The failure of the Foundation Building Banquet the day before yesterday could be regarded as an episode in Xie Yuanqian's career of cultivating immortals. Now they are back to the normal path of collecting herbs.
The Eryuan Swamp has attracted the attention of the cultivators of the Yu Kingdom because of its countless treasures of heaven and earth, as well as countless monsters and ghosts. Erhai County is the only place that the Yu Kingdom monks must pass to enter the Eryuan Swamp. It used to be the seclusion of some monks. The land slowly developed into the current monk town.
Because there is miasma in the swamp, mortals, even warriors, cannot make a living in the Eryuan swamp. Therefore, Erhai County is just a gathering area for monks.
Unlike the previous Kelongxian Town and Tailixian City, this place obviously prefers the law of survival of the fittest. The life of the monks was also more intense.
When Xie Yuanqian and the others arrived here, they did not dare to stay in any inn. Instead, they stayed directly at the Danding Pavilion.
There is no way, the soil and water can support one person.
The monks who often live in the Eryuan swamp, where the weak are the strongest, are not as kind-hearted as the trainee alchemist in Taili Immortal City. They are more caring people who keep an eye on your storage bag.
Following an old pharmacist like Liu Linhai, Xie Yuanqian did learn a lot of survival rules in the world of immortality.
See less, do less, pay no attention, and focus on yourself.
Liu Linhai had already prepared all the preparations before entering the Eryuan Swamp, including a small boat and a bottle of detoxifying pill for each person.
Now they are heading towards the Black Water Lotus.
While the boat was moving, the boatman would light an incense stick from time to time. The smell of the incense was really disgusting.
After asking, I found out that the raw material of this incense is the excrement of high-level monsters. The monks find it disgusting, and the smell of monsters is also disgusting. This can avoid many dangerous monsters. After all, no living thing is interested in excrement, and high-level monsters are also disgusting when smelling it. The aura of monsters also has a certain deterrent effect on low-level monsters.
So although their industry smells a bit unpleasant, there is no doubt about its safety. These are valuable wisdom learned by the broad masses of people from their long-term life experience.
Once you reach the territory of black water crocodiles, you can no longer sail. The target is too conspicuous and it is easy to alert them. Also, bringing excrement into other people's homes is not a good idea.
Therefore, the boatman could only wait at the temporary ferry. He had to leave at dusk at the latest. Regardless of whether he could find the black water lily today or not, he had to return to Erhai County.
Why?
It's dark and the waterway is dangerous, and there's miasma at night.
Natural treasures such as black water lotus are definitely not available in large quantities. Even if they were collected last time, Liu Linhai cannot guarantee that they will be available again this time. After all, it is not just monks who are in need of natural treasures. Monsters also need to evolve.
This is also the reason why the teams must be gathered. Liu Linhai and Che Jian's team, Yao servant Shouqing and Xie Yuanqian's team must return here at dusk regardless of whether they can be found or not.
In order to avoid getting lost, the medicine servant Shouqing also left special fragrant pills on the road, which is much better than marking.
Shou Qing is a loyal and experienced medicine servant. Xie Yuanqian's main task is to protect his safety.
Although the Eryuan Swamp is called a swamp, the density of trees is comparable to that of the Amazon forest in previous lives. When walking in the swamp, the dense trees cover the sky and the sun, and you can't even tell the time of day.
Fortunately, Shouqing traveled with Liu Linhai all year round and had rich experience in collecting herbs. He could move freely in the swamp with Xie Yuan, although he could not say that he was walking on flat ground.
But obviously their luck was not good. They searched around a lot. Although they collected some other elixirs that were decades old and killed some low-level monsters in the Qi training period, they still could not find the black water. Traces of lotus.
It was almost time, and if they continued searching they would not be able to catch the ship, so they had no choice but to return without success.
Xie Yuanqian and the others came back earlier because of their low strength and low status. They counted the proceeds from the trip with the boatman and asked him to share one third. Xie Yuanqian and the others boarded the boat safely.
This is the rule of Eryuan Marsh. The cost of taking the boat is one, and the return cost is another.
Liu Linhai and his party obviously didn't find it. After counting and distributing the harvest with the boatman, they calculated the accounts again. They didn't make a loss on this trip, at least they collected enough for the shipping fee.
This can be regarded as the normal practice of collecting herbs. It is difficult to find flowers if you are willing to look for them.
Xie Yuanqian also received a Haohe fruit. Although the medicinal power is not a hundred years old, it can be regarded as a spare medicinal material.
After returning to Erhai County, Xie Yuanqian and Che Jian wanted to process the materials of the monster beasts they had hunted, so they went to the market together.
The market here is much deserted than the previous market. No one dares to sell anything, and all the merchants wear thick robes and thick clothes for fear of being remembered.
But doing business here is much simpler. It's a fixed price, and the transaction speed is very fast. Merchants don't dare to stay longer after selling the goods, and leave in a hurry, hiding themselves, for fear of being targeted by the robbery cultivators.
Xie Yuanqian and the others were not selling anything exotic, and they were just travelers, so they directly dumped the low-grade materials to restaurants, Danding Pavilion and Duobao Pagoda. The profit was less, but it was better to be safe.
Xie Yuanqian's income today is only 100 spirit stones. Compared with his previous life of spending money like water, it is obvious how lucky he was before.
Here he is complaining that he is not the protagonist, he is really a dog!
Another day passed peacefully. Xie Yuanqian and the others had not yet completed the task of collecting black water lotus, and they would definitely continue their efforts the next day.
The second day will be much more difficult than the first day.
The enemy on the first day was only the Eryuan swamp, which was full of dangers but was easy to hide from. Today, they encountered other monks.
Humans are sometimes more terrifying than animals.
We definitely cannot and do not need to go to the areas we visited yesterday. We also need to change the boat operator to avoid being too familiar with the situation and finding out the details.
The place we went to today was a little deeper than yesterday, and at the same time a little more dangerous. They arrived at the exploratory team's temporary ferry today.
Compared with the Fuhua Mountains, the Eryuan Swamp is much more dangerous, so the degree of exploration is not high and ordinary monks are required to constantly use their lives to draw the map. This is the exploration team.
High risk and high reward, setting foot in a dangerous area that few people visit. If you have this ability, you can naturally take possession of the treasure as your own, but it is hard to say whether you can bring it out of the swamp alive and use it in Erhai County.
After all, this is the world of immortality where the weak eat the strong.
The exploration team only surveyed the vicinity of the ferry and did not come to clear away the nearby monsters, so they would only draw the approximate sphere of influence of some monsters. Liu Linhai got some news about the black water crocodile from Danding Pavilion today. Came here specially.
It's still the same group as yesterday, but today Shouqing doesn't dare to put the fragrant pills as a mark. Fortunately, Liu Linhai and the others spent some money to buy a map, so they wouldn't get lost. They had a clear goal today, and they only went to areas with black water crocodiles to find black water lilies.
Here, Xie Yuanqian felt for the first time the strong malice from the monks.
He and Shouqing found a pool with blackwater crocodiles according to the map, but there were not only blackwater crocodiles but also monks who had been waiting for a long time.
They are from the exploration team. It seems that their pioneering journey is not going well today.
"Oh! Here are two young guys who are at the fifth level of Qi training! Just in time, come with us!"
"Fellow Taoists! The two of us are willing to hand over all our belongings, please do it for your convenience!"
"It's very sensible, but it doesn't work! Come with us. If you are lucky enough to survive, I will let you go!"
They don’t even want free money. It seems they want to force Xie Yuanqian and Shou Qing to explore the road! The path they didn't dare to explore themselves was obviously full of dangers!
"I advise all fellow Taoists to find another goal. I am not only a monk but also a martial arts master!"
When they heard that Xie Yuanqian was still a martial arts master, they became even more presumptuous.
"It turns out he is still a deviant monk! Stop talking nonsense! Will he come with us or not?"
Will people still despise me if I turn to martial arts? Depend on! Am I not humiliating myself?
Alas, I wanted to survive for a while and put safety first, but I never thought that the world would be unforgiving!
Now that the situation cannot be reached, Xie Yuanqian can only show his fangs and let these reckless guys have a taste of the power of Blue Star Technology.
"Let's go, you can go, I'm afraid you have to take the first step!"
After saying the cruel words, Xie Yuanqian immediately started to run away while saving Shouqing.
With a thought, the speed talisman in the storage bag was attached to the two people's bodies, and a black projectile was taken out and thrown to the ground. The scene was immediately filled with smoke.
This is the territory of black water crocodiles. Using gunpowder directly will definitely attract their attention, and it will be difficult to escape by then.
Taking advantage of the sight of the monks from the exploration team being blocked, Xie Yuanqian and the others hurriedly fled for their lives.
The monks on the exploration team are pioneers, and they are obviously much more familiar with the terrain here. Now that Xie Yuanqian and the others can escape for a while with the help of the speed talisman, it won't take long for them to catch up.
Xie Yuanqian is a time traveler, and he still has some common sense about the level gap, so he will not escape so easily. He must have a counterattack plan.
Blue Star Technology Land Mine.
The previous Zhou Xing has verified the power of Blue Star gunpowder technology, which can kill even those who are building foundations, let alone these monks in the Qi training period.
However, there is definitely no time to bury landmines. Even if they are buried in a hurry, they will be easily discovered by such an experienced exploration team. But as long as the mines are hung up like traps, they can also serve as an ambush.
Xie Yuanqian also knew that he was definitely not as familiar with the terrain as the monks on the exploration team, so he took some easy roads to make them think that Xie Yuanqian was just a little shrimp who wanted to escape.
Then he deliberately took some narrow roads, making it look like he was in a panic. In fact, he had laid many traps.
First of all, there was Ming Lei, hanging brightly on the road, intertwining the narrow road into a spider web for them to see. Although they could not detect any danger in these black spherical objects, they would definitely not go straight out of caution. Instead of touching them, they will walk around these bright thunder branches.
Then they fell into the trap. The reason why Ming Lei is called Ming Lei is because they are just bait for the monks to detour. After they bypass those Ming Lei on the ground, they will inevitably step on the tree and trigger the mechanism on the tree.
But the mechanism on the tree was also a trap. The target was not them at all, so they naturally didn't care. They even laughed at Xie Yuanqian for his clumsy methods and lack of rules.
How did they know that the targets of these simple and useless mechanisms were not them at all but the mines hanging in the air? By the time they reacted, it was already too late.
Halfway through the road covered with mines, the tree branch trap at the entrance was triggered. He hit the mines with great force, which instantly affected his whole body and triggered all the mines in the trap.
Then there was a loud noise that resounded through the sky and a rolling explosion. When the monks of the exploration team sensed the danger, they had no time to defend themselves. Blue Star Technology showed its unparalleled lethality in the other world.
Gunpowder unleashed its destructive power, and nitroglycerin exerted an unstoppable impact on the mine fragments in a chain reaction. All the monks who fell into the trap were completely wiped out by Blue Star's terrifying technology, leaving no intact corpses. .
The fragments of their corpses were splashed into various corners of the narrow passage, no, it was now a spacious forest land due to the shock wave of the explosion. Some people even didn't even leave their bodies behind, but turned directly into slag, black scum.
Such a violent explosion can be clearly heard for dozens of miles around. The power of this technology is different from the monks' magic. Such an earth-shattering sound has no spiritual fluctuation at all. It later attracted many monks to come here to find out.
The charred trees, huge potholes, crushed corpses, and the thick smell of gunpowder smoke all mixed together into a scene that monks from other worlds could not understand at all.
They who don't understand science can only analyze from the corpse fragments that there was once a trap here, and these unlucky guys unfortunately triggered it. As for how this trap was so powerful without spiritual power, they analyzed There is no reason why.
Hearing the loud explosion, Xie Yuanqian knew that the trap had been triggered.
It was over, he was safe.
Why is it only him, the medicine servant Shouqing?
This kind of technology must not be seen by Shou Qing. It is Xie Yuanqian's responsibility to protect Shou Qing's safety.
So they ran away long ago. Shou Qing secretly returned to the ferry with the concealment charm, while Xie Yuanqian left conspicuous traces along the way to continue to attract the monk's attention.
Obviously this battle was very successful. Xie Yuanqian successfully escaped and counterattacked, and was given the remaining time to move around freely.
Then he wants to go back and touch the body?
This is definitely not possible. Xie Yuanqian made such a big noise before, isn't he a target now if he goes back? Besides, I barely managed to earn 100 spirit stones on the first day.
How much money these exploration team monks have on them is probably not as valuable as this mine trap. Touching the corpse is not worth it.
There is a high probability that the information on the map cannot be trusted. Who knows whether he will encounter monks from this kind of exploration team in the next place. He can only move forward alone in the Eryuan Swamp.
Walking alone is obviously not in line with Gou Dao's code of conduct, but Gongsun Hongye's base flower is his target.
This is all for love!
He still chose to take the risk alone.
Although you don’t go to the points drawn on the map, it is still possible to avoid these places and go to unknown lands.
Xie Yuanqian had no one to accompany him along the way, so he could only silently complain about the precious gold finger to make himself less afraid:
I'll go to hell with this precious golden finger of yours!
Other people’s systems can analyze everything, but you can’t even navigate the most basic way!
There are also those who predict the strength and pretend to fight back, and kill people to get experience and exploding equipment! Why don’t you have any?
I can be considered a protagonist after all, right?
Can you give the protagonist the treatment he deserves?
…
Of course, these complaints are meaningless. God has already favored him.
Living again with the complete memories of the previous life, and with the blessing of the dual cultivation system, this is the standard male protagonist template of a harem cool novel!
But Xie Yuanqian, this bastard, wants to go away whether he wants to live or die, so Nao Shizi is a bastard! We must also stick to the Blue Star male virtue!
Pooh! I have never seen such a shameless person!
Just complaining and complaining like this, Xie Yuanqian is actually like a loved one from heaven. I have to say that the aura of the protagonist is still powerful.
He saw a red spiritual fruit that was as big as a tomato and emitted spiritual light by a pool of water.
It's a red fruit. Judging by the number of fruits, one, two, three, four, five, the largest one must be a hundred years old, but only that one is obviously a hundred years old.
And looking at the position where the red fruit grows, you can tell that there must be something terrible in the pool. And it is very likely that he is a wise man. You can tell at a glance that this only century-old red fruit is used for fishing.
Li Shixia's Blue Star gunpowder technology has not yet touched on torpedoes. The power of gunpowder in water is greatly reduced, and Blue Star Technology definitely cannot be counted on.
So how did Xie Yuanqian get the century-old red fruit?
The first thing is to find out the current situation. What Xie Yuanqian can find can definitely be found by others, so he first carefully attaches a concealment charm and searches around the pool.
There was certainly no one else crouching and no sign of anyone coming.
Then you have to take advantage quickly!
Face your fear and pick it up!
There is no other way. Xie Yuanqian has tried his best. For the sake of his wife Gongsun Hongye, he must get this century-old red fruit.
Under such a helpless conspiracy, Xie Yuanqian, who was of low strength, had no other choice but to pick it by force.
You also need to be fully prepared for forced picking. Take all kinds of buff elixirs and take them to the limit! Various talismans are attached all over the body as if they are free of charge!
But the facts slapped him hard and told him:
Your kid thinks too much, no matter which step he takes, he thinks too much.
He picked the century-old red fruit very easily. There was no danger at all in the pool, and there was no Jiexiu waiting for him nearby. It was as if the century-old red fruit was waiting for him to pick.
ah? ! This, this is too easy, right?
Has God finally noticed me as the protagonist?
Or are you finally willing to reward me with some real reward for your valuable goldfinger?
嘤嘤嘤~
It's too late. I'd like to give you some tips. I don't have to be so cautious. I've wasted so many elixirs and talismans.
That's all money!
Xie Yuanqian, who was walking back with the century-old fruit in his arms, couldn't believe it.
But it is true that Zhu Guo came so easily in the past hundred years.
Is this really the case?
Could it be that he, Xie Yuanqian, was really rewarded by God?
Definitely not, what are you thinking?
God has no time for this coward.
What is this Zhuguo?
It’s from the useless Master Xie Yuanqian!
Xie Yuanqian has been cultivating in Luzhang Mountain for 30 years. He is an immortal and wealthy man, but his good-for-nothing master has not given him any of it!
why?
Because his master is a deer, a deer!
What does a deer who cultivates in the mountains need to become an immortal? What can you teach Xie Yuanqian?
If it weren't for Xie Yuanqian's own buff from time travel, he might have been crippled by it.
Eating wind and drinking dew, the nature of dependent origin is empty, and you can live by eating spiritual fruits. Is this the life a monk should live?
It didn't know it, and felt that Xie Yuanqian's refusal to continue practicing with it at Luzhang Mountain was very heartless and unjust.
But after all, this kid is a white-eyed wolf that he has raised for 30 years. Even if he has raised a dog for so long, he will still have feelings for him.
So it has been silently paying attention to Xie Yuanqian since he came down the mountain.
Xie Yuanqian, who came down from the mountain, had a very happy life, with beautiful cars, beautiful women, and lots of money.
He also invented (copied) many novel delicacies and fantasy stories that had never been shown in Luzhang Mountain, which shocked his master a little.
I just didn't expect that Xie Yuanqian, a goblin, would stay in the imperial capital like a shrunken turtle, rarely showing up, and he couldn't escape the detection of the imperial capital's array, so there was no chance for the plot to trigger between them.
Now Xie Yuanqian finally showed up. It sensed the aura of the jade tablet and finally arrived at the Eryuan Swamp. It secretly observed that Xie Yuanqian wanted to pick the century-old red fruit. It used its power to suppress the low-level monster in the pool. beast.
The moment Lu Zun stepped in to help Xie Yuanqian, the gears of fate finally began to turn.
