Chapter 083: Impurities' Elite Seek Collection and Recommendation

  Sun Baicao said so, making Li Wenjun feel relieved. He had not misjudged the person after all. Sun Baicao knew that he had killed the county official, yet he was still able to think for him and help him find a precious horse, which showed that Sun Baicao was a man who valued loyalty and righteousness.

  Li Wenjun waved his hand and said, "Uncle Sun, there's no rush to find Ma. I have a place to hide. To be honest with you, this time I not only killed Wu Qi, but also the son of the prefecture governor and the general of the Broken Army Marquis. The three of them joined forces to harm me and rob my merits. If I didn't kill them, they would have killed me. I had no choice but to do it."

  Sun Baicao was a good citizen, his face turned green, his lips stuttering, he didn't know what to say.

  Li Wenjun continued: "The situation is very serious, I plan to leave for a while. Your family has a close relationship with me, and I'm afraid it will implicate you. Uncle Sun, are you also taking Auntie Sun and Jia Ning to avoid the storm? You're a medicine collector, your footprints are all over San Shan, finding a place where people can't find you should still be relatively easy."

  Sun Baicao had a hint of movement, but immediately shook his head and said: "It's hard to leave one's hometown, my family, relatives, and friends are all here. Suddenly leaving here is still unbearable. Moreover, your words are just speculation, can the Marquis of Broken Army and the Governor-General really vent their anger on me just because they can't find you? Do they still want to follow the law?"

  Li Wenjun was about to persuade again, but Sun Baicao raised his hand to stop him and said: "Of course, your concerns are not unreasonable. Tonight, I will arrange for Jianing to leave and let him hide from the wind in a distant place. As long as he is safe and sound, whether we leave Sanshan County or not is not a big deal. Wenjun, Uncle's temper is a bit stubborn, you don't need to persuade him, I have my own plan."

  Li Wenjun sighed, he knew that it would be useless to persuade him further. He took out a cloth package he had prepared earlier and handed it to Sun Baicao, saying: "Uncle Sun, this is my little intention for you. You're not letting Jianing go to another place? This will be his capital for starting a business in the outside world."

  As soon as the bundle was lifted, it made a clinking sound inside. Sun Baicao judged based on experience that there must be silver inside. He reached out to take it and said, "I won't take it, I'm sure you wouldn't feel at ease either. Alright, I'll receive it on behalf of our family's Jia Ning. Wen Jun, this time you're leaving, don't know how long you'll be gone for. Uncle only has one sentence to see you off: take care!

  Li Wenjun nodded heavily and bowed his hands towards Sun Baicao before turning around and walking away.

  Sun Baicao watched as Li Wenjun disappeared into the distance, and this time he opened the bundle to find ten gold ingots inside, a total of one hundred taels. He looked up again in the direction Li Wenjun had gone, thinking to himself: "Wenjun, you are a celestial master who has treated our Sun family so generously. We Suns may not be well-read, but we know the principle that 'a gentleman will die for one who knows him'. Rest assured, I will take care of everything you have entrusted me with and see it all through to completion."

  Li Wenjun hastily left the county town and rushed to Wufeng Mountain. He had already planned to go back to that cave left by Wang Yonggui, where the terrain was secluded, far from human habitation, with no shortage of food or water, making it a good place for seclusion and self-cultivation.

  The next day at noon, Li Wenjun rushed to the cave and carefully checked it. The mechanism traps he set before leaving were not triggered, and the marks he made in the hiding place were still there. In the few days since he left, no one had come here.

  It's no wonder that Wang Yonggui has more experience in escaping and hiding than him, and the place where he hid must be a place where ordinary people can't find. Last time, Li Wenjun wouldn't have found this place if he hadn't been searching for herbs all over the mountain.

  Li Wenjun entered the cave, washed a clay pot, and put it on a tripod made of three thick branches. He lit a fire and boiled water to drink.

  While waiting for the water to boil, Li Wenjun took out all the medicinal herbs that Zhang Jianjie had given him. He needed to sort them out first and mix them according to the formula of Qi Gathering Powder. After mixing well, he could then decoct the medicinal soup and start his cultivation.

  After configuring twenty doses of medicinal herbs, Li Wenjun carefully wrapped up the remaining herbs and put them away. He drank some water and then started to decoct the medicine, preparing to simmer it. He poured the configured medicinal herbs into a sand pot, took out the wild ginseng, cut off a small section of root fibers and put them into the sand pot as a guide, and poured in clear water. He repeated this process twice.

  Li Wenjun had already thought it out on his way up the mountain. In order to increase his strength faster and speed up his training, he couldn't be satisfied with his previous cultivation method. He decided to change his original approach from "twice a day, one dose at a time" to "twice a day, two doses at a time".

  After a long time, the two medicines were all boiled into medicinal soup. Li Wenjun jumped into the water pool in one corner of the cave and blocked the water pool and the outside with cloth. Then he poured the medicinal soup into the water pool.

  Li Wenjun sat cross-legged in the pool, starting to cultivate. When he activated his Long Spring Skill, a loud rumbling sound was heard as the surging spiritual energy and miscellaneous energy mixed together, charging towards him.

  At this moment, Li Wenjun had a feeling that he was standing under the waterfall, and the water flow of three thousand feet was hitting him hard, as if to crush him into pieces.

  Li Wenjun had used two medicinal soups for cultivation at the same time before, but compared to this time, that was somewhat childish.

  This time was different, whether it was the main medicine or the auxiliary medicine, they were all carefully selected by Zhang Jianjie from his many years of accumulation, and were top-grade goods, which were the finest among the medicinal herbs, with sufficient medicinal properties. Unlike Li Wenjun's self-collected medicinal herbs, which had different growth periods and uneven medicinal properties, the medicinal guides were even more so, one was only a hundred years old, while the other was a full three hundred years old, differing by more than just one grade.

  The characteristic of Jiqi San is that it serves as a medicinal guide, the older the year, the better the quality, and the more it can bring out the efficacy of the principal and assistant medicines. A 300-year-old wild ginseng is enough to bring out all the efficacy of the principal and assistant medicines, leaving almost no residue.

  However, using 300-year-old wild ginseng as a medicine guide has its drawbacks. Apart from thoroughly activating the medicinal properties, it also activates the impurities contained in the main and auxiliary medicines.

  The higher the quality of medicinal herbs, the more they mean sufficient efficacy and fewer impurities, but these impurities are few and refined. Just like the official soldiers eliminating bandits, those who can escape the official soldiers' layered defense and repeated encirclement are basically the elite among the bandits. The same is true for the impurities contained in medicinal herbs, which have been eliminated by the efficacy of the herbs during their growth process.