Chapter 14: Forest Hunting
Three days later.
About thirty or forty miles away from the secret cave of the spiritual water pool where Xiao Mo was retreating, in a low bush with a dark brown color, a one-star low-level thorny wild boar was leisurely foraging on the ground.
Due to its bulky size, slow speed, and poor alertness, this beast didn't notice until the wind was blowing, but when it woke up and raised its head to run, it was too late.
"Whew!"
There was a swift sound of a sharp weapon breaking through the air, and a green dagger with a cloth strap on its tail flew from behind a large tree not far away, piercing its heart with precision.
The thorny boar screamed and then fell to the ground, motionless, and a blood stain slowly appeared under his body.
Clapping his hands, Xiao Mo's figure walked out from behind the big tree, with a relaxed face, looking at the corpse of the thorny boar on the ground, and smiled: "Seventh!"
Since Xiao Mo was promoted to the sixth layer of the Realm of Determination two days ago and officially walked out of the beast cave, he was no longer obsessed with cultivating in the cave with light, but began to try to explore the surrounding terrain and find a way out.
He couldn't stay in this populated place for the rest of his life, and he would eventually return to the city, so it was crucial to find out where he was drifted by the current.
After two days of exploration, Xiao Mo also found that the aquatic plants here are far more abundant than those in the interior, and he can even faintly feel that there is often a sea breeze blowing from the distant mountains, bringing a lot of humidity and a strange smell of sea.
Xiao Mo guessed that he should have reached the lowest reaches of the Lingjiang River, that is, near Haicheng. Because Haicheng is different from other places, it is a coastal city.
Yangcheng, where Xiao Bai and his family are located, is located in the inland of Lingzhou, in the upper reaches of the Lingjiang River.
But Haicheng is at the very edge of Lingzhou, at the tail of the Lingjiang River. The Lingjiang River will flow into the sea from the east, and finally merge into the endless and vast Xuandu Sea.
The Xuandu Sea is vast and boundless, it is one of the Eight Divine Seas of the Heart Sacred Continent, the area is countless times larger than the entire Eastern Xuan Domain, Lingzhou is only one of the many states and counties bordering it, and Haicheng is the largest city in Lingzhou around the Xuandu Sea.
Among the one hundred and eight heavy cities in Lingzhou, Yangcheng ranks last, with low strength and inconspicuousness, but Haicheng is one of the top three top cities in Lingzhou, and its geographical location is quite important.
As the mouth of the Lingjiang River and the main transportation route connecting other maritime cities, Haicheng undertakes the maritime trade of the entire Lingzhou, and even other inland states and counties near Lingzhou will also borrow the road to the sea.
In addition, if other states and counties want to enter Lingzhou by water, they also have to pass through Haicheng, which makes this place unprecedentedly prosperous, and in terms of economic strength, it is one of the best, and its status is almost equal to that of Lingwu City, the capital of Lingzhou.
It's just that in terms of politics and military, Haicheng is slightly inferior to Lingwu City, so it can only rank in the top three, not tie for the first place.
When Xiao Mo found that he seemed to have arrived near Haicheng, one of the top cities in Lingzhou, Xiao Mo was pleasantly surprised and excited.
The surprise is that this place is far away from Yangcheng, not to mention the small families in Yangcheng, Xiao Wang Bai Li, even if the royal family in Lingwu City comes here, it is difficult to form any huge influence, and the power of Xiao Bai and Bai is almost blank here, not to mention finding a person in the vast sea of people.
What is exciting is that this place is one of the four university palaces in Lingzhou, where the Shanhai School Palace is located.
There are four university palaces in Lingzhou, Zhidao Palace, Kunwu Palace, Mingyue Palace, and the fourth-ranked Shanhai Palace. These four school palaces are the top places that all people with mental cultivation qualifications want to enter the most in the entire Lingzhou.
And this sea city, not only the Shanhai Xue Palace, one of the four university palaces in Lingzhou, but also the famous Neptune Festival, and the bright lantern sea market, which is only held once every three years, can be called a unique place in Lingzhou, even in the entire Dongxuan Domain, it has a great reputation.
Xiao Mo is hidden here, firstly, he can avoid the pursuit of Xiao Bai's two families, secondly, to see if he has the opportunity to join the Shanhai Academy, and thirdly, he can also take a look at the customs and customs of this place.
And the most important thing is that as one of the top cities in the entire Lingzhou, there must be a lot of cultivation resources here, all kinds of commercial goods exchanges, and there are many top-level secret treasures.
As long as Xiao Mo has the ability, he can exchange all the resources here that are enough for him to cultivate to the Freedom Realm, or even the Qi Matter Realm, the only prerequisite is that he has a certain amount of financial resources.
In the past, Xiao Mo was a poor egg, so it was naturally impossible for him to have such an ability.
But for Xiao Mo, who has now been promoted to the sixth layer of the Realm and has a strong soul perception, he has such an opportunity.
This is also why, in the past three days, he has obviously found out that he may be near Haicheng, but he did not leave immediately, but still stayed here, that is, he was going to use his newly improved strength and strong soul perception to collect some low-level fierce beast materials, and search for rare spirit grasses in the nearby mountains for his own picking.
With his strength, entering the sixth layer is equivalent to a one-star mid-level fierce beast, and the fierce beast is familiar with the terrain, and it is often infinitely powerful, Xiao Mo's skills are at most enough to deal with a one-star low-level fierce beast like a thorn boar, which is originally not enough to survive in such a dangerous jungle.
But fortunately, the black little wooden fish entered the heart, allowing Xiao Mo to have a soul perception ability far beyond ordinary people, he could avoid most of the dangers he could perceive in advance, fight if he could beat it, run away if he couldn't beat it, and pick soft persimmons to pinch.
In this way, it was obviously a dangerous and dense primeval jungle, but he was so mixed with the wind and water, like a fish in water, all the powerful beasts had not approached, he was discovered and avoided.
And the fierce beast with low strength and lone fell into bad luck, just like this thorny wild boar that was foraging in the bushes, it didn't recruit anyone and didn't provoke anyone, but it became Xiao Mo's seventh harvest in the past few days.
However, Xiao Mo was not carried away by the victory, he knew that this was a surprise, and the victory was not martial, not that he had the ability to run rampant in the jungle. It's just to make money for the time being, so I don't care about that.
Worried that the smell of blood would attract other powerful beasts, Xiao Mo walked over and pulled out the dagger, then dug out a complete boar skin and a pair of its fangs, and quickly turned around and left, heading to the next place.
Another day later.
On this day, Xiao Mo had already explored the range of fifty miles around the secret cave, passing through a hill, his soul perception that was released at any time suddenly moved, and he felt a burst of horror, Xiao Mo instantly lowered his body, and then saw a big snake with a bucket thick and golden color, slowly swimming by the pond not far in front of him.
"It's a two-star low-level fierce beast, a golden ring snake ......"
Xiao Mo was frightened for a while, and even tightened his breath, not daring to move, until half an hour later, when he was sure that the golden ring snake was far away, he couldn't help but poke out his head and let out a soft breath.
It's no wonder it's so nervous, it's really that this Golden Ring Snake is highly poisonous, and its perception is extremely sensitive, once it finds Xiao Mo lurking here, I'm afraid that it only needs one attack, and Xiao Mo will have to die here.
And the soul perception that has always been impermanent and unfavorable did not detect its trace in advance, which made Xiao Mo make avoidance, which was also due to the other innate ability of this Golden Ring Snake.
It has a strange talent for concealment, which allows it to avoid the exploration of most of the psychic and soul perception techniques, so as to better hunt its prey. However, this hidden innate ability will disappear when it is dispatched, so it was perceived by Xiao Mo at the last moment and avoided it.
This incident also made Xiao Mo learn a lesson, that is, there are still many things in this world that he can't understand, and there are not a few fierce beasts like the Golden Ring Snake that have a strange concealment ability, or other beasts that can evade the ability of soul perception and exploration.
If he thought that he could do whatever he wanted in this mountain forest with a strong soul perception, then it is estimated that he would not be much away from death.
Soul perception can help him better avoid danger, but he must not rely on it too much. Seriously improve your strength and give yourself the ability to face all dangers, that is the king.
Of course, Xiao Mo will not give up the doctor because of this danger, he still has to use it when he should use it, only by experiencing more dangers and tribulations can he truly improve and refine himself.
At this time, hunting fierce beasts, obtaining materials, and looking for spirit grass are secondary matters.
The matter of the Golden Ring Snake just made Xiao Mo learn a lesson and act more carefully in the future. But he still didn't flinch, stayed where he was, and continued to listen for a while, and only after making sure that there was no danger ahead, did he continue to move forward.
After walking out of the way, Xiao Mo suddenly turned his head sharply and looked at the grass pond where the golden ring snake had left.
I was stimulated by danger just now, so I didn't think much about it. But at this time, he suddenly remembered that near the nest of the golden ring snake, there is usually a very rare companion spirit grass called Hanhuan Vermilion Grass.
Depending on the year of growth, this grass ranges from low gray to medium green, but each plant has great value.
Especially for monks who have entered the Meditation Realm, the cold ring vermilion grass can greatly increase their chances of success in entering the Meditation, as well as increase the quality of their Meditation.
A gray-level mid-level cold-ring vermilion grass is enough to promote a person in the early stage of the establishment to a grade, and a high-level cold-ring vermilion grass in the gray level is enough to promote a person in the middle stage of the determination.
The value of this spirit grass on the outside is very valuable, only when the Xuanshui Lake was tested, Xiao Shenjian sneaked up the green-rank top-grade spirit grass that Bai Xinqiu snatched, under the Ziyang Seven Heart Grass.
Thinking about how many resources Xiao Shenjian has received as a top disciple of the Xiao family, ordinary things will definitely not be able to enter his eyes.
But he was actually willing to ruthlessly snatch Bai Xinqiu, a genius disciple of another big family, for the sake of a green-rank top-level spirit grass, so he could know how popular this cold ring vermilion grass was outside.
The most important thing is that if there is really a cold ring vermilion grass here, Xiao Mo can use it himself.
As long as there is a cold ring vermilion grass above the gray level, he will be promoted to the seventh grade, and if there is a gray level top, or even a green level low-level cold ring vermilion grass...... Entering the eighth grade and entering the ninth grade are all things that can be expected.
Thinking of this, Xiao Mo's heart instantly became excited, thinking that the Golden Ring Snake was most likely out to forage for food, and he didn't come back so soon, he didn't dare to slack off, immediately accelerated, and turned around to look for it near the grass pond where the Golden Ring Snake had left just now.