After driving more than a hundred meters, the Audi suddenly made a loud bang on the road and had a flat tire!
The car swayed and slid for a while before stopping.
Zhang Wan got out of the car, cursing, and stepped on a round, slippery stone under his feet. He fell to the ground in disgrace! There was also a layer of skin scratched on his face.
On the roof of the temple, the white-bearded mountain god floats in the air, with a cloud at his feet.
He smiled and looked at the car with a flat tire and Zhang Wan who fell face-first, and then his pale golden body gradually disappeared in mid-air on the roof.
Zhang Yuan stood in front of the temple, looked at Zhang Wan who had slipped and the flat tire, and then looked at the mountain god disappearing from the roof, and couldn't help but laugh.
Before the white-bearded mountain god disappeared on the roof, he suddenly looked at Zhang Yuan.
Eyes facing each other.
The young man seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
A thought came to the mountain god's mind, "Could he be able to see me?"
However, the mountain god just muttered and disappeared completely from the roof.
Zhang Yuan returned to the mountain temple. The white-bearded mountain god who disappeared on the roof of the mountain temple returned to the statue altar and was sleeping on his side in the void next to the statue altar.
Zhang Yuan walked to the altar table where tributes and candles were placed, and clasped his hands together.
"Grandpa Mountain God, is there a 300-year-old ginseng plant near the Dahang Mountains? Can you tell me its specific location?"
Zhang Yuan asked piously.
But the mountain god just turned sideways and continued sleeping, ignoring Zhang Yuan.
The mountain god turned his head and glanced at him on the roof just now. He should have realized that he could see the spirit body, but why did the mountain god ignore me?
Zhang Yuan was puzzled, and after thinking for a moment, he flicked his hand, took out a Foundation Building Pill from the Qiankun Bag, and placed it on the altar table of the mountain temple.
Sure enough, the mountain god next to the statue moved.
His spirit sat up and sniffed.
"What is it? It smells so good!"
When the white-bearded mountain god saw the Foundation Establishment Pill placed by Zhang Yuan on the altar, he floated over. He inhaled through his nose and mouth, and the Foundation Establishment Pill turned into a stream of air and floated into the body of the mountain god.
Then, the white-bearded mountain god touched his belly comfortably.
"Grandpa Mountain God, do you know if there is a 300-year-old ginseng plant in the mountains near Anping Village in the Dahang Mountains?"
Zhang Yuan looked at the mountain god and said.
The mountain god ate Zhang Yuan's Foundation Building Pill and no longer pretended not to see it, and said: Young man, in the valley more than fifty kilometers away from here in Dahang Mountain, there is indeed a ginseng that is more than 300 years old, but in Dahang Mountain There are many monsters and dangers. Although your cultivation is good, I still advise you not to go deep into the mountains.
That ginseng is very important to me. Can you tell me the specific location?
"That's all."
Whitebeard Mountain God waved his hand, and a map appeared in the void in front of Zhang Yuan, with the location of the Anping Village Mountain Temple on it. Then, the crutch in the mountain god's hand was placed at one point on the map, and a triangular mark appeared at the location where the mountain god pointed it!
"right here!"
"Thank you, Grandpa Mountain God, for informing me!"
Zhang Yuan bowed his hands and saluted.
Before leaving, the mountain god told Zhang Yuan that there was a powerful snake demon guarding the valley where the ginseng was located. The snake demon's strength had reached the early stage of the demon general realm, so Zhang Yuan should be careful.
After Zhang Yuan thanked the mountain god again, he left the mountain temple.
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night.
Zhang Yuan sat cross-legged on the bed, holding an A4 paper in his hand.
The A4 paper records the medicinal materials needed to refine Tongmai Dan and other elixirs, as well as the price and dosage of each medicinal material. On the other side of the paper, Zhang Yuan's various expenses such as alchemy were recorded.
The last column of the table records Zhang Yuan's remaining assets, which total more than 32,100 in cash.
During the winter vacation, Zhang Yuan refined elementary Qi pills at home and learned to refine talismans. He spent nearly 20,000 yuan on various consumables, so his total assets were only 32,000 yuan.
Looking at the little money left, Zhang Yuan couldn't help but worry.
Cultivation of immortality is too expensive. Refining a pot of pills can cost anywhere from thousands to tens of thousands, and even the Tongmai Pill costs hundreds of thousands!
He is just a poor student!
College students of his age only need to study, but he not only has to practice cultivation, but he also has to find ways to make money.
too difficult!
Zhang Yuan's only current way to make money is to sell foundation-building pills, but this method has some risks, at least it cannot be sold on a large scale.
Because the quality of his Foundation Establishment Pill is much better than that on the market, but he does not have a strong force behind him, and his cultivation time is still short, and he knows very little about the world of immortality.
With his current strength in Tongmai Chujing, he is still just a little shy.
To avoid getting into trouble.
But without taking elixirs, relying solely on daily practice to improve your realm is too slow, and you might be stuck in the Tongmai realm for the rest of your life.
Although senior Li Hu helped him register for the Tongcheng Kung Fu Competition, where the first prize could be 200,000 yuan, Zhang Yuan was not sure that he would get the bonus.
Since I can practice, there must be others like me who are practicing hidden in the secular world.
Therefore, in a martial arts competition, if you encounter a monk who is stronger than yourself, it is possible to eliminate yourself.
Zhang Yuan thought about it and decided to take a trip to the Dahang Mountains.
If he is lucky and finds that three-hundred-year-old plant, he will have the main medicine for refining the Tongmai Dan, which can save him hundreds of thousands. If unfortunately he encounters a powerful spirit, then turn back and skip the ginseng.
After making up his mind, Zhang Yuan practiced in bed for a while and didn't fall asleep until late at night.
In the next few days, Zhang Yuan was very busy. In addition to preparing for the upcoming New Year's Eve dinner, he secretly drew a batch of talismans and elementary Qi pills in his room.
Prepare to go into the mountains later in the year.
During this period, Zhang Yuan accidentally discovered that there were array patterns on the outer wall of the alchemy furnace. As long as the array patterns were pressed, the size of the alchemy furnace could be increased or decreased freely.
It can even be reduced to the size of a teapot.
Therefore, if you secretly refine elixirs in your room at night, you don't have to worry about being discovered by your parents.
After the New Year, on the fourth day of the first lunar month, Zhang Yuan's parents went to visit relatives.
Zhang Yuan lied that he was going to a class reunion and did not go to a relative's house with his parents.
After his parents left, Zhang Yuan packed the things he had prepared in advance in packages.
There are mineral water, biscuits, etc.
Then he put the package into the Qiankun bag, then went to the kitchen to find a rusty hatchet, put it into the Qiankun bag, and then quietly left home and walked towards the Dahang Mountains.
The 50-kilometer road takes only 2 hours by car.
It takes a day to walk on the mountain road. This is because Zhang Yuan is in good health.
There were no large beasts outside the Dahang Mountains. The only wild boar was scared away by Zhang Yuan with a hatchet.
Zhang Yuan mobilized his inner energy and moved quickly in the forest.
Before the sun set, Zhang Yuan had already climbed over a mountain, and he estimated that he would soon reach the valley that the mountain god mentioned.
After the sun set, the visibility in the forest became very poor. Zhang Yuan walked all day without stopping and was a little tired.
So he found an empty flat ground, and with the faint light before sunset, Zhang Yuan used a hatchet to chop some dry firewood and lit it on the flat ground.
Soon the bonfire was blazing, and the light of the fire dispelled the darkness.
Zhang Yuan drank some water and ate some dry food in front of the fire.
After adding some more dry wood to the campfire, Zhang Yuan sat in front of the fire, closed his eyes and practiced Qigong to recover from the exhaustion of climbing the mountain all day today.
Nothing happened all night.
After Zhang Yuan got up, he washed briefly with mineral water and continued on his way.
After one night of practice, his Qi was restored to perfection.
This is already deep in the Daxing Mountains, and there are no traces of humans. From time to time, you can find the footprints of some wild beasts or hear some strange calls. It is not known whether they are animals or something else.
Therefore, Zhang Yuan also became more cautious.
He followed the map shown by the mountain god and walked for a while until he came to a valley.
That ginseng plant should be near this valley.
The mountain god said that there was a snake demon in the valley, so Zhang Yuan did not enter the valley rashly, but hid in the distance and carefully observed the scene in the valley.
There is a ginseng forest in the center of the valley. In the middle of the ginseng forest, a ginseng with a stem about one meter long stands like a bird among the ginseng trees, looking down at the other ginseng brothers.
The small fiery red fruits and fresh petioles are surrounded by colorful rays of light under the sunlight.
Zhang Yuan has never seen such magical ginseng.
This should be the 300-year-old ginseng tree that the mountain god mentioned.
