Chapter 041: Hunting (I)
On this day, the two finished their work, sat around the bonfire, and Zhang Jiabao ate meat. Li Bangcang saw that his face was ruddy, and his skin was faintly glowing.
"Looks like you're almost halfway through. ”
At this time, if there is a strong person in the Yuan Infant Realm here, he can observe the subtlety in Zhang Jiabao's body. The essence of the acquired essence flows into the kidneys through the Yin meridian of the Foot Shao, like rain falling on the mountains; it is precipitated through the transformation of the kidneys, and it shines out and travels to the Ren vein, like a river making up the ground; and forms a cloud of pale green light that is ready to move in the Guan Yuan acupoint under the umbilicus, like the earth waking up. This green light separates wisps and melts into the blood, like sprinkling grass into a plain, like gathering trees into a forest, nourishing the veins and organs of the whole body, which is the innate essence.
The innate essence takes root in the meridians, and if the desert becomes green, the acupuncture points around the body will gradually be stimulated with vitality and vitality, which in turn will accelerate the absorption, dissolution, transformation and fusion of the acquired essence. And so on it forms a wonderful cycle.
When the functions of the Yongquan Acupoint, Kidney Meridian, and Ren Pulse are fully developed, this green light will become more and more refined, and the color will become darker and darker. When a certain amount is reached, a qualitative change will occur, and the lotus of the essence will bloom. The higher the grade of the lotus, the higher the flexibility, flexibility, and coordination of the body, and the more toned the body will be.
However, Zhang Jiabao can't see the inner changes, and only when he reaches the Moon Gazing Realm can he look inward with his divine sense. Although he was too old and missed the best opportunity to get started with cultivation, it was not without benefits—his comprehension of the study of meridians was not comparable to that of children, and his cultivation was twice as effective with half the effort. Moreover, his physiological growth is slower than that of ordinary people, and the Yongquan Acupoint is not too closed, so he may have a chance to reach the level he should in the Lotus Realm.
At this point, it is inevitable that something distressing and shameful will happen. Practicing often, Zhang Jiabao's "Little Ding Ding" will shake and stand up, and has no choice but to stop and recite the meditation trick to let it sleep. Li Bangcang told him that this is a good thing, which means that the qualifications are gratifying.
"Let's see if we can handle the toothstick. Li Bangcang wanted to try Zhang Jiabao's strength, he practiced the basic skills for half a year, the ligaments in various parts of the body have been opened, and there is a certain strength, it is time to learn martial arts.
Zhang Jiabao was full of confidence in himself, and he grabbed the tooth stick with both arms, but he only insisted on two or three breaths and threw it on the ground.
"When I was your age, I could already carry two hundred pounds of things. Li Bangcang shook his head.
"If you give me a pig now, I can pick it up...... Hey, brother, don't you think this tooth stick has changed color?" Zhang Jiabao squatted on the ground and watched, "And it seems to have hardened." ”
Hearing him say this, Li Bangcang really felt that it was. The two milky white toothsticks were pale red when you looked closely, and they used to be slightly concave when you pressed them with your fingers, but now they were as hard as trees. Could it be the reason for seeing blood? Li Bangcang was thoughtful. The bequest of a thousand sticks is really good, and in the future, let the tooth stick see more blood and see what changes it has.
Since Zhang Jiabao couldn't hold a tooth stick, Li Bangcang couldn't use it to teach Zhang Jiabao martial arts, so he had to find some thicker bush branches and splice them together, and tie them into short sticks with rags.
The Dragon Tiger Sect's attainments in martial arts are not high, but they are not too low. The world's martial arts originated from the fist, the world's weapons began with the stick, Li Bangcang taught the dragon and tiger boxing method and the dragon and tiger stick method to Zhang Jiabao. A stick, chopping and sweeping and blocking pokes, skillfully not fighting, the demon saw and hidden. Zhang Jiabao is now a small and weak force, and this stick method is also a good choice.
After practicing for two months, Li Wancang said: "If you don't see blood, you have no courage, it's time for you to go to actual combat." "In fact, the amount of food for two people gradually made this area unbearable, and the armored rats were scared of being caught, and they became more and more cunning and difficult to catch. The two of them plan to go farther away to forage for food, so that the armored rats can live a carefree life and reproduce the next generation, and then come back to eat rat meat......
Leaving the familiar territory, it is as strong as Li Bangcang, and he has to cheer up his spirit. The place where it was before was the place where the thousand branches died, and the blood of the ancient divine beasts flowed, and no matter how strong the fierce beasts were, they didn't dare to invade. The waterhole where they used to stay was not far from there, so it was safe and sound. Now that it's out, it's unknown what creatures you'll encounter.
The two of them did not use torches to light the way, and kept walking in the dark, and they talked very quietly along the way. What I am afraid of is being attacked by wild beasts, and both sides are in the dark, which is better than being in the dark with wild beasts in the dark.
Go all the way to the east. If it were on the surface, the sun and the moon would move with the footsteps of people, but the long arc that split the sky seemed to be eternal and still.
After walking fifty or sixty miles on the first day, the armor-clad rats that would jump in front of them if they were not careful before were becoming more and more rare, and Li Bangcang felt that they had reached the edge of their range of activities. It's just that why don't they expand their survival territory, is there a new species in front of them? So where did these species come from? The bottom of this abyss is too unpredictable, maybe one day a fierce monster emerges from the ground, or even crawls out of the abyss, it will be a disaster for the Dakang Empire.
Zhang Jiabao carried a large bundle of dead branches, and when it was so dark that they couldn't see anything, the two of them stopped, lit a bonfire, made sure that the surroundings were safe, and took turns to keep vigil and slept for two or three hours each. After waking up, I continued to set off, it was still dark, and I could see the road after all.
After walking for a long time, there was no trace of the armored rat at all. I wonder if there are any other creatures hiding in the shadows to observe them, at least not with their eyes. However, Zhang Jiabao never dared to walk against the rock wall or bushes, because once he sat down by a low tree to rest, and when he fell asleep, he felt a stuffed thing crawl from his shoulder to his neck. At that time, he was drowsy, and he grabbed the thing in his hand and tried to throw it away, but when he half-squinted, he saw that it was a spider with green eyes and a fat body the size of a spoon.
He was half dead of fright, and a spiriter threw the spider away. Fortunately, the spider didn't bite him, and walked slowly on his stout eight hairy legs. That feeling of close contact with spiders, Zhang Jiabao still gets goosebumps every time he thinks about it. From then on, whether he was looking for wild vegetables or berries, he would first use a torch to probe for them.
Now that he remembered the appearance of the spider again, Zhang Jiabao shivered again. "Calm down, calm down, this thousand branches in my hand may be the ancestor of you multi-legged monsters, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's all your own people......" he comforted himself.
"Quack—"
I felt sick when I stepped on the soft mud on my feet. Zhang Jiabao regretted very much that he didn't come out in those tattered shoes, and he always felt that there were insects drilling into the cracks of his feet when he stepped on the mud with his bare feet, even if he didn't actually think there was one in his head. In the past, in Zhangjia Village, it was common to see villagers farming in paddy fields barefoot, with two or three fat blood-sucking leeches hanging on their calves.
"Senior brother, wait for me. Zhang Jiabao cried and mourned, and rubbed the mud on it with stones with his feet.
"It's still dry here, the soil is compact, why didn't I step on the mud?" Li Bangcang squatted down curiously, inserted his fingers into the mud, put it in front of his nose and sniffed, "It's not mud, it's a piece of thin shit, fresh and hot." ”
Sniffed it again, and added, "The creature that pulls this piece of, eats meat." ”
"Huh?" Zhang Jiabao's expression became even more unnatural. This pile of pulls more than he pulls, and more than his senior brother, and he has to have very capable intestines to hold such a large amount of. The intestines can hold the body must be big, and the animal does not like to hold the, will not wait for the to sink before pulling, sometimes somewhere let it rise, will squeeze a little out of the intestines to make a mark...... Doesn't that mean that there is at least one carnivorous animal in the vicinity that is larger than a human being?
"Are you cold?" Seeing Zhang Jiabao shivering, Li Wancang asked. The outside world is estimated to be in the middle of winter, and although the abyss is far from the ground, the temperature has also dropped.
"Senior brother, I'm afraid of ......" Zhang Jiabao shrunk his neck, his eyes staring left and right, as if the creature that had become hungry after would jump out and eat the two of them in the next second.
"Senior brother has even seen a thousand divine objects as big, how can he be afraid of this beast?" Li Bangcang frowned and thought about it, it should be the thick yin qi near here that invaded his mind, so he said: "Tie the 'Lin' character seal and recite the nine-character mantra." "Although the three treasures of junior and junior are not complete, and it has no effect to use them, it is still possible to stabilize your mind.
In fact, Zhang Jiabao, a creature that is too big, is not afraid, because he has spirituality and can be reasonable. I'm afraid that kind of beast with a huge body and unenlightened mind only cares whether the stomach is hungry or not, and whether the things in front of you are good or not.
The handprint came out, and after reciting a few words of "Soldier Fighter", Zhang Jiabao really felt less afraid, his blood seemed to be mobilized, and his body was hot. Holding the simple wooden stick in both hands, he gradually settled down.
"Keep walking. Li Bangcang carried two thousand teeth on his shoulders and led the way in front of him calmly. He was afraid that he would not meet wild beasts, so he went out to hunt this time, and he had to feed these two weapons. Judging from the lump of dung just now, this beast was at most as big as a calf, and with his strength, it could easily deal with it.
"Gollum-" After walking for a while, Zhang Jiabao heard the sound of his stomach drumming.
"Senior brother, are you hungry?"
"I'm hungry too. Li Bangcang said, the two of them haven't eaten for a day. After a pause, he asked, "How could it be so loud?"
"Not me...... Be careful!"
A long, flat black shadow suddenly emerged from the crevice in the rock behind Li Bangcang's side, opening its mouth to attack his calf.
As soon as Zhang Jiabao's words fell, Li Wangcang's eyes were quick, and he jumped up on the ground, which could be dodged. Riding on it with the momentum of the fall, he raised his tooth stick and pestled it into the mouth, and at once made it honest. The roof of the mouth was smashed and sunken, and the mouth was fixed and could not be opened at all. The limbs and tail writhed and struggled, and the nostrils "hummed and snorted".
Zhang Jiabao raised a fireball in his hand, and under the firelight, he saw that the monster and its tail were four meters long. It resembles a lizard, its head is more than half a meter long, the distance between its eyes is greater than the diameter of a basin, its yellow eyes are larger than that of a cow, and its pupils are small and glowing. The skin on his body looked extremely hard, covered with bumps of flesh that came out of transparent mucus, and Zhang Jiabao was terrified for a while.
"Come here, hit it in the head with this, beat it to death. Li Bangcang threw a tooth stick to the ground. If you want to be a real man, how can you not kill.
Zhang Jiabao walked up, he was a little scared, the fireball went out and rose another one to strengthen his courage. The creature seemed to be unafraid of fire, its eyes glowing fiercely, its body shaking, and the air from its nostrils could blow the sand on the ground. However, under Li Bangcang's suppression, he couldn't move.
"Come on!" Li Wancang leaned a little sideways to give Zhang Jiabao room for "execution".
"Fighters, fighters...... Amitabha, Amitabha Buddha ......" Zhang Jiabao held a tooth stick against his right shoulder with both hands and smashed it into the monster's head. Brother, I'm sorry, let's be a grazing eater in the next life!
The monster's pupils shrank, and he actually relied on the power of his forelimbs to knock Li Bangcang down and straighten his body.
The bloody mouth was wider than Zhang Jiabao's shoulders, and the two rows of yellow giant teeth were like small cones, dripping foul-smelling saliva. There is no doubt that if you bite it, your body will immediately break in two! Zhang Jiabao was so frightened that he threw away his tooth stick and instinctively crossed his arms to protect his head.
"Senior brother!" Li Wangcang, who was thrown to the ground, was shocked, it was so close that it was too late to rush up to save him!
Zhang Jiabao's heart was blank, waiting to die, but there was no pain for a long time. Looking through the slit in his palm, the monster closed its mouth, landed on its forelimbs, and turned away. Before leaving, he opened his mouth and let out a roar at Li Bangcang.
"Is this intimidating me?" Li Wancang said in amazement. He was a little afraid, but he didn't expect that this monster would have the strength of a thousand catties when it broke out, and his own trust almost killed his junior brother.
Li Bangcang wanted to chase the monster with a toothstick, but Zhang Jiabao, who was pale, grabbed it, shook his head and said, "Don't chase it." It must have felt something in the palm of my hand to spare my life, or I would have died a long time ago. Qianzhi's face is really big enough, the monster's mouth was knocked down, not only did he let him go, but he didn't retaliate against Li Bangcang.
"Are you hungry?" asked Li Wanchang.
"Hungry. Zhang Jiabao smiled weakly, "It spares my life, we can't eat its meat." Let's go find something else. ”