Chapter 291

Medicine stone is a special mineral, which can be used to refine Yiguo pill and Jingjing pill.

Shushan branch has different ranks and different medicine stone mining areas. The higher the ranking, the better the ore line in the mining area and the more medicine stones can be produced.

When entering the mining area every year, the first thing to do is to investigate, that is, to see whether the ore channel needs support and eliminate some potential safety hazards. After all, it has been ten years since each mining area was last used!

If it is the outside world, a mining area supported by wood, which has not been paid attention to for ten years, it has definitely become a dangerous mine, especially the mining of ore. even if you go for a walk, there may be a possibility of collapse.

However, many of the wood in Shu ruins are not found in the outside world. Their wood is hard and corrosion-resistant beyond imagination. The traces left by ten years and the environment are not particularly serious. Among the pit trees that need to be replaced, only 20% are lost to years.

If there is no wasteland space in the ancient dispute, they have to carry wood into the mining area. It is the rule to replace the broken pit wood in the tunnel. They have to do this regardless of whether they will mine in the mining area, which is also for the convenience of future generations when the Shu ruins are opened next time.

The air was muddy and humid, and there was water seepage in some places. Occasionally, the sound of "tick tock" could be heard.

There are not many pit trees damaged in the mine. Due to the humid environment, many pit trees have fungi similar to fungus, which are white and yellow, but they are inedible.

The mine tunnel is very low. Everyone in the front should lower their heads slightly.

"Squeaky, squeaky..."

Zhang Tiancheng walked in the front. The lantern in his hand shook with the pace and made a regular sound of metal friction, which attracted echoes.

The light in the lantern is white, illuminating a large area. The light source is not from traditional kerosene or trendy led, but from a kind of stone called "moon awn stone" in the mining area.

The world of practitioners is very secret and almost unknown to the world. Many things in their life will not flow to the outside world easily, just like this kind of stone that can be used as a light source. If it is put into the outside world, it must be a gem, but in the world of practitioners, such things can be used, but it is strictly prohibited to spread, otherwise it will break the rules.

The sound of the lantern shaking stopped. Zhang Tiancheng pointed to a pit log on one side: "here is one that needs to be replaced."

Although the mine tunnel is low, it is not narrow. It is no problem for three people to go side by side. Gu Zheng came to Zhang Tiancheng and released an "iron oak" from the wasteland. Gu Zheng and Liu Ying were immediately busy.

"What a nuisance. Can't there be fewer damn insects?"

Liu Ying gets the pit wood removed by Gu'an and looks at the wormhole on it. 20% of the pit wood that needs to be replaced has been lost to the erosion of years, and the remaining eight Chengdu has been lost to moths.

"Eh?"

Liu Ying's words made Gu Zheng hear the word "insect" again, and he couldn't help thinking of the "peach spirit insect" that was also used to catch ground spirit turtles yesterday, so he asked Qi Ling to explore it. As a result, he really found some problems.

There is not even a "pit wood worm" in a whole pit wood eaten by insects!

"What did the headmaster find?"

Seeing that Gu Zheng didn't say anything, he walked forward with a lantern. Liu Ying asked curiously.

"Keep up, it's hard to say now." Gu zhengtou didn't answer back.

After walking down for another section, the inclined ore channel changed and began to diverge. This is because it was not until more than 100 meters into the ground that the ore channel was finally hit on the medicine stone ore line. The bifurcation was formed by mining after the ore line.

Almost all the forks are dead roads, and the mining line pursued by them has been mined clean. Gu Zheng walked into the mine road with the extension of the mining line according to the map, and the road gradually widened.

An insect eaten pit wood was discovered by Gu Zheng. After the instrument spirit explored it, he learned that there were still no pit wood insects in the pit wood, and there were no insect corpses in the wormhole.

Gu Zheng's eyebrows are a little wrinkled. He is listening to the analysis of the spirit.

A moment later, Gu Zheng's eyebrows stretched and his expression was a little excited.

"We met Bao."

"Why does the headmaster say that?"

Gu Zheng's sudden words made Gu an very curious.

"When we meet Bao, let's first talk about the pit wood worm."

"In your opinion, the pit wood insect eats wood. In fact, this is a mistake. The pit wood insect eats half of the medicinal stone. It just likes to live in the pit wood, and the pit wood insect is the first treasure we encounter!"

Gu Zheng's voice was a meal, and Liu Ying suddenly widened their eyes.

"Is this pit wood worm a treasure?"

Liu Ying couldn't help asking. After all, before entering the Shu ruins, elder wuchou also specifically explained that if the insects in the mining area eat the pit wood, they must be killed to prevent it from harming the mining area again. However, elder wuchou didn't explain that the pit wood worm is a treasure! Not only he, but also the elders of other sects, told the disciples who entered the mining area in this way.

"Pit wood worm is really a treasure, but it can only be used to refine pills after special treatment. The 'pure pill' refined with it and high medicine stone as the main materials can be used to purify internal strength!"

"What?"

As soon as Gu Zheng's words were spoken, Gu'an three immediately called out!

The internal strength is purified. The temporary benefit is to improve the strength. The more pure internal strength also has more powerful destructive power. In the long run, if you want to be promoted to an immortal, internal strength purification is also an inevitable step.

There are few pills that can help Neijin purify, among which 'Xuelian pill' is one. In addition, internal strength can also be purified with the help of external force. However, the requirement of external force is very high. People who need to help others purify internal strength must achieve the state of transforming God and returning to emptiness.

Supreme elder * * * meets the standard of purifying internal strength for others. You can purify internal strength for others in this way, which will do great harm to yourself. It takes several years to purify internal strength for others, and Emei is in an eventful period. Therefore, Gu Zheng's trip to Shushan did not let * * * help worry free elder purify internal strength.

The pothole beetle that is considered useless can be combined with some advanced medicine stones that are indispensable in the sect to refine the pill that can purify Neijin. This news is really shocking! After all, judging from the tone of ancient debate, the rest of the materials of "pure Dan" seem to be nothing, and it is not very difficult to refine.

"Don't make up too much. I don't know the prescription of 'pure pill'. I just heard my master mention how to refine it. I have to ask him before I know."

Gu Zheng mentioned "master". As for this "master", whether Gu An and others will regard him as * * * is not something Gu Zheng needs to consider.

As for Xiao danfang, Gu Zheng didn't lie, and the damn tool spirit didn't seem to want to tell him.

"No wonder the leader put away the moth eaten pit wood before. It turns out that the pit wood insect is such a treasure!"

Liu yinghou knew it later, but she didn't know that Gu Zheng didn't have foresight. At first, he put away the moth eaten pit wood, but didn't want to waste time in the mine.

"Headmaster, you just said first, then what's next?" Zhang Tiancheng asked.

"Among the two pit trees I noticed, there was no pit wood insect. They did not migrate or die naturally, but were eaten!" Gu Zheng said slowly.

"What? Eaten?"

Zhang Tiancheng was three and opened his eyes at the same time. He just knew that pit wood insects were precious. He immediately got the news that they were eaten. Suddenly, a fire rose in his heart.

"Headmaster, isn't there a pit wood worm in such a big pit wood?" Gu An said reluctantly.

Gu Zheng shook his head: "you can replace the moth eaten pit wood and split it to have a look."

Gu'an and Liu Ying immediately started, and the moth eaten pit wood was replaced and broken. They saw transparent lines everywhere in the intricate insect path, just like a slug crawling in and the secretion dried. The so-called pit wood insects, really as the ancient dispute said, there is no one.

"This is the saliva trace left by the 'long tongue beast' after eating pit wood insects."

Gu Zheng explained, but Gu An's eyes were confused. They had never heard of the so-called "long tongue beast".

"The long tongued beast is a medium-sized spirit beast. It looks like a pangolin from the outside, because it has a rare 'golden escape' and can quickly sneak into the mountain, so it is difficult to be caught. The main food of the long tongued beast is medicine stone, and the pit wood insect is just its dessert. What I said about meeting treasure, except the pit wood insect is the 'long tongued beast', which takes medicine stone as its main food , it can be said that the whole body is full of treasure. Moreover, judging from the secretion left by it, this' long tongue beast 'should still be in our mining area. "

According to the spirit of the instrument, the meat of the long tongued beast is generally of medium level, which is the food material needed by Gu Zheng.

"What is the leader going to do? Do you want to deal with the ground turtle?" Liu Ying asked.

"The pit wood worm is just a snack of the 'long tongue beast'. It also has good spirit. It should not be greedy like the ground spirit turtle. However, although the 'long tongue beast' is a scale and armor, its defense is far worse than the ground spirit turtle! As long as it can meet it and run slower, it should be able to deal with it with proud wind bamboo arrows!"

Gu Zheng looks confident, but he has some helplessness in his heart.

In ancient times, there were four kinds of fairy Arts: fire control formula, water control formula, wood control formula and soil control formula. Among the five fairies, only the fire control formula has been strengthened by the fire yuan pill. When there is a fire source, the power is barely passable.

If Gu Zheng's earth control formula had been strengthened by pills such as "tuyuan pill", the tortoise shell he wanted would be much simpler than it is now!

In the same way, if Gu Zheng had the formula of controlling money and had been strengthened by pills such as "golden pill", he would be more confident in hunting long tongued beasts he had never met.

"Headmaster, since the pit wood insect is a treasure, shall we go separately and visit the Qingcheng sect and situ family's mining area first?" Liu Ying suggested.

"Yes, I think so too. Liu Ying and Tiancheng, you two go to Qingcheng and situ's mining area respectively to see if you can find pit wood insects. After you're busy over there, you come here to meet Gu'an, and then stay here to mine medicine stones! When I come back from the depths of Shu ruins, I'll come here to find you."

After the trip to the mining area, Gu Zheng wanted to go to the depths of the Shu ruins alone. He had told Liu Ying before, so they were not surprised when he mentioned it again. After all, the risk factor in the depths of Shu ruins is very high. It's better for Gu Zheng to go alone.

"Yes!"

Liu Ying and Zhang Tiancheng saluted Gu Zheng and left. Gu Zheng took Gu'an and continued to walk in along the mine.

After walking for nearly half an hour, Gu Zheng finally came to the bottom of the mine.

Along the way, Gu Zheng found two moth eaten pit wood, of which there was no pit wood worm. However, judging from the saliva left by the longtongue, it is closer to its foraging time.

On the rock stratum at the bottom of the ore way, there is a slightly glittering crystal belt, like the Milky way in the sky, and those glittering crystal stones are medicine stones of various grades.

The medicine stone is very strange. There is a faint fragrance under the deep smell. It can't be mined with brute force, but with internal force, so the mining speed can't be fast.

"You're mining medicine stones here. Pay more attention to safety!"

Gu Zheng patted Gu an on the shoulder, and all the words he wanted to tell were in his eyes.

"Don't worry, headmaster. I wish you a great harvest in the depths of Shu ruins."

Gu'an's voice fell to the ground. After scratching his head and smiling, he added: "it should be said that there is a great harvest in this mining area!"

"Ha ha... May I borrow your kind words!"

Gu Zheng laughed and began his journey alone in the ruins of Shu.

Gu Zheng wants to try to find a long tongued beast in the mining area. No matter whether he can find it or not, he will only walk through the mine channel that he has not passed, and Gu Zheng will leave his mining area.

The next thing Gu Zheng has to do is go to the mining areas of Lingjian sect and Ziyun palace to see if he can pick up the leak. Since the pit wood bug is a treasure, Gu Zheng wants to get some first, even if he hasn't got the elixir to refine it.

The mining area is very large, with many turnouts. Fortunately, Gu Zheng almost ran all the way. It won't take much time to see it all.

However, for the search for long tongued beasts, the ancient struggle has reported hope, but it has not reached a special level. After all, the long tongue beast is an earthly spirit beast, and its whereabouts can only be described as "haunted". Maybe there is no fork in the road just checked, but it may come out of the ground as soon as you turn around!

Thinking so in his heart, Gu Zheng subconsciously looked back, which made his eyes wide open.

I didn't see the long tongued beast that suddenly appeared behind me as I thought, but Gu Zheng did see a very vague thing flash past where his eyesight was close to the limit!

Gu Zheng's vision is very good, but it is too dark in the mine cave. Even if there is a lantern lighting, the visibility may not be compared with the world outside the cave.

The vague thing that flashed by, Gu Zheng was not sure whether he was a person or a human spirit beast. But no matter what he is, Gu Zheng must go and have a look. He can't let this possibly dangerous existence exist and stay in the mining area where Gu'an is the only one.

Because of the environment, it took a very short time for Gu Zheng to reach the limit of his eyesight.

This is an intersection in the mine. There are six turnouts in total. Gu Zheng doesn't know which mine lane the fuzzy thing he just saw went into.

However, it is not that there is no trace. Gu Zheng smelled a faint smell of blood in the air.

"The smell of human blood!"

Gu Zheng sniffed the bloody smell in the air and immediately had a judgment in his heart.

"The injured person can't be Gu'an, and such a person even entered the mining area of Emei. Who is he?"

Gu'an took out Tang Mo and walked carefully towards a fork in the road.

"In the fork nine meters ahead, there is a high-level spirit beast 'tiger tooth spirit monkey'."

The fork in the mine road is like a cobweb. Not long after Gu Zhengcai entered, the sound of instrument spirit sounded in his brain.

"Why is it a spirit beast? And it is also a 'tiger tooth spirit monkey' living in the mountains and forests? Is it the vague thing I saw just now? The fishy smell of human blood comes from its mouth?"

At the same time, Gu Zheng has come to the fork where the tiger tooth monkey is located.

"Hoo..."

A huge stone flew out of the fork and hit Gu Zheng straight.

Gu Zheng dodged and hid. The boulder fell to the ground and made a huge noise. But the tiger toothed monkey in the fork obviously doesn't want to stop. Stones of different sizes are like a meteor shower, constantly smashing at Gu Zheng from the fork.

"Evil animal!"

Gu Zheng sneered. While cutting Tang Mo in his hand, people also advanced towards the fork.

It has to be said that the tiger tooth monkey is very powerful. With meteor shower like flying stones and its powerful destructive power, it is very rare for ordinary five-tier early cultivators not to be hurt by flying stones, let alone advancing towards the fork.

But Gu Zheng is different. He is an immortal who is equivalent to the early cultivator of the fifth floor. Both his actual strength and the subtlety of ethereal illusory body art make him calm in the face of flying stones.

"Squeak..."

Seeing that Gu Zheng was approaching, the howling tiger tooth monkey gave up the flying stone attack and rushed directly towards Gu Zheng.

It is said to be a monkey, but the tiger tooth monkey actually looks like an ape. He is one head taller than Gu Zheng. He is very strong. When it pounced on Gu Zheng, it clenched its fist and was about to smash Gu Zheng to death.

With the strength of the tiger tooth monkey, if this boxing fight between the ancient and the middle ages, he will definitely die, but how can the ancient fight make it achieve its wish?

"Die!"

Gu Zhengli drank. While avoiding his fist with his illusory body skill, Tang Mo immediately performed the mountain cutting technique. With an invincible momentum, Tang Mo cut off the neck of the tiger tooth spirit monkey.

"Zhi..."

The tiger tooth monkey screamed. Gu Zheng avoided his fist, which surprised him. Facing the knife of Gu Zheng, he didn't dare to attack it, and immediately jumped to avoid it.

Gu Zheng is like knowing the escape route of the tiger tooth monkey. Tang Mo, who had originally waved out, changed his moves halfway and stopped forward. At the same time, Tang Mo has also stabbed the tiger tooth monkey in the chest.

The tiger tooth monkey jumped back, so Gu Zheng didn't stab deeply. However, following the ancient dispute of changing moves, he cut a knife at the tiger tooth monkey.

The tiger tooth spirit monkey jumped back fast, and the internal strength flew out of the chase not slow. When the tiger tooth spirit monkey stopped, the internal strength had already split in its abdomen.

Blood suddenly appeared, and the howling tiger tooth spirit monkey wanted to rush towards Gu Zheng. Suddenly, a very ethereal female voice came out in the dark in the distance.

"Tiger tooth, come back!"

"Squeak..."

Absolute heart is unwilling, tiger tooth spirit monkey competes with Gu to raise his fist, and this time runs towards the darkness behind it.

Gu Zheng did not pursue, but followed. He had heard who the woman in the dark was from his voice.

There were four people in Ziyun palace who entered Shu ruins this time, three of them were Ling sisters, and another Gu Zheng didn't know her name, but heard her voice.

Gu Zheng understood that the three sisters of Ling's family had good accomplishments, but they were not the leaders of the trip to the Sichuan ruins of Ziyun palace. The real leader was the one who didn't know his name. This kind of person is usually hidden by the sect and appears only at a critical time. He usually has two brushes.

Not to mention anything else, it's a great thing to have a tiger tooth monkey.

The tiger toothed monkey is huge. It is not a small treasure hunting mole. It can be packed into a bag and brought into the Shu ruins. This only shows that the tiger toothed monkey was domesticated by this woman after she entered the Shu ruins. Today is the fourth day of the opening of the Shu ruins. An adult tiger tooth monkey can be domesticated in four days. Her talent in animal training is really amazing!

In fact, the art of taming animals is not exclusive to Ziyun palace, but the original secret art of Shushan, just like Luo Xiao can control colorful feather finches through sound. In fact, this is also the category of taming animals. However, when Ziyun palace was separated from Shushan, it took away this secret skill, and the ancestors of other branches did not practice this secret skill, so the disciples and grandchildren of later generations would not.

The slightly loose purple clothes made it difficult to hide his delicate figure. Chu Xiaochen, whose left arm was injured, stared closely at the approaching Gu Zheng.

Through the same door, Chu Xiaochen knows something about the ancient dispute.

Chu Xiaochen is an elder in Ziyun palace. She is cold by nature. She is weak in human and worldly skills.

Different from elder Xiaofeng's attitude towards ancient dispute, Chu Xiaochen despises and hates ancient dispute! There is no other reason, but because Gu Zheng was in the limelight at this ranking event, the number of people who can enter Shu ruins is actually the same as their Ziyun palace.

"What's your name? Why are you in the mining area of our Emei sect?"

Chu Xiaochen doesn't know what Gu Zheng thinks, but from her eyes and what just happened, Gu Zheng knows that this woman is not a kind person.

"Chu Xiaochen. Naturally, I have something to do when I come to your Emei mining area. Don't worry, I won't take a penny for your medicine stone! Stay here for a while and I'll pay you."

Chu Xiaochen's voice was ethereal and cold. He threw three high-level elixirs to Gu Zheng. Gu Zheng didn't pick it up and let it fall to the ground.

Originally, Gu Zheng still looked at the face of elder Xiaofeng and the three sisters Ling Xue. He asked patiently, but when he saw the high-level elixir thrown out, there were not many but three, and the anger in his heart ran away at once.

"What do you mean?" Gu Zheng's face sank.

"It's not interesting. Isn't the gift you gave Ling Xue and others three elixirs? If you are too few, I can give you three more, six advanced elixirs, just stay in your Emei mining area for a period of time. Isn't the reward low?"

Chu Xiaochen took out three more elixirs and threw them away. Gu Zheng not only didn't pick them up, but sneered.

After laughing enough, Gu Zheng stretched out his hand and pointed to the direction of the hole, word by word.

"Put away your elixir and leave the mining area of Emei now, immediately and immediately!"

Chu Xiaochen was stunned. It seemed that she didn't expect Gu Zheng to react so violently. Her eyes widened and she didn't speak until a moment later.

"Who are you yelling at?"

Chu Xiaochen is also angry. Anyway, she is also an elder of Ziyun palace.

"Can't you get out?"

Gu Zheng doesn't want to talk nonsense with people like Chu Xiaochen at all. There are killing opportunities in his cold eyes.

"You..."

Chu Xiaochen has the final say to do it. Since disagreeable conversation, he will have the final say in who has the strength. But looking at the killing in Gu Zheng's eyes, she didn't speak, so she recovered her reason.

If she is an ordinary person, even a cultivator in the later stage of the fifth floor, Chu Xiaochen will not be afraid. Anyway, she is the cultivation in the later stage of the fifth floor. Although she was hurt, it doesn't matter. In addition, there is a spirit beast equivalent to the middle of the fifth floor as a helper. Such comprehensive strength is really not weak.

Unfortunately, the killing machine in Gu Zheng's eyes was too cold. Chu Xiaochen even read some contempt and determination from it. It felt like if she really fought with Gu, she might not even know how to die, and there was absolutely no room for recovery once she started.

No one has ever given Chu Xiaochen such a strange feeling. Considering some incredible things about Gu Zheng and his means of dealing with tiger tooth lingmonkey, Chu Xiaochen thinks it's better to compromise. There's no need to make a very dangerous situation because of a little thing.

"Well, what happened just now is my fault. Don't be angry. Let's have something to say."

Chu Xiaochen is not good at human and worldly sophistication, which does not mean that she is not afraid of death. It is not surprising that people make any decisions against common sense when they encounter a death crisis.

This time it was Gu Zheng's turn to be slightly stunned. He didn't expect that Chu Xiaochen, who seemed to be rampant and reckless, could immediately apologize without nonsense at this crisis.

"Say it well? OK, give me two explanations first."

"First, what are you doing in Emei mining area?"

"Second, it's the same vein of Shushan. You just come to our Emei mining area. Why do you want the tiger tooth lingmonkey to ambush me? Do you want to kill or test?"

Gu Zheng didn't want to do it or not. A large part of the reason is, of course, to read the friendship of other people in Ziyun palace.

As for the motive of the tiger tooth monkey ambush, no matter what Chu Xiaochen's original intention is, since she has apologized, she will certainly answer it as a test, and Gu Zheng knows that she will answer like this and has to ask it out, but it is not for her to step down, or to mention this topic and ask for good points by the way.

"I tracked a spirit beast, so I entered the Emei mining area. Let the tiger tooth spirit monkey ambush, naturally I want to see your depth." Chu Xiaochen said.

"Look at my depth? Do you think I will believe it? When fighting, life and death are only in a moment. If I were killed by your spirit beast, wouldn't I be wronged? I don't care so much. I need to compensate for this matter alone!"

Gu Zheng stared at Qiu Xiaochen's eyes, and Qiu Xiaochen frowned: "what compensation do you want? The six higher elixirs on the ground, what can I add?"

"Don't mention it to me!"

Gu Zheng's eyes turned cold again: "give me three elixirs. You must know what happened in the bluestone wasteland last night. I need good ingredients. Take out the good ingredients you have. I'll see what I need. I'll pick some myself!"

To ask for benefits, Gu Zheng is actually forcing Qiu Xiaochen! If she is obedient, everything is OK to say, but if she calms down, it's just an appearance and can't say the ancient dispute, we should consider whether to leave her here to avoid future trouble.

"I don't have good ingredients. Those things are all over Ling Xue's side!"

Chu Xiaochen shook his head and said it very much like it was true.

"If you want peace talks, first of all, you should be honest. I don't like lying, let alone being cheated! If similar things happen again, let's fight, but I want to remind you that my fighting skills are a means of killing people and are not suitable for competition."

Gu Zheng's eyes narrowed into a seam, and the killing intention that had disappeared reappeared. Indeed, his current means can also be said to be a means of killing people. Whether it is the boundless space, the magical power of Tang Mo, or the two new immortal tools, they can not be seen casually. If they are seen, then the person must die!

Chu Xiaochen's eyes widened, and Gu Zheng's killing intention reappeared in her eyes, which made her feel lucky for her apology just now.

"I always think your 'meteor fairy step' is false, but now it seems that it should be true."

Chu Xiaochen smiled bitterly, and what she said made Gu Zheng laugh in her heart.

Gu Zheng understood that at the ranking event that day, no matter whether his story was credible or not, and no matter what the inspection results given by the leader of Shushan and the referee elders, there were still many people who did not believe in the "meteor fairy step". However, Gu Zheng did not expect that the "meteor fairy step" would become Chu Xiaochen's greatest fear at this time.

"I'm curious. How do you know I lied to you? How can you be so sure that I have good ingredients here?" Chu Xiaochen asked.

"You are the leader of Ziyun Palace's trip to Sichuan ruins. It's not surprising that you take good things with you. Besides, you have a treasure hunting mole in your bag. If you say you don't have good ingredients, do you think I will believe it?"

"How do you know I have a treasure mole in my bag?"

Chu Xiaochen almost bit his tongue and looked down at the bag beside him. He didn't find a gap in it! What's more, the treasure hunting mole has been very good since he met Gu Zheng. He didn't even hum.

"Guess."

Gu Zheng lied, which was actually detected by the instrument spirit.

"Well, you won. I can give you some good ingredients, but there's one thing we have to say first. I need to stay in your mining area and catch the spirit beast I'm tracking." Chu Xiaochen thought.