Chapter 22 Henglin Mountains

Qiao Yuan looked at the direction where Xiao Fengqing and Xiao Qingyun left in a daze, and didn't blink his eyes, didn't move his body, and didn't move his steps for a long time.

Although Qiao Yuan couldn't see them for a long time, he still didn't want to believe this fact in his heart.

After all, he is just a young man who has not been in the world, and no matter how strong he seems on the surface, it is just a fragile disguise that has not been tempered by suffering.

When he really faced this uninhabited dense forest, a sense of loneliness and helplessness arose, slowly eating away at his mind, making the fragility in his heart gradually magnified, and even giving him an urge to turn around and walk back to Qingfeng Village.

However, as soon as this thought arose, he tried his best to suppress it.

"Hah...... Now that this matter is over, let's think about what to do next. ”

Qiao Yuan interrupted his ramblings with a loud shout, retracted his gaze and looked at the dense jungle around him and the babbling stream around him, and whispered to himself.

All around are towering giant trees, you can't see the top at a glance, the trunk is entrenched, the branches and leaves are luxuriant, the sparse sunlight shines through the branches and leaves sprinkled on Qiao Yuan's face, all kinds of colorful birds and insects fly around, and the sound of chirping converges together to play a natural music.

Suddenly, a small snake with red and green markings flew straight towards him from a branch above Qiao Yuan's head, opening its mouth to reveal four sharp fangs, which made people feel chills when they saw it.

Qiao Yuan smiled slightly, did not panic, turned to the side slightly, stretched out his right hand and grabbed it directly at the snake's neck, with a little force, the poisonous snake was paralyzed and no longer struggled.

"When the master was five years old, he was able to catch snakes with his bare hands, and if you still dare to bite me, you will use your snake gall bladder to replenish your body.

Qiao Yuan grabbed the poisonous snake in his right hand, with a smug smile on his face, and spoke to the poisonous snake, then took out a small knife from the storage bag, walked to the stream, took out the snake gallbladder with the knife in his hand, and swallowed it in one gulp.

Qiao Yuan swallowed the snake gall, took out the parchment map and studied it carefully, and after a while, he found the location of this place on the map, and then looked for the direction of the sun in the sky and the flow of the stream, stood up and walked directly along the downstream of the stream.

Qiao Yuan encountered a lot of poisonous snakes and poisonous insects along the way, but he didn't encounter many beasts and birds of prey, at most he met a few bison, which almost posed a threat to him now.

He condensed the wind blade as he walked, and his unhurried appearance seemed to be playing in the forest. After all, this dense forest is too big, and it doesn't take dozens of days to slow down at all, and any danger in this dense forest can happen, so it is naturally safer to cultivate the wind blade more proficiently earlier.

Qiao Yuan walked and played while cultivating the wind blade, and the time of the day had already passed quietly, although he had only traveled two hundred miles, and the speed of condensing the wind blade had not accelerated, but Qiao Yuan's state of mind had adjusted, and he even felt that this kind of life was quite good.

He saw many beasts, birds, snakes, rats, insects and ants in the forest that he had never seen before, and there were many fish, shrimps, crabs and mussels in the creek that he had never seen before.

At dusk, Qiao Yuan chose a rather secret place by the stream, took out pots and pans and other kitchen utensils from the storage bag, and some small beasts hunted with wind blades, caught a big fish in the stream, and made dinner directly on the spot.

Although Qiao Yuan is already a monk, his cultivation is still too low to be able to do Bigu, but he doesn't need to eat three meals a day like a mortal, he can stay energetic by eating one meal a day, and of course, the most important thing is that the spiritual power in his body must be sufficient.

After a full meal, Qiao Yuan patted his stomach, jumped up, and jumped directly onto a big tree several feet thick next to him.

Qiao Yuan clearly knew that this kind of primeval dense forest was the most dangerous time at night, and all kinds of fierce beasts would come out to forage for food, although he did not feel afraid, but it was also a little troublesome to provoke these fierce beasts, and it would affect his hurry, so it was best to choose a hidden place to hide and cultivate, and then set off at dawn.

When night fell, gusts of cold wind howled in the trees and jungles, bringing the sound of leaves and branches rattling, and from time to time some beast roars came intermittently from a distance, as if with the cover of the night, this dense forest became more lively.

He didn't pay attention to this, just sat cross-legged on the branch and exhaled the aura, the aura here was quite messy, and it was relatively rare, so Qiao Yuan's speed of exhaling was very slow, but he only frowned slightly and didn't pay attention to it anymore.

After the night, the first rays of sunlight sprinkled on his face through the gaps in the branches and leaves, and only then did Qiao Yuan slowly open his eyes, his brows furrowed even more, he shook his head, and sighed softly and slowly muttered to himself.

"Alas, I didn't expect the aura of this dense forest to be so thin, and it couldn't run a small Zhoutian cycle overnight, and if it continued like this, it would definitely be difficult to make an inch of cultivation. ”

Qiao Yuan hadn't considered the matter of aura when he was cultivating in the Dust Tree Realm, and he could also feel the abundant aura in Qingfeng Village, he never thought that out of Qingfeng Village, the aura in other places was actually so thin that he couldn't feel it, which made him really have a headache.

Just as he was having a headache, Qiao Yuan suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and took out a diamond-shaped stone from the storage bag, which was crystal clear, and it exuded extremely rich wind attribute spiritual power.

This stone is the spirit stone left to him by Xiao Fengqing, Qiao Yuan knew from the book that the spirit stone is divided into low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade and superb, but he can't tell the level of this spirit stone when he looks at this spirit stone, but he feels that the wind attribute aura in it is extremely strong, and it is more than enough to provide his own cultivation.

Then he took out a black bag, took out a small gray stone from it, held the spirit stone in his left hand, and the gray stone in his right hand, and began to close his eyes and spit it out.

Three hours later, Qiao Yuan slowly opened his eyes, and his face showed joy. In just three hours, Qiao Yuan had been running for a small week, and the aura vortex in his body had grown a little bigger.

He let go of his hands, revealing the two stones in his hands, the spirit stones were still crystal clear, without a single flaw, as if the aura inside had not decreased in the slightest, as for the gray stones, they were still as usual, without any changes.

After solving the problem of insufficient spiritual energy and unable to cultivate, Qiao Yuan stood up and stepped on the ground, and continued to walk forward along the stream.

While walking, his mind was also slowly recalling the experience of cultivating the Wind Blade when he entered the state of meditation that day, and the palm of his right hand condensed spiritual power and began to cultivate the Wind Blade technique.

Qiao Yuan practiced the Wind Blade Technique while hurrying during the day, and at night he found a secret place to cultivate through spirit stones and gray stones, and a month passed.

The speed at which he condensed the wind blade was already getting faster and faster, and when his mind was extremely focused, he could already condense a wind blade with a stick of incense, which made Qiao Yuan's heart excited.

Moreover, he also took the time to practice the Technique of Wind Walking, and now he can condense five Wind Cyclones behind him, which is a very big increase in his speed.

However, he would not use this technique at ordinary times, after all, the spiritual power consumed by the five wind cyclones was also very large, and as for hurrying, he would occasionally condense two wind cyclones to increase his speed.

Qiao Yuan took out the parchment map and carefully studied the location, and found that he had only walked about six thousand miles in a month, but he did not show an anxious look, but showed an extremely relaxed look.

After all, he can now condense a wind blade with a stick of incense, and he still has more than enough to protect himself in times of crisis, so he can increase his speed slightly.

However, Qiao Yuan didn't plan to spend all his time on the road, the cultivation at night was still a daily necessity, and he had to continue to be proficient in the two techniques of Wind Blade and Ruo Feng Xing during the day, Qiao Yuan didn't think that this was already his limit.

He had thought that dozens or hundreds of wind cyclones were condensed behind him, and that kind of speed was simply terrifying, and he had condensed thousands of wind blades thrown out at the same time, and that kind of scene made him excited.

"The next thing is to enter the Henglin Mountain Range, there are real demon beasts in this mountain, if you can catch a young beast......"

Qiao Yuan stared at the map and studied it carefully, and suddenly his eyes flashed with bright light, and the excitement on his face was visible at a glance, and he whispered to himself while reverie.

Another five days passed, and Qiao Yuan finally saw some peaks in front of him.

These peaks are endless, one after the other, although there are still towering trees on them, but Qiao Yuan has never seen so many such high peaks before, Qingfeng Mountain is just a small hillside compared to these peaks.

Qiao Yuan ran quickly in the dense forest, jumped on a branch from time to time, grabbed a vine, and flew out a few feet and jumped on a branch with a gentle swing, looking excited and cheerful like a stubborn monkey in the jungle.

Although the mountain peak looks close, it took Qiao Yuan more than half a day to come to the foot of the mountain, looking up, this mountain has no end in sight, and the dense trees and jungles hide the face of the mountain peak.

Qiao Yuan could still hear bursts of infiltrating roars coming from this mountain from time to time, making people feel that this mountain was like a hideous giant beast lying in ambush and recuperating, and some rotting small beast corpses could be seen everywhere at the foot of the mountain, and there were also traces of giant beast activities.

He didn't rush up the mountain, but walked around the foot of the mountain, after all, it was really unwise to rush up the mountain, although he was very confident that the map given by Xiao Fengqing would not be wrong, but who could guarantee that there would be no accidents.

Qiao Yuan walked about fifty miles around the foot of the mountain, and suddenly found a ditch two zhang wide and one foot deep by a small stream, and there was not much water in this ditch, only some small puddles, and some leaves hidden on it.

He didn't pay attention to it at first, but as he walked to a boulder, he suddenly realized that the ditch actually extended to the boulder, and although the ditch on the boulder was shallow, it was still clearly visible.

This discovery suddenly shocked Qiao Yuan's heart, and he had a bad guess in his heart, and his steps slowed down, his eyes slowly swept over every place around, and his ears were also catching the wind and grass around him.

Qiao Yuan could hear his heart pounding at this moment, and cold sweat couldn't help but break out on his forehead.