Chapter Forty-Nine: Ethereal Island
The dark clouds and mist obscured the sky, and there was no ray of sunlight to be seen, and the layers of dark clouds in the sky condensed and dispersed, changing into various strange shapes with teeth and claws.
Blue and white lightning staggered through the clouds, intertwined with each other, occasionally bursting out a few thunderbolts like dragon's teeth, exploding dazzling electric sparks, which are also the only light in this world.
Below the dark clouds in the sky, an endless sea of trees and jungles spread to the horizon, and from the sky, most of these trees were unusually dark and mysterious, and the whole forest sea was like a deep and gray ocean.
A large gray mist swirled through the forest, moving from one place to another, and from time to time one or two thunderbolts flashed down from the sky, breaking one of the trees at the waist.
Occasionally, one or two trees were caught on fire, but the trees here seem to have a unique structure and the fire does not spread.
On the ground, all kinds of strange plants were scattered all over the island, and here the most common were the huge trees that shaded the sky and the sun, and these trees were unusually large and unusual, and the smallest was five or six people hugging each other.
Huge branches crisscrossed and crisscrossed, and thick aerial roots grew and hung down from the branches, connecting straight to the soil over a distance of tens of meters, and there were all kinds of giant python-like thick companion vines, tightly intertwined with each other.
Many others resemble the manes of wild horses, some resemble fan leaves, and even reticulated, and all types of plants and mushrooms stretch out in every space.
Some of them are less than an inch high, some are dozens of feet high, not only on the ground, on the trees, and even on the vines, you can see that these plants and mushrooms are densely growing, and there are some luminous fungi, glowing with a faint light, under this gray sky, it looks very beautiful and moving.
This is a gray world-like scene, there are no houses or villages in sight, not even human traces can be seen, it is clear that this is not the Jiuzhou Continent, but another land under the sky.
The plants that grow in this land are obviously adapted to survive in a dark and shimmering environment, but in fact, although there is also a sun in the sky of Ethereal Island, it is also the same sun, but it is not as sunny as the sky above the Jiuzhou Continent.
However, on the rare days when the weather is clear, the creatures here can barely see the fireball that seems to exist in the sky, but for some reason, most of the light seems to be absorbed by the condensed black clouds, and almost no light can shine into the island.
However, at this moment, in a certain corner of the island forest, a gray figure was lying motionless under a huge mutated coniferous grass not far from a towering tree.
Ye Bufan's mood at this time was very bad, he had been on this ethereal island for a whole month, maybe longer, he had begun to remember clearly, because in the dark night it just changed from gray to black, in this forest he couldn't tell the time at all, but, until now, he hadn't completely figured out where he was? But there was no way, life had to go on.
In addition to the endless darkness on this island, there is no clean house, no clothes to change into, no normal food, no clean water, no trace of heaven and earth aura, even flying in the sky is a dream, there is no cultivation on this island, there is no normal life, there is nothing here.
Ye Bufan is now living like a beast, in addition to being able to run the bloodline demon decision, absorb that faint sun, moon and stars, and obtain some strange powers, but that little bit of sun, moon and stars is difficult to accumulate, don't forget that the sun can't be seen here all year round, so he is no different from a mortal now, and some are just his semi-demonized body.
Since Ye Bufan was teleported to this ethereal island, he has already understood that the original human Ye Bufan may have died long ago, and then this is just a new Ye Bufan with three souls in one, and he found that since he fused the inner demon and the shadow of the yang soul, he has become different, as if the feelings have begun to fade again, and gradually begin to lose human feelings, as if only that deep resentment remains.
Since Ye Bufan was forcibly stuffed to this island, he knew that if he wanted to avenge Yangyang, he had to get out of here, or find a way or method to leave, otherwise everything would be impossible to talk about, and he would be completely blind.
Of course, in addition to itself, there are many mutant species monsters on this island, and the bodies of these monsters are very powerful, and it is difficult to cause damage with the strength of his semi-demonized body.
This place, which was completely far from the environment of the Jiuzhou Continent, had been cautious since the first time he came, and his half-demon intuition told him that there was great danger lurking in the environment here.
In fact, Ye Bufan's caution of trusting his instincts also allowed him to successfully get through the most dangerous period that befell him at the beginning.
A sound of "Xi Xi Suosuo!" came from not far in front of Ye Bufan's head, and then, first, some stacks of dense layers of leaves shook and were picked up, and then a small monkey-like demon beast covered in fur climbed out of it.
It is slightly similar to the mouth fire monkey on the Jiuzhou Continent, but because of the mutation in the ethereal environment here, the fur does not appear so soft, and the color has also changed.
Rather, some of them show a tendency to keratinize and harden, from a distance, they look like the feathers of birds, and some resemble the scale armor of some kind of reptile, the height is slightly shorter than Ye Bufan, the coat color is dark gray, only the corners of the mouth have a slightly raised red hair, and the eyes are red.
Compared with the monkeys in the Jiuzhou Continent, its fingers and claws appear sharper and stronger, and the canine teeth that stick out of its lips from time to time also appear thicker and sharper.
This kind of mutated demon beast named Mouth Fire Monkey, Ye Bufan's experience in Yanwutang over the years is also the first time to see it, although Ye Bufan still remembers that this is a fire monster that likes group activities, but the mutated mouth fire monkey has a bullying personality and is afraid of hard, but it is quite aggressive, and they will try to attack any creature that enters their field of vision and seems to be inferior to their strength.
In fact, this is also the characteristic of most mutated monsters on this ethereal island. I saw that the mouth fire monkey looked around for a while, and found nothing unusual, turned around and shook its tail behind him, and continued to climb the branch and walk forward, behind him, there were four more similar-looking, only slightly smaller mouth fire monkeys came out of the leaves.
Ye Bufan lay there silently, and he could clearly observe the actions of this small group of monkeys in his field of vision, and after a little observation, he recognized that what was in front of him was a small family group of mouth fire monkeys, the one at the head was only the male, and those who followed behind were slightly smaller females, and the difference between them was only that there were no clusters of eye-catching red long hairs on both sides of the mouth.
The females walked forward and played restlessly with each other, and the males who walked in front occasionally turned around and bared their teeth in a threatening whisper, and the females immediately settled down a lot, but the good times did not last long, and after a while they relapsed.
"Go a little further, yes, baby...... Walk forward a little further......" Ye Bufan hid in the long grass but muttered secretly in his heart, but his eyes were staring at the group of fire monkeys without blinking, faintly revealing a look of excitement.
A female-billed fire monkey who was walking in the third place, looking quite restless, suddenly noticed a bright fruit growing on a branch next to her, and immediately stretched out her paw to pick it out of her curiosity.
At this moment, I saw a dead branch that had been motionless beside the fruit at first, suddenly become active, and threw it at the body of the female waiter, and then swept it into the air.
Obviously, this is no ordinary branch, and in this strange island, deadly danger is everywhere.
Horned Wood Serpent - This is an extremely stealthy predator-level demon beast, and after mutating here, it is a very deadly opponent for many demon beasts in this forest. They are usually tens of meters long, gray and black throughout, with rough and uneven skin, and when stationary, they resemble an ordinary branch, which is very deceptive.
They are accustomed to hiding next to some fruit or flower, disguised as ordinary branches, waiting for the attracted creatures to throw themselves into the net, of course, if the big ones are attracted, they will continue to camouflage motionless, so as not to be detected by more powerful predators.
The female monkey was visibly frightened, and struggled to let out a high-pitched howl, squeaking to break free, but its struggle was obviously in vain, and the powerful body of the dead wood snake circled quickly and resolutely to bind it tighter and tighter, and it continued to tighten.
It is a strong female horned wood snake, which is much larger and more aggressive than the males.
It is rumored that after the annual reproduction, there will be a certain chance that the two horned wood horns that have just finished their love will devour each other into each other's stomachs, which is an extremely unique habit.
In Ye Bufan's memory, he was outside the Great Wall of Yanwutang, he had seen this kind of demon beast, and it was said that by devouring each other, there would be a certain chance of evolving into a powerful demon beast like Jiaomujiao, but he didn't know that he would have this habit after mutation.
With a plop, the horned wood snake wrapped around the "snake ball" formed by the female waiter, and fell into the low grass under the tree, and there was another fierce struggle.
At this time, the rest of the mouth fire monkeys screamed in fright, and hurriedly climbed down the tree, and surrounded the dead wood snakes with a sharp cry, dancing and trying to rescue their companions.
It's just that instinctive fear obviously makes them not dare to get too close to the horned wood snake.
The horned wood snake raised its head high at this time, and a pair of cold green eyes stared vigilantly at the mouthed fire monkeys around it, where it stared, the mouthed fire monkeys in that direction subconsciously took a few steps back, until it turned its head, and hurriedly jumped up, bluffing and screaming.
The male-billed fire monkey picked up some stones and other things from the ground and smashed them hard, "whoosh!", the power was very good, and it might be possible to directly smash a big tree with a thick tree outside, and the rest of the mouthed fire monkeys saw it, and immediately followed suit, and grabbed the object and smashed it over.
It's just that in the face of the horned wood snake with a body as tough as steel, it is unknown how effective this attack can be, after all, the power that can be used here is too little, except for the strength of the body comparable to a magic weapon, the species living here are almost the same as ordinary beasts.
Just when the two sides were entangled, Ye Bufan, who was hiding in the grass, moved, he quietly crawled out of the grass, went around from the side, and went around to a big tree not far from the dead wood snake, the body of the tree was very rough, and it was also very thick, enough to cover Ye Bufan's body.
Ye Bufan climbed up lightly from the side with his back to the dead wood snake. The position he was in was very close to the two sides that were fighting, and if it was a normal time, I am afraid that with the keen perception ability of the demon beast that lived in the dark all year round, he would have a high chance of being discovered.
At this time, the situation was different, the horned wood snake was bent on capturing its prey, while the mouth fire monkeys only wanted to rescue their companions, and neither of them noticed Ye Bufan's actions.
Soon, he climbed to a higher position, and when he looked down from here, he couldn't see the movement under the tree very clearly, and all kinds of plants across it were layered to block Ye Bufan's vision.
Ye Bufan climbed up some distance again, and stopped next to a cluster of fern-like plants growing on the tree. It was a very luxuriant clump of plants, growing there unremarkably, and like many of its kind, clinging to its thick trunks.
Ye Bufan carefully looked around again, and did not find any danger, he reached out and pushed away the bush of plants in front of him, and a tree hole about the size of a bowl mouth was exposed.
Ye Bufan suddenly smiled, this cave is only about the thickness of his neck, with his size, he can't get into it anyway, but Ye Bufan's purpose is not to get into the hole, he stretched out his hand, put his entire shoulder into the hole to grope for a while, and after a while, a smile appeared on his dirty face.
I saw that he took out a "straw bag" with rough workmanship from behind his back, this kind of straw bag made of a long grass similar to a vine, tied with two vines, and carried on his back, this is Ye Bufan's first handmade work after coming to this island, and the bag on his body can't be taken out at all because there is no spirit yuan, and the things inside can't be taken out at all, and they can't be used.
It took him a lot of effort on the bag, but it was clear that the result was unsatisfactory, barely usable, and not yet able to bear too much weight.
Because this kind of "straw bag" has a very bad disadvantage, due to the problem of material and production process, when Ye Bufan bears too much weight, the sack will disintegrate, after all, he was born as a young master before, and it is already good to be able to make it.
Ye Bufan carefully loosened the slipknot made of vines at the mouth of the sack, and opened the straw bag into a small opening.
Then he put his hand into the hollow of the tree, and after a little fumbling for it, he took it out again, and there was one more thing in his palm, which was a round snake egg.
The egg was covered with brown markings, only about half the size of an ordinary egg, Ye Bufan kept putting the egg into the sack in his hand, and then put his hand into the hole......
After repeating the same action more than 20 times, Zhang Yiyang finally touched nothing after another period of groping. Well...... There are twenty-three snake eggs in total...... Ye Bufan looked down at the straw bag that had become a deep one, and couldn't help grinning, and a sharp tiger tooth couldn't hide it. Luck...... That's enough to eat for a few days.
Ye Bufan said in his heart, but he didn't dare to slack off in his hands, while vigilantly observing the movements around him, he carefully re-tied the mouth of the bag, and tried the strength of the vines at the mouth of the bag uncomfortably before carrying it back on his back.
The cave had been discovered by chance in the distance, when the deadwood snake was slowly crawling out of it, if it weren't for the unlucky Lizard that had become its snack.
I'm afraid that Ye Bufan, who was looking for food not far away, wouldn't pay attention to the movement here. And this season is the season when the dead wood snake and most of the creatures in this forest breed.
Ye Bufan recognized at a glance that this was a female snake, the horned wood snake was a creature with a tradition of protecting eggs, and they would not leave the nest too far except hunting.
Then, in this season, the female snake is usually accompanied by a nest of snake eggs. So, he was ready to wait for an opportunity, and now, he has succeeded.
The battle under the tree was still going on, but listening to the voice, the clamor of those mouth fire monkeys was no longer so hot, and Ye Bufan knew that he had to speed up.
He carefully climbed back along the same path, fortunately, the egg shell of the dead wood snake was very hard, and a little bump could not break it, otherwise, I am afraid that Ye Bufan would not be able to take away so many snake eggs completely.
Under the tree, the horned wood snake was still surrounded by the mouth fire monkeys, but at this time, the female monkey that was tightly entangled by it basically stopped struggling, and occasionally spasmed intermittently.
After a while, when the Mouth Fire Monkeys realized that there was no need to rescue them, they would automatically leave the place, and the confrontation had come to an end.
Ye Bufan carried the bag of eggs on his back, and flew through the forest vigilantly and quickly, which was also the blessing of practicing martial arts with Hua Aoxue when he was a child.
If Ye Bufan, who had not practiced martial arts before, came here, although he was also athletic, he would definitely have to walk deep and shallow enough.
After about ten minutes, Ye Bufan's speed gradually slowed down, although this forest was very large, it seemed to be endless.
But in fact, for Ye Bufan, he could only operate in a small part of this forest, and this was its hunting range, after all, it was full of unknown dangers outside.
Just like many monsters on the Jiuzhou Continent, many creatures on Ethereal Island have a very strong sense of territory, except for some species that live in groups and are used to wandering, most of the creatures here have a fixed range of activities, and they usually use feces, smells, or other things to mark their ranges.
And the weaker creatures are even more so, of course, the so-called territorial concept only exists among the demon beasts of the same class.
The main reason is the competition for food, and there is no territorial concept between different classes of creatures, and they only have a relationship of belonging to each other or predatory.
Ye Bufan's range of activity is a slightly basin-like zone, neither big nor small, about a little oval.
Ye Bufan has tried, from south to north about a constant speed of about a few hours or so, of course, now the consciousness and memory in his mind because of the fusion, there is still a little blur and confusion, so the direction perception and time calculation are not so handy, according to common sense that people who practice martial arts have a good biological clock and time calculation ability.
Ye Bufan carefully paid attention to the situation around him, his current position was probably in the center of his range of activities, northwest.
He carefully watched the movement around him, it was good, it was quiet, there was no other living thing. There was no smell in the surrounding air except for the extremely dusty air that was characteristic of Ethereal Island.
Ye Bufan was a little relieved, after all, in terms of hunting experience in the past few days, today can be regarded as a bumper harvest, after all, it is difficult for him to break the defense of the demon beasts outside, let alone kill them, several times he has relied on Feiyan Bu to escape dangerously.