Chapter 10 Elixir 2 The home of generations, destroyed in an instant. ...
"Xu girl! Went fishing again?"
Jin Cui was carrying a basket of vegetables home when she spotted Xu Xing carrying a basket of fish from afar.
Xu Xing has changed a lot now. Although she is still slender, her cheeks are fuller and she has grown taller. At the age of eleven, she looks like a young girl.
She inherited Dr. Xu Zhen's fair complexion, with curved eyebrows and a pair of large, golden eyes that always seemed to be smiling, making her look less frightening.
Since Xu Xing regained her senses, she not only learned to fish to support herself, but also learned some medical skills from the notes left by Doctor Xu. Although she can't treat serious illnesses now, she can easily buy medicine for villagers with sprains and bruises, and has earned a reputation as a junior doctor.
Looking at the young girl walking towards her now, and then thinking back to the silly, starving little girl three years ago, Jin Cui couldn't help but sigh.
Xu Xing greeted her and casually picked two palm-sized fish from the basket, handing them over, "Aunt Jin, take these back and make some soup."
"Oh dear! I can't accept this!"
Jin Cui smiled from ear to ear, and when she peeked into Xu Xing's basket and saw that it was full of good things, she reached out and took it. Fish and meat are meat too, and farmers don't get to eat meat every day.
Strangely enough, Xu Xing was very good at fishing at such a young age. The villagers guessed that the immortal who had taken a liking to her three years ago had taught her some fishing techniques.
Seeing Xu Xing's great catch, some villagers were envious, but the village chief protected him and forbade anyone to disturb him, which allowed Xu Xing to live a peaceful life.
"Auntie, you're busy, I'll head back now."
Xu Xing nodded, but he didn't head towards the back of the mountain.
Jin Cui knew at a glance that she was going to Lianhua's house. Thinking about Xu Xing's repayment to Wang Lianhua and her daughter over the years, she was very envious.
After Dr. Xu Zhen passed away, who could have imagined that Xu Xing, an eight-year-old girl, would live such a prosperous life?
Back then, apart from Wang Lianhua who often took care of him, most others avoided him. Now that Xu Xing is grateful and repaying the kindness, the villagers can only envy him.
Jin Cui was once again grateful that she had given Xu Xing some food a few times back then because she felt sorry for his thin and emaciated appearance. Now that Xu Xing occasionally catches more fish, he shares them with the Wang family mother and daughter, and also gives her two fish. That's enough for her.
When she reached the back of the mountain, Xu Xing saw a villager waiting for her at his door. She put down her basket, wiped the fine sweat from her forehead, and asked, "Where are you hurt?"
The villager clutched his arm, saying, "I rolled down the slope and broke my arm. It's back in place now, but it still hurts a lot."
Xu Xing glanced at the injury, then went inside and took out two bottles of pills. "One bottle of muscle-regenerating pills, one bottle of pain-relieving pills, and a bag of salt will do."
She didn't charge money for her pills; she had the villagers exchange them for goods.
This is a good idea. At her age, she can't hold onto money, so it's better to exchange it for something else.
At first, the villagers didn't think that a little girl like her could make any medicine. Wang Lianhua and her daughter were the first to come and get the medicine. With them taking the lead, and the pills being quite effective, and the things they used to exchange for the pills were much more cost-effective than going to the doctor to buy medicine.
Gradually, more and more people came to Xu Xing to have their dressings changed.
As expected of Dr. Xu's child, he has a natural talent for medicine.
As for why Xu Xing didn't provide free medical care and medicine to the villagers like Xu Zhen did before him, no one dared to mention it.
The villagers took the pills and said they would deliver salt the next day. Xu Xing nodded, not caring.
Perhaps thinking that the immortal might return, Zhao Desheng's family took better care of Xu Xing. With their instructions, no villager dared to default on their debts.
After pouring the fish into the water tank, Xu Xing rummaged through the remaining "garbage" in his basket.
Water plants, tattered burlap sacks, stones...
Hmm? This white stone is quite pretty; we can keep it.
Over the years, she has gotten used to fishing. She doesn't throw away the trash she catches; she brings it back to deal with it together. Occasionally, she can even find something good in the trash.
Xu Xing skillfully placed the stone into the corner of the room, which was now piled with many things. As he placed the stone, a roll of paper rolled down and landed right on top of it.
A glimmer of light.
Xu Xing picked up the scroll, only to find that the white stone had disappeared, and patterns were gradually appearing on the once blank scroll, as if...
map?
What's going on?
Xu Xing examined the roll of paper over and over. It felt like parchment and was very old and tattered, as if she had caught it while fishing a few years ago...
That's right, I got it the first time I went fishing!
Xu Xing remembered that she didn't know what the paper roll was for at the time, so she had kept it on the corner shelf. She never expected that the paper roll would look so strange now.
Xu Xing was always very cautious about these strange things. She carefully put the scroll away and placed it together with the other valuable items in the room, including the two bottles of pills left behind by Zuo Qiuxu.
Perhaps there will be an opportunity to study this in the future.
Having fished for most of the day, Xu Xing was exhausted and didn't plan to do anything else that would drain his energy.
She opened the life skills panel in her mind, and three years had passed, and all the skills on the panel had changed a lot.
Gold Mining Level 1
Herb gathering level 12
Forging is not yet unlocked.
Medical skill level 9
Cooking Level 27
Sewing Level 3
The remaining activities are fishing, treasure hunting, and beast taming, which have no level restrictions.
Xu Xing had only once gone to a coal mine with the villagers, which unlocked his knowledge of gold mining. As for forging, Xu Xing had no access to it at all.
Therefore, only her commonly used skills in cooking, herb gathering, and medicine are at a higher level.
Xu Xing wasn't entirely without experience in animal taming. As she walked around the village more, she naturally had the opportunity to come into contact with the livestock raised by the villagers, especially the big yellow dog that Aunt Wang kept. After spending a lot of time with it, Xu Xing learned a little bit of animal taming techniques on her own. It wasn't anything particularly strange, but she could understand some of the meanings that animals were trying to convey.
As for treasure hunting...
The compass needle still pointed to the distant Huiling Mountain, but Xu Xing hadn't considered going there to search for treasure. Even when gathering herbs, he went to the small valley frequented by the villagers.
Several years have passed, and although her physical fitness has improved a lot, it is still too risky for a little girl to go into the mountains. Moreover, Xu Xing is always concerned about the spiritual medicine that was placed under a barrier by those cultivators three years ago. As long as the spiritual medicine is still there, Xu Xing will not dare to go into the mountains.
Judging by the time, it has been almost three years since those three immortals appeared. That spiritual herb should be ripe by now.
It's unclear when the owner of the elixir will come to collect it, so it's best to remind Aunt Wang and Linglan to stay home as much as possible during this time.
Looking at the clutter in the house, Xu Xing decided to tidy it up properly. Now her little house is taking shape and is no longer as dilapidated as before.
If it weren't for the life skills panel and the few medical books left behind by Xu Zhen, she wouldn't have had such a good life these past three years.
Xu Xing is very satisfied with his current life.
The memory of encountering cultivators is like a dream. Sometimes Xu Xing forgets that he is in a world of cultivation, not just ordinary people.
until……
The day the monster appeared.
It was just an ordinary day. Xu Xing was grinding medicinal powder at home when a thunderclap suddenly sounded in the sky, and a purple lightning bolt struck down from above Mount Huiling.
Purple lightning instantly enveloped the entire mountaintop, and suddenly a huge serpentine phantom appeared, completely entangling Xiahe Village.
The phantom had two horns on its head, resembling a snake but not quite, and its deep voice was extremely penetrating.
"Hand over the Seven-Leaf Lingzhi!"
Everyone in Xiahe Village was driven to the threshing ground, their faces filled with fear. Xiahe Village was located in a remote corner, and at most, low-level monsters would appear and destroy some crops. They had never seen such a huge creature before.
Village chief Zhao Desheng, his face filled with fear, knelt down and pleaded, "Your Excellency, please calm your anger! We are just ordinary people, and we have never seen any Ganoderma lucidum before!"
"snort!"
The long tail suddenly slammed down in mid-air, instantly crushing a cluster of houses and filling the air with smoke and dust.
The homes built by generations of people in Xiahe Village over hundreds of years were reduced to ruins in an instant.
Xu Xing was hidden behind Wang Lianhua. She brought out the treasure-hunting compass and found that the compass needle was still there, which meant that the elixir was still in the mountain. Why hadn't the monster found it?
Thinking of the barrier that Xiang Yuquan had mentioned, Xu Xing's heart sank. Unless...
This monster wasn't the snake demon that left the barrier at all; it probably got wind of it from somewhere and came to intercept it.
Zhao Bo stepped forward and cupped his hands in greeting. After all, he was a martial artist, so he had a certain imposing presence.
"We have indeed never seen a Ganoderma lucidum before. We are not trying to deceive you, sir. Please..."
"Her presence is clearly here!"
The snake's tail swept across heavily, cleaving Zhao Bo in the chest and sending him flying to the ground, where he lay motionless.
Seeing that even a Body Refinement stage martial artist was powerless to resist, the villagers were terrified, and several children were so frightened that they cried.
"Mortals! I will only give you one chance..."
Immediately, the monster's long, thin tail coiled around several villagers and tossed them high into the air—
"Spare me!"
"No! Ring ring!"
Zhao Linglan was originally standing behind Zhao Youwei, but when the snake's tail coiled around her, Zhao Youwei actually pushed his own daughter out!
With tears streaming down her face and her eyes wide with rage, Wang Lianhua was about to rush forward to save her child, but was blocked by Xu Xing's small body.
"I know where the seven-leaf Ganoderma lucidum is!"
Xu Xing clenched her fists tightly, trying to remain calm, but her voice trembled slightly: "Only I know! Release them first, otherwise, with the barrier in place, you'll never find them!"
"Oh? You actually know about barriers?"
The huge and ferocious snake head suddenly moved in front of Xu Xing, its merciless vertical pupils staring at him. When it noticed Xu Xing's unusual eyes, its nose twitched.
"He does resemble someone of my kind somewhat, but unfortunately he's just a mortal..."
A gust of wind blew by, and the giant snake's phantom image vanished, replaced by a tall man in a purple robe.
He grabbed several crying children in one hand and threw them to the villagers, while simultaneously pulling Xu Xing in front of him from a distance.
"If you dare to lie to me..."
The man's cold gaze swept over the villagers of Xiahe Village. "They will all die!"
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