After hearing Zou Ran's persuasion, Chen Xuan still had no intention of handing over the herbs.
While on the way, he heard Zou Ran say that more than a dozen small sects of immortal cultivation sects came here to collect "protection fees" in the surrounding area of Lieyun Valley.
In the past, there were many small sects who directly robbed casual cultivators and collect herbs, but later they were suppressed and even destroyed by those powerful sects. Therefore, no one dared to rob them in recent years.
After all, the herbs collected by casual cultivators are essential for the major sects near Liyun Valley, and the small sects must not allow the small sects to destroy the herb collection environment in Liyun Valley.
Of course, these small sects dare not rob, and they still dare to apply for protection fees by making a name. In fact, they did help the casual cultivators stop many beasts and collect some protection fees by this, so those sects turned a blind eye to one.
I don't bother with it.
The reason why Chen Xuan faced a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, and more than a dozen cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage with similar cultivation levels as his, he still decided not to hand over the herbs because he saw that Tianba Sect dared not take him openly.
Herbs.
What's more, if he handed over one tenth of the herbs, these people would not be able to prevent them from thinking about seeing so many herbs in his bag.
Based on the above, Chen Xuan said coldly: "Why should I hand over the herbs I picked based on my own ability?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Zou Ran and the other four casual cultivators were all shocked.
He didn't expect that Chen Xuan would dare to talk to Yan Du like this, would he be desperate?
It turns out that I am a young man who has never seen the world. Something is going to happen now!
Yan Du's eyes seemed to be about to kill someone, and he glared at Chen Xuan coldly, suddenly sneered, and asked Zou Ran: "Is this your group?"
"Uh..." Zou Ran didn't know how to answer.
He wanted to separate himself from Chen Xuan, but Chen Xuan had saved them before, so he couldn't speak for a while.
"No!" Feng Shi quickly helped Zou Ran to answer, "Senior Brother Yan, the five of us are in the same group. This fellow Taoist Chen is just joining us temporarily. His personal decision has nothing to do with us. I hope you don't blame us for your fault.
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As soon as these words were spoken, Zou Ran, Zhang Qing, Yan Meng and Song Feng's expressions changed slightly.
After several days of getting along, they actually have a good impression of Chen Xuan.
Especially Zhang Qing and Yan Meng, the other two, were not as deep as the other three, and they already regarded Chen Xuan as half of their friends.
However, in this situation, they finally did not dare to stand up and speak for Chen Xuan or persuade Chen Xuan.
As for Zou Ran, he was as good as Song Feng, Feng Shi thought the same thing. Even if Chen Xuan helped them, he had only known each other for a few days. Now that Chen Xuan had offended the Tianba Sect, they immediately chose to give up Chen Xuan as a member.
Although Tianba Sect dares not take action against them openly, who can tell me this kind of thing correctly?
So when Feng Shi spoke, none of the other four people spoke again, and all agreed to Feng Shi's words.
Chen Xuan felt that it was nothing. These five people just wanted to save their lives, but since they made a choice, if they encountered any danger in the future, Chen Xuan would not be able to help him again.
"So it's a casual cultivator who is on order. Boy, you don't want to hand over herbs, have you considered it clearly?" Yan Du asked with a cold light flashing in his eyes.
Chen Xuan did not respond, picked up the herb bag on the ground, turned around and left.
"Hmph! A casual cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage dares to be so arrogant in front of me. I see how many days you can survive in this Liyun Valley alone!" Yan Du was angry and embarrassed, with a strong threat in his words.
But he still didn't attack Chen Xuan in the end.
The spiritual consciousness of those high-level cultivators in the sect can cover the entire Liyun Valley at will. Of course, he, a foundation-building cultivator in his small sect, dare not openly do murder and robbery.
However, it is easy to lead some beasts into the kid's range of herbs...
Thinking of this, Yan Du sneered in his heart, waved his hand, and took more than a dozen junior brothers to other places to collect protection fees.
Seeing Chen Xuan disappear into the night, Zou Ran's guilt disappeared.
This young man is so arrogant that he cannot listen to his advice at all, so he cannot blame him.
But even Yan Meng and Zhang Qing, who were relatively kind-hearted, did not chase after him and persuade Chen Xuan to come back.
After leaving the five casual cultivators, Chen Xuan did not fire. He walked in the deep night for about half an hour and found a sunken rock wall, sat down and calmed down, closed his eyes and rested.
There are various unknown strange birds and giant birds hidden in the sea of clouds above, hovering in the low altitude in the dark, but these giant birds cannot sense Chen Xuan's place at all.
And about three or four feet away from Chen Xuan, there was a deep abyss. In the thick fog, the shadows of some giant beasts could be vaguely seen, several feet tall, like giant apes, and green light could be seen from the clouds and mists.
The shining scales and claws, and even dozens of tentacles danced in the clouds and mist, making people feel cold when they saw it.
However, according to what Zou Ran said before, the huge beasts and powerful monsters below the Lieyun Valley will not come up to the high places. I don’t know if they are not interested in low-level cultivators or are afraid of some powerful sects with profound cultivation.
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Chen Xuan spent the night in a half-sleeping state. The sky was about to brighten, so he stood up and continued to search for herbs.
Chen Xuan had asked Zou Ran before how to walk on the road to Jianya City on the east side of Liyun Valley. According to his plan, after collecting herbs that can be exchanged for 100 low-grade spirit stones here, he went to Jianya City to exchange for cultivation resources.
He can spend more time collecting more herbs, but carrying thousands of herbs on him alone will definitely attract the attention of many bad intentions.
Suddenly, after half a day, Chen Xuan collected more than fifty ordinary herbs. Although the laws of heaven and earth in the mountains and sea realms are different from those of the earth, he cannot use the ability of "heaven and man sensing", but his sensitivity is still stronger than that of ordinary monks.
Young, along the way, he avoided many groups of casual cultivators and large beasts that he could not handle.
At noon, Chen Xuan was about to find a place to rest for a while. He walked a few steps forward and suddenly found a narrow passage concave at the corner of the rock ahead, as if there was some secret path hidden between the rock walls.
And a fierce aura came from the other end of the secret path.
"What?" Chen Xuan's brows froze, pondered for a moment, and decided to check what was abnormal in the passage.
He tried his best to calm his breath and walked into the rock wall quietly. After about twenty steps, a circular open area appeared in front of him, and such a circular space naturally formed inside the rock wall.
There are flowers and plants inside, one of which has black gem-like fruits. It is surrounded by many flowers and plants, emitting rich spiritual energy.