Qeng Ho Mage

Chapter 238 Colorless Crystal Silkworm
Under the blood mulberry tree.

Fang Dushu looked up at the blood-red tree crown and asked, "Junior Sister Wei, how old is this blood mulberry tree?"

Wei Shuangmin also didn't know the details, so she made some calculations to Fang Dushu: "Brother, before you settled in Gumu Peak, the old master here was an old disciple named Ding Lingxi. According to the disciple list in the school, Ding Lingxi It has been two Jiazi years since I joined the dispatch, and the blood mulberry tree is at least two Jiazi years old."

In front of Ding Lingxi, Lone Wood Peak has always been an idle barren peak. Who planted the blood mulberry tree and how old it is is not recorded in the classics of the Zhenwen School. It is most likely a wild tree.

At this time, the hundred and ten left-behind disciples who relied on Tianmai all gathered at the top of Gumu Peak, and the disciples of the Foundation Establishment Stage gathered around Fang Dushu to talk.

During the Qi training period, the disciples set up a simple meeting place in the open space in front of the cave, placed tables, chairs and futons, served spiritual wine and spiritual tea, and held a banquet later.

When Fang Dushu first joined the sect, there were only [-] or [-] disciples of Yitianmai, and most of them defected from Jiuyinmai.

When Patriarch Zhiruo went to the Shangzong, the disciples registered under his sect were scattered among the various veins, some of them were assigned to Yitianmai, and Wei Shuangmin was one of them.

After that, after the selection and recruitment of the Sixth and Seventh Ancient Inkstone Competition, Yi Tianmai began to frequently recruit young disciples, and the old disciples would also introduce younger generations from the clan, relying on connections.

This has led to the continuous expansion of the number of disciples of Yitianmai, and it has reached two to three hundred people so far.

However, these disciples are basically named, and there are only six true disciples of Master Sanfeng and Qi Guangxiang.

The eldest disciple Qi Jianting and the fourth disciple Gu Zunchan went to Xueqi City, and the third disciple Xiang Xinxiu and the fifth disciple Xie Zhenshan were far away at the Panshi Bridge.

Only the sixth disciple, Yuan Difan, stayed in Yitianmai to look after the house. He was only a boy in his teens, and he couldn't travel far.

Yuan Difan is still in the Qi training stage, but he is qualified to stay by Fang Dushu's side and chat with Yi Tianmai's disciples in the foundation stage.

It has only been a few decades since Yitianmai was founded, and there are generally young disciples in the vein. There are not many people who can build the foundation. Except for a few true biography, there are only a dozen or so named foundation-building disciples, and half of them have gone to Xueqi City and Panshi. bridge.

At this moment, there are only a few Foundation Establishment disciples accompanying Fang Dushu.

Among these few people, Fu Chengxiang and Qin Fulu live near Lone Tree Peak, and the couple also do the daily collection of blood mulberry trees.

After Wei Shuangmin finished speaking, Fu Chengxiang continued: "Brother, Lu'er often raises silkworms with Senior Sister Qin, and sometimes goes out to pick wild mulberries. She can calculate the age of mulberry trees. Let her identify them."

Fang Dushu immediately waved his hand and asked Qin Fulu to screen.

In fact, Qin Fulu collects blood mulberry leaves all year round, and has already assessed the age of blood mulberry trees.

She took out a blood mulberry leaf picked in recent years and showed it to Fang Dushu: "The older the psychic mulberry tree in the world of cultivating immortals, the stronger the medicinal effect of the mulberry leaves, and the appearance of the mulberry leaves will also change. Brother, please look, the current mature blood mulberry leaves have three veins on the leaf surface, which means that the age of the blood mulberry tree is more than 300 years old, but less than 400 years old!"

Fang Dushu took a closer look and found that there were indeed three veins protruding from the blood mulberry leaves, like thin blood vessels.

He questioned: "One leaf vein is 100 years old. According to you, can there be a hundred leaf veins on the mulberry leaves of ten thousand years? I'm afraid the mulberry leaves can't hold it!"

Qin Fulu replied: "The age of psychic trees reaches a certain age, for example, more than 2000 years, and their spiritual leaf form will often metamorphose once. After the metamorphosis is completed, the previous leaf veins will disappear, and the leaf veins will not continue to increase."

Of course, there are tens of thousands of types of trees in the world of cultivating immortals, and the transformation time is different, and the shape of the spiritual leaves is also very different.

If it is only for the blood mulberry tree, the current method of identifying the age of the tree is to look at the veins on the blood mulberry leaves.

Fang Dushu listened to Qin Fulu's words clearly and logically, and asked her: "You know how to identify the age of mulberry trees, so can you cultivate the spiritual roots of mulberry trees?"

Qin Fulu smiled and said: "Senior Brother Fang, these years I was ordered by my grandma to go out to collect spiritual mulberry. I once found more than ten spiritual roots and planted them all on Grandma's Bitong Mountain. It's a pity that the quality of these spiritual roots is too poor. The silkworms did not help much, and grandma was not satisfied."

Her great-grandmother is Qin Hongyao.

She herself is from the Qin family, and she raised silkworms with Qin Hongyao since she was a child. Because Fu Chengxiang was ordered by Fang Dushu to visit the silkworms regularly in the Holy Spirit vein, and thus met her and married her.

Although she was married to Fu Chengxiang, but Fu Chengxiang would only follow Qin Hongyao's name when he saw Qin Hongyao face to face, and call Qin Hongyao grandma.

At other times, Fu Chengxiang always called Qin Hongyao Senior Sister Qin according to the family rules.

Fu Chengxiang is a child of Wuyuan City, two generations lower than Fu Shiqing. When he participated in the Gu Yan Grand Competition, because he asked Qi Jianting for information about Fang Dushu, Qi Jianting thought that he had a relationship with Fang Dushu, so he brought him back. Rely on Tianmai.

Before Dushu went to Xueqi City more than [-] years ago, he had entrusted Fu Chengxiang with guarding Lone Tree Peak and collecting blood mulberry leaves, and told Fu Chengxiang to visit Qin Hongyao regularly at the Holy Spirit.

Qin Hongyao is helping Fang Dushu hatch the silkworm colony. After the silkworm colony is born, Fang Dushu needs to send a disciple to handle the mundane affairs of silkworm rearing.

As a result, Fu Chengxiang not only met Qin Hongyao's grandnephew Qin Fulu during his stay in the Holy Spirit Vessel, but was also favored by Qin Hongyao and gave him a batch of foundation-building panacea.

Fu Chengxiang got the opportunity of Qin Hongyao, and stood out from the many named disciples of Yitianmai first, and succeeded in building the foundation.

It has been several years since Qin Fulu established her foundation and the two officially got married.

Before getting married, Qin Fulu had been living in Shengshengling. After getting married, she began to marry chickens and follow chickens, and moved to live with Fu Chengtong near Gumu Peak.

But Qin Fulu has never left the Holy Spirit vein, she is not a disciple of the Yitian vein.

So Fang Dushu asked her to cultivate the spiritual root of the golden mulberry tree, and she needed to be rewarded.

Fang Dushu first took out the golden mulberry leaves and gave them to Qin Fulu to have a look.

Qin Fulu has been raising silkworms for a long time, and has a high appreciation for mulberry trees: "This is the root of the golden mulberry tree!"

She spoke excitedly: "Golden mulberry leaf is the best spiritual thing known to raise silkworms in the world of cultivating immortals. If this spiritual root can be cultivated into a tree, then the silkworms will not have to worry about eating in the future! But..."

She quickly discovered the specialness of the spiritual root of the golden mulberry tree: "Senior Brother Fang, why does this spiritual root seem to have been cut, is it incomplete?"

"It itself is a dead root, more than half of it has been cut off and used as medicine!"

"Dead? The golden light on the root is so full of vitality that it doesn't look like a dead root!"

"You don't know! A few days ago I went to the Lishan Dharma Assembly and found a colleague from the Water Gate of the God of Great Liang. He used Qingchun Shenshui to revive the spiritual root. The golden light you see now is actually death. And the resurrected form!"

Fang Dushu explained to this point, and asked Qin Fulu: "Are you sure you can cultivate such a spiritual root into a tree?"

Qin Fulu said firmly: "As long as there is vitality revealed, it can be cultivated and survived. Brother Fang, where do you plan to plant this spiritual root?"

Fang Dushu pointed to the left and right: "Can it be planted on the top of my Lone Tree Peak?"

"This……"

Qin Fulu became embarrassed: "Senior Brother Fang, your blood mulberry tree is a bit special, it can absorb all the spiritual energy of the entire mountain, and any other spiritual grass and spiritual wood species can hardly survive, you should change to another place, golden mulberry tree spirit Roots are so rare, it would be a pity if they died on the peak."

On the entire peak, except for a blood mulberry tree, there are no other flowers and plants. This peak is named Gumu Peak because of the blood mulberry tree.

Fang Dushu turned his head and looked into the distance, and saw Fu Chengxiang and Qin Fulu's Lingfeng cave a few miles away, and said, "The outside of your cave is empty, how about cultivating golden mulberry trees?"

The two looked at each other, and laughed together: "As long as the senior brother agrees, we are willing to plant!"

The two of them have only opened their cave for a few years, and the top of the mountain was originally full of weeds and trees, which were all eradicated by them. Recently, they have been looking for suitable spiritual roots to plant, but they have been unable to find valuable varieties. Fang Dushu handed over the golden mulberry tree to them. , exactly what they wanted.

Fang Dushu directly handed over the spiritual root to Qin Fulu for safekeeping, and asked her to plant it on another day.

After settling the matter, Fang Dushu asked about Qin Hongyao's situation: "When I was at Panshi Bridge, I went to see Uncle Xia. She said that Senior Sister Qin was ill. Has she recovered?"

Qin Fulu replied: "Grandma Grandma is not sick, but was injured when she was dealing with monsters in Heitou Mountain in Lizhou, which caused her physical body to be damaged, and she has not been able to recover so far. effect."

When Qin Hongyao was fighting on Mount Heitou, she was besieged by a group of locusts and spider demons. She was seriously injured and lost her vitality. Afterwards, Master Xia Qiwen rewarded her with a healing elixir. After taking it, she thought her body had recovered.

Afterwards, she began to help Fang Dushu hatch the ice and fire silkworms. For ten years, she continued to cast spells to sacrifice the Holy Spirit Nest. Once her mana was overdrawn, her old illnesses were exposed.

But she promised that Fang Dushu's affairs would not be abandoned halfway, so she kept cultivating silkworms while recuperating her injuries, and as a result, her injuries could not get better all year round.

Anyway, the root cause of Qin Hongyao's disease has something to do with silkworm breeding.

After Fang Dushu heard about the situation, he waited until the banquet was over to send away his classmates one after another. He prepared a generous gift overnight.

Early the next morning, accompanied by Fu Chengxiang and Qin Fulu, he went to Bitong Mountain in the Holy Spirit Vessel to visit Qin Hongyao.

Seeing Fang Dushu's visit, Qin Hongyao seemed very happy, and felt relieved in her heart. The promise made more than [-] years ago can finally be fulfilled today.

After exchanging pleasantries, Qin Hongyao led Fang Dushu to the Silkworm Garden.

Since Qin Hongyao hatched the first batch of Binghuo silkworms, she opened a silkworm garden outside the cave. The garden was full of various mulberry trees, and two silkworm nests were placed under the trees.

One of the silkworm nests was shining golden, and Fang Dushu could tell at a glance that this nest was evolved from oracle bones, and it was the holy spirit nest that Qin Hongyao used to hatch silkworms back then.

The Holy Spirit Nest was originally the oracle bone of Master Xia Qiwen's enlightenment. Because Qin Hongyao was successful in saving her back then, Master Xia Qiwen gave Qin Hongyao the Holy Spirit Nest to hatch insects.

Qin Hongyao hatched the ice and fire silkworms for Fang Dushu through the holy spirit nest, which can speed up the hatching of demon eggs.

Fang Dushu's Ice and Fire Twin Silkworms are currently living in the Holy Spirit Nest.

As soon as he entered the silkworm garden, the fire silkworm smelled his breath, flew out of the nest and landed on his shoulder.

After so many years, the fire silkworm has transformed from the one-horned silkworm to the fire moth.

Fang Dushu stretched out his hand to caress the fire moth, and said with a smile, "I haven't seen you for so long, but Huo'er still remembers me."

Huo'er was hatched by him himself, during which time he was fed with true blood many times, unless Huo'er died, he would never be forgotten.

At this time, the ice silkworm also flew out of the nest, followed and landed in Qin Hongyao's hands.

Qin Hongyao patted it cherishingly, and asked Fang Dushu: "Junior Brother Fang, I remember you said back then that this ice silkworm was found under the blood mulberry tree in your Gumu Peak, so it must be a wild silkworm?"

"uncertain."

Fang Dushu said: "There is another restriction under the blood mulberry tree for ice silkworms to inhabit. This restriction should be left by Ding Lingxi, the former master of Lone Tree Peak. Ding Lingxi is a descendant of the Lingxi Sect. This sect created a unique The spring silkworm method is best at raising silkworms, and the ice silkworms may also be left over from Ding Lingxi."

"I know the Lingxi sect. The disciples of this sect have tamed many silkworms of different species in the past."

Qin Hongyao said: "If the ice silkworm has this school's origin, then it is not surprising that it can hatch a special species."

In fact, Huo'er also has a background of the Lingxi Sect. Fang Dushu found the fire silkworm chrysalis in the Yeguangbi of Liangjie Mountain. This silkworm chrysalis was left by Ding Huainan, a descendant of the Lingxi Sect.

"Exotic species?"

Fang Dushu glanced at the silkworm garden. Besides the holy spirit nest, there was also a big green nest made of mulberry vines under the mulberry tree.

In this green nest, there are faintly dense silkworm shadows shaking, and they must be the descendants of the ice and fire silkworms hatched.

Before coming to see Qin Hongyao, Fang Dushu imagined the various forms of the silkworm flock. Their parents are ice and fire silkworms. He expected that they should inherit their parents' respective talents, either fire color, ice color, or ice fire Alternately, the result is not the same thing at all.

Fang Dushu walked to the green nest, looked down, it looked empty, almost thought he was dazzled.

He looked at it intently again, only to find that there was a kind of transparent and colorless young silkworm entrenched in the nest. The whole body was crystal clear, like crystal.

Young silkworms are only about the size of a finger belly. They seem to be afraid of strangers, and they are used to shrinking their bodies into a ball.

"Colorless worm?"

Fang Dushu was surprised, stretched out his hand and squeezed out a young silkworm, felt the trembling of the silkworm's body with his fingertips, couldn't help feeling disappointed, thinking that the young silkworm seemed a little courageous.

He put the young silkworm in the palm of his hand, examined it carefully, and found that there was a single horn on the head of the silkworm, which was similar to Huo'er.

But other than that, the juvenile silkworm bears no resemblance to its parent, the Ice and Fire Silkworm.

"Senior Sister Qin, are these young silkworms really the descendants of Huo'er and Ice Silkworms?" Fang Dushu couldn't believe it.

"Of course it's absolutely true!" Qin Hongyao laughed and said, "How can there be fake descendants, Junior Brother Fang, you have fed them with real blood, and these crystal silkworms also have your real blood brand in their bodies, if you don't believe me, you can use a spell to check it. "

"I can sense it." Fang Dushu said: "I just feel strange, how could Huo'er and Bingcan give birth to such strange offspring? Sister Qin, do they have any special supernatural powers?"

(End of this chapter)