826 Digging up Medicinal Herbs (2/2)

Wan'er looked at Mo Wen with a look of concern. Big Brother Mo was injured and did not practice ancient martial arts. He was just an ordinary person. He could not stand rushing at such a pace for such a long distance.

”If you are tired, head back on your own. Luckily, right now we have not gone far. You can still make it back now. If you follow us much further, you may end up walking one or two hundred kilometers. You'd better think carefully whether you can walk that far. Don't expect two little girls to carry a big man like you back.”

Wang Qian could not wait for Mo Wen to give up halfway. If he was smart, he would head back on his own. If so, no one would hold anyone back. Wan'er was already having a hard time. Why had he come along?

”I am not tired. It's only one or two hundred kilometers. That's easy,” Mo Wen said with a smile. One or two thousand kilometers was no issue for him, let alone one or two hundred kilometers. Although he was injured, his physical strength was far more than ordinary people could imagine.

”You're talking big. If you overexert yourself now, don't end up crying later. I'm only leading the way; I'm not in charge of bringing you back.”

Wang Qian could not stand people who bragged like Mo Wen. He was clearly overexerting himself, and yet he pretended it was not an issue.

”Sister Wang Qian…” Wan'er tugged at Wang Qian's sleeve and looked at her with a pitiful look.

”Alright, alright, I won't say any more,” Wang Qian said helplessly.

”Miss Wang, you don't necessarily need to travel so far to gather medicinal herbs. Truly valuable medicinal herbs mostly grow in weird, hidden and dangerous places. No matter how far you walk, you will not necessarily find the good stuff,” Mo Wen said with a smile.

Traveling a thousand kilometers for medicinal herbs was essentially nothing, but that was if they were targeting an extremely rare medicinal herb. In the past, he had traveled across ten thousand mountains and various dangerous lands for a special stalk of medicinal herb. In the end, he had finally found it.

But for gathering medicinal herbs like this with no target and goal in mind, they did not need to travel so far. They could just gather up what was around them. The reason why Wan'er and Wang Qian did not gather medicinal herbs around this area was that the medicinal herbs that were easy to find had all been gathered up by others. They also could not find the medicinal herbs that were in hard to find places.

But Mo Wen was different. With his familiarity with medicinal herbs, medicinal herbs that were slightly hidden away could not escape his eyes at all. Moreover, he still had Deified Soul Power, which was a godly skill for finding medicinal herbs.

”You say it so logically. If you can, find a stalk of a medicinal herb.” Wang Qian rolled her eyes at him. Who did not know how to spout words to fool others? After all, she was certain that Mo Wen was here to cause trouble.

”Wan'er has a thirty-year-old zhu ling near her foot. You are stepping on medicinal herbs, yet you travel hundreds of kilometers to find them. Aren't you making a detour?” Mo Wen said with a plain smile. He could understand why Wang Qian did not acknowledge him. After all, in his current condition, he was like a beggar claiming to be a billionaire. It was hard for anyone to believe.

”You are spouting nonsense, aren't you?” Wang Qian looked suspiciously at Mo Wen. She thought that Mo Wen was talking arbitrarily. But from his expression, he seemed serious and enthusiastic.

Also, this sort of lie could be seen through immediately if it was fake. No matter how thick-skinned and shameless a person was, they would not utter such a lie so easily at a time like this.

”Really?” Wan'er said, exceptionally astonished as she looked at the ground near her feet. Aged zhu ling was a rather precious medicinal herb. She had never gathered thirty-year-old zhu ling before. The environments that zhu ling grew in were somewhat special. They grew under pine trees, but their exact location was very hard to find. Also, not every pine tree had zhu lings underneath them. If one could not determine where the zhu lings were, they could only dig up the ground within a radius of five meters around the pine tree to find them slowly.

However, they would only do this after confirming that there was zhu ling underneath the selected pine tree. If there was no zhu ling, even if they cleared the land within a radius of a hundred meters, they would not find any.

Pigs could find zhu lings hidden under the pine trees due to their unique sense of smell. Hence, zhu ling was also called the pig agaric. Usually, people would bring along a trained pig to search for this type of medicinal herb. They utilized the pig's sense of smell to roughly locate the zhu lings.

”You can find out once you try digging. It is located about one meter beneath your feet. It's not really deep. You can easily find it,” Mo Wen said with a smile.

Wan'er did not hesitate. She took out some tools from the large bamboo basket and started digging immediately. She was skillful in digging since she had been doing the same thing for half a month. Digging was not a strenuous activity for her; she was an ancient martial art practitioner after all.

A thirty-year-old zhu ling was a rather precious medicinal herb. If Su Wan'er could dig one up today, she would complete one-third of today's task instantly. The completion of the task given by the sect was not measured by the number of medicinal herbs collected. Instead, it was measured based on the quality of the medicinal herbs. A stalk of high quality medicinal herb was equivalent to the work of a day.