Eagle Cliff 19

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  According to the regulations of the Medicine Collection Chamber, after being promoted to a medicine collection apprentice, the medicine collection child is allowed to obtain a second secret book.

  Ye Qin thought of this matter, before setting out to collect medicine, he specially ran a trip to the secret room of Cangshu Pavilion, wanting to see if he could find a book with attacking power, outer door martial arts, and light work, to enhance his own safety and strength.

  The young guardian there told him that the medicine apprentice can indeed take away the second secret book, but it is no longer possible to learn the martial arts of the secret room for free like the medicine boy, and must pay money to take away the secret book.

  The prices of the secret books are different at each level. One gold leaf can take away a book of the lowest-level secret book. If it is a mid-level secret book, even ten or more gold leaves are needed. High-level secret books even require thirty or forty gold leaves or more.

  The young guardian also specially recommended several secret manuals to him, such as "Crazy Dragon Palm", seventeen gold leaves, a powerful move that can be made by internal martial arts masters. There is also the "Cloud Spirit Thirteen Sword Manual", a sword technique with high lethality, twenty gold leaves. Both are suitable for apprentices of herbal medicine to learn.

  Ye Qin was stunned after hearing the price of the youth guard's report.

  A golden leaf and a book with the lowest secret recipe?

  He only got five silver leaves for entering the mountain once, and he had to enter the mountain at least twenty times in nearly two years to earn this money. Twenty gold leaves... He would have to work for more than 20 years, this secret book was really black-hearted.

  Helpless, Ye Qin could only carry the basket of herbs on his back, leave the county town, and honestly enter the deep mountains. He gave up the idea of learning another advanced martial art. In his heart, he thought that after a couple of years, when he had saved up a few gold leaves, he would learn one or two low-level internal skills and light skills, which would be enough.

  More than ten days later, Ye Qin appeared on a cliff of a mountain peak in a deep mountain canyon hundreds of miles away, carrying a basket of herbs and sweating profusely. It took him nearly two hours to climb this mountain, but fortunately, he picked several herbs along the way, worth several copper coins, and didn't waste his time.

  Ye Qin also gradually discovered that he alone could gather more herbs than five people working together.

  He alone can collect only sixteen or seventeen copper coins of herbs per day on average, and in a month, he can complete the task of collecting five silver leaf herbs. Of course, excluding the initial rush of five days, as well as the return trip of five days. In the middle twenty days, one day actually needs to collect about twenty-five copper coins of medicinal materials.

  And the five of them had to collect eighty-three copper coins' worth of herbs every day. After deducting the five days it took to get there and the five days it took to return, they would have to collect as much as one hundred twenty-five copper coins' worth of medicinal materials in the remaining twenty days, which was extremely difficult.

  Because there are usually only so many medicinal herbs on one path, when more people team up, it's naturally not enough to divide.

  On the contrary, walking alone is better for collecting herbs.

  However, with advantages come disadvantages.

  Ye Qin was walking in the deep mountains and old forests when he inevitably encountered wolves, tigers and leopards, which always pursued him relentlessly. One or two were fine, but with three to five of them together, things got troublesome.

  Ye Qin, although carrying a machete for self-defense, did not dare to fight the pack of wolves head-on and could only run desperately. He didn't run too fast, but he kept running over mountains and through rivers without stopping for a moment, and finally managed to shake off the jackals that were chasing him, leaving them behind with broken legs.

  To avoid jackals, a lot of time was wasted on the road.

  He climbed up the cliff of this mountain peak in the canyon, also to avoid a pack of jackals at the foot of the mountain. The cliff was better than dealing with a pack of jackals, even if there were snake eagles on it. Moreover, this cliff was several miles long, enough for him to search for herbs for several days.

  Ye Qin found a huge rock on the mountain top that could shelter from wind and rain, and set up camp under it. He put down his herbal basket, water skin bag, cloth bag, small pot, oil salt bag, etc.

  Again on the mountain top, a grass snake was found in the rock crevices, its head chopped off, and a delicious snake soup was cooked, which was eaten to restore the consumed physical strength.

  After a short rest, Ye Qin carried his axe and two bundles of rope, starting to search for medicinal herbs on the summit. Not bad at all, in just half a day's work, he found over ten strains of grassy medicine on the mountain top, worth at least forty or fifty copper coins.

  After two or three days of effort, Ye Qin had searched the entire mountain range and picked all the mature medicinal herbs that were several years old. As for the immature ones, he didn't touch a single one. The rule of thumb for herb collectors is to never disturb unripe herbs. Overfishing and destroying the environment are considered taboo in the herb collection industry. Even the appraisers at the Herb Collection Hall would not accept medicinal materials that were not old enough.

  After searching the mountain top, Ye Qin had no choice but to start his adventure and climb up the cliff to collect herbs. He could even see from the mountaintop that there were herbs growing on the cliff, it would be a waste if he didn't pick them.

  The next morning, after everything was ready, Ye Qin tied two bundles of thick and thin ropes to a large tree and a huge rock on the top of the mountain, and then tied the thin rope around his body. He slowly climbed down along the back wall of the mountain peak.

  There are flying eagles on the mountain peaks. These beasts often take people who climb rocks to collect medicine as a threat to their nests and attack them.

  Ye Qin was well-prepared for this. He spent half of last night weaving some wild grasses into a camouflage cloak, which he draped over himself and moved slowly, carefully avoiding the flying eagles, occasionally reaching out to pick a few sprigs of medicinal herbs that grew sparsely on the cliff face.

  In less than half a day, he arrived at the middle of the mountain waist of the back mountain cliff. Here is a hanging cliff, his feet are several meters below, and there is a protruding cliff that can hold people. On the surrounding rock wall, there are obviously several eagle nests. Around the eagle nest, it seems to have grown a few herbs.

  Ye Qin just glanced at it and didn't look carefully, he hesitated for a moment, wondering whether to continue or not.

  If those sharp-mouthed and sharp-clawed beasts were to discover him, it would be a great trouble. Those beasts would entangle him day and night, constantly attacking with their sharp claws. Especially now that he was suspended halfway up the mountain, his movements were extremely inconvenient, making it difficult for him to counterattack.

  But now the eagles have all flown away, and it's temporarily safe here. If I can gather a few more herbs, today's task will be completed, and I can take a good rest this afternoon.

  Ye Qin looked out at the overhanging cliff, carefully identifying the herbs on that protruding cliff, and seeing if those few herbs were worth taking the risk for himself.

  He was slightly taken aback all of a sudden.

  He saw that on the edge of the platform, there was a solitary green grass, growing very tenderly, with only one leaf, and on it, a dewdrop was condensing, reflecting the sunlight. At noon, other wild grasses had long been scorched by the sun and were wilted, where was the dew? This little grass was strange, just like it had just come out in the morning, not affected at all by the scorching sun.

  Over the years, Ye Qin can identify at least a thousand kinds of ordinary herbs. Even if he can't identify what kind of herb it is, he can roughly distinguish its grade. This small grass he doesn't recognize, but looking at its grade, it's at least a rare level of small grass, and I don't know if it can be used as medicine.