Chapter 17: The Elixir of Refinement

Jiang Shuiyao had a dream.

He dreamed that he had returned to his childhood, when he was running wildly in his small yard with sugar gourds, and his adoptive mother Liu Qing was sitting next to the loom.

The breeze is not dry, and the white clouds have turned into feathers, playfully inserted in the clouds. The creaking of the loom, the regular sound of which is his lullaby before going to bed, is also the beat of his joyful run.

In another place, his adoptive father, Bai Hua, was stepping into the yard with a longbow on his back and a hare in each hand.

"Daddy!"

Jiang Shui Yao stepped forward happily, wanting to grab those powerful hands, but he threw himself into the air and fell heavily to the ground.

Xu ran too hard, so he fell too hard, and the good dream was awakened. Jiang Shuiyao opened his eyes and found that his thick palms were pale in the air, and the pictures in his mind instantly became foam, drifting away with the gurgling water beside him.

"Daddy...."

Jiang Shuiyao withdrew his palm slightly to block the dazzling sunlight, struggled to sit up and muttered.

After being sucked into the rockery, Jiang Shuiyao felt like he had entered a turbulent dark river, he stumbled in the dark river, choked on several mouthfuls of water one after another, and then lost consciousness.

Jiang Shui Yao hurriedly looked inside and accepted the ring, and the inside was intact.

Soon he laughed dryly like a fool, this river was not the black flame in Li Guangding, how could it be so easy to run into the Na Ring? However, the clothes on his body were scraped by sharp stones in the water, and they had turned into rags, hanging sparsely on his body.

Sitting in the water and stunned for a long time, Jiang Shui Yao stood up and looked around, on both sides of the river was a small piece of flat land, flowers blooming everywhere, purple and red.

It seems to be a mountain col, and a little beyond the eye is a long forest. The mountains in the distance are green and blue, and they are connected by the green and tightly connected in front of them, and there are no roof tiles or cooking smoke.

If you don't die in a big disaster, you will have a blessing!

Jiang Shui Yaole twisted his huge buttocks and stepped onto the lawn, took off the ragged red robe on his body, and ran into the forest to cut many branches and willow branches, and then made a simple grass skirt.

He put the grass skirt on his body to cover his lower body, held the Liyuan Sword in one hand, and kept slapping his mouth with the other hand for a strange scream. At this time, the difference between him and the wild man is only one more sword.

Jiang Shuiyao, who lost contact with everyone, was not in a hurry, anyway, he was not welcomed anywhere, especially without the constraints of Chai Que, and he was even more happy. After entertaining himself for a long time, Jiang Shui Yao was satisfied with the sword on his shoulder, and leisurely went uphill along the current.

Looking at his bloated body, Jiang Shuiyao suddenly remembered that he had heard Chai Que say when he was in the Wind City that there was often a water vine in the stone crevices of the dark river, named Wuyang. The impulsive vine grows in the dark all year round, the stems and leaves are black, the taste is fishy, the sun is afraid of the sun, and it absorbs spiritual power. This herb is poisonous and is the raw material for poisons such as Sanling powder, but it has a great effect on the treatment of Jiang Shui Yao.

After walking against the current for more than half an hour, a cave about ten zhang high appeared in front of me, the entrance of the cave was empty, and it was pitch black when I looked inside.

The difference between the same stream of water inside and outside the cave is almost world-wide.

There is a murmuring water outside the cave, and the temperature is just right under the spring breeze and beautiful sun. But as soon as I arrived at the cave, the feeling of warmth and harmony disappeared in an instant.

Xu had been silent underground for too long, and the flowing water rushed out of the big holes in front of the river with great momentum and biting coldness, and hit the strange-shaped stones, before he was willing to dissipate most of his strength and quietly merge into the riverbed.

Jiang Shuiyao lifted the grass skirt around his waist and walked into the cave step by step.

The deeper you go, the space inside the cave begins to shrink, and clusters of black vines are sparsely exposed on the ground. Jiang Shui Yao glanced at them slightly, and quickly gave up on the plan to take them away.

Due to the seasonal reasons in Nanchengzhou, herbal medicines have to be aged to have a certain medicinal power. The rhizome of the sunless vine that he saw now was only the thickness of his little finger, and even if he picked it, it would be in vain, not to mention that since it had been determined that there was such a thing in this cave, Jiang Shuiyao made up his mind to continue to go deeper, and maybe he could find an even older sunless vine.

The cave was cold and damp, but it was no problem for a teenager.

Jiang Shui Yao walked in the cave naked, holding a torch for I don't know how long, and he didn't stop until the space in the cave could only accommodate his fat body.

First, Jiang Shuiyao felt dizzy and faintly sleepy at this time, and secondly, the space in the cave was too narrow, and he was no longer allowed to go deeper. Jiang Shuiyao yawned, turned around and walked back.

On the way out of the cave, Jiang Shuiyao held a torch in one hand and a Liyuan sword in the other, but all the Wuyang vines that looked like some years were carefully cut off by him and included in the ring.

The harvest was full, Jiang Shui Yao couldn't help humming a little song, and when he completely walked out of the cave, the sky had already darkened.

Jiang Shuiyao rubbed his stomach, his stomach empty.

He took out the apricot peach given by the smoked old ten and looked at it, and quickly put it into the ring. After searching in the woods for most of the hour, except for some wild fruits that are not named, there is no trace of pheasants and hares. Jiang Shuiyao walked downstream along the stream, and at the same time stuffed some wild fruits into his mouth, and his heart wailed. Could it be providential? It's rare that Chai Que is not around, there is no restraint, and there is no chance to eat a good meal of meat.

The stream meanders and merges into a blue lake at the end.

Due to the fact that many impotence vines were picked in the cave, Jiang Shui Yao's whole body was stained with a fishy smell. The river at the end of the river was bored, and he didn't think much about it at the moment, and he planted himself in the lake, intending to clean the smell of his body.

The calm surface of the lake seemed to be smashed into a boulder, causing ripples. Strangely, instead of scaring the fish, the huge waves soon surrounded the river where the river had fallen.

Jiang Shui Yao swam heartily in the water, and when he found that the fish were approaching him, he was stunned at first, stabilized his body in the water and observed for a while, and then he was overjoyed and climbed out of the water.

Jiang Shui Yao laughed proudly, threw the small fish hanging on the grass skirt back into the lake, and took out a non-yang vine from the ring and said with a smile: "It turns out that you like to eat this thing." ”

Jiang Shuiyao tried his best to curl up into a ball of meat and squatted on the shore, holding the impotence vine shallow into the water in one hand and swaying it from side to side, holding the sharpened wooden stick in the other. Seeing the larger fish approaching, he quickly unleashed his stick, stabbed and picked, and the fish slid through the air in an extremely comfortable arc before falling into the grass behind him. It didn't take long for four or five stabbed fish on the shore to struggle. Jiang Shuiyao stood up and swept around, thinking of the dense mountains and forests, he didn't know how long it would take to get out, and soon bent down again to continue catching fish.

The fat ones are roasted, the thin ones are made into dried fish, and the smaller ones are made into bait and put in the forest to see if there is a chance to attract wild boars and black bears or something......

Jiang Shuiyao thought like this, and saliva remained from the corners of his mouth.

Hey!

I was fantasizing about how delicious the fish were, and I looked at a huge black shadow swimming towards the lake in the distance.

It looks like a big fish!

Jiang Shuiyao hurriedly replaced the wooden stick with the Liyuan Sword and stood up with a smile. After seeing the black shadow swim under the sunless vine, his left hand suddenly went up, and his right hand slashed towards the black shadow that leaped up in order to eat the sunless vine.

Qiang !!

The big fish was not cut in two as Jiang Shui Yao imagined, and the huge impact shook Jiang Shui Yao's mouth with a tingling pain, and the Liyuan Sword almost fell out of his hand.

Jiang Shuiyao hurriedly took a step back towards the shore, and the big fish that had not eaten the Wuyang vine quickly leaned out half of his body again, staring at the Wuyang vine in Jiang Shuiyao's hand.

What kind of monster is this?!

Through the dim light, Jiang Shui looked carefully for a long time, and found that the black shadow in front of him was pitch black, slippery like a big loach. It looks like a fish but not a fish, like a crocodile and not a crocodile, with big fish eyes and four claws, but it is obvious that it can't go ashore, and can only stare at Jiang Shui Yao viciously in the water.

I don't know why, being stared at by such a fish monster for a long time, Jiang Shui couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. Seeing that there were already more than ten fish lying on the shore, Jiang Shuiyao gave up his plan to continue fishing, threw the Wuyang vine in his hand towards the fish monster, and shouted: "Big fish monster, cut you with a sword and give you a little Wuyang vine, and our grievances will be eliminated." ”

The big fish jumped into the air, steadily swallowed the immature vine thrown by the river into its belly, and then let out an angry howl, and after falling into the water again, it was able to crawl towards the shore!

Jiang Shui Yao was frightened, although the big fish crawled slowly towards him, but he had indeed come ashore! Basically, Jiang Shuiyao already knew without thinking about it that it should be Wuyang Teng who unlocked some kind of prohibition on big fish. Jiang Shui Yao shouted in a trembling voice: "Big fish monster! You can't be so kind of a fish to get revenge! ”

In the next moment, he slipped into the woods.

After more than half an hour, Jiang Shui slowly stopped. I only picked up two or three of the more than ten fish I caught, and I couldn't help but sigh for a while. He opened the belly of the fish by the brook and scaled them, and then lit a fire. The fish flipped over the fire, and soon the smell of meat came out.

Seeing the fish glowing golden in the firelight, Jiang Shui Yao swallowed his saliva several times, patiently turned the pheasant, and waited for it to be roasted to the outside and tender inside, and had a beautiful and full meal.

Well! Almost...

Jiang Shuiyao said to himself, put the grilled fish in front of his nose and sniffed it intoxicated, just as he brought the meat to his mouth, a figure burst out from behind Jiang Shuiyao, holding a wooden stick, and smashed straight behind Jiang Shuiyao!

Boom!!!

Jiang Shui almost subconsciously rolled to the side, narrowly dodging the fatal blow.

But the flat stone he had been sitting on had been smashed into a pile of debris by the sudden stick, and the fish in his hand had fallen into the water in a panic, and disappeared with the current.

Jiang Shuiyao got up in embarrassment and was about to scold, when he saw the appearance of the sneak attacker's costume, he immediately shouted: "Ghost!! ”

Before the words fell, Jiang Shuiyao had already rushed into the forest, and at the same time, another figure came from a distance, panting and standing by the fire.

It was none other than Jiang Shui Yao who attacked him, it was Li Caiwei who interfered with Jiang Shui Yao's soul injection that day but almost lost his life.

Cai Wei's face was completely ruined, even the bridge of her nose was exposed, and half of her cheeks did not have a trace of intact skin at all. Although she wore a veil, the veil fluttered lightly in the wind when she attacked Jiang Shui Yao, which made Jiang Shui Yao see her current appearance, and then fled with a strange scream.

Seeing that Jiang Shui was nowhere to be seen, Li Caiwei said, "Lili, you go back to the sect first." I'll come back myself after I grab this elixir. ”

Lily said a little nervously, "But Senior Sister, your injury..."

"It doesn't matter."

Li Caiwei replied, and quickly chased in the direction where Jiang Shui had escaped.