Since then, in order to keep his mind clear, Bai Lan will silently recite the Tao Te Ching in his mind every morning in the future, this holy book.

The small living room of the young man's house was piled up with a shelf full of books, all of which his father had collected. From the origin of history, to religious Taoism and Buddhism, and even alien rumors, he loves to watch these strange things.

And the Tao Te Ching is also the enlightenment book that his father taught him to memorize. There is also the long thousand-character text, which has been troubled by these obscure ancient books since childhood.

Looking back now, these ancient books have become his only spiritual comfort.

In the moral scriptures, except for the mystical and mysterious Tao at the beginning, the rest of the texts talk about the principles of heaven and earth, the universe, that is, the laws of all things in the universe, and also tell about the rule of all kinds of states in the world.

Now when I read it carefully, the wisdom of the saint is pure.

Bai Lan didn't think that reading the Tao Te Ching would open the spiritual acupoint, turn beasts into demons, all creatures have their own actions, between an ant and a Taoist saint like Lao Tzu, in terms of living organisms, it is just a difference between a person and an insect.

The saint has the way, the ant also has the way, the way is different, and each way is unique.

Bai Lan lived his long years in the hollow of the tree, and the days passed inadvertently, from spring to midsummer, and the blazing summer gradually receded little by little.

At the end of summer, Bai Lan experienced the fourth molt, growing to two meters long, and the thickest snake head on its body was already the width of an adult's four fingers.

Unknowingly, he has become the long-standing overlord in this waterhole, commonly known as the head snake.

Because there is a dark river in the depths of the pool, and there are more unknown and terrible aquatic creatures in the raging river that leads to the unknown place.

Occasionally, some strange creatures will come to the waterhole and find that there is too little food, and they will leave.

Bai Lan's two-meter-long body is already a long time for a water snake, after all, he is not a python's gene. There is still a difference between a snake and a python.

His venom is now getting more and more poisonous, Bai Lan tried to bite a gray rabbit, and the frightened rabbit ran away, and fell down after running less than ten meters away.

Poisoned alive!

For the first time, I also tasted the taste of rabbit, and it was delicious, not the same as the delicious taste of fatty fish.

When the fatty fish enters the stomach, it is a delicious and smooth taste.

The fat rabbit enters the belly, which is tender and soft taste.

Even for human perception, eating flesh raw is horrible, and the taste is hard to swallow.

But for the taste perception of snakes, this is delicious!

Now that Bai Lan is out of the water, no matter what creatures in the pool water, he will have to give way, and those who don't give way will run into his stomach.

There is a feeling that there is no tiger in the mountains, and the monkey is called the king.

But Bai Lan was not easily satisfied, and recited the March Tao Te Ching, which also baptized his heart and raised his snake wisdom. Buddhism has a saying that the six roots are quiet and the wisdom roots are deep.

In Bai Lan's view, Huigen is not only congenital, but also acquired.

In the early morning of a summer day, Bai Lan swam past the waterhole and climbed up to the northwest corner into the first line of the sky, the narrow canyon.

The bottom of the canyon was dark and dark, except for the tops of the two peaks in the sky, which were more than a meter wide of open-air light.

Bai Lan is going out of the valley today to take a look at the outside world.

is always closed in this valley, and he knows nothing about the outside world, which is not in line with Bai Lan's character.

Moreover, he also thought about going to the trouble of the goshawk one day.

Bai Lan crawled through the dark canyon, many birds in the canyon felt uneasy, waved their wings and flew over the canyon, and even many birds panicked and chirped, fleeing in all directions.

The canyon is more than 100 meters long, less than a meter wide at its narrowest point and only two meters wide at its widest point.

Bai Lan crossed the canyon and saw the scenery beyond the valley.

I saw a nearby river and lake glowing with golden sunlight, and there were water birds flying across the rivers and lakes among the abundant aquatic plants, or sinking into the lake to peck fish and eat shrimp. A dense forest stretches endlessly, connecting this vibrant green with the distant horizon, countless white clouds floating in the blue sky, birds and goshawks soaring under the sea of clouds, apes climbing trees and jumping in the forest, wolves roaring low, tigers roaring beasts, dazzling living species, and countless dangers.

Bai Lan coiled up, turned his head, and observed his body, the crystal white was covered by thick silt and the black earth on the ground seemed to merge into one, even the birds in the sky could not necessarily observe.

He relieved himself and twisted his body into an S shape into the dense forest.

As soon as Fang entered the forest, Bai Lan found his own kind, even quite a few.

There are green snakes hidden among the branches and leaves of trees, gray-brown belly snakes lurking under fallen leaves, and even a small king cobra!

Fortunately, the king cobra was no more than a meter long, and after looking at Bai Lan, it retreated.

Bai Lan found that the fighting in the forest was far more brutal than in his small valley. Fighting, everywhere, hidden killing opportunities are not careful.

He was almost ambushed by a wild wolf, but fortunately, Bai Lan's more than two-meter-long body was a little bluffing, and it was still a bit of a deterrent. After he bared his terrifying fangs, he scared the wolf away.

The wolf's intelligence is extremely high, it knows that this is a poisonous snake, once it is poisoned and injured, there is only one way to die in the forest, so weighing the pros and cons, it gives up.

In the forest, you can go hungry, but you must not get hurt!

Bai Lan climbed a tall shirt leaf tree, looked into the distance, and his excellent eyesight saw that there were countless mountains and mountains in the south, and there seemed to be no mountains and forests behind a few peaks in the north.

Even, in the northern part of the forest, he found curling smoke, it was human traffic! For wild beasts cannot make fire, and many of them are very afraid of fire.

Bai Lan didn't give birth to the idea of going out to see humans, a snake went to see humans, did he go to give them snake soup?

He looked at the high mountain to the east, where there were huge birds, and Bai Lan even saw the figure of the goshawk.

But the goshawk didn't see Bai Lan, after all, the goshawk was high, and no matter how sharp its eyes were, it was impossible to pay attention to multiple prey at the same time. When it locks on to its target, its eyes will focus on its prey, causing the prey to hide and camouflage ineffective.

Bai Lan climbed down the tall trees and wandered for most of the day, it was time to go back.

This forest is too dangerous, and there are many predators of tigers, leopards, jackals, and even snakes, such as honey badgers.

Bai Lan had already found four or five in this forest, but fortunately, his eyesight was strong and he avoided it early.

It is too dangerous to survive here, and with no permanent place to live and no water source, it is easy to die in such a forest.

Before it is not strong enough, Bai Lan will not easily go out of the valley again. He is a water snake and can grow up to four or five meters long, or even six or seven meters long.

He's not a python, and that's the limit. But snakes six or seven meters long are enough to make people chill when they think about it, and it is almost impossible to meet an opponent in the forest.

Bai Lan cautiously avoided the traps of some predators and prepared to return the way he came.

But the snake letter he spat out suddenly sensed something else, a smell he had never felt before.

Bai Lan twisted his body, buried in the grass and swam slowly, looking at it from a distance, he saw a piece of grass as if it was being shaken by the breeze, in fact, there was a cold-blooded poisonous snake hidden under the grass.

In front of the grass, a middle-aged man in coarse cloth clothes was lying on the ground with a painful face, his left hand pinching his right hand, and hunting tools such as firewood knives and bows and arrows were placed beside him.

This is a poisoned hunter.

His face was already black, obviously poisoned, and Bai Lan saw two small holes in his right hand, which were the marks of a poisonous snake bite.

Without help, the hunter would not be able to leave the forest. Even if this toxicity is not deep, it is already half the life of a hunter without medicine.

Bai Lan was a little curious, this is already a deep mountain and old forest, a dangerous jungle where human beings are almost extinct, why did he come here alone? Could it be that this hunter is for something so precious?

In the mountains and forests, there are incomparably precious things, and probably excluding the gold and silver veins, there are only spiritual flowers and strange grasses.

Bai Lan's heart moved, he looked at a sachet on the hunter's waist, which contained something, even if the hunter had been poisoned, he still subconsciously protected it.

So, Bai Lan waited patiently, waiting for the hunter to die, or poisoned to the point that his heart and lungs could not move, and then went forward to find out.

Bai Lan has always been an extremely patient predator.

The hunter saw that the black and purple color on his right arm was spreading more and more, and the knife in his left hand was extremely painful on his face, and with a clang, the knife fell in his hand, and cut off half of his right arm, and the hunter roared in pain like a wild beast, and screamed incessantly, and he also suppressed his voice for fear of attracting some terrible beasts.

The hunter's blood spurted out, the smell of blood filling the air, and he hurriedly wrapped an unknown beast tendon around his right arm, then tore off his coarse cloth clothes to bandage the severed arm.

The middle-aged man's face was hideous, and he was so painful that he actually shed tears, and the blood on his right arm gradually soaked through the coarse cloth, and he picked up the machete in pain and gave up the weight of the big bow and other burdens, and no longer looked at the half of his right hand on the ground.

Bai Lan was also surprised when he saw it, what a ruthless person! You can do such a dead hand to yourself.

The hunter struggled to get up and leave, knowing that the smell of blood would soon attract beasts.

Bai Lan silently followed him, parting the weeds everywhere, like a predator chasing his prey.

The sky gradually darkened, but fortunately in the middle of summer, he did not have to worry about stiffening his body at night, and Bai Lan followed the hunter all the way to the outside of a small cave.

The hunter picked up some dry wood, took out a fire breaker from his bosom and lit the fire, then took some unknown medicinal powder and smeared it on the severed arm, plucked a lot of grass from the wild grass outside the cave, roasted it with fire, and swallowed it in his belly, and even swallowed some blades of grass without washing or roasting.

He was already hungry, thirsty, tired, and sleepy.

He can only rely on these non-poisonous grasses to feed his stomach and travel through the dark night forest, and for hunters with broken arms, they will only be torn apart and eaten by wolves.

He thought he had escaped jackals, tigers and leopards, but he had not escaped wild snakes!

After the hunter fell asleep, Bai Lan slowly crawled out of the grass, he quietly climbed up the hunter's body along the hunter's trouser legs, and then took a sachet on the man's waist, and his body was ready to wrap around the man's only remaining left arm.

Bai Lan bit hard, but he didn't even tear off the sachet, he was so frightened that he couldn't care about anything else, turned around and bit the neck of the hunter who had just woken up, and frantically injected venom.

He didn't want to kill people, after all, the human race is a race favored by heaven and earth, and killing people may have this karma for demons, and even damage the fortune of a demon clan itself.

But he didn't expect this hunter to be so careful, and he could only kill this hunter.

Because once the hunter wakes up, even if he holds the knife in one hand, he can seriously injure Bai Lan and even kill him.

So Bai Lan is the first to strike!

The hunter felt cold and soft in a daze, and he came to his senses, only to see a large snake covered in mud wrapped around his arm and even bitten his neck.

He was shocked, his left hand was already entangled by the snake's body, and in his panic, he could only bite the snake's neck and bite it down hard.

Bai Lan suddenly felt pain, pulled back and twisted his body from the hunter's mouth, and rolled over and fell to the ground.

The hunter hurriedly stood up, picked up the hunting knife and bravely went up, looked at Bai Lan with fierce eyes, and sneered: "A beast dares to kill your uncle?" ”

Bai Lan coiled his snake head and spit out the snake letter to guard the hunter, and slowly retreated into the grass with his body twisted.

The hunter didn't dare to come forward and really cut him, after all, the hunter knew his situation, and if he was bitten by a snake again, he would ......

He suddenly remembered that when he woke up, the snake had bitten him on the neck!

Thinking of this, the hunter's brain was dizzy, his eyes were dizzy, his breathing was miserable, and his whole body was unable to exert his strength.

His consciousness gradually became dull, and vaguely he seemed to see a white snake watching him quietly not far away.

Countless thoughts flashed through the hunter's heart, and he muttered unwillingly: "I don't want to die!" I don't want to die! I still want to eat this Xuan Bone Grass to become a martial arts master, I don't hesitate to sell my mother-in-law to get the martial arts cheats that have not been refined, I want to become a martial arts master, I want those prodigal hooves in the Qinglou to surrender under me......"

He told all kinds of visions he was looking forward to, all kinds of futures that he dreamed of, and he was unwilling to sleep forever.

Bai Lan sat next to the hunter and quietly watched him die little by little, this was the first person he had killed in his two lives combined!

He sighed in his heart, after all, he became a snake, his heart was really cold, and Bai Lan didn't have a trace of panic and touch, as if he was swallowing his prey with peace of mind.

Bai Lan waited until the hunter was completely dead before approaching his body, and opened the sachet that the hunter had protected in his hand until death, and the small sachet sewn on the coarse thread end, the fragrance in it was just the ordinary smell of mugwort leaves, but it was embroidered with the four clever characters of Hehuan Ruyi, and it could be seen that the woman who embroidered the sachet must have liked him very much.

Bai Lan also recognizes some of such traditional characters, and it seems that he is not illiterate even in ancient times.

When the sachet was opened, there was a small grass inside, with nine leaves and no flowers and no fruits, the leaves were purple, but the rhizome seemed to be flesh and blood.

It seems that this grass is quite strange, Bai Lan did not instinctively sense any disgust, and it should not be poisonous to himself.

Bai Lan swallowed it in one gulp, he wouldn't keep it back to the cave to eat, in case there was an accident along the way, the gain would outweigh the loss.