Chapter 60: The Deadwood Mantis
With a flash of white light in front of him, Ye Xuan came to an unfamiliar environment.
He looked around and saw that it was a dense forest, with birds chirping and wild beasts roaring in the sky, showing great vitality.
"This is the secret realm?"
Ye Xuan muttered to himself, closed his eyes to feel it, and then exclaimed: "What a rich heaven and earth aura, almost several times that of the outside world, it is worthy of the Immortal Cave Mansion!" ”
He looked excited, carefully probed around, and soon made a discovery.
"Fan fairy grass, phoenix flower, dragon oil ginkgo fruit, vine orchid green branches......"
Ye Xuan looked at the herbs all over the ground and laughed: "It's developed!" These herbs that have been extinct in the outside world can be seen everywhere here, and each one is hundreds of years old, God help me! ”
Only such a unique environment as the secret realm can give birth to so many medicinal materials, Ye Xuan can't wait to sing a song to express his mood at this time.
He bent down and began to harvest, moving cautiously, and took out the red gourd on his waist and collected the medicinal herbs inside.
This is actually a storage artifact, and there is a space of about ten square meters inside, which Master Luo lent him to use to hold things.
With this thing, Ye Xuan can scavenge as much as he wants, without worrying about the future.
Of course, he won't do anything to catch fish, he only collects mature herbs that are more than a hundred years old, and those that are not mature still let them grow.
After a quick search, Ye Xuan gained a lot, so he chose a random direction and continued to explore.
Along the way, he encountered many animals, which were exceptionally large and agile due to their aura, and a rabbit ran wildly at a speed comparable to that of a cheetah outside.
In addition to animals, there are also a variety of exotic plants that look like ancient species and are gorgeous and colorful.
Ye Xuan jumped on the branches, his eyes patrolling his feet, not letting go of any precious herbs.
Suddenly, he stopped, looked at a flower blooming proudly not far away, and looked overjoyed.
"It's a colorful flower!"
The flower has seven petals, and it increases by one color in a hundred years, and the mature body has a total of seven colors, which is an elixir for healing internal injuries.
The plant in front of Ye Xuan was a seven-hundred-year-old mature body, and the petals swayed with the wind, flashing with colorful brilliance.
"Haha, I'm so lucky, I have encountered such rare herbs!"
Ye Xuan did not rush out recklessly, but first observed the surroundings to confirm that there was no danger, and then jumped down from the tree.
However, before he could get closer, a sudden change occurred.
I saw a sudden sound of rustling in the grass, and then two phantoms attacked him like lightning, Ye Xuan's face changed, and he jumped up.
He wanted to avoid it before making a plan, but the thing in the grass jumped up, instantly wrapped around his feet, and pulled down heavily.
A huge force came, and Ye Xuan fell to the ground involuntarily, and at the same time felt a tingling pain in his ankle, faintly sour.
"Poisonous!"
Ye Xuan reacted immediately, and the moment he landed, he suddenly rolled forward, this action saved his life, because two spikes suddenly appeared on the spot, if he hadn't dodged in time, he would have been pierced.
"Cloud Piercing Sword!"
Ye Xuan drank suddenly, and six short swords flew out with a roar, cutting off the thing wrapped around his ankle, and he jumped backwards and opened the distance.
When he landed, his feet suddenly went limp, and he almost fell to the ground.
"It's poisonous!"
He hurriedly took out an antidote pill and took it, looked down at his ankles, only to find that the attacker turned out to be two vines with slender spikes on the surface.
Ye Xuan kicked off the vines, and there was a rustling sound in front of him again, these vines were hidden in the dense grass, and it was impossible to judge how many there were for a while.
"Let you hide!"
Ye Xuan pinched the trick with both hands, condensed into a huge fireball, and slammed it on the ground.
There was a loud roar, and the scorching flames spread rapidly, burning the grass to the ground.
"Squeak!"
In the firelight, the vines screamed and twisted, and suddenly stabbed towards Ye Xuan, there were dozens of them, dense like a rain of arrows.
Ye Xuan pinched the sword technique in his hand, and manipulated the Cloud Piercing Sword to dance into a barrier in front of him, and the cold sword light cut off all these vines.
However, more vines rushed up, twisting like snakes on the ground, dense enough to make people's scalps tingle.
These vines surrounded him and poured in from all directions, Ye Xuan secretly said that it was not good, and if he continued like this, he would be consumed sooner or later.
He gritted his teeth, and the sword light suddenly retracted, and the six flying swords condensed into a snow-bright flying cluster in front of him, making a hole in the encirclement.
At the same time, Ye Xuan jumped forward, and among the countless vine fragments, he grabbed the colorful flowers, uprooted them, and put them into the gourd space.
The vines seemed to be enraged, and they surged even more frantically, Ye Xuan ran forward, and at the same time controlled the Cloud Piercing Sword to cut off the attacking vines.
The earth shook, and the vines seemed endless, like a giant beast.
They climb trees, connect together, and shade the sky.
"Whoop!"
When Ye Xuan saw this apocalyptic scene, his expression was shocked, he no longer saved the true yuan, and suddenly cast a ghost step, turning into a string of phantoms, and quickly disappeared into the depths of the jungle.
The vines eventually returned in vain, devouring a few innocent animals, then slowly subsided, and silence returned to the forest, as if nothing had happened.
Ye Xuan ran a long way, and it wasn't until he was sure that he was safe that he lifted the ghost step, and he was panting tiredly.
There happened to be a piece of dead wood next to him, and he bent over it, intending to rest.
Who knew that the dead wood suddenly rolled, and Ye Xuan fell to the sky.
Click, click!
As it rolled, the dead wood began to deform, protruding its serrated limbs and its long flat head, its gray eyes rolling flexibly, and two machetes erected at the front ends, standing up to a height of three meters.
This is a scaled version of the praying mantis, gray all over its body, raising its machete and slashing directly at him.
Ye Xuan rolled and dodged a donkey, and the sharp machete sank into the ground effortlessly, and the blade exuded a cold light.
"It's a long life!"
As soon as Ye Xuan remembered that he was sitting on this guy just now, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, this was a first-order demon beast.
The praying mantis made a creaking sound, its body squatted down, and it suddenly jumped up and swooped towards Ye Xuan.
His front paws were staggered, and two giant knives slashed down in a cross shape.
Ye Xuan raised his hand and swung out a fireball, never thinking that it would be cut by the sword light, the fire was shining, and the blade was not damaged.
Ye Xuan's eyes lit up, this should be a good material for refining weapons, the assessment requires a demon beast inner pill, this big guy can't let it go!
He made up his mind, and six cloud-piercing swords flew out, two of them blocked in front of the sword, and the other four slashed an arc in mid-air, stabbing through the back of the mantis giant beast, instantly splitting him into corpses.
A miserable green liquid spilled on the ground, filling the air with a fishy stench.
Ye Xuan cut off the two giant knives, put them into the gourd with Neidan, and then left quickly.
After that, while collecting medicinal herbs, he avoided the attacks of demon beasts, and the various creatures in the secret realm also opened his eyes.
There are huge lizards more than five meters long, colorful butterflies with wings the size of door panels, and black spiders with ghostly faces.
In a valley, he suddenly heard the laughter of a baby, which was so strange and creepy.
Ye Xuan checked carefully and found a gorgeous flower bush, the red petals slowly bloomed, and inside was a baby face, looking innocent.
But is that really the case?
Ye Xuan waited for a while, and saw a flying bird hovering in the sky, swooping down, the baby's expression suddenly changed, his eyes were greedy and resentful, and his mouth grew hideous fangs, and he swarmed up and ate the birds.
Seeing this kind of scene, Ye Xuan quietly retreated, becoming more and more vigilant in his heart.
Obviously, the secret realm is not only a precious resource, but also full of dangers, and if you are not careful, you will die without a place to bury.
He was not the only one who had such thoughts, almost all the monks who participated in the assessment encountered various crises after entering the secret realm.
In just one day, of the 52 monks who participated in the assessment, 14 were eliminated by using the teleportation array, and three others died before they could even use it.
The road to cultivating immortals is full of ups and downs, and life and death are often in one thought!
And so, night came, and darkness covered the land.
Ye Xuan found a hidden tree hole as a hiding place, he closed his eyes to recuperate, but his mind did not relax, as long as there was wind and grass around, he would notice it.
The roars of various beasts could be heard in the ears, and for some creatures, the night was not an obstacle, but a natural hunting ground.