Chapter 6 (1/2)
Chapter 06: Old Lucky Star
“One, two, three….”
Aiyo!
With a stomp, energy filled her dan tian !
Su Tingyun had to bring out all of her strength, summoning even the strength she had used to drink milk as a baby, only then was she finally able to lift the large bluestone up. Her tanned skin had even turned red. She wanted to boast that she wouldn’t be a burden with her strength, but she couldn’t open her mouth. She was afraid that once she did, her gathered strength would disperse, and if the stone were to fall then it might crush her own leg.
“There’s something under this stone.”
“Elder, hold on for a while longer.” After saying that, Li Xinmei crouched down and used a dagger to carefully sc.r.a.pe off the small black vines wrapped underneath the stone. “This is Rock-Enclosed-Darting-Herb, an ingredient used for the immortal pills. A tael of this can be exchanged for four to five hundred spirit stones.”
The two kids started to excitedly sc.r.a.pe the Rock-Enclosed-Darting-Herb. Su Tingyun wanted to set down the stone and roll it over to a different side for them to slowly sc.r.a.pe, but unexpectedly Li Xinmei continued: “Elder, you must persevere, once it touches the ground, it’ll escape by burrowing into the soil and we won’t be able to stop it. It must be that it didn’t expect you to completely lift the rock off the ground. The moment the stone touches the ground, the rest of it will run away.”
d.a.m.n, vines that grow from a stone can even grow their own legs and run off by burrowing into the ground? What a fraudulent world!
Tingyun could only hold her breath, bite her teeth, and firmly hold on to the blue stone. Her forehead was covered with sweat, her two legs trembled nonstop and the hands holding the stone felt as if they were about to break. For a time Zhang Zhizi put down his knife to come and help, but his strength was as small as his body, and he wasn’t any help at all. Su Tingyun only released a bit of her grip over the stone to him but he almost collapsed from the pressure.
If that’s the case wouldn’t it be better to just go sc.r.a.pe the herb? Sc.r.a.pe faster, every bit more is a bit more!
Persevere, persevere a little more, then there’ll be enough for these two kids’ tuition fees. She, as the adult, must at least do something. Su Tingyun felt like her whole body was falling apart, only a surge of sheer willpower kept her going. She even started tasting blood from grinding her teeth before she finally heard Li Xinmei announce they were finished. Su Tingyun suddenly felt all the energy vanish from her body and she collapsed on the ground like a deflated ball with the big stone which almost smashed down on her feet.
“Elder, you’re really amazing, a stone that has Rock-Enclosed-Darting-Herb growing on it weighs at least a thousand Jin*. You can actually lift it up for so long and only put it down when we’ve collected all of it.” Zhang Zhizi smiled until his eyes were slits. Since he’s been crying for some time now, his eyes were swollen just like a walnut but now that he’s smiling it looks less swollen by a fold.
One jin is about .5 kg, so it was about 250kg. To put it into perspective, it’s about half the weight of a polar bear.
A thousand jin……
Su Tingyun’s brain is dizzy, she was totally surprised by the weight. She can actually lift something that weighs thousand jin, isn’t her strength almost like a female hercules or a superwoman now? Doesn’t this mean she can even become a weightlifting athlete when she gets back?
“Hehe.” Su Tingyun wanted to laugh but who knows just when she opened her mouth, blood leaked out and after a few coughs even a front tooth fell out……
Just then, because she had grinded her teeth to hold on too hard, she broke a front tooth. Originally she was both old and ugly, now she even blows out air when she talks. Su Tingyun looked at the tooth and felt like her life is such a tragedy, but after seeing the smiling faces of the two kids, she anyhow felt a little better.
Wuliang sect does buy herbs. Though s.h.i.+ Zhong Teng is a low grade herb, but due to the demand and difficulty collecting it, the price has always never been low. A tael can be sold for four to five hundred low grade spiritual stones. They collected three taels which exchanged for 1400 low grade spiritual stones. Cultivators all had dimensional bags. 1400 low grade spiritual stones can be exchanged for one midgrade spiritual stone and 400 low grade ones, and this only occupied a small amount of s.p.a.ce.
“Just with today’s income is already worth our half a year income before. Perhaps we might even be able to gather enough.” Zhang Zhizi was very happy as this time was the first time he got spiritual stones in such a worry-free way, how can he not be happy.
Li Xinmei’s lips formed a faint smile, Su Tingyun was also quite happy as this has proved that she was of help. In this world, she wasn’t useless.
In the days that followed, Su Tingyun always went to hunt spiritual beasts with the two kids.
She has finally realized what is called being frightened at every step. Though they were hunting the most simple earth snake, but the snake was always slithering here and there and could even split out stone thorns which gave them plenty of difficulty. Su Tingyun’s calf was full of p.r.i.c.ked wounds and even Zhang Zhizi injured his arm. Most importantly, even if they hunted from morning till night, at most they could only get about 100 low grade spirit stones worth. Not to mention there were a lot of people who were also catching these snakes, so later, the spirit stones they were able to gather became less and less.
Fortunately, Wuliang sect forbids killing for treasure and stealing others properties. Otherwise, the spirit stones they’ve painstakingly collected would have already been stolen by others.