The black-robed monk in the sky stared down. From his slightly raised sleeve, a finger as thin as a bamboo joint slowly stretched out...

When all the villagers below saw it, they were all frightened to death.

They actually opened their mouths under the extreme cold emanating from the other party, and in the midst of a cold war, they begged for mercy.

Amidst the sounds of begging for mercy, Wu Lei also shouted urgently.

"Sir...Sir, please spare my life, spare your life...I don't know when I inspired Fu Yan!"

We are willing to dedicate this year’s harvest of ‘soul crystal buds’ to your lord, we…we really didn’t issue a ‘reward charm’, really not!”

In his desperation, he spoke a little more fluently at this time.

The man in black robes in the air was unmoved by the pleadings of the people below. Just when his fingers were about to click, he heard Wu Lei's topic again, and his movements immediately sluggish.

"My lord, my lord, the 'soul crystal buds' here are all given to you, all given to you! We really sent out the 'reward charm' unintentionally, unintentionally!

Lying about this kind of thing will only lead to the crime of beheading the young ones, and it will not do any good. Please be aware of it, please be aware of it..."

After seeing the man in black robe hesitate, Wu Lei quickly cried and begged again.

The man in black robe's face was still as gloomy as water, but his voice came out again.

"Oh? Is it the 'soul crystal bud' that is about to mature for twenty years?"

"Yes, Master Immortal, we were able to harvest it four days ago, but we originally wanted to grow it for a while. This can be considered an apology from the little people."

The man in black robe is already a middle-stage golden elixir monk, and "soul crystal buds" of this age are actually not a good thing for him.

However, the "soul crystal sprouts" that have reached the minimum maturity age are still useful to the successors of his disciples. The daily consumption of his faction is also very huge.

In your daily practice, don’t buy anything. Everything needs to be spent.

In order to make the mortals work for them, the Shangzong also protected them greatly. There were also strict rules and regulations for the monks to purchase the "soul crystal buds" they planted from mortals.

If anyone dares to force the purchase, no matter what your level of cultivation is, you will be severely punished without hesitation.

Such harsh measures made these mortals willing to take risks and go to some rarely visited places in search of special "Crystal Smoke Lands".

Then, after planting "soul crystal buds", they can exchange for the immortality elixir they need.

No matter how many pills these mortals swallow, they will eventually die at about four hundred years old because they cannot swallow the spiritual energy of the earth, heaven and earth on their own. But who doesn't want to live longer?

However, the elixirs that can usually be sold to mortals are not the ones that can extend one's life by a decade or hundreds of years at a time, but the elixirs that can only extend one's life by five or ten years at a time.

This will allow them to work until they are at least two or three hundred years old, and then they can retire with peace of mind.

One reason for this approach is to make mortals work more, and another reason is that the higher the grade of the elixir, the more powerful the medicinal power contained in it.

If a mortal wants to grow fifty or a hundred years, he may die after eating it!

The man in black robe had guessed before that the group of young and strong mortals who appeared here might have planted "soul crystal buds" here.

It's just that his heart is focused on the foreign monk, and that's the big target he wants to hunt for.

Moreover, he didn't know whether the "soul crystal buds" here were mature, and he didn't dare to lower the price to force a purchase.

Even when he had murderous intentions just now, he never thought of getting the "Soul Crystal Buds" here after killing people.

If the person who planted the "Soul Crystal Sprout" is killed, someone will definitely investigate the reason. If one of them fails, he will suffer a big loss due to a small gain.

Now that he heard that the other party gave it to him for free, the man in black robe was of course willing. This way he could save another sum of spiritual stones.

"Take me to see it!"

The man in black robe didn't say much. He wanted to see how many "Soul Bud Crystals" the other party had planted here.

"Then Master Immortal, please come with me!"

After Wu Lei and others heard each other's words, it was as if they heard the sound of nature, and everyone let out a sigh of relief.

But after surviving the disaster, their hearts began to contract, and they even felt that their brains were congested with blood.

All intelligent creatures are like this. When death comes, they are willing to use whatever they can to exchange for it. However, as soon as the crisis is over, they will remember the price they paid and feel distressed.

Wu Lei took a deep breath and could only stand up and walk in one direction towards the village behind. The other villagers only dared to stay where they were and wait.

The man in black robe also moved accordingly, like a group of suspended ghosts in the night, silently

Zhong followed behind Wu Lei.

But what he didn't notice was that there was a figure that he couldn't detect at all, which had been standing here before. Just after he finished talking to Wu Lei, he left here first.

Wu Lei led the way, always with a look of gratitude on his face.

In the village, there are several rows of uneven houses. These houses are basically made of huge bluestones, but at this time, the entire village is empty.

After the two walked for a while in the village, Wu Lei finally stopped in front of an inconspicuous house.

From the outside, this house is only two or three feet in size. It has only one door and one window. The window is opened next to the door, but it is closed tightly.

The door is large enough for two people to pass through side by side. The door is made of black oiled wood, which gives people a very solid feeling.

"Sir, this is it! Be careful, there are some unevenness inside!"

When Wu Lei raised his head, a flattering smile appeared on his face. He knew that these immortals would not care about light and darkness, but he still said it as if he was flattering.

In fact, blood was dripping in his heart. He had previously said that he would provide all the "soul crystal buds" to the other party, but after he had a chance to survive, he changed his mind later.

In Wu Lei's heart, he felt that this man in black robe was really greedy and wanted to come to the fields to take a look. This was because he was not at ease with himself and he was going to take the blame as well.

This immortal master didn't even let him bring anyone else over. If the harvesting speed was normal, it would probably take them three or four days to finish harvesting this piece of land.

Now it's obvious that the other party wants to harvest it himself, so he doesn't leave anything for himself.

However, fortunately, there are three "Jingyan Land" in this village, and this one is the largest. There are two smaller ones, but he will not take the other party there.

For his own benefit, Wu Lei is fighting hard at this moment, but he also has a backup plan.

In addition to the mature "soul bud crystals" in these three "crystal smoke fields", the other two fields were discovered one after another. The years of planting "soul bud crystals" are seventeen and nineteen years respectively.

I just said that I would give them all to the other party. As long as the other party knows the true situation here, they will definitely give away all these things in the next few years of their stay.

Now he starts to pretend to be confused. It would be best if the other party doesn't know. If he knows, he will say that he must have matured him first.

After Wu Lei warned him, he immediately opened the door and walked in first.

The room was completely empty, with nothing in it, but there was a passage leading underground in the middle. After the two entered the room, they walked directly down the passage.

The passage is a sloping ramp, with stairs extending downwards.

There are no candle lights below, but there is some soft white light reflecting upward from the ground below, which makes it seem that it is not too dark here.

After the two of them walked down for about ten feet, the stairs ended here.

Looking around here, there is actually five acres of space underground, which has been plowed into ridges and ridges, very neatly, like a field.

It's just that the crops planted here are not crops, but on the originally dark ground, every one foot away, there will be a strip of bluish-white luminous things standing on the soil.

It is these bluish-white luminous objects that make this place and the stairs above not appear dark.

The strips are green and white, each about seven or eight inches in size, as thick as two fingers, shaped like a crystal ice pick, with a luminous pearl inside, emitting a soft light.

Underneath these long green-white things, there are black rhizomes rooted in the soil, surrounded by thin dark leaves, clustering each long green-white thing in the middle.

On the surface of these five acres of land, there is a layer of ice-like crystals scattered on the soil.

They do not emit light themselves, but with the help of the light of those long blue-white objects, they also reflect a slight light.

At the same time, there were tiny streams of mist flowing on these broken ice crystals, which caused a thin layer of mist to appear on the entire ground.

"Sir, do you think these 'soul crystal buds' are pretty good!"

After Wu Lei stood still, he quickly turned sideways, bowed slightly, and said to the man in black robe who was looking at a large area of ​​"soul crystal buds" that was shining with light.

"Well, not bad! They have grown to seven to eight inches in size, so they are considered mature!"

The man in black robe nodded slightly.

"Soul Crystal Buds" mature at six inches, and it is best to grow to thirteen inches, but

After reaching ten inches, the growth rate will drop sharply.

At that time, even if Wu Lei faced a situation like today, he probably wouldn't be willing to give it all away for free.

Moreover, the growth time after ten inches is calculated in hundreds of years, and a generation of mortals cannot live that long.

Therefore, when ordinary people plant "soul crystal sprouts", they will basically use 60% of the "soul crystal sprouts" as a crop that can be harvested every twenty years.

The other four achievements are to be cultivated continuously, and then sold after the "soul crystal buds" grow to ten inches, which will be a crazy fortune.

Similarly, they will also keep some "soul crystal buds" for their descendants to collect.

In this way, as long as it is not a newly opened "Crystal Smoke Land", there will usually be some "Soul Crystal Buds" that are more than a dozen years old.

Seven or eight inches of "soul crystal bud" can be used to refine elixirs and medicines, which is pretty good.

The man in black robe didn't want to waste time here. Since these were mature "soul crystal buds", what else could he be polite about?

He immediately raised his hands and waved them forward at the same time. The "soul crystal buds" on the ground shook for a while and fell off the roots one after another.

The next moment, like shooting stars chasing the moon, they all gathered towards the man in black robe.

These "soul crystal buds" shining with bluish-white light disappeared one after another as soon as they came into contact with the big cuffs of the black-robed man.
To be continued...