Chapter 1 Wake up early in the morning to pick up excrement
Chapter 1 Get up early in the morning to pick up manure
Author: Muchenke
Chapter 1 Get up early in the morning to pick up manure
As soon as it got dark, Xu Chen was woken up by the chirping of birds outside.
Yawning, I walked out of the dilapidated hut. I stood on the mountainside and looked around at the green mountains and the mist-shrouded peaks and ravines. I rubbed my face a few times, picked out my eye excrement, went to the nearby spring to wash my face and mouth, and picked up a broken pottery.
After draining a few mouthfuls of cold water from the bowl, I tidied it up briefly, munched on dry food in a basket on my back, and walked towards the back mountain.
After walking for half a stick of incense along the narrow and rugged mountain road, the mountain road turned around and saw a waterfall falling from a height of tens of feet. The mountain wind blew, the water mist splashed, and there was gold and jade flying in the early morning sun.
, the cool breath is refreshing.
There is a medicinal field under the cliff. It is not large, only two or three acres.
There are many medicinal materials planted inside. Although the growth looks good, there are not many useful ones. Most of them are immature low-level medicinal materials such as Polygonatum and Scrophulariaceae. Some are blooming, and the colors are intertwined with red, yellow, blue and white, which is quite interesting.
It is somewhat pleasing to the eye, but compared with the lush natural environment surrounded by pines and ancient vines, it seems sparse and a bit rough.
A skinny old Taoist priest with gray hair, wearing a Taoist robe and a bun, was patrolling the medicine field. When he heard footsteps, he turned around and saw Xu Chen coming in, wiping his mouth.
The old Taoist priest nodded slightly.
Xu Chen quickly saluted: "Third Elder, why are you here?"
The old Taoist priest said: "The Emperor of the Song Dynasty's 100th birthday is coming soon. He sent the third prince to visit a few days ago. According to the old practice, our Taiyuan Sect will give some elixirs. I came to the medicine field to see if there are any suitable and mature medicinal materials.
, it’s good to make a furnace of elixirs.”
Xu Chen couldn't help but curl his lips and said: "The Dog Emperor is so proud. We can't even make a few furnaces of the elixir at home in a year, so why bother to give them an advantage."
The old Taoist priest did not take it seriously and shook his head and said: "Although there are differences between immortals and mortals, our Taiyuan Sect is in the territory of the Song Dynasty. Some ordinary things may be unavoidable, and it is reasonable to come and go. What's more, the emperor of the Song Dynasty is the Yuqing Palace.
Born, this face must be given no matter what, but it's just an ordinary elixir, we can't get the good ones, so why do you complain, I'll ask the immortals, remember to be calm."
Although Xu Chen felt unhappy, he still followed the instructions respectfully and started wandering around the medicinal fields with the old Taoist priest. After half an hour of searching, he could only find three or five medicinal herbs that were barely suitable for use.
The old Taoist priest looked at the few herbs with thin roots and thin stems scattered in the bamboo basket, and his expression was quite ugly.
Xu Chen had to bite the bullet and said: "Third Elder, this disciple is not lazy. He looks after it carefully every day. Today he is preparing to go out to find some manure."
The old Taoist priest nodded slightly and said: "The medicine garden is well maintained, and I have no intention of blaming him. It's just that the great elder ordered that the elixirs to be given this time should be at least second grade. Not only are these medicinal materials insufficient in age, but they are also a few flavors short.
It's the main medicine, that's all. You can go on your own. I'll go out and see if I can find it.
After the old Taoist priest finished speaking, he raised his sleeves into the air and turned into a stream of light, heading towards a sudden and strange peak in the distance.
Xu Chen smacked his lips with envy, then pulled out a half-foot-long gray sword from his waist, silently recited the spell and pointed his finger, the small sword suddenly shone brightly, and with a flicker in the wind, it grew to the size of three feet, floating two feet above the ground.
At a height of feet, Xu Chen sat on it like a horse, and then with one sword and one man, he crookedly headed towards the rising sun towards the vast green mountains shrouded in clouds and mist.
"Life is miserable!"
Walking on the sword is originally a method of the immortal family, but for Xu Chen who is riding a sword and blowing the wind, it is full of sadness.
He was originally an orphan who lived by herding cattle and collecting dung for rich families, but he didn't want to have bad luck when he was ten years old. The second elder of the Taiyuan Sect who was traveling around discovered that he actually had spiritual roots and was a seedling of immortality.
, so he took him back to the mountain and became his disciple.
Xu Chen once thought that his destiny was so unique that he finally moved heaven and earth and moved all the gods and Buddhas. From then on, he could cultivate and become an immortal and live freely in the world.
But I never thought that if I picked up dung in the mortal world, I would still be picking up dung in the immortal sect.
And the spiritual root he thought he was gifted with was only the most rubbish variety in the world of cultivating immortals, and could barely be cultivated.
The second elder took him back to the mountain gate and taught him some introductory techniques, then left him on the mountain and went out to travel. He rarely came back once a year. Although Xu Chen worked hard and practiced hard every day, he could only just enter the mountain after a few years.
As a beginner in Qi training, I can barely control the flight of magical weapons. As for spells, I only know two or three of the most basic and low-level types in the world of immortality.
His current strength is enough to deal with ordinary beasts, but if he encounters some more powerful spiritual beasts, he will only turn himself into feces.
Fortunately, there are no scary things near Taiyuan Gate. The threatening monsters have basically been killed or driven away by a few elders and a few capable senior brothers and sisters.
In addition, although his cheap master is not very reliable, he is still good to him. After knowing that he has entered the Kaiyuan realm, he is still very happy and gives him a first-grade flying sword that he has used before. Otherwise, Xu Chen will arrive
Now I may not even be able to get out of the mountain gate.
Taiyuan Gate is located deep in the vast mountains, with thousands of miles of desolate and inhabited areas. It is still more than 300 miles away from the nearest city of the Song Dynasty, and there are no roads in the mountains. If you can't fly, you will have to stay in the mountains for the rest of your life.
Ever since he had this flying sword, Xu Chen had really begun to appreciate the magical powers of immortals. Although it was not the amazing flying sword, he still had the ability to go out.
There are only a dozen people in the Taiyuan Sect, and their strength is not very strong. In addition to the elder who has reached the late stage of the Danyuan Realm, there are two other elders in the late stage of the True Yuan Realm.
The third elder who came just now is at the late stage of the True Yuan Realm and is good at alchemy, so he is usually stationed on the mountain.
Xu Chen's master is the second elder. He has reached the Great Perfection of the True Yuan Realm and travels around all year round looking for opportunities to break through. However, it has been five years since Xu Chen joined the Taiyuan Sect and his master has not shown any signs of breakthrough. He returns to the mountain roughly every year.
Once I go there, I stay for ten days and half a month and then leave again.
It has been more than a year since I came back.
Even Xu Chen would occasionally maliciously guess whether the master had secretly died.
But every time this thought flashes past, Xu Chen feels guilty. He has been an orphan since he was a child, and it was not until he met his master that he took him to the mountain door, and he began to truly feel some warmth and care.
As the saying goes, a mother's child is like a treasure. It is more or less beneficial to have a master to take care of him in the Taiyuan Sect. At least those senior brothers and sisters dare not bully him.
Of course, because the master was unreliable and left him alone in the mountains all year round, the other brothers and sisters naturally gave him the most difficult, tiring and promising jobs, taking care of the medicine garden and working hard to collect manure.
Taiyuan Sect is small, shabby, and poor. Not only are there few skills, but also elixirs and magic weapons are scarce. Xu Chen has never seen a second-grade elixir. In fact, he has only taken a real first-grade elixir once.
, that was given to him according to the rules of the sect when he broke through the Kaiyuan Realm, and it was called the Huayuan Pill.
Daily practice also requires the assistance of elixirs. The most common one is Xiao Yuan Dan. Xiao Yuan Dan is mainly used to assist in refining Qi and speeding up the movement of Yuan Qi. It can be regarded as a barely high-quality elixir. However, due to poverty, the Taiyuan Sect Ten
Many disciples are distributed according to their strength and contribution. Because Xu Chen does not go out to practice, he has little chance to find some natural resources and treasures to contribute to the sect. Therefore, he can barely get one bottle all year round, and the total will not exceed ten pills.
If they want to practice faster, and elixirs are indispensable, a group of disciples who have settled down have no choice but to find ways on their own. Apart from robbing families, they have done almost everything else they can do. In the eyes of mortals, the so-called high-ranking immortal sect is actually nothing more.
They are just a group of savages with green eyes all day long, not much better than some casual cultivators.
But Xu Chen is still very pure, because he has no chance if he wants to do it.
The biggest obstacle is that he can't do it 90% of the time, so he can only stay at the mountain gate.
The job of picking up dung made him humble and helpless.
After riding a first-grade flying sword and flying wildly among the vast mountains for almost two moments, Xu Chen put away his sword and landed on a mountain top a hundred miles away from the mountain gate, and began to meditate to regain his breath.
Refining Qi is divided into three stages: Kaiyuan Qi Refining, True Yuan Foundation Building, and Dan Yuan Formation. From this, the world of cultivating immortals is also called the Kaiyuan Realm, the True Yuan Realm, and the Dan Yuan Realm. Each level can be roughly
It is divided into three small stages: front, middle and back.
Xu Chen is currently in the early to middle stage of the Kaiyuan Realm. In fact, according to his reserves of vitality, he can barely support the flying sword for half an hour. However, he has anxiety syndrome of insufficient vitality. He always loses his energy when nearly half of his vitality is consumed.
I want to be full of anger.
If his vitality drops to about one-third, he will start to feel anxious and nervous, always feeling that his life is in danger.
Of course, this kind of cautiousness and anxiety caused him to take every opportunity to meditate to regain his strength, and it indeed gave him enough energy to escape from danger several times after encountering monsters and beasts.
Two moments later, three small weeks passed in succession. Xu Chen felt full of energy again, so he stood up contentedly and looked around at the vast mountains and fields, thinking about where he should go to make a fortune today.
They say it's making a fortune, but it's actually just scavenging.
But saying he was scavenging was actually a bit of an exaggeration. To be precise, he spent most of his time scavenging.
It is said that the Taiyuan Gate was once very powerful and glorious. In its heyday, there were thousands of monks. The gates were spread over thousands of miles, and the buildings, temples, Taoist temples, medicine gardens, etc. were spread over dozens of hills. It was truly like a temple of gods or a monastery of immortals.
It's a pity that a catastrophe suddenly occurred later, and the entire sect collapsed within a few years. So now, in the vast mountains, there are ruins left everywhere, which have become the ruins of other immortal cultivators for thousands of years.
Taobao venues, but as time goes by, there are fewer and fewer treasures, and gradually no one comes.
In fact, the current Taiyuan Sect has no direct relationship with the previous Taiyuan Sect. Three hundred years ago, a casual cultivator found a relatively authentic Taiyuan Sect exercise method in the ruins and practiced it successfully.
So they re-established the sect here, still using the name of Taiyuan Sect.
Of course, today, all Taiyuan Sect disciples are still accustomed to regard the ancient and glorious Taiyuan Sect as part of their history. After all, the Kung Fu sects all come from the same origin, and can be regarded as orthodox inheritance, and they are not considered random relatives.
Disciples with low cultivation levels in Taiyuan Sect spent most of their time scavenging in the ruins near the mountain gate.
Xu Chen is currently the youngest disciple of the Taiyuan Sect and the one with the lowest cultivation level. In addition to looking through the tattered underwear of his ancestors, he is also responsible for taking care of the medicine garden. His main function is to be a dung picker and pick up the dung fields.
To nourish the medicine field, ordinary wild animal excrement will not work. It must be monster or spiritual animal excrement.
Because only these advanced beasts know how to swallow plants or minerals rich in spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy that cannot be fully absorbed will remain in the feces.
Refining elixirs requires a large amount of spiritual herbs and elixirs, and it is difficult to collect wild ones. If you want to stably supply a sect with elixirs, you must plant them in large quantities.
Folk grains and vegetables must be fertilized to grow well, not to mention the spiritual herbs that rely on absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to have medicinal effects. If the spiritual energy is insufficient, the herbs will not grow into useful things. Even if they grow up reluctantly, they will degenerate into ordinary grass without any medicine.
effect.
It is said that large fairy sects use spiritual stones directly as fertilizer when growing elixirs.
But Xu Chen has been cultivating immortality for five years and has not saved a single spiritual stone, let alone fertile land.
The Taiyuan Sect is also poor. Only three elders have some spirit stones on their bodies, but they are reluctant to use them on weekdays. Only at critical moments in cultivation will they set up the spirit gathering array to assist in breakthroughs. As for Xu Chen and a group of senior brothers and sisters,
I am even more strapped for money, and I feel like a nouveau riche if I have just one or two bucks.
After thinking for a moment, Xu Chen released his flying sword, mounted it and flew towards a canyon in the southwest.
You must pick up excrement as early as possible. This is his experience gained from two years of picking up excrement.
The best opportunity to grab dung is to take advantage of the time when the spirit beasts leave their lairs early in the morning to look for food. Otherwise, once these spirit beasts discover that aliens have broken into their territory, they will most likely be ravaged miserably if they fail to escape.
Of course, most of the time, picking up excrement depends on luck. After all, this thing is not something you can get if you want it. He is not the only one who grabs excrement in the mountains. There are also many birds, animals, snakes, rats, insects, and ants, all of which are interested in these feces that are rich in spiritual energy.
I'm interested. Besides, dung beetles have done this much more often than him. It's a skill passed down from generation to generation, and you can't learn it even if you want to.
Therefore, it was too late to pick up dung, and it was too late to go out, and I couldn't even get a piece of hot cake.