Chapter 1600, Useless Mushrooms
Although Lu Feng vaguely understood that this phenomenon might be related to the principle of yin and yang, he was not entirely sure why such a large spiritual spring could be mobilized by temperature alone.
Everyone looked at Chu Youwei with doubts.
Lin Xiaowan asked again: "Sister Weiwei, do you know why this phenomenon occurs? Is it because if we increase the temperature, the spiritual spring will gush out on its own?"
Chu Youwei looked thoughtful, and did not respond to Lin Xiaowan's words. Instead, she took the torch from the latter's hand and came to the pit alone.
At this time, the spring water that kept emerging in the center of the pit had stabilized and returned to the size of the mouth of a bowl as Gu De originally said. It no longer continued to bubble and accumulate.
While Chu Youwei approached the center with a torch, she looked at the spring water that had stabilized over there. To her disappointment, no matter how close the torch was, the spring water in the ground no longer emerged.
Lin Xiaowan also realized something at this time and said, "Why does it seem to have nothing to do with temperature again?"
Chu Youwei thought thoughtfully and said: "It's not irrelevant, but the light and heat emitted by the torches in our hands can only move so much spring water."
"I don't understand," Lin Xiaowan puffed her lips.
Chu Youwei glanced at the sky thoughtfully, looking at the dark night sky, and explained: "Although what we see in front of us is just an empty pool, its internal structure is probably more complicated than we imagined. Times, the spiritual spring in front of us is not drying up, but should be dispatched to the area around the Tiexi Bamboo Forest."
Lin Xiaowan asked in surprise: "Is this possible? This place is so far away from the Iron Breathing Bamboo Forest. Even if the pool is full and the spiritual spring inside is condensed into a line, it will not reach the Iron Breathing Bamboo Forest area?"
Lin Xiaowan had made such a conjecture at first, but her rationality made her think it was too ridiculous.
Chu Youwei couldn't help but glance towards the middle of the mountain wall, "It is true that what we see in front of us is only such a deep pool, but what if there are dozens or even hundreds of such deep pools buried here?"
Lin Xiaowan was startled. Thinking of the underground movement along the way and the faint audible sound of water flowing at the edge of the cliff, she couldn't help but feel that Chu Youwei's analysis might be correct, but even so, she still couldn't figure it out.
"Even if there really are countless deep pools, how can the spiritual springs inside be mobilized after so many years?"
Chu Youwei thought: "The only thing that can achieve this level is the power of heaven and earth. Although I don't know the specific layout of the ancestors of Jianchi, I can vaguely feel that the phenomenon here should be similar to the power of tide. As the The changes between day and night give the earth different forces to pull it, thus mobilizing the spiritual springs in the deep pools, making them active, and flowing all the way through to supply the distant iron-breathing bamboo forests."
Lin Xiaowan was puzzled: "Then why ordinary torches can cause some spring water to emerge? How can we explain this?"
Chu Youwei hesitated and guessed: "Maybe it's because the light and heat of the torch made the place feel like it was daytime..."
When the words came to his mouth, he felt that such an explanation was too far-fetched. Just when he didn't know how to explain it, Lu Feng's words solved the problem.
"The light and heat of the torch... is caused by touching a 'valve'-like device underneath."
"Valve?" Lin Xiaowan and Chu Youwei were both stunned. They saw Lu Feng groping carefully at the spiritual spring in the center of the pit, and seemed to have discovered something.
Lu Feng pointed to the pool of water at his feet and said: "There is a large piece of 'red rock chalcedony' underneath, blocking the spring. This kind of chalcedony has extremely strong plasticity. Once it is forged and solidified, no matter how much you twist it, Even if you knead it, it can return to its original shape within a certain period of time. The chalcedony will deform slightly when heated, which is why this part of the spring water was 'released' just now."
"At this moment, the chalcedony has returned to normal. Because the spiritual water covers it, the temperature of the torch can't have much effect."
Lin Xiaowan and Chu Youwei had a flash of realization in their eyes, and they finally understood the cause of this phenomenon.
Lu Feng looked at Chu Youwei and continued: "If your analysis just now is correct, the construction here is indeed related to the day and night changes in the power of the tide. When it is daytime, under the gravity of the earth, the chalcedony will be squeezed and will reveal larger gaps, which will lead to deeper cracks elsewhere. The spring water in the pool will continue to overflow, and the deep pit in front of you will be filled with it."
"Really?" Lin Xiaowan was delighted, "Then let's wait until dawn and take a look!"
Chu Youwei also nodded in agreement, looking at Lu Feng with a profound look. It was obvious that she had never thought that Lu Feng would have such profound knowledge.
Gu De hesitated and said: "Miss, the young master may not be able to hold on for that long?"
Chu Youwei pointed at the pool of spiritual water that emerged, and said: "This is enough to keep him alive, scoop it out and feed it to him, and pour some into his nose to wash away the remaining poisonous smell."
The guard quickly complied.
In the past, Chu Youwei would never have been so indifferent. If her brother's life was at stake, she would definitely take care of it personally. But what Chu Youren did during this time really chilled her, and the remaining family ties were already like falling flowers in autumn. Broken and withered.
Lin Xiaowan found a relatively clean place and said, "Sister Weiwei, come and take a rest while you are free now. Today is only the first day, and you will have to stay in this realm for more than ten days."
Chu Youwei nodded, and after picking two small white mushrooms from the seams on one side of the rock wall, she sat down next to Lin Xiaowan, took out the handkerchief from her cuffs and gently wiped the jade-like delicate white mushrooms in her hands.
Lin Xiaowan's eyes lit up, "Sister Weiwei, is this what the master once mentioned about 'not burning'?"
Chu Youwei chuckled and nodded.
"Won't it burn?" Lu Feng couldn't help but feel happy when he heard such an interesting term for the first time. He looked at Chu Youwei's hands and saw the mushrooms gently held in his fair and delicate hands.
The mushroom is not big, only as wide as a finger. Compared with the other ones on the rock wall, it can be said to be very mini and delicate. Its color is much thicker than the white skin of Chu Youwei's fingers, and they are all faintly like milk jade. The texture is not soft even when wiped with the handkerchief, and it obviously has a good hardness.
Seeing Lu Feng's dumbfounded look, Lin Xiaowan couldn't help but chuckle, "Brother Liyun, is this your first time seeing this strange white mushroom?"
Lu Feng nodded. Although he had extraordinary experience and knowledge, looking at the world, there were obviously more things he didn't know and didn't understand.
Lin Xiaowan explained: "This kind of mushroom is extremely rare. If it weren't so interesting, I wouldn't be so impressed."
"Interesting?" Lu Feng was curious: "How can a mushroom be interesting? Can eating it improve your strength? Or can you burrow into the ground after eating it?"
Lin Xiaowan smiled and said: "You can't eat it, it tastes sour and astringent. If you really want to eat it, it will be very, very troublesome to cook."
Lu Feng was puzzled: "Then what's so interesting?"
Lin Xiaowan said: "It can't be burnt. That's its name and the interesting thing about it. If you don't know how to cook it, just burn it with fire. You won't be able to damage it at all in three days and three nights. Maybe it will be worse." You’ll get burned by its fire-absorbed shell.”
Lu Feng looked at the white mushroom in Chu Youwei's hand in surprise again. Looking at its fragile and soft appearance, it didn't look like it couldn't be burned.
Seeing this, Lin Xiaowan raised her hand to take a small mushroom from Chu Youwei's hand and said, "I'll try it for you."
Just as he was about to take action, he saw Chu Youwei taking it back again.
"I'll pick up a new one myself," Chu Youwei waved the handkerchief, "I finally cleaned these two, and I'm going to take them out for cultivation."
As he spoke, he carefully wrapped it up with a handkerchief.
"Stingy guy," Lin Xiaowan mumbled, picked up the long sword beside her, and without getting up, or in other words too lazy to get up, used the length of the long sword to stab a palm-sized mushroom under the rock wall behind her.
Simply remove the contaminated soil and debris.
Lin Xiaowan threw it to Lu Feng, "Brother Liyun, if you bake it with a torch for a while, you'll understand why it won't burn."
Lu Feng thought he had nothing to do, so he followed Lin Xiaowan's words, took a torch that was still burning on one side, threw a palm-sized mushroom into the center of the flame, and controlled it with his spiritual energy to move it to the temperature of the flame. The highest point.
As the flames covered it, Lu Feng was shocked to see that the originally snow-white and milk-colored mushroom turned black in an instant, like an ink block, and no longer had any luster. Under the flames, the tiny particles on its surface were still there. The fire that was faintly absorbed showed no sign of being burned out.
Lu Feng secretly circulated a ray of fire energy without believing in evil, but it still did not cause any damage to the mushroom.
"Hehe," Lin Xiaowan's proud laughter came, "This mushroom has another name, called the black and white mushroom. In the white state, the tentacles are as warm as jade, and in the black state, the tentacles are as hot as coals."
Lu Feng was astonished and tested it again with his spiritual energy. He saw that its hardness was at least on the earth-grade level, and he couldn't help but be in an uproar. It was so difficult to handle, no wonder it was called 'indestructible'.
It really lives up to its name.
Lu Feng couldn't help but look at Chu Youwei again and asked curiously: "What are you cultivating such useless mushrooms for?"
Chu Youwei explained: "It can't be said that it is useless. Although it has few uses for humans, it is a great tonic when used as a nutrient for flowers. According to family records about Zidaihua, among them One type of nutrient is this black and white mushroom, and the fragrance of the Zidai flower cultivated with this can be increased by at least 10 to 20%."
Although according to the nutrition records about Zidaihua, this kind of mushroom can only be regarded as low-ranking, but now that she has encountered it, Chu Youwei is not willing to miss it.
Lu Feng added: "But doesn't it burn to pieces? Isn't it troublesome to deal with it?"
Lin Xiaowan answered and said with a smile: "It is said to be indestructible, but the way to deal with it is not to use fire. You try to pour strength into the little knot at the root and tear the little tail under its umbrella. It will Just obey me."
Lu Feng was curious and gave it a try.
I thought it would take some effort, but I didn't expect that as Lin Xiaowan said, after the roots of such mushrooms were washed away, they lost their hardness instantly, and they could be torn apart without any effort.
Although it was still roasted by the fire at this moment, the blackness of its body surface turned to gray at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally stayed in the gray state.
Seeing this, Lu Feng pulled it out and threw it to one side, curiously asking: "Can't it return to its original white color?"
Lin Xiaowan smiled and said, "The vitality of the indestructible plant is very strong. When it returns to normal temperature, its tail end will grow roots and sink into the soil on its own, and it will return to health after a while."
