Beishan Dashi Valley, Nei Valley
After Ming Zishan killed the green-leaf grass python cleanly, the disciples gathered around the elder with a sigh of relief.
"Elder, what should we do now?"
After calming down, Yan Wan asked softly.
Thinking back on what just happened, she still felt frightened.
As he spoke, he turned his head and glanced at the weaker Qiye.
What surprised her was that there was no fear at all on Qiye's face, but rather a calmer indifference than the others. Standing in the crowd, saying nothing, what are you thinking about?
She couldn't help but secretly admire Qiye's calm performance.
"Everyone rest where you are and wait for me to recuperate before moving forward."
Ming Zishan said with two deep breaths as his chest rose and fell.
Then he walked straight to the grass python corpse.
Consuming the power of a mid-grade mysterious weapon and murdering a third-level monster is not a complete achievement.
Put the green-leaf grass python's body into the talisman bag. Now is not the time to dissect it. You have to return to the sect to make plans. Besides, dissecting this grass python will also take a lot of effort.
The third-level monsters are still attractive enough to him:
The flesh and blood can be eaten to enhance the practitioner's Qi, blood and body.
The inner elixir can be used as medicine, or it can be swallowed raw to enhance the explosive power of Qi and blood.
The python body can be used to refine weapons or leather armor, making it invulnerable...
In short, the higher the level of the monster, the more valuable it is.
And this grass python is worth at least several thousand low-grade spiritual stones.
After properly collecting the corpse of the monster, Ming Zishan returned to his disciples.
Looking at the panicked expressions of all the disciples, he continued:
"What happened just now will be encountered by you often in the future. Cultivation is inherently dangerous. Even if you become the best alchemist in the future, you will still not be able to escape the fate of fighting. If you want not to die in the hands of the enemy, you can only continue to strengthen yourself. .”
"Today, you are lucky. When you encountered a powerful enemy, you did not choose to escape. This kind of courage can never be learned in the alchemy room. If you don't even have the courage to face a powerful enemy, how can you defeat the enemy? Survive.”
"I hope you will always remember what happened today: don't run away when encountering trouble. No victory is achieved by running away, and the same is true for alchemy..."
"Of course, I'm not encouraging you to act bravely when you encounter an enemy. You must also learn to avoid the enemy's sharp edges. If the grass python pounced on you just now and you didn't choose to avoid it, I'm afraid you would have been dead. Learn to face and learn. Preserving yourself is equally important..."
Ming Zishan seized the incident and lost no time in uttering words with profound meaning.
After speaking, he looked around at everyone, his eyes full of appreciation.
Although a Dantong disciple was lost this time, being able to use this incident for education and training is another trial.
"Okay, this forest is still a little weird. We don't want to stay too long. Everyone, follow me. Let's get out of here first..."
Seeing that everyone was distracted for a moment, Ming Zishan stopped going to solve the problem.
After all, some things are difficult to accept when you first face them.
But everyone also has to learn how to accept it.
Because when reality cannot be changed, changing yourself is the only other way.
Therefore, the only way to learn to accept it tentatively is to slowly change your own thinking...
After glancing around, he continued to take the lead and move forward.
The disciples were silent, feeling a little uncomfortable and followed the elder as they walked forward.
The incident with the green-leaf grass python really made them feel insecure. Everyone wanted to get out of this forest as soon as possible.
On the way, the disciples no longer had the relaxed mentality they had when they first entered the valley, and seemed to have become much more stable in a flash.
Ming Zishan, who was walking at the front of the team, felt the oppressive atmosphere behind him and said to himself:
"Actually, your performance is already very good. I remember that when I first entered the valley as a disciple of Dantong, I saw a black-lined snake and was so frightened that I couldn't eat for a whole day..."
Shang Qian burst out laughing when she heard the elder suddenly recounting her dark history.
Yan Wan and Gao Yi's faces were slightly red, and they looked at Ming Zishan's back with some complaints. They didn't expect that this respected elder deacon would tell such a story in front of everyone.
Qiye also followed everyone and smiled, and the relevant records about this beast appeared in his mind unknowingly:
Black-lined snake, a first-order monster. The body is about 1 meter long and the whole body is pitch black. It is extremely fast and can move as fast as flying. It is good at lurking in the dark and attacking the vagina of its prey.
Therefore, the black-lined snake is also called "obscene snake" by the monks.
snake".
Female spirituality, in particular, is often shunned.
In addition, the inner elixir and flesh of the black-lined snake also have the effect of aphrodisiac and stimulating desire.
Therefore, although the black-lined snake is regarded as a sex demon by female spiritual practitioners, it is deeply loved by male monks...
If it weren't for the fact that he knew that the elder was trying to relieve everyone's psychological pressure, they would probably all suspect that he was telling a dirty story.
After hearing the elder's embarrassing performance when he entered the valley, and comparing it with his own performance today, all the disciples felt relieved. After such a comparison, their own performance did not seem too bad.
In this way, everyone looked at the elder's back with even more respect.
Qiye looked at Mingzishan's back and fell into deep thought:
After these days of contact, he felt that Mingzishan did not treat Dantong disciples or himself differently.
This does not rule out the reason for their own special role, but whether they are sincerely treating each other as equals can be felt with a little attentiveness.
It can be seen that Ming Zishan has no prejudice against him, and Qiye also has a sense of closeness and trust towards him.
"Ah Qi, has the fog in front become a little thinner?"
Just as Qiye's thoughts were wandering, Ming Zishan, who was cutting through thorns with a sharp sword while observing the situation at the front of the team, suddenly asked.
"Well, that seems to be true..."
Qiye was stunned for a moment, then confirmed.
In fact, as long as you are not blind, you can see that the white fog in front of you has become lighter.
The reason why Ming Zishan asked himself this question was probably because of the special perception he had shown along the way...
Qiye thought so.
"We are almost out of the woods, please follow closely!"
Ming Zishan raised his voice.
"Yes!" Yan Wan and others behind him regained their energy, gripped their weapons, and gathered together.
After walking forward for another half hour, everyone was surprised to find that the white fog became lighter and lighter. After leaving the dense forest, the fog completely disappeared.
What is unfolding before everyone's eyes is a rolling slope of shallow grass...
"Strange, according to the map, there should be no grassland at this location in the inner valley..."
Ming Zishan looked at the map, smoothed his short beard, and frowned deeply.
"Elder, is there something wrong with the map?" Yan Wan on the side looked at the surrounding terrain and asked.
"Probably not. Such a thing has never happened before. Although the Great Medicine Valley is opened once a year and the vegetation changes slightly, there should not be such a large-scale overall change. It must be something that happened during this year. It changed the appearance of the vegetation here..."
He guessed based on past experience.
"Did you smell a scent?"
At this moment, Qiye suddenly said.
In fact, he had already smelled it when he just walked out of the forest, not because his nose was sensitive, but because the scent came and went, and he couldn't be sure for a while.
However, when I got here, the scent became more obvious.
After hearing what Qiye said, Mingzi Shanhou raised the tip of his nose and smelled it.
Indeed, there is an ethereal fragrance in the air: fresh and elegant.
Although the fragrance is light, it feels like it moisturizes the lungs and cleanses the dust, as if the dirt in the world has been filtered out.
"Yes, yes. After hearing what Ah Qi said, I smelled it too. This fragrance seems to be..."
Ming Zishan seemed to be stuck in his thinking. He couldn't remember what the fragrance was. Although it was familiar, it was ignored by his memory.
"It's an orchid!"
Shang Qian also smelled it and blurted out in surprise.
"Yes! It smells like orchids!"
The words woke up the dreamer, and Ming Zishan nodded heavily.
Looking back at Shang Qian, he couldn't help but smile awkwardly and had to admit:
Sure enough, women have a more keen and natural ability to identify floral scents than men!
I have been immersed in the fragrance of red pills all day long, and I have forgotten that there is such an intoxicating fragrance in this world.
"Orchid..."
Qiye murmured.
I once smelled the fragrance of many wild flowers and orchids in the valley of the slave camp. But there is no orchid fragrance that makes me feel so refreshing.
"However, I remember that the scent of orchids is not that special? No, the orchids in Beishan Medicine Valley are... Dugu Youlan!"
After Ming Zishan muttered a few words to himself, he suddenly realized something and was startled.
His whole body trembled slightly as if he was electrocuted.
"Quick! Everyone, look for it! Where does this scent come from?"
He said quickly, and as he spoke, he was about to move forward.
"Elder, someone seems to be coming over there..." Qiye stepped forward quickly, grabbed Ming Zishan's clothes and pointed to the other side to remind him.
Ming Zishan stopped and followed Qiye's hand, only to see a few young people emerging from behind a few rocks a hundred meters ahead.
Taking a closer look at his attire, blue robe and purple belt, it looks like he should be a trialist from another sect entering the valley. In front of those young people, an old man in white robe stood with his head raised.
"Are you a fellow Taoist from the Tianyun Sect across from you?" the white-robed old man shouted from the air.
"Exactly, you are the leader of the Qingyuan Sect?" Ming Zishan recognized the other sect at a glance and replied cautiously.
"Yes, I am the elder of the inner sect of Qingyuan Sect, Gai Cong!" the old man in white robe said with arrogance.
"Oh, it turns out it's Elder Gai. I've admired him for a long time... I wonder why Elder Gai is here?"
Ming Zishan bowed his hands politely on the surface, but in fact he was already wary in his heart.
"This place is our Qingyuan Sect's trial place. In order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, everyone from the Tianyun Sect is requested to leave as soon as possible!"
The old man in white robe didn't hesitate and just drove him away.
"Haha... Qingyuan Sect is so majestic! Why didn't Elder Gai say that this Great Medicine Valley in Beishan is your Qingyuan Sect's training ground?"
Suddenly, several people jumped out from behind the woods on the other side, led by a stout man in gray robes.
"It turns out that we are all from the Tianwu Sect. We are really destined..."
Gai Congzheng was wondering who dared to be so offensive, and frowned coldly. After taking a quick look, he recognized it as the Tianwuzong of Baiyan City.
Qingyuan Sect and Tianwu Sect were both "first-class sects" in their respective "third-class noble cities", and the two sects were comparable in terms of strength.
Although Tianyun Sect is also a "first-class sect" in Baiyan City, there is still a big gap between its sect's strength and Tianwuzong's. It is just that it is stronger than the other two sects in terms of elixirs.
