Chapter 55, Fire Spirit Stone

Chapter 55, Fire Spirit Stone

Chapter 55, Fire Spirit Stone
In order to avoid running into You Lao and the one-armed man on the cliff, Hua Changxi shifted her original position while climbing the cliff, which resulted in her making a long detour in the mountain before returning to the Medicine Valley.

As soon as he arrived at the medicinal field he was responsible for, Hua Changxi immediately used his spiritual power, used the soil-turning technique to tidy up the field, and then began to quickly plant the medicinal seedlings.

Half an hour later, she had planted four acres of medicinal field with medicinal seedlings.

After that, she stopped planting.

According to the speed of other chores, planting so many medicinal seedlings is considered normal.

After planting the medicinal seedlings, Hua Changxi picked up a bucket and went to get fertilizer.

When she came back carrying two buckets of smelly farm manure, she saw the one-armed man on the edge of the field.

"Master Guo."

Hua Changxi approached and took the initiative to greet the one-armed man.

The one-armed man looked Hua Changxi up and down, especially at his shoes. Seeing that there was nothing unusual and the medicinal fields had been planted, he said "hmm", and left without saying anything.

Looking at the one-armed man's receding back, Hua Changxi let out a sigh of relief.

Anyone who has been to the mountains knows that when you walk around in the mountains, your body will be stuck with some things, such as mountain mud or some special smells in the mountains. Fortunately, she used the Immaculate Technique to clean her clothes and shoes as soon as she came back.

Afterwards, after Hua Changxi applied the fertilizer and finished his work in the medicine field, he did not return to his accommodation immediately. Instead, he walked to a remote place and summoned out the Shennong Ding.

"The Shennong Ding is not that big, how can it hold so many things?"

Hua Changxi knocked on the Shennong Ding for a while, and when he accidentally rested his head on it, the scene inside the Shennong Ding suddenly appeared in his mind.

The interior of the Shennong Ding was very large. She couldn't tell exactly how big it was. She only "saw" the Yuanling grass and dates she had collected inside the Shennong Ding, as big as rice grains.

Hua Changxi was a little speechless. Could she control such a large Shennong Ding?

Thinking of this, he condensed a ball of fire and threw it directly under the Shennong Ding.

During this time, Hua Changxi continuously outputted spiritual energy, making the flames grow larger.

After one hundred points of spiritual energy were consumed, the surface of the Shennong Ding lost all its temperature.

After two hundred points of spiritual energy, it's still the same.

After spending five hundred points of spiritual energy, Hua Changxi found that even under the scorching flames, there was still no trace of heat on the surface of the Shennong Ding, so he withdrew his spiritual power.

She knew that she couldn't use the Shennong Ding.

At least, it can't be used now.

"It can only be used as a portable magic weapon."

Hua Changxi thought about taking out a date, and a date immediately appeared in his hand: "Fortunately, it is quite convenient to put things away."

After taking back the Shennong Ding, Hua Changxi started to chew dates with a "crunch".

As expected, these dates are so delicious that they make you salivate at the mere sight of them.

This is not an ordinary date, it is a fire date, a spiritual fruit that contains rich fire spiritual energy.

Although Hua Changxi didn't know the attributes of her spiritual roots before, after entering the Qi Hai realm and looking at the spotless red Qi Hai that opened up in her Dantian, she guessed her attributes.

She should have a single fire spiritual root.

Sure enough, after eating the fire dates, she did not feel any discomfort, and her stomach immediately became warm. Then, a warm current rushed to her limbs and bones.

Hua Changxi was not unfamiliar with this feeling. It was the same when he took and absorbed the Yuanling Pill.

Feeling the increase in spiritual power, Hua Changxi immediately checked the data and found that eating a fire date could actually increase ten spiritual power points.

She picked at least thousands of fire dates, which means that after eating the fire dates, she could increase her spiritual power by 10,000 points.

She happened to be in the Medicine Valley, being watched by the one-armed man, and had no chance to make pills, so it was a good opportunity for her to eat fire dates to increase her spiritual power.

Thinking that there were still many places at the bottom of the cliff that had not been explored, Hua Changxi felt itchy and wanted to go down again to take a look. Maybe he could find some good things.

Even if you can't find them, you can upgrade your alchemist's rank by collecting more spiritual plants to make pills.

Fortunately, Mr. You will go to deliver medicine the day after tomorrow, and she should be able to find another opportunity to get down to the bottom of the cliff that day.

On March 14th, Hua Changxi was still following the routine and planting medicinal seedlings diligently like other chores, but from time to time he took out jujubes to eat in places where no one could see.

On the 15th day of March, Hua Changxi got up early and paid close attention to the movements in the West Mountain.

While the servants were having breakfast, Mr. You, who had never appeared in public before, came down from the West Mountain with the one-armed man.

As soon as the two appeared, all the servants put down their bowls and chopsticks and stood up respectfully: "Master You."

You Lao looked around and swept his eyes over Hua Changxi without lingering, as if it was a casual glance: "I will take Guo Yu to the Medical Bureau today, you must take good care of the Medicine Valley."

After the Grand Master spoke, no one dared to have any opinions and could only respectfully watch the two men leave.

After leaving the Medicine Valley, Guo Yu looked at You Lao in confusion: "Master, you usually go alone to deliver medicine, why did you call me along this time?"

You Lao looked indifferent: "If we don't leave, how can the little girl act?"

Guo Yu suddenly understood: "Master, I understand what you mean. I will pretend to follow you to the Medical Department and then sneak back quietly. If Hua Changxi really has any plans, I can catch her red-handed."

Mr. You looked at Guo Yu and felt a headache.

This disciple had been wandering around the world before and was used to acting straightforwardly. He didn't know that many things in this world cannot be achieved by fighting and killing alone.

"You're going to catch that girl, have you thought about the consequences?"

"The consequence is that if you can't beat her but you discover her secret, you will die. Even if you can beat her and catch her, then what? Are you sure she can tell you her secret?"

Guo Yu frowned: "Then we will do nothing?"

You Lao: "We have left Medicine Valley now, haven't we?"

Guo Yu was still a little confused: "Master, we are all gone. Even if Hua Changxi took any action, we would not know."

Old You smiled, and this time did not explain. He used his Qinggong skills to run towards the Medical Department.

When Guo Yu saw Mr. You like this, he immediately understood that he already had a solution, so he didn't ask any more questions and quickly followed him.

Back in the Medicine Valley, Hua Changxi was extremely happy to see that You Lao and Guo Yu had left. Even though she had some doubts about their departure, it could not stop her determination to explore the bottom of the cliff again.

Hua Changxi did not go up the West Mountain immediately. Instead, he finished planting the medicinal fields he was responsible for and made sure that Old You and the one-armed man had left. Then he secretly went to the stone cliff while everyone was having lunch.

The second time she jumped off the cliff, Hua Changxi was much calmer. With the experience from the previous time, she landed smoothly this time.

There were dozens of kinds of spiritual plants at the bottom of the cliff. Hua Changxi picked some of each kind, spacing them out when picking. Afterwards he used the soil-turning technique to fill the ground to erase all traces of the disturbance.

The most eye-catching thing at the bottom of the cliff is a lush fruit tree with densely packed green fruits, but they are very small, only the size of a thumb.

Although the green fruit is small, it has a fragrant aroma that makes people intoxicated.

Green fruit, a wood-attributed spiritual fruit, is rich in vitality and is a very good spiritual fruit for healing and repairing injuries. The older it is, the higher its grade.

The first-level green fruit is the size of a fist. The green fruits on the tree are obviously not fully grown yet. Thinking of the fruits that You Lao and the one-armed man picked yesterday, Hua Changxi guessed that the fruits they sent to the Medical Bureau should be green fruits.

The fruit was not ripe yet, so it was useless to pick it. Hua Changxi felt a little sorry. The second kind of spiritual fruit at the bottom of the cliff was the fire date. Unlike the fragrant green fruit tree, the fire date tree gave people a feeling of being surrounded by fire as soon as they approached it.

Hua Changxi has a fire spirit root in his body, so being under the fire date tree is like soaking in a hot spring. But if someone else were to come here, it would be very uncomfortable.

This is probably the reason why there were so many jujubes but Mr. You didn’t pick them.

The fire jujube tree is also lush and leafy, and the red fire jujubes hanging on the tree are particularly pleasing to the eye.

"what?"

Hua Changxi discovered that the fire date tree actually produced second-level fire dates, and there were quite a few of them.

She had not looked carefully at the fire dates that she had obtained with her spiritual power before, and she did not notice this.

Hua Changxi climbed up the fire date tree and picked all the second-level fire dates. In the end, he got a total of 500 second-level fire dates.

Afterwards, she took another walk around the bottom of the cliff and discovered that there were more fire-attributed spiritual herbs and fruits, and only the fire-attributed spiritual herbs and fruits could be advanced to the second level.

"Here in Medicine Valley, the fire spirit energy is the most abundant."

"Where does this fire spirit energy come from?"

Although Old You and the one-armed man were not there, Hua Changxi could not stay at the bottom of the cliff for long, lest she be discovered by the other servants. Seeing that she could not find anything else at the bottom of the cliff, she quickly climbed up the stone cliff and returned to the Medicine Valley.

Old You and the one-armed man came back early the next morning. When they got back to Medicine Valley, Old You said nothing and went straight to West Mountain. The one-armed man called the manager of Medicine Valley to ask him some questions and then went back to West Mountain.

"Master, the steward said that Hua Changxi left for a while yesterday at noon."

You Lao said "hmm" and jumped off the cliff. Half an hour later, he returned to the cliff.

Seeing the joy on You Lao's face, Guo Yu couldn't help but ask, "Master, did you find anything?"

You Lao nodded: "That girl has been to the bottom of the cliff."

The things at the bottom of the cliff involved secrets of the imperial court. He knew them all by heart, even a blade of grass or a fruit. Even if Hua Changxi erased all traces of her presence, the missing herbs and fruits could not be replaced.

Guo Yu's expression changed: "So what should we do now? Should we go find Hua Changxi?"

You Lao shook his head: "You don't have to do anything."

Guo Yu was confused: "Why?" He paused and asked tentatively, "Master, do you already know the secret of Hua Changxi?"

Master You shook his head again: "Master, I don't know."

Guo Yu was even more confused: "Since you don't know, why don't you call someone over to ask clearly?"

You Lao looked at him and said, "Call that little girl over here, and she will tell you?"

Guo Yu: "The things at the bottom of the cliff belong to the imperial court. She stole the imperial court's things. With such a big handle in our hands, how dare she disobey us?"

You Lao sneered: "The things at the bottom of the cliff do not belong to the court. Don't forget that the Sancha Medicine Valley was first discovered by the surrounding people."

Hearing this, Guo Yu fell silent.

When he was traveling around the country a few years ago, he often saw the imperial court forcibly seizing the ancestral lands and mountains of the people. Many ethnic groups that had lived in one place for generations were forced to migrate just because new medicinal materials appeared in some mountains and forests and were favored by the government.

Things in the mountains and forests originally have no owner.

If the ownership is divided according to the first come first served, the imperial court can be said to be a robber.

You Lao continued, "Our goal is to find out the secret of that girl. Threatening her right away won't work."

Guo Yu frowned: "What should I do then?"

You Lao: "The best and fastest way to accomplish things is through exchange. That girl has the secrets we want to know, so we have to take out something corresponding to exchange."

Guo Yu thought for a moment and said, "Let Hua Changxi enter and exit the cliff freely?"

You Lao shook his head: "She can get in and out of the cliff without our consent, it just takes a little more effort. This bargaining chip is not enough."

"The work in the medicine field will take at least until the end of March or the beginning of April. During this time, I have to think carefully about what conditions I can offer to impress that girl."

Guo Yu could see that his master cared a lot about Hua Changxi's secret. He was so concerned that he had to be extremely cautious whenever he came in contact with Hua Changxi, for fear of making Hua Changxi unhappy.

Mr. You really cares about it. Hua Changxi is the only person he can contact who might know the secret at the bottom of the cliff.

Although he was a master, he did not rely on anyone because he did not want to be controlled by the powerful. He was free, but he had no backing, so he was cut off from information.

In the past few years, as more and more ferocious beasts were killed and more and more young and high-level warriors appeared, he felt more and more that something was wrong.

It seems that some great changes are taking place in this world!
The sources of all the great changes point to those newly emerged precious medicines and exotic fruits.

There must be a big secret hidden here!
He had a strong premonition that if he didn't find out the secrets here, he would be left behind and be far behind by those young high-level warriors.

Hua Changxi discovered that the one-armed man was no longer staring at her, which made her a little confused.

She would not go down to the bottom of the cliff again in the short term, so she didn't bother to care about the reason why the one-armed man did this. She just did the chores quietly, ate hot dates during the day, and practiced at night.

Looking at the rapidly rising data, Hua Changxi was in a very good mood: [Realm: Qi Hai Realm 20000/100000]
When the realm point broke through 20000 points, Hua Changxi found that the red qi sea in his dantian had more than doubled in size.

Looking at this scene, she understood that the outward manifestation of the improvement of Qi Hai realm is the expansion of Qi Hai.

In the blink of an eye, it was the last day of March.

All the medicinal fields in the Medicine Valley have been planted with medicinal seedlings, and it is time for Hua Changxi and his group to return to Sancha Medicine Store.

Before leaving, Mr. You appeared.

"Hua Changxi, come here, Master You is looking for you."

Looking at You Lao who was waiting for him at the entrance of Medicine Valley, Hua Changxi frowned, alert in his heart but smiling: "You Lao, what do you want from me?"

Old You looked at Hua Changxi with a kind smile and said, "I know that you have been to the bottom of the cliff." Seeing that Hua Changxi wanted to deny it, he raised his hand to stop her.

"I'm not here to investigate this matter. I want to take you somewhere."

Of course Hua Changxi would not agree and was about to refuse, but at this time, Old You took out a red crystal the size of a fist.

Looking at the red crystal and feeling the rich fire aura inside it, Hua Changxi's expression changed.

Fire spirit stone!
She should have guessed where the spiritual energy came from. Of course, it came from the spiritual mine.

The fire spiritual energy here in the Medicine Valley is so rich, there must be fire spiritual mines underground.

Old You looked at the change in Hua Changxi's expression and felt relieved. Fortunately, this was just a little girl who had not yet mastered the art of saving face, which further confirmed his guess.

"Little girl, do you want to know where this old man found this stone?"

Hua Changxi looked at Mr. You and thought quickly in his mind.

Old You discovered that she had been to the bottom of the cliff, but kept silent. He also came to her with the Fire Spirit Stone, as if he had something to ask of her.

The only thing about her that was worthy of a grandmaster's attention was her cultivation.

Seeing that Hua Changxi didn't say anything, Mr. You turned around and walked towards Nanshan. After walking a few steps, he saw that Hua Changxi had not caught up with him, so he stopped and waited for her.

Hua Changxi looked at him and followed him.