Chapter 2 New Talent: Searching Mountains for Treasures
Half a month later.
Zhou Ling became more and more proficient as he walked, and could already trot.
His physical condition has also improved a lot.
At more than seven months old, except for some nutritional deficiencies, everything else is almost the same as a normal baby.
Of course, it is still far inferior to those babies with special physiques.
“If I were born on the original Blue Star and learned to walk in seven months, I would definitely be a monster.”
“But this is the world of cultivating immortals, and some children from aristocratic families take medicinal baths since childhood. With great strength, the gap between him and them is too big!"
Zhou Ling did not dare to relax at all.
Keep walking.
At this time, the door creaked, and then the burly Zhou Shan walked in.
Because he had to buy enough spiritual food for Zhou Ling in the past few months, he stayed in the wilderness for almost twenty days every month.
Feng Dian slept in the open air, and his face already felt a bit like hardship.
After Zhou Shan entered the door, he put down the medicine basket he was carrying. It was full of a bunch of elixirs with unknown names, and then he breathed out gently.
His coat was stained with dry and dark blood. Needless to say, he must have encountered a monster again.
Zhou Shan's brows were furrowed, his steps were heavy, and his expression was tired. Coupled with the bloodstains on his clothes, it made people feel a bit vicissitudes of life and a chilling feeling that strangers should not approach him.
Just when I walked into the house and saw my wife and children, my whole temperament changed, like an indomitable warrior returning to the home he protected with his life.
Looking at Zhou Ling walking around, Zhou Shan, whose face was covered with dust, showed a gentle smile, looked at the child dotingly, and said with a hoarse smile, "Ling'er can walk so far, In a few months, he will be able to go into the mountains with his father to look for medicine!"
Li Ru took off the basket for him and handed him a wet cloth to wipe his face, "Ling'er just feels better. The others are very well-behaved, don’t worry!”
Seeing the elixir in the basket, he couldn’t help but said, “Why are they all ordinary Seven-Star Grass this time?”
Zhou Shan shook his head and said helplessly, "Winter is about to come. There are so many people going into the mountains that we can't find any good medicine." Find some to earn more spirit stones and buy more spirit beast meat for Ling Er to replenish his blood."
Li Ru looked at the blood stains on his clothes and said worriedly, "Hey, I have to take care of him at home. Ling'er, it's too dangerous for you to be alone. It's better to wait until the beginning of the new year before going into the mountains!"
Zhou Shan sighed, "We won't be able to go into the mountains in the next few months. We have no income. The child is already weak. I still need to feed myself with spiritual porridge and beast meat to grow taller."
"I may enter a Taoist temple in two years, so I need to save more spiritual stones."
As Zhou Shan spoke, he smiled at Zhou Ling and said, "Little Ling'er, come here and give me a hug!"
Looking at the blood stains on Zhou Shan's body, Li Ru stopped him and said, "Take a bath first, change "Don't scare the child!"
"I didn't pay attention!" Zhou Shan nodded, "Get me some food, I'm almost starving!"
"You didn't take the Bigu Pill!" Li Ru sighed, complaining slightly.
He went into the mountains to collect herbs and slept in the open air. Li Ru also prepared some dry food for him and two Bigu Pills.
One Bigu Pill costs thirty broken spirits, which can last for two or three days.
Married for many years, she could tell from Zhou Shan’s demeanor that he must be reluctant to take the Bigu Pill.
“I’m not hungry even in the mountains!” Zhou Shan said with a smile.
Then he walked towards the bathroom.
Li Ru shook his head, knowing that it was very stressful for her husband to support the family alone.
But the child was still young, and she couldn't help at this moment. She murmured, "When the child goes to the Taoist temple, I will be able to help."
Then, she went to the kitchen to prepare food for Zhou Shan of.
Zhou Ling unconsciously walked to the basket, jumped up and down, grabbed the basket, and grabbed a few elixirs with his little hands.
This basket is a head taller than him.
[Growth Talent, Search Mountains for Treasures: You can feel the breath of elixirs and treasures around you. Achieve requirements: Identify thirty kinds of spiritual herbs in total. 】
"Searching for treasure? Do you still need to identify the elixir?"
Looking at the prompts that appeared on the panel, Zhou Ling was stunned for a moment.
Then I felt happy. Since Zhou Shan and his wife were medicine seekers, most of their daily contacts were also medicine seekers or monster hunters.
Lingxia Fairy City is just a small border town of the Dao League. The barren mountains and wilderness outside stretch for thousands of miles. There are countless kinds of spiritual plants, monsters, and minerals in the mountains.
But the treasures in the mountains are extremely difficult to obtain. Firstly, there are monsters in the mountains, which are a huge threat to human monks. Secondly, if you go deep into the wilderness, you will encounter evil fog.
Once the elixir is contaminated by the evil mist and loses its breath, it is extremely difficult to find.
Medicine seekers like Zhou Shan usually find only ordinary medicinal herbs.
If you can find a first-grade high-grade spiritual grass, then one plant will cost several low-grade spiritual stones.
If I have such a talent, it will not be easy to go into the mountains to find medicine in the future.
If you cooperate with [Crisis Response], it will be released!
Zhou Ling thought to himself. "This seems to be Seven Star Grass, which is usually used to refine ordinary talisman paper."
Zhou Ling murmured.
During this period of time, he also got to know some spiritual herbs.
[Identify the seven-star grass, search the mountains for treasure +1]
"It's really possible!"
Grabbing the Seven Star Grass, Zhou Ling seemed to feel different from before.
It can be felt that this spiritual grass has been growing for about three years and is full of vitality. It was just picked not long ago.
"Ling'er, be careful!"
Li Ru, who came out of the kitchen with a plate of fried vegetables, saw this scene and put the plate on the wooden table.
He hurriedly came over and hugged Zhou Ling.
"Mom, what kind of spiritual grass is this?"
Zhou Ling asked in a milky voice.
Although he is only more than seven months old, Zhou Ling is extremely talented in language and can already speak short sentences.
“My dear son, this is the Seven-Star Grass. One plant can be sold for six or seven pieces of broken spirit.”
"The elixirs your father picked these days can be sold for seven or eight spiritual stones!"
Li Ru said softly.
"What is this?"
Zhou Ling waved her white and tender little hands again, grabbed another spiritual grass and asked.
"Son, you are interested in spiritual herbs at such a young age. You should become an alchemist in the future."
"This is spiritual grass, a relatively popular spiritual grass. After eating it, it has miraculous effects on improving eyesight."
Li Ru said to Zhou Ling with a smile.
[Identify Lingmu Grass, Search Mountains for Treasures +1]
Looking at the warm scene of Li Ru holding the child, after taking a bath and changing clothes, Zhou Shan suddenly felt that all the hard work and fatigue on his body were gone. Sweep away.
“Alchemist, it’s not that easy.”
"Ling'er must be hungry, come over and eat together!"
Zhou Shan smiled generously.
I quickly took a big sip of the fragrant and glutinous spirit rice porridge and breathed a sigh of relief, "It's so comfortable!"
Although it was just the cheapest spirit rice mixed with ordinary rice. Although Li Ru was very good at cooking, Zhou Shan ate with gusto.
“If our son really becomes an alchemist in the future, then we will be blessed!”
Li Ru held Zhou Ling in one hand and a medicine basket in the other and sat down on the bench next to Zhou Shan.
The midday sun shines into the house, casting circles of flickering light and shadow, reflecting on Zhou Ling.
Zhou Shan turned sideways, pinched Zhou Ling's soft little face with his left hand that was not holding the bowl, and said with a smile, "We casual cultivators, firstly, have no inheritance, and secondly, we have no resources. We want to become Alchemist is not very realistic."
"I will be very satisfied if Ling'er can become a Talisman Master or a Weapon Refiner in the future!"
"Yes, my son will be able to enter the Taoist Academy in the future. That's good!" Li Ru served Zhou Shan a bowl of broth and said with a smile.
This is the spirit beast broth stewed every day to replenish Zhou Ling's body.
Zhou Ling had just eaten the spirit rice porridge and was not hungry now. He looked at the medicine basket in front of Li Ru.
As the couple began to discuss the matter of their child entering Lingxia Taoist Temple in the future.
Zhou Ling learned from their conversation that the more popular professions in this world are array master, alchemist, rune master and weapon refiner.
Generally, children between the ages of two and three will go to a Taoist temple to test their spiritual roots.
Children with spiritual roots and cultivation talents can begin pre-cultivation enlightenment education in the Taoist temple and enter kindergarten classes.
Similar to Blue Star's kindergarten.
Of course, what we teach is the basic knowledge of cultivation.
The Taoist school will start to divide students around the age of seven or eight. Different children choose different cultivation professions according to their different talents and abilities. At this time, their identities will also be different. They are regarded as the outer sect of Lingxia Immortal Sect. disciple.
Of course, this process will screen out some people.
If you get good grades in the future, you can also become an inner sect or direct disciple.
The identity is completely different, far beyond the comparison of ordinary casual cultivators.
But the probability of becoming an inner disciple of Lingxia Sect is extremely low, less than one tenth per year.
(End of this chapter)