Guo Xu walked out of the city gate, walked only a few miles, and had already arrived at a pavilion, which was called the Viewing Pavilion. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The terrain of the observation pavilion is strange, and a pocket hill emerges steeply from the originally straight road, which can be described as a strange peak!

Standing in the pavilion, you can see the mountains in the distance are undulating, you can't see the end at a glance, and you don't know how many thousands of miles you can't tell.

There are many peaks rising from the ground in the mountains, and you can only see the clouds and mist halfway up the mountainside, and you don't know how many thousands of feet go straight into the sky!

The trees on the mountain are lush and aura, and there seems to be no shortage of rare and exotic grasses, shining with a looming spiritual light.

This place has arrived at the outpost into the mountain, and there are dozens of monks here, and most of them are dressed as casual cultivators.

One of the young monks in a gray robe saw Guo Xu coming, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Fellow Daoists, are you willing to go to the mountain for trial? ”

"The commission is calculated according to the harvest, the risk is small, the reward is high, and there are still two people missing, do you want to join?"

The monk didn't wait for Guo Xu to answer, he said it all in one breath, and after speaking, he looked at Guo Xu with earnest eyes, looking forward to it.

Guo Xu refused without hesitation, how could he team up with others when he went to Qixialing to have his own business? Besides, he was not familiar with these loose cultivators, and it was quite risky to form a team with others rashly.

In the little book that Huzi gave him, it was mentioned that many monks teamed up with people to try, and they were assassinated during the trial or were wiped out after discovering rare treasures.

The young monk was rejected by Guo Xu, and several monks tried to pull Guo Xu to try, but Guo Xu refused.

It is estimated that he knew that Guo Xu would not try with others, and Guo Xu was only then cleared up in front of him.

Guo Xu didn't buy the items here, he had already purchased all the items in the town, and he went straight into the mountains after a moment of overlooking here.

He didn't choose a secluded path, but chose a mountain path that everyone often walked.

The surrounding area of this mountain road has been basically discovered by monks, there are no rare treasures, there are no powerful demon beasts, the danger is small, and the distance into the mountain is also short, which is suitable for a monk like him who has come to practice.

If you are a veteran who has often experienced, you will choose a cold road, so that because the road has not been walked or rarely walked before, the probability of finding the treasure of heaven and earth is much greater.

At the same time, the corresponding danger is also much greater, and dangerous monsters are often encountered, and monks are often killed!

It is precisely because of these unpredictable risks that monks often go in groups.

This kind of trail has both risks and benefits, and although the risks are greater, monks often take risks to go there in order to cultivate, especially casual cultivation.

In the case of lack of resources, exercises, etc., in order to ensure cultivation, it is often necessary to go, and of course, there are also some monks who have great opportunities and have gained a lot in a certain experience, and there are these successful examples, so monks are even more flocking to them.

And this kind of trail is often the secret of these monks, and the maps bought in the market are often not recorded, and what can be bought are all road goods.

Guo Xu now has the big road goods given by Huzi, and along these proven roads, he only needs to pass through Shixia Pass, pass by Qinglong Waterfall, and arrive at Qixialing.

With Guo Xu's footsteps, half a day is enough.

Is this Qixia Ridge? Guo Xu looked at the towering green mountain in front of him.

The green mountains go straight into the sky, and the half-waist is already covered with mist, I don't know how high its top is!

So tall that it is still called a ridge? You can imagine how shocking the real mountain is.

The road is cut off at the foot of the mountain, and there is no road to enter the mountain, and even if there is, it is a hidden path that those explorers have groped out.

Guo Xu didn't have a ready-made secret trail at hand, so he could only grope his way up the mountain by himself. This experience gave him a month, and I am afraid that it also took into account the time to go up the mountain to find the way.

Guo Xu found a slightly open depression into the mountain, and the green trees in the distance were only known to be tall when he got closer.

As far as the eye can see, there are all thick trees that are more than ten zhang tall and several people hugging each other, dense, thick branches are intertwined, the leaves cover the sky and the sun, and the sunlight has not shone in, it is very dim.

The decaying leaves have been accumulating everywhere for many years, emitting a rancid stench, which mixes with the fresh smell of the shady vines under the tree, forming a unique smell that makes people sick.

Guo Xu didn't dare to be careless, he already contained a poison-avoiding pill, this unique smell is often mixed with inexplicable miasma, if you don't prevent it early, when the miasma invades the lungs, it will make people die of shock instantly.

In the past, many monks did not understand the reason, and it was a pity that they still died after a good cultivation.

Speaking of true qi, the pine grain sword that he had not really used since receiving it from the outer door was already in his hand, and he let go of his five senses and was on guard.

Sure enough, I didn't go far, I heard a rustling under my feet, and I suddenly felt a chill in my heart, and a happy leap drew a beautiful arc in mid-air;

At the moment when Guo Xu jumped up, a black shadow burst out from the leaves under his feet, and rushed towards Guo Xu in mid-air like lightning.

Guo Xu saw the black shadow rushing towards him, and casually greeted the black shadow with a silver sword qi in his hand, only to hear a snorting sound, the black shadow suddenly paused from mid-air, and then fell to the ground with a snap.

Standing lightly on the dead leaves, he looked at the black shadow that he had cut down - could this black shadow be a dead leaf snake?

The withered leaf snake, recorded in the "Spirit Kitchen Vientiane Record", the strength of the withered leaf snake is close to the first-order demon beast, it has strange poison, and it likes to live in this rotten leaf, and its body color is the same as the leaf, so it is called the withered leaf snake.

This withered leaf snake is cold, and the flesh has a strong rotten smell, but it is cooked with the rotten moss growing under the ghost wood vine, and it has a strange fragrance!

Both of them have a strong rotten smell, but when cooked together, they are strangely fragrant and very strange.

Guo Xu saw the dead wood snake for the first time, and was preparing to go over to collect and study.

Suddenly, a group of thumb-sized black ants came out from under the deadwood snake, and instead of trying to move the deadwood snake back to the nest, the thumb-sized black ants swarmed up and opened their hard mouthparts and began to devour!

After only a few breaths, a three-foot-long deadwood snake was devoured, leaving only a miserable white skeleton.

Guo Xu's pupils shrank, could this be a black iron ant?

Black iron ant, also recorded in the "Spirit Kitchen Vientiane Record", its body is dark, hard as iron, likes dark and damp, lives in groups, the strength of a single is not strong, but the strength of the group is terrifying, and the idle first-order demon beasts dare not provoke, like the dead wood snake just now, it was devoured clean in just a few breaths.

The black iron ant is hot and dry, has the miraculous effect of warming and replenishing the kidney yang, and the monk commonly uses a kind of pill to replenish qi and blood, "Seven Insects and Seven Herbs Pill", which is an indispensable main medicine.

Just when Guo Xu was about to go over and catch a few, the black iron ant instantly burrowed into the dead leaves and disappeared.

Guo Xu couldn't help but sigh for a while, he had just entered the mountain, and he found two kinds of insects and beasts with a certain value, this mountain was really a treasure house, no wonder many monks wanted to venture into it.

With this reminder, he was more cautious and did not dare to take risks, but despite this, he was still almost in danger.

For example, he saw a strange green tree, and on the thick crown of the tree there was an unknown flower that was as delicate as fire and had a strange fragrance.

The fragrance of the flowers is incomparably fragrant, Guo Xu smelled the indescribable comfort all over his body, and unconsciously walked towards the flowers.

A canary seemed to be attracted by the flowers, and I saw it happily flying around the flowers a few times, and when it was about to land next to the Korean flowers, the green tree suddenly moved, and the originally low body of the tree suddenly grew to several feet. The delicate flower sucked the canary as quickly as a big mouth, and then the petals closed, and the canary was silent!

In addition, Guo Xu found that there were two tall giant trees in the middle, with a huge silver spider web in the middle, which was very dazzling and just blocked the way.

Among the cobwebs is a green spider the size of a basin with black patterns. Could this be a black-veined spider? Guo Xu turned his head and left.

He can't afford to provoke this black-veined blue bead, this black-veined blue spider is recorded in the "Record of Strange Beasts", which is a poisonous insect ranked in 1,370.

Although the rank of this black-veined blue spider is not high, it already belongs to the first-order intermediate demon beast, and the most important thing about it is not its poison, but the spider silk it spits out!

This spider silk is extremely tough and extremely sticky, and any metallic blade or even magic weapon will inevitably lose its spiritual effect as soon as it touches the spider silk.

Guo Xu cherished the pine grain sword in his hand very much, how could he take this risk to break through, he decisively chose to take a detour!

It has been half a day since he entered the mountain, Guo Xu suddenly had a very strange feeling, since he entered the mountain, he has encountered countless fierce birds and beasts and even demon beasts, many of which should be avoided, but he still encountered it.

Before entering the mountain, he had already worn a sachet of rotting leaf grass on his body, and the smell of this rotten leaf grass was disliked by demon beasts, and he would actively avoid it when he smelled it.

This is the trick that Huzi told him, which can effectively avoid most of the fierce birds and beasts.

But with countless coincidences, Guo Xu faintly felt that for many demon beasts, it was not that he took the initiative to encounter them, but that the demon beasts took the initiative to come to him!

As Guo Xu went deeper and deeper, the strength of the demon beast became stronger and stronger, and the pressure and risks faced by him became greater and greater.

Sure enough, Guo Xu's trouble came, he walked through the dense forest with great effort and difficulty, and just arrived in front of a huge waterfall hundreds of feet high.

The waterfall plummeted down like a horse, forming an unfathomable water tank of several acres under the impact of the powerful current.

With a huge roar, a layer of mist like a dreamy light veil floats from the water tank, and under the illumination of the sun, a brilliant and magnificent rainbow bridge with a length of dozens of feet is built in front of the waterfall.

Guo Xu was about to breathe a sigh of relief, admiring and appreciating this rare beauty, when suddenly a chill felt in his heart, he was congenital, his five senses were keen, and he turned his head to look.

I saw a group of red, blood-winged bats the size of a millstone suddenly fly out from the gloomy caves on the mountain walls on both sides of the waterfall.

These bats spread their blood-colored wings and flew towards him like a red cloud like lightning!