Starting from Scavengers to Cultivate Immortals

Chapter 52

Xu Chen took a careful inventory of all the plants growing in the entire medicine garden, and found that there were a total of more than [-] plants of eight species, all of which were unknown, of which two were like saplings, and the others were like herbs or vines.

In order to find out what these things are when they grow up, Xu Chen spent half an hour cleaning up all the dry herbs in the medicine field, exposing enough room for the new plants to grow.

In the end, there was only a dead Resurrection Tree and some sparse vines and weeds with strange colors left in the whole medicine garden.

After finishing, Xu Chen jumped into the pool under the waterfall and scrubbed his body carefully, while the little fox ran around in the medicine garden, not even wanting his favorite soul orbs on weekdays, just sniffing around these strange plants Go, full of novelty.

"Xiaobai, let's go!"

Xu Chen put on his clothes and said hello, Xiaobai reluctantly ran out from the medicine garden, squatted in front of Xu Chen expectantly and waited to put it into his chest, but Xu Chen flicked its head with his finger and said: "We're all going home, let's go by ourselves, we'll be there not far below!"

"Ugh..."

The little fox let out a bit of reluctance, then raised its tail high, and followed Xu Chen down the mountain with bouncing bouncing.

Xu Chen has walked this trail countless times in the past five years, almost never taking a wrong step with his eyes closed.

It has only been a month since I left, and the road has already begun to be covered with vines.

Surrounded by verdant mountains and plains, chirping birds, and a large number of small animals such as squirrels, foxes, tortoises, rabbits, etc. are climbing and wandering among the trees. It seems like a lifetime away.

The little fox is interested in everything. While running, he chases wild birds, snakes and insects among the stones and trees, and occasionally brings a worm to show off his power.

Xu Chen's heart is as calm as water, and he no longer has any irritability and depression in his heart.

He felt like he was a part of this mountain. As long as he walked in this quiet, lonely and vibrant mountain, he would feel a special tranquility and peace in his soul, and he no longer wanted to think about everything in the mundane world.

It was only an hour before and after returning to the mountain.

He felt that those things that happened down the mountain seemed to be far away from him.

Even in that life-and-death fight, it seemed that he didn't feel much anymore. Apart from his clear memory, he no longer had any panic or fear.

The dilapidated log cabin is still so lonely and hidden among the green bamboos and trees.

In the open space in front of the house, the medicine hoe, back basket, and dung shovel that were left indiscriminately before leaving were still in place. On the stone where the little fox was dried, there was still a crumpled animal skin, and a broken pottery bowl was thrown beside it.

Everything remains the same, as if time is frozen here.

If I don't come back, it may be the same for ten or a hundred years, until it is submerged by weeds and vines, and finally returns to nature.

"Okay, we're going home!"

Xu Chen sat down on the rock.

The little fox groaned and jumped onto his lap, tucked up his tail and sat on his knees, looking around with his little head, full of curiosity about the environment, seemed to know it, but didn't seem to know it.

After all, it only stayed here for three days.

But there is a vaguely familiar smell and smell here.

Xu Chen gently stroked the little fox's fur a few times, then put it on the ground and said:

"This will be the home of the two of us from now on. Go and play, don't run too far. I'll clean up the house and get some food later."

The little fox seemed to understand, raised his tail and quickly got into the nearby bamboo forest.

Xu Chen also stood up, packed up the dung shovels, back baskets, and medicine hoes on the ground, and put them under the eaves of the cabin, and then opened the door, only to hear a few fluttering sounds, and a few wild birds flew from the half-opened window go out.

Xu Chen's face twitched suddenly.

Obviously, I left in a hurry and forgot to close the window.

Not to mention the mess in the room, the wind and rain came in through the window, which even wet the bedding on the bed, and the room was filled with a musty smell.

But what made him most speechless was that the lid of the clay pot where the rice was placed was lifted by something, and half of the pot of millet in it was gone. There seemed to be some spilled on the ground, and there was also a lot of bird droppings.

As for the crude stove, there are footprints of all kinds of snakes, rats, insects, ants and even monkeys everywhere. Even on the beam of the house, there is a snake slough that is as thick as an arm, spanning the entire roof.

This day is over!
Although Xu Chen is not lazy, and the cabin is tidy on weekdays, this cabin is indeed dilapidated. After being plagued by birds and beasts for a month, it seems that there is no way to live in it properly.

But after a long while, Xu Chen still took off his Taoist robe, rolled up his sleeves and began to tidy up.

There was a rush, and amidst the dust, he threw a large number of tattered pots, pans, bedding and clothes to the open space outside, and then cleaned the inside and outside of the hut with a broom.

Xu Chen was busy tinkling in and out of the room, and the little fox ran in at some point, jumping around the room, occasionally helping to pick up some fruit stone garbage on the ground with his mouth and throwing it outside the door, one pet per person Forget about me, full of energy.

While Xu Chen was busy tidying up his cabin, a ray of light came rapidly from Chaoyang Peak, and landed in front of the cabin in a blink of an eye.

Two women jumped down from the flying sword, one was the seventh senior sister Qu Mei, and the other was the thirteenth senior sister Zhao Xuan.

Seeing the tattered things piled up all over the floor and the sound of cleaning in the room, the two senior sisters glanced at each other, and then walked into the hut together, almost being overwhelmed by the musty smell and dust inside.

"Why are the two senior sisters here?" Xu Chen hurried out to say hello, his head full of dust.

Seventh Senior Sister frowned and said: "You are still a cultivator, do you still need to clean like this? A breeze spell will solve it!"

Xu Chen rubbed his hands with a dry smile and said, "I'm just used to tidying up like this. The room has been plagued by monkeys and birds. I'm afraid it won't be clean if I'm not careful."

Seventh Senior Sister said helplessly: "Whatever you want, I know you must be out of rice, so I specially send you some rice noodles."

As she said that, Seventh Senior Sister lightly grabbed the air twice, and put down a bag of rice and a bag of flour one after another.

Xu Chen was surprised: "When did Seventh Senior Sister have a storage bag?"

Seventh Senior Sister blushed immediately, and Zhao Xuan said beside her, "I'll lend the storage bag to Seventh Senior Sister for a while, anyway, I won't need it for my recent cultivation."

Only then did Xu Chen understand. Thinking of what Brother Ninth said just now, his heart ached slightly, but he still smiled and said: "Senior Sister Seven has a lot of ability to eat big families, and even the reserve of Senior Sister Thirteen is much stronger. You can borrow the bag, admire it.”

Seventh Senior Sister raised her eyebrows and said angrily: "What do you mean by eating a big family, I just borrowed it for a few days, and when the Junior Sister has recovered, she will naturally return it to her."

Turning her head, Zhao Xuan saw the little fox dragging it out with a wooden stick in its mouth. She said with surprise on her face, "Xiaobai is quite capable, and even helps with housework."

Xu Chen immediately proudly said, "That's right, Xiaobai is a spirit beast with ancient blood, and he might grow into a fairy beast in the future."

"Hey, bragging is not afraid of blowing up, and your quilt can't be used anymore. I'll get you some quilts when I go back!"

Seventh Senior Sister curled her lips, released the flying sword and flew away.

Zhao Xuan looked around the wooden house and said softly: "Little brother, this house is too dilapidated, why don't you go back to Chaoyang Peak to live there."

Xu Chen shook his head and said, "Forget it, I'm used to living here, I'm quite comfortable alone."

Zhao Xuan seemed to be a little disappointed, nodded and said: "Yes, I am also used to living alone. The brothers and sisters are all back this time, and the noisy ones are not used to it."

Xu Chen smiled and said, "Just get used to it. Sometimes there are many people and it's lively. By the way, Senior Sister, I'll take you to the medicine garden. You will definitely be interested."

Zhao Xuan was surprised and said, "The herbs in the medicine garden are all dead, what else is there to see!"

Xu Chen pretended to be mysterious and said: "You will know after you go and see, let's go, I will take you there!"

Speaking of which, Xu Chen released the flying sword, jumped on the flying sword with Zhao Xuan in his arms, and then turned into a stream of light, bypassed half of the mountain peaks, and arrived at the medicine garden in an instant.

"Senior sister, stand still!"

Holding Zhao Xuan Yujian, Xu Chen is already familiar with the way. Ever since Zhao Xuan was seriously injured in a fierce battle that night, Xu Chen took her to fly all the way back to the mountain. In fact, the damage to the meridians is relatively serious, and it is impossible to lead people at all.

Hiding all the way to Tibet was like being a thief. Naturally, the three of them had no other ideas, but today, Zhao Xuan felt a little weak in her body. Xu Chen's strong arms were around her waist, and one hand was tight. Pressing her under her ribs, this feeling made her suddenly lose her mind.

However, Xu Chen only thought that Zhao Xuan was seriously injured and weak, so she couldn't help but remind her, and then she drew her sword and fell to the ground, but then Zhao Xuan staggered, and Xu Chen could only quickly support her again.

Zhao Xuan was in a trance for a while, and quickly collected her mind and stood still. She felt her heart beating faster and her face was hot, so she could only turn her head and look around pretending to look at the medicine garden and said: "The medicine materials in this medicine garden are all dead, and there is nothing. What are you bringing me to see?" ?”

Xu Chen pointed to the sparse and low weeds of different colors around the Resurrection Tree and said, "Sister, what happened to you today? I'm restless. Look at these things that grow."

It was only then that Zhao Xuan discovered that in the bare medicine field cleaned up by Xu Chen, some strange plants really grew. Most of them were short and the tallest was no more than half a foot. The stripes are distorted, very weird.

"Hey, it's really a strange weed!"

Xuan became interested in an instant, and squatted down to look at a plant, which happened to be the weed that looked like a three-headed snake that Xu Chen discovered for the first time.

There are more than 30 strange plants in the entire medicine garden, but this one is the strangest among them. Although the others are also strange in color, they at least look like plants, and this one looks like a monster.

Seeing this grass, Xu Chen could instantly think of the bloodthirsty demon vine he snatched from the black-clothed Taoist priest of Ziyangzong.

There may be similarities between these two things, they are both monster-like and weird.

(End of this chapter)