Chapter 331 Investigation (2)
After trudging through the deep grass, Longyue had already mastered the skill to judge whether there was land or a hole underneath the haystack before stepping on it. Luo Xuanyi sighed with relief that she finally didn't have to worry about the bumps in her stomach anymore.
Even from Longyue's mouth, the scenery of Wei Kingdom was breathtakingly beautiful. In a place devoid of human intervention, a swarm of pale green dots danced as Longyue passed by, like falling stars.
These shouldn't be demon beasts or spirit beasts. Luo Xuanyi couldn't name them and just watched the fireflies go away.
Besides the fireflies, what caught Luo Xuanyi's attention was the various medicinal aromas. This place was a paradise for spiritual herbs, with entire fields of them growing unrestrained, even denser than those in the Zhongqu Mountains. Unlike the fireflies that were not from demonic beasts, there were almost no ordinary plants or trees to be seen here.
Long Yue rolled over all the way, and the whole body was filled with the fragrance of medicine. Luo Xuanyi estimated the medicinal properties and calculated that it was probably enough to make a fasting pill with more than enough.
The moon rose higher and higher, but it could not find the presence of a person no matter how hard it tried.
It sat in a clump of reeds, only slightly lower than itself, vacantly wondering how it could find the person. It felt as if its five eyes could see nothing.
Luo Xuanyi wanted to remind it to use its ability to directly search for people around it, but she fell silent just as she was about to speak.
A hand parted the grass beside Longyue, and a young girl came over with a medicine basket on her back, holding a handful of tender sedge grass in her other hand. When she saw Longyue, she was stunned.
"Quack? Quack!"
Longyue's joyful mood overflowed from his voice. As a toad, he couldn't turn his head, so he had to turn his body and sniff excitedly towards the girl.
"Quack!"
"Wait, hey." The girl blinked her round eyes and looked up at Longyue's body, half sighing and half confused, "Why is the toad so big?"
She didn't seem to be frightened away by Longyue's overly excited performance. Luo Xuanyi observed the girl. She didn't reveal any fluctuations of spiritual power. She was either a mortal or a powerful old monster.
The lilygrass in his hand was obviously broken with fingernails, and was uneven, unlike the obsessive-compulsive disorder of a pharmacist or alchemist.
The girl stared at Long Yue for a few seconds, then suddenly realized something and clapped her hands.
"You're that, some kind of demon beast or spirit beast, right? It's found in the Zhongqu Mountains, and it can talk."
"Ahem," she cleared her throat, placed the sedge grass into the medicine basket, bowed to Longyue, and introduced herself seriously, "Hello, my name is Hu, what's your name?"
Long Yue was puzzled for a moment, then slowly uttered, "Quack?"
"Hey, can't you speak? Did I remember it wrong?" Hu scratched her hair and muttered a little embarrassedly, but she was a cheerful and lively person and recovered quickly.
"Judging from its appearance, it must be a demon beast or spiritual beast. The alchemist appeared here. Did he get lost? This is not his natural environment. How pitiful..."
Hu muttered to herself, her expression changing dramatically. Longyue and Luo Xuanyi just stared at her.
Luo Xuanyi was amazed that a person's face could have so many expressions, and Hu's kindness was simply overflowing, and the logic in her words made Luo Xuanyi a little confused.
Is this the way all Wei people think, or is Hu special?
Staring blankly at Longyue, it made up its mind to follow Hu, otherwise it really would not be able to find anyone else.
"Okay, I've decided!"
Hu looked at Longyue with a firm yet compassionate expression: "Come with me, I will take you to see someone who can definitely help you get home."
"Quack?"
The word "go home" flashed through Longyue's dazed mind.
Its home is in the Zhongqu Mountains, which is in a dilapidated state. Besides, it and Luo Xuanyi have things to do, so it seems they can't go back.
But seeing that Hu had gone into the reeds and was about to disappear if she didn't catch up, Long Yue took a step forward without thinking and followed Hu all the way.
Well, Luo Xuanyi will find a way anyway. Long Yue thought about it seriously for a moment, then emptied her mind and followed Hu's twists and turns.
Luo Xuanyi memorized the route while listening attentively to Hu's words. Hu was quite cheerful, talking non-stop to the toad, but he mostly talked about the medicinal properties of various herbs along the way.
Hu's understanding of herbal medicine is profound, yet she also displays a casual air. She picks herbs at random, paying little attention to their age or appearance.
Luo Xuanyi remembered from the book that everyone in Wei Country was a master alchemist, and even a seven or eight-year-old child could refine a third or fourth-grade pill. Looking at Huhe's rich source of medicinal herbs, she couldn't help but believe it.
There was no path, yet Hu walked along with familiarity, sometimes passing through bushes and sometimes wading across streams. There was still no human-made building around.
"It's right here, be careful," Hu turned back and warned as he entered a sea of flowers. However, there was still no sign of any buildings nearby.
Longyue followed in in a daze, and when it stepped with its big feet, it suddenly stepped on something slippery.
Mm, it's smooth and cool, very comfortable. Longyue couldn't help but rub it with her feet, only to hear a sudden "ow" sound from the ground.
"Hurry, let go! My hair!"
"Quack?"
As Long Yue lifted her foot, a figure leaped up from the bushes. It was a young man with knee-length black hair. His clothes were covered in a mess of grass leaves, and it was barely visible that he was wearing a gray Taoist robe. He was holding his scalp with a grimacing face.
“It hurts, it hurts… Who is so wicked?!”
Hu, who had been walking away, heard the noise and turned back to calmly say, "Did you get stepped on? It's all because you didn't say a word, Huan Bai, you were still awake and didn't even raise your head to check when you heard the noise."
"Wow, you're right just because you brought people to trample on me? I want to have a good argument with you."
"Wait, look at it first. This toad is so pitiful."
"What kind of toad is this? What a mess... a five-eyed toad?"
The boy called Huan Bai narrowed his eyes the moment he turned around, his golden pupils flickering slightly.
A divine sense swept across Long Yue's body, and Luo Xuanyi immediately realized that the young man in front of her was not an ordinary girl like Hu, but a cultivator in the Void Refinement Stage.
"Um……"
Come on, come on~
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