The two teams split up again. A few days later, Ren Baqian and the empress arrived at the last location. As expected, they still didn't find anything.
The herdsmen here were gone as well.
"Spread out and search to see if there are any traces of them. Be careful of those powerful beasts and try not to provoke them," the empress immediately ordered.
The two miserable looking multicolored eagles that hadn't regrown their feathers were released into the sky again.
Less than two hours later, one of the multicolored eagles returned. Gong Xing jumped down from the sky and shouted, "Your Majesty, we found a grove of kadsura fruits in the southeast."
"Eh!" Ren Baqian, who was massaging his legs, immediately jumped up and asked, "A grove of kadsura fruits?"
"Yes, at least 100 of them!" Gong Xing replied.
"Good stuff!" Ren Baqian clapped his hands together with a look of excitement on his face.
Kadsura fruits were good stuff. Apart from their taste, their biggest function was to nourish the spirit.
On his way to Tianjing Basin last year, he spent a lot of effort but didn't find many kadsura fruits. He didn't expect to find a grove here.
Now that he had completed the first step of the [Yang Boosting Technique], his focus was on the second volume of the [Ancient Scroll of Methods].
However, the first step of the [Recuperation Technique] was to visualize a space of the five elements, which he couldn't advance for several months.
No matter how he visualized it, it would eventually collapse and turn into nothingness.
Ren Baqian always felt that it was because his spirit wasn't strong enough.
With each visualization, even though the things he visualized could exist longer than before and he became more familiar with the visualization technique, there was still a long way to go before the visualized things could exist for a long time.
He didn't know how long it would take to achieve this step.
Finding a grove of kadsura fruits at this time was like sending charcoal in the snowy weather.
"Your Majesty!" Ren Baqian turned to the empress and said, "I'll go take a look."
"I'll go too!" The empress glanced at the forest in the distance. It was meaningless to stay here any longer, and she had no choice but to send the winged cavalry out to search.
Under Gong Xing's guidance, the two of them and the guards took six hours to reach a mountain top.
They saw a forest halfway up the mountain with leaves as big as cattail leaf fans.
From time to time, one or two white fruits could be seen among the leaves.
"Sure enough, they are kadsura fruits, and they are ripe!" Ren Baqian was overjoyed when he saw this. "Ha, mine, they are all mine! With these Kadsura Fruits, I should be able to break through the first step. "
It felt like an ordinary person who had won a 50 million prize.
After laughing heartily, he looked at the empress, held her hand, and said, "Your Majesty, these are all yours!"
"You only remembered now? Don't give me that! "the empress snorted.
After being talkative for so many times, she was more or less immune to it!
"These things are really beneficial to your cultivation!
However, there are still some things in this forest that I need to deal with. "
After the empress finished speaking, she took a step forward and exuded an imposing aura. Immediately, a rustling sound could be heard in the forest.
Thousands of colorful snakes rose from the trees and flicked their tongues in the direction of the group.
"No wonder the kadsura fruits in this forest haven't been picked and eaten!" Ren Baqian was speechless. He had previously discovered snakes, but he didn't realize that there were so many of them.
Although the kadsura fruit wasn't considered a treasure, it could be considered a rare treasure. It grew slowly, was rare, and was loved by apes. It was said that eating the kadsura fruit had the effect of awakening intelligence.
Ren Baqian found it a little strange that such a mature forest hadn't been picked. It turned out that a group of snakes and insects were entrenched here.
The empress strode into the forest and slashed her fingers in the air like a sword. The surrounding snakes that surged toward her were cut off, and it was as if there was a rain of blood in the forest.
"I'm waiting for you!" The empress suddenly shouted. She stretched her right hand into the air at lightning speed and retreated from the forest in a flash.
Ren Baqian looked at the empress's hand and saw that she was pinching a small green snake with two fingers. It was as thick as a chopstick and as long as a palm. It was writhing endlessly between her fingers.
Suddenly, it opened its mouth and let out a bovine cry. It wasn't soft, but it paled in comparison to the roar of the empress.
"Is this the leader of this group of snakes?" Ren Baqian looked carefully at the small snake and saw that there were two small horns protruding from its head. He was shocked and asked, "Is this a dragon?"
The empress took a closer look and said, "It has the bloodline of a dragon! However, it's not as good as the one in Great Xia's palace. The bloodline is very thin! "
"That's still a good thing!" Ren Baqian looked at the small snake between the empress's fingers and clicked his tongue in wonder. He wanted to see what the dragon in Great Xia's palace looked like if he had the chance. He didn't know if he could use the activated charcoal mask to exchange for that dragon.
If it couldn't, he would throw another 100 stink bombs.
Ren Baqian suddenly felt that this was a good idea.
"It's nothing. Refining this snake will at most produce a drop of impure dragon blood. However, the heart and gallbladder of this snake are somewhat useful." The empress slid her left hand across the body of the snake, and two bean-sized objects appeared between her fingers. She stuffed them directly into Ren Baqian's mouth.
"Oh!" Ren Baqian's eyes widened. He then licked the empress's finger that was in his mouth. The empress retracted her hand as if she had been electrocuted and glared at him.
Gong Xing, who was at the side, looked at the empress with envy.
The heart and gallbladder of the snake were too small, and Ren Baqian couldn't even feel if he swallowed them. However, a warm current quickly rose from his stomach and spread throughout his body.
The two bean-sized objects transformed into a large amount of essence blood that flowed into Ren Baqian's body. His whole body turned red, and his head began to emit hot steam.
Ren Baqian immediately sat on the ground and tried his best to transform the essence blood into essence qi that circulated in his internal organs. After two hours, Ren Baqian finally finished. The amount of essence qi in his body had increased by 20 percent, which was considered a great benefit.
When he opened his eyes, the empress had already cleaned up the snakes in the forest and was sitting at the side in a daze.
"Your Majesty!" Ren Baqian heaved a sigh of relief. He was suddenly stuffed with a snake's gallbladder and heart, and then tossed around for a long time. This made him a little tired.
The empress glanced at the forest and said, "Well, it's all cleaned up. The forest is all yours."
"Half of it!" Ren Baqian smiled cheekily.
"This thing is useless to me!" The empress waved her hand.
"It doesn't need to be useful as long as it tastes good!" Ren Baqian laughed, jumped onto a tree, and picked four kadsura fruits. He threw two to Yue Xing, wiped the other two on his body, and handed them to the empress. "This fruit tastes pretty good!"
The empress glanced at him and said, "Your body is much dirtier than the fruits … You might as well not wipe them!"
Ren Baqian didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Your Majesty, can we have a chat?"
"Hmph!" The empress snorted twice before opening her mouth and biting off a piece of flesh.
One day later, Ren Baqian began to worry.
He could only eat four kadsura fruits a day before feeling his sea of knowledge swell to its limit. There were more than 110 trees in the forest, and there were four fruits on each tree. How long would it take for him to eat all of them?
Ten days later, Qi Ziting and another group of people received the news and came to meet up.
Now that all the herdsmen had disappeared, it was meaningless for the empress to run around.
Everyone discussed for a while and decided to simply stay in the forest with Ren Baqian for a period of time. After Ren Baqian had grasped the basics of the [Recuperation Technique], the empress and Ren Baqian would return to Lan City.
On the other hand, Xi Wanya would coordinate all the villages in the Sixty Thousand Mountains and investigate the situation in the border areas.
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