Chapter 308: The Deer and the Wolf
Just when he flew to a few dozen kilometers from the sea, he found a herd of sika deer moving north on the ground. Among the herd, the big buck at the head caught his attention.
The antlers of the male sika deer will fall off every year, and new antlers will grow in the spring, the surface of the newly grown antlers has not been ossified, relatively soft, and the blood vessels inside are extremely rich.
The antlers of this stag have fallen off, and the new antlers have grown a section and branched out their first forks, which should be the time when the antlers are at their best. At this time, the strength of the antler velvet is low, and it is impossible to use force at all, and the male deer will also carefully protect the antler until it turns into a hard antler, which can be used in battles with its own kind for mates, or for defensive combat against natural predators.
But the male deer was using his tender antlers to fight the eight wolves.
The wolf pack composed of these eight wolves, all of them strong and tall, should be the kind of big bad wolf, like the North American gray wolf, this is not too far from the Bering Strait, if the North American gray wolf steps on ice and snow in winter, it is not a new thing to come here beyond the Bering Strait.
The North American gray wolf is huge, and the adult male wolf can reach nearly 100 kilograms, making it the largest living canine on the planet, while the sika deer is a relatively small deer, rarely weighing 100 kilograms. The male deer on the front looks like it is only a few dozen kilograms. Such a deer, let alone facing a group of giant wolves, even a giant wolf like this can easily kill it.
But it was this male deer, when facing eight adult giant wolves, he didn't fall behind at all. With its short, tender antlers, it flipped wolf after wolf to the ground with ease. It is nimble enough to easily dodge other wolves from behind, and then turn around to dodge the attacker as well.
Tian Xu's olfactory imaging could easily "see" that there was a rich aura surrounding the antlers of this somewhat powerful deer, which was a spirit beast.
Zhang Zetian felt that this spirit beast sika deer was a little familiar, so he kept his stealth and landed, and when he was less than 200 meters away from the place where the deer and the wolf were fighting, he suddenly remembered the smell of this deer, isn't this the deer with spiritual antlers that he found in the tiger garden in Humen? The body color of the sika deer will also change with the seasons, so he didn't even think about it for a while.
At this moment, two of the eight wolves that were fighting with the deer suddenly turned around and rushed towards the deer herd behind, and in the blink of an eye, a large female deer fell to the ground and bit it to death. After biting the female deer to death, the two wolves did not give up and pounced on the other deer, and the deer herd was in chaos for a while.
"Yo-" The spirit beast deer let out a long howl, suddenly became furious, shook its head, and slammed a big wolf out more than ten meters away. The wolf was struck by this blow and fell to the ground and struggled, but could not get up again.
The deer did not stop there, and knocked down two wolves besieging him in succession, and then suddenly turned and rushed towards the two wolves that were wreaking havoc in the herd. The two wolves had already knocked down the second deer at this time, and were about to bite it to death, when they saw the leading deer rushing fiercely, they did not dare to meet it, so they grabbed their tails and fled.
However, the speed of the spirit beast deer was far from being comparable to them, and after being caught up one after another, they each hit a few times, and they died directly.
Still unfazed, the deer turned around and chased after the other three wolves. The three surviving wolves ran away with their tails between their legs, never daring to look back.
After getting closer, Tian Xu found that at this time, the top of the spirit beast deer's head was already drenched in blood, and a pair of antlers that had not yet hardened had been broken at the roots, hanging on both sides of the head, only a thin layer of skin was connected. It seems that it forcibly killed the giant wolf, and it was not lightly injured itself, and the pair of antlers that had just grown out of the short time were probably useless.
Tian Xu's olfactory image swept over the five giant wolves that fell to the ground, and found that these wolves had been knocked into broken tendons, the two wolves that attacked the deer herd had died, and the other three were only seriously injured, although they would not be fatal for a while, but they could no longer move normally, even if they were not eaten by other carnivores, they would starve to death because they could not hunt.
Tian Xu appeared and came to the spirit beast deer. It was only at this time that the deer noticed Tian Xu's existence, and was so frightened that he jumped away.
Tian Xu released an aura of affinity, and the deer felt Tian Xu's kindness and slowly calmed down. The antlers' injuries made it feel very uncomfortable, and it kept shaking its head, but the more it flailed, the more awkward it became, and even its body began to writhe.
The meridians and aura of the deer run differently from other animals. The aura of this deer is mainly concentrated on its head and antlers, after the antlers are hardened, there is not much difference from ordinary cattle and sheep, but when the old antlers fall off and the new antlers grow, there will be a large number of blood vessels and nerves growing around the new antlers, and the new antlers will become the most vigorous part of the body. The antlers were damaged, and for this deer, it was already a very serious injury.
Seeing it like this, Tian Xu took out a healing pill and gave it to it. The deer smelled the breath of the elixir, and was a little eager to step forward to eat it, but it seemed to think of the terrible way of the person in front of him who had cut off his antlers a few months ago, and hesitated for a while.
Seeing it like this, Tian Xu stretched out his hand flat, and a stream of aura lifted the aura in his palm and sent it to the deer more than ten meters away. The deer opened his mouth and put the pill into his mouth, and was about to chew it, but found that it had been directly sent into his stomach by Tian Xu's aura. The medicinal power in the elixir slowly emanated, and the wound on its head began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.
However, although the wound began to heal, the antlers that had been broken could no longer be reconnected, and the broken place gradually withered. Tian Xu's heart moved, and an aura flashed from the top of the deer's head, and the two antlers that had been basically severed had been neatly cut off, and they were immediately collected by him into the Medicine King Bucket. The elixir spectrum has long been confirmed, and this deer antler velvet is a mid-grade elixir.
The antlers were cut off, and the deer showed signs of being irritable. Tian Xu helped its wound stop the bleeding, and took out a pill again, which was a Qi Replenishing Pill.
The spirit beast was extremely sensitive to this Qi Replenishing Pill, and had already had a preliminary spiritual intelligence, so it immediately calmed down and swallowed the Qi Replenishing Pill into its abdomen.
Maybe it's because the antlers are damaged and lose a lot of aura, this deer ate four Qi Replenishing Pills in one go to replenish the aura in the body, it obviously recognized Tian Xu's feeding it Qi Replenishing Pill, and was no longer hostile to Tian Xu, but took the initiative to approach Tian Xu and rub his head against him.
The deer herd was also affected by this deer, gathered around Tian Xu, and treated him as their own.
Tian Xu took out some tender grass and vegetables from the Medicine King Bucket and fed them to these deer. It is early spring, and most of the plants on the ground have not yet sprouted, and only some places affected by geothermal heat have evergreen weeds, which highlights the delicacy of the food in Yaowang Dou. The deer surrounded him in the middle and kept asking for this delicious food.
Tian Xu obviously couldn't keep feeding like this. He scanned the state of the deer herd and found that some of the deer were weaker or had such and such diseases, and his aura took action and treated the deer herd casually, winning the support of the deer herd. He found that nearly ten female deer were pregnant, and he conditioned the pregnant deer and fed each of them a pill.
The elixir that Tian Xu fed to the deer herd was the same as the one fed to the beluga whale, and it was all refined by the Three Immortals, and it was all waste. This low-grade elixir will not have much effect on an ordinary deer, but it is enough to make the deer's body stronger, increase its chances of surviving in harsh environments, and make the deer cubs in its belly healthier and stronger.
The grade of this spirit deer is not high, it should be regarded as a second-level spirit beast, but looking at its appearance, it may soon be advanced to the third-level level. The spiritual intelligence of second-level spirit beasts is not too strong, only a little stronger than ordinary beasts. But after it was upgraded to the third level, it should be able to communicate with a cultivator like Tian Xu to a certain extent. Of course, in order to develop the ability to think or communicate close to that of humans, even if it is a high-level mammal like a deer, it will not be able until the late stage of the fourth level.
Tian Xu teased the deer for a while, then took off stealthily and flew towards the sea. Although he likes this spirit deer, he doesn't have the heart to raise it, if he introduces the deer herd into the Medicine King Bucket, he has to spend time to manage them, he doesn't have such idle effort.
Generally speaking, compared to the coastal formation, there are not too many anomalies on the land of this peninsula, and Tian Xu has no interest in exploring, and plans to return to the sea and set off to the Americas to explore the situation of Bermuda's immortal road.
The Aleutian Islands, which connect Eurasia and North America, form an arc of nearly 2,000 kilometers long, separating the Bering Sea from the main Pacific Ocean. The Bering Sea is basically a fan, and the Aleutian Islands are the arc side of this fan. Although separated from the Pacific Ocean by this thin chain of islands, the depth of the Bering Sea is much shallower than that of the Pacific Ocean, like a high platform under the sea, making the Bering Sea a completely different sea area from the Pacific Ocean, which is more suitable for the survival of the Earth.
Tian Xu traveled all the way east along the Aleutian Islands, and it took only one day to cross about two-thirds of the archipelago, during which time he also spent some time studying the islands he passed by, but he made no special discoveries.
However, Tian Xu always felt a little strange feeling, there must be something wrong. From west to east, the Aleutian Islands are becoming denser and larger. It wasn't until he came to a large island dozens of kilometers long that he finally discovered the problem.