Early the next morning, Xiao Ding finished grooming, and after eating breakfast, he said goodbye to the Ninth Princess, Fan Sanpang, Sun Dasheng and others, told them to take care of Song Yinzi, and then took the picture drawn by Shen Tongguang, left the barracks, and walked alone in the direction of Funiu Mountain.

Funiu Mountain is located about thirty miles southwest of Zhongzhou City. The vegetation on the mountain is dense and the rocks are craggy. From a distance, this mountain of barberry is like a huge ploughing ox lying on the ground.

The last time Xiao Ding and Song Yinzi and others entered this Funiu Mountain, the location was Niutou Peak, which was the position of the bull's head of the lying cow. And this time, the position painted by Shen Tongguang is the position of the cow's backbone.

So, after Xiao Ding came to the foot of the mountain, he walked in this direction of the cow's back.

The back of the cow is a large mountain range that stretches endlessly, called the Woniu Ridge.

The location of the 10,000-year-old lightning strike stiff panmu on Shen Tongguang's map was at the highest point on the Woniu Ridge.

At this time, the season has passed the Mid-Autumn Festival, and many trees, branches and leaves in the mountains have turned yellow and red, and they look very brightly colored.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xiaoding and the others were on the way back to Zhongzhou, and the soldiers in the battalion only simply improved the food to celebrate the festival.

Now that the solar term has entered autumn, the sun is no longer as hot as in summer. The autumn breeze was blowing, gently blowing Xiao Ding's long hair, seeing the scenery in the mountains, Xiao Ding couldn't help but think of Luoxia Mountain in Yongzhou, and remembered that it had been almost a year since he had traveled to this era.

He remembered that when he had just crossed into this world last year, it was also autumn, but it seemed to be a little later than now, it was late autumn, and the dealer had already finished harvesting.

Seeing that he has been living in this world for almost a year, Xiao Ding is infinitely emotional. When he first wore it, he was still short-haired, unfamiliar with everything around him, ignorant, and was regarded as a fool, but now he has long hair and is used to life in this era. It's just that in the past year, he has been running around without a moment of peace. On the contrary, there are a lot of worries in my heart.

In the past, what he never forgot in his heart were the people who lived and died with him before the crossing, but now he has Tian Dabao and some friends around him in his heart. Unconsciously, the Tian family has lived in their hearts and has become an inseparable part of their hearts, especially the second girl, although she is young, she is deeply in love with herself.

This may be the love debt he owed in his previous life, and he has to travel to this strange era to repay.

Thinking of Erniu, Xiao Ding naturally thought of the civet, the woman named Ouyang Qing, the person he loved deeply before he crossed over, and also his teammates in the same unit. The civet is nothing more than her code name.

One is the love before the crossing, and the other is the wife after the crossing. Fortunately, the two are not in the same time and space, otherwise, Xiao Ding really doesn't know how to choose between the two.

He knew that no matter which one he chose, he would hurt the other. Feelings are such a thing, and it is selfish to put it on anyone. No one wants the person they love to love at the same time.

Xiao Ding, as a modern person who has traveled through the past, has the thinking of a modern person, although in this Great Song Dynasty, it is also very common for men to hug left and right, three wives and four concubines, but in Xiao Ding's opinion, it is unfair to women.

In fact, many men will fantasize about how good it would be if they could one day have three wives and four concubines, and a group of beautiful women around them. But have you ever put yourself in your shoes, what would you think if your woman had several men at the same time, and would you accept it?

Xiaoding lives in a new society where men and women are equal, and even if he travels to ancient times, he still thinks about women everywhere. In fact, there are several women around him who have a good impression of him, and the ninth princess who made him chicken soup last night is one of them.

But Xiao Ding clearly realized that he couldn't give more to other women, and he didn't want to disappoint or deceive another woman for the sake of one woman, so he had to pretend to be deaf and dumb and not respond to the feelings of the ninth princess for him.

Thinking of the civet cat, Xiao Ding felt as if the civet cat was right next to him, but he knew that it was impossible. At this time, his heart was gloomy, and his mood suddenly fell, and he didn't know how the civet cat was doing now, and whether they were finally rescued on that desert island.

Climbing all the way up the mountain road, although there are some wild animals in the mountains and forests on the way, most of them are small animals, so there is no need to be afraid.

There are also a lot of snakes in the mountains and forests, and if Xiao Ding hadn't been prepared, he might have been bitten by snakes before he even walked to the mountains.

The types of medicinal herbs in the mountains and forests are also very rich, and Xiao Ding knew many kinds of herbs before. Later, after he broke through the third layer of qi training, he inadvertently obtained the content recorded on the jade slip in Yue Yurou's jade gourd, in addition to a book called a book introducing alchemy, and one, there is also a book that is an encyclopedia that introduces things related to alchemy, which not only describes the identification methods of various herbs, spiritual plants, spiritual stones and other spiritual objects, but also introduces some related knowledge such as Dan furnace and spiritual fire.

After Xiao Ding got these books, he benefited a lot, although he didn't have time to read them all. But as long as he has time, he will search it out in his mind and read it.

There is also the book of the formation technique that he got in the Misty Cloud Sect, which he often reads when he is fine.

After reading that book, the herbs, spiritual plants and other spiritual objects I know gradually increased.

In the mountains ahead, the plants on the side of the road that he didn't care about could now be recognized as useful and useful. This is true: it used to be grass, but now it is a treasure!

Among the herbs that Xiaoding saw along the way, there are many older and more precious herbs, such as He Shou Wu, Hericium erinaceus, Ganoderma lucidum, etc., which have grown for decades.

These medicinal herbs can be sold for a lot of money after they are collected and taken to the city. It's no wonder that Shen Tongguang would go into the mountains to collect medicine, so many good medicines, it was all wealth for him!

However, Xiao Ding doubted that this Shen Tongguang didn't know martial arts, wouldn't he be afraid of danger when he entered the mountain?

Xiao Ding didn't pick the herbs. He is not short of money at all now, and he is a little disdainful of this kind of small money.

These herbs may be able to grow for decades if they are kept, and if they are picked by themselves, they will only be exchanged for a few silver. The current self is no longer the self with nothing when he just crossed over last year.

Along the way, Xiao Ding was nostalgic for the past, and at the same time sighed about the present, and before he knew it, when it was almost noon, he had already come to Woniu Ridge.

The next step is to follow the map and look for the 10,000-year-old lightning stiff wood.

With this map drawn by Shen Tongguang, it is much easier to find. Although the specific location may be biased. But after Xiao Ding let go of his divine sense, as long as he walked around there, it would not be difficult to find it.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Xiao Ding's divine sense to lock on a scorched giant tree as thick as the top of a round table.

At this time, he was only thirty zhang away from the giant tree, but his divine sense did not scan the monster that Shen Tongguang was talking about.

Could it be that Shen Tongguang made a mistake? Xiao Ding wondered.

He slowly approached the vicinity of the giant tree, concentrating on releasing his divine sense, and even the slowly wriggling caterpillars on the branches, he found them, but he never found that there were monsters near the giant tree.

Isn't that weird? Could it be that the monster that Shen Tongguang said left here?

Xiao Ding was cranky, but it was unlikely that he would think about it. Generally speaking, the divine beasts guarding the spirit object will not leave the range of the spirit object easily. Unless someone deliberately provokes him and deliberately lures him away, it will not leave on its own initiative.

But what's going on now?

Originally, if he found a monster, Xiao Ding would have been prepared, but now that he didn't find a monster, Xiao Ding became scared.

As his footsteps moved, he got closer and closer to the giant tree, and there was only about ten zhang left left. Xiao Ding could already see the black, blackened, huge half-cut wooden stake.

However, at this time, he found that on the stake of blackened wood, which was three or four feet high and the thickness of a round tabletop, there was actually a huge green snake coiled!

However, the information returned by the divine consciousness is not the information of animals.

What the hell is going on?

Xiao Ding quietly leaned forward again, and found that the huge wooden stake in front of him seemed to be a tree, but unfortunately there was no crown on it, and only a section of the trunk three or four feet high remained. Converted into the unit of later generations, that is, the height of more than ten meters.

If it was a lightning strike, it would be easy to explain the trunk, and the crown of the tree must have been cleaved by lightning and then burned to the ground. The tree was so large that it was scorched black by lightning, and it was probably raining heavily, so the trunk didn't burn all of it.

Xiao Ding secretly looked at the big snake coiled on the charred black trunk again, on top of such a thick trunk, spiraling upward, until it reached the top, it can be seen that the length of this snake must be at least three times the length of this stump.

This is much longer than the giant snake that Xiao Ding saw in the snake cave at the top of Luoxia Peak. It's just that the snake in front of him is only the thickness of his calf, and it is not as thick as the snake at the top of Luoxia Peak.

However, at this time, Xiao Ding was less than ten zhang away from the giant tree, and he was completely within the attack range of the snake, why didn't the snake attack him?

Xiao Ding's mind was full of question marks, and he tried to take a few steps forward, but when he saw that the big snake still didn't move, Xiao Ding suddenly had a thought in his heart: If the snake didn't move, could he sneak over and dig up a piece of this wood, and then turn around and run?

Thinking of this, he moved forward a distance, and at this time he was less than five feet away from the giant tree, and the divine consciousness in his mind still did not judge that the great snake coiled on the scorched wood was a living thing.

This is indeed a bit bizarre, but Xiao Ding looked closely at this time, but he made a new discovery, and he suddenly saw that on the body of the big snake, there were actually a lot of branches and leaves......

Isn't it a snake? Ding began to doubt his eyes.

Boldly took a few more steps forward, and silently found that the coil on the giant tree was indeed not a snake, but a huge green vine.

However, just as Xiao Ding was about to relax his vigilance, he saw that the vine actually spiraled down from the charred giant tree like a snake and attacked Xiao Ding.

What Xiao Ding saw in front of him was obviously a snake head with a big mouth and spitting out letters!

What the hell is this?

Xiao Ding was completely confused.

It is said that it is a vine, and there is a snake head, and it is said that it is a big snake, and there are still green branches and leaves on its body.

What a hell!

Xiao Ding hurriedly dodged, and after the flash, he looked back and saw that after the snake-like thing slipped down to the bottom of the giant tree, he suddenly shook his whole body, and changed into a green tiger, with a bloody mouth, and pounced on Xiao Ding?

It was only at this time that a word flashed in Xiao Ding's mind: Phantom Vine!