Beast Taming: I gained the talent of a spirit pet

Chapter 17: Trampling Iron Shoes, Finding Nothing! Then Suddenly Discovering It!

The "Compendium of Spiritual Herbs" listed various spiritual herbs with illustrations and descriptions.

This surprised Gu Yuan:

"This 'Compendium of Spiritual Herbs' records information on many spiritual herbs, even touching upon basic knowledge of alchemy and artifact crafting. It's extremely valuable to ordinary people and even ordinary martial artists. It seems this item is definitely not a family heirloom of Shopkeeper Xu; he or his ancestors must have obtained it from somewhere."

"However, this is just convenient for me."

His eyes gleamed:

"With this, after I become a medicine gatherer for Jade Cauldron Pavilion, I can naturally use it. Relying on this book, I should be able to gain many advantages over others when gathering herbs."

After flipping through it a few times, Gu Yuan was about to close the book and leave.

Suddenly, his gaze froze, and he saw a somewhat familiar pattern on one of the pages.

It was clearly the few special Yellow Jing plants he had seen on the hillside outside the Cloud Dream Mountains!

[Hundred-Year Yellow Jing]

Grade: Ninth-Grade Spiritual Herb

When ordinary Yellow Jing reaches a certain age, it often spreads its plants, forming a 'Yellow Jing Field'. The oldest Yellow Jing, after passing its hundred-year lifespan, can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and the essence of the sun and moon, to become a spiritual herb. It has the effect of nourishing yin and tonifying yang, replenishing essence and qi, and can be used as an auxiliary medicine for some spiritual pills. After five hundred years, the Yellow Jing will grow purple纹, becoming an Eighth-Grade Yellow Jing, with even stronger effects.

It should be noted that Hundred-Year Yellow Jing emits a strange fragrance, which can attract centipede-like demonic insects to guard it. It is necessary to use rooster blood to lure them away.

"Use rooster blood to lure them away? Good, good, good! Truly, trampling iron shoes to find nothing, then discovering it without any effort!"

Gu Yuan was quite surprised:

"I was worried about not finding a way to deal with that demonic centipede, but I actually found it here."

He carefully looked at this introduction, and a sneer gradually appeared on the corner of his mouth:

"That old thing surnamed Xu probably suspected that I had discovered a Yellow Jing Field and was targeting me because he had read this book. Hmph, truly, heaven's sins can be forgiven, but self-inflicted sins cannot be escaped!"

When Gu Yuan returned home, the sky had already completely darkened.

However, as soon as he arrived at his doorstep, his keen sense of smell detected two somewhat unfamiliar scents.

"Someone has come to my house?"

A trace of vigilance rose in Gu Yuan's heart. He opened the door and discovered that, in addition to his parents, there were two more people in the house.

One was a middle-aged woman with a haggard face and thin body, her eyes still somewhat red and swollen, and the other was a child of about seven or eight years old.

These two were obviously a mother and son, and Gu Yuan also knew them. They were Widow Sun from the same village, and her son, Sun Zhong.

Last year, Widow Sun's man went into the mountains to hunt, but he didn't know what kind of wild beast he encountered. When he was discovered, half of his head was gone, and most of his stomach had been emptied.

Fortunately, Widow Sun still had a son, so she wasn't completely left destitute. Although life was difficult, there was still some hope.

However, even so, Widow Sun, a woman, still had to raise her son, and life was obviously not easy.

This could be seen from the worn-out clothes on the two, and even their sallow and thin appearance.

Seeing Gu Yuan, Widow Sun paused, obviously a little afraid. The hand holding the cloth bag subconsciously hid it behind her, and she forced a smile:

"Ah Yuan is back."

Gu Yuan seemed not to see her small movements, and greeted her naturally: "Hello, Auntie."

"Hey, hello."

Widow Sun was obviously stunned for a moment, as if she hadn't expected that Gu Yuan, who was rumored to be a fierce and evil person, was actually quite kind. She quickly patted her son's head: "Hurry up and call Brother Ah Yuan."

The child held Widow Sun's hand and hid behind her, not daring to say anything, only daring to look at Gu Yuan through the gap with his bright eyes.

"This child!"

Widow Sun touched his head, but didn't say much. She bowed her head and thanked Gu Yuan's mother repeatedly, then bid farewell and left.

After the mother and son walked away, Gu Yuan looked at his mother and asked in confusion: "Mom, what's going on with this mother and son..."

"Ah, they came to borrow food."

Gu Yuan's mother sighed and shook her head:

"The harvest wasn't good this year. After paying the rent, there wasn't much food left for the mother and son. Until yesterday, the rice jar at home was already empty."

"Just now, the mother and son were kneeling at the door, wanting to ask our family to lend them some food."

"These two have probably been wandering around the village for a day, and finally it's our turn, but at this time of year, which family has surplus grain?"

Gu Yuan smiled and asked knowingly: "Then you didn't lend it?"

Before Gu Yuan's mother could speak, his father, Gu Dashi, chuckled and teased: "Don't you know your mother? She has a knife mouth but a tofu heart. She's unforgiving with her words, but how can she bear to see such a thing happen?"

Gu Yuan's mother glared at Gu Dashi, but didn't say anything. She just sighed: "What else can I do? It's so cold, if I don't lend it, am I really going to watch these two starve to death?"

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"Besides, even if I'm soft-hearted, it's only for certain people. If it were some ungrateful wretches, I would have scolded them away long ago. This Widow Sun isn't that kind of person, so it's right to help her."

Since Gu Yuan broke the hands and feet of Dong Gui and Sun Er half a month ago, Gu Yuan has become the most unprovocable fierce person in the village. Rumors have spread in the village that Gu Yuan often goes into the mountains to chop firewood and carries it to the city to exchange for money.

Therefore, it wouldn't attract the attention of others if the Gu Yuan family had food.

The old couple called Gu Yuan to eat, and the two chatted about daily trivial matters.

"Hmm?!"

Gu Yuan turned his head and glanced in the direction where Widow Sun and her son had left. The sky outside was dim, and the figures of the mother and son were no longer visible, but Gu Yuan felt a little surprised and uncertain in his heart.

Just now, when Widow Sun and her son passed by the Ironfang Rat Ah Huang, who was hiding in the dark, a trace of fear actually came from Ah Huang, and it was not known whether it was directed at Widow Sun or the child Sun Zhong.

Animals often have more sensitive senses than humans.

In Gu Yuan's previous life, when earthquakes occurred in some places, some rats, cats, dogs, and snakes could often sense the abnormality and show various reactions.

The Ironfang Rat, a special breed of rat, naturally goes without saying!

It's not surprising that it can detect certain abnormal situations.

Therefore, Gu Yuan didn't think it was Ah Huang's illusion.

There must be something strange about this mother and son!

The matter of Widow Sun borrowing food was ultimately just a small episode.

The next morning, Gu Yuan carried a bamboo basket and entered the Cloud Dream Mountains.

This time, he was prepared to get rid of that demonic centipede!

More than half an hour later, Gu Yuan arrived at the hillside where he had previously discovered the Yellow Jing.

Standing on a mountain rock, Gu Yuan looked at the few spiritual herb Yellow Jing plants not far away.

Now the weather was cold, and even the leaves of those Yellow Jing plants that had grown for decades were somewhat yellow and withered, but these few spiritual herb Yellow Jing plants were still growing well, with green leaves, and were not affected in the slightest.