With the energy in their hearts, the few of them hurried to the valley under the morning light.

When they stepped into the valley, they were stunned by the sight, and for a moment they forgot to breathe. The valley was filled with mist, like a dream, as if a layer of gauze gently covered the earth.

Wenwen and Yuxunting, who often went in and out of the valley, were stunned by the scene before them, not to mention He Hongchi, who was there for the first time. He didn't dare to breathe hard for fear of distracting himself from the beautiful scenery.

The morning light filtered through the gaps in the leaves, forming golden beams that illuminated the mist. The mountains in the distance appeared faintly in the mist, like celestial mountains in a fairyland.

The beauty of nature is so shocking, and the energy in their hearts is best released at this moment.

In this beautiful valley, they found inner peace and strength, and strengthened their beliefs and pursuits.

Yu Xunting's gentle gaze fell on Wenwen. "I thought the scene I saw before was shocking enough, but I never thought the rising sun would be even more touching."

Wenwen looked at the sun shining at dawn on the mountain peak without blinking, "I regret not learning to paint well. Otherwise, it would be great to paint this moment!"

He Hongchi stroked his beard and said, "I'll paint all of this when I get back. The title of the painting will be borrowed from the old man's poem: The Countryside Is So Beautiful."

Wenwen looked at him in admiration, "Master, I didn't expect you to be good at painting. I've never seen you paint before. It turns out you have hidden talents."

"I haven't picked up a pen for many years. I wonder if I can paint anymore." He Hongchi sighed inwardly, thinking back to when he was not only an expert in medicine and proficient in the four arts of a gentleman, but he was also a wealthy and talented man of that era.

Wenwen supported He Hongchi as he walked towards the switch on the cliff. "What I have learned is like engraved in my bones. Master, when we go back, please teach me Danqing so that you can review it."

She has a foundation in painting, but she is not good at Chinese painting and mainly focuses on sketching.

"I see that your calligraphy skills are pretty good. Why didn't you learn some Chinese painting?"

"When I was little, I loved to play and couldn't sit still. I only learned this hairpin-shaped calligraphy later."

He Hongchi looked at Wenwen. Given her mature and steady work style now, he didn't expect that she was a naughty girl when she was young.

When they passed the spring, Wenwen put down her backpack, filled a kettle with spring water, and handed it to He Hongchi, "Master, this is the spring water we usually use to make special medicines."

He Hongchi saw small animals appearing at the spring from time to time to drink water. The flowing spring water formed a winding stream, and the plants beside it grew very lush.

"There's actually such a large pool of hot spring water here. No wonder the plants in it keep growing all year round. Once I come here, I don't want to leave. I really want to retire here and never go back."

Wenwen said with a smile: "Master, if you are not a monk, how can you stay here without us?"

He Hongchi pretended to glare at him and her, "I'm much happier without you, the Zhou Ba Pi who exploits me. Hurry up and take me to that purple ginseng plant so that I can open my eyes."

Yu Xunting took the backpack from the master and apprentice and carried it in his hands. "Dr. He, the mechanism is over there on the cliff. We'll be there soon."

They reached the cliff face, and Wenwen pointed to a narrow crevice. "Master, do you see that? That purple ginseng is there. It's so narrow, only Cancan can get in. I saw Cancan pull up an entire ginseng plant yesterday, and then he planted it back. Master, can ginseng that's been pulled out still survive?"

He Hongchi looked towards the gap and saw a large ginseng inside. It was larger than the ginseng that Wenwen had picked before, which was hundreds of years old. The fruit on top was bright red and looked like a small red flower from a distance.

Half of the ginseng was exposed outside the soil, and the ginseng was glowing with a faint purple light. He had seen countless herbs and quite a few ginsengs in his life, but he had never seen ginseng glowing with purple light.

"When it comes to Taoism and Xuanmen, we can't look at it from a scientific perspective. We are not familiar with that field, but we also know that they carry some kind of mysterious power." He Hongchi said to the two young people, and at the same time comforted himself in this way.

Wenwen and Cancan opened the mechanism together. Wenwen changed her gentleness from yesterday and hit the circle a few times with a bang.

He Hongchi was shocked by her sudden and rough action, "Aren't you afraid of breaking the mechanism? Who would open a mechanism so roughly?

Wenwen shrugged helplessly, "Master, you don't know, I was very gentle when I tried to open this mechanism yesterday, but it didn't move. Then I accidentally hit it a few times and it actually opened the door."

He Hongchi didn't believe it. He cast a suspicious look at Yu Xunting. Yu Xunting nodded affirmatively, "Wenwen is right. The mountain wall door opened yesterday because she smashed on the mechanism like this."

Before he finished speaking, there was a sound from the mountain wall and a stone door slowly opened. He Hongchi looked at everything in front of him. The person who set up the mechanism cannot be viewed with ordinary people's thinking.

No normal person would think of using top-grade ginseng as bait, because most people would try every possible means to take it for themselves when they see the best medicinal materials. Who would have thought that ginseng would have to cooperate with the other half of the mechanism to open the stone door.

Moreover, the way to open the door is so strange that it requires violence to open it.

He Hongchi stopped Wenwen and Yuxunting who were about to step into the cave. He wanted to figure out how the hallucinogenic drugs in the cave were related to the little monkey. He asked Cancan to stand at the stone gate and slowly walk into the cave.

When they were at the stone gate, no changes could be seen, but when Cancan walked completely into the stone gate, the fur on its body brightened slightly, and it disappeared quickly. If they hadn't been staring at it, they would not have noticed it at all.

Wenwen couldn't believe it. She pointed at Cancan and said to He Hongchi, "Master, I went in with Cancan yesterday, so I didn't notice this at all. Was it some drug in Cancan's body that reacted with the drugs in the cave?"

He Hongchi nodded, "If I'm not mistaken, the toxin was neutralized as soon as Cancan came into contact with the air in the cave, and those who went in with Cancan would not be affected by the hallucinogen.

If someone breaks into the valley, even if they find the entrance to the cave, they will be drugged without the little monkey.

The person behind this plot is really smart, but I don't know how he did it, what kind of hallucinogen can float in the air forever, and its effect remains unchanged after a hundred years, and how the drug in the little monkey is not broken down by the body.

Several people walked into the cave. He Hongchi looked around carefully. It was a very simple cave. Apart from two luminous beads embedded in the wall, there was nothing extra.

Walking into the secret room, several night pearls on the roof emitted a soft light. There were a few stones piled up in the northwest corner. The empty room looked very strange with a few extra stones.

He Hongchi walked forward to examine it. "Did you check these stones yesterday?"

Yu Xunting shook his head. "No, except for that small secret room and the books inside, we didn't touch anything else."