Mortal: I have a gathering technique

The area of ​​Shenshou Valley is not large, and its layout is very simple.

To the left is a large field of medicinal herbs that exudes a strong medicinal aroma, and to the right are a dozen or so houses connected together.

On one side of the house, near the stone wall, there is another stone house built of granite.

That's where Han Li practices his martial arts.

Time was of the essence, and Fang Qing dared not delay. After looking around, he decisively rushed towards a room with a reclining chair at the door.

There's a recliner by the door; it's most likely Han Li's bedroom.

Before entering the room, Fang Qing took out a pair of deerskin gloves from his pocket, quickly put them on, held his breath, and pushed open the door to go inside.

Although Han Laomo is still very inexperienced, Fang Qing dares not be careless in the slightest.

The room was simply furnished and easy to understand.

Aside from a bed and a row of bookshelves, there was only a set of everyday table, chairs, and cabinets.

The bedding on the bed was folded neatly, making it almost impossible to hide anything.

Instead, a huge figure shrouded in black gauze stood out conspicuously at the foot of the bed.

Fang Qing's heart skipped a beat. He quickly walked to the shadowy figure, casually lifted the cloak, and a slightly swollen face appeared in his sight.

"It really is you, Qu Hun."

Without anyone actively controlling it, Qu Hun is just an immobile corpse.

Fang Qing wasn't afraid and simply raised his hand towards Qu Hun.

[Fire Spirit Root - Gather!]

At that moment, a golden light appeared...

Fang Qing saw this and smiled. He vaguely remembered that Zhang Tie had three spiritual roots but no wood attribute.

The reason Fang Qing collected fire spiritual roots was because he had already planned that if he did not have wood spiritual roots, he would cultivate the Great Sun Divine Illumination Record.

Having obtained the Fire Spirit Root, Fang Qing began inspecting the cabinet.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened the cabinet door, a blue book came into view.

He was overjoyed and quickly picked up the book to check. Sure enough, it was the Changchun Gong he had been longing for.

A great start!

Fang Qing took out an oilcloth from his pocket, spread it out, placed the Changchun Gong on the oilcloth, and then got up and walked towards the bookshelf.

The cabinet wasn't large, and besides Changchun Gong (a traditional Chinese medicine), there was nothing else inside.

However, there were several wooden boxes on the bookshelf that could be used to hide things.

Fang Qing took down the wooden box and inspected it one by one.

Items that can be stored separately in wooden boxes are not simple items.

It could be a medical book treasured by Doctor Mo, or a spiritual herb that Han Li accelerated to ripen.

When Fang Qing opened the last box, his eyes lit up.

Inside the box, ten small porcelain bottles were neatly stacked.

Fang Qing suppressed his excitement and uncorked one of the small porcelain bottles, revealing more than ten pills the size of longan fruits inside.

Fang Qing had read Jin Guang's memories thoroughly and recognized at a glance that this pill was the famous holy pill in the mortal world—the Golden Marrow Pill!

"All done!"

He felt relieved and quickly wrapped all the wooden boxes with oilcloth.

Then, carrying the oilcloth bundle, he quickly left.

From entering the valley to leaving, Fang Qing only took less than the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea. By the time Han Li had healed the injured elder and returned to Divine Hand Valley, Fang Qing had already run more than a hundred miles away.

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Shenshou Valley, living quarters and bedrooms.

Han Li clenched his fists, staring at the bookshelves and cabinets that had been looted, his dark face turning ashen.

Despite his immense shock and anger, Han Li did not lose his composure. After a moment's hesitation, he decisively called to Qu Hun and prepared to escape.

However, he stopped in his tracks just as he stepped out of the bedroom.

"No, I can't just leave like this."

"If I'm not mistaken, the thief is most likely from inside the sect."

"They know where I come from. If I escape, there's no guarantee they won't target my family..."

Han Li's mind raced, his fists clenching and unclenching intermittently. After weighing his options for a long time, a fierce glint flashed in his eyes, and he turned and went back into the house.

"I refuse to believe that, with my status as a cultivator and my mastered Blink Sword Technique, I can't defeat a mere martial artist like you."

"Not to mention, I still have the trump card, Qu Hun..."

Inside the bedroom, Han Li's eyes flashed with a sharp light.

He originally planned to leave, but he had to stay because of his family.

In the days that followed, he diligently practiced his magic while secretly investigating the thief.

That person stole many pills; anyone who took them would immediately experience a surge in martial arts skills.

Han Li was confident that once that person did that, he would definitely not be able to hide it from his Heavenly Eye Technique.

However, as time went on, the investigation results only confused Han Li more and more...

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Fang Qing had no idea that her actions had made Han Li suspicious and unable to eat or sleep properly...

After obtaining the Changchun Gong, he spent almost a month practicing it.

The result left him both disappointed and excited.

He doesn't have a wood elemental root!

At this point, Fang Qing had no more worries and directly used a fire spirit root on himself.

Then, he began to wholeheartedly cultivate the [Great Sun Divine Illumination Record]!

As for the pills he smuggled from Han Li, Fang Qing didn't dare to take them directly.

No one can guarantee whether Han Li left a hidden trick in the pill.

After some thought, Fang Qing came up with a safe solution.

He decided to use his gathering skills to turn the "Yellow Dragon Pill" and "Golden Marrow Pill" in his hands back into spiritual herbs, and then refine them again.

The formulas for both of these elixirs are recorded in Doctor Mo's medical books, and both consist of seven medicinal ingredients: "two main and five auxiliary".

Only the main ingredient has high requirements, needing to be over a hundred years old, while the five auxiliary ingredients are all common herbs that are decades old.

In other words, even if Fang Qing relied entirely on collecting medicinal herbs to obtain spiritual herbs, he would only need seven medicinal herbs to gather enough ingredients for making a pill.

With sufficiently advanced techniques, one batch of medicinal herbs can be refined into approximately twenty finished pills.

It's definitely worth a try.

of course,

Before taking action, Fang Qing specifically sought out several ordinary master pharmacists in the secular world and collected their pharmacist memories.

Then, while using the gold in the golden storage bag to collect herbs, he practiced with those ordinary herbs, making some common pills in the secular world, and accumulating experience.

After nearly half a year of busy work, Fang Qing successfully "washed" all eight bottles of "Huanglong Dan" and "Jin Sui Wan".

He was lucky; the number of pills he produced was just enough to break even.

If you also take into account the "alchemy experience," then it's a huge profit.

With no shortage of elixirs, Fang Qing focused intently on his cultivation.

Soon after, his cultivation level broke through to the fourth level of Qi Refining.

Once a cultivator enters the fourth level of Qi Refining, they will develop divine sense. At this moment, Fang Qing was also able to barely sense the state of his spiritual root.

But the answer left him unsure whether to cry or laugh.

If we remove the fire elemental root he acquired later, his original aptitude should have been a water-attribute heavenly elemental root!

"..."

When Fang Qing learned the answer, he was speechless.

The Heavenly Spiritual Root transformed into a Dual Spiritual Root; it was as if the heavens were playing a joke on him.

If it weren't for his cheat-like abilities, Fang Qing would probably be vomiting to death.

However, the use of "acquired spiritual roots" also led Fang Qing to discover a secret about spiritual roots.

In addition to individual quantity, spiritual root aptitude also has a total quantity.

For example, if the total number of spiritual roots is one hundred, and a single spiritual root possesses all one hundred of these, then the cultivation speed is one hundred.

If it were a dual spiritual root, the total amount would be divided, either in half or in a 40/60 split...

Jin Guang has five spiritual roots, with each single spiritual root amounting to approximately twenty.

After Fang Qing used Jin Guang's fire spirit root, he became a dual spirit root, but his cultivation speed was not much faster than the cultivation speed Jin Guang remembered him having.

After that, Fang Qing used Zhang Tie's fire spirit root.

His cultivation speed indeed increased significantly.

However, according to Fang Qing's speculation, it is still not the cultivation speed that a dual spiritual root should have.

In other words, Zhang Tie's fire elemental root covered Jin Guang's fire elemental root.

The two are in a covering relationship, not an overlapping relationship.

This result surprised and delighted Fang Qing.

In other words, as long as he can acquire a fire-attribute celestial spiritual root, his cultivation speed will be comparable to that of a celestial spiritual root cultivator.

The only difference is that it lacks the advantage of "no bottlenecks before forming the core".

But for Fang Qing, this advantage is actually dispensable.

Not to mention that he has a cheat code, there is also a dual cultivation technique called the "Dragon and Phoenix Harmony Great Method" in the "Great Sun Divine Illumination Record" which has a miraculous effect on breaking through bottlenecks.

"Let me think, who has a fire-attribute celestial spiritual root...?"

Fang Qing counted on his fingers, carefully recalling the geniuses of the cultivation world.

"Yan Ruyan? No, she seems to have a water elemental root..."

"Ling Yuling? No, that's not right, she seems to have a metal spiritual root..."

Who else?

Fang Qing racked his brains, and suddenly slapped his thigh.

"Nangong Wan, how could I forget about her? Her magic weapon is the Vermilion Bird Ring, and it should be a fire-attribute celestial spiritual root..."

At that moment, Fang Qing's heart was burning with excitement.