It's not difficult to feed a Medicine Seeking Badger. Any Spirit Medicine or Spiritual Plant can be used as feed, even poisonous ones.
Medicine Seeking Badgers have a special talent: after consuming a poisonous plant, they can either decompose it internally or use their talent to find an antidote Spirit Medicine.
“The ghost face grass growing wildly in the spiritual field can be used to feed this Medicine Seeking Badger. The other Hog Badgers will have to be fed some spiritual fruits.”
Xia Jingxing tied the Medicine Seeking Badger to the base of the wall in the courtyard. Before a contract, this fellow was a rebellious species, extremely difficult to tame.
The dense forest resources of Banzhu Mountain couldn't be wasted like this. In the future, when he went into the mountains to find resources, the Medicine Seeking Badger would be of great use.
After cooking five-fragrance rice in the kitchen, he immediately took a shovel and a bamboo basket to the adjacent bamboo grove.
When Li Biao was cutting down the bamboo grove, he saw many bamboo shoots. Although they contained little Qi, they were still a delicious treat.
He harvested thirty catties of bamboo shoots from a collapsed bamboo grove.
Time quickly reached three-quarters past You hour (5:45 PM).
Banzhu Mountain began to be swallowed by the night.
He stood in front of the Hog Badger pen, watching the Hog Badgers gnaw on bamboo shoots, while pondering his arrangements for tomorrow.
He walked around the spiritual field and found no water source.
There was only an abandoned well, but the water inside had dried up; there wasn't a single drop.
He could use the Spiritual Rain Technique to water the spiritual field, but over time, the soil would gradually become dry. Moreover, he also wanted to plant five-fragrance rice, which requires a lot of water.
Using the Spiritual Rain Technique would be completely insufficient, and he couldn't always spend time on this. Cultivation was the top priority.
Although Li Biao promised to protect his Dao, how could he trouble him with such small matters? It was already very good that he could help clear out the Late Stage high-grade Yao Beasts in Banzhu Mountain.
He planned to clear the spiritual field tomorrow, then go into the mountains to find a water source and divert a stream down, which would make life much more convenient in the future... At Mao hour (5-7 AM) the next day, Xia Jingxing woke up due to his biological clock. Outside, the sky was already showing the white of dawn.
He took some ghost face grass and fed it to the Medicine Seeking Badger, then threw five or six bamboo shoots into the Hog Badger pen.
Soon after, 'hiss-grunt!' sounds echoed in the courtyard.
Xia Jingxing, meanwhile, went to the two acres of spiritual field he had cultivated yesterday.
The soil had already become much softer.
He repeated yesterday's method, starting to weed and cultivate the spiritual field.
Two hours passed in a flash.
The sun was already scorching. Fortunately, he had the spiritual rake to help, otherwise, he would have been exhausted cultivating these few acres of spiritual field.
The main reason was the many weeds in the field, which had to be pulled out root and all.
At this point, he had cultivated six acres, bringing the total to eight acres including the previous two.
After all, there was a first-grade Spiritual Vein underground, although it was only Low Grade, it could support more than ten acres of spiritual field. However, he also needed to cultivate, so he only cultivated eight acres.
The ghost face grass dug out from the spiritual field was collected separately by him in one place, to serve as the Medicine Seeking Badger's future food.
He used the Object Manipulation Technique to pile the remaining rotten bamboo pieces and a large amount of weeds in the center of the six acres of spiritual field and began to burn them.
After burying the charcoal ash into the soil with the Earth Splitting Technique, he then brought down a small patch of spiritual rain.
After finishing these tasks, he changed into convenient, tight-fitting clothes and plunged into the dense forest not far from the spiritual field.
“So hot! So hot!”
“You stepped on me!”
“So thirsty! So thirsty!”
After Xia Jingxing released his ability, the voices of the surrounding spiritual plants came through.
Banzhu Mountain is quite large, and there are very few trees near the central flat ground. When exposed to the midday sun, the ground moisture evaporates, and the air becomes hot and dry.
“Don't climb on me!”
“It's so itchy!”
The frustrated inner thoughts of a tree next to Xia Jingxing came through.
He glanced over and saw a black venomous snake with golden circular patterns on its scales climbing up a tree trunk less than three feet away from him.
“This snake must be highly poisonous!”
Xia Jingxing immediately left quickly.
As he walked further in, the vegetation became denser, and the number of spiritual insects and Spirit Beasts increased.
He also used his experience to harvest many Spirit Medicine, but their value was not great, and their talent was even worse.
‘Swish swish!’
“So painful!”
“So painful!”
“You stepped on me to death!”
His black iron machete merely swung a few times, and all the vegetation blocking his path was cut down.
He did have a first-grade Medium Grade Xuanhuang Sword, made of Xuanhuang Iron, and its power was quite good.
However, using it to clear a path seemed a bit extravagant.
A moment later, he heard different plant voices in his ears.
“I'm absorbing! I'm absorbing!”
“So comfortable!”
“I really want the sun!”
He stepped on the ground; the soil here was softer than the soil behind him.
“The water source should be nearby!”
His face showed joy.
This place was less than three hundred feet from the spiritual field, still considered the outer edge of the dense forest. Finding a way to divert the water flow was completely feasible.
A moment later, he quickly found a water source by following the plant voices.
A small stream gushed out from a crack in the mountain gorge. The water flow was quite fast, and the volume of water was not small.
“You stepped on me!”
“So heavy!”
Hearing this sound, Xia Jingxing quickly replaced the black iron machete in his hand with the Xuanhuang Sword, staring vigilantly in the direction of the sound.
‘Swish swish!’
‘Roar——’
A huge, green, one-horned lizard lunged at him. Its scales shimmered with a dark green luster, and a massive deep pit appeared on the ground with each stomp of its black claws.
A pink tongue shot out from its mouth.
Sliurp——
“A Qi Condensation Fourth Layer giant lizard!”
Xia Jingxing did not relax his guard just because the lizard Yao Beast had the same cultivation as him.
His combat experience was too poor, and he only had two offensive spells: Golden Sword Art and Fireball Art.
His footwork was only Gale Steps, and he hadn't even mastered it.
The main reason was that his original body was uneducated and unskilled. Even if he practiced desperately for a month, it would be difficult to make up for it.
Fortunately, he had bought many Talismans for self-defense, but for now, he still needed to fight as much as possible to improve his skills.
His gaze was like a torch, fixed on the green lizard whose eyes were darting around. His steps constantly followed the lizard's movements.
This stream should be the green lizard's territory. He had intruded rashly, making the other party angry.
‘Roar——’ The green lizard could no longer hold back and charged at Xia Jingxing, spewing several mouthfuls of putrid venom that corroded the ground.
He dodged with a swift step, then cast the Golden Sword Art.
The Xuanhuang Sword burst forth with a golden light, its blade instantly becoming much sharper.
‘Swish swish!’ He swung the Xuanhuang Sword, immediately shooting out several golden sword blades.
‘Bang bang!’
The green lizard quickly dodged, then shot out its pink tongue, wrapping it around the Xuanhuang Sword.
The tongue tightly entangled the Xuanhuang Sword with its mucus, and he felt a strain in his right hand.
“Its abdomen is actually injured?”
Xia Jingxing's expression showed surprise for a moment when he saw the slightly festering abdomen of the lizard.
Banzhu Mountain, not to mention being uninhabited for years, had at least seen very few people in recent years.
This festering abdomen had already scabbed over. The date seemed no more than half a month ago, but it also couldn't have formed in just a few days.
It shouldn't have been Li Biao's doing.
It could only mean that outsiders had set foot in Banzhu Mountain half a month ago.
Thinking this, Xia Jingxing had a plan in mind.
In these years, the Foundation Establishment Wang Family and Lin Family frequently harassed the Family's territory, either sending people to infiltrate and investigate or secretly plundering the Family's resources.
Perhaps a Family wanted to make a move from near Banzhu Mountain.
The opponent's strength was unclear, so he still needed to be careful when entering the mountains in the future.
He took out the black iron machete with his backhand and chopped at the tip of the tongue.
‘Swish!’ The green lizard's tongue was cut off, spilling a lot of blood.
‘Hiss-roar——’ The green lizard howled in pain.
Seeing this, Xia Jingxing took several swift steps and threw a few Exploding Talismans at the green lizard's abdomen.
With several ‘bang bang’ sounds, the green lizard's abdomen was blown to smithereens, with various bits of flesh falling to the ground.
The green lizard was already severely wounded due to its festering abdomen; now, with the critical strike from the Exploding Talismans, its injuries worsened, and it was at its last gasp.
Without another word, he struck directly at the Yao Beast's heart.
Chii! The green lizard's breath instantly vanished.
“Fortunately, the skills I honed in the apocalypse are still there, otherwise, I would have suffered a loss.”
He walked to the green lizard's corpse and put it away.
Although its cultivation was low, selling it could still fetch some money.
Xia Jingxing went to where the green lizard had lunged and saw a five-pointed star-shaped flower with a moonlight hue blooming in the corner.
【Name: Star-Moon Grass
Talent Attribute: Moonlight Body Refining】
【Cannot be absorbed】
“Body Refining talent? That's not bad!”
It was a pity it wasn't planted by him, otherwise, he could have absorbed the talent.
However, the medicinal properties of the Star-Moon Flower could enhance the defense of the Physical Body, so it was still a gain.
The green lizard must have built its nest near this Star-Moon Grass after being severely injured, in order to heal its wounds, waiting for it to mature for consumption.
However, it just happened to mature when he went into the mountains to find a water source.
“Now it benefits me!”
Although his Dantian was repaired, his Physical Body was still too weak and had not reached the Qi Condensation Fourth Layer, which was mismatched with his cultivation. With this Star-Moon Flower, he should be able to improve it.