Leaving Luoyang Mountains, we have gained a lot
If you want to get the Golden Marrow Fruit and other spiritual herbs, it seems that you need to make this "landlord" completely let down his guard. Suppressing him by force is the worst option.
The corner of Zhong Ling's mouth curled up, and she sat down cross-legged more than ten feet away from the strange beast. Then, she flipped her palm, and an ancient alchemy furnace appeared in her palm. Then she took out several medicinal herbs from the mustard seed space.
What was she going to do? The strange beast tilted its head, watching her movements curiously.
Zhong Ling ignored it, ignited a cluster of light golden spiritual fire at her fingertips, and threw it into the bottom of the alchemy furnace.
She controlled the temperature of the flames and placed the herbs into the furnace in a specific order. Her spiritual sense guided the medicinal power to fuse and purify within the furnace...
But after a moment, a strange medicinal fragrance emanated from the furnace.
The strange beast, which was originally just watching out of curiosity, twitched its nose a few times, and its amber pupils suddenly lit up. It stared at the alchemy furnace in Zhong Ling's hand, and a "gurgling" sound came from its throat, with a hint of desire.
After half an hour, the pills were ready. Zhong Ling smiled slightly, put away the spiritual fire, opened the lid of the furnace, and three round pills emitting a green halo lay at the bottom of the furnace.
She took out the pill and threw it casually, and the pill landed accurately on the grass in front of the strange beast.
The strange beast lowered its head and sniffed carefully, then looked up at Zhong Ling and saw that she looked calm and there was nothing unusual about her.
After hesitating for a moment, he finally couldn't resist the temptation of the pill and his body's instinctive desire. He stuck out his tongue, rolled the pill into his mouth, and swallowed it whole.
The pill melted in its mouth, and a gentle yet powerful medicinal effect quickly flowed throughout its body and rushed to the old wound on its left hind leg.
The stagnation and dull pain that had plagued it for years quickly melted away and eased under the power of the medicine.
The strange beast growled comfortably, and the look it gave Zhong Ling was completely changed. It no longer had the previous wariness, but now had a bit more surprise and... closeness?
It stood up and walked to the spiritual herbs that Zhong Ling had pointed to before, gently bowed with its huge head, then took two steps back and lay down, but its eyes were still firmly fixed on the golden marrow fruit tree.
This allowed her to collect those spiritual herbs.
Zhong Ling stood up and, without hesitation, carefully dug out the spiritual herbs, roots and soil alike, and stored them in the mustard seed space. After doing all this, she looked back at the golden marrow fruit tree, then cast her gaze at the strange beast lying beside it, and sent a thought to it again: "That, is it okay?"
The strange beast's amber pupils stared at Zhong Ling's outstretched finger, and then glanced vigilantly at the small tree with three golden fruits.
A low warning sound came from its throat again. Obviously, this golden marrow fruit was its bottom line.
Zhong Ling did not look away, but told the strange beast: "This thing is useless to you, but it is beneficial to me."
It could feel that the human in front of it seemed to have no ill intentions, and the elixir she took out would be of real benefit to it.
For a long time, it has been guarding this place alone, and its old wounds have always tormented it and restricted its further transformation.
Zhong Ling did not urge it, but sat cross-legged with a calm expression, as if she knew its choice.
After a long time, the strange beast let out a low growl from its throat, and its huge body slowly stood up and moved a few steps to the side, revealing the golden marrow fruit tree behind it.
The strange beast thought that Zhong Ling only picked the fruits, but who knew that she moved the entire tree into the space, and also moved the entire spring into the space.
The strange beast looked at the vanished fruit trees and springs, first in shock, then in anger. This bipedal beast was so despicable!
Before the strange beast could make a move, Zhong Ling's action instantly calmed its anger.
Zhong Ling took out a transformation pill and a high-level pill.
This was a high-level elixir she had refined before, which was more suitable for monsters to absorb and could assist in cultivation.
She extended her hand towards the beast and said, "How about exchanging these two? They can help you heal your wounds and consolidate your cultivation."
The strange beast instinctively knew that these two pills were good things, especially the transformation pill on the left. He looked at Zhong Ling eagerly. Zhong Ling smiled slightly, everything was under control.
After getting her things, Zhong Ling prepared to leave. Before she left, she said, "If there's an opportunity in the future, I'll come see you again."
When the strange beast heard this, its eyes lit up and when it looked at Zhong Ling, its vigilance completely disappeared, and there was even a hint of dependence.
It nodded, which was considered as agreement.
Zhong Ling did not leave immediately. She observed the surrounding terrain.
She took out several low-grade spirit stones from the space and embedded them in specific positions.
The spiritual power flowed through his fingertips, quickly carving near the spring.
With the last injection of spiritual power, a simple spirit gathering array took shape.
It was visible to the naked eye that the already rich spiritual energy in the valley began to converge towards the center at an even faster speed.
The strange beast curiously felt the changes in the surrounding spiritual energy, and looked at Zhong Ling with eyes full of surprise.
Zhong Ling nodded to it as a final farewell.
She turned, her figure becoming blurry again as she passed through the barrier and left the valley.
The strange beast looked in the direction where she disappeared, then looked down at the jade bottle on the ground, and finally lay down, closed its eyes, and began to absorb spiritual energy.
Zhong Ling quickly left the Luoyang Mountains. She returned to the hotel and entered the mustard seed space.
She classified the collected medicinal herbs and placed them in different areas of the medicine garden.
Then she came to the spiritual spring and sat cross-legged.
Take out a golden marrow fruit and swallow it.
She practiced her skills, guiding the energy of the Golden Marrow Fruit to temper her meridians and consolidate her cultivation.
Shangjing, in the meeting room of the special security department.
Zhou Zhenguo frowned and looked at the report in front of him.
Qiao Jianmin sat aside, his face also showing unconcealable worry.
"Still can't get in touch?"
Zhou Zhenguo asked in a deep voice.
Qiao Jianmin shook his head.
"There's been no news from Xiao Zhao. Comrade Zhong Ling seems to have vanished from the face of the earth. There's been no response to the emergency contact number we left for her."
"There's been no unusual movement in the funds account."
This is even more disturbing.
Just then, a technician hurried in and handed Zhou Zhenguo an expedited report.
"Minister, we just received an abnormal signal captured by an environmental monitoring satellite in the Luoyang Mountains."
Zhou Zhenguo quickly opened the report and his eyes suddenly became sharp.
Reports show that a few hours ago, an extremely weak but very special energy fluctuation was captured in an area deep in the Luoyang Mountains.
The frequency and characteristics of the fluctuations are surprisingly similar to the energy signals detected last time in Zhongling Building.
Although the signal strength this time was several orders of magnitude lower and fleeting.
But considering that Zhong Ling had left the compound quietly before, the surveillance camera could not find any footage of her leaving, and there was no traffic record...
"Luo Yang..."
Zhou Zhenguo tapped the table with his fingers, his eyes deep.
"She went there."
"Besides, it's very likely that something happened again."
"Then we..."
Qiao Jianmin looked at Zhou Zhenguo hesitantly.
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