Don't farm, cultivate immortality!

The people of Hundred Flowers Valley opened a hole in a spruce tree and took out clear wine from it.

Good wine naturally needs to be paired with good food.

Because Baihua Valley started using coal early on, they have already developed the method of "stir-frying" for cooking.

The people in the valley treated them very warmly, killing chickens and fish.

Zhuang Xing rarely ate stir-fried dishes, but these were all freshly picked wild vegetables from the mountains. The wild vegetables were paired with last year's smoked bacon and stir-fried to taste like twice-cooked pork.

In addition, there was a fruit platter made of fresh mountain fruits. Zhuang Xing didn't recognize many fruits, except for goat milk fruit, apricots, and kiwis. There were also purple and red fruits, all in small bunches, with a sweet and refreshing taste.

The monkey wine doesn't have a high alcohol content, but it has a very layered flavor. It's sweet and sour, with a variety of fruit flavors blended together, like juice made from fruit and mixed with some rice wine.

Of course, Zhuang Xing only wrote this in his travelogue; if you actually did it this way, you definitely wouldn't be able to produce that rich and mellow aroma.

Zhuang Xing's review was that it was very delicious, and probably the best wine he had ever tasted.

This wine makes you feel warm all over.

It contains medicinal properties that can increase one's cultivation level.

The medicine was quite effective. After drinking wine at noon, Zhuang Xing practiced the warming technique with Yunling for half a day before digesting its effects.

I heard from others that this wine was brewed under a spruce tree. The Valley Master doesn't have many hobbies, but he has a special fondness for this monkey wine. It was precisely because he liked monkey wine that these macaques were tamed by the Valley Master.

This wine was brewed under the nourishment of the Valley Master's spiritual energy; it can be considered a heavenly elixir.

However, this wine is only effective the first time you drink it. If you drink it a second or third time, the effect will be much weaker.

They also gave Zhuang Xing a pot of monkey wine as a gift. Although it was just a small pot of wine, it was worth a fortune outside.

Even if one were to spend all one's wealth, one could only hope to obtain this pot of wine, which would be priceless and unavailable.

Poor Xiao An, she's just a soul, she can't smell anything or eat anything, she can only watch from the sidelines and feast her eyes.

Zhuang Xing had nothing to offer in return, so after much thought and discussion with Yunling, he decided to leave behind the life-giving magic of the White Lotus Hermit.

Although the jade slip and the key had been given to Yan Huai'an, Zhuang Xing and Yunling still remembered their contents.

This technique, though profound, has a very high barrier to entry for cultivation; not everyone can master it.

Without innate Qi and without talent like Yunling, it might take ten years of cultivation to even begin to grasp the basics.

However, there are some unique theories among them that can be used as a reference.

The cultivators in Hundred Flowers Valley practice breathing techniques taught to them by the Valley Master, which are similar to the skills of planting flowers and herbs, and have a similar effect to this vitality technique.

If a genius emerges from the valley in the future, he will be able to pass on the life-giving techniques of the White Lotus Hermit.

Zhuang Xing felt that the layman certainly didn't want his skills to be lost, otherwise he wouldn't have left that jade slip behind.

So that night, Zhuang Xing and Yun Ling picked up their pens and ground ink, and together they copied down the life-giving spell.

The two of them each wrote half of the paper, copying until late at night, until they had almost finished copying all the paper scrolls they had brought with them.

The layman's methods for cultivating vitality were exquisite in every word, with not a single word superfluous. Even so, it took two thick volumes of paper to complete the writing.

After checking it over and correcting any mistakes or omissions, Zhuang Xingcai carefully used his sword energy to sort the paper into pages of equal width and length. He then pulled a few cotton threads from his clothes and tied them together, creating two volumes of thread-bound books.

I wrote it down, and it filled two thick books.

After dinner, they copied the text in the cave. When they went outside to check the sky, Zhuang Xing estimated that it was already one or two in the morning.

Xiao An had long since given up and went to rest inside a rock. There were no people walking around in the valley, and the monkeys had all gone back to their dens to sleep.

The moon hangs high in the sky, and you can hear crickets chirping.

To be honest, I wasn't that sleepy.

The effects of the monkey wine were still present, making him feel full of energy.

But after sitting and copying the book for a long time, my body felt very sore.

He stretched and yawned, loosening his muscles.

"Yunling, you've worked hard. Go back and rest. We'll take the books to Hundred Flowers Valley tomorrow."

"Zhuang Xing, are you going to sleep?" Yunling blinked.

"Okay, I'll take you back to your room and then I'll go to sleep. It's so late, there's nothing else to do if I don't sleep," Zhuang Xing said.

“I went to a place with beautiful scenery yesterday, would you like to go and see it?” Yunling asked.

Zhuang Xing's face was reflected in the girl's dark eyes.

Zhuang Xing was stunned for a moment, his eyes also reflecting the girl's delicate face.

...

Hanging vines dangled from the spruce tree.

"Is it against the rules for us to do this kind of thing secretly for two nights?"

“I asked the people in the valley, and they said it’s fine.”

"Well... I'll get on now..."

"Ah."

Under the moonlight, Zhuang Xing sat down next to Yunling.

Yunling held onto the hanging vine with one hand and Zhuang Xing's hand with the other, and their fingers intertwined without her realizing it.

I could feel her body temperature and smell her pleasant fragrance.

It's strange. It's not the first time they've held hands. They've held hands many times before, and they've done more intimate things before. Zhuang Xing often pinches Yunling's cheeks, and when he's tired, he lets Yunling lean against him. They've even slept together in the same bed for one night.

It was just holding hands.

It was just a trivial handshake.

But this time, Zhuang Xing's heart was beating very fast.

Today, it's not that he's taking Yunling somewhere, but rather that Yunling is taking him somewhere.

The girl leaned closer gently, and the hanging vines rose upwards.

Zhuang Xing's feet were dangling in the air, and they were getting farther and farther away from the ground. He turned his head to look, and the quiet moonlight seemed to veil the girl's profile, making her appear hazy.

They stepped onto the branches of a spruce tree, and Yunling took his hand, leading him forward through the bushes and parting the leaves.

“It’s right here…” Yunling said softly.

Zhuang Xing was pulled forward by her and followed her uncontrollably.

Zhuang Xing first saw a ray of light shining down, and when he leaned out from behind Yun Ling, he felt as if he had arrived on a cloud.

It is surrounded by a green sea of ​​trees on all sides, stretching as far as the eye can see.

The wind rustled the leaves, and the girl shone brightly under the stars and moon. Her long hair danced in the breeze, and her innocent smile filled Zhuang Xing's vision in the bright moonlight.

He stared blankly, feeling as if he were surrounded by something.

There is nowhere to escape.

Chapter 196 Moving Forward

How did you find this place?

"secret."

"Can't you tell me?"

"Ah."

Tell me.

"What cannot be said is simply not to be said."

"Ok."

Do you really want to know?

“You said you can’t say it, so you must have your reasons. I believe you.”

"Zhuang Xing, is there anything you want, or anything you want to do?"

Why are you asking this?

"I'll find a way to help you, as compensation for not being able to tell you the secret."

"Anything is fine?"

"As long as it's within my power."

"But I haven't decided yet, is it okay to keep it?"

"Then tell me when you've thought it through."

"it is good."

Zhuang Xing and the girl lay on the sea of ​​trees, counting the stars in the sky.

The stars in the sky were countless, and the thoughts in his mind were also in disarray.

...

When Zhuang Xing woke up, he found that he and Yunling were still lying in the tree.

It was already daylight, and a breeze was blowing through the trees. It wasn't cold at all; the spruce trees were very comfortable. This place was full of spiritual energy; it was a blessed land.

He saw a ray of golden light appear beneath the pale white clouds, and the sun rose from the horizon, gilding the sea of ​​trees with golden light.

He and Yunling sat together and watched the sunrise before coming down from the tree.

Afterwards, the two handed over the vitality technique they had copied the night before to Hundred Flowers Valley, explaining the origin of the technique, which was created by a cultivator named White Lotus Hermit.

Hundred Flowers Valley brought over two more jugs of monkey wine, along with some spiritual fruits and herbs.

They said that the pot they had given earlier was a token gift, and these were return gifts.

Zhuang Xing and Yun Ling were exchanging gifts, and Hundred Flowers Valley naturally couldn't be impolite. So, when they said that, the two of them couldn't refuse and could only accept the gifts.

During her stay in the valley, Yunling would sometimes share some of the difficulties of this life-giving technique and her own insights with the cultivators in the valley.

After spending ten days in Hundred Flowers Valley, Zhuang Xing calculated the days and felt it was about time to leave.