Chapter 10 Collecting Herbs and Cultivating Penance

The next day, the sky was slightly bright, and the side door of Dujia Xiyuan "creaked" slightly opened a gap, and Du Sheng flashed out and ran into the alley alley. The remote laneway is narrow and long, and every time there is an oncoming pedestrian, you have to turn sideways to squeeze through. The heavy and abrupt eaves were oozing with a little early morning frost and dew, and Du Sheng walked unhurriedly, empty in front and behind, and a specific black cloak and robe were draped over his body. The huge robe and hat covered up, not only hiding Du Sheng's original appearance, but even the young man's somewhat thin body was stuffed and bloated. In addition, Du Sheng was specially dressed up in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, with a gray complexion, a goatee, a breath on his body, and his breath trembling, but he looked a little terminally ill. With Du Sheng's current appearance, I'm afraid that even if the Du family doesn't distinguish carefully when standing in front of him, it will be difficult to recognize it at a glance... What's more, Du Sheng, who is already withdrawn, has even fewer people who know him. Covering his body and hiding his breath is a kind of cultivation for Du Sheng, which can't be blamed for him being too cautious, in front of the clan rules, some people with ulterior motives take the opportunity to trouble themselves. And he hasn't gained a firm foothold in the Du family, so he doesn't seem to have enough weight. Of course, he knows that only by performing enough to attract the attention of others can he get the corresponding benefits, which need to be constantly strengthened to strive for.

The Du family's forces are subordinate to the periphery of Shishan City, not in the core area. Stone Mountain City, a small mountain city on the boundary line of the Great Wilderness, connects the vast Great Wilderness to the west, and is surrounded by plains and tantan on three sides. Legend has it that in the Great Wilderness in the ancient period, there was no city here, but only a barren mountain towering into the sky. So he angered the sky above his head, and in the sudden change of wind and clouds, several five-colored divine thunders fell, collapsing the entire barren mountain, flying with rubble and stones, turning all plants and trees into ashes, and the flames were steaming, burning everything. It wasn't until the barren mountains were gone that the sky became silent. However, all things are born because of fate, whether it is a small dust or a vast heaven and earth, there is no dignity or inferiority, and they exist forever with each other. Therefore, with the flow of time and space, there are gradually people gathering under the barren mountain, and the people around are quarrying and filling in the earth, building the city and repairing the house under the call of the city lord, creating this mountain city, and therefore the city evolved from the mountain, so it is called the stone mountain city.

The gate of Shishan City is not high, the city wall is about more than three zhang, and the yellow mud and gravel are mixed and poured, which is slightly mediocre. The mountain castle is small, but it has everything. Street vendors can be found everywhere, and the items they sell are even more dazzling, and buyers come one after another, asking each other and bargaining, which is extremely fierce. On the contrary, a few large shops are full of doors, and the shopkeepers keep soliciting business from passers-by outside the door, and ask customers to enter the door to buy, but most of the pedestrians ignore them and walk away by themselves. This is not the case with small stalls, where most of the vendors are ordinary traders who are approachable and popular. Occasionally, I would see some people with strange expressions, and most of these people were going into the mountains to hunt loose cultivators, although they did not have the protection of family power, but they often had good strength. The days of licking blood from the knife head have allowed them to accumulate unusually rich practical experience and crisis awareness, and the ferocious anger inadvertently revealed in their eyes makes people daunted. And their stalls sell some strange things, some of which are even unseen and unheard of, and even the sellers themselves can't tell what they are, and it is difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake. So there are relatively few people who really dare to start, and the stalls are relatively cold. The purpose of Du Sheng's trip was very clear, he did not linger on the street at all, walked straight out of the alley, and then strode towards the gold-lettered signboard pharmacy on the side of the street. Under the lazy gaze of several heavily armed guards at the door, Du Sheng stepped into it. As soon as I entered the clubhouse, the hot feeling was as if I had been stripped from my body, and the cool feeling made people feel a strange feeling of two heavens inside and outside. Under the black robe, Du Sheng didn't distinguish his expression, Du Sheng adapted slightly, and pushed the door in. Seeing that a middle-aged man was busy picking up the medicinal materials on the counter, as soon as he heard the sound of pushing the door, the middle-aged man raised his head slightly, looked at the figure wrapped in a black robe, frowned without a trace, and then quickly piled up a professional smile on his face, and said in a refreshing voice: "Sir, are you purchasing medicinal materials?"

"Hmm. It is necessary to have water, fire, and wood spirits. Du Sheng's somewhat hoarse voice came out lightly from under the black robe.

"Okay, wait a minute. Hearing this, the shopkeeper glanced at the black-robed man in front of him a few more times, and then cleaned up his mind, but this is also the first business opened today, and he doesn't want to mess it up. Besides, spirit masters have some special habits of their own, and it is even more common to cover up their breath, so after a little thought, he quickly took out several beautifully decorated jade boxes. Then he opened them one by one, and then introduced: "Hundred-year-old Fire Red Lotus, Hundred-Year-old Purple Wood, Bone Washing Flower, Water Spirit Flower, and the Wood Attribute Spirit of this low-level Demonic Beast Cangmu Rabbit." All the spiritual materials of the three attributes of water, fire, wood and wood that can be taken in this store are here, guest officer, which one do you like?"

Du Sheng looked at these materials and was a little confused, and said in his heart: What kind of poor mountains and bad waters, don't you even have better spiritual materials? These are all inclusive, and they are still a little reluctant, and they are not as good as the materials that came along the way when he came out of the million-mile mountains a few days ago. Thinking of this, Du Sheng waved his hand silently, put all the five boxes in front of him into the storage bag, and said quietly: "Is there anything else?"

"Oh, this guest officer, you can be considered to be in the right place, I can't hide it, our store really received a treasure some time ago, and invited the guest officer to palm his eyes. The middle-aged shopkeeper saw that Du Sheng accepted the spiritual materials he took out without a bargain, and immediately decided that he was a big customer, so he remembered to take out something decent for people to see, maybe it could attract the attention of the other party. As he spoke, a jade box suddenly appeared in front of Du Sheng. The middle-aged shopkeeper's fingertips popped up the Dao Spirit Group, and the box was slowly opened, revealing the "true face" in it. "Thunder Bamboo, uh-huh, that's good. Du Sheng's fingertips slightly touched a small piece of golden bamboo in the box, and there was a faint cyan current at the link along the fingertips, which entered Zhihai, and the eardrum was rumbling. Of course he knows the goods, this is Duan Taiyi Thunder Wood, it is the favorite of the ancient Lei Xiu, a rare treasure, and he doesn't want to meet it here. There is a fundamental difference between Taiyi Thunder Wood and Thunder Pillar, the Thunder Bamboo is just a thunderbolt between heaven and earth to strike the spirit plant, resulting in it containing a trace of lightning power, most of which are used by the Thunder Cultivator as an introduction to the cultivation of the Spiritual Decision, so as to achieve twice the result with half the effort, and it is also an extraordinary product. The Taiyi Thunder Wood is very different, when it was born, it was pregnant with the dual attributes of the Thunder Wood, which can condense the thunder bombardment, and make the power of the thunder accumulate in the wood for a long time. If you find a suitable spiritual soil and cultivate it carefully, you may be able to refine Taiyi Qinglei. Therefore, it is deliberately said to be a thunder wood, which is a good fish and a pearl. Du Sheng couldn't miss this kind of treasure, so he put it into the storage ring without revealing his expression, and asked coldly: "I want this." How many spirit crystals are in total. ”

"No more, no less, eight thousand spirit crystals. On this day, most of the harvest was in the end, and the middle-aged shopkeeper suddenly smiled, rubbed his hands on his chest, and his eyes were full of eagerness.

"This is 10,000 lower grade spirit crystals, and the remaining 2,000 spirit crystals, give me some mountain ginseng, 100-year-old saffron, Tianxing horse clover, dragon flame flower, locust wood, take as much as you want. Du Sheng pressed down the brim of his hat slightly, threw out a bag, and slowly reported the names of each spiritual material. When the shopkeeper heard this, he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly took a bag full of spiritual materials and handed it to Du Sheng. After Du Sheng's spiritual sense swept and confirmed that it was correct, he turned around and left, without stopping at all, leaving behind the enthusiastic shouts of the shopkeeper behind him. Some sneakily slipped back to their grass sheds, Du Sheng quickly plugged in the door bolts, and then quickly dragged the big water tank into the corner of the grass shed, and everything that was going to be done next seemed very familiar. He divided five by two, quickly untied all kinds of disguises on his body, and finally took out a large pile of medicinal herbs and the jade box containing the spirit of Cangmu Earth from the storage ring, and then carefully classified the medicinal materials, adjusted the fixed measurement, mashed them, wrapped them and put them back in the storage bag. Sniffing deeply at the smell of the crumbs of medicinal herbs on his hands, Du Sheng smiled and breathed a sigh of relief, in order to be able to concentrate on cultivation, he bought a full three months' worth of medicinal materials, although most of them were mortal medicines with low medicinal power, but he increased the dose, so that the effect of the medicine could barely be maintained. Judging by this, Du Sheng planned to spend the days before the start of the spiritual master ceremony in penance. Slowly let go of the sluice, the clear spring flow continued to pour into the tank, the corners of Du Sheng's mouth cracked, took out a piece of medicinal materials, threw it into the tank, and then jumped in without saying a word, suspended cross-legged, the handprints changed again and again, and the spiritual power overflowed the surface of the body, diffused into the vat, wrapped the spiritual materials, and slowly refined and absorbed.

In the room, there was silence, and it was not difficult for Du Sheng to improve his realm, but he knew the importance of the foundation, just like if he wanted to build a skyscraper, if he didn't lay a good foundation, he would inevitably collapse after all. And how many unknowns he is carrying behind him, he is no longer alert all the time that he can't be in a hurry, so since he consciously refined his spirit, he still suppressed the breakthrough of his realm intentionally or unintentionally. Otherwise, when he absorbed the spiritual power of Chihuo Mang's flesh and blood, he would not have forced such a strong spiritual power out of the spiritual sea, causing it to flow away from the muscles, meridians, and bones, and constantly strengthen. Gradually, the effect of the medicine catalyzed, Du Sheng's breathing was slightly short, and the sour numbness in his body that was penetrated by spiritual power was extremely clear, making him a little drowsy, and he didn't want to move a finger again.