If you are used to the life on Yubei Mountain, you will not be able to relax.
Because on Yubei Mountain, the time for every meal seems very tight. There is a fight every two days for three days. Even if there is no horn sound for one day, it is a rare opportunity to repair the city wall, prepare the supplies for the city defense, and recruit manpower. It won't be any less relaxing than a day with fighting.
Even a crazy "idler" like Zhang Yan will not really be idle. In addition to visiting various sentries regularly, he mainly checks to see if the Bagua Array needs to be adjusted, where maintenance is needed, the pest control status of the thorn vine wall, etc. Even the path of the Bagua array needs to be changed from time to time to prevent the demon clan from lucking out and finding the correct path and causing loss of personnel.
In fact, the attitude of the demon tribe toward the Bagua array has stabilized over the past six months or so, and they are no longer so frightened that they dare not set foot in the array like they were at the beginning. Now they can also see that the Bagua Formation is a method of the human race, but they have never seen it before. Instead, they have aroused the desire to find out. The spying at the sentry is also much more frequent than at the beginning, almost every day I'll go there every two days.
But in the face of the Bagua Array, a method that has been constantly evolving and improving in the Taoist sect for thousands of years, if the demon tribe wants to figure it out without any foundation, there is no need to think about it for several years or even ten years. Zhang Yan is very relieved at this point.
In addition to going around and inspecting various sentinel posts, Zhang Yan also went to the area outside the defense line, which is the resource of Yubei Mountain that is actually competed by the humans and monsters, that is, the Yushan Fruit Grove.
Before seeing the real thing, Zhang Yan would not have thought that the Yushan fruit tree would look like this. It looked different from a "tree" in the general sense. It looks more like a wooden stake with some leaves attached and some fruits glued on it. There are almost no branches except the thick trunk, and the appearance is very strange. And one tree after another always grows in patches, and the distance between two trees will not exceed two steps.
Moreover, dead leaves, young leaves, fruits, and flowers can be seen on the trees at the same time, which is so magical that people cannot understand it.
The appearance of Yushan fruit is also very special, which made Zhang Yan think of corn on earth for the first time. It is also golden in color, with plump grains on it, but the corn is columnar, while the Yushan fruit is round, as big as an adult's fist. If you get closer, you can smell the fragrance coming from the fruit, which makes you want to take a bite.
Zhang Yan didn't go to Yushan Fruit Forest for a walk or play, but General Song of Yubei Mountain Fortress wanted him to go there and see if he could come up with a way to solve the problem of Yushan fruit harvest, and try his best to fight for it. You can walk in front of the demon clan by grabbing them, instead of relying on soldiers to pluck them one by one while bleeding.
It has to be said that after Zhang Yan has now confirmed his identity as a "Xue Xue Lineage", many people in Yubei Mountain Fortress have high hopes for him, hoping to use the Xue Xue Lineage to solve some of the problems they have been A problem that has been at a loss for a long time.
Zhang Yan has been to Yushan Fruit Grove many times, and he has not come up with a solution, but he only thinks about it in his heart and does not say it out loud. On the contrary, he asked for Yushan Fruit more often.
Asking for four or five pills at a time is not a big deal. No one would take Zhang Yan seriously. I just hope that when he is happy, he will suddenly come up with some proud thoughts.
The first time I ate Yushan fruit was just out of curiosity. I heard that it is soft, glutinous and sweet, so I was greedy for it. I found out that it was really good. The texture and taste were much better than the noodle soup in the fortress. .
After taking one bite, Zhang Yan was stunned when he took the second one. He actually felt a trace of spiritual energy spreading out from his stomach, and then it was captured by the "Returning Qi Method" that was running all the time, and finally merged into the lower Dantian. This is also the first time that Zhang Yan has obtained spiritual energy that was not through breath-taking techniques.
"This Yushan fruit actually belongs to the category of "spiritual food"?!" Zhang Yan was immediately shocked in his heart.
The so-called spiritual food literally means plants that can be used with spiritual energy. This is recorded in many classics and miscellaneous notes in Longhu Mountain. There are many kinds, and some are accompanied by ups and downs of legends. For example, there are "Millennium Ganoderma" or "Millennium Ginseng", and even more exaggerated "Peach" and "Ginseng Fruit". Of course, the latter two can no longer be counted as spiritual food alone, they can be called "stealing the power of creation."
However, spiritual food has long been extinct on earth, even earlier than the exhaustion of spiritual energy. So Zhang Yan saw it for the first time.
"So, in the Wild Sky Realm, strange species like Yushan Fruit may belong to spiritual food? Even if they are not spiritual food, they are most likely to be related to spiritual energy. Then won't there be a shortage of medicinal materials for alchemy in the future?"
Zhang Yan's first reaction was that he might actually be able to bring the "Alchemy Dao" from the Taoist sect here in the future. There will definitely be no shortage of relevant sects and Wanxiang beads.
The types of medicinal materials may not be exactly the same, but as long as they have similar medicinal properties, they can be mixed and used. Maybe you can really develop a serious "elixir".
But refining alchemy is still too far away for Zhang Yan now. He has just entered the cultivation gate and is in the early stage of the Qi-Entraining Realm. Refining elixirs requires a lot of real energy, which is far beyond what those in the Qi-Entering Realm can afford. According to the records in the classics, if you want to make alchemy, the alchemist's cultivation level must be at least the Xuanmai realm, which is the next level of the Qi-entraining realm, so that you can be good at it.
Later, Zhang Yan really became interested in Yushan fruit trees.
Based on many field observations and understandings, Zhang Yan has a very clear understanding of the characteristics and distribution of fruit trees in Yushan. This thing is called a "strange species" in the wilderness, mainly because it is very different from other plants. It is very strange to have flowers and fruits all year round, not to mention that brewing wine has a very good effect on strengthening the bones and muscles of warriors.
Since the four seasons are the picking seasons, it means that a normal means of harvesting is needed, so as to maximize profits while cooperating with sentries.
Finally, after Zhang Yan returned, he drew a prop on paper and gave it to the supply camp to let their craftsmen try to make one. When asked what it was, Zhang Yan said casually: a pulley.
He is not an expert in strategy. How could Zhang Yan come up with any way to "grab the harvest"? After thinking about it, the only thing that can be done is to shorten the transportation time after picking the fruits, so as to give the fruit pickers more opportunities to pick more fruits and transport them away, thus achieving the purpose of "rushing the harvest" that Song Qinghe hopes.
Zhang Yan went to the mountain several times. The terrain in the densely populated areas of Yushan with fruit trees was relatively flat, but it became rugged as he went down. The transportation was all done by human climbing with baskets on his back, which was extremely slow. Of course, if there is no threat from the demon clan, this method of transportation is not impossible. Anyway, there will be no problem if the Yushan fruit is left for a month. But this method of transportation seems extremely inappropriate when there are monsters robbing it.
Therefore, Zhang Yan is going to try to see if he can get the pulley out. By then, there will be a lot of things to do about transportation.
