Chapter 23: There is no such thing as a shock

Youzhou Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts

In the blink of an eye, Xiang Junhao's nephew and nephew have been in this valley for a year, and spring and summer alternate autumn and winter are in the wax moon of the Middle Earth calendar, and the New Year is about to begin. The entrance of the cliff cave where the three of them lived was framed by Xiang Junhao with a number of huge animal skeletons, and then several layers of thick animal skins and animal fur were laid on it to block the cold wind, and the fire in the cave was very warm. Outside the cave is a white expanse between heaven and earth, snowflakes dancing in the air and falling from the sky in various postures, or flying, or circling, or falling straight and quickly and falling to the ground. The snow covered the mountains and grasslands, crushed the branches of the trees, hid the appearance of all kinds of objects, blocked the mountain roads, and the snowflakes flew all over the sky, so that the heavens and the earth dissolved into a white one, and the white tabernacle was pulled up all around.

A month ago, Lin You, the overseer of the town hunt, took a group of people to the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts, and asked Jun Hao carefully about the whole process of his battle with the lizard demon, and then under his leadership, he carefully surveyed the cave where the lizard demon had hidden, and also took away the buried body of the lizard demon. Only then did Xiang Junhao know that this demon beast was called Blood Roar, which was named because it would spray blood-red Lingqi light, and it was a very special group of demons in the northern realm. It's just that Middle-earth's records and research on it are limited, and it is only known that this race is not the original creature of Middle-earth, but migrated from the land west of the Western Regions with a humanoid race a hundred years ago, and seems to be the soldiers and servants of this race. This humanoid race has been wandering between the western and northern realms of Middle-earth for a long time, wandering between humans, Linglong, and demons, and does not completely favor either side. But suddenly the group disappeared ten years ago, and there is no other detailed information.

Xiang Junhao sat shirtless on a flat cliff protruding from the entrance of the cave, running a Lingqi retreat. Although it was icy and snowy, his body was still bubbling with steam, which was the heat generated by the Lingqi in his body when it was running, and the falling snowflakes had been vaporized by the heat before they even landed on his body. He felt that the Lingqi in his body was entangled with the Linglong Qi, it felt very strange, at first they seemed to be fighting and then seemed to be merging, and after a long time, they tended to be peaceful and went their own way without entanglement. Xiang Junhao had been meditating for three hours, and after a while, he finished his meditation and dispersed the Lingqi, and opened his eyes to look at the snowy world. He wanted to stand up, but he sat for too long with numb legs, back pain, buttocks, and couldn't move... He could only stiffen there.

At this time, Helan Xuanji poked out a small head from the thick animal skin curtain and asked, "Senior brother, have you finished your meditation?" Why do you have such a painful expression?

Xiang Junhao grinned and said: Numb, legs are numb, sitting, sitting for too long... I want to move, but I can't...

Helan Xuanji immediately burst out laughing, she leaned out, grabbed the snow at the entrance of the cave and kneaded it into several snowballs, and said sinisterly: Sit down, right in this position, watch the fight!

Xiang Junhao couldn't get up and hide because of the numbness and pain, so she was thrown all over with a snowball by her annoying senior sister, and finally became like a snowman. It wasn't until Mo Qingji, who was sleeping in the cave, was awakened by the cold wind that Helan Xuanji had penetrated through the cracks in the rolled up door curtains, and howled to give these two little ones a good look, that Helan Xuanji stopped playing the game of fixed targets, and then threw out his jacket and coat from the hole for Xiang Junhao to wear.

Xiang Junhao had just packed up Lisuo and was about to make a stutter to replenish his strength, and the black monkey with his arm jumped along the branch, which was a monkey under the leadership of the black monkey demon beast group that surrendered to Jun Hao a few months ago. Since he started to train with the target demon beast in the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts, he practiced with the target demon beast in line with the original intention of subduing the demon with martial arts, not seriously injuring or killing. The result of this is that as long as he wins the battle, the demon beasts that are subdued eventually become friends with him, and often guide him to the mountains to pick precious and rare herbs or dig up spiritual things to help him cultivate.

The armed black monkey monster jumped onto the cliff at the entrance of the cave, squeaked and whined like a sphere, and then pointed in the direction of the habitat of their group. Xiang Junhao took out a bag of jerky from the hole, took out a piece and threw it to the black monkey demon beast with the arm, and said to the cave without looking back: "Senior uncle, senior sister, I'll go out."

Then he chewed the jerky and followed the black monkey demon beast with the arm to climb the trunk of the mangrove trees all over the mountain, Helan Xuanji heard the sound and just chased it out, and saw Xiang Junhao like a monkey, following the black monkey monster hanging on the trunk of the tree and gradually disappearing into the mountains and forests and snow sea. I had to complain there: I have to make myself like a monkey and scurry around in the trees! People don't even say a bite of the broth that has been boiled for a long time, it was originally for you to ward off the cold, and when you come back to clean you up!

At this time, he could only hear Mo Qingzhi's violent dry cough coming from the cave behind him, and Helan Xuanji hurriedly entered the cave to check. I saw Mo Qing holding one hand to cover his throat, and with the other hand, he grabbed a handful of snow waiting to melt and stuffed it into his mouth. Helan Xuanji thought that Uncle Shi was wrong, and walked up to him in three steps and two steps to ask long and short questions, and Mo Qingzhi waved his hand to indicate that it was okay. After he swallowed the mouthful of snow, he let out a sigh, pointed to the soup pot and asked, "Xuanji, Uncle Shi asked you to make a spicy soup to ward off the cold, how many chili peppers and salt did you put in it?"

Helan Xuanji crossed her fingers and thought about it, and said to herself: It's not much, according to the proportion of condiments in the small pot in the past, put it into the big pot, three handfuls of salt, six handfuls of chili powder...

Mo Qingzhi almost fainted, not to mention the salt bar, the dried chili powder is made of the hottest chili pepper in Yizhou. On weekdays, two handfuls of dried chili powder can make the most spicy Yizhou people in the Tiansheng Empire feel okay, Helan Xuanji put six handfuls today!

Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts High mountains and halfway up the mountainside

Xiang Junhao followed the black monkey monster beast to a woodland next to their habitat, and saw from a distance that the black monkey leader with the monkeys and monkey grandchildren squatting around the side slope of a cliff, and the monkeys squeaked and whined as if they were discussing something lively. Xiang Junhao jumped up and approached, and the leader of the black monkey with the arm who was guarding in front of him saw him coming, and a hole two people high appeared in front of him. I saw the leader of the black monkey with a look of fear on his face and pointed to the hole, and then gestured to something that looked like a sphere while screaming, meaning as if it had been injured by the sphere, and there were slight burns on its body. Xiang Junhao nodded, threw the bag of jerky to the leader of the black monkey, who took the jerky and cheered and grabbed a handful of it and stuffed it into his mouth, and then scattered the rest to the monkey monkey grandchildren.

Xiang Junhao carefully observed the entrance of the cave, the entrance of the cave was surrounded by large pieces of rubble and the remnants of large branches at the mouth of the bowl, it seems that the hole was buried and hidden before, it may be the earthquake a month ago and the recent heavy snow completely collapsed the hole to reveal its true face. Xiang Junhao did not rush in, but ran the Lingqi to sense the situation in and around the cave for more than ten zhang, and after a while, he confirmed that there was no danger and left to walk towards the cave. The leader of the black monkey squeaked at him uneasily, and said with a smile to Jun Hao: You all scatter back, I'll go in and take a look, it's okay.

Xiang Junhao slowly walked into the cave, and after walking for a short time, it was completely dark and he couldn't see anything. He unleashed a number of lightning bolts, which floated around him like large fireflies, illuminating a large area in front of him, left and right. These lightning triggers can not only illuminate, but also detect the approach of potentially dangerous Lingqi, which can give him a warning in advance. Or it can sense the movement of the enemy's spirit qi within the range of lightning dispersion, and become a perceptron that captures the enemy's trajectory. At the same time, it can also be turned into an attack technique, where multiple lightning bolts can be combined to form a photoelectric sphere, which can be controlled to kill and injure the enemy by exploding. This is the intermediary technique within the Yunfeng Pavilion Heavenly Thunder Duel, he has long mastered the trick of the mental method, but he has not been in the spiritual realm enough to use and control groups of decent thunder guides. After practicing the Broken Mirror in the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts, he has the ability to control this technique freely, and he can release a slightly more similar group of thunder to attract it.

Xiang Junhao was not in a hurry, and moved forward step by step. He was not only worried about the danger in the cave that he didn't know, but also worried about finding that the tunnel in the cave was a little overhanging, and what if he couldn't hold it and collapsed. After walking for about half an hour, Xiang Junhao should have walked to the end of the road, and there seemed to be a light flickering at the end of the bend in front of him. Fearing that there was deception, he took a shadowless step to cover up his Lingqi trails, and then continued to walk slowly towards the bend. When he walked to the corner, Lei Yin around him didn't listen to his control, and all of them flew out, flying straight to the flashing light source at the other end of the curve. Xiang Junhao quickly moved to the other end of the curve, and the scene in front of him stunned him...

He was standing on top of a cave platform, and in front of him was a hollow mountain whose size was impossible to visualize. The cave is full of huge stone pillars formed by connecting the stalactites and the stalagmites that grow correspondingly, forming a group of stone forests in the cave, each stone pillar seems to rise from the ground, and the magnificence of standing up to the sky and the earth cannot detect its height. Not far away, there is a small waterfall in the cave, and the water flowing down from the stone crack is like a water curtain, and the water flows down a stone gorge to the depths of the unknown. The cave can be said to be full of mist, the fairy breath is swirling, the fairy water is long flowing, the blue water is rippling, and the meandering canyon is flowing. Looking up, the magnificent points of light that seemed to be composed of thunder and lightning overhead were constantly flickering, illuminating the entire mountain hollow. The shocking scene reminded him of a poem that Xiang Jiyun once taught: "The cave household can't be opened for a thousand years, and the white clouds wander without an owner, just because after the jade growers return, the spring breeze will be closed and I will come"

Xiang Junhao withdrew his jaw that was about to fall from shock, and began to look for the spherical object that the black monkey said. Finally, at the far end of the heavenly river of light overhead, on a platform formed by the intersection of multiple stone pillars, a huge spherical body kept flickering. Xiang Jun Hao took a leap to leave the cave cliff platform, and kept leaping forward with the stone pillars along the way as the foothold, and after a while, he came to the platform...