Starting from Scavengers to Cultivate Immortals

Chapter 5 The Crow's Mouth Appears

In the next few days, apart from practicing, Xu Chen also went out to pick up dung every morning, but he was not far away, only within a hundred miles of the mountain gate.

Of course, the harvest is definitely not much, either one pile or two piles, or three or four piles, after all, it is all based on luck and the experience gained from collecting manure over the years. Although I don’t empty every day, I can only use poor describe.

In addition, if you are lucky, you can occasionally find a few low-level herbs, but the value is not high, and it is slightly better than nothing. At most, it can be used to refine some fandans, which can be used for transactions between the Shimen and the royal family of the Song Dynasty, or exchanged for some mountain gates for daily eating and drinking. food, clothing, etc.

In fact, the herbal medicines near the mountain gate have already been continuously searched by the disciples of Taiyuanmen, and almost all of them are almost extinct.

In addition to picking up dung, Xu Chen would go to the medicine garden to observe two or three times a day, but he found that since the first day the Resurrection Tree sprouted buds, there had been no change. The buds also seem to be showing signs of wilting.

I'm really a crow's mouth.

Xu Chen felt that his guess had become reality so quickly.

Logically, this should never happen.

You must know that the Great Elder planted three spiritual stones on the Resurrection Tree as fertilizer at one time. Right now, the medicinal materials in the entire medicine garden are growing crazily due to the influence of this abundant spiritual energy. Long leaves bloom.

That is to say, the branches and blossoms of the Resurrecting Wood are not due to the influence of aura, but because of other reasons.

Xu Chen thought about it over and over again, and finally felt that it might have something to do with the pile of fresh spirit fox feces that was buried last.

And it is very simple to prove this, that is to go to the Linghu Cave to pick up a pile of fresh feces and try it out.

but……

Thinking of the terrifying situation of a group of foxes roaring restlessly after leaving that day, Xu Chen felt a little cramped in his calves and decided that he still couldn't take the risk.

He wanted to tell the third elder about this, but when he went to Chaoyang Peak once, he found that the third elder was refining the second-grade elixir to be given to the emperor of the Song Dynasty. Now it was a critical moment, so he didn't dare to disturb him, so he had to come back .

After observing for another three days, he found that two flower buds had shown obvious signs of withering, and even the leaves on several new branches were faintly showing signs of yellowing.

Now Xu Chen was a little anxious.

Although it's none of his business whether the resurrection tree dies or not, the elixir and talisman bestowed by the Great Elder are still on him. Sudden is light, and it is possible to drive down the mountain if you lose your cultivation base, and the consequences will be terrible.

After much deliberation, Xu Chen finally gritted his teeth and decided to go to the spirit fox's lair again.

After all, seven or eight days have passed, and I only stole a few piles of poop, and a group of foxes will not hold grudges. Besides, after so many years of neighbors, it is not once or twice that the Taiyuanmen disciples go to the fox's lair to steal feces. Seeing being cared about and attacked by a group of foxes.

So the next morning, Xu Chentian got up at dawn, washed up briefly, ate some dry food and bread, and then rode a first-grade flying sword to the spirit fox's lair.

The goal this time is very clear, which is to steal a pile of fresh feces, and leave if you don't turn around.

Of course, safety comes first. Xu Chen stopped ten miles away from the valley of Linghu Cave to recharge his vitality, then flew in stealthily at a low altitude close to the mountains and forests, and landed half a mile away from the cave, and then slowed down as before. Touch it slowly.

This time it was still very smooth, and the smoothness made Xu Chen feel a little dizzy.

Because the valley is too quiet, there is no sound at all, not even a single bird can be seen.

"What it is?"

Ten or so feet away from the cave, Xu Chen saw something lying on the ground in front of the Linghu cave through the sparse branches. He continued to take a closer look and found that it seemed to be several large and small foxes.

It seems that today is not an auspicious day, Xu Chen turned around and tiptoed to retreat, but accidentally stepped on a dead branch, and there was a crisp cracking sound, which was very clear in the quiet valley.

"Oops!"

Xu Chen threw out the flying sword without hesitation, stepped on it and fled in a hurry.

But when he flew more than ten miles in one breath, he found that there was still silence behind him, and there was no fox roaring or catching up.

He waited for another moment on the ridge wiping off his sweat, only to find that the group of foxes remained motionless.

Now he was a little confused, and at the same time, he began to quickly recall the scene he saw just now.

At this time, the eastern sun has just risen, and it should be the best time for all animals to go out and look for food.

Judging from his more than three years of experience in picking up dung, it is impossible for all the foxes to lie outside the hole in the early morning to bask in the sun, after all, the time is wrong.

So he decided to go back and take a closer look.

Soon, Xu Chen rode the flying sword back to the place just now. Across the sparse branches, the situation in front of the cave remained the same, with several foxes lying motionless on the ground.

Sure enough, something was wrong.

Xu Chen hesitated for a moment, boldly picked up a stone and threw it far away at the entrance of the cave, but the group of foxes didn't move at all.

Now even a fool would know something was wrong.

"Could it be that the whole litter of foxes is dead?"

Xu Chen murmured to himself, then tiptoed through the woods and approached the cave until about ten feet away he reached the range covered by the divine sense, then let go of the divine sense and swept lightly, and then let out a long breath. The six little foxes were all dead, without a trace of breath.

But he didn't feel the joy of getting rich, instead he felt more nervous and dignified.

This brood of foxes is quite powerful, their territory is within hundreds of miles, and among them there is an old fox who is about to reach the second level. It is afraid that only a more powerful monster can be wiped out in one fell swoop.

Tier [-] or Tier [-]?
Xu Chen couldn't help shivering.

He hesitated for a long time, and finally his curiosity overcame his reason. He reached out and took out two talismans, holding them in his hands, and walked slowly to the entrance of the cave.

One of these two talismans is an amulet, which can release a body-protecting aura, which can resist at least a full-strength blow from a monk in the late stage of the True Origin Realm. It is placed at the Taiyuan Gate, and except for the three elders, almost no one can break it.

The other jade talisman stored a spell, and it was a group attack spell. When activated, five wind blades were released, and the attack power also reached the full strength of a monk in the late stage of the true element state.

This defense and attack can at least ensure that he can retreat completely under the attack of the second-order monsters and spirit beasts. As for how far he can run, it depends on how far his vitality can support the flight.

Of course, if there are monsters or spirit beasts above the third rank, they will have to wait for death. Unless the Great Elder comes in person, they can only become poop.

Most of the six foxes were underage, and they all seemed to have been dead for several days. A few small ones had already begun to rot, and there was a yellow-brown liquid running everywhere on the ground, as if it was the trace left after diarrhea. The air was filled with A foul smell, disgusting.

Xu Chen pawed lightly with his feet a few times, then pinched his nose to look around, and finally entered the cave cautiously and boldly.

But as soon as I walked in, I saw a fox lying on the ground. It was not small and should be an adult. Of course, it had been dead for several days.

The stench in the cave is even stronger.

In the vagueness, it seems that there is a fox lying on the ground deeper.

Xu Chen felt his heart beating wildly. He held his breath and continued walking in. Sure enough, after walking three feet, he saw a dead fox. He continued to walk to the last fork in the road. In the forked hole where he picked up manure last time, there were quite a few fallen ones. He went in and counted them carefully, and there were five in total.

In other words, within a short distance of more than ten feet from the outside of the cave to here, thirteen foxes had already died, and more than half of them were adults.

And the total number of foxes in this litter is more than ten.

That is to say, this litter of foxes is basically dead, and there are at most three or four foxes left.

Although he didn't see the old fox who was about to reach the second level, Xu Chen's nervous heart relaxed a lot, and at the same time, he became more uncontrollably excited.

Now he's really going to blow it up.

Ordinary underage foxes have little value after death, but these adult spirit foxes are worth a fortune after death, and each head is worth a piece of spirit stone. Of course, if it is caught alive, you can buy several times as many spirit stones .

Through this observation, he found that these foxes were not killed by other monsters, but seemed to be poisoned.

Because this way into the cave, there are traces of diarrhea everywhere along the way.

What a powerful poison!
Xu Chen couldn't help but his heart beat faster again.

Any animal can distinguish food, and most of a group of spirit foxes have some intelligence and will never eat indiscriminately. It is understandable to say that one or two were poisoned to death, but the whole litter was poisoned to death , it is beyond the scope of understanding.

Could it be that it was attacked by other poisonous insect snakes?

Xu Chen backed out of the cave on the left in surprise, stood at the fork on the right leading to the depths of the cave after thinking for a while, and then boldly walked in slowly.

If you don't enter the tiger's lair, you won't catch tiger cubs. This group of foxes died strangely. He had an urge to find out why, and he vaguely felt that the sudden flowering of the Resurrection Tree should be related to the poisoning of these foxes.

After all, the fresh feces he picked up last time seemed to be a sign of diarrhea for the fox.

Xu Chen walked in with one foot high and one foot low, taking advantage of the dim light. After walking more than ten feet this time, he found another three-foot-sized fox dead on the road.

No.14 only.

Xu Chen became more courageous, and walked straight along the largest alleyway. After a quarter of an hour, his eyes suddenly lit up, and a spacious cave with a radius of several tens of feet appeared. There was a fissure through which bright light shone, and there were ferns and vines around it, and there was a trickling spring.

There are also some moss and green weeds on the ground of the cave, and there are large and small gravels everywhere, but the whole cave looks relatively clean, and the air is still fresh, without any disgusting smell.

On the drier side of the cave, there are some nests made of withered grass and branches, which seem to be the place where a nest of foxes sleeps.

A gray-white fox with messy fur was curled up in the grass nest, motionless.

(End of this chapter)