"Xiao Li, is this the place where you found the ginseng?"
Lu Qing looked around at his surroundings and asked Xiao Li, who was standing on his shoulder.
At this moment, he was deep in the mountains, dozens of miles away from Jiuli Village.
The surrounding area is densely forested with towering trees, exuding a primitive atmosphere.
The mountains and the outside world truly seem like two different worlds.
Since learning that the Black Wolf Gang had been suppressed by the Wei family and wouldn't be able to cause him trouble in the short term, Lu Qing felt much more at ease.
They began to consider how to take advantage of this opportunity to rapidly increase their strength.
Once his strength increases, he will no longer need to fear the small Black Wolf Gang.
And now, the easiest thing for him to improve is his Qi and Blood.
Having grasped the secrets of perfecting Qi and Blood, Lu Qing no longer faced any bottlenecks in the Qi and Blood Realm.
As long as he has enough elixirs, he can recklessly enhance his qi and blood power.
However, due to the previous cultivation, the bottle of blood-replenishing and qi-boosting pills refined by his master had been almost completely used up.
So after some thought, Lu Qing decided to take Xiao Li into the mountains to collect the wild ginseng she had found earlier.
This is also why Lu Qing is now in the deep mountains.
"Aww~"
Xiao Li cried out, nodded, and pointed in a certain direction with its paw.
Lu Qing immediately activated his supernatural ability and began to investigate the surrounding area.
Ignoring the common medicinal herbs, Lu Qing's current goal is only ginseng.
After a search, he quickly made a discovery.
Ginseng: A precious medicinal herb, edible and non-toxic.
This ginseng plant is quite old, about fifty years old.
Looking at the ginseng that was emitting a white light in his field of vision, Lu Qing was somewhat disappointed.
This ginseng was not even a hundred years old, and the supernatural light it emitted was only white. Its rarity was far less than the two ginsengs that Xiao Li had given him.
Without touching the newly discovered ginseng, Lu Qing continued his search.
A fifty-year-old wild ginseng is still considered precious in a traditional Chinese medicine shop.
But now, Lu Qing doesn't think much of it.
So he plans to look again.
Before long, he made another gain.
Ginseng: A precious medicinal herb, edible and non-toxic.
This ginseng plant is of average age, only five years old, and its medicinal effects are average.
Unexpectedly, the ginseng they found this time was much worse than the previous one, having only been growing for five years.
He's just a little kid among ginseng.
"No way, such bad luck?"
Lu Qing was somewhat stunned when he saw the information provided by his superpower.
"I refuse to believe it!"
Lu Qing began searching once again.
He could have asked Xiao Li directly, but he didn't.
He fell into a somewhat defiant mindset.
Even Xiao Li, a little beast who knows nothing about medicinal herbs, was able to gather two hundred-year-old ginseng plants. He is well-versed in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and has supernatural abilities. How could he not find a hundred-year-old ginseng plant?
Next, Lu Qing found several more ginseng plants, but without exception, none of them were over a hundred years old; the oldest one was only eighty years old.
However, seeing that the ginseng, which was eighty years old, still emitted a white light, Lu Qing still did not pick it.
"Could it be that the only century-old ginseng here is the two that Xiao Li dug up?"
Upon discovering another 30-year-old ginseng, Lu Qing couldn't help but become suspicious.
"Probably not, otherwise Xiao Li wouldn't have brought me here."
Lu Qing continued his search, and finally, after half an hour, he made a discovery.
However, he was stunned when he saw the ginseng he had discovered this time.
Ginseng: A precious medicinal herb, non-toxic and edible.
This ginseng is over two hundred years old.
【Legend has it that ginseng possesses various miraculous effects, and ginseng that is old enough is said to have psychic abilities and be able to develop sentience.】
"Two hundred years!"
Lu Qing's eyes widened as he looked at the ginseng on the ground that emitted a white-tinged-red glow.
He didn't expect that he would suffer repeated setbacks before finding only small ginseng roots of average age.
Now, they've given him such a big one all at once!
A ginseng that's two hundred years old—this is even better than the two ginseng plants that Xiao Li picked.
Even the ginseng that the Wei family brought to Master recently to treat that young master Wei's body didn't seem to be of this age.
This is a truly rare and precious item!
This time, we finally hit the jackpot.
Looking at the ginseng on the ground, Lu Qing suppressed his excitement, immediately put down the medicine basket he was carrying, took out a bundle of red rope and a hoe, and prepared to start digging.
Lu Qing first tied the red string to the ginseng.
This is a rule among herb gatherers: when they encounter rare medicinal materials like ginseng, they must first tie it with a red rope to prevent it from suddenly burrowing into the soil and escaping while they are digging it up.
If it were Lu Qing from his previous life, he definitely wouldn't have believed such a thing.
But now, he has even experienced something like time travel.
This world also has magical creatures like Xiao Li and Qi Yu. The information given by the superpower also mentioned that ginseng may have spiritual communication.
If he still doesn't believe it, he's a fool.
So even though he knew that the ginseng in front of him was probably not yet at the level of spiritual communication, Lu Qing still followed the rules of the herb gatherers and tied a red string around it first.
After tying the red rope, Lu Qing began to carefully dig.
First, clear away the surrounding weeds, then use a medicinal hoe to slowly dig up the ginseng along its growth lines.
Throughout the entire process, Lu Qing dared not be careless in the slightest.
A single root of ginseng of this age is quite valuable and has strong medicinal effects.
He's not like Xiao Li, a clueless little beast.
He would be heartbroken if he accidentally damaged such a rare and precious medicinal herb.
Fortunately, as a martial artist whose martial arts realm has reached the perfection of Qi and Blood, Lu Qing still has a strong sense of control over himself.
With his utmost care, he managed to dig out this over two-hundred-year-old ginseng perfectly.
Looking at the old ginseng in his hand, with its roots intact and without a single scratch, Lu Qing couldn't help but smile.
A blood-nourishing and qi-boosting pill made from a 200-year-old ginseng will definitely be much stronger than one made from a 100-year-old ginseng.
With this ginseng, the time it takes for him to reach the perfect state of Qi and Blood can be greatly shortened.
Xiao Li was puzzled when she saw Lu Qing's silly grin.
It's just a blade of grass, why is this guy laughing like an idiot?
After admiring the ginseng he had personally dug up for a while, Lu Qing wrapped it in a piece of turf, tied it with a red rope, and then put it into the medicine basket.
After doing all this, he straightened up, looked at the grove of trees in front of him, and his eyes were filled with excitement.
Since this place can produce ginseng that is over two hundred years old, is it possible that there are even older ginsengs hidden here?
