In front of the dilapidated cabin, the little fox lay motionless on the stones.

Xu Chen lifted it up to observe it and found that there was still breath, but it was estimated that he would not survive, so he could only sigh and put it down, and then sat on the grass next to him, looking at the rolling mountains and clear sky in front of him and began to be in a daze.

It is said that the gods are good, and the world is happy.

But who would know that the immortals are so miserable, lonely, lonely and bored.

Although Xu Chen was used to this kind of life, there would always be a few days every month when he felt decadent and dazed, irritable and didn't want to cultivate.

Today is a mixed blessing, though.

Although he didn't know if he could live, the jade bead found in this special poop made him feel that he had found a full search.

If it weren't for the sudden appearance of that demon wolf, he would still be able to harvest a litter of dead foxes, and he could sell at least ten spirit stones just by peeling off his fur.

It was a lot of wealth, a wealth he had never had.

It's a pity that everything is in vain right now.

Of course, he still left a small trap for the demon wolf before leaving.

If the wolf eats the old fox's corpse, maybe the pile of feces hidden in its mouth will kill it.

But this is only a small possibility, after all, the third-order demon wolf's wisdom is already very high, and it is unlikely to be fooled, but what if.

Therefore, Xu Chen decided to wait for a few days, and if there was no movement, he would go and observe secretly.

The demon pill of the third-order demon wolf is worth at least dozens of spirit stones.

The jade bead was poured out again by Xu Chen and placed in a pottery bowl.

This time he didn't dare to observe with his divine sense, stared at it with wide eyes for a long time, and then tried to touch it with his hand, and found that there was no discomfort except for a kind of icy coolness.

So he was a lot bolder, and simply picked up the jade bead in his hand, still not feeling the slightest danger, and then he let out a long breath.

It seems that although this jade bead is poisonous, it will not be poisoned directly through skin contact, but will only be poisoned by observing it with divine consciousness or dissolving it in water and entering the body.

But such a poisonous thing can be eaten and pulled out again, which shows how powerful this monster beast is.

Xu Chenzheng sighed, suddenly heard the sound of breaking the sky, turned his head, and saw a cyan figure coming from the sword, and it was the thirteenth senior sister Zhao Xuan.

"Why is Senior Sister here again?" Xu Chen hurriedly put away the jade bead and stood up to say hello.

Zhao Xuan landed in front of Xu Chen, and put away his sword with a sad face: "Is the Soul Returning Wood really dead?" ”

Xu Chen smiled bitterly: "The third elder has just seen it, and it may indeed be hopeless!" ”

Zhao Xuan sighed, but when she saw the little fox on the stone next to her, she was immediately surprised: "White foxes are rare. ”

Xu Chen couldn't say anything about the Spirit Fox's lair, and only vaguely said that he had picked it up near the medicine garden.

Zhao Xuan gently grabbed the little fox and glanced at it, and then said with pity on her face: "It's a pity that he is also an orphan abandoned by his parents, and he hasn't been weaned yet, so I'm afraid he won't be able to live." ”

Xu Chen hurriedly said: "It's still a little angry, if you have milk, maybe you can still live." ”

As he spoke, Xu Chen's eyes fell on Zhao Xuan's chest, but he immediately sighed.

Zhao Xuan suddenly became ashamed and angry, kicked Xu Chen and said, "You are not a good guy, look there, and dare to sigh." ”

Xu Chen smiled dryly: "Senior sister, if you don't take it back and try it, it's also a merit to live." ”

Zhao Xuan didn't seem to be in the mood, put down the little fox and said, "I don't have time, the third elder asked me and Senior Brother Nine to go to the capital of the Song Kingdom to celebrate the emperor's birthday, I'm afraid it will take a month to come and go." ”

Xu Chen said helplessly: "Then forget it!" ”

After speaking, he thought for a moment and took out a talisman from his waist pocket and handed it over, "Senior sister go far away, this jade talisman will be sent to you for self-defense on the road, if you don't use it, come back and return it to me." ”

Zhao Xuan's eyes lit up, and he took the jade talisman and played with it for a while, and said with a smile: "It's rare that the junior brother has a heart, and he said okay, if I use it, I won't have the treasure to return you!" ”

Xu Chen waved his hand, "Maybe it saved my senior sister's life, so why did I have to pay it back, as long as everyone is safe." ”

Zhao Xuan looked at Xu Chen with a smile and said, "Did you also give the seventh senior sister a spirit rune?" ”

Xu Chen could only nod.

Zhao Xuan didn't hesitate to put the spirit rune into his pocket, and then took out a few colorful paper runes and said: "This is a few talismans that I used to go down the mountain in exchange, although they are all ordinary small spells, they are not of much use, so they can be regarded as a thank you gift to my junior brother for the time being." ”

Xu Chen was also not polite, took the paper talisman and said, "It's okay, these ordinary paper talismans are of great use to me." ”

"Why don't you ......" Zhao Xuan twisted a little, and looked at Xu Chen with a red face, "Senior brother will lend me two more Dayuan Dan." ”

Xu Chen couldn't help but blush, but he still took out the jade bottle and poured out two emerald green pills.

The spirit runes have been sent, and there is no need to be stingy with two pills.

Zhao Xuan happily collected the two Great Yuan Pills, and then left with the sword, Xu Chen sat down with a wry smile, it seems that these senior brothers and sisters will not stop if they don't squeeze a little elixir magic weapon out of him.

Of course, he can also understand, after all, he stays in the mountain gate all the year round to collect dung, there is no danger, and when he goes down the mountain to travel far away, there are too many unknown situations, not that they necessarily covet these things, the main reason is that Taiyuan Gate is too poor.

These treasures in their eyes are not scarce in those large and medium-sized immortal sects, but all disciples of the sect can get some self-defense from the master when they go down the mountain.

But in Taiyuan Gate, the senior brothers and sisters can only find their own way, either by contribution, or by finding materials on weekdays to ask the two elders for help, or by exchanging treasures with other sects.

But either way, it's difficult.

A product of the Great Yuan Pill requires more than ten kinds of rare spiritual herb elixirs, among which there are a few medicinal gardens that do not exist at all, and they cannot be cultivated, so they are all found in the wild.

Even if Xiao Yuan Dan is not in the product, it needs seven or eight kinds of medicinal materials, although Taiyuan Gate has all the medicine gardens, but because the medicine garden is not full of spiritual energy, it grows slowly, and it also needs more than ten years of cultivation to enter the medicine, so it cannot be supplied in large quantities at all.

And if you want to exchange pills with other sects, the price is even more outrageous.

A bottle of ten small Yuan Dan requires at least three spirit stones, and the Great Yuan Dan is more than five times multiplied.

Not to mention that Xu Chen, these bitter disciples can't afford to eat, even the three elders can't eat every day.

As for the spirit runes made by the monks of the Danyuan Realm, it was a self-defense magic weapon that everyone in the low-level disciples wanted.

The Great Elder rewarded Xu Chen with three spirit runes at one time, worth at least a hundred spirit stones, which was a lot of eye-catching wealth no matter which sect it was placed in.

From this, it can also be seen how excited and looking forward to the Great Elder being able to re-bloom the Soul Rejuvenation Tree.

It's a pity that the excitement disappeared in a few days.

Xu Chen was still worried about what the Great Elder would be in when he came back and found that the Soul Wood was dead.

Therefore, he didn't dare to occupy these elixir runes alone now, and sending them out could actually share some of his pressure.

Poor, lonely, worried!

Xu Chen muttered and released the flying sword, rode it and staggered towards a forest not far away.

A moment later he flew back with a few more eggs in his hand.

Putting the bird's eggs in a clay bowl, he went into the house and took out a firewood knife, chopped a thin bamboo, and quickly made a small water gun.

Since he had no milk, but he couldn't watch the little fox starve to death, he decided to feed it with bird eggs to see if he could save it.

After the water gun was ready, he broke the two eggs, stirred the egg whites and yolks together, and then sucked them into the small water gun, slowly poured them into the little fox's mouth, and then found a piece of animal skin to wrap it in the grass and continue to bask in the sun.

With the remaining few eggs, he knocked them into his mouth, chirped his mouth a few times, and then sat down cross-legged and began to practice qi.

The day passed quickly.

Early the next morning, Xu Chen observed the little fox and found that his breath was much stronger, and he could even start to open his eyes slightly, so he breathed a sigh of relief, rode out on his sword for half an hour, got back a basket of birds' eggs, and fed two to the little fox in the same way, and then went to the medicine garden to inspect the situation.

Overnight, not only did the soul tree completely die, but the new branches and two flowers all withered and fell, and the dozens of medicinal materials in the medicine garden were all wilted and yellowed, and they were obviously dead.

"It's over, this ...... What should I do? ”

Xu Chen stood at the entrance of the medicine garden, his face pale, and the sweat on his forehead was rolling down.

He can still accept the death of the soul wood, after all, he was already dying before, but two or three acres of medicinal materials are also dead, after the great elder used spirit stones to fertilize a few days ago, these herbs are still rising like eating a strong pill, and suddenly they all died, Mo said that he couldn't accept it, it is estimated that the entire Taiyuan Gate can't accept it.

Although these medicinal materials are not good, they are necessary materials for daily alchemy.

All of a sudden, they all died at once, and it was like digging everyone's ancestral graves.

He expected the beginning, but he didn't expect the ending.

Unexpectedly, a lump of feces picked up inexplicably poisoned all the medicinal materials in Taiyuan Gate.

"What to do, what to do?"

Xu Chen was anxious, but in the end, he didn't dare to hide it, so he could only ride the flying sword and go to Chaoyang Peak to report to the three elders.

The three elders are meditating, and they don't seem to be in a good mood.

Xu Chen didn't dare to say anything about his indiscriminate fertilization, but only said the current situation in the medicine garden.

After hearing this, the old man's face continued to twitch violently, but he didn't blame him, and finally just sighed and waved his hand:

"I already know about this matter, it seems that something has happened in the medicine garden, the old man will personally go to check the situation, since the medicinal materials are dead, you don't have to stay in the medicine garden every day, two days later, follow the two senior brothers and sisters to Beijing to celebrate the emperor's birthday, by the way, also go down the mountain to practice, see if there is any chance, everything will wait until the great elder comes back, you go first!"

"Yes, the disciple is retiring!" Xu Chen breathed a sigh of relief and exited the room.

Back at his residence, Xu Chen was a little excited, but he was stunned.

After five years of going up the mountain, I finally had the opportunity to go down.

But I'm afraid that the days to come will be even more difficult.

Without the medicine garden, the pills will be more scarce in the future, and it will be more difficult to cultivate.

And if he wants to obtain the elixir himself, he is afraid that he will have to work his own like other senior brothers and sisters.

It seems that this time it was still too reckless.

But the consequences were already there, and he had nothing to do but get rid of his chagrin.