Compared to the tranquility of Zhaoyao Mountain, the journey was much more dangerous. Many monsters and beasts that only existed in ancient books made their appearance. Although they did not cause her any real harm, they still made Xu Milu suffer a lot.
For example, there is a strange fish that lives in a mountain spring. It is only the size of a fist and its skin color is very similar to that of the sand. When a person gets close to the spring, this fish will jump out of the sand and spit sand at the person's shadow. The person whose shadow is hit will feel uncomfortable at best, and become seriously ill at worst.
Fortunately, Xu Milu reacted quickly and killed the strange fish with a single slash when it spat sand at her, thus avoiding being hit.
She had heard of this strange fish. Legend has it that this animal is called "Yu," and it often hides in the water and sprays sand at the shadows of passersby, causing them misfortune. The idiom "to shoot sand at the shadows" comes from this story.
Along the way, she also encountered a strange-looking beast with the upper body of a human but the lower body of a horse, and a pair of huge wings on its back. As soon as it saw Xu Milu, it kept pawing at her and looked agitated. Not wanting to cause any trouble, she used her escape technique to leave far away.
There's also a rabbit with a dog's head and a rabbit's body, a strange fish called "Fang" with bull's eyes, a unicorn bird called "Dingning" that makes a "ding-ding" sound when it calls out, a hedgehog-sized bird that looks like a mandarin duck and has colorful feathers all over its body called "Bifei", and a strange beast called "Dugu" with a tiger's head and a horse's tail.
For the past two weeks, she has been bombarded with system notifications, and the ingredient catalog has been updated every day. Through repeated attempts, she has actually managed to find several new ingredients that taste quite good.
The mountains are full of swamps and the climate is cold and damp. In addition to the common wild grasses, a kind of fern with large leaves called "purple velvet" also grows in the cracks of rocks.
This vegetable has purple roots and leaves as large as small umbrellas. Under the leaves grows a red fruit that looks like a plum. The fruit tastes very similar to a wax apple, but it is sweeter. The leaves can be boiled and then used in a cold salad, and they can taste like spinach.
[Purple Fern: A precious herb, a perennial large-leaved fern, entirely non-toxic. Seed-like pods grow beneath the leaves, with a sweet taste. Eating it can soothe the throat, and long-term consumption can make one's voice as melodious as a nightingale's.]
She was lucky; after killing a two-headed snake that tried to ambush her, Xu Milu found an extremely precious spiritual herb under the snake's corpse.
Upon closer inspection, this herb resembles large-leaved mint, with clusters of small yellow flowers hidden beneath its overlapping leaves. Once the flowers fall, it will produce fruit that looks like silkworm cocoons.
[Yaocao: A divine herb, entirely non-toxic, it flowers once every thirty years and bears fruit once every thirty years. Legend has it that it is a celestial herb formed from the condensed spirits of the three daughters of Emperor Yan after their untimely deaths. Long-term consumption of Yaocao can make one as light as a swallow, and consuming its fruit can make women more beautiful. However, Yaocao is only effective for women; men who consume it will become alluring.]
Xu Milu took out the jade box she had prepared beforehand and put the precious herb away, unable to help but sigh:
"This thing is simply a beauty miracle!"
After all, who wouldn't be tempted by ingredients that can make people more beautiful without any side effects?
However, Xu Milu did not intend to take it herself. As she came into more and more contact with the monsters, she became less concerned about her appearance. After all, no matter how beautiful a human was, in the eyes of the monsters, he or she only had two eyes, a nose, and a mouth.
So she planned to leave this hard-won herb to Liu Hongmei as a birthday gift.
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Half a month later, she stopped on the shore of Beihai, a thousand miles east of Queshan. Ten days earlier, she had sent Ah Chou back to the Gourmet Dimension, and she herself took the land route, heading east along the Queshan mountain range.
Before us stood a magnificent and boundless city wall, its black tiles layered upon layer, almost reaching the clouds. Every brick and tile on the wall was distinctly foreign in style. Upon closer inspection, one could see fine black patterns on the surface of the bricks and tiles, like snake scales, making it seem as if a giant black serpent was lurking on this land.
How can one describe the magnificence of this city wall?
—As far as the eye can see, there are city walls. The black walls undulate along the boundless horizon, and if you look up, you can even see wisps of clouds passing through the top of the walls.
She tried to fly up into the sky to see the end of the city wall, but even as she flew into the clouds, she could only barely cross the wall and could not find its end.
Things that are too big always inspire fear, while the unknown inspires awe for no reason.
Xu Milu felt a chill run down her spine. She stared at the city wall for a while before continuing north along the wall, which had no gates.
This time, she found the Ghost Kingdom by following the direction of the city wall in just two days. The book records that the people of the Ghost Kingdom do not eat people and mainly eat fish from the swamp and fruits from the mountains.
As soon as Xu Milu entered the territory of the Ghost Kingdom people, some Ghost Kingdom people poked their heads out of the trees and gave Xu Milu, who came from the outside world, a rather enthusiastic "welcome":
[Oh my god! Look! What is that monster? It has a head, four legs, and it even has two eyes!]
Its head looks a lot like ours, but what's between its head and feet?
[It looks really strange. Why does it walk upright? Is it a Xingxing?]
[Wow! There's a monster!!! It even has two eyes!!!]
Faced with Xu Milu's arrival from afar, every person in the Ghost Kingdom couldn't help but gossip about her. Some hung upside down from the trees, covering their faces with their tails to avoid looking at her, while some Ghost Kingdom children were so frightened that they cried loudly, their eyes filled with terror.
Yes, the people of the Ghost Kingdom all have snake bodies and human heads, with only one eye on their face. So, in their eyes, Xu Milu is the "monster" with many hands and feet.
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