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Chapter 23 Going out to hunt

I slept beautifully at night. Before dawn the next morning, Lou Yi took the guy out of his cave and walked straight out of the mountain gate.

He saw two hemp ropes tied on his back, an arrow basket hung on his left shoulder, with more than a hundred homemade bows and arrows inserted inside, a hatchet on his waist, a wooden stick in his left hand, a hook with iron nails, and a longbow in his right hand.

He made these things by himself. He used to sneak out secretly, but this time he could go out for a walk openly. However, he also knew that not only were there beasts in the mountains, but also some strange things, so it was not going to go too far, so it just walked around nearby.

The mountain is covered with heavy snow all year round, and it is also a family of immortals. Generally, hunters will not dare to come here to hunt, which has created a natural hunting ground for him. However, he knew that the boars, roe deer, hares and pheasants here were all fat and strong. As long as you hunt one, you can eat it beautifully for several days.

Before he could walk out of the mountain gate, saliva began to flow from the corner of his mouth, and his steps could not help but get a little faster. He disappeared outside the mountain gate while no one else had gotten up.

Because it was not dawn, I could only distinguish the direction by relying on the faint light. Fortunately, it had not snowed these days, so I could still tell the steps of some people. Lou Yi followed his steps and soon found the way to the mountain.

He raised his head and looked at the mountain, folded his hands together and muttered something, as if he was praying for something. This is the rule passed down by mountain people from generation to generation. Lou Qiong taught him since he was a child and asked him to keep it in mind. Lou Yi has been following these rules in recent years of hunting.

For example, when entering the mountain, you should first respect the mountain. Everything has spirits, and the mountain also has spirits. When hunting, you will not kill females with cubs, you will not kill individual cubs, you will not hunt birds in the forest, and so on.

These are all passed down from generation to generation. They are regarded as imperial edicts by the mountain people. They are more important than their own lives. Abide by the rules often brings rich returns, so Qingfeng Village has always lived a very prosperous life. If it weren't for that catastrophe, Lou Yi would have been so happy.

After praying, he slowly opened his eyes and walked forward. The sun slowly rose from the distance of the horizon, and rays of golden light shone from afar, reflecting on his slightly thin body, adding a different charm.

After crossing two mountains in one breath, his face was not blushing or breathing. He knew that this was all because she was a monk now, and her physical fitness was very different from before. Her eyes could see farther, her ears could hear farther, and even every move around him felt that he was under his control.

He stopped suddenly, exerted a little force on his feet, and his body jumped onto the branches, hiding between the branches and leaves, looking at the snow a hundred meters away, holding his breath and waiting for the battle.

Soon a black shadow like a hill walked out of the bushes behind the snow, and Lou Yi's face suddenly showed surprise. The big wild boar looked like he had a thousand pounds. If he could hunt it himself, it would be dried into dried meat and could be eaten for at least one month.

But before he was happy, he became disappointed. It turned out that the huge wild boar had just walked out of the grass before his feet, and then five or six small black shadows dozens of times smaller than the ones rushed out from behind. They surrounded the big wild boar and walked forward step by step.

Lou Yi sighed and said, "It's not good to go out..."

After the big wild boar left, he quickly continued to move forward and looked for a new target. Soon his ears trembled slightly. He heard a slight sound of tens of meters away on the left. He quickly stopped and bent his bow and aimed at it.

With a whoosh, the arrow swept through the snow at a high speed. Then, with a puff sound, something was shot, which made him so happy that he ran over in a few steps and dragged a big guy with colorful feathers from behind a bushes.

This is a pheasant. It looks at least twenty pounds and has a shiny feather all over. Especially the two feathers at the tail, shining with colorful light, which is very attractive. This pheasant is cunning by nature and is very good at disguising and hiding. If Lou Yi had not heard the sound of his sacred son, he would have never been able to discover it with his naked eyes.

He tied the spoils with hemp ropes, and made a simple wooden rack with a few wooden sticks. He threw the pheasant on the rack. He continued to walk forward with the rack on his back. He could soon hunt this rare delicacy in the mountains. It seemed that he was very favored by the mountain god today, so he planned to hunt more.

At this time, the sun was not rising high, and frost and mist were still entrenched in the mountains, which greatly hindered Lou Yi's vision. He had to stop and identify the direction from time to time, and leave marks on some tree trunks or stones to prevent himself from getting lost accidentally.

Before he knew it, the racks on his back were already full of wild game. The pheasant was hunting two, one of which was hung on the two back feet of the rack. The racks were filled with hares, roe deer, and common wild game, but his desire to hunt wild boars was finally disappointed.

In addition to these things, there is also a cloth sack on the shelf, which contains many mountain mushrooms, all kinds of varieties. He also dug a little wild honey from some trees. This thing is very rare, and this time he has a great harvest.

He returned home with a full load and hummed a mountain song and walked back along the way he came. When he was halfway through, he suddenly found that the road ahead was covered by fog, which made him feel very strange, because the day was already very high at this time, and the frost and mist around had long dissipated, and the fog that blocked the way he had to go back looked a little different.

Lou Yi did not dare to go over rashly, but tried it with the hook in his hand. The moment the hook was reached in, he heard a crackling sound. When the stick was taken out, an amazing scene appeared.

A thick layer of ice crystals actually condensed on the wooden stick, and it was spreading in the direction of his suffering. He could feel a cold breath coming towards his palm.

He threw away the frozen wooden stick, then took out the bow and arrow in his hand, and watched the mist in front of him with great concentration, so as to prevent something from suddenly rushing out of it.

But after waiting for a cup of tea, not only did there be no movement but the fog began to slowly shrink. Lou Yi's tense nerves slowly relaxed, but he still maintained the necessary vigilance.

The road that disappeared soon slowly appeared, and the cold quickly shrank towards an exposed crooked tree. Lou Yi noticed that the tree was wilted and seemed to be half-dead. There were obvious signs of frostbite at its roots, and all the surrounding grass was withered, and the withered turf was covered with frost.

A very cold breath emanated from the roots of the small tree. Lou Yi just got closer and felt like his whole body was about to be frozen. He felt that he might have encountered something good.

He had heard Liu Yuan say before that in addition to wild animals, there are also some spiritual plants in this mountain. These things are of great use to monks. There are some relatively precious spiritual herbs, and the sect will give a lot of merit to exchange.

Lou Yi felt that he had encountered some spiritual plant, otherwise such strange phenomena would never have occurred. He slowly moved the spiritual energy and flowed through his body, and the biting cold feeling weakened.

He slowly walked around the back of the small tree. First, he saw a blue light appearing in front of him, and then he saw the second and third groups, a total of five light clusters surrounded by them, rooted in a cracked tree hole of the small tree.

Each light ball spontaneously sucks and spits the cold air around it, and each time it sucks, it brightens their light. Lou Yi looked at them, but he didn't know what it was. He thought that after he went back, he must go and ask for a book of medicine, wood, grass, and make up for it.

If you encounter such a good thing again in the future, at least you will not know what to do. He looked at these five light balls and felt nervous. He wanted to take these five light balls away, but Liu Yuan once told him that spiritual plants are all spiritual and cannot be picked directly with his hands. Moreover, the spirit grass itself condenses the essence of heaven and earth, and it is very likely that he will be injured by it when he acts rashly.

He also told himself that some particularly precious spiritual herbs will be accompanied by monsters who are guarding around. If they take action rashly, they may be attacked by them. If they don’t get anything, they will even give up their lives, which will be a loss.

Thinking of all this, he decisively gave up the idea of ​​picking. He decided to go back and ask for a pharmacopoeia first, check the name of the spirit herb, and then find a way to come again. It is quite hidden here and rarely comes on weekdays. I think it will only be a day later, so it should not be taken away first.

What's more, when he came, he didn't notice the existence of this spiritual herb. If it weren't for their cold breath, he would probably not have known that they existed. After making up his mind, Lou Yi kept the surrounding environment in his mind and left without looking back.

Back to Lou Yi, who returned to the sect, divided the wild game on his body into two, left a copy of it himself, packed the rest and took it over to Liu Yuan, and asked Liu Yuan if there were any classics about spiritual plants.

What disappointed him was that Liu Yuan did not have any books on this, but he told himself that he could go to the place where the outer disciples traded. Only then did Lou Yi remember that when he went to collect the outer disciples, he saw many disciples traded.

Liu Yuan told him that this kind of book usually does not exceed one talisman currency and is easy to trade. After Lou Yi bid farewell to Liu Yuan, he went straight to the place where the disciple traded. As Liu Yuan expected, there were many stalls. After strolling around, he spent eighty talismans to exchange for a book from a middle-aged disciple.

He was just happy and excited, but he didn't see that the disciple who exchanged his books flashed a strange look in his eyes, and even his nose swayed slightly, as if he was smelling something.

However, Lou Yi didn't know all this. He had already walked quickly towards the place where he lived with the book. The middle-aged man quickly packed up his things and followed him quietly. When he saw the place where Lou Yi lived, he looked around and left quietly.
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