Chapter 4: Immortal Tribulation
As the sky grew brighter, the Hatred Heaven Peak not only regained its calm, but the bloody aura in the air also disappeared without a trace.
The snow in the trees let out a sigh: fortunately, the beasts are only active at night, and if they were running around during the day, they would still kill themselves.
Although the body was a little stiff, the injured right arm seemed to be fine, and when the gauze was removed, it seemed that it was true.
Except for a shallow scar, there was nothing else on the arm, not even a blood scab, and I don't know what kind of elixir Qingyue used.
In line with the principle of saving, Xue Tianqing ate half a steamed bun, drank a few sips of water for breakfast, and then came down from the tree with a long sword and dagger.
As for the baggage, let's stay in the tree!
If there is an accident, not to mention that it will get in the way when you escape, and you will lose even the only food rations.
As soon as he reached the ground, Xue Tianqing hurriedly ran under another tree to open the gate and release water.
At first, he was a little hesitant, but he immediately made up his mind: I don't believe that urinating here will be punished!
As soon as she closed the zipper on a relaxed snowy day, she felt movement behind her.
At this time, his lungs were about to explode: couldn't he even go to the toilet? And there is no heavenly reason!
Before he could look back, he felt his neck tighten, and then something grabbed him by the collar and threw him a few feet.
Xue Tianqing, who was smashed, got up and drew his long sword first, and then stretched his neck to look around, but he couldn't see the ghost.
Although it was strangely quiet, there was a chill on his back, because what he couldn't see was the most terrifying.
Xue Tianqing finally climbed back into the tree, and he made up his mind that it would be better to stay on the ground less until he found the person or thing that threw him out.
Another night passed, the steamed buns were eaten, the water was drunk, and the thirsty and hungry Xue Tianqing looked around with his arms around the tree trunk, and found that there was an eye-eating ape lying on his back in the grass not far away.
After staring at the eye-eater ape for a long time, Xue Tianqing quietly got down the tree and touched the other party with a long sword.
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An eye-eating ape hides itself in the grass and watches the approaching snowy sky ready to go.
Seeing that the opponent was about to enter his attack range, Xue Tianqing turned around and went to the right.
Seeing that the prey was about to flee, although the distance was a little far, the eye-eating ape still bounced high and pounced on the snowy sky.
The body is still in the air, and the arms of the eye-eater ape are already open, and it can cut out the opponent's eyes without having to pounce on the prey.
About a foot away from the snowy sunshine, the eye-eating ape's arms began to fold, its pointed claws like iron hooks.
But at this moment, it felt that its body was empty, and its strength seemed to disappear out of thin air.
When it fell to the ground, the eye-eating ape realized that a long sword had pierced into its heart at some point, which was the only sight it saw before it died.
Looking at the eye-eating ape that fell to the ground and convulsed, Xue Tianqing said softly: "It's not a loss, it's a spirit, and it knows how to engage in sneak attacks." ”
This was Xue Tianqing's fifteenth day in Hating Heaven Peak, and he not only found water, but also found that the meat of the eye-eating ape was indeed delicious.
There is a stream on the Hattian Peak, as well as a spring, which Xue Tianqing found the day after he came here.
The creek was not far from the overnight tree, but it was blocked by bushes and was not found at the time.
The stream originates from a spring at the top of the peak, descends to the bottom of the mountain, and plunges into the ground as it reaches the base.
Hate Tianfeng is suspended in the air, where the water comes from and where it is going is not explained by science.
Xue Tianqing doesn't look at the things around him with a scientific eye, because it's not scientific for him to appear here.
Dragging the carcass of the eye-eating ape to the tree where it urinated for the first time, raising his sword to cut off one of its legs, Xue Tianqing began to debone and peel it and prepare it for roasting with fire.
While he was busy with his work, the tree suddenly moved, and several branches reached out like arms to the corpse, and then rolled it up.
Pulling the corpse into the canopy, a chewing sound was heard as the branches and leaves moved in unison.
When the canopy unfolded again, the corpse of the eye-eating ape was gone, and the tree shook its leaves with satisfaction, and Xue Tianqing was already surprised by this.
After being thrown out here that day, Xue Tianqing looked for no one several times, so he kept an eye on it.
The second time he was relieved, he only squeezed out a few drops and turned around to look back, only to see a branch rolling towards him.
Frightened, the snow ran away, and it was not until it was out of reach of the branches that he realized that the tree had become a fine man.
After several temptations, Xue Tianqing finally understood: although the big tree has become a essence, the road is not high, so he can only stay in place, which makes him feel a lot more at ease.
For the next two days, the snow was very careful and never stepped into the reach of the branches of the big trees.
Aside from the Eye-Eating Ape, there were no other beasts in the daytime Hating Sky Peak, so this place had almost become his territory.
The eye-eating apes are easier to deal with than you think, a single sword can kill them, and the meat quality of this thing is good, so it is an ideal food source for snowy weather.
Early in the morning of the fifth day, Xue Tianqing prepared to go to the creek to fetch water, and in addition to the bamboo tube, he carried a dagger, and a dagger was enough to deal with the eye-eating ape.
Before Xue Tianqing, who had come to the creek, could bend down when he heard an angry roar, and then a creature larger than a tiger sprang out of the bushes.
Xue Tianqing's first thought when she saw it was to run!
This guy is too big, not to mention a dagger, even a long sword can't deal with it!
Because the surrounding trees are too short, even if you climb up, you may not be able to stop the beast's blow, so Xue Tianqing didn't even care about the bamboo tube and rushed towards the big tree that stayed overnight.
Although the beast is large but not very flexible, it has a significant disadvantage in the bushes, which makes Xue Tianqing gradually distance itself from it.
However, after breaking out of the bushes and into the meadow, the advantage of the beast is revealed.
It jumped a few feet, far from being comparable to the two legs of the snowy day, so the distance between the two gradually narrowed.
Seeing that there were still more than a foot away from the nearest tree, the sound of the beast's deep breathing could already be heard in Xue Tianqing's ears.
People can always burst out with amazing power when running for their lives, and snow is no exception.
I saw him run two steps and get up, hugging the trunk directly, and then climbing up.
Halfway up the climb, Xue Tianqing heard a roar from the beast behind him, and there seemed to be pain in the roar!
Xue Tianqing turned his head to look at it in curiosity, only to find that a few branches had entangled the beast, and it was being dragged away from the ground at this time.
It wasn't until this time that Xue Tianqing reacted, and he was holding the big tree that had become a fine man!
Thinking of this, his heart trembled, and as soon as his hands were loosened, he fell to the ground.
At this time, the snow was about ten meters above the ground, and although the ground was covered with grass, it was not much better to fall.
Just when Xue Tianqing thought he was going to fall half to death, his body suddenly tightened, and then he was entangled in a big branch.
Unlike the beast encounter, instead of dragging Xue Tianqing into the canopy, the tree placed it on the ground and stroked his face with its leaves.
After understanding that the big tree had no ill will towards him, Xue Tianqing became a friend with him who said everything, of course, he was talking, and the tree was listening.
Knowing that the big tree likes to eat meat, after Xue Tianqing hunted the eye-eating ape, he only kept a small part for himself, and threw the rest to the big tree.
However, he kept an eye on it, and that was that he would still be in the same tree when he spent the night. For the mountain spirit tree monster, Xue Tianqing does not trust it from the bottom of his heart.
Seeing that Xue Tianqing struggled to raise the bonfire, Qingyue, who was hidden in the air, shook her head, she really didn't understand, why did she drill wood to make fire if she didn't need a good flint.
If Xue Tianqing knew Qingyue's thoughts, she would definitely reward her with a big mouth: How do I know it's flint!
As Xue Tianqing's hunting skills became more and more proficient, the number of eye-eating apes became smaller and smaller, and finally it reached the point where one could not be found for a day or two.
If you can't find your prey, you're going to be hungry, and in desperation, Xue Tianqing began to look away.
Since the other creatures come out at night, they must be sleeping during the day, and this is their own opportunity.
On the twenty-seventh day of coming to Hate Sky Peak, Xue Tianqing found a creature in a cave with a head similar to a horse, but it not only had sharp teeth, but also had two ribs and a pair of wings!
You can't fly even if you have wings, it's an evolutionary mistake! Thinking of this, Xue Tianqing raised his sword and stabbed it in the neck.
With a roar, there was a great chaos in the cave, mixed with the cries of wild beasts and the shouts of snowy skies!
By the time he walked out of the cave with his two hind legs, Xue Tianqing was covered in blood.
After staggering back under the tree, he fell headlong and fainted.
Seeing this, Qing Yue couldn't help but gasp: A mortal can actually sword a spirit beast with his hands, is he really the person the ancestor is waiting for?
I don't know how long it took, but Xue Tianqing finally woke up.
When he looked down at his abdomen, he found that the wound that was more than a foot long had disappeared, but the blood was still there.
After hesitating for a moment, Xue Tianqing got up and arched his hand in the direction of the main peak: "Thank you Qingyue, if you have the opportunity, I will definitely invite you to eat KFC." Although you are a fairy, you must not have eaten this kind of foreign garbage. ”
Although the tree is not high, it knows how to share, and only one of its two hind legs is taken, and the other is still lying on the grass.
I don't know if it was because the fight just now exhausted his physical strength and made him a little dazzled, Xue Tianqing always felt that today's big tree was a little sluggish, and even the leaves were not as bright as before.
What Xue Tianqing didn't know was that while he was unconscious, Dashu had dropped a drop of crystal clear green liquid on his wound.
As time passed, Xue Tianqing's hunting skills became better and better, and many wild beasts began to turn around and flee after seeing him.
In the evening of this day, Xue Tianqing just wanted to go out, and Qingyue, who was carrying a food box, appeared in front of him out of thin air.
"This year is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the ancestor asked me to send you some wine and food, which he specially went to the mortal world to purchase."
Xue Tianqing looked at Qingyue and said, "Is this a gift from Master to me for the New Year?" ”
Qingyue sneered: "Actually, you should understand the good intentions of the ancestor. ”
Then Qingyue took out another baggage: "This is your clothes for next year, do you want me to help you tie your hair?" ”
When helping Xue Tianqing take care of it, Qingyue wanted to speak, but she stopped talking.
A moment before leaving, she said: "Senior Uncle, cultivating the Dao method has to go through tribulations, from the mortal body to the Great Luo Golden Immortal, you have to go through a total of eighteen tribulations, you have to be careful." It is not so easy for mortals to achieve positive results, and if they want to become immortals, they must go through immortal tribulations. ”
Xue Tianqing asked several times when he heard this, but Qingyue didn't open his mouth again, as long as he was careful.
After Qingyue left, Xue Tianqing looked at the full moon in the sky and wondered: Why is the Chinese New Year's Eve here a full moon?
After separating the wine and food, Xue Tianqing said to the big tree: "I haven't tasted the wine yet, do you want to taste it?" It's delicious. ”