Chapter 214: Red Buddha Zhi

When the distant sky shimmered and dawn began to fall, most of the vast Black Crow Ridge was still silent, except for the depths of a long, narrow valley.

The sound of "crackling" of different weights and severalities echoed in the valley, and it was particularly harsh in the early morning when the dawn had just fallen. A large group of black and overwhelming blood jackals were still driven by the bloodthirsty instinct, chasing the flesh and blood running in front of them, but from mid-air, there were already blood jackals falling to the ground due to exhaustion. Some of the blood jackals were still crawling and struggling on the ground, while others were dying in agony after finally wriggling their ugly bodies.

In the past countless years, once the huge group of blood jackals flew out to hunt, they often swarmed up after discovering the prey, surrounded the prey with a huge number and ferocious bites, and then quickly sucked blood and ate meat, and then returned with a full load.

Such battles are always short and intense, even if the prey itself is a strong and huge high-level demon beast, but under the attack of the huge numerical superiority of the blood jackal bats, it often can't last long, so all along, the blood jackals here are almost a symbol of invincibility in the dark night when they come out to hunt, in the area around the Black Crow Ridge.

But they had never experienced a bitter battle that took a long time or even several hours.

On both sides of that valley, there was an extremely cunning human being, and in that dark night, they had reached an almost indescribable tacit understanding, and such a simple method of lighting up with firelight was to pull such a terrible and vicious group of blood jackals and bats into the sky above this valley, flying around, but they could not really catch those two people.

Until dawn, these ferocious and ugly blood jackals, who did not fall to rest all night, finally exhausted their physical strength by these terrible demon beasts.

As the light of day brightened, the crackling sound gradually intensified, and black figures continued to fall from the large group of bats, and in the end, they had even begun to fall to the ground one by one, one by one.

The black cloud of bats was rapidly shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in mid-air, the sound of wailing and screaming resounded through the valley, which was terrifying.

Under the mountain forest, Shen Shi stopped and glanced back at the mid-air.

Running in the middle of the night, constantly wandering on the edge of life and death, although it is really very simple to look back at that method now, but the spirit of this night with almost no rest and always tense still feels a little tired for him.

But everything looks like it's worth it.

In mid-air, the remaining bats seemed to have finally discovered something, and their small brains had finally discovered that things had reached the point of despair. The circling swarm of bats no longer pursued the two cunning enemies, and after they flew in the air for a moment, they screamed one after another, and finally suddenly the dark clouds gathered, but they suddenly rose into the air, and flew towards the depths of the Black Crow Ridge together, and did not look back, and fled in a hurry.

From a distance, the large group of huge bats that were overwhelming the sky had already been much smaller in size when they left at this moment, and there were only about half of them left.

And looking back at the bottom of the valley, in the long and narrow valley floor passage, all the way over, there were black blood jackal corpses everywhere, as if the valley floor was smeared with a layer of deep color.

The sky slowly brightened, and the early morning mountain breeze blew in from afar, and although there was still a little unpleasant smell in the air, it still gave people a kind of satisfying relaxation. Shen Shi let out a sigh of relief, stood on a small hill on the edge of the valley, looked at the sky that had gradually cleared, and suddenly realized something, but turned his head to look at the side of the valley.

On the other side of the valley, there was a dense mountain forest, and behind a large tree at the edge of the woods, a young man came out, and happened to look at him.

Across a valley, the eyes of the two met from a distance, and Shen Shi also saw that person's face clearly at that moment.

Ganze.

Gan Ze, who was standing under the mountain forest, also saw Shen Shi on the opposite mountain at this moment, obviously he was also taken aback, but after a while, his eyes showed a little relief, a smile appeared on his face, and he stretched out his arm and waved his hand vigorously at Shen Shi in the distance.

After Shen Shi's initial surprise, he also had an inexplicable strange feeling in his heart, recalling the rare tacit battle last night, and then looking at Gan Ze opposite, he also smiled, and then beckoned to him as well.

A moment later, on either side of the valley, the two young men did not delay any longer, and each turned and walked on, submerging into the forest.

There was only a few morning breezes, still blowing in this quiet valley, as if still recalling the noisy and strange battle of last night.

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The blood jackal bat group is extremely ferocious, and it can be said that it is the most powerful existence in this mountain forest in the middle of the night, but this powerful combat power is actually based on its huge number, in terms of individuals alone, a single blood jackal bat is actually not very powerful, and it is only classified as the lowest first-order demon beast in terms of grade.

In addition, there are no useful spiritual materials on the body of the blood jackal bat, the only thing that can be barely used should be the blood jackal's relatively tough bat skin, but it is not easy to use, there are too many things in the many spiritual materials that can replace it, and it can't be sold at a good price.

Therefore, in fact, the blood jackal bat is one of the most hated demon beasts encountered by the monks who usually explore and travel, firstly, the blood jackal bats are very dangerous in groups, and if they don't do well, they will lose their lives;

Therefore, whether it was Shen Shi or Gan Ze in the opposite mountain forest, after breaking up, they didn't turn around and pay attention to the meaning of the blood jackals that fell and died in the valley, but walked directly to the depths of the Black Crow Ridge.

However, not long after they left, the valley that had calmed down was full of bloody jackal corpses, and even some of them were still struggling. And on the mountain road behind the valley, a figure suddenly slowly leaned out, as if with a little caution, looking at the blood jackal bats all over the ground in front of him with some nervousness.

After leaving the nameless valley, Shen Shi continued to move forward, but as he gradually went deeper, the blood-sucking soil appeared and disappeared along the way, and the mountains were undulating, and most of the time he avoided the places with blood-sucking soil, and sometimes when he was really blocked by the blood-sucking soil and had no way out, he would take Xiao Hei to pass quickly, and did not stay too much on the blood-sucking soil.

And as he went deeper and deeper into the Black Crow Ridge, the situation gradually changed, first of all, the most obvious one was that the number of spirit grasses found by Xiao Hei began to increase slightly, and at the same time, the quality of spirit grass also improved slightly.

After half a day's effort, Xiao Hei took Shen Shi to walk among the mountains without blood-sucking soil, and found twelve spirit grasses before and after, including seven first-grade spirit grasses and five second-grade spirit grasses, which should be considered good compared to yesterday's harvest.

Maybe it's because in that outer realm, the disciples of the Ling Xiao Sect who had been attacked before had already been swept away?

Shen Shi had such a conjecture in his heart, but this thought did not last long, because not long after, Shen Shi heard a quarrel somewhere behind a mountain rock in front of him, and in the current environment, it must be the disciples of the Ling Xiao Sect who participated in the trial.

This trial and examination school in Black Crow Ridge is basically prepared for the trip to the Wentian Secret Realm after half a year, the legendary Wentian Secret Realm has a huge area, and after the disciples of the Four Righteous Sects who have entered there in the past come out, almost all of them are described like this, and the most exaggerated even some people say that the area in it can be compared with the entire Hongmeng Continent.

Of course, this is indeed a bit exaggerated, but to sum up, the territory inside will not be small, and the Ling Xiao Sect has also prepared this trial for this, and the territory of Black Crow Ridge is not small, but after a day and a night, the other disciples seem to have finally begun to show signs of contact with each other, but it sounds like unlike the tacit and cooperative battle between Shen Shi and Gan Ze last night, the encounter here does not seem to be pleasant.

Shen Shi pondered for a moment, but decided to go over and take a look, he took Xiao Hei to take light steps, walked to the huge mountain rock, and then found a hidden corner, secretly poked his head out, and glanced forward.

Behind the boulder, it looked like a green meadow on a gentle slope in the mountains, with a few lonely trees growing in the middle, and two men dressed in the clothes of the disciples of the Ling Xiao Sect were facing each other at the bottom of a big tree at this moment, a few feet apart, not giving in to each other, glaring at each other angrily, looking tense.

Shen Shi's eyes turned, first swept over the two people, and found that the faces of these two people were very unfamiliar, obviously not in the past with their own past, but after a while, his eyes suddenly lit up, but he saw that under the big tree not far from the two people, between the cracks of a tree root that was like a dragon, there was a strange flower and plant, purple stems and blue leaves, bright color, and a red fruit at the top, the size of a small half fist, full and bright, the most amazing thing is that this fruit is not round in shape, but uneven, it looks a little like a Buddha statue, and it seems to be able to smell a little faint aroma from a long distance。

Beside Shen Shi, Xiao Hei suddenly made a commotion, slammed his hooves on the ground a few times, and pushed against Shen Shi's legs and feet, looking a little excited.

Shen Shi nodded, signaling that he knew, and at the same time looked at the spirit grass from a distance, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said:

"It turned out to be 'Red Buddha Zhi'......"

Red Buddha Zhi is classified in the Hongmeng Pharmacopoeia issued by the Immortal Society, but the value of this precious spirit grass is definitely among the best among all the three grade spirit grasses, and sometimes it even surpasses some ordinary four-grade spirit grasses, which is definitely a valuable treasure.

At this moment, even Shen Shi came with some hot eyes when he saw it, and the two disciples of the Ling Xiao Sect obviously had a dispute over this, and they would never give in to each other in such a confrontation, and finally even began to speak ill of each other.

Shen Shi listened for a while, as if it meant that one of them discovered the Red Buddha Zhi Spirit Grass first, but then was discovered by another monk nearby, and the treasure was in front, plus there was this trial and examination school that could even be related to the fate of future cultivation by winning or losing with harvest, so naturally no one could give in, so they confronted each other.

Seeing that the two people were getting more and more noisy, and even had the intention of making a move immediately, Shen Shi frowned slightly, and the thoughts in his heart turned, but at this time, he suddenly saw out of the corner of his eye somewhere in the meadow behind the big tree over there, and suddenly a figure flashed by.

Although it was only for a moment, Shen Shi immediately recognized the figure, because it was a person he was very familiar with, and it was Zhong Qingzhu.

Shen Shi was shocked in his heart, and then he lost his mind for a moment, almost the moment he saw Zhong Qingzhu, he subconsciously thought that when he jumped off the floating immortal boat when he entered the mountain yesterday, Zhong Qingzhu was still on the boat. I don't know when she got off the floating immortal boat later, but Shen Shi knew that after she entered the mountain, she still maintained a relatively straight direction for most of the time, and Zhong Qingzhu suddenly appeared here at this moment, so thinking about it, it seemed that it was ...... There's only one reason:

After she got off the boat, for some reason, she didn't move in a straight line towards the depths of the Black Crow Ridge as smoothly and cautiously as most people do, but suddenly increased her speed, and walked in a strange direction that straddled horizontally, until this moment, when she and Shen Shi met unexpectedly at this time.

Why is that?

Where did she want to go?