"I hope... I can have good luck this time when I enter the mountains..."
"I hope... my father's illness will get better..."
A young man walking alone in the wilderness has a slightly thin body and a slightly red face. He carries a rough bamboo basket on his back. The path under his feet leads to a high mountain called Qilan. This young man
The purpose of going up the mountain was to collect some medicinal materials. This was his fourth trip to Qilan Mountain this month.
Qilan Mountain is also the most dangerous mountain in Lihuo City. In the Dark Night Continent, mountains and deep valleys are everywhere. It can even be said that the cities in the Dark Night Continent are among the mountains. Almost every city is surrounded by mountains on all sides.
Surrounded by high mountains. Qilan Mountain, which is far away from Fire City, is very famous in the entire Dark Night Continent.
Qilan Mountain produces a lot of medicinal materials, but almost all of them are low-grade common medicinal materials. Even so, there are still some poor humans who work hard to climb Qilan Mountain every day to collect medicinal materials that are not very valuable.
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The reason why Qilan Mountain is famous is not the medicinal materials it produces, but its steep terrain. Even some acquired cultivators will encounter some fatal dangers if they want to climb Qilan Mountain.
Every day, many people die in the Qilan Mountains. Legend has it that the corpses under the cliffs of Qilan Mountain have covered the entire valley, and they are innumerable.
It is precisely because of this that the quantity of medicinal materials on Qilan Mountain has always been larger than that of other mountain ranges. Compared with other mountain peaks, the chance of successfully collecting medicinal materials will be greater when climbing Qilan Mountain.
However, no one does not cherish their own life. Therefore, those who usually climb Qilan Mountain are very poor people who are in urgent need of money. This young man is such a young man.
His father was seriously ill. In order to treat his father's illness, he often climbed Qilan Mountain since he was fifteen years old. He was very lucky. Over the past year or so, he had always been able to collect some medicinal materials.
.Although he encountered many dangers, he still survived tenaciously.
Sometimes, he really wanted to never wake up from his sleep, but when he thought of his father, who was still suffering from illness, he would carry his bamboo basket on his back again and head to Qilan Mountain.
Xia Yan has been flying slowly in the air, following the boy. Time passed slowly, and Xia Yan was not in a hurry to take action against the boy. Of course, Xia Yan could feel that this boy was just an ordinary person. Judging from the boy's attire,
As well as the old bamboo basket carried on his back, this young man must have gone to collect something.
In Xia Yan's sight, the steep Qilan Mountain twenty miles away was not blurry.
Xia Yan saw that although this young man was thin, his eyes were bright and bright. It was the belief in his heart that gave him hope and expectation.
The look in this young man's eyes reminded Xia Yan of himself a few years ago. At that time, he was an ordinary person who couldn't get through any martial arts meridians. It was precisely because of the persistence and belief in his heart that he never gave up.
At this time, Xia Yan saw another young man in his twenties wearing simple clothes in front of the path that the boy was walking on. The boy was also carrying a bamboo basket on his back. In the bamboo basket, there was
Two of the lowest medicinal herbs.
The boy in his twenties had a satisfied smile on his face.
After a while, the two people met. They were actually familiar with each other. After meeting, they both stopped.
"Xu Ming, are you...are you planning to go up the mountain to collect medicine again?" When the young man in his twenties saw Xu Ming, he looked surprised and asked in a surprised voice.
"Haha, Brother Mo, you went up the mountain three days ago, and you must have gained a lot now, right?" The young man looked at the older young man and said with a smile.
"Well, I have collected two primary herbs." The young man named Mo smiled and then said, "Xu Ming, you are really hardworking! You just came down from Qilan Mountain three days ago, and now you are going up the mountain again.
Three days ago, didn't you collect a mid-level medicinal plant?"
Every time you go up the mountain, it is a gamble, and the bet is your own life. If you climb Qilan Mountain the day after tomorrow, you may die at any time, let alone these ordinary people.
Hearing what the young man surnamed Mo said, Xu Ming's face darkened a little.
"Xu Ming, I know you are worried about your father's illness and want to cure him, but you can't be so careless about yourself! Your father is the only relative left now. If you are no longer here, then you
Who will take care of my father?" the young man named Mo sighed.
This young man named Mo is obviously very familiar with Xu Ming.
Xia Yan was in the air, listening to the conversation between the two.
"Brother Mo, I understand everything you said, but..." Xu Ming said with a sad face, "You know the situation in my family. In order to treat my father, I owe a lot of debt. I was lucky three days ago, and I picked
I got a mid-level medicinal plant and sold it for thirty-five gold coins. But these gold coins were taken away by Zhang Fang before I could buy medicine for my father."
Xu Ming owes the debt to Zhang Fang.
"Zhang Fang?" Brother Mo couldn't help but bite his teeth when he heard the name, and said angrily, "This villain bullies good and is afraid of evil. Sooner or later he will be punished."
"Alas..." Xu Ming sighed, his eyes immediately glowed, and he said expectantly, "I hope this time, I can collect another mid-level medicinal plant... Haha, if I can collect two plants, then I can see
I have paid back the debt owed by Zhang."
"Well! Xu Ming, then you have to be careful. Recently I heard that there are some wild beasts that often appear in the mountains. Many people who go to the mountains to collect medicine are eaten by the wild beasts." Brother Mo warned with a serious face.
"Well, I'll be careful!" Xu Ming nodded with a determined expression, "Brother Mo, then I'm going up the mountain! I won't go down the mountain until I collect medicinal materials."
"Go ahead and don't worry about your father. I will go over and take care of your father these days." Brother Mo nodded.
The foot of Qilan Mountain!
"We're here!" Xu Ming stood at the foot of the mountain, stopped his thin figure, looked towards the mountain, and muttered, "Merciful God, please let me pick another mid-level medicinal plant! That way, I will have money to give to my father.
Buy medicine!"
After saying that, Xu Ming started climbing.
This Qilan Mountain is indeed very steep. It is very steep from the foot of the mountain. It does take a lot of strength to climb the mountain. No wonder many acquired cultivators are unwilling to come.
Innate cultivators generally rarely come to Qilan Mountain. On Qilan Mountain, there are very few intermediate medicinal materials, and almost all of them are primary medicinal materials. For innate practitioners, if they spend so much time looking for some primary medicinal materials, then
Not cost-effective!
It took Xu Ming three full hours to climb the first mountain, which seemed to be the shortest. And this first mountain had been searched by countless people, and it was impossible to find any medicinal materials.
If you want to collect medicinal materials, you must continue to climb the second mountain peak. On the second mountain peak, if you are lucky, you will find some primary medicinal materials.
When he reached the first mountain peak, Xu Ming wiped his sweat, took out a shriveled black sesame seed cake from his chest, and chewed it in big mouthfuls.
He had no idea that there was a person above him, who had been watching him patiently.
After eating sesame seed cakes, Xu Ming started climbing the second mountain without taking a rest. This second mountain was more dangerous than the first mountain.
It took a full five hours for Xu Ming to find a gentler place to rest in the middle of the second mountain peak. By this time, it was already early morning, and the sun was shining on the earth again.
Xu Ming, who was wearing thin clothes, didn't seem to feel the cold air in the mountains. He rested for a while, then stood up again and continued climbing upwards.
In the afternoon, Xu Ming finally climbed to the second mountain peak. Once here, he could see the endless mountain peaks. To find herbs, he had to climb from one peak to another.
If you are lucky, you can find some herbs growing in dangerous situations. Even primary herbs are not that easy to find.
Time, another day has passed!
Xu Ming, still found nothing.
"It would be great if there was another sesame seed cake..." Xu Ming sat under a tree trunk, looking at the mountain peaks in the distance, and said to himself. He touched his abdomen, and there was a gurgling sound from time to time.
's cry.
Xia Yan noticed that Xu Ming had not eaten any more dry food for more than ten hours. Xia Yan thought that Xu Ming might have finished eating all the dry food. Xu Ming only brought three sesame seed cakes when he went into the mountains, and three of them.
The sesame seed cakes were dark, hard and slightly moldy. Xia Yan couldn't help but shake his head.
"This Xu Ming is suffering much more than I was before..." Xia Yan couldn't help but feel sympathy. In fact, Xia Yan didn't have any hatred for the people of Dark Night Continent. Besides, Xia Yan's mother was Dark Night
People from the mainland. Speaking of it, Xia Yan himself can be considered half a person from the Dark Night Continent.
"Forget it, since you let me meet you and let me know your situation, I will help you!" Xia Yan said in his heart.
Afterwards, Xia Yan's figure quickly fell into the distant mountain peak. His consciousness spread, and the entire mountain peak was under Xia Yan's exploration.
"Primary medicinal materials... don't..."
"It's still a primary medicinal material..."
"It's primary medicinal materials again. Why are intermediate medicinal materials so rare on this mountain?" Xia Yan frowned slightly and continued to search for the next mountain peak.
After one stick of incense!
"Haha, I finally found an intermediate medicinal material, which should be sold for dozens of gold coins." Xia Yan made a casual move, and the intermediate medicinal material growing on a rock wall fell into Xia Yan's hands.
"I'm afraid one plant isn't enough, I'll look for it again!" After a thought, Xia Yan's figure then appeared on another mountain peak.
"Yes, this time it only took half a cup of tea to find another one. Hey, no, it turned out to be three intermediate medicinal plants growing together!"
Three blue medicinal plants arrived in Xia Yan's hand.