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According to the regulations of the Secret Tips of the Medicine Collecting Hall, the Herb Collecting Boy is allowed to obtain a second secret book after being promoted to the Herb Collecting Apprentice.

Ye Qin remembered this matter, and before leaving to go out to collect medicine, he deliberately went to the secret room of the Library Pavilion to see if he could find a book of outer martial arts and light skills with attack power to enhance his safety and strength.

The young guard there told him that the apprentice could indeed take the second secret book, but it was no longer possible to learn the martial arts of the secret room for free like the medicine picking boy, but he had to pay money to take the secret book.

The price of the secret tips varies from grade to grade. A single gold leaf can take away a book of the lowest level of secrets. If it's an intermediate-level secret tip, you even need more than ten gold leaves. High-level secrets even require more than thirty or forty gold leaves.

The young guard also specially recommended to him a lot of secrets, such as "Crazy Dragon Palm", seventeen gold leaves, and the masters with internal strength used them, and the power was huge. What else is the "Thirteen Sword Tricks of Yunling", the swordsmanship is highly lethal, and there are twenty gold leaves. All are suitable for apprenticeship in herb collection.

Ye Qin listened to the price of the young guard's newspaper and was stunned for a while.

A gold leaf, a book of the lowest secrets?

He only got five silver leaves once he entered the mountain, and he had to enter the mountain at least twenty times to earn this money in the past two years. Twenty gold leaves he has to work for nothing for more than 20 years, and this secret is really black.

Helpless, Ye Qin could only carry the herbal medicine basket on his back, leave the county seat, and honestly go into the mountains, giving up the idea of learning another high-level martial art. I thought in my heart, in two years, I will make up a few gold leaves, and learn one or two low-level internal skills and light skills.

More than ten days later, Ye Qin appeared on a mountain peak cliff in a deep mountain canyon hundreds of miles away with a basket of herbs on his back and sweating profusely. It took him nearly two hours to climb this mountain, but fortunately, on the way up the mountain, he picked several herbs, worth several copper coins, and did not waste time.

Ye Qin also gradually discovered that he was indeed able to collect more herbs than five people collecting medicine in a group.

He alone only needs to collect an average of sixteen or seventeen copper coins of herbs every day, and he can complete the task of collecting five silver leaf herbs in a month. Of course, deduct the first five days of travel, and the five days of return. In the twenty days in between, he actually needed to collect about twenty-five copper coins of medicinal herbs a day.

And if five people walked together, then they would have to collect an average of eighty-three copper coins of herbs every day. After deducting the five days of departure and the five days of returning, it is very difficult to collect up to 125 copper coins of medicinal materials in the middle of 20 days.

Because there are often so many medicinal materials on a path, there are many people in a group, so naturally there are not enough points.

On the contrary, it is better to gather herbs by walking alone.

However, while there are advantages, there are also disadvantages.

When Ye Qin was walking in the deep mountains and old forests, he would inevitably encounter jackals, tigers and leopards, and he would always chase after him. One or two are okay, and he can cut them down with a ruthless heart. But in groups of three or five is troublesome.

Although Ye Qin carried a woodcutter to protect himself, he didn't dare to fight the wolves with his body, so he could only run desperately, not too fast, but he didn't stop wading through the mountains and rivers for a while, and he broke his leg and got rid of the jackal.

In order to avoid the jackals, a lot of time was wasted on the road.

He climbed the cliffs on the summit of this canyon to avoid a pack of jackals in the canyon below. Even if there is a snake eagle on the cliff, it is easier to deal with than a pack of jackals. And the cliff was miles long, enough for him to search for herbs for days.

Ye Qin found a boulder on the top of the mountain that could shelter from the wind and rain, and took root under this boulder. Put down the herb basket, water skin bag, cloth bag, small pot, oil and salt bag, etc.

I found a grass snake in the crevice of the rock and grass on the top of the mountain, chopped off my head, boiled a pot of delicious snake soup, and ate it beautifully to recover my physical strength.

After resting for a while, Ye Qin carried a woodcutter, carried two bundles of ropes, and began to look around for medicinal herbs on the peak. It was very good, and after half a day's effort, he found more than ten herbs on the top of the mountain, which were worth at least forty or fifty copper coins.

After two or three days of hard work, Ye Qin had already searched the entire mountain top for several miles, and picked all the herbs that had matured and had medicinal power for several years. As for the immature, he did not move a single plant. The rule of herb pickers is that they will never touch those unripe herbs. The stupid thing of fishing with all your might is a very taboo in the medicine collection shop. The medicine connoisseurs of the Medicine Picking Hall will not accept those medicinal materials that are not old enough.

After searching the top of the mountain, Ye Qin had to start taking the risk and going to the hanging wall to collect herbs. He could even see the herbs growing on the hanging wall from the top of the mountain, and it would be a pity not to collect them.

The next morning, after everything was ready. Ye Qin tied two bundles of thick and thin ropes to a big tree and a boulder on the top of the mountain, and tied the strings firmly on his body, and then slowly climbed down the cliff behind the peak.

There are flying eagles on the peaks, and these beasts often attack people who climb and collect medicine as threats to the eagle's nest.

Ye Qin had already prepared for this, he spent half a night yesterday weaving some wild grass into camouflage grass clothes, draped them on his body, moved slowly, carefully avoided those flying eagles, and occasionally picked a few herbs that grew on the hanging wall.

In less than half a day, he reached the halfway point of the hanging wall of the back mountain. Here is a hanging cliff, a few feet below him, there is a raised cliff, where people can stand. There are clearly several eagle nests on the mountain wall. Around the eagle's nest, there seem to be several herbs growing.

Ye Qin just glanced at it, he didn't look carefully, he hesitated for a moment, whether to continue.

If it is discovered by these beasts with sharp mouths and sharp claws, it will be very troublesome. These brutes will haunt you all day long, constantly attacking with their claws. Especially now that he is still hanging halfway up the mountain, his movement is very inconvenient, and it is difficult to fight back.

However, now that the eagles have left their nests, it is safe for the time being. If you can collect a few more herbs, today's herb collection task will be completed, and you can have a good rest in the afternoon.

Ye Qin looked towards the protruding cliff, carefully identified the herbs on the protruding cliff, and saw if those herbs were worth the risk himself.

Suddenly, he was slightly stunned.

He saw that at the edge of the platform, there was a lone green grass, very fresh and tender, with only one leaf, and a drop of clear dew condensed on it, reflecting the sun's rays. At noon, the other weeds have long been sunburned and languished, and there are still dewdrops. The grass was very strange, as if it had just come out in the morning, and it was not affected by the sun in the slightest.

In the past few years, Ye Qin has been able to identify at least a thousand kinds of ordinary herbs, and even if he can't identify what kind of grass it is, he can roughly identify its grade. He didn't recognize this little grass, but looking at the grade, at least it was a rare level of grass, and he didn't know if it could be used in medicine.