Chapter 16: The Seven-Star Golden Toad
"Boss, it's not good~ It's not good!"
On this day, when Wang Yuanze was meditating and puffing and cultivating, feeling the trace of breath in his body flowing in the meridians, the boy Mingyue ran over with a shout.
"What's the shouting?"
The cultivation was interrupted, and Wang Yuanze felt a sense of impetuousness.
"Master, there is no rice in the kitchen?"
Wang Yuanze almost went mad and spit out a mouthful of old blood.
No matter how good you are, as long as you haven't practiced to the realm of cultivating qi and clearing valleys, you won't be spared if you eat, drink, and Lazar.
This month, Wang Yuanze lived freely, eating, drinking, and Lazar were arranged by four Taoist children, and the repair and finishing of the Taoist temple was also presided over by Taoist priests, so he almost didn't worry about it.
But the five of them are all mortals after all, and they are hungry if they don't eat a meal.
There are no women in this barren mountain and wilderness, but if there is no food, people will really die.
"Why didn't you say it earlier if you didn't have rice, and wait until the rice cylinder was empty to find me!" Wang Yuanze frowned and stood up angrily.
"Originally, I saw that there were still seven or eight catties of rice yesterday, and the Great Elder also said that I could wait two more days to go down the mountain to buy it, but when I went to see it when I was cooking, the rice jar suddenly became empty!" Mingyue explained with her neck shrunk.
"And this kind of thing? Go, go and see. Wang Yuanze suddenly became strange.
The kitchen is still the same as always, the mess and the sanitary situation is worrying, Wang Yuanze didn't care, the rice tank was opened, and when he looked inside, it was as empty as a dog, and he looked around, and suddenly his face became even more ugly, pointing to the beam and saying, "I remember that there is still a piece of bacon, why is it gone?"
Mingyue looked up and suddenly turned pale with fright, and quickly shook her head and said, "Master, it's none of my business, maybe a few senior brothers and junior brothers are stealing ......."
Wang Yuanze didn't pay attention to Mingyue's words, but looked all the way down the window of the chimney stove in the beam, and then quickly walked to the window and looked out, there was a series of messy animal footprints on the windowsill and the dirt ground outside.
"Hurry up and find the Great Elder and a few senior brothers, I'm afraid there is a thief in the Taoist Temple!" Wang Yuanze suddenly understood.
Mingyue also saw these traces at this time, nodded and quickly ran out of the elders' house, and soon Daoist Niu came over with the breeze and flowing clouds and the sea, and after a brief inquiry, Daoist Niu's face was also a little uncertain.
Several people followed the footprints all the way, and finally found that the footprints disappeared under the ruins of a collapsed ruin, and below was the cliff, which was more than ten zhang high, and with the wanton growth of trees and vines, it was impossible to see anything clearly.
"Master, I'm afraid this thief who steals food is not easy to find!" said the Niu Daoist.
"Great Elder, could it be a monster?" Liuyun and the other four Dao Tong turned pale in fright.
"Nonsense, only in those barren mountains and mountains can there be monsters!" said the Niu Daoist.
"We can be regarded as barren mountains and mountains here!" Wang Yuanze said quietly.
Niu Daoist shook his head with a wry smile and said: "Although the head of the sect is right, but our Qinghe faction used to have a mountain protection formation and many things to protect the mountain, you have been on the mountain for more than a month, how have you ever seen monsters, even beasts, insects and snakes are few, this mountainside is a circle, there are a large number of demon vines and poisonous weeds, as well as knife tree traps, it is impossible for large beasts to come up, monsters have lived a lifetime, I have only heard that I have never seen it, how can I come to steal rice noodles and bacon!"
"That's what I said!" Wang Yuanze nodded, if a monster was going to degenerate to live by stealing grain and bacon, it would be a bit miserable, so his mood was suddenly much more relaxed.
As soon as the four Dao boys heard that it was not a monster, their courage instantly increased, and they all rubbed their fists and shouted to find out this thief who stole rice and meat.
Wang Yuanze and Niu Taoist priests are naturally in the same mood.
Originally, there was a shortage of food on the mountain, and now the Taoist temple has no source of income, and it all depends on the foundation left by the seven evils of the green wilderness to support.
So after some simple deliberation, the six of them took their swords and found their way down.
At present, the buildings that are being repaired and sorted out one after another are the circle around the Taiyi Hall on the top of the mountain, and almost all other places have not been moved, one is that there are few people who are too busy to come, and the other is that a group of people are either old or small, and they do not have the strength and ability to do it, and rebuilding such a large Taoist temple is not something that six people, old and young, can do, and it also needs to be specially invited to do it, and it costs money to invite people.
And on the mountain, don't say that it is money, there is no way to make money, and Wang Yuanze doesn't want to worry about it at all, he just wants to enter the Qi Cultivation Realm as soon as possible, so he hasn't even been out of the door of the Taoist Temple for more than a month, and the map near the Taoist Temple is still in a dark state for him.
Daoist Niu walked in the front, Wang Yuanze walked in the middle, and four little Taoists followed.
Carrying swords, each of them split the bushes, thorns, and vines on both sides, and carefully walked down the ruined walls and steep stone steps, and after a detour of more than a mile, they looked up and saw the eaves of the elder's house.
Not far ahead, there was a crumbling building, but it was completely invisible from the trees and vines, leaving only a section of bluestone walls.
"Quack~Quack~"
As the group approached the ruins, several low, thunderous cries rang out from among the trees.
"Shhhh
"Don't worry, master, this seems to be the cry of a toad!" said Niu Daoist with a smile on his face.
"Toad so loud?" Wang Yuanze didn't believe it.
"Hehe, the head doesn't know, there are many kinds of toads, when the Qinghe faction was prosperous in the past, there were many kinds of toads, and the toad poison sac was extracted for alchemy and medicine, among which there is a kind called the seven-star golden toad, the cry is extremely loud, it is like thunder!"
"The Great Elder has seen it, is there still one on our mountain?" Wang Yuanze asked curiously with a sigh of relief.
Daoist Niu shook his head: "I haven't seen it, but there are records in the Qinghe Strange Chronicles and Danyao classics of the Taoist Temple, but I haven't seen it in the mountains for decades, and I can't tell the sound when I hear it from a distance on weekdays, if there is really one, we will be rich!"
"How do you say that you got rich?" Wang Yuanze hurriedly asked.
"This seven-star golden toad will molt its skin once a year after it becomes an adult, this skin can be refined into a main medicine called Aiki Dan, which is extremely rare, Aiki Dan is a second-grade elixir, and it is the best elixir to help condense the true yuan and build a foundation......"
There is an old man in the family, and there is a treasure.
Although Daoist Niu's cultivation is a mess, he has almost read all the remaining Taoist classics of the Qinghe School after decades of cultivation, so it is the Tao.
Wang Yuanze's eyes lit up when he heard this, although alchemy is impossible at the moment, and he can't use it for the time being, but this thing must be a good thing for other immortal sects, and it is a huge wealth in his hands, Wang Yuanze's heart instantly became hot, urging the Niu Taoist priest to hurry forward, and quickly got into the collapsed ruins and searched carefully.
"Goo~~"
Just as a few people were searching around, suddenly a clearer sound like thunder came from a black stone crevice, and the ears of the shock were numb, and a group of people were not surprised but rejoiced, and quickly cut off all the thorns around the stone crevice, and then surrounded it.
"Master, the cry is like thunder, maybe it is really the seven-star golden toad left over from the beginning, this stone crack has been loosened, we just need to move this masonry away to find it!"
"Great Elder, this seven-star golden toad should be poisonous, right?" Wang Yuanze asked with some concern.
"Naturally, this seven-star golden toad is poisoned as medicine, so as to stimulate the operation of the meridians to achieve the purpose of gathering true yuan to build a foundation, but the classics say that this toad already has some wisdom, as long as it does not feel the threat of death, it generally will not spray venom, because once the venom is sprayed, it will be greatly injured, and it may die soon!" explained Niu Daoist as he worked.
"That's good!" Wang Yuanze relieved his mind and hurriedly helped move the bricks together, and soon the bricks and stones around the stone cracks were cleaned up, and then he vaguely saw the situation inside, and there was a faint flash of golden light.