Chapter 22 Nine-Leaf Purple Sun Grass
Qiancao Valley did not change after the departure of Pharmacist Feng. It was still quiet every day. Since Wu Yan knew his situation, he began to practice madly.
Except for resting for two hours every day, he spent almost all his time practicing the nameless formula and several required basic skills in the Hidden Killing Technique.
In order to prevent outsiders from disturbing his practice, Wu Yan also drove away the two herbal farmers. He began to learn and take care of the three herbal fields in the valley according to the "Qiancao Book" left in Pharmacist Feng's study.
Half a year passed in a hurry. Pharmacist Feng never came back.
Although the leader of the Iron Sword League tried to seize the Dragon Cloud Sword of Pharmacist Feng, he also fulfilled his promise to Pharmacist Feng.
Qiancao Valley became a forbidden place for all disciples and servants of the Iron Sword League Xiaogushan Headquarters. Not only that, Alliance Leader Li Ruoxu actually arranged two errand boys very carefully. Every day at a fixed time, they prepared all the daily necessities and food that Wu Yan needed and sent them to the entrance of Qiancao Valley for Wu Yan to use by himself, as if they were afraid that Wu Yan would have an accident while Pharmacist Feng was not in the valley.
The weather was surprisingly good that day. Wu Yan had just finished practicing the third level of the nameless formula and felt that the energy flow in his body was much stronger than half a year ago. He felt vaguely that he was about to break through the third level.
But the terrible thing was that at such a critical moment, all the medicinal materials were actually exhausted in the past six months. This caused him to be unable to break through the third level for half a month.
When Pharmacist Feng left, he told him that Hequan, the owner of the family planning medicine shop, would deliver the medicinal materials to Gushan Town at the agreed time every year. However, there was still half a year before the one-year agreement. Where should he get the medicinal materials to assist in his practice?
Without the immersion of the medicinal liquid made from the herbs, Wu Yan felt that the nameless formula he practiced seemed to have reached a bottleneck. No matter how hard he tried, without the support of the medicinal liquid, he had made no progress in the past half month, and his energy flow had not increased at all.
Wu Yan could only smile helplessly. It seemed that his own qualifications were not very good, otherwise, how could there be such a situation that his practice could not improve without the medicinal liquid to provide him with medicinal power.
Wu Yan had lost confidence in the practice of the nameless formula after encountering such a blow. However, it was gratifying that he made rapid progress in the practice of the hidden killing technique, and he could be called a genius.
He chose the three basic skills of soft-handedness, concealment, and microscopic dust, and he succeeded in practicing them in just half a year. According to the book, it would take at least three years to successfully practice these three basic skills, but he practiced them in half a year, which made his self-confidence unprecedentedly restored.
He firmly believed that as long as he could master the Hidden Art and the Stab Art in the Hidden Killing Art, he would not be able to defeat Feng Yaoshi or Li Ruoxu, but he still had some confidence in escaping from them.
Wu Yan quietly returned to the valley from the cliff, first took food at the entrance of the valley and had a full meal, then took a small iron shovel and a wooden barrel and walked towards the medicine field.
In the past six months, he had memorized the "Thousand Herbs" by heart, and was also familiar with the names, medicinal properties, years, etc. of nearly a hundred kinds of herbs in the medicine field.
He also had his own experience and understanding of how to take care of these herbs. When he walked to the edge of the medicine field, Wu Yan felt a sense of satisfaction. These herbs, under his careful care in the past six months, have grown much better than six months ago.
Some herbs will enter the mature period in a few months and can be picked and used.
Wu Yan used a wooden bucket to fetch a bucket of clean water from the pool next to him, walked to the edge of the medicinal field, and took a small iron shovel. While loosening the soil and removing insects from a blood-colored flower, he sprinkled water on the dry soil from time to time.
He took care of each plant one by one. When he walked to the middle of the medicinal field, Wu Yan suddenly stared at a nine-petal purple yang grass in amazement.
When he took care of this purple yang grass yesterday, it only had one petal, and the color was light blue. How could it suddenly grow nine petals after just one day, and all of them turned dark purple?
This is too weird!
He remembered that the growth period of purple yang grass is nine years, and the maturity period is also nine years. Purple yang grass will grow a petal every year, and it will not grow nine petals until the ninth year, entering the maturity period. After entering the maturity period, purple yang grass needs another nine years to continuously absorb the earth's energy and the purple light energy in the sun, so that the nine petals will all turn from blue to purple one by one. Only when all the leaves of the purple sun grass turn dark purple can it be considered fully mature and can be used as medicine.
However, the purple sun grass in front of him only took one day to grow nine petals, and all the nine petals turned dark purple in one day!
It took Wu Yan a long time to react. He covered his pounding heart and looked around carefully for a long time. After making sure that there was no one in the valley, he suddenly pounced on the purple sun grass, lay on the ground, and excitedly held the purple sun grass like a treasure.
In the past six months, he memorized all the handwritten books such as "Pharmacology" and burned them, fearing that Master Feng would find out and cause trouble for him. He kept in mind that there was a God-eating Gu in his head that made him deeply afraid. Although the poisonous Gu had not attacked once in the past six months, he was always worried about it. He knew that Master Feng would never plant this poisonous Gu in his head for no reason.
In the past six months, he tried countless times to find a way to expel the God-eating Gu. Finally, his efforts paid off. When he accidentally flipped through Master Feng's collection of books, he accidentally found a prescription in a book. This prescription was probably copied down by Master Feng by chance, because the handwriting of the prescription was very sloppy. Moreover, the herbs used in the prescription were too bizarre and precious. Perhaps in the eyes of Pharmacist Feng, this medicine was impossible to prepare, so he did not put the prescription away, but put it in a book, and forgot about it over time.
The prescription recorded the preparation method of a mysterious nameless elixir. Wu Yan felt that as long as he could refine this nameless elixir, he might be able to get rid of the terrible God-eating Gu in his head.
He remembered that the main ingredient of this nameless elixir recorded in the prescription was Nine-leaf Purple Sun Grass.
Wu Yan carefully dug out the Nine-leaf Purple Sun Grass, put it in a cloth bag around his waist, and kept it close to his body. This was his only hope to get rid of the God-eating Gu now, so he had to be cautious.
After doing all this, Wu Yan breathed a long sigh of relief and stood in the middle of the medicine field, quite full of confidence and high spirits.
However, he suddenly thought of another question, a question that he had just ignored because of nervousness.
Under what circumstances did this Nine-Leaf Purple Sun Grass suddenly grow from the seedling stage to the mature stage and then fully mature in one day?
He touched his chin and thought for a moment, and couldn't help but leaned down to observe carefully the place where the Nine-Leaf Purple Sun Grass grew.
Suddenly, next to the small pit where the Nine-Leaf Purple Sun Grass grew, something attracted his attention. Wu Yan stared at the thing nervously, his face changing from happy to worried. He carefully observed the area of herbs that he had watered yesterday for a while, and finally couldn't help showing a moving expression.