"It's safe." Li Lifeng smiled and said, "It's a blessing to have someone help us take the front line. As for Zhu Guo, we just have to look for it carefully."
Sun Chao somewhat doubted the authenticity of Li Lifeng's words.
He had suspected Li Lifeng's purpose of coming to Luoyue Valley from the beginning. How could he dare to invade such a dangerous place with only the third level of Ning Yuan?
This was not the style of the cautious Brother Li he knew!
However, people in martial arts have some secrets, and Sun Chao didn't dare to ask too many questions. He was afraid that Li Lifeng would suffer a loss and followed him. Firstly, he wanted to protect Li Lifeng, and secondly, he wanted to see what kind of medicine was sold in Li Lifeng's gourd.
"Brother Li, why did you risk your life to come here?"
Looking at the back of Li Lifeng walking in front, Sun Chao became even more confused.
Zhu Guo is also called Luoyue Blood Fruit or Luoyue Fire Fruit.
As the name suggests, it is fiery red in color. In addition, the reason why it is called Luoyue is not only that it grows in Luoyue Valley, but also because it matures at sunset every day.
What's surprising is that its growth habit is not an upright tree, but rattans crawling on the ground, about the size of a thumb; the leaves are green and shaped like plum blossoms, but much larger, like the size of a child's hand.
However, its fruit is extraordinarily huge, as big as an adult's fist, bright and blood-red, with a red light glowing from top to bottom.
The most amazing thing is that it blooms every day, bears fruit every day, and matures every day!
From flowering, to fruiting, to maturity within one day, it couldn't be more miraculous.
If it is not picked before sunset, it will fall to the ground and melt into the soil, feeding back the vine seedlings! It lasts all year round.
It is precisely because of this that Luoyue Valley has become a frequent place for many sects to collect Luoyue Fruit.
However, although there were many Luoyue fruit seedlings on the ground, Li Lifeng and Sun Chao could not find any Luoyue fruit.
Either it's not yet mature enough to bear fruit, or someone is already watching over it. The sun is rising at the moment, and many fallen sunflowers have gradually bloomed. The plum-shaped flowers are swaying in the morning breeze, shining brightly.
Some of the people they saw were Xuanming Sect disciples, but some were not.
These people guard beside the Sunset Fruit, sitting or standing, lying or standing, with different shapes. What they have in common is that when someone approaches the Sunset Fruit they are guarding, and upon hearing the movement, they jump up like springs and stare angrily.
He gave the person a hard look.
After the visitor's interest subsides, they return to normal; if they are still salivating, they curse loudly or reveal their spiritual weapons.
Fortunately, there are a lot of Sunset Fruits here, and everyone won't get into a fuss over just a few Sunset Fruits. When they saw someone guarding them, they almost shook their heads and walked away. They muttered unhappily and walked away.
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Li Lifeng and Sun Chao walked for a while, but still couldn't find a suitable place, so they had to keep walking.
The further you go in, the steeper the terrain becomes and the worse the environment becomes.
From time to time, you can hear the roars of wild beasts not far away, some fierce and some peaceful.
The two of them were lucky. After walking for so long, they didn't encounter a monster at the level of a mythical beast, but some wild animals were walking around.
Among animals, if there is no spiritual consciousness, they are beasts; if they have spiritual consciousness, there is a difference and they are divine beasts.
Divine beasts are either born with energy or evolved, and are divided into ten levels. Their power is equivalent to the tenth level of human condensation. When they absorb enough spiritual energy from heaven and earth and refine the essence of the sun and moon, they turn into monsters in one fell swoop.
The monsters have great wisdom and can practice martial arts on their own, which is for the sake of monsters.
Demon cultivators are divided into pill formation, transformation, spiritual essence, and great demon, which respectively correspond to the Juyuan, spiritual elixir, spiritual essence, and mysterious spirit of human martial arts.
Once the elixir is formed, even though it has the body of a beast, it can still speak words in its mouth.
At the stage of transformation, the demonic elixir in the body is more pure and can be transformed into a human form in one fell swoop, no different from an ordinary person. Even if one goes deep into the human world, one cannot distinguish it without corresponding magical powers.
In the first fifty miles of Sunset Valley, at most, only mythical beasts were active, and as for demon cultivators and the like, they were inside. Even though Li Lifeng was brave, he did not dare to joke with his own life. Even if he really wanted to see monsters, he had no choice but to act on his impulse.
After walking for a while, the sun was already in the middle of the day, and the sunflowers began to bear fruit, and the small green fruits gradually appeared in the eyes of the world.
Seeing that he hadn't found his own fruit yet, Sun Chao couldn't help but muttered: "It's so unlucky. Why do so many people come to look for the fruit today? Brother Li, look, I told you not to go to this area. You
Look, it’s not even our share!”
Li Lifeng also smiled bitterly.
"Silly birds! Two silly birds!"
At this time, when they passed Chu, there were two warriors sitting guarding two sunrise vine seedlings. When they heard Sun Chao's words, they couldn't help but laugh.
Sun Chao glared at them angrily.
"Forget it, don't be the same as them." Li Lifeng pulled Sun Chao and turned to a small road on the right.
Sun Chao was still unhappy: "Two guys at the seventh level of Yuan Ning Yuan actually dare to be so presumptuous in front of me!"
At this time, they walked on a winding path, with small rocks on the right and dense woods on the left. The terrain became lower and lower as they went, and the surrounding area became quieter.
The mountain forest is silent and there is no sound around.
Li Lifeng paused and sighed: "If we have the cultivation level of Juyuan Stage, we can go to the middle section of Luoyue Valley to have a look and collect some intermediate Luoyue Fruits. How great would it be!"
Sun Chao was startled: "Brother Li, you don't know how to..."
"What are you talking about? I don't have the guts to risk my life. Even if the intermediate Luoyue Fruit is good, I still have to die to get it!" Li Lifeng laughed.
The Luoyue Fruit is also graded. The outer part of the valley is the lower-grade fruit, and the middle part is the intermediate-grade fruit. Even though they can only be used to refine elixirs such as Condensing Yuan Dan, their purity is different, and the spiritual energy they contain is naturally different.
One intermediate-level Sunset Fruit can equal the energy of ten lower-level Sunset Fruits. An upper-level Sunset Fruit can’t match the energy of hundreds of lower-level Sunset Fruits!
Of course, the superior Luoyue Fruit is located deep in the Luoyue Valley. It is a mysterious place in the legend, and many spiritual pill warriors dare not go there suddenly.
These low-level disciples can only find some lower-level fruits on the periphery.
After sighing, Li Lifeng said: "Xiao Chao, how many fruits do you think we need to collect to rank in the top ten?"
"It's hard to say." Sun Chao chuckled, "This mission lasts for ten days. If we go by the normal speed of picking up, it will only be three or five pieces a day, and there will be only a few dozen pieces in total. But this time it is so rich.
Everyone must be working hard to collect the rewards, even if they offend some people. I think... if you don't have hundreds of them, you can't even think of being in the front row."
Li Lifeng nodded and said, "How wonderful it would be if a sunflower vine could bear not only three or five, but more than ten or twenty!"
Sun Chao was speechless, thinking that everyone would dream of having such a good thing, but is it possible?
After walking for a while, we passed by a bare hillside and turned into the mouth of a small valley, when we suddenly heard a rumbling sound in our ears.
The sound gradually increased from small to loud.
The two of them couldn't help but stop and listen, there was a rushing sound.
"Xiaochao, how far have we gone? Will we encounter anything?" Li Lifeng asked worriedly.
"It's only thirty miles away. Let me listen...it sounds like the sound of water." Sun Chao was more advanced and could hear it more clearly.
It is indeed water!
When the two of them turned a rocky corner, their eyes suddenly opened up!
Here is a small valley, with some flowers and plants in the front, a deeper forest on the left, and a group of caves on the right. In the innermost ground is a small lake, with a white waterfall hanging on the lake!
The water flowed down and flowed into the lake, making a rumbling sound.
The two of them breathed a sigh of relief. Suddenly, Sun Chao looked to the left and called out: "Luoyue Guo!" After saying that, he ran ten feet away.
This is a place to the left of the valley entrance. The terrain is relatively low-lying. The water in the lake flows down along the small stream. When you look up, you can see the waterfall but not the small lake.
In a bush, two sunflower vines twined upwards, forming a stack-like plum blossom.
Seven or eight cyan Sunset Fruits hung on it!
The fruit is already the size of a baby's fist, and is growing at a speed visible to the naked eye. It will be mature and ready to pick in more than two hours.
"Haha!" Sun Chao laughed and looked back at Li Lifeng, "Brother Li, I didn't expect that we are so lucky. We can find two sunflower vines here, and they bear a lot of fruits."
"You're lucky." Li Lifeng also smiled.
"This vine grows along the stream. Maybe there are some under the stream." Sun Chao pointed at the rushing stream and was very excited.
Li Lifeng looked in the direction he pointed. After a few feet, the creek was hidden in the woods.
The towering trees are very rich, and the tree species are not uniform, some are straight, some are curved, and some are even covered with long thorns!
"Xiao Chao, this forest is a bit weird and scary, so you better not go in."
"It's okay!" Sun Chao laughed, "Brother Li, you stay here and wait, I'll go take a look and I'll be back soon!"
"No……"
Before Li Lifeng uttered any objections, Sun Chao flashed, flew a few feet, and suddenly disappeared in the forest.
Li Lifeng was anxious and annoyed. He wanted to catch up, but he was afraid that he would not be able to catch up with Sun Chao's speed, and he did not know which direction he was going. Once they entered the deep forest, they would lose their way and miss each other, which would be troublesome.
There is no choice but to wait quietly.
When I was upset, it took about two or three cups of tea. Suddenly, there was a gust of wind around me, and Sun Chao suddenly appeared again.
"Brother Li!" Sun Chao looked excited, with his eyes wide open and his feet jumping for joy, "Now we are prosperous, really prosperous!"
"What's wrong?" Li Lifeng's eyes lit up.
Sun Chao pointed to the direction of the stream and said: "All the way down here, there are sunflower vines. I counted them. Wherever I went, there were twenty or thirty trees that had fruits. I harvested them all.
If so, these are more than a hundred Sunset Fruits. Taking them back is enough for us to exchange for a level 10 spiritual weapon!"