longevity road trip

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Zhang Shiping drove the magic weapon all the way, and met several monks on the way, he avoided them when they were far away, and there was no accident on the way down, but in the middle, he hunted down a first-order monk who was basking in the sun on the cliff The monster porphyry snake, thanks to Zhang Shiping's good eyesight, the porphyry snake and the rocks on the cliff almost merged into one, making it hard to see clearly.

Zhang Shiping stopped and stopped all the way, he didn't dare to consume too much of his mana, just in case, he didn't feel relieved until he entered Zhengyangzong, went to the Palace of Foreign Affairs and handed back the exit token, looked at the mission wall, There are rolls of bamboo slips hanging on it, with missions written on it.

The tasks issued by the Zongmen are written on the bamboo slips in gold letters, and the tasks issued by the monks from various peaks and veins are written in black letters.

Zhang Shiping looked at the past from the beginning, and found that the previous tasks were some miscellaneous things for the Qi training period, and he was not interested.

This type of task takes up too much time and rewards too few spirit stones.

until he sees the back.

He saw the mission of the Zongmen Spiritual Medicine Garden—to take care of the Biyuan Mountain Baicao Garden, and hand in fifteen catties of first-class spiritual tea, 130 catties of second-class spiritual tea, and one thousand catties of third-class spiritual tea every year.

Zhang Shiping saw that this was the herb garden of the yellow-faced old man. Maybe the old man figured it out and wanted to go back to see his grandson and take care of his old age.

Zhang Shiping went to the scroll of bamboo slips, picked up the palm-sized jade plaque at the bottom of the task, and went to receive the task from the deacon disciple. The deacon disciple in black quickly wrote on the book with a black pen. He picked up half of the jade tablet from the storage bag, and put it together with the half in Zhang Shiping's hand, and it fit perfectly.

On the front is the embossed 'Biyuan Mountain', and on the back is the 'Baicao Garden'. The jade plaque is emerald green. After receiving the token, Zhang Shiping hurried to Biyuan Mountain.

The yellow-faced old man was still wearing a gray shirt as usual, making tea, and was waiting in the herb garden for the sect's disciples who accepted the mission to come and hand over.

Chapter 22 Biyuan Mountain

Biyuan Mountain is not far from the hill where the outer disciples live. There are two hills away from the hill. The peak and the peak are deep valleys connected by an iron chain bridge. Outer disciples and Zongmen servants walked.

Zhang Shiping walked across it a few times when he first came to Zhengyangzong, and he never walked through this iron chain bridge after he bought a flying instrument for transportation.

After Zhang Shiping accepted the task of the Biyuan Mountain Baicao Garden from the Foreign Affairs Hall, he passed the hill on the way, flew down and took out the spirit stone that had used up more than half of the spiritual power in the formation that he had arranged in his temporary residence. After closing it, Then hit the road.

In a short time, Zhang Shiping flew over the two big mountains. When people were walking on the long chain bridge between the mountains, he had already flown over, and he didn't land until the yellow-faced old man's residence in Baicaoyuan.

The old man was in the courtyard, when he saw Zhang Shiping coming, he thought he was here for tea, he teased and said, "If you come later, boy, I will leave."

Zhang Shiping was surprised, he wondered how the old man knew he was here to hand over Baicao Garden so quickly, and said: "You old man didn't hand over Baicao Garden, you still want to leave, why, you figured it out, you want to go back to enjoy the family happiness? "

As he spoke, Zhang Shiping reached out to wipe the storage bag, and a green Biyuanshan jade token appeared in his hand. Sitting on the seat, he reached out to catch the jade card and took a look at Zhang Shiping, "I didn't expect you to be the one who took over the task of my Biyuan Mountain Baicao Garden."

"It's destined." Zhang Shiping opened the firewood door, walked into the courtyard, sat on the stone chair next to the old man, poured himself a cup of tea, "I happened to go to the Foreign Affairs Hall today, and happened to see the mission."

"Didn't you say you came here to make tea?" The old man picked up the kettle and made another cup of tea, "Come on, then." The old man took out two books with wrinkled surfaces from the storage bag, and thought about it again , took out several blank jade slips, and gave Zhang Shiping a copy of the exercises and prescriptions he had collected over the years.

Zhang Shiping took it over, surprised, what happened to the old man today, he read two books, one recorded the cultivation methods of [-] kinds of first-grade tea trees and three kinds of second-grade tea trees, the writing on the front was relatively old, and the last few The handwriting on the page looks like it has just been written.

The other book is the method of making tea. The old man has decades of experience in making tea, what kind of tea to use, what tools to use, and the step-by-step process. Hand can also quickly make qualified tea.

These two books have solved half of Zhang Shiping's affairs after he took charge of Baicao Garden. At least he will not run around like a headless chicken.

The jade slips are a few spells used by immortal plants, such as the spirit rain technique for rain, the gold needle technique for insect removal, and the soil turning technique for loosening the soil. They are useless for monks' fighting skills, but they are essential for immortal plants .

As for the elixirs, there are two types of elixir that use spiritual tea leaves as the main ingredient to increase leanness and nourish qi. They are effective in the middle stage of qi training, but not so obvious in the later stage of qi training.

"Old man, are you giving this to me? You are so generous today." Zhang Shiping hastily flipped through the books, and quickly put the two books and a few pieces of jade slips into the storage bag.

The old man got up, "That's you, I don't have so much free time if someone else picks up the Baicao Garden." The old man took out a flying magic weapon in the shape of a tea tray, sat on it, flew in mid-air and said, "Come on, I'll take it with you." You are familiar with Xiabiyuan Mountain."

Zhang Shiping quickly followed, and the two of them spent more than half an hour circling Biyuan Mountain up and down, left, right, left, right, left, right, and the yellow-faced old man spoke very slowly and clearly.

The tea trees are mainly planted in the Biyuan Mountain Baicao Garden. The tea fields on the mountainside are reclaimed like ladders, one ridge after another, and the first-order tea trees are planted on them. There are six varieties planted now, including yellow-faced tea trees. The old man said that the quality of the third tea field is the best.

The Zongmen didn't divide the Biyuan Mountain Baicao Garden into which block or block, the yellow-faced old man divided it himself, and he told Zhang Shiping casually.

There is a small open space under a huge rock closest to Lingquan, where second-order tea trees are planted, and there is only a small tea garden with four lands.

Because the huge rocks cover the sun, the sunshine time is only two short hours in the morning and evening. The top of the rock is infiltrated and dripped by fine springs all year round. Under the nourishment of the spiritual spring, the second-order tea trees grow well.

The yellow-faced old man smiled, "Blessed are you, I have taken care of this small tea garden old man for decades, and now I can make 24 catties of first-class tea in a year, except for the [-] catties handed over to Zongmen. In the end of the year, you can still leave nine catties and ten catties, and you will get a few hundred spirit stones."

Zhang Shiping's eyes suddenly changed, looking at this tea garden is like looking at a pile of spiritual stones.As long as the Zongmen pays enough quantity, they will not care about how much they have left. The old man is good at taking care of the tea trees. It is his hard work for decades to increase the production so much. Even the Zongmen does not know how much tea can be produced. The old man with a face can hide it very tightly.

"What I was like when I came, should be what I should be when I leave." The yellow-faced old man sighed, making a gesture to make a move.

Zhang Shiping stopped him, "Don't, Senior Lin."

The old man laughed loudly, "You little cunning, I'm trying to trick you." If the old man's descendants had spiritual root qualifications, Zhang Shiping would not be able to do such good things at all. And it just so happens that it is him, that's all, he has no hope of establishing a foundation, so let the younger generation's path go smoother.

Zhang Shiping deliberately pretended to be relieved, and sold the treasure in front of the old man.

The yellow-faced old man took Zhang Shiping to see all the tea gardens in Biyuan Mountain, and told him that he must make this second-order spiritual tea by himself, and not pass it on to others.As for the remaining second-class tea and third-class tea, just hand them over to the tea farmers.

As he said that, the yellow-faced old man took Zhang Shiping to the foot of the mountain, where there were about twenty houses, and the yellow-faced old man landed on the most gorgeous house, sending out a sound transmission talisman.

A moment later, three gray-haired old men and two middle-aged men and women came out one after another. Zhang Shiping looked at these five people with a vague aura. They are all just on the second level of Qi training. The yellow-faced old man pointed to the five people in front, "Shi Ping, these five people are the stewards of Baicao Garden. You can tell them to do any chores."

Then he said to the five people: "This young man is called Zhang Shiping, he has cultivated in the late stage of Qi training, and he will succeed me as the guardian of the Biyuan Mountain Baicao Garden from now on."

All five of them saluted, "We pay our respects to Senior Zhang." If there is no close relationship between monks, they will all be judged by their cultivation.

A monk who is less than 20 years old in the late stage of Qi training is in front of a monk who is seven or eighty years old in the early stage of Qi training, that is a senior.There is a sequence in the way, and the master is the teacher.

The yellow-faced old man explained everything carefully, and left Biyuan Mountain the next day. Zhang Shiping sent him three hundred miles before returning.

Chapter 23 Tea

After sending off the yellow-faced old man, Zhang Shiping slowly returned to Biyuan Mountain, his expression a little lonely.But there is no permanent banquet in this world. Zhang Shiping returned to Biyuan Mountain, took a look at the second-order spirit tea garden, then went down the mountain and returned to the small courtyard where the yellow-faced old man lived. He sat in the courtyard where the yellow-faced old man most often sat. on the armchair.

The chair made of green bamboo, after more than ten years or even decades, has changed from the original turquoise to the current brownish yellow, and the armrest of the chair is very smooth.

When the yellow-faced old man left, he took a jade card from Zhang Shiping, and said with a smile that when he became the ancestor of Yuanying, his descendants would come to him again, so he should not forget, Zhang Shiping even said that he would remember.Zhang Shiping smiled in his heart, he didn't even establish a foundation yet, so he was talking about Jindan Nascent Soul.

On the jade plate is a character "Zhang", on the back is "Little Ape Mountain", engraved around it, this character was carved by Zhang Shiping very early, when he was young, a carving knife was bigger than his little hand, The engraving is barely passable.

He picked up the book about tea tree planting presented by the yellow-faced old man, and read it word by word. The old man wrote it in great detail, as expected of someone who has been playing with tea trees for decades.

Biyuanshan Baicao Garden has delivered all the fifteen catties of first-class spiritual tea to the yellow-faced old man this year, and there are not many things left for Zhang Shiping.What is left for Zhang Shiping is the second-class spiritual tea and the third-class spiritual tea. The yellow-faced old man has already completed [-]% of the work, and there is still plenty of time.

He went to the second-order spiritual tea garden to have a look. The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants enjoyed the shade. Zhang Shiping grinned at this thought.These second-order spiritual teas are picked in spring, preferably in the early morning after the continuous spring rain. The quality of the produced spiritual tea is the best, and the taste is the most fragrant.

After Zhang Shiping clarified many matters on Biyuan Mountain and made arrangements, it was already evening and sunset, when the tired birds returned to their nests.

Zhang Shiping returned to his room in the small courtyard. After a night of practice, Zhang Shiping began to study tea in the early morning. In three or four days, he read the two books two or three times and recorded them all in his heart. Inside, out of habit, Zhang Shiping took out the blank jade slips and saved the contents in the jade slips.

It took Zhang Shiping five days of practice to master the three spells of spring rain, lily needle, and soil-turning on Xianzhi, and it was also because they were the most basic spells.

In addition, Zhang Shiping wanted to study the two elixirs that the yellow-faced old man left for him. This kind of low-level elixir does not need to use lava ground fire, nor innate real fire, but only needs to use spirit wood silver carbon fire.Zhang Shiping flipped through his storage bag and patted his forehead, only to realize that he didn't have an alchemy furnace. In desperation, he could only look at the alchemy formula first. Except for some second-order spiritual tea leaves, there were no other alchemy furnaces. The amount of medicine needed is not much, and they are still common medicinal materials.

The other recipe is about the preparation method of the first-order spiritual tea elixir, using the spiritual tea leaves from the No. [-] tea garden. Of course, if the first-order spiritual tea is used, the medicinal effect is naturally far inferior to the second-order spiritual tea.

Zhang Shiping was very itchy after reading it, wishing he could directly practice alchemy.He took the time to drive the flying magic weapon to a relatively nearby market, which is called Yunjinfang City, which is only one-third the size of Baitaifang City. He visited three shops and chose a first-level middle-grade alchemy furnace.

The price of this middle-grade alchemy furnace is about the same as that of ordinary first-grade top-grade artifacts. Fortunately, there are spirit stones given by the family, otherwise he can only wait for the next year to sell second-grade spirit tea.

As for why he didn't go to Baitaifang City, Zhang Shiping felt cold in his heart, and his face was cloudy and uncertain. He was thinking about why he was attacked by those three people. He didn't know the reason, but it was nothing more than those kinds of things. .

One is Baoruizhai’s idea of ​​making money, but it’s not very likely. In such a big shop, you don’t know how many spirit stones you buy every day, and if you want your own life, there are foundation-building monks in their shop, so you can run away anyway. not drop.

The second is that I didn't know when I was marked by someone. The green worm was thrown off when Zhang Shiping was fighting with the three of them, so that Zhang Shiping was safe. After the injury improved, he checked it up and down. No abnormalities were found, but to be on the safe side, he changed into a suit of clothes and burned the original ones.

It's also fortunate that the cyan worm is gone, otherwise if the two of them keep up, Zhang Shiping, who fainted, would not survive tomorrow with a hundred lives.

Because it was too dark that day, he couldn't see the faces of the other party clearly.

The third is that he was unlucky, and happened to be met by the three of them, and he became malicious.

But no matter what, Zhang Shiping didn't want to go to Baitaifang City anymore, there were still those two monks there, if they met, if they were in the dark and he was in the light, and he capsized in the gutter, wouldn't he be very wronged!

There are also many square cities around here, so I don't have to go to Baitaifang City.I've only heard of being a thief for a thousand days, so there's no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days.

Zhang Shiping went to Yunjinfang City, bought an alchemy furnace, paid attention all the way, and soon returned to Biyuan Mountain Baicao Garden.

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This is a half-person-high alchemy furnace with three legs and a whole body of copper. There are two lenses with simple and elegant lines, without too much decoration.Zhang Shiping was going to use this alchemy furnace to refine first-order elixir.

Spirit wood and silver charcoal were burning blazingly underground in the alchemy furnace, Zhang Shiping opened the top cover of the alchemy furnace, and put the medicinal materials into the alchemy furnace in order according to the records of the alchemy recipe.

Zhang Shiping squeezed the hand formula, changed the gestures of both hands, and drew a fire snake with thick wrist and a thick thumb from the fire at the bottom of the furnace. The fire snake with thick wrist was like a dragon coiled around the belly of the pill furnace, clinging tightly to it. The fire snake with the thickness of a thumb hovered in the alchemy furnace from the entrance of the fire, refining the medicinal materials he put in and turning them into essence.

Zhang Shiping continuously scanned the alchemy furnace with his consciousness, and found that the first drug magazine in the alchemy furnace had been cleaned up, and it became a small ball of yellow-green essence.

He immediately put in the second medicinal material, thinking that after refining, Zhang Shiping tried to blend the essence of the two kinds of elixir together, but he didn't want to suddenly have a scorched smell coming from the pill furnace, and the furnace mouth on the top of the pill furnace There were plumes of black smoke.

Zhang Shiping's face was ugly, and he extinguished the fire.

He was thinking about which link went wrong, he had just started alchemy, and there was only one main drug in the alchemy formula, and seven auxiliary drugs, so he only put in two kinds of medicinal materials.

He thought about all the steps of the process just now, and found that he seemed to have too many thoughts and too many complicated thoughts, and his spiritual consciousness was unstable.

Zhang Shiping didn't know if he was thinking right. After the pill furnace cooled down, he opened it and saw that there was only a layer of burnt black lumps and some powder inside the pill furnace. He took them all out and put them in a wooden box. After some burnt matter is turned into powder, it can be put into the soil and used as fertilizer for tea trees. Zhang Shiping read it in the book given by the yellow-faced old man.

Zhang Shiping thought about the details that should be paid attention to, took a deep breath, and started the second alchemy.

Chapter 24 The Oval Elixir

The second alchemy was the same as the first time. When the two elixir essences were fused, Zhang Shiping couldn't control it halfway, causing the charcoal torch to burn all the elixir essence.

Zhang Shiping, who didn't believe in evil, checked the alchemy formula again, focusing on the alchemy experience written down by the yellow-faced old man. He had already memorized the things recorded on it, even the kind who knew the way with his eyes closed, but unfortunately it was useless.

Looking at other people's records, after all, cannot be compared with the experience gained by doing it yourself.

For the next time, Zhang Shiping kept making alchemy in the room without sleep.

When the main medicine was gone, he went to the third tea field to pick tea leaves.Of course, choose the tea with the most aura.On the third day, the dispensing and spirit wood silver charcoal were all used up. Zhang Shiping drove the flying magic weapon to fly like desperately, and came back immediately after buying.

It was not until seven days later that Zhang Shiping came out of the room disheveled with smoke all over his body. In the room, the top of the alchemy furnace was emitting black smoke.

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Zhang Shiping didn't know why the yellow-faced old man liked to drink tea in the yard so much, no matter how many times Zhang Shiping came, it seemed that he would always sit there.

He picked up a cup of tea, but Zhang Shiping didn't drink it for a long time, put it down heavily, and spilled half of the cup. He had just talked with the five stewards of Baicao Garden in the yard, and had just sent them away.

I have anger in my heart, but I don't know where to vent it!

He took out a small jade bottle from the storage bag, and poured the two elixirs inside into his hands, but this elixir is a bit special, it is not as round as a ball like ordinary elixirs, it is oval in shape, brownish green, with There is a trace of smoke and fire, put it under the nose and smell it carefully, there is still some tea fragrance.

This is the result of his seven days of alchemy like a madman.In seven days, there were a total of 63 furnaces, and only two tea pills that could be seen came out, and the quality was between the first-order low-grade and waste pills.

Zhang Shiping didn't plan to eat these two.

The seven days of alchemy consumed [-]% of Zhang Shiping's spiritual stones. This is because the main medicine of this elixir is tea rich in spiritual energy, which is completely collected in Biyuan Mountain, which saved Zhang Shiping a lot of money.

Otherwise, all the spirit stones in his storage bag would have been gone long ago, so he wouldn't be able to afford supplementary medicine.

And the five stewards of Biyuan Mountain came to Zhang Shiping precisely because of this matter.The tea leaves used by Zhang Shiping to refine the elixir in the past seven days all came from the third tea field, and most of the tea leaves used to make the second-class spirit tea came from this medicine field.

It doesn't mean that the tea leaves picked randomly can be made into good spirit tea, the tea leaves used in the second-grade spirit tea must be the small part with the most abundant spirit energy, which is the same as the spirit tea leaves used by Zhang Shiping for alchemy.

Zhang Shiping used too much tea leaves to make second-class spiritual tea. In the beginning, the tea farmers who were working in the field saw a young cultivator picking tea leaves in the tea field. Once or twice, the tea farmers only He is an ordinary mortal, how dare he go up to stop Zhang Shiping.

They had no choice but to report to the stewards above. When the five stewards heard about it, they thought someone was coming to steal tea, so they hurried over to see that it was Zhang Shiping, the mountain guard.

In the next few days, Zhang Shiping came to collect tea every day. He was really in a hurry, so he directly took the tea collected by the tea farmers. He found that the tea picked by these old tea farmers was of good quality.

Although the tea farmers do not know the divine eye technique and cannot see the aura contained in the tea leaves, but based on years of experience, there are nine layers of good tea leaves that are rich in aura.Zhang Shiping removed the tea leaves that had no aura, which saved more time.

One day or two was fine, but Zhang Shiping had been picking until the seventh day, the five herb garden managers couldn't sit still, and one person didn't dare to come to Zhang Shiping, so the five came to Zhang Shiping's courtyard together.

They issued the sound transmission talisman. At that time, Zhang Shiping was concocting alchemy in the room. He had already felt a little bit, but was disturbed by the slight fluctuation when the sound transmission talisman passed through the room formation, so that the alchemy failed. He only got two ovals from the alchemy furnace Pills, others turned into black ashes.

Zhang Shiping came up in anger, took the sound transmission talisman with an ugly face, swept away his consciousness, and left the room, where the five people were standing in the courtyard waiting.Although Zhang Shiping suppressed his anger, his expression was still ugly, he asked those five people what they were talking about.

The older low-level cultivators may not have the aptitude for cultivation, but they are shrewd people, and their eyes are translucent. When the five of them saw that Zhang Shiping's complexion was not good, they immediately explained the whole story clearly, what they said Extremely tactful.

Zhang Shiping had a stiff face, and discussed with them for a while, thinking that his alchemy seemed to be possessed by a demon, and the amount of spiritual tea leaves he had used in the past seven days of alchemy was indispensable, no wonder these five people were worried that they would not be able to complete the mission of the sect.

The five stewards also have some reasons for their own harvest.

When the yellow-faced old man was around, after delivering the Zongmen mission, the extra output from the second-tier spiritual tea garden on Biyuan Mountain belonged to him. , Seven of these five people, after Zhang Shiping accepted, the rules have not changed.

When Zhang Shiping picked a large amount of tea in the third tea field, the interests of the five of them were even more damaged, so these five people couldn't help but come over.

In the end, Zhang Shiping promised that the next year's second-class and third-class spiritual tea would be divided into [-]-[-], so the five stewards said a few polite words before leaving satisfied.

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Zhang Shiping didn't think it was a pity that he lost a share in the coming year. His Tier [-] Spiritual Tea Garden was the one that got the most out of it.What made him angry was that the feeling he finally got disappeared without a trace at this moment.

He picked up half a cup of tea and drank it, then sat quietly on the bamboo chair to calm down.There are a few birds chirping on the treetops of the forest outside the small yard.

Zhang Shiping sat for a full half an hour, took out the questions he had recorded in the jade slips during the seven days of alchemy, and read them one by one, thinking about how he should do alchemy, which step of alchemy he made was wrong, and why error.