Chapter 14: Escape
It's okay to run, but as soon as he puts down Li Yunlong, Zhang Xiaohu feels that his throat and eyes are about to burst into flames, his heart is beating violently, and his feet fall to the ground softly.
From the gallop of thousands of miles before crossing the world, rescue, to the continuous battle in the sand sea, and finally the battle of life and death with the Scorpion King, Zhang Xiaohu has squeezed every bit of strength in his bones, if he had been thinking about returning to his father and mother alive, Zhang Xiaohu would have collapsed long ago.
More than ten meters in front of him is a small stream, smelling the smell of the stream, Zhang Xiaohu struggled hard, but he really had no strength at all, he could only roll his body hard, and for the first time in his heart he had such a strong demand for water.
The whole head was buried in the stream, and the cool feeling went straight to the throat, like a tree about to die, and swallowed it in a big gulp.
The strength of running at high speed also slowly decreased, so comfortable, Zhang Xiaohu, who was immersed in the water, didn't want to open his eyes, so he wanted to go on like this.
A pair of hands dragged Zhang Xiaohu out of the water, "You want to die, you just finished running and you soaked in the water"
Shaking the water on his head, Zhang Xiaohu replied weakly, "I know, but I really don't have the strength, just let me soak it."
"No, get up quickly" Li Yunlong, who had finished vomiting, regained his spirit and insisted on asking Zhang Xiaohu to stand up.
Supporting Zhang Xiaohu to walk slowly, Li Yunlong looked back at the sea of sand in the distance, if he hadn't picked up Zhang Xiaohu, he would definitely not have come back this time, but if he hadn't picked up Zhang Xiaohu, he wouldn't have encountered so many poisonous scorpions, but no matter what, this time he owed Zhang Xiaohu a few lives.
"Brother, don't thank you, we will be a family in the future" I don't know how to say the words of gratitude.
Zhang Xiaohu gasped and replied weakly, "It's okay, it's me who has caused you a burden."
It's self-aware.
Walking a few hundred steps to slowly ease his breath, Zhang Xiaohu pushed away Li Yunlong's support, took a deep breath, and the energy was back in operation, the extreme consumption, the original energy flowing like the rushing river is now only a trace, but this trace is more pure, as if it has been tempered thousands of times, and the place where it flows through is hungry and thirsty, and at the same time it feeds back more energy, so that the energy not only does not decrease, but grows stronger and stronger.
Practicing the body is this good, it won't take long to ease up, if you practice qi, don't think about it for half a day.
You can see Xialiang City from a distance, although it is just a black spot, but there are often monks passing by on this section of the road, and the monsters and the like have already been killed cleanly, and occasionally you can see the little rabbit quietly looking at the two of them with two big ears, but the feet are ready to run away at any time.
"It's so far from Xialiang City, why aren't there more powerful people coming to hunt the Scorpion King?" Zhang Xiaohu felt very strange, it stands to reason that the Scorpion King's poison sac poison needle should be worth a lot of money.
"A long time ago, someone took out a thousand spirit stones to collect the scorpion king's poison sac, and many people entered the sand sea at that time," Li Yunlong said with a smile.
"Later?" Zhang Xiaohu asked, so many people entered, there are always powerful masters, is it possible that the Scorpion King is so powerful?
Li Yunlong looked at Zhang Xiaohu, as if he knew what he was thinking, "Don't think nonsense, it's because they didn't find the Scorpion King"
Unexpected answers.
Li Yunlong said leisurely, "The sand sea is so big, with a radius of tens of thousands of miles, and the Scorpion King doesn't have a fixed area, how can I find it? Besides, the Scorpion King is usually in the sand, not something you can find if you want to."
Zhang Xiaohu scratched his head, "Didn't anyone find it?"
Li Yunlong squinted at Zhang Xiaohu with a look of contempt, "How is it possible, you can't even think of this?"
"I don't understand," Zhang Xiaohu said honestly.
"The ones that are found are not strong enough, and they are hung up, and those who are strong enough can not be found no matter how much they are found, this is not a human being to hunt the scorpion king, it is a feast for the scorpion king" A few simple sentences said the scene at that time.
The Scorpion King hissed, tearing apart one human weakness after another, and saw the mighty monk turn and burrow into the sand, still chewing a thigh in his mouth.
Thinking of this scene, Zhang Xiaohu couldn't help but shudder.
"So no one pays attention to it until now, anyway, the chance of encountering such a big sand sea is too small, besides, powerful monks will not go to the sand sea, only small monks like us who are just getting started go back to hunt for poison sacs to make a few small bucks"
Thinking about it, if it weren't for Zhang Xiaohu, the public enemy of all scorpions, how could he have met the scorpion king, the overlord in the sand sea.
In the distance, a young monk ran towards him, and when he was almost in front of him, he avoided the two of them slightly, looked at each other a few times, and then ran towards the sea of sand.
"Walking in this wasteland, although you don't have to worry about demon beasts, you have to worry about other monks," Li Yunlong said in a low voice.
"Why?"
"Cultivation requires resources, some people will kill for resources to make money, and it is common to kill people and prey in this wasteland" This is a helpless reality, when you get to the city, everyone looks like a human, but when you go out of the city, it completely changes, which is also the reason why Li Yunlong entered the sand sea alone.
"How can this be?" Zhang Xiaohu didn't understand, can't people live in peace?
"Snatching is faster than anything else, only when there are enough resources, can you be more powerful, and only when you are strong can you live better. It's the same everywhere, didn't you meet a native?" Li Yunlong pointed out sharply.
Indeed, the natives used people to sacrifice blood in order to live better, Zhang Xiaohu understood something.
The small Zhangjia Village, the population is not large, and the prey on the mountain is enough to feed all the people, but now everyone has learned to hunt the meat of the fierce beasts, and the qualifications of the people have increased greatly compared to the past, and the hunting grounds that are slowly needed will become larger and larger, and one day there will be conflicts with other villages, and resources are more important than anything else.
Zhang Xiaohu, who had figured this out, casually asked, "Is Xialiang City big?"
"There are about 10,000 monks, and there are always more than 100,000 or 200,000 cultivators who can't cultivate" Li Yunlong didn't dare to be sure, it was just a small Qi refining period cultivator, how could he know too clearly, but this approximate number scared Zhang Xiaohu.
"This ...... "I have lived in Zhangjia Village since I was a child, and I have never even been to a small town hundreds of miles away, but even a small town is only a few thousand people, and I never thought that there would be so many people in the city."
"I'll tell you, don't look around when you get to the city, others will know that you are a bun from a small place" Li Yunlong's sense of superiority exploded.
"I really haven't seen it, let's see what's wrong? Dirt buns are dirt buns, what's the matter" Zhang Xiaohu didn't care, he was full of curiosity about the Xialiang City that he was about to enter.
"You say, is the street crowded with people? Is there everything to sell? Is it ......?" asked the excited Zhang Xiaohu constantly, like a curious baby.
I couldn't help it, Li Yunlong interrupted, "I haven't been to the mortal area, I don't know if it's crowded over there, but our monks occupy half of Xialiang City, so 10,000 people are scattered in it, there are not many, the streets are sparsely pulled and a few people, and everything does have to be sold, but those who want spirit stones, if you want to buy them, you have to work hard to make money in the future."
"What do you mean?"
"It's just where people who can't cultivate live," Li Yunlong explained.
"Cultivation requires the opening of the elixir, otherwise you can't cultivate, mortals can't afford it at all, let alone mortals, like me, I almost can't afford to buy it for my sister" I was a little scared when I thought about it, this kind of desperate thing should not be done in the future.
"That'...... What am I?" the mortal area is still very understandable, after all, no matter where the resources are in the hands of capable people, the treatment of hunters in Zhangjia Village is much higher than those who can't go into the mountains to hunt.
"Of course you are a monk" Li Yunlong thought for a while and said, "But there has been no physical cultivation for a long time, I still read what is written in the book, and now there is no future in physical cultivation, and it is estimated that no one can afford you."
To tell the truth, in this era of national qi cultivation, a physical cultivation suddenly appeared, although everyone can accept it, but think about the physical cultivation that died out so naturally in the long river of history, a kind of cultivation that has been eliminated, is not worthy of everyone's attention.
"What's wrong with physical cultivation? I'm no worse than you," Zhang Xiaohu was unconvinced.
"You are a demon beast," Li Yunlong commented unceremoniously.
"It's been many years since the physical cultivation, and there are people who want to try it later, but the highest level is that the Jindan of Qi cultivation can no longer go up, maybe the aura of heaven and earth has changed, and no one has practiced it anymore."
Not to mention that Li Yunlong is quite knowledgeable, he knows a little bit about everything.
"What should I do then?" Zhang Xiaohu felt frustrated, "I still have to travel back through the world to find my father."
After thinking about it, Li Yunlong replied seriously, "I think you are different, you are much more powerful than the physical cultivation I saw written in the book, maybe you can do it."
Hearing this, the diamond-shaped clear crystal immediately appeared in my mind, maybe I am really different from them, this is my foundation, without it, there is no current ability.
Turning his head to look at Li Yunlong, he thought in his heart that no one could tell this secret, and if he let others know, he might cut open his head to find the crystal.