Chapter 20: There is no nail in the mountains, and the cold does not know the year
The cave is so dark that it doesn't know the seasons, and you don't even know the sunset.
Ye Qin, who was in a state of concentration, closed his five senses, and the changes in the outside world could not affect him, unless he encountered a danger to his life, he would wake up from the concentration.
The surrounding scenery does not change at all, as if it is a world of its own, but outside it is the cycle of the seasons, constantly changing.
As the weather gets colder, the leaves turn from tender green to dark, then yellow, and finally slowly fall.
When a leaf falls, you know that the world is autumn.
The mountain has also ushered in its autumn, and the maple leaves in the north have turned completely red, and the mountains and fields are all over the sky, and they are all like fire, and they look very magnificent.
The branches are fruitful, and during the harvest season, countless squirrels shuttle through them to prepare for the following winter, and many voles and rabbits pick up the fruits that have fallen to the ground.
The clock is still flying.
Until the cold wind howls and the temperature gradually drops, there are fewer and fewer traces of life on the ground, and most of the creatures hide in their warm caves, ready to survive the long winter.
As the first snow fell, there was silence, and before you knew it, the earth was covered in silver makeup, as if it had been renewed.
This year's winter seems to have come exceptionally early, and the snow between the sky and the earth is lonely, as if only this pure color remains.
And this is also the first winter after Ye Qin was reborn as a snake.
At this time, there are less than two years left before the end of its life.
"Bang!"
However, when a gunshot rang out, especially in the silence of the mountain forest, it was a sign that this winter would not be peaceful.
There is no nail in the mountains, and the cold does not know the year.
When the second heavy snow fell, Ye Qin finally opened his eyes, and a streamer of light swept through the snake pupils, and his entire aura changed.
If he was a little impetuous, he was precipitated at the moment.
It's like a piece of jade that is constantly being polished and carved, and finally exudes its own light.
This light may not be strong now, but it continues to grow and advance in its own way, and the future is not yet known to be comparable to the sun and the moon.
Winter is the season for snakes to hibernate, and Ye Qin has been immersed in visualization, so he has only woken up now.
He climbed down from the bones, stretched, and stretched his body as much as he could, as if he had slept for a long time, and as if he had taken a nap.
Not only did he not feel tired, but he was full of energy.
As the snake's body moved, it was as if something had fallen, making a sound of a strange movement.
"Huh."
Ye Qin was a little puzzled, his eyes fell on the ground, and then he realized that all that fell were charred black scales.
He hurriedly cocked his tail, looking a little surprised, the whole snake body has become a lot longer, he used to be able to see the bottom at a glance, but now when he looks over, he only sees a sinuous body, which is estimated to be more than a meter long.
On top of that, a third of the body has grown new scales, emerald green in color, full of life, in contrast to the black scales of the rest of the body.
This trendy black and green color contrast is also a trend-setting existence in the entire snake world.
"It's not good-looking, but it's not ugly, it's quite distinctive, but it's a bit non-mainstream."
Ye Qin couldn't help but comment, now he only hopes that the scales in other parts of his body can grow as soon as possible, and if he continues according to this trend, it should be fast.
This is in his own eyes, he is used to seeing the snake body, and he can't help but bring a little filter.
In the eyes of ordinary people, such a long snake, coupled with black and green patterns, still looks a little hideous and terrifying.
"The White Bone View cultivation method should have been completed and can enter the second layer stage."
Nowadays, his visualizations can be said to be vivid, and they are exactly the same as reality, and they have reached the point where they are fake.
When immersed in visualization, Ye Qin couldn't even tell how to distinguish between the illusory and the real white bones.
"Gollum—"
The stomach constantly protested.
Previously, because of his excitement and excitement, coupled with the fact that he had just woken up from his meditation, Ye Qin didn't feel hungry, but now that he calmed down, he only felt hungry, and his stomach felt like he was on fire.
"I'm so hungry, I don't know how long it has been, is it almost the New Year?"
Ye Qin crawled out of the cave, intending to go outside to find something to eat, when a cold wind came towards him.
The heavens and the earth are covered in silver, and the place where you see it is white.
The single color even makes people feel a little dazzling, and the big trees not far away are even bent and crumbling, and it is no longer possible to see the appearance of the previous leafy branches.
The cold snowflakes fell slowly, and they landed right on Ye Qin's forehead, revealing a chill and bringing him back to his senses.
"Why is it winter!"
Ye Qin was dumbfounded, he clearly remembered that when he entered the meeting, it was still summer, but when he opened his eyes, it was already winter!
He thought that he would be in the fixed place for ten days or half a month at most, who would have thought that so much time had passed!
No wonder the stomach is so hungry.
If it weren't for Ye Qin's cultivation and the fact that he had true qi in his body, he would have changed to an ordinary snake and didn't eat or drink, he would have already turned into a snake.
The snow was long and there were hardly any traces of small animals.
It had been snowing for a few days, and there was a thick layer on the ground, and Ye Qin's entire snake was about to be submerged by the heavy snow, but fortunately, he was lucky enough to find a vole hole.
It's just that the poor vole family was directly served by Ye Qin.
I don't know if it's because I'm too hungry, everything I eat is fragrant, and the vole meat actually tastes like barbecue chicken.
Changing to the previous amount of food, Ye Qin may have eaten enough, but for him who has a bigger appetite now, he just barely made a bottom, and the feeling of hunger and burning has finally decreased, but it is not enough at all.
He continued to crawl, not noticing that there was a steep slope ahead, because the snow was thick, and the original slope was obscured, making it look like it was flat ground.
By the time Ye Qin climbed over, the snow suddenly sank down, like a castle in the air, and it was instantly vacated, and by the time he realized that something was wrong, it was already too late.
Under the effect of inertia, the whole snake fell directly down the slope, and there were no branches around it that could hook him.
"Oops, that's a problem."
Ye Qin remembered that it was a steep slope before, but the snow was too big, which changed the terrain so much that he ignored it.
"Bang!"
With a muffled sound, Ye Qin fell heavily to the ground, and hit many branches during the process, but the imaginary pain did not come.
"I don't seem to feel anything."
Ye Qin checked it, and there was not even a white mark left on his body, which was completely unexpected by him, and it was like rolling in a circle on the ground.
He looked up at the steep slope, and the drop was still very large, and if he accidentally fell down as another animal, he would be crippled if he did not die.
But he was like a snake.
"It seems that this retreat, in which I constantly visualize the white bones, has made a qualitative change in my own physique, and my bones and body have become stronger. The white bone view is really amazing! ”
Ye Qin was very happy, he couldn't imagine that the White Bone View had brought such a big change to him.
When he first developed the idea of contemplation, he chose to visualize the white bones of the ancients, and he realized that his body was getting stronger with the visualization, which is also the feedback brought by visualizing the white bones.
And now after two long seasons of retreat, the physical body seems to be strong to a certain extent, and the method of the White Bone View is vividly embodied!
And since the body is strong, does it also mean that the strength increases?
Looking at the small tree next to him that was more than half a person tall and had a thin arm, Ye Qin was eager to try.
The tail was pumped straight up.
"Click—"
The entire tree was cut off at the waist, and all the snow on the tree fell, covering Ye Qin entirely, forming a small snowdrift in an instant.
Soon, a sharp snake head appeared in the snowdrift, Ye Qin spit out a lot of snow slag, and hurriedly pulled out his body and looked at the fallen tree next to him.
"Good fellow, my tail is quite powerful."