Chapter 3 Wishful Fruit
Hanyang is a small city with a population of less than 150,000, and the entire city is 50 miles in circumference, and is tightly protected by a 30-meter-high wall made of large bluestone.
The castle is built on the mountain, and on the north side is a low mountain cliff slightly higher than the city wall, and the city wall is built to the foot of the mountain, and together with the low mountain, it forms the first line of defense of Hanyang Fortress. To the east, south, and west, there is a city gate, leading to the official road outside the city and the endless barren forest.
Viewed from above, Hanyang City is like a small boat in the endless blue waves, small and inconspicuous.
Tang Chen hurriedly had lunch, then packed his bags, walked out of the West City Gate, and went straight to the location of Chaotianxing.
"I hope the stars aren't discovered......," he prayed as he hurried forward.
Although the valley where Chaotianxing is located is remote and rarely visited, there are accidents in everything, if someone takes the lead, not only will the five-fold reward be lost, but also two hundred and fifty points will have to be lost, such a loss is really a bit big for Tang Chen.
After getting off the official road and following the forest path, Tang Chen hurried forward non-stop, passing through the longtooth insect forest, wading through a small river, and crossing the rat ridge where the strange rat was located, and finally came to a valley twenty miles away from Hanyang City.
Overgrown with grass and inaccessible, it is surrounded by towering trees that are dozens of feet high, and the thick green shade covers the sky and the sun, which not only isolates the scorching heat, but also blocks most of the light from the valley, making the whole valley look particularly dark.
The ground is thick with stumps and leaves, exuding a strong smell of decay, and stepping on it is soft and unsteady.
Tang Chen cautiously looked around for a while, and then cautiously followed the mountain path that the star beast had stepped out of, heading towards the valley.
This area, including the Rat Ridge and the Tooth Insect Forest in front of it, is close to Hanyang City and the official road, which belongs to the very edge of the barren forest, and there are few powerful star beasts in it, the strongest is only a third-order warrior beast, and the danger is relatively low, but for Tang Chen, a second-order star warrior, it is still quite dangerous, if he is accidentally ambushed by a third-order warrior beast, he may even lose his life.
As far as Tang Chen knew, the barren forests on the Star God Continent had a rough division according to the degree of danger, which were the white zone, the green zone, the blue zone, the red zone, and the black zone, with the white zone being the least dangerous, and the black zone being the most dangerous.
Tang Chen is now within the scope of the White Zone, and it is the safest White Zone in the White Zone, and there are also the White Second Zone and the White Third Zone on it, which are all areas that extend into the depths of the forest, among which the strength of the Star Beasts is also much stronger, and the strongest warrior beasts have reached the sixth and ninth orders respectively.
Passing through a zigzag and relatively narrow strip of land, Tang Chen finally entered the valley, which was a flat meadow with a radius of about ten miles, surrounded by mountains on all sides, and there was not a single tree on the meadow except for a giant tree of nearly a hundred zhang.
The grass on the ground was knee-high shallow, very different from the long grass taller than a man that could be found everywhere in the barren forests, and it was sparse and sparse, as if it were malnourished, all of which made the valley very different.
When Tang Chen first came here, he found that this place was extraordinary, the relatively rare star medicine in the barren forest would grow in patches here, such as Chaotian Star, Tang Chen found twenty or thirty plants.
This phenomenon made Tang Chen understand that this valley might be a naturally formed treasure land, with abundant star power, which could make the star medicine grow better.
It's just that the scale of this treasure land seems to be a bit small, and it can't meet the growth needs of high-grade star medicine, so Tang Chen didn't find the existence of high-grade star medicine here.
As soon as he entered the valley, Tang Chen was about to go to the place where Chaotian Star grew, but the scene in front of him made him stunned.
I saw that under the giant tree in front of me, a small mountain-like gray star beast was lying there, ten zhang long and three zhang high, and its size was amazingly large, Tang Chen had never seen such a huge star beast.
Just when Tang Chen discovered the giant beast, the giant beast's eyes suddenly opened, and he looked at him calmly.
Looking at the giant beast's brown eyes, which were as big as lanterns and shaped like cat pupils, Tang Chen's heart couldn't help but froze, and the hairs all over his body exploded in shock, cold sweat broke out in an instant, and his legs trembled with fright, almost unsteady on his feet.
"Tiger, Tiger Rhino Beast!" Tang Chen's heart set off a storm, although he had never seen this kind of star beast, but this kind of tiger-like guy was introduced in the book, so he recognized it.
In the Star God Continent, all beasts that can cultivate star power are called star beasts, and according to the strength of the realm, they are divided into five levels: warrior beasts, general beasts, king beasts, emperor beasts, and emperor beasts.
The tiger rhinoceros beast in front of him was a higher-level general beast of the Bishi Beast, and its strength was comparable to that of a human star general.
Isn't it true that such a tough guy can only operate in the green zone, or even in the deeper part of the forest, how can he appear here? This is a white zone, and it is also known as the safest white zone!
Tang Chen was terrified in his heart, secretly thinking about a way to get out, but unexpectedly, the tiger rhinoceros beast just glanced at him, then closed his eyes again, and directly ignored him.
"What's the situation? It's so abnormal, isn't the star beast a mortal enemy of humans, when it sees me, shouldn't it be killed immediately, but it, it actually just looks at me, is this looking down on me?......
Tang Chen's mind turned sharply, and his legs also regained their strength as the tiger rhinoceros beast's gaze disappeared, and he began to move backwards slowly.
He retreated, and at the same time he was on guard, for fear that the tiger rhinoceros was playing a game of cat and mouse with him, and he would pounce on him at any time. However, he didn't dare to draw his sword, because the elders had taught him that if he drew his sword at this time, it would mean a provocation to the star beast, and it would definitely end forever.
It wasn't until he retreated to the entrance of the valley that the tiger rhinoceros beast didn't move, and Tang Chen was a little relieved at this time, and his heart really calmed down and he was able to think normally.
"Why doesn't it eat me?"
"Is it hurt?"
"Why is it here?"
"It'......"
Tang Chen hid in a pile of bushes, carefully analyzing various possibilities, as a person with waste talent, low strength, and relying on himself for everything, he had long developed the habit of thinking more about everything. Over the past five years, this habit has repeatedly made up for his lack of strength and helped him get through a lot of difficulties.
"Huh, what's the smell?"
Tang Chen sniffed slightly, and a faint fragrance rippled in his nose, and the smell made people feel refreshed.
"This is definitely the medicinal fragrance of high-grade star medicine!" Tang Chen was secretly shocked, as a star warrior, although he might not be able to recognize high-grade star medicine, but because of his cultivation of star power, he had an instinctive intuition for this kind of heaven and earth treasure.
"No wonder the tiger rhinoceros appeared here, it turned out to be attracted by the fragrance of medicine. Tang Chen knew in his heart, "It ignores me, it seems to be waiting for the star medicine to mature, and it doesn't want to make any extraneous branches." ”
After understanding this, thinking that there was a high-grade star medicine in the valley that could even attract beasts, Tang Chen couldn't help but be curious, it was a high-grade star medicine, an incomparably precious treasure, even if he didn't sleep for a year to do the family task, he couldn't exchange it for a high-grade star medicine.
"Why don't you go over and have a look?" Tang Chen secretly cheered himself up, he really wanted to see the demeanor of high-grade star medicine. As for snatching the star medicine from under the mouth of the tiger rhinoceros beast, he had never thought of this idea at all.
After some arduous ideological struggle, Tang Chen finally convinced himself that he would go to the edge of the valley to take a look at it from a distance and leave.
Ten thousand times more careful than before, Tang Chen came to the valley again, but this time he didn't walk in, but climbed in, his whole body was close to the ground, hiding in the shallow grass like a lizard.
Curious, burning eyes crossed the grass and searched quickly around the tiger rhinoceros.
He carefully controlled the angle of his gaze, and he never looked at the Tiger Rhino Beast again except for the first time when it landed on it, because he had heard that the powerful Star Beast had a strong sense of the outside world, and if his gaze stayed on it for too long or glanced too often, it would cause it to be alert.
Soon, Tang Chen found the target directly in front of the tiger rhinoceros beast's head, a strange star medicine that emitted a rich starlight.
When his gaze fell on the fruit at the top of the star medicine, Tang Chen felt that the whole world was unreal, as if he was in a dream.
"Ruyi Guo! How is it possible, it turned out to be Ruyi Guo!" Tang Chen was so excited that he almost shouted, and his little heart was even more "pounding" violently, almost rushing out of his throat.