Chapter 16: Preparations Before Refining Xuan Qi

Escaping from the "clutches" of the Seventh Princess, Aotian ran wildly all the way, until he was sure that he would not be caught up again, and then slowed down slightly.

"Whew—you can be regarded as having escaped!" Aotian breathed a long sigh of relief, thinking back on what had just happened, it was really thrilling.

However, at this time, his mood relaxed, but Aotian felt the exhaustion of his body, so he gritted his teeth and ran wildly for a distance, and then found a hidden place and stopped to rest.

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Aotian couldn't help but reach out and touch his storage ring. As soon as he thought of the True Yang Xuanlei Qi in his storage ring, he couldn't help but get excited again: "Xuanqi, I'm proud to have really gotten Xuanqi!"

It seems that happiness came too suddenly, and Aotian still has a feeling like a dream.

However, although the Xuan Qi has arrived, the materials required to refine the Xuan Qi have not yet been prepared.

"Next, we should find a way to get the magic vine fruit and ambergris liquid!" Thinking of this, Aotian couldn't help but feel a little bitter in his heart, it was not difficult to find the magic vine fruit, as long as it took some time to find it.

However, it is definitely not an easy task to get ambergris.

You must know that ambergris liquid is the liquid used by the third-level demonic beast, the dragon horn python, to hatch python eggs, so if you want to get this liquid, you can only enter the dragon horn python's lair. But this kind of thing is no different from snatching a scythe from the hands of death, and if you don't put your mind to it, you will lose your life.

"Alas-there are many good things, in order to refine the Xuan Qi, in order to become stronger, I can only fight to the death!" Thinking about it, Aotian still made up his mind to fight once.

The sky had gradually darkened, so Aotian simply stayed where he was and rested for the night, and it was not until the next morning that his blood and experience had recovered vigorously, and he walked towards the depths of the Northern Wilderness Ancient Forest.

The Dragon Horn Python is a third-level magical beast, so if you want to find the Dragon Horned Python, you can only venture into the depths of the Northern Wilderness Ancient Forest.

As Aotian continued to go deeper, the surrounding trees seemed to grow taller and taller, the plants became more and more dense, and the sound of beast roars and birds sounded from time to time became more and more frequent.

Holding a long sword in his hand, Aotian carefully shuttled through the vine-staggered woods, his heart constricted into a ball, his eyes constantly scanning his surroundings, and his ears always paying attention to the movements around him. The long sword in his hand swung from time to time, severing the vines that stood in his way.

He knew very well that in this environment where second- and third-level demonic beasts could appear at any time, if he was not careful, he was afraid that he would lose his life in the next second.

"Sassy ......" A small sound suddenly came from the weeds on the side, Aotian's heart tightened, his eyes immediately looked over, and the long sword in his hand was also horizontal in front of him, ready to defend.

After looking closely, Aotian found that the weeds where the sound came from were shaking slightly, but he couldn't see what was inside, and the small sound just now was gone.

At this moment, Aotian suddenly felt that his surroundings fell into a death-like silence, as if there was no even the slightest sound of wind, and the only thing left was the sound of the violent heartbeat.

Shaking the long sword in his hand vigorously, Aotian calmed his nervousness slightly, and then continued to walk forward slowly, but his eyes were still fixed on the grass, ready to guard against something hidden there suddenly rushing out.

But Aotian didn't take a few steps, and he vaguely felt the ground under his feet vibrate slightly, and the vibration became clearer and louder, until Aotian was shocked to find that where he was just now, the ground actually rose rapidly, and then a black shadow broke out of the ground.

Seeing this scene, Aotian's heart sank, and he instinctively jumped to the side, but his eyes had already seen the black shadow that broke out of the ground, which was the second-level demonic beast - the sharp-toothed giant rat.

Aotian had seen an introduction to the sharp-toothed giant rat in the book before, so he recognized at a glance that the giant rat with black stiff hair and a body length of more than one meter in front of him was the sharp-toothed giant rat.

The sharp-toothed giant rat is one of the more powerful second-level demonic beasts, and its strength is definitely no less than that of a mid-level martial artist, and its most perverted thing is that its fur is several times stiffer than that of the Wolverine Black Wolf, and the sharp teeth that can easily bite steel and rock into powder.

"Squeak ......" the sharp-toothed giant rat let out a few low screams, and as soon as its body moved, it rushed towards Aotian at an astonishing speed.

Seeing this, Aotian's pupils shrank, and his eyes were tightly locked on the sharp-toothed giant rat that was approaching at great speed, predicting the path it might attack.

Aotian knew that the teeth of the sharp-toothed giant rat were very sharp, so he would never let his long sword be bitten by it, so when he saw the sharp-toothed giant rat jump up and pounce. reacted immediately, moved his body sideways, and made a thunder sword move containing five layers of connotation, avoiding the big mouth of the sharp-toothed giant rat, and instantly slashed at the neck of the sharp-toothed giant rat.

"Bang-" There was a muffled sound, and although the sharp-toothed giant rat was not knocked out of the arc, the direction of its pounce was greatly offset, and the last one passed by the side of the Aotian and landed in the grass on the ground behind the oblique back of the arrogant sky.

The fur of this sharp-toothed giant rat was really strong and terrifying, and Aotian's sword just now did not cause the slightest damage to it.

So after it landed, it immediately adjusted its body and pounced on Aotian again.

Seeing this, Aotian was shocked in his heart, knowing that he was definitely not the opponent of this sharp-toothed giant rat, so after breaking the attack of the sharp-toothed giant rat with all his strength again, he immediately fled to the side of the woods with a "lightning speed".

Seeing Aotian fleeing, the sharp-toothed giant rat "squeaked" twice, and immediately chased after it at a very fast speed.

The speed of the sharp-toothed giant rat was extremely fast, even much faster than the speed of the captain of the Ou family, so even if Aotian continuously used the wind and lightning speed, he still couldn't pull away from the sharp-toothed giant rat, and this distance seemed to be shrinking.

Feeling the sharp-toothed giant rat behind him getting closer and closer, Aotian was a little anxious, and after thinking about it for a while, he immediately formed a seal with both hands, ready to use his killer weapon - the killing seal.

After the handprint was finished, Aotian returned his hand and slapped the sharp-toothed giant rat behind him.

Suddenly, he saw a strange red mark, which disappeared in a flash on his palm.

Then an illusory sword shadow suddenly flew out of his palm, and in a flash, it was already stabbed on the sharp-toothed giant rat.

"Bang-" The illusory sword shadow was extremely powerful, and it directly knocked the sharp-toothed giant rat out of the air, and slammed into a big tree at the very end.

Not only that, Aotian was even more pleasantly surprised to see that blood was actually flowing from the body of the sharp-toothed giant rat, and it was obvious that the killing mark just now had broken through its fur.

"Squeak-" The sharp-toothed giant rat that was attacked let out a sharp cry, as if it was angry, and then its body moved, and it rushed towards Aotian again, as if there was no wound on its body at all.

Seeing this, Aotian was shocked and hurriedly sealed again, but before he could finish the seal, the figure of the black giant rat that was originally rushing suddenly stopped, and then as if he saw something terrible, he immediately wanted to break the ground and escape.

But at this moment, a huge figure, like an arrow from the Xuan, rushed out of the bushes on the side of Aotian, and then smashed into the place where the sharp-toothed giant rat was in the terrified gaze of Aotian.

"Boom-" There was a loud bang, dust flew and the ground shook.

Seeing this sudden scene, Aotian was shocked in his heart, but when he saw the behemoth that suddenly appeared in front of him, he couldn't help but gasp, and cold sweat broke out on his back instantly.

Because in front of him was a huge python covered in cyan scales and a pair of dragon horns on its head.

And this python is the third-level demonic beast he is looking for-Dragon Horn Python.

Just when Aotian was terrified, the dragon horned python suddenly raised its head, and in its mouth was the sharp-toothed giant rat that seemed to be dead.

Seeing this, Aotian was like an empowerment of cold water, and his heart trembled. Even the sharp-toothed giant rat that defended against perversion was easily killed by this dragon horned python, and in front of it, he was as weak as an ant.

"Run!" Aotian only had this one thought in his heart, so he immediately turned around and rushed into the woods in the distance with the "Ninefold Neigang" and the "Wind and Lightning".

Seemingly disdainful of a weak human like Aotian, the dragon horned python only tilted its head slightly to glance in the direction of Aotian's escape, and then continued to devour the sharp-toothed giant rat in its mouth.

After running wildly for a distance, he felt that the dragon horned python was not chasing after him, and he was secretly relieved, and his speed immediately slowed down.

You must know that if you run in a panic in this dangerous barren forest, you will put yourself in greater danger, and if you don't make up your mind, you will just get out of the tiger's mouth and get into the wolf's den.

Therefore, Aotian jumped onto a leafy tree at the back, and his eyes first looked around, and after making sure that this place was absolutely safe, he put his mind at ease this time.

"It was really thrilling just now, fortunately, the dragon horn python prefers to eat the meat of the sharp-toothed giant rat!" Aotian was afraid for a while, if the dragon horned python attacked him first, I am afraid that it would be his own corpse that was swallowed into his stomach now.

"But the dragon horn python will appear here, presumably his nest should be near here, but I just don't know if the dragon horned python just now is female or male, is it in the incubation period!" Aotian frowned slightly, and thought to himself.

Ambergris is the liquid used by the dragon horn python to hatch eggs, so if he wants to get ambergris, he must find a nest of a dragon horn python that is incubating eggs.

According to the introduction in the "Xuanqi Catalogue", the male and female dragon horn pythons have a circle of special markings composed of purple scales on their tails, and the female dragon horn python generally lays eggs in late spring and early summer.

Calculate the time carefully, it is just early summer, so it should be the season when the female dragon horn python hatches her eggs.

But Aotian had just fled in a hurry, but he hadn't carefully identified the male and female of the dragon horned python.

So all he had to do now was to find the dragon horned python again, and then determine if it was a female or a male?

But when he thought of the terrible dragon horned python just now, Aotian felt a chill in his heart, and he couldn't help but retreat a little.

"No, I've come this far, I can't just give up, I must get ambergris!" Thinking of the powerful strength that can be brought by refining Xuan Qi again, Aotian finally secretly mustered up his courage.

"I have to show the courage to know that there are tigers in the mountains and prefer the tigers. As long as you find the dragon horn python, make sure that it is a female or a male, if it is a female, find a way to follow it, find its nest, and then wait until it is out hunting, and then enter the nest to steal ambergris. But before I can do that, I still need to find the Demon Vine Fruit first!" Aotian had already roughly formulated a plan in his heart.

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