Chapter Twenty-Seven: Cold Winter Penance
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After autumn, there were several days of heavy rain around the Python Ridge, and the water of the Wild Horse Creek swelled, and the flood poured in from the mountain pass, submerging the valley on the north side of the black python stone village.
But before the water receded, a biting cold wave suddenly struck, and almost in two days, the narrow flooded valley nearly 20 miles deep was frozen solid, covered with a layer of ice.
The next day after the heavy rain, it turned into a heavy snowfall, covering the deep valley of the mountains and mountains of Python Tooth Ridge into a snow-white field.
After the Wild Horse Creek froze, it became extremely easy for the Black Mountain tribes on the north bank to come and raid, and Chen Xun could only temporarily put aside his cultivation, and went to the valley mouth on the south bank of the Wild Horse Creek with Zong Sang and other black python barbarians to stand guard against the wind and snow.
This is the fourth cold winter that Chen Xun has experienced in this world, and he feels that this year's cold wave came very early, and the cold wind pouring in from the mouth of the valley is also particularly biting.
He almost has the cultivation of the peak of the fifth layer of barbarianism, wrapped in animal skins, wearing scale armor, and exposed hands and feet, or the biting cold wind cuts painfully, this is still just winter, I don't know how many people in the village will not survive this cold winter.
Under the ice cap, which was frozen tightly overnight, there were many corpses of birds and beasts, and there were also many drowned barbarian tribesmen, who were swept by the flood from somewhere upstream of Wild Horse Creek, and showed a desperate expression of struggle and despair before drowning under the ice cap.
The mouth of the valley is about six or seven hundred meters wide, and out of the valley is the Wild Horse Creek, a naturally formed mud dam that has long been shattered by the surging flood.
Chen Xun put the heavy spear across his knees, squatted on a boulder, looked at the ice and snow under the valley mouth, and thought to himself that if the black python could organize people to build a stone embankment six or seven hundred meters long here, the canyon nearly twenty miles deep would become a treasure land of drought and flooding.
Although the black python at this time will be on the south bank of the wild horse creek within a radius of dozens of miles of the mountains as its own, can also enter the deep mountains of the Python Ridge hunting without restrictions, but the vast majority of these hunting areas are rugged mountains and deep valleys, only a small gentle slope south of the stone village and this canyon, is a rare mountain dam flat land in the Python Tooth Ridge.
This canyon is nearly 20 miles deep, and the narrowest part of the valley mouth is only six or seven hundred meters wide, and the widest part is only three or four miles, but the terrain at the bottom of the valley is flat and open, as a rare flat land in the mountains that can be used for farming.
And the flood of Wild Horse Creek brings in a lot of fertile soil all year round, which is extremely precious.
Chen Xun read the "Canglan Miscellaneous Records" and learned that the ancestors of Canglan had a tribe collecting wild grains for cultivation on flat slopes as early as a thousand years ago, and the history of herdscaping herbivorous birds and beasts was even longer.
If you really want to make good use of this canyon dam, the black python people don't have to worry about the food problem of more than a thousand tribes at all.
However, the biggest problem that the python is currently facing is that its strength is not enough.
Even if the black python has the ability to build a stone embankment at the mouth of the valley at this time to block the floods from the upper reaches of the Wild Horse Creek in summer and autumn, grow grains, raise livestock and beasts, but in addition to the coveting of the Black Mountain tribes on the north bank of the Wild Horse Creek, a large number of fierce birds and beasts that hunt and eat in the deep mountains gather in large numbers, which is a serious threat.
Seeing Ah Gong Zongtu and Nanfang coming over, Chen Xun shook off the snow particles on his clothes, jumped down from the boulder, walked over, and said, "Ah Gong, this winter, it's really cold. With such a heavy snowstorm, the village is afraid that it will have to make more preparations. ”
"It's not easy to survive the once-in-a-decade cold wave!" Wu Gongzong Tu frowned, his old faces like the dead bark of old trees huddled together, with indescribable worries.
"Cold wave?" Chen Xun had only experienced the fourth winter in this world, and he didn't know how much of a threat the once-in-a-decade cold wave would be to the barbarian tribes north of the Python Tooth Ridge.
"Ah Xun, from today onwards, until the beginning of spring, you don't want to enter the mountain again," Wu Gongzong Tu said seriously, "This cold wave is a little more powerful than in previous years, I don't know how many wild beasts will come out of the mountains to forage for food, and the stone wall of the village will also be repaired again......
Although the Python Tooth Ridge is only a branch of Tu Mountain, the deepest main peak is also high into the clouds, the top of the mountain is deep in the clouds, and the halfway of the mountain is covered with ice and snow all the year round, and it is white from afar.
When the cold wave hits, the stone villages located in the canyon are dripping into ice, and the mountains above the clouds and nights will be so cold?
This is still the beginning of winter, and the whole long winter will last for five or six months.
In order to avoid the severe cold, a large number of birds and beasts will migrate from the cold mountains to the mountains that can shelter from the wind, and those wild beasts that do not go out of the mountains all year round, although they are not afraid of the cold, but in order to forage, the cold winter season will also appear more frequently in the edge of the Python Tooth Ridge.
The cold wave is coming from the north, and the northern Huze wasteland area will encounter a more cruel test, and a large number of fierce birds and beasts living in the northern Huze area and even the northerner wasteland will migrate south on a large scale to avoid the cold, which will bring a more deadly threat to the surrounding tribes.
"Canglan Miscellaneous Records" has many records of entire village tribes being devoured by beasts.
As if in order to confirm Chen Xun's concern, at this time, there were two shrill howls in the northern sky, Chen Xun turned his head to look, and saw two black shadows sweeping from the far sky, and in the blink of an eye, he saw two giant vultures rushing down from the blue sky to the valley.
In the blink of an eye, one giant vulture grabbed a mountain leopard and flew into the sky again, and the other giant vulture soon grabbed a giant snake from the valley mountain and soared into the sky, flying together to the depths of the python tooth ridge in the south.
The giant vulture swept over the sky, spreading its fleshy wings larger than that of a bull, covered with blue-gray armor scales, without a single feather, and its huge body seemed to be made of divine iron, scattering cold light under the illumination of the white cold sun.
Vultures!
"Canglan Miscellaneous Records" and "Western Wilderness Classic" both mention that this kind of exotic bird is a hundred times stronger than the blue-eyed eagle in the air, and the mountain leopard with a strong body and fierce claws has no room for struggle under the iron claws of the scale vulture.
Chen Xun saw this situation and was secretly frightened.
"It seems that the stockade also needs to prepare some more live beasts...... Wu Gongzong Tu looked at the scale vultures that were skimming from the sky to the depths of the Python Tooth Ridge, and said to Nanfang with worry.
Even if you combine the strength of the barbarian force of the whole village, if you can capture and kill such a fierce bird and beast, you will inevitably suffer heavy casualties, but the whole village is barbaric, and there are only twenty enlightened barbarian souls, and no one can afford to lose.
If such a fierce beast came to attack the village, all the black python could do was to throw out the live beasts that had been prepared long ago to protect the clansmen.
"Ah Gong, there is still a month before the cold winter really comes, and I want to take a trip to Huze District in the north...... "Chen Xun said to Ah Gong Zongtu.
Chen Xun didn't have the ability to go out of the surrounding mountains before, so he could only be confined to the black python hunting area, and even the Huze Plain, fifty or sixty miles to the north, didn't have a chance to take a look.
Now the major tribes in Beishan are busy preparing for the wilderness and cold, and the hunting teams rarely go out on a large scale, and it is very unlikely that Chen Xun will encounter the barbarians of the Black Mountain Department in the wilderness.
Even if he was unfortunate enough to encounter a high-level brute like Gu Hu in the wild, he was not able to resist the enemy, and it was not without a chance to escape.
After the spring of next year, Su Qingfeng, the deputy lieutenant of Suwu, will send people to Python Yaling to select the children of the tribe who are recommended to enter the Canglan School Palace, Chen Xun thought twice and decided to give it a try.
Although the Black Python's Nine Shadows War Spear is profound and mysterious, it is far beyond the reach of the Dapeng Secret Fist, but the cultivation of the barbarian soul does not say that there is no Xuangong cheats after the Heavenly Barbarian, and even how to condense the true blood of the first man, the black python does not have a detailed cultivation method.
For now, if Chen Xun wants to practice advanced brute martial arts or other cultivation of Xuangong, Canglan Academy Palace is the only way.
However, after seeing the actions of Su Ling and Su Yi, the two sons of the Su family, Chen Xun also knew that Canglan was not an easy place to live, and the Su family was by no means a good man and a woman.
He wants to go to Canglan after the spring, and his own strength must continue to be strengthened to be more confident.
Although he still had ten Juyuan Pills in his hand, the ten Juyuan Pills were only enough for him to practice for a month.
Now that the wild beasts in the depths of the Python Tooth Ridge are starting to be restless, it will become extremely dangerous to go into the mountains to collect medicine, and if he wants to find more elixirs for cultivation, he can only go to the Huze area in the north to try his luck now.
"Canglan Miscellaneous Records" recorded that there would be a lag of one or two months from the beginning of the cold wave to the southward migration of large-scale beasts, and Chen Xun thought about taking this time to take a trip to Huze District in the north to see if he could collect any elixir.
Although the cold wave was bitterly cold, Chen Xun had cultivated to the fifth level of brute martial arts at this time, and he also needed such penance to quench the bones around his body.
On this trip to the north, Chen Xun did not expect to fight with people, heavy spears and scale armor were placed in the shack, with a black sheath long knife, an iron tire giant bow and a pot of iron arrows, he carried a special medicine basket on his back, facing the cold wind, crossed the Mustang Creek, and crossed the mountains and mountains to the north.
The Huze area in the north of the Python Ridge has frozen into a vast ice field at this time, and a large number of wild grasses and weeds have been buried under the ice and snow.
Although the terrain of Huze District is flat, the vegetation grows luxuriantly, and a large area of primeval dense forests inhabit a large number of birds and beasts, but in spring, summer and autumn, the vagaries of heavy rain and a large amount of glacial meltwater will flow out from the surrounding deep mountains and high mountains such as Python Ridge and Tushan Mountain Ridge, forming criss-crossing rivers and lakes in the plain area.
In these areas, the wild tribes can occasionally enter the hunting, but no tribe can survive for a long time in the floods that flood everywhere every three or five times, and the wild beasts that survive in the vast primeval dense forests in the Huze area are not necessarily weaker than the fierce birds and beasts in the mountains and valleys.
Only a few scattered tribes, according to the high mountains and hills scattered in the Huze district, are struggling to survive.
The cold snap is not without its benefits.
The deep lake and swamp at the edge of the primeval jungle was originally a very fierce place, but at this time it was frozen tightly to the cold current, and a large number of poisonous insects, snakes and Jiaojiao were dormant under the ice and hibernated.
On the ice sheet and snowfield, there is no terrain obstruction.
Of course, he didn't want to fall prey to birds of prey, so Chen Xun didn't dare to walk on the snowfield, but walked cautiously all the way north along the sparse forest area at the junction of the lake and the primeval dense forest.
He came out of the Python Tooth Ridge, wearing a white velvet animal skin hat on his head, wearing a white velvet beast clothes, an iron-tired giant bow and a black sheath long knife, and also wrapped in white animal wool to disguise, blending with the ice and snow, so that he could focus more on finding the elixir and herbs needed for cultivation in the ice and snow.
Some elixirs and herbs are usually accompanied by poisonous insects, snakes and Jiao, and few medicine customers dare to go deep into the Huze area to collect.
After winter, the poisonous insects and snakes either burrow into the mud hole, or burrow into the depths of the lake, the edge of the lake, under the ice and snow, as long as you are patient to find, the harvest of Chen Xun's trip is far more than entering the deep mountains of Python Tooth Ridge.