The Legend of Immortal Yun

"Naturally existing old tea leaves?!" Hearing this, he was startled and thoughtful.

Fukang said aside: "Isn't this unlikely? If there are tea leaves millions of years ago, no matter how deep they are hidden, they will be annihilated by the wind and rain of nature. How can they be preserved until now? Besides..."

"What else?"

"Even if there are really fish that slipped through the net, those old tea leaves have still existed until now, but we know that the collection of tea leaves also requires skills. If it is only stored in the form of loose tea, the tea leaves do not seem to be able to improve with the passage of time. , or the gain is not big, as many information about tea have shown!" Fukang continued.

Ting Xi heard the words and echoed: "Brother Fu's words make sense! If the tea leaves are only stored as loose tea, it will be difficult to form a stable closed space. The natural transformation process inside the tea leaves will be unstable, and the loose tea leaves are extremely susceptible to moisture. , odor, broken, and the preservation effect is really not good!”

"Exactly! However, I really don't understand why the tea leaves here have to be pressed into compact shapes such as tea cakes, tea bricks, tea balls, etc. In addition to being easy to transport and preserve, is it really beneficial to the taste of the tea? Transformation?" Fukang asked.

"This...the reason seems not to be revealed in the data here. People do this more out of experience, but no one can really explain the reason!" Tingxi said.

Zhizunbao nodded and said: "What the two seniors said makes sense! But..."

"But what?"

"It is precisely because of this that loose tea has no preservation value. Only compacted tea cakes, tea bricks, tea cubes, tea balls, etc. have preservation value. In nature, there will also be inevitable occurrences in many accidental phenomena. , For example, we often find that some materials from ancient times have turned into stone after countless years!" said the Supreme Treasure.

"This...are you talking about those natural stone spirits?" Tingxi asked.

"Yes, natural stone essence looks like stone, but in fact it is not. It is composed of a variety of materials, including almost all kinds of things, such as wood, leaves, bones, insects, birds, and all kinds of life... They are found in the world. They survived the natural wind and rain and turned into strange stones, which came to us from ancient times! Since they may be various substances, it is also possible that some of them are tea leaves! Especially in In the Tea Star Group, there have been tea trees since ancient times, so the probability of forming tea stones is also very high! Moreover, it is precisely because they are condensed and petrified that their preservation state is consistent with the experience mentioned by people here, and That is to say, this state of condensation and petrification is the best state for preserving and collecting tea, which is very conducive to its later transformation!" said Supreme Treasure.

Tingxi listened with great concentration, nodded slightly, and praised: "Well said! This possibility exists, but the probability is too low. After all, natural stone essences are rarely found. Occasionally, if they are found, it is not clear what they are. What kind of material is it made of? However, if there are natural stone essences in the Tea Star Group, then the probability of ancient tea leaves among them will be much greater than in other star groups!"

When Fukang heard this, he said: "Speaking of natural stone essences, I also found that there is a type of natural stone essences worthy of attention!"

"Which type?!" everyone asked urgently.

"Look!"

Fukang opened his fat palms, and with a flash of inspiration, a crystal round bead appeared in his palm. This bead was completely transparent, but its color was light yellow. There seemed to be some kind of substance in the middle of the bead, and it looked like there was a Bugs are in there!

"Fat ball?!" Everyone suddenly realized.

"Yes, they are stone balls formed from this kind of resin. The texture of fat balls is extremely tough and wear-resistant. Even if they are exposed to the sun, wind and rain, ice knives, frost swords, stones and gold, they cannot be completely destroyed. Many fat balls can't be completely destroyed. They can exist from ancient times to the present day,

Just like this bug, it has been growing since it was sealed inside by this drop of resin, and this bug can no longer be seen today. Obviously, this type of bug existed in the extremely long past, but with the resin ball Protection, it is still displayed in front of us! Fukang said proudly.

Ting Xi sighed: "Times have changed, and the sea has changed. The life that can survive to this day is extremely precious! Even a small insect is worth thousands of crystals in our eyes now, let alone a handful of ancient ones. Where’s the tea?”

"What the two seniors said is that now it seems that Gao San and Hong Ji probably discovered ancient tea leaves that have been preserved from ancient times to the present, so they unexpectedly jumped to the top two! But does Jun Geng Cup also have ancient tea leaves? It's hard to say for tea. You have to know that the probability is extremely low. It's rare to find fat globules or stone essence, and it's really difficult to find tea among them! What's more, The amount of tea leaves cannot be less, at least enough for one brew, otherwise it will be difficult to brew it well, right?" Zhizunbao said.

"That's for sure! If there is only one tea leaf, how can you make it? No matter how good the tea leaf is, it is impossible to make a big pot of good tea!" Fukang said loudly.

"Haha, of course!" Ting Xi laughed.

Fu Chunzhi smiled and said: "If anyone can brew a big pot of good tea with one tea leaf, then he will definitely win the first place in the tea competition!"

"Exactly, but of course this is impossible!" Guanlan also agreed.

"If you just eat a piece of tea leaf, why should you make it?" Rong Bing snorted.

"That's right..." Everyone agreed.

Tingxi suddenly thought again: "Look at the previous competition, although Powell, Gao San and Hong Ji all have top-quality tea leaves, they all use a piece of tea cake to make tea, instead of using one tea leaf or several pieces. The tea leaves, obviously, the tea cakes are artificially pressed, not tea leaves in stone spirit or fat globules…”

Everyone couldn't help but agree after hearing this...

Zhizunbao said: "Their tea cakes may also be obtained from ancient tea leaves from stone essences or fat balls. After collecting more, they can be pressed into the shape of tea cakes... Moreover, if there are really tea leaves in the stone essences, those The tea leaves themselves are in the shape of tea lumps, so they are pressed naturally!”

"Yes!!!" Everyone was stunned again and agreed...

Tonghuashun smiled and said: "It doesn't matter so much, if the Jun Geng Cup really contains ancient tea leaves, then we will admit defeat. If not, then he will definitely not be able to beat the two people in front of him. Let's just wait and see the result!"

"It can only be this way…"

The discussions among these people also aroused Li Yun's interest. Li Yun knew that the tea leaves of Powell, Gao San and Hong Ji were not actually ancient tea leaves at all, but had been manipulated by Xiao Xing and turned into "ancient" tea leaves.

In other words, although the tea leaves themselves are not ancient tea leaves that are more than a million years old, under Xiaoxing's refining, they already have the same level of Taoism as the ancient tea leaves. This is the same as the tea leaves that I transformed for Tali. A tea leaf is somewhat similar.

But my transformation was definitely much more complicated than Xiaoxing's transformation, because that piece of tea contained at least tens of thousands of top-quality tea charms, and they were all perfectly blended, making people intoxicated and unable to extricate themselves!

Xiaoxing's transformation did not add tea charm, nor did it require blending. It just made the characteristics of the tea more prominent. This is not because Xiaoxing does not have this ability, but because he simply does not imagine himself doing that.

The conversation between Zhizunbao and others involved a lot of tea knowledge, the most important of which was about the dispute over ancient tea. They had not seen any ancient tea, but they relied on their imagination and a piece of resin from Fukang. The ball revealed the existence of ancient tea leaves. It has to be said that these people are indeed top talents. As a top talent, having rich imagination is standard. On the other hand, if a person lacks rich imagination, Then it will be very difficult to become a top talent.

Because in many areas of wisdom, people can often learn the knowledge accumulated by their predecessors. This is relatively easy, but it is extremely difficult to develop a new knowledge, explore new fields, and climb new peaks. And if you want to innovate, , you must have a rich imagination. First, you must have a blueprint for development, and then continuously improve it and enrich it through hard work. Only then can this new knowledge, new technology, and new field gradually take shape. What if you have always done it? If you have such an attitude, you will definitely hit a wall at every turn and get bruised and swollen. If you want to achieve innovation, it will only be a mirror image...

"Ancient tea leaves? There should be ancient tea leaves in nature, right?" Li Yun asked.

"This possibility exists!" Xiaoxing said.

"But it's very difficult to reach ancient tea leaves that are millions of years old. You know, it's still unclear whether tea trees existed in this constellation millions of years ago?" Li Yun asked suspiciously.

"That's what your adults are saying! The tea tree itself also has an evolutionary process. Many of the plant life today may have been completely different in ancient times. For example, ancient plants may not bloom and bear fruit, but reproduce by dividing themselves. , there are no male and female flowers, but hermaphrodites, so there is no need for small flying insects to pollinate and mate... In fact, the probability of this is extremely high, because even the life here is hermaphroditic, let alone those plants!" Xiaoxing said.

"Indeed! In this way, the tea trees today may not have the quality of tea a million years ago, let alone brewing into tea, so ancient tea leaves only exist in imagination..." Li Yun said with a smile.

"Hehe, that's not necessarily the case!" Xiaoxing said happily.

"Oh? What else did you think of?"

"Actually, every leaf has the potential to become a tea leaf!" Xiaoxing said in surprise.

"This...makes sense!" Li Yun's eyes lit up and he praised!

Xiaoxing continued: "Especially in this tea star group, there are environmental factors that cultivate tea trees. As long as it is a leaf, it may contain some basic tea characteristics. If it undergoes another million years of aging, , it can all turn into a high-quality tea leaf in the end!”

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