—My ear just touched something.
Chu Qi held his breath, trying to calm himself down.
However, after he held his breath, his hearing became exceptionally clear.
First, he heard the sound of the spirit sword cutting through the air, then the rustling of grass and trees, and finally the sound of Chu Qi's own heartbeat.
Boom boom boom!
Like the sound of a dull drum, it became faster and faster, spreading from the chest to all parts of the body, and finally lingering in Chu Qi's ears, lingering.
It was as if it was constantly reminding him how vivid the touch just now was.
It was not until Chu Qi secretly performed two Qingxin Jue techniques on himself that those intense emotional reactions eased a little.
Chu Qi ignored the accidental contact between the two and pretended to be calm. He asked Yan Jiuge, "I... what did you call me for just now?"
“…” The person behind him did not respond immediately.
After what happened just now, Chu Qi was too embarrassed to turn around again. This kind of thing once was already very frightening. If it happened a second time, Chu Qi couldn't guarantee that he would fall off the Long Yin Sword.
After hesitating for a while, Chu Qi slowly called out, "...Ayan?"
"I just wanted to ask you where the specific location of the natural treasures is and whether we need to make adjustments according to the current direction."
Yan Jiuge's voice came slowly from behind Chu Qi, and his voice was a little softer than usual.
Both of them tacitly ignored the previous accident, and the tense atmosphere was slightly eased.
"Let me feel it again."
Chu Qi said in a low voice.
Because of the previous touch, Chu Qi had long forgotten the exact location, but fortunately his perception was still there and he did not delay his work.
After sensing it, Chu Qi opened his eyes and said, "Go two miles to the right and you will be there."
"good."
Yan Jiuge responded.
His deep gaze quickly swept across the tip of Chu Qi's ear, and then he forced himself to look away and turn his attention to the surrounding environment.
Under Yan Jiuge's will, the Long Yin Sword sped up and soon arrived at the place Chu Qi said.
*
The treasure land that Chu Qi sensed was still in the forest, but the terrain had changed slightly, as if it was deep in the mountains.
Under the intertwined branches of green trees and the contrasting grass leaves, there is a spiritual spring that is quietly emitting rich spiritual energy. The spiritual spring is surrounded by rare and precious herbs, most of which can be used to refine spiritual medicine.
Yan Jiuge brought Chu Qi to stop not far from the spiritual spring, to prevent his sword energy from interfering with the spiritual energy of the herbs.
Putting away the Longyin Sword, Yan Jiuge isolated the aura from his body and walked towards the spiritual spring with Chu Qi.
"The herbs here grow really well. They are all high-level treasures. Some of them take three or four years to grow on Zhongling Peak."
Chu Qi's eyes were filled with surprise.
Ever since Chu Qi became a medical practitioner, he would use his own spiritual power to irrigate the herbs after practicing every day.
Some low-level herbs can mature in a few days at the fastest, and no more than half a month at the most. But as the grade of the herbs increases, the growth time will be longer.
Especially the few red-leaf golden grasses in front of you, which are one of the main herbs for refining the Infant-forming Pill.
Chu Qi had been planning for him and Yan Jiuge to have a baby two years ago. But the red leaf golden grass matured too slowly, and when they went out to train, the herbs planted on Zhongling Peak were still not ripe.
I didn’t expect to find mature red-leaf golden grass in the Yunxi Secret Realm. It was really a great harvest.
Chu Qi took out the herb hoe from his Qiankun bag and said to the person beside him, "Ayan, I'll pick these herbs first. Can you wait for me for a while?"
"Don't you want my help picking them?" Yan Jiuge asked him.
Chu Qi shook his head. "The process of picking these herbs is more complicated, not as convenient as picking low-level herbs."
When picking high-level herbs, he needs to wrap the roots of the herbs with his spiritual power, then carefully take them out of the soil and store them in a jade box.
Yan Jiuge has the spirit root of fire. If he sends his spiritual power to the roots of the herb, it may burn the herb to death.
"Okay." Upon hearing this, Yan Jiuge did not insist and stood three feet away from Chu Qi, guarding him.
His eyes looked around aimlessly, but always ended up falling on the tip of Chu Qi's ear, which was slightly crimson.
Yan Jiuge pursed his lips, and his mind couldn't help but recall the scene just now, where Ah Qi's face was flushed and he looked at a loss.
Ah Qi was thin-skinned and easily shy in the past, but this time was very different.
Yan Jiuge couldn't tell exactly what the difference was.
Anyway, Ah Qi looked very nice when he blushed just now.
"… "
After Yan Jiuge thought about the scene in his memory twice, Chu Qi on the other side finally picked all the herbs beside the spiritual spring and began to share his harvest with Yan Jiuge.
"There are a total of thirty high-level herbs, and two herbs for refining infant-forming pills. When we return to Tianxuan Sect, I can start trying to refine infant-forming pills."
"Yeah." Yan Jiuge came back to his senses, looking at Chu Qi's happy face, his mood also brightened, "Have you finished picking them all?"
"We've finished picking, let's go." Chu Qi performed a cleansing spell to wash away the dirt on his hands from picking herbs.
"Wait a minute, take this spiritual spring with you. In the future, you won't have to work so hard to irrigate the herbs with spiritual energy. You can just use the spiritual spring water to irrigate them."
"Hmm? Are you taking the spiritual spring with you as well?"
Hearing Yan Jiuge's words, Chu Qi paused, glanced at the quiet spiritual spring beside him, and said hesitantly, "But such a large spiritual spring, the Qiankun bag can't hold it."
"I just sensed that this spiritual spring has a spring hole. If we dig out the spring hole and take it away, and move it to Zhongling Peak in the future, we will be able to produce another spiritual spring."
Yan Jiuge answered.
There is some truth in this.
The herbs Chu Qi picked just now all grew dependent on this spiritual spring. If he could get another spiritual spring on Zhongling Peak, even if Chu Qi went out for training, his master and sisters would be able to use the spring water to irrigate the herbs without having to work so hard.
"Then how can we dig out the spring of the spiritual spring?" Chu Qi looked at Yan Jiuge again.
"I will separate the spring water later, and you can send spiritual power to the middle. These unintelligent spirits will usually flee to a comfortable place."
As Yan Jiuge spoke, he pulled out the Long Yin Sword from the scabbard at his waist.
Yan Jiuge has a fire spirit root and is also a sword cultivator. If he cuts it with his sword, the spiritual spring will definitely have nowhere to go. If there is a gentle wood spirit root aura outside at the same time, it will stick to it spontaneously.
"Okay." Chu Qi nodded, then he remembered something and said with emotion, "We grew up together, how come you know so much outside?"
Yan Jiuge: “…”
He paused, then slowly spoke as if explaining, "Sword cultivators go out for training more often. I occasionally hear other fellow disciples talk about it."
Chu Qi: “That’s right.”
In fact, even if Liu Weiming was present, he might not be able to sense the spring of the spiritual spring, let alone find a way to bring the spring back.
The reason why Yan Jiuge knew so much was that the Yan family had passed the inheritance into his sea of consciousness since he was born.
Seeing the doubts on Chu Qi's face fade away, Yan Jiuge relaxed and then walked towards the spiritual spring with the Long Yin sword.
The spiritual power was transferred to the blade of the Long Yin Sword, and the sword body made a slight sound. Suddenly, the sword intent became powerful, and the majestic momentum was like a dragon emerging from the sea.
"!"
A sharp sword energy fell from the spiritual spring.
The murderous aura solidified the atmosphere, and the spiritual spring water didn't even have any waves. It could only spread to both sides along the direction of the sword energy and split into two.
At this time, Chu Qi hurriedly mobilized the spiritual power in his body and sent it towards the empty space in the middle of the spiritual spring.
Almost at the moment when Chu Qi's spiritual power reached the center, a round stone-like object immediately jumped out from the spiritual spring and embedded itself firmly in Chu Qi's spiritual power ball.
Without having the time to take a closer look at what the spring looked like, Chu Qi withdrew his spiritual power.
When the spring fell into Chu Qi's hands, he discovered something strange.
The spring, which was originally only the size of a palm, suddenly expanded to two times its size in Chu Qi's hands, and its silver-white color changed into a layer of golden metallic luster.
Before Chu Qi could come back to his senses, the "spring" in his hand suddenly raised its round head, and a pair of obsidian eyes were looking at him eagerly.
"… "
Isn't this spring the spirit of heaven and earth without any intelligence
Why was the thing that was fished out something that looked a bit like a spiritual beast
"Gurgle."
It spit out a bubble and then rubbed its head on Chu Qi's fingers.
"Aqi, throw it away." Yan Jiuge's voice was cold.
Chu Qi was already confused by this strange little thing, and now after hearing Yan Jiuge's words, he subconsciously let go of his hand.
The little round-headed thing rolled down from Chu Qi's palm.
The next moment, with a "swish", Yan Jiuge's sword energy fell towards that thing.
The sword strike from a late Jindan swordsman came from Yan Jiuge's hand. If the fourth-level spirit beast didn't die, it would be seriously injured.
But the sword energy only broke a layer of skin on the little creature, and did not cause any serious harm. It rolled on the ground in pain, and then suddenly opened its mouth.
Under Chu Qi's shocked gaze, it actually bit Yan Jiuge's Long Yin Sword!
"boom!"
A crisp sound resounded in the silent air, as if something had broken.
No one expected it to turn out this way.
Yan Jiuge's face didn't look very good. He narrowed his eyes and stared intently at the thing that was biting his spirit sword.
"Loosen your mouth."
"idiot."
Perhaps it was because Yan Jiuge's aura was too terrifying, or perhaps its teeth were too painful, it ultimately failed to bite the blade of the Long Yin Sword. The entire body of the beast slid along the Long Yin Sword to the ground and landed at Chu Qi's feet.
The disdain in Yan Jiuge's eyes was evident. After that thing left, he immediately mobilized his spiritual power and re-tempered the Long Yin Sword.
At this time, Chu Qi had just come back to his senses from his state of shock. He looked at Yan Jiuge's Long Yin Sword and found that there were actually a few teeth marks on the magic sword!
The crisp sound of the cracking came from a small tooth.
“Woo woo.”
Meeting Chu Qi's surprised gaze, the unknown spirit beast that had been able to challenge Yan Jiuge's Long Yin Sword head-on just a moment ago, now held its broken teeth and whimpered at Chu Qi.
Chu Qi: “…”
(End of this chapter)