When the sun sets, insects and birds chirp in a low voice, and all kinds of beasts roar even better, as if to tell and show off the fruits of today's hunting with each other. The thick gray clouds that cover the sky and the sun appear even lower against the backdrop of the endless high and low mountains, the trees shiver in the endless cold wind from the north, and the Baiduan Mountains in the near evening, looking at the sky, the endless body seems to be cold, but it shows its mystery and majesty even more.

On the outskirts of Chu Jun City, on the southwestern edge of the Baiduan Mountain Range, in an abandoned house, ten medicine pickers gathered together, all of them turned pale, sometimes scolding loudly, sometimes sighing in a low voice. If you listen carefully, it is for the sake of a force called the Red Lotus Sect that has secretly risen in the city during this time, and has set up a private checkpoint to collect the poll tax of the mountain medicine pickers. With those cultivators in the Baiduan Mountains (the path includes the correct law and the pseudo-law and the branch path, the correct law is collectively referred to as cultivation, the pseudo-law is the cultivation of immortals, and it also belongs to the Tao, but one is the avenue that can be finally achieved, and the other is the side door and the left path, because the law is biased, there is no hope of getting the approval of the primordial Taiyi of the universe, the beginning of all things. However, the path of the branch is only concerned with one's own enlightenment, and does not take the well-being of all beings in the world as one's own responsibility. Nowadays, many sects have cut off their cultivation methods, and only a few sects have inheritance, and the sects composed entirely of cultivators have already lost their feathers. The medicine collectors who signed long-term sales deeds are different, and many people who come to the Baiduan Mountains from the south and north to pan for gold are just some outsiders, so what kind of background do they have.

Many of them are not willing to lose their freedom, and their income after signing the contract is higher than if they do not sign it, but they will lose the most important thing, which is the chance to become a cultivator by luck.

In that way, even if you can't worship the monastic sect because of your qualifications, you can find a shelter and buy land and property with peace of mind to be a worry-free wealthy family for those generations. Although many medicine pickers are not short of oil and water if they do not die on the way to collect medicine, they are not too much to do with wealth, and future generations may also be slaves and maids.

According to the reliable information inquired by the leader of the medicine guest, the Red Lotus Sect had the high-level of Chu Juncheng behind it. Although the power of the Cultivation Sect may not even be in the eyes of the city lord of Chu Jun City, if the emerging Red Lotus Sect really occupies many cities, the "landlord" who ranks number one in the Baiduan Mountain Range is really the newly developed peripheral forces of the True Dao, it is not too much to offend.

It's just that Chu Juncheng, who is really in charge of his own Dao, has collected a tax, and it is a little unreasonable to take another one, but anyway, it doesn't hurt his own interests much, and the other major cultivation sects are also watching with one eye closed, and Chu Juncheng, who is really in charge of the Dao, is in chaos.

The Baiduan Mountains have a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles. It is said that this city can't stay anymore, and it's not impossible to go to that city, but the road in the mountain range is difficult and dangerous, and the mortals who have not cultivated walk the official road paved with the town talisman and demon stone structure directly through the cities of the hundred mountain ranges, and there is a thirty percent chance from Chu Jun City to live to see the next nearest Qingjiao City. The deeper the location is into the city in the mountains, the lower the chance of reaching it alive, and even for some low-level cultivators, it is almost zero. Because the deeper you go into the mountains, the more powerful the monsters and fierce beasts become, and even the goblin who occupies the mountain.

Cultivators who have no cultivation only dare to collect medicine in groups on the periphery of the Baiduan Mountain Range, because the vast majority of these peripherals are just some wild beasts, and there are almost no elixirs, and some are just mortal herbs.

How can the cultivation sect care about the life and death of these medicine pickers, so this time the wild medicine guests in Chu Jun City can only endure the exploitation, otherwise it will be difficult to have any good choices. Of course, what if you endure it? Looking at the amount of the poll tax, in the end, all the medicine pickers will not be able to live a good life in the future? If so, what is the point of coming here, is it really just for that illusory opportunity to cultivate?

A lean young man in a shabby leather cloak sat on a few falling blue-gray bricks and stones from beginning to end without opening his mouth, just chewing a piece of medicinal herb that seemed to be the root of some plant. His face was red, and he was very happy, as if he was eating some rare delicacy in the world. Only the people who collect medicine know that this is a common medicinal herb in Baiduan Mountain, and the roots of the Yang wood have the effect of strengthening the bones and awakening the mind, but the taste is very bitter.

"That's the matter, what else can it be, I can only admit it, I will go deep into Baiduan Mountain in a few days, if I am lucky enough to touch the mountain gate of the true way alive, I will report to the immortal master for everyone the lawlessness of the Red Lotus Sect in the city. After listening to everyone's complaints, the young man left a sentence and got up to rest. As for saying that he wanted to go to report the lawlessness in the city, just to leave this excuse for the medicine collection team, how could the True Dao led by immortal cultivators take care of these things, maybe some people in the True Dao still have interests in the Red Lotus Sect.

Although I can't get used to seeing this kind of thing, what can I do, it's not the world it was 10,000 years ago. Going to the true way was one of Li Xingxiu's goals in the past, but now the more Li Xingxiu cultivates, the more he has doubts, is there a better cultivation sect that he can go to and has a heritage?

The mountain gate of the True Dao is also on the periphery of the Baiduan Mountain Range, and it is only two cities away from Chu Jun City. The doubts are not because of fear of death or temporary lack of ability, but before fleeing to the Baiduan Mountain Range, I heard from a few cultivators who are now rare and guarded that the Tao really has the style of antiquity, and there is still the inheritance of the cultivator's method.

Judging from the two years since he fled, it was just the persistence of an old man called Evergreen in the slums, and now what the Red Lotus Sect has done with its back to the True Dao is really even more disappointing for the young man, and it is seriously too far from the image of the cultivator in the immortal stories that Li Xiu's father said and read himself.

At this time, a big man Wan Laosi who was sitting in the middle of the house, wearing a light gray hat to cover the wind, refused to do so, he was the organizer of this group of medicine pickers, so he wailed: "Little brother Xingxiu, what should you do if you leave the big guy, if it weren't for the fact that you have come these days to identify the style of the big guy, how can you have such a harvest." How can the brothers have such a rich income, and this time there is another incident of exploitation by the Red Lotus Sect, what will the brothers do in the future?" casually attracted a lot of echoes, most of them talked about the ruthlessness of the immortal cultivators (the primitive three sect saints left, and the cultivation of the path preached by the pseudo-saints entering the realm is called cultivating immortals), Chu Juncheng is all a cultivator force dominated by immortal cultivators, how can they care about the life and death of these ants and the like.

Li Xing just sneered in his heart, not to bully me when I was young and powerless, and asked me to explore the way everywhere, and the fool went to take the lead. If it weren't for a treasure found in the mass grave of his hometown who comprehended the cultivation method and a strange supernatural power on the way to escape, An You'd be alive. At the moment, it is not good to comfort everyone, afraid that these people will be unhappy in their hearts, and join hands to lay a hand on themselves tonight, although he is not afraid now, the young man who is afraid of dirty hands does not want to offend these people too much, so he turned around and said some comforting words.

I don't care if it's useful or not, I really don't open my eyes and treat him as a butcher and kill him cleanly

These people have different hearts, but almost all of them are black-hearted and rotten people.

When I first entered the cultivation, my Taoism was still shallow and ruthless. Not to mention the legendary immortals who flew to the sky and escaped and split the earth and withered the sea, even those in charge of the Red Lotus Sect who practiced the pseudo-law and entered the realm extremely fast did not necessarily win head-to-head, and all of them wiped out this group of medicine pickers, and the Red Lotus Sect was afraid that it would not be good for itself to be blushing at their own harvest, so if they could do less, they would have one less thing.

This herb picker used to use the black hand of other herb picking teams, and after Li Xiu came here, his income skyrocketed before he was too lazy to do that bad thing, after all, the end of black eating black, in this world of cultivators, it is not clear who eats whom, if it kicks the iron plate.

You must know that the team of medicine collectors is often joined by some low-level cultivators who have joined the group for a short time.

After everyone changed the topic, Li Xingxiu secretly stroked a blue-gray, only baby's palm-sized, rusty bronze medal hanging in the linen clothes on his chest, and his heart was at ease, so he stopped paying attention to the medicine pickers, and returned to his own bunk with a thin layer of quilt on the thatch, wrapped in the quilt and lay down motionless. Ordinary people don't know, if a cultivator sees it, he will know that this is a meditation, not to mention the depth of the realm, Li Xingxiu's method of entering the meditation is the art of contemplation and visualization, because of the bronze medal, you can enter the extremely deep concentration at will, and even sit and lie down and practice in a fixed line. It's just that the boy knows that when his body is completely still, his cultivation gains are multiplied.

It is extremely difficult to get started with contemplation, and after entering the path, there is a smooth path, and after the smooth path, there is a threshold, and after the threshold, the cultivation grows rapidly, and then there is a pass, which is an extremely test of talent and character. If it weren't for the fact that when the family fled to the mass grave on the day of the trouble, he saw this small bronze medal, and on a whim, the ghost sent the god to touch it out of the dead man.

Meditating in silence, the bronze medal slightly emitted a strange heat wave, caressing Li Xing's fragile soul and soul, and it was comfortable for people to just think like this until they were old, the sun, moon and stars of contemplation, and the innate diagram of the five-color divine light (this is the innate diagram that Li Xingxiu occasionally obtained, but it was created by the pseudo-law, and it was different from the innate Taiji diagram transmitted by the real primordial Three Saints, so it is only called the innate diagram) has become clearer and clearer, vivid, and contains infinite mysteries. The voices of people around you, the wind outside the house, and even the activity of insects miles away are all reflected in your mind, as if engraved in your mind. Li Xingxiu knew that this was not the effect of contemplating the mind, but the miracle brought by the divine object on his chest, and it was also thanks to this magical power that allowed Li Xingxiu to be in the process of thinking about it whether he was lying down or eating, drinking, and Lazar, and he had the ability to perceive dangers and opportunities far away, so that this medicine collection team easily avoided a lot of fatal dangers and harvested one precious medicinal material after another.

Of course, in order not to arouse suspicion, the teenager will still deliberately let the medicine collection team encounter some small troubles, and occasionally let the team have no gains.

After entering the herb collection team and gradually gaining a firm foothold and obtaining a part of the income he deserved, Li Xingxiu selectively sold a large part of the medicinal materials and left some medicinal materials beneficial to himself to devour to make up for the deficiencies of the body. In addition to his own food, most of the medicinal materials sold were sold by Li Xingxiu to help a group of small beggars on the outskirts of the city to accumulate that illusory virtue and external merit. The reason why he will help these children is that in addition to the influence of the path pursued by the cultivators in the miscellaneous books and different aspirations that he has read since he was a child, he wants to accumulate good karma, and it is also because Li Xingxiu's heart really can't see that there are frozen bones on that road, maybe the young man is born to fit the path of the cultivator.

The method of contemplation is one of the few methods to exercise the soul to cast the foundation, the soul is strong, the demand for essence is strong, swallowing tonic medicine can make up for the lack of essence, strengthen oneself, and the rapidly growing soul also unconsciously helps the body to fully absorb the medicinal power to strengthen the body and make up for the deficiency of the body.

Because of the bronze medal and the reason of accumulating goodness, the young man's cultivation has progressed very quickly. In the process of cultivation, the appearance can't be seen, outsiders only think that this kid insists on exploring the way and collecting medicine, and he is getting thinner and thinner, but he doesn't know that in just a few days, he has changed from a scholar to a person who is far away from them.

It's just that the teenager is a pathfinder, and he rarely has the opportunity to show his skills.

Only at the beginning of joining the team, in order to get his share of the income, he showed the strength of the tip of the iceberg. One day after joining the team for more than a month, he showed his skills and easily killed a crazy black bull in the ground.

At that time, everyone was secretly frightened, strange that this hairy boy was so powerful. Li Xingxiu just deduced that he had eaten an elixir by mistake, and he had a lot of divine power.

Also, in this world full of aura and supernatural spirits, a pig may also fly, and everyone is not surprised, but the boy is no longer as he did when he first joined the team. The strength is obvious to all, and it is also the reason why Li Xingxiu dared to lie and said that he would go to the True Dao Gate located thousands of miles away soon after collecting medicine this time.

After nightfall, time flies, and in the second half of the night, when people are most tired, Li Xing's spiritual level in cultivation suddenly ripples, and he saw a group of people a few miles away, about three or two masked people sneakily approaching this abandoned house with weapons in their hands, followed by many masked people, and suddenly became alert.

Today, Li Xingxiu went into the city with Wang Fatzi, a veteran of the medicine collection team, to finalize the buyer of medicinal materials, and saw and heard about the Red Lotus Sect, and at the same time heard people talk about the recent cases against the medicine pickers in the suburbs of the city.

Later, Wan Laosi, the leader of the medicine pickers, decided to return to the city tomorrow to sell the medicine, and at the same time handed over the protection fee given to the Red Lotus Sect by the medicine collection team, in order to survive the immortal fate.

The sudden protection fee made many medicine pickers confused, after all, no one wants to turn all the hard-earned goods into other people's pockets, so after the medicine collection team returned to repair, some people in this group of people with happy brains started to lure the wolf into the house, and those medicine pickers who have not reacted tonight will become the best supper.

This time the return of the medicine collection has gained a lot, I am afraid that those who have a team of lowly cultivators are not comparable, there is that kind of thing in the city, and the young man who has brought good luck to this group of people from all over the world and the north of the world in the past six months is going to leave again, it is strange that there is no such thing happening.

Time can't wait, Li Xingxiu reacted very quickly, and he had a plan at the moment. got up to say hello to the fat man who was keeping vigil, and after a small relief, he quietly walked to the underground secret room outside the house where the medicine was hidden.

This secret room was discovered by the medicine pickers after Li Xingxiu entered the group, in fact, the young man knew about this secret room in his imagination, and then said that he inadvertently touched the mechanism, but in fact, he deliberately dedicated it to the leader of the medicine collection team, in order to gain a firm foothold when he first entered the group. There are few people in this team who know about this place.

Just as the young man arrived at the Tibetan medicine place, Li Xing heard a disguised beast cry, and soon after that, the picture of Wang Fatzi being solved by the masked man who sneaked in silently first used a blow arrow to seal his throat with blood appeared in his mind, and at the same time, he also saw several people from his medicine collection team get up and commit murder skillfully.

I don't care so much, anyway, there is no kind person in my group. Li Xingxiu touched the mechanism, pushed away the open stone slab and mud camouflage into the secret room, picked up the most precious bags of medicine, and rushed all the way in the direction of Chu Juncheng with them.

It is said that everything is predestined, but the spiritual minds of this realm do not think so. It seems that this world is extremely famous, and a great master of music cultivation is well known, and the lyrics of Sijing Spring Water are sung.

The wheel of fortune keeps spinning, and the only person who can think deeply is the secret, the person who is destined to do so......

Everything is unknown

What will happen to the boy who bears the secret of the golden finger in the future, and what kind of people and things will he meet? Please keep reading, I hope to bring you a ray of light in your boring life.