Chapter 439 Three Thousand Years of Elixir
This time, he was doing things for himself. It was naturally different from the previous attack on the secret passage formation in the blood river. Qingyang did not dare to be stingy. He took out all the pills and spirit stones to use. Those for replenishing true qi, healing wounds, and restoring divine consciousness, no matter whether they were useful or not, he threw them all into his mouth.
Qingyang even took out a jar of monkey spirit wine that the iron-armed monkey had just brewed from the drunken fairy gourd. After drinking the spirit wine, he was a little drunk and attacked more fiercely.
Such a luxurious use was the first time in Qingyang's life. Of course, the effect was amazing. Qingyang kept using the dual-element sword formation and kept attacking the formation outside the medicine garden, almost without a moment of rest. The consumed true qi could be replenished in the shortest time, always maintaining a vigorous state, and the formation was also changing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The rumbling sound continued, and the formation outside the medicine garden was gradually weakening. Soon an hour passed. In just this short hour, more than a dozen spirit stones were consumed, which can be said to be a huge investment. At this time, Qingyang's face showed a trace of fatigue. It was easy to replenish the true energy, but it was extremely difficult to restore the mind. Such an overload consumption was unbearable for anyone.
Under Qingyang's crazy attack, the energy of the formation was exhausted, and it finally reached the limit of endurance. After a few more attacks, the entire formation suddenly shook and then shattered. The shattered formation turned into a little energy and eventually dissipated in the air.
The formation was broken, revealing the medicine garden inside. The entire medicine garden was only two or three acres in size. Because no one had taken care of it for a long time, the entire medicine garden was overgrown with weeds and looked very dilapidated.
Before the formation was broken, I saw the shadows from outside and thought that all the spiritual herbs were growing in this medicine garden. Now I realize that I was too happy too early. Most of the garden is weeds. There are not many real spiritual herbs. I need to find them slowly.
In order to avoid missing good things, I can only use my divine sense to slowly scan it like I did when I found the purple-striped fruit before. Fortunately, the area of this medicine garden is not large. Even if Qingyang uses divine sense to search inch by inch, it will not waste too much time. Otherwise, he will have to consider other ways. If it takes too long, it will be troublesome when other trial disciples arrive.
As Qingyang walked forward, he used his divine sense to constantly scan the places he passed by, not leaving any corner. Soon, he found several blood spiritual ginsengs in one place. These blood spiritual ginsengs grew in an area, with different ages. There were two plants that were more than a thousand years old, three plants that were hundreds of years old, and the remaining plants were less than a hundred years old. Many of them were already dry and rotten.
Spiritual herbs have high requirements for the growth environment. Those grown in the wild are fine, but spiritual herbs planted by monks need to be taken care of and tended to regularly, just like crops in the secular world. Sometimes, if they are not properly cared for, they will become sick, dry, and rot.
The Blood Demon Sect has been destroyed for more than two thousand years, and there is no blood spirit ginseng here that is more than two thousand years old. Qingyang guessed that most of the blood spirit ginseng that originally grew here have been damaged due to lack of care, leaving only a few plants that have grown until they bloom and bear fruit, and the seeds continue to reproduce. These younger ones should have grown by themselves later.
Blood spirit ginseng is a kind of spiritual medicine commonly used by monks. When refining pills of various levels to improve cultivation, some must be added. As for which specific pills can be used, it mainly depends on the age. Ten-year-old ones can be used to refine Qi-nourishing pills, decades-old ones can be used to refine Qi-gathering pills, hundreds of years-old ones can be used to refine Yuan-nourishing pills, and thousands of years-old ones can be used to refine Yuan-gathering pills. They can be collected at any time without being affected.
Millennium spiritual herbs are extremely rare. The spiritual thoughts of cultivators are powerful. As long as the places are searched by cultivators, not even a hair is left. No matter how old the spiritual herbs are, they will be searched cleanly, almost without omission. Few spiritual herbs in the wild can grow safely for a thousand years.
Generally, they are only planted in the medicine gardens of the immortal sects that have been passed down for thousands of years, or in the dangerous places where there are few people but abundant spiritual energy, and even high-level cultivators dare not easily get involved. For this reason, the value of millennium spiritual herbs is extremely high.
Generally, spiritual herbs over 500 years old are worth more than 100 spiritual stones, and those that are 1,000 years old are as high as 500 to 600 spiritual stones. The two plants in front of us that are over 1,000 years old are each worth thousands of spiritual stones. Together with the other plants with younger years, the value of these blood spiritual ginseng alone is more than 2,000 yuan, which can be said to be more than all the gains Qingyang had in the Chaos Demon Valley before. This time he really made a fortune.
This is the case when less than one-third of the entire medicine garden has been searched. If the remaining two-thirds have such a harvest, wouldn't the harvest of this Chaos Demon Valley trial reach tens of thousands of spirit stones? This is richer than many foundation-building cultivators.
However, Qingyang also knew that it was not the time to be happy yet, and other people might come at any time. He quickly suppressed his excitement, then squatted down, carefully dug out the blood spirit ginseng on the ground, preserved it in a jade box, and put it into the object-receiving talisman.
After digging the blood spirit ginseng, Qingyang continued to move forward. Just after walking seven or eight feet forward, he couldn't help but stop again, staring blankly at the front, and even his breathing became a little faster.
Because there was an open space not far in front of him, and in the center of the open space, a spiritual herb grew alone. According to Qingyang's experience in studying the spiritual herb atlas and practicing alchemy over the years, the spiritual herb in front should be called the earth-grabbing dragon.
It is a kind of spiritual herb that Jindan cultivators need to use. There is nothing special about it, but its growth habits are different from other spiritual herbs. This spiritual herb is particularly domineering and can plunder all the spiritual energy and nutrients within a certain range. Therefore, in the growth range of the earth-grabbing dragon, almost no grass grows, even weeds are no exception, and the open space around it also proves this.
These are not the reasons why Qingyang was shocked. The reason why he was stunned was that the age of this earth-grabbing dragon reached an astonishing 3,000 years. The Blood Demon Sect was destroyed only 2,000 years ago, which means that this spiritual medicine had been growing for almost 1,000 years before the Blood Demon Sect was destroyed.
Thousand-year spiritual medicine is a rare thing in the world of immortal cultivation. Spiritual herbs that are more than 3,000 years old are even more invaluable. Many Jindan cultivators are eager to get them. Not to mention anything else, I am afraid that even the most important medicine courtyards of the seven major immortal gates cannot find a few of them.
Putting aside how useful this Earth-Grabbing Dragon is, its value is at least no less than five thousand spirit stones. Qingyang, who had just been unable to calm down because of the loss of several blood ginsengs worth more than two thousand spirit stones, how could he not be shocked when he saw this Earth-Grabbing Dragon worth five thousand spirit stones?