Ji Cunyan didn't wake up until noon, and continued to stay in the patio of the post station as soon as he got up.

Fluttershy sat down next to her with the medicine and said, "Two bowls of water are boiled into one bowl of water, and it's still hot." ”

"Still want to drink?! Spare me! After drinking a mouthful of fishy smell, I don't know what is in it. ”

"Don't worry, it's real." Fluttershy laughs, "Did you get anything out of your busy night yesterday?" ”

Ji Cunyan shook his head, "I worked hard all night after following that snake's buttocks, and I didn't even pick up a piece of snake." Alas...... It would be nice if my third brother was here. If he had been in the formation, he would not have let the snake run away! ”

"Although I am far away in Suzhou, I have also heard of the prestige of Ji Jingyang, the master of the Xuanjing Hall. It is said that he is the reincarnation of Erlang Zhenjun, and Tianyan can argue with the demons of the world. Is he really that good? ”

“…… Not anymore! My third brother is not born with a heavenly eye, and the ability to open the heavenly purpose must use the blood-burning Dafa, which is very hurtful. ”

"Tell you secretly...... In fact, Zhang Tianshi is born with heavenly eyes. ”

"Zhang Ji?!" Ji Cunyan opened his round eyes and was quite surprised, "He? …… You might as well say that his son has heavenly eyes, and I believe it more! Do you know? He couldn't even jump over a three-person wall, and I had to pull him along. ”

Fluttershy laughs, "It doesn't have to be easy to do if you have a celestial eye." ”

At this time, Jin Zhutou walked in from outside.

"Jin catches the head early! Is that snake demon moving again? Ji Cunyan greeted Jin Zhutou.

Jin Zhutou's face was solemn, and he said, "I don't know what happened to that snake, but early in the morning, Lord Jian of the Qin Heavenly Prison carried away the body of the male python. He said it was to lure the snake out of the hole. ”

Ji Cunyan repeated: "Lead the snake out of the hole? Did he want to use the corpse of the male snake to lure the female snake into appearance? ”

"That's probably what it means! I asked him if he had informed Master Lei, but he said no. I don't think it's reliable. ”

Ji Cunyan was very reasonable at this time: "To be honest...... He is indeed more capable than my senior brother Lei Qi. ”

Jin Zhutou said: "But how can he compare with Zhang Daoling's true disciple?" ”

Ji Cunyan frowned and said: "Then it can't be compared, he can pinch ten Zhang Ji to death with two fingers." ”

Fluttershy hurriedly appealed on her behalf, "There's no need to be so exaggerated. Xiao Zhang Tianshi still has some skills. ”

Jin Zhutou also said: "Hey, I don't think so." Jian Shaolin is too aggressive in doing things, it is better for Xiao Zhang Tianshi to fight steadily, and he has to know how many catties and taels he has, just by himself, he let the snake demon run away last time, and he will not find anyone to help this time. ”

"Who said he didn't find someone." Lei Qi also came in from outside at this time, "He spent a lot of money and invited Zhang Ji to help him set up the formation." There was also a bit of depression in the words.

"Zhang Ji, isn't this one person earning two pieces of silver?" Ji Cun said.

"People are originally collecting money to do things, and there is money to earn, and helping people to do things is not helping." Lei Qi Dao.

"That's not going to work, I've got to go." Ji Cunyan stood up.

Lei Qi shook his head and said, "Qin Tianjian and Xuanjing Hall have never interfered with each other's work, since Jian Shaolin has already laid out the formation, we'd better not interfere again." ”

"But slaying demons and eliminating demons is our business, and now that the enemy is present, what else can we divide between you and me?" Ji Cun said, "Jin Zhutou, you said yes, right?" ”

Jin Zhutou naturally hoped that these forces could join forces to solve the snake demon in Suzhou City as soon as possible. At this time, when he heard Ji Cunyan say this, he immediately nodded in agreement.

Lei Qi sighed.

Ji Cunyan saw that Lei Qi was still a little reluctant, so he said again: "Senior Brother Lei Qi, think about it, if my third brother is here, he will definitely join forces with Qin Tianjian at this time." ”

Lei Qi only said: "Since you have said it, then let's go over together!" ”

Jian Shaolin and Zhang Ji came to the depths of the canyon in the northwest of the suburbs. This place is far away from the crowd, but it is a good place to show your skills, a pool of living water in the deep flat part of the canyon converges into a shallow lake, the body of the Qinglin male python was instructed by Jian Shaolin to tie it with ink thread and stand on the surface of the lake.

Zhang Ji saw that Jian Shaolin ordered people to arrange giant crossbows on the rocks on both sides of the canyon, quenched the huge feather arrow arrow with venom, and wrapped the arrow body with yellow rune paper, as if he wanted to kill the snake demon here.

Jian Shaolin said to Zhang Ji: "Master Zhang, I have already put an enchantment with a Xuaniron stone cloth around me, please strengthen the enchantment again, so as not to break free and escape when the snake demon is obtained." ”

Zhang Ji said: "This is simple. ”

After speaking, he took out cinnabar, a brush and yellow rune paper from the small bag around his waist, found a flat boulder, and began to write the talisman.

At this time, Ji Cunyan and Lei Qi inquired and rushed to the shallow lake of the canyon.

Jian Shaolin saw the helper coming, but he didn't see how happy he was, he frowned slightly, and looked at Lei Qi with Ji Cunyan.

Ji Cunyan didn't care about his face, just said to him: "Master Jane, one more person, one more chance of winning, Senior Brother Lei Qi and I also want to help you solve that snake demon." Of course, don't worry, we're not gods, we don't need to be paid. ”

The last sentence made Jian Shaolin a little crying and laughing.

After Ji Cunyan finished speaking, he went to find Zhang Ji. Leaving Lei Qi to nod to Jian Shaolin.

Jian Shaolin could only cope and nodded at him.

Lei Qi said to Jian Shaolin: "Lord Jane's place is good, so that the snake demon can follow the water, and the pool is not deep, and it can also curb its actions." It's just that why are you sure that the snake demon will risk his life and throw himself into the net? ”

Jian Shaolin said: "If it dares to break into the Suzhou Mansion, it also has the courage to break into this net." In fact, if there is one thing, it will come. Now it doesn't have it, but I'm only six points sure. ”

"Oh?"

"It's the male snake Neidan."

Lei Qi was stunned.

Jian Shaolin didn't care about him, and continued: "The female snake went back to the Suzhou Mansion to find the corpse of the male snake, I don't think it's just some so-called deep roots, but to swallow its inner dan." Isn't it a waste to put hundreds of years of cultivation in a corpse? If the female snake swallowed the male snake Neidan, it would be much more effective than sucking the essence of a dozen or twenty men. It's just that for some reason, I smoked the corpse with peach wood, looked at the corpse with a bronze mirror, and searched all over the head and tail of the snake corpse, but I didn't find the Neidan of this male snake. I wonder if Lord Lei knows the whereabouts of the male snake Neidan? ”

Lei Qi's expression was a little strange and complicated, and he looked at Zhang Ji Tongji who was talking on the side.

After Zhang Ji finished writing a talisman, he raised his head and asked Ji Cunyan: "You squatted here and didn't speak, stealing the teacher?" ”

Ji Cunyan supported his chin with one hand and nodded with a smile.

Zhang Ji said: "Can it be so easy for others to learn, or is it still a clear urn?" [Note 1]

"I know, not only do you have to watch your right hand gesture, but you also have to learn how to hold your left hand!"

"Of course it's more than that, otherwise all the Taoist priests in the world can write the Qing Zheng. While I was writing, I had to recite the mantra in my heart. ”

"What's that mantra?"

"Ten thousand dollars will not be exchanged!"

"Stingy!"

"If you call me Master, I'll teach you. Want to be a female Taoist? Just make a haircut. ”

"I don't want it! Aunt Dao's bun is not good-looking at all! ”

The two were talking, only to see Lei Qi lead Jian Shaolin over.

Lei Qi said to Zhang Ji with a strange expression: "Zhang Tianshi, was this male snake's Neidan swallowed by your son?" ”

"Hey! I don't even want to scold him anymore. I didn't even see what Nanedan looked like, and he swallowed it. ”

Lei Qi said to Jian Shaolin; "That's it. Dingkang Shizi died tragically, the corpse was dismembered in both legs, and the fire did not burn after death. The housekeeper of the Shizi Mansion invited Zhang Ji to take a look, and Zhang Ji said that it was because the prince had Neidan hidden in his body, and he opened the altar to take out the Neidan......"

Zhang Ji continued: "My son ate it in his pocket. ”

Jian Shaolin's expression was obviously unconvinced.

"When we killed the male snake, we found that it was not there, otherwise with me and Xiao Ji with our bare hands, how could we be its opponent? Therefore, we deduce that either the male snake gave the inner pill to the female snake and devoured the essence in the body of the son of the world and did not have time to take it out, or the female snake inner pill was gone, and the male snake gave his inner pill to it, and he cultivated by absorbing the essence of the girl. All in all, now these two snakes only have one Neidan. ”

Although Jian Shaolin didn't believe it, but at this time, the three of them were in the same caliber, and he couldn't say anything. I just think that if there is no Neidan, it is really very likely that the female snake will not appear again. Then these mechanisms for arranging ambushes are indeed in vain.

He had also thought about the story of Nedan being privately swallowed by Zhang Ji or Lei Qi, but he didn't expect that Nedan's place was so outrageous.

"Speaking of which, Zhang Ji, is your son hibernating? I haven't seen it come out in days. Ji Cunyan said to Zhang Ji, "Or is the poison in me so powerful that I can make your son faint?" ”

Zhang Ji looked at Ji Cunyan, then at Jian Shaolin, and said, "This rebel is very cowardly, and he is afraid of life." When you meet a stranger, you are naturally reluctant to come out and touch your head. ”

The "stranger" he refers to naturally refers to the powerful character of Jian Shaolin.

As soon as the two of them said this, the Gu King came out of Ji Cunyan's collar.

"Ah, good friend! Are you awake?! Ji Cunyan also greeted it.

Jian Shaolin stared at the Gu King a few times, and said in his heart: This is indeed a Gu King with excellent quality. If it is said that the legend of the Gu King devouring the fairy Neidan is not without allusions. It's just that the Gu King Hua Dan is like a giant snake swallowing an elephant, how can it be digested for ten days and a half months, how can it be like this Gu King, and now there is no breath of the demon Neidan on it at all.

The Gu King ignored Ji Cunyan's words, and rushed straight up, hovering in mid-air in the blink of an eye, a pair of tentacles facing the direction of the southeast living water entering the lake, and the golden wings fluttered in the wind, making a metallic empty sound.

Ji Cunyan had never seen the Gu King take such a defensive posture, but he also knew that the situation was urgent.

Zhang Ji said: "In broad daylight, the female snake came. ”

After a while, the copper bell set by Jian Shaolin by the lake and the copper bell on Ji Cunyan's wrist sensed the demonic qi and rang together.

The originally calm water of the lake suddenly rippled layer by layer, and circles of small and dense water waves swallowed towards the shore, and between breaths, the ripples became larger and larger, and then turned into small waves that slapped the gravel on the shore.

Everyone looked at it again, and another Qinglin python came on the waves. It only showed its attacking flat head and half-erect neck, and its body was unknown how long it was under the water. I don't know if it's underwater, but its body seems to be extremely long, its head has swam to the middle of the lake, but its tail is still in the deep valley, and it can't be seen really.

Jian Shaolin and Lei Qi pulled out the sword in their hands and protected them in front of them. Ji Cunyan also held the ink line copper bell between his fingers, ready to attack at any time.

Jian Shaolin raised his left hand slightly and ordered the archers to prepare.

The head of the Qinglin female python swam a few feet away from everyone, and Jian Shaolin pressed his wrist down-

One hundred and ten arrow-quenched feather arrows shot at the Qinglin female python in unison, piercing straight into its "seven inches". The "seven inches" of this snake was injured by Jian Shaolin's male yellow sword yesterday, and half of the sword body was inserted into the snake's neck, and now the sword marks are still there, like a yellow scar engraved on the blue and black scales on the neck of the Qinglin female python, which is particularly conspicuous.

Who knew that the scales of this Qinglin female python were as hard as iron, and they could resist all the feather arrows, and the feather arrows made a metal collision sound, and they broke one after another, as if they were shooting at a shield made of stainless steel instead of a snake's body.

The first wave of attacks does not appear to have worked.

The Gu King had already flown to the middle of the lake, and sprinkled golden phosphorus powder on the surface of the lake as he had done with male pythons at night as he had done last time. When phosphorus powder encounters snake scales, it is like sulfur meets fire, beeping, and it can burn clusters of sparks on a section of the snake exposed to the lake surface of the Qinglin female python.

The Qinglin female python suffered from pain and had to sink into the lake.

Ji Cunyan said: "Good friends are amazing! ”

But who knew that the Qinglin female python was even more powerful than the male python, it only threw a snake tail out of the water, and slapped it in the direction of the Gu King. The Gu King was very alert, and he dodged this tail, but he couldn't avoid the splash brought up by the snake's tail, only to see that it was slapped into the water by a wall of water.

"Good friends!" Ji Cun said urgently.

Jian Shaolin saw the opportunity, his hands were sealed, and there were words in his mouth, only to see the Xuanshi net array emitting a faint blue light, forming a huge net in mid-air, pressing down on the water.

The Qinglin female python wanted to raise its head to attack again, but suddenly an invisible giant net pressed down, and it was pressed back to the surface of the water.

Jian Shaolin turned the head of the sword, looking like he was about to jump into the center of the lake, and inserted the sword into the "seven inches" of the Qinglin female python again.

At this time, it was daytime, the lake water was shallow, and the naked eye could see the bottom, the Qinglin female python had nothing to hide in the water, Jian Shaolin only needed to stab it with a sword, and Zhang Ji would help him again, and he would see that the big thing would be done.

Who knew that the Qinglin female python was really powerful, and half of the snake's body suddenly arched out of a semicircle from the water, and it actually lifted the Xuanshi net alive.

Seeing this, Zhang Ji held the Qing urn in his right hand, recited a spell in his mouth, threw the talisman into the lake, and pressed the half of the snake body back.

Jian Shaolin jumped up and stabbed at the neck of the Qinglin female python-

Who knew that after the Qinglin female python sank to the bottom of the lake, it got up again, this time it got up for a long time, accumulated thick and thin, and really broke the Xuanshi net!

Jian Shaolin's last blow was like sending a sheep into the tiger's mouth at this time.

Qinglin's female python opened her mouth, her fangs exposed, and she rushed towards Jian Shaolin. That appearance, that head, is no different from a dragon!

Jian Shaolin's pupils constricted, and it was too late to retreat.

At the moment of life and death, fortunately, Ji Cunyan waved the ink line in his hand and threw it, and the ink line wrapped around Jian Shaolin's waist. Ji Cunyan retracted his arms again and pulled Jian Shaolin back.

Jian Shaolin felt the restraint around his waist and knew that someone was helping, so he turned over and avoided the bite of the Qinglin female python, pointed his toes on the female python's head, and jumped back to the shore with his strength.

The Qinglin female python chased after his body for another bite, but it was huge, and it was clumsy and slow to move, and this bite was half a beat slower.

Jian Shaolin fell back to the shore and used his sword to prop up the ground so as not to fall ugly. He only felt the sound of water behind him, even if he didn't look back, he knew that the Qinglin female python still refused to let him go, and was still chasing after him.

Ji Cunyan let go of the ink line that bound Jian Shaolin in his hand, and threw another six-pointed star array. The net was thrown out by her in a hurry, and the net was too small to cover half of the female python's mouth.

But at this time, she also completely exposed herself to the attack range of the Qinglin female python.

Jian Shaolin looked back and saw that his pupils were constricted, and it was too late to pull Ji Cunyan.

At this moment, Zhang Ji stood in front of Ji Cunyan, holding the talisman in his hand, inserting it into the peachwood sword, the talisman burned when it met the sword, and after a cluster of bright fire, the shield wall opened in front of him and Ji Cunyan, blocking the blow of the Qinglin female python alive.

Qinglin female python had a flat snake head, and slammed into an invisible wall, and after a loud bang, inertia caused its whole head to fly backwards with a snake neck, and smashed into the water alive.

The huge impact force also knocked Zhang Ji into the same season, and they all fell on the gravel beach by the lake.

The fall was strong, and both of them snorted in pain, only to feel that the bones of their whole body were broken, and they collapsed on the hard gravel and couldn't get up for a long time.

One of the pair of pomegranate earrings that Ji Cunyan was wearing fell off her left ear and fell between the cracks in the stones.

The female python of Qinglin was directly stunned for a while, and the huge python body rolled under the lake for a moment before it raised its body again, it twisted the python's head, and saw that the male python was hanging in the air on the surface of the lake.

The female python of Qinglin wailed, like a cow barking and a beast's roar, shaking the surface of the lake again.

Ji Cunyan and Zhang Ji both covered their ears, Jian Shaolin and Lei Qi's skills were slightly deep, and their eardrums were also shocked by this wail.

The female python leaned out of the water with half of her body, and wanted to roll up the corpse of the male python. Who knew that the corpse was surrounded by ink lines, and its body only touched the male python, and the ink lines that had been cursed by Zhang Ji broke apart, broke away from the male python corpse, and tied it back to the female python, the ink line was as hard as iron, and the female python's body was pulled out of layers of black circles, which was very weird to look at.

Originally, the power of these ink lines was limited, and they were about to be broken away by the female python, but the female python's body suddenly smashed into the lake and rolled violently under the water and water, as if it was suffering great pain.

Jian Shaolin didn't know why, and frowned and looked at the giant python in the lake.

"It's been poisoned, and now its scales are softening and it's about to molt. Snakes are most vulnerable when they have soft skin and no barrier when they molt. Lei Qi said to Jian Shaolin, "This is the credit of the Gu King." ”

Jian Shaolin held the sword and prepared to strike again.

At this time, the surface of the lake was like a pot of boiling water, the white water foam and the mud and sand at the bottom of the lake that were turned and rolled up by the python made everyone's vision blurred, and they really couldn't find the "seven inches" of the giant python, and Jian Shaolin hesitated for a while and couldn't find a chance to start.

After a while, the water surface gradually returned to calm, but the lake water that was clear and clear before was stirred up like a quagmire by the giant python, and it was really impossible to see the bottom of the water.

Ji Cunyan covered his injured shoulder, moved to the lake step by step, and looked at the lake: "Is it so easy to die?" ”

Jian Shaolin's pupils suddenly shrank, and he said, "It's gone!" ”

When Lei Qi heard this, he also frowned and looked carefully into the muddy water. The lake is calm, and it is really hard to see it, but there is really no trace of the Qinglin female python.

"How so? How could such a big snake disappear out of thin air? Ji Cun said, "Was it eaten by a good friend?" ”

"Do you think it's a Qiankun bag? Can you fit anything? Zhang Ji also limped over.

Jian Shaolin said: "There is a problem with this lake!" The bottom of the lake must be connected to other waterways, and although it does not look deep, it is still alive. The python must have escaped along the waterway at the bottom of the lake! ”

After speaking, he lifted his sword, and looked like he was about to go into the water to chase him.

Zhang Ji grabbed him and said, "Are you crazy?!" If it's a waterway connected to the bottom of the lake, do you know how deep it is?! ”

"This is the perfect opportunity! If you let it go again, it will be harder to catch it than to climb to the sky! Jian Shaolin said.

"Lord Jane, that giant python is a water python, and below the surface of the water is its world. Even if it's molting now, you're no match for it when you go into the water. It's better not to take risks. Ji Cunyan also persuaded Jian Shaolin.

Jian Shaolin hesitated for a moment, and finally sighed helplessly.

Lei Qi said: "There is only a long-term plan. Xiao Zhang Tianshi. ”

"Hmm."

"According to your reasoning, how long will it take for this giant python to molt?"

At this time, the Gu King came out of the lake, stopped on Zhang Ji's shoulder, and shook off the water droplets on his body like a dog.

Zhang Ji touched the Gu King and said, "For such a big python, it will take at least seven days." We found it in seven days, and there was still a chance. But if after seven days, it comes to us......"

"By then it might be bigger than it is now, with stronger scales, and even if we joined forces, it wouldn't be a match for it."

[Note 1] Shangqing urn: one of the more advanced Taoist talismans.