Starting from Scavengers to Cultivate Immortals

Chapter 1 Getting up early in the morning to pick up the excrement

Just after dawn, Xu Chen was awakened by chirping birds outside.

Yawning and walking out of the dilapidated hut, standing on the mountainside, looking around at the green mountains and the misty peaks and gullies in front of him, rubbed his face a few times, picked his eye feces, went to the nearby spring to wash his face and mouth, and picked up a broken pottery The bowl drank a few sips of cold water, and after a brief tidying up, he carried the basket on his back and gnawed on the dry food and walked towards the back mountain.

After walking along the narrow and rugged mountain road for half a stick of incense, the mountain road turned around and saw a waterfall hanging down from a height of tens of feet. The mountain wind blew, and the water mist splashed. , the breath is refreshing and refreshing.

There is a medicine field under the cliff, the area is not big, only two or three acres.

There are a lot of medicinal materials planted inside. Although the growth looks good, there are not many useful ones. Most of them are low-level medicinal materials such as immature Polygonatum scrophulariae. It looks pleasing to the eye, but compared with the surrounding pines and ancient vines climbing and entangled, and the lush natural environment, it seems sparse and a bit awkward.

A skinny old Taoist priest with gray hair, wearing a Taoist robe and a bun was patrolling the medicine field. When he heard footsteps and looked back, he saw Xu Chen coming in wiping his mouth.

The old Taoist nodded slightly.

Xu Chen hurriedly saluted: "Third Elder, why are you here?"

The old Taoist said: "The emperor of Song's [-]th birthday is coming soon, and the third prince was sent to visit a few days ago. According to the old practice, our Taiyuan Gate will give some pills. The old man came to the medicine field to see if there are any suitable and mature herbs. , so that you can refine a batch of pills."

Xu Chen couldn't help curling his lips and said, "Emperor Dog has a lot of face. We can't refine several furnaces of elixir in a year, so why bother to take advantage of them."

The old Taoist didn't take it seriously, shook his head and said: "Although there are differences between immortals and mortals, our Taiyuan Gate is within the territory of the Song Dynasty, and some ordinary things may be unavoidable. The family background, this face is to be given no matter what, but it’s just ordinary pills, we can’t take out the good ones, so why should you complain, I’ll wait for the immortal to ask, remember to be calm.”

Although Xu Chen was unhappy, he still respectfully accepted the teachings, and accompanied the old Taoist priest to wander around the medicine field. After searching for half an hour, he only found three or five medicinal herbs that were barely suitable.

The old Taoist looked at the sparse herbs with thin roots in the bamboo basket, and his expression was rather ugly.

Xu Chen had no choice but to bite the bullet and said, "Third Elder, this disciple is not lazy, he takes care of it carefully every day, and is going out today to find some manure."

The old Taoist nodded slightly and said: "The medicine garden is well managed, and I don't mean to blame the old man. It's just that the elders ordered that the pills to be given this time must be at least second-grade. These medicinal materials are not only old enough, but also poor in taste The main medicine, that's all, you can go on your own, the old man will also go out to see if he can find it.

After the old Taoist finished speaking, he swung his sleeves into the air and turned into a stream of light towards a sudden and strange peak in the distance.

Xu Chen smacked his lips enviously, then pulled out a half-foot-long gray sword from his waist, meditated on the formula and tapped his finger, the little sword suddenly shone brightly, and it grew to the size of three feet in the wind, floating two feet above the ground. At a height of one foot, Xu Chen sat on it as if he was riding a horse. Then, one person and one sword, he crookedly faced the rising sun and headed towards the vast green and cloud-shrouded mountains.

"Damn it!"

Walking on a sword is originally a trick of the immortal family, but for Xu Chen who is riding a sword and blowing the wind, it is full of sadness.

He was originally an orphan who lived by grazing cows and picking up dung for rich families, but he didn't want to be lucky when he was ten years old, and was discovered by the second elder of the Taiyuan Sect who was wandering around, that he actually had spiritual roots, and he was a seedling of cultivating immortals , So he took him back to Shanshou as a disciple.

Xu Chen once thought that his fate was so strange, but finally touched the heavens and gods and Buddhas, and from then on he could cultivate into a fairy and live freely in the world.

But I never thought that picking up dung in the mortal world would still be the life of picking up dung in the fairy gate.

And the spiritual root that he thought he was gifted with was just the most trashy variety in the world of cultivating immortals, and he could barely cultivate it.

The Second Elder took him back to the mountain gate to teach some introductory formulas, then left him on the mountain and went out for a wandering trip. He rarely came back once a year. Although Xu Chen worked hard and practiced hard every day, after several years, he had just entered At the beginning of Qi training, you can barely control the magic weapon to fly. As for spells, you can only know two or three of the most superficial and low-level types in the world of cultivating immortals.

With his current strength, he can deal with ordinary ferocious beasts, but if he encounters some more powerful spirit beasts and monsters, he can only turn himself into feces.

Fortunately, there is nothing scary near the Taiyuan Gate. The threatening monsters are basically killed or driven away by the elders and a few strong brothers and sisters.

In addition, although my cheap master is not very reliable, he is still good to him. After knowing that he has stepped into the Kaiyuan Realm, he is still very happy, and gave him a first-grade flying sword that I used before. It might not even be possible to get out of the mountain gate now.

Taiyuan Gate lives deep in the vast mountains, thousands of miles around it is barren and inhabited, and it is more than 300 miles away from the nearest city of Song Dynasty, and there is no road in the mountains. If you can't fly, you can only nest in the mountains for the rest of your life.

Ever since he got this flying sword, Xu Chen has really begun to appreciate the magical powers of immortals. Although it is not the kind of flamboyant flying and escaping, he has the ability to go out.

There are only a dozen or so people in the Taiyuan Sect, and their strength is not strong. Apart from the great elder who has reached the late stage of the Danyuan realm, there are two other elders in the late stage of the Zhenyuan realm.

The third elder who came just now is in the late stage of the True Yuan Realm and is good at alchemy, so they are usually stationed on the mountain.

Xu Chen's master is the Second Elder, who has reached the Great Consummation of the True Yuan Realm, and has been wandering abroad all year round looking for opportunities to break through. However, it has been five years since Xu Chen joined the Taiyuan Gate, and the master has not shown any signs of breakthrough. He returns to the mountain roughly every year. Once, stay for ten days and half a month and then leave again.

Haven't been back for over a year now.

Even Xu Chen occasionally maliciously guessed whether the master had died secretly.

But every time this kind of thought flashed by, Xu Chen would feel guilty again. He was an orphan since he was a child, and he didn't really feel some warmth and care until he met Master and took him to the mountain gate.

As the saying goes, a child with a mother is like a treasure, and it is more or less beneficial to have a master to take care of him in Taiyuanmen. At least those senior brothers and sisters are fine and dare not bully him.

Of course, because the master was unreliable, he was left on the mountain all year round and ignored. The other brothers and sisters naturally entrusted him with the most difficult, tiring and hopeless jobs, taking care of the medicine garden and working hard to pick up manure fields.

The Taiyuan Gate is small, broken, and poor. Not only is there a pitiful lack of skills, but also rare medicines and treasures. Xu Chen has never seen the second-grade pills. In fact, he has only eaten the real first-grade pills once. , that was bestowed by the sect according to the rules when he broke through the Kaiyuan Realm, and it was called Huayuan Pill.

Daily practice also requires the assistance of pills, the most common one is Xiaoyuan Dan, which is mainly used to assist in refining Qi and speeding up the movement of vitality. Many disciples were distributed according to their strength and contribution. Because Xu Chen didn't go out to practice, he had no chance to find some contributions from heaven and earth treasures. Therefore, he could barely get one bottle all year round, and the total would not exceed ten pills. Wanting to practice faster, and pills are indispensable, a group of poor and settled disciples can only find ways around by themselves. Except for the house robbery, they have done other capable people. It's just a group of savages with green eyes all day long, not much better than some casual cultivators.

But Xu Chen is still very pure, because he has no chance to do what he wants.

The biggest obstacle is that he can't do it [-]% of the time, so he can only stay at the mountain gate.

And the job of picking up dung made him humble and helpless.

Riding a first-grade flying sword dangling among the vast mountains for about two quarters, Xu Chen retracted his sword and landed on the top of a mountain a hundred miles away from the mountain gate, and began to meditate to recover.

Refining and transforming Qi is divided into three stages: Kaiyuan Lianqi, Zhenyuan Foundation Building and Danyuan Formation. From this, the world of cultivating immortals is also called Kaiyuan Realm, True Yuan Realm and Danyuan Realm. It is divided into three small stages: front, middle and back.

Xu Chen is currently between the early and middle stages of the Yuan Qi Realm. In fact, according to the vitality he has stored, he can barely support Feijian to fly continuously for half an hour. However, he has the anxiety syndrome of insufficient vitality. Will want to fill it up.

If his vitality drops to about one-third, he will start to feel anxious and nervous, always feeling that his life is in danger.

Of course, this kind of cautiousness and anxiety made him meditate all the time, and it did allow him to have enough energy to escape danger after encountering monsters and spirits several times.

Two quarters later, three consecutive small weeks passed, and Xu Chen felt full of energy again, so he stood up contentedly, looked around the vast mountains and plains, and thought about where he should go to make a fortune today.

It is said to be rich, but it is actually picking up waste.

But it is actually a bit flattering to say that he picks up waste. To be precise, he spends most of his time picking up dung.

Taiyuan Gate is said to have been very powerful and brilliant in the past. In its heyday, there were thousands of monks. The gates were spread across thousands of miles, and dozens of hills were covered with buildings, halls, temples, Taoist temples, and medicine gardens.

It's a pity that a catastrophe happened suddenly for some reason, and the entire sect collapsed within a few years. As a result, the vast mountains are full of relics that have been left behind for thousands of years. Taobao venue, but as time goes by, there are fewer and fewer treasures, and gradually no one comes.

In fact, the current Taiyuanmen has nothing to do with the former Taiyuanmen. It was a casual cultivator 300 years ago who found an authentic Taiyuanmen technique in the ruins and succeeded in practicing it. Established a sect here again, still using the name of Taiyuanmen.

Of course, all Taiyuanmen disciples are still accustomed to regard the ancient and glorious Taiyuanmen as part of their own history. After all, the martial arts of the mountain gate are all inherited in one continuous line, which can be regarded as an orthodox inheritance, and it is not considered to be a random relative.

The low-level disciples of Taiyuanmen spend most of their time in the ruins near the mountain gate by picking up waste and looking for things.

And Xu Chen is currently the youngest and lowest cultivation disciple of the Taiyuan Sect. In addition to digging through the tattered underwear of his ancestors on weekdays, he is also responsible for taking care of the medicine garden. His main function is to be a manure picker and manure field.

To nourish the medicine fields, ordinary wild animal dung is not acceptable, it must be the dung of monsters or spirit beasts.

Because only these advanced beasts know how to devour plants or ores rich in aura, and the aura that cannot be fully absorbed will remain in the feces.

Alchemy requires a lot of spiritual grasses and elixir, and it is difficult to collect wild ones. If you want to provide a stable supply of elixirs for a sect, you must plant them in large quantities.

Folk food and vegetables have to be fertilized to grow well, not to mention the spiritual herbs that rely on absorbing the aura of heaven and earth to have medicinal effects. If the aura is insufficient, the herbs will not grow into a weapon. effect.

It is said that large-scale fairy gates plant elixir directly with spirit stones as fertilizer.

But Xu Chen has been practicing immortality for five years, and he hasn't saved a single spirit stone, let alone a fertile field.

And the Taiyuan Sect also has a poor family. Only the three elders have some spirit stones, but they are reluctant to use them on weekdays. It is even more shy in the pocket, and it feels like a nouveau riche if you have one or two dollars.

After thinking for a moment, Xu Chen released the flying sword, rode on it and flew towards a canyon in the southwest.

Picking up manure must be done as early as possible. This is his experience in picking up manure for two years.

The best chance to snatch dung is to take advantage of the time when the spirit beasts leave the lair for food early in the morning. Otherwise, once these spirit beasts find out that a different kind has broken into the territory, if they fail to escape in time, they will most likely be ravaged miserably.

Of course, most of the time it depends on luck to pick up dung. After all, this thing is not what you want. He is not the only one who snatches dung in the mountains. Interested, besides, the dung beetle has done this job more than him, it is an ancestral skill, and I can't learn it even if I want to.

Therefore, pick up dung in the morning rather than in the evening, and go out late, and you can't even grab a lump of hot cakes.

(End of this chapter)