Chapter 16: Captured
In order to prevent the grass from startling the snakes, Ye Tongxuan stayed alone in the bamboo garden, and it was strictly forbidden for others to enter the bamboo garden without permission.
For three days, there was no trace of the spirit bamboo rat. If it weren't for Ye Tongxuan and the others who saw the spirit bamboo rat come here to eat, they would even suspect that the appearance of the spirit bamboo rat was fake news.
It wasn't until the evening of the third day that a small sound broke the silence of the bamboo garden. Ye Tongxuan mentioned his spirit and knew that it was the spirit bamboo rat that appeared.
Sure enough, a gray spirit bamboo rat probed its brain into the bamboo garden.
Ye Tongxuan held his breath and condensed, constricting the qi on his body, so as not to be discovered by the spirit bamboo rat.
After no threat was found, the spirit bamboo rat feasted with confidence. Ye Tongxuan didn't bother, but waited quietly.
The spirit bamboo rat really ate the green bamboo with the purple star pollen. At the end, I didn't forget to leave the bamboo garden with a small piece of bamboo.
After waiting for a while, Ye Tongxuan released the Red Spirit Bee. The Red Spirit Bee circled in mid-air, and then chased in the direction where the Spirit Bamboo Rat had left. Ye Tongxuan followed closely.
Ye Tongxuan did not forget to converge his qi during the tracking, so as not to be discovered by the spirit bamboo rat that was sensitive to aura fluctuations.
After about a stick of incense, the red spirit bee stopped on a small dirt slope and flew around the dirt slope. Obviously, under the soil slope is the nest of the spirit bamboo rat.
Ye Tongxuan, who was attached to the back, took out four pale yellow array flags. The four array flags are only about a foot long, and the lines on the flags are faintly spiritually flowing.
He quickly planted the formation flags around the soil slope, Ye Tongxuan quickly played the magic trick, and the four formation flags emitted a burst of yellow light, and then wrapped the land around the breakthrough.
The ground shrouded in yellow light became extremely hard, and these four array flags were like four barriers, making it impossible for the spirit bamboo rat to escape.
The spirit bamboo rat staying in the cave was obviously aware of the movement of the surrounding land. There was a sound of digging from inside the cave, apparently trying to escape.
Ye Tongxuan kept an eye on the cave after setting up the formation flag, he didn't know the situation in the cave, for fear that a move would go down and kill the spirit bamboo rat.
Now he can only rely on the Ground Binding Array to force the Spirit Bamboo Rat out.
With the shroud of yellow light, the soil that can be used by the spirit bamboo rats to dig is getting smaller and smaller, and the spirit bamboo rats in the cave can no longer bear it anymore and rush out of the soil.
The spirit bamboo rat that rushed out of the outside rushed into the formation as if it were fatal, using its own body as a ram, hitting the formation over and over again. The Groundbinding Array rippled because of the collision of the Spirit Bamboo Rat.
The flags planted around them also became shaky. If this trend continues, I'm afraid that the Binding Array will not last long.
Ye Tongxuan was taken aback by the ferocity of this spirit bamboo rat, and raised his hand to hit the two magic tricks to stop the impact of the spirit bamboo rat.
The head of the spirit bamboo rat that stopped was already covered with blood, and its whole body was tense, ready for the next impact.
Ye Tongxuan was afraid that the night would be long and dreamy, so he leaned over and rushed into the formation. With his right hand, like an eagle's claw, he grabbed the back of the spirit bamboo rat's neck, lifted it up, and threw it into the prepared cage.
The spirit bamboo rat that was caught seemed to have acquiesced to its fate and no longer resisted, just lying on its stomach in the cage full of prohibitions.
Ye Tongxuan's brows furrowed slightly, there should be more than one spirit bamboo rat in the cave. He used his divine sense to probe the situation inside the cave, and sure enough, there was a spirit bamboo rat inside.
Ye Tongxuan stepped up his spiritual power to make the formation run faster, and the spiritual bamboo rat inside was frightened and quickly escaped from the cave.
The spirit bamboo rat that escaped fled in all directions, but there were formations around it to intercept it, and there was no place to escape.
Seeing this, the spirit bamboo rat in the cage rushed desperately and let out a roar.
The spirit bamboo rat on the soil slope seemed to have eased up, digging the ground with all four feet, wanting to escape. However, the Groundbound Formation had hardened the land around it, and it was impossible to escape so easily.
Ye Tongxuan grabbed it with his left hand, and grabbed this spirit bamboo rat in his hand, and the other spirit bamboo rat in the cage hit even more violently.
Ye Tongxuan was annoyed by its noise, and pointed a sword at the spirit bamboo rat in the cage, and said, "Shut up!" ”
With the pressure of spiritual power in the late stage of qi refining, the spirit bamboo rat in the cage suddenly wilted, and he lay on the ground and didn't dare to make any more superfluous movements.
The spirit bamboo rat in his hand had a slightly bulging belly, and Ye Tongxuan guessed that he might be pregnant, so this other spirit bamboo rat would desperately protect it.
Ye Tongxuan threw it into the cage, probed it again with his divine sense, and confirmed that there were no more fish that slipped through the net, then put away the array flag and set off to return to Jiutai Mountain.
Ye Shoujing was anxiously waiting for Ye Tongxuan's good news, and when he saw Ye Tongxuan coming back with a cage in his hand, he said with a smile on his face: "Tongxuan's nephew is really extraordinary, with these two spirit bamboo rats, after a few years, the family will be able to domesticate on a large scale." ”
Ye Tongxuan smiled, his face was full of joy, "I don't know much about the domestication of demon beasts, I can ask the family to send a beast tamer over." ”
Ye Shoujing nodded, "I will report this good news to the family tomorrow, and I believe that the family will send people over soon." ”
After arranging the matter of the Lingzhu Rat, Ye Shoujing said again: "The Lingmi will be able to mature in a few days. At that time, there may be demon beasts or short-eyed scattered cultivators coming to fight, so we have to be prepared. ”
Ye Tongxuan was noncommittal, every harvest season in Jiutai Mountain, there would always be demon beasts or loose cultivators to rob the family's things. For this phenomenon, Ye Shoujing can only defend passively.
He could only minimize the loss as much as possible, the family was currently short of manpower, especially the late-stage Qi refining cultivators, and after weighing it, he still dispelled the idea of sending late-stage Qi refining cultivators to Jiutai Mountain.
Now that the Ye family is employing people, the monks in the late stage of Qi refining are still of great use in other aspects, and they have been stationed in Jiutai Mountain for a long time, which means that they are overkill.
Ye Shoujing can also understand this, the demon beast is just a small problem, after all, this is the Ye family's sphere of influence, and the higher-level demon beasts have been cleared by the Ye family. Most of the sneak attacks on Jiutai Mountain are relatively low-level demon beasts.
The biggest problem is still casual cultivation, they will not completely take away all the income of Jiutai Mountain, but they will come here to loot once a year.
In this regard, Ye Shoujing was helpless. Now that Ye Tongxuan is stationed here, naturally he will never let this happen again.
For Jiutai Mountain, Ye Tongxuan also has his own plans at present, but he has no choice but to have no money in his hands now, and he has no soldiers. It is impossible to completely eliminate this phenomenon.
What he can do now is to minimize the loss of Jiutai Mountain as much as possible. Only when Jiutai Mountain's income comes up and he has enough cultivation resources in his hands, can these problems be solved.
At the root of it, it is a question of resources. Ye Tongxuan said: "The trail of scattered cultivation that came to Jiutai Mountain to loot is erratic, and there must be other forces behind it secretly supporting.
It may not be cured in a short period of time, and at this stage, it can only be based on the development of Jiutai Mountain, and the others can only be considered later. ”
Ye Shoujing nodded, indicating that he agreed with Ye Tongxuan's opinion.