Chapter Twenty-Four: The Ape Cry of the Deep Valley
The eight of them walked all the way, gradually walked out of the dam area, and entered a dark forest, the forest covered the sky and the sun, and the sky, which had already darkened a little bit, suddenly became dark.
Lan Tian rode forward, took out a torch from the horse's pocket, lit it with a fire fold, and rode the horse to light the way.
After another hour, the eight people came to a dangerous place, under the illumination of the moonlight, they saw a cliff on the left and a deep valley on the right, and there was a faint sound of roaring water from under the deep valley, but they could not see how high the cliff was, how deep the valley was.
"Chirp, tweet......." A strange cry came from the cliff wall, "Chirp, chirp......." Tanizita also responded, and the voice sounded like a bird and a little like an ape, which was creepy to hear.
"Brother, if you listen to this voice, will it be the legendary cliff ape?" Hearing this strange cry, Lan Ling'er stepped forward immediately and asked Lan Tian.
"I think so too, but no one has ever seen this animal, it's just a legend, not necessarily true." Lan Tian looked up, but all he could see was the dark cliff face.
"What is a cliff ape? What's so peculiar? Hearing the conversation between Lan Tian and Lan Ling'er, Zhu Yu, who was on the side of the two, couldn't help but ask.
"I heard my father say that on the snow peak of Tianlong Mountain, there was an ape called the cliff ape, which was fierce and abnormal, specializing in eating poisonous insects and beasts, and would eat people when hungry, and drinking the blood of this ape, it could grow for twenty years, and it could be invulnerable, and it could be self-healing if it was bitten by a poisonous substance or hit by a poisonous palm." Lan Ling'er said.
"Why don't the Heavenly Dragon Sect catch some cliff apes and let everyone drink blood?" Zhu Yu looked up at the dark cliff and asked.
"This kind of ape, extremely alarming, you can only hear his voice, no one has ever seen it, since the ancestors and they stayed in Tianlong Mountain, the cliff ape on the snow peak has disappeared." Lan Tian sighed.
"No one has ever sucked the blood of an ape, so how do you know that his blood has such an effect?" Rollin asked strangely when he heard the three of them talking about the ape in the back.
"This is recorded in a medicine book of the Infinite Sect, many years ago, I traveled to the Infinite Sect, and I saw this book, and when Master Daoshun of the Infinite Sect showed me the book, I saw this verse." Master Wufeng said calmly.
"Master Windless, what else does the book say?" Lan Ling'er asked.
"The book says that there is a kind of ape called by the folk as the cliff ape, the whole body is red, the day and night out, people can not see, its flesh is greatly replenished, its blood can relax the muscles and invigorate the blood, after eating poisonous insects do not invade, as for the increase of strength, there is no record in the book, probably the person who wrote the book does not understand martial arts." Master Windless said.
"Chirp, tweet, tweet...!" There was a hurried cry from the cliff, which made people panic, and then there was also a hurried cry from the bottom of the cliff, which seemed to be responding to the cry from the cliff.
"I think, no matter what kind of animal makes the noise, it must be a pair, and the cliff is in an emergency, call the cliff to help!" Although Master Wusi is called Wusi, he is the most insightful of the three.
As soon as the words fell, I saw a black shadow running up the road from under the cliff, flashing in front of everyone's eyes, and then climbed up the cliff, and after a while, there was a rustling sound on the cliff, the sound just stopped, only to hear a "bang", a black thing "snapped" and fell three or four feet away from everyone.
Lan Tian jumped off the horse, stepped forward to check with a torch, and saw a giant snake lying on the ground more than two feet long, the whole body of the giant snake showed seven colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple in turn, with three hard horns on its head, and its eyes showed red light in the firelight, and its big mouth opened wide, revealing two white fangs more than a foot long, and struggled on the ground for a while, and then there was no movement, only a stream of brown blood flowed from the neck.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way." Master Wuxin suddenly pushed away the blue sky, ran to the giant snake, squatted down, held a leather bag in his hand, lifted the snake's head, put the wound against the mouth of the bag, shook it vigorously, dripped the remaining snake blood into the bag, and muttered: "It's a pity, it's a pity!" ”
"Master Heartless, where did you take this snake blood?" Zhu Yu was puzzled when he saw the unintentional strange behavior.
He didn't care about receiving snake blood, and didn't hear Zhu Yu's question, but heard Master Wufeng say: "This snake is called the triangular colorful snake, it is the king of all snakes, its poison is the first of all poisonous insects, and there is also toxin in the blood." ”
"If it is the poison of all poisons, what is the use of it?" Zhu Yu was puzzled by this.
"I have been looking for this snake for more than 30 years, running through countless mountains and rivers, just to find the seven poisons, to prepare my seven poisonous elixir, and now I have found four flavors, only the blood of the triangular colorful snake, the five poisonous lizards and the thousand-year-old snow turtle, I didn't expect to meet the triangular colorful snake here, but half of the blood was lost in vain." Seeing that the snake had dripped blood, Master Wuxin shook the snake's body again, making sure that there would be no more blood flowing out, so he got up regretfully, stuffed the mouth of the leather bag tightly, and carefully put it into his arms.
"Master Heartless, what are the other three poisons?" Lan Ling has been curious since he was a child, and he has to know everything about everything.
"The other four poisons are the spotted sea snake, the leopard spider, the white-crowned crow and the red-spotted civet cat, and I have collected all the blood of these four poisons, and now, I am short of the blood of the five poisonous lizards and the thousand-year-old snow turtle." Master Wuxin said excitedly.
"Senior Brother Wuxin, the next two poisons, you can find them yourself, Master Wufeng and I don't have time to accompany you anymore." Master Wusi laughed.
"It's okay if you two don't go, just give me your howling dog as a companion." Master Wuxin said.
"But yes, but you also know that my Howling Dog is in retreat and won't be born until three years later, can you wait?" Master Wusi laughed again.
A few people were talking, and suddenly heard a rustling sound on the cliff overhead, the sound was not loud, but because the surroundings were extremely quiet, everyone heard clearly, just when they were about to look up, they saw two black shadows from the cliff to the road, standing next to the giant snake, under the light of the fire, everyone can clearly see that these two black shadows are two giant apes more than one zhang high, the whole body is blood-red, at this moment, the giant ape is staring at eight people with blood-red eyes.
"Cliff ape?" Seeing the two giant apes, Lan Ling'er exclaimed excitedly.
"Go quickly, and capture them, so that you can drink their blood and grow your strength." Zhao Li also looked extremely surprised.
"The blood of the cliff sucking ape is just a legend, it can't be taken seriously, if its blood really has this function, it should also be destined to be available, there may be few animals in the world, in order to avoid cutting off the offspring, I think it's better to let them go!" Master Wusi has always been chivalrous and soft-hearted, and he can't bear to hurt this strange thing.
Although Master Wusi said this, Zhao Li, who wanted to practice divine skills, didn't think so, only to see him pull out his sword, rush over, and stab one of the cliff apes in the chest, the cliff ape saw the sword stabbing coming, flashed the tip of the sword sideways, raised his big plush hand, and slapped the top of Zhao Li's head who was close at hand, Zhao Li didn't expect that the giant ape would not only avoid his sword, but also attack himself, so frightened that he took a few steps back, let go of the giant ape's red-haired giant palm, and in this lightning and flint, another giant ape grabbed the giant snake and issued " Chirp", rushed up the cliff, the giant ape in front heard the call of his companion, also turned around, ran up the cliff, several "chirp" cries came from near and far, and the two cliff apes could be heard to have run away.
Except for Zhao Li, none of the people present had the idea of harming the two cliff apes, and Zhao Li's martial arts were not good, so the cliff apes were able to escape.
"Let's go!" Master Windless said.
Blue Sky changed a torch, and the eight of them continued to walk along the road between the canyons, out of the canyon, to an open area, under the moonlight, as far as the eye could see, on both sides of the road were some low plants.
"Let's rest here until dawn before we go!" Knowing that Lan Ling'er and the others have limited skills, they must have felt very sleepy, and they should take a break to have energy.
Lan Ling'er wanted to talk about resting, but all the way over, the terrain was dangerous, and she was worried about being attacked, so she didn't say anything.
Lan Tian planted the torch on the ground, everyone took out three tents from their horses, and stood up with their hands and feet, Lan Tian turned to Master Wufeng and said, "Three masters, squeeze in, sleep in the bigger tent." As he spoke, he pointed to the gray tent under the road.
"We never live in tents, we all sleep in the wilderness, so let's rest." After Master Wufeng finished speaking, Sansu disappeared.
Seeing Sansuo leaving, Lan Tian let the four of them sleep in the tent separately.