Chen Lin came to the glowing leaves and picked one.
After observing it for a while, he said, "Can this kind of leaf strengthen the body?"
He just inquired and learned that this tree is called the bone-eating tree. Eating the crushed leaves will cause people to experience bone-eating pain, but as long as they can endure it, it can greatly strengthen their physical fitness.
Even if you don't practice body-building techniques, you can still gain power beyond that of ordinary people.
It's magical.
The older the tree is, the better the effect of its leaves will be. If it reaches a certain age, it will also bloom and bear fruit, and the fruit will have a stronger body-building effect.
The reason why people here are tall and strong is because they use this kind of leaves to strengthen their bodies.
The white-browed old man asked the others to go back to the village to report the news, and he followed Chen Lin.
After hearing the question, he replied: "Reporting to the Immortal, it is indeed effective, but the few bone-eating trees in our tribe are not that old, so the effect is not great. If the Immortal needs it, I still have some leaves that are about a hundred years old, which can be given to the Immortal."
Chen Lin became very interested and looked at the other party and said, "Oh? Since you have a hundred-year-old leaf, there must be a hundred-year-old bone-eating tree. Where is it?"
A hundred-year-old tree will bear fruit, and this fruit might be helpful to his Vajra Body Refining Technique.
The old man hesitated for a moment and said, "To be honest, Immortal, thousands of miles southwest of here, there is a mountain that is always on fire. It is called the Flame Mountain. There are many bone-eating trees in the mountain. Not to mention those that are a hundred years old, there are even thousand-year-old ones. However, there are many powerful beasts there, and no one dares to go deep into it. We only send people to pick some from the outside at specific times and bring them back for use."
"Flame Mountain?"
Chen Lin was stunned by the name, and asked with a strange look on his face: "What kind of strange beasts are there? Are there any cows with two horns?"
Where there is Flaming Mountain, there must be the Bull Demon King.
Originally he just asked casually as a joke, but the old man nodded and said, "So the Immortal also knows that place. Yes, the strange beasts there are indeed mostly in the shape of two-horned bulls, called black magic bulls. Not only are they huge and powerful, they can also breathe fire, which is very powerful."
There really is a bull monster.
Chen Lin knew that this was just a coincidence, but he also felt it was very strange. If he had the chance, he would go and check it out.
But before going there, you still need to find out the specific situation there.
After looking at the tree for a while, Chen Lin and the old man walked into the village. At this time, the villagers who heard the news had already arrived at the entrance of the village. After seeing Chen Lin, they kowtowed again.
This method made him feel uncomfortable, but he had no intention of changing the custom.
He was just a passer-by.
Chen Lin stayed in the village temporarily.
The old man with white eyebrows turned out to be the leader of the tribe, named Teng Huawu, who gave up his own residence for him to live in.
He wasn't polite either.
The other party was trying to please him because he saved his life, but he also wanted to gain some benefits from him.
For example, skills, spells, elixirs, talismans, etc.
Of course, if what the other party did satisfied him, he would not be stingy. He had stored a lot of low-level items before, but they were of no use to him now, and the value was too low to exchange them for resources.
As for why he chose to stay here instead of going directly to the Mogan City mentioned by the old man, it was mainly because he wanted to get some information first, and also to let the people in the tribe help him collect the fairy stones.
"Sir, we have almost collected all the surrounding areas. The strange stones you want are all here."
Half a month later, Chen Lin was instructing a young boy in his practice when he heard the voice of the white-browed old man outside.
Chen Lin shook his sleeves and the door opened without wind, causing the boy in front of him to be envious.
Behind the white-browed old man were two burly men, carrying a leather bag that was bulging and looked very heavy.
So many fairy stones made Chen Lin happy and worried.
The more of this stuff the better, but it can't be put into the storage bag, so he can't carry it with him!
"Okay, let's put it here first."
He nodded, and the two big men left respectfully after hearing this.
Chen Lin led the white-browed old man into the house and asked, "Have the practitioners here not found any use for this strange stone? Is there any way to store and carry it in large quantities?"
The people here also know the abnormality of this stone, and gave it a name called strange stone. It is said that there were more of them in the past than now, but with the rise of exploration of the demon world in the Starry Continent, more and more people have ventured to collect this stone, causing the number to continue to decrease.
He himself once hired an adventure team at a large sum of money to come here to collect fire.
However, it seems that no one here has explored the demon world, and no one knows the use of this stone. It may also be that this tribe is too remote and backward, with little information, and is unaware of the relevant situation.
The white-browed old man shook his head.
"Replying to the Immortal, although this strange stone can isolate the alien energy in the world, it also isolates the immortal energy entangled with the alien energy. It cannot be used for cultivation, nor can it be used to forge magical instruments, so it does not have much value."
"A method to carry a large amount of it?" The old man pondered for a moment and said, "This thing seems to contain some kind of life force. It cannot be stored in the storage bag. It can only be carried by brute force."
Chen Lin nodded and didn't dwell on this issue anymore.
It is common sense that storage bags cannot accommodate living beings. If one wants to accommodate living beings, one must have a super space treasure that can refine a small world within it.
However, treasures of that level were far beyond his current reach, and it was impossible for them to exist in this world.
As for the spirit beast bag, that is a special case.
The prerequisite for the spirit beast bag to store spirit beasts is that the spirit beast needs to establish a contractual connection with the spirit beast bag so as to absorb a small amount of energy from the outside world. Therefore, spirit beast bags are special-purpose and can only hold one spirit beast.
Moreover, after the spirit beast enters the spirit beast bag, it is in a dormant state, which consumes a lot of energy itself.
There was no way to store them, so Chen Lin could only temporarily take some out and put them in the package for backup.
The rest will be stored here, and when we arrive in Mogan City later, we will ask the old man to send someone to deliver it via the communication talisman.
Since we have come here once, we certainly cannot just collect this little bit, we have to continue collecting in large quantities.
However, if this is the case, it would probably be a lot of trouble for him to bring all the immortal stones across the Wuding Sea back to the southern immortal cultivation world.
"Sir, what is the aptitude of my useless grandson? Is there any hope for him to become a sir?"
The old man glanced at the boy who was a little reserved beside him and asked carefully.
Chen Lin nodded and said, "The aptitude is still good. If you are talking about building a foundation, there is still hope. As for whether you can form a pill, it depends on luck."
As long as people here reach the foundation-building stage, they become immortals, which means they have drawn the line between themselves and ordinary practitioners and have become immortals.
In fact, it is the same in the Starry Continent. People in the Qi training stage are not considered real cultivators. After all, their lifespan is the same as that of ordinary people and there has been no qualitative change.
But here, if a tribe has a "superior", it will be very different.
Not only will it attract many small tribes to come and join it, but it will also allow them to go hunting in more distant places and look for more advanced cultivation resources.
In short, if the tribe wants to develop, a supreme immortal is the minimum requirement. It is no wonder that the old man cares so much about his grandson. He tries so hard to please Chen Lin because he sees that Chen Lin is an outsider cultivator and wants to win an opportunity for his grandson.
When the old man heard Chen Lin say that his grandson had good talents, a look of joy appeared on his face.
After hesitating for a long time, he gritted his teeth and knelt on the ground, saying: "Your Excellency, I know of a secret place where there is a rare treasure. I would like to present this information to you and beg you to accept my grandson as your disciple!"
Chen Lin raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at the old man in surprise.
With a push of his hand in the air, the old man stood up from the ground involuntarily.
"Where is the secret place and what treasures are there? Tell me about it."
He didn't think that the other party could say anything shocking. The vision of a Qi-cultivating cultivator was limited, and the so-called treasures might be completely useless in his eyes.
For example, when he escaped from Kaiyuan City, he saw the withered vine spiritual fruit in the cave of Duanmeng Mountains. He regarded it as a treasure at that time, but now even if he was told where it was, he might not be interested in picking it.
Seeing that Chen Lin did not directly refuse, the old man felt hopeful and immediately excitedly took out a scroll and a token from his storage bag.
Chen Lin took a glance and became interested.
This scroll is not made of ordinary material, and judging from its shape and color, it looks a bit like something from the ancient times.
Before the natural disaster, the Falling Star Continent, like the Starry Continent, also had a cultivation civilization. If it was something from ancient cultivation, it might really give him a surprise.
He took the scroll in his hand and unfolded it to reveal a map.
"Since you are sure that the map depicts a secret place with treasures, you must have been there?"
Chen Lin looked at him for a few seconds and then looked away, looking at the old man.
The old man hurriedly responded, "Reporting to the Immortal, the location on the map is Qingya Mountain, which is very far from here, thousands of miles away."
After a pause, he smiled bitterly and said, "To be honest, Immortal, I was once the young master of the largest tribe in Qingya Mountain, the Qinglang Tribe. Because there was a traitor in the tribe, foreign enemies came and killed my father and all the tribe members. Only I escaped with my life because I went out and never returned. I fled all the way and finally came here."
Chen Lin listened to the other party's narration calmly without any expression.
In the world of cultivating immortals, intrigues and deceptions are played out all the time, murders are committed for treasures, and the extermination of families is also commonplace, but it does not cause any waves in his heart.
Seeing Chen Lin's expression, the old man did not continue to tell his bloody story.
Changing the subject, he said, "The secret place on the map is deep in Qingshan Cliff. Qingshan Cliff is extremely dangerous, but there is a secret passage that was discovered by my ancestors. The reason why our family was able to build a large tribe is because we got the treasure in that secret place!"