Chapter 51: Night in the Northern Plains
There is no night in the northern plains, and there are twelve hours of day in the day. And all day long, snow and ice, cold and frost.
In an unknown ice city deep in the Northern Plains, everyone who lives here has an unusually pale face, but their lips are as red as blood. Although people come and go, they don't emit a single sound, like the walking dead.
There is a palace in the center of the ice city, the palace is cut off from all light sources, and darkness is the only hue. In the deep darkness, only a few wisps of blue fire danced.
"The blood mirror is changing, has the emperor's bloodline been born?"
Above the palace, a strange man sat lazily on a throne, holding an ice crystal wine glass with a red liquid and the rusty smell of blood.
In front of him was a round mirror, floating in the air, shaking incessantly.
The man's slender finger pointed at the center of the round mirror, and the round mirror calmed down, and the debut ripples appeared. The ripples dissipated, and a picture emergedβit was the Ecstasy Phantom Forest!
The man closed his eyes and sniffed deeply at the smell of blood from the wine glass in his hand. For a moment, he poured the red liquid from his glass onto the round mirror. Miraculously, the round mirror actually "drank" all the red liquid into it like a human.
"It turned out to be the blood of an old friend. The man's voice was soft and audible, and his tone was joyful.
After the man finished speaking, he returned to his lazy appearance, waved his hand, and a young girl in the prime of cardamom floated and flew in front of the man, with only a look of horror in her eyes.
The man reached out and gently stroked the girl's face as if he were a lover.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. β
The man's voice seemed to be full of magic, and the girl's frightened eyes gradually subsided. She took a knife from her bosom, slit her wrist without hesitation, and placed it on the cup in the man's hand, warm blood running down it. Soon, the crystal glass was once again filled with red liquid.
The man took a sip, and his blood-like lips opened lightly, and he said.
"Xiao Qi is just about to break through the general realm, so let him change his bloodline. Night, too, should be coming. β
The night of the northern plains, its name is stolen by blood.
......
At the same time, the Southern Wilderness was once again lively, in a tavern in Yingyuan City.
"Soon, isn't it?
"One month and eight days!"
"Great! This time, I've been preparing for a whole decade! I see who else can compete with me!"
"His grandmother's! Everything in the emperor's mound is Lao Tzu's! Whoever dares to rob it, I will cut it down!"
The tavern is very lively, but the street outside the tavern is surrounded by a large group of ladies, although they cannot be said to be beautiful, but they are also rare beauties.
It's just that, for some reason, they were generous in the past, but now they are surrounded by a jewelry shop. In the jewelry shop, a smiling beautiful boy is accompanying his beautiful female companion to choose jewelry.
......
Ecstasy Fantasy Forest.
Zige and Fu Haozhong hooked their shoulders, although they only got along for a short time, these two were already brothers and sisters, and they hated to see each other late.
Now, the two of them are in the Enchanted Forest, one is looking for Hengmu, and the other is looking for [Needle Flower]. This is a needle-like flower, which is used as medicine to decoct the grandparents of the brothers and sisters who are sick in bed.
They didn't know that the two old men were not sick, but weak.
"Hengmu and Needle Flower have to cross most of the Ecstasy Phantom Forest and go to the other end. Fu Haozhong pushed aside the weeds in front of him and said.
"Is there any danger over there?" Zige asked.
"It's the territory of the [Red Tiger]. It seems that Fu Haozhong is very familiar with the Ecstasy Phantom Forest.
Red Tiger, a medium-grade demon beast, is known for its explosive speed and strong bite.
"Eh, by the way, the last time I met a flower with two rows of jagged teeth, and a tree full of dead bones, and a dead leaf that turns into a butterfly, what are they?" Zige asked, haunting the creatures he had encountered earlier.
"You should be talking about [Gluttonous Flower], [Bone Tree] and [Colorful Withered Butterfly]. β
"Gluttony eats everything, even the two-headed python we met before, it dares to eat it, the only non-harmful plant in the Ecstasy Forest of the Bone Tree, it will use its branches to collect nearby bones, and then digest the bones as nutrients, and the Colorful Dead Butterfly is one of the most terrifying creatures in the Ecstasy Forest, it is neither a monster nor a plant. They are good at camouflaging as fallen leaves, and once someone passes by, they turn into multicolored butterflies, turning everything they see into dead leaves. β
"The scariest thing about the colorful dead butterflies is that they live in groups, and if they come across them, they are usually in large groups. You've survived them before, lucky enough kid!" Fu Haozhong teased.
", am I lucky?
"Shhhhhh
There was a roar in the wind, and it sounded angry.
"It's the voice of the Red Tiger!" Fu Haozhong's martial arts realm was stronger, and he quickly recognized the voice.
"Let's take a look?" Zige suggested, still as curious about the unknown as ever.
"Good. Fu Haozhong agreed neatly, and it seems that he is also a restless master.
The two of them lowered their steps and cautiously walked in the direction of the tiger's roar, the closer they got to the tiger's roar, the more angry and anxious the sound became.
The two of them hid in a giant tree on the side, just enough to see the situation in front of them without being discovered by the red tiger.
I saw a red tiger and a spider hanging from a white web facing each other.
"Three-colored poisonous spider!" Fu Haozhong exclaimed, showing a look of surprise.
Three-color poisonous spider, a medium-grade demon beast, is known for being good at catching opponents with nets and a body of poison. Its toxins are far more intense than the double-headed python, and the extraordinary detoxification pill can be solved.
"Three-colored poisonous spider?" Zige asked, it wasn't that he didn't know about this kind of demon beast, but Fu Haozhong's reaction was a little too much, which made him a little puzzled.
"The pattern of the Ecstasy Phantom Forest can be roughly divided into three parts, each of which has a powerful demon beast in charge. The double-headed python and the red tiger that we killed, and the ......"
"Three-colored poisonous spider?" Zige continued.
"Hmm. Fu Haozhong nodded.
Zige immediately understood why Fu Haozhong was so surprised when he saw the three-colored poisonous spider.
Because generally speaking, demon beasts have a strong sense of territory, and they will either drive out or kill the intruders of the same kind of demon beasts that enter their own territory, and in the same way, they will not easily invade the territory of other demon beasts, because it is a provocation to the original owner.
In the World of Monsters, an invasion of the Lordlands is often seen as a declaration of war. And the consequences of a declaration of war can only end with death.
"How could this three-colored poisonous spider come to the territory of the Red Tiger? The strength of the two of them is not much different, shouldn't they do such a thing? Could it be that the three-colored poisonous spider was driven out by another demon beast?" Fu Haozhong seemed to be asking Zige, and as if he was asking himself.
"That's not right!" Zige's face changed, and he suddenly said, "Ah Zhong, if you look at that red tiger carefully, is its aura very unstable?"
When Fu Haozhong heard this, he carefully felt the state of the red tiger, and found that it was indeed as Zige said, and nodded.
Zige continued: "Generally speaking, there are only two reasons why the demon beast has an unstable breath. β
"Which two?" Fu Haozhong asked.
"One, it's badly injured, so it can't control its breath. Zige shook his head after finishing speaking, "But there are no obvious wounds on Chihu's body, so he shouldn't be seriously injured." β
"What about the second?" Fu Haozhong continued to ask.
"Second, this red tiger has just given birth! The fertility rate of demon beasts is low, in order to ensure that the offspring can be born smoothly, they usually use most of their strength to protect their children, and the demon beasts at this time are the weakest!" Zi Ge's analysis was the head, so that Fu Haozhong couldn't help but nod frequently.
"This red tiger is indeed a female, you should be right when you say that. But......" Fu Haozhong turned his head to stare at Zige, "How do you know so much? You can't be a demon beast, right?"
Zige sighed, patted Fu Haozhong's shoulder, stared at Fu Haozhong affectionately, and said seriously: "Ah Zhong, people are ugly, you have to study more, you know?"
Fu Haozhong nodded thoughtfully, then slapped his elbow on Zige's chest and raised his tail finger, which was the meaning of the Jiwu Continent's contempt. Zige silently showed a mouthful of neat white teeth, and then continued to look at the confrontation between the red tiger and the three-colored poisonous spider.
The red tiger roared and roared at the three-colored poisonous spider, but he did not dare to attack. Once it launches an attack, the truth that its aura is unstable and its strength has regressed will be immediately seen through by the three-colored poisonous spider. The three-colored poisonous spider was not in a hurry, ignoring the red tiger's warning, and kept hanging on the net, seemingly waiting for the opportunity.
Chihu saw that his old neighbor was just relying on him and not leaving, and he no longer roared, but directly launched an attack, if it dragged on any longer, it would only become weaker and weaker, and it would be difficult to fight to the death when the time came.
The Red Tiger is worthy of being the Red Tiger, and the instantaneous explosion speed made Zige and Fu Haozhong not see it clearly, this is already comparable to the speed of the martial arts of the General Realm.
The red tiger opened its mouth to bite the three-colored poisonous spider, this is the same way of fighting, even if the red tiger bites the three-colored poisonous spider to death, the strong toxin in the three-color poisonous spider will kill it. But now the Red Tiger can't manage so much, if it doesn't fight to the death, then it will die later.
Can...... Even if it wants to die, it will drag the enemy to the end!
It's a pity that the three-colored poisonous spider has long formed a web of heaven and earth, and as long as there is a spider web, it is its main battlefield. As soon as the red tiger pounced, the three-colored poisonous spider had already crawled onto another web, and at the same time spit out the spider silk in its mouth towards the red tiger.
The red tiger was already weak, and before it could turn around, it was stuck with spider silk, and its biggest advantage disappeared in an instant.
Seeing that the red tiger was trapped by the spider silk, the three-colored poisonous spider showed joy, and made persistent efforts to spit out a larger spider web to trap the red tiger.
A red tiger bound by a spider's web is equivalent to having its teeth extracted, and the three-colored poisonous spider crawls along the spider's web towards the red tiger, revealing its fangs. Even though the red tiger is trapped, the cunning three-colored poisonous spider still does not completely approach the red tiger, but injects venom into the spider silk, and then injects the toxin into the red tiger's body through the spider silk.
The red tiger who was poisoned was even more sluggish, and even the strength of the struggle slowly weakened. Seeing that the three-colored poisonous spider was about to kill the red tiger, Fu Haozhong, who was hiding in the tree, stood up.
"What are you doing?" Zige asked.
"I'm going to save it!" Fu Haozhong was categorical.
"You're crazy!" Zige stood up and pressed Fu Haozhong's shoulder, "They are demon beasts!"
Fu Haozhong put down Zige's hand and said, "Zige, didn't you say that it just gave birth? I know that I don't have the taste of a father and mother when I am born, although it is a demon beast, I still have to save it!"
Zige was stunned, and when he was stunned, Fu Haozhong had already rushed over.
"Damn, don't I know what it's like to lose my father? I didn't say no, can't I make a plan first?"
Saying that, the speed of stepping on the sky has been launched, catching up with Fu Haozhong.
He himself seemed to have forgotten that when he saved Fu Yuerong, he had no plan.