When evening is about to fall, the Taihang Mountains are as quiet as ever.

But tonight, in the silence, there is an inexplicable anxiety, in the mountains at the southern foot of Taihang, there are wild beasts roaring from time to time, and there is some panic and anxiety in that roar.

In the mountains and forests, a wild boar weighing five or six hundred pounds, covered with a mane, sharp fangs, and stubby limbs, galloped like crazy.

It's like a small black tank, and everywhere it goes, the grass and trees are broken, and the dirt is flying.

Such a beast, in this mountain forest, is a first-class beast king, ordinary hunters, when encountering such fierce beasts, they must be far away.

Even the tigers and leopards in the mountains did not dare to provoke such brute beasts.

But now, the beast king let out a terrified roar as he ran, his two little eyes were all red, and in the snort, it was obvious that he was fighting for his life.

Behind it, there were also beasts.

Foxes, rabbits, frightened squeaky monkeys, unnamed beasts, and even beasts that have natural predators and cannot coexist at all, will run together in the woods.

They didn't dare to stop, there was a rustling sound that made people's scalps tingle, like the chirping of insects, and like the shaking of scales across the earth.

Everywhere, everywhere.

A leopard jumped over the treetops and landed on the ground, just as a gray rabbit jumped over, and the leopard did not want to give up the delicious food.

One mouth, and the rabbit is held in the mouth.

It's a waste of time.

In the next moment, a black shadow stabbed from behind, like lightning, and bit the leopard, and its slender body twisted like a whip, entangling the leopard.

The muscles exert force, and there is a clicking sound of bone cracking.

Every moment, something like this happens.

The beasts refused to just close their eyes and wait for death, and the beasts' desire to survive made them endure even the fire that they had hated and feared before.

Seeing that there was no way to escape from the surroundings, the arrogant boar beast king turned around and ran wildly towards the place where the bonfire was.

It wasn't the first to choose this route.

When it roared out of the forest and into the campfire, it was greeted by a group of two-legged beasts with swords and swords, and extremely vigilant.

Near this campfire, blood rushed to the nose.

At the edge of the fire, more than a dozen beast carcasses had been dropped.

"It's a beast tide!"

Wuyang Zhenren, who was holding the long sword, saw the wild boar pounce, took a step sideways, and the long sword in his hand stabbed down sharply, white light flashed, and the blade entered the body, piercing into the skin of the wild boar's blade.

And there was a sword aura, which split the beast in two.

The pungent blood filled the forest, making the rushing beasts even more frenzied.

"Get out of the way!"

The real person turned around and shouted, and the dozen or so pure yang elite disciples behind him immediately scattered around, and those beasts ignored them, howling and stepping on the bonfire, and rushed over.

"There's still something, retreat!"

Dongfang Ce in the crowd roared, and the Xuan Snake Sword in his hand stabbed forward, dancing out a sword wheel, slashing the things flying in the night to the ground.

Several colorful snakes were cut off by a sword, but the severed bodies fell to the ground, still twisting left and right, and looked extraordinary.

The female disciple in the crowd was taken aback and exclaimed.

But in the next moment, her screams were pressed back into her throat, because they saw the culprit who caused the beast tide.

Snake!

It's all snakes!

Densely packed, large and small, thousands of snakes, rolled together, like a twisted tide, tumbling forward from the grass, from the trees, and from the ground.

Those slender things spit out letters, entangled together, and behind some big snakes, there are more than a dozen colorful snakes, which make people's scalps numb.

"Evil beast!"

Seeing the group of snakes rushing towards his disciple, the fiery old man roared angrily, his true qi exploded, and he swept into the group of snakes with a long sword in his hand.

The hand rises and falls, and the seven-cut swordsmanship in one hand is unreserved.

In the midst of the sword qi, the trees were cut off, the turf flew wildly, and any snake that entered the seven-foot sword circle of the Wuyang real person, regardless of the type, whether it was poisonous or not, was shattered by the unclear sword light.

For a master of the rivers and lakes like Wuyang Zhenren, the group of snakes gathered together is not a threat at all.

Behind him, the disciples also drew their swords one after another under the command of Dongfang Ce, but when the poison stepped forward, they would be cut down with a sword, and Dongfang Ce, a chivalrous man who was used to walking the rivers and lakes, would bring some medicine with him.

He threw several porcelain bottles from his cuffs and smashed them on the ground, and yellow powder sprinkled around, emitting a pungent smell that caused the snakes to retreat in a hissing sound.

Realgar powder.

This thing repels snakes.

"Don't be afraid, hold steady."

Dongfang Ce held the Xuan Snake Sword and shouted to his brothers:

"The Demon Sect has all been beaten, and they are still afraid that the beasts will not succeed? They can't hurt us. ”

As soon as these words fell, Wuyang Zhenren, who was slaughtering the snakes over there, let out an exclamation, causing everyone to look back, and they all burst into the dead.

A giant python five or six zhang long, with a green body and the thickness of a person, flew out of the forest and was fighting with the real person of Wuyang.

The strange snake's eyes were blood-red, and it seemed to be dotted with lanterns in the dark night.

The strangest thing is that there is a strange bulge on the shield-shaped head, like a horn.

"Bell"

Wuyang Zhenren's sword brought out the sword shadow and slashed in front of him, but when it slashed at the scales of the strange snake, it only brought out a spark, and it failed to tear apart the body of the strange snake.

But the master of the half-step heavenly list, how heavy is the power of a sword, and the addition of true qi, the power is even greater.

The strange snake was hit in the head, and although the scales were intact, the true qi entered the body, shattering the brain marrow, causing its eyes to burst with blood, twisting and falling to the ground and convulsing.

I can't live anymore.

"Master, be careful!"

Wuyang Zhenren was about to lean over to see the strange snake's situation, when he heard an exclamation behind him, he raised his head, and four or five black shadows scurried up from the night.

All of them are like the strange snakes killed by him, and their bodies are five or six feet long.

The red triangular eyes are like red lanterns in the night, probably because they see that Wuyang is really powerful, and these snakes also open their mouths and spew out strange poisonous gases.

The disciples were anxious to save the master, and immediately several people flew out of the crowd, trying to block the attack of the strange snake for the master, but in the next moment, except for Dongfang Ce.

Several other people were all blown out by the monster snake's huge force.

They fell to the ground, their faces blue, apparently poisoned by the snake in a split second of contact.

"Bang"

Seeing that the disciple was injured, Wuyang Zhenren couldn't suppress his fiery temper anymore, and slashed the two strange snakes out with a sword, and then slashed his hand out with a palm.

Under one palm, all the surrounding five zhang were emptied.

Over there, Dongfang Ce also used his strong true qi to shock a strange snake to death, and was about to step forward to slash and kill, but was called by the master.

"East!"

Wuyang Zhenren held the sword upside down, looking at the strange snake circling in the night in front of him, he said coldly to the big disciple beside him:

"Protect your junior brothers and sisters, retreat first! As a teacher today, you have to kill demons and demons! ”

Seeing more strange snakes swimming out of the forest, Dongfang Ce also knew that it was not good.

These strange snakes are not afraid of swords, and they have great power and poison, and they are very difficult, and they and the master can cope with it, but the younger brothers and sisters are afraid of casualties.

He retreated with his sword, stuffed a few antidote pills into the mouths of the poisoned disciples, protected them, and retreated into the mountains in the direction of the beast tide.

As for Master...

Don't worry.

Master is also a master of the half-step heavenly list, but these strange snakes can't hurt him.

"Senior brother!"

A female disciple grabbed Dongfang Ce's wrist and said in an anxious tone:

"There are strange snakes all around, but this road is not, those snakes, are they trying to deliberately force us in that direction?"

Dongfang Ce nodded, and with a sword in his hand, he slashed a few poisonous snakes that were sneaking up.

He had this thought in his heart.

These strange snakes are really weird, and they only leave a way for them to walk, which is really like chasing and hunting.

And the direction in which this road leads is also odd.

"Immortal Gate Ruins, they want to force us there!"

Dongfang Ce carried the poisoned junior brother, he said a word, and then there was a junior sister who liked to think more and said:

"Could it be that these strange snakes were the mountain protection spirit beasts domesticated by the Xianmen back then, and this appearance is to annoy me to wait for the ruins to be opened?"

"I don't know."

The elder brother replied.

His mind was full of thoughts, and he felt as if things were not so simple.

The master treated them to Taihang this time, nominally to hunt for treasures, but in fact, the master showed that he was not interested in those immortal treasures.

I've never been to the ruins.

The people of the Chunyang Sect do not walk with the people of the rivers and lakes, and the real people of Wuyang let the disciples go to explore the treasure, but they took the elite of the sect and found a camp in this mountain, and lived alone for nearly ten days.

He came to Taihang, as if he had made a special trip to wait for something to happen.

Tonight, this strange snake suddenly appeared, could it be something that Master was waiting for?

Leaving the broken Wuyang real person, this will be like Dongfang Ce, full of questions.

He was skillful, and after spending half a pillar of incense, he killed more than a dozen strange snakes, and these strange beasts seemed to know that this person was powerful, so they did not attack and kill again.

The real man crouched on the ground and sliced through the soft belly of the strange snake with the sword in his hand.

He's taking snake gall bladders and pumping snake tendons.

These strange beasts had never been seen before, and each of them was several feet long, wearing sturdy scale armor, and had horns on their foreheads, just like the legendary dragon, and they must also have natural treasures in their bodies.

This can be regarded as an opportunity in the rivers and lakes.

"Rustle"

There was another sound in the night, Wuyang Zhenren grabbed the sword, and when he looked back, he thought that there was another strange snake attacking.

But looking back, there was none.

In the next moment, Wuyang Zhenren lay down and hid beside the corpse of the strange snake in front of him.

He could see clearly that a dozen zhang away, a snake king with a length of ten zhang was swimming alone, and the shape was exactly the same as these strange snakes.

It's just that the bulge on the top of the head has given birth to a single horn, which really looks like a dragon.

That's not the point!

The point is that above the head raised by the snake king, there is a figure in a long robe, carrying a long sword, and holding a dusty hand.

The man walked against the snake, and a wind blew, blowing his robe and the ribbon behind him, and under the moonlight, hundreds of strange snakes followed him.

Those red lights are like ghost fires in the night, floating endlessly.

This strange scene really has the feeling of a fairy story.

Wuyang Zhenren clenched the sword in his hand.

The figure didn't seem to notice him, but the real person clearly felt that a breath of qi had just fallen on him.

He found out!

But he didn't pay attention to the real person of Wuyang who was hiding in the forest.

"Who is this man?"

The real man was suspicious, and watched the strange man disappear into the forest.

He stood up, took the gall bladder and tendon of the snake into his arms, and jumped into the treetops, and trampled to death a hanging poisonous snake that was about to sneak attack.

He looked at the direction of the Xianmen Ruins, got up silently, galloped through the forest, and chased after him.

"Could this be what Master sent me to Taixing to let me hear and see."

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On the other side, under the mountain peaks outside the Xianmen ruins, there was already a mess.

There are people from the rivers and lakes who have been driven here from all directions by a group of snakes, as well as local mountain people, even if there are Chonghe Daochang and Zhang Tugou suppressing the scene, this will be chaos in the valley.

Many people have been poisoned by snakes, and the wails are loud, which is still lucky.

The unfortunate ones could not have come here alive.

The mountain people who were driven here gathered together, chanting something to the gods, and listening carefully, they were praying for the blessing of the mountain ghosts.

These superstitious mountain people feel that today's python disaster must have been caused by these Jianghu people angering the mountain gods.

There were also some minor clashes between the two sides.

"Chonghe Dao Chief, those strange snakes stopped outside the valley, and they didn't rush in."

Dongfang Ce walked quickly, and said something in the ear of Chonghe Lao Dao, who nodded his head, held the dust, and looked at the increasingly dense night in front of him.

Not only Wuyang Zhenren, but also Chonghe Daochang also sensed that things had changed.

It's just that he knows more than Wuyang Zhenren.

"Strange beasts are in the world, coercing us and others, although Shen Qiu has many skills, but I have never heard of him having such methods."

Lao Tao thought in his heart:

"This royal snake seals the mountain, ordinary people can't do it, I think it should be Penglai's handiwork. The junior brother's guess was also fulfilled, these Penglai people are really not a good thing. ”

"Dao Chief, something happened."

Zhang Tugou, the head of the beggar gang, grabbed a strange green snake, restrained it with true qi, and played with it in his hand, the little snake was very good-looking, and it still exuded a little light in the night, just like a jade carving.

This is a strange spirit that Zhang Tugou just caught in the snake group, and it seems that he is preparing to raise a pet.

But at this time, the face of the big dragon head was not good-looking.

He walked briskly, and said to the hedge and the old way:

"The people in the hidden building, from the time they are in charge, are gone, and they may have slipped away while they were in chaos."

"Ahh

The exclamation exploded in the crowd, causing Lao Dao and the big dragon head to look back, and they saw that the crowd in the valley seemed to be dead, running towards the ruins.

In the shadowy night, the rustling sound that makes the scalp tingle is connected.

Around the valley, the entrenched snakes seemed to have received an order, and rushed towards the valley, and those strange snakes were even more crazy, rampaging through the crowd.

In an instant, more than a dozen people unfortunately died in Shekou.

"Get into the hole! Seal the hole! ”

Seeing that the situation was not good, Chong and Lao Dao roared, got up and flew to the back of the crowd, Zhang Tugou followed, and there were also masters in the crowd to support him, trying to block the rushing snakes.

There were also lighted torches that were thrown out in an attempt to break the snakes away.

Flying by the firelight, Chong and Lao Dao seemed to feel something, and looked up.

On the slope of the valley, there was a terrifying snake king entrenched, and above the head of the snake king, a Taoist man with a mask was looking this way.

"Thief!"

Seeing that the man was not the only one who was old-fashioned, there were a few hot-tempered ones, so they abandoned the snake group and rushed towards the man.

"Don't go!"

Zhang Tugou shouted, this person made the Alien Beast Snake King so docile, and sealed the mountain with ten thousand snakes, and the means were not human, and he was definitely not a mortal.

But late.

The Taoist who stood on top of the head of the snake king chuckled, pinched his fingers, and when there was a cold sword sound, it resounded through the night, and the ancient sword came out of its sheath and pierced into the air.

One is divided into two, and two is divided into four.

In an instant, a thousand lights turned into a sword, like a sword array, swept through the sky.

The master who swept into the air, without saying a word, was strangled by the sword light, and the flesh and blood turned into rain, sprinkled in the valley where the snakes were raging.

"Ignorant and mundane, dare to be noisy!"

Dong Lingjun hooked his fingers, and the ancient sword that flew out hissed and flew back, spinning around his body, like a spirit snake dancing wildly.

He looked at the retreating mortal warriors in the valley below, and a playful sigh came from under his mask.

"Benjun, I'm here for an appointment."