Chapter 75: Method of Obtaining Treasure (Ask for monthly tickets)

As the year-end approached and the winter snows fell, Lin Jue cooked a pot of pork stew to entertain the constable who had braved the wind and snow to deliver a letter.

It was also necessary to kill a pig.

Everyone naturally ate to their heart's content.

Until the next morning, after breakfast, Lin Jue sent the constable down the mountain.

He didn't forget to hand him a pot of wine when going down the mountain.

"This wine was brewed by my Third Shixiong himself. My Third Shixiong is quite good at brewing wine. It's too cold, so drink a little on the way down the mountain. This wine doesn't have much strength, but it can also warm the body."

Lin Jue still dripped a drop of spiritual liquid into the wine.

Although the spiritual liquid he refined cannot be compared with the sun and moon essence of the mountain lord of Langtou Mountain at that time, for ordinary people, it is also a good nourishment.

"Many thanks, many thanks."

The constable thanked him repeatedly and took the gourd.

"If there are monster and ghost matters in the city, although we cultivate in the deep mountains, we are also willing to go down the mountain to add a point of peace to the people."

"Definitely!"

This sentence should be more solemn.

When the constable went down the mountain, he still couldn't help but look back three times every step.

The Daoist temple stood in the wind and snow mountain, and the young Daoist priest and the fox beside his feet were seeing him off.

Is this the legendary Mount Yishan?

The constable murmured to himself in his heart.

Although after arriving here yesterday, the Daoist priests in this Daoist temple did not show much strangeness, but high-level people with cultivation and Dao practice will naturally reflect their demeanor in every move and every word. Coupled with the fact that he, who got up early this morning, happened to see the Daoist priest in the temple practicing spells in the courtyard, he knew even more clearly that this place is a famous mountain and a true temple.

Opening the gourd, smelling a little rice fragrance, carefully drinking a sip, it was like that cup of tea yesterday, the chill on his whole body disappeared without a trace, it was simply extremely refreshing.

The sound of donkey hooves, the constable went down the mountain.

In the wind, snow, and fog, both sides quickly lost sight of each other.

The constable is afraid that he will not return to the county town until night.

It is a busy time.

Lin Jue also has to be busy after returning to the Daoist temple.

The pig was killed only last night and hasn't been cleaned up yet.

The two-headed black pigs that are almost free-range have also been castrated, and the meat quality is visibly good. So he picked the three-line pork belly, ribs, and crispy ribs to make salted meat, so as not to go down the mountain to buy it later.

This place has a tradition of making smelly mandarin fish.

The Seventh Third Shixiong likes to travel and fish everywhere. Since Lin Jue took over the power of cooking, a water pool was dug next to the Daoist temple, specifically used to store and feed the fish he caught. And before Lin Jue came up the mountain, the Third Shixiong in the Daoist temple rarely ate fish. Even if they ate, they roasted it with fire or wrapped it in leaves and put it in the stove to burn. Other ways of cooking were too unpalatable.

At this time, he has to catch a few, make them into smelly mandarin fish, and wait for the New Year to eat.

The pickled vegetables are finished, so they have to be remade.

Also have to go down the mountain to purchase some New Year goods.

Fortunately, not all of these things need Lin Jue to do it himself. The Third Shixiong and Xiao Shimei are also very diligent. All the chores with low technical content can be handed over to them, and they also do it happily.

Coupled with the fact that they are working together to prepare New Year goods for the New Year, and they will eat together at that time, so even if they are busy, it becomes light and pleasant.

A few days later.

Lin Jue took the fox and the Little Xiao Shimei to the mountain.

The mountain is full of strange peaks and strange stones, some connected, some independent, some just a stone pillar. Fuqiu Temple and Xianyuan Temple have the need to communicate, so they built a road in the middle. As for the bottom of this valley, there is neither a road nor any significance for passage. Even many years later, if later generations discover the strange beauty and magnificence of this Mount Yishan, they might build plank roads in the mountain, but it is unlikely that they will build a road here.

"Xiao Shimei, be careful, don't fall."

"Third Shixiong, don't worry, when I was picking spiritual plants and spiritual medicine for you, I have already climbed the mountain many times."

"Didn't fall, right?"

"Hehe..."

The Little Xiao Shimei opened her mouth and smiled.

"Hehe?"

"Fell a few times... but it doesn't hurt!"

"Be careful in the future. If you encounter spiritual plants and spiritual medicine that are not on the roadside, don't go pick them if you can't pick them."

"Hehe..."

"Hehe?"

"Understood!"

Only then did the Little Xiao Shimei say seriously.

At this time, thick clouds and mist are accumulating in the mountain.

Lin Jue and the Little Xiao Shimei walked through the stone mountain clouds and mist, looking for a gentle place, and carefully climbed down.

In a trance, they also seemed to have become monsters in the mountain.

Originally, Lin Jue had picked medicine on the cliff with the Second Third Shixiong several times, thinking that he was already very proficient in rock climbing, but he didn't expect that the Little Xiao Shimei was even more proficient than him. Sometimes there was no place to borrow strength, and she just buckled her palm on the stone wall, and there was a hole just right for buckling her hand to borrow strength, just blowing out some stone powder.

It is worthy of being the one who practiced hard at grinding stones, and it is worthy of being the one who works in the mountain all day long.

Finally reaching the bottom of the valley, both of them breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking up—

Seeing the little fox like an antelope spirit cat, and like a monster in the mountain, actually jumping nimbly between the stone mountain cliffs, jumping to the bottom of the valley level by level.

"Let's go."

"Third Shixiong, how did you find this treasure?" The Little Xiao Shimei asked suspiciously. "I build roads in the mountain every day, and find spiritual medicine for you, running everywhere, you actually found it before me."

"Although I don't come to the mountain as diligently as you, I also often come to the mountain to practice, and often find different places to practice. I have tried to climb up many dangerous stone mountains, and I found it by accident." Lin Jue answered while looking for the direction. "However, it was also Fuyao who saw it first."

"Fuyao, that's no wonder." The Little Xiao Shimei frowned. "Fuyao is so good at climbing mountains."

"It is a cat-fox."

"..."

Fuyao led the way in front, just jumped onto a stone, heard the sound and turned back to look at them.

Suddenly passing a corner, a huge pillar-shaped rock appeared in front, the surface was very irregular, strange-shaped, covered with moss and weeds. The most strange thing is that there is a pine tree growing on the top of the stone mountain.

There is treasure light and strange color under the stone mountain.

The wind blows and the fog goes, the flowing clouds at the bottom of the valley, the stone mountain and the treasure light are looming between the flowing clouds and mist.

Not far away, a flower deer is sitting and practicing.

"Here."

Lin Jue stopped his steps.

"We..."

The Little Xiao Shimei also stopped and turned to look at him.

It was the little fox that continued to walk forward a few steps, jumped nimbly onto the rubble and jumped down, found that Lin Jue didn't walk, turned back to look at him, and then turned back.

"Don't worry."

Lin Jue found a stone near the cliff wall and sat down to observe.

The Little Xiao Shimei was naturally with him.

The fox also followed suit.

It is a small tree growing among the rubble. The trunk is less than wrist-thick and less than half a person high. The treasure light comes from it.

Only by looking closely will you find that the small tree does not emit light itself, but the spiritual energy around it is rich. When it is illuminated by the sun and refracted by the clouds and mist at the bottom of the mountain, it naturally emits light brilliance similar to the spiritual light naturally emitted by practitioners when they collect and guide the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and moon.

The flower deer is sitting under the tree.

After a while, the sun rose a little, and the fog at the bottom of the valley was illuminated thinner.

Just when the Little Xiao Shimei wanted to turn her head and ask her Third Shixiong how long to wait, she heard Third Shixiong say: "Xiao Shimei, do not have evil thoughts, restrain greed."

"Hmm?"

Why remind such a sentence for no reason.

And aren't they here to pick treasures? Why restrain greed in their hearts?

Although there were doubts in her heart, she hurriedly restrained her thoughts.

Just at this time, there was movement above.

The Little Xiao Shimei couldn't help but turn her head—

Then she saw a cloud leopard as big as a fierce tiger coming from above. The mountain in front was dangerous, but it was also strange-shaped. The strange parts of the mountain body became the road for the cloud leopard to walk. I saw it jumping on the steep mountain body, and it reached the bottom of the valley from the mountain in a few jumps, landing nimbly at the bottom of the valley.

This cloud leopard is much bigger than the one of the Fourth Third Shixiong.

As if discovering something strange, the cloud leopard suddenly turned its head and looked at the two people beside the cliff.

The Little Xiao Shimei couldn't help but be vigilant.

Lin Jue stood up and saluted it.

The Little Xiao Shimei was stunned and instinctively followed suit.

The cloud leopard's eyes were bright, staring at them for a long time, as if wondering why they came here. But seeing the two saluting, it didn't show a fierce side.

It took a long time to withdraw its gaze.

Then there were other monsters in the mountain coming.

It was a fat macaque in the mountain, its hair covered with snow, but its face was red, holding a cup made of lotus leaves, walking swayingly.

There was also a black muntjac coming through the snow.

There were birds with five-colored tail feathers flying over, landing on the trees in the mountain, and mountain antelopes jumping down, landing steadily.

There were more and more monsters in the mountain.

The Little Xiao Shimei opened her eyes wide, and as time passed, she relaxed a little, because among these monsters, she saw some monsters that often came to watch her curiously when she was building the road. She naturally knew that these monsters were not of a violent nature.

It's just that these monsters were strange about their arrival, and couldn't help but look at them curiously and suspiciously.

At the same time, they were also waiting.

There was wind and snow in the mountain, and there was sun, the wind and snow fell on these monsters, they were used to it, didn't care at all, the sun shone, all the hair seemed to be glowing, setting them off like elves in the mountain, and there was a spiritual plant in front emitting light.

Looking at this scene, the Little Junior Sister couldn't help but think of the scene on Langtou Mountain at that time.

Unknowingly, the sun moved to the center of the head.

Monsters began to move.

The cloud leopard took the lead, moving leisurely, walking from a big stone to the front of the small tree, actually lowering its head, and spitting out a pure spiritual energy toward the small tree.

The fat macaque also walked forward, raised the lotus leaf, and poured the spiritual water in the middle to the root of the small tree.

The bird with five-colored tail feathers also walked over, dug a small hole at the root of the small tree, didn't know what it was holding, and buried it in.

The Little Xiao Shimei understood, but was even more confused.

This small tree was not discovered by her and Third Shixiong first. These monsters had discovered it long ago, and seemed to have occupied it long ago. They seemed to have reached some kind of agreement among themselves, and were raising it together at this time.

But how did they get this treasure?

So many monsters, don't know how many years they have practiced in the mountain, and can't see the Dao practice. Just relying on the two of them, they can't grab it.

The treasure is not yet formed, what are they doing here?

Is it possible that Third Shixiong just brought her to see the rarity?

When thinking of this, those monsters seemed to have some induction, and gradually some monsters turned their heads and looked at her.

"!"

The Little Xiao Shimei hurriedly restrained her thoughts.

Instead, she looked at Third Shixiong.

"Go!"

But she saw Third Shixiong calm and composed, not in a hurry, walking while taking out three small bottles from his arms, handing one to her, and also handing one to the fox.

"Here is a bottle of spiritual liquid refined from Spirit Mountain Flower, and the remaining two bottles are refined from spiritual plants you brought back from the mountain."

"This is..."

"It's our turn."

All the monsters were staring at them.

Don't know if it was because of the calmness in his heart, or because he had already known the rules, Third Shixiong didn't seem afraid at all, not in a hurry, walked to the front of the small tree, bent down, and poured the spiritual liquid in the bottle to the root of the small tree.

Many monsters opened their eyes round.

This is the pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of spiritual plants after refining, which is obviously more precious than what those monsters paid before.

The monsters stared without blinking.

The Little Xiao Shimei hurriedly followed suit.

The fox also went with the bottle.

The monsters kept staring at their movements.

If this picture was seen by people down the mountain, I am afraid it could also write a strange story.

Until the two people and one fox finished watering the tree and returned to their original positions, these monsters still stayed here for a long time, sometimes looking at them, sometimes looking at the root of the small tree, and sometimes looking at each other, as if they were exchanging opinions.

Lin Jue didn't speak, just saluted them when they looked over, answering with etiquette and sincerity.

Etiquette is on the body.

Sincerity is under the tree.

Why need words?

Until some monsters who had dealt with the Little Junior Sister and Fuqiu Temple first set off and left one after another, it was like a chain reaction, other monsters got up one after another and all left here.

"Third Shixiong..."

The Little Xiao Shimei looked up at him.

"Okay!" Lin Jue smiled. "These monsters come over every seven days. We follow them, and when the spiritual plant bears fruit, we will have a share."

"So that's how it is."

The Little Xiao Shimei figured it out, but didn't understand, still stunned: "But Third Shixiong, how did you know?"

"I didn't know at first, but I heard the Second Third Shixiong say that things in the mountain are born of heaven and earth. In this Mount Yishan, they have always been shared by the creatures in the mountain. Seeing them watering and raising this tree together, I wanted to try if we could join in." Lin Jue paused. "Of course, we joined halfway, so the payment is naturally more precious."

"Then what kind of tree is this?"

"Don't know, anyway it's a good thing. I asked the Second Third Shixiong, and the Second Third Shixiong also said it's a good thing. We will know when it bears fruit."

"Then how do you know it will bear fruit?"

"Even if it's not bearing fruit, it's also blooming flowers or something, hmm, it may also be tree roots. Anyway, so many monsters are feeding it, it must be rewarded." Lin Jue said. "Many of them have practiced in this mountain for many years, and they must know more about things in the mountain than we do."

"Yeah..."

"Walk well."

"Then we also have to come and water it every seven days, and do we need such a bottle of spiritual liquid every time?"

"Don't worry."

There are still many spiritual plants in the Alchemy Pavilion, most of which were picked back by the Little Xiao Shimei. Lin Jue also doesn't know why, going to the mountain, this Little Xiao Shimei's luck is better.

But it doesn't matter, they are all his own.

"Understood."

The Little Xiao Shimei secretly made up her mind that she must pick more spiritual plants back in the future, but she couldn't help but look back while walking, looking at the small tree behind her, showing a thoughtful look.

So that's how it is...

It is also true, this is Mount Yishan, the mountain god sits in town, has its own rules, gathers spiritual beauty, the monsters are simple, although there are ownerless treasures in the mountain, there is not so much wild grabbing.

It's just that it still feels ethereal and trance-like, like a dream. ===== CHAPTER 76 =====