Zheng Yan had already roughly thought about the arrangements for this trial, first going to the nearest Zhanghua Mountain to get a piece of Baipi aragonite, then going to Shengyang Mountain to find Riyan Nuan Jade, and finally going to Beifu Mountain to find Hanhai Yaoying, all of which are natural treasures used for cultivation, which are so easy to get! So don't think about stabbing a pole to Beifu Mountain and then turning around to find it, and find a way to get it when you see it.

Hearing the wolf howl in the forest made Zheng Yan think of Dugu Takihyun again, maybe he could meet it, but then again, why do these spirits who have followed the demon king have their own names?

The sea viewing platform is a platform of the north cliff of the Yiwang Mountain Dengxian Peak, most of the cultivators like to climb high and look far away, so some people open up this platform here, below is the cliff, and then outside is the forest sea, stretching for hundreds of miles undulating, out of the forest sea even if it really enters the sphere of influence of the demon cultivator in the Taihua Mountains.

There is also a forest sea at the southern foot of Yiwang Mountain, but the scale is small, and there are all kinds of bamboos inside, to be exact, it should be a bamboo sea, and this forest sea in the north is a real forest sea, there are all kinds of plants and trees, and there is even some naturally growing flowers and fruit trees.

At that time, it was really a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers, and he dared to confront tigers, leopards, and wolves with his own learned some punches and feet, Zhang Huoxi still had three scratches on his chest, and Zheng Yan was also injured, but he did not leave any scars because of his special physique. When he was fourteen years old, there was a little Taoist boy who also secretly followed a few older children to play, but was licked off half of his face by a tiger's tongue, and later heard Zhang Huoxi say that it took a lot of talent and earth treasures to make up for the face with the skull exposed, but after all, it still left a very irregular scar.

Zheng Yan hasn't been here since that time, it's not that he doesn't dare to come, but he was threatened by the eldest grandmother's life, saying that there are man-eating monsters hidden here, and there are also some monsters that can't be seen elsewhere. The word "strange" is very convincing, in fact, people are used to calling the demon cultivators who have not completely turned into human form "strange", and some people swear that these demon cultivators are punished by God because they like to eat people, so they can't be completely transformed, and over time, everything named "weird" is a threat to people.

As for the monsters, they are more dangerous than the monsters, because they are more bloodthirsty and cruel because they do not understand human nature. Specifically, because at least the monsters have opened their minds, and sometimes they can negotiate to solve problems, who can chat with a tiger to negotiate conditions? It's just that now Zheng Yan feels that those monsters, or some people say that the monsters, may be the otherworldly relics brought by the immortals back then, they have lived here for a long time, on the one hand, they have retained some of their original characteristics and abilities, and on the other hand, they have also made changes to themselves to adapt to this world.

At that time, Mr. Shang Zongxue talked about the "Great Wilderness Atlas of Strange Beasts", saying that for any kind of creature, you can find creatures similar to it in this world, such as tigers, and similar to it are all kinds of leopards, lions, all kinds of cats, and lynxes, etc.;

However, even if some exotic beasts have been discovered for hundreds or even thousands of years, people have not been able to find their common genus, so many legends have been born. In addition, it is worth mentioning that the lecturer at that time focused on the evolution process of the tiger, many creatures in ancient times were huge, and the tiger was no exception, it is said that the largest tiger at that time was five or six or even two zhang long, which may be the reduction of food and human hunting, gradually resulting in the current tiger is generally only about one zhang. To put it bluntly, it is an adaptation to survival, or a heavenly choice in the underworld, and people must be constantly facing this problem, so never rest on their laurels and settle for pleasure.

Therefore, when Zheng Yan saw a colorful tiger more than two feet long was crawling on the ground staring at him coldly, he actually felt some emotion in his heart; when the tiger got up and broke a pine tree the thickness of an adult's thigh with one tail, Zheng Yan had already jumped on a big tree beside him, and then began to run on the treetops, and there was a tiger roar that pierced the soul behind him.

In fact, if you want to fight, Zheng Yan's current skills can barely fight, but this is a trial, naturally to avoid any senseless battles, a person in the deep mountains and old forests, there are many poisonous insects, beasts and demons lurking around, any little injury may be taken advantage of by these guys, to put it bluntly, the trial is a more severe test than survival, and it can't be done by temperament, this is not only Zheng Yan's understanding alone, this should also be the general opinion of all the Zheng children who participated in the trial, otherwise seventy or eighty people will not hear any movement of the fight。

The nearest Zhanghua Mountain is about more than three hundred miles, followed by Shengyang Mountain eight hundred miles away, and then Beifu Mountain is one thousand three hundred miles, this is only a straight line distance, the key is to take the mountain road, so the three-month period set by the clan is really harsh, Zheng Yan pondered carefully for a long time and thought that it was likely that the level of the young people who participated in the trial this time was generally high, and there was also the abnormal movement of the Taihua Demon Clan, so that he would be unlucky to practice half a bottle of water for his True Yuan cultivation.

The previous plan with my grandfather was to avoid other people as much as possible, let alone team up with them, so that the target was small and not easy to be detected by the spirit demon cultivators;

Forget about fighting, a Five Realms martial cultivator may really be able to walk sideways in a place inhabited by human beings, but this is in the territory of demon cultivation, just one can fight several human Five Realms martial cultivators, even if Zheng Yan is outstanding in the Five Realms, he has to pick up his tail and be a man, and the key here is to rely on spells to earn a chance to survive, so Zheng Yan doesn't want to form a team to support others, after all, this trial is indeed more difficult than before.

It is also comfortable to be cautious all the way, Zheng Yan is used to being alone during this time, and he likes to entertain himself, some people say that enjoying loneliness and self-resolution is an indispensable ability for human survival, and the so-called resilience is like this.

Lin Hai is hundreds of miles in radius, and the Taihua Mountain beyond is even wider, and more than 80 people have basically chosen their respective directions as soon as they step in, so they can't see their respective figures for a long time, at least Zheng Yan hasn't seen anyone else, and there are no traces of Lin Hai out of it, and the road ahead is boundless, and at this time there is really a feeling of loneliness.

When I was in Luoyang, I always thought that one day I could be in the vast world, unrestrained and free to gallop around, but when I really stood here one day, I found that I didn't find the feeling of decline, if it wasn't for the trial task, maybe this was already a situation where I didn't know where to go and didn't know the way back, and I didn't know whether I was subconsciously more inclined to seek some kind of support, or I was used to the constraints of that city.

Looking around, it is obvious that the boundary between Linhai and the Taihua Mountains is green and vibrant, and the direction of light and shadow is green and vibrant, and the direction of the north is chaotic and withered, rugged and dark, and it is difficult for people to understand why there is such a clear demarcation? Obviously, the terrain is almost the same, and there are no mountains to block it.

Zheng Yan squatted on the ground and looked carefully at the soil and rocks on both sides, and found nothing abnormal, so he had to return to Lin Hai to find materials for making guns and bows and arrows, the trees in the north didn't seem to be suitable, and he had been walking for a day, and he spent the night in Lin Hai tonight, and he always felt that it was safer here.

When I was looking for wood, I caught a very fat pheasant, found a leeward place and built a bonfire, first burned the chicken feathers, and then cleaned them inside and out, and then wrapped them in straw and wrapped them in thin mud and buried them in a charcoal fire, and then made bows and arrows while waiting for the meat to cook.

The wood Zheng Yan is looking for is Shen Thick Wood, in fact, it is a kind of miscellaneous tree that has been specially cultivated by thick wood, and it is better to make gun shafts and arrow shafts than thick wood, mainly because the toughness and hardness are more suitable for the strength of high-level martial arts, and it is not easy to be broken.

Sharpening the barrel of the gun and the shaft of the arrow is a very good job of teaching experience and eyesight, selecting materials with smooth textures, to what extent, there can be no unevenness, etc., Zheng Yan's eyesight is still there, as a martial artist of the Five Realms, the control of strength is not comparable to ordinary people, and the understanding of the gun is no worse than the sword, in fact, Zheng Yan has been in contact with equipment since he was eight years old, at first he practiced swords, and when he was ten years old, he began to practice guns, and most of the remaining knives, sticks, whips and arrows are used to adjust things.

The gun head prepared by grandpa is a rusty flat gun head, the middle spine is indeed not high, but there is a blood groove on both sides of the gun spine, which is rare; the tip of the gun is not sharp, and there is a bit of a dull feeling, double edge, just rusty, blunt than the gun head, the appearance is really not good; Zheng Yan took the gun head and tried it on the gun shaft, and then took out a piece of stone linen from the backpack to wrap the gun shaft, and finally loaded the gun head, stood up and shook a gun flower, it felt good, it seems that the previous estimate of the weight of the gun head was correct, and the six-foot gun shaft was just right.

Sitting back by the campfire and looking at the rusty spear head is really an eyesore, but when I was in the village before, I found a whetstone to grind it, and it didn't work at all, seeing Zheng Yan toss for a long time without results, the old man said that this spear head needs to be fed with blood, so that it can recover as before, Zheng Yan naturally didn't believe it, and ran to the blacksmith in the village to polish the sand wheel, but the result was still not good, the blacksmith looked at it for a long time and couldn't figure out what the material of the spear head and the rust was, the key blacksmith is still the refiner in the clan.

Grandpa didn't explain much, or said disdain, boasting that the things that the people who had been emperors could be bad, Zheng Yan still remembered that he exchanged the fake copper coins on the market for his "New Year's money", but he reluctantly accepted it when he saw that this thing was very hard. After making the spear, he sharpened two short sticks three feet long, and in case the barrel of the gun broke, he could make a short spear.

As for the bow, first use the god thick wood will be on it, barely able to reach three stones, and then go inside and try to find some Zhemu and horns, to make a compound bow, at least to reach four or five stones, remember that there is a kind of argali in Taihua Mountain, the horns are thicker and tougher than the buffalo in the south, if there is a condition, boil some fish glue, this thing can not be less, otherwise blind such a good bowstring.

The crude chicken is estimated to be cooked, Zheng Yan put down the work in his hand and moved away from the charcoal fire, and the next moment he knocked on the mud seal, it was fragrant, which was much more delicious than chewing jerky. While eating chicken, I still wondered, how could there be such a fat pheasant when fierce beasts are rampant here?

It's the end of September now, and it's almost October in a blink of an eye, saying that it's a three-month trial, in fact, everyone understands that it is estimated that few people can go back before the New Year, plus the clan elder said that the materials found will be used to make magic weapons, so these young people are estimated to spend more time collecting materials, and the large pieces of ore can be carried back if they are broken, and the Zheng family is strong, but they will not casually make magic treasures for the children of the clan, so the opportunity is rare.

After eating the chicken, the bones were buried to prevent the beasts from following the smell, but fortunately, the bears were almost already hibernating by this time. Zheng Yan took out a blanket from his backpack and covered his body, leaning against a pile of dry wood and fallen leaves on his back, he couldn't refine the true yuan at this time, after all, he could only obtain the true yuan by refining the essence element now, and once the essence element was insufficient and he couldn't use it freely, it would inevitably be tricky, and it would be more dangerous than injury. For a cultivator of Zheng Yan's realm, it was really troublesome to go out, at least the cultivation was basically stopped.

Only in the later stage of refining the Qi and transforming the gods can you refine the surrounding vitality release spells, instead of refining the essence as now, you can only refine the essence carefully, and it is said that the real monk can only be regarded as a true monk by forming a Yin God and opening the acupoint, and the basis is here, so most monks are also proficient in mathematics and inner vision, at least they must accurately grasp their physical condition at all times.

Zheng Yan woke up before dawn the next day, he was awakened by freezing, and because the beast's roar never stopped all night, he didn't dare to sleep to death, Zheng Yan felt that this was the most testing place for the trial, toughness, one day was fine, three or five days and three months were like this, and those who could persevere were definitely strong, this is not to say that you have no problem if you have cultivation, the energy of the monk is indeed stronger than that of ordinary people, but it is also limited, unless those high-level and even heavenly realm can already be with the characters of heaven and earth.

Cut out twenty arrow shafts, made a bark quiver, and waited until the dawn of the day to eat some dry food and set off again, this time finally stepping into the Taihua Mountains, Zheng Yan glanced back at the misty forest sea, and then looked at the desolate mountains to the north, hung the spear on his back and moved his shoulders, and began to make a rapid leap.

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Ye Qingcheng frowned and looked at a few young people talking in the courtyard outside the window, Qi Wending was grizzled by Lu Cunyan's words, and sat down beside Ye Qingcheng with a depressed face, only then did he notice the strangeness of his friend, raised his hand and shook it in front of his eyes,

Ye Qingcheng turned his head and called Zheng Tong, who was sleeping in the back, over, "Zheng Tong, do you know that little white face?"

Zheng Tong sat down beside Ye Qingcheng in a daze, rubbed his eyes when he heard the words, and said strangely, "Isn't that Wenrengui? This kid is really okay, and he is still pestering Concubine Xuetai, aren't they all about to get engaged to Zheng Shi? Oh, you said Zheng Hang, just him? is still a little white face? It must be powdered, I remember when I was a child, it was like a briquette,

Ye Qingcheng frowned and asked curiously, "Which prince's descendant, why haven't I heard of it at all?"

Zheng Tong said boredly, "The son of the eldest son of your king, although he is the sixth in line, he can also be regarded as a concubine, and his father was named the king of the county last year, so this guy is also the son of the world, hey, this guy seems to be very enthusiastic about Concubine Xue!"

Qi Wending looked at the few people chatting outside and said softly, "I remember, last time at the Mid-Autumn Festival, this guy wanted to get close to Concubine Xue, and for this reason, he also had a conflict with Zheng Shi and Zheng Xiao, Wen Rengui was also present at the time, but he didn't show anything, could it be said that these two people want to unite? After all, now Zheng Shi and Concubine Xuefei are very popular, I heard that some time ago, Duke Li Guo went to Yunmeng County to propose marriage to his baby grandson, but the county guard of Tangtai did not agree",

Zheng Tong thought for a while and said, "Your king is stationed in the southwest all the year round, to be honest, his political achievements are mediocre, but I heard that he covers the sky with one hand, and there will be wind and rain there, but it is almost impossible for his son to be hereditary in the future, I don't have this rule in the normal period of the Great Zhou, but they may really want to operate, if they can marry Concubine Xue, maybe they can go further, at least they can get some forward-looking news",

Ye Qingcheng no longer looked outside, leaned against the windowsill and frowned and muttered, "I heard that the descendants of your king are a little negligent in discipline, and they have a very bad reputation in the fiefdom, but they do things without leakage, just like you said, one hand covers the sky, so it has not been transmitted to the capital, alas, women, after all, is it just the polish of the struggle for men's rights?"

The remaining two looked at each other with some doubts, Ye Qingcheng straightened up and said in a low voice, "Haven't you heard?

The two looked incredulous, and Zheng Tong wondered, "Isn't it the Yunmen Bayun and Hongdu Xuemen who will cultivate Shuyuan?

Ye Qingcheng's eyes were sad, and he leaned on the windowsill and whispered, "So I'm disappointed."

After saying a few words, Concubine Xue said a few words and walked to the back, passing by Ye Qingcheng, the school where they were seemed to take a look inside, Zheng Tong and Qi Wen shrank their heads as if they were thieves, and Ye Qingcheng watched the girl leave.

Song Wen, who was originally looking down at the book, gently closed the book, simply cleaned up and stood up and walked outside.

Wen Rengui retracted his gaze and only smiled slightly, Zheng Hang next to him said with a smile, "The fourth prince of Luoyang really lives up to his reputation, Gui, why do I think you don't seem to be very familiar with him?

Wen Rengui chuckled and said, "He and Ye Qingyun are relatively close, I am familiar with Lu Cuncao, in fact, it is not a battle of will, maybe I just want to fight for who is strong and who is weak."

Concubine Xue stepped into the road leading to the imperial city alone, Zheng Xuan didn't go to Chengwen Hall to study today, thinking of the scene in Guozijian before, I don't know why I was a little irritable and depressed, is it the entanglement of Zheng Shi and Zheng Hang these days? Or is it the calculation that Wen Rengui smiled as usual and may hide it? Or a few of them looked at their eyes? I didn't understand it, so I was a little angry and seemed to throw out a breath, full of purple light.

The young man who suddenly appeared behind him suddenly stopped, and watched with some surprise as the purple qi dissipated, and Concubine Xue also realized that there was someone, so she glanced back and walked straight ahead,

Song Wen followed behind and hesitated for a moment, but still said, "With your talent and cultivation, you don't have to be in the current situation at all."

Concubine Xue didn't stop, just said "It's okay", and in this way, the two always kept a distance of one zhang and didn't speak again.

There was a tall and graceful figure standing at the entrance of the road, and the figure highlighted by a white suit was even more charming, and Concubine Xue approached and looked up and down without hiding the envy in her eyes, and called out softly Sister Jingfeng,

Qiu Jingfeng smiled and nodded, "I'll wait for Senior Brother Song, and the master will let me beat him down three times before letting him in."

Concubine Xue naturally knew that the woman in front of her and Song Wen were both His Majesty's personal disciples, but she didn't expect them to teach like this.

Song Wen looked at Qiu Jingfeng's eyes burning and the battle intent rising, and she had already begun to move her body, and a beautiful woman with red jade turned out on the side, grabbed Concubine Xue and chuckled, "Sister Jingfeng, I've always been a little puzzled, you seem to be always polite to Concubine Xue, but it's not the kind of unkind of unkind of alienation that arises because you don't like it, you see, for a few of us, we always want to fight and tease, but why is it never as casual as for us?"

Concubine Xue was a little surprised, and wanted to say a few words to resolve this embarrassing problem, but Qiu Jingfeng had already walked forward and chuckled, "Guess."