Chapter 389 Unripe Purple-Striped Fruit

Taking this opportunity, Qingyang also taught the Soul Devouring Technique that he bought in the market to the Iron Arm Monkey. Although the monster technique in this book is very simple, the Iron Arm Monkey is only a low-level monster after all, and many things are particularly difficult to understand.

It took Qingyang a lot of effort to let the Iron Arm Monkey master the basic method of Soul Devouring Technique. Seeing the monkey king practicing and swallowing spiritual energy in a similar way, Qingyang was full of relief.

The efficiency of the monkey king's practice was not very high, but he finally took the first step, which was much faster than his own improvement of practice by instinct and growth. In the future, if I have more pills, I can try to teach him to absorb and refine pills, so the practice speed will be faster.

Unknowingly, two months have passed. Perhaps there are more people walking this section of the road, and the surrounding area has been explored countless times by trial disciples. It is very difficult to find good things. Occasionally, some fish that slip through the net are low-level spiritual herbs that have only grown for a few decades.

Several monsters were killed, but they were all monsters that had not entered the rank. Not only were the materials of low value, but they also took up space. Qingyang killed them all and ate their meat, which improved his life. Long-term use of the Bigu Pill was not something that low-rank cultivators like them were used to.

So Qingyang's gains during this period were not very big. A spiritual herb that was several decades old was only worth about one spiritual stone. Adding some monster materials that he could barely appreciate, all the gains added up to less than ten spiritual stones. Ten spiritual stones in two months was higher than the reward in the Farming and Planting Academy, but it was far less than the price paid for it.

For example, Chen Biwang gave Lu Dingshan and Qingyang six hundred spiritual stones to participate in the Chaos Demon Valley Trial before he got the Demon Seeking Order. If he had gained this much, he would probably be angry to death.

Strictly speaking, Qingyang did have other gains. In the past month or so of cultivation, his cultivation had improved a lot. It was easy to feel that his efficiency during this period was much higher than that of cultivation outside. Qingyang estimated that if he put aside other things and practiced with all his heart, he would definitely be able to break through to the fifth level of Qi Refining before the end of the trial.

Of course, this was impossible. Qingyang would not make such a choice after finally getting a chance to take the trial. At Qingyang's age, what he lacked was not the time to practice but the resources to practice. If this was the only gain from this trial in Chaos Demon Valley, he might as well have sold the Demon Seeking Order in exchange for elixirs and stayed in the sect to practice like Lu Dingshan.

Perhaps it was a result of accumulated experience, or perhaps it was Qingyang's time to turn the tide. One day, Qingyang climbed over a stone ridge and accidentally came to a depression. This depression was tens of thousands of acres in size. Perhaps it was because there were too many wild thorns growing around it, and it was more troublesome to clear the road, so it was ignored by people? Such a large area, there might be a lot of good things in it.

Qingyang had not gained much since entering Chaos Demon Valley. This time, he finally found a place that no one else had been to. How could he miss it easily? Qingyang suddenly became interested, took out the Qingzhu Sword, cut through the thorns, and gradually opened a path.

As he went deeper, Qingyang found that his choice was indeed right. Soon he picked a spiritual herb that had grown for more than a hundred years. This spiritual herb can be used to refine a special elixir used by Qi Refining cultivators. It is very common in the world of immortal cultivation and its value is not too high. It can be worth about twenty spiritual stones. Despite this, Qingyang was still excited. The value of this spiritual herb greatly exceeded his previous harvest of two months.

In the next few days, Qingyang spent all his time here, exploring the way during the day and finding a safe place to practice at night. The range of the divine consciousness of a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refining is only a dozen feet. It is not possible to search a depression of tens of thousands of acres in a short time, not to mention that he had to cut through the thorns to open up a path. In four or five days, he only searched most of the entire depression.

However, Qingyang's harvest was not small. In the past four or five days, he found a total of three spiritual herbs here, two of which were over a hundred years old, and one was less than a hundred years old, with a total estimated value of fifty spiritual stones. Fifty in five days, killing people and robbing is just like this, right? If I can get this much every day in the future, this trial will really be prosperous.

Looking at the remaining half of the area, Qingyang became more interested and waved the Qingzhu Sword to split a road in front of him. There seemed to be a flat land in front of him. In the center of the flat land, a spiritual medicine was growing alone. This spiritual medicine was more than three feet tall, with thick roots and stems, and there were many purple patterns on it. It was obvious that it was old.

This... Isn't this a plant that grows purple-striped fruits? Qingyang couldn't help but stop, looking at the spiritual medicine in front of him that was more than three feet tall, and the five fruits on it that were only the size of longans, green and astringent with purple spots, and his heart couldn't help but set off a storm.

When they were in the secret place, they and the Tiger Gang had picked a few purple fruits. At that time, the Immortal Master Na Xiying said that the purple-veined fruit was one of the main ingredients for refining the foundation-building pill. One purple-veined fruit was worth hundreds of spirit stones. However, Qingyang was still an ordinary person at that time, and he could only watch the purple-veined fruit being taken away by the people of Lingxi Valley.

I didn't expect to see one here. The only regret was that this purple-veined fruit was not grown for a long time. It just borne fruit and it was still a long time before it matured.

It takes about 500 years for a purple-striped fruit plant to grow from seeds to germination, flowering and fruiting, and finally maturity. Each plant can produce about four to five fruits, and can only produce fruits once. If the fruits are picked, the plant will quickly die.

If the purple-striped fruit is not picked, even after it matures, the plant will not wither, but will remain alive. Of course, this will consume the medicinal power of the purple-striped fruit. When the medicinal power of the fruit is completely gone, the whole purple-striped fruit will die completely.

According to Qingyang's rough estimate, this plant in front of him has grown for at least 500 years. It will take about 20 to 30 years for the purple-striped fruit to mature.

If someone else encounters this purple-striped fruit, it will definitely be very difficult, because the purple-striped fruit is not fully mature. If it is picked now, the medicinal power of the unripe fruit is less than 20% of the mature fruit. The five fruits added together are not enough to refine a foundation-building pill.

But if they leave the purple-striped fruit here and don’t pick it, they will definitely never have the chance to come back in the future. Wouldn’t this good thing be wasted on others?