According to rumors, the west of the desert has always been desolate and lonely, with few people and many barbarians gathering together.
What appears in front of me is not the same.
There are many pedestrians and heavy traffic.
The architectural style is elegant and scattered on both sides of the lake, surrounded by oases, giving it a unique style.
As you get closer, you can hear the noisy shouts of sellers, and camels and horses hung with cloth and spices can be seen everywhere.
He came alone, his coat gradually changed its shape, the aura was woven into a turban, and a burqa was hung loosely around his body. He followed the local customs and no longer dressed like he did before.
Chen Yu looked around with curiosity in his eyes.
It is different from the legends I heard during the Qi and Liang Dynasties, and it is also different from the "Western Regions" I imagined.
Although the clothes of the people here are very different from those in the Central Plains, their speech is somewhat similar, just like the dialect of a remote place. If you carefully identify it, you can still vaguely understand it.
In addition, the black hair, yellow skin, and black pupils were similar to those in the Central Plains. However, he also noticed that there were several caravans coming from afar in the city. The leader was short in stature and had yellow hair like seaweed.
They often wear armor, but the armor pieces are thin and seem to stick tightly to the body, which is different from the impression of the armor style.
"That's the Naluo people."
With his keen mind, Chen Yu soon learned a lot from others in fluent local dialect. For example, this place is a small country called "Panye", and its territory is limited to this oasis.
These Nai Luo people come from a bay in the southwest. It is said that the mountains and rivers there are beautiful and it is like spring all year round. However, the humidity is very heavy, the wind and waves are strong, and the sea route is impassable. The only way to get to other places is to cross the desert.
Naya, as the locals call this oasis, means mother.
I don't know if it is because there has been no war for a long time, but there is no gate outside the gray loess city. There is only a wide gap to allow people to come and go.
Chen Yu entered the city easily.
The surroundings were busy, so he first went to the local palace to see if there were any records in the book - it was said to be a palace, but it was actually a three-story building with round towers on both sides and four or five courtyards connecting it.
, but it looks rich and noble in the city.
But it was a pity that even though I saw the king who the locals said was working hard to govern, he was lying on the dancer's back with his breasts exposed, and a not-so-pleasant smell filled the palace, and the monarchs and ministers inside were very happy.
Chen Yu walked around and found that there were very few books in the palace, and even a few pieces of paper were missing.
I was originally thinking about using cloth to record events, but I couldn't find it after searching through it, so I had to give up.
In fact, there are not only no books in Panye Kingdom, but there is no tradition of reading and literacy from top to bottom. In terms of system, it is more like a grass-roots team. There has never been any improvement in the past few generations. Now the king just does it for the convenience of traveling, thus making it easier for him to travel.
There are more gaps on both sides of the city, which can be regarded as 'virtuous kings in the past'.
This is a casual country.
Chen Yu was left with an impression. It was the first time he felt that the entire country was so...sloppy.
I stayed in Panye for two days, mainly with the help of local traders, collecting information from all sources and purchasing many novelties that were not seen in the Central Plains.
Including many medicinal materials that grow in deserts, swamps, coasts and other places, they are all transited in this oasis.
"This batch of medicinal herbs is a good thing. The common people more than two thousand miles to the north like it very much. Without them, they would not be able to survive the cold winter, and the baby would be 30% more likely to be born."
"The red-haired people on the west coast, oh, they call themselves the Bante people... they like long worm beards and cold bells. These are not considered medicinal materials, but they can be ground and mashed, and after being soaked in water, you can get a soup that can dispel cold and warm the body.
, this is a recipe from the distant Middle Earth, I won’t tell ordinary people..."
"And this, this, and this... are all first-class treasures. In the words of China, by the way, they are called Tongshou without a wife!"
Chen Yu: "..."
Looking at the businessman in front of him who was talking eloquently and trying his best to sell the medicine for his life, he looked calm and listened to the other person talking about treasures, saying that he should buy it as early as possible.
He handed over a bag of gold sand, ignored the other person's surprised gaze, and covered the entire area in front of him.
He didn't bother to correct the weird pronunciation, and just turned around and left. Compared to when he came back, he had five or six thick leather bags in his hands, which were full.
Returning to the small shop where he temporarily lived, he found that perhaps it was closer to the Central Plains. People near Panye Kingdom were somewhat influenced by what they called "Middle-earth". There were countless legends about Middle-earth, saying that it was full of land.
Gold, rivers flow with honey and milk, trees are full of ripe fruits, wild animals are docile, and they will run around and jump on their own as long as a fire is set up... and so on, these are mostly beautiful imaginations.
Therefore, it is inevitable that there will be a trend of admiration.
Chen Yu recalled that it was recorded in a miscellany he had read not long ago that the people west of the desert had contact with the Central Plains countries hundreds of years ago.
These realistic and illusory imaginations were probably introduced and fermented at that time.
After closing the door, he waved his sleeves to knock down a string of spiritual lights, which turned into a formation and enveloped the house.
The next moment, his figure disappeared.
Qinglu Mountain.
Chen Yu appeared on a gentle slope with the medicinal herbs. This area was specially carved out, about two feet long. The front was leaning against the rugged mountain, and a closed passage could be seen vaguely exposed on it.
[Book] [Medicine] [Treasure]
The three cave entrances are close to each other, and there is a word hanging on the top of each one, which was branded by his own hands.
This can be regarded as a storage of personal belongings. Although there is no possibility of outsiders stealing it, it is much more pleasing to the eye after being organized, and it is much easier to find and touch.
Opening [the medicine], you are greeted by a billowing fragrance, which seems to be the essence and has condensed into an almost visible breath.
He took a deep breath and felt the sweet, bitter and spicy rush out, a mixture of five flavors.
"Herbs must be stored separately and mixed together to contaminate the medicinal properties."
After fanning his nose, Chen Yu took a pile of jade and wood blocks from the [宝] cave next door.
Most of them are picked up casually on the road. Although they will not give birth to spirituality after being accumulated, they can be used as carriers of spiritual sealing techniques because they are combined with magical power. They can also better preserve medicines and spiritual plants so that they will not wither away prematurely.
After a lot of trouble, the batch of herbs brought in this time were put into the warehouse together for later use.
After working for half an hour, the detailed spiritual formations were inscribed in all three caves, and the spirit-sealing techniques were engraved neatly and combined into rows to exert an even more powerful effect.
Afterwards, he went to the spiritual fields to check on the germination of the seeds. Now, dozens of spiritual fields in Qinglu Mountain have been planted with suitable spiritual plants, including Xinghan Grass, Sun Moon Grass and Cloud Ganoderma lucidum, which have been picked many times.
One season.
There are also a lot of new spiritual plants that have been cultivated and matured, but only a few of them can be valued and kept by him. They are cultivated from spiritual seeds.
Ninety percent of them were abandoned due to mediocre effectiveness.
There are only a few seeds left in wooden boxes on the wooden shelf at the deepest part of the [medicine] cave. I don’t know if they will ever reappear.
Lingzhi is widely cultivated and harvested a lot. Except for a small part that is dried and ground before being stored, the rest of the medicinal herbs are mostly picked up and filled into the alchemy pot while they are still alive.
Thanks to this, Chen Yu's alchemy skills and methods, including the mastery of many alchemy recipes, have made rapid progress.
Nowadays, just refining Qi and Blood Pills can no longer satisfy him. He is now comparing the medicinal uses of various spiritual plants, hoping to come up with more high-quality pill recipes, especially in terms of spirituality.