At dusk, the master and apprentice came to a wooded area near the inner valley.

The two climbed to an ancient tree with a trunk of more than ten zhang thick, the ancient tree did not know how many years it had lived, the branches and leaves covered the sky and the sun, I don't know what had happened, ten zhang away from the ground, there was a shocking big hole, it was very old, and the gap at the edge of the tree hole had been wrapped in the newly grown bark.

The tree hole is very large, and it is not much better than the Hanyun Pavilion where Qiu Ze lives, and Xin Yibo's two Qiankun bags have been filled, and they just took out all of them to clean up through this tree hole.

Qiu Ze lit a torch and illuminated the entire tree hole, and Xin Yibo handed Qiu Ze a pen and paper, asking him to record the woods and types of medicinal herbs he had collected, so as not to miss anything.

It wasn't until midnight that all the herbs were sorted and packed.

The master and apprentice took out dry food and paid tribute to the Five Organs Temple.

Looking at the dark inner valley, Xin Yibo frowned: "These days, we have almost traveled all over the outer valley, but we have not found Daochen and his disciples, and we have not seen any trace of them along the way, I think, they must have gone to the inner valley." ”

Qiu Ze agreed: "And I noticed that there is no trace of the medicinal herbs in the outer valley being collected, which means that they did not stop in the outer valley at all, and went straight to the inner valley. ”

In the dark inner valley, there were occasionally a few beast roars, and I didn't know what beasts, and Xin Yibo was upset when he heard it: "What is the purpose of their coming to the medicine valley......

"Master, will Master Daochen go back without us finding out?"

Xin Yibo shook his head slightly: " Impossible, he brought a dozen or so disciples in white robes to come here probably to find the medicinal materials for refining Zhuji Dan, and these medicinal materials can be found in the outer valley, when I didn't enter the medicine valley, I was afraid that they would pick up the good quality, so I hurriedly pulled you in, but these days, we have found a lot of good quality medicinal materials, which shows that the purpose of their coming to the medicine valley is not to find the materials for refining the Zhuji Dan, Dao Chen, this person, is not profitable, unless he is old and his brain is broken, otherwise it is impossible to take the disciples to the medicine valley inexplicably, and go back inexplicably。 ”

"Maybe Uncle Shi's brain is really broken, I can't say. Qiu Ze smiled: "Maybe you brought your newly recruited disciples to the Medicine Valley to show off to us." ”

Xin Yibo was amused by Qiu Ze and laughed: "It makes sense, haha, I don't rule out this possibility, but those disciples of his seem to be crooked melons and cracked dates, and their talents are estimated to be not high." ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, and after eating the dry food, Qiu Ze spoke: "Master, didn't you say that there are a lot of high-grade medicinal materials in the inner valley? ”

Xin Yibo muttered: "Unlikely, if he went to the inner valley to collect medicine, it is impossible to bring those beginner disciples at all, but should bring a few disciples with advanced cultivation, in the inner valley, there are not only high-level medicinal materials, but also many strange beasts and spirit beasts, it is too risky to bring the beginner disciples in." ”

"Oh, how can there be beasts in the inner valley?"

"Beasts are different from cats and dogs, the spiritual intelligence of beasts is very high, the medicinal materials in the medicine valley have been multiplied for thousands of years, and contain extremely high aura, especially in the inner valley, there are many kinds of medicinal materials in it, and the grade is extremely high, after refining into pills, it is very helpful for cultivators, of course the beasts also understand this, they wander in the inner valley all the year round, eating the fruits or roots and leaves of high-level medicinal materials to absorb spiritual energy for cultivation. ”

Qiu Ze nodded thoughtfully, in the few days they were collecting medicine in the outer valley, they also encountered several strange animals, and a python, although it was not a beast, it was larger than the animals in the mortal world, and its movements were faster, presumably because of eating medicinal herbs.

"Master, it's useless to just talk, perhaps, let's go in and have a look. ”

Xin Yibo nodded slowly: "I also have this intention, but your body has just healed, and it is too risky to take you to the inner valley, I am afraid that if you are injured again, I will not be happy in my heart." ”

Qiu Ze smiled: "If you go back to the house like this, there will always be a pimple in the master's heart, and the master must have an ulterior secret when he goes to the inner valley, master, don't you want to know what secrets the master has?"

Xin Yibo turned his head and glanced at Qiu Ze deeply, Qiu Ze patted his chest and said, "Master don't worry about me, I have been practicing in the back mountain for a few months, and I am no longer a weak scholar who is powerless, and there is also Master who protects me thoroughly, so I won't have anything wrong in the future." It just so happened that I also wanted to go to the inner valley to see the beasts inside. ”

Xin Yibo said at this time: "That old boy in Daochen is full of flowery intestines...... You're right, if you don't go to see what is going on, I'm always a little empty in my heart, okay, if you want to protect you, those beasts won't dare to do anything to you, let's go, if it's too late, maybe you won't be able to catch up with the show. ”

As he spoke, Xin Yibo put away the Qiankun bag, took out the spear, and under the darkness of the night, the two slowly walked into the deep inner valley.

The shape of the medicine valley is like an irregular gourd, but unlike the gourd, the inner valley far from the exit is much smaller than the outer valley, and there is only one way to enter the inner valley from the outer valley, and that is the karst cave that connects the two valleys.

The cave is long and narrow, the ground is damp and cold, there are a lot of stalactites, which makes it difficult to get off the foot, every step needs to be cautious, there is no one or two hours, you can't go out at all, and if you don't pay attention to the slip, you will fall into the dark river in the cave, if a mortal falls in, I'm afraid that it will be nine deaths.

It is precisely because of the existence of the karst cave that the beasts in the inner valley do not dare to go to the outer valley easily, so when most of the Qiyunguan disciples come to collect medicine, they will basically only collect them in the outer valley, and if they need to collect high-level medicinal materials, they must be accompanied by the head of their own mountain gate.

"Be careful, get down when you see it, don't fall into the dark river, there are a lot of anacondas, and if you fall, you will die." ”

Qiu Ze heard the sound of flowing water, nodded, lowered the torch, illuminated the road under his feet, the roof of the cave, from time to time a few drops of cold water droplets, fell on the back of Qiu Ze's head, making him shiver every once in a while, although Qiu Ze's body is much stronger now than when he first went up the mountain, even if the water drops are cold, it will not make him shiver from freezing, but in this dark and dangerous cave, being dripping with water on his body can't help but make him tremble.

"Master, how big is the anaconda in the dark river?"

Qiu Ze tried to make small talk with Xin Yibo to ease his fear, but Xin Yibo stopped, his hands pinching his neck: "It's about this big." ”

Xin Yibo is fat, his neck is thick, but it is very short, his two hands seem to have exhausted his strength, only barely reach his neck, this move makes Qiu Ze feel a little funny, and his nervous mood suddenly relaxes a lot, Xin Yibo smiled: "How is it, are you afraid?"

Akisawa shook his head and nodded again.

Xin Yibo turned around with a smile and walked forward.

"When your ancestor took me to the inner valley to collect medicine, I was also very scared after passing through the cave, at that time there happened to be a water python crawling on the shore, I don't know whether to sleep or do anything, I stepped on it, at that time I still wondered, is it because I was extremely scared, I think the stone is also soft? I looked down, the water python raised its head, was spitting at me, I was blowing up at that time, and I ran to the inner valley ...... with a smoke."

"Master, it's not good! there's a snake in front of you!"