If you are used to the life on Yubei Mountain, you will not be able to relax.
Because on Yubei Mountain, the time for every meal is very tight. There is a fight every two days. Even if there is no horn sound for one day, it is a rare opportunity to repair the city wall, prepare the supplies for the city defense, and recruit manpower.
It will not be any less leisurely than a day when there is fighting.
Even a crazy "idler" like Zhang Yan will not really be idle. In addition to regularly visiting various sentries, he mainly checks whether the arranged Bagua array needs to be adjusted, and where there is any need for maintenance, such as the thorn vine wall.
Pest control status, etc. Even the path of the Bagua Array needs to be changed from time to time to avoid the loss of personnel due to the luck of the demon clan finding the correct path.
In fact, the Monster Clan's attitude towards the Bagua Array has stabilized over the past six months, and they are no longer so frightened that they dare not set foot in the Bagua Array at the beginning. Now they can also see that the Bagua Array is a method of the human race.
, it’s just that they haven’t seen it, but it aroused the desire to find out. The spying at the sentry was much more frequent than at the beginning, almost every two days.
But in the face of the Bagua Array, a method that has been continuously evolved and improved in the Taoist sect for thousands of years, if the demon clan wants to figure it out without any foundation, it will take several years or even ten years of groping. This point is unnecessary.
Zhang Yan is very relieved.
In addition to going round and round to inspect the various outposts, Zhang Yan also went to the area outside the defense line, which is the resource of Yubei Mountain that is actually competed by the humans and monsters, that is, the Yushan Fruit Grove.
Before seeing the real thing, Zhang Yan would not have thought that the Yushan fruit tree would look like this. It looks different from a "tree" in the general sense. It looks more like a wooden stake with some leaves attached to it and some fruits glued on it.
The branches are almost invisible except for the thick trunk, and the appearance is very strange. Moreover, one tree after another always grows in patches, and the distance between two trees will not exceed two steps.
Moreover, dead leaves, young leaves, fruits, and flowers can be seen on the trees at the same time, which is so magical that people cannot understand it.
The appearance of the Yushan fruit is also very special. It reminded Zhang Yan of corn on the earth for the first time. It is also golden in color, and the grains on it are plump, but the corn is columnar, while the Yushan fruit is round and small in size.
It's like an adult's fist. If you get closer, you can smell the fragrance emanating from the fruit, which makes people want to take a bite.
Zhang Yan didn't go to Yushan Fruit Forest for a walk or play, but General Song of Yubei Mountain Fortress wanted him to go there to see if he could come up with a way to solve the problem of Yushan fruit harvest, and try his best to fight for it.
You can walk in front of the monsters by grabbing them, instead of relying on soldiers to pluck them one by one while bleeding.
It has to be said that after Zhang Yan has now confirmed his identity as a "Xue Xue Lineage", many people in Yubei Mountain Fortress have high hopes for him, hoping to use the methods of the Xue Xue Lineage to solve some of the problems they have been
A problem that has been at a loss for a long time.
Zhang Yan went to the Yushan Fruit Grove many times, and it was not that he had not thought of a solution, but he only thought about it in his mind and did not say it out loud. On the contrary, the number of times he asked for Yushan Fruit became more and more.
Asking for four or five pills at a time is not a big deal. No one would take Zhang Yan seriously. I just hope that when he is happy, he will suddenly come up with some proud thoughts.
The first time I ate Yushan fruit was just out of curiosity. I heard that it is also soft, glutinous and sweet, so I was greedy for a plate and found that it was really good. The texture and taste were much better than the noodle soup in the fortress.
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After taking one bite, Zhang Yan was stunned when he took the second one. He actually felt a trace of spiritual energy spreading out from his stomach, and then was captured by the "Returning Qi Method" that was running all the time, and finally merged into the lower Dantian.
This is also the first time that Zhang Yan has obtained spiritual energy that is not through breath-taking techniques.
"This Yushan fruit actually belongs to the category of "spiritual food"?!" Zhang Yan was immediately shocked in his heart.
The so-called spiritual food literally means usable plants with spiritual energy. This is recorded in many classics and miscellaneous notes in Longhu Mountain. There are many types, and some are accompanied by ups and downs of legends. For example, "
"Millennium Ganoderma", or "Millennium Ginseng", and even more exaggerated "Peach" and "Ginseng Fruit". Of course, the latter two can no longer be regarded as spiritual food alone, they can be called "stealing the merit of creation".
However, spiritual food has been extinct on the earth for a long time, even before the spiritual energy was exhausted. So Zhang Yan saw it for the first time.
"So, in the Wild Sky Realm, strange species like Yushan Fruit may belong to spiritual food? Even if they are not spiritual food, there is a high probability that they are related to spiritual energy. Then won't there be a shortage of medicinal materials for alchemy in the future?"
Zhang Yan's first reaction was that he might actually be able to bring over the "Alchemy Dao" from the Taoist sect in the future. There will definitely be no shortage of related sects and Wanxiang Pearls.
The types of medicinal materials may not be exactly the same, but as long as the medicinal properties are similar, they can be mixed and used. Maybe you can really make a serious "elixir".
But refining alchemy is still too far away for Zhang Yan now. He has just entered the door of cultivation and is in the early stage of the Qi-entraining realm, and alchemy requires a lot of real energy, which is far from the cultivation level of the Qi-entraining realm.
It's affordable. According to the records in the classics, if you want to make alchemy, the alchemist's cultivation level must be at least the Xuanmai realm, which is the next level of the Qi-entraining realm.
Later, Zhang Yan really became interested in Yushan fruit trees.
Based on many field observations and understandings, Zhang Yan has a very clear understanding of the characteristics and distribution of fruit trees in Yushan. This thing is called a "strange species" in the wilderness, mainly because it is very different from other plants.
It's very unusual for a flower to bloom and bear fruit all year round, not to mention that brewing wine has a very good effect on strengthening the bones and muscles of warriors.
Since the four seasons are the picking seasons, it means that a normal means of harvesting is needed, so as to maximize profits while cooperating with sentries.
Finally, after Zhang Yan went back, he drew a prop on paper and gave it to the transport camp to let their craftsmen try to build one. When asked what it was, Zhang Yan casually said: a pulley.
Zhang Yan is not an expert in strategy. How could Zhang Yan come up with any way to "grasp the harvest"? After thinking about it, the only thing he can do is to shorten the transportation time after picking the fruits, so as to allow more people to pick the fruits in disguise.
opportunity to pick more fruits and transport them away, thereby achieving the purpose of "grabbing the harvest" that Song Qinghe hoped for.
Zhang Yan went to the mountain several times and found that the areas with dense fruit trees in Yushan were relatively flat, but going down was rugged. The transportation was all done by people climbing in baskets on their backs, and the efficiency was extremely slow. Of course, without the threat of the demon clan,
This method of transportation is not impossible. Anyway, there will be no problem if the Yushan fruit is left for a month. However, this method of transportation is extremely inappropriate when there are monsters snatching it.
Therefore, Zhang Yan is going to try to see if he can get the pulley out. By then, there will be a lot of articles to do about transportation.