Chapter Fifty-Six: Bringing the Snake In
The next day, Zhang Xin's hunting time was still after noon. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
What made Xie Linger happy was that this time Zhang Xin really kept his promise, and not only her, but also Zhou Xiaoxue. It was only not long after the three of them walked out of Xiaoshiju that they saw a group of people in the south direction, walking in the opposite direction.
Those who live in this vicinity can only be the disciples of Tianzhu Mountain. It's just that Zhang Xin looked at the situation of these people, but it was not good, not only were they all depressed, but they also had some minor or serious injuries on their bodies.
After Xie Ling'er took a closer look, her face also changed slightly: "Brother Xin, you wait for me." ”
Before she could finish speaking, she ran towards the group and found the two girls in the group talking.
After a while, when Xie Ling'er returned, she was a little distracted: "Those two are my classmates in the Huiling class, and they have dealt with each other once before. They teamed up with a few people from the nearby stations to form a hunting group, and it is said that there were more than 30 disciples from the top 32 in it. But as a result, he successfully hunted three spirit beasts two days ago, but today he was unlucky and encountered a group of thorny wolves, and more than a dozen people in the hunting group were eliminated. It is said that two more were directly stabbed in the head, even those invigilators, and they couldn't be saved, and one of them was also from the Huiling class. ”
Hearing this, Zhou Xiaoxue's face turned pale for a while. She glanced at Zhang Xin with some puzzlement, she couldn't understand why this person could hunt spirit beasts so easily, and how he could walk freely in the south where spirit beasts were dense.
In the past few days, the harvest of this one person alone is equivalent to a hunting group of nearly 100 people.
Zhang Xin had no different colors, and his reaction was flat. In the ten years when he first joined the Sun Moon Xuanzong in his previous life, half of his time was spent in the Tibetan Scripture Hall, and the other half was spent hunting evil beasts. Sometimes he walked alone, sometimes he was in the company of his fellow hunters, and several of his friends who had good friendships in the past fell one after another outside the mountains, or even died in front of his eyes.
Like such a sad thing, once he has experienced too much, he can also deal with it calmly. Only the battle of Guanglin Mountain, he can't forget. Those people did not die at the hands of evil beasts, but were betrayed by their own people.
"This is just an introductory exam, once you become a spirit master, you will have to hunt evil beasts outside the mountains, and there will be no invigilator to save people. ”
Zhang Xin said as he looked at the second daughter with deep meaning: "If you are afraid, there is still room for regret." ”
"Who's scared?"
Xie Ling'er snorted softly, but then she looked at Zhou Xiaoxue. saw that although the latter had a pale face, he had no intention of retreating. This made Xie Ling'er feel proud, thinking that the friends she Xie Ling'er had made were really different.
Zhang Xin was not surprised, and then he casually threw a leather bag into Xie Ling'er's hand: "If you don't regret it, sprinkle this on your body." ”
"What is this?" Xie Ling'er looked puzzled.
"It's the grass juice of Mochizuki grass. ”
Zhang Xin casually explained: "This thing can suppress the smell of the body, deceive the sense of smell of those spirit animals, and to a certain extent, avoid snakes and insects." In fact, if you can tolerate the itch, the effect is better when applied all over the body. As long as you don't get close to a hundred feet, you don't have to worry about being discovered. ”
"And that's it? But I've never heard of it before. ”
Xie Ling'er was a little stunned, thinking that the Moon Gazing Grass still had such a function, and the teachers of the Huiling Class had never mentioned it to them. It was not only about teaching them spiritual paths, but also about hunting beyond the mountains.
Since this thing has such a use, then it must also be widely circulated within Xuanzong.
"It's not surprising that you haven't heard of it, my thing is also an exclusive secret recipe, and it is mixed with the juice of several other plants and trees. However, those hunting groups are not needed, and it is necessary to know that beyond the mountains, there are many spirit animals with keen inspiration. And so many spirit masters gathered together, those spirit beasts can't be discovered unless they are idiots. ”
After Zhang Xin finished explaining, he smiled again: "So don't look at the fact that there are only three of us, but there are also advantages of fewer people." ”
Xie Ling'er was skeptical, but after a little thought, she opened the skin and chose the way to apply it.
The grass juice of this Mochizuki grass is indeed itchy, but since she is going to take the path of a spirit master, it is impossible for her to not even be able to endure this little suffering.
Zhou Xiaoxue was the same, she thought that since Zhang Xin could come and go freely in the forest plains to the south, there must be a reason.
After that, the three of them went all the way south, and sure enough, they walked more than 20 miles safely, without any danger. On the one hand, the grass juice on the three of them does have a miraculous effect. The second is Zhou Xiaoxue's spiritual energy perception, which can enable them to avoid those powerful spirit beasts in advance.
In addition, Zhou Xiaoxue also noticed that Zhang Xin has always traveled along the water, and the farthest distance will not exceed ten miles. This made her subconsciously look at the pair of treading boots that were a few sizes bigger than her feet. I thought that Zhang Xin asked her to practice the 'Treading Wave Technique', which turned out to be the reason.
This is indeed a good way, if she encounters any danger along the way, she only needs to use this magic weapon to escape to the other bank, or just tread water in the river, and she can avoid at least ninety percent of the danger.
And in that water, although there are also murderous things in the crocodile. But because the scale of this small river is not large, there are very few spirit beasts, so you just need to be careful, and you won't worry about safety.
The three of them didn't stop until they came to a hill, but after Zhang Xin arrived here, he didn't start hunting, but instructed Xie Ling'er and Zhou Xiaoxue to dig a pit.
It was not a pit, it was less than four feet deep, but the width and length of the pit were three hundred zhang square. After that, Zhang Xin buried more than 90 bone knives in this pit. The materials were all taken from the ribs of the spirit beast he had killed before, and they were cut last night.
Xie Ling'er tried it and found that these bone knives were not only tough, but also extremely sharp. Compared with the real knife, it is not much inferior. This made her secretly amazed, feeling that her brother's craftsmanship was really not ordinary.
But this is actually Ruo'er's handiwork, and the credit is taken by Zhang Xin.
The pit was dug and the bone knife was buried. The three of them then brought some dry river sand from the nearby river bank, filled in the small pits, and buried all the bone knives in the sand.
By the time we had done that, it was already evening.
"And then, what's next?"
Xie Ling'er's face was strange, she was actually very puzzled in her heart, and she didn't understand what Zhang Xin's actions were. Could it be that he could bring back a spirit beast just like this every day?
But as soon as the words came out, she saw Zhang Xin looking over with a smile.
"The next step is to lure the snake in, and three days ago near here, I found a snake nest with a three-headed horned forest worm. It's a pity that I can't take it down. But now it's okay, all it takes is a decoy to lure them over. ”
"Bait?"
Xie Ling'er was not slow to react, and in just a moment, she thought of the 'bait' in Zhang Xin's mouth, most of which was herself. Her little face was suddenly slightly bitter.
But then Xie Ling'er asked in surprise: "Is it the Horned Forest Snake?"
This is incredible, although it is a first-level spirit beast, it is huge, and its spiritual energy is several times that of ordinary spirit beasts. Among all spirit beasts, it is the one with stronger combat power and more dangerous. And this time, it's three heads!