Chapter 31 Strange Medicinal Herbs
In the narrow mountain stream, the banks on both sides of the stream are not only overgrown with all kinds of exotic grasses, but also many animals that Akisawa has never seen before.
Xin Yibo pulled Qiu Ze and ran as fast as he could, and from time to time grabbed some animals that came and went and stuffed them into Qiankun bags.
The two of them galloped along the mountain stream to the depths, and ran for about half an hour, the distance between the mountain streams became smaller and smaller, and the speed of the stream flow became much faster.
The further you went, the fewer flowers and plants on both sides of the stream, and at last not a single weed grew, and there were steep rocks on both sides, and the distance of the stream narrowed until it could only accommodate two people side by side, and a narrow stone staircase appeared on the ground.
After walking for less than a quarter of an hour, the mountain stream finally came to an end, and the master and apprentice came to the edge of Nanhan Mountain, where the stream flowed down the mountain and formed a waterfall.
When the stone steps reached this point, they did not break the road, but turned a corner and extended a few feet away.
At the end of the stone steps, there is another mountain stream, there is a stone gate in the mountain stream, above the stone gate, engraved: Medicine Valley, two big characters.
An old man leaned against the stone door and slept soundly.
"Old man who keeps medicine, don't sleep, open the door for me!"
Xin Yibo gasped and stretched out his hands to shake the old man.
The old man staggered to his feet, shook the tattered robe on his body, opened his cloudy eyes, yawned and said, "Who are you......"
Xin Yibo hurriedly took out a token and handed it to the old man, who squinted his eyes and carefully identified it, and said vaguely: "This is...... Is it the token of the uncle of the head of the Lingchou Valley...... Not...... Let me take a good look at ......."
The old man who kept the medicine was too old, his eyes were not good, and he staggered for a long time before he saw that this token was real.
"Oh...... It's really the token of the Valley of Sorrows...... It's not like a fake....."
The old man who kept the medicine was stunned, his voice dragged on for a long time, Xin Yibo was worried about the medicinal materials, and hurriedly said: "Of course, this is the real Lingchou Valley token!
"Open...... Open the door...... All right...... You have tokens...... I'll just open the door for you...... Hey...... Who are you......, aren't you?
Xin Yibo said frantically: "I'm Xiao Xin! Old man, have you forgotten? When I was young, you also instructed me......
"Oh...... You're Xiao Xin...... I almost forgot about you...... Is your master okay...... Why didn't he come to my medicine valley to collect medicine?"
Xin Yibo smiled bitterly: "My master is fine with his old man, after I go back, I will definitely ask him to come to see you, old man, open the door quickly!"
"That's fine...... Speaking of which...... I haven't had a drink with him in decades......"
Fortunately, although the old man who kept the medicine spoke very slowly, the movements in his hand were not slow, he held the token in his hand and said softly: "People from Lingchou Valley ......"
The token flashed, and the knocker on the stone door moved, creaking open.
Before the stone gate could be completely opened, Xin Yibo snatched the token from the old man who kept the medicine and pulled Qiu Ze into the stone gate.
After the two of them entered, the stone door "creaked" and closed again.
The old man muttered in a low voice, "You must ask your master to come to me for a drink...... Weird...... Those who come to collect medicine today..... Why are there so many......"
After the old man finished speaking, he fell asleep in a daze.
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After entering the stone gate, Qiu Ze opened his mouth wide in surprise, but he didn't expect that behind the stone gate, there was another world.
Behind the stone gate, the mountain stream widens in vain, looking down from a high place, the whole medicine valley is like a huge gourd, and the master and apprentice at this time are located at the exit of the gourd.
Here, it is the medicine valley of the South Han Mountain, the peaks in the medicine valley are numerous, the road is rugged, and the only way out is only a narrow mountain stream, which is not suitable for living, but the area here is quite large, accounting for one-third of the entire South Han Mountain, and is located in the hinterland of the South Han Mountain, the temperature is very suitable for the growth of trees and flowers, the ice that falls from the glacier has given these trees and flowers enough water after melting, for thousands of years, here is not only full of all kinds of rare medicinal materials, but also has grown out a lot of towering ancient trees.
Between the ancient trees, countless huge vines are entangled with each other, and there are many birds flying around, which is a fairyland hidden in the interior of Nanhan Mountain.
Due to the particularity of this place, Qiyunguan opened the sect and planted many precious and rare medicinal materials here, and after a long period of reproduction, it has become the most precious valley on the Nanhan Mountain.
Therefore, the head of the founding sect set up a rule, not allowing the disciples of Qiyunguan to fly with cranes here, let alone using mana here, because the powerful destructive power of the fighting method will destroy the environment and medicinal materials here, if the above two are committed, it will be a capital crime!
Xin Yibo breathed a sigh of relief: "It's finally in." ”
"Master, what is the origin of the old man who keeps medicine, does he know the ancestor?"
Xin Yibo nodded and said, "That's natural, his age is more than a hundred years older than your ancestor...... In Qi Yunguan, the highest status is not the head of Wuchenzi, but the old man who guards medicine, the old man who guards medicine was the junior brother of the previous generations of heads, because of his indifferent nature, he was sent here to guard the medicine valley, the stone gate behind him is not small, the heads of the past generations have to inject mana into it, it seems to be a stone, but it is an iron wall, it is impossible to forcibly open, if you want to enter the medicine valley, you must hold the token of the head of the master on behalf of the mountain gate. ”
Qiu Ze remembered the appearance of the old man who kept the medicine, and couldn't help but wonder: "Master, is the old man who keeps the medicine very strong?"
"I don't know. Xin Yibo shook his head and said with a wry smile: "No one knows whether the old man who guards medicine is an ordinary person or a top master, but he has been guarding the medicine valley for hundreds of years, and there is always some truth." ”
Daochen Zhenren and Xin Yibo's master and apprentice entered the Medicine Valley before and after, but after the two looked around, they didn't find Daochen Zhenren and his party, Xin Yibo frowned and said: "This Daochen slipped away very fast, and I don't know where it went...... Well, since we've arrived here, we'll meet sooner or later, so let's hurry up and collect medicine. ”
In the peaks and woods in the medicine valley, there are medicinal herbs and flowers everywhere, and Qiu Ze is dazzled, Xin Yibo took out an empty Qiankun bag, picked the medicinal materials with good quality, and put them in it.
What happened next was really an eye-opener for Qiu Ze, and the medicinal materials in the medicine valley were indeed much more peculiar than those in the mountain streams.
For example, a peculiar plant called Crying and Laughing Flower, when I saw Xin Yibo and Xin Yibo from a distance, the petals opened, and laughed a few times, and when Xin Yibo picked its flowers, it began to howl and cry again.
There is also a sapling called the Shame Tree, and when they heard the sound of crying and laughing, they trembled in fear and all shrank to the ground.
Xin Yibo had already prepared, and took a shovel to dig indiscriminately, like catching a loach, and pulled the shame tree out of the soil.
What amuses Akisawa the most is a peculiar plant called the Bigmouth Flower.
The large-mouthed flower seemed to have eyes, and from the moment the weeping and laughing flowers and the shame tree were picked, they shouted on the side: "Good picking, good picking, good picking, good picking......
It kept repeating this sentence, and when Xin Yibo picked it into his hand, it began to shout again: "Don't catch me, don't catch me......"
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The master and apprentice walked through the medicine valley, and a few days passed in a flash, and they collected enough medicinal materials before they stopped.
Qiu Ze looked at those strange things that the grass and trees were not like grass and trees, and the beasts were not like beasts, and couldn't help but laugh and said, "Master, what are these things...... It's weird. ”
Xin Yibo laughed bitterly: "I don't know...... Even your ancestor doesn't know, but don't look at these things very strangely, they are the best materials for alchemy, and the secret method of the pill in our Qiyunguan is not passed on, and it is also because these materials cannot be found in the world. ”
"It's a long way to see ......"
"Although these medicinal materials are peculiar, they are not rare in the medicine valley, compared with the medicinal materials in the mountain stream, the medicinal effect is almost the same, but it is only strange, and there are more high-level medicinal materials in the inner valley in the depths of the medicine valley. ”