Celestial being

"This is the best. When you go to collect it, be careful. The kind of golden sunflower with only leaves and no flowers is useless. What I want is the one in full bloom." Zhao Gui warned.

"Senior, we have never seen the Golden Sunflower Spirit Grass you mentioned. I wonder if there is a pattern?" Yuan Ming asked.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Gui raised his hand and waved it in the air, and a ray of light condensed into the shadow of a Golden Sunflower Spirit Grass, which was displayed in front of the three people.

"See clearly, it's like this." Zhao Gui said.

The three of them silently noted the appearance of the Golden Sunflower Spirit Grass and nodded.

"In addition, the tasks of the three of you are slightly different. This fellow Daoist Yuan needs to collect three golden sunflowers in full bloom. You need to collect six. As for you... who killed the two of me, you need to collect twelve to make up for it. ." Zhao Gui passed his fingers over the three of them one by one.

When Yan Xiang heard this, he was immediately angry, but when he thought of the way to leave, he could only grit his teeth and endure it.

Seeing that the three of them had no objections, Zhao Gui stepped forward, made a hand gesture with both hands, and cast a spell on Yuan Ming and the others.

Yuan Ming only felt as if a vague force entered his body. He didn't feel anything abnormal at all. He asked with some uncertainty: "Is this okay?"

"You will know when you go out and give it a try." Zhao Gui waved his hand and said casually.

The three of them did not dare to delay, and immediately followed the direction directed by Zhao Gui and walked towards the outside of the village.

"Remember, it won't be enough without one golden sunflower." Zhao Gui's voice came from behind.

Yuan Ming did not look back and waved his hand.

Lei He came to Yuan Ming and asked, "Fellow Daoist Yuan, how did you cure your fire poison?"

Not far away, Yan Xiang, who was pressing his hand on his forearm to suppress the sores, listened carefully when he heard the words.

"Oh, the leaves of the trees growing in that village can detoxify fire poison." Yuan Ming said.

Hearing this, Lei He couldn't help but hesitated and sighed: "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

Yanxiang's eyes turned red, and he felt that his anger could no longer be suppressed.

"Why didn't you ask earlier? Besides, even if I said so, the senior might not be willing to let you go into the village to pick leaves, even if you think so?" Yuan Ming spread his hands and asked.

Lei He sighed in his heart and regretted not stopping Yan Xiang from going crazy.

For now, they can only continue to be patient, and they can only discuss the detoxification issue after they come back from picking flowers.

In order to save time, Yuan Ming and the others did not dare to delay. After leaving the village, they followed the instructions and headed northeast.

After walking for about twenty or thirty miles, they found that the peach trees around them gradually became sparse, and their vision became much brighter.

Not far away, tall and rugged stone pillars rise from the ground, reaching into the sky like hills.

And among the stone pillars, the faint red mist almost engulfed most of the stone pillars, leaving only a small part of the top exposed. It was not bare, and sometimes there were dense golden grass growing in disorder. Looking from a distance, it seemed like Like a tree crown.

On these "canopies", there will occasionally be a golden flower. Its appearance is completely different from the vegetation that Yuan Ming and the others have seen before. The flower buds alone are as big as a car bucket.

There are four layers of flower buds from the inside to the outside. The center is like thin strips of petals, while the outer three layers are like knives of flowers and leaves. There are many small hairs on the edges, and the sun shines through the gaps in the hairs. Passed by, like a hazy halo covering the flower buds.

This seemed to be the Golden Sunflower Spirit Grass that Zhao Gui wanted them to pick. Although the quantity was small, it was not difficult to find.

Seeing this situation, Yuan Ming and the others were quite surprised, but soon, when they got closer, they realized the real difficulty of the task assigned to them by Zhao Gui.

All the golden sunflowers they could find within their field of vision were in a budding state, and even the petals refused to stick out. They were all covered tightly to prevent others from seeing what was inside the flower.

If you want to pick golden sunflowers that meet the requirements, it seems you have to go deep into the stone forest.

The three of them approached the edge of the stone forest and looked at the fog in front of them. Yan Xiang immediately complained.

"How come there are so many weird restrictions everywhere in this damn place?"

Yuan Ming on the side silently stretched out his consciousness, trying to penetrate the fog to find out what was going on in the stone forest.

However, as soon as his consciousness touched the red mist, a hot poison instantly came out and invaded his sea of ​​​​consciousness along with his consciousness.

Yuan Ming's expression changed and he immediately withdrew his consciousness. However, at this time, the fire transformed from the fire poison had already appeared in the sea of ​​​​consciousness and rushed directly towards his soul.

He made a prompt decision and quickly mobilized his soul power to stop the fire poison and kept washing it away. He finally extinguished it, but he also consumed a lot of soul power and turned a little pale.

Yuan Ming composed himself and turned around to remind Lei He, but saw that his and Yan Xiang's faces were even uglier than his own. He thought they had suffered from the poison of fire, so he closed his mouth and said no more.

After a while, Lei He and the two temporarily suppressed the fire poison and looked at the red mist in front of them again, but at this moment, Yan Xiang suddenly turned his head and glanced at Yuan Ming.

"Boy, it's time to let your spirit beast come out to explore the road."

Yuan Ming's expression remained unchanged: "The spirit beasts of this junior generation are all carefully cultivated, and there are only one or two of them. It is really inconvenient to use them to explore the way. Please forgive me, senior."

Hearing this, Yan Xiang glared at Yuan Ming and was about to speak, but was persuaded by Lei He.

"Okay, time is running out, so don't argue over such trivial matters. Let me do it."

Lei He said, raised his hand, and another palm-sized bird flew out from the storage bag. After receiving the order, he immediately got into the red mist, stayed there for a few breaths, and then emerged again.

Lei He sensed the state of the demon bird and breathed a sigh of relief: "Just being exposed to the red mist doesn't seem to cause fire poison. Then Zhao Gui didn't specifically warn us when he asked us to come, so it should be fine. "

"In this case, let's follow our previous agreement and let each of us find our own way to avoid wasting time." Yan Xiang nodded and said immediately.

Among the three of them, he wanted to find the largest amount of Golden Sunflower Spirit Grass. Hearing Lei He mention that time was tight, he felt anxious in his heart.

Seeing him like this, Lei He suddenly suggested: "Okay, but the three of us should try to find as many as possible, just in case someone is unlucky and fails to find enough."

Hearing this, Yan Xiang immediately cast a grateful look at Lei He. His words were obviously to take care of him who needed the most golden sunflowers.

Yuan Ming also nodded silently, not intending to conflict with Yan Xiang on these matters.

Then the three of them didn't waste any more time, each picked a direction, and got into the red mist.

Yuan Ming walked in the mist for a moment and saw no one around, so he focused on two things and quietly controlled the first soul in the Tiantian Cauldron and let him sit on the lotus platform.

In an instant, the consciousness of the first soul fell around Yuan Ming, easily penetrating the red mist without any hindrance.

However, at this moment, waves of fire poison climbed up the consciousness cast by the first soul, trying to find the location of the soul and burning the body of the soul.

However, the fire poison spread and wandered in the consciousness cast by the split soul, but it was still unable to cross the spatial barrier and enter the Tiansteoing Cauldron.

Seeing this situation, Yuan Ming secretly thought to himself, and then ignored the fire poison that could no longer cause any harm, and used the consciousness of the first soul to explore the stone forest.

At this time, Lei He and Yan Xiang were also groping forward in the fog. Yuan Ming briefly checked their situation and was about to divert his attention, but suddenly discovered that there were two fire heads on the path of Yan Xiang. The breath beast wanders.

The fire-breathing beast looks like a mouse, but it is the size of a strong man. Its hair is as red as flames, and its eyes are yellow. It can spit out fierce fire from its mouth to burn the enemy. Even if it encounters a pill-forming monk, it will I had a headache for half a day.

The red mist in the stone forest restricted the monk's spiritual exploration, but the fire-breathing beast did not seem to be greatly affected. The two ends that Yuan Ming discovered had now discovered Yan Xiang, and were approaching quietly, as if they wanted to make a sudden attack. .

There is not much time to find the golden sunflower in full bloom. If it is entangled by a monster again, even if it is not injured, the search speed will be greatly affected.

I don’t know if Yanxiang is really unlucky, or if he got some weird curse for killing the Fire Horn aliens. He didn’t even find a single golden sunflower, so he was first approached by the Fire Breath Beast. He wanted to find all the golden sunflower spirits. I'm afraid it's going to be difficult for the grass.

Yuan Ming chuckled and stopped paying attention to Yan Xiang, who had already fought with the Fire Breath Beast. The consciousness of the first soul was spread out to help him find traces of the golden sunflower in full bloom.

…

After a stick of incense.

In a small clearing in the stone forest, a fire-breathing beast was lying on the ground and sleeping soundly. Not far away, there was a sudden sound of breaking through the air. It immediately became alert, raised its head suddenly, and opened its mouth to spit out flames to ward off the enemy. , but at this moment, it suddenly froze, and a trace of confusion flashed in its eyes.

The next moment, a small hammer wrapped with lightning struck over, smashing the fire-breathing beast's head into pieces, and it became silent on the spot.

Then, Yuan Ming slowly walked out of the red mist, raised his head and called the Thunder God Hammer back.

He quickly stepped forward, ignoring the body of the Fire Breath Beast. Instead, he carefully squatted five steps away from the body and dug out the roots of a blooming golden sunflower.

This is already the third blooming golden sunflower he has found, so he has completed the task assigned by Zhao Gui.

Facts have proved that Zhao Gui did not make things difficult for them. Even the golden sunflower in full bloom is not a rare thing in the stone forest. Only the red mist covering the place is an obstacle. I don't know why Zhao Gui can't come here in person.

Yuan Ming was assisted by the spiritual consciousness of his first soul, so he could see the red mist as nothing, and the effort he spent was much less than expected.

Not only that, during his search, he also found several fire-attribute spiritual grasses that were thousands of years old. Although there were fire-breathing beasts guarding them, he was the one who discovered these monsters in advance. He calculated them carefully and unintentionally, but it didn't work. Not difficult to solve.

Yuan Ming collected the bodies of the golden sunflower spiritual grass and the fire-breathing beast. After calculating that there was still some time, there were many spiritual grasses in the stone forest, so he was not in a hurry to go back and continued to search in the stone forest.

But suddenly, he let out a light sigh, and a trace of surprise flashed across his face.

Through the consciousness cast by the first soul, he suddenly discovered that there was a basin a little further away that was larger than here. It was surrounded by stone pillars and connected to each other. There was only one entrance.

The spiritual grass in the basin is growing particularly vigorously, and among them there are six or seven golden sunflowers in full bloom, not to mention those in bud.

The first part of the soul searched around and found that there were no fire-breathing beasts or other monsters in the basin. This made Yuan Ming even more surprised. After all, wherever the spiritual grass flourishes, there must be a place where spiritual energy gathers. Monsters like to use this kind of place to build caves and nests, unless they encounter someone who is not compatible with them.

The red mist in the stone forest contains fire poison, and the spiritual grass growing there is also of fire attribute. How can there be a place where spiritual energy gathers that is inconsistent with the nature of a fire-breathing beast?