Chapter 8: The Bandits

On the wide official road, a dilapidated carriage moved slowly.

It was not a cow or a horse that pulled the cart, but a wild boar weighing 100 pounds.

Because there was no food, the wild boar went on a rampage, unfortunately ran into Lin Muyan, and was then subdued by him.

You must know that in cultivating wood spirit skills and alchemy, Lin Muyan's physical body is definitely comparable to fine iron, and in the secular world, it can be called an iron cloth shirt to the fullest, and ordinary swords and guns are difficult to hurt.

Dealing with a mere 100-pound wild boar, that's not just a hand-to-hand capture.

The blood-colored centipede on his wrist is enough for a drop of sperm blood a day, and there is no damage to him.

And what he is studying now is naturally the poison ivy that he ignited.

After being lit, poison ivy does not need to be planted in the soil, but only needs to absorb sunlight and water to survive.

Although it can move its torso like an animal, it cannot move quickly, and can only bend with vines, like an earthworm.

But today's poison ivy does exist spiritually, although it can only simply understand orders and then act according to instinct, but it is enough for Lin Muyan.

After all, wherever this poison ivy goes, who would have thought that this thing could attack on its own.

Mana input poison ivy can make poison ivy grow quickly, in order to test the growth year, Lin Muyan deliberately found a sapling that has not broken the ground.

After inputting all his mana, the sapling actually rose to the thickness of his wrist, and after cutting it, he checked the growth rings and found that the sapling had actually grown for four years.

This also means that the strength of the fourth layer of his Wood Spirit Gong can make the plant grow rapidly for four years.

However, there is no grass and trees around, and it takes five days for his wood spirit skill to recover, which is less than a year's growth in one day.

If there is a chance, Lin Muyan wants to find a ginseng to try, if he makes a hundred-year-old ginseng, even if he does not refine and absorb it, it will be worth a lot of silver if he sells it.

However, at this time, he could only inject the cultivated wood spirit skill mana into poison ivy, and he wanted to see how far this poison ivy could grow.

Grandpa once said that no matter how ordinary things are, they will become extraordinary when they continue to grow, and this poison ivy is a mutation in the memory of the immortal master, and it should be even more extraordinary after it grows up.

As for the fire poison refined by alchemy, Lin Muyan also tried to add poison ivy, but the effect was a little slow, and it seemed that poison ivy needed a certain amount of time to get used to.

After leaving Han Lin City for a hundred miles, the grass and trees began to appear, and Lin Muyan couldn't wait to enter the sparse woods to cultivate, and sure enough, he found that the speed of cultivating the wood spirit skill here had increased a lot.

It's just that relatively speaking, the woods here are still a little sparse, and Lin Muyan naturally keeps going to the denser woods.

All the way closer to Kyoto, continuous experimentation.

It was found that the older the age of the wood and the tighter the material, the better it would be to cultivate the wood spirit skill.

He came across a thirty-year-old locust tree in the middle of the mountain forest, and his cultivation speed was almost twice as fast as usual.

Depleted mana can be fully recovered in a little more than a day.

Overjoyed in his heart, Lin Muyan couldn't help but stop practicing for two more days, although there was a better place to cultivate in the future, but he was not in a hurry.

On this day, Lin Muyan was cultivating, and a poisonous snake slowly approached him, and between opening his mouth, the fishy stench bit Lin Muyan fiercely.

However, Lin Muyan turned a blind eye and let the poisonous snake bite him, and then showed a contemplative look.

Then he slapped out with one palm, easily killing the poisonous snake, and pinched out a strange trick with both hands, and a phantom flew out of the poisonous snake's body.

...

In the blink of an eye, a year passed, and Lin Muyan, who was cultivating, opened his eyes violently and exhaled a breath of turbidity.

After a year of cultivation, there was no progress in either Wood Spirit Skill or Alchemy, and the only change was that the blood-colored centipede had grown to a foot, and he had raised an extra poison ivy.

During his cultivation, Lin Muyan couldn't help but try the wood puppet technique, and the poison ivy that was ignited was naturally used, and there was also a poisonous snake soul.

Wooden golems are very simple to make, just infuse them with extracted viper spirits.

Subsequently, Lin Muyan continued to inject mana, and it turned out that the size of the wooden puppet was limited to three feet, that is, it did not grow when it became a wooden puppet.

However, as Lin Muyan continued to input mana, his tenacity, stinger power, and movement speed had all increased greatly.

And another simple poison ivy, in the same time, has grown to the size of a zhang, the thickness of an adult's arm, and most importantly, a gourd.

The gourd has just grown, and the whole is white, so I can't see anything, and it is estimated that it will take a long time before we can explore its power.

Lin Muyan, who was cultivating, frowned, and there was a dense sound of footsteps in his ears, and near him, it seemed that an uninvited guest had come.

In the mountains and forests, a group of 100 strong men holding big knives slowly approached the official road, led by a one-eyed man with a hideous face.

With such a costume, you can tell at a glance that they are bandits and bandits, and they want to rob the caravan in the past.

However, after staying here for a year, there were not many caravans, or even very few, and he didn't find any bandits nearby, where did this gang of bandits come from?

There was a slight doubt in his heart, but Lin Muyan didn't go up to check, stayed quietly on the tree, and took a look at the situation below.

"Ergouzi, what is the result of your investigation, will the merchant's caravan really pass through here?"

"Don't worry, boss, you can rest assured that my second dog is doing things, the merchant's caravan wants to go back to the capital, this is the only way, and it will never be wrong." ”

The one called Ergouzi was a thin teenager who looked to be twelve or thirteen years old, but his mind seemed to be more flexible.

The bandit leader seemed to believe in Ergouzi, nodded slightly and waited on the side of the road, and the other people around him naturally didn't say a word.

After waiting like this for a long time, a bandit came rushing wildly, and his face was full of excitement, and shouted:

"Coming, coming, the merchant's caravan appeared two miles away. ”

"Everyone, prepare!"

The one-eyed dragon looked overjoyed, and couldn't help but clench the meteor hammer in his hand and stare at the official road.

In this way, it was just a bag of cigarettes, and a caravan appeared on the official road, with more than a dozen wagons of goods, three carriages, surrounded by more than fifty dart masters, and a merchant character written on the banner.

These more than 50 dart masters, all of them are full of introverted breath, and the worst are all third-rate masters, and the leader is actually a second-rate master.

His footsteps were loud, and he seemed to have practiced horizontal kung fu.

It's just that the leading dart master frowned at this time, as if he had found something wrong, but he was still in doubt.

"Ready!"

The one-eyed dragon spoke, and the surrounding bandits actually took out the crossbow arrows from their arms, and saw the black light flashing on the crossbow arrows, which seemed to be coated with poison.

Even if it was more than ten meters away, Lin Muyan still smelled the poison of a seven-step snake in a blink of an eye, even if it was a second-rate master, I am afraid it would not be comfortable.

"Shoot me!"

"Woooo

A continuous sound of breaking the air came, and this wave of attacks of the bandits directly shot down a hundred crossbow arrows, and the target was the fifty dart masters below.

The leading dart master reacted very quickly, and when he heard the sound of breaking the air, he immediately shouted:

"There was a sneak attack, and everyone hid behind the cargo. ”

"Ahh

"Ahh

"Poison on the arrow!"

The sudden attack made these dart masters unable to react, and almost half of the dart masters were hit by poisoned arrows, and their faces were full of despair.

Although they are not worried about arrow wounds, the poison above is a huge problem, and there is no way to detoxify them in the wilderness, so they have to wait for death.

"Hahaha, Li Hu, you weren't planted in my hands this time!"

The one-eyed dragon roared, and its figure jumped a few times, and soon landed directly in front of the caravan.

Looking at the dart master who had lost at least half of it, the one-eyed dragon was proud.

The dart master known as Li Hu looked extremely ugly, although he was not hit by the crossbow arrows, but when he saw the hundreds of bandits rushing down, he couldn't stop it at all.

"One-eyed dragon, the two of us are personal grudges, I admit it today!"

"But let me tell you, this dart is a person, Miss Merchant, if something happens to her, you will not be enough to die even if you have ten lives. ”

At this time, Li Hu's expression changed, and he had no choice but to tell the identity of the nobles in the carriage.

However, the one-eyed dragon sneered and said unceremoniously:

"Third Miss Merchant, of course I won't touch her, but the treasures you bring with you can be taken out. ”

"Otherwise, even the third young lady may not be able to protect you. ”

"Treasure, what treasure!"

Hearing what the one-eyed dragon said, Li Hu's expression changed greatly, and he couldn't help asking.

But the one-eyed dragon sneered disdainfully, and said:

"Don't pretend to be garlic, isn't that snow jade in your arms, take it out obediently, otherwise don't blame me for killing it all!"

"Snow Jade can give it to you, but you have to let them go. ”

"Delusional, brothers kill me!"

The one-eyed dragon laughed, and at the sound of an order, all the bandits immediately rushed forward.

Seeing this situation, Li Hu couldn't help but look ugly, and shouted:

"Brothers, don't be afraid, kill with me!"

"Li Hu's dart head, it's not good, the third lady was grazed by a crossbow arrow and was poisoned!"

However, at this moment, a girl lifted the curtain of the car and shouted anxiously.

At this time, beside her, a girl of eleven or twelve years old was full of pain.

If you look closely, its complexion is already a little blue, and it seems that it has been poisoned.

This girl is just an ordinary person, and she has not practiced martial arts, so her physical resistance is naturally very poor, and it is not easy to survive until now.

Despite this, Li Hu had no way to separate, just because the one-eyed dragon had already rushed over with the bandits, and there were less than twenty people on his side to resist.

The two sides fought in an instant, and although the bandits were fierce, their strength was slightly lower.

For a while, it was quite a match.

Li Hu and the one-eyed dragon, the two of them are even more hot, every knife is extremely ruthless, but they can't tell the difference for a while.

As for the other dart masters, after the initial panic, they quickly adjusted their offensive, cooperated with each other, attacked and defended, and forcibly put those bandits in front of the carriage.

"Li Hu, the third young lady is delicate and expensive, but she may not be able to resist the poison I match, as long as you hand over the snow jade, I can give you the antidote. ”

"One-eyed dragon, I don't know who you are, you are notoriously lawless, I'm afraid you don't plan to let go of yourself this time!"

"Now that I know, then save me more nonsense. ”