Isn't this a game? How come you guys are really cultivating immortals!

After all, Song Jiulai had just arrived in this world and had only Awu as a control group member by his side.

Awu was concentrating on growing herbs, and Song Jiulai was just following his feelings to find out what was going on in the Qi Refining Stage.

Lin Qian's words made Song Jiulai taste something different: "Ah, I usually study Fireball when I have nothing to do. This is the only spell I'm good at."

Upon hearing this, Lin Qian assumed that she was ignorant due to her years of isolation within the sect. Furthermore, she herself wasn't skilled in combat magic, so she didn't think much about it and simply said, "No wonder. Are you planning to go to the border of the Cave Demon Valley for training?"

Song Jiu said, "If you can't go that far, then go to the First Mountain."

The First Mountain is just the name of the beginning of the edge of the Cave Demon Valley. It is blocked by continuous mountains and there are groups of first and second level monsters. It is the best place for disciples in the Qi Refining Stage to practice.

Lin Qian's eyes lit up: "That's perfect, Junior Sister. I'm going to go over there to pick herbs. Do you want to go with me?"

Song Jiulai was worried that he had no way to understand the actual environment here, so he agreed to have someone accompany him.

She was just a little curious: "Senior Sister Lin Qian, are all the disciples of your Peach Blossom Sect going out to gain experience?"

Lin Qian shook her head. "That's not the case. It's just that I don't know what's going on in the sect lately. Orders for pills have skyrocketed, and many are requesting 'Qi Replenishing Pills' of level two or above. I heard there are fields of level two Yiling Grass appearing over on the First Mountain. The ones I grow myself can't keep up with the consumption of alchemy, so I thought I'd try my luck here."

In places where monsters gather in large numbers, wild spiritual herbs are often better than cultivated ones, mainly because they have a higher chance of producing high-level ones.

But because there are too many monsters, the benefits are accompanied by risks.

As for why no one harvested these spiritual herbs, it was because these spiritual herbs were of little use to high-level cultivators and were only left for low-level cultivators to practice.

Otherwise, all of them would be safe zones, and the monks would have no room for training, which would be the end of them.

This seems to have become an unwritten rule.

Lin Qian glanced at Song Jiulai cautiously and said, "Junior Sister Song, I'll go with you. If you want to practice slaying monsters, I'll gather spiritual herbs beside you and give you half of what I gather. Is that okay?"

Although Song Jiulai called her senior sister, Lin Qian did not think that her fighting ability was stronger than Song Jiulai's.

Everyone is in the early stage of Qi Refining, and she is about to advance to the middle stage, but there is not much difference at this stage. As a disciple of the Medicine Sect, she is not good at fighting. Just now, Song Jiulai rubbed a few big fireballs with her hands, which was enough to show that she is obviously good at fighting.

It's hard to say about Lin Qian. So far, she can only make a fireball the size of a fist. What she gave to the clam snake just now was just a tickle.

Song Jiulai's eyes lit up: "Sure!"

There are some rules for collecting spiritual herbs. Some wild spiritual herbs are not cultivated and are delicate and precious. If you don’t know how to pick them directly, they will die in front of you.

The disciples of the Medicine Sect are the best at this and have special methods to collect the spiritual herbs in a well-preserved state.

She still needs half of the experience, so Song Jiulai certainly won't object.

She didn't think Lin Qian would play any tricks, not to mention that they were only in the Qi Refining Stage, so why would there be any need for them to play tricks?

Senior Sister Su from the Peach Blossom Sect next door did say a few words, and the disciples of the Medicine Sect all pay great attention to their reputation.

Lin Qian was very happy to see that Song Jiulai was easy to talk to.

"Junior sister, have you just joined the Changsheng Sect?"

Otherwise, I wouldn't call her senior sister every time I see her.

"Yes, yes." Song Jiulai said, "I discovered by chance that I have spiritual roots, and that's why I was lucky enough to be introduced to the sect. Otherwise, I would have to figure it out for a long time."

Although children born in Yunzhou Continent are taken to have their spiritual roots tested as soon as they are born, some are still missed.

For example, children who are abandoned by their parents at birth.

This was the excuse Song Jiulai came up with for himself early in the morning.

Besides, there are many independent cultivators on this continent, and there are many reasons why they don’t join a sect.

"So that's how it is." Lin Qian nodded. "Without the guidance of a sect, it would be very difficult to cultivate on your own. I joined the Peach Blossom Sect very early, but I don't have much talent and I'm the slowest at refining medicine."

"But recently I felt something was touching, so I thought of trying to gather the second-level Yiling Grass. But I didn't expect to run into a clam snake halfway."

Lin Qian is the most common sect disciple. He has never been out to gain experience, so his realm is improving slowly. He gets nervous when he encounters monsters when he goes out.

"Then congratulations, senior sister." If you are touched, it means you are not far from a breakthrough, just like Su Huanli.

Of course, when disciples of the Medicine Sect like this go out, combat effectiveness is one thing, but they must also have a lot of life-saving pills.

Otherwise, people wouldn't dare to come out alone.

But Song Jiulai was tactful enough not to ask any more questions.

Next, she and Lin Qian headed towards the First Mountain, and they both really noticed something wrong.

In addition to the clam snake they encountered at the beginning, they also encountered the molten bird and the green poisonous centipede, which should not have appeared before the first mountain.

These harmful monsters all have one thing in common: they all look quite sorry for society.

Moltres' body is as big as an eagle, but its beak is sharp and hawk-like. When its mouth is open, it reveals a row of fine teeth. If you look closely, you may see some suspicious rotten meat on it. It also likes to eat corpses.

The green poisonous centipede is a green centipede. Its combat power is not high, but it is about the size of a human. Just looking at it will reduce your SAN value.

It is extremely poisonous and harms both spiritual herbs and humans. Like the clam snake, it is hated by everyone.

Both of them are first-level monsters, but Moltres is the most troublesome. It can spit fire from its mouth, fly in the sky, and is fire-resistant.

The fireball brought by Song Jiulai didn't work, so he used the water control technique to instantly create a water ball, but it was not as big as the fireball.

He aimed at the direction of Moltres' attack and poured water all over its face.

This Moltres was quite decisive. If its attack failed, it would just fly away.

Song Jiulai couldn't do anything about it either.

The green poisonous centipede was killed in the same way.

Because of what Lin Qian said at the beginning, Song Jiulai was still cautious. He did not throw the fireball as hard as he did at the beginning. Instead, he used the terrain to restrict the green poisonous centipede, predicted its direction, and caused the ground to collapse and trap it.

Fortunately, this green poisonous centipede was not very competitive and was slower than the clam snake. Song Jiulai delayed it for a while and finally killed it with a big fireball.

After fighting like this, I have a rough understanding of the strength of the first-level monsters.

It is indeed used for novice monks to practice cooking.

Strangely enough, even though it was his first time in combat, Song Jiulai felt that his perception of danger was quite accurate.

She could accurately predict the attack direction of Moltres, the Green Poison Centipede, and even the Clam Snake just now.

This seems to be related to the soul cultivation method given by the system.

This thing is different from the mental method of Yunzhou Continent. Anyway, at the moment of reward, the system directly said: "Don't ask, just practice."

Things produced by the system are definitely better than those from Yunzhou Continent.

Just because it can give such a heaven-defying thing as opening spiritual roots.

After seeing Song Jiulai finish off the poisonous green centipede, Lin Qian wiped the sweat from her forehead. "We're still half a day away from reaching the First Mountain, but these monsters shouldn't be appearing now. Could it be that the records in the Monster Encyclopedia are wrong?"

Song Jiu also came to see this thing: "Maybe... After all, I don't know how many years the record has been there, but maybe two or three of them have popped up."

Lin Qian thought about it and said, "That's true."

After all, they met alone.

As soon as he finished speaking, Song Jiulai suddenly heard a strange and shrill bird cry.

Looking up, they saw two flaming birds fluttering towards them in the sky.

It was obviously the bird that went back to shake the bird.

Song Jiulai: "..."

Grass!