"Red berries."
Looking at those red fruits, everyone felt happy. Some even recognized the fruit immediately.
Second-grade spiritual fruit, red berries. Not only are they sweet and delicious, but they also contain a lot of spiritual power, are extremely rare, and are easily absorbed by cultivators. No need to refine them into elixirs.
"So many red berries, haha, we are lucky."
Qing Mang(青蟒: Green Python) Taoist could not restrain his joy and laughed. With a flash, he arrived next to a fruit tree and directly picked two.
Even Ye Zimei(叶子楣: a name), who was usually quiet, couldn't help but show surprise when she saw the endless red berries on both sides of the road.
Zhang Liang(张良: a name)'s heart was also quite surprised. Spiritual fruits are quite common in the world of cultivation, but most of them are low-level spiritual fruits. Not many can be listed as second-grade spiritual fruits.
Red berries cost more than twenty spiritual stones each on the market. Ordinary cultivators can't afford them, and there aren't many available. In some large shops, the value can double.
This kind of spiritual fruit usually matures once every five or six years. Each fruit tree can only produce a dozen or so fruits.
Only some large forces can supply them in the outside world.
But looking at the large area of red berries in front of them, it's unknown how many years they have been growing. Each tree has more than twenty berries, and some of the ten-foot-tall red berry trees have fifty or sixty bright red fruits, each the size of a fist.
Many leaves and berries had fallen on the ground on both sides of the road, and it was unknown how many years no one had picked them. These red berries have been growing for at least thousands of years.
Of course, the grade of a spiritual fruit does not necessarily mean that the longer the age, the higher the grade of spiritual fruit produced. This is also the reason why high-grade spiritual fruits are rare in the cultivation world.
Zhang Ling(张凌: a name) probed forward with his spiritual sense. These red berry trees grew within one or two miles ahead.
None of them said much, and they tacitly dispersed and picked the red berries. After all, so many red berries could be considered a good harvest.
Basically, everyone picked thousands of them. Zhang Ling(张凌: a name) himself happily picked more than sixteen hundred red berries.
In addition, he directly dug up seven or eight tall red berry trees with their roots and soil.
Suddenly, Ding Ruozhao(丁若昭: a name)'s question came from next to Zhang Ling(张凌: a name). This woman stood next to a fruit tree more than ten feet away from him at some point.
"Fellow Taoist Zhang, red berries are not easy to transplant. Once they leave their original growing place, they are difficult to keep alive."
Zhang Ling(张凌: a name) chuckled and replied casually, "Haha, I have some new ideas for cultivating plants and trees. I'll dig up a few and maybe I can cultivate them to survive."
Ding Ruozhao(丁若昭: a name) didn't say much. She also dug up a few fruit trees and put them into her storage bag.
Zhang Ling(张凌: a name) just smiled when he saw this. He had mysterious little beads. As long as he had these fruit trees, he could continuously produce red berries. This could be considered a sustainable wealth.
As for whether this woman had the same plan, it was not his concern.
After delaying for half an hour, the group passed through the berry forest.
There were no other discoveries along the way.
It seemed that after they passed through the layer of blue light and entered this mountain, they never encountered any other formations or restrictions.
This situation was quite common. There were not many restrictions on ordinary sect peaks. Only special forbidden areas such as the scripture tower and treasure cave would have strong restrictions.
After walking for a while on the bluestone path, they came to a large group of buildings.
Ahead was a large open space paved with bluestone, with only some rock pillars standing on it, like a plaza.
To the right was a cliff with a height of hundreds of feet. There were some stone platforms and rows of small stone houses, which seemed to be the places where ancient cultivators lived.
Below was a huge stone tablet with the three ancient characters "Ku Zuo(苦坐: Bitter Meditation) Cliff" engraved on it.
This Ku Zuo(苦坐: Bitter Meditation) Cliff obviously referred to the rows of stone houses on the cliff.
Judging from the layout of the buildings here, it seemed to be the place where some low-level disciples lived.
The presence of these buildings also proved that many cultivators did live here. Since that was the case, they naturally had to investigate to see if they could find any other gains.
After all, everyone had harvested a lot of red berries, and now they were very interested in these ancient cultivator residences.
However, Long Lao(龙老: Old Long) first used the formation plate to carefully investigate the surroundings. After confirming that there were no forbidden formations, everyone began to walk towards the first row of stone houses.
There were at least hundreds of stone houses densely packed on the cliff. The upper rows had the exact same layout, except for the first layer of buildings at the bottom, which were somewhat different.
The group first walked towards the largest stone building.
This was a bluestone pavilion with the stone door tightly closed. In front was a bluestone staircase, and on both sides were several statues that were ten feet tall.
Most of them were stone carvings of spiritual beasts and true spirits, but they were covered in dust, and some of the stone carvings were broken and lying on the ground, giving a sense of desolation.
I wonder how prosperous this place was in ancient times.
Arriving in front of the stone building, Ding Ruozhao(丁若昭: a name) directly raised her hand, and a gust of wind wrapped in air waves directly crashed open the door of the stone house.
Smoke and dust filled the inside, making it impossible to see the situation inside for a while.
Ye Zimei(叶子楣: a name) next to her waved her hand again, and a mass of clear, hazy whirlwind swept past, and the smoke and dust dissipated in an instant, and everyone could see the situation inside the stone building clearly.
The space inside was not small, about a hundred feet in size, and there were some stone tables, stone chairs, and other items. It seemed to be the cave dwelling of a bitter cultivator.
Everyone released their spiritual sense to investigate, but there were no other gains. However, in the corner, there was a staircase leading to the upper level.
When they reached the second floor of the stone building, everyone immediately felt a strong fluctuation of spiritual power. It turned out that some formation runes were engraved on the ground.
"This is a spirit gathering formation. This place also guides a not weak spiritual vein," Long Lao(龙老: Old Long) said after looking at the formation patterns on the ground.
There was nothing in this stone house, only a ten-foot-sized high platform for cultivation in the corner, with two yellow futons on it.
This layout was obviously a quiet room for cultivators to practice. The concentration of spiritual power around was no less than that of a medium-grade spiritual vein.
Obviously, the original owner of this place was not weak. But this place was disappointing to everyone.
They came here not to explore treasures.
"Well, this place seems to be just a quiet room for cultivators to practice. Why don't we take a rest here," Ding Ruozhao(丁若昭: a name) suggested after thinking for a while.
Everyone naturally had no objections, and each found a place to sit down and recover from their previous consumption.
After all, three or four hours had passed since they passed through the mountain gap to here. Along the way, they had broken through the mirror and encountered the siege of the two-winged centipede and the iron heads, which had consumed a lot of energy.
