Chapter Seventy-Two: Another Crisis
Zhao Lengfei's ice boat is not only stable, but also less effort than other groups in the lake, Mu Xizi and Han Qi rowing is enough to keep a good distance from the raft behind, Zhao Lengfei simply stood up and stood on the bow of the boat, his eyes were firmly fixed on the lake in front of him, not letting go of any movement. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The water of Xindao Lake is not turbid, but it is dark and terrifying, and the things under the water cannot be seen at all, the wind on the lake is not strong, but there are still some ripples, and Zhao Lengfei can't notice the small movements under the water at all.
"Whoa!" Zhao Lengfei had already used the Spiritual Enhancement Technique at this time, and his vision and hearing had increased exponentially, although he still couldn't see the water clearly, but the small movements that were originally mixed with the sound of the water hitting the water gradually became clear, and no small sound could hide from his ears.
"Everyone, pay attention, there is movement one hundred and fifty steps southwest of the fifteenth direction on the left hand side." Zhao Lengfei heard an unusual voice coming from not far away, and immediately reminded him.
Hearing this, the others all stopped paddling, held their breath, and looked at the position that Zhao Lengfei had said.
After waiting for about a minute, the surface of the lake was still slightly rippling, and I couldn't see anything unusual.
Gongsun Qiu's raft was twenty steps behind Zhao Lenghai's left, closest to the place where Zhao Lengfei sensed the movement, and he saw it most clearly, he waited for a long time and didn't see any movement on the water, so he said: "Don't you think everyone is moving slowly enough, this is less than half the distance, and you have already shouted that everyone has stopped several times, don't you want everyone to reach the heart island before dark, I see you ......"
Before Gongsun Qiu could finish speaking, his voice stopped abruptly, and a giant monster with the thickness of a water tank jumped out from the left side of the raft where he was, and after biting Qi Peng behind Gongsun Qiu, he quickly plunged into the water from the other side of the raft with Qi Peng.
The monster's movements were extremely fast, everyone didn't even see what its head looked like, the monster's body was extremely long, and it pressed on the raft where Gongsun Qiu was, and the raft was crushed at once, and Gongsun Qiu and Qi Feng both fell into the water.
After Gongsun Qiu fell into the water, he immediately used light kung fu to tread water and ran towards Lan Susu's raft, while Qi Feng was completely stunned, looking at the small section of the monster body exposed on the surface of the water and not moving.
"It's a dragon crocodile, it's coming towards us, run!" Cao Yu shouted, and immediately tread water and ran towards Zhao Lengfei's ice boat.
Qin Wen and Li Tong were on the same raft as Cao Yu, and their movements were a beat slower than Cao Yu, and they only ran a few steps, and the raft was knocked out by the dragon crocodile, and both of them were hit by the splash brought by the dragon crocodile when they came out of the water, and their bodies shook and almost sank into the water.
"Whew!" The dragon crocodile poked nearly half of its body out of the water, opened its mouth and roared to the sky.
Only then did Zhao Lengfei and the others see the true face of the dragon crocodile, the head of this dragon crocodile was similar to that of an ordinary crocodile, but it was much larger, its mouth was not much shorter than that of an adult, and its dagger-like fangs were cold and shining, and there was blood and a few rags hanging on it, which was left by it devouring Qi Peng.
The crocodile's neck and body were as thick as its head, covered with scales from the mouth of the bowl, and if it weren't for its strange head and two fat front paws under its abdomen, it might have been mistaken for a giant snake.
Most of this dragon crocodile is underwater, and the part that emerges from the water is seven or eight meters long, so its body length should be more than twenty meters, Zhao Lengfei has seen records about dragon crocodile in many books, judging from the length of this one, it is at least a fourth-order demon beast.
The dragon crocodile lowered its head after a long roar, and its small eyes stared at the few people who were treading water on the lake, and plunged into the lake again.
"Sister, slide the boat towards Senior Brother Qi, we must save him, Senior Brother Han, hit these talismans at the dragon crocodile, even if you can't attack it, you can attack the water near it." Zhao Lengfei handed several mortal-level talismans to Han Qi, and he also held a mortal-level talisman to urge.
Zhao Lengfei knew that it was difficult for mortal-level talismans to hurt fourth-order demon beasts, but now they didn't have time to urge the earth-level talismans, they were in the middle of the lake, and they had no chance to escape, so they could only bite the bullet and shoot at the dragon crocodile, Han Qi took the talisman and said goodbye to his waist, and he didn't care what kind of dust-level talisman it was, and urged it one by one.
Lan Susu also reacted at this time, she immediately threw out the double flow cover to protect the three people on the raft, and at the same time took out the black snake sword and urged, Bu Liang and Tong Hao on the boat also took out the most powerful magic weapon, they knew that they were not the opponent of the dragon crocodile, but no one was willing to wait for death, and they were ready to give it a go.
When Qin Wen escaped, he was hit by the splash stirred up by the dragon crocodile, and almost sank into the water, but after the dragon crocodile came out of the water, he just separated him from Zhao Leng Haleansu, so he had to tread water and run into the distance.
Qin Wen had only run a few steps before he felt the lake water surging under his feet, and before he could react, the dragon crocodile's open mouth had already appeared under him, and the dragon crocodile closed its huge jaws and took Qin Wen in his mouth.
"Attack." Zhao Lengfei threw the talisman in his hand towards the dragon crocodile as he spoke, Han Qi's movements were not slow, and the two talismans hit the dragon crocodile out of the water one after the other.
The raft under Lan Susu was floating and sinking in the water waves stirred up by the dragon crocodile, she couldn't concentrate, and for a while, the black snake sword couldn't be urged, and Bu Liang and Tong Hao didn't have long-range attack magic weapons, so they could only watch Qin Wen being attacked by the dragon crocodile.
After the dragon crocodile swallowed Qin Wen, it once again exposed its upper body to the surface, and at this time, Zhao Lengfei and Han Qi's talisman just shot under it.
"Boom!" Zhao Lengfei and Han Qi both shouted, and the talisman exploded, and a thick layer of ice immediately formed on the dragon crocodile's body and the lake surface under him.
"Whoa!" The dragon crocodile twisted its body, and the ice wrapped around it immediately shattered and fell, and it shook its body several times in succession, but it could not pull out of the ice on the surface of the lake.
The dragon crocodile looked down at the ice beneath him, and suddenly threw his claws to his chest and bowed down, and a pair of short wings immediately grew from its back, and it flapped its wings and suddenly broke away, and pulled its body out of the ice on the surface of the lake.
This dragon crocodile is longer than Zhao Lengfei imagined, with a black back and white belly, four claws and two wings, and a long tail that accounts for half the length of the body, it flapps its wings and stops in the air, like a giant dragon.
After Zhao Lengfei and the others looked at the whole body of the dragon crocodile, a sense of powerlessness suddenly surged in their hearts, such a big guy was not something they could deal with at all.
The dragon crocodile looked at Zhao Lengfei and Han Qi who were holding the talisman in their hands, and there was a look of disdain in their eyes, it tilted its head, opened its mouth and spit out a large ball of flames and shot at the ice boat where Zhao Lengfei was.
"Dive." Zhao Lengfei had long known that the dragon crocodile had the talent to spit fire, and as soon as he saw the dragon crocodile looking up, he immediately jumped into the lake with Mu Xizi in his arms, and Han Qi and Cao Yu, who had just boarded the boat, jumped into the lake after hearing this.
As soon as the four of them entered the water, the flames spit out by the dragon crocodile shot over, and the iceboat was surrounded by flames in an instant, and when the flames dissipated, the iceship disappeared entirely.
"Brute, give my brother back." Qi Feng stood on the ice floes, holding his sword and shouting at the dragon crocodile in the air.
Qi Feng and Qi Peng have a very deep relationship, seeing that his younger brother was swallowed by the dragon crocodile but could not do anything, he would already be crazy, and he didn't care about his life or death.
The dragon crocodile in the air glanced at Qi Feng, shook his head as if thoughtfully, and then turned around and flew away with a wing.
"This ......" Lan Susu and Zhao Lengfei and others, who had just emerged from the water, were stunned when they saw this.
"Sister, let's get on the ice floes first." Zhao Lengfei in the water wiped the waterway on his face.
Several people in the water climbed onto the ice floe, and Lan Susu and others also hurriedly slid the raft over.
Everyone took a breath on the ice floe, and then began to discuss what to do, except for Zhao Lengfei, everyone felt that they should return to the shore immediately.
"I don't agree to go back now, I have to get the three trial materials of Heart Island." Zhao Lengfei saw that everyone else was retreating, and said unwillingly.
"But what if there is another crocodile in the lake, or if that crocodile comes back? It's too dangerous to continue to the island of hearts, and I don't want to gamble with everyone's lives. Lan Susu said.
"What Senior Sister Lan said is reasonable, if I want to send you to death, don't pull everyone, I won't take another step to the center of the lake anyway." Gongsun Qiu said.
"Do you think it will be easier to obtain the later trial materials than this one? If I give up this time, I don't think there is any need to continue this trial, so I can simply return to the outer gate station. Zhao Lengfei insisted.
"Senior Brother Zhao, don't get excited, no one wants to give up these three trial materials, but our team has already sacrificed two people, and Senior Brother Qi's current state is not suitable for any more adventures, I think we should go back to the shore and rest for two days before thinking about it in the long run."
Qi Peng and Qin Wen sacrificed, Qi Feng would talk to himself as if he was stimulated, and no one could listen to him, Lan Susu was already out of order, so he could only propose to go back to the shore to rest first.
"The most dangerous situation has just passed, when will we not go to Heart Island now? Since you have all agreed to go back to the shore to recuperate, then you can go back first, I said that I can go to Heart Island by myself. ”
Zhao Lengfei understands the habits of dragon crocodiles, the possibility of having two dragon crocodiles in Xindao Lake at one time is zero, and it is unlikely that the dragon crocodile will go and return, but it will not be necessary in two days.
"Brother, don't be reckless, I also think what Senior Sister Lan said is reasonable."
"Sister, don't worry, I'm really not reckless, you go back to the shore with everyone first, and I will definitely be able to go back safely in two days." Zhao Lengfei saw Mu Xizi speak, and it was difficult to refute.
"Brother, that's what you said when you went down to Hantan, your luck can't be good every time, if you go to Heart Island alone, if you encounter danger, you don't even have someone to help you, how can this work?"
"Why don't I accompany Senior Brother Zhao to Heart Island, I also feel that the most dangerous situation has passed, and now is the opportunity to go to the island." Cao Yu said.
"Senior Brother Cao, thank you, I'd better go to Heart Island by myself, after all, the safety of the team is a big deal, Senior Sister Lan is a little reluctant to take care of the whole team alone, I'm afraid she won't be busy."
It took Zhao Lengfei a lot of time to convince everyone, and in the end, he went to Heart Island on Lan Susu's raft alone, and the others went back to the shore directly on a large piece of ice floe.
Zhao Lengfei has his own reasons for doing this, he learned from the Gongfa Pavilion that only one person in the outer gate has raised a dragon crocodile as a spirit animal in the past thousand years, and there are very few records of the dragon crocodile in the Gongfa Pavilion, and most of his understanding of the dragon crocodile comes from the "Miscellaneous Records of Gu Yang", Gu Yang's spirit beast is a dragon crocodile, and it was subdued by Gu Yang on the way to practice.
The dragon crocodile is an extremely unruly demon beast, and once it comes out of the shell, it can no longer be domesticated, so if you want to accept the dragon crocodile as a spirit animal, you must start cultivating it before it hatches.
The lifespan of demon beasts is several times longer than that of cultivators, and many cultivators will let their spirit beasts go free before they sit down, but the feelings between spirit beasts and their masters are very deep, and most of the spirit beasts will not leave the master too far after they sit down.
Dragon crocodiles have a tradition of returning to their ancestors to evolve to lay eggs, before laying eggs, they will kill a creature near the nest, and other dragon crocodiles are not allowed to approach, and they will leave immediately after laying eggs, there are a large number of short-winged crocodiles inhabited in Heart Island Lake, which is one of the evolution places of dragon crocodiles, and the dragon crocodile that just attacked them must have come to Heart Island to lay eggs.
The strange thing is that the disciples of Xuanshuimen found several dragon crocodile breeding grounds in the Sanyuan Mountain Range, including Xindao Lake, and also found many abandoned nests of dragon crocodiles, but they never found unhatched dragon crocodile eggs.
High-level demon beasts like to use cultivators as food to enhance their cultivation, so the disciples of the Xuanshui Gate will hunt and kill the high-level demon beasts of the Sanyuan Mountain Range every once in a while, and the fifth-order demon beasts are almost non-existent in the Sanyuan Mountain Range, but judging from the size of the dragon crocodile and the wisdom it showed, it is afraid that it has already reached the fifth order.
From this information, it is not difficult to judge that the dragon crocodile that attacked Zhao Lengfei just now was the spirit beast left behind by the Xuanshui Gate senior, which also explained why the dragon crocodile left after seeing Qi Feng take out the sword of the high-level disciple of Xuanshui Gate.
The fifth-order demon beast already had humanoid wisdom, and that dragon crocodile recognized the sword of the high-level disciple of the Xuanshui Gate, so it naturally knew what the disciple of the Xuanshui Gate meant to its master, so it would leave on its own. Of course, the most important thing should be that the dragon crocodile has finished laying eggs, if it has not laid eggs yet, even if it recognizes Zhao Lengfei and the others as disciples of Xuanshui Sect, it is afraid that it will kill these people with a heart.
Zhao Lengfei took all of this into account, and he also knew that when the dragon crocodile returned to breed and lay eggs, the nearby short-winged crocodiles would hide back in their burrows, and those short-winged crocodiles would not return to the water again after the dragon crocodiles left for a few days, and he had not seen a short-winged crocodile in Xindao Lake also confirmed this, if they returned to the shore to rest for a few days, it would be difficult for those short-winged crocodiles to return to the lake before landing on the island.
And Zhao Lengfei knew the reason why the disciples of Xuanshui Sect couldn't find the dragon crocodile eggs, he insisted on going to Heart Island, in addition to looking for trial materials, more importantly, he wanted to find those dragon crocodile eggs, once he had a spirit beast, his strength could be greatly improved.
Although Zhao Lengfei is kind-hearted, he is unwilling to tell the rest of the team all the information he knows, after all, people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, and except for Mu Xizi, the others in the team Zhao Lengfei are not completely trustworthy.
Because he didn't have to worry about being attacked again, Zhao Lengfei traveled very fast, and at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, he arrived at Heart Island.
The heart island is more than ten meters above the water, and the edge of the island is eroded by the lake into a concave cliff, Zhao Lengfei saw that there are many deep holes in the cliff, needless to say that it must be the cave of the wingless crocodile, he was afraid of alarming the wingless crocodile in the belt, so he hurriedly took out the flying claw rope and threw it on the island, and then gave up the raft and climbed up the rope, as for the raft back, he could only think of another way.
The edge of the heart island was quite slippery, but fortunately, Zhao Lengfei was good, although it took some time, but there was still a thrilling climb up.
The heart island is only a few miles in radius, and there are tall trees on it that are hugged by several people, although the trees grow very tall, but they are not too dense, there are not too many shrubs and weeds under the trees, and there are no vine ropes entangled between the trees, and it will not take too much time for Zhao Lengfei to search for them.
As soon as Zhao Lengfei landed on Heart Island, he smelled an extremely heavy rancid smell, which almost made him vomit, but he was not angry, because according to the records in the "Xingxiu Guyang Miscellaneous Records", the dragon crocodile would kill all the surrounding beasts and monsters before laying eggs, and pile the corpses together.
The crocodile hides its eggs in the pile, which hatches from the heat generated by the decaying corpses, and when hatched, they transfer their eggshells from the pile to the place where their mother's scales have been marked, creating a fake hatching nest.
The cultivators of Xuanshuimen found false nests in the open air in each breeding ground of the dragon crocodile, so they thought that the dragon crocodile was laying eggs in the open air, and they felt that the dragon crocodile hunted the surrounding beasts and spirit beasts just to prevent the eggs from being harmed, and no one had ever looked through the pile of rotten corpses made by the dragon crocodile at all.
The corpses of aquatic demon beasts will give birth to water yin grass on land, and dragon crocodile scales and eggshells also have this effect, so as long as Zhao Lengfei finds a fake nest made by dragon crocodile in the past, he can collect its three trial materials.
Zhao Lengfei did not follow the rancid smell to find the corpse pile at the first time, but searched around the island little by little, although the beasts and spirit beasts on the island were killed by the dragon crocodile, but there are still a lot of all kinds of flying insects and poisonous insects, Zhao Lengfei fully opened the protection of the thorn armor, and acted very carefully, he soon found a so-called abandoned nest, where there are indeed some dragon crocodile scales, eggshells, and several water shade grasses.
With the three trial materials in hand, Zhao Lengfei was not in a hurry, his only concern was that the dragon crocodile would not go far yet, and he would venture to turn over the corpse pile in case it was alarmed, and it would not be good for the dragon crocodile to return, so he found a place on the island to sprinkle the anthelmintic medicine, prepared to rest for one night, and then started on the corpse pile tomorrow.
Every part of the heart island was filled with this pungent rancid smell, Zhao Lengfei even had a more sensitive sense of smell than before after cultivating the aura spell, he had a very uncomfortable night, but thinking that he was likely to get a pet with good potential, he also felt that it was worth it.
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