Pipa Ridge, many demon beasts, spirit wood, spirit grass, but all kinds of ores are not easy to find here, it is said that they are buried very deep, not easy to obtain, which Qian Chao got from the mouths of the senior brothers.

When the five of them arrived here to take a closer look, they found that this place called Pipa Ridge was a series of rolling hills, but low hills. The mountains here are gentle and densely wooded, and at a glance, you can only see a patch of verdant color.

Fallen leaves accumulate in the forest, and when you step on it, you only feel soft under your feet.

However, the forest is so dense that a few people here do not hear any birdsong, and even the shadow of a bird is difficult to see.

"Hey, boy Qian, why do I think this place is a little scary?" Tang Ping said with some uneasiness.

Qian Chao didn't answer after listening to Tang Ping's words, but looked at Li Jian, Li Jian understood, and said: "There are a lot of things here, they will pay attention to us as soon as we get here, but there are no powerful feet nearby, and they only dare to spy on us secretly." ”

"What's there around here?" Tang Ping asked again.

"The last time I listened to the senior brothers chatting in the Chengqi Hall, it is said that several senior brothers worked together here to kill a warp beast."

"Oh!" Tang Ping was immediately interested when she heard this.

The so-called warp beast, according to Tang Ping's spirit party's classification of spirit beasts, should belong to a kind of demon insect, but this kind of demon insect and the previous they have seen the drill bamboo wind that inhabits the mouth of the irrigation stream and the greedy ants on the body of the mountain beast are different, the warp beast is a demon insect that lives alone, the size of this demon insect is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people, the larva is four or five feet, the adult body is nearly a foot long, this beast has a flat body, a layer of armor on the surface of the body is as strong as scale armor, and there are many feet under the body, good at running, and the colorful grass color all over the body, plus the curved beast is good at converging the breath, Therefore, it is extremely difficult to identify them in the woods, so they use it as a means of hunting, and often when the warp beast bursts out of its lurking and bites its prey with its fangs in its mouth, the prey will be terrified to find that death is coming.

Qian Chao said that several senior brothers worked together to kill a curved beast, in fact, it was just a few sect disciples looking for spiritual grass in this Pipa Ridge, and after being tired, they gathered together to rest and talk, but they were targeted by a nearby curved beast, it is said that there are many monks, and the curved beast will not take the initiative to provoke, but it just so happens that the place where these people sit around is the place where the curved beast lays eggs, so the curved beast is crazy, and took the initiative to appear to attack these people, Rao is that there are quite a few of them, and there are about four or five people, but there are still two monks bitten by the curved beast in the battleLater, after the joint efforts to kill the warp beast, although they took the antidote drug they carried with them, it was only to delay the onset of toxicity, and they must immediately rush back to the sect for treatment, otherwise the poisonous hair of the warp beast will be done, and the two of them will definitely die.

After Tang Ping told the story of this warp beast, the rest of the people couldn't help but be a little more careful about the dense grass and trees and bushes on the left and right in front of them.

Lu Pingchuan has been hunting since he was a child, and he has seen a lot of snakes, insects and beasts, he listened to Tang Ping's freshness, and asked, "Can there still be such a big bug?" ”

Tang Ping replied: "There are bigger ones, we will meet in the future." ”

According to the usual practice, Li Jian and Lu Pingchuan made a division of labor, Li Jian walked in front, what hidden danger could be discovered in advance with his perception, Lu Pingchuan walked behind, if something followed behind him, it would be up to him to deal with it, Qian Chao walked with Tang Ping and Yan Xuan, and if anything happened, he could deal with it with the spiritual weapon he carried.

A few people searched carefully in this mountain forest, and with Yan Xuan's eyesight, they also found a few spiritual grasses that were in acceptable condition, which she picked and collected one by one, and they were now only on the periphery of this Pipa Ridge.

walked forward for a while, originally safe, but Qian Chao noticed the difference between Li Jian, in fact, not only Qian Chao, the other four people were also aware of it, Li Jian's steps slowed down a little and he also used his sword qi on his right hand during walking.

This is a very subtle and wonderful feeling, it is obviously Li Jian's secret action, but the other four people have sensed it, it seems that Li Jian sensed the danger and was ready to act.

Sure enough, after seeing Li Jian walk forward for more than ten zhang, a white light flashed in his right hand, and he had already held a spirit sword with a cold light, and then stabbed into the ground on his side without hesitation.

With a strange squeak, the body of the spirit sword shook in the earth, as if it was nailing some living thing to the earth, and the thing was silent after a struggle.

Li Jian withdrew his sword, then stomped under his feet, and after the ground rolled over, a dead beast the size of a dog and the shape of a giant rat emerged from the ground.

Although Lu Pingchuan walked behind, he saw Li Jian's actions in his eyes, and even saw the big rat that came out of the soil clearly, he had never seen such a big mouse, he couldn't help but say: "Hehe, it's a little interesting, the rats here are so big!" ”

Coldly received Li Jian's sword, and struggled violently, so the dead giant rat could be described as hideous, so Yan Xuan didn't want to look at it anymore, but Tang Ping took a closer look, and used a branch in his hand to flick the big mouse's head a few times.

Li Jian looked at Tang Ping carefully studying the big mouse, and said, "This guy noticed that we were coming, and he wanted to leave but was reluctant to go, and secretly drilled up, preparing to sneak attack us." ”

Tang Ping had already recognized the big mouse at this time, and said: "This is the Devil Din, in fact, it is a powerful big rat, since it is hiding here, there must be holes they dug out in the soil below, and it must be in all directions, this kind of monster beast has the hardest teeth in its mouth, if it bites, it will not let go of its mouth, even if we have armor on our bodies, it is inevitable that we will be injured, this is just an ordinary thing, well, there is only one female rat in a group of Nightshades, and all the Nightshades are her offspring, Therefore, she is called the Queen of Nightmares, and she is the most powerful. This Nightmare has another characteristic, that is, no matter how far away it is, as long as one of the Nightmare Disciples in the group dies, then the Nightmare will immediately know that now that this guy is dead, a large group of Nightmare Ground Leaders underground will know that there is a foreign enemy invasion, and they will definitely retaliate, which is very tricky, let's go in this direction again, I'm afraid there will be a lot of trouble, we are here to find the spirit grass, in my opinion, it is better to fly directly into it for a while, and then fall down. ”

"Sister Tang," Lu Pingchuan said after hearing this, "isn't it just a bigger mouse?" Are we still going to hide from them? ”

"Brother Lu, in the past, the demon beasts we encountered were not grouped, at most they were in pairs, this group of nightmare is a few hundred, more than thousands, it is not easy to deal with, not to mention that there is a nightmare, the five of us are really not easy to deal with."

After listening to Tang Ping's words, Lu Pingchuan looked at the body of the giant rat like a big dog again, and then he understood why Tang Ping wanted to avoid this nightmare, thinking of so many big rats rushing towards him densely, even if he had experienced the big scene of the wooden beast, Lu Pingchuan was a little hairy in his heart, so he said: "Good girl, it turns out that there are so many, then let's avoid it a little." ”

The five people had no objection to what Tang Ping said, so they were ready to fly directly to the center of Pipa Ridge according to Tang Ping's words, and they were already flying, Lu Pingchuan glanced at the dead rat below and asked, "Is that thing useful?" ”

Tang Ping was a little disgusted with the nightmare, so he said, "It's useless, forget it." ”

"Hmm", in fact, Lu Pingchuan didn't want to clean up a dead rat after returning to the sect, let alone take the meat of the dead rat to cook.

The five of them flew for a while, estimating that even if the Nightmare Ding wanted to take revenge, he couldn't find them before he landed, after all, he couldn't find the spirit grass on the ground when he flew in the air.

The more this Pipa Ridge went inside, the more and more spiritual grasses they encountered, and there were even clusters of spiritual grasses born together, seeing Yan Xuan's eyebrows, at this time, Tang Ping and Qian Chao also started to help, leaving only Li Jian and Lu Pingchuan to take care of them.

And so he went all the way to the depths of the mountains.

Don't look at this Pipa Ridge from the air to see the mountain is not high, but when you are in it, you can notice that the terrain here is complex, although the mountain is not high, but the more inward it is, the more vertical and horizontal the ravines, because of the grass and trees to cover, these ravines are not easy to find in the air, or Li Jian is careful, walking in front of those dangerous places that may lose their footing, from those vertical and horizontal ravines or there is the sound of torrential water, or the cold wind blows people's hearts numb, most of these ravines can only see the dense fog miserably, bottomless, I don't know what scene is below, The five of them were afraid that there were powerful demon beasts hidden inside, so they didn't enter the ravine to find out.

However, after searching for a while and discovering a lot of spirit grass, Yan Xuan suddenly seemed to have discovered something.

She twitched her nose a few times, carefully identifying the smell around her, there seemed to be a cool sweetness in the air that she noticed, but that trace of sweetness was absent, and when she wanted to carefully identify the direction from which the smell came from, she seemed to be unable to find it.

"Miss Yan, what's wrong?"

Li Jian noticed Yan Xuan's actions and asked curiously.

"Brother Li, have you smelled a sweet smell?" Yan Xuan asked with a wrinkled nose.

"This ......" Li Jian also sniffed around when he heard it, it seemed that there was really such a sweet smell, but it was very faint, if it wasn't for Yan Xuan to talk about it, Li Jian would only think that it was emitted by the surrounding mountain flowers.

Among the five people, Yan Xuan has the most contact with spirit grass, and he can distinguish some spirit grass with his nose and eyes, and the taste of ordinary mountain flowers is different from the sweet taste that seems to be there, which Yan Xuan is very sure of.

However, the mountains and trees around the five people were dense, and when several people listened to Yan Xuan's words and tried to distinguish them, the sweet taste seemed to be lost with the mountain breeze.

"Don't worry," Tang Ping said with a smile, she seemed to smell the sweetness, so she said, "Come, please show us the direction." ”

As she spoke, Tang Ping took the little golden monkey rhubarb out of her spirit beast bag, she always felt that the sweet taste seemed to be somewhat similar to some kind of rare and exotic fruit, since it could be a fruit, then the greedy rhubarb would definitely be able to tell which direction it was.

"Hey, little one, smell it, what's the difference?"

With Tang Ping's questioning, Rhubarb jumped on her shoulder quickly, grabbed Tang Ping's black hair with two small paws, and then turned his little head outward, and kept snorting while turning, and the sound of snorting and inhaling came out.

"Squeak!" Soon, Rhubarb, whose sense of smell was far beyond that of ordinary monks, was excited, grabbed a lock of Tang Ping's hair with one small paw, and pointed in one direction with the other small paw, and kept screaming excitedly.

Tang Ping frowned at it, and only when he saw the direction that Rhubarb was pointing in did he take it down, and stuffed it into the spirit beast bag again despite Rhubarb's objections.

"Over there," Tang Ping pointed in the direction that Rhubarb was pointing, "Rhubarb said there was something good over there!" ”

Sure enough, the more people walked in the direction pointed by the rhubarb, the more the cool sweetness became.

The five of them walked between the rocks and the trees, and finally found the source of the sweetness in a dense forest.

In the sparse woods of the forest, there is a bush that grows very eye-catching, the shrub has close branches and leaves, if it is not full of goose-yellow, thumb-belly-sized fruits, it is no different from other shrubs, and the goose-yellow, round and jade small fruits are the source of that alluring cool sweetness.

When the few people were still far away, Yan Xuan was wondering what kind of fruit it would be, and Tang Ping already had a surprised expression on his face when he saw the fruit.

"Cloud ...... Cloud Bead Fruit! Tang Ping muttered, and her body was about to walk over involuntarily.

"Miss Tang, stop!" Li Jian suddenly shouted in a hurry.

Everyone was attracted by the goose-yellow fruit, and no one paid attention to Li Jian's expression, and only after Li Jian spoke out did they all look at him, only to find that Li Jian had held a green bamboo spirit sword in his hands at some point, and looked at the direction of the cloud bead fruit in Tang Ping's mouth with a nervous and solemn expression.