In the next few days, Zhang Fan began to practice seriously again, and at the same time did some physical training, preparing to go to the beast forest to collect medicine and subsidize his family.

This morning, after Zhang Fan and Xue'er finished breakfast, they said to their maid: "Xue'er, I'm going to go to the beast forest to have a look, pick some herbs, go to the town to change some rice oil, you stay at home, help take care of the house, and make your own food when you're hungry, okay?" Xue'er's face turned pale, and she looked at Zhang Fan worriedly and said, "Childe, it's too dangerous for you to go to that kind of cannibalistic place alone, I'll go with you?" "Xue'er, be good." Childe, I have been practicing martial arts every day for the past few days, just a brute, no problem, you can stay at home with confidence. "But" Xue'er wanted to say something, but Zhang Fan couldn't help it, so she didn't want to explain anything to her, and said with a slightly stern expression on her face: "Little girl, look at your little body, it's not a burden to me if you go, stay at home and practice hard, and take care of the vegetables and herbs in the yard." Then he went to prepare the things to be used, such as dry food and water bags, flints, ropes, wooden boxes, and medicine hoes, and took the medicine basket on his back, and left the house with an iron sword, and went south.

Although Xue'er had already heard about her son's thoughts, she was still full of worries, afraid that he would never come back if he didn't go like the lord and his wife. I thought to myself, "If I don't have a child, what will I do?" But there was no better way to do it, so I had to accept the facts. After Zhang Fan left for a long time, she was still standing at the gate of the courtyard with tears in her eyes, silently looking at the back of her son in the distance.

Leaving the house, marching along the river, half a day later, Zhang Fan finally came to the edge of the beast forest, seeing that it was still early, he ate some dry food, drank some water, and prepared to nourish his spirit and go into the mountains to collect medicine. "Grandma's, in the era of no car, even martial arts masters will be tired. Zhang Fan muttered while eating dry food, "No, when you have money in the future, you must buy a horse and travel a road, it will be much more convenient." After eating and drinking enough, and resting for a while, he plunged headlong into the vast mountains and forests and disappeared.

The Beast Forest is an inconspicuous forest on the edge of the 100,000 Great Mountain, where some medicinal herbs and some brute beasts grow for years and decades all year round, and it is a treasure place for low-level warriors near Changrong City to support their families. Zhang Fan walked along the way, and most of the seedlings he saw were ginseng Coptis chinensis, and only a few ginseng plants of two or three years old were collected. According to his memory, Zhang Fan had been to the Beast Forest several times under the leadership of his father before, and knew that it was not so easy to pick herbs. Herbs are formed by absorbing the essence of heaven and earth from some herbs and trees with medicinal value, which can help martial artists speed up their cultivation, heal injuries, detoxify or quench the body, which is very precious, and some alchemists can refine them into pills, which are necessary for martial artists to travel at home, for example, Zhang Fan's father once taught Zhang Fan to simply boil several common medicines such as gold sore medicine, hemostatic powder and detoxification powder, of course, Zhang Fan also brought some this time, but the number is not much. Brute beasts are some ordinary beasts, but in this world full of heaven and earth aura, they feed on succulent flowers, fruits, trees or other beasts that contain aura, and all year round, they are strong and strong, fierce and abnormal, wild and untamable, and they grow into fierce brute beasts, and at the same time, brute beasts are also the real masters of this barren mountain and wilderness.

Zhang Fan walked for a long time in the Beast Forest, picked a few ginseng and He Shou Wu plants of two or three years, and finally came to a valley called the Valley of the Dead, where he had been with his father Zhang Dalei. According to Zhang Dalei, there are perennial herb pickers who die in this valley, and over the years, there are more people who die, so it is called the Valley of the Dead.

The name of the Valley of the Dead sounds terrifying, that is because it is foggy all year round, there are many insects and snakes, and those who enter the valley to collect medicine will be bitten by poisonous snakes or poisonous insects as long as they are careless. At the same time, the terrain of the Valley of the Dead is complex and smoky all year round, and it is easy for the herb pickers to get lost, and if they can't get out in time, they will starve to death in the valley.

The Valley of the Dead grows an herb called Obscene Snake Grass, which is the main medicine for refining Xiongfeng Pill, and Xiongfeng Pill is a very good aphrodisiac. Xiongfeng pill is the number one medicine for the treatment of some elderly rich people and premature ejaculation and low self-esteem men, due to the lack of main drugs, the number of finished pills is limited, and it is often snapped up by those deep resentful women and rich men as soon as they appear, and they are often priceless. Therefore, the lewd snake grass became a cash cow in the eyes of the medicine pickers, and then countless medicine pickers died young, and their families were ruined. Due to the existence of the lewd snake grass, some people come to the Valley of the Dead all year round, and most of them die from the mouth of the poisonous snake. For a time, the Valley of the Dead made countless medicine pickers frightened, and the slightly wealthier people would never come here. Zhang Fan also had no choice, and there was almost no gain in a few days, so he decided to take a risk. However, before that, Zhang Fan first wrapped a thick layer of rags on his hands and feet, in case he was injured immediately after being bitten by a poisonous snake, which was a simple means of preventing snakes, and at the same time, he also made some marks, and then, Zhang Fan set off towards the Valley of the Dead.

Zhang Fan walked all the way, and saw a faint mist floating around, his eyes could only see one or two meters away, and occasionally he could hear the sound of spring water. A cool breeze blew, and he couldn't help but be a little scared in his heart, and scolded: "This ghost place, how can it be quiet everywhere? Hey, the master can't help it, otherwise how would he come to this kind of ghost place." But scolding and scolding, he kept his eyes looking around to see what he could find.

Walking deeper along the valley floor, the stream is flanked by mossy rocks, with intertwined teeth and disappearing in the mist like ghosts. In the valley, the fog gathers and disperses, rises and falls, and the cold and damp wind blows Zhang Fan's little face red. After walking for about half an hour, Zhang Fan came to a deep place, where the fog was much lighter, and the gray-white sky could be faintly seen, and the rocks on the edge of the canyon stood there like a knife, leaving a slit in the middle that could barely turn sideways through guò, through the slit, a small pool could be vaguely seen.

Zhang Fan slowly walked sideways through the rock crevice, and after a few minutes, a space appeared in front of him. I saw a sand dune with a radius of several meters isolated in the middle of a cold pool as wide as 100 meters, and a small dark green tree grew on the sand dune. The small tree has two or three branches, hundreds of dark green leaves on the branches, and three or five red fruits on the branches, and there is a faint fragrance coming from it. Dozens of pale red grasses next to the small trees grow sparsely, giving people a feeling of standing out from the crowd. The water is very clear, about one meter deep, and you can see the rocks at the bottom of the pool from above, and with the occasional mist floating by the pond water, there is a feeling of coldness. The pond is surrounded by upright bare rocks, from the edge of the pool to the foot of the rocks is only a few meters, but it is a little dim and difficult to see clearly.

After looking at it for a while, Zhang Fan didn't find anything special, he was very happy and decided to wade over. At this moment, several clear sounds came from the bottom of the cliff, and Zhang Fan, who had just walked to the edge of the pond, immediately turned around and looked around, only to see three half-meter-long small snakes with the thickness of a thumb and a body covered with red and black patterns attacking him. Zhang Fan originally thought that what his father said was unreliable, but now he has the heart to die. But he didn't have time to think about it now, he immediately pulled out the iron sword tied to his body, jumped to the side lightly, and stabbed the sword at the nearest flower snake seven inches, and saw that the blow missed, but he picked the snake to fly a meter away behind him, so he immediately turned around and stabbed the snake with his sword. Suddenly, Zhang Fan only felt that his arm was numb, and the iron sword was like hitting a mountain stone, making a sound of metal impact, but this time the iron sword finally stabbed the flower snake in the abdomen, and the blade was also embedded in the snake body, and it couldn't be pulled out, and at this time, the other two flower snakes were close to him. Zhang Fan hurriedly jumped to the cliff, holding the sword embedded in the snake's body in both hands and slashing towards the rock, and suddenly the two snake bodies flew to the ground in an arc on both sides, bringing down several stone chips at the same time. At this time, the other two snakes were already less than a meter away from Zhang Fan, Zhang Fan was so frightened that his soul came out, and immediately took three steps and two steps, and ran straight forward. Dozens of seconds later, he looked back and saw a flower snake approaching him, and the other one was already far behind, so he turned around and slashed at the guy who was chasing him with his sword, only to hear a "spray" sound, and the unlucky flower snake was divided into two sections from seven inches at once. Then Zhang Fan walked forward quickly, came to the slowest snake, held a sword and slashed at it with all his might, and before the little snake could react, the snake's head flew several meters away, and the snake body was still dancing everywhere. Seeing that the three guys were finally leveled by themselves, fine beads of sweat appeared on Zhang Fan's forehead, he gasped loudly in his mouth, and walked quickly along the edge of the pool, without seeing the flower snake again, before he took a breath.

After a short rest, Zhang Fan took off his clothes and pants, quickly waded across the pool naked, and after a while, he came to the hillock, looking at the lewd snake grass all over the hill, and was inexplicably excited. The light red grass is actually the lewd snake grass, but the dark green tree, Zhang Fan didn't know what the name was, and thought: "If you can grow with the lewd snake grass, it will definitely not be an elixir that is not as good as the lewd snake grass." Then, he looked at the five red fruits, smelled the tempting fragrance, his throat moved, his heart itched, and he felt that his stomach was empty, so he didn't care whether it was poisonous or not, he picked all five fruits like three times and five divided by two, and quickly came to the edge of the pool, and ate while washing. Don't say it, after being busy for most of the day, Zhang Fan has already been reincarnated as a starving ghost, only to see the red fruits in his hand, five, four, one, zero, dozens of seconds later, all the fruits are down, Zhang Fan found that he was already empty-handed, his face turned red unconsciously, and he muttered to himself: "Damn, why didn't you leave a few for Xue'er." Hey, you shouldn't be so frizzy next time. After saying that, he looked at the lewd snake grass.

Suddenly, Zhang Fan felt that something was wrong, and then he was sweating profusely on his forehead, his face was as hot as a red-hot soldering iron, his stomach was overturned, and he was in severe pain. Zhang Fan knew that he had eaten a bad stomach, so he simply sat cross-legged and ran the small mixed Yuan Gong, only to see that he had unkempt hair, a hideous face, his body was covered with blood, and his body was covered with mist, and drops of sweat came out of his forehead, mixed with dirt and flowed down, and then he was steamed dry, and finally left black and white patterns on his body. At the same time, Zhang Fan unconsciously fell to the edge of the pool and fainted.