"Just under that water plant." Xia Chuxue raised her chin and pointed to a dragon's beard water plant in the stream.
"Are you sure?" Chu Xiu asked.
Xia Chuxue said calmly: "It's up to you whether you believe it or not."
Jiang Rou said softly: "Chu Xue's eyes are always brighter than others."
Chu Xiu couldn't help but glance at Xia Chuxue's eyes. From the first moment he saw this cheap cousin, he noticed that her eyes were unusually bright, and her pupils were faintly glowing with light blue.
"What are you looking at?" Xia Chuxue stared, her pretty face turning red.
Chu Xiu calmly withdrew his gaze, stepped into the stream, and came to the water plant that Xia Chuxue just pointed at. The water flow surged, and a golden thread was faintly visible under the leaves of the water plant.
"Really?" Chu Xiu was surprised.
Upon closer inspection, I found that it was not a silk thread, but an arrangement of golden round grains the size of sesame seeds, just like Buddhist rosary beads.
On the periphery of these golden round particles, there is a layer of transparent long mucus that protects these golden round particles.
"As expected, these are the eggs excreted by the red clam."
Chu Xiu's eyes flashed. As far as he knew, the eggs excreted by toads were either in long lines like beads or arranged in blocks.
A toad can release approximately four to five thousand eggs at a time.
"Probably not inseminated."
Chu Xiu carefully lifted up the golden egg line and found that it was more than two meters long.
"Is this what you are looking for?" Jiang Rou asked, with a hint of curiosity on her face.
"This is the reason why Zhu Ha will stay in this medicinal forest." Chu Xiu tore off a piece of clothing and wrapped the golden egg line.
Throughout the morning, a group of guards from the medicinal forest conducted an airtight investigation of the entire medicinal forest, but found nothing.
Chu Xiu was basically certain that the two-meter long red clam egg line in his hand was the reason why the red clam stayed in the medicinal forest.
The matter regarding the Red Flame Clam has been completely resolved.
The contempt Xia Qingshan, Jiang Rou, and Xia Chuxue had for Chu Xiu all disappeared.
The family of three began to be curious about Chu Xiu's experience.
Return to Xia Mansion.
Xia Qingshan and Jiang Rou took out the letter from the wine Taoist again.
"This kid is also a bastard. If he had shown that he could deal with the Red Flame Clam from the beginning, even if I didn't like him anymore, I would definitely have let him give it a try." Xia Qingshan said angrily, "We have wasted nothing. A jar of forgetful wine."
Jiang Rou gave Xia Qingshan an angry look, "You can enjoy it secretly if you can make friends with Senior Meng."
"That's true." Xia Qingshan smiled. With a jar of Wangyou wine, he made friends with a big shot on the Xiaoyao list, which was a big advantage.
"Brother wants to bring Xiao Xiu and Chu Xue together, what do you think?" Jiang Rou glanced at the letter and raised an eyebrow at Xia Qingshan.
"This..." Xia Qingshan frowned.
At the beginning, he would naturally not agree. After all, when Chu Xiu first came to Xia Mansion, he looked like a weak scholar.
Now...
Xia Qingshan felt a little uncomfortable.
This is not entirely directed at Chu Xiu. No matter who his daughter marries, he is somewhat resistant.
"Let's take a look. The key is Chu Xue's thoughts." Xia Qingshan said in a dull voice.
"Chu Xue..." Jiang Rou said thoughtfully, "How about... going to Zhongzhou Chang'an, let the two of them go together?"
Xia Qingshan's eyelids twitched and he immediately shook his head and said, "Lingzhou is eight thousand miles away from Zhongzhou. If we don't follow, we don't know what danger they will encounter."
Jiang Rou looked sideways at Xia Qingshan and said leisurely: "Are you worried that something will happen to them on the way?"
As she said that, her pretty face couldn't help but blush.
She remembered the situation when she and Xia Qingshan fell in love.
At that time, the two of them were traveling together.
Xia Qingshan blushed, "You are overthinking, I am worried about their safety."
"It's up to you." Jiang Rou was noncommittal and snorted softly, "Anyway, my daughter will get married in the future. If she marries Xiao Xiu and knows everything, she might be able to let them live in Xia Mansion in the future.
If I marry someone else..."
Xia Qingshan's face changed slightly, he remained silent, and his heart was full of depression.
Now, he somewhat understands why his uncle, the wine Taoist, disliked him so much after he and Jiang Rou fell in love.
In the east chamber courtyard, in the room.
Sitting by the bed, Chu Xiu pulled out the bookcase where the wine gourd was stored and took out a golden gourd.
When he was still at Jade Cauldron in Shuzhou, he made preparations in advance after knowing that there might be a Red Flame Clam in the Xia family's medicinal forest.
Before going to bed last night, he had already studied the Red Flame Clam and discovered that the real essence of the Clam is blood.
As for the other parts of the red clam, although they also contain highly toxic substances, they are inferior to the blood of the red clam.
For now, all you need to do is add the blood of the red clam to the wine gourd and wait three days before you can drink it.
"Although I am temporarily unable to break through the realm and build a foundation in martial arts, the quality and quantity of the true energy in my body can continue to improve."
As drops of golden blood dripped into the wine gourd, Chu Xiu's eyes shone with light and he felt very happy.
He has the cold poison of Tianhuang Ice Silkworm in his body, and the true energy he has cultivated has the cold attribute.
In addition, over the years, in order to suppress the cold poison, he has been drinking wine with tonic and poisonous substances added, which is equivalent to taking various tonics.
The medicinal power contained in these tonics and poisons did not disappear due to fighting cold poison with poison. They all remained in Chu Xiu's body.
I don't know whether it was because the cold poison was too cold, or because the zhenqi trapped in the initial state was too much and too pure. A year ago, the zhenqi in Chu Xiu's body had a tendency to liquefy.
This is amazing, a change.
Chu Xiu had read many martial arts classics in the Jade Cauldron Temple, and had also asked wine Taoists. Throughout the ages, it seemed that there had never been a precedent for the liquefaction of true energy.
To be precise, in this world, there is no concept of 'liquefaction of true energy' at all.
"There is also the egg line of the red clam, which is also the essence."
A smile appeared on Chu Xiu's face. The harvest from this trip to Lingshan County was not ordinary.
He was confident that if he drank the pot of 'Yanyan Wine' in front of him, the true energy in his body would be completely liquefied.
at dusk.
Meng Tiangang, who had completely sobered up, went directly to Chu Xiu.
He remembered that he had said before that if Chu Xiu could defeat Duanmu Yaoyao and Tang Jiabao, he would teach Chu Xiu another palm technique.
"I taught you the Flame Slayer Fist at the foot of Lingshan Mountain." Meng Tiangang said with a smile, "Now, let me teach you the Sky Ice Palm."
"Thank you, senior." Chu Xiu thanked him sincerely.
"The Heavenly Ice Palm only has three styles in total, but there are eighty-one variations."
"Glacier."
"iceberg."
"Ice and snow."
As Meng Tiangang started practicing in the east chamber courtyard, the temperature of the entire courtyard suddenly dropped, frost fell between the sky and the earth, and the ground was dyed with a layer of ice color.
The extremely cold palm power seems to be able to freeze everything, and it also seems to be able to destroy everything.
A flash of surprise flashed in Chu Xiu's eyes.
Although this Heavenly Ice Palm only has three styles, each style contains many changes, which are unspeakably powerful.
Finally, Meng Tiangang gently pushed his palm towards Chu Xiu, and a ray of cold Qi began to circulate in the meridians and acupoints of Chu Xiu's body.
"Thank you, senior, for teaching me martial arts." Chu Xiu thanked him sincerely again.
"Are you going to Chang'an City?" Meng Tiangang asked.
Chu Xiu nodded.
"It just so happens that my grandson is going to Chang'an City to take the exam at Suzaku Academy. You guys can come together." Meng Tiangang said thoughtfully.
"What do you mean, senior?" Chu Xiu looked at Meng Tiangang.
Meng Tiangang said: "He lacks actual combat. He didn't even fight a young monk yesterday."
Chu Xiu was ashamed and said truthfully: "Actually, this junior has never fought with anyone in actual combat."
"You are different." Meng Tiangang stared at Chu Xiu, "Maybe you have never fought in actual combat, but you have suffered a lot and have spent many years on the edge of life and death."
"Are you praising this junior?" Chu Xiu smiled.
"Haha~, let's go and have a drink with me." Meng Tiangang smiled boldly. He admired the boy in front of him very much.
"good."
