Chapter 27 Collecting Medicine
In less than a cup of tea, Long Xiaofeng came to Snow Lotus Valley, he didn't expect that he could control the white bone spiritual fire so handy, and the speed was much faster than before, and he suddenly felt an indescribable joy in his heart, and the shadow in his heart formed by the inability to break through the third stage of the secret realm for several days was instantly swept away.
Long Xiaofeng walked to a snow lotus with huge leaves, quietly waiting for the flower fairy to appear.
After a few moments, the flower fairy poked out between the two overlapping leaves. When Long Xiaofeng saw it, he found that her body was much larger than before, the size of half of his little finger, and he couldn't help but feel a little surprised, and said with a smile: "Master should be very satisfied with his cultivation in the past few days, when I see Master next time, Master is only afraid that she will grow into a cute little girl!" As soon as this sentence came out, Long Xiaofeng hurriedly covered his mouth, "Oops! I committed her taboo again, and mentioned small characters!" Long Xiaofeng said in his heart.
Sure enough, the flower fairy turned her head and stared at him, her expression obviously quite annoyed. Long Xiaofeng hurriedly said: "Master, I didn't mean that, what I want to say is that the next time you see Master, you will definitely become a big girl like me." The flower heart fairy snorted and said angrily: "You are really useless, I never take what I said to heart!" Long Xiaofeng's face turned red, and he said in his heart: "Don't jump up again and stab me in the face." Hurriedly smiled: "Master blames, but Master's clothes today are really good-looking!"
Seeing that he praised the clothes he was wearing, the flower fairy also liked it very much, and said with a smile: "This dress is made by me picking hundreds of snow lotus flowers and leaves, of course it looks good." Long Xiaofeng said with a smile: "Master's ability to make clothes is really good, if you open a tailor shop in the future, all the tailors in the world will have to be unemployed." ”
The flower heart fairy said: "Which tailor in the world will use flowers and leaves to make clothes?" I'm afraid there is no such tailor, by the way, to what extent have you cultivated your Ling Xiao Jue in the past few days?" Long Xiaofeng said: "Without the master's elixir, the progress of cultivation is very slow, and now it has only reached the second stage of the Secret Realm." I don't know why, I can't break through the third stage of the secluded realm. The flower heart fairy said: "Your practice of the Lingxiao Technique is not an ordinary spiritual technique, and you are afraid that it will not be good if you enter the realm too quickly." You should be able to calm down, with your current cultivation, I'm afraid that even a master of the Xuan Realm will be difficult to defeat you, aren't you satisfied?, however, I have refined five more pills, which should be able to help you break through to the fifth stage smoothly!"
Long Xiaofeng saw that the pills she refined this time were all white, and she couldn't help but feel surprised in her heart, and when she got the tip of her nose and sniffed it, she felt that the aroma was stronger and stronger.
The flower heart fairy said: "This pill, I refined it with snow lotus, the medicinal power is much stronger than the red pill, you have to be cautious to take it, don't waste it." Long Xiaofeng was grateful in his heart, and said with a smile: "Master treats his disciples like a mountain, and the disciples can have such achievements today because of the master." The flower fairy said: "You have to think of my good in your heart, and you don't have to talk about it all the time." ”
Long Xiaofeng nodded, and suddenly remembered the bamboo slip he was carrying in his arms, so he took it out, and said in front of the authentic flower heart fairy: "Master, you look at this bamboo slip, what is strange?" The flower heart fairy glanced at it and said: "Hey! Water and Fire Spirit Wood! Where did you get this bamboo slip?" Long Xiaofeng heard her mention the water and fire spirit wood, and said in his heart: "What is the water and fire spirit wood?" So he told him how he picked up this bamboo slip from the Dragon Elephant Hall.
The flower fairy said: "Water and fire spirit wood is a rare sacred wood, it is said that the heavenly fire fell on the body of the water spirit spirit beast and burned, a hundred years ago, there was a Taijia true immortal who inadvertently picked up this wooden tablet, this Taijia true immortal found the magic of this wooden tablet, and used the soul refining method to inject a wisp of his soul into the wooden tablet, and also turned his lifelong cultivation into runes and stored it in the wooden tablet. If you have the opportunity to awaken the soul of the Taijia True Immortal and decipher the runes inside, you can obtain his cultivation, which will undoubtedly be of great benefit to you. ”
Long Xiaofeng said: "Why did this Taijia True Immortal inject his soul into the wooden tablet?" The Flower Heart Fairy said: "Idiot, I don't even understand this, naturally I hope that one day he can return his soul to Yang, so that he can be reincarnated as a human." Long Xiaofeng said: "I see. ”
The flower fairy said: "Okay, I won't tell you more, in short, this bamboo slip is not simple, you can get it, it can be regarded as your creation." After saying that, he got into the snow lotus.
"Creation?" Long Xiaofeng muttered, "I don't know if it's a good creation or a bad creation!"
When Long Xiaofeng left Snow Lotus Valley and returned to Qianlong Palace, it was already late at night. He didn't go back to the house to rest, but went straight to the ashram where he was cultivating.
Long Xiaofeng began to sneak into the sky, and he wanted to use this night to break through the third stage of the Secret Realm. After the true qi had traveled all over his body for thirty-six weeks, Long Xiaofeng took one of the white pills refined by the Flower Heart Fairy and swallowed it in his stomach. Long Xiaofeng began to rapidly operate the true qi in his body, dissolving the medicinal power, and as the true qi in his body turned faster and faster, a trace of cool breath began to spread around his body, as if his entire body suddenly sank into a waterhole. Immediately afterward, Long Xiaofeng felt that this cool breath gradually transformed into a living spiritual power swimming among the limbs and bones. In the third stage of the Netherworld, he finally broke through.
Long Xiaofeng slowly walked out of the quiet room. At this time, the sky was already bright, he came to a big tree, and the two fingers of his right hand swept sharply, and an invisible knife qi had slashed towards a branch the thickness of a wrist, and the branch fell in response to his hand, and he didn't hear the sound of breaking. Long Xiaofeng reached out to catch the fallen branch and checked the fracture surface, only to see that the fracture was neater than a knife. Long Xiaofeng didn't expect his finger wind knife to be so sharp, and he couldn't help but be stunned.
"Patriarch is good kung fu!" Long Jin suddenly said with joy behind him, and happily walked to Long Xiaofeng. Long Xiaofeng glanced at him and said, "How is the training of the mercenaries?" Long Jin said: "Everything is as the patriarch wishes, each of them has now mastered a fighting skill, as long as the patriarch gives an order, the subordinates will take them to the mountains to collect medicine." ”
Long Xiaofeng said: "This time I went to the mountains to collect medicine, the stakes are very high, and there must be no mistakes. Let's go!" Long Jin said: "Is the patriarch going too?" Long Xiaofeng said: "Yes, with me with you, picking medicine can go more smoothly." ”
The group had breakfast, and with a large convoy of ten carriages, followed the guide, and marched mightily towards Mount Meru.
The southern end of Mount Meru is the snow field of the Pingchuan River, there are many wild ginseng, snow dragon fruit and other herbs growing on the snow field, which are commonly used medicinal materials for refining pills and wound medicines. However, due to the fact that a large number of medicinal herbs are buried deep in the snow, it is not easy to pick them without experienced medicine farmers as guides.
This snow field can be said to be a natural medicine production area, there is no lack of rare medicinal materials under the snow, there are thousands of years of ginseng and ice Ganoderma lucidum and other valuable medicinal materials, but this is not the most valuable, the most valuable is the snow under the ice deep cold jade, these cold jade due to the texture of the cold and hard, is the natural stone for refining all kinds of magic weapons. The crystal gourd in Long Xiaofeng's arms is a treasure refined from this kind of cold jade, but this kind of cold jade is very rare, and it is naturally not easy to mine.
It is precisely because of the huge wealth hidden under the snow field that this snow field has become a place where the major family forces compete to get involved. For thousands of years, the families around this snowfield have fought over it, and as a result, the entire snowfield has been divided into large and small tic-tac-toe fields. In order to make the snow fields they occupy more valuable, they also hired a number of psychic masters who carried a special magic weapon that was said to detect cold jade under the snow.
Of course, people buy and sell snow fields more often to go to the cold jade below, and whether there is cold jade under the snow or not depends on the mouth of the spirit master. Therefore, these families collude with the spiritual masters, and there are frequent cases of abduction and abduction, and bloody conflicts caused by this can be said to be common.
When Long Xiaofeng's convoy arrived at Yukino, it was noon. When the major families saw that the convoy led by Long Xiaofeng had arrived, they all stepped forward to greet them enthusiastically, and naturally followed by a spirit master.
Long Xiaofeng walked to an inconspicuous snow field, and saw that this snow field covered an area of about two acres at most, so he asked the price, and the shopkeeper who managed the trading of this snow field was an outer disciple of the Lingfeng clan, named Zhang Binggui.
A spiritual master beside Zhang Binggui used a special wooden magic weapon to insert it into the snow and probed, and said: "Young patriarch, please see, the texture under the snow is hard, neither gold nor iron, but it feels like when inserted*, with my years of experience, there is cold jade in the bottom nine times out of ten." Long Xiaofeng asked about the price, and Zhang Binggui asked for 50,000 gold coins with one mouth.
Long Xiaofeng didn't expect that such a small piece of snow field was worth 50,000 gold coins, and he couldn't help but gasp. He only brought 20,000 gold coins this time, and said in his heart: "It seems that the plan to mine cold jade this time is only going to be ruined! I can only pick some herbs and go back!" So without saying a word, he left this snow field.
Long Xiaofeng had already made two preparations this time, in case he couldn't mine the cold jade, he would try to pick as many herbs as he could, if he couldn't even mine the herbs, he would go to the nearby mountains to slaughter some snow wolves, snow pythons, and snow lizards, the bitter gall of these snow beasts is also a very precious medicine, as well as the fur of the snow wolf, which can also be sold for a lot of money in the market.
Long Jin saw Long Xiaofeng walking towards a snow field backed by the mountain, and couldn't help but say, "Patriarch, aren't we going to mine cold jade?" Long Xiaofeng said: "That cold jade is already scarce, and the capital we bring is not enough, so we have to stop, it's not bad to be able to collect some medicine and go back." ”
"How much does this snow field sell?" Long Xiaofeng said to a thin shopkeeper. This shopkeeper is a disciple of the Wu Gu Sect, his face is gloomy, he listened to Long Xiaofeng's question, and looked indifferent, and after a while, he said lazily: "How much do you want to buy?" Long Xiaofeng said: "Although this snow field covers a wide area, about five or six acres, but it is close to the snow mountain, there will be no cold jade below, at most it is some herbs, how about 10,000 gold coins?"
"Okay! deal!" The shopkeeper frowned, and said indifferently, obviously he was very dissatisfied with the deal, but he had to accept it, and the irritability in his heart was naturally reflected on his face.