My ancestors were spiritual plant growers, so it's not surprising that I hunt demons every day,

After everything calmed down, Cui Ying still held her sword and looked around without letting her guard down for a moment.

Suddenly, there was movement behind me.

She quickly turned around, shifting the tip of her sword, but her sharp attack stopped the moment she saw who it was.

"Master, it's me."

Zhu Chaoyun quickly stopped and stretched out his hands towards her.

Cui Ying breathed a sigh of relief and managed to utter, "Why are you all back?"

Zhu Chaoyun raised his head and said somewhat reluctantly:

“That Gale Tiger eats people without blinking an eye. We were worried about you, so we decided to come back and help you.”

"Who knew that you would point a sword at my nose as soon as I got back?"

Cui Ying cared about her own safety, so how could Zhu Chaoyun do something like trying to escape alone!

"Come here quickly, it's not safe there."

Cui Ying didn't have the strength to argue with Zhu Chaoyun, so she continued to look around warily, making them stand beside her.

Zhu Chaoyun also knew the seriousness of the matter. Soon, he stood over with his Cold Light Crossbow, equally vigilant. Even Ta Xue next to him had his hair stand on end, looking as if he were facing a formidable enemy and ready to pounce at any moment.

"Where did the Gale Tiger go?"

As he got closer, Zhu Chaoyun noticed Cui Ying's blood-stained half-body and the wound that almost ran through her shoulder and back. He was extremely anxious.

"Master, you're injured."

Cui Ying shook her head, ignoring her injuries.

Zhu Chaoyun glanced at Cui Ying's body, which was almost entirely stained with blood, and said with concern:

"You can see the bone, are you really alright?"

"It's just a superficial injury, nothing serious."

Seeing that Cui Ying's attention was elsewhere, and that there was indeed no sign of bleeding from the wound, Zhu Chaoyun glanced at the silent forest and swallowed hard.

"What about the Gale Tiger?"

"I don't know, it might not have left. You and Taxue each keep an eye on one direction, I need to regulate my breathing and replenish my mana."

She had previously burned her life essence to forcibly increase her cultivation level, and then used her sword control technique to exhaust her magic power. If she hadn't been holding on by sheer willpower, she probably wouldn't even be able to stand up.

Fortunately, Zhu Chaoyun and Taxue returned, otherwise she might have really died here.

After saying that, Cui Ying swallowed a pill to restore her magical power and sat cross-legged to meditate.

About fifteen minutes later, Cui Ying's complexion improved slightly.

Zhu Chaoyun, who was closely watching every rustle of wind and movement around her, heard a noise behind her and hurriedly asked with concern:

"Master, how are you?"

Cui Ying stood up, leaning on the Yao Guang sword, her breath still faint.

"It's nothing serious! This Gale Tiger was injured by the sword energy and has been silent for so long, so it probably won't reappear."

With her mind at ease, Cui Ying finally had the energy to explain to Zhu Chaoyun:

"Quickly, I'll watch over things for you. Go and skin that fox demon."

After this ordeal, Zhu Chaoyun became frighteningly obedient. Upon hearing this, she nodded quickly, and without saying a word, ran over and dragged the demon fox's corpse back.

"hurry up!"

Cui Ying glanced at it briefly, then couldn't help but twitch her lips and curse:

"It's not like I'm asking you to strip female cultivators of their clothes, why are your hands trembling like that?!"

Zhu Chaoyun's cheeks flushed red, as if she had thought of something.

He gritted his teeth, cursing himself for being spineless, took a deep breath, and then carefully cut open the fox demon's belly.

Having experience skinning demon wolves, it didn't take long for a complete fox pelt to come off.

Cui Ying glanced at it and then prepared to leave.

Zhu Chaoyun looked at the fox demon meat on the ground with some reluctance, and hesitated:

"Master, don't we want this fox demon meat anymore?"

"As you wish."

"Then I really took it back."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Chaoyun took off his outer robe and wrapped the bloody fox meat in it. Earlier, when he was chasing the fox, he had simply thrown the five-colored deer halfway along the way. Now, he easily hoisted it onto his shoulder and started walking.

When the two retreated to the vicinity of the forest where they had previously discovered the fox demon, and saw that the five-colored deer they had abandoned earlier was still in the same place, Cui Ying finally relaxed her vigilance.

She sheathed the Yao Guang sword, her right hand drooping weakly.

"Sister Cui Ying, are you sure your injury is alright?"

Zhu Chaoyun's worried eyes revealed a hint of guilt. She felt that she couldn't help and regretted leaving Cui Ying to face the situation alone.

"If you really want to make amends, go over there and pick a spiritual herb that can accelerate the healing of my wounds."

After glancing around, Cui Ying pointed to Zhu Chaoyun, who had been hesitant to speak.

She found a clean rock to lean against and rest, with Ta Xue still standing vigilantly beside her.

Is it that one?

Following the direction Cui Ying pointed, Zhu Chaoyun indeed saw a bunch of vine-like spiritual plants growing in the cracks of the rocks.

"Huh, how come I didn't see it just now? That's strange."

But he patted his chest and said proudly, "Don't worry, Master, I'll take care of this."

Knowing that he could also help Cui Ying, Zhu Chaoyun ran to the crevice in the rock and began to dig.

After applying the sap made from the crushed vines to Cui Ying and seeing that her wounds were indeed healing at a visible speed, she began to grumble somewhat resentfully:

“Cui Ying, really, why did you insist on us leaving? If Ta Xue and I were here, we could at least have held back that Gale Tiger, and you wouldn’t have been so badly injured.”

Cui Ying naturally didn't mention that Zhu Chaoyun was almost scared out of her wits. Instead, she stared thoughtfully at a patch of green leaves in front of her and said:

"Do you see that shrub with its large, fleshy leaves?"

"what?"

Zhu Chaoyun was taken aback, not expecting Cui Ying to suddenly care about a few ordinary, unremarkable shrubs.

"Go, take out their cores."

"what!?"

Zhu Chaoyun's eyes widened in disbelief, completely baffled by Cui Ying's intentions.

"That's a heart-clearing herb; its core is a relatively common medicinal herb."

After hearing Cui Ying's explanation, Zhu Chaoyun suddenly understood.

He circled a pale yellow shrub with thick stems and broad leaves, which was only as tall as his chest, and after confirming that there was really nothing unusual about it, he asked curiously:

"Is there really a miraculous medicine hidden in the core of a tree?"

Cui Ying nodded, a hint of undisguised joy on her face:

“That’s right. It seems that this patch of heart-shaped grass has not been discovered yet. It should be what that fox demon was guarding.”

She remembered that although the price of the heart-clearing grass was not expensive, a whole heart-clearing grass could be exchanged for dozens of spirit stones.

Moreover, there were quite a few water chestnuts in front of them; apart from the seedlings that had not yet grown, there should be thirty or forty plants that were over ten years old.

That is, more than a thousand spirit stones.

The fact that these seedlings are still here means that the water chestnuts here are inexhaustible.

This is not a heart-clearing herb, but a sparkling spirit stone!

"Row!"

Upon hearing that he could exchange it for spirit stones, Zhu Chaoyun immediately rolled up his sleeves and prepared to get to work. He deftly pulled out the stem of the heart-clearing grass and quickly peeled out the fluorescent white tree core hidden inside.

"Wow, what a rich medicinal aroma!"

Feeling that the heart-clearing grass in his hand indeed contained a very pure spiritual energy, Zhu Chaoyun became even more energetic. He peeled it for half an hour, then seemed to remember something and glanced at Cui Ying, who was resting with her eyes closed beside her.

"Master, this Heart-Clearing Grass is full of spiritual energy. What do you think would happen if I ate it all? Would I immediately break through to the third level of Qi Refining!?"

Cui Ying opened her eyes, glanced at the water chestnut on the ground, and said, "Water chestnut is cold in nature and has the effects of clearing heat and removing fire toxins, promoting lactation, and opening acupoints."

At this point, Cui Ying glanced at a certain part of Zhu Chaoyun with interest, and couldn't help but shake her head and chuckle.

“⊙﹏⊙”

Zhu Chaoyun instinctively covered her chest with both hands, finally understanding what those female cultivators in the village who couldn't breastfeed ate.

She instinctively shuddered: "Forget it, I don't want to become a genderless monster."

Cui Ying smiled gently and gestured for Zhu Chaoyun to tidy up the water chestnuts on the ground:

"That's about it, let's go back first."

"Okay, let's go down the mountain and go home."