Chapter 16: Slay the Demon and Take the Fruit!
As a cultivator with a master's teaching, Master Qing Yunzi not only teaches Wang Cheng and others how to cultivate, but also teaches them to learn to distinguish the appearance and general functions of various spiritual herbs, magic animals, and ores.
This is something that many casual cultivators cannot compare with.
Many cultivators who have no masters have to learn this even if they have luckily obtained the cultivation techniques and become cultivators, they still have to endure a lot of hardships to learn these things, and they may not be able to learn them thoroughly or correctly.
Wang Cheng now knows about 500 spiritual herbs, two or three hundred ore spirits, and as many as two hundred monsters of different genera.
Among the six Qingyun disciples, no one can compare with him in this regard, even Lin Yuanshan, who had been in the cultivation world for decades, could not do it.
At this time, after the division of labor was clear, he first handed over the four auxiliary control array flags to the four senior brothers and sisters in front of him to sacrifice and refine them. Then, he and the senior brother and the second senior sister left the area of the mountain gate covered by the mountain protection array and searched for various spiritual objects outside.
In fact, the area within the mountain gate is the richest place for various spiritual objects.
However, the place had been searched by several foundation-building monks of Longshan Academy who had set up formations. With the protection of the mountain protection array, they were not afraid of being taken away by others, so they did not need to rush to search.
Even in the area outside the mountain gate, the abundant variety of low-level spiritual herbs and herbs is far beyond Wang Cheng's expectations in advance.
When he was in Qingxia Mountain, he often went out to look for spiritual herbs and medicines while practicing, but he often found nothing for several days.
But now, he just chose a mountain to search and found more than ten first-level spiritual medicines.
Although apart from some particularly rare spiritual medicines, most first-level spiritual medicines are not expensive, even if one plant is only worth two low-grade spiritual stones, ten plants can sell twenty low-grade spiritual stones. This is equivalent to a free spirit stone!
Unfortunately, no one in Qingyun Sect can refine elixirs now, and many spiritual medicines cannot be preserved for a long time once they are picked.
Now Wang Cheng can only record the locations of the spiritual medicines that cannot be picked first. When the medicine garden in Qingyunmen is opened, he will try to transplant them, or when he goes to the market for trading in the future, he will pick them and take them for sale.
Fortunately, there are thousands of spiritual herbs in the world, and there are always some spiritual medicines that can be eaten raw without refining them.
For example, a first-level top-grade spiritual medicine [Red Snake Fruit] discovered by Wang Cheng at this moment.
[Red Snake Fruit] is a kind of spiritual medicine that grows on the genus vine plants. It usually grows on wet and shaded grass. This thing is a bit like strawberries, but it is a little larger than strawberries, almost as big as a duck egg.
If you take it at the same time as the snake gallbladder of the demon snake, it can permanently improve the antitoxin ability of the cultivator and increase a certain level of cultivation.
Even if you take it alone, it has a good detoxification effect.
Moreover, where [Red Snake Fruit] grows, demon snakes will definitely be accompanied by them.
The [Red Snake Fruit] that Wang Cheng discovered now happened to grow on the edge of a dark and humid cave. The cave was only half the size of a bucket, and the entrance of the cave was half covered by green vines and leaves. If you don’t pay attention, you may not be able to find it.
Generally, if a cultivator in the Qi training stage who does not know the growth of the [Red Snake Fruit] rashly goes up to pick the spiritual fruits contained in spiritual energy, it will easily be attacked and killed by the demon snake hidden in the cave.
Because he didn't know how strong the demon snake hidden in the cave was, Wang Cheng did not act rashly after discovering this [Red Snake Fruit], but went outside to catch a hornless beast like a goat, blindfolded his eyes and drove it away to the location of the [Red Snake Fruit].
Baa~baa!
The painful beast made a panic and neighed, and rushed forward, and soon ran to the vine of [Red Snake Fruit], and it was about to step on the vine directly.
At this moment, a "swoosh" black shadow rushed out of the cave, hitting the goat beast like a blue lightning, directly knocking the beast away several feet.
"It's so dangerous! It turned out to be a highly poisonous [Qingying Lan Snake]. Fortunately, I didn't act recklessly!"
Wang Cheng, who witnessed all this with his own eyes, was very grateful for his cautious actions.
The blue black shadow that hit the goat beast was a 1 meter long black snake with an ink scale as thick as an arm.
Among the dozens of snake monsters that Wang Cheng recognized, there happened to be information about this ink-scale black snake, and he knew that this was a first-class top-grade monster [Qingying Lan Snake] widely distributed in various parts of the Yuanlong Star.
[Qingying Lan Snake] looks not much different from many demon snakes on the outside, but this snake has two major characteristics that make it easier for cultivators to recognize it.
First, when an attack is launched, the snake scales will emit a faint green light, just like the blue black shadows that Wang Cheng saw just now; second, its snake scales are triangular, and there are faint light green spiritual patterns to connect each snake scale.
The speed of this demon snake at a short distance is comparable to that of a cultivator's flying sword, and contains a very poison that is enough to easily poison the cultivator in the Qi training stage. If it bites it and fails to take the powerful detoxification pill in time, a cultivator like Wang Cheng, who is a late-stage Qi training stage, will die after only half a quarter of an hour.
If Wang Cheng had seen the [Qingyun Sword] and [Golden Light Shield], he would definitely turn around and leave after seeing this [Qingyinglan Snake], and would not have any luck at all.
It is very unworthy and unwise to fight a dangerous monster for a spiritual medicine that is not necessary.
Since Xiao Qingyunzi has taught Wang Cheng and others that if they find spiritual medicines in the wild, as long as they are not the kind of spiritual medicines that must be obtained, they will not think about picking them if they are not sure.
If a casual cultivator wants to live in the world of cultivation and live long enough, it is not because he has a strong cultivation level, but because he must understand the way to choose and give up.
Qing Yunzi has been in the cultivation world for seventy or eighty years as a casual cultivator. His experience is the best proof of this truth.
Wang Cheng always kept these experiences about Master Qing Yunzi in mind and dared not ignore them.
If you don’t listen to the old man’s words and suffer losses, you won’t be wrong.
But now, Wang Cheng is sure to win.
He raised his hand and slapped the storage bag, took out both the [Golden Light Shield] and [Qingyun Sword], and then he made some tricks and used a "fire bomb technique" to hit the [Qingying Lan Snake].
Boom!
The fire bomb did not hit [Qingying Lan Snake], but it exploded half a foot away next to it and ignited the nearby fallen leaves and dead branches.
As the saying goes, Wang Cheng took action and immediately made [Qingying Lan Snake] discover his existence and feel his hostility.
Hiss ~ Hiss!
The angry snake hissing sound came with the wind, and the figure of [Qingying Lan Snake] swam, swaming half a foot like a gust of wind toward Wang Cheng.
Wang Cheng had a snake nickname in his previous life, which means that the snake was like flying when it was swimming on the grass.
But that was just an illusion caused by visual differences, and [Qingying Lan Snake] was really flying on the grass at this time!
Wang Cheng was originally seventy or eighty feet away from it, but in the blink of an eye, it was only twenty or thirty feet away from Wang Cheng.
Because it moves too fast and the color of the green grass is similar to its body, Wang Cheng dares not sacrifice the [Qingyun Sword] in his hand at will, so as not to temporarily lose the attack ability after failing.
But the attack of [Qingying Lan Snake] has been launched.
I saw a light green venom spraying out from the snake's mouth and landing accurately on the [Golden Light Shield] that guarded Wang Cheng.
Suddenly, the golden aura emitted by the [Golden Light Shield] was directly corroded into a gap by the venom.
However, [Qingying Lan Snake] rushed towards him in the air, trying to pass through the gap and directly take Wang Cheng himself.
That's now!
The [Qingyun Sword] in Wang Cheng's hand suddenly waved, and a blue sword energy about a foot long shot out, instantly passing through the [Qingyinglan Snake] and cutting it into two pieces on the spot.
At the same time, the body of [Golden Light Shield] also moved several feet out of thin air, blocking directly in front of the snake head that was rushing towards inertia, and bounced it away.
Hiss ~ Hiss—
On the ground, half of the snake's body where the snake's head was still bouncing continuously, and a painful and sharp hissing sound was heard from his mouth.
Wang Cheng carefully retreated more than ten feet, then ignored the demon snake on the ground that could not die for a while, and took a detour to pick the [red snake fruit].
There were more than a dozen [red snake fruits] on the vine, but only seven were ripe. Wang Cheng picked the seven ripe fruits one by one, packed them in a spiritual jade box that specializes in storing spiritual medicine, and put them in the storage bag first.
Then he uncovered the vine leaves that blocked the cave, looked into the cave, and confirmed that there were no other spiritual objects worth watching, then turned around and walked towards the [Qingying Lan Snake] that was not dead on the ground.
"go!"
A dozen feet away, Wang Cheng flew out of his hand, and nailed it behind the snake's head with a sword, nailing it to the ground. Then he walked over to clean up the snake's corpse with confidence.
Any monster, all kinds of fur, minions, and other objects on the body, is a treasure that can be used by cultivators.
The snake teeth of [Qingying Lan Snake] are highly venomous and can be used to refine magic weapons with highly venomous damage. Snake bones can also be used to refine weapons. Snake scales are hard and light. Even if they are simply stuck to the leather armor, they can provide good defense. Snake blood contains rich spiritual power, which can be drunk and increased cultivation, and can also be made of blood ink for talisman making. Snake meat is edible, delicious and can improve weak cultivation.
But the most precious things are snake gallbladder and snake tendons.
Before forming the demon pill, the snake gallbladder is where the essence of the demon snake is condensed. It is an important material for refining many high-quality detoxification pills. Even if eaten raw, it can clear the eyes and detoxify and improve the cultivation of cultivators.
The snake tendons are very elastic and contain strong wind-attribute spiritual power, which is most suitable for refining bowstrings for bow-like magic weapons.
If it is a complete [Qingying Lan Snake] snake tendon, it is worth at least hundreds of low-grade spirit stones.
However, Wang Cheng cut off the [Qingying Lan Snake] into two pieces, and the snake tendons were broken and the value plummeted.
Fortunately, the snake gall that he likes the most is still well preserved.
Chapter completed!