“Stop, stop, stop…”
The few people who were digging for bamboo shoots were directly stopped by Zhao Ling'er.
“What is it, Senior Sister?” Tian Xiaoqing asked, “Are we not digging anymore?”
“Look!” Zhao Ling'er turned and pointed.
Everyone turned around and saw that a large pile of immortal bamboo shoots had already accumulated behind them.
Zhao Ling'er continued, “Each of us only has two hundred treasure sacks. We can’t possibly use them all for immortal bamboo shoots, can we?”
Everyone's faces immediately darkened.
That’s right!
Everyone came to search for treasures. If you take two sacks of immortal bamboo shoots, to be honest, even if one sack is full, it wouldn't sell for fifty Spirit Stones.
immortal bamboo shoots, this type of Spiritual Plant, are quite special.
When refining the 【Qi Gathering Pill】, an entire immortal bamboo shoot is not needed.
Let's put it this way, one immortal bamboo shoot is enough for dozens of batches of 【Qi Gathering Pill】.
If four people each took two sacks of immortal bamboo shoots back, wouldn't Master scold them to death?
“Alright…” Zhao Ling'er said, “That’s enough. We’ll divide these, and leave the rest alone!”
Then the four began to divide the bamboo shoots.
Each person received ten.
Ten immortal bamboo shoots thrown into a hundred treasure sack already filled half of it.
“Let’s go!” After dividing the immortal bamboo shoots, Zhao Ling'er said, “Next Time if we encounter First Grade Spiritual Plants again, we don’t need to collect so much. Just a little will do!”
“The key is Second Grade Spiritual Plants!”
“These are what are truly valuable!”
He Pingsheng nodded.
Spiritual Plants are like this; a difference of one grade can lead to a sky-high difference in value.
For example, ordinary Gathering Qi Pill Materials, because they are First Grade Materials, even ten portions can only sell for seven Spirit Stones.
These are First Grade Spiritual Plants.
And Second Grade?
Take lieyang flower pollen, for instance; even the Low Grade, a single bottle can sell for over a hundred Spirit Stones.
First Grade and Second Grade, the difference is truly too great.
Coming out of the bamboo forest.
Tian Xiaoqing asked, “Where are we going now?”
He Pingsheng raised his hand, pointed to a towering mountain in the distance, and said, “There’s a tall mountain over there. We can climb up and take a look!”
“Standing high and looking far, perhaps we can determine our current position in the Secret Realm!”
Zhao Ling'er nodded and said, “That works!”
Xu Kunlun also nodded: “I have no objection!”
“Then let’s go!” He Pingsheng took the lead and walked forward.
Half an hour later, the four of them ascended the tall mountain.
“What a beautiful view!”
Standing on the mountaintop, He Pingsheng couldn't help but sigh.
Looking forward from his position, the distant undulating mountain ranges stretched like a winding line across the horizon.
Countless green vegetation covered them, with patches of orange-red, patches of golden yellow, patches of lush green, and patches of fresh green.
Behind was a hundred-zhang cliff.
Mountain spring water fell, forming a waterfall at the cliff's edge, and where the waterfall landed, a clear, emerald-green pool formed.
Under the sunlight, the pool water shimmered, sparkling in all directions.
“Bring the map, let’s see where this is?” Zhao Ling'er looked at Xu Kunlun.
Xu Kunlun hurriedly took out the map and handed it to Zhao Ling'er.
But Zhao Ling'er looked for a long Time, yet couldn't make sense of it.
She still couldn't determine the exact location of this place.
Buzz, buzz, buzz…
Just then, a buzzing sound, like that of common bees, suddenly came from the air.
At first, no one paid attention.
But after a few breaths, the buzzing grew louder and louder.
Zhao Ling'er turned around, only to see two finger-sized golden hornets hovering in the Void Realm not far behind them, staring at the four.
“Slash…”
Zhao Ling'er didn't even think, reaching out to draw the treasure sword from her hand, and quickly slashed out with one sword.
Her speed was extremely fast.
Only a flash of sword light was seen, and the treasure sword was already reinserted into its scabbard.
In the Void Realm, one golden hornet was directly cut into two pieces and fell to the ground.
“Slash…”
Xu Kunlun also raised his hand and slashed out.
Unfortunately, he wasn't using a Flying Sword, but palm force.
Perhaps due to imprecise control over his strength, not only did this strike fail to kill the hornet, but it also allowed it to use the force to fly away.
“Hmph!” Xu Kunlun jumped up in anger, his plump body shaking like a spring: “Damn it… a mere hornet dares to provoke me?”
Just as Xu Kunlun was angrily muttering, Zhao Ling'er squatted down, looking at the golden hornet's corpse on the ground, her brows furrowed.
She said, “This is… this is a Tiger-striped Golden Bee!”
The other three also gathered around curiously.
“Senior Sister, what is a Tiger-striped Golden Bee?” He Pingsheng asked.
Zhao Ling'er said, “It's an extremely powerful Spiritual Bee…”
“They carry potent venom. If stung by the tail stinger of this Tiger-striped Golden Bee, even a Qi Refining Stage Twelfth Level cultivator would only be able to regret it… How could something like this be here?”
“Should we leave quickly?”
“If we encounter a swarm of these things, I'm afraid we'll be finished here!”
“Let’s go…” Tian Xiaoqing said, “Then there’s no Time to lose!”
“However!” Zhao Ling'er said, “There’s no need to rush… Although the Tiger-striped Golden Bee is terrifying, the honey collected from Spiritual Plant nectar by the Tiger-striped Golden Bee, once brewed, is a First Grade Heaven And Earth Treasure!”
“Drinking this after, it can instantly replenish the Dantian Qi for Qi Refinement Stage Disciples!”
“Legend has it that even if the spiritual power in the Dantian is depleted, a single drop can replenish it!”
“That powerful?” He Pingsheng’s brow twitched: “Then this thing is a top-grade Heaven And Earth Treasure, isn't it?”
According to the 【cultivation notes】, anything that can instantly restore spiritual power within the body is a rare Heaven And Earth Treasure.
Although this thing is Low Grade, it is absolutely rare.
“And that’s not all!” Zhao Ling'er said, “This 【tiger-striped golden bee honey】, besides being able to instantly restore a Qi Refiner’s depleted Dantian, has two other uses!”
“First, it can detoxify, and it can neutralize most poisons!”
“Second, it can serve as a conditioning spiritual liquid during Alchemy!”
He Pingsheng nodded.
He was quite familiar with Alchemy.
Especially when low-level Disciples perform Alchemy, they cannot directly place the Medicinal Materials in the Pill Furnace to roast, otherwise, they would instantly turn to ash.
How to do it?
Add water.
Boil in water.
In fact, adding water is the most inferior method; the best conditioning agent is not water, but various spiritual liquids.
If spiritual liquid is used instead of water for Alchemy, not only will the success rate of forming Medicinal Pills be higher, but the quality will also improve by another level.
However, this thing was relatively useless to He Pingsheng, because he didn't need it; he had a gathering treasure basin that could directly enhance Medicinal Pills.
“Therefore, the value of this tiger-striped golden bee honey is extremely high!” Zhao Ling'er continued, “If the sect knew there was tiger-striped golden bee honey here, they would definitely expend great effort to send Disciples to collect it!”
“So, Junior Brother, Junior Sister!” Zhao Ling'er’s face showed an unprecedented seriousness: “My idea is, let’s go search and see where the beehive is located!”
“If we can collect it, it would be a great blessing!”
“If we can’t get it, at least recording the location would be good!”