As soon as it was dawn, Xu Chen was woken up by the sound of birds chirping outside.

Yawning out of the dilapidated hut, standing on the mountainside looking around the verdant mountains and misty peaks and ravines in front of him, rubbing his face a few times, picking out the of his eyes and going to the water spring next to him to wash his face and rinse his mouth, and then picked up a broken pottery bowl to dry a few mouthfuls of cold water, and then after a brief cleanup, he put on his back basket and nibbled on the dry food and walked towards the back mountain.

Along the narrow and rugged mountain road walked half of the incense kung fu, the mountain road turned, only to see a waterfall from dozens of zhang high in the air down, the mountain wind blows, the water mist splashes, in the early morning sunshine there is like flying gold splash jade, the breath is cool and refreshing.

There is a medicine field under the cliff, which is not large, only two or three acres.

There are a lot of medicinal herbs planted in it, although the growth looks good, but in fact, there are not many useful ones, most of them are low-level medicinal materials such as immature yellow essence and succulent ginseng, some are blooming, red, yellow, blue and white colors are intertwined, quite pleasing to the eye, but compared with the surrounding pine and ancient vines climbing and entanglement, the lush natural environment is a little sparse.

A thin old Taoist priest with gray hair and a Taoist robe and a Taoist bun was patrolling the medicine field, and when he heard the footsteps and turned around, he saw Xu Chen coming in with his mouth wiped.

The old Taoist priest nodded slightly.

Xu Chen hurriedly saluted: "Third Elder, why are you here?" ”

The old Taoist priest said: "The 100th birthday of the Emperor of the Song Kingdom is coming soon, a few days ago he sent the three princes to visit, according to the old practice, we Taiyuan Gate will give some pills, and the old man will come to the medicine field to see if there are suitable mature medicinal materials, so as to refine a furnace of pills." ”

Xu Chen couldn't help pouting and said, "The Dog Emperor has a really big face, we can't refine a few furnaces of the elixir in a year, so why bother to cheap them." ”

The old Taoist priest didn't care, shook his head and said: "Although the immortals are different, but our Taiyuan Gate is in the territory of the Song Kingdom, some mundane things may be unavoidable, and the exchanges are also reasonable, not to mention that the emperor of the Song Kingdom is from the Yuqing Palace, this face is to be given anyway, but it is just an ordinary pill, and we can't take it out if it's good, why do you complain, I wait for the immortal cultivator to ask, remember to be calm." ”

Although Xu Chen was unhappy in his heart, he was still respectfully taught, and accompanied the old Taoist priest to start wandering around the medicine field, but after half an hour of searching, he only found three or five medicinal herbs that were barely suitable.

The old Taoist priest looked at the few herbs with weak rhizomes in the bamboo basket, and his face was quite ugly.

Xu Chen had to bite the bullet and say, "Third Elder, the disciple is not lazy, he takes care of it carefully every day, and today he is preparing to go out to find some manure." ”

The old Taoist priest nodded slightly and said: "The medicine garden is well maintained, and the old man has no intention of blaming, but the great elder ordered that the pills to be given this time should be at least the second grade, these medicinal materials are not only not strong enough for the year, but also have a few main medicines, just go yourself, and the old man will also go out to see if he can find it."

After the old Taoist priest finished speaking, his big sleeves soared into the air, turning into a streamer of light and heading towards an abrupt peak in the distance.

Xu Chen smacked his lips with envy, then took out a half-foot-long gray sword from his waist, silently recited the magic and pointed a little, the small sword suddenly shone brightly, and it rose to the size of three feet in the wind, floating at a height of two feet above the ground, Xu Chen sat on it like a horse, and then one person and one sword staggered towards the rising sun, towards the reckless green and misty mountains.

"It's a hard life!"

Walking on the sword was originally an immortal method, but for Xu Chen, who was riding a sword and blowing the wind, it was full of sadness.

He was an orphan who lived by herding cattle and collecting dung for rich families, but he didn't want to take the shit luck when he was ten years old, and was found by the second elder who was out of Taiyuan Gate to have a spiritual root, and he was a seedling of cultivating immortals, so he took him back to the mountain to collect as a disciple.

Xu Chen once thought that his fate was Qingqi, and he finally moved the heavens and moved the heavens and Buddhas, and from then on, he could cultivate into an immortal and enjoy the world.

But I never thought that picking up dung in the mortal world would still be the life of picking up dung when I arrived at Xianmen.

And the spiritual root that he thought was gifted with was only the most rubbish variety in the immortal cultivation world, and he could barely cultivate.

After the second elder took him back to the mountain gate to teach some introductory techniques, he threw him on the mountain and went out again, it is rare to come back once a year, although Xu Chen works very hard and cultivates hard every day, but in a few years, he has only just entered the introduction of qi training, and he can barely control the magic weapon to fly, as for the spells, there are only two or three of the most superficial and low-level types in the immortal cultivation world, which definitely belong to the five scumbags of the immortal cultivation world, and the dry frame completely belongs to the variety of giving people heads.

His current strength is okay to deal with ordinary beasts, but if he encounters some more powerful spirit beasts and demon beasts, he can only turn himself into dung.

But fortunately, there is nothing to fear near Taiyuan Gate, and the threatening demon beasts have basically been killed or driven away by several elders and a few senior brothers and sisters with good strength.

In addition, although his cheap master is not very reliable, he is still good to him, knowing that after he stepped into the Kaiyuan realm, he is still very happy, and gives him a first-grade flying sword that he used before, otherwise Xu Chen may not even be able to go out of the mountain gate by now.

Taiyuan Gate lives deep in the reckless mountains, thousands of miles away from the barren people, there are still more than 300 miles away from the nearest Great Song Dynasty city, and there is no road in the mountains, if you can't fly, you can only nest in the mountains for a lifetime.

Since he had this flying sword, Xu Chen had really begun to appreciate the magic powers of the immortals, although it was not the kind of flying away from the sky, but it was also considered to have the ability to go out.

There are only more than ten people in the Taiyuan Sect in total, and their strength is not very strong, except for the Great Elder who has reached the late stage of the Danyuan Realm at the highest level, there are the other two elders in the late stage of the True Yuan Realm.

The three elders who came just now were in the late stage of the True Yuan Realm and were good at alchemy, so they were generally stationed on the mountain.

Xu Chen's master is the second elder, he has already reached the Great Perfection of the True Yuan Realm, and he has been wandering outside the world all the year round to find an opportunity to break through, but it has been five years since Xu Chen joined the Taiyuan Gate, and the master has not shown any signs of a breakthrough.

I haven't been back for more than a year now.

Even Xu Chen would occasionally maliciously guess whether the master had secretly hung up.

But every time this thought flashed, Xu Chen would feel guilty again, he had been an orphan since he was a child, and it wasn't until he met his master and brought him up to the mountain gate that he began to really feel some warmth and care.

As the saying goes, a mother's child is like a treasure, and having a master to take care of him in Taiyuan Gate is more or less beneficial, at least those senior brothers and sisters don't dare to bully him if they have nothing to do.

Of course, because of the master's unreliability, he was left on the mountain all the year round and ignored, and the other senior brothers and sisters naturally handed over the hardest, most tiring and most unpromising work to him, taking care of the medicine garden, and working hard to collect manure and manure fields.

Taiyuan Gate is small and broken, and it is still poor, not only is it pitiful that there are few exercises, but the magic weapon of the pill is even more scarce, Xu Chen has never seen the second grade of the pill, in fact, he has only eaten the real first-grade pill once, and it was given by the sect according to the rules when he broke through the Kaiyuan Realm, and the name is Huayuan Dan.

And weekday cultivation also needs the assistance of pills, the most common is Xiao Yuan Dan, Xiao Yuan Dan is mainly used to assist in refining and refining qi, speeding up the operation of vitality, it is a pill that is barely entered, but because of poverty, more than ten disciples of Taiyuan Sect are distributed according to their strength and contribution, because Xu Chen does not go out to practice, there is no chance to find some heavenly and earthly treasures to contribute to the sect, so he can barely get one bottle all year round, and the total will not exceed ten pills, and if you want to cultivate faster, the pill is essential, A group of broken disciples can only think of ways to go around by themselves, almost except for the robbery of the house, other capable people have done it, in the eyes of mortals, the so-called high-ranking immortal sect, in fact, is just a group of wild people with green eyes all day long, not much stronger than some scattered cultivators.

However, Xu Chen is still very pure, because he has no chance to do it if he wants to.

The biggest obstacle is that he can't do it ninety percent, so he can only stick to the mountain gate.

And the job of collecting dung made him humble and helpless.

Riding a flying sword of Yipin, he swayed and flew in the reckless mountains for almost two moments, and Xu Chen collected the sword and landed on the top of a mountain a hundred miles away from the mountain gate, and began to meditate and regain his breath.

Refining and refining qi is divided into three stages: Kaiyuan Qi Training, True Yuan Foundation Building, and Dan Yuan Jiedan, so the Immortal Cultivation Realm is also called the Kaiyuan Realm, the True Yuan Realm and the Dan Yuan Realm, and each realm can be roughly divided into three small stages.

Xu Chen is now between the early and middle stages of the Kaiyuan Realm, and in fact, according to his stored vitality, he can barely support the flying sword to fly continuously for half an hour, but he has a lack of vitality anxiety syndrome, and he always wants to return to full qi when the vitality is nearly half consumed.

If his vitality drops to about a third, he will start to feel anxious and nervous, and he will always feel that his life is in danger.

Of course, this kind of caution and anxiety made him meditate and regain his breath all the time, and it did give him enough vitality to escape from danger after encountering demon beasts and spirit beasts several times.

Two moments later, three small weeks passed, Xu Chen felt full of vitality again, so he stood up contentedly, looked around at the reckless mountains and wilderness, and thought about where to go to make a fortune today.

It is said to be rich, but in fact, it is scavenging.

But scavenging is actually a bit of a lift, to be precise, most of the time he spends his time picking up dung.

Taiyuan Gate is said to have been very powerful and brilliant in the past, there were thousands of monks in the heyday, the mountain gate is widely spread in a radius of thousands of miles, the buildings and halls are all over the Taoist medicine garden, etc. are all over dozens of hills, it is really like a fairy palace, a fairy dojo.

It's a pity that somehow suddenly suffered a catastrophe, and the entire sect collapsed in a few years, so now in this reckless mountains, there are ruins left everywhere, and for thousands of years, it has become a Taobao site for other immortal cultivators, but as time passes, there are fewer and fewer treasures, and gradually no one comes.

The current Taiyuan Gate actually has nothing to do with the previous Taiyuan Gate, but three hundred years ago, a casual cultivator found an authentic Taiyuan Gate exercise in the ruins, and the cultivation was successful, so he re-established the sect here, and still used the name of Taiyuan Gate.

Of course, now all the disciples of Taiyuan Gate are still accustomed to regard the ancient and glorious Taiyuan Gate as part of their own history, after all, the Gongfa Mountain Gate is in the same line, which can be regarded as an orthodox inheritance, and it is not a random climb of relatives.

Taiyuan Gate is a lowly disciple, and most of the time he spends most of his time scavenging for something in the ruins near the mountain gate.

And Xu Chen is the youngest and lowest cultivation disciple of the current Taiyuan Sect, in addition to turning over the old ancestor's tattered bottoms on weekdays, he is also responsible for taking care of the medicine garden, and his main function is to be a dung picker and pick up manure and manure fields.

To nourish the medicine field, ordinary beast dung is not enough, it must be demon beast or spirit beast dung.

Because only these advanced beasts know that if they devour those plants or ores that are rich in aura, the aura that cannot be fully absorbed will remain in the feces.

Alchemy requires the use of a large number of spiritual herbs and elixirs, and the wild ones are difficult to collect, so if you want to supply a stable supply of a sect elixir, you must plant a large number of them.

Folk grains and vegetables still have to be fertilized to grow well, not to mention the spiritual grass that relies on absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to have medicinal effects, if the spiritual energy is insufficient, the herbs can't grow up, even if they barely grow up, they also degenerate into mortal grass without any medicinal effect.

It is said that the cultivation of elixirs in large immortal gates is directly fertilized with spirit stones.

But Xu Chen has been cultivating immortals for five years, and he hasn't saved a single spirit stone, let alone a fertile field.

And the Taiyuan Sect is also poor, only the three elders have some spirit stones on them, but they are reluctant to use them on weekdays, and only at the critical moment of cultivation will they put down the spirit gathering array to assist in the impact breakthrough, as for Xu Chen and a group of senior brothers and sisters, they are even more shy, and they have the feeling of nouveau riche if they have one piece or two.

After thinking for a moment, Xu Chen released his flying sword and rode up to fly towards a canyon in the southwest.

We must pick up manure as soon as possible, which is the experience he summed up after two years of collecting manure.

Only when the spirit beasts leave the nest early in the morning to forage for food is the best opportunity to grab dung, otherwise once these spirit beasts find out that there are aliens breaking into the territory, if they can't escape, they will be ravaged very badly.

Of course, most of the time to pick up dung depends on luck, after all, this thing is not what you want to have, he is not the only one who grabs dung in the mountains, there are many birds and beasts or snakes, rats, insects and ants, all interested in these aura-rich dung, and the shell Lang does this more than him, that is an ancestral ability, and he can't learn it if he wants to.

Therefore, it is too early to pick up dung, not too late, and when you go out late, you can't even grab a lump of poop.