Vicissitudes Chapter 194 Strange Monsters
Climb to the top of the mountain, raise your eyes and look out, the mountains are continuous, and the mountains are stacked on top of each other. There are thousands of ravines, deep and quiet, and there are clouds and mist lingering in them. As the sun sets, the afterglow coats the mountains and rivers with a pale golden veil, and the breeze blows, and the smoke changes, making people look at it and indulge in it.
Overcoming obstacles all the way, Zu Zhenlin and Li Ji were leisurely and relaxed, unscathed, while Li Cao and Lin Xi did not have such strength and luck, their clothes were torn in many places, and they had to fight anyway, so they would no longer have to bother to replace them, saving waste.
"It's beautiful, but it's a pity it didn't last long. Li Ji said with emotion.
Zu Zhenlin didn't refute, and couldn't help but think of the dusk on the snowfield, the two were very different, but they were equally beautiful. Lin Xi and Li Cao also watched quietly on the side until the sunset disappeared.
Seeing that night was falling, the four of them stopped moving forward, found a sheltered place from the wind, and lit a fire for the night. Take out the prepared dry food and simply satisfy your hunger. After eating and drinking, they discussed it, and the matter of the vigil was handed over to Zu Zhenlin and Li Ji, Zu Zhenlin was responsible for the first half of the night, and Li Ji was responsible for the second half of the night. Li Cao and Lin Xi were self-aware of their own strength and did not raise objections, so as not to do bad things with good intentions.
As the night grew darker, Zu Zhenlin stood alone by the fire, adding firewood to the fire from time to time, and the dead branches made a crisp crackling sound. Suddenly, I heard a faint sound in the distance, but it was not very real because of the sound of the fire. Zu Zhenlin didn't dare to be careless, stood up, and was on guard. After a while, by the moonlight, I saw several figures approaching quickly, and it seemed that the demonic beast did not intend to satisfy them.
In order not to disturb Li Qi and the three of them to rest, Zu Zhenlin was unwilling to entangle more, so he made the birth method 'ten steps', pointing his toes to the ground, and quickly swept forward, as fast as a shock. Two fingers and sword tricks, one after another in front of him, one after another aura gushed out from the fingertips, turned into sharp blades, and beheaded the attacking demonic beast as cleanly as a knife cutting tofu, from beginning to end, silently.
After doing it, Zu Zhenlin silently took out the magic crystal and put it away, and then returned to the fire, but before he could sit down, there was movement in the distance again, so he had to step forward again. There are many shadows on the ground, and after seeing it clearly, I can't help but feel a tingling on my scalp, it turns out to be a group of demon snakes, dense, I don't know the number.
Zu Zhenlin stabilized his mind, repeated the technique, ran the exercises, the aura in his body was surging, he raised his hand to his chest, and his two fingers were flat, and a scratch an inch deep immediately appeared on the ground, and the demon snakes that passed by were in different places, and blood flowed all over the ground.
Zu Zhenlin looked at the snake body struggling and wriggling all over the ground, and felt a little disgusted. These demon snakes are no more than three feet long, and although the magic crystals contained in them can be refined into pills, the effect is too small, and they also consume medicinal materials to neutralize the demonic nature, and the gains outweigh the losses, so after making sure that there are no fish that have slipped through the net, they will no longer care about them.
Just as Zu Zhenlin turned around, two screams suddenly sounded in the air, and then there was a darkness overhead, and the wind was whirring. Zu Zhenlin hurriedly jumped forward, jumped more than three feet away, and defused the attack on his head. Looking up, there were two flying birds circling, with a wingspan about two zhang wide, and their whole body was blood-red, except for the sharp claws and beaks that were silvery-white. The demon bird failed to strike a blow, and dived again, as fast as lightning, in the blink of an eye.
Zu Zhenlin raised his right hand and slapped it out with one palm, and ten gray sword qi shot out, crisscrossing the air. The two demon birds were instantly pierced out of seven or eight blood holes, let out a miserable wail, and fell from the sky, blood spilled.
Li Ji walked over and said, "Alas, it seems that I can't sleep tonight." If I had known this, I would have walked more and gone to a safe area to rest. ”
"I didn't expect these monsters to be so annoying, and they had to take the initiative to come to the door at night and disturb people's dreams. Zu Zhenlin sighed.
"We can't sleep anyway, so let's do our part. Li Cao proposed.
"Okay, I thought that we wouldn't have any magical beasts when we hid in this place, but we had to keep vigil just to prevent someone from coming out to forage for food, but now it seems that we were thinking wrong. Since you can't sleep, let's stay up all night together. Zu Zhenlin said softly.
At night, the demonic beasts attacked one after another, but with Zu Zhenlin and Li Ji on the side, Li Cao and Lin Xi finally calmed down after a day and a night of tossing. Even when they were defeated by the Demon Beasts, they were no longer in a hurry, but tried their best to deal with it, because they believed in their hearts that Zhenlin and Li Ji would come to the rescue in time. It is very rare to get the opportunity to fight without scruples.
There was a glimmer of dawn in the east, but it was not enough to illuminate the heavens and the earth, but because the bright moon was under the treetops, it seemed even more obscure. The few sparse and falling starlight dotted in the sky have no effect, the flickering and flickering, if you don't look closely, you can't find it at all.
As cultivators, although the four of Zu Zhenlin didn't sleep all night, they wouldn't be sluggish, but Li Cao and Lin Xi were a little embarrassed after fighting. Taking advantage of their free time, the four of them took out the prepared dry food, dealt with breakfast, and then extinguished the fire with mud, and set off again at dawn.
The golden sun rises from the earth's plane, revealing the outline of heaven and earth. Looking up at the sky, it is green and clear, thousands of miles in the sky, and it is endless.
Zu Zhenlin and the four of them began to set off and rode forward in the morning sun. The main purpose of participating in the Spring Harvest this time was to exercise Li Cao and Lin Xi, so they were not in a hurry to get out of this area.
There are now many kinds of beasts in the Yuli Continent, and there are various kinds of beasts with spiritual wisdom and magical powers, such as dragons, phoenixes, unicorns, etc. There are also all kinds of ordinary beasts that only rely on instinct and ignorance to survive, such as jackals, tigers and leopards, chickens, ducks, fish, etc. At the beginning of the opening of heaven and earth, all things grew up, and the beast race did not have so many races, but with the passage of time, some of them underwent abnormal changes and reproduced many new races. And the demonic beast inherits the bloodline of the heavenly demon and the divine beast, after ten thousand years of development, naturally there are also mutations, and there are many more novel races, and what the four of them saw before is just a drop in the ocean.
Zu Zhenlin and the others wandered around, and came to a mountain peak full of strange rocks and caves, and three of the caves at the top of the mountain had water flowing out slowly and converging into a waterfall. The mountain wind blew into the cave and whistled.
The four of them looked at it, found nothing abnormal, slowly climbed the mountain, walked to a cave, and looked inside, it was dark and damp.
"Do you want to go in and have a look?" asked Zu Zhenlin.
Li Ji probed his brain, looking curious, "Of course, it's all here, how can you cower and retreat?"
"It's better to be cautious and don't capsize in the gutter. Li Cao reminded.
Li Ji patted him on the shoulder, and said confidently: "Alas, you don't understand this, the strength of the demonic beasts arranged by the academy in this area will never be higher than that of the late stage of the Spirit Line Realm, otherwise, as soon as those who are not high in strength come in, they will not have time to adapt, and they will be subjected to heavy suffering, which is not in line with the purpose of the academy's training at all." So I promise that with me and my grandfather, the two of you are safe. ”
"Yes, but don't be careless. Zu Zhenlin said.
"Okay, let me take the lead and see if there are any strange monsters in here. Li Ji volunteered.
When Li Ji was about to step inside, Ancestor Zhenlin suddenly saw a light in the cave, and then looked closely, but there was no trace, shook his head, feeling that he was dazzled and wrong, and he also felt in his heart that what Li Ji said was right, in this area, as long as it was not besieged by thousands of demonic beasts, with Li Ji's strength, there would be no difference.
Li Ji was in front, and Zu Zhenlin was behind, and the four of them began to walk towards the caves, because some of the caves were connected, and the sun on the top of the mountain shone a little, but they would not lose their fingers, and the cultivators had excellent eyesight and could see things within three zhang of their bodies. Almost straight up for ten zhang away, there was a bend in front of it, and there was a hole the size of a fist above it, and there was a light leaking down, and the mountain wind blew down from time to time.
There was a sudden clicking sound under Li Ji's feet, and when he looked down, he saw that it was actually a piece of bone, and he turned his head and whispered: "It seems that there are indeed demonic beasts in the cave." ”
Zu Zhenlin nodded.
Li Ji continued to move forward, his demeanor was leisurely, he just turned the corner, but stopped again, and said curiously: "Huh?"
Zu Zhenlin and the three of them rushed forward to check what was going on, and found that a three-color net stuck to Li Ji's sleeve, and there was a broken bone in the broken net.
Zu Zhenlin knew in his heart, it turned out that it was not that he was wrong, but that the net was swayed by the wind, and when it blew to the side of the cave, he saw the colored net by the light.
Li Ji pulled the colored net with his hand, but found that it was sticky and couldn't be pulled, so he couldn't help but use his strength, the stabbing sound, the sleeves were torn, and he couldn't help shaking his head, and tore off the sleeves and got rid of the net.
"This should be a monster like a spider, right?" Li Ji speculated.
"Possibly. Zu Zhenlin echoed.
The four of them continued to move forward, turned left and right, and walked for almost half an hour, when the eyes suddenly opened up, and a big cave appeared in front of them. Looking up, I found that there were five colorful cocoons of different sizes hanging from the roof of the cave, which were red, yellow and blue.
"Do you want to strike first?" asked Li Ji with a smile.
"You don't want to see what they look like?" Zu Zhenlin asked rhetorically, in fact, he was also curious.
Li Ji was naturally curious, but he just talked about it, and he didn't mean to do it.
"If they don't come out, are we going to keep waiting? Li Cao thinks it's not worth it.
"It's okay, didn't you see those cocoons squirming when we came in? I think it won't be long before they come out. Li Ji pointed out keenly.
In less than a stick of incense, the cocoons moved more and more, and one of them suddenly broke, and two faint green rays of light burst out, and then a dark and shiny head emerged, and the chelicerae were huge and sharp, shining. The demon spider opened its mouth and spit out red, yellow, and blue spider silk, intertwined in all directions, and after a while, it formed a large colorful web in the hole. Then use your feet to stretch the web of the cocoon to reveal your true face. The demon spider is more than three feet long, its abdomen is red, yellow and blue, colorful, and the rest of it is black, and it looks terrifying.
The demon spider lay on the spider web, staring at the four of Zu Zhenlin with dark green eyes, and suddenly fell from the sky and rushed straight to Lin Xi. Lin Xi reacted quickly, and immediately pulled out the long knife, the body of the knife lingered with scorching aura, and slashed down, directly slashing at the demon spider, but it made an abnormal sound of gold and stone, and did not slash it.
The demon spider ate pain, and instantly returned to the air through the spider silk, lingering in the spider web. After a while, the other four broke out of their cocoons one after another, different sizes, the big one was about the same as the first one, and the small one was only a foot long, and the abdomen of the little demon spider was only red and yellow.
The five demon spiders spit out spider silk from their mouths at the same time, forming colorful spider webs in the air, a total of four, covering Zu Zhenlin and them. Zu Zhenlin punched out, and the fist was majestic, knocking the cobwebs away. And Li Ji flicked his fingers, and a sharp wind blade flew out and slashed at the spider web, but it was not cut off, only missed. Li Cao and Lin Xi swung their knives at the cobweb, but the cobweb was tough and soft, and the two of them couldn't cut it, and it was too late to hide, so they could only watch themselves being covered underneath.
The demon spider saw the right moment and fell from the sky. Seeing that Lin Xi and Li Cao were in a predicament and couldn't get out, Zu Zhenlin and Li Ji hurriedly came to help. Li Ji hit a stronger attack, snapping his fingers in a row, and one after another wind blades slashed out, and after intensive shooting, the hard carapace was shattered, and the body of the demon spider was cut to pieces. A wind blade happened to slash through the junction of the demon spider's chest and abdomen, directly splitting it in two, and accidentally discovered their weakness, but in the face of absolute strength, it was useless.
Zu Zhenlin cast the 'Ten Thousand Swords', and ten gray sword qi quickly stabbed out, stabbing the demon spiders into a sieve in the blink of an eye, killing all five demon spiders.
"I didn't expect it to be a bit of a problem. Li Ji said with a smile.
Zu Zhenlin nodded, the two of them broke the cobweb, rescued the person, and then took out the magic crystal, looked at the size and color, and estimated that there were only two big ones that would be useful, and they would not lose money if they were refined into the pill. This activity of the academy was originally a loss-making business, like Zu Zhenlin, the demonic beasts in this area where they were located did not enter the stream at all, and the magic crystals would not be of much use.
The four of them packed up and walked around the cave again, but they didn't find any other demon spiders, so they didn't delay any longer and walked out of the cave. As I walked, I suddenly heard the sound of rushing water overhead, and I followed the sound of the water and soon saw the light of day.
A horse train flowed down from the air, and the water was gentle, forming a mountain stream and going away. The people began to walk along the stream, and gradually entered the valley. The valley is quiet, and the stream flows into a turquoise pool, the depth of which is silent, except for the constant ripples on the surface of the water.
Zu Zhenlin and the four of them walked along the shore, and a sudden change occurred, and something shot out of the water, like a rope, entangled Li Ji's calf. Then the water boils and the waves keep splashing.
Li Ji looked left and right, and his mind was scattered, so he was successfully attacked. However, at the moment when the rope pulled him hard, the aura in his body was turbulent, his body was like a rock, and the ground was sunken, but he didn't move.
Li Cao drew his knife to help, and the knife exploded, slashing down, and cutting it off. Blood splattered and quickly retracted into the water. Li Ji didn't want to let it go, so he dodged and followed, grabbing the rope in his hand, it was slimy, it turned out to be a tongue.
The monster in the water was unwilling to give in, and pulled back desperately, and the waves became even greater. The monster gradually couldn't hold on, and it surfaced, it was a big fish covered with black scales all over its body, and there was actually a horn on its head, like a sharp sword.
The magic fish got closer and closer to the shore, and suddenly Li Ji felt his tongue loosen in his hand, and saw the big fish jump out of the water and shoot at him like an arrow from the string. Li Ji let go of his tongue and flashed to the side. The demon fish pierced the air, and its sharp horns pierced a huge mountain rock, and it was completely rooted. The big fish frantically wags its tail, but it can't get out of the boulder.
"This stupid fish actually wants to die with me, and die together. Li Ji laughed.
"I really didn't expect it, but looking at its fins, it should be able to stab you to death and then return to the water. Zu Zhenlin said.
Li Ji looked at it and nodded in agreement.
The scale armor of the whole body of the demon fish is like fine iron, which is not easy to pierce. Li Cao took advantage of its breathing to stab it in the cheek and killed it.
The four of them wandered aimlessly, and began to encounter all kinds of strange monsters, including a demon monkey with a hairless body and covered with scale armor, a centipede more than a foot long and scarlet all over, and a magic horse with red eyes and horns on its forehead, etc., which made people open their eyes.