Chapter 16: Unknown Plant
Two days later.
Zhou Qing and Tang San went to the section of the stream where the Lingyun turtle was again.
After throwing the rice ball made of a mixture of blue silver grass and fish scales into the grass more than ten meters away, Zhou Qing pulled Tang San and hid under the dense branches and leaves of the tree that fell in the stream.
"Is this okay?"
Tang San was a little skeptical.
“Not sure, but always give it a try.”
Zhou Qing could only say that everything depends on human effort, and this was also his first time "prescribing medicine", so even if it failed this time, he could try a second or third time.
Anyway, there is plenty of time for these two little ones.
"Do you have any more medicine?"
Tang San pulled Zhou Qing's arm with his hand.
"Have."
Zhou Qing took out a packet of powder mixed with blue silver grass and fish scales from his pocket, handed it over, and asked, "What do you want to do?"
Tang San took out an iron weapon similar to a shuriken, which was not big and could just fit on his finger.
【hidden weapon!】
Zhou Qing never expected that Tang San would now start making hidden weapons. Could it be that he was influenced by him?
But this should not be the first hidden weapon made by Tang San in the original work: the sleeve arrow.
Although the sleeve arrow is simple, it is also a machine-expanded type. However, this dart is the type that requires technique to throw.
"This is a bamboo leaf dart."
Tang San introduced.
Bamboo Leaf Dart is not ranked high among the Tang Sect's hidden weapons. It is one of the many types of throwing darts. The dart body is composed of four double-edged pieces similar to bamboo leaves. It is small and silent when thrown out with a specific technique. In addition, the dart blade is sharp and can even leave marks on iron and stone.
Tang San spent two days making this bamboo leaf dart just in case.
"I got it from... my father."
"Oh."
Zhou Qing didn't ask any more questions.
While Tang San breathed a sigh of relief, he smeared the powder on the bamboo leaf dart, then used his saliva to stick it on. After smearing it all over the bamboo leaf dart, he blew on it gently to make the moisture on it evaporate quickly.
In this way, a simple hidden weapon smeared with "poison" was completed.
Zhou Qing knew that the normal procedures would never be so simple, but Tang San currently had no formal manufacturing tools, so he kept everything simple, like this -
As long as Tang San's hidden weapon skills are up to par, this dart is not useless.
In the blink of an eye, half an hour passed.
Just when Zhou Qing was getting a little impatient, the surface of the muddy stream began to ripple.
The two-hundred-year-old turtle poked its head out of the water and opened its nostrils, as if it smelled a fragrance that humans could not smell. It swam towards the bank of the stream, finally went ashore, ventured into the grass, opened its mouth, and bit the rice ball with the "medicine" added to it.
blah blah blah!
Lingyun Turtle took a bite, but the rice ball was soft and the two sides fell from its mouth.
But the Lingyun turtle didn't seem to care. After swallowing the fish in its mouth, it picked it up from the ground and swallowed it in big gulps, much faster than eating the big white carp.
"Good! It ate it!"
Zhou Qing was very excited when he saw this scene. Tang San also breathed a sigh of relief, but he still held the bamboo leaf dart, ready to take action at any time.
When the Lingyun turtle had eaten all the rice balls, it opened its mouth wide as if it was yawning, and did not return to the water. Instead, it lay beside the stream, closed its eyes, and did not move, as if it were dead.
"How does the medicine work?"
Tang San asked about this matter.
"I heard that aquatic soul beasts under 500 years old can sleep for an hour after taking one packet." Zhou Qing said the description in the book.
“How much did you use?”
"Because the book didn't say how big a pack was, I added a bowl's worth of rice to the rice ball. The bowl was about eight centimeters in diameter."
Tang San was speechless, and even wondered if this Lingyun Turtle would never wake up from his sleep.
But Zhou Qing looked innocent.
However, Zhou Qing and Tang San waited for about ten minutes, and when they saw that the Lingyun Turtle was still motionless, they slowly climbed over the broken tree and quietly approached the Lingyun Turtle.
Both of them came behind it.
In this way, even if the Lingyun Turtle suddenly woke up and discovered them, it would have to turn around and would not be able to immediately stretch out its mouth to bite them, so it would have plenty of time to react.
However, Tang San was much bolder. He used some unknown method to find out that the Lingyun Turtle was really asleep. He then climbed directly onto its back and checked the cracks on the top of its shell and the water plants growing in the center.
That cluster of water grass, cow hair felt, was really rooted in his flesh and blood, but when Tang San pushed it aside, he found that there was actually another plant in the center.
It was pitch black with only two leaves on the top, giving it a luster like warm jade and feeling extremely soft to the touch. And somehow, Tang San felt that the Xuan Tian Gong in his body was actually operating on its own.
treasure!
A rare treasure!
Tang San never imagined that a mere plant that coexists with the Lingyun Turtle could have such a powerful effect, and it was just a seedling. If it grew up, what kind of treasure would it become?
This ability alone, which can improve the speed of cultivation, is extraordinary!
For a moment, Tang San had the idea of hiding something...
"what happened?"
Zhou Qing came over and saw this strange plant. He immediately felt a lot more relaxed. "Is this the real plant of Lingyun Turtle?"
"It should be." Tang San suppressed the greed in his heart and cursed himself:
Tang San, oh Tang San, you were educated by the Tang Sect and were taught to be chivalrous and not take ill-gotten gains. You actually forgot this. This is really wrong!
What's more!
This is just a small spiritual turtle. There are many strange and bizarre soul beasts on the Douluo Continent, and there are probably countless precious medicines that are more advanced than those in the previous life. Why bother about this unfamiliar plant?
Moreover!
Zhou Qing is his only friend!
"This leaf! This branch!"
Zhou Qing's voice rose, attracting Tang San's attention, and he couldn't help asking, "Do you know him?"
"do not know."
Zhou Qing immediately shook his head, moved closer, touched the leaves, raised his fingers, and used his other hand to fan his nose with air. He suddenly felt refreshed and energized, and even the blood circulation in his body accelerated.
"Hmm~ It's a medicine that can refresh the mind, and the effect is quite good. But to know what kind of plant it is, we can only wait for the villagers to go out to sell food and ask them to sell more medicine-related books. But these books are quite expensive and generally cannot be bought in bookstores. You have to go to the city's medicine store to ask... The last book was picked up by Uncle Wang in the village at a bargain price at the market."
Tang San was speechless and sighed.
I am young and cannot leave the village, so it is impossible for me to know the varieties of this plant in a short period of time.
But Tang San quickly cheered up. After all, this thing could increase his speed of cultivation, so he just used it. There was no need to explore the variety of this thing in a short period of time. He could just test out some of its medicinal properties later.
Then, Zhou Qing and Tang San began to carefully pick out the snails and insects from the tortoise shell, cleaned the wound, and removed the cow-hair felt.
The roots of these water plants were not deep, and the surrounding flesh was rotten. Zhou Qing estimated that the Lingyun Turtle would not feel any pain at all if he pulled them out.
After cleaning, only a small seedling of an unknown plant and a large sunken area around it remained in the center of the cracked shell.
Zhou Qing poured the yellow potato starch on it without saying anything...
(End of this chapter)
