Next to the ancient willow, Bai Lan spit out the letter and hissed in a low voice.

There are long and narrow underground passages under the earth and rocks, and there are countless black ants running around, each doing their own thing.

In the underworld there is a small palace cut out of a pile of dirt and rubble. In the stone hall, there is an ant queen walking upright like a human, and the two tentacles above her head have received information from the outside world.

The queen also communicates with the creature's characteristic low-hertz echo.

Beneath the boulder is the nest and foundation of this colony, among which there are demon queens and a group of carnivorous ants that have undergone special mutations.

Bai Lan has long known about their existence, but rarely asks about them, and never interferes with their reproduction.

They are symbiotic, like allies, living on each other.

Don't look at the number and strength of the ant colony to the present day, it is very terrifying, but yin and yang are mutually restrictive, and there are always natural enemies.

There are many pangolin monsters in the forest, and even anteaters that feed on carnivorous ants, frogs, brown bears, hedgehogs, spiders, etc.

After leaving the Ten Thousand Snake Mountain, even if their number doubles again, they can only be exhausted in the face of countless monster natural enemies in the Nuoda Forest.

The natural enemies of carnivorous ants are mostly the food of snakes, and they can develop steadily if they have the demonic spirit of green and white snakes.

Naturally, with the help of the other party's strength, there must be something in return. Snakes are difficult to deal with large beasts, but they happen to be the best at dealing with carnivorous ant colonies.

This mountain of ten thousand snakes, there are ten thousand snakes in the light and hundreds of millions of ants in the dark, growing and coexisting.

Even if the number of snakes in the mountains has been reduced from tens of thousands to 10,000, the symbiosis of snakes and ants still exists.

Bai Lan informed the queen ant that there might be an attack on the cultivators of the Seven Gu Sect, hoping that she could use a swarm of ants to monitor the mountain intersections.

The queen ant has opened her mind, so she naturally knows the seriousness of the problem, after all, carnivorous ants are also insects, and she is also worried about those unpredictable Gu techniques.

The number of snakes in the mountains has decreased greatly, and other ethnic groups have seized a lot of living space, and Bai Lan did not intervene, because relying on the reproduction ability of the snakes and snakes' nests, as long as the thirteen snake nests are safe, the snakes will return to the status of the overlord group of the Ten Thousand Snakes Mountain sooner or later.

However, there are exceptions.

On this day, after Bai Lan got up in the morning and recited the scriptures, his eyes flashed with surprise. Thanks to the blessing of the mountain's authority, he can see most of the Ten Thousand Snake Mountain, but there are many places that he can't explore, so he asks carnivorous ants to replenish it.

Today he saw a monster that seemed familiar.

On the west side of Ten Thousand Snake Mountain, a wild leopard with a huge body that was nearly a foot long was staring coldly at a black python that was about a foot long in the grass in front of him.

The python coiled up, spitting out letters, and warned constantly. The giant leopard in front of it gave it an instinctive fear, and the python didn't dare to turn around rashly and walk away, exposing its back to the other party.

There is also a scar on the left side of the leopard's face, although the wound is healed, but the scar cannot be erased. He looked at the big python in front of him and was afraid of himself, he couldn't help but be psychologically proud, he released a trace of demonic energy, and the terrifying demon wind rushed straight to the python and shocked the other party and couldn't even lift his head, paralyzed and weak.

A burst of pleasure rose in the heart of the wild leopard, what about the python, don't you still have to surrender at my feet? Back then, he was whipped by the damn white snake, his skin was open, and his flesh was blurred, and it happened that the mountain rain infected the wound, and that time he almost died in the mountain rain.

Until today, he has been cultivating as a demon for more than 100 years, and his spiritual wisdom has been greatly opened, and he has succeeded in demon arts, dominating the mountains and forests, but he still has not left here.

Because he wants revenge, and if he doesn't take revenge, the hatred in his heart will be difficult to eliminate.

The white snake is in the mountains, he feels that the demon power is getting stronger and stronger, and he cultivates for several hours every day and is far more diligent than ordinary monsters, even if the white snake is strong, he will definitely be able to win it after a hundred years of hard cultivation.

Thinking of this, the flower skin leopard looked coldly at the big python that was intimidated by its demonic aura, and jumped to bite it seven inches.

But at this time, a strange wind suddenly set off in the mountains and forests, and the wind suddenly rose and swept the leopard.

The flower-skinned leopard was shocked, and the yellow light on his body flashed and sank thousands of pounds.

He looked around cautiously, there was only solemnity and no fear in the leopard's eyes, and since he had not yet refined the horizontal bones, he could only let out a low beast roar in demonstration.

The surrounding winds gathered into a tornado, and the clouds in the mountains turned into a serpentine tornado, rolling towards it.

The flower-skinned leopard roared, and three figures were instantly divided, and the four wild leopards fled in four directions, east, west, north and south.

The wild leopard jumped ten feet away, and fled dozens of feet in the blink of an eye, and his heart relaxed a little, thinking that it was time to escape.

But at this moment, a low-voiced man's chuckle suddenly sounded in the air: "I underestimate you, where are you going?" ”

The wild leopard was frightened, and quickly fled to the west.

But a demon wind blew, and a mighty dragon wind swept over the mountain forest, sucking the wild leopard into it, and then turned into a gust of wind and blew into the distance.

……

The wild leopard shook his head drowsily, and suddenly remembered that he had been captured by the mysterious demon. His muscles tensed instantly, and he raised his head to look around.

I saw a small pond in front of me, there is a huge weeping willow on the side, the afterglow of the sunset shines on the pool water and swings a bright glow, a man dressed in white sits on the edge of the boulder with his back to him, and is gently playing a bamboo flute at this moment, sounding a pleasant and peaceful flute sound.

The wild leopard hesitated for a moment, gave up the idea of sneaking up from behind the other party, and fled quietly out of the valley. He is not a fool, ordinary humans will never ignore a wild leopard behind him, and most of the people in this wilderness are not human.

Suddenly, the flute stopped, "How did you forget who I am?" ”

The leopard's paw snapped and turned back.

saw the man in white slowly turn around, and instantly turned into a huge white python.

The wild leopard chuckled in his heart, it's broken! This white snake actually has such a strong demonic power, he is not an opponent. But the other party can still remember himself, and there is no way to live, so he can only fight to the death!

The wild leopard instantly burst out with terrifying sprinting power, and the demon power turned into three leopard shadows and rushed towards the white snake like lightning.

The white snake turned into a human form in a turn, and a willow leaf happened to float in front of him, and Bai Lan flicked the willow leaf with a light hand, and stabbed out like a venomous lancet and stabbed the wild leopard.

"Boom~"

The wild leopard flew out upside down, and he was shocked back by the power brought by this willow leaf, and even the willow leaf penetrated deep into the center of his eyebrows, and he was afraid that he would die if he was even one inch deeper.

The wild leopard stood up with severe pain, and when he saw Bai Lan slowly walking towards him, his body trembled and retreated.

"The difference between you and me is too great, even if you cultivate for another thousand years, it will be difficult to defeat me. Today I will give you a way to go, respect me as the top, and you can walk the way of life. If you don't want to, I'll send you to your death, and you won't have to go. Bai Lan leaned lightly to the side, stretched out his hand, and the bamboo flute broke through the air and inserted it three inches in front of the wild leopard, and the bamboo tail was still trembling.

The wild leopard was stunned in his heart, this hateful white snake was still willing not to kill him and let him live?

The demon is no longer a beast, but wisdom is born. The will to survive prevailed over the hatred that had been remembered in his heart, and he whimpered, bowed his head beside the bamboo flute, and pounced forward with both paws to show submission.

Seeing this, Bai Lan chuckled, and with a flick of his fingers, a small drop of demonic power drilled into the center of the wild leopard's eyebrows.

"This is the poison I have cultivated, and the poison of a hundred snakes can be refined into a drop, and it is naturally fine to have my demon power seal in my body. However, after three months, the demonic power dissipated and poisoned into the flesh and blood, and there was no way to survive. If you are faithful, I will naturally renew the seal for you, and if you still have bad thoughts, you will turn into a pile of white bones in the blink of an eye. ”

When the wild leopard heard this, he was so frightened that he kowtowed and begged for mercy.

Bai Lan was unmoved, but said: "In the future, a hundred miles to the west outside the Ten Thousand Snake Mountain is your cave, you go and guard there, and not a single human is allowed to come." ”

In desperation, the wild leopard could only drag his seriously injured body out of the valley and go to the west side of the Ten Thousand Snake Mountain to find a place to stay. The other party can transform into a human form and speak in person, and his strength is no longer comparable to him. But the hatred in his heart is still there, buried in the bottom of his heart and burning, giving him the strength to support him.

Bai Lan didn't want to resolve the hatred in the other party's heart, sometimes hatred is not a force that can be used?

Even if the wild leopard has been cultivating diligently for more than a hundred years, he is far from being his opponent, after all, Bai Lan has had several chances, swallowed the spirit fruit elixir, learned the method of spitting, and has the blessing of the authority of the mountain, and his combat power is only under the transformation demon.

Even if there is no powerful attack demonic art, Bai Lan still has a way to make up for it.

Although Qing Cang has the ability to attack demons and has obtained divine purple qi, he is still not his opponent. There are many factors that affect the combat power of demons, except for foreign objects, and they are also deep in demon arts, physical bodies, and demon powers.

Although the difference between Qingcang and Bai Lan's demonic power is not too much, Bai Lan's more than 300 years of demonic power is far more than double that of Qingcang's more than 200 years of demonic power.

Nearly two hundred years of swallowing and purging the moon, so that the power of too little yin in Bai Lan's body accumulates more and more, and the two forces of too little yin and less yin gradually merge, turning into a full moon, and the vitality of water and wood gradually merges into the full moon, expanding the moon into a pearl.

It's just that more than 300 years of demonic power is still too little.

Bai Lan began to sink down and continue to cultivate, the green snake looked at the sun, the white snake swallowed the moon, the sun and the moon alternated, and the years passed year by year.

……

More than ten years later, Bai Lan was 200 years old.

He swallowed the treasured molt flower in one gulp and began to molt.

Outside the cave, the green snake stopped cultivating and coiled in front of the cave to protect the Dharma.

"Whew~"

Storms and clouds suddenly rose in the sky, and heavy dark clouds shrouded all directions, and the sky was terrifyingly dark.

"Boom~"

The sky shook with thunder.

"Ah~"

White snake molts.

The severe pain spread all over the body, which was different from the molting of the skin, there was no unbearable itching pain, only the feeling of almost fainting in pain made Bai Lan go crazy.

In the extreme pain, Bai Lan seemed to have a hallucination in front of his eyes, and he saw a big snake, a snake bigger than the sky!

The giant snake swirls the world, the huge body reclaims the sea and the mountains, the circumference of the heaven and the earth is the length of the giant snake, its body is engraved with countless pale cyan ancient texts, each ancient text exudes the breath of the avenue, the giant python's head like the sky turned around, looking at Bai Lan.

The huge beast's pupils were tinged with different colors, its left eye was the color of glazed light, but the right eye was a dull color, the left eye contained vitality and creation, and the right eye was cold and dead.

The gaze of life and death fell on Bai Lan, and after only looking at each other for a moment, Bai Lan completely fainted.

Outside the cave, the Brilliant Heavenly Power Thunder swept away, but it never fell. Qing Cang was terrified by the terrifying thunder, but he did not leave the cave.

At the moment when Bai Lan fainted, the thunder of the sky was silenced, the dark clouds scattered, and the heavens and the earth returned to clarity.

……

Bai Lan's consciousness slowly woke up, saw the green sky beside him, and said with a light smile: "Don't worry, I can be regarded as a blessing in disguise." ”

Qingcang rarely spoke: "But your skin is still on your body and has not shed off." ”

Bai Lan smiled, a faint white light flashed on his body, and the snake that was still bound to his body disappeared.

The smooth body of jade swam slowly, and now he is more than twelve zhang long, looking from a distance like a white dragon in the cave.

Qing Cang looked at it suspiciously, and picked it with the snake's tail again, "Where did the snake go?" ”

"Naturally, it's on me." Bai Lan regained some strength, crossed his body, and said with joy: "This is the magic I have learned in life and death, and I can save my life!" ”

"What's that?" Qingcang was still puzzled and asked.

"Well, keep it a secret. The fewer people who know, the more powerful! Bai Lan quipped: "Why do you ask so clearly?" Want to learn? You can't learn it. ”

Qingcang muttered: "The gods are mysterious and secretive, and they must be chicken ribs." ”

The corners of Bai Lan's mouth twitched, he learned to use the word chicken ribs, it seems that he taught it really well, and he still has to teach more knowledge in the future, so that he can be a learned snake demon.

……

Yinzhou, Qi County, Xiahe Village, Lu's ancestral home.

The maid Xiaoyue walked to the front of the main house, knocked on the door softly, and whispered, "Madam, are you awake?" I have to get up early today, and I want to discuss with the elders about moving the ancestral hall with the elders. ”

A moment later came a lazy voice in the room, "Come in, freshen up for me." ”

Xiao Yue hurriedly beckoned back, followed by four maids, holding copper basins, wooden basins, tooth powder, ponytail brushes and many other toiletries, and they followed Xiao Yue into the main house together.

At this time, Mrs. was already sitting in front of the dresser, gargling, cleansing, etc., in turn, and after the four little maids finished serving and retreated, Xiaoyue carefully combed Mrs. hairpin.

Xiao Yue was very cautious, she didn't dare to hurt her wife, this lady is the wife who has followed the master all the way to the present, even if the most favored in the house is the third aunt, but the lord will always respect this wife who has been by his side since the end of his life.

Madame looked at her lightly wrinkled face in the dark brass mirror, and said lightly: "Yesterday, the master rested at Li's place again?" ”

Xiao Yue's heart trembled, and she hurriedly said, "Yes!" The old man went to the third aunt to see the fourth young master yesterday, and he was tired for a day and rested there by the way. ”

When Madame heard this, she chuckled, "That's fine." It's rare for him to go back to the old mansion, so let's go with the master. In August, the old man went to Yunzhou to take office, and the Li family couldn't afford to make waves. ”

Xiao Yue nervously waited for her lady to dress up, and after breakfast, she took four or five maids to the living room of Lu Mansion.

The furnishings in the hall are simple but atmospheric, but the luxury cannot be ignored in the low-key.

Lu Yutang looked at his wife Wang's solemn and decent dress, walking calmly, and couldn't help but slow down in his heart, or his own wife knew the measure, if the three-room concubine was only afraid that he would be embarrassed in front of a group of clan elders.

With a faint smile on her face, the lady finally came to Lu Yutang's side and stood next to the main seat after greeting many elders.

Lu Yutang smiled at the people in the hall: "Elders, please take a seat." Yutang invited all the elders within the five suits today, and I think you all know what is going on.

I specially invited the feng shui master Yuan Tianshi of Jinjing to explore the feng shui in the ancestral house, we have been inherited by the Lu family for more than 100 years, and the ancestral hall of the clan was built in a hurry, and the feng shui phase is rushing.

So I specially asked Master Yuan to explore the mountains and waters, and found a feng shui treasure, which I had bought and prepared to rebuild the ancestral hall. ”

As soon as the words fell, an old man with a gray beard spoke up: "Oops! Eldest nephew, we all have to call you the prefect outside, but in the house we are all your elders. I have to say a few words to you, where can the wilderness at the foot of the lead mountain be used as an ancestral shrine? ”

"Yes, your second uncle is right. Jade Hall, the new construction of the ancestral hall will cost a lot of money, and the construction of a large number of buildings has also disturbed the peace of the ancestors and ancestors! ”

The elders of the clan were all opposed.

……

Xiao Yue, who was standing next to Madame, looked at the opposing clan elders below, and couldn't help but remember that night she brought medicinal food to Madame, and accidentally overheard what the old man and Madame said.

Then what is Master Yuan from Jinjing is a liar, but the old man wants to move the ancestral hall, and the ridiculous thing is that the old man, an official of the imperial court who is an official to the fourth grade, actually said that it was Liu Xiantuomeng.

Until today, seeing the old man's fanfare and firm attitude, she couldn't help but have a thought, is it really Liu Xiantuo's dream? Isn't there any gold and silver treasure in the new ancestral hall? Or is it something that Liu Xian shelters?

Otherwise, if you can make the court officials obedient with just one dream, wouldn't anyone be able to be an official?

Although Xiao Yue had a lot of guesses in her heart, she knew that the more she knew as a subordinate, the faster she would die, and there were countless glooms in the high-ranking family. She kept this conjecture in her heart.

Sure enough, this matter was finally insisted on by the master, and he threatened and lured the elders of the clan to agree to the relocation of the ancestral hall.

As a prefect of a place, even if he is not a subordinate official of Yinzhou, he is not a prefect of Qi County who can be offended.

Therefore, the Lu family ancestral hall was built quickly, standing at the foot of the lead mountain, and the border with the Ten Thousand Snake Mountain is only separated by a big river.

After the ancestral hall was built, few people paid attention to the craftsmen who built the ancestral hall, and the local gentry came to congratulate them, and they valued the Lu family Lu Yutang established by this ancestral hall.

At the age of twenty-three, he passed the hospital examination to become a Xiucai, at the age of thirty, he was promoted to the second Yayuan examination in the Yinzhou Township Examination, and at the age of thirty-four, he was the third in the palace examination.

These squires did not notice that the craftsmen who participated in the construction of the ancestral hall were relocated to Yunzhou one after another, and nothing was said about the past.

……

One year after the completion of the Lu ancestral hall, the ancestral tablets in the hall were displayed, and the incense and candle candles were constantly burning, and they were still bright at night. On the tall beam, a white snake slowly climbed down the giant pillar.