The immortals of the two worlds started from farming and refining pills.

Chapter 282 Water and Fire Spiritual Herbs, Strange Fruits in the Cave (First Update)
A spiritual beast called Huodou has also appeared in the world of cultivation. It looks like a dog but eats fire and its feces can turn into fire.

Mortals rumored that its appearance would bring fire, so they classified it as an evil beast.

But the cultivators knew that this was confusing cause and effect. It just liked to devour fire, so it followed the fire.

Li Qing glanced at the gray puppy: "Huo Dou? Isn't it black in the legend?"

Zhou Hanguang chuckled: "Maybe this one has faded?"

Hearing this, the puppy woofed angrily and turned its butt towards its owner.

Li Qing smiled and said, "It is said that Huo Dou is a third-level spiritual beast. If you feed it well, you may be able to rely on its majesty in the future."

The puppy's ears moved, and the light red halo on its body became brighter.

Zhou Hanguang shook his head in self-mockery: "Level 3 spirit beasts grow slowly. It might not grow up until I die."

Jiang Minghe also said: "Isn't that the case with those beast-taming families? One beast is passed down through three generations, and even if the people leave, the beast remains..."

The puppy seemed to sense his owner's depression and was no longer angry. It gently licked Zhou Handang's wrist with its wet tongue.

Li Qing didn't know how to respond to this. He always felt that the two of them were too negative. They seemed quite calm and composed before.

He had no choice but to change the subject: "The red fruit tree has been cured. I wonder if there are any other gains in this secret realm?"

Jiang Minghe calmed down and said, "After finishing our work, we can show you around as hosts."

So the three of them went on a walking tour.

The area of ​​this secret place is not large, about the size of a village.

To the east of Shitan is a cliff with red fruit trees growing on it, and beyond that is the boundary of the secret realm.

To the west of Shitan is a stretch of hills that are not steep and have no tall trees. Only stretches of meadows and scattered low shrubs.

"Hey! This is actually the Qingling Grass?" Li Qing squatted down in amazement and examined the spiritual herbs that could be seen everywhere.

Its shape is no different from the Qingling grass, which belongs to the water element, but its color is light red, faintly containing fire spiritual energy.

Zhou Hanguang held the Huo Dou and whispered, "I took it to the spiritual plant master and the alchemist in Xiancheng. They said that the Qingling grass has been infected by the fire spirit for a long time and has mutated."

"However, the Qingling grass is of low quality to begin with, and there is nothing special about it after the mutation, so its use is limited."

Li Qing, however, was very fond of this grass: "I want to pick some and take it back to cultivate it. Is that possible?"

Jiang Minghe said with a smile: "Fellow Daoist, please feel free to do as you please. This thing is everywhere and is not worth a few spirit stones."

Li Qing thanked him, dug some with a medicine hoe, and put it neatly in a jade box.

This mutated Qingling grass may be useless to others.

But for Li Qing, who established his Taoism based on the three elements of water, wood and fire and understood the principle of the mutual assistance between water and fire, it is a rare treasure.

After collecting the fire-attributed spiritual grass, Zhou and Jiang took him to visit the other spiritual plants in the secret realm.

They were all of the first or second grade, the highest was only the lower grade of the second grade, and their efficacy was not outstanding, so they were not very popular with Li Qing.

Until the last hill, Jiang Minghe brushed aside a vine and revealed a cave: "Daoyou, please come in, there are treasures in here."

It was a little dark in the cave, but it was not a problem for cultivators.

Li Qing followed the two people inside and walked forward for dozens of steps. Suddenly, he felt his eyes brighten.

I saw dark green vines growing on the rock walls of the cave, and bright red fruits growing on the vines.

Jiang Minghe picked one and handed it to Li Qing: "Daoyou, look, this kind of spiritual fruit has never been seen in my Great Zhou."

"Taking it can strengthen the Taoist body and increase the fire elemental essence. After tasting it many times, we finally decided that it was a second-grade upper grade."

"Oh?" Li Qing raised his eyebrows, took the fruit and looked at it, and found that it was slightly hard to the touch, and it bounced back a little when he squeezed it gently.

He did not shy away from it, and first used his medicine identification skills to confirm that it had no toxic side effects, then he washed it with Ganlin and threw it into his mouth. "Crack..." With a little force from his teeth, the fruit broke like hard candy, and the slightly hot fruit pulp flowed out.

The crispy shell is a little sweet, and the fruit pulp inside has a spicy taste.

Li Qing accidentally choked and sneezed, sparks flying out of his mouth: "Ah-chu!"

"Hahahaha..." Zhou Hanguang and Jiang Minghe laughed out loud together.

The Huotou also found it interesting, opened its little mouth, and spurted out a flame with a "woof", obviously imitating someone.

Zhou Hanguang knocked on its head and fed it a pill.

"Woof!" The puppy was not uncomfortable at all. Instead, it found it fun and snorted flames as if it was having fun.

Li Qing took a deep breath and swallowed the fruit pulp together with the chewed shell.

Suddenly, a burning breath rose from the stomach and then spread to the whole body.

After Li Qing established his foundation, his body was pure and spotless.

The fruit did not refine any impurities, but only pushed him a little closer to the second level of physical cultivation.

On the contrary, the fire element power, after being integrated into Li Qing's true essence and then fused with the Nirvana Fire, actually flashed the shadow of a deer-shaped spirit beast.

But before the shadow could take shape, it was swallowed up by Bifang transformed by the Nirvana Fire.

"Brothers, you two didn't give me any warning in advance and now you're watching me make a fool of myself. That's not very kind!" Li Qing glared at the two of them after he recovered his breath.

Jiang Minghe laughed: "It was just a little joke. When we first tasted this fruit, we were also infected."

Zhou Hanguang asked with concern: "How is it? Is this fruit still effective?"

Li Qing nodded: "If consumed in large quantities, it will help the transformation of the spiritual fire, and it is appropriate to rank it as a second-level upper-grade product."

Zhou Handang flicked his sleeves, and his true energy rolled up one-third of the fruit from the vines on the rock wall, put it in a jade box and handed it to Li Qing.

"Since this fruit is beneficial to you, let this be considered our apology."

Li Qing was stunned and quickly refused: "How can I do this! It's too expensive."

Jiang Minghe pulled Li Qing and pressed the jade box directly into his hand: "Just accept it. This fruit can be harvested again in the future, it's not gone."

The Huotou also barked a few times, as if urging him to accept it.

Li Qingsheng couldn't refuse the kindness, so he had to accept the fruit. However, he felt bad about it, so he used the Green Wood Minor Magical Power and the Beneficial Wind and Sweet Rain on the fruit vine in front of the two of them.

Zhou and Jiang were amazed.

"Daoyou's skill in cultivating spiritual plants is truly miraculous!" Jiang Minghe exclaimed with emotion.

"If I had known this, I should have tried harder. Perhaps I could have convinced my master to give you a genuine foundation-building pill."

Li Qing didn't respond, but just asked casually, "How is Senior Lin these days?"

The atmosphere in the cave suddenly became quiet.

After a while, Zhou Hanguang said softly, "My master tried to achieve Dan formation a few years ago, but failed and passed away..."

Li Qing was stunned: "Sorry, I really don't know."

Jiang Minghe shook his head: "It is my Tanyuan Immortal City that has restricted the news. It is normal that you don't know."

The path to immortality is never smooth sailing. Some people stand still while others rise to the challenge.

The master chose to transcend the tribulation and form the elixir, and he would never regret it even if he died. As his disciples, they could only be happy for him.

(End of this chapter)