Chapter 13: Re-entry into the Forest
The vast forest, dark and mysterious!
A ragged, tired-faced, haggard-looking monk was scurrying around like a headless fly. From a distance, the monk appeared to be wounded, and his speed began to slowly decrease, pausing a little longer when he occasionally changed direction.
Less than a kilometer behind him, a strange beast that looked very similar to a bird, shaped like a yellow cloth bag, red as a fire, with six feet under its feet, four wings on its back, and no ears, eyes, mouth, and nose, was in hot pursuit, and from time to time it let out a few low hiss from its belly, apparently chasing the monk in front.
The monk was Chen Yun, and the strange beast that chased him was called Emperor Xiao, an adult breed comparable to the strength of the late stage of foundation building.
Why did it chase and kill Chen Yun, this is a long story.
Half a year ago, Chen Yun came to Canglin and started a new stage of his career in fighting monsters.
At the beginning, he only dared to hunt in the periphery, which was not much deeper than the area where the spirit period was active, but when he ran to the Lingyi with a bunch of Neidan to find the middle-aged shopkeeper in exchange for spirit stones, the tragic discovery turned out to be a little beyond his means.
This is going to be a personal life, I thought that it could be slowly accumulated in a less dangerous situation, and it was a big deal to make a little more effort, but I didn't expect the price of Neidan to fall suddenly, and the ordinary spirit beast Neidan, which originally had a hundred spirit stones, can now only be sold for less than fifty, and the price has directly more than doubled, and it is completely impossible to give people a way to live. Listening to the middle-aged shopkeeper, it seems that the Tiandanmen has suddenly increased the success rate of low-grade pills recently, which has led to the crazy decline in refining materials.
His fall completely drove Chen Yun to a dead end.
In desperation, Chen Yun's range of hunting had to go deeper again, carefully searching for those high-level spirit beasts that could not be defeated or run.
At first, it was quite smooth, Chen Yun walked out of the forest in less than a month, and when he took the storage bag handed over by the middle-aged shopkeeper, when he looked at the more than forty medium-grade spirit stones inside, the whole person was a little uneasy. This spirit stone is also quite easy to earn, this so-called Canglin, it seems to be just like that, as long as he adheres to the concept of being bold and careful, he feels that he can do better.
Sure enough, when he walked out of the forest for the second time and exchanged for more than a hundred medium-grade spirit stones, the only trace of crisis in his mind completely dissipated with the success of the first two times and the huge rewards after receiving it.
This time, he decided to do the big thing.
The initial stage was still smooth, in less than two months, Chen Yun had already hunted several very rare spirit beasts, and all of them were in danger, at most they just ran away.
However, if you walk too much at night, you will always encounter ghosts, three days ago, Chen Yunfa accidentally discovered a nest of an adult emperor owl, he knew the strength of this thing very well, he didn't have any illusions about it at all, what kind of jokes, let a rookie in the early stage of foundation building go to hunt an emperor owl comparable to the late stage of foundation building, unless his brain is in the water, otherwise who will do it!
But sometimes it's one thing to know, it's another thing to do or not to do, especially when you see the possibility of success.
The opportunity appeared this morning, when Chen Yun 'passed' the emperor's lair again, he miraculously found that it was not there, with a hint of luck and curiosity, Chen Yun began to approach the nest cautiously.
When he came to the lair and saw the five emperor owl eggs lying inside, Chen Yun decided to gamble, and he couldn't blame him for being greedy, it was really too valuable. These five emperor eggs are rare for those alchemists who refine fire-based pills, and the market price is at least two hundred medium-grade spirit stones.
Chen Yun has worked hard for half a year, in addition to consumption, now he has only accumulated two or three hundred medium-grade spirit stones, if it is completed this time, it will be worth about two years of hard work.
If you don't take it, you will suffer it, people have no windfall, you will be poor in your life, and if you do it, isn't it the emperor, isn't it a beast in the later stage of foundation building, what dare you not fight!
Quickly putting the five Emperor Owl Eggs into the storage bag, Chen Yun used all his spiritual power, and at the same time exerted the ability of divine sense exploration that he had cultivated in the past half a year to the extreme, so that the whole person was always in a state of alert, and then exerted his speed to the limit, and began to run wildly towards the outside of the forest.
Before he had run ten miles, the adult female emperor owl who was foraging nearby sensed that the eggs in the nest had been stolen by something, and did not even return to the nest, relying on some mysterious connection in the racial talent, following the route of Chen Yun's escape, all the way to chase after him.
This made Chen Yun bitter, he knew that the other party still had this hand, and seeing that the adult emperor was chasing closer and closer, he began to run around, wanting to distance themselves from each other in this way.
However, after all, the emperor owl belongs to a bird, and his talent in speed is already higher than that of a human monk, coupled with his strong strength in the later stage of foundation building, Chen Yun wants to get rid of the other party, which is tantamount to a fool's dream.
This is him, if he were other foundation building monks who are not so good at running, I am afraid that he would have been caught up a long time ago, and he can still hold out until now!
One person, one owl, just ran wildly in the forest.
Chen Yun regretted it, he really regretted it, as before, he firmly believed in his heart that after this time, as long as he was alive, he would definitely not do anything that he was not sure of.
What's the use of regretting? Stop and tell the emperor, "I gave you back your child's eggs, you let me go, what should we do that nothing happened?" Is this realistic?
If you can run, you have to run, if you can't run, you have to run, life is endless, the battle is not stopped, while running wildly, while cheering yourself up.
After running for nearly half a day, it was about to be evening, and Chen Yun found an even more terrifying thing, his spiritual power was a little unable to keep up with the consumption. If it is someone else, at this time, you only need to take one Guiyuan Pill, and spend half a moment refining it to recover quickly.
But when he arrived at Chen Yun's place, he was a little embarrassed, he usually relied on sleep to recover his energy, relied on refining his divine sense, and recovered his spiritual power by automatically recovering when he cultivated, which must require a safe and stable external environment, and here and now, obviously does not have such conditions.
Of course, he didn't have a way to recover quickly, thanks to the big gamble when he built the foundation, Chen Yun later found that if he didn't count the loss of spirit stones, he could even quickly recover all his spiritual power and a small part of his energy within a few breaths at an efficiency several times faster than taking Guiyuan Pill.
However, for Chen Yun, this method was more difficult for him to accept than asking for his life!
"Hold on for a while, maybe the next time you turn to it, you'll lose it!" In order to keep the spirit stone, Chen Yun silently warned himself.
Later, I found out that this was just covering my ears and stealing the bell, and deceiving myself!
"Wait, maybe there will be a way after dark!" Chen Yun still didn't give up.
Chen Yun doesn't think that his persistence at this time is a kind of stinginess, he doesn't go through the suffering of others, he doesn't persuade others to be kind, and he doesn't understand what a truly poor person is, and he can't feel his psychology at this time.
The facts once again ruthlessly gave Chen Yun a melon seed!
After dark, when Chen Yun led the emperor to turn blindly for nearly an hour, he had to throw away his illusions and began to choose to face reality.
And he himself has to pay the price for the previous fluke mentality, which means more spirit stone consumption.