2. New Talents: Searching the Mountains for Treasures

Chapter 2 New Talents Searching the Mountains for Treasures

  Half a month later.

  Zhou Ling was getting more and more skilled at walking and was already able to trot.

  His physical condition had also improved a lot.

  When he was more than seven months old, except for some deficiencies in nutrition, he was already almost the same as a normal baby.

  Of course, compared to those babies with special physiques, he was still far inferior.

  "If I were born in the original Blue Star and learned to walk at seven months, I would definitely be a monster."

  "But this is the world of cultivating immortals. Some children from aristocratic families have been taking medicinal baths since childhood and have infinite strength. The gap between me and them is too big!"

  Zhou Ling did not dare to relax at all. He

  continued to walk.

  At this time, the door creaked, and then the burly Zhou Shan walked in.

  Because he had to buy enough spiritual food for Zhou Ling in the past few months, he stayed in the wilderness for more than 20 days every month. He

  slept in the open air and his face was already a little bit of a sense of hardship.

  After Zhou Shan entered the door, he put down the medicine basket he was carrying, which was full of spiritual medicines of unknown names, and then he exhaled lightly.

  His coat was covered with dried dark bloodstains. Needless to say, he must have encountered a monster again.

  Zhou Shan frowned, his steps were heavy, his expression was tired, and the bloodstains on his clothes made him look a bit vicissitudes of life and a sense of solemnity that no one should approach.

  But when he walked into the house and saw his wife and children, his whole temperament changed, as if he was an indomitable warrior who returned to the home he guarded with his life.

  Looking at Zhou Ling who was walking around, Zhou Shan, who was covered in dust, showed a gentle smile, looked at the child lovingly, and laughed hoarsely, "Ling'er can walk so far. In a few months, he will be able to go into the mountains with his father to find medicine!"

  Li Ru took down the basket for him and handed him a wet cloth to wipe his face. "Ling'er is just more active, but he is very well-behaved otherwise. You don't have to worry!"

  Seeing the spiritual medicine in the basket, he couldn't help but say, "Why are they all ordinary seven-star grass this time?"

  Zhou Shan shook his head helplessly and said, "It's almost winter, and there are many people going into the mountains. There is no good medicine at all."

  "I will go into the mountains again the day after tomorrow, and try my best to find more before winter comes, so that I can earn more spirit stones and buy more spirit beast meat for Ling'er to replenish his blood."

  Li Ru looked at the blood on his clothes and said worriedly, "Hey, I have to take care of Ling'er at home. It's too dangerous for you to go alone. You should wait until the new year to go into the mountains!"

  Zhou Shan sighed, "We can't go into the mountains in the next few months. We have no income. The child is originally weak and still needs to be fed with spirit porridge and beast meat to grow taller."

  "In two years, he may have to enter the Taoist temple, so I have to save more spirit stones."

  Zhou Shan said as he smiled at Zhou Ling, "Little Ling'er, come here and let daddy hug you!"

  Looking at the blood on Zhou Shan's body, Li Ru stopped him and said, "Take a bath and change clothes first, don't scare the child!"

  "I didn't notice!" Zhou Shan nodded, "Get me something to eat, I'm almost starving!"

  "You didn't eat the fasting pill again!" Li Ru sighed and complained a little.

  Going into the mountains to collect herbs, sleeping in the open, Li Ru also prepared some dry food for him, as well as two fasting pills.

  One fasting pill costs thirty pieces of broken spirits, which can last for two or three days.

  After being married for many years, she could tell from Zhou Shan's expression that he must be reluctant to eat the fasting pills.

  "I'm not hungry in the mountains!" Zhou Shan said with a smile.

  Then he walked towards the bathroom.

  Li Ru shook her head, knowing that it was stressful for her husband to support the family alone.

  But the child was still young, and she couldn't help for a while. She murmured, "I will be able to help when the child goes to the Taoist temple."

  Then she went to the kitchen to prepare food for Zhou Shan.

  Zhou Ling walked to the basket unconsciously, jumped up and down with his little body, grabbed the basket, and grabbed a few spiritual herbs with his little hands.

  The basket was a head taller than him.

  [Growth talent, searching for treasures in the mountains: can feel the breath of spiritual herbs and spiritual treasures around. Achievement requirements: Identify a total of thirty kinds of spiritual herbs. ]

  "Searching the mountains for treasures? Do we need to identify spiritual medicines?"

  Zhou Ling was stunned for a moment when he saw the prompts on the panel.

  Then he was delighted. Since Zhou Shan and his wife were medicine seekers, most of the people they usually interacted with were also medicine seekers or monster hunters.

  Lingxia Fairy City is just a small border town of the Taoist Alliance. Outside, there are thousands of miles of barren mountains and wastelands. There are countless spiritual plants, monsters, and minerals in the mountains.

  But it is extremely difficult to obtain treasures in the mountains. First, there are monsters in the mountains, which are a huge threat to human cultivators. Second, if you go deep into the wasteland, you will encounter evil fog.

  Once the spiritual medicine is contaminated by the evil fog, it will lose its breath and be extremely difficult to find.

  Medicine seekers like Zhou Shan usually only find ordinary herbs.

  If you can find a first-grade upper-grade spiritual herb, it will cost several lower-grade spiritual stones for one plant.

  If I have such a talent, it will be easy to go into the mountains to find medicine in the future.

  Combined with [Crisis Response], it will be rich!

  Zhou Ling thought to himself.     "This seems to be Seven Star Grass, which is usually used to make ordinary talisman paper."

  Zhou Ling murmured.

  During this period of time, he also learned some spiritual herbs.

  [Identify Seven Star Grass, Search Mountain for Treasures +1]

  "Really!"

  Holding the Seven Star Grass, Zhou Ling felt that it seemed to be different from before.

  It can be felt that this spiritual grass has grown for about three years, is full of vitality, and has just been picked.

  "Ling'er, be careful not to fall!"

  Li Ru, who came out of the kitchen with a plate of stir-fried vegetables, saw this scene and put the plate on the wooden table.

  He hurried over and hugged Zhou Ling.

  "Mom, what kind of spiritual herb is this?"

  Zhou Ling asked in a baby voice.

  Although he is only more than seven months old, Zhou Ling is extremely talented in language and can already speak short sentences.

  "My dear son, this is Seven Star Grass, one plant can be sold for six or seven pieces of broken spirits."

  "The spiritual herbs your father has picked these days can be sold for seven or eight spiritual stones!"

  Li Ru said softly.

  "What is this?"

  Zhou Ling waved his white and tender little hand again, picked up another spiritual herb and asked.

  "Son, you are so young and you are interested in spiritual herbs. You can become an alchemist in the future."

  "This is Lingmu grass, a relatively rare spiritual herb. After eating, it has a miraculous effect of improving eyesight."

  Li Ru said to Zhou Ling with a smile.

  [Identify Lingmu grass, search for treasures in the mountain +1]

  Looking at the warm scene of Li Ru holding the child, Zhou Shan, who had taken a bath and changed his clothes, suddenly felt that all the hard work and fatigue on his body were swept away.

  "Alchemy, it's not that easy."

  "Ling'er must be hungry, come and eat together!"

  Zhou Shan smiled generously.

  He quickly drank a big mouthful of the fragrant and glutinous spiritual rice porridge and breathed a sigh of relief, "It's so comfortable!"

  Although it was just the lowest-priced spiritual rice mixed with ordinary rice, Li Ru's cooking skills were very good, and Zhou Shan ate it with relish.

  "If our son really becomes an alchemist in the future, we will be blessed!"

  Li Ru held Zhou Ling in one hand and sat down on the bench next to Zhou Shan with a medicine basket in the other.

  The midday sun shone into the house, casting circles of flickering light and shadows, reflecting on Zhou Ling.

  Zhou Shan turned sideways, and with his left hand that was not holding the bowl, he pinched Zhou Ling's soft little face, and laughed, "We are casual cultivators. We have no inheritance and no resources. It is not very realistic to become an alchemist."

  "I will be very satisfied if Ling'er can become a talisman master or a weapon refiner in the future!"

  "Yes, it would be great if my son could enter the Taoist temple in the future!" Li Ru served Zhou Shan a bowl of meat soup and smiled.

  This is the spirit beast meat soup that is stewed every day to nourish Zhou Ling.

  Zhou Ling had just eaten spiritual rice porridge and was not hungry now. He looked at the medicine basket in front of Li Ru.

  As the couple began to discuss the matter of their children entering Lingxia Taoist Temple in the future.

  From their conversation, Zhou Ling learned that the more popular professions in this world are array masters, alchemists, rune masters and weapon refiners.

  Generally, children have to go to the Taoist temple to test their spiritual roots when they are two or three years old.

  Children with spiritual roots and talent for cultivation can begin their pre-cultivation enlightenment education in the Taoist Academy and enter the nursery class.

  It is similar to the kindergarten on Blue Star.

  Of course, they are taught the basic knowledge of cultivation.

  The Taoist Academy will start to separate children from the age of seven or eight. Different children will choose different cultivation professions according to their different talents and abilities. At this time, their identities will also be different, and they will be considered outer disciples of Lingxia Xianmen.

  Of course, this process will screen out some people.

  If they have good grades later, they can become inner disciples or direct disciples.

  Then their identities are completely different, far from being comparable to ordinary casual cultivators.

  But the probability of becoming an inner disciple of Lingxia Sect is extremely low, less than one in ten each year.

  (End of this chapter)