After confirming that the worm was dead, Li Mu threw it far away. Then he took his sword and walked towards the firethorn grass on the ground.

But when he reached a foot away, he suddenly stopped and frowned.

A snake appeared next to the firethorn grass at some point, spitting out a letter and staring at him intensely.

The snake was no more than a foot long, its body was red, and its scales were extremely fine. And its head is covered with sarcomas, which looks extremely hideous.

Because Li Mu didn't know how and how fast this snake was attacking, he didn't dare to act rashly for a while. And as a child he seems to have heard that snakes have extremely poor eyesight, and can only see moving things, but not still life. So he stood still and confronted the serpent.

The strange snake was originally staring at Li Mu tightly, looking like it was about to attack him. Li Mu suddenly stood still, this snake only relied on other senses, it was difficult to determine the specific situation of the enemy in front of him. Whether for humans or animals, the unknown is the most terrifying, except for a certain kind of pet that is often killed by curiosity, other animals in the face of the unknown, most of them will follow their nature and choose not to provoke, unless the thing is extremely attractive to it.

And Li Mu, who was standing still now, not only did not have any attraction to this snake, but in its subconscious, it seemed to have a great sense of fear of something on Li Mu's body, urging it to leave this place quickly.

Li Mu saw that this snake put down its originally high head, as if he wanted to leave this place and give up this firethorn grass. He didn't act rashly, and let the strange snake turn around and disappear into Li Mu's eyes at an extremely fast speed.

After confirming that there was no danger here, Li Mu approached the firethorn grass. After infusing the true qi with the sword, dig it up.

After about a cup of tea, Li Mu put the grass into the wooden box prepared in advance, left the place with a long sword, and continued to look for the firethorn grass.

A day later.

Li Mu's figure had penetrated deep into the center of the Chisha Plain, and in the wooden box on his back, there were already more than thirty firethorn grasses lying quietly.

It is also his luck that more than 20 of the more than 30 firethorn plants are gathered and grown in a low land, and strangely enough, there are no poisonous insects to protect it.

When he saw so many spirit grasses growing together, he thought that this place must be extremely dangerous, either it was occupied by a powerful poisonous insect, or a swarm of insects living in groups inhabited here. In either case, he didn't want to provoke anything. But unexpectedly, just as he turned around to leave, a small bird with a short red beak suddenly flew from the sky, swaggering and pecking at one of the firethorn grasses.

And the place where poisonous insects would have jumped out of the ground was silent and did not react at all.

Li Mu saw that this little bird had green feathers and a red beak, a purple tail and black feet, and it looked extraordinary. It was the poisonous insects in the ground that were afraid of it, so they didn't dare to show their heads to attack. But the next scene made his eyes widen and he felt incredible.

The little bird was flying next to the firethorn grass, happily pecking at the aura-filled grass. But suddenly, as if choked, he jumped twice in the air, kicked his little short legs, and fell straight to the ground, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

Moreover, the bird was lying on the ground with its belly turned upside down, and its beautiful feathers were actually scorched by the strange heat here. What's even more strange is that there are no poisonous insects to attack it "taking advantage of the danger of birds".

Li Mu looked at the tea time again, and saw that the little bird still showed no signs of waking up, and there were no poisonous insects on the ground. He tried throwing a few rocks over, and nothing happened.

After several attempts and confirmation that there was no danger, Li Mu took the iron sword and dug up the fire thorn grass a little inexplicably.

In a short time, he swept away all the firethorn grass in this place, and then he didn't care about the colorful bird, and quickly left the place with the wooden box on his back.

During this day, he also encountered some poisonous insects that were extremely well hidden and extremely fast, but most of them were stabbed by his sword when they entered the ground three feet above him. The only poisonous insect that flew to him was too weak to bite his protective true qi at all, and it didn't cause him any harm.

The closer Li Mu got to the center of the Chisha Plain in the past two days, the more clearly he felt the changes in the Yuan Spirit Bead. The mark on his chest was slightly hot, and the color had changed from the original dark blue to the current light red, and the red was slowly deepening.

He vaguely felt that the current changes in Yuan Lingzhu should be in the direction of his favor. Therefore, he did not intervene in anything, but continued to search and dig for firethorn grass.

The growth cycle of this firethorn grass is very short, ordinary firethorn grass grows in one year, matures in one year, and decays and dies in the third year. What the disciples who released this mission needed was the mature firethorn grass.

When Li Mu looked through the information about firethorn grass, he also learned that in addition to ordinary firethorn grass, there were also some special existences. If a firethorn tree can produce flowers and then bear fruit after passing the ripening period, then the firethorn grass can survive for more than ten years, and the value of the fruit will be about 100 times greater than the plant itself.

After Li Mu searched for a day in the depths of the Chisha Plain, he harvested more than ten mature firethorn grasses, which were only a few short of the quota of his mission.

Early that morning, Li Mu woke up from meditation and prepared to continue back to Chisha Plain in search of firethorn grass. In the past few days, at night, he would cross the river and go to the normal area on the other side of the Red Sand Plain to make repairs. Therefore, to cross the river hundreds of zhang wide every day, and not to wet the wooden box containing firethorn grass on his back, it is a huge test for his body and true qi control.

Fortunately, his practice of "chasing the wind" pays attention to the use of the wind, fluttering and moving, riding the river breeze every day, but also safe and sound, and it also allows him to experience the pleasure of floating like a fairy.

Li Mu carried the wooden box on his back, and was about to use his true qi to use his body to step across the river, but suddenly a sharp bird call suddenly sounded in his ears. This cry was extremely penetrating, and it seemed to be able to penetrate the human spirit, Li Mu only felt a tingling pain in his brain, and almost fell into the river.

Immediately, the Yuan Spirit Bead in the Yuan in his chest suddenly shone brightly, and in a flash, a golden dragon came out of it. In addition to being hundreds of times smaller in size, this little dragon was the huge golden dragon that appeared when he crossed the illusion of the "Bridge of Questions".

Li Muzhi felt that his mind was extremely chaotic, and his consciousness that was affected by the bird's call just now could not recover for a while. He leaned against a boulder on the bank of the river and turned his head to look at the dragon floating in the air.

This dragon is covered in gold, and its body exudes a faint light, which is extremely noble. But when Li Mu looked closely, he found that its shape was faintly transparent, and it didn't seem to be an entity. The little dragon's face was very anthropomorphic at this time, showing a serious look, looking in a direction in the sky.

Li Mu followed its eyes and saw a bird with green feathers and red beak, purple tail and black feet patrolling in the air. Li Mu's heart suddenly dawned, it turned out that this little bird was the strange bird that he met one day before eating firethorn grass, but suddenly fell into a coma.

Li Mu's eyesight was excellent, and when he saw that his eyes were staring closely at the wooden box on his back, he knew in his heart that he was afraid that this bird had followed the breath of the firethorn grass and found this place.

And this bird not only looks extraordinary, but judging from the chirp just now, I am afraid that it is not an existence that Li Mu can deal with. In addition, Li Mu is now in severe pain in his brain, and he can't move for a while, so he can only hope for the little dragon in the air.

The little dragon looked at the colorful bird in the sky with a very serious look, and after a dragon and a bird confronted each other for a long time, the bird let out a clear cry. This time the cry did not seem to be hostile, and Li Mu did not notice anything unusual. Then I heard a long howl from the dragon in the air, and the bird wagged its tail and flew away without looking back.

Li Mu was confused, and he didn't understand what news was conveyed between the dragon, the bird, the howl, and the cry, and he reached a compromise like this.

He rested for a long time, the tingling pain in his brain slowly subsided, and he regained control of his body.

Li Mu was very puzzled in his heart, and then he saw that the little dragon not only did not burrow into the Yuan Spirit Bead and disappear like last time, but turned his head and stared straight at him with a pair of pure big eyes.

Li Mu was stared at by it, so he asked tentatively: "Thank you seniors for saving your life...... Haven't asked your seniors for their names?"

The little dragon didn't seem to hear him or didn't understand him at all, and still looked at him blankly, not responding.

Li Mu asked tentatively: "Senior, you don't understand human language?"

The little dragon hurriedly shook his head, and there seemed to be anger in his eyes.

"Then you don't know how to speak?" Li Mu asked again.

Xiaolong seemed to be a little entangled this time, first shaking his head, and then nodding again.

Li Mu was so made to cry and laugh by it, and he didn't know what to say, but he saw the little dragon's eyes suddenly turn and stare straight at his waist. What he had tied around his waist was all his inventory of spirit stones.

Li Mu hurriedly asked, "Seniors want spirit stones?"

Xiaolong nodded first, then shook his head, and then made an inhalation motion.

Li Mu's eyes lit up and asked, "The seniors want me to absorb the aura of the spirit stone?"

Xiaolong had a look of "You're not that idiot after all" in his eyes and nodded.

Li Mu immediately took out a spirit stone and attached it to the mark of the Yuan Spirit Bead on his chest, and activated his true qi. Immediately, I saw that the spirit stone slowly became smaller and gradually turned into powder.

This time, he clearly saw that a large part of the aura absorbed by the Yuan Spirit Bead turned into a mist and went straight to the little dragon, where it was sucked into his body. And the part that Li Mu himself absorbed was less than thirty percent.

Li Mu felt that something was wrong in his heart, but before he had time to think about it, the little dragon put his eyes on his waist again, and made an inhalation motion, urging him to take out the spirit stone to absorb the spiritual energy.

Li Mu had no choice but to take out a spirit stone and stick it on his chest again, absorbing the spiritual energy in it.

In this way, one dragon urges, and one person absorbs. About half an hour later, just as the spirit stone on Li Mu's waist was about to run out, the little dragon finally spoke.