The ant was waiting for Ji Buyun in front of the bluestone bridge as promised, and to his surprise, he also brought two people, who were actually Ji Fan and Ji Meng. They wore long swords at their waists, led four horses, and immediately carried a lot of bandaged things, and respectfully followed behind the ants.

"I happened to meet Ji Cheng in the morning, and when I heard that I was going to hunt bears, the two of them followed. Ant explained this lightly.

This made Ji Buyun confused, the ant knew Ji Cheng, but why didn't he say it yesterday? Ji Cheng said goodbye early in the morning and said that he was going back to the Oasis Domain, how did the ant meet him? Ji Buyun was full of questions, but he didn't ask a word, he believed that the ant would give him a detailed explanation at the right time.

Ji Buyun carefully handed over the high priest's reply to Anya and instructed him to hand over the reply to the captain as soon as he returned to the Senate. He could feel that Anya was a little unhappy that he didn't take him to bear hunting, but the water chestnut face was still calm, and he was about to leave with the two horses in a happy way. Ji Buyun stopped him and told him that if the captain allowed it, he could catch up, anyway, his uncle's family had a lot of horses, so he could borrow one, and Anya was very happy when he heard it. After Anya left, Ji Buyun, Ant, and the Ji brothers got on their horses and moved forward slowly. More than an hour later, Anya caught up with him, saying that he had given the High Priest's reply to the captain and conveyed his best wishes. On the way, Anya also happened to mention that when he borrowed a horse from Ji Buyun's uncle's house and passed by the Senate, he heard that the five concursors immediately convened an emergency meeting after receiving a reply from the high priest.

Fuyu Mountain is located in the southwest of Haotian City, with a radius of more than 300 miles, and the Luoshen River flows through its eastern foothills. It belongs to the realm of the gods, and it is rarely visited, and only hunters and mountain pickers who pick mountain goods occasionally come here. When they arrived at Fuyu Mountain, it was getting late, and the ants quickly found a wooden hut built by hunters for everyone to spend the night. The hut is located on a hillside overgrown with low trees and next to a small stream. The Ji brothers and Anya unloaded the things they were carrying immediately, there were a lot of things, quilts, cooking utensils, collapsible bamboo buckets and other daily utensils, these things were finely made, and at first glance they were not owned by the highlanders. To Ji Buyun's slight surprise, in addition to javelins, short knives and other hunting tools commonly used by highlanders, the two brothers actually carried bows and arrows. The highlanders have always disliked bows and arrows, believing them to be opportunistic and incapable of embodying the courage of a man, and the javelin, which alone is the perfect representation of a man's strength and skill. As a result, only auxiliary light infantry were armed with bows and arrows in the standing army of the Highlanders.

Surprisingly, the ant is actually a master of using bows and arrows, and in the short time when Ji Buyun, Anya, and the Ji brothers were packing up their things, he used his bow and arrows to hunt two rabbits and a few pheasants for dinner. Thinking of Ji Cheng's matter, Ji Buyun couldn't help but think: How much does this old guy hide from me?

The sun was about to set, they began to prepare dinner, according to the division of labor of ants, Anya helped him pack up the prey, the Ji brothers went to collect firewood, and Ji Buyun took two bamboo buckets to the stream to fetch water. The stream is very narrow, you can jump over, the water is not deep, it is very clear, the bottom is sandy, and the evening sunset is sprinkled on the water, sparkling, Ji Buyun feels that the smile of the high priest is rippling with the water waves in the bottom of his heart.

Ji Buyun put the bamboo bucket on the water surface and followed the direction of the water flow to catch the water, carefully avoiding the sand at the bottom of the water from entering the bucket. Then he heard a few euphemistic bird calls, and following the sound, the sound actually came from the bottom of the water. Ji Buyun was very surprised, put down the bamboo bucket, and tiptoed over to find out. A fish suddenly flew out of the water, circled in front of him, and disappeared in the blink of an eye in the direction of the stream. He couldn't help but be horrified.

After returning to the wooden house, the ants and Anya had already cleaned up the rabbits and pheasants, and the Ji brothers had also collected a lot of firewood and picked a lot of wild vegetables by the way. Although these two brothers are the same age as Ji Buyun, they obviously have much more hunting experience than him, and they also have a special tacit understanding with ants. They have special respect for ants, and Ji Buyun can feel that this respect comes completely from the depths of his heart, because whenever the ants speak, they will listen carefully, their eyes are full of admiration, and he guesses: They must have known about the ant and what he has done, and if they have the opportunity, they must ask them about the history of ants. After the ants carefully cleaned the rabbit and pheasant with water, cut them into large pieces, and put them in an iron pot with wild vegetables and began to cook them on a fire, at this time Ji Buyun couldn't help but talk about the strange fish he saw just now. After hearing this, the ant's face seemed to change a little, but he didn't speak, and the Ji brothers didn't speak. The meat was quickly cooked and smelled mouth-watering, and they gathered around the iron pot to feast on it. Rabbit meat and chicken are delicious, wild vegetables taste good, ants bring wine, Ji Buyun accompanied him to drink a little, unlike ordinary highlanders, Anya doesn't like to drink, and the two brothers said that they don't drink at all. After dinner, Ji Buyun once again mentioned the matter of seeing a flying fish by the stream just now, and mobilized the ants to go with him to have a look. The ant said that he was tired and wanted to sleep, so he asked the Ji brothers to go with him. They lit two torches and searched the stream for a long time, but found nothing, so they had to come back to sleep.

That night, Ji Buyun had a long, long dream, and the dream was empty, only a cold fragrance echoed in his mind.

When they woke up, it was just dawn, and after a simple breakfast, they began to pack up the hunting tools they carried, Ji Buyun brought a javelin and a short knife, and the ants and the three of them brought bows and arrows. They filled the bags with water, leaving Anya to look after the horses and luggage, and then walked southwest towards the depths of Fuyu Mountain. Before leaving, Ji Buyun specially instructed Anya not to just think about hunting, but to go around the creek more often to see if he could meet the strange fish that could fly.

The mountains are getting higher, and the trees on both sides are also taller, mostly the kind of evergreen pines and cypresses, only the mountain valleys in the distance, and a few bamboo forests can be seen in the distance. It's inaccessible, and the ground is crawling with vines, making it very difficult to walk. The trail of the beast is difficult to find, but there are many kinds of flying birds, Ji Buyun's goal is the flying bear, so as soon as there is a sound of flying in the air, he will look up and observe carefully for a while, hoping to find the flying bear, but it is all all kinds of unknown birds, and not a single flying bear has been seen. The ants told him that although flying bears have wings, they live more on the ground, eat all kinds of plants, especially the young leaves and rhizomes of bamboo, and only take off when they are in danger.

Towards noon, they finally climbed over a mountain beam and came to rest under a bamboo forest between two mountains. The Ji brothers hunted a fawn with bows and arrows, and they happily cut off two of the deer's hind legs for lunch. While the ants were barbecuing deer legs with their proud skills, Ji Buyun and the two brothers went to the bamboo forest to pick wild fruits to accompany their meals. There are many kinds of wild fruits in the bamboo forest, and they mainly pick a kind of nail-sized, round red berries, which are said to come from the royal garden of the Queen Mother of the West of Haotian, so it is called the West Niang fruit. Its seedlings cling to the bamboo, which tastes sweet and sour, is perfect for food. There weren't a lot of Xi Niangguo, so the three of them scattered and slowly searched among the bamboo forests. Ji Buyun found a large clump of Xi Niang fruit seedlings, full of red fruits, these fruit seedlings clinging to an arm-thick bamboo, he accidentally looked up during the picking process, and found that this bamboo was different. Other bamboos are green, but this one is purple, and it is irregularly covered with golden patterns, and even the bamboo leaves are purple, and they are also covered with golden patterns, and the sunlight shines on it through the gaps in the bamboo forest, flowing with a soft light. Ji Buyun was surprised, and hurriedly called out to the ants and the Ji brothers.

The Ji brothers quickly rushed over, they also felt very strange about this bamboo, and the three of them walked around the neighborhood and found that only this bamboo was like this, and everything else was normal. At this time, the ant came over slowly, and when he saw this bamboo, he was very surprised, saying that this is a rare purple gold bamboo in the world. The three young people hurriedly asked him to explain what the purple golden bamboo was, and he did not sell it this time, telling them that the phoenix, the king of flying birds, was a psychic divine bird, and it was not a sycamore that did not inhabit, not bamboo, and no mountain spring. But phoenixes don't eat any bamboo fruit, they only eat one kind of bamboo, which is the fruit of this purple bamboo. This kind of bamboo grows in the place where the aura of mountains and rivers gathers, it will take thousands of years to bloom and bear fruit, its fruit can be eaten by people to strengthen the body, prolong life, if you are injured, the bamboo is chewed and applied to the wound, you can immediately stop bleeding and build muscles. The most amazing thing is that this kind of purple gold bamboo is invulnerable, gold and stone are difficult to break, only the world's strongest jade can cut it, and the weapons, bows and arrows made of it can kill all the demons in the world. Ji Buyun felt that what the ant said was too mysterious, and he didn't believe it, so he took out the short knife on his waist and slashed at the bamboo, and the bamboo was really not damaged at all, so he knew that what he said was true.

The ants motioned for the Ji brothers to go up and try it, and the two brothers obviously didn't believe that the sword couldn't cut the bamboo, so they pulled out the long sword at their waists, and slashed at the bamboo one after the other, and the ping pong slashed more than a dozen swords in a row, but the bamboo didn't even leave a scratch. The ant smirked, turned back and continued to grill the deer legs, leaving the three of them looking at each other under the bamboo.

The bamboo is very tall, and when you look up along the bamboo body, you can faintly see the spike-like fruit at the top of the bamboo, and you can see that you will never be able to climb it. Thinking of the beauty of this kind of bamboo and fruit that the ants just mentioned, Ji Buyun's heart was itching, and he thought about bringing it down no matter what. The two brothers shook the bamboo body, trying to pull it out of the ground or bend it, and Ji Buyun helped them work together. The three of them tried several postures, exerting all their strength, but the bamboo did not move at all. At this time, Ji Buyun remembered the jade pendant on his chest, so he took it off, for fear of damaging the jade pendant, he didn't dare to use force, took it and scratched it lightly at the bamboo root, and the bamboo root cracked in response.

The three of them were overjoyed, and after a few cheers, the two brothers supported the bamboo body, and Ji Buyun gently drew a circle on the bamboo root with a jade pendant, and the bamboo that was not afraid of swords actually fell. There was no time to prune and prune the leaves, and the three of them carried the entire purple gold bamboo back to the ants.

The ants apparently expected that the three of them would be able to cut down the bamboo, and when they saw them coming back with the bamboo, they did not say anything, but urged them to eat first. After the meal, he instructed Ji Buyun and them to start from the bamboo tops, and first cut off the bamboo spikes with jade pendants. The bamboo spikes that are more than one person tall look very large, but the fruits on them are sparse, and there are only dozens of mulberry-sized bamboos in total. The four of them ate one by one, there was no taste, and the body did not reflect, and there was no imaginary miraculous effect, which made Ji Buyun very disappointed. The ants divided five bamboos for each of them, and the rest were tied to their waists in a pack, and said that they would go back and give them to Ji Buyun's uncle. Ji Buyun thought to himself, it's just bird food, old guy, who do you like to send.

The ants then instructed them to prune and cut the leaves and then cut the bamboo trunk into two zhang or so, a total of three cuts, leaving a bamboo tip less than one zhang long, Ji Buyun felt that it was a pity to throw it away, so he cut off a section in front of it and made a bamboo spear that could be cut and thorned. The purple gold bamboo is really very unusual, a bamboo spear is held in the hand, it feels like the weight of the wood, and with a wave of the hand, a bamboo with the thickness of an arm falls down in response, and it is really like cutting bamboo like mud. Ji Buyun was overjoyed, poked it around and chopped it around, poked it into the stone, and actually made a sound of gold and stone. The Ji brothers even borrowed a jade pendant from him, and cut the pruned bamboo branches into bamboo arrows and carried them behind their backs.

According to the meaning of the ants, although they did not hunt the flying bear, but they harvested the purple gold bamboo, it was definitely worth the trip, and they should directly collect the troops and go back. But Ji Buyun didn't even see the shadow of the flying bear, so he was naturally very unwilling, so he discussed with him if he could turn around for another half a day and go back tomorrow. The ants pointed to the three sections of bamboo they had cut off, and Ji Buyun immediately understood what he meant, these precious bamboos were very heavy, and it was difficult to walk with them in the mountains, let alone hunt. The Ji brothers volunteered that they could send the bamboo back to the wooden house first, and then travel overnight, and they could come back tomorrow morning, as long as the ants and Ji Buyun did not leave the area, they would definitely be able to find the two. Ji Buyun felt that this method was good, and the ants reluctantly agreed, and the brothers immediately picked up the bamboo and set off.

Through this day of getting along, Ji Buyun has a very good impression of the two brothers, they do things neatly and neatly, they don't talk much, but they are very good at observing words and feelings, and many things will help you do it without you saying anything.

After the two brothers left, the ant took Ji Buyun to search for the edge of the bamboo forest. He asked him to focus on observing whether there were fresh gnawing marks on the bamboo roots, flying bears like to gnaw on bamboo roots, and the hard bamboo roots are not bitten by ordinary animals at all, if there are gnawing marks, they can follow the trail to find it. The bamboo forest was very large, and the two searched for a whole afternoon before they could finish the search, but they did not find any traces of flying bears. During this time, he saw more than a dozen deer of all sizes leisurely foraging in the bamboo forest, and saw that the two of them were just vigilantly keeping their distance, but they did not escape, Ji Buyun visually inspected it twice, the javelin must not be able to reach, the bow and arrow should be fine, he has no interest in them, it is not worth wasting time. They also found several plum-shaped footprints, which the ants said were left by tigers, and the footprints were very clear, and they should have just passed. Ji Buyun was very excited for a while, it was not bad to hunt a flying bear and a tiger, but except for these footprints, the two of them didn't even see a tiger hair.

When the sun was about to set, the two returned to the place where they found Zijin Bamboo at noon, preparing to spend the night there while waiting for the Ji brothers. Unexpectedly, I found that the roots of many bamboos there were gnawed into a mess, and a few of them were even dug up by the roots, leaning crookedly on other bamboos. Ji Buyun and the ants were dumbfounded, crying and laughing, the two of them searched for flying bears all over the world, but it played hide and seek with them, and safely chewed in the place they just left for an afternoon. The ants carefully observed the traces left by the flying bear, and said that it should have gone towards the mountain beam in front of them, and would not go too far, and now that it was dark, it was difficult to track, and if it accidentally alarmed it, it would be difficult to find it again after it took off, so it was better to go tomorrow morning, and it would be possible to find it by following its tracks, and when it took off, it could also hunt it with a javelin or a bow and arrow.

The ants lit a fire, and Ji Buyun followed his instructions to build two one-person-high hammocks in the bamboo forest, with purple gold spears as tools, this seemingly complicated job was extremely easy to do, and if you want to grow and thicken the bamboo, you can just wave it lightly, which is much easier to use than a short knife. After Ji Buyun set up the hammock, he also prepared the food, it was still roast venison, and the meat of the breast part was roasted, and the two of them had dinner by the fire with Xi Niangguo. The meat was roasted until it was seven ripe, and it tasted very tender, Ji Buyun praised it as usual, and wanted to ask the ants how they knew Ji Cheng. The old fellow didn't say a word, just stared at the firelight, eating absentmindedly, and he had no choice but to give up. After dinner, the ants threw a few pieces of rotten wood on the fire, covered them with bamboo branches, and then told Ji Buyun to rest early, recuperate, and go hunting flying bears early tomorrow morning.

The mountain breeze was very cold, and he slept until midnight to wake up Ji Buyun, and he got down from the hammock and cut a few bamboo branches as a quilt to cover his body, feeling a lot warmer. He found that the ant was not in the hammock, thinking that he had also woken up from the cold and looked for something to keep warm, so he didn't care and continued to sleep. It was hazy and felt like it was a long time before the ants returned.

As soon as it was dawn, the Ji brothers returned, they went back to the wooden house last night, and after resting for half the night, they rushed back, and they brought a few grilled fish for breakfast. It turned out that Anya followed Ji Buyun's instructions and walked around the stream for a whole day, but the flying fish were not seen, but the swimming fish caught a lot. Each fish is about half a catty, the scales are small, the meat is delicate, and it tastes very good after a while on the fire.

After breakfast, the ant asked the Ji brothers to clean up briefly, and he took Ji Buyun to a clearing on the side of the bamboo forest, and asked him to practice the dragon dance for him. This dragon dancer Ji Buyun has been practicing for ten years, and every movement is done in place, and the ants are full of appreciation in their eyes after looking at it.

Then the four of them followed the trail left by the flying bear. The bear's footprints are shallow, sometimes disappearing completely, but the ants can always find their footprints in front of them quickly. Soon they climbed halfway up the ridge of the mountain, where many fruit trees grew, mostly apple trees, full of fruit, and occasionally a few tall pines and cypresses, and a small stream that meandered down the hill, and the ground was full of green grass. The footprints of the flying bear disappeared by the stream, and while the ants were looking for the traces of the flying bear, Ji Buyun and the Ji brothers washed their faces. The water in the creek was very clear, and the bottom of the water was full of colorful river pebbles, and he couldn't help but pour the water into the mouth, it was very cool and sweet. Ji Buyun poured out the remaining water in the leather bag and filled the bag with water.

The ant suddenly waved his hand and motioned for the three of them to pass, and he pointed to a line of footprints looming in the grass on the other side of the creek and said that the flying bear should be in the orchard ahead. Ji Buyun was ecstatic. The ants gestured to the three of them to silence, divided into fans and quietly outflanked them, and when they were close enough, they reappeared together, forced the flying bear to take off, and then hunted it with bows and arrows and javelins.

The four of them scattered, Ji Buyun and Ant were in the center, the Ji brothers were on both sides, the distance between the four was about twenty zhang, and they tiptoed towards the fruit forest. The fruit forest is very large, and you can vaguely hear the sound of snoring from the depths of the forest, and the foodie Flying Bear should be munching on something again. Ji Buyun suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, holding a bamboo spear in his left hand and a javelin in his right hand, and leaned over for dozens of steps. There was a gray guy on a tall apple tree about ten feet ahead, it was the flying bear, it stood on the sloping trunk on its two hind legs, one front paw grasped a branch, the other front paw kept sending the ripe apple into its mouth, and the two huge gray wings behind it were half-open to keep the balance.

The opportunity was rare, Ji Buyun ran a few steps forward and threw the javelin at it hard. Ji Buyun is very confident in his javelin level, since the age of five, javelin throwing is his main game and must do his homework, until now there has been no interruption, within ten zhang, not to mention a huge flying bear, even a rabbit he is sure to hit. It's a pity that Ji Buyun ignored the current environment, this is the fruit forest, not an open field where he usually practices javelin, a very thin branch makes the javelin change a little direction, and the javelin hits accurately, but it is not the flying bear, but the trunk under its feet.

The Flying Bear was clearly taken aback by the attack, and with an agility that did not match its size, it leapt from the tree, and when it was about to land, its wings fluttered, and in an instant, it flew above the treetops, towards the other side of the orchard. Ji Buyun hurriedly pulled out another javelin from behind and chased after him, and in the process of chasing, there were several good throwing opportunities, all because the branches of the fruit tree blocked the throwing line, so he had to give up.

Out of the fruit forest, Ji Buyun quickened his pace, and finally found an opportunity suitable for throwing javelins again, at this time he vaguely heard the ants and the two brothers seem to be desperately shouting something behind them. At the moment when Ji Buyun raised the javelin and was about to shoot, he stepped into the air, and he fell down a steep cliff, and at that moment, he understood what the ants and the two brothers were shouting.