Return to county town

  During this period of seclusion in the deep mountains and ancient forests, alone and by myself cultivating.

  In the first month, Ye Qin could only eat a small sprout of Lurong grass every day, and his whole body's meridians would swell with pain, almost unbearable. But he still gritted his teeth and endured it. The speed of cultivation in the first month was ten times that of before.

  As his kung fu training deepened and the small orb gradually brightened, his meridian endurance also began to increase.

  By the second month, he was able to barely eat two stalks a day, twenty times what it used to be.

  By the third month, he was even able to force down three stalks of Little Exposure Grass every day.

  Each month adds one more, and the progress is extremely fast.

  In the first ten days of the fifth month, the first layer of cultivation that originally required ten years to complete was fully cultivated by him. The thumb-sized small light ball brightened up to one time, and the original thin light ball like a wisp of smoke that was feared to disperse at any time became much thicker and no longer faintly intimidating.

  Ye Qin also felt that his senses had suddenly opened up, and the outside world became exceptionally vivid. For the first time, he was shocked to discover that everything in front of him had become so bright, and within a range of several dozen feet, all movements, whether seen or unseen, were almost completely under his control. This sense of control was something he had never experienced before.

  The ears slightly moved, and I could hear a cricket hiding in the grass more than ten steps away, making a low humming sound, as well as the sound of flying insects flapping their wings within several meters. The eyes were bright and clear, like they had been washed with a clear spring, and every detail on the leaves of the old tree, every thread of the spider's web was clearly visible. The nose could smell the faint scent of flowers tens of steps away, the rich damp smell in the forest.

  Ye Qin's heart slightly stirred, and he suddenly turned his head to look at a spot several zhangs away on the left. A flower-spotted silver-ringed poisonous snake was motionless, staring at him with its venomous eyes for a while before slithering into the grass thicket and stone crevices, wanting to escape.

  The silver ring snake can be used as medicine.

  Ye Qin habitually picked up a stone, flicked his finger and shot it out. A strong gust of wind suddenly rose, and with a "crack", the collarbone of the silver ring snake several meters away was shattered by the small stone, and it went limp on the ground.

  Ye Qin finished playing and stared at her incredibly agile hands in surprise.

  It seems that there is an unprecedented sense of power inside his body. He made a few movements with his hands and feet, punching, chopping, kicking, and sweeping, and surprisingly, he was extremely fast, swift, agile, and accurate. In the blink of an eye, he could throw out dozens of punches. Jumping down from the top of a tree tens of meters high, his body was as light as a feather, landing silently, with a lightness effect that was not much different from ordinary qinggong.

  Ye Qin immediately tested his fastest punching speed.

  The small water droplets falling from the treetops were instantly split into over a dozen smaller droplets by his palm shadow. The attack power may not be particularly strong, but the reaction speed was shockingly fast.

  Even if he hadn't learned offensive martial arts, he still had a certain ability to defend himself.

  He was confident that even with a hatchet, he could still exchange a few moves with those Jianghu heroes he had met before.

  Ye Qin was overjoyed, for the first time feeling that this "Zuò Wàng Jīng" wasn't as useless as he had imagined, but rather had some kind of special and wondrous effect on the body. If he were to master all three levels of the "Zuò Wàng Jīng · Zuò Wàng Wú Wǒ" technique, who knows what kind of effects it would have?

  For the past four or five months, apart from cultivating, Ye Qin has also been collecting some common medicinal herbs in the surrounding mountains to complete the task of collecting medicine for the Medicine Pavilion.

  Then Ye Qin began to cultivate the second layer. The amount of dew grass required for cultivating the second layer was double that of the first layer. In other words, he had to increase the dew grass by a factor of two in order to fill up the second layer.

  However, he was helplessly discovering that the Qingyan stone he had was almost gone.

  In the past four or five months, he had consumed a large amount of dew grass every day, and it took a large piece of cyan stone to cultivate the dew grass. As time passed, the pile of cyan stones stored in the Zi Fu was quickly depleted, leaving only a small pile of cyan stones and a small piece of extremely pure cyan stone marrow.

  Without the supply of spiritual stones, Lu Cao naturally could no longer continue his cultivation, and his progress would also come to a halt.

  Ye Qin had no choice but to search for spiritual stones similar to Qingyan Stone in the deep mountains and old forests. However, like Lu Cao and Qingyan Stone, they all belonged to extremely rare and precious herbs and stones, where could he easily find them?

  The green rock on the waist of Grey Eagle Peak had been completely dug out by him.

  Ye Qin had been searching in the deep mountains and old forests for half a month, but he hadn't found any spiritual objects that could be moved into the Purple Mansion. On the contrary, he was exhausted from his efforts. After all, he needed to use his divine sense, constantly trying to move various plants, trees, stones, and rocks into the Purple Mansion to see if he could find anything similar to the Small Dew Grass or the Azure Rock. This kind of divine sense usage was extremely mentally taxing and would damage his vital energy.

  More than half a month has passed, and Ye Qin is extremely disappointed. He also gave up the idea of finding rare spiritual objects in ordinary grass, wood, and stone. It seems that this small Luocao and Qingyan Stone are things that can be encountered but not sought after. Within the borders of Zhujixian County, there are thousands of miles of mountains and old valleys, where would he go to find such rare things?

  Thinking that he had been out for almost half a year, the big grass medicine basket was already filled with many ordinary grass medicines. Ye Qin decided to return to Zhujici County first to hand over the task of collecting medicine, and then go to the dangerous peaks in various places in the second half of the year to find Qingyan Stone.

  Ye Qin's footsteps were extremely fast, and ten days later, he appeared in the county town of Zhujici, hundreds of miles away, with a large basket of herbs on his back.

  This time back to Zhugui County, Ye Qin was surprised to find that the county town had many more strangers dressed as Jianghu people. The post station, hotels and inns were all crowded with heroes and female knights, many of whom wore various symbols of their gangs on their clothes. In the past three or four years, he had never seen so many outsiders from Jianghu appearing in Zhugui County.

  What's going on? Ye Qin felt a little uneasy and quickened his pace towards the medicine hall. Fortunately, everything was fine inside and outside the medicine hall, and the disciples were still busy as usual, which made him feel slightly at ease.

  Ye Qin first went to the appraisal room in the inner hall, and handed over all the herbs he had collected. He received a total of 90 silver leaves as a reward. On average, it was more than three times the minimum limit, reaching 18 silver leaves per month.

  Then, Ye Qin went to pay his respects to his master Wang, which was something he did every time he returned to the Medicine Pavilion. The Medicine Pavilion had a strict hierarchy, and as a disciple, one needed to frequently report their whereabouts to their master and receive guidance and instruction from them.

  Wang Caizong was delighted to learn about Ye Qin's harvesting quantity over the past half year. This achievement, among the twenty or thirty medicine gathering apprentices who entered the Medicine Gathering Hall at the same time as Ye Qin, already belonged to a mid-to-high level. Maintaining this standard and adding a bit more effort, as long as he didn't die, becoming a Medicine Gathering Artisan in five or six years wouldn't be a big problem.

  Ye Qin chatted with Wang Caiyao for a few sentences and asked Master about why there were so many Jianghu people in the county town of Zhuxi.

  It wasn't until he heard it from Wang Caiyao that Ye Qin learned of the big event that had occurred in Zhujicounty. It turned out that Yao Wangbang, the master of Yao Tang, was planning to hold a grand medicine and medicinal materials trading conference in the second half of this year in Zhujicounty, inviting all major gangs from Pingzhou Prefecture to attend.