At one o'clock in the morning, the entire palace garden seemed to be quiet. Li Jiangnan quietly got out of bed, came to the door, and first pricked up his ears and listened to the movements in other rooms.

He secretly breathed and transported his true energy to his ears, so that he could greatly improve his ear strength with the help of the spiritual energy in his body.

He could hear the sound of the servant muttering in his sleep in the room not far away, or the symmetrical and long breathing of Hirakawa Hachiro in the room downstairs.

Li Jiangnan estimated that Hirakawa Hachiro had already fallen asleep. People who practiced for many years would be like him. Once they fell asleep, their breathing would be extremely stable and lengthy. With high-quality sleep, the body's energy would recover faster than ordinary people.

However, Li Jiangnan did not hear Yumiko's breathing sound. It is estimated that this place should not be Yumiko's residence. Yumiko and Aprika Hanako did not live in this building.

After confirming that there were no obstacles outside, Li Jiangnan secretly relaxed the true energy in his body and no longer controlled the acupuncture points in his body, allowing his appearance to return to Li Jiangnan's original appearance.

Because he went out in the middle of the night, he was essentially like a thief. He was exposed to the face of "Li Laanjiang", and it would be bad if someone discovered it.

It’s better to be more cheerful and be a thief against Li Jiangnan’s true face.

But he was even more careful and deliberately changed into the night-sport black clothes he brought in private, then masked with a black towel, and brought some iron nails to protect himself. Then he gently pushed open the south window and jumped out.

In the quiet courtyard, there was only the sound of gurgling water from the towers and water pavilions. Li Jiangnan first hid under the rockery, identified the direction he was going to move, and then quietly drilled into a bamboo forest.

Before entering the palace, he spent a lot of time studying the map. He knew very well that the sacred mountain forbidden area, which is essentially equivalent to the Royal Cemetery, is located in the northwest corner of the inner courtyard of the Royal Palace.

To go from the courtyard where Hirakawa Yasuo is located to the forbidden area of ​​the Kanshan Mountain, you need to go south first and bypass the most vigilant residence of the Emperor, before you can take the way west, pass a garden in the inner garden of the palace, and finally reach the Kanshan Mountain in the northwest corner.

For safety reasons, Li Jiangnan sneaked all the way, and it took more than half an hour to travel ten miles.

After arriving at the foot of the sacred mountain, Li Jiangnan avoided the gate of the guardhouse and climbed over the high wall lightly, and entered the sacred mountain without knowing it.

Li Jiangnan accelerated his action and hurried up the mountain along a bluestone road. As he saw along the way, the road was surrounded by ancient trees that had been known for many years, and the large-scale royal cemetery hidden in the deep mountains that could be seen by chance.

Li Jiangnan came here not to rob the tombs. He was not interested in the treasures in the royal tombs. All he wanted was herbs, and it must be herbs that grew in the caves of mountain turtle.

To find something like the divine turtle grass, you must first find the mountain turtle. Li Jiangnan has done detailed research in advance and has a certain understanding of the habits of wild mountain turtles.

Wild mountain turtles are basically nocturnal animals and will only go out to the cave to feed at night, and when it is almost dawn, they will return to the cave.

If there are pools and lakes in the mountain, it is the favorite foraging site for wild mountain turtles, because there are often small fish and shrimps in the water, which can provide a lot of business for wild mountain turtles.

With this understanding, Li Jiangnan knew what to do. He needed to find a place with water in this vast sacred mountain.

Li Jiangnan was wandering around the mountains and forests for a while, and soon he heard the sound of gurgling streams. He followed the direction of the water and looked over. In a slightly flat place, he saw the gurgling streams, flowing down the cliff wall, forming a small pool of water.

The surroundings of this small pool are full of rocks. There is also a natural hot spring with a gurgling hot spring in the pile of rocks on the left. Li Jiangnan was not interested in hot springs and flew directly past them, then squatted in the mud by the pool and searched carefully.

After carefully looking along the edge of the pond, he found the claw marks left by the turtle in the mud bar. Then he looked at the pond water, thinking in his mind: It seems that the place is right.

There must be turtles coming out of the cave to find food in this pool. I just don’t know if there are old turtles with a lifespan of more than 500 years.

Li Jiangnan couldn't stand waiting for the turtles to find food before returning to the cave slowly. He ran to the cliff where the stream flowed, picked up the pebbles beside the pond, and threw them into the pond one by one.

Thump, thump, sounds sounded, waves surging, Li Jiangnan lay behind the huge rock, hiding his body, paying attention to the situation in the pool.

Agitated by more than a dozen stones, the turtles in the pool did not dare to stay in the water anymore. After waiting for more than ten minutes, the turtles in the pool could no longer hold their breath, and they tried desperately to slash their claws, moving towards the shore beside the pool.

The first ones came out of the water were all small turtles, and there was a large group. Although they were very small, they were extremely flexible in their movements. They swam to the shore in just a few seconds, and then their limbs quickly passed through the piles of rocks and disappeared into the grass.

The larger old turtle was following behind the little turtle. Li Jiangnan took a rough look and said, "Good guy, the information is correct. The old turtle in the sacred mountain is so big that it is even a few old turtles, which are more than the largest turtle Li Jiangnan has seen with his own eyes. I don't know how many hundred years old it is.

Li Jiangnan held his breath and was patient, staring at the largest turtle. Judging from the size of the turtle, it was estimated that it would have a lifespan of at least five hundred or even thousands of years. At this time, it had not yet arrived, so it was swam to the shore without any rushing or slow.

‘Keep your breath, don’t disturb it, follow it quietly, find its nest, and then find the spirit tortoise grass in one fell swoop…’

Li Jiangnan warned himself to be careful and careful. Old turtles are far more alert than those little turtles. If they alarm it or make it sense danger, they might shrink their heads into their necks and never crawl again after death, so they would not find the turtle cave.

But at this moment, there was a sound of people running on the bluestone road from the side of the pool, in the direction of the mountain road.

The rapid footsteps seemed particularly abrupt in the quiet night forest. The old turtle in the shallow water was about to go ashore. He probably heard the footsteps and turned around without hesitation. He even dived into the bottom of the water with a thud and refused to come out again.

‘Damn, my turtle!’

‘Which psychopath is this? What are you going to the mountain so late?’

Li Jiangnan watched the old mountain turtle hide in the water, and was so angry that he kept cursing.

At this time, under the misty moonlight, a woman in the palace dress ran from afar, looking flustered and running in a hurry. She didn't know what she wanted to do when she ran up the mountain alone.

Li Jiangnan hid his figure and peeked secretly. He saw the woman in the palace dress heading straight to the hot spring beside the pool, then took out a small paper bag from her sleeve, pulled it to pieces in a hurry, and sprinkled all the white powder inside the paper bag into the hot spring.

After doing this, the woman in the palace dress turned around and ran away. It should be because she was too busy. The woman accidentally fell into a pile of rocks. However, she didn't care about the pain at all, and got up, enduring the pain and continued to run down the mountain, as if she would run a little slower and she would die.

Li Jiangnan thought about it, but couldn't figure it out. What did this woman want to do in a sneaky way?

In the middle of the night, a woman didn't sleep, and she ran secretly to Lingshan, where only ghosts could appear, and she even threw a pack of powder into the hot spring in a panic. What kind of monster are you doing?

After the woman in the palace dress ran away, Li Jiangnan leaned out from behind the big stone, tiptoed to the hot spring, and squatted to observe.

There were still some white powder left on the stone beside the hot spring that had not been melted by the heat. Li Jiangnan looked at his finger and sniffed it with the tip of his nose.
Chapter completed!