After coming out of the cave where Master practiced, Xu Chen thought about going to the Third Elder's Alchemy Academy.
As a result, before I even got there, I heard a lot of commotion inside. I quickly ran in and found a group of senior brothers and sisters gathered here.
A group of people were helping the third elder sort and bring back the trophies. When they saw Xu Chen coming, they all laughed together and said, "Junior brother is here too!"
The third elder pointed at the magical treasures, spiritual materials, elixirs and elixirs that were spread all over the floor and said with a smile: "You came just in time. Whatever you need urgently or want, you can take it now without registering."
A group of senior brothers and sisters suddenly had their faces full of envy and began to express their vulgar favor by beating their chests and kicking their butts.
Xu Chen smiled and squeezed in. Looking at the dazzling array of things on the floor, he first pointed at a Ziyang Sect storage bag and said, "Third Elder, I want a storage bag."
The third elder smiled and nodded, watching Xu Chen take away a storage bag, and suddenly a group of senior brothers and sisters who did not have a storage bag howled.
Zhao Xuan turned around unconvinced and shouted: "What the hell are you guys calling me? These are all the work of my junior brother."
So a group of people immediately laughed and stopped talking.
With the storage bag in hand, Xu Chen randomly selected a few things that were not very valuable among the pile of things, mainly some spiritual materials for refining weapons, and also took two bottles of Great Yuan Dan and a bunch of spiritual stones.
, the rest of the magic weapons and elixirs were not taken.
"Third Elder, I will choose these. I don't need the others now!" Xu Chen put away the things and handed them over.
The third elder nodded with a smile and said: "Yes, you are neither greedy nor contentious, and your character is commendable. I also have a few pills here, which are more suitable for your current cultivation level!"
As he spoke, the third elder waved his hand gently, and three pill bottles floated in front of Xu Chen.
Xu Chen was not polite. He put the elixir away and said to a group of senior brothers and sisters: "I will go back to the medicine garden first and have a look. I will catch up with all the senior brothers and sisters in a few days!"
Zhao Xuan said in surprise: "Junior brother, do you still want to go back and live in the medicine garden?"
Xu Chen nodded and said, "Yes, I'm used to living there!"
Zhao Xuan said with some reluctance: "Then I will visit you another day!"
Fifth senior brother Cao Yang hugged Xu Chen and said with a smile: "Little junior brother, are you afraid of living there alone? Do you want senior brother to come over and accompany you?"
Chen Ran, the third senior brother next to him, interjected: "Junior sister is going to accompany my junior brother. Naturally, she has something to say to her. What are you going to do? Do you think the oil lamp is not bright enough?"
A group of brothers and sisters burst into laughter. Zhao Xuan blushed and stamped her feet: "You are all bad guys, I'm going back first!"
Seeing Zhao Xuan escape, the group of people laughed even louder.
The Ninth Senior Brother hugged Xu Chen and walked out. He walked out of the Alchemy Academy and then said solemnly: "Little Junior Brother, too many things happened this time. The Thirteenth Junior Sister was also seriously injured. I'm afraid it will have a great impact on your cultivation in the future. You
You must be careful when talking to him every day and don't mention this matter."
Xu Chen was stunned for a moment and said: "Didn't the Great Elder help her repair her body after saying that she had successfully transformed into a spirit?"
The Ninth Senior Brother smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It's easier said than done. The First Elder just doesn't want the Thirteenth Junior Sister to think too much. I just secretly asked the Third Elder that the Junior Sister's body and meridians were injured by the lightning method. The foundation damage is serious. Even if it is repaired,
The body has been damaged, but the damaged meridians will never be restored to their original state, and perhaps they will not be able to build the foundation in this lifetime."
Xu Chen suddenly felt depressed.
There are only a dozen people in the Taiyuan Sect, four of whom died early, the sixth brother also disappeared a few years ago and has never been heard from again, the eleventh senior sister also died at the mouth of a monster during a training, Zhao Xuan is ranked thirteenth, in fact,
The youngest junior sister besides Xu Chen.
Originally, she had quite good qualifications. She was a disciple adopted by the great elder himself. Not only was she expected to build a foundation, but she might even be able to form a pill in the future.
However, this incident ruined her life.
Usually, a group of senior brothers and sisters are practicing and training on their own, and the age difference is also very large. The only ones who stay at the mountain gate are Xu Chen, Zhao Xuan and other young peers, so they naturally interact more closely on weekdays.
Before going down the mountain this time, the person Xu Chen interacted with the most was the thirteenth senior sister Zhao Xuan.
But there is no deep relationship between the two. They just talk to each other and occasionally go down the mountain to look for some herbs together.
But this time we went down the mountain and experienced some drastic changes. We ate and lived together, we dealt with Ziyang Zong, Liang Feng and others together, and we also helped each other rescue each other. Only then did we finally come back alive together, and naturally we accumulated deep feelings.
Zhao Xuan was injured because of saving Xu Chen.
If she hadn't blocked Liang Feng's lightning strike in an emergency, she wouldn't have suffered so much damage.
This is a life-saving grace.
Although it is said that no thanks are given for a great favor, in fact, mere gratitude cannot repay this kind of kindness.
Xu Chen has been an orphan since he was a child, and rarely feels the warmth and care of others, but any little kindness will be firmly remembered in his heart, because it is the most precious memory and the most precious wealth in his life.
"Okay, junior brother, don't be too sad. The path to immortality has no limit. If you are sailing on a sea of hardships, no one can guarantee that the boat will capsize one day. Even if we are doing well, we may not necessarily live a long life. Junior sister knows it well.
Therefore, we should take good care of her when we get along on weekdays. This is the only thing we can do." Senior Brother Ninth hugged Xu Chen's shoulders tightly, then sighed and returned to the alchemy room.
Xu Chen stood blankly for a while, then sadly released his flying sword and set off towards the medicine garden several miles away.
The mountain wind is howling, and everything is green. This is the primitive mountain wilderness that I am most familiar with after living for five years. I should be very happy to be able to return here alive.
But at this time, Xu Chen felt an uncontrollable sadness in his heart, so sour that he wanted to cry.
He had no father or mother since he was a child, and he lived alone most of the time after he went to the mountains.
But after this experience of going down the mountain and coming back, he deeply felt that he seemed to have grown up all at once, understood many things, and understood many truths. Although he was still a little ignorant, he cherished this relationship more than family love.
A more precious friendship.
"Senior sister, if I succeed in my cultivation, I will definitely find a way to cure your body and let you go further!"
The light fell in front of the waterfall in the former medicine garden. Feeling the cool mist coming towards his face, Xu Chen gently wiped his face, and the taste was a little salty.
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More than a month has passed and the medicine garden has changed beyond recognition.
The resurrected tree has completely withered, its leaves have fallen off, and only a few branches and a trunk are left standing in the medicine garden.
The medicinal herbs that used to be lush and green have all withered long ago, and they are all yellow with no trace of green in sight.
Hey, that’s not right, there’s grass growing!
Xu Chen's consciousness swept across the entire medicinal field with his eyes, and found that a few plants were stubbornly growing out of the withered yellow land.
However, these plants are not all green, but are colorful and colorful, including green, red, blue, purple, and white. Most of them are staggered, speckled, and weird.
Xu Chen was stunned for a moment, then rushed into the medicinal field in three steps and two steps at a time. He squatted down and opened a bunch of dried herbs. In front of him was the nearest plant. The thin stem was only five inches long and the three pieces looked like snake heads.
The leaves are staggered and twisted together, with white spots on a blue background and vague spiral silver patterns covering the stems and leaves.
If you take a casual look, it doesn't look like a plant at all, but looks like a weird three-headed snake. But if you touch it with your hands, you can clearly feel the unique softness of the plant. You can even feel a hidden vitality with your spiritual consciousness.
, as if this small piece of grass contains the life energy of a towering tree.
"This...what kind of plant is this?"
Xu Chen used his sense of sight and consciousness to carefully examine this strange snake-headed plant. The more carefully he looked, the stronger his heart was shaken. He even began to conclude that this thing should not be an ordinary mountain plant, but something that he had never seen before.
thing.
Could it be brought from the feces of spiritual animals?
In great surprise, Xu Chen recalled the strange piece of spirit animal excrement he had picked up.
At first, he carefully opened it for inspection and found the blue jade beads. He also found a lot of undigested grains, kernels and other debris inside.
Maybe this is the answer.
The excrement was poisonous and poisoned the Resurrection Wood and all the herbs, but the seeds in the excrement sprouted.
In order to confirm his idea, he let go of his consciousness and carefully found all the plants growing in the medicine garden, and then opened them one by one and looked at them carefully.
There are seven or eight species of these plants, many of which are similar. The most common among them is something similar to rice and weeds, but the stems are purple-red and the leaves are purple with green, forming a strange pattern.
If you observe carefully with your spiritual sense, you can seem to find an undetectable and subtle brilliance flowing inside.
Xu Chen suddenly felt that he had discovered something extraordinary.
Based on the distribution of these plants, he roughly determined the scope of the original fertilization.
Among them, Resurrection Wood has the most surrounding areas, which is consistent with the situation when fertilization was first applied.
Could it be that the spirit beast excrement came from some unknown world?
Although Xu Chen practiced rubbish and had very little knowledge of the immortal world, and could not even recognize many words, he still spent five years in the Immortal Sect. Although the Taiyuan Sect was poor and broken, he knew more about this world than the ordinary world.
Much stronger.
Mortals think this is a world with round sky and square earth.
But it is not true. According to the long-standing legends in the fairy world, this world is very complicated. The earth has ten directions and the sky has nine levels. Together they are called nine heavens and ten earths.
The place where the Song Dynasty is located is called the Shenzhou Continent. Beyond Shenzhou, there are eight deserts and four seas. Beyond these barren seas, there are other vast areas like Shenzhou.
There are not only humans in this world. In addition to the common monsters and beasts, there are also various strange spirits, demons, ghosts and other races.
Mortals think that many things are just ancient myths and legends, but in the world of immortality, these things really exist. It's just that mortals can't reach them until they reach the end of the world, and naturally they can't see them.
And among these nine heavens and ten earths, there are still many more bizarre places. They are hidden in some invisible places and form a world of their own. There may be foreign races or real gods living in them, and the places in them are full of spiritual energy.
, is called the Paradise of Cave Heaven. It is said that all kinds of magical animals and plants grow there, and there are even springs of spiritual fluid, mountains of spiritual fruits, and inexhaustible supply of spiritual medicines and materials.
However, many of these claims are considered just rumors in the fairy world.
But rumors are sometimes just something that no one has really experienced, so they use their own shallow knowledge to refute the real existence.
Xu Chen has been doubtful since he set foot on the immortal path.
But the strange excrement not only brought him a magical blue jade bead, which allowed him to save danger several times and get great benefits, but these strange plants that suddenly appeared were obviously incompatible with the colors and colors of this world.
The smell made him start to have more associations with the origin of this piece of feces.
Since it doesn't look like something from this world, it must come from other unknown mysterious worlds.
Maybe it has something to do with the legendary Cave Heaven Paradise.
If so...
Xu Chen stood up suddenly, his face uncertain and filled with an indescribable ecstasy.
Could it be that that poop came from a fairy beast?
But why would a good one end up near Taiyuan Gate?
Xu Chen looked up at the sky.
Clear, blue, clear sky, as clean as if a dog had licked it.
Suddenly, he really wanted to find out the origin of this shit.
If this kind of poop falls out in a few lumps every now and then, maybe we can get more good treasures like blue jade beads.
Thinking of this, Xu Chen's eyes flashed, and he started to move in the direction of Linghu Canyon.
It seems that my job of picking up excrement cannot be abandoned easily, and I have to stick to it.
After all, this is also a great way to make a fortune like never before.