"Chapter 41: The Treasure Hunt"

Ji Mingyuan stood up and observed the four directions.

The ancient trees are towering, the foliage is dense, the light is completely sparse and blurred, and the surroundings are shrouded in gray and mist.

The rhizomes of huge ancient trees were inserted into the earth, and the moss was crawling all over the vigorous, cracked ancient trees, and the golden lion, a tall and domineering beast, looked as weak as a kitten in front of these towering and standing ancient trees.

The grass on the ground is faint, infected with gray, and even bright flowers cannot bloom here, and there is no light emitted by the elixir outside.

"Why are we running here, what's good over here?" said Long Yao with great interest, looking around with big eyes.

"There are the least number of people here!" Ji Mingyuan smiled slightly, his eyes swept around slightly. He had observed that the number of people on this side was the least, and that the sparse scattering would reduce a lot of fighting.

All around was foggy, and the whole forest became foggy and shadowy, a little more mysterious, and a little more gloomy.

"This way!" Long Yao suddenly shouted, letting the golden lion rush over.

The golden lion followed Long Yao's guidance and jumped all the way through the ancient forest.

"Bang !!"

The golden lion fell to the ground, trampling on the ground and trembling slightly.

"Here?" Ji Mingyuan was surprised.

There are half-zhang tall grass everywhere, and two-zhang high bushes, and there are many dense bushes, and there is nothing abnormal.

"Xiao Jin, dig it out!" Long Yao shouted, pointing to the bushes under the roots of an ancient tree.

"Whew~" The golden lion wailed, aggrieved to peel it off.

"Xiao Jin!" Ji Mingyuan said in his heart, smiling slightly, the name of this girl is simple and clear, but it is a pity that this golden lion generation of lion kings was given this child-like name.

The golden lion peeled away the bushes, and the messy bushes broke apart, revealing the moss-covered earth, and there was nothing out of the ordinary.

Long Yao jumped down from the golden lion with a whoosh, jumped into the open space that was opened by the golden lion, and with a wave of his hand, he took a wooden handle and a shovel, raised his hand and began to dig the soil.

"Shovel?" Ji Mingyuan paused for a moment, and then said with a wry smile, "When did this girl buy the shovel?"

Long Yao asked him for money to buy it, but Ji Mingyuan regarded money as his life, and only gave her a few gold coins and some copper coins, and he didn't know if he spent it.

Ji Mingyuan thought at first that she was buying food, but he never thought that she was buying ...... Shovel?

"Hurry up and help!" Long Yao threw a shovel over as he spoke.

Ji Mingyuan hurriedly caught it, and was almost hit in the head by her.

"Xiao Jin, look at the wind!" Long Yao gave the golden lion a look, and then continued to wow.

"Whew~" the golden lion said secretly.

Ji Mingyuan helped her dig, and a pile of dirt splashed up.

After digging two feet, the two dug up a tree root?

The roots of the tree are dark and the roots are reddish, Long Yao accidentally cut off the roots, and its roots are bright red, transparent as jade, exuding a faint blood light.

Long Yao brushed aside the soil and picked up the roots, the roots were connected to each other one zhang long, the head was a small sapling, less than a zhang high, the branches were delicate and dripping, the veins of the two round leaves were pale red and pink, smooth, light and thin, exuding a faint blood light, dyeing the mist next to it red.

"This is the Blood Mist Vine?" Ji Mingyuan looked at it.

"Do you know?" Long Yao looked at him with wide eyes.

"Well, it is recorded in ancient books that the small tree is low, the leaves are round, the veins are red, and the rhizomes are like vines. One zhang is a hundred, two zhang is a thousand, and it is rumored that three zhang will become a spirit in ten thousand years, which can invigorate blood and dispel blood stasis, strengthen muscles and pulses!" Ji Mingyuan smiled, his smile was elegant and handsome.

Blood mist, growing in the damp and dark fog area, under the roots, its roots are like vines, and the faint blood light will dye the fog next to it red.

"Then this is more than 100 years old, isn't it very valuable?" Long Yao glanced at the blood mist in his hand, and then looked at Ji Mingyuan with big eyes, his big eyes shining.

"Ten gold coins! Ji Mingyuan said. This blood mist is an elixir, absorbing the aura of heaven and earth and growing, years of growth, mild medicinal properties, nourishing and moisturizing the body, having the effect of invigorating blood and removing stasis, strengthening muscles and pulses.

But the year of this blood mist is too short, only more than 100 years, if it is after 10,000 years, this blood mist vine can be bloody, ten thousand beasts fight, and it has its own wisdom, it may escape.

But the 10,000-year-old blood mist vine has only appeared in legends, after all, who will keep this good thing for 10,000 years?

"Good thing!" Long Yao said, quickly putting away the Blood Mist Vine.

The two of them sat on the golden lion and continued to move forward.

"This way! this way!" Long Yao's little nose sniffed in the air, and continued to direct the golden lion forward.

Then the two found a piece of grass with white silk in a pile of grass.

Long Yao shoveled it up as soon as he shoveled, scattered the dirt and said to Ji Mingyuan, "What is this?"

Ji Mingyuan took it and looked at it and said, "The white veins are like mist, the mist wisps are entangled, the hand is light, it is a white-veined grass, and it can quench spiritual power!"

"Good thing!" Long Yao snatched it back and quickly put it away.

Ji Mingyuan smiled and nodded helplessly.

Later, on the way forward, at the foot of a huge tall pine mountain, I found a flower in the rocks, pale yellow as earth, and the leaves were all pale yellow flowers, which were difficult to find if you were not sharp, and there were no trees around the mountain, and the sun shone on the flowers.

"What is this?" Long Yao said in surprise, his little nose leaning forward and sniffing.

"Don't smell it, this is a stone ancient flower, the color is like earth, and there is no taste. Ji Mingyuan said.

He knew that Long Yao's sense of smell was more sensitive than a dog's nose, and it was difficult for an elixir within ten zhang to escape his sense of smell, but this kind of tasteless elixir was inaccurate.

At the beginning, he was chased and beaten by Long Yao, he relied on dexterity and smooth movements to hide, but he was still found by her, just because she had a keen sense of smell.

"Why didn't I find out that you had this ability before?" Ji Mingyuan wondered, why didn't he find out that she was so powerful when he and Long Yao traveled through the ancient forest for more than half a month before?

"It stinks, it doesn't smell. Long Yao said.

Ji Mingyuan understood that the smell of blood on their bodies at that time was dirty, although it was not stinky, but it was still hindered, so that she couldn't find the elixir.

"Let's go, keep looking, I'll have a good meal when I get back." Long Yao's big eyes sparkled, extremely excited.

The two continued to run deeper.

They searched all the way, and from time to time they would run into people, but they were all afraid of each other, had scruples, did not make a move, and avoided one after another.

...... in one day

The two of them were like elixir farmers, all the way forward, picking elixirs.

In the grass, under the roots of ancient trees, in the soil, above ancient trees, under dead trees......

The two of them found more than 20 elixirs, large and small!

"Great harvest, great harvest!" Long Yao said happily, and continued to call the golden lion to look for it.

At first, the golden lion looked decadent and was reluctant to take a step, but after that, if there was a suitable elixir found by Ji Mingyuan and Long Yao, it would also be given to it, and then it was interested in finding the elixir.

"Alright, let's go deeper! Ji Mingyuan said.

The two of them searched for most of the day, but they did not travel ten miles, they were moving slowly, at first they could often meet people, and then they were sparsely populated.

"Good!" Long Yao said happily. This time is fruitful, and it is worth the trip.

The golden lion howled, in a happy mood, and a jump was more than ten zhang away, stepping on the thick ancient tree roots to move forward.

"Whew!!"

A dark shadow pierced the sky, pierced the mist, and traveled like an arrow off the string.

The black shadow was too abrupt, it appeared without warning, and it rushed in in an instant, menacing, and wanted to penetrate the two of them.

Ji Mingyuan's eyes flickered, his face sank, he held the back of the golden lion and turned around, jumped up, and his white and slender fingers flicked.

"Bell !!"

Ji Mingyuan's right hand was wrapped in golden light, hitting the black shadow, making a metallic crisp sound, pushing the black shadow away and deviating from the track.

"Boom !!"

The black shadow smashed on the ground next to him, there was a loud bang, smoke and dust billowed out, Ji Mingyuan was shocked and flew out, and he slipped out a few feet away when he fell to the ground, drawing two long plow marks.

Long Yao and the Golden Lion hurriedly stopped and turned to look around, vigilant.

Ji Mingyuan looked at the large cloud of smoke and dust, looked at the numb right hand, got up and stood with his hands, and looked in front of him.

The dark and dark ancient forest was entangled in mist, as if it had been covered with a layer of dust, and it was impossible to see.

In the distance, a figure came from the dark mist, and the figure gradually turned from faint to solid.

Ji Mingyuan's eyebrows frowned slightly, because after that figure appeared, phantoms also appeared beside him one after another, and then slowly became solidified.

Seven figures, seven people!

The age of the seven people is similar to that of Ji Mingyuan and Long Yao, the male posture is erect, heroic, handsome, and the female willow waist is like a shock. Both men and women are extraordinary people with extraordinary bearing, but the fly in the ointment is that there is arrogance between their eyebrows, their eyes reveal indifference, contempt, and a confident smile on the corners of their slightly raised mouths.

"Sneak attack from behind?purple-haired boy, believe it or not, I beat you to call your mother!" Long Yao pointed at the young man in front of her and scolded her, she cursed, she was actually attacked, if it wasn't for Ji Mingyuan's quick reaction, they would have to be injured if they didn't die.

The young man standing in front of him had flowing purple hair and fell down, but he was called a purple-haired boy by Long Yao, and he frowned all of a sudden, "Where did you come from, a girl from the mountains?" believe it or not, I will tear your mouth apart!"

The purple-haired young man said coldly, he didn't expect Long Yao's words to be so rude and indecent.

Ji Mingyuan's face was slightly cold, delicate and elegant, and he said indifferently, "What do you mean?"

"Hand over all the elixirs you have collected, and that wild girl will slap her mouth ten times, and you can leave!" said a smiling and playful girl beside the purple-haired boy.

Her gaze swept up and down Ji Mingyuan, she was dressed in a black robe and did not see her face, but her voice was elegant and clear, as good as flowing water in the mountains, with coldness, I don't know what her appearance is.

She was dressed in a bright red and delicate long dress, with gorgeous and rich gold embellishments, exuding a luxurious atmosphere, twisting the slender waist of the water snake, strolling with sexy steps, like a bewitching cat, her eyes were charming, and her flaming red lips were flaming.

Long Yao turned his head to look at Ji Mingyuan beside him.

Under the black robe, Ji Mingyuan's eyes were deep, and his eyes were slightly cold.

"Boom !!"