Chapter 56: Into the Mountain
The Qinling Mountains are east-west trending mountain ranges that traverse central China. It starts from Baishi Mountain in the north of Lintan County, Gansu Province in the west, and enters Shaanxi through Maiji Mountain in the south of Tianshui in the east. At the junction of Shaanxi and Henan, it is divided into three branches, the northern branch is Kunshan Mountain, and the remaining vein extends eastward along the south bank of the Yellow River, which is commonly known as Pishan, the middle branch is Xiong'er Mountain, and the southern branch is Funiu Mountain. It is about 1,600 kilometers long, and is the watershed of the Wei River, a tributary of the Yellow River, and the Jialing River and Hanshui, tributaries of the Yangtze River.
Luo Zhuo left the capital, did not go all the way to the south, but to the southwest, Wang Xiaosong said that he was found in Shaanxi Province, Luo Zhuo intuitively felt that the key in Wang Xiaosong's body and Kui Niu appeared to have some connection, so he planned to start from the Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi.
When he saw the video from the ability group before, he already knew that Kui Niu had only appeared once, and no people reported that strange animals had been found after that, so Luo Zhuo had reason to believe that the place where Kui Niu was located was an inaccessible place in the depths of the Qinling Mountains, and if he wanted to find it, he was afraid that he would have to search in the Qinling Mountains to make it possible, so it didn't matter where he started, Kui Niu would not stay in the place where he was photographed.
It was more than a thousand kilometers from the capital to their destination, Taibai Mountain, and Luo Zhuo drove not slowly, and he didn't even take a break halfway, and he drove for almost twenty hours to get to the position.
Wang Xiaosong was picked up at the foot of Taibai Mountain, at that time this was a wasteland, if it weren't for some people who like to hike passing by, he would have died a long time ago, and now this place has been developed into a tourist attraction, Luo Zhuo is not here to travel, of course he will not follow the developed road into the mountain.
He had been to Taibai Mountain several times before, but he had always flown the sword before, and the last time he hiked into the mountain was when he first went out of the sect more than 600 years ago, so this time he entered the mountain, it can also be said that he entered the mountain for the second time.
The car couldn't go deep into the mountains and forests, and when it really couldn't drive in, Luo Zhuo parked the car there, hid it a little with some branches, and then walked to the depths of Taibai Mountain on foot with a one-person backpack, followed by a Yin Soul Wang Xiaosong floating in mid-air.
Taibai Mountain is said to be the place where Taiyi Zhenren cultivates, and the "Record of Differences" contains: "The essence of Venus falls in the west of the Guifeng in the south of the end, and its refined white stone is like a beautiful jade, and there is a purple gas from time to time, hence the name." "Luo Zhuo doesn't know if these are true or false, anyway, there are no these in the records of the Kunlun faction, and there was no cultivation sect in Taibai Mountain back then, but it is not uncommon for there to be some rare medicinal materials or other jade and other heaven and earth spiritual objects in Taibai Mountain, I remember that when I first went down the mountain to practice, he killed a black bear that was about to become a fine in Taibai Mountain, and there was a piece of lightning strike wood hidden in the cave of the black bear, and the lightning strike wood was a good material for making the law seal, and Luo Zhuo moved that lightning strike wood to exchange a lot of good things from the Maoshan Taoist.
"Do you have any special feelings for this mountain forest?" While walking, Luo Zhuo asked Wang Xiaosong, now that Wang Xiaosong and the key have been integrated, if it is like Luo Zhuo thought, when he arrives in a familiar place, the key made of finger bones should have induction.
"No, sir, although I was picked up around here, I grew up in an orphanage in Xi'an, so I'm really not familiar with this place. Wang Xiaosong smiled bitterly, he thought that Luo Zhuo was asking if he had an impression of this place, but he had only been born long ago when he was abandoned, so how could he have an impression of this place.
"It doesn't matter if you don't feel it, anyway, you've just entered the mountain, do you recognize herbs?" Luo Zhuo said, this time when he entered the mountain, the main purpose was to find Kui Niu, but Luo Zhuo was in the spirit of not wasting it, and he also planned to collect some medicinal herbs along the way, and the herbs that were not eye-catching before were now of great use to him. Now that you have entered the mountains, of course you have to collect everything you see. Wang Xiaosong's current body is more convenient than Luo Zhuo's movement, so Luo Zhuo wants him to also look for herbs.
"I know several. Wang Xiaosong said, casually saying a few drug names, all of which are common folk herbs.
"Sharpen your spear, my brother said a few herbs, do you pay attention to whether there are any of them on our way. Luo Zhuo said that the growth of herbs has its own laws, and there are so many herbs suitable for growth in Taibai Mountain, and Luo Zhuo is now teaching him to identify them.
"Foxglove, the flowers are bell-shaped, and they look like a string of bells from a distance. As soon as he thought of it, Luo Zhuo immediately taught Wang Xiaosong the identification of drafting medicine.
Wang Xiaosong was thinking that he could help Luo Zhuo, but now he naturally listened attentively to Luo Zhuo's few words, and he also knew that he had already embarked on the path of cultivation, and what Luo Zhuo taught him was very precious knowledge, and he couldn't miss it at all.
The two of them taught all the way, all the way to find, when Luo Zhuo came, he prepared a backpack specially used to put the collected medicinal materials, the bag was carried in his hand, his physical strength far exceeded that of ordinary people, even if he carried a big bag of food behind his back, and carried a bag in his hand, it did not affect the action at all, at the beginning, Wang Xiaosong did not know herbs, mainly relied on Luo Zhuo to collect alone, and later Wang Xiaosong knew more and more herbs, although he could not take the draft medicine, but he could find that the herbs also saved Luo Zhuo's time to find, so later the two walked faster and faster。
A few days later, the two have gone deep into Taibai Mountain, I don't know how many years no one has been here, in the jungle, the ground is full of thick fallen leaves, many places are black mud formed after the fallen leaves are corrupted, if ordinary people come here, they will be trapped in it when they walk, but there is no problem for Luo Zhuo and Wang Xiaosong, Luo Zhuo is very light, Wang Xiaosong is a weightless ghost.
After walking for seven days in a row, there was no change in the key in Wang Xiaosong's body, and they did not find any trace of other people, Kui Niu had no clues, more than half of the food behind Luo Zhuo had been consumed, but his bag of herbs was almost full, and it was not worth the trip, many of these medicinal materials could not be bought outside, and refining them into pills could also help Luo Zhuo recover some of his cultivation.
Luo Zhuo was not discouraged, Kui Niu is a god of heaven and earth, whether he can find it is completely by chance, it is good to be able to find nature, not to find it, it is also good to collect some herbs, and Luo Zhuo found that cultivating Zixiao refining in the deep mountains is more effective than in the city, and now his second form of Zixiao refining is about to be practiced, just a layer of membrane can break through, and after the second form is practiced, he will be able to break through to the strength, not far from cultivating his divine sense to open the storage space, once he can open the storage space, he can take out the pill inside, and he can speed up the process of recovering his cultivation。
"Sir, I found traces left by someone camping in front!" Luo Zhuo was thinking about it, and Wang Xiaosong floated over from the front and said.
"Oh, is there anyone coming here?" Luo Zhuo said, if he can go deep here, he doesn't think it's a tourist person, nine times out of ten it's the people in the ability group, one of their teammates is missing in Qinling, Luo Zhuo knows that they will definitely come to Qinling, if it is not necessary, Luo Zhuo doesn't really want to meet them.
Wang Xiaosong led the way, Luo Zhuo followed him to the place he found, the ashes left on the ground can indeed be seen that someone once camped here, and it was not a few days after seeing the traces, Luo Zhuo looked around, it seems that there are still a lot of people camping here, and the ground within a radius of more than ten meters has been cleaned up for camping.
"It looks like the gang is heading northeast. Wang Xiaosong said that the group did not hide their traces, and there were still residual footprints on the ground, so it was easy to see the direction in which they were going.
"We won't join in the crowds anymore, let's go southeast. Luo Zhuo said without hesitation, he was not afraid of meeting people, although he was only the peak cultivation of dark energy, but in this era of the end of the law, Luo Zhuo could also be invincible, he was fearless, he just didn't want to deal with the people of the ability group, so he chose another path to avoid them, those broom stars, there is generally nothing good to meet them. He's here to find a chance to collide with Kui Niu, and what chance is there when he meets a group of broom stars!