Chapter 042: Hunting (Medium)
The two continued to move forward, Li Bangcang was able to slow down the gastrointestinal peristalsis and blood flow, and the hunger was still bearable. And Zhang Jiabao is in the period of growing his body, he has not eaten for a long time, and he feels a burning feeling of hollowing in his abdomen, and he has begun to feel dizzy.
In order to find food, the two of them did not care about revealing their whereabouts, holding torches to polish their eyes and search for all moving objects.
"I heard from Master that the powerful monks of ancient times did not eat fireworks in the world. Li Bangcang sighed, "Wouldn't it be wonderful to cultivate to the ninth turn, become an immortal, be at ease in the holy land of bliss, and live forever." ”
Heaven did not give them fireworks on earth, and the continuous distance of seventy or eighty miles seemed to be a place of extinction, and not a single toad was found.
"It seems that the creeping monster may have inadvertently climbed up through the underground exit, could it be that it is lost and starving like us. Li Bangcang thought to himself.
"Senior brother, let's take a rest. Zhang Jiabao sat on the ground with his buttocks, only to feel that his feet were swollen, his legs were numb, his buttocks were sore, his head was dizzy, and his throat was dry and itchy. The water in the gourd had already been drunk by the two of them.
"Good. Wait a little further and the four-legged lizard will also go east, and maybe it will be encountered again. Li Bangcang said, "Don't talk about kindness and compassion when you see it, you have to eat meat to have the strength to go back." "The way back is nearly one hundred and fifty miles, and after two days of trekking without water and food, my physical strength can barely hold on, but my junior brother can't. Hopefully, the monster is starving to death on the road, or it will take a lot of effort to clean it up.
Zhang Jiabao was so hungry that his eyes were half-open and half-closed, and he was about to faint. Li Bangcang was very anxious, poured his true qi into his palms, and dug into the hard soil on the ground. The soil pit was dug a meter deep, and finally God had mercy, found a half-foot-long earthworm, and hurriedly sent it to Zhang Jiabao's mouth, "Come, junior brother, open your mouth." ”
Zhang Jiabao, who was in a state of mind, opened his mouth with half-squinted eyes, and vaguely saw a writhing long worm rubbing on his lips, and suddenly felt nauseous, and the acid water in his stomach gushed upward.
"Senior brother, roast ...... Let's take a look. ”
"When it's baked, it's out of moisture. Li Bangcang frowned.
Zhang Jiabao just shook his head.
Li Bangcang roasted the earthworm slightly with his finger fire, and Zhang Jiabao then opened his mouth, and his front teeth split the earthworm in two, and swallowed the half-cooked meat inside with the urge to retch.
"You can eat some too. ”
"Senior brother's stamina is much stronger than yours, you can eat them all. Li Bangcang stuffed the other half into Zhang Jiabao's mouth.
After eating this little bit of meat, Zhang Jiabao felt even more uncomfortable in his stomach, and really wanted to tie his stomach tightly with a cloth bag rope. He looked at the eyebrow stick made of bush branches, and bit it down, leaving two rows of tooth marks. It's just that after a mouthful of addiction, this thing keeps biting, can't chew it, and can't digest it.
"Gotta find something to fill my stomach. Zhang Jiabao stood up and beckoned Li Bangcang to dig grass.
Holding torches, the two stared at each other and found a bush of relatively lush plants between the two rocks. A handful of rock-foot grass looked verdant, reminding Zhang Jiabao of a long-lost leek. Among them are a few strange flowers that stand out from the crowd, with thorns on their stems, and purple petals as large as butterfly wings, about eight or nine pieces each. There is a round white velvet in it, like a throne in the lotus, which is very extraordinary.
Zhang Jiabao didn't even have the strength to pull out the weeds, so he asked Li Bangcang to help get it out, remove the mud on it and start chewing.
It's chewy, it's bitter, it's astringent. In the past, when there was meat to eat, they also often ate grass, because it was easy to get tired of eating the same kind of meat all the time, and they had to eat vegetarian food to wash their stomachs. Now that I haven't eaten for two days, my taste buds have become very sensitive, and this bitter grass makes Zhang Jiabao very difficult to swallow, so he came up with the idea of those purple flowers.
"Don't eat it, the species of this flower is unknown. Li Bangcang dissuaded. The receptacle of this purple flower is bulging, and ordinary flowers are not so big, so I am afraid that there is something strange.
"It's fine. Zhang Jiabao pinched off the head of a purple flower, put a petal into his mouth, chewed a few times, some juice oozed out, and the taste was okay. After eating the petals, I twisted the white velvet and saw a yellowish slurry under a few stamens.
I sniffed it, but I couldn't smell anything. Zhang Jiabao was so thirsty that he drank the receptacle liquid.
"It's so sweet! Senior brother, taste it!" Zhang Jiabao said excitedly.
Li Bangcang licked his lips and tasted it without resisting the temptation. It was indeed very sweet, silky and delicate in his throat, which reminded him of the texture of roast knife wine, and he couldn't help but take another sip.
After eating a few flowers, Zhang Jiabao randomly stuffed some grass into his mouth, and the two cheered up and continued on the road. The flower pulp seemed to contain a lot of energy, and the two of them felt refreshed as they walked, and their bodies eliminated the feeling of fatigue and felt light.
After another walk, a dazzling light appeared in front of me.
"Is it sunshine?" Zhang Jiabao said in surprise.
"No, it won't. Li Bangcang shook his head, "It may be an exit from the abyss, go and see." The two quickened their pace.
"It's the sun!haha, it's the sun!" Zhang Jiabao laughed excitedly. Unexpectedly, this hunt was bittersweet, and I accidentally found the exit of the abyss. The entrance to the cave behind him was dark, and on the opposite side of the hill where the cave entrance was located was the bank of the mother river of the Drinking Sky Waterfall. The sky was clear, and the sun was shining, casting a little golden light on the river. Zhang Jiabao was so excited that he wanted to cry.
Suddenly, I saw a lonely thin back on the shore, and turned to look back, but it was Cao Xiaoxiao, my own mother who thought about it day and night!
"Mother!"
I almost couldn't believe it, and then I was overjoyed, Zhang Jiabao burst into tears and rushed to Cao Xiaoxiao, "Mother, is it you? I miss you so much......"
"Silly boy, of course it's me. Cao Xiaoxiao touched Zhang Jiabao's face kindly, "You finally came out, I have been thinking about you all the time for most of the past six months." Your father, your godmother and Naiya and I all moved to Xichuan Prefecture just to wait for you. ”
"I'll never leave you again!" Zhang Jiabao wiped his tears with the back of his hand, and suddenly remembered something, "...... Where's my brother?"
"He wants to continue to guard the abyss and not come out for the time being. Cao Xiaoxiao smiled, "Come, let my mother hug me and go home with my mother." ”
"Oh. Zhang Jiabao was relieved and obediently attached to Cao Xiaoxiao's embrace......
Li Bangcang also walked out of the cave, and saw that the master was sitting in a circle of cultivators, with a golden light on the surface of his body, and there was a hidden immortal qi turning.
"Master, why are you here?" Li Bangcang was incredulous.
"The teacher has borrowed the power of a thousand godheads to break through the shackles of the Nine Turns Immortal Cultivation Road, and is about to receive the ninety-nine eighty-one thunder tribulations and become immortals. Wulai Zhenren's expression was indifferent, and his every move was full of otherworldly aura, "Come, come here as a teacher, and teach you the true method of cultivating the truth for the teacher." In this way, you will not be angry with those villains of the Dragon and Tiger Sect, and in time, you will also be able to meet with your teacher in the Xuantu Heavenly Realm. ”
"That's great. Li Bangcang was pleased, and then hesitated a little, "But the underground under the abyss ......"
"Don't pay attention to it, everyone in the world has their own destiny. If a catastrophe really occurs, the heavenly realm has its own immortal gods to intervene. ”
"Although it was against my heart, I was liberated. Li Bangcang nodded, and walked towards the real person step by step. Something seemed to be forgotten, he thought as he walked. Hey, what about my junior brother?
"No, you're not a master!" Li Bangcang suddenly woke up, bit the tip of his tongue, and as soon as blood came out, the illusion in front of him turned into nothingness. There was no light or hole, and there was still darkness all around. A thick cloud of yin qi surrounded the two of them, and Zhang Jiabao beside him had dull eyes, his arms were open, and his face kept rubbing to and fro.
"Ghost, die!" Li Wancang untied the gourd on his waist, pulled out the stopper, and pointed his mouth at the gloomy mist, injecting his true qi into it, and reciting an ancient incantation. I saw that the bottom of the gourd was visible through the wall, forming a rune array, causing the gourd to produce a hurricane-like invisible suction, and the black fog was collected in it between breaths.
"Mother, why are you gone? Where are you?" Zhang Jiabao was still running around crying.
"Heart, fixed. Li Bangcang tapped his finger at his seal hall, which allowed him to regain his clarity.
"Don't eat indiscriminately in the future, that purple flower has a hallucinogenic effect, so that the yin qi gathered by these broken beast souls can take advantage of it. If I hadn't seen through the illusion just now, we would have been drained of our souls and both killed. ”