Zhou Tong laughed: "You reminded me, this time Long Tanguo is the first attempt, and it is also the last attempt, although Yue Fei's talent is high, but to say that his martial arts achievements are still not as good as Lu Junyi at the same time." ”

Lu Junyi's family is the richest man in Hebei, and he has money, no matter what kind of medicinal herbs or supplements, as long as he needs them, the Lu family will buy them; that is Zhou Dong's most worry-free apprentice, it is really the master who leads the door, and the practice is all in Lu Junyi himself, but fortunately, Lu Junyi has no distractions, and he doesn't care about anything other than martial arts. Poor and rich in martial arts, the conditions of the Lu family made every condition that Lu Junyi needed to learn martial arts be met, so Lu Junyi was twenty-five years old and his predecessors Gongzi Jin and Yan Maniac were equally famous, and they were tied for the top three in Hebei.

Zhou Tong's words are actually equivalent to deciding that Yue Fei wants to be an official and do bigger things, rather than being limited to a martial arts and a river and lake. Yang Zhi knew that this was a wise move, even if in the end, Yue Fei's ending made tens of millions of people sad and indignant, but Yue Fei was stronger than Jintai, Zhou Tong and others in the officialdom, and he really entered the center of the Southern Song Dynasty, was the mainstay of the fight against Jin Bing, and was admired by thousands of people after his death.

While the two were talking, they walked up to the cliff on the right one after the other, and climbed to the top of the cliff half an hour later, a huge black stone was deeply embedded in the cliff, and under the stone was an exit of the flying stream, Yang Zhi had the experience of stealing Chen Lu's library, and immediately guessed that there should be a secret passage under the flying stream and the stone, otherwise Zhou Tong would not have taken himself to this bare mountaintop. The water flow is not big, there is no need to cross it vertically, Yang Zhi followed behind Zhou Tong and walked through the water flow, which turned out to be a gap in the cliff, just enough to accommodate a person to walk in sideways.

The mountain crevice is twisted and curved, and the sideways walk about 30 meters suddenly opens up, it is a natural dark road, the dark road has been going down, and after walking a distance of five or six hundred meters, you can feel the brightness of the sun in front, and it is getting brighter and brighter, and finally comes to a sunny meadow. Yang Zhi looked up, it turned out to be a sinkhole that was not too deep, the pit wall was surrounded by steep rocks, and there was a platform more than 100 meters above, but he didn't know what the scene was.

Now the bottom of the pit where the two of them are standing is overgrown with grass and wild flowers, and in the northwest corner, you can even see three hanging springs flying down the bottom of the pit and flowing into the underground river in front. Zhou Tong said with a smile: "When I was young, I came here with Uncle Cao Guo, and many of his elixirs were taken from here, and every time he bypassed the corner on the edge of the underground river and asked me to wait here." I didn't really have any interest in elixir, but every time I walked along the way, I was able to listen to his advice and benefited a lot. ”

Uncle Cao Guo is Cao Tong, the grandfather of Cao Qianli, the sect leader of the Phantom Sword Sect, when Zhou Tong arrived at Kaifeng Mansion, Cao Tong should have been a Pingzhang matter under the Zhongshu Sect, as an important minister of the imperial court, he actually came here to collect medicine in person, this kind of elixir is not only precious, but should also have a lot to pay attention to. Zhou Tong should have been sent as a guard at that time, or Cao Tong looked at him differently, just looking at the movement at the bottom of the pit, it should be that no one has come for many years, and Cao Tong probably didn't tell his family about this place;

The two turned the corner of the rock, the underground river was intermittently exposed to the ground, on both sides of the river, Yang Zhi saw many plants and fruits that he had never seen before, except for two strange trees three meters high, the others were half-human tall bushes or grasses. The leaves of the strange tree are like maple leaves, but they are longer than maple leaves, and they are green, verdant and dripping, and the trees bear crystal fine fruits, much like the small tomatoes of later generations, and they are sprinkled with bursts of rich aroma.

The most conspicuous among the bushes are the crimson trees with white spots, and if you look closely, the white spots are fungus plants parasitic on the plants, in a circle of silk mesh; the crimson trees are coniferous plants, with vigorous trunks and fine needles, and the orange-brown cones on them are sparsely scattered, and the largest one is only two or three, and some shrubs have no fruit at all. There were clusters of orange and white flowers blooming on the grass, and there was a faint medicinal fragrance when he got closer, Yang Zhi stood up and looked at Zhou Dong: "Senior, which one is the dragon sandalwood fruit?"

Zhou Tong introduced with a smile: "The cones on the bush are the dragon sandalwood fruit, which blooms every three years and bears fruit every ten years, and has the effect of increasing strength; the kind of white spots are called sandalwood cordyceps, which has the effect of prolonging life; the fruit on the small tree is called the heavenly fed fruit, which is a good medicine for healing injuries and replenishing blood, and the small flowers on the grass are sacred vines, which are specially used for detoxification." Every time I came with Uncle Cao, I picked these four medicines, and Uncle Cao Guo took a little more every time, and when the two of us turned back, we ate a little to replenish our bodies. ”

It is estimated that Zhou Dong has not been here for decades, and the four elixirs have only grown so much, and when he came in the past, there should be fewer fruits and flowers; Yang Zhiwang looked at these elixirs, in fact, he didn't particularly believe in the effect of the elixir in his heart, Cao Tong's martial arts were superb, and his cultivation was Xuangong, but he only lived for more than seventy years before he died, if the elixir really worked, with Cao Yan's cultivation, it should be no problem to be a hundred years old, although the people of the Great Song Dynasty did not live long in later generations, but they lived more than a hundred years old, not one or two.

Zhou Tong showed an appreciative look in his eyes, he didn't know what Yang Zhi was thinking, but Yang Zhi was not excited when he saw these elixirs, which showed that Yang Zhi's characterization was far stronger than ordinary people. Zhou Tong took out a jade box from his arms, the blue-white jade surface is smooth and transparent, the cylindrical flat mouth, there are four short feet at the bottom, the blue-white jade surface is smooth and transparent, the most exquisite is the box mouth, there is a sharp jade knife, directly connected to the jade box.

Yang Zhi was thinking about why he carved like this, the redundancy of this jade knife was a waste of one-third of the jade block, Zhou Tong explained: "The other three elixirs can be picked by hand, but the broken stems of the dragon sandalwood fruit must be stored in the jade box, and the weapons and plants will rust to death, and the hand picking will smell of sweat, so the way of picking and preserving is the key." So Uncle Cao Guo specially made a jade box with incisions. ”

Yang Zhi smiled bitterly and said: "Senior, you are familiar with all the things, and even the tools are well prepared in advance, these should be told to you by Old Immortal Cao, you are definitely not looking for me for any spiritual fruit." I guess there is another purpose, what is the matter, please tell me. ”

Zhou Tong said without changing his face: "Smart, I am indeed looking for you for other things, but I have a question for you, I want to know why you didn't flee to Yangzhou, but chose to flee to Liao?"

(End of chapter)