Chapter five hundred and sixty seventh male and female Wuyuan ginseng
Not long after, the story of Shi Mu single-handedly defeating three thousand-year-old disciples who came to challenge him spread throughout the second level of the Holy Land.
It is a normal thing for thousand-year disciples to challenge each other. Therefore, this incident did not cause much uproar, but it also attracted the attention of many people. After all, it is possible to easily defeat thousand-year disciples after practicing for less than a hundred years.
, but it’s rare.
Naturally, Shi Mu didn't pay too much attention to this. After returning to the cave, he immediately called Qi Feng and arranged the distribution of the three newly acquired spiritual waterfalls.
When Qi Feng saw this, he immediately let go of his worries, smiled happily, and left happily.
Two days later, Shi Mu sat at the round table in the main room, looking through the map of the second-level area of the Holy Land.
After watching for a while, he closed his eyes and carefully recalled in his mind all the information about the treasure of the White Ape Ancestor that he had obtained from the Sky-Flirting Stick.
After a while, he opened his eyes, and kept stroking the map with his fingers, comparing and searching carefully, and finally stopped at the far right side of the map, which is also the easternmost edge of the Xuanjie area.
It was a rather remote place, not within the detection area, and was a blank area.
Shi Mu looked at it for a while, and his heart suddenly became full of doubts.
According to the information noted on the map, it is somewhat different from the general blank area. It seems that it has been explored before. It is a quite huge spiritual waterfall. It covers a very large area and should be a very good spiritual area.
, but for some reason it seems to have been vacant for a long time and not occupied by any disciples.
As the saying goes, when things go wrong, there must be a monster!
After Shi Mu pondered for a while, he put away the map and walked out of the mansion, turning into a stream of red light and flying towards the Xuanling Tower.
A moment later, his figure appeared on the main street of Tongliufang.
In this circulation square, the flow of people is very mixed, and all kinds of news are mixed and spread in it. Some people even make a living by selling news.
Shi Mu didn't have many connections on the second floor, so he came here just to try his luck and see if he could find out some information about the spiritual waterfall.
It happened that he still had some elixirs that he had accumulated before, and he planned to deposit them with the fat shopkeeper for sale, so he turned straight into the side street and arrived outside Tianbao Pavilion.
Before he walked into the gate of Tianbao Pavilion, Shi Mu heard a noise coming from inside.
He stepped in and saw a big man in a green robe standing in the lobby of Tianbao Pavilion. His face was red and his ears were red, arguing with the fat steward about something.
Shi Mu glanced at the big man in green clothes and felt that he looked familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while. He did not alert the two of them, but stood at the door and listened with his ears pricked up.
"Shopkeeper, you dare to ask for one hundred and twenty top quality spiritual stones for a black ginseng that is indistinguishable from male to female. Isn't your appetite a bit too big? If it weren't for the fact that the ginseng in the Immortal Medicine Studio is sold out, and you
This poor land happens to be available, so I won't be here anymore. Could it be that you see that I sincerely want it and deliberately raise the price?" The man in green clothes shouted loudly.
"Senior Duanmu, don't get me wrong! If you want to distinguish the male and female of the black ginseng, you can only cut the ginseng into pieces and observe the color of its core. There is no other way. The prices mentioned below are also
Based on the market price, I would never dare to ask senior for a penny more." The fat steward's head was already sweating, and he wiped it with his sleeve and explained to him.
"If it's a male Wu Yuan Ginseng, its medicinal power is pure, and it's very effective when used to refine Tian Yuan Dan. Even if you want two hundred top-quality spiritual stones, it's not expensive. But if it's a female, it contains three-thirds of the poison.
, you also need to spend time preparing auxiliary materials to neutralize the toxicity, and the value will be greatly reduced. Even if it is fifty top-quality spiritual stones, I may not be willing to take it." said the man in green.
"Senior is right, but according to the market price, the price for one hundred and twenty top-quality uncut spiritual stones is already very reasonable." The fat steward continued to explain.
After hearing this, Shi Mu basically understood that the big man in green wanted to buy Wu Yuan Ginseng, but did not agree with the price, while the fat steward insisted on selling it at the market price, so the two parties couldn't argue.
Shi Mu thought for a moment and stepped forward to interrupt the conversation between the two.
"Shopkeeper, long time no see." Shi Mu said with a smile.
"Fellow Daoist Shi..." The fat steward was obviously stunned and then said.
"Hey, Shi Mu?"
He immediately turned around and found that the person calling him was the tall man in Tsing Yi who looked familiar.
"Do you know me?" Shi Mu asked.
"Haha, I know Shi Mu who has been through the Demonic Path for thousands of years and has been promoted to a disciple for thousands of years! Speaking of which, if it hadn't been for your first performance in the ten-year test, the game I'm playing would have been much more boring." The tall man in green clothes.
laughed.
"That's an exaggeration. You are the one who opened the gambling bureau back then, right? Senior Brother Duanmu Guang?" Shi Mu asked.
"Exactly! I didn't expect you to know me too." Duanmu Guang nodded.
"I have long admired your name! When I came in just now, I saw that my senior brother and the shopkeeper were arguing over a piece of black ginseng. I was trying to come up with a solution that would satisfy both parties. I wonder if my senior brother would be willing to listen to it?" Shi Mu was moved in his heart and asked.
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"Oh? Junior brother, please come and listen." Duanmu Guang said with a raised brow.
When the fat shopkeeper heard this, he looked at Shi Mu with some confusion.
"It just so happens that Junior Brother has something that needs Senior Brother's help. Senior Brother is a good gambler, so Junior Brother takes what he wants as a bet and makes a bet with Senior Brother. How about it?" Shi Mu rolled his eyes and asked.
"A bet? How to bet?" When Duan Muguang heard about the bet, he immediately became interested and asked quickly.
"Since senior brother suspects that this black root ginseng is female, then I will determine that it is male. We will use this as a gambling content and cut open this black root ginseng to have a look. If the senior brother guesses correctly, this black root ginseng will be sold for five
Ten top-grade spiritual stones are sold to the senior brother, and the remaining part can be made up by the junior brother. If the junior brother is lucky enough to win, then the senior brother will help the junior brother answer a question, and the Wuyuanshen will be sold to the senior brother for one hundred top-grade spiritual stones, and the remaining part will be sold to the senior brother.
The difference in price will also be made up by junior brother. Senior brother Duanmu, do you think this is good?" Shi Mu said.
"Just answering a question? What question?" Duanmu Guang asked in disbelief upon hearing this.
"Yes, senior brother, don't worry, it's just about the situation of a vacant spiritual waterfall in the spiritual land. If senior brother knows, please tell junior brother. If you don't know, you also need to help junior brother to find out on your behalf." Shi Mu said.
"No matter what I do, in terms of being well-informed, few of my thousand-year-old disciples can match me. I'm betting with you, so I'll ask the shopkeeper to be a witness." Duanmu Guang's expression relaxed, and he stretched out his hand to pat his chest and said.
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The fat shopkeeper looked at Shi Mu hesitantly, but saw a confident smile on the latter's face.
"Okay, then I will come and bear witness." Seeing this, the fat shopkeeper said immediately.
After the fat shopkeeper finished speaking, he took the two of them and turned around to go to the inner hall.
After a while, the fat steward brought out a square box that was half a foot square and covered with amethyst.
In that box, there is a black and purple ginseng with complete roots and clear texture.
The fat shopkeeper slowly took off the lid of the box, and a strange medicinal fragrance immediately appeared in the inner hall.
Duanmu Guang smelled the smell, and his face immediately showed a hint of joy.
I saw the fat shopkeeper taking out a white jade knife as thin as a cicada's wing from the storage ring, carefully cutting a small opening from the top of the black ginseng, and then gently pulling it downwards, and then pulled it on the black ginseng.
A hole was made to reveal the core hidden inside.
As soon as the core was exposed, Duanmu Guang immediately moved his head over and looked inside with a frown.
Shi Mu stood aside, not even wanting to watch.
"Purple... is actually a male ginseng tree. Junior Brother Shi, you win." Duanmu Guang said this, but there was no hint of displeasure in his tone.
This gamble, whether he wins or loses, is a business where he can only make money but not lose anything, so even if he loses, he is still very happy.
"Concession." Shi Mu said.
"Tell me, what's the problem with Junior Brother Shi?" Duanmu Guang asked.
"Haha, it's like this. Junior Brother has taken a fancy to a spiritual waterfall within the detection area. Seeing that there are no powerful monsters entrenched there, but it is vacant and unoccupied, he wants to take it as his own, but is worried.
Are there any unknown risks or taboos there, so I want to ask my senior brother for confirmation." Shi Mu said with a smile.
"Ling Waterfall? Which place are you referring to?" Duanmu Guang asked.
Shi Mu didn't say anything, and immediately took out the map on the second floor and pointed out the spiritual waterfall to him.
"Oh, what geomantic treasure land was my junior brother talking about? It turned out to be this remote place! I really know a thing or two about this matter." Duanmu Guang said with some disdain when he saw it.
"What? Is there anything wrong with this spiritual waterfall?" Shi Mu asked.
"It's a long story. It is said that as early as a thousand years ago, some disciples explored the Spirit Waterfall area and tried to take it for themselves. However, there was a powerful monster lingering there. However, the monster was not only intelligent but also intelligent.
It's not low, and it's very good at concealing its whereabouts. After several confrontations, it has never been able to completely kill it. At most, it was driven away, but it has always been entrenched nearby and refused to leave. Later, some disciples simply forcibly cleared the area.
The attendants who were under the jurisdiction but were sent to take care of that area were often attacked and killed unexpectedly, and the spiritual grass and other things they planted were also eaten. Ordinary magic circles could not do anything about it, and spending a lot of money to purchase magic circles would not be able to do anything about it.
It’s really not worth it. Even after changing owners for several times, there was no progress, and over time, the spiritual waterfall gradually became deserted." Duanmu Guang explained nonchalantly.
"So, the potential risk in that spiritual waterfall refers to that monster? I wonder if senior brother knows about the situation of that monster?" Shi Mu said.
"I don't know much about what this monster looks like or what its cultivation level is. By the way, it is said that at that time, many people thought that the monster was deliberately stationed at the spiritual waterfall, and that there might be some heavenly and earthly treasures in it.
Several powerful disciples once joined forces to explore that area." Duanmu Guang said after thinking for a while.
When Shi Mu heard this, his heart thumped, and he pretended to be calm and asked:
"Oh, I wonder if those senior brothers have found any heavenly materials or earthly treasures?" (To be continued.)