Chapter 18: The Iron-Toothed Wolf
Glancing at the scenery outside the valley, Chen Sanxin said: I think this is the Xiangshou cliff in this dangerous valley recorded in the classics of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion inside the door.
Even though most of the demon beasts in the valley are in the early and middle stages of chaos, they pose little threat to themselves, especially if they are still on the periphery of the valley, there may not be any low-level demon beasts, but it is only possible.
When Chen was young for three years, he didn't fight with troublesome children or gangsters in the city, and it was common to gather helpers to ambush and attack.
If it weren't for the fact that his father was a wealthy man in the city, and the relationship between officials and businessmen was not shallow, Chen San's frequent flirting would have made people impatient to make a heavy hand.
Over time, Chen San was also accustomed to this kind of life, and every place where danger might occur, he had to observe it carefully, and this habit also saved him from the pain of flesh and skin many times.
When the light descended just now, Chen San also observed this cliff, as long as you walk more than 20 zhang in the passage between the cliff wall, you can enter the valley, if it is not for the classics that have pointed out that you can't directly enter the valley in the sky, otherwise you will violate the default rules of the demon beasts in the valley, and attack them in groups, and can only enter from the passages outside the valley, Chen San doesn't want to take this easy to ambush cliff bottom path.
These rules were set by the demon beasts who had cultivated to the late stage of chaos and had slightly opened their spiritual intelligence, and those low-level demon beasts in the valley knew how to implement them even if their spiritual intelligence was low.
Before Chen San descended the retreat, he had confirmed that the top of the cliff was a smooth road, there was no ambush, and there was nothing unusual outside the valley, so he walked from the path at the bottom of the cliff to the valley.
After a while, Chen San's eyes were greeted by a vast dense forest, surrounded by several people, towering giant trees covering the sky and the sun abounded, and occasionally a few strange birds and beasts roared, and the dim and abnormal dense forest looked extremely gloomy.
Chen San walked out of the valley and walked towards the dense forest under the slope.
The inner perimeter of the Hundred Dangers Valley is such a mountain cliff stretching out, and under the cliff is such a circle of slopes that go straight into the dense forest in the valley.
The purpose of this trip is to find a five-leaf Mingshen grass recorded in the classics in the door, also known as the five-color Mingshen grass, this kind of spiritual grass has five leaves, each leaf has a color, after taking it has the effect of permanently improving the divine sense, and can make the user exercise the divine consciousness speed up by more than two percent.
Since it has such a miraculous effect, it must be extremely rare, Chen San should be hopeless, why bother looking for this kind of spiritual grass? With Chen San's temperament, he would not do such useless work.
Chen San is also forced to do so, his divine consciousness realm is already on par with the spiritual power realm, and it is the mid-enlightenment realm, and in the future, he may also jump all the way to the foundation building period with the spiritual power realm, and the Jindan period is uncertain, how can he explain to the master and the head of the sect at that time?
If you can't explain it, then you will observe and investigate, sooner or later, people will find out the clues, and then Chen San will not believe that the people in Qingyunmen are all righteous men and gentlemen, and they are not greedy for heavy treasures, and let themselves cultivate quickly with heavy treasures without jealousy. At that time, it is not impossible to treat yourself casually, on a trumped-up charge, or on a mission, and never return.
It's no wonder that Chen San has a lot of unscrupulous thoughts at such a young age, because when he was young, he had already seen all kinds of despicable and obscene things because his companions were jealous of his peers' money and property.
For this kind of spirit grass, Chen Sanlai Baiwei Valley is just looking for an excuse, what he told Song Zhuoxian is just to come here to experience and find an ordinary spirit grass by the way, turtle back grass, and when he returns from the experience, he tells Shizun that he is fortunate to find a five-leaf Ming God Grass, this kind of spirit grass does not need to be refined, and it can be swallowed directly without losing its medicinal effect, thinking that the progress of the spiritual consciousness exercise he has cultivated is slow, and he can't resist the temptation to take it directly.
This kind of spiritual grass also has a characteristic, that is, it is possible to generate this kind of spiritual object in a place where spiritual energy gathers, that is to say, a spiritual grass may also grow out of a place where spiritual energy gathers in Qingyunmen, and this kind of deeds is not unrecorded in the classics.
However, the spirit grass is inherently rare, and these deeds are too fortuitous to be used as a reference, Chen San just wants to make a fuss about the random growth characteristics of this kind of spirit grass, which is also the reason why Chen San is most likely to encounter the most convincing.
Regardless of whether the master or the people in the door believe it or not, this is also the best thing that Chen San can come up with for the time being to solve the hidden danger of the rapid growth of his divine consciousness, at least so that he can hide it for a longer period of time, after cultivating it, he really can't hide it, and then he will simply hand it over, and it is estimated that the head of the door and others will no longer be difficult for him.
Walking into the dense forest, stepping on the ground paved with fallen leaves, every step to the bottom felt like falling into a quagmire, so that Chen San walked cautiously at first, and his divine sense spread out to investigate.
Chen San's plan was to first circle around the periphery of the Hundred Dangers Valley, and then circle around again outside the center of the valley, and pick up useful things when he encounters them, and avoid them if he encounters demon beasts, and avoid them without entanglement.
Half an hour later, Chen San suddenly frowned, and passed through a huge tree, revealing a clearing in front of him that was several zhang in size, with not much grass and trees, only covered with fallen leaves like the usual forest ground.
There is a small grass growing in the center of the clearing, and a small gray five-petal flower on the top of the grass quietly enjoys a trace of sunlight cast from above, under the illumination of the sun, the gray flower is still gray and dull, without a trace of the petals' due luster, as if it has been dried.
Chen San was happy in his heart, and said with a smile, "Jiupin Spirit Flower Gray Swamp Flower, so easily let Young Master Ben find a Spirit Flower, it seems that Young Master I came to the right time when I practiced in the Hundred Dangers Valley this time." However, according to the records of the classics, this flower will only grow on the mire, and ordinary mortals and beasts cannot easily step into it, otherwise it will fall into the quagmire and become nourishment for this flower. ”
Picked up a two-finger-thick dead branch and threw it into the open space, only to see that as soon as the dead branch hit the ground, it pressed the fallen leaves and sank, and disappeared after a while, and the fallen leaves squeezed to the place where the dead branches sank, and after a while, they returned to the general appearance of the open space.
Chen San nodded, took out the Wen Yu Sword, jumped with both feet, stepped on the sword body and flew away, and when he flew in front of the Gray Swamp Flower, his right hand was full of spiritual power and grabbed the Gray Swamp Flower by the roots, and then flew to the edge of the mire on the opposite side.
This kind of spiritual flower absorbs the miasma in the forest under the swamp all the year round, it is a kind of poisonous flower, you can only wear gloves on both hands or be covered with spiritual power to prevent the poisonous flower from getting on the skin, otherwise it will be miasma into the body, ordinary mortals instantly whine, even if it is a monk in the enlightenment period, it will feel very uncomfortable, and it is necessary to run spiritual power to expel it.
After landing on the ground, Chen San took out a wooden box specially designed to load the elixir from the door and engraved a simple magic circle, put it into the ash swamp flower, put it away with a prohibition, and slowly walked forward again.
A few days later, on a giant tree, where the branches and leaves were dense, Chen San calmed down, ran the method to restrain his breath, and quietly watched a demon beast that was eating not far from the tree.
This demon beast is an iron-toothed wolf in the middle of chaos, one of the many demon beasts in the Hundred Dangers Valley, and this iron-toothed wolf accounts for nearly one-fifth of the total number of demon beasts in the entire valley.
In the past few days, Chen San has not encountered any spiritual flowers and strange grasses, but the miasma group has encountered a group the day before, and the demon beasts have encountered more than a dozen, basically in the early stage of chaos, if you can avoid it, you can avoid it, and if you can't avoid it, Chen San will kill it, anyway, the corpse of the demon beast can also be used as a material, and when you go to Fang City, you can also exchange a few pieces of spirit stone flowers.
Chen San couldn't help but sigh that he could meet a nine-grade spirit flower on the first day, it seemed that it was all due to luck, and this hundred dangers valley still deserved the word "hundred dangers".
Today, Chen San found a stone armor bear in the early stage of chaos coming towards him dozens of zhang away, this kind of demon beast is slow, with a hard skin like a stone, but its defense is even more powerful than that of ordinary mid-chaos demon beasts, and ordinary low-level demon beasts generally do not take the initiative to provoke it.
After discovering that the stone armor bear did not find himself, one of the characteristics of Chen San's practice method "Breeze Gathering Clouds" is that he is light and hidden, using his hands and feet at the same time, and in a breath, he climbed to the top of the giant tree next to him, found a dense place with branches and leaves, and waited for the stone armor bear to go away before going down and continuing to move forward.
In Chen San's eyes, a black shadow suddenly appeared silently among the trees thirty zhang away, and a few leaps had already rushed to the back of the stone bear.
When the stone bear noticed the abnormality behind him, the thick and bulky body only had time to turn half of its body, and a howl mixed with pain sounded, and a rain of blood spilled from the left shoulder of the stone bear's rock-like body, and the entire left forearm was already unloaded by the black shadow.
The black shadow stopped, showing its figure, it was a black-backed giant wolf the size of a calf, under the eyes of the dark green wolf, the iron teeth in the giant mouth tightly bit a bear arm that was still dripping blood, the iron teeth loosened and moved tightly, click, and the bear arm broke into two in the mouth of the giant wolf.
Chen San was looking at the hair standing on end on the tree, and his heart was pounding, this iron-toothed wolf demon beast was too powerful, he had encountered two early-stage chaos iron-toothed wolves before, but no matter the size of the body, the attack speed could not be compared, and the demon beast in front of him also deserved the word iron teeth, and easily tore off one of the front legs of the high-defense demon beast such as the stone armor bear.
Looking at the iron-toothed wolf that was slowly approaching the iron-armored bear, Chen San was afraid for a while.
In the past few days, Chen San, who had encountered many demon beasts in the early stage of chaos and found that they could not pose a threat to him, later encountered a Ling Feng Tiger in the middle of chaos, and Fang Hao also let the other party discover him.
Ling Fenghu is a speed-type demon beast, Chen San is also a cultivator of light spirit exercises, and has a high-grade magic weapon to protect himself, after several struggles, he found that he could not help Chen San, and after he also suffered a few minor sword wounds, Ling Fenghu reluctantly stopped attacking, turned his head and ran into the depths of the dense forest.
Chen San didn't chase either, although he didn't suffer any damage in this fight, but he consumed a lot of spiritual power, even if he was lucky to win in the end, there would inevitably be little spiritual power left, and then Chen San would be like a mortal, an ordinary beast might be able to kill himself.
However, this experience also made Chen San feel that the middle stage of chaos is nothing more than that, I don't want to fight, I want to retreat, even if I encounter a demon beast in the late stage of chaos, it is not impossible to retreat calmly.
But the sudden appearance of the iron-toothed wolf under the tree shattered the arrogance in Chen San's heart, if it weren't for the fact that he had just discovered the iron-toothed wolf silently scurrying out from the tree opposite the stone armor bear, Chen San asked himself that he might not have found the sudden appearance of the demon beast. Even if the divine sense detected it first, with the strange speed of the iron-toothed wolf, before Chen San could respond, the giant wolf's iron teeth might have reached him.
If this demon beast, which was faster than the Ling Feng Tiger he had encountered before, suddenly appeared behind him, and the huge mouth that could easily bite off even the tough bear arm of the stone armor bear pounced on the back of his neck, Chen San couldn't help but shudder, and his heart was beating.
After the iron-toothed wolf showed its shape, the stone armor bear's hideous and angry bear face was stunned, and the remaining three bear legs slowly moved back, which turned out to be a great intention to retreat without a fight, showing the power of this iron-toothed wolf among the many demon beasts in the Hundred Dangers Valley.
The slowly retreating stone bear saw that the iron-toothed wolf was still unrelenting and pressed forward, knowing that his speed was not as good as the iron-toothed wolf, and at this moment he had another arm to the other party, and when there was no hope of escaping, he regained his previous hideous and crazy, and with a roar of anger, the man stood up, and the remaining right front paw slapped away to the iron-toothed wolf in front of him.
The iron-toothed wolf dodged the bear's claws with a slight leap of his limbs, and after tearing off a large piece of flesh from the chest and abdomen of the stone bear, he quickly bounced off his feet.
Under the pain, the stone bear was even more crazy, regardless of the pain, chasing the iron-toothed wolf is fierce chase and pounced.
It's a pity that this iron-toothed wolf is too cunning, every time he looks at the flaws, his own speed is not weak, after several chase and fighting, the stone bear is already scarred, and finally fell to the ground after a pop, and can no longer get up, only breathless.
The iron-toothed wolf circled around the stone bear a few times, watching the blood gushing out of the stone bear flow for a while, and then slowly crossed to the bear's head, the wolf's snout quickly poked out, and the iron tooth bit the bear's neck.
Shi Jiaxiong's body twitched violently, and after a few breaths, it fell silent, and the light in the bear's eyes gradually dissipated.
After seeing that the stone bear was no longer alive, the iron-toothed wolf's huge mouth still did not let go, and after a few breaths, he slowly let go of the iron teeth, turned his head and tore off a large piece of flesh and blood on the bear's abdomen, chewed it a few times, raised his head and swallowed it, and actually ate it.
Chen San was shocked to see the whole process.