Volume 1 Lin Yuan Chapter 39: Clues to the Six-Pattern Spiritual Herb
There is something special about the forbidden forest. The deeper you go, the stronger the monsters are and the larger their bodies are. Even the various plants seem to have grown in size and have a huge size different from those in the outside world.
As Wang Chen walked, his eyes passed by a giant wasp flying by, and he heard Xiang Qingliu say, "Three months ago, I went deep into the forbidden forest from here and found a three-striped spiritual fruit. It was a vermilion-colored spiritual stone with a crystal-clear agate color. After I ate it, I became stronger. Otherwise, it would take more effort to decompose this saber-toothed tiger today."
"I thought that spiritual fruits would not take root in places with poor spiritual energy, so I ventured deeper into the place, and later found the fruit . However, I only looked at it from a distance and left in a hurry."
"Because I am a cautious person, my premonitions are rarely wrong. At that time, I had a premonition that if I could not resist the temptation of those six or even more spiritual patterns, I would die on the spot in an instant."
Xiang Qingliu spoke while carefully observing his surroundings.
"Six-patterned spiritual grass..."
Wang Chen's heart was touched. The rare treasure with three spiritual patterns was already very valuable. The spiritual herb with six patterns might be worth more than 100,000 spiritual stones if exchanged for spiritual stones. In this way, he would have a basis for his practice for a long time in the future. It would even be enough for him to practice to the sixth level of Qi Condensation and reach the dream realm of flying into the sky.
"I told him the whereabouts of the Six-Pattern Spiritual Herb just by chance. Even if he wanted to borrow my martial arts, this casual cultivator in front of me is really a breath of fresh air in the world of cultivation."
Just as Wang Chen was very clear that half of his cooperation with Xiang Qingliu was based on mutual benefit, Xiang Qingliu also did not conceal his true intention of mutual benefit.
He lacks strength and has almost blind confidence in his intuition. After being saved by Wang Chen, he feels that Wang Chen is trustworthy.
In any corner of the world, the exchange of interests is always an unchanging rule. Cooperating with someone who can give you enough trust is a win-win situation.
After walking for a while, the fog in the forbidden forest became thicker. This environment was very conducive to ambushes by monsters , so Xiang Qingliu observed more carefully.
Suddenly, the wind blew violently. Before Xiang Qingliu could react, he could only hear the howling of the wind in his ears, which was breathtaking.
Wang Chen made a hand gesture, and the Qinggang short sword condensed into a rough ice spear that flew out and nailed a black shadow in the thick fog to the ground.
The black shadow's body was pierced by the ice spear condensed by the extreme cold magic, but he seemed to be fine. He struggled frantically for a while, but then the cold air soaked his heart and lungs and he gradually became motionless.
"It's the Iron Monkey." Xiang Qingliu carefully identified it for a moment, recognized the origin of this monster, and his face looked a little ugly.
"This kind of monster is very difficult to deal with and very aggressive. Its fur is as hard as iron and is difficult to be damaged by swords. Its black iron skin is an excellent protective color at night. It is extremely agile and likes to live in groups. Last time, I wanted to evacuate after discovering the danger of spiritual herbs, but was targeted by an iron-skinned monkey and almost lost my life. Fortunately, this kind of monster has a strong sense of territory. If we find that something is wrong, it should not be a problem for us to escape with our lives."
There was a comforting tone in his words, whether it was to comfort Wang Chen or his own heart, he didn't know.
After taking back the Qinggang Sword, Wang Chen walked over and took a look.
The black shadow was thin and had bloodshot eyes. It looked like a hairless monkey with a pitch-black body. It had unusually long claws on its limbs, and its black skin shone with a metallic luster. It was extremely ugly.
Although this monster did not have the ice ability of the Shadow Sabertooth Tiger, it had a copper skin and iron bones, and was only slightly inferior to the Shadow Sabertooth Tiger. No wonder it was able to make Xiang Qingliu flee in panic.
And looking at the appearance of this monkey, it has evolved a body of iron, which is enough to make many top predators lose their teeth and lose the desire to hunt. From this perspective, it is true that monkeys are smart.
After all, evolution is a technical job. Take the giant panda for example. It evolved dark circles under its eyes and black and white fur in an attempt to scare other animals. However, in the eyes of humans, it not only does not bring a sense of danger or ferocity, but it has become an extremely cute creature. In the end, humans have no choice but to accept the reality of being a national treasure.
As they moved forward, the thick fog did not dissipate, but the soil under their feet gradually became moist, and the grass and trees along the way gradually turned dark. Finally, Wang Chen felt that he was stepping on soft mud.
This kind of environment is not suitable for hunting. The strange beasts that appear are usually reptiles such as poisonous snakes or poisonous insects. Among the five poisonous creatures, except scorpions, all of them like this kind of environment. Similarly, most kinds of spiritual herbs also like to grow in this humid environment.
Unlike Xiang Qingliu, Wang Chen can see opportunities, so he looks further and pays more attention to details.
In addition to the six-patterned spiritual herb, even if he discovered ordinary spiritual fruits such as the green Tuo fruit, it would be an extremely useful improvement for him.
When my sight returned to Xiang Qingliu, he was squatting down and carefully examining a broken animal corpse under a big tree.
It is a lizard the size of a calf, with a wide nose and a big mouth, quite like a crocodile. Its body is pitch black, even its eyes are black. This protective color is enough to cover it so that it can hunt silently in the current environment.
"This is a Forbidden Forest Poisonous Lizard. If we are bitten by it, cultivators at our level will only die if we don't get timely treatment. Although the Iron Monkey has a body of iron and steel, its ability to resist poison is very weak. If we choose this direction, we will definitely not encounter groups of Iron Monkeys." Xiang Qingliu turned around and looked at Wang Chen.
Killing an iron-skinned monkey with one sword gave him a better understanding of Wang Chen's strength. Therefore, as he was familiar with the terrain of the place, the route he chose was more inclined towards the direction where solitary and powerful monsters appeared.
These monsters are unwilling to submit to each other and will kill each other once they meet. This is actually the most suitable route for the two to travel.
After a moment of thought, Wang Chen nodded in agreement. Monkeys do like to live in groups and are aggressive by nature. They will always choose the strongest monkey among them to be the monkey king.
If there really were such a group of evil monkeys led by the Monkey King attacking them, even he himself would have no choice but to escape.
Sure enough, after going several hundred feet deeper, Wang Chen was attacked by these poisonous lizards. Not only that, colorful toads and centipedes that looked like red-hot iron blocks began to appear frequently.
Xiang Qingliu looked a little ugly, because he was unable to contend with these monsters at all. In other words, his life was in the hands of Wang Chen.
So he could not help but follow Wang Chen closely, watching the Qinggang sword turn into an icy flying sword and fly around.
Wang Chen feels very happy now.
It’s not because Xiang Qingliu’s eyes were full of disbelief and expectation again and again.
But he had never used such advanced spells as the Ice Soul Sword. Every time he thrust out his sword, his true energy would cover the path with a layer of frost. Whether it was a centipede with steel armor or a fat toad, a single blow of his sword would freeze it to death from the inside out while it struggled.
During this short journey of just a few hours, he killed more than a dozen monsters, and his sword moves became more and more skillful.
The true energy flowed out from the sea of qi, circulated in the body in a mysterious trajectory, and finally flowed into the Qinggang Sword with his arm as a bridge, and then flowed back, forming a bridge of communication with it.
Then the Qinggang Sword became like a part of the body, and from an ice stick it solidified into a chilling azure ice sword.
