He Ding gave up the idea of eating for the time being, and said in his heart that the giant rat couldn't run anyway, so he would eat it when he was really hungry.

There was a faint smell of blood wafting through the cave, and the blood from the giant rat's fall to the boulder had just solidified, and its head was already blurred with flesh and blood. One eye was blinded by He Ding, a large amount of blood flowed out and the hair was glued together, and the head on the other side was almost smashed, even though the giant rat's skull was very hard, but it still broke a big hole, and the brain inside had been empty, which showed how huge the force was when it fell.

"I'm really stupid, I actually forgot that Zhou Lu gave me this life-saving jade talisman. If I had thought about it earlier, it wouldn't have been so miserable. He Ding sighed and said to himself.

However, if He Ding hadn't blinded the giant rat's eyes, it might have been a different ending. If Jade Sword's only attack was dodged by the giant rat, then it might be He Ding who died.

"What is the red circle at the entrance of this cave for?" He Ding noticed the red prohibition.

The red forbidden swirled slowly, covering the entire cavern. At this time, He Ding couldn't walk in, and could only vaguely see that it was covered with strange symbols, among which there were signs of gossip yin and yang, but the rest of He Ding couldn't understand it.

"It must be some kind of magic that makes people unable to enter this cave, right? Could it be that someone has been to this cave before, leaving this red circle?" He Ding guessed.

Regarding this red circle array, He Ding could only speculate so much information for the time being. He Ding turned his head and took a closer look at the cave.

This cave is about the size of the stone chamber of the rat prison, the whole is a circular space, and there is no weed growing in the cave, judging from the roughness of the surrounding stone walls, it should be a natural formation. The ground is covered with a thin layer of loess, and there are no footprints, and even if someone has been here before, it is afraid that it was three or four years ago.

"Huh, there seems to be writing on the stone wall. ”

He Ding's eyes did not let go of every tiny detail, he noticed that on a relatively flat stone wall, there were a few lines that were different from the surrounding stones, and after concentrating on identifying those lines, he found that they were the words engraved on the stone wall.

"Reckless...... Cattle...... Energetic?"

"Sounds like the name of an exercise. He Ding squinted, trying to read the word. Under the three big characters of Mangniujin, there are also many small characters densely engraved, which should be a detailed description of this Mangniujin. He Ding's eyes were not bad, but because they were really not easy to recognize, he gave up.

"There is a red circle at the entrance of this cave, and there are exercises engraved in the cave, this may have been a retreat and cultivation place for some demon cultivator before, and I happened to break in. It's just that I don't know who has cultivated here, and since the people are gone, why do you want to leave this red circle here?" He Ding muttered to himself.

Putting a ban on it is nothing more than not wanting others to come in.

"Could it be that the things in this cave are too precious, so the formation is set up?"

"But there is nothing else in this cave except for the exercises engraved here. Even if this exercise is really precious and valuable, it is just a few words for me now, and it is not as good as a piece of steamed bread and dry food to fill my stomach. He Ding said with emotion.

A few hours later.

Although He Ding, who had nothing to do, did not consume too much physical strength, the more frequent "grunting" sound in his abdomen could not be ignored. He Ding felt that his stomach juice was about to rush up his throat, and a bitter taste exploded on the tip of his tongue, He Ding frowned and swallowed hard, trying to cover the acid.

A feeling of weakness and weakness hit He Ding's brain, and the things in front of He Ding's eyes began to ghost, and his head was also groggy. The excessive blood loss before also began to affect He Ding's body at this time, and he felt that his throat was dry and extremely uncomfortable.

He Ding has read a book that said that ordinary people will die in seven days if they don't eat. Roughly calculated, I haven't eaten for a day, but the premise of living for seven days is a healthy person. Based on He Ding's condition, he estimated that he would starve to death within two or three days.

"Poof. ”

He Ding bit the tip of his tongue hard, and a stream of blood gushed out, which he held in his mouth, and then swallowed it, the smell of blood and the clear pain made him sober up for a while.

"I have to live!" He Ding gritted his teeth, his pale face showing a hint of determination.

"Isn't it just a dead rat...... Even if it's a dead person, I have to eat it in order to live!" He Ding shouted in his heart.

He Ding, who finally made up his mind, used his remaining strength to turn himself over. Then arch his back, tighten his waist and abdomen, and wriggle forward like a caterpillar. He Ding's chin slammed into the soil, and he sucked a lot of dust into his lungs from his exhalation.

"Ahem!"

He Ding coughed a few times, held his breath, and headed in the direction of the giant rat.

At this time, it was equivalent to losing his hands and feet, which still had a great impact on He Ding, and his hands were softly dragging on the ground, leaving two marks.

"It's not ...... A little bit!"

He Ding only had the body of a giant rat in his eyes at this time, he clenched his teeth tightly, and his eyes began to be bloodshot.

Finally, He Ding's head reached the belly of the giant rat.

Feeling a burst of softness in his head, He Ding breathed a sigh of relief, and the whole person went limp. From the position just now, it seemed that the giant rat was only one or two steps away, but it actually took He Ding a lot of physical strength.

The corpse of the giant rat exudes a faint fishy smell and the unique smell of the animal at this time, so it is not very smelly. He Ding raised his head, the slightly stiff fur of the giant rat brushed his face, and he adjusted his position to make sure that his mouth could bite the giant rat.

"Ahh

He Ding opened his mouth wide and bit down the soft belly of the giant rat. He felt like his mouth was stuffed with hay, and the spiky fur stinged his mouth. However, He Ding didn't bite off the skin on his stomach for the first time, which made him very helpless, because he didn't have sharp teeth like animals, and his bite force was not very large, so it was normal for him not to bite the skin through.

"Don't rush, take your time. ”

He Ding took a deep breath and began to shake his jaw from side to side, he wanted to use his teeth to grind out this thick layer of fur. However, things did not go well, the feeling of stuffing foreign bodies in the mouth was not pleasant, He Ding couldn't stand it after grinding and grinding several times, a strong feeling of vomiting came from the stomach, and he couldn't vomit anything after retching for a while, so he had to continue grinding.

Not long after, He Ding's jaw was about to lose consciousness, and he finally grinded out the layer of skin. He bit his bite and shook his head violently, tearing off a palm-sized piece of fur with a layer of fat on it that glowed faintly oily. Beneath the fur was dark red rat flesh, because the giant rat had been dead for several hours, so the blood in its body had coagulated, and no blood had flowed out.

"Phew!"

He Ding spit out the hair in his mouth, smacked his lips, and after holding back the vomit in his throat, he opened his mouth again to the dark red flesh.

This is the first time He Ding has eaten raw meat.

I have to say that eating raw meat is not as disgusting as He Ding imagined. He bit down hard into a piece of meat, and the meat filled his mouth, the rat meat was much cooler than his mouth, and at first it felt a bit like glutinous rice cakes, cold and smooth. When He Ding began to chew, a strong smell of blood exploded from the piece of meat. He Ding held back, although the raw meat tasted tasteless, and it was much more chewy than cooked meat, he still insisted on chewing the raw meat before swallowing it.

Every time you chew raw meat, some bloodshot juice will seep out, which replenishes the water needed by He Ding to a certain extent.

After eating a large piece of raw meat, He Ding was already out of breath, his jaw was sour and numb due to chewing movement, he never thought that eating could become so tiring. I finally had something in my stomach, and my hunger gradually subsided.

"Whew...... Whew"

He Ding breathed heavily, his head resting on the giant rat's body, looking at the stone wall above, his eyes staring, not knowing what he was thinking.

Just now, when the rat's flesh slid down his esophagus into his stomach, about to be digested by gastric juice and become nutrients for his body, he suddenly had a feeling.

"Isn't this the world......? If I am weaker than others, I will also become nutrients in the stomachs of others. Only by becoming stronger will I not become the nourishment of others! I don't want to be a nourishment! I don't want to be someone else's food! I want to become strong, stronger than everyone else!"

"Only then will I be able to truly take my destiny into my own hands!"

"If the Immortal Buddha stops me, I will destroy this Immortal Buddha! If the sun and the moon bear me, I will swallow the sun and the moon!" The light in He Ding's eyes became more and more shining, and a fierce fire was burning in his heart to become powerful, and that resolute expression was something he had never shown in the past sixteen years.

"No one can stop me!"

The sky was getting dark, and a light was lit up on Niuqi Mountain. The cave gradually became dark, but the fire of desire that was slowly burning in the cave at this moment burned more vigorously in the darkness, and the rising tongues of fire danced wildly in the cave.

This fire will be kindled throughout the land.