Immortal Formula

   Chapter 285 Spirit Garden

As early as when Gu Yan first entered the Bixia Sect, she sensed with her divine sense that there was an extremely rich spiritual energy in the southeast corner not far from the front mountain and the back mountain. There, she sensed a lot of it. The familiar scent of spirit grass was extremely difficult to find in Tianmu Mountain and Guixu Sea. Gu Yan couldn't help but sigh, Cangwu is indeed a holy place for cultivating immortals. A middle-class sect actually has such a rich spiritual garden. If you can go to see the Lingyuan, then if you want to concoct pills, it is close to the water tower, and it is no longer convenient.

Shangguan Lan hesitated for a while, and said, "This errand has not been done for a long time. If you want to go, then go. If you are guarding the spiritual garden, you will be given two spiritual stones every month as a blessing. This The share is equivalent to half of that of an ordinary disciple, you have to cherish it, take this sign and go to the spiritual garden to find someone on duty." After she finished speaking, she handed out a jade talisman and left.

  Gu Yan took the jade talisman and felt that what Shangguan Lan said was a bit strange. Could it be that this spiritual garden has not been guarded for a long time, so why are there still people on duty? At this time, Lin Zitong and Wei Zhaoyi also followed Gan Biwu, only Wei Qing was still here, she bowed to Wei Qing and said with a smile, "Senior Wei, can you lead the way this time? "

Wei Qing was a cheerful person. He felt that he was a year or two older than Gu Yan, and he was a senior brother who first entered the school. He had the responsibility to take care of her, so he said: "You are going to the Lingyuan, that place is boring, except for the head of the sect. With a few elders, few people usually go there. I'll take you there."

Gu Yan followed him out, and the two of them chatted while walking. Gu Yan asked, "Why is there no one in the Lingyuan? It sounds desolate when you say it? I heard that Bixia Sect was also famous for alchemy. Yes, it shouldn't be so deserted to the spiritual garden, right?"

Wei Qing replied: "It's a long story. I think back then, our Bixia Sect was in the same line as Danding Sect, one of the nine major sects in Cangwu today. When I came to the Southeast to create a school, it gradually declined. Hundreds of years ago, it was still the leading faction in Wei, but a change happened later. Most of the elites in the sect died. The original spiritual garden It was also burnt to the ground, and many skills were lost. Later, several servants of the master at the time snatched some spiritual grass seeds from the ruins, and rebuilt the spiritual garden in the current place, and then Gradually adding new varieties, we have the scale of today's Lingyuan."

As he said, he raised his head and looked a little embarrassed, "Originally, the Bixia Sect was famous for alchemy. According to my master, he was just a boy serving the alchemy furnace at that time. All the sects came to us to ask for elixir, but unfortunately now, we can only succumb to this southeast corner. Because the skills of alchemy were not passed down at that time, the masters and elders later based on the handed down elixir, their own Research, but the level is not as good as before. Like us, the three generations of disciples, are not good. Therefore, very few people go to the spiritual garden. Now there is only an old man guarding and serving."

  Gu Yan raised his brows, "Old man?" It seems that the monks rarely call him that.

  Wei Qing said, "That's it. I'll talk to you in detail when I have time. Senior Sister Lin is the master's disciple and knows more than me. I'll let her tell you when I have time."

  Gu Yan looked up at the spiritual garden in front of her. It was located at the intersection between the gate of the front mountain and the valley of the back mountain. It covered an area of ​​about five or six acres, which made her speechless.

You must know that building a spiritual garden is not that easy. It depends on the distribution of spiritual veins and the operation of spiritual energy. Usually, the person who builds the spiritual garden is a master of the formation. Pulse changes, to find the eye where the spiritual energy gathers, is a very deep knowledge. Moreover, it is necessary to have a deep understanding of the character of the spirit grass, so that the distribution and scale of the spirit grass planting can be arranged according to the four seasons. The limitation of various factors makes the construction of the spirit garden a very troublesome thing, usually it takes several hours. It takes the accumulation of generations or even a dozen generations to build a spiritual garden.

As far as she knows, in Tianmu Mountain, only Taiyimen has built its own spiritual garden, and the spiritual garden of Fuyumen is built on the mountain. It is subject to too many restrictions and is not a real spiritual garden. As for Zhushan Sect, It is in the side door, and it is completely unfamiliar to alchemy, and naturally there will be no spiritual garden of its own. So this was the first time Gu Yan saw the spiritual garden of a sect. She took a deep breath and wanted to walk in.

   "Wait!" Wei Qing reached out to stop her, then stood outside the door, and then tapped the bluestone wall beside him.

Following his fingers, the wall made a crisp "Dongdong" sound, and then the two bamboo doors opened with a "squeak", a head stuck out from inside, and said in a very old and hoarse voice: " Who's knocking on the door?"

Gu Yan was taken aback by the unexpectedly protruding head, and then saw an old and stooped figure, as thin as a reed stick, with a head that looked similar to his thin body. The shapes don't match, and the wrinkles on his face seem to be deep and deep with a knife, like a person who is too old to look, and only hangs in one breath.

   She swept him slightly with her divine sense, and couldn't help being shocked. This person had no spiritual energy in his body, and he was an ordinary mortal who couldn't be more ordinary. And his body is not full of vitality like ordinary mortals, but his anger has been completely cut off. In other words, this person should have been a dead person long ago!

   At this moment, Gu Yan almost wanted to run away. She even thought of what Ming Wuliang had told her, that there is a magic in the Demon Sect that can make human corpses into puppets. Could it be that the Bixia Sect is secretly the inheritance of the Demon Sect?

   At this time, Wei Qing gave her a wink before saying respectfully, "Elder Rong, this is a new disciple from the outer sect. The head of the sect sent her to guard the spiritual garden."

Gu Yan hurriedly handed over his jade talisman, while his spiritual sense kept swiping at the other party. No matter how he looked at it, the other party was also an ordinary person, but he didn't have a trace of anger on his body, but he didn't have a deadly anger either. The aura of zombies is like an ordinary body.

   Old Rong's voice was horribly hoarse, and it was almost impossible to hear what he was saying. He looked at the jade talisman in his hand and said, "Since it was ordered by the sect master, then come in. But guarding the spiritual garden is not an easy job. If you can't do it, don't blame me for letting you go! "After speaking, he leaned on a cane with one hand and beckoned with the other, calling Gu Yan to come in.

Wei Qing also wanted to go in, but he was swept over by his cold eyes, and he could only say: "Junior sister, I will bring Zhaoyi and Senior Sister Lin to see you again when I have time. I will take a step first!" After speaking, he ran away. .

  Gu Yan can probably understand his mood, no matter who he is, facing such an old man, he will inevitably feel uncomfortable, right? Fortunately, she has traveled the world for a hundred years and has seen a lot of things. She has also seen countless monsters in Kunyuan for thousands of years. Even if there is really a zombie in front of her, it is nothing to be afraid of. Come in.

Rong Lao glanced at her in surprise, with a look of admiration in his eyes, and said in his hoarse voice: "I have lived for more than three hundred years, and I watched the old spiritual garden destroyed and the new one built. But the masters and the others have no choice, and now they are gradually being abandoned. Thinking back then, only the disciples who were truly passed down were qualified to guard the spiritual garden. Now, even the outer disciples are not willing to come. Little girl, you Would you like to stay here?"

Gu Yan listened to his incomparably vicissitudes of life, and just wanted to nod her head, when Lao Rong said, "If you are thinking about the spirit grass here, I tell you that you are probably wrong. Although there are many spirit grasses here, none of them can help you. Bring it to eat, otherwise you think this place is so abandoned With the same care, how can it be willing to listen to your dispatch?"

Gu Yan listened to what he said, and she couldn't help but nodded her head. Ming Wuwang said something similar back then, "As an alchemist, you must not treat the materials used for alchemy as cold dead things. You must know that all natural spirits are All things have spirituality, even if it is a small grass, if you don’t understand its spirituality, you will not be able to fully exert its medicinal properties, and you will not be able to make a natural and flawless medicine.”

Rong Lao glanced at her with dull eyes, "Although I'm not an alchemist, and I don't know if you're right, but the ancestors said something similar back then, it seems that you are qualified for this position, then Just come with me."

He took Gu Yan and followed a winding path to a small yard in the southeast corner of the Lingyuan Garden, and said, "This is my usual place to live. You can live here with me, here. There are more than a dozen rooms, you can choose one."

  Gu Yan naturally doesn't care about these things, just thinking about living under the same roof with such an old man, she couldn't help feeling awkward. Looking at old Rong's room, she chose a room that was farther away from him.

   Lao Rong didn't care and said, "You put your things here, don't worry, no one will steal it, and then I'll show you the environment of the Lingyuan."

  Gu Yan doesn't have anything with him either, the Qiankun bag is carried on the body, and there are only a dozen other spiritual stones and two spiritual tools. The magic weapon was still a game item when she was bored at the time and learned to refine it with Lin Jiaxiu, but now it seems that it can come in handy. He shook his head, "Junior has nothing to clean up, please give me some guidance."

   (end of this chapter)