In front of the courtyard gate, a half-human size cyan stone tablet stands quietly, it seems that due to the age, there have been many small cracks on the stone tablet, like a small snake, meandering, in the cracks, even some moss emerges, "snake courtyard" two simple and tactful big characters rubbed on it, the handwriting is a little mottled.

Kong Laosan glanced at it a few times, but he didn't care too much, and directly stepped forward and knocked on the door.

As a snake courtyard isolated from the entire zoo, the courtyard gate is no different from the ordinary mahogany gate, not long after Kong Laosan knocked on the door, the courtyard door was opened with a "creak", and a man who looked forty or fifty years old, with a sallow face, a gloomy temperament all over his body, and a somewhat old man came out from behind the door.

"This is Uncle Yue, who is under Zhao Hengdao, and he is a new miscellaneous disciple!"

Kong Laosan said, he had already taken out the order from his arms, and handed it over respectfully, the man in front of him heard what Kong Laosan said, but he didn't say a word, a pair of cloudy eyes full of light bloodshot stared straight at Kong Laosan, like a stone man without showing the slightest expression.

Just when Kong Laosan was stared at by the other party, and was surprised and slandered in his heart, he suddenly felt a chill all over his body, and the whole person seemed to be seen through by the other party, an invisible and qualitative force passed through the flesh and gently swept towards the place of the Purple Mansion Divine Soul, Kong Laosan was no stranger to this kind of divine power derived from the divine soul, and he only felt a tight scalp at the moment, and his heart was nervous for a moment, but he soon calmed down, and his face did not show the slightest strange look.

However, after two breaths, the power of the formless and substantial divine thought suddenly disappeared without a trace, and the expressionless Uncle Yue in front of him had a rare flash of joy in the corners of his eyes, but he quickly returned to his original dead face, and did not say anything, just nodded, waved his hand again, and squeezed out a few words from his throat dryly, "It is rare for a natural divine soul to be as strong as you, cultivate here in the future, come with me!"

As he spoke, he walked towards the courtyard, Kong Laosan saw this, his hand movements were sluggish, and he couldn't see the slightest discoloration on his face, and followed the man into the courtyard.

When he saw the scene in the courtyard, Kong Laosan paused, his face showed a look of surprise, the original seemingly small yard into it only to find that it covers an area of nearly half a hundred acres, the center of the courtyard, a stone mountain of more than 30 zhang stands in the middle, at the same time, a fishy breath rushed to the face, take a closer look, but see that the stone mountain is densely packed with countless holes, and after a while, some blood-crowned snakes are drilling in and out of it, this scene is really a little terrifying.

The whole courtyard is also divided into two layers, inside and outside, separated by a fence in the middle, which seems to be blocked by some kind of formation, and it is impossible to see the scene of the inner courtyard.

"There is a spare room there, you can choose any one, or you can live in a wooden house outside the courtyard, there are not many rules in our snake courtyard, I have recorded the breeding methods of the blood-crowned snake in this booklet, you can look through it yourself when you have time......"

After a brief explanation, it's time to head to the backyard. Seeing this, Kong Laosan's brows moved, and he was about to say something, but the man turned around and added, "If there is nothing to do, don't come to disturb me!"

"Uncle Yue, isn't there a division of labor in our snake courtyard that specializes in taking care of raising the blood-crowned snake and handling the corpse of the blood-crowned snake?"

Kong Laosan asked with some doubts.

Hearing this, the Uncle Yue paused, "Our Snake Courtyard doesn't have so many rules, if you are competent, you can be responsible for all of them!"

As he spoke, before Kong Laosan could speak again, he had already turned around and entered the inner courtyard.

Seeing this, Kong Laosan had some doubts in his heart, but he didn't say anything more, the Uncle Yue in front of him was full of some strangeness, and it was better not to say more before he was familiar with the other party.

Along the stone mountain is a row of wooden houses, the decoration inside is also simple, except for a bed, a table, a chair, a kettle and cups, nothing else, Kong Laosan found a room to live at will, and began to read the booklet given by Uncle Yue, which is full of some habits and feeding methods of the blood-crowned snake, which is recorded in great detail, with this booklet, even people who do not understand the nature of snakes can be raised properly, it seems that they don't have to worry about anything.

The blood-crowned snake is different from the ordinary grass snake in the world, it belongs to the column of spirit beasts, and most of these blood-crowned snakes raised in the snake courtyard are first- and second-order spirit beasts, and a small number of about a dozen belong to the category of third-order spirit beasts.

In the next period of time, Kong Laosan was completely involved in the task of raising snakes, and learned from the living habits of these blood-crowned snakes, but what surprised Kong Laosan was that the feed of these blood-crowned snakes was actually some other spirit beast corpses transported from other spirit beast courtyards, some of these corpses had been air-dried, and some had just died, this scene made Kong Laosan happy.

Originally, Kong Laosan still thought that he would secretly kill a few blood-crowned snakes after he became familiar with this place, but he didn't expect that before he could do it, someone had already sent the benefits to the door.

Looking at the corpses of some spirit beasts in front of him, Kong Laosan felt a little emotion in his heart, there were spirit devouring rats, yellow-horned beasts, iron-backed wolves, fierce flame birds, everything, and even some ordinary birds and beasts in the world were among them, many of them had been dead for a long time, but about three or four of them seemed to have just died, and even the wounds were still bleeding.

Kong Laosan did not hesitate, saw that the door of the inner courtyard was closed, and carried one of the iron-backed wolves, who had just died, into his wooden house.

After taking a few careful glances in the direction of the inner courtyard, and making sure that Uncle Yue would not suddenly appear, Kong Laosan closed the wooden door tightly, and the wooden windows around him were completely closed, and took out a piece of rune paper, and rubbed it gently, and a faint fluctuation suddenly appeared around the wooden house, and it disappeared without a trace.

After doing this, Kong Laosan breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at the iron-backed wolf who was lying on the ground, with fresh blood stains on his wound, Kong Laosan sat quietly in front of him, his eyes were closed, and his face was a little serious, as if he was carefully sensing something.

After half a cup of tea, Kong Laosan's eyebrows suddenly lit up with a little green light the size of mung beans, and then, countless dark green light spots the size of sesame seeds spurted out from the center of Zifu's eyebrows, as if they were pulled by some kind of force, and submerged into the body from the location of the wound of the iron-backed wolf.

These points of light are extremely strange, each of them is extremely spiritual, and it seems to be completely condensed by strange runes, like nebulae, bright and uncertain, extremely mysterious.

In just a few breaths, these dark green starlight runes floated out of the ironback wolf's body one by one, and disappeared into Kong Laosan's eyebrows, but the original pure dark green runes were sporadically mixed with some gray runes that seemed to be transparent color, and there were not many of them, only less than a hundred, mixed with the huge dark green nebula and inconspicuous.

After a full hour, Kong Laosan slowly opened his eyes, a little gray light came out slightly from the depths of his eyes, and disappeared in the blink of an eye, feeling that the purple mansion in the center of his eyebrows was much stronger than before, Kong Laosan couldn't help but sigh lightly, not only did he not have the slightest joy on his face, but there was a faint melancholy.

When the body fell in the previous life, these mysterious rune starlight took their own divine souls through reincarnation and came to this world, and later occasionally found that these rune starlight could devour the beast soul and enhance their own divine souls, Kong Laosan realized the extraordinaryness of these rune starlight, and buried it in his heart as the biggest secret. In another world, maybe only these rune starlight have the same memories as themselves.

Perhaps it is precisely because of the relationship between these runes and stars, from the domestic livestock at the beginning to the current Xianmen spirit beasts, and the continuous devouring of beast souls for five years, the strength of Kong Laosan's divine soul has exceeded that of ordinary people a lot, just the realm of the third layer of qi refining, it has already condensed divine consciousness and generated divine thoughts like those cultivators of the seventh layer of qi refining.

Putting his mind away, Kong Laosan didn't dare to stay longer, and after leaving the house, he disposed of the corpse of the iron-backed wolf.

The blood-crowned snake is an omnivorous spirit animal, in addition to devouring the corpses of other spirit beasts every day, it also has to drink some special spiritual water made by stone mushrooms to increase its spiritual power.

At the beginning, Kong Laosan couldn't do it, every time he stepped into the three-foot distance around the snake mountain, those blood-crowned snakes wandering around the snake mountain would attack Kong Laosan, and later after smearing some of the powdered powder from the blood-crowned snakes after his death, this situation was completely avoided, and Kong Laosan could also get close to these blood-crowned snakes.

There are about more than 300 blood-crowned snakes in the entire snake mountain, and the daily consumption of food is huge, but there is no need to worry about the corpse of the spirit beast, but there is another thing that makes Kong Laosan happy and worried, at the beginning, the senior brother Yue also came out of the inner courtyard every day to guide Kong Laosan to take care of the blood-crowned snake, and later determined that Kong Laosan has been able to do this chores alone, and then he never appeared again, and everything was completely handed over to Kong Laosan.

On the one hand, Kong Laosan was overjoyed that he could boldly collect the spirit beast spirit, and on the other hand, taking care of the spirit snake every day and mixing spiritual water also made Kong Laosan spend most of the time, and the time spent on meditation and qi training was virtually shortened a lot, and Kong Laosan was also helpless about this.

In this way, Kong Laosan has completely settled down in the Snake Courtyard, raising snakes and meditating every day, and his life is at ease, and the Uncle Yue, who has not even shown his face for a month or two, has become more mysterious since Kong Laosan took over the Snake Courtyard, and almost never shows up in front of people, even the number of times Kong Laosan sees this uncle has gradually decreased, and he has even only seen it once or twice in half a year, Kong Laosan is also a little puzzled about this, but he did not deliberately inquire about anything.

The two of them belong to the same snake courtyard, and they are divided between inside and outside, but the number of times they have seen them is only a handful, and I am afraid that no one will believe it when they say it.

At the end of each month, Kong Laosan would go down the mountain to the "Dharma Transmission Hall" to listen to the lectures, and the one who gave lectures to Kong Laosan, the outer disciples who were mainly based on the wood attribute spiritual root, was one of the twenty true disciples of the Qingling Sect, a female cultivator called "Gu Lingyan".

This Senior Uncle Gu is so famous in the entire Qingling Sect, almost surpassing Yun Tianqi, the most outstanding true disciple of the Qingling Sect, the reason why he is so famous is not because of his identity as a true disciple, nor because of this Uncle Gu's profound cultivation strength, but because he has a natural baby face.

Generally speaking, the appearance of a cultivator alone cannot determine the specific age of the other party, with the improvement of cultivation, the aging of appearance will be greatly delayed, and even some advanced cultivators will rejuvenate, but like Gu Lingyan, a cultivator who always looks like a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl is rare.

It is said that when they first came to teach, many outer disciples treated this Uncle Gu as an ordinary outer disciple, and even looked at his delicate and lovely appearance, and they didn't know whether they were alive or dead.

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