Chapter 111: Snake Hunting (I)
The ground shook, and the Black Beast was caught off guard and stood unsteadily, rolling on the soft ground, and even rolled into the pool next to it for a while, and then was washed out by the splashed sewage. The trees in the woods on the other side were also broken, and many of them were pushed out of the soil directly from their roots and thrown into the distance like javelins.
At this time, the place where Oboni was standing was a mile away from the place where the two beasts were fighting, but she could still feel the violent fluctuations under her feet, even with her innate cultivation, she was also shaken to the ground at the first shock, and it was only in the aftermath behind that she was able to stabilize her body.
"This is the Earth Dragon's turnover, isn't it?" thought to herself.
Lingzhou has a strong terrain, and she has never encountered an earthquake when she has grown so big, but she has heard others mention such a disaster, and she has also seen a description of it in the book. In her heart, the turning of the earth dragon was a natural disaster, but she didn't expect that although the scope of influence was not large, a strange beast in front of her could also cause such a terrifying effect.
That is, they are located in a gentle swamp with soft ground and lack of rocks, so that it does not cause the effect of falling apart. Of course, there is also a question mark over whether the buffalo's abilities can be used in places that are similarly filled with rocks. But it was still the case, and it took a lot of effort for Oponne to keep her balance, while also carefully avoiding the cracks that suddenly appeared.
The crevices in the swamp are not like the plains, it will be quickly poured into the sewage next to it, and any living creature that falls into it will definitely be carried into the unfathomable crevices by the current, trapped in the depths of the earth. That is, the movement of the battle between the two beasts before was too large, and all the living creatures around them had already fled, so there were no casualties.
The buffalo didn't just jump once, but kept jumping around, and as it continued to use its abilities, the earthquake became stronger and stronger, and the terrain around it had long since changed beyond recognition. Although the Black Beast struggled to maintain its balance with its own ability after reacting, it was also in a difficult situation, and could only keep dodging the cracks that appeared on the ground, and was unable to attack again.
Obonie, on the other hand, found that she could no longer stay here, as the earthquake was getting stronger and more dangerous, so she had to retreat into the distance.
Until she withdrew from a distance of about ten miles, she could still feel a slight vibration under her feet, and at the same time, she could see a large number of swamp protozoa, regardless of the natural predators or prey around them, desperately fleeing outside, for fear of becoming a pond fish that would be affected.
Oboni didn't dare to stay here, who knows if these two monsters would have other more powerful tricks?
However, this cow-made earthquake shook out many rare creatures hidden deep in the mud or water, allowing Oboni to easily capture a lot of raw materials that are rarely seen in ordinary times.
The earthquake lasted for more than a cup of tea before it slowly stopped. Oponne looked back at where she had come from, but did not dare to look back, for the great chasm in the ground in the distance told her that it was dangerous. And she didn't know where the mud had collapsed, but she had a thin shell on top. If she stepped on such a trap, she didn't dare to guarantee that she was safe.
Later, Oponne never saw these two beasts in the swamp again, but this encounter was enough to impress her that she did not dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool.
She had also asked her senior sister, and after hearing her description, Wei Xiangzi thought that these two alien beasts had reached the level of the innate peak, and because of the advantage of their size, as long as their intelligence was not too bad, ordinary innate peak martial artists were not necessarily their opponents.
And the power of the buffalo's final earthquake, although it has the advantage of the softer terrain of the swamp ground, but such a large-scale destructive ability is obviously not something that can be achieved by weight alone, and it obviously has a level close to that of an outer god to manipulate the qi of heaven and earth, but the usage is poor, and it can't fly, so it's not as strong as a serious outer god.
She also told Zhang Qing and A Longyin about this matter seriously, and asked the two to act strictly according to the scope they demarcated. Otherwise, once you encounter this kind of thing, let alone encounter a carnivorous beast, even if it is a herbivorous and short-tempered beast, these two acquired rookies can only be people's toys.
Zhang Qing kept in mind the adage of "listen to people's advice to eat enough", and after encountering several crises in Yunzhou, he strictly adhered to the scope of action set by Oboni's adventure, and would never go to the waves out of curiosity.
Soon, the two, accustomed to walking in the swamp, came to the area where the snake lived.
It was a depression slightly sunken compared to the rest of the country, about twenty or thirty miles in circumference. In the depression, there is no shallow water that is common in swamps, but there are pits with a diameter of no more than three or four zhang but the depth of the pit is not known, and the pits are full of water, but there is a layer of purple algae-like plants floating on the surface of the water, so that people cannot see what is under the surface of the water.
The reason why the snakes in Wanikezawa only live in this depression within a radius of twenty or thirty miles is because this purple algae grows only in this place. Despite their strange colours, they are completely non-venomous, nutritious, and have a clean water source, which attracts a large number of small animals and birds to rest here, which brings enough food for the snakes.
However, although algae are not poisonous, their underwater stems will grow some nodules, and after swallowing these nodules, the snakes will ferment and metamorphose mixed body fluids in their bodies, which will form their weapons of attack - miasma, which is also one of their biggest life-saving weapons.
At the same time, because of the delicious taste of purple algae, if it is eaten by animals in the swamp in unlimited quantities, the algae that only exist in this depression will soon be eaten extinct. The presence of the snake also ensures that the algae have enough environment to grow, so the two are a strange symbiosis.
In fact, speaking of which, the snake does not exist only in Wan Chi Ze, otherwise the ancestors of Kong Sang Dao who lived in Lingzhou and other southern states would not have recorded the snake gall in the "Kong Mulberry Poison Sutra" - after all, the discovery of Yunzhou is only a few hundred years old, and this Wan Chi Ze was also gradually visited after the development of Yunzhou. However, the empty mulberry road has been inherited for thousands of years, and although the "Empty Mulberry Poison Sutra" has been continuously updated with the times, the formula of "attracting demons" is obviously not invented in the last few hundred years.
The snake is a peculiar snake that needs to live in symbiosis with some kind of algae that can both bring meat and provide miasma feeding. The vast southern states also have a large number of marshlands because of their geographical relationship, and the same geographical environment can breed similar species. It may not be this purple algae, but there will be other plants with similar effects. Therefore, although the snake population is not large, it has also been recorded by the predecessors of Kusando and its medicinal properties have been discovered.
Of course, after all, the symbiotic algae are different, and the miasma spit out by the snake living in Lingzhou is definitely different from the miasma of the snake in Wanchize, and if the poisoned person is treated in the same way, eighty percent will have little effect. However, as a poison user, Oboni has lived here for seven or eight years, and has long figured out the toxicity of snakes here, and has prepared antidote for the two juniors early on, in case they accidentally inhale the poisonous gas, so that the two will not be trapped by the poison, which can be regarded as well-intentioned.
The two of them stood on the edge of the depression, looking condescendingly at the dense water storage holes in front of them, but they could hardly see the water surface, because it was spring, and it was the time when the algae were thick. Patches of purple algae covered most of the water's surface, glowing strangely in the sunlight, like purple eyes. From a distance, there is a strange and slightly numb beauty.
Some waterfowl are already standing cautiously by the pool, eating delicious algae, while vigilantly watching the movement at the bottom of the water, ready to spread their wings away at the slightest wind and grass.
However, the two knew that the snake basically hunted in the evening. One is that as a snake that lives in the water, it naturally hates sunlight, and the other is that at that time, the most animals come to drink water, and it is also the easiest to fill their stomachs.
(End of chapter)