For human beings, suffering will eventually end, whether it is death or wealth, it is the end of suffering.

For nature, suffering will eventually end, because there are four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

After a winter of silence, the old trees that have not died grow new shoots, the dead dead trees turn into nutrients and return to nature, the snow melts the soil, and the ashes of the mountains turn into nutrients to make this spring more vibrant.

Bai Lan climbed out of the cave and climbed onto the willow branches, and now the tree hole can no longer fit his body more than three meters long, but Bai Lan still likes to smell the smell of spring between the willow branches and leaves.

The spring sun is getting warmer day by day, and the creatures in the valley that have been silent for a winter are beginning to be lively again.

The flowers are red and willow green, the bees and butterflies are flying birds, and the purple and red once again decorate the mountains, covering up the scars that human beings have committed.

Bai Lan wrapped himself around the willow trees, and suddenly found that the willow trees had bloomed.

The catkins in the sky fly out from between the branches and leaves, ride the spring breeze to fly over the mountains and rivers, set sail and sprinkle to the earth, maybe in the future there will be willow buds growing in the deep mountain soil, experiencing frost, rain and snow, birds, beasts and insects, the years have passed, and they have grown into a giant tree like this ancient willow.

The white clouds in the sky are long, and the clouds rise in all directions, and they don't know where to fall from east to west. Bai Lan began to be in a daze often, staying in the trees for a day, and then going back to the cave to rest at night.

When you are hungry, eat some fish, and eat some hares that can be found everywhere in the mountains.

After the removal of some rabbit predators before winter, the number of hares began to grow rapidly.

Fortunately, many animals fled to the valley after the wildfire, so that the rabbits would not eat the grass in the valley.

Now the weeds at the edge of the pond have been gnawed away, only the remnants of the white scent on this ancient willow, the beasts dare not approach and can be evergreen, and the weeds and bushes are much lower.

However, without the weeds on the edge of the pool, it has quite a bit of artistic conception.

Every time the moon is full, in the deep mountains and valleys, the small pool reflects the full moon, the moonlight sprinkles all over the valley, the ancient willows weep branches, the white snake panshi looks up to the sky and the moon, the insects sing nocturne, the fish are happy in the moon, the fireflies fly on the pool, the night light is quiet and long, and the small valley is mysterious and beautiful.

Bai Lan is already the only overlord in the valley, the wild leopard only dares to hunt and survive in the east of the valley, and there are no wolves, tigers and bears, he is already unscrupulous.

Every night, he would bask in the moon.

Every sunny day, he would bask in the sun.

Illuminated by the light of the sun and the moon, born for the things of heaven and earth. Every inch of Bai Lan's body is illuminated by the sun and the moon, and every scale experiences the laws of the sun and the moon.

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Spring goes to summer solstice, autumn comes to winter, year after year, the years in the mountains cannot be counted, and we can only rely on spring, summer, autumn and winter to judge the passage of time year by year.

In the blink of an eye, Bai Lan was already five years old.

The five years old of a snake is the most vigorous of its life!

The lifespan of snakes is generally very short, but only 10 years.

Unless it is some long-lived pythons, it can live for a hundred years.

Bai Lan is obviously an ordinary water snake, even if he has an adventure and has strengthened his muscles and bones, he still has not left the category of beasts.

He had a hunch that he had only five years to live.

A water snake, ten years of time.

Bai Lan has not forgotten that he was a human in his previous life, and he may never really become a snake.

Every spring, the snake is in estrus, and the adulterous nature will be revealed.

And the smell of Bai Lan is enough to attract female snakes within a radius of dozens of miles to go crazy.

Therefore, in the spring, Bai Lan will hide because there are too many female snakes courting him.

In the waterhole, dozens of female snakes two or three meters long can sometimes reach him to seduce him.

Five-year-old Bai Lan has grown to five meters in length and has become the dominant lord around the valley.

But for these people who courted him, Bai Lan was quite helpless. Fortunately, he has the wisdom of a man.

Bai Lan searched the valley for some plants that made him feel extremely uncomfortable, and planted them on the edge of the waterhole to stop the crazy female snakes.

But Bai Lan did not expect that the appearance of these female snakes also attracted the arrival of many male snakes, so many snakes multiplied in estrus in the pool water, and the valley became a small snake nest.

There are more and more species of snakes, but they seem to be afraid of the white breath and dare not step into the valley.

Bai Lan found that he seemed to have become the snake king.

He can even convey his vague meaning by spitting out letters, and those little snakes really dare not disobey.

This valley can have a name. Valley of the Serpent Kings!

And the old neighbors under the boulders in the valley also spread all over the valley and multiplied into a terrible forest ant colony. If a fox steps into their territory, it will be devoured by countless carnivorous ants, leaving only the skeleton.

However, they are able to live in harmony with the white land, a strange phenomenon that is very rare in nature.

Bai Lan can only blame them for eating too much of their own snake moults, and their bodies are contaminated with their own breath, and they are even familiar with his breath and regard Bai Lan as one of them.

With this discovery, he didn't even forget to bring some prey back to his good neighbors when hunting, and over time those ant colonies and white lans became more and more familiar.

Even within a radius of tens of meters of the willow trees coiled by Bai Lan, not a single ant set foot on it.

Bai Lan felt as if he had taken the initiative to create a symbiotic relationship with the ants.

When snakes gather too much, it can cause the appearance of natural predators.

Outside the Snake Valley, there are many birds and birds that frequently appear, killing their own kind.

Bai Lan naturally did not allow this to happen. These clans were used to defend the valley and to give snakes a place to live. It is also so that one day when humans set foot here, they can deter them from making mistakes.

So, Bai Lan made a move.

The five-meter-long Bai Lan has the formidable power of a fifteen-meter-long python, and even the natural enemies of snakes will fall into his fear.

Bai Lan crawled out of the valley, and the snakes outside the valley got up and spontaneously made way for him.

The sound of countless snake letters spitting out and hissing was endless, and the noisy information of the same kind entered Bai Lan's brain and gave him a headache.

He suddenly raised his head and spit out a thick snake letter, "Hiss~"

The snakes immediately stopped spitting out letters, and many of the female snakes who were still pregnant with him also became afraid.

Bai Lan looked at the place where the snakes lived, this is the junction of a river and lake, the water and grass are luxuriant, the species are rich, and the mountains on both sides are close to the Snake King Valley, which is the only line of heaven entrance through the valley.

There is a real need to defend this place.

Bai Lan spit out the snake letter to convey a signal to the group of snakes to disperse, so hundreds of large and small snakes left one after another and lived a normal life.

Snakes do not communicate, so the communication function between groups is also greatly degraded.

Even if Bai Lan is very intelligent, he can only simply convey information, as if communicating with a three-year-old child.

Fortunately, they are very obedient and well-behaved children.

Bai Lan swam into the shallow water, rolling in the mud to hide the whiteness of his body, waiting for the arrival of the enemy.

He's going to trap and kill the birds.

Bai Lan knew that not far to the east of the valley, there was a tall and dangerous mountain, where more than a dozen eagles lived. And his old enemy, the goshawk, lives there.

No matter how conceited he was, it was impossible for him to single out a dozen giant eagles at the same time.

What's more, the goshawk has also grown even more terrifying in the past five years.

Bai Lan waited patiently, lurking at the bottom of the water, and there were several water snakes swimming on the water not far from him.

This is an hour.

Bai Lan's ability to hold his breath has reached the point where he can go underwater for five hours without breathing, and the air sacs in his body are enough to provide oxygen.

Finally, a giant bird noticed the surface of the water, and it flew at a height of 100 meters and locked on to a water snake more than one meter long in the water.

This giant bird is a mountain eagle, with two wings spread out and three meters long, it is already a giant eagle.

It suddenly retracted its wings and fell into the sky, and at this time, the water snake had not yet discovered the danger, this was not Bai Lan who asked him to do this to lure the enemy, it was not so smart, it was purely stupid.

When the mountain eagle landed about ten meters above the water, the black water snake noticed the movement and hurriedly swam into the water to escape.

If there is no Bai Lan today, it will never be able to escape.

But it just so happens that Bai Lan is here today.

Not far away, there happened to be two hunters coming to this water area dozens of meters away, Zhang Erniu saw a huge mountain eagle falling, and hurriedly pulled his companion and said: "Dog, look, there is a big eagle!" ”

The young hunter, who was called Dogdan, hurriedly said excitedly, "Where? ”

If an eagle can be caught, then its flesh and blood can be sold for thirty or forty taels of silver, which is money that an ordinary hunter cannot earn for five or six years.

Zhang Erniu pointed into the distance, and the dog's eyes hurriedly followed.

I saw a gray-brown eagle fold its wings and fall to the water, and the pair of sharp iron talons emitted a glowing cold light under the reflection of the sun's rays and grabbed into the water.

"What a fierce eagle!" Dogdaner exclaimed.

The two hunters were ready to draw their bows and stretch their strings when they were amazed.

But when the two raised their heads to aim at the mountain eagle, they suddenly saw a huge snake head sticking out of the water, and the bloody mouth was wide open, and even two sharp fangs could be seen clearly.

The mouth of the shekou showed an amplitude of nearly 180 degrees, and it bit the mountain eagle that swooped down, and then sank into the lake, causing monstrous waves.

Goudan'er's hand holding the bow was trembling, his eyes were in a daze, and he didn't dare to say surely: "Erniu, you, have you seen it?" ”

Zhang Erniu's face was also stiff, and he swallowed his saliva with difficulty, "I saw it." ”

"Is that true? I'm not mistaken, right? ”

"Really, you read that right!"

"Are we still working?"

"Let's go home."

"Good! Let's go! ”

Goudan'er and Zhang Erniu ran side by side in the sun and rushed back to the village.

When I arrived at the entrance of the village, the old yellow man with a crutch was sitting on the mounds and chatting with a few wrinkled old men of the same generation, when he suddenly saw two young men running over, squinting his eyes and smiling: "Dog, what did you hit today?" ”

The dog ran back to the entrance of the village, and was relieved to see so many people, and said up and down: "I, I see, eagle, mountain eagle..."

"Roar~ Did you meet a mountain eagle?" The old yellow head smiled: "Is that a fight?" Look at the two of you empty-handed, it looks like you're running away? ”

"No, I didn't run away." Zhang Erniu was also tired and panted.

"What do you say? Are you fighting? What about the eagle? Where is the mountain eagle? A few old men asked in surprise.

The dog Dan'er had good physical strength, and after a while, he felt much better, and said with a sigh: "Uncle, we didn't fight." That big mountain eagle, we saw that it was eaten by a big snake! ”

An old man with a pockmarked face said with a puzzled face: "Dog, don't talk nonsense, what kind of long worm can eat an eagle I have never heard such nonsense in my life." You don't use this to fool me, are you hiding and preparing to sell it alone? Know that your bow and machete were lent to you by my family. ”

Goudan'er hurriedly said, "Really, Uncle Zhao, I really didn't lie to you." That snake is so big, so big, can its mouth open so big, it's still white! As he spoke, he gestured with his two hands to the open mouth of the snake.

Zhang Erniu also chimed in: "Really, what the dog said is all the truth!" ”

The old yellow head looked shocked and asked, "You mean, that big snake is a white snake?" ”

Goudan'er nodded, "It's white, I look like jade, I can't be wrong." ”

The old yellow head trembled, opened his mouth without a few teeth, and trembled: "Oops! Oh my! Finally, after a few days, I met a fairy again! ”

Several people were surprised, and they trembled with fear when they heard the monster.

The old man with a pockmarked face was dissatisfied: "Old yellow head, what are you scaring and spreading rumors? Isn't it just a big snake? Where do you say that you will become a sperm? Maybe these two boys are dazzled. ”

The old yellow head trembled and said, "You rammer, where have you ever seen a big snake that can eat an eagle?" And it's white. Maybe it's a snake that wants to turn into a dragon, and it will call the two babies a big snake, and it will be back to the prototype at once. Do you think the goblins can blame us? ”

When everyone heard this, their hearts were cold, there are countless strange folk legends, and the stories of the five immortals are the most detailed and complete, everyone has heard of these miscellaneous legends, but I didn't expect to meet them today.

For a time, the old people in this small village worshiped incense and prayed for the protection of the gods.

And what gods can a small village have? That's the land.

When the land of Zhuangjia Village heard, there was a big snake that had been cultivated for thousands of years in the mountains not far away to turn into a dragon, but it was disturbed by two babies, and the thousand-year-old snake demon was going to take revenge.

The land lord was so frightened that he was out of his body, and he was in a cold sweat, and he was busy running away to the Chenghuang Temple in Qinan City to save his life.

But fortunately, before leaving, he fell into a dream of Goudaner and Zhang Erniu again, and when he saw that it was just an ordinary water snake, he jumped to his feet and scolded angrily.

But the news spread farther and farther afield, and several newly built villages in the vicinity became aware of it.

In the mouths of these simple and ignorant people, Bai Lan has become a thousand-year-old white snake demon who is about to turn into a dragon.

And these ethereal rumors were added to Bai Lan's head in the dark.

In the Valley of the Snake King, Bai Lan didn't know these things.

After a month of hard work, he finally swallowed seven large and small mountain eagles, and there were no more wild eagles hunting on the lake outside the Snake King Valley.

Even some waterfowl don't dare to come to the lake to hunt snakes.

Bai Lan didn't have the idea of doing anything to them, snakes must have a certain number of creatures, otherwise there are too many snakes here and they will definitely attract the attention of others. For example, the eagle demon that may exist in the mountains.

Or maybe it attracts humans who catch snakes for a living.

All of this may affect the survival of Shiraku. Moreover, if there are too many snakes, it will lead to a lack of food, and there will even be a scene of snakes eating each other.

Although ordinary waterfowl eat snakes, they are far less than eagles, and all kinds of waterfowl cannot attack snakes that are more than two meters in size.

But eagles don't have this limitation, and Bai Lan has seen eagles that are bigger than goshawks on that eagle peak.