The mountain forest in the afternoon is very quiet, only occasionally there is the sound of the wind and the birdsong into the ears, the sun shines from the sparse place of the branches in the forest to the grass on the ground, along the mottled and stout trunk to look up, between the branches of the canopy, you can see a bird's nest built with dry branches and dry grass on the top, the crown is more than ten zhang high from the ground, and occasionally one or two big birds with shiny feathers can be seen on the branches to guard the nests, but those big birds stand there motionless, as if they are cast of iron.

Suddenly, a few sharp birdsong came to break the silence of the forest, and at the same time, the sound of wings flapping from the distant sky came over like a tide, and those big birds that were originally cast iron immediately seemed to receive an order, almost at the same time, flapping their wings, making a high-pitched chirping and then spreading their wings and flying away through the canopy, and soon, the noisy birdsong came over this mountain forest, and it sounded as if a large group of birds had invaded this mountain forest, and now they were like a dark cloud covering the sky above this mountain forest, The sunlight through the forest was gone, and only the noisy and sharp chirping of birds could be heard from above, and the big birds that were originally guarding the nest were not numerically dominant, but they were unusually brave, they pecked with their sharp beaks, flapped with their wings, scratched with their sharp claws, and kept driving away these intruders, but they couldn't see clearly through the canopy.

The birdsong became more and more noisy, and naturally attracted the big birds that guarded the nests in the entire mountain forest.

At this moment, from the other direction, not above the canopy, but under the canopy, many black-winged birds flew into the mountain forest almost silently.

As soon as they entered the forest, they scattered in all directions, each looking for a nest in the canopy, and then they went inside.

Not long after, the birdsong above the canopy was still noisy, and the black-winged birds that got into the nest came out again, did not fly away, only stood on the edge of the nest and looked inside, and then probed in, and used their upper and lower beaks to clip out a peach-sized apricot white egg, and then turned their heads and opened their mouths, and the bird egg fell, and after doing this, the black-winged bird stretched its wings and flew away.

"Quick, don't break it." Tang Ping, who had been sneakily guarding under the tree, gently pulled the sleeve of Qian Chao next to him and whispered.

Qian Chao was looking up at the canopy above his head, the birds above the canopy were fighting unusually fiercely, and a few pieces of bird feathers fell through the branches, he just caught a falling feather, and was curious about the feathers in his hand when he heard Tang Ping's words, so he stretched out his other hand, aimed at the bird egg that was falling, and gently held the bird egg with his own imperial technique. In the end, it fell lightly into Tang Ping's white little hand that had already stretched out.

"Wow, I finally got one." Tang Ping stroked the bird egg in her hand and couldn't put it down.

"Sister Tang, this bird's egg is not enough to eat, or I will go to the tree and pick off the bird's nest, and go back to roast and eat." Lu Pingchuan stared at the bird's nest in the tree and said.

Where is this to eat!

Tang Ping was about to say something, when she saw another black-winged bird burrowing into the nest on a tree next to her, so she pulled Qian Chao and whispered, "There, look there, go over quickly." ”

Yan Xuan was squatting on the grass at this time digging up a spiritual grass, and Li Jian was guarding her side, and the two couldn't help but shake their heads when they saw Tang Ping tiptoeing past with Qian Chao and Lu Pingchuan.

Sure enough, after the three of them waited under the tree for a while, another bird egg fell from it, Qian Chao concocted it in the same way, and then Tang Ping took the bird egg in his hand again.

"Eh, make a lot of money, make a big profit!" Tang Ping smiled happily as she held the second bird's egg.

At this moment, a chirping sound different from the noisy birdsong above came from afar, and then the noisy noise above seemed to pause for a moment, and then it was possible to discern that the large flock of invading birds above seemed to want to flee, because the noisy birdsong in the canopy began to deviate from the direction of the mountain forest.

"It's over, the flock of birds is back." Tang Ping said with some regret.

As soon as he finished saying this, there was a sudden birdsong mixed with anger overhead, which was high-pitched and sharp, making people feel sour in their ears when they heard it.

Tang Ping was suddenly shocked: "It's been discovered, go quickly!" ”

"Huh?" Yan Xuan had just taken out the spirit grass from the land, and when he heard Tang Ping yelling to leave, he was a little puzzled, and he was stunned on the spot, wondering in his heart, the two flocks of birds were fighting, what did they have to do with themselves, what did they run?

"Hurry, Sister Yan, it's too late to leave, hurry up!"

Seeing that Tang Ping's face was anxious, Yan Xuan no longer hesitated, and he didn't take care of the spirit grass in his hand, so he just held it in his hand and escaped from the mountain forest with a few people.

A moment later, five people, freed from the entanglement of a large flock of birds, stood on a small hill and watched condescendingly as a large number of birds roamed up and down the forest, looking for the intruders.

"It's dangerous!" Tang Ping thought about the scene when she was chased by a large group of birds just now, and said with palpitations.

"I said Sister Tang, such a large flock of birds, what are we going to run, isn't it good to catch a few and roast them?" Lu Pingchuan looked at the large fat birds and felt a pity.

"Brother Lu, don't think so, those birds are easy to deal with one or two, but hundreds or even thousands of them come around, even if you are physically cultivated, you can't stop it."

"Then you only got two bird eggs, not enough to eat...... Lu Pingchuan muttered.

"It's not food!" Tang Ping said angrily, and looked at the two bird eggs in his hand with pity, "The name of this bird is the Blade Winged Warbler, and there is also a name called Iron Nerd, you also saw those birds just now, the feathers on the wings of those birds are as sharp as a sword, the claws are as sharp as a steel hook, and even the beak is as sharp as an iron chisel, it is a very powerful bird, but it is still born in groups, and we also have this kind of bird in the Imperial Spirit Sect in the sect for the disciples to raise, but the color is always worse than the wild ones outside the sect, hum, These two little guys in my hands hatched out, and with a good recuperation, they will definitely be able to compare with those in the Spirit Sect. ”

Thinking of the Lingyan beast called Ah Tu that Tang Ping had adopted, as well as the two little spiders named Bai Yuniang, Yan Xuan asked curiously: "Is it possible that such a bird is also very precious?" But there's a big group down there. ”

"Of course," Tang Ping said, "This kind of bird is equivalent to a low-grade spirit bird in the young bird period, most of the adult birds are of medium grade, and there is a bird king in each group of blade-winged warblers, and that one will generally be a high-grade spirit bird, so we have to run away quickly, it will be difficult to be entangled, and there are some more number of blade-winged warblers, their bird kings may be middle-level spirit birds, if they meet, it will be miserable." ”

"Isn't that as powerful as that sparrow?" Yan Xuan listened to the color change and said, the Magu finch on the giant wood island was the most powerful bird she had ever seen, although she had not seen the whole picture of the Magu finch, only saw one of its claws through the hole when she was hiding in the cave.

"In a group of iron nerds, only the king of birds has a chance to become so powerful, but other birds don't have this opportunity." Tang Ping said.

Qian Chao thought of another question and asked: "Since you want this bird so much, why don't we go to the bird's nest to get it when it starts to mess up there, and wait for the black-winged bird to throw it down, wouldn't we get more if we go and get it ourselves?" Also, what kind of bird is that black-winged bird? ”

"You don't understand this, do you?" Tang Ping said proudly, "The name of the black-winged bird is called the Flycatcher, also called the Flycatcher, well, this kind of Flycatcher, it will not make a big difference if it is raised, so there are not many people who use it as a spirit bird, but it has a characteristic, that is, it only lays eggs and does not incubate the birds, and the young birds of the Flycatcher are very similar to the young birds of the Iron Nerd, so when the Flycatcher lays eggs, it will find a way to secretly lay its eggs in the nest of the Iron Nerd, just to let the Iron Flycatcher help him hatch and raise the young birds......"

This statement is very interesting, several people have never heard of it, and Yan Xuan also interjected and asked: "Ah! And such birds? ”

Li Jian asked, "Then why did it throw a bird's egg out of the nest, was it afraid that the iron nerd would find an extra egg?" ”

"Well, it's pretty much the same, but there's another very important role," Tang Ping said, "Iron nerds also have a strange problem, a nest of eggs hatched out of the young birds, after a period of time, the iron nerd will pick a bit, and then ruthlessly abandon the thin ones, leaving only the strongest one to continue to raise, the thief flycatcher also knows the habits of the iron nerd, so the male birds among them attract those iron nerds who guard the nest, and then the female birds sneak into the iron nerd's nest to lay eggs, and then have to choose." Throw out the eggs of the best iron nerd in the nest, so that the chances of your offspring being hatched and then abandoned are much smaller. Strange to say, even if we monks from the Spirit Sect go to the iron nerd's nest to pick the best eggs, but the thief can quickly and accurately find out which iron nerd's eggs are the best, and then throw them out, so as long as we wait under the tree, we will definitely get the best bird egg in the nest, and I have both of them very good. ”

"The dove occupies the magpie's nest." Qian Chao shook his head when he heard this.

"How is this bird ...... Is it so ruthless? Yan Xuan felt sorry for the birds that died for no reason.

"There's no way, many monsters born in groups have this habit, and they always have to keep their individuals strong in order to survive as a whole." Tang Ping said.

Li Jian nodded at this statement.

"Hehe," Lu Pingchuan laughed, "Why do I always think that Tang Meizi and that thief bird teamed up to steal other people's eggs, haha!" ”

"Brother Lu! Don't say that! ”

After laughing for a while, Qian Chao looked at the mountainous terrain in front of him, and took out the map to see where several of his people were.

"There is a place that I have always been curious about," Qian Chao said, looked left and right, and then spread the map on a nearby rock, pointed to the map and said, "Here we are," and pointed to another place, "And this is the ruins we are going to go to this time, well, we have walked half the way, and the place I am curious about is here." ”

Qian Chao's finger clicked on the map.

Several people's eyes were on the place where Qian Chao's finger pointed.

The map is hand-drawn by Qian Chao, the whole map will be the mountains and rivers in the radius I don't know how big are included in it, the details are extremely detailed and cumbersome, but the whole article looks very grand, I have to admire Qian Chao's patience and the effort at hand, and the place in Qian Chao's fingers does not seem to be big, there is not much to draw there, only five small black dots pointed out with a pen.

"There are no place names here," Tang Ping tilted his head to look at the map, then looked up at Qian Chao and said curiously, "Five small black dots, could it be five mountains, what's curious?" ”

Qian Chao said: "As I said before, when I collected various maps, I found that there are some places on many maps that have no names, even if they are detailed maps drawn by predecessors, there are always a few places that have no names, and even the drawing is omitted, and they are directly blank, so I am a little curious about what kind of place it is, such as this place, I also accidentally found some descriptions of the place by later people in the Jiuxuan Library, it is very simple, it seems that there are five mountains there, There are also some simple maps they draw, that's all, such a place has been deliberately hidden by many maps of the sect, it should not be an ordinary place, now we don't want to leave there, I wonder if I want to take a look, but I am worried that there will be any danger there, so I ......"

Qian Chao meant to ask the meaning of these four companions and whether they wanted to go, but before he finished speaking, Lu Pingchuan said:

"Go, why don't you go, in case there's something good there!"

Tang Ping said: "Are you afraid that there is a danger there that we can't handle, right? ”

Yan Xuan was a little worried when he heard this, after all, it shouldn't be a good place if it couldn't even be marked on the map.

Li Jian said: "Is there a place in the Jedi outside the sect? ”

Qian Chao replied, "No." ”

The so-called dangerous Jedi is a place that must not be visited by those Qi refining disciples in the sect, and such places are clearly marked on any map, which is generally depicted with a red pen to warn disciples not to set foot there when they go out.

Li Jian didn't speak again, only nodded, which was considered to indicate what he meant.

Tang Ping saw it and said: "Since it's not a dangerous Jedi, then we can go and take a look, add a little more care, since there are no signs on the map, there should be fewer people, maybe we can have a lot of gains there, in case there is any danger, Brother Li can also know in advance, in that case, we can withdraw early." ”

Yan Xuan's heart was a little more relaxed when he heard Tang Ping say this, and he also nodded at Qian Chao, indeed, if there are really few people there, then naturally there should be a lot of things waiting for a few people, not to mention that there should be a small place on the map, in fact, it should be a large piece, and there will be no less things, and his own alchemy is to collect more spiritual grass.

Qian Chao saw that several companions nodded, so he said, "Since that's the case, then let's go and take a look there, but anyway, it's tomorrow." ”