A round of blood-colored remnant sun quietly hung on the Holy Spirit Mountain in the west, and the entire Hundred Beast Forest was glowing red in the sunlight.

From time to time, a few piercing screams came from the depths of the dense forest, and I couldn't tell whether it was the cry of a spirit beast or the cry of other demon beasts, but I only knew that judging from the sound, the spirit level was not high.

"Why can't I meet so many spirit beasts?" Duan Feng complained depressedly.

Through the lush canopy, you can see a few crimson clouds floating in the air, and several strange-shaped spirit beasts pop out of the clouds from time to time.

"It's a colorful spirit snake, right?" Duan Feng raised his head and frowned, looked at a ribbon that rushed out of the clouds, and muttered to himself.

"It's a pity that I can't fly!" Duan Feng sighed, "If it's the eldest brother, I will definitely be able to catch it." ”

"Second young master, it's time to go back, the sun is about to set, and it will be dangerous if you don't go back." ”

At this time, Feng realized that Wen Bo was leading a group of reddish-brown red-feathered horses behind him.

Wen Bo is the chief housekeeper of Duan Mansion, he is over sixty years old, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, a long snow-white beard, and two white eyebrows hanging down, which is very interesting and very pleasing to children.

Because Duan Feng lost his mother when he was a child, and his father led the troops all the year round, Duan Feng was taken care of by Wen Bo since he was a child, and Wen Bo had no children, so he always regarded Duan Feng as his own son.

Although there is a difference between master and servant, because Wen Bo followed Duan Feng's father to participate in the process of quelling the rebellion of the Northern Beast Clan when he was young, and saved Duan Feng's father's life, Wen Bo has always been very respected in Duan Mansion.

"Look for it again, Wenbo. Otherwise, how can I explain to my eldest brother when I go back!" Duan Feng showed a coquettish face and put one arm around Wen Bo's neck.

"Come back tomorrow, Second Young Master. The eldest young master is just joking with you. If you don't go back and wait for the sun to go down completely, it's very dangerous here. You must know that the Hundred Beasts Forest ······"

The Hundred Beast Forest is named after the gathering of hundreds of earth spirit beasts, these divine beasts are tyrannical by nature, and after the sun sets, they often come out to collect the qi element of the moon to improve their spiritual level.

Duan Feng shook his head and said, "Only qi people above the Qi King dare to come to the Hundred Beast Forest at night to hunt spirit beasts and use them to improve their qi realm······ You've said it dozens of times. ”

"You ······" Wen Bo shook his head helplessly, he knew Duan Feng's temperament, no one in this world could control him except his father.

"It's okay, Wen Bo, don't you still have you! Aren't you a son of the Yasheng Realm? you can protect me, besides, we don't still have the Red Feather Horse, and we will slip away at the critical time!" Duan Feng put one hand around Wen Bo's shoulders and pointed at the Red Feather Horse and comforted.

Duan Feng only knew that Wen Bo followed his father to fight in the north and south, and after hundreds of battles, he didn't even have a scar on his body, which shows that Wen Bo's aura must not be underestimated.

But since he can remember, Duan Feng has never seen Wen Bo do it, he only knows that he is a sub-saint-level qi son, and his father is also very respectful to Wen Bo, so Wen Bo is also regarded as the superior in Phoenix City.

"But I'm already old, Second Young Master, and my aura is far worse than before. And the red feather horse is also old, and it is not as fast as before, and now there are many masters today, and the spirit beasts are constantly evolving, it is difficult to say what kind of opponent it encounters. ”

Wenbo gently stroked the horsehair of the red feather horse with his hand, and fell into deep memories, his eyes revealing a kind of heroic sadness.

At that time, Wen Bo participated in quelling the rebellion of the beast clan as the vanguard of the Phoenix Army, and the red feather horse as his mount and spirit beast carried Wen Bo to the head of the enemy general in the ten thousand armies, and made great achievements, but unfortunately in the end he became a victim of the power struggle between Duan Tiande and Liu Tianyun, and could have been promoted to the position of at least the commander, but in the end, in order to take care of the overall situation, he had to retire and become the steward of the Duan family, and his position was replaced by Sima Ran, another of Duan Tiande's cronies.

The red feather horse seemed to understand the master's words, and consciously rubbed his cheek in Wenbo's hand.

"Back then, when I rode a red feather horse and followed the castle lord to gallop across the field······"

"Wen Bo, come and see!" Duan Feng shouted and pulled Wen Bo back from his memory.

At this time, the wind had already run into the grass in the distance, and was waving his hand excitedly, Wen Bo led the red feather horse and walked over slowly.

"Look!" Duan Feng pointed to the root of a thousand-year-old pine, because it had been too long, the trunk of this ancient pine was like a loess plateau washed by heavy rain, and the ravines were criss-crossed.

The roots are surrounded by a patch of fluorescent grass that glows blue, and several transparent worms attached to the leaves, surrounded by several blue-violet*.

The trunk of the ancient pine tree is one zhang thick, and the diameter of the crown is three or four zhang, but the strange thing is that the branches and leaves on the crown are sparse, just densely crisscrossing the dry branches, and the residual light of the sun can directly shine on the ground through the crown.

The tree was less than three feet tall and clearly inconsistent with the trunk, and on closer inspection, it was densely covered with small holes.

"Strange, isn't the vitality of this white-leaved pine very strong? The ability of this thousand-year-old pine to absorb nutrients from the earth is even more remarkable, the land of the Hundred Beast Forest is fertile, plus countless spirit beasts inhabit, their fertilizer is a natural high-quality fertilizer, much better than those mortal beasts, it stands to reason that a tree like this must be more than twenty zhang, right? Why is this one so short?" Duan Feng looked up at the bare canopy strangely.

"Maybe there are high-level Heavenly Spirit Beasts around, right? Wenber explained.

"And this operation?!" Duan Feng felt incredulous, "How come I don't know. ”

"There are many things you don't know, unlike the earth spirit beasts, high-level heavenly spirit beasts sometimes absorb the qi elements of some creatures with qi elements to enhance their spirit level, this tree looks like it has a history of thousands of years, and it will naturally have some qi elements in its body, and it will naturally become the target of the heavenly spirit beasts. ”

Wen Bo shook his head and looked around, with a hint of worry in his eyes, if there were really heavenly spirit beasts around, with his own aura, I am afraid that he would not even have a chance to shout for help.

"Then why don't we just raise a plant of this ancient pine at home, and then we can directly absorb the nutrients of this ancient pine to improve our qi realm, so that we don't have to spend so much effort on cultivation. When the time comes, you can easily improve your aura by lying on the recliner!" Duan Feng said happily.

"Cows can eat grass and squeeze milk, can you?" said Werber, with his eyebrows curled to the sides.

"Can't I?" Duan Feng asked tentatively.

"You-" Wenbo's eyebrows curled higher.

"Okay, okay, Wenbo, just kidding" Duan Feng said coquettishly, "You come to see this." Duan Feng pointed at a tree trench at the bottom of the trunk with his ice sword.

In one of the ravines an inch deep, there was a small purple-red snake lying quietly, the whole body of the small snake was purple-red, only the top of the head was a little white, and the length was only three or four inches, and it was difficult to find its existence without looking carefully.

"Oh, it's a little snake. Wenbo said calmly, and he slowly leaned over to observe the little snake carefully.

"Wen Bo, what kind of snake is this, is it an earth spirit beast or a heavenly spirit beast?"

Wen Bo squinted his eyes, leaned over to take a closer look, and saw that the little snake was slightly glowing with red light, and his body was squirming slightly, but he felt the slightest aura on its body, and Wen Bo stroked his gray beard in disappointment.

"As far as I know, in the spirit beast system, there are only three kinds of snake spirit beasts! one is the earth spirit beast Northern Giant Python, but the color of this snake is gray-brown, and even the newborn python is nearly five feet, this is obviously not. ”

"The other is the Colorful Spirit Snake, which is named after the seven colors of its body, and this one is obviously not. ”

"What about the third one?" Duan Feng asked impatiently.

"The last one is the two-tailed centipede, because this snake has two tails and can conjure eighteen claw-like legs in battle, so people call it a two-tailed centipede. But this snake is obviously nothing. ”

"Huh?" Duan Feng showed a very disappointed expression.

"Forget it, let's go, Second Young Master. Come back tomorrow. Wenber said as he began to arrange the saddle and turn the horse's head.

"No matter how much, that's it!" Duan Feng rolled his eyes and reached out to grab the little snake.

"Second Young Master, this is not a spirit beast, what do you want it for?" Wen Bo wanted to stop it, but Duan Feng had already put the little snake in the palm of his hand and looked at the little snake with novelty.

"Let me ask you, Wen Bo" Duan Feng put his right hand on Wen Bo's shoulder, and dragged the little snake with his left hand, "Have you seen all the spirit beasts in the world?"

"Of course not, since the war between gods and demons, I don't know how many kinds of spirit beasts have fallen from the heavenly realm, and I don't know how many kinds have evolved later, although I have lived for more than sixty years, and I have traveled south and north for such a long time, it is impossible to see them all. ”

"You haven't seen it, and of course you haven't seen much, big brother. So, you know!" Duan Feng glanced at Wen Bo.

"You want to deceive the eldest young master!" Wen Bo exclaimed in surprise, "How can this be done! The eldest young master may not know whether this is a spirit beast or not, but this snake has no qi at all, and it can be seen at a glance for the qizi! ”

"It's okay. My father went to the imperial capital to meet the emperor, and it will take half a month to come back, and in this half a month, we can find a real spirit beast. ”

"But—"

Before Wen Bo finished speaking, the little snake had already formed a ball and cowered in Duan Feng's palm, Duan Feng felt a cool air flow slowly burrowing into his body from his palm, slowly flowing along the qi veins.

Duan Feng felt a burst of joy in his heart, he hadn't felt the aura flowing in the qi veins for many years, the faint qi realm he had cultivated was not enough to use the qi veins to operate, and there was obviously aura flowing in the qi veins today, which was a good omen for Duan Feng.

Due to the high toxicity of the five yin, Duan Feng often felt a faint pain in his muscles and veins, although it was not very obvious, but he often felt weakness in his whole body.

Especially when he was exercising, the qi element in his body would be blocked every time he ran to the dantian, and it would eventually be dispersed.

Now Duan Feng felt as if the entire veins had been cleansed, and a cool air flowed slowly along the veins, and the entire network of veins was smoother than ever.

Duan Feng looked at the little snake in his palm in surprise, the snake faintly emitted a flush on its body, I don't know if it was due to the sun or other reasons, the little snake's head shook slightly, its purple-red tongue spit out, shaking its head and looking around.

Duan Feng seemed to feel that he had known this little snake a long time ago, and he felt an inexplicable sense of closeness in his heart.

The little snake curled up in a ball around Duan Feng's palm, like a blood-red spinning top spinning in the palm of his hand, as if a wandering wanderer had returned to his homeland.

"Interesting. Duan Feng teased the little snake with his fingers with great interest, and a cool breath slid along his fingers to the palm of his hand.

Looking at Duan Feng's excited expression, Wen Bo couldn't bear to stop it anymore, so he could only let Duan Feng deal with it.

And he also began to be interested in this little snake, he always felt that this little snake was a little strange, compared to ordinary snakes, this snake's eyes were more flexible, as if there was a soul living in the snake's body.