"No, no, this is too much money, just 100 yuan, you won't use that much!"
After the meal, Ye Tian took out five hundred yuan and handed it to Lao Qi. He was so frightened that he waved his hands repeatedly. The chickens were raised at home and the vegetables were brought from the mountains. Why do you need so much five hundred yuan?
The people in the mountains are simple. Although there is a sign of a farmhouse, Lao Qi always can't keep it down. He usually takes whatever the diners give him. Let alone Ye Tian and two people, even if there are more than ten people dining, it will not work.
I was given 500 yuan.
"Lao Qi, just take it for you..."
Ye Tian smiled and stuffed the money into Lao Qi's pocket, and said: "Let's have a few more drinks when we go back out of the mountain. I see that your dried Hericium mushrooms taste good when cooked in soup."
"Okay, when you come back I will definitely make soup for you to try!"
After hearing what Ye Tian said, Lao Qi didn't give in anymore, but he found a Sprite bottle, poured a full bottle of wine, and asked Ye Tian to take it with him, saying it was for keeping out the cold on the road.
After bidding farewell to Lao Qi and his wife, Ye Tian and Zhou Xiaotian walked down the slope. This is just the outskirts of Shennongjia. The mountain people who have lived here have carved a path for thousands of years.
Although Ye Tian lost all his true energy, his physical strength was still far incomparable to other people. Needless to say, Zhou Xiaotian's whole body was full of true energy and he walked very fast.
More than an hour later, the two of them had climbed over a mountain peak. Here, the forest branches and leaves became increasingly dense, and the shadows of macaques, leopards and wild boars could often be seen.
Coming to this most primitive forest, Mao Tou also became excited. Here he didn't have to hide from others, so Mao Tou simply ran into the woods. Even Ye Tian didn't know what he was doing.
However, Ye Tian knew that as long as he did not encounter those senior experts, the animals in the mountains alone would not be able to harm Mao Tou, and this guy had an extremely sensitive sense of smell, so there was no need to worry about getting lost.
"Master, don't you collect those medicinal materials?"
After living with Gou Xin's family for so long, Zhou Xiaotian also knew a lot about Chinese medicine. Along the way, he saw many herbs growing in the grass, but Ye Tian didn't even bend down once, which made him feel strange.
Ye Tian shook his head and said: "Those are not old enough and the medicine is not enough. It is a pity to pick them. Let them be a little longer."
In Shennongjia, there are many people who rely on the mountains to live on.
Zhou Xiaotian knew these medicinal materials, and the farmers naturally knew them too. The reason why he didn't pick them was because he didn't want to dry up the lake for fishing, and Ye Tian would not do such a thing.
Of course, if he could come across the nectar of hundreds of herbs and the thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, Ye Tian would also pick it. After these things are used as medicine, they can indeed make some elixirs for strengthening the body.
"Master, do you have anything else to do when you come here?"
Zhou Xiaotian was not stupid, he just kept it in his heart. But at this time, there were only two of him, the master and the disciple, so he finally couldn't help but ask.
Ye Tian thought for a moment and said: "The main reason is to look for medicine, but I heard that there are experts coming and going in Shennongjia, and I also want to try my luck."
Since Ye Tian didn't tell his senior brothers about the spiritual consciousness on the cover of "Kaiyuan Dao Zang", he naturally wouldn't tell Zhou Xiaotian, so he immediately found an excuse to excuse it.
"Master, don't listen to Lao Qi's nonsense." Zhou Xiaotian curled his lips and said, "How can there be any gods in this world? If there really were, wouldn't it mean that the world would be in chaos?"
Today, with the prosperity of science and technology, the theory of gods and ghosts has long been out of the market. Especially people like Zhou Xiaotian, who grew up watching TV and playing game consoles, sneer at this theory.
"There are definitely no gods."
Ye Tian nodded and said, "But the magical powers that some people can display may, in the eyes of ordinary people, make them gods, right?"
There were some words that Ye Tian said now that Zhou Xiaotian couldn't understand. He was too lazy to say anything more, but he moved a little faster.
Ye Tian was really afraid of being told by Lao Qi. If it snowed in the mountains, he would be very sad if he didn't have the energy to protect his body.
In winter, the days are short and the nights are long. At about five o'clock in the afternoon, the sun has already set from the top of the mountain. The surrounding scenery suddenly becomes bleak, and the mountain becomes more and more silent.
After four or five hours of trekking, Ye Tian and his disciples climbed over two peaks. The mountain road here was completely covered by trees. Apart from the medicinal farmers in the mountains, obviously no tourists set foot here.
"Xiao Tian, please stay here tonight!"
After climbing to the middle of the third peak, Ye Tian stopped at a gentle slope. Next to the gentle slope was a stream flowing from the top of the mountain, which was perfect for camping and boiling water.
Taking out a machete from Zhou Xiaotian's backpack, Ye Tian cleaned up some dead grass and vines in the open space. It was already winter, and one mistake might really cause a wildfire.
"Could it be that those who live in the mountains and practice Taoism are afraid that wildfires will burn down the trees and cause the loss of spiritual energy?"
Thinking of this, a thought suddenly came to Ye Tian's mind: "Yes, it must be like this. These plants in the mountains may be the source of spiritual energy."
Seeing Ye Tian gathering the withered grass together, Zhou Xiaotian put down the hiking bag on his back and said with a smile: "Master, aren't you afraid that lighting a fire will attract the gods?"
"I just came here to look for immortals. I was just worried that they wouldn't come out."
Ye Tian said with a half-serious smile: "Okay, take out the pot, boil some hot water, I'll wash these Hericium mushrooms, and we'll have some hot soup tonight."
Along the way, although Ye Tian didn't pick any medicinal materials, he did pick a lot of Hericium erinaceus growing in some rotten wood.
This food has extremely high nutritional value. It is known as one of the four famous dishes along with shark's fin, bear's paw, and bird's nest. It also grows on Maoshan Mountain, but the quantity is very small. Ye Tian and his master could only taste it occasionally.
Ye Tian was very well prepared for this trip. Zhou Xiaotian's hiking bag not only contained tents, pots and bowls, but also a small gas bottle and stove. There was no need to use those dead leaves.
After turning on the gas, Zhou Xiaotian asked worriedly: "Master, where is Mao Tou? Nothing will happen to it?"
"Jiji!"
Before Zhou Xiaotian finished speaking, Maotou's screams rang out, a white shadow flashed past, and its body jumped down from the tree above Li Tiantian's head.
It's just that Maotou's body seems to have changed. It was only one meter long before, but now it has a long tail trailing behind its body.
"You brat, do you dare to go hunting?"
Even Ye Tian was startled at first, and when he looked carefully, he realized that Maotou was holding a python as thick as an arm in his mouth. The strangest thing was that the python's body was white, and its fur was somewhat similar.
"Jiji!"
Mao Tou bit the python's neck, jumped onto Ye Tian's shoulder, and screamed for credit. The white python, which was four to five meters long and weighed at least a hundred kilograms, was as light as nothing in its mouth.
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"Okay, let's make Hericium mushroom soup today. We can't blind this snake in vain."
Ye Tian smiled and took the python out of Maotou's mouth. Seven inches away from the python, the flesh and blood of the python had been bitten by Maotou, and the snake was completely lifeless.
"Master, can this white snake be eaten?" Zhou Xiaotian does not believe in ghosts and gods, but this snake looks completely white, which is different from what he usually sees.
"If the hair is edible, we can eat it. What are we afraid of?"
Ye Tian shook his head, turned over his hands and took out Wuhen, went to the stream and disembowelled the python, but he found that the snake's gallbladder was missing, and it must have been devoured by Mao Tou early.
The snake skin was peeled off, and the snow-white snake meat was divided into sections and thrown into the pot. However, the pot was too small to fit even one-tenth of the snake meat. Fortunately, the weather was cold, so there was no fear of damage.
As the water boils, the scent of snake meat and Hericium mushrooms suddenly fills the tip of the nose.
"Chichi...chichi!"
Mao Tou's nose twitched, and he quickly jumped to the pot. His little paws flicked into the pot like lightning, and he picked up a piece of snake meat that weighed several kilograms. Mao Tou was not afraid of being burned and stuffed it directly into his mouth.
"You brat, what are you looking for?"
Ye Tian cursed with a smile, picked up a spoon and took a spoonful of soup, put it to his mouth and sipped it, his eyes lit up, and he drank the hot soup that was almost like boiling water in one gulp.
After taking a sip of the soup, Ye Tian's brows widened and he praised it profusely: "It's good, fresh, really fresh, even fresher than what I ate on Maoshan!"
Although all his true energy was lost, Ye Tian's internal organs were naturally different from those of ordinary people after more than ten years of practice. He didn't care about burning them at the moment, scooped up a piece of snake meat and ate it. His eating appearance was no more gentle than that of a Mao Tou.
"Master, please leave some for me."
The pot was originally small, and Ye Tian and Mao Tou were extremely fast. By the time Zhou Xiaotian reacted, each of them had already eaten several pieces of meat.
After finishing the more than ten kilograms of snake meat in an almost scrambling manner, Ye Tian felt comfortable all over. The fatigue from traveling all day was gone, and there seemed to be a trace of heat flowing in his body.
"Oh, it still doesn't work." Ye Tian tried to use his soul to guide Ye Tian to move within his body, but the heat dissipated in his body.
"Xiao Tian, this meat contains spiritual energy. Hurry up and meditate!"
Looking up, he saw that Zhou Xiaotian's face was red at this time, which was obviously a reaction of excess Yang Qi. On the contrary, Maotou, who had eaten the most, showed no reaction at all.
"Although Changbai Mountain is vast in territory, the spiritual energy in the mountains is far inferior to that here."
The meat of an ordinary white snake can contain spiritual energy, which shows that Shennongjia is rich in spiritual energy. I am afraid that in today's China, this is the only place that can maintain this original style.
Seeing that Zhou Xiaotian was already in meditation, Ye Tian did not go to set up a tent. Instead, he came to the pair of dead grass branches and lit them with a lighter.
Although it was cold and steep in the mountains, with their cultivation, there was no need to light a fire to keep warm. However, after hearing the anecdotes Lao Qi told, Ye Tian had other thoughts.