Lin Chuan was the first to recover from the shock in the medicine garden, and then turned to Liu Suifeng: "Suifeng, don't rush to pick it now. Before you start, set up the defensive and concealment formations. No matter Demon Beast or a monk comes over, you will have time to react."
It was rare for Liu Suifeng not to have a playful smile. He walked back and forth around the medicine garden, the array disk in his hand flashing continuously, and formation flags flew out from Storage Bag, accurately nailing into the array holes around the perimeter of the medicine garden. After a moment, a A layer of light cyan defensive light shield rose silently, covering the entire medicine garden. Immediately afterwards, the second layer of gray concealment array was activated, and the spiritual light and medicinal fragrance in the medicine garden were firmly locked within the light shield. Finally, he took out the third set of array disks and pressed it in the center of the medicine garden.
"The security formation has also been set up. If there is any fluctuation in spiritual power within a radius of 300 feet, the formation disk will alert." He patted the dust on his hands and regained some of his usual complacency on his face, "The defensive formation can withstand a full blow from Golden Core Early Stage, and the concealment formation can block the detection of Divine Sense below Golden Core. I will be the first to know if there is any trouble in the security formation."
"It's reliable this time." Du Heng said.
"I have always been very reliable." After saying that, the two began to pick White Jade Elephant Ganoderma and other auxiliary medicines.
Qin Tiexin walked to the nearest Dragon Blood Fruit Tree plant and looked up at the blood-red fruits on the branch.
The fish scale-like lines on the fruit are clearer than when seen from a distance. Each scale is slightly raised, and you can feel a slight heat before your fingertips touch it. The fruity aroma is assailed, mixed with the fragrance of the fruit and a strange smell that is similar to flesh and blood but not fishy.
"Senior Brother Ming, be careful when picking Dragon Blood Fruit." Xu Ying walked next to him and said solemnly, "Dragon Blood Fruit's fruit The skin is extremely fragile and should not be stained with Spiritual Qi, otherwise it will break. Use a pure fleshy palm to pick it. After picking it, seal it in a jade box. Do not cover it with anything, otherwise it will crush the scales, which are the essence of the medicinal effect."
Qin Tiexin nodded, rolled up the sleeves of the monk's robe, and held a Dragon Blood Fruit with his bare hands.
The peel was warm to the touch, as if touching a piece of warm jade that had just been baked. He gently twisted the stem of the fruit, and the fruit separated from the branch and lay in his palm beating slightly, as if there was a miniature heart pulsing deep in the flesh of the fruit.
Wrong!
As soon as I held it, Qin Tiexin felt something was wrong.
He is not very familiar with spirit medicine, but he is very sensitive to the power of Qi and Blood. The content of Qi and Blood power in this fruit is far lower than his original expectation, and it does not seem like the result of thousands of years of accumulation.
"Almsgiver Xu, look if something is wrong." Qin Tiexin carefully handed the fruit in her hand to Xu Ying. After all, she knew better than him in this aspect.
Xu Ying took it and observed it for a while, then Divine Sense probed in and frowned slightly.
"The medicinal power of this fruit... is wrong." She turned the fruit over and over, then put it to her nose and smelled it, "It's only a few decades old, close to a hundred years at most. Compared to the Dragon Blood Fruit that's a thousand years old, it's much different."
"Is it malnutrition?" Lin Chuan chose a redder fruit from another tree, carefully picked it and handed it to Xu Ying, "Look at this one."
Xu Ying took it and observed it carefully. His expression was more solemn than before.
"That's not right. This one is slightly better, but it only lasts about a hundred years. With the infusion of Spiritual Qi, the effect will not last more than one hundred and twenty years."
Qin Tiexin picked two larger ones from another branch, and Lin Chuan picked one from the third tree. They were all tested by Xu Ying. The results were similar, none of them were more than a hundred years old.
So wrong.
If there are only one or two from this year, it may be that the fruit fell and grew again, or the branch is not nutritious. But the three trees and several fruits are all century-old, which can only mean one problem.
The three of them quickly came to Liu Suifeng and Du Heng. Liu Suifeng and the others squatted in front of the half-withered White Jade Elephant Ganoderma, holding a freshly picked Ganoderma lucidum in their hands, with equally surprised expressions on their faces.
"That's not right. Fifty or sixty years, eighty years at most." Xu Ying put down the Ganoderma lucidum and stood up, his tone completely calm.
"Someone came here. Or at least someone picked it once a hundred years ago. What you see now is what grew back after that picking."
"In other words, this medicine garden has an owner." Lin Chuan had already drawn his long sword.
"Suifeng." Lin Chuan lowered his voice, "The warning array will check again."
"It is already operating at full capacity, and there is no discovery." Liu Suifeng's voice became rare and serious, and his fingers kept swiping on the array plate, with a slight drop of sweat on his forehead. "I expanded the warning range to the maximum and adjusted the sensitivity to the highest level. The spiritual circuits of the defensive array and concealment array are also all connected, and we can deal with frontal impacts at any time."
As soon as he finished speaking, Spirit Rune on the array disk suddenly flashed twice rapidly.
"Wait a minute, the warning array has detected spiritual power remaining in the northwest." He raised his head, the expression on his face changed slightly, "Looking at the traces, it seems that he left directly from the medicine garden."
"That is to say, something is guarding this medicine garden. It was lured away half a day ago and may come back at any time." Lin Chuan clenched the hilt of the sword and smiled bitterly, "We are really lucky. Pick it quickly and leave after picking it."
Hearing this, no one said anything. Xu Ying speeded up and carefully put each Dragon Blood Fruit into the jade box. She had temporarily given up the plan to remove the entire Bodhi Tree. The root system of this kind of spiritual tree was extremely developed. It would take at least half an hour to transplant it. Obviously, she did not have that time at the moment.
She pinched a piece of Bodhi Leaf rhizome with her fingertips, twisted it gently and picked it off. The Buddha's light flashed on the leaves, and was immediately put into a jade box and sealed.
Qin Tiexin quickly twisted the fruit stems of Dragon Blood Fruit with one hand and placed them one by one into the jade box that Xu Ying took out.
Liu Suifeng and Du Heng were digging White Jade Elephant Ganoderma quickly on the other side, Du Heng was digging the soil with the tip of his sword, and Liu Suifeng was squatting on the ground and carefully peeling off the Ganoderma lucidum from the soil with his hands.
Xu Ying shuttled back and forth between several people, and jade boxes and jade boxes were constantly taken out and taken back from the storage bracelet. She could feel her heartbeat speeding up. Although it was only a century-old spirit medicine, it was still rare. Each of these spirit medicine plants was of a grade that could be sold at auction.
But she also knows very well that something that has been guarding this ancient battlefield for hundreds or even thousands of years cannot be easily dealt with.
Qin Tiexin stretched out his hand to hold the thirteenth Dragon Blood Fruit and was about to twist the stem.
The hairs on the back of his neck suddenly stood up. The Fire of Life in his heart beat violently without any warning, and a hot Qi and Blood was pumped out from the ventricle and pulsed along the meridians to his limbs. The blood in his body accelerated involuntarily at that moment, and he stopped holding Dragon Blood Fruit's fingers.
This is murderous intent!!
"Be careful!"