Chapter 6

Sunset Valley

In the blink of an eye, another seven days passed.

Yan Qingyan has planted the purchased seeds of Bone-penetrating Grass and Wei Ling Flower in the seven acres of land, and also planted some spiritual fruits and vegetables in her own vegetable garden. In the spiritual fields of the space, there are more precious spiritual plants such as blood ginseng and magnolia fruit.

It is actually very simple for cultivators to take care of spiritual fields. They can use rain-making techniques, wood spirit techniques, soil loosening techniques... and it can be done easily by just making a few hand gestures.

But now, Yan Qingyan can only use the most primitive method like the villagers of Yujiang Village.

This made Yan Qingyan hate Yin Siwen even more.

I silently drew a circle in my heart and cursed him.

The spiritual plants in the soil irrigated by the spiritual spring water grew rapidly, especially the blood ginseng in the space, which had been stimulated by the wood-type supernatural power to be over fifty years old.

Yan Qingyan decided that when this batch of blood ginsengs were over a hundred years old, she would exchange a few of them for spirit stones.

But this origin...I have to think about how to explain it.

Yan Qingyan remembered that Yan Le'er once told her a story. There was once a servant of a large family who accidentally got a storage bag, which contained a large number of spiritual plants and magic tools. This person quietly took out an unused magic tool as pawn, and made the excuse that he picked it up on the road, but he could not tell how and where he picked it up.

This incident aroused suspicion from the listeners and was then heard by the slave's master. In the end, the slave was tortured and forced to hand over the storage bag.

Yan Qingyan decided to take this as a warning. There was a valley in the back mountain of Yujiang Village, named Luoxia Valley. Yan Qingyan decided to artificially create the origin of her blood ginseng.

Also, don’t sell too much.

Yan Le'er had told her a story before. There was once a casual cultivator at the fifth level of Qi Refining who discovered a patch of seven-rainbow flowers in the mountains. He sold hundreds of them and earned a lot of spirit stones. Not long after, he was found dead in the mountains, and his body was robbed of all his possessions.

Wealth without power is like a child holding gold bricks. She would not make such a low-level mistake.

Just two plants for sale, don’t be greedy!

Once you make up your mind, do it. Yan Qingyan put on the backpack and took the hoe and walked towards the back mountain.

"Mo Chen, I'm going to the back mountain!" Yan Qingyan greeted the man in red shirt who was busy in the vegetable garden.

With the help of the spiritual spring water, Ling Mochen's injuries have greatly improved, and he no longer looks as sick as he did when they first met.

After Ling Mochen recovered from his injury, Yan Qingyan saw that he was still planning to eat the tasteless fasting pills, so she suddenly had the idea of ​​letting him learn cooking from the aunt next door.

Unexpectedly, a rough man who grew up eating fasting pills, after trying a few delicacies from the world, seemed to have opened the door to a new world, just like Columbus discovered the New World.

Yan Qingyan once accidentally saw Ling Mochen hiding in the corner of the kitchen, holding a spatula in one hand and the bottle of fasting pills in the other, and complained with a somewhat resentful look, "How could you have brought me to this point?" ! '

Yan Qingyan left quietly, considerately saving the other party from a dark history of social failure.

"Back mountain? I heard there are wild beasts in the deep mountains. It's not safe there." Ling Mochen frowned slightly when he heard the word 'back mountain'.

"Don't worry, I'm very capable." Yan Qingyan held her head high with supreme confidence.

There are plants everywhere in the deep mountains, and her wood-related abilities can help her sense the large wild beasts around her and avoid danger in advance.

I'm not afraid even if I meet her face to face, because her supernatural power is at level four, and her strength is probably equivalent to the initial stage of foundation building... I think.

"Be careful."

"good!"

Yan Qingyan waved and left. Along the way, she met many villagers who came over to greet her.

"Qingyan, what are you doing?"

"Let's go for a walk in the back mountain." Yan Qingyan responded with a smile.

"It's the back mountain. Just walk around the outside, but don't go too deep. I heard there are black bears in there!"

"Yes, there are only a few old hunters in our village who dare to go deep into the mountains. The one in my family only dares to hunt rabbits in the outskirts."

"Be careful!"

"Don't worry~"

When Yan Qingyan walked away, several villagers stopped to chat.

"You see, people from big families are different. They dare to go up the mountain alone after only being here for a few days."

"Her spiritual plants are growing so well. At this rate, they will be ready for harvest in about ten days!"

"Big families have many tricks. The Yan family manager who came before was even more powerful. He made it rain with just a few flicks of his fingers!"

"I still think the couple who came this time are the best. The previous manager of the Yan family was arrogant and didn't even tell us his name."

"......"

Yan Qingyan entered the back mountain and headed straight towards Luoxia Valley.

Along the way, they avoided the hunters in the village, as well as wild beasts and insects of all sizes, and continued to move forward.

The spiritual energy in Yujiang Village is thin, and there are rarely any high-grade spiritual beasts in the mountains. Most of them are just wild beasts with intelligence, and their bodies are slightly larger than ordinary animals.

Yan Qingyan wrapped her whole body with wood-related abilities. In the eyes of the wild beasts, she was just a moving tree and would not actively attack.

"The novel says that if the heroine goes into the mountains, she will have great gains." Yan Qingyan began to talk to herself as she walked, secretly expecting to encounter some minor setbacks.

Sudden!

Yan Qingyan stopped and looked vigilantly at a patch of grass in front of her. A green seed quietly appeared in her hand.

A snow-white rabbit suddenly jumped out, leaped a few times, and then crashed headfirst into the big tree in front and died.

Yan Qingyan:......

How did God know that her favorite food is rabbit meat, it's so delicious.

However, if all your luck is spent on this, it would be better to save it.

Yan Qingyan urged the seeds to grow, and a green vine quickly grew, rolling the unfortunate rabbit into the backpack.

Since she cannot practice before her Dantian is repaired, she should practice her wood-related abilities.

Yan Qingyan continued to move forward.

In less than an hour, Yan Qingyan saw several ordinary ginseng plants.

Yan Qingyan dug out one of the ginsengs and put it into the backpack, then put a ten-year-old blood ginseng in the space into the empty hole, and then dug two similar holes not far away, creating the scene of "a treasure has been discovered and taken away."

In order to prevent people from discovering clues in the soil, Yan Qingyan also specially used a small amount of spiritual spring water to nourish the land, and used the wood-related ability to blend the scents of several ginseng plants, making them look like brothers who were "born from the same root."

"Perfect!"

Yan Qingyan was very satisfied with her "masterpiece", but still hoped that no one would come here, so as not to arouse other people's suspicion.

Having achieved her goal, Yan Qingyan dug up some more "local specialties" and put them in her backpack as a cover.

Luoxia Valley has beautiful scenery and fresh air. There are many small white flowers growing here, giving off an intoxicating fragrance. There are also many magical herbs that cannot be named. Yan Qingyan dug one of each kind so that she could identify them slowly in the future.

Only after she had finished touring the area around Luoxia Valley did Yan Qingyan pack up her backpack and prepare to go down the mountain.

Throughout the journey, apart from the unlucky rabbit, there were no major setbacks.

Yan Qingyan chuckled inwardly, she was actually still secretly expecting some "chance to be the protagonist". Now that she had lived her life again, it was time to let go of some unrealistic obsession with being the "protagonist".

She quickened her pace and returned very quickly.

......

"Qingyan is back."

"Oh, I even caught a rabbit!"

Yujiang Village is not large, with only a few hundred people in the whole village. News spreads quickly, and soon after Yan Qingyan entered the back mountain, the news spread quickly.

At this time, the villagers at the foot of the mountain saw Yan Qingyan coming back and greeted her one after another.

Ling Mochen was also waiting at the foot of the mountain. Seeing that Yan Qingyan looked in good spirits except for her muddy clothes, he finally felt relieved.

Although Yan Qingyan did a lot of things on the mountain, in fact only more than two hours passed, and most of the time was spent on finding a suitable location for the origin of the Blood Spirit Ginseng.

The two went home together, and Yan Qingyan couldn't wait to sort out today's harvest.

"Dangdangdangdang~ Look! What treasures have I dug up today!" Yan Qingyan opened the lid of the backpack and poured out all the plants that she didn't recognize.

Yan Qingyan picked up a small red flower and asked with a smile, "What a great harvest! Mo Chen, you are an alchemist, let me know what this is?"

The "Complete Illustrated Guide to Spiritual Plants" is sold in the world of immortal cultivation, but that book requires a low-grade spirit stone. She has no spirit stone now, so she can only ask the top scholar to appraise it first.

Ling Mochen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "I'm not an alchemist yet. I'm just an apprentice at best."

"It will be in the future." Yan Qingyan said with certainty.

The main reason why alchemists are rare is that the initial consumption of materials is too high, but she has the spiritual spring space plug-in, so she will never lack spiritual plants no matter what.

Nowadays, alchemists are either accepted and supported by large sects, or are children of large families. Independent practitioners are extremely rare.

Sometimes, when you ask an alchemist to take action, not only does the cost of the appearance fee exceed the materials of the spiritual plants, but the success rate is also not high.

She strongly supports Ling Mochen's research on alchemy. It is a very lucky thing to have a passionate interest and talent. People should cherish their own shining points.

She actually wanted to learn alchemy, but unfortunately she had no fire spiritual roots, nor did she inherit the alchemy skills. Yan Qingyan thought that the four basic skills in the world of immortal cultivation were alchemy, tools, formations, and talismans, and she also wanted to learn the same. Alchemy and tool refining were not suitable, so what about formations and talismans?

Yan Qingyan nodded secretly and decided to learn it when she had the chance.

"Haha, I wish you good luck." Ling Mochen chuckled.

He didn't know why Qingyan was so sure that he could become an alchemist, but when she said it in such an affirmative tone, he actually felt that he could too.

The two of them had only known each other for a short time, but now they seemed like good friends who could talk about anything, which made him feel like they had met too late.

Yan Qingyan: "Spiritual plants are not a problem. I have ways to find the materials. You just need to study the alchemy technique. Our future foundation-building pills depend on you!"

Except for spiritual roots of heavenly and earthly grades, cultivators of other grades and qualifications need the help of at least one foundation-building pill if they want to successfully build a foundation. Otherwise, there is a high probability of failure in building a foundation, resulting in minor injuries and backlash, and serious death.

The current state of the alchemy industry has resulted in a situation where essential elixirs for immortal cultivators, such as the Foundation Establishment Pill, are in short supply. Every Foundation Establishment Pill that appears at an auction will cause a bloodbath.

Yan Qingyan really didn't like this situation.

Her water spiritual root is of intermediate yellow grade, so she will definitely need to take Foundation Building Pills in the future, or even more than one. Therefore, Ling Mochen must learn alchemy early, as Foundation Building Pills are third-grade pills.

Yan Le'er had talked to her before. She knew that her Yan family had an uncle who had cultivated to the tenth level of Qi Refining at the age of forty. However, he never got a Foundation Establishment Pill until his death. It can be seen how rare this thing is.

"good."

Ling Mochen found it a little funny after hearing this. Their Dantian hadn't recovered yet, but Qingyan had already started thinking about the issue of building a foundation in the future.

But seeing Qingyan was in such high spirits, Ling Mochen didn't want to say anything discouraging.

The Foundation Establishment Stage is the threshold for cultivators to truly embark on the path to immortality, and the lifespan can reach three hundred years. Even his Ling family now has only seven Foundation Establishment Stage powerhouses.

The main reason is that the Foundation Establishment Pill is too rare. Many people are stuck at the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Stage, and do not have enough financial resources and opportunities to obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill. They have no choice but to use the remaining lifespan to travel far away to gain experience and look for opportunities on their own.

Unfortunately, the inheritance his mother left him not only contained the recipe for the Foundation Establishment Pill, but also methods to increase the success rate of alchemy, and even allowed him to refine higher-grade pills when his cultivation was insufficient!

Ling Mochen knew that if this matter were to be spread, it would attract a large number of alchemists to scramble for it.

This is the biggest secret in his heart.