Journey to the West: Cultivation Begins at Jindou Mountain

Chapter 79: Basnake Skin
"Sure enough, Shi Cui already knew that you and I were coming to capture her, and she actually took the souls of Xiang Feng and his mother away."

"Just report this matter truthfully."

At Xiang Feng's house, as the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Demon finished speaking, a cold wind blew out from the thatched cottage, blew open the door, and revealed the two corpses inside that had completely lost their voice.

As the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demons left, the dark clouds covering Shangtang Village slowly dissipated, revealing the moonlight.

The Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demons chased Shi Cui, causing a huge commotion. However, no one in Shangtang Village woke up, and nothing was damaged.

Early the next morning, the men from Shangtang Village who were preparing to go to the fields to work found the bodies of Xiang Feng and his mother through the open gate. The two had such fear on their faces when they died that it frightened everyone.

On Jindou Mountain.

In the golden sunlight of the early morning, a ray of solar energy was rising from the top of the mountain, then dispersing into golden light spots all over the sky, covering the entire top of Jindou Mountain.

Seeing many spiritual root fruit trees stretching their branches and leaves in the golden light, Niu Yi slowly withdrew his palm and a smile appeared on his face.

In the past six years, he has been practicing the Sun and Moon Dew Technique every day, and with the nourishment of the spiritual spring, the spiritual root fruit trees on the mountain have grown more and more luxuriant. In fact, three ordinary peach trees have been promoted to acquired spiritual roots during this period.

As for other ordinary peach trees, more and more of them showed a trend of evolving into acquired spiritual roots, and the first one he planted was about to be upgraded to a blue-grade spiritual peach tree.

The advancement of the spiritual roots of fruit trees like this usually progresses slowly, usually on the scale of hundreds of years, unless one has great fortune.

The reason why he was able to upgrade this spiritual peach tree to the blue grade so quickly was because he had infused the tree with precious energy, making its origin strong enough, and with the help of the Sun and Moon Dew Art, he was able to advance.

"I finally understand why there are so many low-level spiritual roots in the Longevity Valley. With the constant use of the Sun's Light and Moon's Dew, I'm afraid that the fruit trees on the top of my mountain will all become acquired spiritual roots in less than thirty years."

"It's truly worthy of being the tree-planting technique passed down by the God of Longevity."

Niu Yi stood up slowly while holding the golden jade bamboo in admiration and came to a small tree about one meter tall not far away.

This small tree was only one person tall, but unlike other trees, it occupied a large area by itself and looked extremely abrupt on the top of the mountain.

Niu Yi pointed his finger at the spiritual spring in the distance, and led a stream of spiritual spring directly to pour it under the roots of the tree. However, he saw that the spiritual spring quickly seeped into the ground and disappeared without a trace.

This small tree is naturally the longevity peach tree. Speaking of the tree on the top of the mountain, Niu Yi has planted so far, only two spiritual roots have not borne fruit. One of them is the longevity peach tree, which blooms once every fifty years and bears fruit once every fifty years.

As for the other one, it is naturally the Nine-Leaf Treasure Orange. The Nine-Leaf Treasure Orange blooms once every ten years and bears fruit once every ten years. Now it has entered the flowering stage, which makes him quite looking forward to it.

As for this longevity peach tree, let it grow here slowly.
"Chief! Chief!"

At this moment, Niu Yi suddenly heard Niu Feng's shouting. He turned around and saw the little bull spirit running towards him quickly.

After so many years, this little bull demon is still the same as when he first came to Jindou Mountain, as if he is always so carefree.

"Hey hey! Chief!"

But Niu Feng came running over with a jar of wine, touched the horns excitedly, and handed the jar of wine to his leader.

"Chief! This is the new wine that Niu Ping and I brewed. It's definitely better than the last time!"

Niu Yi took the wine jar with a smile, but he didn't show any intention to drink it. Instead, he looked at Niu Feng with a smile and said:

"Niu Feng~ How's your training been lately?"

When Niu Feng heard this, his face suddenly froze and he began to stammer.

"This...that leader..." Niu Yi shook his head, looked at him, and said with regret:

"If I don't become a great demon, I will only have a lifespan of a hundred years. Unfortunately, after a hundred years, this leader will no longer be able to drink the tribute sent by a little bull demon named Niu Feng."

When Niu Feng heard this, he looked at his leader in a daze, and two heavy breaths suddenly came out of his nostrils!

"Don't worry, Chief! It's only at the Great Demon Realm, it's not that difficult!"

Niu Yi looked at Niu Feng, who seemed to be greatly inspired and was running away from the top of the mountain, preparing to return to the cave to practice, and laughed and shook his head.

This little scoundrel is always like this. He seems to have made a huge decision, but within two days, he returns to his carefree self.

Niu Yi actually hoped that this little bull spirit could stay with him for a few more years, but he had already given Guanghuaxiang and the spiritual fruit was also supplied in unlimited quantities. The rest depended on them.

If you don't have the desire for immortality, living a happy and carefree life under his protection may not be a bad ending.

What's more, he now has acquaintances in the underworld.

Thinking of this, Niu Yi looked at the wine jar in his hand, and saw that the wine in the jar was green in color and exuded a strange smell of grass mixed with tree bark.

Niu Yi's nose moved slightly, and he continued to identify the materials inside.

"Grass roots, pine bark, wildflower sap."

This wine cannot be drunk either. Niu Yi shook his head helplessly and simply poured out the jar of wine.

After reading the book on winemaking, he passed it to Niu Ping. At first, Niu Ping studied hard according to what was written in the book, but later with the joining of Niu Feng, this little genius Niu Ping was completely led astray.

Niu Feng, the little bull spirit, seemed to treat the brewing of wine as some kind of game, and would occasionally stuff some things into it that were not in the book.

But it's true, these two little bull spirits actually accidentally made a kind of wine called green grass wine, which was liked by many bull spirits in the cave. After that, the two excited people couldn't stop themselves and came up with some new wine-making recipes from time to time.

However, the green grass wine was an accident after all. The others were like the jar in Niu Yi's hand. People who knew about it thought it was a tribute from Niu Feng to the leader, while those who didn't know thought that Niu Feng was trying to murder the leader!
Niu Yi shook his head, put the wine jar aside, took out a black leather bag from his waist and held it in his hand.

[Purple Basque Snake Skin Bag: Made from the skin of a Basque Snake's abdomen, it appears only the size of a palm, but its interior is three feet three feet high and three feet three feet wide.]

This is the treasure left behind by the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demon that day, and it was clearly said to be a return gift.

The Bashang snake is a powerful monster. Although it looks small, the space inside its body is extremely huge. As the saying goes, "human greed is like a snake swallowing an elephant", this snake swallowing an elephant refers to the Bashang snake.

The snake skin on the belly of this Basilisk retains this ability to expand and contract space.

The Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demon said that they had nothing else, but this was a big gift. Not only was the rare Bashen skin a gift, but the Yin Iron inside the skin was piled up into a small mountain, with as many as three thousand pieces, filling the skin to the brim.

[Yin Iron (Blue): Yin Iron, unique to the underworld, often appears in places where Yin energy gathers. It carries a strong Yin energy and can harm human souls, but can also resist attacks from souls.]

"I think this Yin Iron is the most commonly used ore by the ghost messengers in the underworld to forge weapons and soul-binding chains."

This leather bag is a good treasure. It is said to be refined, but in fact it is just the roughly refined snake skin and sewn into a leather bag. If it is refined again in the future, the space inside may be even bigger, which will make it more convenient for him to put things in it in the future.

Even the Yin Iron in it seemed to have no significant effect on him.

Niu Yi looked at the Yin Iron in the Bashe skin bag thoughtfully, and suddenly a light bulb went off in his head, making his eyes light up.

Why not use the Hunyuan furnace to refine it?
(End of this chapter)