006 Herb collection (I) ()

Medicine Valley is one of the most dangerous places in the secret realm.

There are several medicinal fields here, which seem to have been specially opened by someone, but because they have not been managed for many years, it has become deserted and overgrown with weeds. There are also some spiritual herbs left, with very high grades.

Wherever there are high-level herbs growing, there must be monsters guarding them. Due to the limitation of vitality in the secret realm, the most advanced monsters are only level five, so it is not difficult to deal with.

Medicine Valley is not just one valley, but a general term. In addition to a three-kilometer-wide and seven-eight-kilometer-long valley, it also includes medicinal fields that are opened into terraced fields on both sides. There are eleven levels, and each level of medicine fields has nearly ten acres, which are as narrow as a belt. Some trees are separated from each other, and some spiritual springs flow from top to bottom. Small cliffs between the terraced fields form small waterfalls, with beautiful environments like fairylands.

Although it has been abandoned, there are also a lot of spiritual medicines left. Therefore, the major elixir families stationed in the town will send people here to find medicine every time the secret realm is opened. However, the collection of advanced spiritual medicines requires specific techniques and tools, which is difficult for ordinary people to collect them intact. They must have a pharmacist who is proficient in the collection of herbs.

Although most pharmacists are practitioners, they usually use true qi to refine medicine, so they are inevitably negligent in practicing martial arts. The light skills and body techniques are naturally lost, which is not as good as Cheng Tianxiao, so the speed of traveling is much slower. At this time, Cheng Tianxiao and his team were the first team to arrive at the Medicine Valley and took the lead.

The various detours on the road in advance also saved a lot of time, so they did not rush in before rushing to the Medicine Valley, but instead stationed on the spot to rest.

There is no sun in the secret realm, but time changes are still displayed. All lights are emitted by the sky, and as the light changes, it can be judged by day and night.

At this time, the sky was obviously dim, but night did not come, and you could still see the surrounding scenes, but all objects were covered with a layer of gauze, with a little hazy beauty.

After rushing for a long time, they fought with monsters again. The mercenaries consumed a lot of energy, and needed a good rest. So after garrisoning, after eating dry food, they only left one warning, and everyone else got into the tent to meditate and recovered.

Cheng Tianxiao's large amount of mental power consumed during the first battle has not recovered, and he must recover well at this time. He meditated in the tent, automatically activates the true energy to perform the movement of the world, but his spirit sinks into another realm and practices the technique of concentrating the mind.

The practice of true qi skills is generally divided into five realms: nourishing qi, circumcision, entering the orifices, condensing veins, and spiritual sea. There are higher realms behind it. However, the strongest in the empire only cultivates to the spiritual sea realm. It is said that only a few major hidden sects have more advanced cultivators, and even the realm of immortals who break through the void.

There are also five realms in spiritual cultivation. Now he is just the first realm of refining the divine mind. The second realm is spiritual consciousness, the third realm is concentrating the mind and subtle, the fourth stage is separation from thoughts, and the last is the unity of the soul. Simply put, it is to refine the spirit, communicate with the spirit, enter the soul, divide the spirit, and subtle the spirit, and return to the five levels.

The magic refining technique is forbidden in the empire. Now he is secretly practicing the magic concentrating technique, which is forbidden.

However, he believed that these so-called taboos were just a domineering ban on the rise of new forces by the imperial power group, and an obstacle to maintaining the power of aristocratic families. He did not believe that people from aristocratic families would not practice the magic tricks, because it was obvious that the magic consciousness was very important for the learning and use of skills. Without the support of the powerful magic consciousness, you could not learn advanced skills at all.

With his current spiritual power, it is very difficult to learn the second level of the Spectrum Glimpse. If he had not practiced the Concentration Skill, it would be impossible for him to learn it.

The ban on the Martial Arts Association simply does not want ordinary civilians to have the ability to learn advanced skills. In this way, even if they accidentally get some adventures and obtain excellent skills, they cannot learn them and can only pay them to obtain certain financial compensation.

Therefore, for thousands of years, the eight major families of the empire have stood firm, largely because they jointly issued various laws and systems to curb the growth of other geniuses, so that these geniuses either depend on them or could not move forward under the system and became ordinary.

Cheng Tianxiao, who has been a human being for two lives, has seen through this and is not bound by it at all. As long as he judges what is useful to him, he will study without hesitation, so that he will not care whether he violates or not.

Although he did not have the determination to break the world's laws and regulations, he would not be willing to be restrained.

As the spirit relaxes and visualizes, soon the spirit enters an ethereal state, as if it has left its original body and turns into a light smoke floating in the boundless dark space. This light smoke is constantly being torn from all directions and is constantly decreasing. So in order to save itself from being pulled apart and turned into nothingness, this light smoke has to constantly shrink and condense, so that it continuously reduces its volume, and various impurities are constantly torn away, leaving the purer light smoke...

It was a surprise. During this practice, he found that his light smoke was obviously condensed than before, and it was even about to condense into a ball of spiritual liquid. He kept visualizing and fantasizing that he turned into a real person. The spiritual liquid was constantly changing, and it really had a bit of human form, but it was still a bit of initial form, but it was a bit more real than when he was in the previous state of spiritual smoke.

A few hours later, he woke up from the practice of the Concentration Art. He was already a hundred times more energetic. His true energy and soul both recovered as before. Only then did he truly feel the power of the spiritual consciousness after a rapid advancement. His perception seemed to be much more sensitive. The surrounding scenes seemed to be vaguely captured. The breathing and the flow of the true energy of others seemed to be perceived in his mind. He tried to release his spiritual consciousness, but unfortunately he did not succeed, otherwise he would have an additional divine-level exploration ability.

After carefully experiencing the wonderful things brought by the spiritual consciousness, he quickly calmed down and checked the gains of this progress. First, it was the second level of the Floating Light and Shadow Body Technique, because it was only used at a critical moment and in an omniscient state. Later, due to his poor mental state, he never used it again.

Step by step, when you truly practice to the extreme, you can leave a afterimage with every step you take, and it is like a real clone, and even has a certain attack defense ability. When you use it continuously, you can leave dozens of afterimages, making the enemy dazzled and like entering a siege.

The light-based technique he practiced is also very suitable for using floating lights and glimpses, with certain effects bonuses.

If you take a step, you can instantly cross a distance of more than ten or twenty meters, and even reach fifty meters at a distance, as if you transfer instantly. The other ones are just a manifestation of the extreme speed. Its consumption is very amazing. The longer the distance you step, the greater the true energy you consume. Today, Cheng Tianxiao only stepped twenty meters and the true energy was almost exhausted.

He quickly concentrated his mind and controlled the true energy to draw the formation. He drew five not simple formations at the same time. This was not easy. Cheng Tianxiao had an unparalleled talent in fine control. He had already shown this talent in alchemy and medicine refining, and even Pharmacist Lin gave him a very high evaluation.

But this step-by-step Weiying is really perverted. With his powerful fine control ability, he failed more than ten times in a row. Finally, he made the entire formation very skillfully before he successfully cut it out at the same time.

Whoosh! In the tent, he used it silently. The figure who was originally sitting cross-legged instantly moved half a meter, causing the air to make some slight noise.

"It's done! Huh! The real perverted body skills, only half a meter, actually consumed two hundred of my true energy. Fortunately, I can control the distance, otherwise I will be drained by it all at once!"

Cheng Tianxiao found that after moving, the formation of this skill did not dissipate immediately. If the true qi is activated, it should be able to move continuously. This is a little better. If you have to re-scratch every time you move, it would be so hard.

Generally, the method of light body is to continuously activate the true energy after drawing the light spirit array. This step-by-step method is also a body method, so this characteristic is retained.

He was on a whim and used his true energy again. His figure flashed again, and he floated half a meter in the tent, and drifted back and forth five times in a row, and his true energy came to the bottom. So he had to stop and stuff two pieces of Huiyuan Dan to slowly recover.

Next is to study the abnormal state of omniscient and holistic mentality. This state is really too perverted. If you can maintain this state in battle, I believe that his combat power will be improved several times, and all the enemy's movements, all weaknesses, and all changes will be in his control.

But unfortunately, he had been exploring for a long time and had no idea. It was impossible for him to reappear in that state. He stopped just now, and his true energy recovered, so he walked out of the tent.

Lin Yongqing and the others also woke up from meditation and their energy and spirit were completely restored.

"According to the information, the five medicinal materials that need to be collected this time are on the bottom layer, three and seven layers, two of the bottom layer and three layers, and one of the seven layers. If we are lucky, we may complete the task within half a day, but if we alarm other monsters around us, it will be a big trouble. I hope that if the guardian monster is too strong later, please lead it a distance first, I will secretly go up and collect it, and then run away together..."

Although the highest one is level 5 monsters, these monsters sometimes have some special abilities that are difficult to deal with. They cannot be judged by a simple power comparison.

Especially this eleven-level terraced medicinal field, the more dangerous it goes up. The seventh-layer medicine is exactly what Cheng Tianxiao needs to refine the Jiujue Life and Death Pill. His purpose here is to do this, so he must collect it.

"Okay, before others arrive, we must take the lead. Let's start from the bottom!" Lin Yongqing didn't say much, arranged a formation and drove into the valley. The bottom layer was the largest and widest large area of ​​medicine at the bottom of the valley.

Although it is not big, you can see the end at a glance, which is only a few kilometers away, but there are quite a few monsters guarding them. They are just guarding their own elixirs peacefully, not fighting each other, and they are also separated from each other by a certain range.

The team did not fight all the way, but just took a detour slowly and soon arrived at the destination.

"Baiyanhua! It's here. Three of them are already ripe and have good luck. If you come late, you will be snatched away by others. There are eight lovely butterflies to guard them. This is a bit troublesome!"

The Emoji Butterfly is a level 5 monster. Although it is only the size of a fist, it is very fast and will release a kind of Emoji powder. It is quite annoying. Its attack ability is negligible.

"There were only three last time, so why did it increase to eight this time?" Zhou Qingjian muttered in distress.

"Okay, get ready for battle! Detoxification pill, hold your breath, true qi shield! Long-range range attack!" Lin Yongqing commanded the battle, and Xin Xiaoqing took the lead and took an arrow.

But those lovely butterflies seemed to have extremely high sensitivity, and they actually swayed and avoided it. Then they coaxed them to the crowd. When they flapped their wings, a pink light mist slowly spread out and enveloped them, as if they wanted to encircle the team.

Lin Yongqing's long sword flashed with a red light, and a sword energy was swung out, but the target sideways and dodged again. The butterfly target as big as a fist is not big and flexible. It actually dodged several people's attacks in succession. Xin Xiaoqing's bow and arrow fell in a row, and Zhou Qingjian's hidden weapon was also emptied four times. This time, the members of the Fire Mercenary Team could no longer bear the face.

Cheng Tianxiao hid aside and watched, thinking to himself that it would be unrealistic to wait until they completely wiped out these lovely butterflies before collecting them. After a battle, I am afraid that they will be tired enough and the ones behind will not be able to continue. I didn’t expect that the bottom will be so difficult and I have to use the old method.

He looked at the place where he stood was seventy or eighty meters away from the Baiyan Flower, and the battle was twenty meters ahead. The butterflies were relatively scattered. If they just flew over like this, they would definitely be discovered. Fortunately, they were at least more than thirty meters away from the flowers.

"At my speed, before they rush back, they will definitely be able to pick three hundred flowers! But they must reach the target point in an instant, and they can only use step by step as the shadow body technique! At the same time, they can support consumption by supplementing the Great Hui Yuan Dan."

He secretly calculated that he poured two Great Hui Yuan Dan in pain, put them in his mouth, and then walked silently and approached them silently. More than fifty meters away from the target point, and outside the warning range of the Falling Butterfly, he secretly used his true energy to use step by step to determine the route and distance again. He bit apart a Great Hui Yuan Dan, and at the same time, his figure flashed, and it had already flown out nearly thirty meters. Then he went to the flower, and then spit out another Great Hui Yuan Dan again. The herbic knife in his hand also waved a afterimage, swept towards the flower stem, and took out a jade box with his other hand.

The stem of the flower breaks, the flower falls into the jade box, move another plant, and swings the knife again...

At this time, the butterfly discovered that the guardian target had a strange aura, and they looked back one after another, and then angrily discovered that the hateful humans were secretly picking each other. So they gave up the battle and retreated, but the distance of thirty meters seemed very close. At their speed, it took two or three seconds. When they came back, all three flowers had fallen into the box.

And the flower-picking thief suddenly disappeared out of thin air.
Chapter completed!