Chapter 3: The Giant Rat
The secret that he could understand the beast language was discovered by Ye Zhen a few months ago.
Ye Zhen himself didn't know what was going on with Lu Dao, anyway, one day a few months ago.
It was about a certain day around the time when Ye Zhen's cultivation broke through from the early stage of his cultivation to the middle of his training, and after Ye Zhen finished his evening class, he felt that his cultivation was improving slowly, and he was in a hurry, and he couldn't sleep, so he ran to a nearby mountain to breathe.
While pondering, all of a sudden, he understood the chirping of the little beasts in the mountains and forests, and at first, he was so startled that he thought there was something wrong with his ears.
After carefully studying and pondering for a few days, Ye Zhen was sure of this - he was able to understand the beast language.
Whether it was the sound of a squeaky mouse, a humming boar, or even a roaring tiger, Ye Zhen could understand their meaning as long as he listened carefully.
At first, Ye Zhen just thought it was fun when he found out that he could understand the little secret of the beast language.
Whenever Ye Zhen was upset because of his slow improvement in cultivation, he would calm down and listen to the sounds of mice, lynx, foxes, and even snakes nearby.
The somewhat silly meaning they expressed sounded quite funny, and it always made Ye Zhen's mood lighter.
But half a month ago, Ye Zhen was bored at night, and accidentally came to the mountain in front of him, and when he heard the conversation of a pair of mouse brothers living under the mountain rock, he gave Ye Zhen a hint of inspiration.
made Ye Zhen suddenly realize that his little secret of solving the fun might really be able to bring him something.
Every night at this time, when Ye Zhen arrived at this mountain, he could always hear the pair of rat brothers discussing going to a certain place to eat delicious food together.
The delicacy of mice naturally did not have any attraction to Ye Zhen, but when Ye Zhen poked his head one night and saw the size of the pair of mouse brothers who went out of the nest to have a good meal, he was stunned.
Giant rats!
Huge rats!
A large rat a meter long, a little bigger than a bobcat, with a long rat tail as thick as a child's arm, and a pair of front teeth like bladed weapons, glittering in the moonlight.
What stunned Ye Zhen even more was that because he stepped on the door of the rat nest, the pair of rats actually attacked Ye Zhen. The iron branch pine that Ye Zhen picked up casually was bitten off by the pair of mice.
Rat teeth are as sharp as knives!
Ye Zhen was completely shocked.
In his opinion, the appearance characteristics of the pair of rats are definitely the most ordinary, ubiquitous gray mountain rats, and the general body size is very good when it grows to the size of an adult's palm.
But now, it has grown to nearly a meter long, and it looks extremely terrifying and demonic.
There's quirky, there's definitely quirky.
After listening quietly to the conversation between the rat brothers for a few days, Ye Zhen discovered the strangeness of the rat brothers, that is, they must go to eat a so-called delicacy every night, and they can't be shaken.
Ye Zhen faintly felt that the fact that the two rats were so huge might be related to the food they went to compete for every day.
That kind of food may be some kind of natural treasure.
Only the legendary treasures of heaven and earth can make this pair of gray mountain rats with extremely ordinary blood grow so huge and almost become fierce beasts.
As soon as he thought of this, Ye Zhen couldn't help but feel excited.
When I was a child, I had heard that many poor boys had inadvertently picked up the treasure of heaven and earth, and Ye Zhen, who was rich overnight, or died because of wealth, or became a big master overnight, naturally understood the value of this treasure of heaven and earth.
Even in the Qiyun Sect, the Heavenly Treasures are also very precious things, unlike the herbs used to make the Blood Yuan Soup, which are all grown by the miscellaneous disciples.
Ye Zhen is not stupid, so he naturally wants to follow this pair of mice to find this kind of natural treasure.
At the same time, this discovery also made Ye Zhen realize that he could understand the little secret of beast language, and maybe it could really bring him extraordinary gains.
It is precisely because of this discovery that Ye Zhen insisted when he faced his father and mother during the day today.
One is to stick to his childhood dream of crossing the sky, for his father's wishes, and second, with this little secret that no one else has, he can't be idle and wasted, right?
One year of cultivation in Qiyun Sect made Ye Zhen clear that the cultivation speed, in addition to being affected by the bloodline talent, had a lot to do with whether he could have a large amount of cultivation resources.
And now, Ye Zhen may be able to obtain cultivation resources that others don't have because of this little secret.
After discovering the secret of the rat brothers, Ye Zhen would come to the mountain rock above the rat hole every night, listen to the voice of the rat brothers, and then follow them.
However, the speed and agility of beasts in the mountains and forests were comparable to Ye Zhen, a martial artist who practiced blood.
Every time he tracked this pair of mice, Ye Zhen always ended up with a loss.
However, Ye Zhen is not stupid.
After more than ten days of tracking, Ye Zhen had roughly judged the range of the rat brothers' activities, which was within ten miles of this mountain rock.
Moreover, after so many days of tracking, Ye Zhen's own search has excluded many places, and now there are only two or three directions left.
Ye Zhen estimated that even if he lost it again, he would be able to use the elimination method to find the nightly destination of the rat brothers within a few days.
Squeak!
With a rat cry, two giant rats with rat hair on their backs standing up like steel needles appeared under the mountain rocks and disappeared into the iron pine forest.
The figure flickered, and Ye Zhenmao quickly followed.
This first part of the road, Ye Zhen has already memorized it, but he is not afraid of losing it, and after more than a hundred breaths, the sound of the huge rat claw stepping on the needle disappears steeply.
Walking quickly to a forest col, Ye Zhen's face changed, and he lost it again.
This forest col extends in all directions, and it can lead to all directions, and every time, Ye Zhen is lost here.
However, Ye Zhen did not panic, because these days, Ye Zhen had searched for several directions where the giant rat might escape, and now, there were only three directions left to investigate.
There are three directions, one is a ten-meter-high cliff on the edge of the forest col, one is the stream on the left side of the forest pass, and the other direction is the towering trees in the forest pass.
In these three directions, the creek has been ruled out by Jiang Cheng, because Jiang Cheng has never found traces of water on the giant rat.
All that was left were the cliff and a dozen towering trees in the forest col.
Ye Zhen first looked at the dozen or so towering trees in the forest col, and then shook his head, it was impossible there, and it was too difficult to search.
However, this ten-meter-high cliff is very likely to hide heavenly treasures, but including this cliff wall, as well as the bottom of the cliff, Ye Zhen has searched once, but he has not found any traces.
After thinking about it for a while, Ye Zhen looked for a suitable place again, and slowly climbed towards the cliff wall, today, he came prepared.
Ye Zhen seemed to be a big spider, his hands and feet were clasped on the cliff, moving slowly, his eyes shining with fine light, just in the moonlight, constantly searching on the cliff wall.
Fortunately, with a one-year penance in Qiyun Sect, Ye Zhen was able to climb this cliff very casually, otherwise, even if Ye Zhen knew that there were heavenly treasures here, he could only look at the cliff and sigh.
Suddenly, Ye Zhen's eyes lit up suddenly, and on a slightly protruding stone tip on the cliff, he saw a gray-black giant rat paw print, and Ye Zhen's expression suddenly became pleasantly surprised.
"Found it!"
In order to track the whereabouts of the pair of giant rats, Ye Zhen did not put a lot of effort into it.
He specially burned a kind of plant ash that is not easy to wipe off, and sprinkled it within a few meters of the entrance of the rat hole a few days ago.
In this way, as long as the giant rat comes out of the hole and steps on the dirt, it will leave a gray-black rat paw print wherever it passes.
Ye Zhen observed that the giant rat jumped down, and the distance was about three or four meters, and after seeing this rat's paw print, Ye Zhen immediately searched within four or five meters of it.
After a few breaths, Ye Zhen saw a faint paw print on a moss, which disappeared in the middle of a protruding rock.
After searching for a long time, Ye Zhencai's eyes widened suddenly, and he found a gap covered with moss.
At night, the moss was gray-black, and the cracks in the mountain rocks were also black, if it wasn't for the empty grip with one hand, Ye Zhen wouldn't have been able to find this gap.
The gap is not big, but it can also allow Ye Zhen to pass through.
The height of the giant rat was about the same as the width of Ye Zhen's body, so whether he could pass this point, Ye Zhen was not too worried.
Cautiously walking through the gap for dozens of meters, when a foul smell suddenly came from his nose, a natural cave that could accommodate one person appeared steeply.
The scene in front of him also instantly stunned Ye Zhen.
A crystal clear stone pillar like the tip of a bamboo shoot, half-hanging at the end of the cave, exuding a faint light, shining like a treasure.
The tip of the stalagmite was covered with water, and it seemed to be able to seep out at any time.
On the rock below the tip of the bamboo shoot, there is a small pit the size of an egg dripping from the water, but it is empty.
The rocks are surrounded by the bones of all kinds of wild beasts.
Some have been completely weathered into white bones, some are still in a semi-decomposed state, and there is a snake corpse, a fox corpse, all of which look relatively fresh, as if they have been dead for a few days.
However, without exception, the corpses of the snake and the fox were covered with traces of rat teeth.
At this time, the two giant rats that Ye Zhen had chased and lost were stretching out their short crimson tongues, waiting intently for the water that seeped from the tips of the crystal clear stalagmites.
The sound of Ye Zhen stepping on the white bones of the beast instantly alarmed the two giant rats waiting for the stone liquid to drip on the stalagmite tip.
The two giant rats turned around in an instant, their rat tails exploded like whips, their front teeth flashing with cold light slammed into each other, and their crimson eyes stared at Ye Zhen deadly.
Chirping!
In the unusually piercing rat cry, the two giant rats jumped up violently in the air, baring their cold and shining front teeth, and pounced on Jiang Cheng from left to right.