Chapter 24: The Toad

When the police officers were talking, Zhang Lisheng had already walked a long way in the dense forest with a mule.

The forest is deep and dense, and the tall mule is not easy to pass, but Zhang Lisheng turned over and climbed on the back of the mule, chanting a witch spell in his mouth, holding the reins tightly with one hand to control the direction;

With one hand, he hammered the green mule's back hard, forcing it to stumble forward despite the scratches of its fur, and it was not slow.

It's just that this inconsiderate use of animal power, even if the green mule is a domestic animal and is very tame, it gradually becomes irritable and does not listen to the call.

Before the mount could lose control, Zhang pulled the reins with all his might.

Pulled by him like this, the mule grazed a towering tree and narrowly stopped its hooves, its nostrils wide open, and it spewed rough air.

On the back of the mule, Zhang Lisheng also panted and turned over to the ground, riding the mule and running all the way, he had to look at the road, and he had to control the direction of the green mule that had lost his eyesight, and he had to be careful to guard against being attacked by fierce beasts, which was really more tiring than walking by himself.

If it weren't for the witch spell, he would naturally have some kind of wonderful intuition, which would make him seek good fortune and avoid evil, but he was afraid that there would have been an accident a long time ago.

Finally gasping for breath, Zhang Lisheng, who stayed in the deep dense forest, did not dare to delay any longer, he took advantage of the dim moonlight in the forest, looked around, and finally selected a black tree with a thick bowl, led the mule, and bolted it to the tree.

Then he lifted up his clothes, drew the boning knife that he had at his waist, gritted his teeth, and with a fierce wave of his hand, plunged the steel knife into the mule's neck.

This knife was in the middle artery, and the green mule hissed in pain, almost stretching the chew on its mouth, and then it began to run and jump around the black tree, and countless blood sprayed out.

Zhang Lisheng stepped back quickly, hid to the side and quietly watched the green mule gallop wildly for a while, and then fell to the ground covered in blood.

Then he slowly walked into the green mule, untied the back basket behind his back, and took out the coarse porcelain jar filled with medicinal powder from the bamboo basket.

Opening the porcelain jar, Zhang Lisheng grabbed out the medicinal powder he had carefully blended one by one and sprinkled it on the green mule.

After the medicinal powder was combined with the blood on the green mule's body, the smell suddenly changed, producing an inexplicable fishy sweet smell.

After sprinkling the powder, the mule, although not dead, was already dying, and could no longer move.

At this time, Zhang Lisheng untied the chew on its mouth, took out ten fire chains from the back of the porcelain jar, rubbed them two by two, all ignited, and threw them on the mule's body.

There was no open flame in the chain of fire, but the dark fire was not extinguished, and the blood of the green mule and the fur of the powdered medicine were burned, and the fishy sweet smell was amplified by more than ten times.

At the same time, the mule, after suffering from pain, mustered up its most strenuous strength and let out a low, intermittent hissing sound.

Tempted by the smell and sound of fishy sweetness, the sound began to grow louder and denser in the dense forest.

Hearing the change in the surrounding sounds, Zhang Lisheng's hanging heart finally returned to his stomach, and he cautiously walked under a small dead tree in the forest, staring at the green mule that fell to the ground not far away.

In the dim light, a strange snake with a yellow circle on its head and neck slid down from the black tree, and its long body suddenly stretched out and bit the mule's neck, ending its painful life.

Just as the snake was about to feast on its prey and get its prey with great effort, an emerald green lizard suddenly sprang out of the dense forest, cracked its mouth full of fangs, and struck at the head of the strange snake.

Under the severe pain, the body of the strange snake tightly wrapped around the lizard, and tightened it with all its might, and the lizard also shook its head violently, trying to tear off the snake's head in its mouth with its sharp teeth.

While the snake and the lizard were fighting fiercely, a thick centipede, more than 30 centimeters long, swam out of the shallow soil and climbed onto the corpse of the green mule.

Sensing that a third party had joined the competition, the snake and the green lizard stopped fighting and began to attack the giant centipede.

In this way, the green mule is like a bait in a fish pond, attracting more and more poisonous insects in the dense forest, and luring them to fight together.

The poisonous insects that temporarily win in the melee will devour the flesh and blood of the green mule to nourish the body, restore their spirit, and when the new insects gather, they will start a new round of fighting.

The crescent moon bent like a fishhook moved slowly over the seedlings, and as time passed, the corpses of the green mules in the dense forest gradually turned into a pile of flesh and bones gnawed by poisonous insects.

When the mule corpse was left with only one heart soaked in black and red blood, after dozens of rounds of bloody elimination of killing and devouring, there was only one poisonous insect left, which was small in size, but when the mane on the skull exploded, it was the size of an umbrella;

and a toad with dark green skin, usually the size of an adult's fist, but when it puffs up, it can swell its body like an inflatable ball to the size of a basketball.

They hold each other against each other, not moving.

Helmeted iguana and water spring toad, Zhang Lisheng was a little surprised that the poisonous insects he had painstakingly screened could be born in these two very common species.

However, he felt a little relieved to think that as a human being, one Einstein's mind could be worth 10,000 ordinary people, and that even ordinary species might appear as special and powerful individuals.

Quietly moving his stiff joints, he rubbed his eyes vigorously, and bothered to prepare for the worst of the end.

The moonlight was sinking, the dawn was coming, and when the sun broke the first rays of sunlight on the horizon of the distant mountains, the toad of the water spring "croaked" and took another breath, stretched its body to the limit, and 'whoosh' towards the helmet iguana, and quickly spit out its long tongue.

The toad's tongue is elastic, covered with slimy slime, and has a sharp hook at the end, which sticks to the lizard's body and pulls it into the air.

In mid-air, the lizard did not resist, but instead put away its explosive mane, allowing the toad to swallow it in its stomach.

After swallowing the lizard like a giant snake swallowing an elephant, the toad squatted on the white bones of the green mule, and its belly was propped up as if it was about to burst, and it did not move.

Whenever his body shrank due to lack of breath, he had to inhale again to maintain his huge size, otherwise the lizard would not have to struggle at all, and would burst out of his stomach with its huge size.

And at this moment, the helmeted iguana suddenly exploded the iguana of its head in the stomach of the toad.

In an instant, the toad's body turned into a ridiculous shape like a sun umbrella, and if it weren't for the two bulging eye sockets on its head, it would not be possible to distinguish its head and tail.

But even so, the toad was still not broken, and after rolling off the green mule's corpse, it was still inhaling with its mouth, trying to puff up its body and regain its balance.

The helmeted iguana obviously did not expect that its opponent's leprosy skin would be so tough, and that it had been burned by the poisonous stomach acid in the toad's belly for too long, which brought it great pain, and made it struggle desperately with all its heart.

As the lizard struggles desperately, the toad will become longer and shorter, and a clear lizard head will appear on its back, and then its belly will stretch out its four claws and limbs and crawl on the ground.

However, even though it was exhausted from tossing, and even if it was unable to stop the helmeted iguana from making a fuss in its stomach, it was never broken and turned into a puddle of rotten meat.

After ten minutes, the lizard, which pretended to be clever but was mistaken by its cleverness, slowly reaped the evil fruits, and its struggle became less and less until it gradually disappeared.

After the noise in the stomach disappeared, the toad began to puff up again without stopping for a moment, and re-enlarged its body.

When it finally regained its maximum size, it immediately crawled eagerly to the green mule's corpse, spit out its long tongue, and swallowed the black and red mule heart in the skeleton.

Seeing that the opportunity had arrived, Zhang Lisheng strode to the toad's side, "hiss, hiss, hiss...", recited the witch spell, spurted out a mouthful of black blood, and roared out the word 'shooting'.

The Shuiquan Toad species is ordinary but can stand out from thousands of poisonous insects, and it is naturally very spiritual, plus it is not like the first witch insect refined by Zhang Lisheng, Qinghong, since childhood, it has been domesticated since it was a child.

Therefore, seeing the black blood coming, the toad, who had a bad intuition, barely broke free from the shackles of the witch spell, curled up its hind legs, and wanted to jump and escape.

It's a pity that the full stomach pouch dispelled the sweet dream of the water spring toad, and it only jumped forty or fifty centimeters away with all its might, and its body was still within the range of black blood.

In this way, the black blood that Zhang Lisheng spit out covered the toad, and under the refining of the refined blood, the body of the Shuiquan toad increased rapidly, and finally became a behemoth more than half a human tall unharmed.

The poisonous insects obtained by the method of refining Gu could indeed be smoothly refined into witch insects, which made Zhang Lisheng extremely happy.

But at the same time, the unsuccessful escape of the toad after the most depraved made him secretly wake up to the fact that wild and spiritual poisonous insects could compete with witchcraft.

In addition, the magic power that almost disappeared after a single refining in his flesh and blood made him also discover that refining and maintaining the consumption of witch insects was not a certain rule, and it would change with the change of the individual poisonous insects.

For example, according to the consumption of refining Qinghong, Zhang Lisheng can now refine four witch insects in a row, and he can rely on the magic power naturally emitted by his body to maintain the consumption of these witch insects at the same time, without feeding more essence and blood.

But now just standing beside the Shuiquan Toad, who had just been refined into a witch insect, he felt that all the magic power emanating from his body was quietly devoured by the toad, and there was nothing left.

In other words, if Zhang Lisheng maintains two witch insects like the Shuiquan Toad, he will need to raise them with flesh and blood, which will undoubtedly greatly slow down his speed of breaking through the two witches, and may even make his cultivation stagnant.