Tomb Robber: I, Chen Yulou, am dedicated to cultivating immortality!

Chapter 153 The Five Elements Alchemy: Golden Spirit Conquers Wood

Between ancient walls and deep cliffs.

The three figures ran back and forth, stopping from time to time, holding medicine hoe or shovel in hand, digging out the entire medicinal plant that had been growing for hundreds of years, and carefully putting it into the bamboo basket behind them.

The most amazing of them all.

It must be Yuan Hong.

Originally a white ape, he grew up in the mountainous Pingshan Mountain.

No matter how dangerous this place is, it can still walk on flat ground without the help of any external objects.

Under Partridge Whistle, the hook on the mountain-climbing armor sank into the stone wall, and he jumped over, leaping and turning, displaying his lightness skills to the extreme. However, while he was collecting herbs, he was mostly focused on his little junior sister.

Among the three, Hua Ling has the lowest strength.

He has neither the talent of Yuan Hong nor a mountain-moving weapon like Di Zijia.

His safety was all tied to the sky-drilling rope above his head.

After climbing over a rock, she was about to take the opportunity to take a break when her eyes suddenly lit up. There was an old wild ginseng growing on the cliff not far from her.

Although she has grown up a lot since the last time we met, she is still just a little girl who has not experienced much of the world.

Now that the seven-leaf ginseng was so close, she couldn't care less about her tiredness and calmed herself down. She grabbed the diamond rope with one hand and quickly wrapped it around her wrist before jumping forward slightly.

After all, just one plant can be sold for a sky-high price.

Zagrama.

It is the kind that was rarely seen before in the valley and lake.

The master passed away.

Looking at her thin and frail figure, Partridge Whistle was heartbroken.

You know, even Pingshan.

It is a precious medicine that can save one's life and extend one's vitality.

But his feet only stepped on a piece of rock as big as his palm.

Before you even get close, you can feel a strong medicinal fragrance filling the air, which makes people feel refreshed.

I picked six or seven plants in a row, which were at least a hundred years old medicine.

Ordinary people have no access to it.

Seven-leaf ginseng, dendrobium officinale, Tianshan snow lotus, century-old Poria cocos, and Polygonum multiflorum have been called human fairy grasses since ancient times.

but……

The flower spirit, protected only by a sky-piercing rope, was far more agile than he imagined, and its body was as light as a stream of smoke traveling between dangerous cliffs and steep mountains.

In desperation, Partridge Whistle took her away.

now.

His journey to find pearls was repeatedly blocked, so he returned to the village and heard that Hua Ling's mother had become ill due to overwork and excessive grief, and the curse on her body broke out prematurely.

In the nearby Miao village, there are also many medicinal farmers, desperately going to the medicine wall to pick medicinal materials.

Under such temptation, there are also many people who exchange their lives for money.

How dare he be distracted in the slightest.

Come to think of it, only Zhelong Mountain Insect Valley, a place that is inaccessible and has excellent geomantic omen, can grow.

Seven leaves as green as jade sway gently in the wind.

Now that he finally found the Muchen Bead, his people's millennium long-cherished wish was about to come true, which made him act even more cautiously.

There is no room for any more surprises.

Several years later.

When he heard that his uncle had passed away, he and his master personally returned the ossuary to the ancestral temple. That was also the first time he saw Hua Ling. She was only a few years old and didn't even know about birth, old age, illness, and death.

A little carelessness will lead to an irreparable outcome.

The seemingly frail body is not as agile as a flying bird.

She has been studying pharmacology since.

This has been many years in the blink of an eye.

Just glance at it.

Surprisingly, it was the one I saw on the plank road before.

In a blink of an eye, the person was close to the stone wall.

"Seven-leaf ginseng!"

The little flower spirit was left alone.

In the past few years, I have traveled extensively with my two senior brothers, but this was the first time I saw Seven-leaf Ginseng.

But a pair of clear eyes were full of wonder.

Standing on the big blue stone, Hua Ling raised her little face, with beads of sweat on the tip of her nose.

It seems that if the wind blows, it will fall off the cliff.

Seeing this scene, Partridge Whistle felt anxious and uneasy, and he almost stepped forward, but Hua Ling didn't show any nervousness at all, and moved with her toes on the edge.

Totally dancing on the edge of a knife.

at last.

Wait until she reaches the gap in the cliff.

Look at the emerald green mountain ginseng growing in it.

Hua Ling's eyes became clearer and clearer.

The partridge whistle not far below him breathed a long sigh of relief and continued to hold the medicine hoe to dig up the Polygonatum japonica in front of him.

As for Yuan Hong, it is as if the dragon returns to the sea and the tiger releases deep into the mountains.

Running back and forth among the dangerous cliffs of a hundred feet.

Not only are countless heavenly and earthly treasures born on the cliff, there are also countless green and fragrant wild fruits. For it, this place is simply a paradise.

After picking a few herbs.

Glancing at the bamboo basket behind him, he saw that it was almost half full. Seeing this, Yuan Hong thought for a while and decided that he could take a break. He looked around and saw that there happened to be an ancient tree covered with wild fruits not far away. Tree.

He ran up the branch in two or three steps.

Sitting among the branches of the trees.

I picked a large handful and threw one into my mouth from time to time.

This kind of life is still comfortable.

but……

Yuan Hong was absolutely unwilling to let him return to Baiyuan Cave.

Although the land of humans is a bit complicated, at least there is hope.

Xuan Dao's Convincing Qi Building Foundation Skill.

The orthodox Taoist practice method.

Valuable.

The master just rewarded it so that even a mountain ape could have a glimpse of the Immortal Avenue.

and also……

Throw the remaining wild fruits into your mouth.

Yuan Hong gently pressed it on his chest. The familiar smell and heavy feeling inside the baggage made him feel at ease indescribably.

Mountain monsters among all things.

Why is there such a strict hierarchy?

It boils down to two words.

Bloodline!

Under the same realm, those with outstanding bloodline, such as dragons, phoenixes and unicorns, are naturally superior to others.

Although the mandrill is also a genus of apes, its heels and feet are much stronger than it. Once these three bones can be completely fused, Yuan Hong may be able to be reborn.

Plus the practice method.

It may not be possible to reach the realm of great demons.

"It's here..."

While it was in a daze, Hua Ling carefully placed the whole seven-leaf ginseng plant into the bamboo tower in the crevice of the cliff, and couldn't help but burst into joy.

I saw that its roots, stems and leaves were all there, without any damage.

The medicinal fragrance is permeating and the medicinal power is pure.

This seven-leaf ginseng would be absolutely priceless outside.

However, Hua Ling had no intention of taking action or taking it on her own. The reason why she had to stay was to give Brother Chen a surprise.

With it.

It should be of some benefit to Brother Chen's practice.

Partridge Whistle and the old foreigner have never been able to figure out the method Chen Yulou practiced.

But having been dealing with medicinal stones since she was a child, she could vaguely guess something.

The energy of green wood, the spiritual power of herbs.

This is also the reason why she would do this.

"Hua Ling, it's almost time, go take a look at that wildflower spirit..."

Suddenly.

A calm voice reached my ears.

Looking back, I saw that my senior brother, Partridge Whistle, had already caught up with him, and half of the bamboo baskets were behind him.

"it is good."

Hua Ling put away her thoughts.

Compared with the seven-leaf ginseng, in her opinion, the wildflower essence is the real fairy grass.

Wild ginseng, dendrobium, and fleece-flower root, no matter how rare they are, can always be harvested if you search carefully in the mountains and cliffs.

But Boil Essence is different. Even medicine books say it is rare for thousands of years.

Even because it is so rare, many pharmacists believe that it is just a fabrication by the ancients and does not exist in the world at all.

There are many stories in folklore about wild ginseng and Polygonum multiflorum taking shape and turning into human beings.

But how many people have seen it with their own eyes?

Now, that wildflower spirit has all the five senses, lifelike and human-like, with almost no differences.

The only thing is slightly different.

That is, the legs are integrated with the old vine.

This is somewhat similar to the black-scaled sharks seen in Xuan Palace before.

According to her guess.

If there really is a Poison Fairy, there is a high probability that the moment it grows legs and opens its eyes, it will be able to truly cultivate the body of a Wood Demon.

Received the bamboo basket from Hua Ling.

Carrying the Partridge Whistle with him, he escorted him all the way. The two senior fellow apprentices, one behind the other, quickly hurried to the cliff where Liao Jing was.

On the cliff above your head.

Yuan Hong, who saw this scene from a distance, also did not dare to delay. Relying on its innate advantages, it had already collected dozens of old medicinal plants in a short time. After a cursory scan, they all found life-threatening treasures.

He said before that he was well versed in pharmacology.

It's really not a lie.

After living in Pingshan for many years and opening its spiritual aperture, in order to increase its longevity, it traveled almost all around Pingshan, including the peaks behind the mountain that looked like thousands of bamboo shoots breaking through the rocks.

Which spiritual herbs are useful for spiritual practice.

Which ones are poisonous when taken.

Or which wild fruits are only suitable for winemaking.

It is like a bright mirror in its mind.

but.

These are secondary.

Previously, the owner used his mind to tell his spiritual aperture and asked him to stay with him to assist Little Taoist Hua Ling in picking the fleshy stems.

It has been following Chen Yulou for a lot of time now.

You can vaguely figure out some of his thoughts. The master is usually gentle and never harsh in his dealings with others, but he is extremely serious in important matters.

Since he specifically ordered it.

I think I must get that fleshy root plant.

How could Yuan Hong dare to hesitate?

Carrying the bamboo building on my back, I jumped down from the cliff, crossing the mist in the sky above my head, as if the rainbow light was crushed.

When he rushed out more than ten meters.

Just as it was about to hit a bluestone, it grasped the branch with both arms and swung gently. The figure twisted in mid-air, crossed the stone easily, and fell steadily.

The rabbit rises and the falcon falls.

Several jumped up and turned around.

In less than a moment, it arrived at the ancient wall first.

Crouching on the rock, a few steps away, he looked at the figure of the woman in the middle of the old vine.

Mountain monsters like it not only have a keen sense of danger, but also have an unimaginable sense of smell for spiritual objects.

You can easily feel a spiritual energy as majestic as tide, yet gentle as water from that fleshy stem.

Looking at it, Yuan Hong's eyes widened, his expression full of shock.

It can't even imagine it.

How many years did it take for this fleshy root to reach this stage?

The vast Laoxiong Ridge, especially Pingshan Mountain, is a treasure, but compared with this place, it still seems to pale in comparison.

If you encounter this in Pingshan.

Even if you fight to the death, it will be swallowed by it.

Such a fleshy root plant might give me a few more decades of life.

but……

Yuan Hong also knows.

This kind of great medicine is not something you can get your hands on.

Moreover, from this trip to Zhelong Mountain, I have already gained a lot.

Greed is definitely a double-edged sword.

Snake Tunxiang also has to see if he has the ability.

If it were the green-scaled python from before, it would be fine.

But the green bamboo snake, which is not as thick as chopsticks, still eats some insect larvae and drinks some mountain dew.

"Senior Yuan Hong..."

It didn't take much effort.

There was a crashing sound in the cliff below. Hua Ling raised her head, looked past the ancient vines and green radish, saw the figure squatting on the rock, and said with a smile.

"Hua...Taoist Sister Hua Ling."

Yuan Hong was stunned.

Although we meet every day along the way, especially during the short period of boating across the river, the boat is so big that you can't see it when you look up and you can't see it when you look down, but I really don't know how to call it.

See it scratching its head and ears.

Hua Ling's smile became even stronger.

"Senior, just call me Hua Ling."

"……it is good."

Yuan Hong responded in a low voice.

But it was like a human spirit, so how dare you really call it that, so you immediately changed the subject.

"I took a look at the Poison Essence. It's all in one piece. It's more than ten meters long. It can't be dug out from the roots, but cutting it off will inevitably cause the potency to be lost."

"What should I do?"

"Senior, don't worry."

Hua Ling smiled and shook her head.

"what?"

Hearing this, Yuan Hong couldn't help but be startled, but seeing that the partridge whistle next to him was also calm and unhurried, it couldn't help but feel uncertain.

Not much to say.

Just take a few steps out of the way.

Hua Ling quickly stepped forward and got in front of Ling Jing to take a serious look.

Compared to before, now that she was so close, the shock to her from this fleshy plant was obviously stronger.

The pure medicinal fragrance hits your nose.

Just a slight sniff made her Qi Hai Dantian a little more spiritual.

If this can be refined into a great elixir, breaking through the realm is like drinking water, it is not an empty talk even if you think about it.

I took a look again.

After a while, Hua Ling's eyes became clearer and clearer.

"Senior brother, give me the golden pestle."

Partridge Whistle seemed to have expected it. He took out an artifact about half a foot long with golden light and a simple shape from his backpack and handed it to her hand.

Seeing this, Yuan Hong became more and more surprised.

It has no idea what this thing is used for.

Hua Ling took the golden pestle without hesitation. She moved her green-white fingers upward along the eyebrows of the woman in the vine a few times, as if she was measuring something, and then gently knocked down the golden pestle in her hand.

click-

Only a crisp sound was heard.

The old vine was cut straight from the middle and split into two.

According to this situation, she leaned down again and knocked a few times between the woman and the root of the vine.

The humanoid vine spirit fell off from the entire ancient vine.

The Partridge Whistle stepped forward slowly, opened the prepared bamboo bag, and the Poison Essence just fell into it. He tightened the knot tightly and put it into the bamboo basket behind him.

The whole process is completed in one go.

Yuan Hong was stunned as he watched.

Several times he opened his mouth to ask, but was worried that it would be too presumptuous. But the curiosity in his heart was like being scratched by a pair of claws, which made him scratch his ears and cheeks.

See this.

How could the flower spirit not understand its thoughts?

Explained with a smile.

"This is an alchemy passed down by my predecessor in the Bishan lineage. Among the five elements, metal overcomes wood. Use the alchemy to activate it. If the metal spirit cuts the green wood herb, it will not damage the root or damage the medicine."

"I see……"

After listening, Yuan Hong suddenly realized.

As time goes by, it feels more and more that people are really smart, and they can achieve perfection in almost everything including techniques, equipment, diet, and folk customs.

"Senior brother, why haven't you seen Brother Chen yet..."

In the midst of its secret self-proclaimed wonder.

Hua Ling's surprise dissipated, but there was a bit more worry in her brows.

It’s been so long.

I haven't seen Brother Chen come out yet.

It would be a lie to say I'm not worried.

The longer the time, the greater the risk.

"You go first, I'll go back and take a look."

So is Partridge Whistle.

He was a little absent-minded when collecting herbs.

From time to time, I look back at the plank road above my head and the gate of the Heavenly Palace higher up.

But Chen Yulou never appeared.

At this moment, he was already a little annoyed. He should have stayed at that time, at least to be able to raid the formation for Brother Chen.

"You two, there's no need to wait..."

Yuan Hong, who had reacted, couldn't help but shake his head and smile when he heard this.

"Why, senior?"

"The master has already left before us and is waiting outside the valley."

There is a spiritual mark planted by Chen Yulou in Yuan Hong's spiritual aperture.

It is different from the contract with Angry Chicken.

But it can communicate through the spiritual orifice.

It had received the message before.

"Be the first step?!"

Hear this.

Even Partridge Whistle looked full of disbelief.

How can this be?

They left Xuan Palace and found Miss Kunlun Hong and her party without any delay.

How could Chen Yulou come from behind?

"The master said that he led the corpse cave away from the underground Yin River."

Yuan Hong actually couldn't figure it out either.

But he was still honest and told the master's summons in detail.

"This……"

It doesn't look like lying.

What's more, Yuan Hong would not dare to mess around in such a major matter.

Partridge Whistle raised his eyebrows.

My mind was spinning.

A decision was made immediately.

"Then...leave first and meet up at the valley."

"it is good!"

Two people and one monkey, each carrying a bamboo basket, descended from the cliff and arrived at the lake in a short time.

Sure enough, a bamboo raft was left behind.

It was also specially reinforced with old vines.

Partridge Whistle took the bamboo pole straight away, jumped onto the bow of the boat, activated his energy and blood, and rowed hard. In an instant, the bamboo raft under him was like an arrow leaving the string, quickly breaking through the lake and heading straight forward.

Because it’s the way home.

In comparison, this trip went extremely fast.

It only took less than half an hour.

The three of them arrived at the lake shore. When they passed the burial pit, the tusks from the elephant bones had been removed. They walked through the stone steps and arrived outside the mountain temple.

really.

You can see it from a distance.

A figure in a green shirt was standing in front of the group of thieves, looking at them calmly.

On his shoulders stands a colorful rooster like a phoenix.

If not Chen Yulou, who else could it be?

"The corpse cave...has been solved?"

(End of this chapter)