Since Xu Yan separated from Bai Bing and others, he began to walk to the northern hinterland of the stalagmites forest alone. It has to be said that the range of climbing the mountain is quite wide, and these thousands of stalagmites standing are like mazes made of natural combinations, which makes people unable to distinguish between heaven and earth when they are deeply trapped in it.

Perhaps when they were taken out to view them separately, each one was different and different. However, after three consecutive days of inspection and being almost visually fatigued, even Xu Yan began to feel that they might not have a difference in their appearance.

During these three days, Xu Yan was constantly looking for the Golden Chai Shilan. However, when he checked at least dozens of stalagmites but still did not see even a trace of it, he couldn't help but have an idea in his mind, "Is this task a huge lie that the leaders of major sects agreed upon since the beginning, was purely just to let us come here to find that false hope?"

Pulling Fu Yao out of the abdomen of one spirit beast that had just entered the second level, Xu Yan could no longer tell whether it was tired or deep in his deep eyes. He looked at the corpse under his feet and sighed softly. This was the 23rd spirit beast that had died in his hands for three days. He kept counting the increasing number of deaths in his heart. At the same time, he also found that as he went deeper into the hinterland of the mountain, the number of spirit beasts wandering among the mountains was also increasing.

For example, on the first day, he only encountered six spirit beasts, one of which was a second-level spirit beast, and the rest were first-level spirit beasts. But on the second day, the number directly doubled and turned into eleven, and there was no level one-level spirit beast inside.

As for today? It’s not too late at noon, but Xu Yan has already killed the sixth second-level spirit beast.

Xu Yan easily cut open its corpse, but still couldn't find the inner alchemy from its body.

Now he is basically sure that if he wants to obtain inner alchemy from the spirit beast, it is possible to encounter at least level three or above spirit beasts. Of course, it is much more troublesome to deal with spirit beasts after reaching this level, because whether it is in terms of strength or ferocity, the third-level spirit beasts are very powerful.

Xu Yan did not stay too long in the same place, but continued to hold Fu Yao in his hand and walked deeper. At this position, he could no longer retract Fu Yao into the scabbard behind him. He could not predict whether he would suddenly rush out toward him in the next second or at the corner of a stalagmites that had been lurking for a long time.

So, four days passed again.

Seven days later.

Xu Yan finally came to the real hinterland in the north of Dengbei Mountain. The environment here is undoubtedly much worse than the outer periphery. In addition, from now on, the distance between stalagmites and stalagmites has also become extremely span. Generally, after Xu Yan encountered a stalagmites, he had to see another stalagmites more than ten kilometers away. However, these are nothing. What made him most depressed was that since yesterday evening, a gray fog rose in the area where he was.

This kind of fog does not originate from rainy weather or mountain fog that rises when the climate is humid. It is more like a miasma formed by the corpses of animals that die in the forest or plants after they rot. Since it is miasma, it will inevitably have a certain toxicity.

Xu Yan was not worried too much when he witnessed this miasma. In his long Bible, there are naturally many secret methods to eliminate poison, which are enough to restrain most of the toxicity in the world. Even if he was bitten by poisonous snakes or poisonous insects in the mountains and forests, he would never have any worries about his life.

A lonely stalagmites appeared in Xu Yan's vision again. They were like a huge pillar, standing in the fog and dense forest, reaching the sky.

Xu Yan opened his eyes and found that its size was much higher than all the stalagmites he saw when he first came to the Back Mountain. Although he could not fully see how high it was at this time, because at a height of about twenty feet, it was already covered by the gray miasma, but he could feel its majesty and majesty.

Xu Yan opened his eyes and looked at the stalagmites that were close to him, but he was a little hesitant because he could not determine whether he would climb up to find any shitty Jinchai Shilan. After all, the gains in the past seven days had already made him feel a little exhausted physically and mentally. If it weren't for the fact that he had seen detailed information about Jinchai Shilan in the "Bencao Sutra" in the Sutra Collection of the Sect before setting off, he would have seen detailed information about Jinchai Shilan with his own eyes, and he would even doubt whether there was such spiritual herbs in this world.

But in the end, Xu Yan compromised with his sense of responsibility and curiosity, and walked towards the huge stalagmites in front of him.

Above the stalagmites, there are dense green vines, and these vines look very thick and strong, almost each of them is thick like an adult man's arms.

Xu Yan temporarily retracted Fu Yao into the scabbard, and then began to climb up along the vine.

A quarter of an hour later, he climbed to a height of nearly twenty feet of stalagmites, but it was obvious that no matter how carefully he looked, there were only countless vines in this position, but there was no shadow of the golden hairpin Shilan.

He did not pause too much. After resting for a while, he continued to crawl upwards until another quarter of an hour passed, he came to a distance of about forty feet.

A ray of light shot straight from the sky, and Xu Yan blinked a little dazzlingly. Then he felt that at this height, the miasma floating around him was no longer as rich as below, and could block all the sunlight. With every ten feet of rise, the miasma layer would become thinner. By the time he climbed to about sixty feet of the stalagmites, he had completely escaped from the range of the miasma layer.

At this moment, Xu Yan could clearly see that under his feet was a sea of ​​fog filled with gray and toxicity. It was hard for him to imagine that such a dense layer of miasma had formed here overnight.

Xu Yan suddenly woke up. How could the sea of ​​fog with such a wide range of influence be a miasma layer?

He looked around and regrettably, even though he was already nearly sixty feet tall at the height of stalagmites, he still couldn't see the end at all. At the same time, he couldn't see where this gray, toxic fog originated.

Xu Yan smiled bitterly and did not continue to investigate this issue. Instead, he looked up at the stalagmites and found that the height of the stalagmites was a hundred feet away. Therefore, he was only about forty feet away from the last summit.

Fortunately, although the number of these vines growing under his feet is increasing as the height increases, several still spread to the peak.

"call!"

Xu Yan grabbed the vines and carefully climbed to the top of the stalagmites, and couldn't help but breathe a long breath.

On the top of the stalagmites, the strong wind kept howling, blew Xu Yan's long black hair frantically, and at the same time, the robe on his body was whistling.

As he climbed up to see the distance, he really felt like he was looking at the small mountains. Xu Yan looked up at the sky, as if the blue sky was as bright as a mirror, and it was a pity that the scene in front of him was incomparable to the sky that he had witnessed with his own eyes.

No matter how beautiful the scenery is, he has seen it with his own eyes, and no matter how noble the mountain is, he has set foot on it.

Xu Yan rested for a moment, then took his gaze back from the distance, and then he began to look for the target object of his trip, Jinchai Shilan, on this vast mountain top.

On the top of the stalagmites, the trees grew very sparsely, and they were not dense. Xu Yan walked in this area similar to the grove and did not miss any corner. His eyes were like sharp eagles, sweeping between the grass and shrubs until he was about to reach the center of the entire area, and he saw a huge pit ahead. However, before he could get close to the pit to check, the first thing that fell into his eyes was the plant growing at the edge of the pit, which had only a single flower peduncle but was covered with golden color.

It is about to bloom, like an orchid, but it has not yet bloomed perfectly. It seems that it will take at least one day.

Xu Yan looked at it in shock. The mood of Gujing Wubo also felt a little rippling at this moment.

"Golden hairpin Shilan!"

There was a slight surprise in Xu Yan's voice, but more of it was a kind of relief. After he said these four words, his face, which was originally extremely sunny, was a little vicissitudes because of the ups and downs that had been through this period of time, finally showed a smile.

Xu Yan walked towards the direction of the golden hairpin Shilan. This was the fruit of victory that he had truly encountered after he arrived at the seventh day of climbing the mountain. Even though it was not yet ripe, he could afford it. He could wait until it was truly ripe before picking it.

Xu Yan was getting closer and closer to it, step by step, and at the same time, his eyes gradually saw the huge pit behind it.

The giant pit is a circular shape as a whole. Its widest part is twenty feet long, but its depth is only two feet long. It is filled with water, making it look like a natural lake. However, when Xu Yan really saw the situation inside, his face turned into a real horror in this instant.

A giant snake as thick as a bucket, like a dragon lying on its body, sleeping in this huge pit. Its eyes were closed and its breathing was evenly. Its huge head was facing Xu Yan, or was it facing this golden hairpin orchid?

Xu Yan looked at the giant snake in shock, and there was only endless incredible in his heart. After a moment, he suddenly remembered that night, one of the many deeds of Chen Qinghe and he had told him about spiritual herbs and spirit beasts. Chen Qinghe said at the time: "It is said that in some unaccessible places in the world, there are some spiritual treasures with magical effects growing. However, the reason why these spiritual treasures are difficult to pick by practitioners is not only that the geographical environment in which it grows is too harsh. It is said that there are powerful spirit beasts next to them to protect them, and these spirit beasts are called guardians."

Xu Yan looked at the giant snake and was undoubtedly amazed in his heart, "Is it the guardian of this Golden Chai Shilan? But although the Golden Chai Shilan is rare, it is far from being called a spiritual treasure of heaven and earth. How could it attract the protection of the spirit beast?"

"No! The "Bencao Sutra" once recorded that the flowers blooming in the golden hairpin stone orchid are only golden, but the pedicels are ordinary gray-brown, while this golden hairpin stone orchid is covered with red gold. It is extremely difficult to grow to this extent, is it...?"

Xu Yan turned around and looked at the flowers in his eyes carefully, "Did it survive for a hundred years?"

It is said in the Medicine Sutra that only the golden hairpin stone orchid that grows for more than a hundred years will bloom once in ten years and bear fruit once in ten years. After five repeated transformations, it can turn into a red gold color. Once it reaches this level, not only the flowers it blooms can be used as medicinal materials, but its pedicels will also have the same effect. The most important thing is that it will also produce a fruit at the same time when the sixth flower blooms. This fruit will grow in the middle of the flower, just like a spirit beast growing an inner elixir. The "flower-core" that has been produced after a hundred years is even a hundred times more precious than the Peiyuan Pill refined by the dynasty. Because it is said that the people who convinced it can not only break the threshold of the seven realms, but also improve his cultivation at least one level, whether this person is a sword cultivator or a martial arts cultivator.

When Xu Yan thought of these written records, his eyes when he looked at it were completely different from before.

What is he missing the most at the moment? It is undoubtedly this spiritual treasure of heaven and earth that can help him quickly improve his realm without leaving any sequelae.

He took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. He originally would not express his excitement to these things according to the world he had seen before, but this life is different from the past.

He half-kneeled in front of the golden hairpin Shilan, stretched out his hand and gently stroked the flower bud that was about to be completely opened, just like stroking a newly born baby, with gentle and careful movements. Even Xu Yan even opened most of the petals through it and saw that in the center of the flower, the 'flower-core' embedded on it."

"It turns out that the records in the Medicine Sutra are real. It seems that the people who wrote the scriptures have also received such an adventure." Xu Yan said to himself.

At this moment, in the huge pit, waves suddenly rolled up.

"Crazy!"

It was like a huge wave plunging from the sea on the beach. After hearing this, Xu Yan immediately felt nervous. He couldn't help but turn his head to look, and then he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It turned out that it had not really woken up, but just turned over like a human in his sleep.

Xu Yan stroked his chest with lingering fear. Before the giant snake could wake up, he could not tell at all what level of spirit beast it was. If it was below level 4, like the Blood Wolf King, he could fight with it with all his strength and even kill the opponent. But if the giant snake entered the range of level 4, he had never fought and would not have any confidence.

"But it's impossible to beat it, so it's always easy to escape."

Xu Yan thought so in his heart, then got up and walked around the edge of the giant pit and continued to walk towards the other side of the mountain top. Since the golden hairpin stone orchid is still a while before the true flowering period, he naturally doesn't have to stay there. Besides, he has only walked halfway through the mountain top area of ​​this stalagmites, and perhaps there are golden hairpin stone orchids growing on the other side.

"It seems that Senior Brother Bai may have said less than ten plants before, but he still said too much. It is a great luck to see one of these spirit herbs." Xu Yan murmured in his heart. At this time, he had bypassed the entire huge pit, and then not far from him, he saw another spirit herb that was exactly the same shape as the previous one.

"There is actually another one!" Xu Yan looked at the golden hairpin Shilan growing in the cracks of the rocks in front of him, and couldn't help but feel shocked in his heart and exclaimed in surprise.

However, although the flower in front of me is also a stone orchid, it is obviously the first time it has bloomed, because on its branches, it has not even turned into the gray-brown color recorded in the medicinal scriptures, but is very delicate and green.

Xu Yan looked at the golden hairpin, which had only a trace of golden hairpin in the petals, and felt a little unwilling to pick it away just because its growth time was too short. If he did not choose to pick it up this time, most people who discovered it in the future would be able to wait until the day when it was truly mature. After all, the stalagmites in front of him were basically close to the northernmost part of the mountain. Going northward further north is the legendary Sanjing River. Ordinary sect disciples dare not anyone to go deep into this range.

However, in the end, after Xu Yan thoroughly checked the range of the mountain top and failed to find the third golden hairpin stone orchid, he still picked the extremely delicate golden hairpin stone orchid. As for the reason, it was because Xu Yan had already made a secret decision that when the spring hunting ended the final task, he only handed over this new stone orchid, and the golden hairpin stone that was a hundred years old, he must keep it for himself. Such a spiritual herb has already joined the ranks of spiritual treasures in the world, which is extremely precious.

"It's a pity that I can't transplant you into the sect alive." After Xu Yan digged out the stone orchid, he sighed softly, and then put it in the storage bag.

Although a storage bag that can store things in a small amount greatly reduces the trouble of carrying large and small bags when traveling, its disadvantage is that it cannot store living things. In the storage bag, there is no air and there will be no spiritual energy in heaven and earth. Therefore, any creature will die if it is stored for a long time.

Xu Yan seemed to think of something in his mind, and couldn't help but murmur, "It would be great if he could find something like the 'Seven Treasure Gourd' in the Five Prefectures Continent." But after he said this, he shook his head again, feeling that he was thinking too much.

After all, the seven treasure gourd cannot be refined by practitioners from this Five Prefectures continent.

...

Time passes quickly.

The transfer room has entered late at night.

On this night, Xu Yan did not choose to sleep or meditate, because a giant snake was sleeping in a huge pit that was only a few feet away from him.

He could not be sure when the monster would suddenly wake up, so he could only watch the whole night.

In the vast night sky, stars and moon shine together, emitting bright and bright light. Countless stars and dots are like gems after glowing. However, even such a charming night sky scene still did not attract Xu Yan's attention or interest.

He is like a lonely pine and cypress growing on the top of this stalagmites, allowing this beautiful light and shadow to quietly pass by him.

The night sky disappeared.

A dark blue color rose on the edge of the world, and a huge fireball slowly rose from the east with a new look until it was vertically above the head of the pine and cypress, illuminating the golden flower in front of you.

A golden color shining more than the sunlight emanates from the center of this flower.

The golden hairpin stone orchid finally bloomed completely at this moment.
Chapter completed!