Shan Heyuan received a communication talisman from Zhong Shuran, asking him to rush over and introduce him to the captain of the hunting team.
When he saw it, the communicator had been sent for an hour and a half.
I don’t know if Zhong Shuran is still at home?
Hurrying to the door of Zhong Shuran's house, Shan Heyuan knocked nervously.
The door was ajar. He knocked a little harder and it opened.
The talking in the yard stopped instantly, and the two men who were talking turned to look at Shan Heyuan.
Among these two people, one was his friend Zhong Shuran, a talisman master from the same village, and the other he had never met before, and he must be the talisman master Zhong Shuran wanted to introduce to him.
The man was at least two meters tall, with a body like an iron tower, a dark face, and a thick beard.
What a big man!
Shan Heyuan's hand that wanted to say hello stopped, and his expression became a little embarrassed.
Zhong Shuran waved him over: "Shan Heyuan, this is Zhao Changming, the captain of our hunting team. He is also my classmate. He has reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining."
Shan Heyuan: "Fellow Daoist Zhao."
Zhao Changming stared at Shan Heyuan with his sharp eyes, as if he could see directly through his internal organs.
Shan Heyuan's scalp was numb and he subconsciously turned his body to block the position of his Dantian.
It seemed that after a while, Zhao Changming greeted in a low voice: "Fellow Daoist Shan."
Zhong Shuran patted Zhao Changming's arm and told him to restrain his fierce look: "He Yuan is a very talented planter. Isn't the loss of spiritual plants always high when we go out? If we take him with us, things may get better. .”
Zhao Changming nodded: "I have a good relationship with fellow Taoist Shan. If fellow Taoist Shan wants to go, we can give it a try together."
Shan Heyuan immediately said: "Excuse me, Fellow Daoist Zhao, I'm available at any time."
Zhao Changming: "We will go to Zhangjia Mountain tomorrow and come back in about three days. Will fellow Taoist Shan go?"
Shan Heyuan: "Go!"
Zhao Changming: "Single Road is friendly and refreshing. In this case, we will buy all the supplies this afternoon and meet at Junior Brother Zhong's place tomorrow morning. Let's set off."
Shan Heyuan has never officially gone out with the hunting team.
After Zhao Changming learned about his situation, he gave him a list and explained some precautions to him together with Zhong Shuran.
Shan Heyuan drank a lot of tea at Zhong Shuran's house and came home dizzy at almost noon.
After entering his yard, Shan Heyuan found that his home was extremely quiet.
He searched around the house and outside, but there was no sign of Shen Duheng: "Strange, where did he go? He was not at home, and he didn't leave a note."
After confirming that Shen Duheng was not at home, he was too lazy to cook. He went into the kitchen and opened the air-conditioning cabinet, planning to get something to eat.
He found two cakes and a small jar of pickled pumpkin, stacked them together, and planned to take them to the living room to eat.
As soon as he turned around, he saw a tall dark red figure standing at the door from the corner of his eye. He was immediately startled: "Brother Shen?! Where have you been this morning? Have you eaten?"
Shen Duheng looked at him: "No, you're not at home either?"
Shan Heyuan explained: "I just went to Shuran's house. He contacted his senior brother and said that their hunting team could take me for a try."
Shen Duheng: "So fast?"
Shan Heyuan said excitedly: "Yes! Fellow Taoist Zhao said that he has a match for me when he sees me - Zhong Shuran's senior brother is called Zhao Changming."
Shen Duheng stood at the door and looked at him: "Oh?"
Shan Heyuan: "I decided to go with them to give it a try. In the afternoon I have to go to the town to purchase supplies for hunting. Fellow Daoist Zhao and others suggested that I prepare personal supplies such as Bigu Pills, Healing Pills, and sleeping tents, as well as supplies for public use. They will buy it. Are you going?"
Shen Duheng raised his hand and threw something at him: "I won't go. You can go to Zangling to watch and buy."
"Aren't you going?" Shan Heyuan subconsciously caught the thing, only to find it was heavy and cold, "What is this?"
Shan Heyuan let go of his hand and looked at the brass ring in his palm. He felt that it looked very familiar, and he couldn't remember where he had seen it before.
Shen Duheng said lazily: "Storage ring. It's inconvenient to carry large bags when going out, so I bought a small storage ring for you."
It’s actually a storage ring!
Shan Heyuan opened his mouth wide, and then grinned almost to his ears: "Storage ring! Brother Shen, you bought me a storage ring?! No, where did you get the spirit beads?"
Shen Duheng: "Sword cultivator still lacks spirit beads?"
Shan Heyuan held the storage ring and looked at it again and again: "This is too expensive!"
Shen Duheng: "As long as I lend it to you, I will return it when I have the spirit beads."
Shan Heyuan couldn't help but be happy: "Thank you, Brother Shen! When I earn the spirit beads, I will give you flowers too!"
Shen Duheng didn't take his words to heart at all. He waved his hands and turned back to the living room.
Shan Heyuan looked at the storage ring in his hand and shouted to his back: "Brother Shen, wait a moment, I will cook two big dishes, and you can eat right away!"
Shan Heyuan stood in the kitchen.
The light in the kitchen is not very good. Because it is a tiled house, it is cool and dim even at noon.
But the brass-colored ring in his palm shone with tiny light that couldn't be ignored.
He held the storage ring and looked at it over and over for a while, scooped up water and used cleaning paste to wash his hands, and then carefully put the ring on the index finger of his right hand.
The ring is smooth and slender, and looks great on his slender finger.
He admired it for a while before touching the storage ring with his spiritual consciousness.
When his consciousness came into contact with the storage ring, it was like he was probing a wall.
Only then did he realize that the owner of the ring had not yet been recognized.
According to the common sense he learned, most of the stored magic weapons can be identified by bleeding.
Shan Heyuan looked around, took off the kitchen knife from the shelf, cut a small incision on the back of his hand, squeezed out the blood and smeared it on the storage ring.
The storage ring absorbed the blood and became smooth again.
Shan Heyuan explored again and found a small space.
The space was about four meters wide, five meters long, and three meters high. It looked gray under the detection of his spiritual consciousness.
This is an alien space that is obviously different from reality. It is somewhat similar to Dantian, but much larger than Dantian.
Shan Heyuan stared at the space without blinking, then inserted the kitchen knife in his hand.
The kitchen knife is suspended in space.
The entire space is like a gravity-free environment, the kitchen knife will not move at all inside, and he can't feel the weight even if he wears the storage ring.
Shan Heyuan used his consciousness to adjust the position of the kitchen knife and moved it to the corner.
The moving process was smooth, and his consciousness was like an arm directing him, as if it were his third hand.
After playing for a while, Shan Heyuan remembered that they hadn't had lunch yet.
He quickly took out his kitchen knife and dug out the dried lean meat for lunch.
He was really moved at noon today and specially made four dishes and one soup.
After lunch, Shan Heyuan went to town to buy supplies.
He had too few spirit beads in his hand to "hide spirits", so he only went to the second-hand shop he frequented to buy some things he had to bring.
Let’s deal with it first, and we’ll talk about it later when we have the spirit beads.
Shan Heyuan was going to go hunting with the hunting team tomorrow. He was so excited that he couldn't sleep all night. When he got up, the dark circles under his eyes almost fell to his mouth.
Even so, he was still so excited that he made breakfast early in the morning and repeatedly explained the family affairs to Shen Duheng several times before going out to find Zhong Shuran.
With the storage ring in hand, he took nothing, empty-handed, and went to find Zhong Shuran in high spirits.
Zhao Changming was already waiting at Zhong Shuran's house.
In addition to Zhao Changming, there is another team member named Li Jiamu.
Li Jiamu and Zhao Changming are both sword cultivators, while Zhong Shuran is a talisman cultivator and part-time formation cultivator.
When they go out, there will be no problem in hunting, but they will be weaker in gathering.
This is also the reason why Zhao Changming, as the captain, is willing to accept a planter. Their hunting process needs to be more efficient in order to save costs and increase income.
As classmates, Zhao Changming and the three of them often went hunting together when they were still in school, and were very familiar with the surrounding situation.
Shan Heyuan followed in the middle of the team. He was excited and nervous at the same time. He looked like a newbie at first glance.
After entering Zhangjia Mountain, the road gradually disappeared, and low-level spiritual grass and small spiritual beasts could be seen all around.
Zhao Changming had explained that in principle, they did not want any spiritual herbs or spiritual beasts lower than the third level of Qi Refining.
The process of gathering and hunting will waste time and spiritual energy. If you get too many low-level goods, you won't have enough energy to get high-level goods.
If the spiritual grass is at their feet, or if the spiritual beast takes the initiative to bump into it, it won't take much time and energy. If you don't take it, you won't get it.
As he walked, Shan Heyuan recognized a spiritual grass on the roadside, which should be the second-level Qi Refining Jade Xu San.
This is a magical herb that doesn’t dig up.
He stopped the team, took a rake from the storage ring, dug and pried, and dug up the spiritual grass.
The roots of the spiritual grass dug up in this way will be more broken, and it needs to be taken back and cultivated for a period of time to regain its strength.
However, this digging method is very fast and can be dug out in a few seconds. It is very cost-effective. They all use this digging method for spiritual herbs below the third level of Qi refining.
The Jade Xu Powder at the second level of Qi Refining is not of high value and cannot be treated like being placed in a jade box.
In order to maintain its vitality, Shan Heyuan specially dug a ball of soil and pinched it at its roots, then put it in a storage ring.
At this rate, it shouldn't be a problem for it to survive for two or three days.
Zhao Changming and the other three were not planters and could not help, so they just stood guard nearby.
Li Jiamu: "The novice is lucky. Along the way, fellow Taoist Shan, he has dug up seventeen spiritual grasses that are above the second level of Qi refining, right?"
Zhong Shuran shook his head: "This is not a matter of luck, the planter has this strength."
Li Jiamu smiled: "It's not like I haven't seen other planters before, but they don't dig as many spiritual grasses as Taoist friend Shan."
Zhong Shuran said proudly: "How can the person I introduced have mediocre talent?"
Li Jiamu agreed on this point: "Fellow Daoist Shan's talent is indeed very good, and he works very neatly."
Shan Heyuan had already put Yuxu Powder into the storage ring and was standing in the middle listening to them talking with a very good attitude.
Zhao Changming also liked this new team member very much. He pressed the sword on his waist and said, "Now that we have dug the spiritual grass, we will continue to set off."
Shan Heyuan saw Zhao Changming raising his feet to leave, and hurriedly stopped him: "Fellow Daoist Zhao, wait, there should be two good-grade Wudingcao in the northwest. I feel their spiritual power."
Zhao Changming looked at him in surprise and took the lead to walk northwest: "Let's go and take a look."
Under the command of Shan Heyuan, several people walked more than ten meters northwest and saw two Wudingcao, one of which was at the seventh level of Qi Refining and the other was at the ninth level of Qi Refining.
The value of this grade of spiritual grass is already relatively high. You cannot pry it up with a rake roughly, as that will affect the selling price.
Zhao Changming and Li Jiamu were in good physical condition, so they each took a hoe and dug carefully.
Zhong Shuran and Shan Heyuan were on alert and took a short rest.
Li Jiamu was digging the spiritual grass while still having the energy to chat: "I just said that Fellow Daoist Shan is lucky, but you still don't believe it."
Zhong Shuran: "Believe me, it's obviously strength! If it were other novice planters, even if the spiritual grass was planted at their feet, they might not be able to find it."
Zhao Changming said: "Fellow Daoist Shan is more sensitive to the spiritual power of spiritual grass than ordinary people?"
Shan Heyuan smiled and admitted: "The professional skills of a planter are already there, and there are specialties in the art."
Shan Heyuan didn't know what other planters were like, but he was indeed very sensitive to the spiritual power of spiritual plants, especially those spiritual plants that he had placed in his Dantian. From a long distance away, he could separate the chaotic spiritual plants. Capturing that difference in strength.
But this is his secret, so it's hard to tell anyone other than Shen Duheng.
Not long after, they dug out two Asparagus grasses and set out again.
The process of hunting was very hard. They set off when the sun had just risen. They didn't take much rest at noon. They only drank some water, ate some Bigu Pills, sat under the shade of a tree for a while, and then continued walking into the mountains. .
Every time you go hunting, you need to consume a fixed amount of supplies, such as pills to protect against poisonous insects and snakes, talismans for warning, spiritual wine to restore physical strength, etc. You can't just stop and go like a game.
They have to reach their pre-determined destination within the planned time, otherwise the supplies will be insufficient and the journey will not be safe.
When Zhao Changming was making plans, he did not expect that Shan Heyuan, a third-level Qi Refining planter, could discover so many things, so the time left for him on the road was shorter.
Later, in order to reach a suitable camping spot, they had to speed up.
So the later section is particularly tiring.
Not to mention Shan Heyuan, a fledgling planter, even Zhong Shuran, a man who hunted all year round, was exhausted.
In the evening, after finally arriving at their destination, Shan Heyuan and Zhong Shuran were almost exhausted.
As soon as Zhao Changming mentioned setting up camp, the two of them didn't care about anything else. They just lay down on the slightly thick grass and rolled into a ball.
Zhao Changming and Li Jiamu didn't care about them, they just took their swords to chop down trees, mow grass, and set up camp.
Zhong Shuran took out two small recovery pills to restore physical strength from his storage bracelet, and gave one to Shan Heyuan: "Are you tired?"
Shan Heyuan nodded feebly. He didn't even bother to get the water. He just swallowed it and continued to lie down.
Zhong Shuran touched his hair with his backhand: "I have never been so tired. You planters are really good. You will definitely make a lot of money this time."
Shan Heyuan: "Definitely. I've counted. Today we dug thirty-seven spiritual grasses of level five or above."
Zhong Shuran: "Not bad. Let's keep up our efforts tomorrow."
Zhong Shuran didn't know if he got motivation from his income. After lying down for a while, he struggled to get up, took out the talisman and set up a protective array in this temporary camp.
After setting up the formation, he counted the remaining talisman pieces.
They used a lot of talismans during the day. Shan Heyuan looked at Zhong Shuran's talismans lined up on the grass and felt that the talismans they brought this time might not be enough for three days.
Zhao Changming and Li Jiamu were in another corner of the camp dealing with the spiritual beasts they shot today.
Spiritual beasts in the Qi refining stage rarely have spiritual elixirs in their bodies. If there are, they must be dug out in time and sealed in a jade box using special techniques to ensure that the spiritual power does not escape.
In addition, the fur of spiritual beasts must be tanned in time, and the meat of beasts with high spiritual power content also needs to be separated and properly preserved.
As for the meat with less spiritual energy content or not so good, choose the meat that tastes good and eat it. If you really can't eat it, throw it away farther away, so as not to occupy the space of the magic weapon.
Seeing that everyone was working, Shan Heyuan was embarrassed to continue lying down, so he got up and cleaned the spiritual grass dug during the day.
The spiritual herbs for the fifth level of Qi refining and above are all properly placed in the jade box.
The jade box is engraved with runes and inlaid with broken spiritual stones. The inside is cool, dry and rich in spiritual power, which can maintain the state of the spiritual grass to the maximum extent.
After all, it cannot connect to the outside world. It is not a complete small world, and the spiritual grass will inevitably wither.
Shan Heyuan gave these spiritual herbs a "breeze" to bring them back to their best condition before storing them again.
The spiritual herbs in the jade box began to wither, and the spiritual herbs wrapped in soil and placed in the storage ring withered even more.
Shan Heyuan guessed that the storage ring was the same as the Dantian. The alien space inside was not suitable for spiritual grass to survive, and they could only survive for a short period of time.
However, the spiritual grass will release spiritual power in the Dantian, and it will be in a state of accelerated consumption, and the survival time will be greatly shortened.
The spiritual herbs in the storage ring are simply stored, but they can last for a few more days.
What is also unavoidable is that the spiritual herbs placed in the storage magic weapon will damage the vitality, and it will take a period of time to recover.
Shan Heyuan was thinking wildly while combing the spiritual power of the withered spiritual grass.
Zhao Changming and the others had almost finished processing the spirit beasts. The cut spirit beast meat was marinated and roasted on the bonfire. A strong aroma soon emitted from it.
While Shan Heyuan was working, his stomach began to growl.
Li Jiamu brought over a few skewers of roasted animal meat, giving half to Zhong Shuran and half to Shan Heyuan: "It's been a hard day today. Come, try this fresh spirit animal meat to see if it suits your taste."
Shan Heyuan raised his head and smiled: "We all have the same hard work."
Li Jiamu: "Normally we don't necessarily have to work that hard. Mainly because we don't have much to gain, and there's no place to work hard if we want to."
Zhong Shuran sat on the side with his hands and feet open, biting into the barbecue with his big teeth: "He Yuan is really the most powerful planter I have ever seen."
Li Jiamu: "He is also the most powerful planter I have ever seen. It would be great if we cooperated earlier."
Shan Heyuan: "Fellow Daoist Li, I'm only at the third level of Qi refining, I guess it won't be too early."
Li Jiamu smiled: "That's right. There was nothing we could do before. How about more cooperation in the future?"
Shan Heyuan nodded: "As long as you don't dislike it."
