At midnight, Liu Yu was sitting beside the bonfire, holding a thick picture album in his hand, looking at it with great concentration.
The album is called "The Encyclopedia of Spiritual Medicines in the Black and White Mountains", which contains detailed records of thousands of common elixirs in the Black and White Mountains. It not only has detailed text descriptions, but also has bright and clear patterns, which are extremely vivid and easy to understand at a glance. p>
For example: Huang Kuihua, a second-grade intermediate elixir, has five elements of soil, a plant height of one foot, a semi-creeping stem, long spatula-shaped leaves, pinnately or deeply lobed, and dense growth. The flower stems are tall and straight, and the flowers are small and numerous.
The flowers are golden in color, about one inch wide in diameter, with flat tongue-shaped flowers on the edges and a tube-shaped flower in the center.
The lifespan of a single flower is generally a hundred days; the flowering period is from late autumn to early spring, which lasts for more than four months. January to February is the peak flowering period. After flowering, small fruits are formed, which mature in late May. The fruits have no medicinal value. After a detailed description,
, accompanied by a brightly colored and lifelike yellow flower pattern.
This picture album was lent to Liu Yu by Sun Kang. He borrowed it on the third day after entering the mountain. Liu Yu had almost finished reading it.
Most of the elixirs introduced in the album have been known to Liu Yu for a long time. Some of them were learned by Liu Yu at Chuyuan College when he was young. Some of them were seen when he was reading Tibetan scriptures. Only a small part of them were completely unfamiliar to him.
I have never heard of it, but it still benefited Liu Yu a lot.
The next morning, the five people excitedly began to search the jungle. The five people stood in a row, each two feet apart, and searched slowly forward in the same direction. The five people were very attracted by the lush thatch.
, the bushes were submerged and we couldn’t see each other clearly.
The grass and shrubs around them were so dense and messy that it was difficult to detect them with the eyes. The five of them could only use their spiritual senses to explore the surrounding vegetation, paying attention to the nooks and crannies in the grass, at the bottom of the shrubs, and between the rocks.
Is there any rare elixir hidden inside?
"Haha! I found a red grass!" Suddenly He Anqing's laughter came over, and he had a harvest first, which made Liu Yu a little envious, because whoever finds the elixir belongs to him.
Red grass is a second-grade intermediate elixir. The five elements belong to fire. A red grass sold to a spiritual material shop is worth at least forty low-level spiritual stones.
"Qing'er, how does the red grass taste?" Liang Zheng shouted loudly.
He Anqing squatted beside the red grass, swung a small hoe to dig from the side, and replied: "It's green and green, and it's growing very well."
"I have a four-leaf silver angelica plant here!" Sun Kang said in surprise.
"Congratulations, senior brother!" Fang Lanlan said not far from Sun Kang.
Silver Angelica blooms once every ten years, and four-leaf Silver Angelica has grown for forty years. It is considered a good elixir. One plant is worth about fifty low-level spiritual stones.
"An old Polygonum multiflorum plant, haha!" Liang Zheng also laughed at this time.
"I have some white poria fruits here!" Before Liang Zheng finished speaking, Fang Lanlan also said happily.
Half an hour passed, and the exclamations made Liu Yu become anxious. Fang Lanlan and four of them all found the elixir. Some people found not only one plant, but Liu Yu found nothing. With his hands empty, he couldn't help but sigh about how lucky he was.
So bad!
Suddenly, Liu Yu suddenly pulled away the dense grass in front of him, and saw a short plant growing in the shade of the grass. It had six palm-shaped compound leaves and small light yellow-green flowers. The fruit was oblate and spherical, like a wild mountain.
See.
Liu Yu took out a dagger and a small hoe, and carefully dug around. Soon a wild ginseng with lush roots and a body like a blessed old man was dug out. The skin of the ginseng was yellow-brown, and the texture was tight and shiny.
Liu Yu took out the clean water and washed it, then wiped it gently with a clean cotton cloth to absorb the water droplets.
Liu Yu laid the old ginseng flat on the cotton cloth, came to a bright place, and carefully observed the reed joints on the top of the ginseng, the round reeds on the reed bowl and roots, and the fine screw-like horizontal stripes on the surface of the ginseng.
The color of surprise.
"Brother Sun, come and take a look. I found an old wild ginseng plant that seems to be more than three hundred years old." Liu Yu shouted uncertainly.
"Come, show me to my brother!" Sun Kang heard Liu Yu's cry and ran over in a blink of an eye.
Sun Kang took the wild ginseng from Liu Yu's hand, raised it to his head and took advantage of the sunlight, and looked at it carefully.
"Brother, how are you doing?" Liu Yu asked nervously.
"Junior Brother Liu, have you found an old ginseng plant?" He Anqing and Liang Zheng also ran over curiously and asked.
"Congratulations to Junior Brother Liu, this is indeed an old ginseng plant, at least three hundred and thirty years old." Sun Kang looked at it carefully and said happily.
"That's great." Liu Yu excitedly waved the medicine hoe in her hand and said with a smile.
"Wow! Junior Brother Liu, you are so lucky!" He Anqing exclaimed.
"A 300-year-old wild ginseng is worth at least more than 2,000 low-level spiritual stones! Let me take a look!" Liang Zheng took the old ginseng from Sun Kang and said with some envy. "Let me give it a try and get good luck!" He Anqing gently touched the rough yellow-brown skin of the wild ginseng and said excitedly.
He Anqing pulled Liang Zheng and said excitedly: "Return the wild ginseng to Junior Brother Liu quickly. This forest is so big, there may be old ginseng like this. Let's go and look for it carefully."
"Qing'er, you're right! Let's go!" Liang Zheng returned the ginseng to Liu Yu and replied excitedly.
Liu Yu's discovery of this 300-year-old wild ginseng greatly inspired everyone's confidence. The five of them became even more excited and did not miss any corner. What followed was a series of surprises and unexpected harvests from time to time until the sky completely darkened.
The talent returned to the camp with unfinished thoughts.
Sun Kang, Liu Yu, and Liang Zheng went to collect firewood and catch some game. Fang Lanlan and He Anqing used the remaining branches to build a fire. There was a steamer in the fire and began to steam rice.
"Sister Lan, my best harvest today is a three-hundred-year-old "Lanzhi grass", what about you!" He Anqing asked Fang Lanlan excitedly.
Lanzhi grass is a third-grade low-level spiritual grass. The five elements belong to water. It is a very common medicinal material and can be used to refine a variety of elixirs. However, Lanzhi grass that has grown for three hundred years is still relatively rare and is worth thousands of low-level spiritual stones.
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"The best one is a 200-year-old wild ginseng." Fang Lanlan threw a piece of pine wood into the fire and replied with a chuckle.
"That's worth hundreds of spiritual stones. Junior Brother Liu is the luckiest, finding a 300-year-old wild ginseng!" He Anqing said enviously.
"Junior brother Liu has always had good luck. Although his cultivation level is not high, his strength is very strong. Is it really difficult for people to see through it?" Fang Lanlan said while looking at the flames.
He Anqing nodded quickly and said: "Sister Lan, you are right, Junior Brother Liu has a good temper, gentle and elegant, unlike Liang Zheng's bad habits."
"Sister Lan, you can't see what Junior Brother Liu is thinking! Why are you tempted?" He Anqing came to Fang Lanlan's side and said with a wink.
"Don't talk nonsense! It's impossible for me and Junior Brother Liu!" Fang Lanlan said unhappily.
"Sister Lan, I really don't know what you are worried about. Junior Brother Liu, you don't consider it, and Senior Brother Sun, you don't accept it. How many sect heroes have shown kindness in the past two years, but you can't look down on any of them?" He Anqing asked in confusion.
Said.
After a long silence, Fang Lanlan said with red eyes: "Xiaoqing, senior sister has her own difficulties, I will tell you later."
"Sister Lan, what's wrong with you?" He Anqing asked anxiously.
At this time, the sound of "sand, sand, sand" footsteps came. Sun Kang, Liu Yu, and Liang Zheng returned with loaded loads. Sun Kang carried two pheasants, and Liu Yu and Liang Zheng each dragged two huge dead trees towards them.
When the two of them approached, Fang Lanlan turned around and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, then hid in the tent to tidy up.
"Junior Sister Fang, what's wrong with her?" Sun Kang saw Fang Lanlan running into the tent and asked He Anqing casually.
"Nothing, what is Senior Brother Sun doing for dinner?" He Anqing asked pretending to be greedy.
"You!" Sun Kang shook his head and walked aside to deal with the two pheasants.
Sun Kang was really good at it. While searching for elixirs during the day, he picked a lot of mushrooms and several kinds of wild vegetables. A rich meal was soon prepared. The rice was steamed fragrant rice and served with several plates of shiny wild vegetables.
, and roasted pheasant, which the four of us naturally ate with gusto.
The four of them followed a veteran like Sun Kang. There were treasures everywhere in the mountains, delicious food and drink, and their lives were extremely comfortable.