Chapter 109: Peeping in the Snow
The cold wind was cold, the snow was shaking, and the frozen road was empty, only Wu Ye braved the snow to move forward, the road was difficult, and with his foot strength, he also walked for three hours to reach the foot of Tanglin Mountain.
Look up, what a mountain!
Donglin Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, the mountain is steep, the strange peaks are stacked, it has always been a place where mountain spirits and wild monsters are clustered, few people dared to go into the mountains to hunt in the past, since there was a snake demon twenty years ago, no one dared to enter the mountain to die, no one disturbed for twenty years, and a big mountain was raised to be reckless, and Pingliang City dozens of miles away is two worlds.
These snow has not stopped, Wu Ye plunged into the Tanglin Mountain, only to see the overlapping peaks and rocks, the ravines and bays, the towering mountains, the sharpened peaks, all shrouded in a cloud of silver powder, lightly stepped, leaving two lines of fresh footprints on the ground.
Although these two lines of footprints would not be covered by heavy snow in half a day, he still took out four wooden foot covers from the Five Yin Transformation Divine Ring, with grooves on them that were buckled into them with hands and feet, but the bottom was carved into the shape of tiger claws.
Put it on your feet and step on it again, and it is a clear tiger paw print.
He put four wooden paws on his hands and feet, disguised himself as a tiger, and crawled all the way forward.
Even if Shen Tianshi found this series of footprints, he would only think that it was a tiger foraging in the snow, but he could not guess that someone had gone up the mountain to spoil his good deeds.
After walking for a long time, I saw a mountain temple that had collapsed half of it in a mountain col covered with vines.
According to what Ran Jie said, the first two snake slaughtering conferences were escorted here by a large number of soldiers and horses in Pingliang City, and then the soldiers and horses retreated on their own, and the warriors went up the mountain to look for the traces of the snake demon, but they never returned, and even the corpse was not half of the body.
This is where the last sight of the missing warrior will be.
Wu Ye wore an old sheepskin jacket with wool turned out, crawling in the snowdrift, blending with the heavy snow, observing the temple of Tianshan from a distance, and found nothing, but he was not in a hurry to go in, to see that the head gradually fell, and the ink surged into the night sky, so he released the two talismans, together with Ma Boguang, and searched in all directions.
What he was looking for was a ferocious aura.
But where the corpses are all over the field and the blood is flowing and the pestle is flowing, there must be a strong fierce aura left, even after decades, it may not disappear, and some clues will be left.
Especially at night when the yin qi is deep, the fierce aura will not be hidden.
No matter what happened ten or twenty years ago, most of the missing martial artists had already been poisoned, or they had been killed by Shen Tianshi in a very strange and terrifying way, and they would definitely leave a strong fierce aura.
Ordinary people bumped into this fierce aura, at most they felt uncertain, for no reason there was a wind blowing through the hall, and after going back, they fell seriously ill, but Wu Ye's Fu Ghost was originally transformed by the evil qi, plus Ma Boguang, a hundred-year-old ghost, is extremely sensitive to the fierce aura, and will not let go of the slightest.
Fu Ghost and Ma Boguang swept in three directions respectively, Wu Ye hibernated in the snowdrift like a mud tire, did not move for two hours, his lips were blue and purple from the cold, his eyes were dull, and he gritted his teeth and persevered, and finally waited for Ma Boguang to send a message, and smelled a fierce breath in the black pine forest ten miles northwest of the mountain temple.
Wu Ye's spirits were lifted, and when he carefully swept away the traces left in the snow, put on the wooden tiger claws again, and climbed step by step to see, it was a black misty pine forest.
Four or five hundred zhang square, itself into a dim and dark world, as soon as you walk in, as if you have entered the dark magic cave, there is a faint black mist floating in the forest, seven or eight zhang away can not see really.
This is still a heavy snow covering the mountain, the pine needles are covered with snow, how much can reflect some moonlight, if it is summer, I don't know how dark and deep it is.
Wu Ye took a half-circle in the black pine forest and said, "This should be the place of change in the snake slayer conference ten years ago and twenty years ago!"
Ma Boguang nodded and said: "The ferocity of this place is quite strong, a few years ago, there must have been an extremely tragic massacre, it should be here, but even if you find a place, what can you do?"
Wu Ye squatted in the middle of the black pine forest and watched for a long time, and said: "Old Ma, let's analyze, in the first two snake slaughtering conferences, nearly a thousand high-level martial artists were dispatched, what method should be used to keep all these people with their own strength?"
After a pause, he quickly added: "Don't say anything like magic weapons, Shen Tianshi doesn't have any powerful magic weapons, when he chased and killed me that day, he only used his own magic power." ”
Ma Boguang pondered for a moment and said: "Shen Tianshi only has one-tenth of his mana, and he doesn't have any powerful magic weapons, it seems impossible to kill nearly a thousand martial artists at once, but if he uses the formation to trap nearly a thousand martial artists, and then slowly concoct it, it will be much easier!"
"Yes, you said, if Shen Tianshi wants to set up a formation, what is the best place to choose?" Wu Ye smiled.
Ma Boguang also understood, and nodded again and again: "That's right, if you want to set up a formation on the unobstructed hillside and trap people, although it is not impossible, it will consume a lot of mana, and if I am Shen Tianshi, I will also choose to set up a formation in this black forest, not to mention a thousand people, even if it is five thousand people, they can easily be trapped to death!"
"So, as long as we lie in ambush on the side, wait for Shen Tianshi to come over and set up the formation, and then find a way to move a little bit and poke a few transparent holes in his heaven and earth net, isn't it done?" Wu Ye sneered.
Ma Boguang tilted his neck and thought for a long time, and a smile gradually appeared on his face: "Good boy, no matter how insidious and cunning Shen Tianshi and Qi Gongzi are, I am afraid that they will eat your footwashing water!"
"My foot washing water is not something that cats and dogs can eat, these two miscellaneous pieces are not shallow this time!"
Although this is the blow, Wu Ye is not as ignorant and fearless as last time, he left the black pine forest for seven or eight miles, found a rock crevice sealed by heavy snow, dug a snow nest in it that could only accommodate one person, and got into it without moving.
The snow soon covered him again.
There is a lot of food in the Five Yin Transformation Divine Ring, but he doesn't have to worry about starvation, he sticks the fragment of the skull of the tyrant Xia Ji on his forehead all day long, immersing himself in the battlefield fighting in the wild world, integrating the results of these two months of cultivation and penetrating into every drop of blood around his body.
Not to mention, these two months of cultivation are really effective, at least he is not so easy to die in his dreams, and when he encounters ordinary Flood Desolation Beasts, he can still deal with them for a while, and even kill the weakest of them.
But he didn't indulge in the thrill of bullying the weak.
He still likes to challenge himself, provoke those beasts that are far more powerful than him, and practice the skills of dodging and escaping under the minions of these beasts.
Because he feels that with his character, he will be chased and killed by monsters who are far stronger than him at every turn, and before he learns how to beat people, he should honestly learn how to be beaten.
As for the situation in the outside world, he only released a talisman ghost to quietly monitor three miles away from the black pine forest.
At such a distance, the Fu Ghost was covered in ice and snow, and even Shen Tianshi was not so easy to find.
For five days in a row, Shen Tianshi did not appear, but Wu Ye was not in a hurry, immersed in the wild world and had fun.
On the sixth day, sure enough, someone went up the mountain, but it was not Shen Tianshi, but the ghost shadow Ji Lian and more than a dozen warriors that he had seen that day.
These people are wearing wide snow boots on their feet, and they are very light to walk in the snowfield, and they have rich experience in snow warfare at a glance, and they are all hunters who are used to fighting monsters.
These demon hunters were the first to go up the mountain to explore the terrain, they thought very highly of themselves, and they didn't take any snake demons in their eyes, after all, if they were really powerful demon beasts, so close to the human city, they would have come out to wreak havoc a long time ago, how could they have been dormant in the Tanglin Mountains for more than 20 years, and they only caught hundreds of babies so honestly - and these babies have no direct evidence that they were captured by the snake demon.
At best, it is a low-level demon beast, they have killed too much, where will they take it to heart.
These demon hunters also discovered the black pine forest, went in and walked around, did not notice anything special, and went down the mountain at dusk.
Wu Ye knew that after they left, it was time for Shen Tianshi to come.
Sure enough, when there were still two days before the Snake Slaying Conference, two small black spots appeared on the snow slope, which were none other than Shen Tianshi and Qi Gongzi.
Soon after the two men burrowed into the black pine forest, the fierce aura above the black pine forest began to slowly swirl.
Ma Boguang and Fu Ghost both clearly sensed the changes in the yin qi, and Wu Ye ** mortal fetus, although he couldn't see it, he also felt that the black pine forest gradually became more mysterious and weird, and it seemed to be faintly surrounded by a trace of heart-pounding aura.
However, he didn't dare to drive the Fu Ghost to get close to snoop, after all, he still had palpitations when he remembered the pursuit that day.
Shen Tianshi and Qi Gongzi stayed in the black pine forest for most of the day, and only came out when it was dark, Shen Tianshi was already a little fluttery when he walked, and he had to rely on Qi Gongzi's support to go down the mountain.
"Shen Tianshi's mana is overdepleted!"
Ma Boguang is experienced, and he can see the problem at a glance, "It should be that he was seriously injured in the fight with the green-haired giant turtle two months ago, and it was fundamentally broken, and before he could raise it, he forcibly urged his spiritual power, laid out a formation, and his body was hollowed out!"
"Then you say, can we kill him directly?" Wu Ye's heart moved, and he licked his lips.
Ma Boguang immediately shook his head: "The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, no matter how much mana is consumed, even if you fall into the innate realm, a congenital peak will still not be able to escape! You are not even the peak of the day after tomorrow, how can you kill someone?"
Wu Ye laughed dryly, knowing that he was in a bit of a hurry, but in his heart he was even more curious about Shen Tianshi's plan.
If Lao Ma is not mistaken, Shen Tianshi is at best an innate peak, but the two demon hunters who came this time are both innate masters, plus hundreds of acquired high-level martial artists, one person can nail Shen Tianshi to death with a mouthful of spit, why did this old miscellaneous kill so many people?
Could it be that he has something else to say?
After waiting in the snow all night, at dawn the next day, Wuye finally broke through the snow field and swept towards the black pine forest!
(To be continued)