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Chapter 17 The Elixir of Essence

Jiang Shuiyao had a dream.

He dreamed that he was back when he was a child. He was running wildly in his courtyard holding candied haws, and his adoptive mother Liu Qing was sitting next to the loom.

The breeze was gentle, and the white clouds turned into feathers, playfully stuck in the clouds. The creaking and regular sound of the loom was his lullaby before going to bed, and it was also the rhythm of his joyful running.

Elsewhere, the adoptive father Bai Hua was walking into the yard with a long bow on his back and a hare in each hand.

"father!"

Jiang Shuiyao happily stepped forward and tried to grab those strong hands, but he missed and fell heavily to the ground.

Maybe he ran too hard, so he fell too hard, and his sweet dream was awakened. Jiang Shuiyao opened his eyes and found that his thick palms were stretched out in the air, and the pictures in his mind instantly turned into bubbles.

, drifting away with the gurgling water beside me.

"father...."

Jiang Shuiyao slightly retracted his palms to block the dazzling sunlight, struggled to sit up and murmured.

After being sucked into the rockery, Jiang Shuiyao felt as if he had entered a rapid underground river. He stumbled in the underground river, choked on several large mouthfuls of water, and then lost consciousness.

Jiang Shuiyao hurriedly looked inside the ring and found that it was intact inside.

Soon he laughed dryly like an idiot again. The river water was not the black flames in Li Guangding. How could it run into Najie so easily? Instead, his clothes were scratched by sharp stones in the water and turned into strips.

Rags were hanging sparsely on the body.

After sitting in the water and being stunned for a long time, Jiang Shuiyao stood up and looked around. On both sides of the river was a small piece of flat land with flowers blooming all over the place.

It seems that this is a mountain col. Looking outward, there is a long forest. The mountains in the distance are covered with green and blue, and are tightly connected by the green green in front of me. No roof tiles or smoke can be seen.

If you survive a catastrophe, you will be blessed later!

Jiang Shuiyuan happily swung his huge buttocks and stepped onto the lawn. He took off his ragged red robe, ran into the forest, cut down many branches and willow branches, and fiddled with it again to weave a simple grass skirt.

He put a grass skirt on his body to cover his lower body, held up the Liyuan Sword in one hand, and kept slapping his mouth with the other hand while screaming strangely. The only difference between him and the savages at this time was that he had an extra sword.

Jiang Shuiyao, who had lost contact with everyone, was not in a hurry. He was not welcome anywhere anyway, especially without the restraint of Chai Que. He was even more happy. After entertaining himself for a long time, Jiang Shuiyao put the sword on his shoulder with satisfaction.

, leisurely going upstream along the current.

Looking at his bloated body, Jiang Shuiyao suddenly remembered what Chai Que said when he was in Qingfeng City. There is a kind of water vine called Wuyang that often grows in the cracks of the rocks in the underground river. The Wuyang vine always grows in the dark, and its stems

The leaves are black, smell fishy, ​​are afraid of the sun, and absorb spiritual power. This herb is toxic and is the raw material for poisons such as powder, but it is very effective in treating Jiang Shuiyao.

After walking against the current for more than half an hour, a cave about ten feet high appeared in front of me. The entrance to the cave was empty, and everything inside was pitch black.

The same water inside and outside the cave is almost completely different.

The water outside the cave was gurgling, and the temperature was just right under the beautiful spring breeze. But once inside the cave, the warm and peaceful feeling disappeared in an instant.

Perhaps it had been silent underground for too long, and the water rushed out of the large holes in front of Jiang Shuiyao with great momentum and biting coldness. It hit the strange-shaped rocks before it was willing to lose most of the force and settle down.

Quietly merge into the river bed.

Jiang Shuiyao lifted up the grass skirt around his waist and stepped into the cave step by step.

The deeper you go, the space inside the cave becomes smaller and smaller, and clusters of black vines are sparsely exposed on the ground. Jiang Shuiyao glanced at them briefly and quickly gave up the plan of picking them away.

Due to the seasonal reasons in Nanchengzhou, herbal medicines must be aged for several years before they can have a certain medicinal effect. The rhizome of the sunless vine that I saw now was only as thick as my little finger, so even if I picked it, it would be in vain. Moreover, since it was confirmed that this thing grew in the cave, Jiang Shuiyao went to find it.

If you keep your mind and continue walking deeper, you may be able to find an even older Sunless Vine.

It was damp and cold inside the cave, which was not a problem for a teenage boy.

Jiang Shuiyao walked in the cave with his upper body naked and holding a torch for who knows how long. He didn't stop until the space in the cave could only accommodate his fat body.

Firstly, Jiang Shuiyao felt dizzy and slightly sleepy at this time. Secondly, the space in the cave was too narrow and he was no longer allowed to go deeper. Jiang Shuiyao yawned, turned around and walked back.

On the way out of the cave, Jiang Shuiyao held a torch in one hand and the Liyuan Sword in the other. He carefully cut off any sunless vines that looked a little older and put them into the ring.

After so much harvest, Jiang Shuiyao couldn't help but hum a ditty. When he walked out of the cave completely, the sky had darkened.

Jiang Shuiyao rubbed his stomach, which was empty.

He took out the apricots that Xun Lao Shi gave him, looked at them, and quickly put them into the ring. After searching in the forest for most of an hour, except for some unknown wild fruits, he could no longer find any pheasants or rabbits.

There were traces of living creatures like this. As Jiang Shuiyao walked downstream along the stream, he randomly stuffed some wild fruits into his mouth, and wailed in his heart. Is it God's will? It's rare that Chai Que is not around, there is no restraint, and there is no chance to have a good life.

Have a meal of meat.

The stream meanders and merges into a green lake at the end.

Because he picked a lot of sunless vines in the cave, Jiang Shuiyao's whole body was smelled of fishy smell. Jiang Shuiyao was bored when he reached the end, so he didn't think much at the moment and jumped into the lake, intending to wash away the smell.

clean.

The calm lake surface seemed to have been hit by huge rocks, causing ripples. Strangely, the huge waves did not scare away the fish. On the contrary, where the river water fell far away, a large number of fish soon surrounded it.

Jiang Shuiyao was swimming fast in the water. When he noticed a school of fish approaching him, he was stunned for a moment. He steadied his body in the water and observed it for a moment. Then he was overjoyed and climbed out of the water quickly.

Jiang Shuiyao laughed proudly, threw the small fish hanging on the grass skirt back into the lake, took out a sunless vine from the ring and said with a smile: "So you like to eat this thing."

Jiang Shuiyao tried his best to curl up into a ball of flesh and squatted on the bank. He held the sunless vine in one hand and put it into the water and shook it from side to side. He held a sharpened wooden stick in the other hand. When he saw a larger fish approaching, he quickly took out the stick.

, stinging and picking, the fish glides through an extremely comfortable arc in the air

It fell into the grass behind him. Not long after, there were already four or five stabbed fish struggling feebly on the bank. Jiang Shuiyao stood up and looked around. When he thought of the dense forest, he couldn't help but

Knowing how long it would take to get out, I quickly bent down again and continued to catch fish.

The fat ones are roasted, the thin ones are made into dried fish, and the smaller ones are made into bait and placed in the woods to see if there is any chance of attracting wild boars, black bears, etc. If you can eat a roasted wild boar, your life will be great.

That's perfect...

Jiang Shuiyao thought like this, and drool fell from the corner of his mouth.

Hey!

Just as he was imagining how delicious the fish was, Jiang Shuiyuan's eyes lit up, and he saw a huge black shadow swimming towards the lake in the distance.

Looks like a big fish!

Jiang Shuiyao hurriedly replaced the wooden stick with the Liyuan Sword and stood up with a smile. When he saw the black shadow swimming under the Wuyang Vine, he suddenly raised his left hand and raised his right hand towards the black figure who was leaping up to eat the Wuyang Vine.

The shadow is cut away.

Clang!!!

The big fish was not chopped into two as Jiang Shuiyao imagined. The huge impact caused Jiang Shuiyao's mouth to sting, and the Li Yuan Sword almost fell out of his hand.

Jiang Shuiyao hurriedly took a step back towards the shore, but the big fish that had not eaten the Wuyang Vine quickly raised half of its body again and stared at the Wuyang Vine in Jiang Shuiyao's hand.

What kind of monster is this?!

With the dim light, Jiang Shuiyao took a closer look for a long time and found that the black shadow in front of him was completely black and slippery like a big loach. It looked like a fish but not a fish, like a crocodile but not a crocodile. It had big fish eyes and four claws.

But it was obvious that he could not go ashore, so he could only stare fiercely at Jiang Shuiyao in the water.

For some reason, after being stared at by such a fish monster for a long time, Jiang Shuiyao couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. Seeing that there were more than ten fish lying on the shore, Jiang Shuiyao gave up his plan to continue fishing and held the Sunless Vine in his hand.

He threw it towards the fish monster and shouted: "Big fish monster, I will give you some Sunless Vine as a gift with my sword. Our grudges will be settled."

The big fish jumped into the air, swallowed the sunless vine that was thrown from the river, and then let out a roar. After falling into the water again, it was able to crawl towards the shore!

Jiang Shuiyao trembled with fright. Although the big fish crawled toward him very slowly, it had indeed landed on the shore! Jiang Shuiyao knew that it was Wuyang Vine that had unlocked some kind of restriction on the big fish without even thinking about it.

Jiang Shuiyuan shouted with a trembling voice: "Big fish monster! You can't repay kindness with hatred like this!"

The next moment, he slipped into the woods.

More than half an hour later, Jiang Shuiyao slowly stopped. He only caught two or three of the more than ten fish he had caught, which made him sigh. He opened the fish and scaled them by the stream, then lit a fire. The fish turned over on the fire.

, and soon the smell of meat came out.

Seeing the fish glowing golden under the firelight, Jiang Shuiyao swallowed his saliva several times and patiently turned the pheasant, waiting for it to be roasted until it was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and had a delicious meal.

Well! That's almost it...

Jiang Shuiyao muttered to himself, put the grilled fish in front of his nose and smelled it intoxicatedly. Just as he brought the meat to his mouth, a figure suddenly shot out from behind Jiang Shuiyao, holding a wooden stick, and

Hit Jiang Shuiyao directly behind him!

Bang!!!

Jiang Shuiyao almost subconsciously rolled to the side, narrowly escaping the fatal blow.

But the flat stone he was sitting on had been smashed into a pile of debris by the sudden stick. At the same time, the fish in his hand also fell into the water in panic and disappeared along the current.

Jiang Shuiyao stood up in embarrassment and was about to curse. When he saw the attacker's clothes, he immediately screamed: "Ghost!!!"

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Shuiyao had already rushed into the woods. At the same time, another figure came from a distance and stood panting beside the fire.

The person who attacked Jiang Shuiyao was none other than Li Caiwei, who interfered with Jiang Shuiyao's spiritual injection that day but almost lost her life.

Li Caiwei's face was completely ruined, even the bridge of her nose was exposed, and half of her cheeks had no trace of intact skin. Although she was wearing a veil, the veil fluttered in the wind when she attacked Jiang Shuiyao, and only then did Jiang Shuiyao see her now.

Then he screamed and ran away.

Seeing Jiang Shuiyuan disappearing, Li Caiwei said: "Lily, you go back to the sect first. I will come back after I catch this elixir that can transform into spirits."

Lily said nervously: "But senior sister, your injury..."

"It doesn't matter."

Li Caiwei replied and quickly chased in the direction where Jiang Shuiyao escaped.
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