C45 (1/2)
Xiao Qian and I arrived at the little valley my parents were cultivating in, and immediately brought Xiao Qian in.
When Xiao Qian first entered, she was immediately attracted by the scenery inside. She immediately said in surprise, ”Wa, such a beautiful paradise, it's really too beautiful, ah dragon, is this where Mom and Dad cultivate? So happy. ”Come on, take me to see Mom and Dad.”
Looking at her coquettish expression, I had no choice but to take her to the wooden house where Mom and Dad trained.
He went to the cabin where his parents were cultivating and entered to see that his parents were still cultivating. The two of them had also grown very fast in the past half year. Compared to other people, his parents' cultivation progress was already extraordinary. Right now, the two of them were on the verge of breaking through to the second layer. Originally, they thought it would take them two to three years to reach this level, but they never thought that their parents would be able to raise their cultivation to this level in such a short period of time.
Inside the small hut, I said to Xiao Qian: ”Xiao Qian, these are my parents, your father-in-law and mother-in-law. It looks like you can't greet them today, come and see them again if you have the chance in the future.”
Xiao Qian nodded her head: ”Then it can only be like this, and I can't wake father and mother up either, so I can only come back and see them again in the future. Alright, we have also seen father and mother, let's hurry and look for medicinal ingredients.”
After hearing Xiao Qian's reminder, I remembered my main purpose for coming here, so I promptly left a message for my parents before leaving the valley with Xiao Qian.
We started to search deeper into the DaXing'an Mountains. Due to our previous experience in searching for medicinal ingredients, I quickly collected over a hundred stalks of ginseng that were over a hundred years old.
Even the hard-to-find Head of the Guards was found in a secluded valley. There weren't many of them in a thousand years. There were only seven of them, a little more than a hundred years old. I collected seven thousand year old Polygonum multiflorum, and also picked over a hundred stalks from a hundred years old before I stopped harvesting them. This place is obviously a good place for Polygonum multiflorum to grow, it's impossible to harvest all of them, otherwise, there wouldn't be such a good thing here.
When I collected it, I came across it by chance. It was on the dark side of the cliff where I used to cultivate, so I brought Xiao Qian to visit the place where I previously trained, and after I finished visiting, I casually released my divine sense to scan the surrounding area, and with this scan, I discovered the cold spirit that was hidden on the cliff. It contained a lot of spirit energy, so once my divine sense touched it, I immediately discovered it.
After we finished harvesting the cold spirit, Xiao Qian and I looked for some conventional medicine, such as Angelica sinensis, Scutellariae, Platycodon grandiflorum, Purple Flower and some other conventional medicine.
Just as it was about to get dark, we had collected almost all of the medicinal ingredients. Xiao Qian and I caught some fish and hunted down a few special prey before teleporting back to our dwelling.
After returning to my residence, I immediately called Big Brother Yang Tianjue and Auntie Xiao Lan to tell them to come over for dinner the next few nights.
After making the call, Xiao Qian and I immediately started to prepare dinner.
Xiao Qian helped me handle the prey and fish while I cooked the rice and prepared other ingredients. After I braised the rice, I took out some vegetables from the fridge to wash and cut them up.
After everything was prepared, I started to cook. There were a total of eight dishes prepared, half of which were fish and prey. The other half were things that Tingting and Jiang Ming siblings liked to eat.
When everything was ready, Xue Ying, Tingting and the others had already returned, and had them wash their hands and prepare to eat. Once they entered the room, they immediately ran into the kitchen to see what delicious food I had made.
After sending the four of them away to wash my hands, I called Corydalis and the others. Corydalis and the others told me that they were almost at our house.
Xiao Qian and I immediately prepared the bowl and chopstick, and took out the top-grade Maotai Wine and dried red wine that I had bought. When everything was prepared, the doorbell also rang.
I hastily opened the door and the few of us entered the room. ”Ah Long, what are you cooking for? It smells so good even before you enter the door. It's so fragrant.”
I hurriedly said, ”I didn't cook anything good. I just gave everyone some wild fish and prey for them to try. Let's quickly enter the house. It's all prepared. We'll definitely let everyone have a hearty meal.”
After letting the Corydalis and the others into the house, everyone washed their hands and gathered at the dining table. Seeing the delicious food, I couldn't help but start to eat, and seeing how everyone was eating, I said in my heart, luckily I had prepared everything in advance.
After waiting for everyone to eat for a while, I raised my cup and said to Corydalis, Big Brother Zuo and the others, ”Come, let's not only eat.
When everyone heard me speak, they then thought of drinking. The Corydalis said embarrassedly: Ah Long, this is all because the food you made is too delicious, we don't even want to put it down. I really understand now why Sister Xiao said that we wanted to eat a meal after eating one.
Aside from Little Ming and Little Chun, who didn't drink, the rest of us raised our glasses and drank together. Everyone was chatting happily, as if we were a family.
Everyone ate happily. Just as they were about to leave, Auntie Xiao said, ”Ah Long, when you have time, cook another meal for us.”
Her words were immediately assented to by everyone, and they all shouted for me to do it when I had time to do it again.
After sending them all away, we cleaned up the table, then I said to Xue Ying and the others: ”You guys rest first, I'm going to the Tianshan to find some Tianshan Snow Lotus, all that's left was this medicine.”
Xiao Qian immediately said: ”Ah Long, I also want to go. Can you bring me along?”
I immediately rejected that idea. ”That won't do. You've already been running around with me for an entire day. Besides, your body needs time to recover so you need to consolidate your cultivation. Alright, you don't need to go this time. I'll go myself. I'll be back very soon.”
When Xiao Qian saw that I was very resolute and that I was still very concerned about her, she stopped arguing and obediently entered the room with Xue Ying and the others.
In the blink of an eye, I had already reached the top of Tianshan. Standing at the peak of the Tianshan, I released my divine sense and immediately found the position of the snow lotus, a top quality snow lotus that had lived for tens of thousands of years, sparkling in the night sky. In the middle of the lotus, there was a thumb sized lotus snake cultivating on top of it, and the moment I saw her cultivation, it would take a thousand years.
I came to the front of the Snow Lotus and released my spiritual sense to communicate with the Herba Saussurea.
When I came to the front of the Snow Lotus, this cultivation Herba Saussurea had already discovered me. After getting my Spiritual Sense to communicate with it, it immediately responded: ”Who are you? What do you want? ” A very pleasant female voice came to my mind.
I immediately responded, ”Don't be afraid, I'm here to collect the Snow Lotus. But don't worry, without your permission, I won't touch this Ten-thousand Year Snow Lotus. How did you cultivate?
The Herba Saussurea said in surprise: ”You can see through my cultivation. Heavens, who are you? How do you have such a high cultivation level?”
I teased the Herba Saussurea: ”Who I am is not important. You haven't told me how you cultivate?”
The Herba Saussurea said: ”I was born from a snow lotus five thousand years ago, I absorbed the energy given to me by the snow lotus to complete my cultivation, is there a problem with that?”
After hearing her reply, I asked, ”Oh, so that's the case. I understand. However, if you were to leave this snow lotus, what would happen to you?”
When the Herba Saussurea heard me ask that, she immediately said anxiously: ”Of course cultivation is very slow, all of the cultivation's spirit energy sources all depend on it to provide me with resources, you aren't thinking about the snow lotus below me right?”
Lin Long smiled and said: ”At the beginning, I was indeed thinking of refining the snow lotus below you, but now that I see you like this, I will give up. You better cultivate properly, refining it to this extent is already not easy.
Seeing that I was about to leave, the Herba Saussurea immediately called out to me. ”Wait, actually, it's not impossible for you to want this Snow Lotus that I'm sitting on.”