Chapter 246: Flame Fern
Ye Xi and the others made a few simple torches, lit the torches and walked into the dark cave.
This cave is worthy of being the former garrison of the big tribes, and the rock walls are flat and smooth, and the further you go in, the more space there is. It's just that now, there is a wind mixed with the smell of black-scaled tiger excrement blowing from the depths of the darkness from time to time, which makes people frown.
After walking for about two or three hundred meters, a small cave like an ear chamber appeared on the cave wall. Inside, there was a half-human-tall, jade-like beautiful exotic flower swaying slightly.
Ye Xi's eyes lit up.
This should be the alien flower guarded by the black-scaled tiger!
This flower is a twin flower, there are two in total, each of them is the size of a bowl, their petals are translucent, the texture is like green jade, and even the stems and leaves seem to be carved with black jade, which is extremely delicate.
It's just that one of the exotic flowers is missing three petals, and it looks a little broken. Presumably it was eaten by the black-scaled tiger before.
Ye Xi didn't have the idea of being reluctant to eat it all the time, so after uprooting it, he swallowed a petal first.
Although this jade flower looks like jade, the touch is still the soft feeling of the petals.
He wasn't worried about whether this jade flower would be poisonous. Because if this kind of heavenly creation is poisonous, its poison must be so that there will be no living life for miles around. Thinking about it another way, the alien flowers in the beast's lair are especially unlikely to be poisonous, because no beast dominates the alien flowers to poison a certain creature.
The petals went down to his stomach, turning into a cool spring and surging to his whole body, and Ye Xi felt that his strength had improved slightly. The second petal is under the belly, and the strength has increased a little. But this increase is equivalent to adding two scoops of water to a pond of two acres square, although there is an improvement, but it is not very helpful.
Ye Xi simply dusted off the soil at its roots, kneaded the whole flower into a ball, chewed and chewed it all and ate it all.
The whole plant is full of different flowers, the whole body is cool and very comfortable, and the strength has increased a little more, what is the equivalent degree compared to before? It is probably the difference between the water scoop and the water basin......
Ye Xi felt his body and found that his eyesight, hearing, and smell had not changed, and he frowned slightly.
This flower looks so good...... It can't be so useless, right?
Ye Xi had a gut feeling that this alien flower should have other effects, but he couldn't think of it for the time being, so he simply put it down first. Anyway, it's good that the strength has increased.
Ye Xi walked out of the small cave and asked the armadillo chief standing outside, "I'm okay, where is the special place?"
The armadillo chiefs didn't dare to make a sound to disturb Ye Xi just now, but now when they saw Ye Xi come out, the armadillo chieftain said respectfully: "My lord, it's in the deepest part of the cave." ”
Ye Xi nodded, holding a torch and continuing to walk inside with them.
Ye Xi said to the armadillo chief as he walked, "Tell me about that place." ”
The armadillo chief was half a step behind Ye Xi, and when he heard Ye Xi's words, he immediately said respectfully, "Yes." ”
"Our Xia tribe has moved outside for too long, and I don't know much about this place. But I heard that this is a forbidden place for the whole clan, and every witch and chief will quietly return here before they die, including my former chief. ”
"It's a pity that our last witch died at the hands of the enemy, and even the corpse capital was not left, so we didn't return to the forbidden land......"
"Legend has it that the entrance and exit of the forbidden land are guarded by the fire-streaked ferns left by their ancestors, and no one can break into them except for witches and chiefs......"
The armadillo chief's voice was clear and powerful, causing echoes in the cave.
Ye Xi led the group and continued to walk inside. The wind grew stronger, and a faint light source appeared in front of me.
Gradually, Ye Xi's footsteps slowed down, because he felt that there was an extremely dangerous aura at the end of the cave, and the further he went, the hotter the temperature around him became, as if there was a big stove burning at the end. But at the same time, what shocked Ye Xi was that the power in his body was slowly increasing.
Finally came to an end.
Looking at the scene ahead, everyone held their breath.
It is a wide open space in the shape of a nest, and at the very top of the rock wall there is a hole about one meter in diameter, and white light spills down from the top, illuminating the entire nest-shaped clearing.
And in the very center of this clearing, there was a hole of unknown size, and there were endless glowing flame-streaked ferns that bubbled up from under the ground like springs, covering a full twenty meters of the surrounding area.
Each Flame Fern leaf has a magma-like glowing pattern, complex and mysterious, flowing slowly as if it were alive.
The heat of the flame fern bush was amazing, Ye Xi and they were still more than ten meters away from it, but it seemed that there was a flame rushing towards them, and the Xia tribesmen were even hotter and sweaty, dripping down.
The most terrifying thing was that the huge flame-streaked fern bushes were constantly wriggling as if they were alive, some of them crawling around on the ground like snakes, some of them waving like wickers in mid-air, and some of them stretched straight into the hole above their heads, as if they were touching the sun.
Ye Xi believed that the black-scaled tiger would never dare to approach this terrifying flame-streaked fern bush, and its living area should be near the area where the alien flowers were planted, because there were many animal bones there.
Presumably, the black-scaled tiger was afraid that this terrifying flame-streaked fern would attack it, and he was reluctant to take advantage of its strength-enhancing strength, so he stayed in this cave all the time.
The Xia tribesmen were extremely excited when they saw this scene.
They are proud that such a powerful firestreaked fern belongs to their tribe!
The armadillo chief looked at the flame-streaked fern in front of him, and tears glistened in his cloudy old eyes. Sweat slid down his forehead like a waterfall, but he didn't care about this at all, just trembled his lips and said to Ye Xi tremblingly:
"My lord, this is the entrance, the fire-streaked fern grows out of the underground cavern. After activating the Chief's token, please immediately burrow into the Flamestriped Fern bush, and the forbidden land is underground!"
Ye Xi came back to his senses and did not answer the words of the armadillo chief, but returned to the small cave and picked up a long bone left over from the black-scaled tiger nearby.
It was a two-meter-long pure-blooded beast leg bone, and its weight was unclear.
Ye Xi returned to the end of the cave, picked up his arm, and threw the huge leg bone towards the Flame Fern Bush!
When the leg bones were thrown into the air above the Flamestripe Fern, those glittering fern leaves seemed to be crazy, dancing like wicker frantically! The huge leg bone was instantly wrapped in endless fern leaves, and there was not a single gap.
After half a breath.
The Flamestreaked Fern returned to normal and spread out on the ground like wicker, while the pure-blooded beast bone disappeared without a trace, and not even the bone residue could be seen.
Inhalations rang out all around.
Some of the timid Xia tribesmen couldn't help but take a step back, the fierce beast bones couldn't even hold up a breath, they couldn't imagine what would happen if the living passed.
The remnants of these Xia tribes, including the armadillo chieftain, had never entered this cave, let alone seen the legendary flame-streaked fern, and they didn't know that it was so terrifying.
Ye Xi took a breath, turned to the armadillo chieftain and said, "I'm sorry, I can't help you." ”
The Flamestreaked Fern bush was even more terrifying than he had thought, and he didn't think his flesh was harder than the bones of a pure-blooded beast.
What if the armadillo chieftain's token fails?
The so-called poor will be good for themselves, and good will help the world. It is incumbent upon Ye Xi to help others within the scope of his ability, but it is not advisable to risk his life to help others, and the other party is not a relative or friend, just a person who meets in Pingshui.
Taking a step back, even if the Xia tribe can't follow him back to Tushan, as long as he teaches them how to make and use bows and crossbows, as long as the Xia tribesmen are careful, they won't be able to live here.
Withdrawing now is the right choice.