103. Canglan River Stranger
Over the mountains and mountains, Xiao Hua ran forty or fifty miles with anticipation, and finally came to the hiding place of the mysterious powerhouse.
But after looking around and making a sense with all his might, Xiao Hua found that there were no noteworthy aura fluctuations within two or three thousand zhang on both sides of the river!
"What a fragrant smell!" The mountain breeze blew on his face, Xiao Hua's nose moved, and he smelled a smell of grilled fish!
Jumping to the edge of the cliff, Xiao Hua followed the direction where the fragrance came from, and saw a pile of carbon fires on the river beach on the opposite bank. Above the charcoal fire, which had no flames, there was a big fish three or four feet long erected with seven or eight large wooden sticks four or five feet thick!
"Rohu?!" At a glance, he recognized that the big fish that had been roasted was the rooked rohu that he had killed earlier, and Xiao Hua hurriedly jumped off the cliff. With the help of mental power, glide, cross a distance of two or three hundred zhang, and set foot on the other side of the river.
Walking around the fire, Xiao Hua was tempted by the fragrance to swallow his saliva frequently, and couldn't help but think to himself: "These big wooden breaks are so neat and crisp, they obviously split the branches with one blow, I think only the innate strong can do it! Even if the acquired martial arts cultivator uses some kind of secret technique to do it, he will not roast the big fish here, and he should take it back to others......"
"If it is an innate powerhouse, then I should sense that there are fluctuations in spiritual power, and the arrival of an acquired realm martial cultivator like mine, an innate powerhouse should not avoid it. Seeing that the rohu was roasted like this, it should have been cooked to the fullest, and it was not even eaten...... This rohu was definitely roasted by that mysterious powerhouse with fire!" Xiao Hua finally made a judgment, his body suddenly retreated more than ten feet, and then raised his feet to shake the ground and soared into the sky.
This time, although it was not an all-out effort, it also allowed Xiao Hua to fly more than 100 zhang in the air!
Looking around at the mountains on both banks, Xiao Hua carefully searched for abnormalities, and finally saw some clues in a small valley three or four hundred feet away from the river bank.
"There's no town around here, so no one should come here to hunt or chop wood...... The valley is full of ancient trees, why is there a large shrub suddenly vacant in this corner? Could it be that the mysterious powerhouse is there!"
With a guess, Xiao Hua immediately set off, and his figure glided down and fell into the dense forest.
There are already powerful fish in this big river, and the nearby mountains are also fierce beasts with hidden breaths in the fifth or sixth layer, or even the seventh or eighth layer of the day after tomorrow. But Xiao Hua didn't care about these at all, just by grazing through the treetops at high speed, it was enough to deter these fierce beasts!
After a while, Xiao Hua, who came to the valley, stood alone on an ancient tree more than twenty feet high, looked at the five or six feet thick stump below, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and said seriously: "I wonder if my predecessors are in this valley?"
"Boy, what are you going to do there? Do you think the old man will be stupid enough to cut down a tree and make a fire next to him?" A teasing word floated from nowhere, and after a pause, he smiled again: "You don't think this is also a riverbank, do you? Could it be that there is a big river where you live, and the banks of the river are hundreds of feet wide?"
When Xiao Hua heard this, he also smiled dumbly, knowing that he was indeed anxious.
"Give you tea time, if you can't find the old man, this sumptuous meal won't be your share, hahaha-" The mysterious powerhouse seemed to be in a good mood, and he didn't seem to have any ill will towards Xiao Hua, and this made Xiao Hua dispel most of his vigilance in his heart.
"Okay, since the seniors are tested, the juniors will go all out!" Xiao Hua could hear the implication, and hurriedly replied, and his body also turned around and ran to the riverbank.
Hurriedly breaking through the wind, Xiao Hua secretly thought in his heart: "Grilling fish here, you can't be thousands of zhang away, right? My spiritual power can sweep three or four hundred zhang, if you carefully explore, from upstream to downstream, you can definitely find out this senior!"
After having this idea, Xiao Hua came to the fire again, sat directly cross-legged, released his spiritual power, and carefully probed upstream.
The mental power is increasing every time, and the speed of exploration is much slower than usual.
"Even if it's an ordinary person, if I look closely into the past like this, I can sense where it's hiding. I don't believe that this senior can converge his own spiritual power fluctuations to the point of being like dead wood, not to mention the changes in mental power, people's bodies are very different from plants, trees, bamboos and stones, and they must be able to find something!" As his spiritual power continued to advance and he continued to analyze, Xiao Hua was gradually full of confidence.
It's just that when Xiao Hua's spiritual power touched the river, his confidence began to disappear again.
The reason for this is that the river is not only turbulent, but also has a large number of fish swimming, which creates too much resistance and interference. Xiao Hua had to work hard to make the spiritual power of the void rush to the bottom of the river, and after rushing to the bottom of the river, the detection ability of the spiritual power had been weakened to a negligible level!
"The river environment is so complicated, when will I be able to find this senior if I explore the past like this? If the senior is hiding underground, then won't I be able to find it at all?" Pushed from the river to the ground, Xiao Hua directly stopped the mental power exploration, frowned and began to look for a new way.
"I'm just a junior in the acquired realm, seniors shouldn't hide in the water and underground, maybe it's ...... on the shore" After a few breaths, Xiao Hua, who knew that there was not much time, scratched his head and stood up. He glanced around with flickering eyes, and finally respectfully hugged his fists in all directions: "Senior, offended!"
The mysterious powerhouse who was hiding didn't know what Xiao Hua was going to do, so he didn't respond at this time.
Xiao Hua was a little apprehensive in his heart, but he didn't think of any other good way, so he could only raise his feet and walk towards the river, and quickly tread water to the middle of the river.
"Bang Bang!" The breath of the whole body suddenly burst into the strongest state, crushing the surface of the river, forming a circle of water waves to break away the waves, rolling towards both banks.
Taking advantage of the turbulence of the water, Xiao Hua's palms suddenly slapped down, drawing water from the surface of the river, like a water dragon emptying up, flying to the shore dozens of zhang away. It's like a downpour from the sky, drenching all the riverbank!
As the river sprayed down, Xiao Hua fully spread his spiritual power, hoping to find clues of the mysterious powerhouse.
"No, come here ......" After a careful search, Xiao Hua found nothing, and his body ran through the water, came dozens of feet away, and repeated the action just now.
Soon, Xiao Hua followed the three or four hundred zhang section of the river, turning all the banks into muddy wetlands. It's just that Xiao Hua's heart became heavier and heavier as the river bank became wet, and he stood in the middle of the river stupidly, not knowing how to find the mysterious strong man.
The tea kung fu passed quickly, and Xiao Hua remained motionless as if he was in thought.
"Boy, to be able to come up with this way to find the old man, even if you are not too stupid...... If you can control your strength accurately, maybe you can really find the old man!" The mysterious powerhouse didn't wait any longer, this time he spoke directly. Let Xiao Hua hear the prestige, and directly see a long-bearded old man wearing a yellow and green robe, with an ancient appearance, appearing at the end of the river beach!
"How is it possible?!" Xiao Hua looked at the place where the long-bearded old man was standing, and felt extremely incredible. Because the place where the old man stood was actually next to the fire - the junction of the river beach and the mountains and forests!
That is to say, this old man has been squatting next to the fire, and when he was closest to Xiao Hua, he was only about ten zhang away! And Xiao Hua walked around the fire a few times, but he didn't even sense the presence of the old man's breath beside him!
"Impossible! I obviously checked this neighborhood with my mental power just now, why have you been here all along, senior?" Xiao Hua watched in disbelief as the old man walked to the fire, hurriedly walked over, and looked carefully left and right.
"Hahaha-you kid, thinking of this kind of broken method, it's good that this grilled fish was not drenched!" The old man had a childish face and a lovely smile, and just said such a sentence, and the breath exhaled from his mouth turned over the grilled fish that was more than two feet high.
Xiao Hua clearly saw the old man's movements this time, and was stunned.
Having personally experienced the strength of the Innate Martial Venerable to blast out more than ten or two hundred thousand catties with all his might, Xiao Hua already felt that this was already very remarkable. I don't want this old man to just speak, and the energy he has formed can lift the rohu that weighs tens of thousands of catties! If this old man shoots with all his strength, how amazing will the force of the blast be? !
"It turns out that the seniors are around here, why did the juniors use their eyes and mental power, and they didn't find the seniors when they went to investigate?" Where did he dare to be a little disrespectful, Xiao Hua hurriedly bowed down and asked the old man sincerely.
"You don't look like a shrewd person, so come here and sit down first. The old man sat cross-legged on the river beach without any boulders, whether it was dirty or not, and beckoned Xiao Hua to sit beside him.
Xiao Hua was not embarrassed when he heard this comment. Knowing that it was useless to beware, he sat down next to him without any pretentiousness, and said: "Thanks to the help of the seniors just now, the juniors were able to successfully break through to the eighth-layer realm of the day after tomorrow!"
The old man nodded, a glint appeared in his eyes, and then Xiao Hua sensed a terrifying spiritual power around him.
"For the sake of your careful searching, the old man will give you a little fish and meat. The old man came over to Xiao Hua with a smile and said, the grilled fish on the fire immediately flew out of the door board-sized fish pieces, looking as if the grilled fish had torn by itself!
Seeing that the fish piece was about to fall on him, Xiao Hua, who already knew that the old man used his spiritual power, also unceremoniously released his spiritual power and fixed the fish in the air. Then he slowly sent the fish pieces to his side, grinned and smiled at the old man: "Senior, then I'm welcome!"
"Hahaha, let's see which of us eats first!" The old man's figure shook, and he floated up, and he flew up and down around the grilled fish at a strange speed!
And just when Xiao Hua was stunned for a while, all the parts of the old man's body had disappeared!
"Senior, can you eat such a big rohu?" Xiao Hua stared, watching the old man's crazy actions, almost forgetting that he hadn't eaten a bite.
"Sixty or seventy thousand catties of big fish is nothing at all, at least ten of them are needed for the old man to be full...... Not...... Uh-oh...... Snapping...... The old man won't tell you, eat the fish first!" the old man paused for a while, and showed a smug expression to Xiao Hua with a greasy mouth.
At this moment, Xiao Hua finally saw how the old man ate fish, and even sucked the fish meat directly into his mouth as if he was drinking water!