Daybreak.

The lone wolf lurks in the bushes, the dark green light warns of the ripples in the waterhole, the moon falls too hard to lift the veil of night, and the morning sun cannot dispel the fog that shrouds the morning light. Decay and danger corroded every wisp of air in the canyon, obscuring the view and making it impossible to tell who was the prey.

The old man was gone, just yesterday evening.

Carrying half of the crispy venison that had just been roasted, he disappeared back into the depths of the mist. Before leaving, he also left a warning, there is a monster with boundless mana living in the depths of the canyon, and if you go further inside, you will be looking for death. Although the words may seem alarmist, no one will doubt its authenticity. Because, whether it is Xia Xun or Mo Xian, they can always feel that the wisp of dangerous aura that only exists in the void is approaching them all the time. And Xia Xun, from this breath, smelled a strange but so familiar and taste, which has never been felt before.

It's like something is calling him...

"Good weather. ”

"Can you see that?"

"Guess. ”

"Oh. ”

"Hehe, maybe it's a nice day. ”

"Hopefully. ”

"No matter, let's go..."

In the morning, the fog in the canyon is particularly heavy, and the vision is already blurred dozens of feet away, and the feeling of dampness is uncomfortable. The medicine refined by Xia Xun is very effective, and the skin and flesh that were bitten off yesterday have basically healed after a night of rest. Put on the clothes that had been dried by the fire, pack your bags, hang the leftover deer legs and the mosquito queen tied to the five flowers around your waist, look left and right to see if you didn't find anything missing, and then beckoned Mo Xian and continued to set off towards the depths of the canyon.

"Buzz!!"

The mosquito tide hidden in the tidal fog became a little restless, and the scarlet light flickered with a hint of unease, as if it did not want to go deep into the canyon. It's just that the boss of his own family has been robbed, and there is no reason for him to sit idly by and ignore it, how can he follow to strengthen his courage, isn't it? And for this group of annoying guys, whether it was Mo Xian or the old man last night, they all had doubts, since they had already passed the realm of the grave mosquito, why didn't Xia Xun let the boss of the family go or slaughtered it directly, but took it with him and fed and fed and served. And Xia Xun's answer is very interesting, just four words - "make the best use of things".

As for how to use it, Xia Xun sold Guan Zi and didn't say anything, so the few old men who were hidden in the secret thought about it for a night, but they still didn't think about anything. It wasn't until this morning that the old woman woke up and saw that their eyes were dark, so she reluctantly gave them the answer.

The answer is very simple, and it is also four words - "golden cicada sheds its shell".

The wind is gentle and the fog is continuous.

The wide leaves are dripping with salivation, and the path is quiet with two lines of footprints. There are no shrubs to obstruct them, there are no swamps and shallow depressions, the locust trees are tall and dense to block the sun, and although the coffins on the ground are horizontal, the road under your feet is getting wider and wider, and it is much easier to walk than yesterday. The two-mile journey was not far away, Xia Xun led Mo Xian to walk extremely carefully, and it only took half an hour to reach the end of what he called the "Yin and Yang Realm".

There are still towering and luxuriant locust forests in front, and the forests are cold and cold, but the scenery is clear from the Chu River behind.

It's raining, drizzle...

The rain does not come from the clouds, it comes from the tidal fog accumulated in the canyon itself.

Because the cold tidal fog accumulates over the canyon all year round and does not volatilize normally, it condenses into water mist as the volume gradually increases, and the water mist sinks when it is heavier than the air. And the interval between the locust trees here is very large, each tree is five or six zhang away from each other, and no matter how dense the branches and leaves can no longer cover all the space. The mist seeped down through the cracks, a small particle, like a wisp of sweat, fluttering in the air, and there was such an endless drizzle in front of you.

"Tsk..."

"Right here. ”

Between the drizzles, the temperature drops suddenly.

Silk threads of rain streaked across the faces of the walkers, leaving a cold trail and halting their progress.

The smell of rot and fishy smell wafted over the drizzle to people's noses, mixed with a hint of danger. Looking at the beasts that were dormant behind the rain and fog, and the eyes of the locust trees were full of madness, Xia Xun suddenly had a feeling of sudden realization. Only then did he realize why the old man yesterday had used the word endless to describe the road ahead.

That's not an exaggerated metaphor, it's a declarative statement.

Look at it, a hundred feet away...

In the rain and fog, up and down the locust trees, in front and behind the coffin tombs, in and out of the muddy underground, almost everywhere you can see, there are all kinds of wild beasts! Rabbits with fangs, donkeys covered in carrion, badger pigs with only a pair of bones left, tigers and bears that grow like hills, and so on... The beasts of the entire canyon seemed to be concentrated here, their scarlet eyes showing madness that did not belong to them, and they were looking in the direction of the comer.

Boundary...

As soon as the comers step within the boundaries of their realm, there is no doubt that a bloody battle will ensue.

"Kill the past?"

"Nope. ”

It was raining, and the dried clothes were soon wet again.

In Mo Xian's puzzled gaze, Xia Xun took off the mosquito that was tied up by five flowers from his waist and held it in his hand. The mosquito queen was frightened, and the pitch-black bone legs suddenly waved in a panic, but Xia Xun firmly clamped its wings, and there was no way to break free. Immediately afterwards, Xia Xun took out a wooden jar from the package behind his back, and the wooden jar contained the blood taken from the sika deer yesterday. There should have been two cans, but one can had been fed to the mosquitoes yesterday, so this is the last can.

"Don't be afraid, let's be reasonable. ”

"Hiss~"

Use your thumb to break the cork and place the jar under the pointed beak of the mosquito queen. With blood sucking, the mosquito queen quickly fell silent again. After looking at the greedy and bloodthirsty mosquito, Xia Xuncai continued to say lightly: "I said yesterday that you wanted to eat my blood but I caught it, I didn't kill you and fed you a day's food, this is a great favor." There is kindness to repay kindness, this is the truth, so don't blame me, wealth and nobility have a destiny in heaven and death, you and I will have a destiny. ”

Saying that, most of the deer blood in the wooden jar had been eaten, and Xia Xun didn't let the mosquito queen continue to eat it. He handed the mosquito queen and the wooden jar into Mo Xian's hand, and then took out a knife and two copper coins from his arms. Cut his fingers with a knife, smeared the blood on his fingers on the front and back of the copper coin, and finally tied the two copper coins to the abdomen and back of the mosquito queen with the help of Mo Xian.

"Senior brother. ”

"Huh?"

"Do you remember the story of that night?"

"What does it have to do with this?"

"A little bit. ”

While carefully tying the copper coin, Xia Xun said with a faint smile: "The monsters in the story are called corpses, and they are in the same vein as these corpse beasts now, and they are all a technique of refining corpses in Maoshan. The difference is that the people who refine these corpse beasts are even more sophisticated. He divided the area of nearly 100 miles inside and outside the canyon into yin and yang poles, the anode is outside, and the qi of the dragon veins is used to transform the corpses of dead animals, which is called not rotting corpses. The beasts we encountered outside the canyon were the original forms of the immortal corpses, they fed on evil qi, and at the same time, evil qi would also corrode their memories, and when they completely lost their memories, their flesh and temperament would be transformed, and they were immortal corpses. Immortal, immortal, inrecarnatable, steely, extremely murderous and extremely dependent on the yin qi, so they will choose to cross the locust forest at this time, pursue the source of the yin evil and enter the depths of the canyon, that is, the rainy area we are currently in. After decades of yin and evil moistening, I am afraid that many of these undead corpses have transformed into beast demons, and there are so many beast demons in front of them, not to mention the two of us, even those old masters are estimated to have suffered from them. ”

"Do you have a solution?"

"It's not strong, we can outwit it. ”

The copper coins were finely sorted one by one, and Xia Xun took back the mosquito queen and half a jar of deer blood from Mo Xian's hand.

Slowing his throat, the hand holding the wooden can stretched out a finger and flicked the back shell of the mosquito, he continued to smile and said lightly: "This guy is the emperor of the Tomb Mosquito Clan, although he likes the same evil spirit, but he is greedy and bloodthirsty by nature, they have lived next to the corpse beast for many years, and they will definitely not be in peace, and they will definitely not cross the line to steal and eat other people's blood." The so-called enemies are very red when they meet, senior brother, you say, if we want to throw this guy inside, what will be the consequences?"

"Buzz!"

The mosquito queen seemed to realize that her life would be in jeopardy, and suddenly she struggled violently, and the mosquito tide hidden in the tide fog behind Xia Xun and Mo Xian also became agitated.

Glancing at the scarlet spots in the tidal fog behind him, Mo Xian may have understood Xia Xun's intentions, and replied coldly: "The mussels and cranes compete with each other, and the fishermen benefit." ”

"It's only half right..."

"Wow~"

Raising his hand, he carefully poured the deer blood in the wooden jar on the mosquito queen's body: "Don't panic, let's be reasonable." I will try my best to keep you alive, and it can be regarded as a kind of reward for you. ”

The deer was drenched in blood, and the mosquito queen was dyed scarlet.

Leaving the empty wooden jar on the ground, Xia Xun looked at Mo Xian with a sideways face and then smiled and said the rest of the second half of the words: "It is true that the clam and crane are fighting, but the fisherman is not profitable, only the golden cicada is out of its shell." ”

"Huh!"

"Whew!"

The word "shell" is exported, without warning...

But seeing the sound of "swish", Xia Xun suddenly threw the mosquito back in his hand forward and threw it vigorously!

Suddenly, unexpectedly. The mosquito queen was tied up all day, and her mind and wings became very dull, and when she woke up from her panic and remembered to flapp her wings to escape, it had been thrown dozens of feet away, crossing the area of the corpse beast. It has been a long time since thousands of corpse beasts were eyeing the front, how could there be any reason to let it go? When the mosquito queen crossed the line, it immediately provoked an earth-shattering roar, and the wild corpse beasts all over the country showed their claws and teeth one after another, and swooped out! Perhaps, the little corpse mosquito hidden in the tide and fog had never encountered such a situation, and like the mosquito queen, it could not react at once, and it was enough to be blindfolded for a while. After half a ring, they turned into a flood and dumped out in the terrible screams of the mosquito queen...

"Buzz!"

"Whew..."

The bloody wind brings blood and rain, and the thunder is unprecedented.

Thousands of corpse beasts that swooped down on the mosquitoes arrived in a blink of an eye, and although the vast mosquito tide slowed down for a while, it finally rushed to its side and wrapped it up before his boss was dismembered. The poor mosquito queen struggled on the brink of death, flapping her wings frantically, trying to fly out of the range of the rain and mist. But its body was like an evil spirit, no matter how hard it tried, it only slowed down its momentum, and its body still involuntarily flew upside down in the direction of the corpse beast herd. Such a strange situation made its panic almost turn into despair. In an instant, in the package of corpse mosquitoes, two beasts that were irresistible to human power "collided together".

"Buzz!!"

"Whew..."

The beast is crazy into a landslide, with teeth and claws, and pounces one after another.

Mosquitoes go crazy and turn into waves, surging and churning, endless.

The plasma bursts like a tomato to the ground, and the biting and gnawing pecks like a wild bee out of the nest.

The battle between beasts and beasts is more crazy and bloody than the battle between people. Because they do not have human intelligence, but they have the most primitive instinct - power. Mountain wolves are culled, hares are biting, donkeys and horses are galloping, and the mountain-like black bear is roaring, constantly waving its claws in the mosquito pile, and the unlucky corpse mosquito is a ball of plasma as long as it is touched. It's like ripe red persimmons, falling to the ground one after another. At the beginning of the battle, the corpse mosquito swarm fell to the downside, and was constantly hunted by the corpse beasts, but they were better than the large number of mosquitoes, and no matter how fierce the corpse beasts were, they could not break through the encirclement of the mosquito tide for a period of time, and directly take the life of the mosquito queen, but when the mosquito tide gained a firm foothold and began to fight back, they were bitten and abscessed.

"Senior brother. ”

"Huh?"

"Do you think we're going too far?"

"Wow..."

Qingfeng unsheathed and slowly stepped into the rain and mist.

Mo Xian didn't respond, he answered Xia Xun's question with his actions, that is, "No".

Xia Xun smiled and scraped the bridge of his nose, following closely.

The poor mosquito queen didn't understand the situation at all, how did she know that Xia Xun's divine sense had already controlled its body? It was controlled by two copper coins tied to it, and dragged it to the depths of the canyon. Mosquito hordes gather hundreds of feet around the mosquito queen, frantically attacking enemies who want to invade their leader. Xia Xun and Mo Xian quietly followed behind them more than ten zhang away, not far or close, just out of the culling range of the corpse beast. The three-foot Qingfeng swung his sword qi from time to time, casually slashing off a few corpse beasts that didn't have long eyes. Most of the corpse beasts were attracted by the huge mosquito tide, almost completely ignoring the two villains following them.

Looking at the overall situation, Xia Xun and Mo Xian's line is not extremely easy.

After throwing a mosquito, he controlled two wisps of divine sense, and easily transferred a vicious battle that should have belonged to them. It was so easy that the old men who were also following behind them were dumbfounded...

"This is the golden cicada shelling?"

"I don't think this Eve is even more wicked than his grandfather..."

"What a fuss..."

"Senior sister, it's not a little monster, it's obviously a big monster. ”

The dumbfounded looks of several old men made the old woman look very helpless.

She said in disgust: "In the past, the master asked you to learn to read more, but you didn't listen. The person who is about to enter the coffin is still startled like a child when he encounters something, but fortunately he didn't show it to others, otherwise I would have to be ashamed of you. ”

"Ahem..."The ninth old man turned his face sideways: "Sister, don't bring such damage." There's no teaching about this in this book... What kind of way, our senior brothers thought of it last night, but I didn't expect those jackals, tigers and leopards to be stupid, and actually put two big living people to bite a bunch of mosquitoes without eating... Ahem... Ay. ”

"It's not stupid, it's instinctive. ”

The old woman shook her head helplessly and said, "The corpse beast is evil, and the corpse beast soul is evil." Although the memories are completely consumed by the evil energy, the evil energy also activates their most primitive nature. In their eyes, there is no one to distinguish between mosquitoes and mosquitoes, because they do not need food at all, and they will only prioritize hunting according to the strength and threat of the current enemy. Don't you see those two dolls honestly sitting on the back and watching the tiger fight, and rarely make a move? That is a sign of weakness on their part. The corpse beasts actually did not ignore their existence, but the mosquito tide was fierce, which had threatened the safety of the corpse beast group, and the mosquito queen's sense of self-protection was too strong, so that the weakness of the mosquito tide was directly exposed. The corpse beast is not a fool, and the target of the attack will naturally fall on the body of the mosquito queen. ”

"When encountering the enemy, choose the strong one to attack at the throat and kill with one blow. ”

"It's the instinct of the beast. ”

“......”