novelraw Chapter 322 - 195: Only Half a Medicine-Seeking Fox
Chapter 322 - 195: Only Half a Medicine-Seeking Fox
"In our Yaochi Holy Land, we have a secret technique to improve synchronization rate. Let me tell you about it now..."
Huang Sitong stared wide-eyed, feeling her eyes grow drowsy.
Her high ponytail wasn’t as perked up, and her raised eyes drooped down.
At this moment, the old lady pulled out a bottle of medicine from her bosom.
"This is something I just concocted, it tastes like the cola from your world. Drinking it can refresh your mind and slightly enhance your mental acuity. Drink it."
Huang Sitong took the medicine bottle, unscrewed the cap, and for a moment, it was like seeing the bottle of six walnuts her mother handed her during her sprint for the college entrance exam.
She drank the medicine in one gulp, shook her head, tossed her braid, and felt refreshed anew.
Then she heard the old lady nagging.
"The disaster isn’t over yet. The Ancient Immortals in the present world, for the most part, are former Fallen Immortals!
"The hope of our Yaochi Holy Land rests on you!"
The old lady’s expression was very solemn.
Huang Sitong, however, didn’t feel much of it... She only felt the Ancient Immortal Master’s words were light and weightless.
Was it implying that she should be a savior?
"What about the heirs from other holy lands? What about the heirs of the Celestial Palace?"
The old lady shook her head and frowned.
"Who knows if there are even any heirs from other holy lands?
"Maybe they’ve already been taken over by Fallen Immortals?
"Or perhaps they haven’t even connected to the present world?
"We can’t control them, just make sure you study well, cultivate well, train well, and bear the burden you should!"
The sound of footsteps arose; it was an Ancient Immortal in the guise of an old man, walking across the vast grassland from afar, holding a White Jade Radish and a small Living Thorn Cactus.
"Good luck today, found two useful herbs! Hahaha!
"I’ll go plant them, so Sitong can use them later."
This old man was Huang Sitong’s second Ancient Immortal Master and one of only two remaining Ancient Immortals in Yaochi Holy Land.
He and the old lady had clear divisions of labor, with the old man responsible for finding and planting medicinal herbs.
The old lady was responsible for teaching Huang Sitong, imparting knowledge and skills.
Finding herbs was no easy task, the old man bent at the waist, his face full of exhaustion, his forehead sweating. Yet, he couldn’t take a break, heading straight for the nearby medicine field to carefully plant the herbs.
Huang Sitong still remembered when she first came to the dream, the medicine field was only as big as a house. Now, with the old man’s gradual cultivation and daily planting, it had already reached the size of a school playground!
The old lady smiled.
"Stop staring, cultivate well!
"All the resources in this relic are yours!
"Even his old hoe is yours, my potted cactus is yours too.
"You are our hope and fire!
"As long as you can grow, all our hard work is worth it.
"Being able to reach the threshold of Sequence Seven in just three short years, with the help of me and the old hoe, you are indeed a genius blessed by the heavens!
"The burden of the Human Race rests on your shoulders!"
A genius blessed by the heavens?
Upon hearing these four words, Huang Sitong puffed out her chest, flicked her high ponytail, raised her eyes with pride.
As for the five words "burden of the Human Race," she heard them, but felt nothing.
...
Beneath the dark clouds, the fierce wind blew, bending the countless grasses on the vast grassland like waves.
In the rustling sound, Big Nose was rummaging through the grass, searching for herbs.
This was extremely hard work!
Its feet were caked with mud.
Its fur stained with grass juice, stuck with some thorny seeds.
Various stimulating smells made its eyes tear up, even causing crusts to form at the corners of its eyes.
"Achoo..."
It sneezed.
But fortunately, there were enough brothers on Fox Mountain! Besides their group, there were a dozen others, all searching for herbs on the grassland. Together, they would surely find some.
Moreover, it was a Medicine-Seeking Fox with a gift!
At this moment, it grinned, sniffed with its nose, and continued to scent-search!
The scents of Ice Horn Pineapple, Star Strawberry, Hot Pus Lizard Tail... It had already smelled these herbs. Now, in the grassland and the blowing cold wind, it twitched its nose, striving to find these smells.
Before long, after circling the area, it furrowed its brows and returned to the Bronze Car.
Loudly shouting!
"Yingyingying, aoooo!"
According to its nose, this area lacked the herbs they were searching for!
In the rustling sound, Black Shoes came crawling back from the grass.
"Ao?"
Nothing?
Black Shoes trusted Big Nose greatly and nodded earnestly.
If there was nothing, then they shouldn’t waste any more time.
Then at that moment...
In the soft rustling sound, White Toe emerged from the bushes, a joyful smile on the fox’s face, holding a round, black Hot Pus Lizard Tail in its paw.
"Ying?"
"Ow?"
The scene was momentarily awkward.
Big Nose looked at White Toe, then at the Hot Pus Lizard Tail in its arms, immediately opening its mouth and drooping its ears in disbelief.
It clearly hadn’t smelled the scent of the Hot Pus Lizard Tail!
But in this area, the plant indeed existed!
It patted its chest, full of lingering fear.
If White Toe had also heard its incorrect shout and given up the search, wouldn’t they have missed this Hot Pus Lizard Tail?
Big Nose touched its nose, sniffed the air, and caught the stink of the Hot Pus Lizard Tail.
With both front paws, it rubbed its chubby head, feeling quite frustrated... How could this medicine-seeking scent talent be so unreliable? Is it trustworthy?
...
The morning passed quickly.
In the canteen, fiery red figures surrounded small stone tables; the whole hall was filled with "ying ying ow ow" in the fox tongue. Black Gloves and Flying Legs ate, chatted, and chuckled mischievously. Peach Blossom Eyes wagged its tail, bragging at each table. Bai Xingxing and Overalls were discussing the difference between driving a boat and a car, sharing their experiences.
Big Nose sat with Black Shoes and White Toe, eating longan rice cakes.
Big Nose was despondent and dispirited.
Its medicine-seeking talent had failed twice this morning!
Twice failed to find the Hot Pus Lizard Tail, once couldn’t find the Wasp Needle Grass.
"Ow..."
Does it really have this talent?
Or was the morning’s discovery just a coincidence?
It lowered its head, took a big bite of longan rice cake, chewed it up, and swallowed.
The longan rice cake was so delicious!
The aroma of the longan was particularly strong, with a faint fragrance of golden rice grains.
It ate with extra large bites, needing food therapy to lift its mood!
...
Bai Mo carried a plate of rice cakes, wandering around the canteen, scanning each disciple with its Divine Sense to check their health.
"Each one is quite robust.
"Except for being chubby, nothing’s really wrong.
"Of course... being chubby isn’t a problem either."
Approaching Big Nose, seeing it despondent, Bai Mo pondered. Considering Big Nose’s physical condition, it likely had a half-awakened or weakened talent, reliable on and off. Not dependable, but occasionally surprising. Actually, that’s quite good already; why is Big Nose still unhappy?
He approached, placing an extra piece of rice cake in Big Nose’s bowl.
"Why the long face?
"Even if talent works occasionally, it’s better than not at all."
Bai Mo rubbed its head.
"Chin up!"
The big-tailed head nuzzled its master’s hand.
"Ow..."
...
The gale blew over the vast grassland, bending the herbs, revealing a fiery red fox among them.
Big Nose sniffed the air, once again puzzled.
Out today, it found two Star Strawberries! But missed another Hot Pus Lizard Tail!
What’s going on?
While pondering, its nose twitched, sniffing the wind for scents.
"Ow?"
What’s that smell?
It shook its head, pinpointing the scent’s origin, sniffing all the way through the tall grass, running towards the source.
Finally locating it, it pushed aside the grass, revealing a golden rice plant with a sparse dozen grains on the head.
Big Nose furrowed its brows, nostrils flaring to catch the rice grains’ aroma...
What kind of scent could rice have?
Even golden rice had a very faint aroma.
But Big Nose could smell it!
A fragrant aroma!
In the longan rice cake it had for lunch, mostly longan flavored, but also a tiny bit of this rice aroma!
Sniffing the rice fragrance, a flash of insight hit Big Nose!
"Ow!"
It lifted its plump head, understanding at last!
It really could use its strong sense of smell to seek medicine!
But... it could only find medicines it had eaten before!
The Hot Pus Lizard Tail and Wasp Needle Grass were both highly toxic! Of course, it hadn’t eaten those, so it couldn’t find them.
Star Strawberries, Ice Horn Pineapples, Dragon Pattern Pears, Golden Rice... it had eaten them all, either raw, cooked, once, or multiple times; as long as it had eaten them, it could find them!