"Does it mean that a tree of ambergris is born?" Shangguan Wan'er was quite surprised that she had buried the rotten wood under the thick soil by herself, and there was still a heavy job.

"Your analogy is extremely appropriate, so it is wrong to say that the aroma of ambergris wood itself is wrong, what really exists is that kind of secretion, as long as there is suitable red soil, it will make it reborn!"

"What does it do?"

"For example, if you have this thing attached to it and give birth to ambergris, you can use it as a coffin, and your flesh and bones will be immortal and lifelike. Such a magical spiritual tree, after the catastrophe still maintains full of vitality, has a terrifying and tenacious vitality, even if ten thousand trees wither, but only prosperous, still standing majestically, lush and green. The reason for this lies in the reddish-brown soil, which is the cause of the mellowization of rotten wood, as long as it can smell the fragrance leisurely, it means that it is still alive. It is a white wood incense tree containing oil, due to external injury, it is infected by microorganisms at the wound, causing the white wood incense tree to secrete oil for self-repair, and the condensation of these concentrated oil and the wood at the wound is fused together, which is ambergris, which is more spiritual than ordinary agarwood. ”

"What's the difference with the aura in this jade? Is it also needed for us cultivators? ”

"Let's put it this way, the ambergris incense tree is known in the legend as the aura tree that can pass through the Three Realms, and it will appear in the rumors related to the three religions, and its fragrance itself is rich in spirituality, so it is natural that the aura we need will exist in it. But as far as I know, no one has ever acquired it, or that it only exists in the legendary fairy world, because there seems to be no environment for it to survive in the mundane world. ”

As he spoke, he threw away the iron tools, knelt on the ground and carefully held the red soil in his hands to look for the seedlings of new trees, and when a touch of green appeared, the two of them couldn't help but let out a low cry.

It is not as small and delicate as Li Zhi expected, weak and can't help the wind, but from the moment it breaks through the soil, it shows that the foundation is coiled like a lonely and beautiful tree, green like a new tree trunk, and you can also see the branches like a dragon, green like a copper coin-sized leaf, and there is already a little bit of grass and trees full of vitality.

"Cultivators can cultivate in their aura, this thing is an ordinary thing in the immortal world, but when placed here with us, it has a magical spiritual cultivation effect. In my ancient medicine inheritance, there is only a description of it, and it does not indicate where it was born, which means that our predecessors may not have seen it in a fresh growth state, and we are considered lucky! ”

Shangguan Wan'er didn't understand the meaning, but she was also very happy to see Li Zhi's shocked expression, "Do you want to take it away or stay here?" ”

"Take it, including a part of the soil! But there's still a lot of it here, and I'm burying some jade deep underground, hoping that another one will spawn in the future! Look at the decaying wood that has not been completely mellowed, the older the ambergris incense wood buried deep in the ground, the more first-class the fragrance it emits, and the longer the aura exists. If you find some, don't crush it again, although the oil secreted has the ability to repair itself, I think once it is crushed, maybe its self-maintenance will be greatly depleted! ”

Without touching the young seedling, Li Zhi slowly groped in the soil with both hands, and it took a long time to find scattered pieces of wood, the largest of which was only the size of an apricot, and more was only as narrow as a little finger.

Carefully peel off the surface of decay, like wood non-wood ambergris wood will appear, the surface seems to be covered with a layer of oil, transparent like beeswax, looks like wood, but is actually paste-like.

Li Zhi took out the short knife, sliced it and curled a small piece of mouth, stuffed it in his mouth and chewed it with a spicy taste, and then numb his tongue, sticky teeth, full of mouth, and melted in his mouth without leaving slag.

"That's right, this is real ambergris, just like the one in the record! Wan'er, where's your sachet? ”

Shangguan Wan'er handed over a small bag of pink brocade silk according to her words, and Li Zhi stored more than a dozen pieces in it: "Store it closely, originally prepared natural spices for you, purified in roses, and it has not yet been officially listed, you can mix a pound of spring water with a drop, and sprinkle a few drops on your body every day, and you can overflow the fragrance for a whole day!" ”

Shangguan Wan'er first stored the sachet close to her body, and then took the small glass bottle in her hand to play with it, and her eyes were full of affection: "Is it condensed?" Sure enough, she is worthy of being the god of flowers, and I am afraid that only she can refine such pure floral oils! ”

"At present, it is really under development, and I will bring other floral categories to you next time! I'll take the saplings here, but there will still be aura here, and you can absorb some of them here when you come. ”

After that, Li Zhi instructed Shangguan Wan'er to find two flower pots, transplant the ambergris wood into the pot, take a sufficient amount of red soil, and then bury Sancheng jade deep under the red soil, and refused to let go of a wisp of peeling off rotten dregs, which was carefully reburied by him.

After discussing the time of the next meeting, Li Zhicai left first.

All the way back, on the way, he has planned to make good use of those scattered pieces of wood, ambergris with a very high oil content, the grease part is dark, the xylem is a lighter yellow-white, mixed into various textures, the deeper the cultivation of the humane line, the more he can understand the law and Taoism from it, it is the law of heaven Yunyi, can only be perceived, but not seen.

If it is made into a hand bead and worn on the wrist, the aura in it is quite thin at will, but when he cultivates in the future, he can intuitively visualize the wooden texture on it, at least like Pang Qi, he believes that he will understand the Dharma from it, and it should be of great use to his own cultivation.

Returning to the store, as Li Zhi expected, Pang Ti saw the pot of ambergris incense, and refused to let go, or at Yu Ran's suggestion, he ran to the second floor to find Aunt Fang Lin, sewed a silk brocade pink cover for the flower pot, and held it in his arms like this, hugging it very tightly.

Li Zhi just smiled and watched without hindrance, Pang Qi himself was born with a wood spirit physique, and his body was rich in natural wood spirit qi, and passing it on to ambergris incense wood would only benefit it a lot.

"Is this digging deep in the mountains? What's the difference with our undead tree? Qingqi asked with a smile.

"Although it is also a pan-revitalizing aura plant, this kind of ambergris wood is still not comparable with the heavenly ladder tree of the gods, but it is a superb fragrance, with a strong ability to diffuse fragrance, and the fragrance is diffused and permeated extensively.

"It's just a seedling, and it will take a long time for it to grow, so I don't think I should count on it in the short term! By the way, someone from the palace has come to inquire about your whereabouts, and maybe there will be guests there later! ”

"Palace? Not Li Ying? You can't be trying to summon me into the palace, are you? ”

"It's a eunuch-like person, but his attitude is extremely kind, and he didn't tell him why, but just asked when you would return!"

"Maybe he'll come back later. Why are Pang Sheng'er and Princess Yiyi here again? ”

"Sheng Er understands well, her store is nearby, but how can we be lively here. Sister Yiyi, isn't she also thinking about joining in? It is said that her personality has changed greatly recently, she has long lost her previous eldest sister's style, and there seems to be less contact with those sisters, she is a princess from the second grade, and she is willing to be an ordinary clerk in our house, don't you think her behavior is a little strange? ”

"It should be that you think about it too much, I heard his brother talk with his eldest brother yesterday, Princess Yiyi's previous temperament actually affected Brother Caiwen's fear of the daughter of the family in Chang'an City, this sixteen-year-old female devil caused trouble for Guan Lugong. Maybe she suddenly had an epiphany, and she came to us to seek a change in her personality! Li Zhi made a sudden break in his heart and made a very far-fetched speculation.

Fortunately, Qingqi didn't take it to heart, "I went to the vault at noon to bring the food to the master, and by the way, I brought fruit wine to the old man, guess what?" It turned out that he carried a wine jug with him on weekdays, smelled the fruit wine we brought, gave the wine in his jug to the guards on the spot, and said that he must guarantee about a pound of supply every day! ”

"This kind of meticulous work of miniature carving, can you still carve with the spirit of wine?"

"I also asked such a strange question, the old man said that he usually rarely drinks, and the more delicate the work, the more he needs alcohol to increase his excitement, which is a very special preference of his! Text, have you seen the lens in his hand, according to him, it is a Western product, it is really strange, it can magnify the things under the mirror several times! ”

At this time, the two of them were behind the counter on the third floor, and the girls who bought the notes were still crowded, and they had already lined up at the second floor of the stairs, although there were many people on the two floors below, but they were far from being as busy as here.

After a while, I suddenly saw Princess Yiyi rushing in in a hurry, bypassing the counter, and her voice was hurried and low: "It's terrible, I was about to go to the backyard for convenience, and I saw the eighth prince in the backyard at the third staircase, maybe there were too many people on the stairs, and I didn't come up for the time being!" Beside him was a Taoist master! ”

"Huh? Why is the prince here? Li Zhi stood up with a strange expression, but he didn't dare to slack off under his feet, squeezed out a few steps to watch, and when he saw the real situation, he hurriedly slipped down and stepped forward to salute.

"This is Sima Chengzhen, the head of the law, but he is here to make friends with you!" Li Dan introduced with a smile.

Li Zhixin was shocked, this Sima Chengzhen is not a simple character, he has a lot of works in his life, especially a "Theory of Sitting and Forgetting", which is a book of cultivating Taoism and reasoning, entering the room to refine Taoism, and it is a familiar work for all people who have a deep understanding of Taoism, Sima Chengzhen can become the most famous Taoist priest in the Tang Dynasty in the history of thought, and half of his achievements are due to this book that was not written by him at all.

Although Sima Chengzhen was only later, inheriting the ideas of Jixia Taoism and Lao Zhuang, and then collecting and compiling it, it played an important theoretical role in the process of Taoism from Waidan to Neidan, and had a great influence on the later generations of Taoist Inner Danology.

More importantly for Li Zhi, this person created a set of Taoist theories of cultivating truth and a series of principles for cultivating truth, such as "Five Gradual Gates" and "Seven Stages", and wrote Taoist cultivation methods such as "The Secret Purpose of Cultivating Truth" and "Shangqing Hanxiang Sword Jiantu", and discussed the problems related to human life such as convincing qi and curing diseases, which can be said to further demonstrate the operability of his philosophy of life.

Compared with his series of related works, he himself is also a first-class martial arts master, but these titles are only the specific division of ordinary martial arts practitioners in the mouths of Xia Po and others, and Li Zhi knows nothing about Sima Chengzhen's practice of pure cultivation.

He once asked about Granny Xia, Lao Wu Tou and others, but he was told about him left and right, and he didn't seem to dare to confide in him easily.

And the arrival of Sima Chengzhen at this time is the real Taoist person that Li Zhi has been looking forward to getting acquainted, maybe from his mouth, he can get the result that Li Zhi wants to know.

Just by looking at him, Sima Chengzhen looked at Li Zhi with admiration, and from his expression, Li Zhi instantly understood that this person felt the existence of true qi in his body.

This is also Li Zhi's deliberate purpose, the purpose is to secretly test Sima Chengzhen and his person, how to sense the true qi he has, as he expected, this person can really perceive the pure Taoist breath of true qi.

This person was also the first person Li Zhi had met since his rebirth who could sense his true qi, which immediately raised the greatest vigilance in his heart.

Sima Chengzhen bowed his hand to him from afar, and there was no mention of true qi in his words: "Mr. Li is really young and promising, but this tall figure shows that he is completely different from ordinary people!" ”

There seemed to be something in his words, but there was no offense in the slightest, but a meaningful and kind smile.

Li Zhi smiled and said calmly: "The prince and the Taoist chief have also met, Zhengqing Wenqitang's business is very busy, there is really no place to stay, please understand, I can only ask the two nobles to sit in the simple courtyard for a while!" ”