Chapter 66: Clock Flower and Dancing Grass

  Rose and Tian Chenchen recovered, we started acting again. After all, treasures won't fall from the sky, and opportunities won't appear if you don't go looking for them. Walking out of the palace, there were vast forests in all directions, with distant mountains vaguely visible in the distance. We could choose any direction to head towards.

  Not far away, the two brothers saw that the wild vegetables here were very good and thought they must be delicious too. They took action and picked some mushrooms, wild vegetables, and wild fruits. When they encountered medicinal materials for alchemy, they wouldn't let them go either. The four girls saw the brothers' actions and realized that they hadn't eaten anything in several days. Their hunger suddenly increased, so they also started picking. Tian Chenchen and Tian Meigui thought of eating and couldn't help but think of my brother's barbecue, so they left the group to hunt for game. Only Xiaomei and Zhenzhen were left behind. The four of them occasionally chatted a few words to ease the awkward atmosphere.

  For some dishes that are only delicious when fresh and fruits with high nutritional value, the two brothers directly took away the soil together and put everything into my mental space. After all, my mental space is big enough. This, however, caused the frequent sideways glances from the two women beside me. Are these things really so valuable? Otherwise, how could they bear to waste space on these things?

  They didn't ask in the end, and the two brothers also avoided the trouble of explaining. In fact, putting these things inside doesn't count as a waste of space. I found that my mental space has been slowly expanding recently, and those few storms have always existed. The energy generated by the expansion of space is produced by them, and they are the thoughts produced when I sensed the divine soldier's mind for the first time. With this push, I think that if I want to expand my mental space, I can do so by sensing other people's thoughts through introspection, or even just sensing any material with thoughts. Sensing other people's thoughts and consciousness has always made me feel uneasy, afraid of accidentally knowing someone else's secrets. Although it is possible to seal off other people's thoughts, it is very tiring, so there is only one way left.

  As I thought about it, I tried to perceive the thoughts of a tree, and unexpectedly gained something. Although their consciousness is particularly weak, they make up for it with sheer numbers. So I controlled my spiritual energy, picking wild vegetables while sweeping through all the flowers, grasses, and trees...

  An hour later, the two brothers stopped their actions. Firstly, space is always limited, so it's better to leave some room for more important things. Secondly, Rose and Tian Chenchen returned, carrying golden chickens and jade rabbits as their prey. Although they don't love killing animals, people need food after all. The brothers aren't fond of taking lives either, but they're not rigid about it. They just looked for a place with water, lit two fires, and first took out the wild vegetables to sort, wash, and clean them. Some were boiled in a light dish, some in a meaty dish, and some weren't cooked at all. Then they took out pots, ladles, bowls, and knives, skinned and washed the prey clean, added their special seasonings, sliced a thin branch to insert it, and put the roasted meat on the rack...

  The four girls stared unblinkingly as the brothers magically transformed their prey into golden delicacies, praising them nonstop. The brothers demonstrated how to eat it once: wrapping roasted meat in a type of raw vegetable that hadn't been boiled and taking a sip of soup, then eating a mouthful of light dish dipped in sauce. The four girls followed suit, and it was wonderful...

  After a delicious meal, she set off in another direction. Treasure hunting is all about luck, maybe others have passed by without finding anything, but you pass by and find the treasure.

  No, walking deep into the forest, a peculiar flower was discovered - the Clock Flower. There were over ten of them, with no one getting more than two or three. According to the Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist Cultivation Scripture:

  The clock flower is an evergreen, climbing plant that grows in tropical rainforests. It seems like this place is a tropical rainforest, no wonder the towering trees block out the sky. Its flower shape resembles the dial of a clock, so it's called "clock flower". The clock flower is yellow, and every time it blooms, around 7 o'clock in the morning when the sun rises, the flowers bloom, and around 6 o'clock in the afternoon when the sun sets, the flowers close. Each small flower does this every day, and it takes about a week for them to wither.

  The most amazing thing is that this plant does not rest or be late, as steady as the moment on a clock. It is a symbol of being "down-to-earth". People who own this flower often spend a lot of time thinking before making a decision, which is its greatest function. Cultivators plant it in their practice rooms to calm their minds and effectively avoid getting distracted or restless.

  Several girls who had received the clock flower furrowed their brows, as they currently didn't have any specialized space for storing living things. The storage devices for living things were far more precious than ordinary ones and generally had smaller capacities. I could only help them store it first, and they didn't ask where my living thing's storage space came from. My brother and I exchanged a subtle nod.

  Finally walked out of the forest, over a mountain, to a hilly open field, where there are shrub forests everywhere. Also in the mountain valley shrubs at an altitude of nearly 1,000 meters, I encountered a rare plant - dancing grass, also known as jumping grass, lover's grass, windless automatic grass, sentimental grass, elegant grass, and courting grass, etc., with no idea how many varieties there are. The entire mountain valley has two or three plants at intervals of some distance. Several girls were excitedly bouncing around, which made me wonder, according to the Confucian, Buddhist, and Taoist alchemy chapter, isn't dancing grass just a material for refining elixirs?

  My brother smiled and told me about the details of this grass from memory, what a great luck to encounter such an interesting plant, it turns out:

  Desmodium adscendens is on the verge of extinction, a perennial woody plant in the genus Desmodium of the legume family. It loves sunlight and grows into small shrubs. The height of potted plants is about 70-100 cm, while that of ground-planted ones can reach 1.5-2 meters. Each petiole has three delicate leaflets. They grow in areas with an elevation of 200 to 1500 meters above sea level.

  On the one hand, ordinary dancing grass, when the temperature is above 25°C and under the stimulation of a 70-decibel sound, two small leaves around the middle large leaf "dance automatically", hence the name "dancing grass", giving people a fresh and mysterious feeling. Therefore, many girls like this thing, it is a born dancer, girls can learn from her.

  On the other hand, the leaves of the dancing grass have a natural dancing characteristic. If the years are long enough or if they gain spiritual intelligence through some opportunity, they will become a beautiful and charming woman who can dance. Therefore, kings and nobles often bid high prices for this thing to appreciate it. Even ordinary dancing grass is an excellent material for making bonsai, with extremely high ornamental value, and also has medicinal health value.

  All parts of the plant can be used as medicine, with the effect of removing stasis and promoting new growth, relaxing muscles and activating collaterals. To some extent, it can treat old injuries and internal injuries; using fresh leaves to soak in water and wash your face can make your skin smooth and white, which is also one of the reasons why women love her. Of course, in the hands of the two brothers, wisdom has brought out its greatest effect, but that's not what we're talking about for now.

  Such a good thing, of course, has been studied and cultivated. People have found that if the light is stronger or the sound wave vibration is greater, the speed of the dancing grass will be faster until all the leaves droop down and close at night to sleep. Every time the sun sets, when the night falls, the light weakens, with a difference from the daytime light, the sponge body contracts, and the leaves droop down, closing tightly on the branch.

  Again, for cultivation, the method of sowing and breeding is adopted. First, choose a piece of land with sufficient sunlight, which is the primary condition for the full growth of the dance grass. Then sow the seeds, water them after sowing, cover the surface with a thin layer of moist fine soil or fine sand, and generally germinate within 5 days, and seedlings can emerge in about 10 days; when the first true leaf appears, transplant, and when there are 5-6 leaves, they can be transplanted into a nutrient pot or planted. Young seedlings are usually planted in October-November and can bloom from January to early April of the following year. When planting, choose dry, loose, fertile soil with good air circulation and sufficient sunlight.

  The above is the experience summarized by predecessors, but as a cultivator of immortality, the two brothers naturally have methods to make it grow quickly, which will not be mentioned for now.

  No wonder the four girls were so happy, and they didn't slack off either. They carefully dug up the soil and put it into my spatial space. With several people working together, we harvested over a hundred plants, which wasn't a small gain at all. At first, the girls thought my space was full, but it turned out that my space was like a bottomless pit, and no matter how much they added, it could hold it all. The girls were even more curious, but they were also very wise and didn't ask any questions.

  Fortunately, this time the clock flower and dancing grass obtained did not have powerful magical beasts guarding them, possibly because these things are useless to magical beasts.

  This space should have no night, always daytime, people get treasures, and morale is greatly boosted. Without knowing fatigue, the treasure hunt journey begins again...