"I hope... I can still have good luck entering the mountain this time..."
"I hope... my father's illness will get better..."
The young man who was walking alone in the wilderness had a slightly thin figure and a red face. He was carrying a rough bamboo basket on his back. The path under his feet leads to a high mountain named Qilan. The purpose of this boy going up the mountain is to collect some medicinal materials. This is already his fourth visit to Qilan Mountain this month.
Qilan Mountain is also the most dangerous mountain in Lihuo City. In the Dark Night Continent, there are high mountains and deep valleys everywhere. It can even be said that the cities in the Dark Night Continent are among the mountains. Almost every city is surrounded by mountains on all sides. And the Qilan Mountain in Lihuo City is very famous in the entire Dark Night Continent.
There are a lot of medicinal materials produced in Qilan Mountain, but almost all of them are ordinary medicinal materials with relatively low grades. Even so, there are still some poor humans who work hard to climb Qilan Mountain every day to collect those medicinal materials that are not very valuable.
The reason why Qilan Mountain is famous is not the medicinal materials it produces, but its steep terrain. Even some acquired practitioners will encounter some fatal dangers if they want to climb Qilan Mountain.
Every day, many people die in the Qilan Mountains. According to legend, the bones under the cliff of Qilan Mountain have covered the entire valley, and it is impossible to count them.
It is also because of this that the amount of medicinal herbs on Qilan Mountain has always been more than that of other mountains. Compared with some other mountain peaks, climbing Qilan Mountain has a greater chance of successfully collecting medicinal materials.
However, no one does not cherish their lives. Therefore, those who climbed Qilan Mountain were generally very poor human beings who urgently needed money. This boy is such a young man.
His father was seriously ill. In order to treat his father's illness, he has often climbed Qilan Mountain since he was fifteen years old. His luck is very good, in the past year or so, he has always been able to collect some medicinal materials. Although he encountered many dangers, he still survived tenaciously.
Sometimes, he really wanted to never wake up from his sleep forever, but when he thought of his father, who was still suffering from illness, he would carry his bamboo basket on his back and head to Qilan Mountain again.
Xia Yan has been flying slowly in the air, following the boy. Time passed slowly, Xia Yan was not in a hurry to attack the boy. Of course Xia Yan could feel that this young man was just an ordinary person. Judging from the boy's attire and the old bamboo basket on his back, the boy should be collecting something.
In Xia Yan's sight, the precipitous Qilan Mountain twenty miles away was not vague.
Xia Yan saw that although the young man was thin, his eyes were piercing. It was the belief in his heart, giving him hope and expectation.
The boy's eyes reminded Xia Yan of himself a few years ago. At that time, I was also an ordinary person who couldn't get through a single martial arts meridian. It is precisely because of the persistence and belief in my heart that I have never given up.
At this time, Xia Yan saw another plainly dressed young man in his twenties walking towards the boy in front of the path the boy was walking on. The young man was also carrying a bamboo basket, and in the bamboo basket were two plants of the lowest grade medicinal herbs.
There was a contented smile on the face of the boy in his twenties.
After a while, the two met. These two people turned out to be familiar with each other. After meeting, both of them stopped.
"Xu Ming, what are you... don't tell me, you plan to go to the mountains to collect herbs again?!" The young man in his twenties showed surprise when he saw Xu Ming, and asked in a surprised voice.
"Hehe, Brother Mo, you went up the mountain three days ago, so you must have had a good harvest now, right?!" The young man looked at the older youth and said with a smile.
"Well, I have collected two primary herbs." The young man surnamed Mo smiled, and then said, "Xu Ming, you really worked hard! You just came down from Qilan Mountain three days ago, and now you are going up again. Three days ago, didn't you pick an intermediate herb?!"
Every time you go up the mountain, it is tantamount to a gamble, and the gamble is your life. Anyone who climbed Qilan Mountain in the day after tomorrow may die at any time, let alone these ordinary people.
Hearing what the young man surnamed Mo said, Xu Ming's face darkened a little.
"Xu Ming, I know you are worried about your father's illness and want to cure him, but you can't be so disregarding yourself! Your father is the only family member left now, if you are gone, then you Who will take care of father?!" The young man surnamed Mo sighed.
This young man surnamed Mo is obviously familiar with Xu Ming.
Xia Yan was in the air, listening to the conversation between the two.
"Brother Mo, I understand everything you said, but..." Xu Ming said with a sad face, "You know the situation in my family. In order to treat my father, I owe a lot of debts. I was lucky three days ago. A mid-level medicinal herb was sold for thirty-five gold coins. But before the gold coins had time to buy medicine for his father, Zhang Fang took them away."
Xuming owes the loan to that Zhang.
"Zhang Fang?!" Brother Mo gritted his teeth when he heard the name, and said angrily, "This villain bullies the good and fears the evil, and sooner or later there will be retribution."
"Oh..." Xu Ming sighed, his eyes lit up immediately, and he said expectantly, "I hope this time, I can collect another medium-grade medicinal herb... Hehe, if I can collect two, then I can see Zhang Fang The debt has been paid off."
"Well! Xu Ming, then you have to be careful. Recently I heard that there are a few wild beasts that often appear in the mountains, and many people who go to the mountains to collect herbs are eaten by the wild beasts." Brother Mo said with a serious face.
"Well, I'll be careful!" Xu Ming nodded with a determined expression, "Brother Mo, then I'm going up the mountain! I won't go down the mountain until I collect the medicinal materials."
"You go, don't worry about your father. I will take care of your father in the next few days." Brother Mo nodded.
At the foot of Qilan Mountain!
"It's here!" Xuming stood at the foot of the mountain, stopped his thin body, looked towards the mountain, and muttered, "My kindness, please let me pick another medium-grade medicinal herb! Then, I will have money to give to my father." Buy medicine!"
After speaking, Xu Ming began to climb the mountain.
This Qilan Mountain is indeed very steep. From the foot of the mountain, it is very steep. It does take a lot of strength to climb the mountain, no wonder many acquired practitioners are reluctant to come.
As for innate practitioners, they rarely come to Qilan Mountain. On this Qilan Mountain, there are very few intermediate medicinal materials, and almost all of them are primary medicinal materials. For the innately strong, it is not worthwhile to spend so much time looking for some primary medicinal materials!
It took Xu Ming three full hours to climb the first mountain that seemed to be the shortest. And this first mountain has been searched by countless people, so it is impossible to find medicinal materials.
If you want to collect medicinal materials, you must continue to climb the second mountain. On the second mountain, if you are lucky, you will find some primary medicinal materials.
When he reached the first mountain peak, Xu Ming wiped his sweat, took out a shriveled black biscuit from his chest, and chewed it.
He didn't even know that there was a person above him who had been watching him patiently.
After eating the biscuits, Xu Ming started climbing the second mountain without resting. This second mountain peak is more dangerous than the first mountain peak.
It took a total of five hours before Xu Ming found a gentler place to rest in the middle of the second mountain peak. At this time, it was early morning, and the sun was shining on the earth again.
Xu Ming, who was wearing thin clothes, didn't seem to feel the cold air in the mountains. After resting for a while, he stood up again and continued to climb upwards.
In the afternoon, Xu Ming finally climbed the second mountain. When you get here, you can see endless mountain peaks. To find herbs, one has to keep turning from one mountain peak to another.
With any luck, you can find some herbs that grow in dangerous places. Even primary herbs are not so easy to find.
Time, another day has passed!
Xu Ming still found nothing.
"It would be great if there was another biscuit..." Xu Ming sat under a tree trunk, looked at the distant mountain peaks, and said to himself. He touched his abdomen, and there were cooing sounds from time to time.
Xia Yan noticed that Xu Ming hadn't eaten dry food for more than ten hours. Xia Yan felt that Xu Ming might have run out of dry food. The first time Xu Ming went to the mountain, he only brought three sesame seed cakes, and they were three black, hard and slightly moldy sesame seed cakes. Xia Yan couldn't help shaking his head.
"This Xu Ming is much more miserable than I was..." Xia Yan couldn't help feeling compassionate. In fact, Xia Yan doesn't have any hatred towards the people of Dark Night Continent. Besides, Xia Yan's mother is from the Dark Night Continent. Speaking of which, Xia Yan himself is considered half of the Dark Night Continent.
"Forget it, since I met you and let me know your situation, I will help you!" Xia Yan said in his heart.
Afterwards, Xia Yan's figure quickly fell into the distant mountain peak. The awareness spread, and the entire mountain was under Xia Yan's investigation.
"Primary herbs... don't..."
"It's still a primary medicinal material..."
"It's primary medicinal materials again. Why are there so few intermediate medicinal materials on this mountain?!" Xia Yan frowned slightly, and continued to search for the next mountain peak.
After a stick of incense time!
"Hehe, I finally found a mid-level medicinal material, which should be able to sell for dozens of gold coins." Xia Yan made a casual move, and the mid-level medicinal material that grew on a rock wall fell into Xia Yan's hands.
"I'm afraid one plant is not enough, I'll look for it again!" After thinking about it, Xia Yan's figure appeared on another mountain peak.
"That's right, it only took half a cup of tea this time, and I found another one. Hey, no, it turned out to be three mid-level medicinal herbs growing together!" Xia Yan's face beamed with joy, and with a flick of his fingers, a burst of spiritual power emanated. Three blue herbs came into Xia Yan's hands.