After Li Jingwei went ashore, he changed into a wetsuit. By the time everything was cleaned up, it was about ten o'clock in the evening.

Monkai took out the food he had brought and placed it on a simple three-legged table, filling the table. There are not only local noodle dishes in Xinzhou, but also cooked beef, cooked mutton, marinated dried tofu, tea eggs, etc. In the end, Meng Kai actually took out a bottle of liquor. It can be seen that he is really not happy with alcohol.

The sac is handmade from local barley flour in Xinzhou, and each one is about the size of a washbasin. Because the dough is kneaded very thickly during the cooking process, the sac is very chewy after roasting, and it is not easy to spoil, which is the best food to satisfy hunger during the expedition of the Tianshan Mountains.

The unique flavor of the sac is mixed with the aroma of beef and mutton, which immediately makes people's appetite move. The three of them no longer had any courtesy, sat around the table, and feasted.

After eating, considering that Li Jingwei had been underwater for nearly 6 hours, it was estimated that he was tired, and he would have to go into the water tomorrow, so the three of them didn't talk much anymore, and went back to their tents to rest.

After Li Jingwei returned to the tent, he tried to recall what happened underwater again, but he still had no clue about what happened in the middle of the period, and he couldn't remember what happened.

He simply lay down, tried to run Tai Chi True Qi, closed his eyes and meditated, to see if he could enter that wonderful state again. What he didn't expect was that it was unexpectedly smooth. He quickly got into that state, feeling as if his body was floating lightly, in an ethereal realm.

The Tai Chi True Qi in the body is like condensation like water, flowing rapidly in the body, constantly washing every inch of Li Jingwei's bones, every muscle, and every piece of skin.

I don't know how long it took, in this ethereal state, Li Jingwei fell asleep, but the Tai Chi True Qi in his body was still circulating over and over again.

"Yi Chuan" has a cloud: "Yi has Taiji, it is to give birth to two yi, two yi to give birth to four elephants, and four elephants to give birth to gossip." Therefore, Taoists believe that Wuji gives birth to Taiji, and Taiji gives birth to Liangyi. The two instruments here refer to yin and yang. Everything has yin and yang, and so does the hour.

In ancient times, people divided a day and night into 12 hours: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai. There is a saying in "The Wings of the Analogous Scripture" that "the son is born at the beginning of the yang", which means that the child is the beginning of the six yang hours.

At midnight, yin and yang change, and yin begins to turn into yang.

If Li Jingwei and the others were observing next to the cold pool of the Tianshan Mountains at this time, they would definitely notice that the water in the pool, which was originally as calm as a mirror, began to fluctuate slightly. Slowly, the fluctuations began to grow, and the surface of the pool began to ripple, rippling from the middle to the sides. Later, the water in the pool actually rolled as if it were boiling. The strange thing is that with the tumbling of the pool, there is no sound.

Suddenly, the pool was calm again.

After a moment of calm, a snake's head the size of a basketball slowly poked out of the water, dragging its body as thick as a bowl mouth, and swam towards the northwest yin position.

The snake is golden all over, and under the stars, it glows with forest scales from time to time.

This is exactly a red flame snake. The Red Flame Snake grows extremely slowly, and judging from the size of this Red Flame Snake, I am afraid that it has survived for thousands of years.

According to ancient records, the Red Flame Snake is a variant of the ancient mythical beast beetle snake. According to legend, the snake became a beetle after a thousand years of cultivation, and a dragon after a thousand years of repair. The beetle snake is a fierce beast of fire, and in legend, its image is a large snake entangled in red fire. Like the beetle snake, the red flame snake is also a kind of supreme yang thing.

As the most yang thing, the Red Flame Snake needs the most cold thing to suppress its own yang energy. This red flame snake is dormant in this cold pool, which is also the reason. After thousands of years of cultivation, after accumulating its own Yang Qi to a critical point, the Red Flame Snake needed a chance to survive the Heavenly Tribulation. If there is no chance to survive the Heavenly Tribulation, the Qi of the Extreme Yang cannot be suppressed, and it will eventually explode and die.

This Red Flame Snake was a female snake, and it was already time to lay eggs.

However, due to the fact that his own Yang Qi has reached its limit, but there is no chance to cross the Heavenly Tribulation, he needs to suppress this cold pool qi, so he cannot leave the cold pool, and can only enter a state of suspended animation.

In the evening, when Li Jingwei entered an ethereal state in the pool water, his Tai Chi True Qi was running, inadvertently mobilizing the Yang Qi of the Red Flame Snake and the Yin Qi of the Tianshan Ice Spirit. Under the harmony of yin and yang, the Tai Chi true qi in the body began to extract these two supreme yang and supreme yin qi for their own use.

After Li Jingwei extracted a large part of the Red Flame Snake's Yang Qi, it temporarily dropped below the critical point, and it would not explode and die again. In this way, this red flame snake finally had a chance to wake up.

After the Red Flame Snake wakes up, it urgently needs to find a place to lay its eggs. So, after coming out of the pool, they crawled towards the northwest yin position, looking for a cave where the snake's eggs could hatch.

In a cave in the northwest of Longji Ridge, a group of people who looked like an expedition were resting against each other. There are two men on guard at the entrance to the cave.

One of them seemed to have just woken up, and was blown by the wind and suddenly felt a little cold. He tightened his shirt and scolded: "It's fucking unlucky, Lao Tzu was woken up on duty as soon as he fell asleep." Little Liu, do you have any cigarettes?"

The man called Xiao Liu smiled: "Brother Leopard, stop scolding, it's useless to scold." In pairs, they take turns, and everyone has to be on duty. When you're done, go back to sleep. ”

As he spoke, he took out a cigarette from his pocket, took one from his mouth, handed another to the other party, and at the same time helped the other party light it.

The guy named Brother Leopard took a hard puff of his cigarette, spit out a cloud of smoke, and said, "Little Liu, you kid can think about it." ”

"What should I do if I don't want to open it? Brother Leopard, you teach me. Xiao Liu also said helplessly: "We are not team leaders, and we are not the lives of hard work." ”

Brother Leopard glanced back at the cave, lowered his voice and said, "What do you say this team leader does? ”

"I heard that he is looking for a dragon and exploring the cave to catch the wrong door, and he is still a master. The boss paid a lot of money this time. When he said this, Xiao Liu's voice was also a little lower.

"Damn, I didn't expect it to be a guy who lacks virtue like digging graves. If you follow such a person to Tianshan, I am afraid that you will be unlucky. Brother Leopard took another puff of his cigarette and scolded.

"Shhhh Xiao Liu hurriedly said, "This day is very evil on the mountain, and a lot of strange things have happened. I heard that our boss's father came here to find some treasure, but he never went back. The boss brought us here this time, and nine times out of ten, it was for this. ”

"Don't scare me, I'm very timid. Brother Leopard said with a deliberate laugh.

"Damn, believe it or not. Xiao Liu said angrily. As soon as he finished speaking, he saw him looking behind Brother Leopard in amazement, and the cigarette that was originally in his mouth fell to the ground.

Brother Leopard saw Xiao Liu's appearance like this, and scolded: "You're fucking stupid, don't smoke for me, and don't throw it away, okay?" and then didn't forget to laugh, "It doesn't matter if you don't give it to me, what if you smash the flowers and plants around you?"

Xiao Liu ignored Brother Leopard completely, and began to tremble all over, and said with some slurred words, "Snake, snake ,....." Then the whole person collapsed to the ground.

Brother Leopard also seemed to sense that something was wrong, and he kicked hard with his right foot on the ground, and his body rolled out to the left. His body was in the air, and he didn't forget to slash out with his right hand behind him.

Brother Leopard's series of actions reacted quite quickly. However, while his body was still in the air, he felt as if his body had been swept by a thick tree trunk and slammed into the stone wall at the entrance of the cave. After landing on the ground, he screamed, his chest collapsed, and Qiqiao bled to death.

Xiao Liu on the side was already scared of feces and urine, completely incapacitated, and watched a big golden snake with a thick bowl mouth crawl past him and crawl towards the cave.

Seeing that the ten-meter-long body of the big snake was about to submerge into the hole, Xiao Liu was secretly a little happy in his heart, and he wanted to climb into the distance with a shudder.

But before he could get up, he saw the tail of the snake that had been dragging on the ground rolled, rolled him up and the leopard brother on the ground, and dragged them towards the hole. The huge squeezing force instantly rubbed the two of them to broken tendons and fractures.

The sound from outside the cave woke up a group of people in the cave from their sleep, especially the scream of Brother Leopard, which echoed in this gloomy cave, making everyone feel creepy.

There were a few quick reactions, and they had already the guy in their hands, and the bright big knife emitted a cold light under the reflection of the firelight.

As the brief sound passed, a golden serpent appeared in front of them, its scales even more eerie and terrifying in the light of the fire.

Seeing this scene, everyone was stunned for a while.

A man who looked like a boss was the first to react and yelled, "Quick, rush out." ”

This cave is not deep, but there is a stone wall at the other end, which is impassable. If you want to escape, you can only rush out of the hole.

At this time, the others also reacted and rushed towards the entrance of the cave. It's just that before he rushed to the front of the giant snake, he saw the tail of the giant snake flash, and two black things smashed towards these people, and it was the corpses of Brother Leopard and Xiaoliu.

Several people couldn't dodge and were hit head-on, and the wolf cried in pain. Two others were actually stoned to death on the spot. Among those who were not hit, a few were so frightened that they cried out.

Then, without waiting for any reaction from the group, the serpent rushed into the crowd. In a matter of moments, the cave became a living purgatory, full of broken limbs, and no one was spared.

The serpent came to the deepest part of the cave, and as its body twisted, fifty or so snake eggs rolled to the ground. By the time the eggs were laid, the serpent seemed to be seriously injured and wilted. With some difficulty, it crawled to the spot where the corpses of the group were scattered, devoured some of the bloody limbs, and then crawled on the ground, motionless.

After about half an hour, the serpent slowly crawled out of the cave as if awakened from a deep sleep, rolling up the boulders and dirt scattered around the cave and sealing the hole. Then, disappear into the night.