well, if you sell it, it will cost ten spirit stones!" ”
"So expensive!" Lu Pingchuan looked at the green grass in disbelief.
The offer of ten spirit stones attracted several people to look at Bai Qianzi again.
"Well, at least ten spirit stones." Yan Xuan said as he took out a small medicine hoe and medicine shovel for picking spirit grass from his storage bag, as well as a brush.
Medicine hoe plowing the ground, medicine shovel to take soil, the whole process of picking spiritual grass Yan Xuan did not let anyone help, she drew a circle with the white preazi as the heart, and carefully took out the entire root system of the white prelida regardless of the thickness, and then used the brush to gently brush the soil on the grass roots a few times to clean up, and then used a piece of cotton paper to completely wrap the grass roots, and then collected the fluffy leaves of the white prelids and rolled them up with a piece of cotton paper, then carefully put it into a wooden box, buckle the box and put it in the storage bag before growing a breath, it can be seen that I was careful to do those things before.
Seeing that several people were looking at him, Yan Xuan asked puzzledly, "What's wrong?" ”
Tang Ping said: "Sister Yan, you recognize the spirit grass, and you have to teach us the ability to dig the spirit grass in the future, otherwise, if you don't say anything else, it will take a long time to dig the thirty white branches like this!" ”
Tang Ping is right, although the disciples of Qixia Mountain in the sect are good at the study of spirit grass pills, but the disciples who often go out can recognize several spirit grasses no matter which one of them, and they also know the basic collection methods, otherwise there will be nowhere to earn this spirit stone.
"It's not difficult, you can see me do it a few times."
Watching Yan Xuan pack up his things, Tang Ping looked at the valley and said, "Maybe you can really find that white branch in this small valley." ”
This was indeed fulfilled, and the five of them walked less than a hundred zhang into the valley, and Yan Xuan found a spiritual grass under a mountain rock.
"White Branch!" After speaking, Yan Xuan walked over quickly to check.
When a few people saw it, they also followed, Yan Xuan had already squatted down and counted the leaves of the spirit grass, and Qian Chao also took a closer look, the white branch was a little taller than the unusable white branch that he had seen before, and there were many leaves, and there was a dense layer of white fur on the grass stem.
"Is the year enough?" Tang Ping asked, and she also looked closer.
"Of course it's enough, it's a lot of years." Yan Xuan said happily, and began to take out the medicine hoe and shovel from the storage bag again.
Seeing this, Li Jian knew that Yan Xuan also needed some effort to pick this spiritual grass, and it was unknown what was going on in front of the valley, so he greeted Qian Chao and Lu Pingchuan when he saw that he was there, and he walked along the valley for a while, thinking that he would explore it first, so that he knew it, but Li Jian turned back after less than half a cup of tea.
"Miss Yan," Li Jian said, "There is this spirit grass in front, well, I look like it, but I want you to go and see it." ”
"Oh, and!" This is good news, and Yan Xuan stood up when he heard it.
The white branch at hand hadn't been picked yet, so Qian Chao reached out and asked for Yan Xuan's medicine hoe and medicine shovel, and said, "Sister Yan, I'll come." ”
"Hmm" Yan Xuan was relieved to see that Qian Chao wanted to pick this spiritual grass for herself, at least she knew that Qian Chao was careful, so she instructed, "Don't hurt the stems and leaves, don't damage the root system, Brother Qian, you can pick it and bring it to me." ”
Yan Xuan followed Li Jian, Tang Ping saw that Lu Pingchuan was still here, so he said a word to Lu Pingchuan and asked him to follow, this small valley is a raw place after all, Li and Lu are safe on Yan Xuan's side, and he stayed with Qian Chao to pick this white branch.
Seeing that Qian Chao carefully picked the white branch like Tang Ping, Tang Ping smiled: "Yes, Qian boy." ”
Qian Chao smiled when he heard this, handed the white branch to Tang Ping, "You take it first", and then followed Yan Xuan's example and used the medicine shovel to fill in the small pit dug during picking, and then the two of them went forward to find Yan Xuan and the three of them.
After turning a small corner along Xiao Gu's direction, Yan Xuan saw Qian Chao and Tang Ping coming over, stood up with a smile and pointed his finger and said, "There are really a lot of them here, there, there and there, all of them." Looking at Yan Xuan's expression, the plants she was referring to must be old enough.
Handing the white branch in his hand to Yan Xuan, Qian Chao said: "Let's divide the labor, after all, this is the first time to come here, you have to be cautious, Brother Li, Brother Lu, the two of you are tired and look at the front and back, I will also pick it, so that it can be faster." ”
"I'm here to pick it too, and I'll see it too," Tang Ping saw that Qian Chao had finished arranging, so he also asked Yan Xuan for a pair of medicine hoes and shovels.
Li Jian nodded, greeted Lu Pingchuan and turned around and walked towards the valley.
"Then I'll stare behind me." Lu Pingchuan said.
A large section of the road in the valley behind the five people walked like this, Li Jian opened the way, Lu Pingchuan Palace, if the spirit grass was found on the road, it would be picked by Yan Xuan, if it was more, then Qian Chao and Tang Ping also went to help, until Li Jian said that this small valley seemed to be almost to the end, and the bottom of the valley seemed to be still a cave.
When Qian Chao was calculating in his heart how far the five of them had walked, Tang Ping asked him, "Is the cave that Brother Li said the end of this valley?" ”
"Almost, if I remember correctly, the hole also leads to both ends, but after passing it should be a cliff, and we have been climbing all the way up, and that cliff is the end of this little valley."