Chapter 88: Circulate Energy
If based on the color of raw jadeite, each color of jadeite represents having different magical effects…
“Hiss——”
This seemingly absurd and crazy idea might be closer to the truth!
Su Ning, who could no longer sit still, hurriedly stood up and rushed straight to the spring water.
She bent down, reached out her hand, and groped around in the spring water, fishing out piece after piece of jadeite until she had gathered all seven colors before stopping.
Blue is for scar removal, which has already been verified; she placed the blue jadeite separately to the side.
Her fingertip tapped back and forth among the remaining six pieces and finally selected the purple one.
These raw jadeites were all about the same size, half a palm-sized oval shape, with smooth surfaces and a delicate touch.
To fully figure out their uses would take quite some time and effort.
She estimated in her heart the time needed to go down the mountain and decided to first take the purple jadeite with her out of the space and study it slowly later.
There were still a few pits on the ground outside left after she dug up the ginseng; she stuffed the purple jadeite in her hand into her pants pocket.
After carefully distinguishing the direction, she picked up the knife and wooden stick and tentatively continued forward.
Away from the soil pit covered with rotten leaves, to the left was a sloping landslide, and to the other side was a steep cliff, with honeysuckle blooming on the cliff edge, yellow and white in color and emitting a strong fragrance.
On the cliff’s rock wall were century-old pine trees deeply rooted in the rock layers, their huge tree crowns forming a unique umbrella shape, and beside the thick roots were a few brownish?
That was… red Ganoderma?!
And those clusters of pale yellow flowers were dendrobium officinale?
Su Ning, who was just casually looking around, was instantly stunned: how had her luck suddenly become like a broken bag, leaking out nonstop, not afraid that she couldn’t hold it all!
Her heart was pounding hard.
If her guess was right, the Peach Blossom Spring Space would not only change after she saved lives, like bountiful harvest, or spring water that eliminates fatigue and heals injuries.
Planting rare medicinal materials of high years also had magical reactions, like raw jadeite suddenly gaining special effects.
Those few red Ganoderma under the cliff, one of which was almost as big as a face basin—how many years old must that be!
She pinched her cheeks hard to barely regain her senses.
“This height… is a bit tricky.”
Ever since the last time at the guesthouse when she climbed through a window and over a wall, she had specially prepared some tools; thinking about it, she took out two large bundles of hemp rope from the space.
If these two bundles of hemp rope were tied together, the length should be enough.
She had once curiously followed Brother Zhang to learn a few special knotting techniques; one kind of knot gets tighter the more it’s pulled, which was very suitable for now.
She first pulled over a few tough grass roots and practiced a few times; only after tying the knots exactly as in her memory did she start knotting the hemp rope.
After tying the knot, she repeatedly pulled and tested it; pulling both sides indeed made the knot tighter the more it was pulled.
Relieved, she tied one end to the largest ancient tree on the cliff edge and the other end around her waist in the same way.
She took a few deep breaths and began climbing down the cliff bit by bit.
……
Only when her feet safely landed on the pine tree trunk did Su Ning realize that her entire back was soaked with sweat, and her hands were uncontrollably shaking and trembling.
She gulped down some spring water from the space; once her body and spirit were restored and invigorated, she psyched herself up and continued toward the red Ganoderma!
With hands gripping the protruding rock wall and feet on the pine trunk, she moved sideways like a crab.
A distance of less than a meter took her a solid ten minutes to shuffle.
Besides picking the largest red Ganoderma, which took real effort to avoid damaging the root, the other smaller ones and that cluster of dendrobium officinale were relatively easy.
After the last dendrobium officinale was stored in the space, Su Ning slowly sat down against the cliff edge, her face unconsciously showing a smile different from before, a thrilling and crazy sense of relief and exhilaration.
She inadvertently glanced back, and her smile froze in an instant——
What was that black hole hidden under the tree crown?!
She stared carefully and looked again, discovering it wasn’t the cave she imagined but a huge bird’s nest; she wasn’t sure in her heart whether to feel disappointed or relieved.
If she could even stumble upon the treasure cave from Xi You’s mouth at this point, she might really worry that this time she would exhaust all her luck at once.
The egg in the bird’s nest was slightly larger in volume than those of other birds; she looked around and didn’t spot the bird mom.
She didn’t know what kind of bird this was.
After recovering her strength, Su Ning retracted her wandering thoughts and prepared to climb back up the cliff in one go using the hemp rope around her waist.
“Crack~”
On the cliff wall with only the whooshing wind, this sound immediately caught her attention.
“Crack crack~”
It turned out the bird egg had cracked, and the little one inside was about to hatch.
A fluffy little head poked out, letting out a very soft chirp.
The little one’s appearance was very cute, making the originally tense Su Ning smile knowingly and relax her emotions; without further hesitation, she began climbing up.
……
More than ten minutes later, she smoothly reached the cliff top; coming up was much easier and faster than going down.
She collapsed at the cliff edge, panting heavily for a while, then hurried back to the space to plant the lingzhi mushrooms without stopping!
She planted the dendrobium officinale and red Ganoderma successively beside the wild ginseng; this time, Su Ning, who was paying special attention, immediately squatted by the spring water the moment she felt the space shake.
The spring water became one degree thicker and more viscous again, but otherwise, there were no other changes.
Was it that the energy hadn’t reached qualitative change yet? Or had it already enhanced the effects of the raw jadeite?
She touched her chin; unable to figure it out, she had no choice but to leave the space with a belly full of questions.
If she delayed any longer, she feared the entire brigade would mobilize to search for her soon.
Su Ning, who was single-mindedly wanting to hurry down the mountain, didn’t know that the jadeite she had placed in her pants pocket was emitting bursts of mysterious purple glow almost imperceptible to the naked eye.
The rest of the way fully demonstrated what explosive good luck meant!
First, wandering randomly led her effortlessly to the correct path down the mountain, then various bizarre meats appeared…
No, various animals delivered themselves in fancy ways.
A rabbit that panicked and crashed headfirst into a big tree; a pheasant flapping around until vines wrapped it tighter and tighter, toppling upside down at her feet; a wild boar fiercely charging toward the giant rock behind her, fully intent on proving its determination for mutual destruction…
Her hands were too full to carry more, so she stuffed them into the space, going from shocked face to numb eyes.
“Bang~”
Another critter delivering itself to the door?
Just from the sound, this thought instinctively flashed in her mind.
“Eh, no.”
She shook her head to shake off these bizarre ideas and lowered her head to look closely.
It turned out her swapping hands motion was too big, and the purple jadeite in her pants pocket had fallen out.
When she freed one hand to bend down and pick it up, a flash of inspiration hit her: could this purple jadeite represent continuous good luck?
The more she thought, the more she felt this idea was right!
However…
Looking at the pile of wild game on the ground, wasn’t this luck a bit too ridiculously good?
“Let’s test it!”
After putting the purple jadeite back in the space, from the foot of Treasure Mountain to the two hilltops, she encountered no more of those bizarre incidents along the way.
When she reached the area where people often moved about and took out the purple jadeite again, the next moment, around a bend—smack—a bush branch greeted her, and she picked up a basket of wild duck eggs underneath!
It really… was good luck!
She rubbed the smooth surface of the jadeite, then put it away again, descending the mountain in a rare daze, limbs moving in sync.
“Ning Bao Gai! Where are you? Answer me quickly!”
“Sister Ning! Sister Ning!”
The shouts echoing in the mountain hollow jolted her back to her senses. “It’s almost dark.”
She quickly glanced at the things in her hand.
She kept one wild rabbit and took out the bamboo basket full of small crabs she had prepared earlier; she stuffed the rest into the space kitchen.
She hurriedly ran toward them while shouting loudly in response, “I’m here!”
“You You sis, it’s Sister Ning’s voice, seems like… seems like on the path toward the back mountain!”
“Let’s hurry!”
Only when they saw her did Luo Shuangshuang’s suspended heart finally settle.
When she quickly stepped forward and grabbed her hand, looking her up and down carefully, she discovered that the person who was fine before now looked like she had rolled in a mud pit.
Her whole body was covered in mud spots. “Ning Bao Gai, did you fall into a ditch?”
“Pretty much.”
“Ah? Which ditch? How did you fall in?”
“Look, it’s all because of this.”
“Wild rabbit?!”
Luo Shuangshuang and her two younger brothers looked incredulously at the gray rabbit in her hand: since when were the rabbits in the mountains so easy to catch?
