Time back to the afternoon, after Li Jian and Yun Xi sparred.

Because the five people went all the way to the Broken Pine Cliff, they didn't expect to meet Yunxi chasing and killing Shang Jie on the way, so they were delayed, and after those people left, the five people continued to rush in the direction of the Broken Pine Cliff after a short rest.

Why this place has this name is no longer verifiable, the name of this place marked on the map, and the mouths of many monks in the sect are also called so, after coming here, Qian Chao thought that the terrain here was extremely high, and the thunder often fell to shatter the pine trees below, but after arriving here, I found that it was not the case at all, there is no big difference between this place and other mountains, but the trees are taller, and there are many birds nesting in the trees.

It was Tang Ping's suggestion to come here, she was attracted by the kind of demon beast that Chen Xian said she had never seen, and wanted to find that strange and fierce demon beast here, and then bring it back to let her master help recognize it.

As a result, the five of them walked around the Broken Pine Cliff for a long time, and they didn't find any demon beasts.

Tang Ping also kept looking at Li Jian's expression, among the five people, only Li Jian had the strongest induction, with him, as long as there were demon beasts here, he would definitely be able to find out, but after flying a few laps, Li Jian kept shaking his head, and Tang Ping was disappointed.

It seems that the demon beast either ran away or was caught, and this time it was a no-brainer.

Moreover, Chen Xian brought people here before, and Xie You also came here, so those people must have searched here, and in the entire Broken Pine Cliff, there was no spiritual grass left behind when the five people were looking back and forth.

Finally, Tang Ping sighed and said:

"It seems that this place is for nothing, there is nothing, Qian boy, look at your map, is there any other place we can go around here?"

When Qian Chao heard this, he took out his map and looked at it, and finally he pointed to it with his hand and said:

"Here, there is a place called Hongxia Valley, not far away, we can go and have a look."

……

This Hongxia Valley seems to have been an underground river, probably the kind of underground river close to the ground, flowing through the underground between the two mountain ranges, but for some reason, the water of the underground river was cut off, and the top collapsed a little, so it was exposed to the ground, of course, this should have been a long time ago, when the five people came here, they found that the valley was verdant, and the canyon between the mountains was inconspicuous when viewed from the air. But when I really fell into this valley, I found that this valley is really not small.

"Was this an underground river before?"

Tang Ping said, looked up at the thin sky above his head, and kicked a bare stone with his toes, not only this one, the stones that could be seen by the eyes were all round, and the raised stones on the valley walls on both sides were also angular and round, obviously they were not washed by the current for many years.

Qian Chao looked at the surrounding situation and said, "Probably." ”

"What's going to be good here?"

"I've read in books that people have said about this place, and that after nightfall, there will be red glows in the valley, but the person who left this story doesn't seem to have been here himself, but only saw it from afar, so he doesn't know what is here."

"It's strange that the red glow is shining!"

"It's all here, let's take a look."

In a strange place, the five of them followed the convention, Li Jian opened the way in front, and Lu Pingchuan was in the back hall.

The five of them walked along the valley less than a hundred feet, there were a lot of weeds, and the shrubs were connected, but the spirit grass was not seen, but Tang Ping's performance began to be suspicious.

"Don't move," Tang Ping said, "stop first." ”

"What's wrong?" Yan Xuan asked, generally speaking, it should be Brother Li and not Tang Ping who first discovered the danger, I don't know if this girl found anything wrong.

Tang Ping sniffled, carefully identified it, and then said:

"I seem to smell something good, maybe there's something up front."

Hearing Tang Ping say this, Li Jian looked forward and said:

"It's quiet, I didn't see anything wrong with it."

Further on, the five of them came to the most spacious place in the valley, which seemed to be the place where two underground rivers converged, the valley was divided into two branches from here, and the mountains on both sides also broke a big hole here, and the valley was like a small three-way junction, and the good things that Tang Ping said were here.

When a few people came over, they did gradually smell a sweet smell, and at the same time they could feel that the valley seemed to slowly become cool, and when they arrived at the place where the valley forked, they found that in the middle of this three-way intersection, there was a small pool, and the water in the pool still reflected the evening sky above the valley, and between the valley wall and the waterhole, there was a tree.

The thickness of this tree bowl, the trunk is common gray-brown, mottled and cracked, but the young branches on the crown are showing a bit of cherry red, the more tender the branches, the more obvious the cherry red, the leaves are ordinary emerald green, but it is precisely because of the color of these branches that people can not easily find the clusters and clusters of red beads hidden in the canopy.

Tang Ping approached the tree, raised her head to look closely, and then floated up again, almost burrowing her head into the canopy, the more she looked, her face did not know whether it was reflected by the branches and pearls or because of excitement, in short, it looked unusually ruddy, and a surprise appeared on her face.

She went to look at the things on the tree, and Yan Xuan was also by her side, but the things on the tree must not be used in medicine, this Yan Xuan was sure.

Qian Chao, Li Jian, and Lu Pingchuan looked inside on the edge of the pool.

When you look at it from a distance, this pool of water reflects the light of the sky, and it is also clear and abnormal, but standing on the side, you feel that this pool is overflowing with cold, and this pool must be extremely deep, the sky light cannot reach the bottom of the pool, the more you go down, the darker it is, and finally you can only see the black in the pool, like a bottomless deep well.

Lu Pingchuan stretched out his hand and fished out a handful of the water, and said:

"This water is so cold! It's cold, it's a little cold, it's a little frozen! ”

When Qian Chao heard this, he also stretched out a finger and tried it in the pool of water, and it was really cold. Then he looked at Li Jian.

Li Jian said: "I don't feel any danger here, well, this waterhole is also extremely deep, I can't sense that deep, but there is nothing in the place where I can sense." ”

"Is it so deep? And it shouldn't be backwater. ”

As he was talking, Tang Ping dropped down, and then exclaimed softly:

"Good stuff!"

"What's good?" Lu Pingchuan asked loudly after hearing this.

Tang Ping pointed to the tree with his hand and said:

"When I go back, I can make good wine."

Hearing the word wine, Lu Pingchuan immediately became happy, he looked up at the tree, and after looking at it for a while, he recognized the small fruits from it, and then asked:

"Since it's a good thing that can make wine, why don't you pick them off, Sister Tang?"

Tang Ping ran to the waterhole and stretched out her hand to test the water, and then she was retracted by the water ice, shook her hand and said:

"The water is so cold! Now it can't be picked yet, it's not fully ripe, this kind of fruit is called Jiangxin fruit, also called night to red, it is a very good fruit, my six grandfathers all said that this fruit is rare, but first, it bears fruit once for many years, and secondly, it will only ripen in the middle of the night. We are in a hurry, yesterday was too early to pick, tomorrow to come to this fruit and miss the best time to pick, that is, at midnight today, this fruit began to ripen, before dawn to pick the best, go back to wine, when you practice, drink a glass, but it is much better than the spirit wine I gave you before! ”

(Don't ask me why it's so coincidental, these five people have the aura of the protagonist, no coincidence makes a book, they always have to meet to have a story, so it's just so coincidental!) ）

"Oh, that's right, let's ...... then"

"Wait, wait for the middle of the night to pick them all off and bring them back, but tonight we will have a lively watch, my sixth grandfather said that there will definitely be a vision when such a fruit is ripe, but I don't know what it is, I just heard her say it, but I haven't seen it with my own eyes."

"Lively?"

……

However, the five of them were not at ease with the pool.

The good fruit of brewing wine had been encountered by five people before, that is, the cloud bead fruit, where there were two powerful demon beasts guarding it, and the various methods that the five people used to deal with those two demon beasts ended up on the three people in An Zhen, and they also used those two demon beasts to kill two high-level qi refining cultivators.

Now I heard Tang Ping say that this heart fruit is much better than the cloud bead fruit, but there is nothing abnormal here except for this pool, which is very abnormal.

A good thing like the heart fruit ripens at night, and according to the convention, there should be a lot of movement, but there is only this bottomless waterhole nearby.

Naturally, a few people were extra vigilant.

Several people were reluctant to stay away from this heart fruit, in case it was a little far away, and something jumped out of the pool to snatch the fruit, it would be a pity.

But for the sake of prudence, they did not want to get too close to the pool, which did not know how deep it would be, and if there was really some powerful guy lurking, it would be dangerous if it was close.

Fortunately, Lu Pingchuan has infinite strength, and he quickly excavated a small cave on the valley wall on one side with the tools that Qian Chao brought out to dig out the ore stone, and the entrance of the cave is more than ten zhang away from the Jiangxin Fruit, and the body of a few people can get there in an instant.

Then Qian Chao arranged the Hidden Spirit Array in the cave, and then he asked everyone to put on the small signs they had given them, and then arranged the Lock Spirit Array at the entrance of the cave.

It's not wrong to be a little more careful, such an arrangement is safe, and you won't miss what Tang Ping said.

The five of them chatted in the cave and looked out of the cave, quietly waiting for midnight to come.

……

In the night, a few people listened to Lu Pingchuan tell a lot of rural anecdotes, and listened to Qian Chao tell some jokes that seemed in the book, and Li Jian also said some things about the previous war, and finally the time slowly came.

Li Jian noticed that there was something different outside, and a red streamer slowly began to glow in the dark valley in the night, and the source of the red streamer was the tree full of red hearts. At first, the color was very light and light, but when Li Jian found out, he felt that there was a dark red floating in the night, and the color was gradually becoming red and bright, just like someone poured red oil paint into the stream, and the red slowly flowed with the gentle water surface.

"Miss Tang, what's that?"

Li Jian said this, and several people also noticed the situation outside the cave.

"The night is red, this is the origin of the alias of the red fruit, I don't know what the red light is, the so-called vision of the fruit when it is ripe is probably like this, I don't know about the spirit grass, but some very good spirit fruit will have some different things when it is ripe, very strange, very good-looking, but also dangerous, such a light may be able to attract the guys near and far away, but it is a little troublesome."

"No wonder this place is called Hongxia Valley, this Hongxia refers to this kind of red light." Yan Xuan said as he looked at the slowly flowing red light outside the cave.

"Could it be that this red light can make us watch a lively show?"

"Probably."

While a few people were talking, the slowly flowing red light was getting brighter and brighter, and it was drifting far away from the height of a tree in the air, it was not drifting along the night wind, but at this three-way intersection divided into three strands along the direction of the valley, less than the time for tea, the entire Hongxia Valley was really floating with a red glow, even the starlight that could be seen above the valley was covered by this red light, and the cave where the five of them were hiding also floated into such a red light, Yan Xuan also stretched out his hand to try it in the red light, But it was like a cloud of smoke, so that the red light swirled in the hole, which was very beautiful.

"Something's coming." Li Jian said.

When several people heard Li Jian say this, they naturally became vigilant, but in the undazzling red light outside the cave, they didn't hear any sound.

"Ah, there." Li Jian stretched out his finger and pointed in the red light.

Only then did a few people notice that there were many flying insects the size of ordinary dragonflies slowly wandering in the red light.

The wings of the flying insects were transparent and long, and the legs under them were as thin as silk threads, as if they were floating in the red light without weight, and they were not seen to flap their wings, floating as if they were in the water, and they looked very happy and eager. The flying insects seemed to be absorbing in the red light, and the originally translucent and slender belly began to look round, but what they absorbed should be those red lights, and they saw that their belly was also red and bright, and in the red streamer, there were more and more red dots, making the red streamer brighter.

"What kind of bug is that?"

Such insects also floated into the red light in the cave, and several people looked up carefully.

"Noctularia, a low-grade spirit worm, even non-productive, does not pose any threat to our monks, of course, it is not of any use, they have a very short lifespan, ah, they are waiting for this red light to appear soon before they hatch and fly out, as long as it can fly, it will probably die, if my guess is right, this nocturnal larvae is likely to use this red light to reproduce their offspring, you see......"

Sure enough, in the red light, countless insects called nocturnae began to look for mates, and then the two were together, and after a while, they saw that the starry red dots in the flowing red light in the valley were already in pairs.

Tang Ping continued: "The eggs they lay take a long time to hatch underground, but the noctaridious that have laid eggs will die quickly, and after tonight, even the nocturnal ones that have not laid eggs will die, no way, their lifespan is so short, so they will reproduce as much as possible, so that the population will not become extinct." However, if the spiritual energy in the place where they lay eggs is exhausted, just like Qian Xiaozi said, the spiritual veins will be diverted, and without the nourishment of the spiritual energy, then all the eggs will die. ”

Qian Chao said: "It looks very similar to an ordinary mayfly, but it is much bigger, but it is the same short-lived." ”

Tang Ping said: "Yes, some spirit birds and spirit beasts can live for thousands of years, or even longer, either flying in the sky or running on the ground, either looking for spiritual grass to eat everywhere or finding a good place to continue cultivating, and even some are famous all over the world, no monk dares to provoke, but you see this night worm, the only thing to do when hatching from the egg is to rush to lay eggs again, and then it will die, isn't it fair?" ”

"But," said Li Jian, "their race has also lived longer than a thousand years, right?" ”

"Well, Brother Li is right to say that!"