"Huh?"
Hearing that Zhao Lin had picked a top-grade medicinal herb, Elder Huoyu was stunned for a moment, and then asked suspiciously: "Wuzhi Mountain is a second-grade medicinal mountain. Where did the top-grade medicinal herb come from?"
After hearing this, Elder Shui Jing breathed a sigh of relief. As long as Zhao Lin didn't run away from the battle, it didn't matter what grade of herb it was.
What? Excellent herbs!
He suddenly came to his senses and waved to Zhao Lin: "Bring it over and let me take a look."
Zhao Lin responded, strode up to Elder Shui Jing, and opened the medicine storage box.
Shui Jing raised his eyebrows and said in surprise: "Yin Eclipse Lotus!"
Now the other elders couldn't sit still anymore, and they all stepped forward to watch, tut-tutting.
"It's really Yin Eclipse Lotus, Shui Jing, your disciple is so impressive!"
"I didn't expect that there are also top-quality medicinal herbs on Wuzhi Mountain."
"It's strange, this Yin Eclipse Lotus seems to be at least two decades old. How come no one has discovered it for so many years..."
Shui Jing felt proud, glanced sideways at Huo Yu, and said calmly: "Zhao Lin, where did you find this Yin Eclipse Lotus?"
"Disciple found it in a cave at Index Finger Peak..."
Zhao Lin described the situation in the cave in detail, omitting the matter of the Ice Silkworm and the Xiang brothers.
The elders looked at each other in shock after hearing this. They did not expect that there was a huge cave inside Index Finger Peak.
Elder Jinshi pondered for a while and then said: "No wonder the Index Finger Peak has always been colder than other places. It turns out there is a cold vein underground. From this point of view, it is not surprising that the Yin Eclipse Lotus is born."
"There are also ice silkworms." Zhao Lin added in his heart.
Elder Huo Yu said: "Is there a second one? Let's go and take a look?"
Elder Jinshi waved his hand and said: "Don't even think about it! This kind of top-quality medicinal herb has always been an orphan. The disciples are harvesting it in autumn, and we will send someone there later."
Seeing that his disciple had given him a good look, Shui Jing looked at Zhao Lin with approval and praised: "Very good, I will send it to the sect for safekeeping. You can go back and collect it in autumn."
As he spoke, he glanced at the baggage behind Zhao Lin and said, "How was the harvest?"
In fact, after Zhao Lincai picked up the Yin Eclipse Lotus, he had basically locked up Qiucai's top spot. Shui Jing asked more questions, deliberately wanting to show off a little.
"Disciple has only gained a little, I dare not say much." Zhao Lin said modestly.
Huo Yu stared at them, watching the two singing in harmony, feeling suffocated, and turned away, out of sight and out of mind.
Elder Shui Jing looked at Zhao Lin with a smile, then suddenly raised his brows with a look of surprise on his face.
When did this disciple break through to the second level of Qi Realm?
In the eyes of Yuanjing warriors, there is not much difference between the Qi and blood of the first level and the second level of Qi, just like for a lion and a tiger, there is no difference between the size of an ant and a bee.
But Shui Jing is Zhao Lin's elder who teaches martial arts, so he naturally knows his cultivation level very well.
During the latest entrance examination, Zhao Lin still had 20 or 30 acupuncture points that he had not broken through. How come he conquered them all in a blink of an eye?
Zhao Lin looked at the words and knew that the elder had noticed it, so he whispered: "Elder, this disciple has one more thing."
Elder Shui Jing understood and stepped away from the welcoming pine.
Zhao Lin followed and spoke out the speech he had prepared in advance: "Elder, in order to prepare for this autumn harvest, this disciple has been practicing hard every day, trying to break through the realm, but unfortunately he has missed a few acupoints."
"When I was picking the Yin Eclipse Lotus today, I accidentally discovered that the cave seemed to be particularly suitable for cultivation, so I ran the Return to the Sea Jue with the idea of giving it a try."
“I didn’t expect that I would break through all of a sudden!”
When the soul enters the body, its energy is at its most abundant, and it can only be released slowly afterwards. Zhao Lin had no time to think about it carefully at the time, and he also wanted to improve his strength as soon as possible, so he chose to break through the realm in one fell swoop.
I came up with this explanation afterwards.
Although this explanation is not a good one, the beauty is that it cannot be verified. Anyway, the Yin Eclipse Lotus has been picked and there is no way to try again.
"Is this true? Is there such a thing?"
Elder Shui Jing pinched his beard and fell into a long examination, thinking about the authenticity of Zhao Lin's words.
"Elder, disciple wants to know what is going on?"
Zhao Lin asked suddenly, with a serious look on his face asking for advice.
"Well..."
Elder Shui Jing coughed, considered the words and said, "Guihai Jue belongs to water, and seems to be similar to the cold and cold air."
After saying that, he glanced at Zhao Lin and saw that he seemed to believe it but not believe it. He said sternly: "Don't believe me. When we cultivate our inner strength, we sometimes have to pay attention to the induction of heaven and man."
“Perhaps you were in the right place at the right time, and the weather matched the right conditions, and the earth matched the right conditions, and you made a breakthrough all at once.”
"I see!"
Zhao Lin suddenly realized it and thought that as long as you believe in this explanation, it will be fine.
…
Say goodbye to the elders and return to Index Finger Peak.
Zhao Lin still felt uneasy and came to the cave again.
He dragged the body of the cold water silkworm out of the rock crevice, crushed it with a shovel handle, wrapped it in a sweat towel, took it outside, and found a small stream to sprinkle it in.
As for the crack where the cold water silkworm crawled out, Zhao Lin checked it and found that there was nothing special about it. It seemed that the cold water silkworm dug a hole next to the Yin Eclipse Lotus and hibernated inside.
It was getting late, and Zhao Lin spent the night on the tall spruce tree yesterday.
The third day, noon.
Ring finger peak.
"Do you think others can find such a hidden place?"
"You don't understand this. If it's too conspicuous, others will know there's something wrong at the first glance. This is a good place, it's easy for people to relax their vigilance."
"Then why hasn't anyone come yet? We've been waiting for half an hour."
"Don't worry, the fish will bite the bait sooner or later."
In a col on Ring Finger Peak, a silver calamus grows between two boulders.
This herb has a slightly spicy aroma, like chili peppers and chrysanthemums mixed together.
Zhao Lin came over after smelling the smell, but was not in a hurry to pick it.
Today is the third day. Except for the herbs buried in the ground that may have survived, basically all the nooks and crannies have been turned over by the disciples.
It is unusual for this silver calamus to be preserved to this day.
Zhao Lin emitted ultrasonic waves and listened for a while, and sure enough, he heard more than a dozen breaths in the woods and grass nearby.
From the conversations between these people, we learned that those lurking here are all disciples from the outer courtyard, playing the game of waiting for something to happen.
If someone is accidentally fooled, they will definitely be robbed.
"Shh... someone is coming, be quiet."
Someone in the grass nest whispered.
Zhao Lin knew that they were talking about him, so he turned around and left.
I have already harvested enough, and I don’t need to take the risk to grab a medium- or low-grade herb.
In fact, Zhao Lin found a lot of medicinal herbs this morning, and the medicine storage box could no longer contain them.
He could only remove the shelf-stable rhizome herbs to make room for the box, and try to avoid fighting with others. If the herbs were damaged, the gain would outweigh the loss.
"Oh, why are you leaving..."
An annoyed voice came from behind Zhao Lin.
After noon, the sun moved westward, and people began to come down the mountain one after another.
At the end of the day, more and more people came down the mountain.
Zhao Lin also came to the foot of the mountain peak at this time and followed the flow of people to the mountainside.
(End of chapter)
