Mortal Seeking Immortal

Just as the disciples of Miaodan Sect were making deals with the disciples of other sects, Bai Qiu, a female cultivator of Miaodan Sect who had just been rejected by Ye Zhou, came to Yun Heng, a disciple of the Third Elder of the Spiritual Beast Sect.

Yun Heng was the disciple with the most talent in alchemy under the Third Elder. He was highly valued by the Third Elder and was often given various rare treasures by the Third Elder.

In order to allow Yun Heng to enter the top three smoothly this time, the Third Elder gave Yun Heng a spiritual beast of the foundation-building period named Red Ear Macaque, which he regarded as a treasure, before departure.

Red Ear Macaque is a gregarious spiritual beast with a very small body. The size of an adult Red Ear Macaque is only about the size of a palm. It moves very agilely. The speed of a Red Ear Macaque in the early stage of foundation-building is comparable to that of a cultivator in the late stage of foundation-building flying a sword.

If it moves at full speed in a forested area such as a mountain forest, the speed of a Red Ear Macaque in the early stage of foundation-building will be slightly ahead of some cultivators in the late stage of foundation-building flying a sword.

Because red-eared macaques like to eat all kinds of spiritual fruits and plants growing in the mountains and forests, they are very sensitive to the breath of spiritual plants and can accurately find the specific location of various spiritual plants in the mountains and forests. Even if some spiritual plants are buried deep underground, they can be easily found by them.

It is precisely because red-eared macaques can accurately find natural treasures that they are extremely popular in the world of immortal cultivation and have been sold at a sky-high price of millions of medium-grade spiritual stones.

All cultivators want to capture a red-eared macaque and keep it with them to help them find more natural treasures.

There have been many rumors about red-eared macaques in the world of immortal cultivation. Most of the rumors are about a cultivator who finally captured a red-eared macaque in the mountains and forests after going through untold hardships.

Later, this cultivator relied on the red-eared macaque to find some rare natural treasures of high age in the depths of the mountains and forests. With this natural treasure, the cultivator's cultivation level broke through to the Jindan realm or Yuanying realm in one fell swoop, becoming a powerful person in the world of immortal cultivation.

It is difficult to tell whether such rumors are true or false, but they attract many monks to the red-eared macaque. Many monks give up cultivation for their entire lives just to find the traces of the red-eared macaque.

It is even more common for a small sect or family to be slaughtered for a red-eared macaque.

However, because most red-eared macaques live in the depths of the mountains where few people go and monsters are everywhere, they not only have outstanding hearing, but also a very sensitive sense of smell.

They can smell the breath of passing monks or natural enemies from a hundred feet away, so as to accurately avoid danger.

Often, after the monks have gone through untold hardships and finally found the forest where the red-eared macaque is, they return empty-handed because the red-eared macaque discovers the monks' arrival in advance.

Most monks will give up the idea of ​​continuing to look for the red-eared macaque after several failed attempts to capture it, and instead start to concentrate on cultivation.

However, some monks are still unwilling to miss the red-eared macaque, and after leaving the forest, they spend all day thinking about various ways to capture the red-eared macaque.

Some monks found that red-eared macaques like to eat spiritual fruits, so they set their sights on a spiritual fruit called Qiongberry.

The flesh of this Qiongberry is sweet and juicy, and it contains extremely rich spiritual power, but eating too much of this fruit will make people drunk as if they had drunk strong liquor.

Therefore, some monks specially cultivated Qiongberries of higher years, which are more intoxicating, and put them in the mountains and forests where red-eared macaques appear.

After smelling the fragrance of Qiongberries, red-eared macaques can't help but swallow Qiongberries.

Some red-eared macaques with lower cultivation often get drunk on the spot after swallowing a Qiongberry of higher years.

The monks who have been ambushed in advance will take advantage of this opportunity to rush up and capture the drunk red-eared macaques, or auction them off, or keep them around to find natural treasures.

However, because the red-eared macaques are very smart, once they see their companions suffer losses from the apricot berries, they will be on guard, and the monks will not be able to capture red-eared macaques in this way next time.

It is also because of this that the number of red-eared macaques captured by monks is very small. Even in large sects like the Four Sects and Three Gates, only the Third Elder of the Spiritual Beast Sect has captured red-eared macaques so far.

It is said that the red-eared macaque in the hands of the Third Elder was not captured by him, but a lone and dying red-eared macaque cub that he accidentally encountered in the depths of a dangerous mountain range when he was traveling in the Spiritual Continent.

Because red-eared macaques have the habit of abandoning their seriously ill counterparts, the Third Elder speculated that this red-eared macaque cub should be too weak at birth, and the monkey group determined that this red-eared macaque would not survive, so they took the initiative to abandon it.

After the Third Elder brought the Red-eared Macaque back, he fed it with spiritual liquid made from various rare spiritual plants every day, which saved the life of the Red-eared Macaque.

The Red-eared Macaque probably knew that it was the Third Elder who saved its life, so it was very close to the Third Elder on weekdays and took the initiative to help the Third Elder find a lot of natural treasures.

Because the Red-eared Macaque was too precious, if it weren't for the fact that Yun Heng was his most beloved disciple, he probably wouldn't have lent the Red-eared Macaque to Yun Heng temporarily.

Bai Qiu had just taken out the jade slip that recorded the information of the secret realm, and the Red-eared Macaque hidden in Yun Heng's arms smelled the special scent on the jade slip, and scratched Yun Heng a few times in his clothes uneasily, reminding Yun Heng that there was something wrong with the jade slip.

Feeling the Red-eared Macaque's actions, Yun Heng remained calm on the surface, but he was a little wary of Bai Qiu in his heart.

Yun Heng thought that the red-eared macaque had moved after Bai Qiu had taken out the jade slip, and guessed that Bai Qiu must have smeared some very light-smelling medicine on the jade slip.

Although he didn't know what Bai Qiu was trying to do, Yun Heng's intuition told him that it must not be a good thing.

In order not to touch the jade slip, Yun Heng retreated slightly without leaving a trace, and then said to Bai Qiu gently: "My junior sister from Miaodan Sect, I just thought about it and decided not to trade with you."

"First of all, the information I gave you may not satisfy you. Secondly, I only came to the secret realm for training. Picking spiritual plants is up to fate. I don't force it."

If Zhao Han and Xu Yan heard Yun Heng's words, they would definitely roll their eyes at Yun Heng.

Bai Qiu frowned slightly when she heard Yun Heng's words, and said anxiously: "Brother Yun, although you are here only for training, this secret realm is full of dangers, and I don't think you want to be in danger."

"If you exchange information with me, you can also learn more about this secret realm and avoid some dangers in the secret realm."

Yun Heng shook his head and said seriously: "Junior sister, you are wrong. I came here for training, how can I take the initiative to avoid danger? If I avoid these dangers, can it still be called training?"

Hearing this, Bai Qiu glanced at the cultivators in the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment standing behind Yun Heng reluctantly. She has seen that these people are all following Yun Heng's lead. If Yun Heng does not trade with her, these people will surely not dare to trade with her.