Chapter 4 Heartless Fruit
The back mountain of the Utu tribe, the grass and trees are luxuriant, the knee-high wild grass is dense, there are many snakes, insects, rats and ants to hide, in the deepest part of the back mountain is a cliff, although it is only dozens of zhang high, but the cliff is a turbulent river below.
I heard that there is a kind of strange algae with a very strong attack type living in the river, if you accidentally stumble and fall, you will be instantly entangled by these algae, even if you are a warrior who ascends the realm, you don't dare to wade into the water easily.
This has always been a forbidden place for the Utu tribe, and the tribesmen are not allowed to stay here to avoid accidents, although there is no one to guard, but no one dares to come here on weekdays.
However, there are special cases in this, such as Wu Ling, when he was a child, his father Wu Peng once took her to the back mountain to find herbs for Bai Feng, or to catch some small beasts, which can be regarded as a kind of exercise for Wu Ling, so Wu Ling is quite familiar with the back mountains of the tribe.
Along the way, the two walked through the dense forest and weeds, Xiang Yun followed behind Wu Ling, who held a short knife in his hand, skillfully clearing the weeds to open the way.
At this moment, Wu Lingshi's body was slightly bowed, his legs were slightly bent, like a beast hidden in the dense forest, and his footsteps fell even more lightly and silently, and the short knife in his hand pushed away the weeds at the same time, and the blade turned with it.
Occasionally, hares and pheasants pop out of nowhere...... Or the poisonous snakes hiding in the weeds appeared, and they saw a flash of silver light, and these beasts were killed with a blow before they could even make a wail.
This is the first time Xiang Yun has seen Wu Ling make a move, compared to the Wuyun martial artist of the Tianxuan Continent, Wu Ling, a martial artist of the fifth layer of the quenching body, whether it is the reaction speed or the accuracy of the shot, is more than one grade higher.
It seems that because of the perennial hunting and wandering on the edge of danger, the actual combat ability of the warriors of the Savage Continent is undoubtedly better than that of the Yunwu warriors of the Tianxuan Continent!
Along the way, Wu Ling protected Xiang Yun behind him, although there were no wild beasts in the back mountain, there were still a lot of ordinary beast poisons.
However, Xiang Yun's divine power had already probed the nearby grass and trees, and any creature in the grass could not escape his detection, nor did he find any danger, but he sensed a few rich spiritual power fluctuations, which should be the elixir of growth!
Sure enough, when the two of them advanced a distance of dozens of zhang, Wu Ling stopped at a place where spiritual power gathered, and saw a small emerald green grass growing in the weedy pile in front of him.
At first glance, this grass is indistinguishable from the surrounding weeds, but if you look closely, you will find that in the center of the grass, several pale yellow roots as thin as hair sway, swinging with the wind, releasing a faint light in the dark night.
Seeing this, Wu Ling's face was overjoyed.
"Spirit Whisker Grass! This is a good thing, the spiritual power is comparable to the essence blood of a third-level desolate beast, it seems that we are lucky!"
At that moment, Wu Ling squatted down, carefully cut off the roots of the grass, did not destroy its rhizomes, and handed the silk thread around a small ring in the city and handed it to Xiang Yundao.
"Put it away, follow me, sharpen your eyes, and tell me immediately if you notice something unusual, or a plant that glows!"
Wu Ling completely regarded Xiang Yun as a soy sauce player, and at this moment, his Xiang Yun's cloth bag was already full of pheasants and hares that were hunted by Wu Ling.
Xiang Yun didn't say much, he directly pocketed the Spirit Whisker Grass, followed closely behind Wu Ling, and dutifully looked around, as if he was helping Wu Ling find the elixir together.
Of course, as for whether Xiang Yun can discover the elixir, Wu Ling simply has an attitude that talking is better than nothing, and it is extremely difficult to find a rare elixir in such a dense weed, even if she is experienced, she can pick up seven or eight elixirs at most in one night.
"Huh...... Somewhere, there seems to be a red wildflower?"
Suddenly, just as Wu Ling was concentrating on the elixir, Xiang Yun beside him spoke.
Wu Ling was stunned when he heard this, and asked hurriedly. "Where?"
"Right there!"
Xiang Yun pointed to the right front, more than ten zhang away.
Hearing this, Wu Ling looked at it for a while, and finally found a faint red in the messy weeds.
Before he had time to think about it, Wu Ling moved quickly in that direction.
A moment later, there was already an extra bunch in Wu Ling's hand, with pentagonal leaves and small pale red petals.
The flower is the size of a little finger, and the rhizome is thin and short, making it look very fragile, but if you pull the rhizome hard, you will find that it is very tough.
"Iron Stripe Flower!"
Wu Ling directly called out the name of this flower, this is indeed an elixir, and the spiritual power contained in it is even higher than that of the Spirit Whisker Grass.
Staring at the iron pattern flower in her hand, Wu Ling was very happy, and it didn't take long to search, and she found the second elixir, which was indeed worth celebrating, but then she showed a suspicious look.
"Xiang Yun, how did you find it?"
You know, it's night, and although there are a lot of fireflies flying around, it's still very dark around, and even with Wu Ling's eyesight, the distance that can be seen is very limited.
And this iron-patterned flower was born very low, light in color, hidden in the weeds, if it weren't for Xiang Yun's reminder, it would be difficult for her to find it, but how did Xiang Yun, an ordinary person, find it?
Xiang Yun said without panic.
"Miss Wuling don't have to be surprised...... My eyes are a little special, I can see more clearly than ordinary people at night, and in the past, when our tribesmen went out hunting, they would take me with them to help them find prey. ”
Hearing what Xiang Yun said, Wu Ling nodded in disbelief and continued to search.
......
In the following hour, under the search of Xiang Yun's "special eyes", Wu Ling actually harvested more than a dozen elixirs, among which there was even an elixir comparable to the essence blood of a sixth-level desolate beast, which made Wu Ling very ecstatic.
"Xiang Yun, I can't see that you still have this ability, no wonder you are so weak, and the tribe is willing to take you in!"
When Xiang Yun heard this, he was speechless for a while, is this praising himself?
"Are we going to continue picking?" Xiang Yun asked, within the range of his divine perception, there were no more elixirs nearby.
Wu Ling shook his head and said.
"No need, these elixirs alone are enough for us to eat for a while, and picking too many at one time will not be good if we attract the attention of others. ”
"Then we'll go back now?" Xiang Yun asked.
Wu Ling was about to nod, but suddenly remembered something.
"Wait a minute!"
With that, Wu Ling pulled Xiang Yun and walked towards the cliff in the distance.
"Hmm...... Miss Ling'er, what are you?"
Wu Ling didn't answer, and took Xiang Yun all the way to the edge of the cliff, facing the swishing cold wind, and there was a low and turbulent sound of water in his ears.
Standing near the abyss, there were faint clouds and mist under the cliff, and the darkness blocked the vision of the two, but Xiang Yun could clearly see that under the cliff, a wide river rushed through.
The current is very turbulent, and there are many dark and unknown whirlpools on the surface, which looks very hideous!
At this time, Wu Ling was walking along the edge of the cliff, as if looking for something.
A moment later, Wu Ling stopped in front of a round stone placed on the edge of the cliff, only to see her leaning down and looking down at the cliff for a while, but suddenly let out a cry of surprise!
"Great, it's ripe!"
"Huh......?"
Xiang Yun was stunned when he heard this, and looked towards the cliff, but his vision was blocked by a boulder, and he couldn't see anything, so he immediately mobilized his divine thoughts and swept it over.
As far as the gods could see, more than ten zhang below the cliff, Xiang Yun found a plant growing on the stone wall.
It is a plant about a foot tall, with a fiery red rhizome and an oval-shaped purple fruit growing at the end, which faintly contains not weak spiritual power.
"Huh......?"
Xiang Yun was puzzled in his heart, and when he came to Wu Ling's side, he saw that where Wu Ling was, there happened to be a depression in the rock wall, and he could see where this elixir was hiding.
Wu Ling then told Xiang Yun that this thing is called Wuxin Fruit, which is a rather rare elixir, and I heard that it has a very strong medicinal effect on the martial artists of the ascending realm.
This was discovered when Wu Ling was playing with his father here when he was a child, and Wu Ling's father was also there at the time, and he told Wu Ling that the fruit of this heartless fruit was still green and not yet ripe, and once the fruit had grown purple, it was fully ripe and ready to be picked.
Since then, Wu Ling has quietly come here almost every other month to check, but the fruit has always been green, but I didn't expect to suddenly remember this elixir today, and at a glance, it was already ripe.
"You wait for me here, I'll go down and pick this herb!"
As he spoke, Wu Ling handed a few elixirs in his hand to Xiang Yun and pulled out the dagger on his waist.
Before Xiang Yun had time to say more, Wu Ling had already turned over dexterously and jumped directly from the cliff with his back!
After falling more than a foot high, the dagger in her hand quickly stabbed forward, directly into the cliff wall, the dagger along the rock wall, down a few inches of distance, Wu Ling's body hung directly on the cliff wall, and at the same time stepped on a raised rock wall to release the force.
After looking at the situation below, Wu Ling barely paused, and continued to repeat these movements, she was like a dexterous ape, on the cliff, constantly falling, until it descended to a distance of about ten zhang, Wu Ling's movements gradually slowed down.
At this moment, there is still a distance of seven or eight zhang from the heartless fruit below, but at this time, the mountain wind is fierce, the night dew is heavy, and the cliff wall is very slippery, even Wu Ling has to be cautious.
After another half an hour, Wu Ling finally came to the side of the Heartless Fruit, she had obviously already thought about how to pick it, and she was not panicked at the moment.
I saw her hanging from the edge of the cliff with one hand, and with the other hand she pulled out a short knife from her leather boot and gently slashed it on the rhizome of the heartless fruit.
The rhizome was cut off, the fruit fell instantly, and with a light hook under Wu Ling's feet, he immediately reached out and grabbed the fruit, and everything was very smooth.
Wu Ling's face showed a hint of joy, and at the same time, Xiang Yun on the cliff was also relieved in his heart, and shouted busily.
"Miss Ling'er, come up quickly. ”
Wu Ling nodded, and immediately used the short knife and dagger in her hand to keep climbing upwards, although she was a martial artist with a five-layer quenching body, but walking on the cliff for a long time in this way still consumed a lot of her physical strength, and the speed of rock climbing was obviously much slower.
After about dozens of breaths, seeing that Wu Ling had climbed more than half of the way, only five or six zhang away from the top of the cliff, the top of the cliff was about to pick up Xiang Yun of Wu Ling, but his face suddenly changed, and he suddenly turned his head to look at the cliff wall shrouded in mist on the right side.
"Come on!" Xiang Yun immediately let out a low shout!
"Hmm......" Wu Ling below was stunned when he heard this.
"Hiss......sss
At this moment, there was a piercing and rapid hissing in the direction of the mountain wall on the right, and in the hazy mist, a slender figure could be faintly seen, swimming quickly along the cliff in the direction where Wu Ling was!