Cheng Tianle walked into this unpruned old plum forest and was in a very good mood. The snakeberry growing in the whole Zhongshan was mostly mutated. This place is the most obvious. The first thing to do when collecting herbs in early summer should be here. While he was happy, he also pulled out the withered grass plants and studied it in his hands, and used his spiritual sense to explore its unique physical properties. He walked along the hills and pulled weeds.
As he walked, Zi Hao suddenly shouted in his soul: "Senior Brother, why do I feel something is wrong? I always feel that someone is watching us?"
Cheng Tianle also stopped and looked around. While walking, he had already spread his soul to practice his skills. According to the abnormal movements within a mile, he should have sensed clearly, but he did not find anything. After reminding Zi Hao, he seemed to feel as if someone was watching him. This feeling was not being secretly spyed, like someone staring at you with wide eyes.
It wasn't really anyone standing beside him staring at him. Cheng Tianle and Zi Hao practiced magic tricks, as if they had a particularly keen instinctual intuition of animals in the mountains and fields. But at this moment, this intuition seemed to have a wrong idea, and there was no abnormality around him. Cheng Tianle shook his head and said, "This feeling is very strange, not dangerous, but seems to be dissatisfied. It seems that this place is really special. Anyway, there is no red flame fruit to pick at this moment. Let's not wander around and look for the monkey fruit."
Cheng Tianle and Zi Hao didn't know it. Just behind the ochre-red mountain wall not far away, it presents another space scene in a way that ordinary people cannot understand. There is a road about one meter wide, paved with fine and moist five-color soil, and on both sides are not tall but lush plum trees. This long shaded path extends a hundred meters from the mountain wall to the door of a manor. There is a vermilion gate, yellow door nails, and the door is inlaid with exquisite beast-swalking golden rings. There is a plaque in the center of the gate tower with four big words "Plum Blossom Holy Land".
This is a small Kunlun barrier cave heaven, which is larger than the Taihang Cave Heaven and the Yun Secret Realm that Cheng Tianle had visited. The villa and the outer gardens are more than two miles in a radius. In a hall in the ancient manor, there is a cloud slab with a diameter of more than one meter, with natural landscapes, plum blossoms, and flowing cloud patterns.
At this time, the patterns on the cloud stone slab disappeared due to some magic power, and a screen-like picture appeared. It was the situation where Cheng Tianle pulled weeds in the woods. A girl wearing a white robe and charming was standing in front of the cloud stone slab and frowned: "Who is this? If you say it's bold, it's too exaggerated. Who can run to the door of my Plum Blossom Holy Realm to deliberately pull weeds?"
Another beautiful and dignified woman beside her replied, "I know this person. Not long ago, I came to the Zhiwei Tower in Wucheng to meet the leader of Alliance Shi. He held Master Feng's immortal guide sign. The leader of Alliance Shi's Sanmeng transformed into thousands of miles away and rushed back immediately... He is Cheng Tianle, Gusu. Senior Sister Mei should have heard of it."
The answerer was Chen Yan, the manager of Wucheng Zhiweilou. He met Cheng Tianle not long ago. The woman in white robe named Mei Rongcheng, who is Shi Ye's official disciple. The Plum Blossom Holy Realm is the sect temple of Sanmeng Sect, and its cave heaven gate is on the ochre-red mountain wall. Sanmeng Sect has another cave heaven in Wucheng. Shi Ye himself does not often come here. Only when the sect ceremony is held, will the disciples of Sanmeng Sect gather together in the Plum Blossom Holy Realm, and there are only people taking turns to serve. Today, Chen Yan happened to be there, and recognized Cheng Tianle who was strolling outside.
Mei Rongcheng was surprised to hear this, "I have heard Zeren mention this person. Master and Zeren seem to have high hopes for him, saying that this person is expected to be the first of a generation and solve a problem in the Kunlun cultivation world. I thought he was a stunning figure. When I saw it today, how could he look like a fool? Who is the monk in the world who is full and runs to the gate of the Plum Blossom Holy Realm to pull weeds!"
Chen Yan looked at Cheng Tianle's behavior through the clouds and stone slabs, and he also guessed in confusion: "Maybe it's a misunderstanding. I heard that Cheng Tianle was a casual cultivator, and the people gathered around him were all mountain demon cultivators. Maybe he didn't know where the plum blossom holy realm of this sect is, but he just happened to pass by here occasionally."
Mei Rongcheng: "If it is a misunderstanding, this misunderstanding will be a big deal! He is not an unknown person now, and he has no relationship with fellow sects. His actions are easy to make people mistakenly think it is a provocation!... If you really don't know, you will pass by too well and do things too funny. I can't figure out no matter what, why are there such monks in the world?"
Chen Yan: "I don't understand what he is doing either. Can the senior sister see what grass he is pulling clearly?"
Mei Rongcheng: "You may not know this kind of wild grass, but I know that it is called Red Flame Fruit, not a nurturing thing, but a wild snakeberry mutant. It bears fruit in early summer, about the size of an ordinary strawberry, and the fruit is very beautiful but poisonous. Master Ziying once instructed that there are many tourists in the Meihua Mountain area on weekdays, and this Red Flame Fruit looks very attractive. If it is mistakenly taken, the consequences may be serious. When my disciples enter and exit the Plum Blossom Holy Realm, if they see the Red Flame Fruit, they must pick it and bury it in the soil."
Chen Yan: "Is Cheng Tianle passing by and helping? He pulled up all the withered red-flame fruit grass plants."
Mei Rongcheng shook his head and said, "Those are all dead grass. What's the use of pulling it out? The second year the red flame fruit falls on the ground, it can't grow new red flame fruit. It is the mutated plant that ordinary snakeberry appears every year."
Chen Yan: "I see he is smelling it with his nose. Could it be that he is collecting herbs? Can the dead grass of the red flame fruit be refined? "
Mei Rongcheng shook his head again and said, "Master Ziying is the best in the world's external elixir, and she has never said that Red Flame Fruit can be used as medicine. Instead, she mentioned a few words about the medicinal properties of this substance, which has hallucination and nerve numbness, but it is not very useful for helping practice. It may relieve pain during the strengthening of muscles and bones, but it needs to be used to neutralize the toxicity, so it is not necessary.
Look, Cheng Tianle was obviously not collecting herbs. He pulled out one and then threw it away, then pulled out another and threw it away. It was clearly a weed-pulling play. It seemed that he was still studying the earthly environment where this thing grew, but he came to the gate of the Plum Blossom Holy Realm. The master also said that since the Plum Blossom Holy Realm Cave Heaven was reopened and the surrounding area was gathered, the probability of the red flame fruit appearing was obviously high, so the master's wife ordered the disciples to remove it when they saw it.
In recent years, every early summer, the master's wife even instructed Youcheng to search for red flame fruits in the Meihua Mountain area, and try to remove them all and not be seen, so as not to cause accidental poisoning. Zicheng helped for two days last year. Fortunately, the probability of red flame fruits appearing is very small, and it is not too difficult to remove them wherever tourists often go. Youcheng likes to eat red flame fruits, because he is not afraid of its toxicity anyway."
Chen Yan: "Since pulling out dead grass cannot remove the red flame fruit, then Cheng Tianle obviously did not come to help, and it doesn't seem like he came to worship the mountain... But since this person has obtained the sign of the immortal master, was it because the immortal master asked him to come? This move has other profound meaning?"
Mei Rongcheng pondered and said, "If it were really what Master Feng arranged for him to do, we wouldn't understand the profound meaning. Anyway, the outdoor gate is the Meihua Mountain Scenic Area. If he likes to pull weeds, we don't have to worry about it."
If Cheng Tianle heard this conversation, he would not know what he would think? The spiritual medicine he was looking for was the poisonous weeds that the disciples of the Sanmeng Sect deliberately removed in the mountains every year. Since he felt something was wrong, he left Meihua Mountain and went to find the place where Lin Xiaoguo picked wild fruits a few days ago. Zi Hao said it was deep in Zijin Mountain, and the description was not very accurate, because he continued to walk east from Zijin Mountain and had already arrived at the Linggu Temple.
The mountains here are not high, but the trees are very lush. Some places are artificially planted and maintained gardens, but there are still many trees that have grown for more than a hundred years. Entering the dense forest and jumping over the mountain stream, and bypassing an old tree that can accommodate two people. There are dense shrubs growing in the forest in front. At this time, the shrubs have fallen leaves and sparse wild fruits hanging on the branches. They look very similar to wild kiwis, but they are only the size of red dates, and the skin is slightly wrinkled.
The fruits on the nearby shrubs have been picked because Lin Xiaoguo had just arrived a few days ago. Cheng Tianle didn't want to leave his own tracks, so he didn't even want to break a branch, allowing Zi Hao to turn into an invisible spirit and drill into the bushes. He picked a fruit and came back to study it. This thing is really the monkey fruit, and its physical characteristics are exactly the same as those recorded in Lu Wu Shenlun Pill Recipe.
Zi Hao said: "There are still many monkey fruits here. Should we pick a batch back?"
Cheng Tianle shook his head and said, "The Monkey Fruit is not a rare and difficult thing to find. As long as you know it is available here, it is easy to do. We can't get all other spiritual medicines for the time being. We can definitely come and pick them next winter or go to another place to pick them. Then Lin Xiaoguo doesn't know what the Monkey Fruit is used here. If he finds that all the wild fruits here suddenly disappear, it will inevitably arouse suspicion. Let's not move."
Zi Hao praised: "Senior Brother, I find that you are becoming more and more thoughtful in your consideration, and people seem to be becoming smarter. It is better not to move the monkey here."
Cheng Tianle: "Then you still ask me if I pick it?"
Zi Hao: "I just want to test you, see if you think carefully or not? If you really want to pick fruits, I will dissuade you again, but I didn't expect you to have learned your skills."
Cheng Tianle: "This is either shrewdness or natural transparency. If you don't practice cultivation, you will become more confused as you practice, unless you have practiced incorrectly."
The two of them had a great harvest on this day. In the evening, they left Zhongshan Scenic Area and returned to the hotel with satisfaction. In the next few days, Nangong Yue's progress was also very smooth. She met Gong Yexin in the city and "accidentally" the other party discovered the identity of the rabbit demon. Gong Yexin is the name of the little rabbit demon in the human world. The duplicate surname "Gongye" is rare, but it is still well-known in history.
One of the seventy-two sages under Confucius's sect, and the son-in-law was also his son-in-law, and later generations called him Gongyezi. It is said that Gongyechang was not only diligent in learning and asking questions, but also had a wealth of insights and even proficient in the words of birds and beasts. The name of this little rabbit demon was probably related to this allusion. What's more interesting is that Nangong Yue, who is also a rabbit demon, also used a rare compound surname "Nangong". One of the seventy-two sages under Confucius' sect, and his niece son-in-law was named Nangong Shi.
The two surnames Gongye and Nangong were not only fellow disciples, but also relatives in history.