This kind of red coral-like branches are difficult to burn under normal circumstances, and it takes half a day to burn in a raging fire before igniting. If you want to ignite it quickly, you need to use your magical powers. And once it burns, the fire is extremely long-lasting, and a single branch can burn for almost a whole day. If it is activated by some kind of mana, the flames emitted by it can be close to pale white and extremely hot.

The disciples of Wufuqiu do not cut down the cold fire pine in the mountains, but they look for this special branch every year, which is also known as the cold fire wood. The cold fire wood harvested in the mountains is collected and stored for special purposes. There are many uses for this thing, for example, when smelting the steel embryo with ore on the fire peak, it can be used to sacrifice the furnace fire, and then supplemented by the refining power to create the blank, you can get a variety of steel utensils.

And Huwa and the others walked up a high slope at this time, and under the slope in front of them was a cold pine forest, looking at the tall trees, many of them may have grown for thousands of years. In winter, the trees are sparse after the pine needles have fallen, and everyone can see the woodcutters in the forest from the heights. It was an old man dressed in a linen robe, armed with a thick-backed machete with a long pole, and dressed like an ordinary old man in an ordinary village.

But this is in the depths of the Southern Wilderness, not around the Red Brocade City, except for the birds and beasts and the various demon clans, where does such an old man from the countryside come from? This old man is chopping wood, and there are already several branches under his feet, just like red coral growing in the white snow -- what he cut is actually cold fire wood!

Everyone flashed behind the trees in the high place and peeked, and Xiao Jun lowered his voice and said, "Senior Brother Xiaolu, do you think that old man has been transformed into a monster?"

It's no wonder that Xiaojun has this question, because since ancient times, it has been said that there are often monsters in the Southern Wilderness. If you have seen the human civilization, you will often understand the method of transformation, and after breaking through the four realms, you can transform into a human being.

In fact, it is not only the demon cultivators, as far as the tiger baby knows, if those demon monks in the deep mountains and wilderness break through the four realms. You can also change the body to hide specific signs, so that the appearance is no different from ordinary people. For example, the former patriarch of his hometown Yu Nation is Da Mao, who usually looks similar to ordinary people, and there is no pair of wings on his back, and the original appearance of the demon clan is equivalent to the original body of some kind of monster.

The demon clan is a human being and not a natural demon cultivator, but after all, they are born different from ordinary people, so they are called demon clans.

It is impossible for ordinary people to have villages in this area, and even if the villagers around Hongjin City chop firewood, it is impossible to cut it into the depths of this wilderness. So this old man looks ordinary. But it appeared in a place where it shouldn't be, and the firewood cut was not the firewood that ordinary people needed, which was very weird.

Either he was some kind of demon cultivator, or he was a demon clan in the vicinity, but his cultivation must have broken through the four realms - that's what Xiao Jun thought. But Hanxiong was surprised: "How can I be so familiar with that person's appearance?"

Huwa said in a low voice: "Of course it's familiar, we saw it in the bazaar of Red Brocade City, it's the old man who sold you the sword embryo." ...... I thought he wasn't supposed to be an ordinary person, but now I see. His kung fu is indeed extremely profound, obviously above us!"

Not only the tiger baby, but Pan Gu also recognized the old man chopping wood. The old man didn't show any supernatural powers, so why did the tiger baby give him such a high evaluation? The old man waved the machete with a long pole in his hand, and cut down another piece of cold fire wood from a high place.

When the disciples of Wufuqiu collect the cold fire wood, they must first climb to the tall tree, step on the branches and grasp the trunk steadily. Kick it down with a treasure weapon and an axe. Because the peculiar branch is too hard to cut. The old man seemed to be too old to climb a tree. Therefore, the handle of the machete is a pole as long, and the pole is raised to the ground to reach the knife high to cut.

I didn't see him make any special moves, just like that, with a wave of his hand, the cold fire wood that was difficult to hurt by the knife and axe fell in response, as easy as chopping vegetables. The tiger baby is also an expert, and knows very well that it is difficult to cut high things in this way, and even if the force is enough, the first to break is probably the long rod with the handle, not the tough cold fire wood, unless some magic spell is cast.

However, he didn't sense the slightest fluctuation of the old man's body, which was completely the usual chopping action. The tiger baby secretly speculated -- what kind of technique can be used to cut down the cold fire wood in this way? If the strength of Wu Ding Gong penetrates the long pole and the machete, and shakes his wrist vigorously when he swings it, the moment the blade touches the branch, the strength penetrates straight out, and he should be able to cut the cold fire wood.

But this is just a theoretical speculation, although it seems to be only the simplest action, but it is necessary to master and cultivate the strength of Wu Ding Gong, the skill of luck, the combination with the utensils in hand, and every subtle detail to the extreme. And seeing that the old man just waved his hand lightly, even the tiger baby sighed to himself.

Cutting off a piece of cold fire wood is certainly not a difficult task for the tiger baby. But in the old man's way, Huwa thought that he couldn't do it, although his martial arts skills had been cultivated to an extreme level unimaginable to ordinary people, it was still a big difference.

Besides, this qiē is all the speculation of the tiger baby, and the old man may not have used the method that the tiger baby thought of, in fact, the tiger baby didn't see how he cut the cold fire wood at all, just a wave of the knife shaft, could it be that what kind of demon method was used?

Hanxiong whispered again, "Shouldn't we go over and say hello?"

It was very strange to meet such an old man in the mountains, but he obviously wasn't a bad person, even if he was a powerful demon cultivator, he had no ill will towards Huwa and others. Since I have met in Hongjin City and have received benefits from others, it is even more fateful to meet at this moment, and I should show up to meet each other.

The tiger baby made a silent gesture, and said with her divine sense: "It seems that someone is coming over there again, let's take a look first!"

While they were talking, a man in the distance suddenly ran along the valley at the foot of the high slope, cloaked and disheveled, looking very panicked. The snow in the forest is very thick, and ordinary people will sink deep every time they step on it, but the man's posture is a little peculiar, and he twists his waist very quickly, but he accidentally falls into the snow several times, and he still continues to run wildly when he gets up.

Although she was wearing a wide fur coat, she looked closely at the start and saw that she was a woman of beautiful shape. Tiger Wa frowned slightly, he recognized that the person was a snake girl, but it was not the Ziluo girl he knew. It's so far away, if it were changed to before. The tiger baby couldn't detect the vitality rhythm characteristics of that person, but at this moment, he had broken through the five realms, and the subtlety of the Yuan Shen stretching sense was far greater than before, and more importantly, he was already familiar with the snake girl's running posture.

The person who came was an ordinary snake girl, and she didn't have supernatural cultivation like Qi Luo. For some reason, she was running wildly in the snowfield, and she was also taken aback when she suddenly found an old man chopping wood in front of her. But the old man obviously didn't look like a bad person, and the snake girl accidentally tripped in the snow again, got up and shouted, "Old man, there are murderers chasing me, please help me...... No, you're no match for the murderer, so run away and hide. ”

The old man glanced at the woman, walked over with a machete in his hand, crossed over to the woman, thrust the long handle of the machete into that direction, looked at the direction she was running from, and said, "Little lady, you don't have to worry! Although my old man is old, he has been walking in this wilderness all the year round, what kind of poisonous insects and beasts have not been seen? Why are you afraid of any murderers!"

Before he finished speaking, a low roar came from his face, and a black panther galloped in the snow, and there were six other people who appeared with the black panther, and the ones who ran in front were the disciples of the Beast Mountain, Fu Leopard and Yi Sun. The gang actually appeared here, and when they met again, they were chasing a snake girl.

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The tiger baby has never seen the leopard, he is the owner of the spirit beast black panther. Before he could take a photo, the leopard was smashed into the dense forest by the black panther thrown back by the tiger baby and was injured. Immediately afterwards, Yisun and others shot at Huwa and chased them into the valley, and were almost buried alive by a rockslide.

Later, Yisun and the other five people crossed the mountain col after the rock avalanche to settle accounts with Huwa, and Huwa's companions also arrived. Yanfeng's junior brother Yan Gang revealed the identity of the woman they were hunting down in his speech and scared them away.

This group of people was also worried for a while, afraid that the masters on Wufu Hill would come to them, so they found a hidden place in the depths of the mountains to hide and recuperate, and they did not go to Wufu Hill on the day of the winter solstice to join in the fun. But when their injuries healed, they quietly returned to the area of Hongjin City to inquire about the recent situation, and they didn't hear that anyone was chasing them, so they breathed a sigh of relief.

At the beginning, the Sanxiu named Xiaolu just had a face-to-face with the snake girl, and Hanxiong and the others who arrived later had never seen the snake girl, and it was just the other party's guess, and the snake girl must have run away a long time ago, and there was no evidence to accuse them. It is estimated that Hanxiong and the others did not have much trouble, and the masters on Wufu Hill did not arrest them.

That's what Yisun and Fubao thought, they didn't know that Huwa later found Qi Luo and a series of things happened. The monks of the Beast Mountain were no longer worried, and gradually felt unwilling again. Of course, the grand event of opening the mountain gate on the winter solstice of Wufuqiu has been missed, but they came to Hongjin City this time to experience and find various opportunities during their travels.

These people believed that they were powerful, and they entered the Southern Wilderness with the spirit beast Black Panther. In the southern wilderness, it is already a harsh winter with heavy snow covering the mountains, many birds and beasts are hidden, monsters are lurking, and the environment is harsher than in summer, but the danger is much less. They searched for some special elixirs and materials along the way, but they still tried to find traces of the snake girl, especially the monk named Fu Leopard.

Fu Leopard is the favorite disciple of the Beast Mountain Sect Master Cong Yu, and he is also Cong Yu's own nephew, and a spirit beast black panther raised in the mountain since he was a child was also handed over to him to domesticate and drive. This trip is mainly because Fubao has finally broken through the cultivation of the four realms, so he wants to go out of the mountains to see the world. He took the spirit leopard with him, and five other senior brothers followed him. (To be continued......)