Chapter 531 Stone Forest Basin
"That's the best. When you go to collect, be careful. The golden sunflowers with only leaves but no flowers are useless. I want the ones that are in full bloom." Zhao Gui reminded.
"Senior, we have never seen the golden sunflower spirit grass you mentioned. Do you have a picture?" Yuan Ming asked.
Zhao Gui heard this and raised his hand in the air. A ray of light condensed into a phantom of a golden sunflower spirit grass and showed it in front of the three people.
"See clearly, this is it." Zhao Gui said.
The three people silently memorized the appearance of the golden sunflower spirit grass and nodded.
"In addition, the tasks of the three of you are slightly different. This fellow Daoist Yuan needs to collect three golden sunflowers in full bloom. You need to collect six. As for you... you killed two of my people, as compensation, you need to collect twelve." Zhao Gui pointed his finger at the three people one by one.
Yan Xiang was immediately very angry when he heard this, but when he thought of the way to leave, he could only grit his teeth and endure it.
Seeing that the three had no objection, Zhao Gui stepped forward, put his hands together, and cast a spell on Yuan Ming and the other two.
Yuan Ming only felt as if a vague force entered his body, and did not feel the slightest abnormality. He asked uncertainly: "Is that all?"
"Wait until you go out and try it." Zhao Gui waved his hand and said casually.
The three did not dare to delay, and immediately followed the direction Zhao Gui pointed out and walked out of the village.
"Remember, not even one less golden sunflower will do." Zhao Gui's voice came from behind.
Yuan Ming did not look back and waved his hand.
Lei He came to Yuan Ming and asked: "Yuan Daoyou, how did you get rid of your fire poison?"
Not far away, Yan Xiang, who was pressing his hand on his forearm to suppress the fire sore, also pricked up his ears and listened carefully.
"Oh, the leaves of the trees growing in that village can get rid of the fire poison." Yuan Ming said.
Hearing this, Lei He paused and sighed: "Why didn't you say it earlier?"
Yan Xiang's eyes turned red, and he felt that his anger was a little bit uncontrollable again.
"Why didn't you ask earlier? Besides, even if I told you, the senior might not let you enter the village to pick leaves. What do you think?" Yuan Ming spread his hands and asked back.
Lei He sighed in his heart, regretting that he didn't stop Yan Xiang from going crazy just now.
For now, they can only continue to endure. The detoxification can only be discussed after picking flowers.
In order to save time, Yuan Ming and the other two did not dare to delay. After leaving the village, they followed the instructions and headed northeast.
After they walked about 20 or 30 miles, they found that the peach trees around them gradually became sparse, and the vision became much brighter.
Not far away, tall stone pillars with rugged shapes rose from the ground, like hills straight into the sky.
And between the stone pillars, the light red mist almost swallowed up most of the stone pillars, leaving only a small part of the top exposed. It was not bare, and there were dense golden grass growing messily from time to time. From a distance, it looked like a tree crown.
On these "crowns", there would occasionally be a golden flower, which looked completely different from the plants that Yuan Ming and his friends had seen before. The flower bud alone was as big as a truck bed.
The flower bud had four layers from the inside to the outside. The center was a thin strip of petals, and the three outer layers were knife-like leaves. There were also many tiny hairs on the edges. The sunlight passed through the gaps in the hairs, like a hazy halo covering the flower bud.
This seemed to be the golden sunflower spirit grass that Zhao Gui wanted them to pick. Although there were not many of them, they were not difficult to find.
Seeing this, Yuan Ming and his friends were quite surprised, but soon, when they got closer, they realized the real difficulty of the task that Zhao Gui had given them.
All the golden sunflowers they could find within their field of vision were in bud, and even the petals refused to extend a bit. They were all tightly covered to prevent people from seeing the situation inside the heart of the flower.
If they wanted to pick the golden sunflowers that met the requirements, they had to go deep into the stone forest.
The three of them approached the edge of the stone forest, looking at the mist in front of them, and Yan Xiang complained immediately.
"Why are there so many strange restrictions everywhere in this damn place?"
Yuan Ming, who was standing aside, silently probed his spiritual sense, trying to penetrate the mist to find out the situation in the stone forest.
However, as soon as his spiritual sense touched the red mist, a hot poison instantly drilled out and invaded his sea of consciousness along his spiritual sense.
Yuan Ming's expression changed, and he immediately retracted his spiritual sense. However, at this time, the raging fire transformed by the fire poison had already appeared on the sea of consciousness and rushed directly towards his soul.
He made a prompt decision and hurriedly urged his soul power to stop the fire poison and kept flushing it. It was not easy to extinguish it, and he also consumed a lot of soul power, and his face was slightly pale.
Yuan Ming calmed down and turned his head to remind Lei He, but he saw that his and Yan Xiang's faces were uglier than his own. I think they have suffered from the fire poison, so they shut up and said no more.
After a while, Lei He and the others temporarily suppressed the fire poison and looked at the red fog in front of them again. At this moment, Yan Xiang suddenly turned his head and looked at Yuan Ming.
"Boy, it's time to let your spirit beast come out to explore the way."
Yuan Ming's expression remained unchanged: "My spirit beasts are all carefully cultivated, and there are only one or two of them. It is really inconvenient to use them to explore the way. Please forgive me, senior."
Hearing this, Yan Xiang glared at Yuan Ming and was about to speak, but was persuaded by Lei He.
"Okay, time is running out, let's not argue about such a small matter, let me do it."
Lei He said, raised his hand, and another palm-sized bird flew out of the storage bag. After receiving the order, it immediately went into the red fog, stayed for a few breaths, and then emerged again.
Lei He sensed the state of the demon bird and breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that being contaminated by the red fog will not attract the fire poison. Zhao Gui did not specifically remind us when he asked us to come here, so I think it should be fine."
"In this case, let's do as we agreed before and look for our own things to avoid wasting time." Yan Xiang nodded and said immediately.
Among the three people, he had the largest number of golden sunflower spirit herbs to find. When he heard Lei He mention that time was running out, he felt anxious.
Seeing him like this, Lei He suddenly suggested: "Okay, but the three of us should try to find more, in case someone is unlucky and fails to find enough."
Hearing this, Yan Xiang immediately cast a grateful look at Lei He. This statement was obviously to take care of him who needed the most golden sunflowers.
Yuan Ming nodded silently, not intending to conflict with Yan Xiang on these matters.
Then the three of them did not waste any more time, each chose a direction, and went into the red fog.
Yuan Ming walked in the fog for a while, and seeing that there was no one around, he used his mind to do two things at once, quietly controlling the first soul in the Heaven Stealing Cauldron and letting him sit on the lotus platform.
In an instant, the consciousness of the first soul fell around Yuan Ming, easily penetrating the red fog without any hindrance.
However, at this moment, waves of fire poison climbed up the consciousness cast by the first soul, trying to find the location of the soul and burn the soul body of the soul.
However, the fire poison spread and wandered in the consciousness cast by the soul, but it never crossed the space barrier and entered the Heaven Stealing Cauldron.
Seeing this, Yuan Ming secretly said in his heart, as expected, and then ignored the fire poison that could no longer cause any harm, and explored the stone forest through the consciousness of the first soul.
At this time, Lei He and Yan Xiang were also groping forward in the fog. Yuan Ming checked their situation briefly and was about to divert his attention, but suddenly found that there were two fire-breathing beasts wandering on the road ahead of Yan Xiang.
The appearance of the fire-breathing beast is similar to that of a mouse, but it is the size of a middle-aged man. Its hair is as red as flames, and its eyes are yellow. It can spit out fierce fire from its mouth to burn the enemy. Even if a Jindan cultivator encounters it, it will have a headache for a long time.
The red fog in the stone forest restricts the cultivator's spiritual sense exploration, but the fire-breathing beasts do not seem to be affected too much. The two that Yuan Ming found have now discovered Yan Xiang and are quietly approaching, as if they want to launch a surprise attack.
The time to find the blooming golden sunflower is not much. If it is entangled by the monster beast again, even if it will not be injured, it will greatly affect the search speed.
I don't know if Yan Xiang was really unlucky, or if he got cursed by killing the Fire Horn aliens. He didn't even find a golden sunflower, but was found by the Fire Breath Beast. It would be difficult for him to find all the golden sunflower spirit herbs.
Yuan Ming chuckled and stopped paying attention to Yan Xiang, who had already fought with the Fire Breath Beast. The consciousness of the first soul spread out to help him find the traces of the blooming golden sunflower.
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After an incense stick.
In a small open space in the stone forest, a Fire Breath Beast was lying on the ground and sleeping soundly. Suddenly, a sound of breaking air came from not far away. It was alerted immediately, raised its head suddenly, and opened its mouth to spit out flames to resist the enemy, but at this moment, it was suddenly stunned, and a trace of confusion flashed in its eyes.
The next moment, a small hammer wrapped in lightning came over, smashing the head of the Fire Breath Beast, and it was silent on the spot.
Then, Yuan Ming slowly walked out of the red fog, raised his head, and called back the Thunder Hammer.
He walked forward quickly, ignoring the corpse of the Fire Breathing Beast, but carefully squatted five steps away from the corpse and dug up a blooming golden sunflower spiritual grass with its roots.
This was the third blooming golden sunflower he had found, so he had completed the task assigned by Zhao Gui.
Facts have proved that Zhao Gui did not make things difficult for them. Even the blooming golden sunflower was not a rare thing in the stone forest. Only the red fog covering this place was an obstacle. I don’t know why Zhao Gui couldn’t come here in person.
Yuan Ming had the help of the consciousness of the first soul, and he regarded the red fog as nothing. The effort he spent was much less than expected.
Not only that, during his search, he also found several thousand-year-old fire attribute spiritual herbs. Although there were fire breath beasts guarding them, he discovered these monsters in advance, and it was not difficult to solve them without intention.
Yuan Ming collected the bodies of the Golden Sunflower Spiritual Grass and the Fire Breath Beast. He calculated that there was still some time left. There were many spiritual herbs in the stone forest, so he was not in a hurry to go back and continued to search in the stone forest.
But suddenly, he exclaimed lightly, and a trace of surprise flashed across his face.
Through the divine consciousness cast by the first soul, he suddenly found that there was a basin that was larger than this one a little further away. It was surrounded by stone pillars and connected to each other, with only one entrance.
The spiritual herbs in the basin grew particularly vigorously, and there were six or seven golden sunflowers in full bloom, not to mention those that were about to bloom.
The first soul searched around and found that there were no fire breath beasts or other monsters in the basin, which surprised Yuan Ming even more. After all, wherever there are prosperous spiritual herbs, there must be a place where spiritual energy gathers. Monsters like to build caves and nests in such places, unless they encounter a place that is not compatible with them.
The red fog in the stone forest contains fire poison, and the spiritual herbs growing there are all fire attributes. Can there be a place where spiritual energy gathers that is not compatible with the fire breath beast?