Chapter 32: The Deep Pool
The process of obtaining tiger hoof flowers is much easier than Li Heng imagined.
According to the record of the jade plate, most of the tiger hoof flowers grow outside the nest of the tiger hoofed beast, since the tiger hoof beast is active in the area of this thousand zhang peak, then its nest is naturally in the mountains and forests, he released the blue bird to follow the tiger hoof beast, and it only took half an hour to find its nest.
It took nearly an hour to lure the demon beast away from the nest, he tried various methods, and finally relied on a small beast caught in the dense forest to lure it away, and while the tiger hoof beast was lured away, Li Heng quietly dived outside its lair, picked more than ten open tiger hoof flowers, packed them in a jade box, and left calmly.
At the same time, more than 100 Qi refining period monks of the Eight Sects also entered the secret realm of the Hidden Mountain, except for a few people, due to bad luck, such as the monk Li Heng met in Qianzhang Peak, most of the monks were safe and sound, and after getting through the discomfort of the initial stage, they gradually took action to find some elixirs and spiritual materials marked on the map.
But there are also some people who have taken up the ideas of other sect monks.
Secret land, in a forested canyon.
"Purple flowers!" a monk exclaimed, looking at an elixir with purple flowers blooming and exuding a faint fragrance.
Judging by the size of the petals and the intensity of the aroma, there are hundreds of years. This hundred-year-old Purple Yuhua Sect has made nearly three hundred contributions.
Three hundred points of contribution was enough for him to cultivate for a year.
Thinking that he could find such an elixir in just one hour after entering the secret realm, he couldn't help but feel a little excited.
In addition to being excited, he still didn't forget to check the surroundings, he was so cautious not because he was worried about people nearby or ambushes, it was only half an hour, and most people still couldn't find the north.
His caution is because in this secret realm, all the precious elixirs are protected by demon beasts nine times out of ten. The more precious the elixir, the higher the level of the guardian demon beast.
But there was no trace of any demon beast around this purple flower, although he was a little surprised in his heart, but when he thought of the three hundred contributions, this little doubt was suddenly forgotten.
"Maybe the monster has just gone out to forage for food," he reassured himself.
It's not impossible, and the monsters have to eat too.
In the depths of the canyon, a beast roar suddenly sounded, startling the nearby birds and beasts in all directions.
At this time, he was even more determined to the idea of the demon beast going out to forage for food, and no longer hesitated at the moment, and walked towards the purple Yu flower, and prepared the jade box containing the purple Yu flower halfway, intending to leave quickly after picking.
But just when his right hand was half an inch away from touching the flower stem, a cold light flashed behind him, and a head flew up, and his hand was still stretched forward and grabbed the flower stem of Zi Yuhua, but unfortunately it was weak and could not pull Zi Yuhua for half a minute.
When the head hit the ground, a figure also gradually emerged from nowhere, one left hand was black and gray, without the slightest anger, but the demeanor was still very dexterous, without any sense of stiffness.
He glanced at the head that had fallen not far away, leaned over and tore off the storage bag from the corpse's waist, and looked deep into it.
"Phew," the man spat at the corpse after a moment, disgusted, "This Imperial Spirit Sect is full of poor ghosts, and it is embarrassing to rank among the eight sects. ”
After speaking, he kicked the corpse aside, picked the purple flowers and ran away.
In the same secret realm, next to a deep pool, seven monks faced each other in two formations.
The three of them were uniformly dressed in the costumes of the Ten Thousand Beast Gate, and each of them carried a spirit beast to help. On the other side, the four monks gathered together, and judging from their costumes, they belonged to the Underworld Moon Sect, Qiandao Lake, and the Spirit Sword Gate, of which the Spirit Sword Gate accounted for two of them.
Although the number of monks of the three sects is superior, but the Ten Thousand Beasts Gate has the help of spirit beasts, and the realm of the monks is not much different, the advantages and disadvantages of the help of spirit beasts are immediately divided.
"This yellow sycamore was discovered by us first, and you Ten Thousand Beasts Gate actually robbed it, and it is unreasonable. A monk from Qiandao Lake said indignantly.
"You?" Huang Heng, a monk from the Thirteen Realms led by the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, looked at the four of them with a smile and sneered, "Then you should tell me, who are you going to send to pick this Huang Wuzi, and how do you plan to divide it after picking it?"
His words immediately caused laughter from the people next to him, and they remembered that when they first arrived at the pool, the four of them didn't seem to behave like this.
Indeed, in this secret realm, it is possible for the same sect to swing their swords against each other for a single elixir, not to mention the situation that the four people in front of them belong to three sects.
On this road of cultivating immortals, in the face of danger, there may be people who can live and die together, but there are very few people who share wealth and prosperity.
Faced with the questioning of the monks of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, the people of the three sects were also silent.
The four of them did not know each other or had an agreement in advance, the first to discover this Huang Wuzi was actually the monk of the Stygian Moon Sect, and Qianhu Island and the Spirit Sword Gate followed, before the arrival of the monks of the Ten Thousand Beasts Gate, the four of them were also tense, but in the face of the strong side of the Ten Thousand Beasts Gate, they had no choice but to temporarily hold together.
At this moment, when asked by the monks of the Ten Thousand Beasts Gate, the four of them also had the idea of retreating, but they were a little unwilling to retreat.
Especially the monk of the Thousand Lakes Island, he looked at the person headed by the Ten Thousand Beasts Gate, although he was very calm on the surface, his heart was surging with murderous intent. He took two steps back as if he were afraid, but in fact he secretly cast a spell and sank into the deep pool under his feet.
Seeing this, the monks of the Stygian Moon Sect and the Spirit Sword Sect also reluctantly took a few steps back to show their attitude.
Huang Heng saw that his words made the four people retreat, and immediately laughed wildly, as if it should have been like this a long time ago, he waved his hand to the same door beside him, signaling him to go up and pick the Huang Wuzi on the edge of the deep pool, and go to the next elixir place earlier.
Who knew that the person who went to pick Huang Wuzi from the Ten Thousand Beasts Gate had just walked by the pool, and the pool of water gushed out for no reason, splashing him. What's even more shocking is that where the pool water splashed, yellow smoke stood up, and the chest and abdomen protected by the spirit armor creaked. And the arms, face, and other places that were not protected by the spirit armor, the skin and flesh turned into yellow pus, dripping from the body, and white bones were seen in an instant, like evil ghosts.
The monk of the Ten Thousand Beasts Gate was hit hard by this, and he wailed incessantly, especially under the disappearance of his eyes, he lost his sense of proportion and walked around the edge of the pool.
This scene made the six people on the sidelines subconsciously move away from the monk a few steps.
Even the monks of Qiandao Lake, who had a dark hand, could not have predicted that this pool of water would be so poisonous. At first, he thought it was a highly poisonous demon beast in the pool, and he wanted to stir the pool water to provoke it to attack, but he didn't think that a few drops of pool water would actually abolish a monk of the Twelve Realms.
This hidden mountain secret realm is really full of killing machines.
Huang Heng settled down, glanced at the four of them, and said angrily to the Qiandao Lake monk, "Look for death." ”
This pool of water does not move in the morning or night, but splashes when he is close to the same door, it is definitely someone who is making trouble, and he can make trouble in the pool without being discovered by himself, and the monk of Qiandao Lake, who is famous for being good at resisting water, is definitely a major suspect.
He already had murderous intent, but at this moment, because of the heavy cripple of his fellow disciples, he was even more murderous like oil pouring fire, he stretched out his hand and pinched the trick, and the spirit beast beside him immediately roared towards the Qiandao Lake monk.
The Qiandao Lake monk saw that the Ten Thousand Beasts Gate made the first move, while the other three people on his side were still hesitating, and while resisting with the imperial weapon, he shouted, "Don't you do it yet, do you want him to clean us up one by one?"
The other three people standing on the same side, although they vaguely felt that the water movement in the pool was related to the Qiandao Lake monk, but it was not without resentment that they had been suppressed by the Ten Thousand Beasts Gate before, and the Ten Thousand Beasts Gate made the first move, and then the Qiandao Lake monk drank like this, and immediately cast a spell to fight against it.
At the moment, the six people and two beasts fought by the waterhole, although the number of the ten thousand beasts was small, the fight was not weak at all, but the loss was that there were few people, and the four people could not be helpless for a while.
Just when their fight was in full swing, a figure burst out of the low bushes next to the waterhole and rushed towards the yellow wuzi, who looked petite and should be a female cultivator, but she was not wearing the clothes of the sect.
This female cultivator, Huang Hengzi, who had the upper hand in the field, was the first to find out, and everyone had been fighting to the death for a long time, wasn't it all for this Huang Wuzi, how could he allow others to be contaminated, and immediately gave up the opponent in front of him and rushed towards the figure, and at the same time shouted angrily, "Little thief dares!"
In this regard, the four people who were fighting with the Ten Thousand Beasts Gate did not stop them, and they were happy to see that the thief was intercepted and killed by Huang Heng.
But the female cultivator, apparently had been able to cultivate in terms of speed, and in an instant, she arrived next to the yellow sycamore, and she stretched out her hand to pick, but after gushing out the pool water once, the calm surface of the pool was set off again, and a tentacle of an unknown demon beast broke out of the water, entangled the female cultivator, circled several times, and quickly dragged it into the water.
From the appearance of the female cultivator to being pulled into the water by the demon beast, it was only a few breaths. Except for Huang Heng who made some blocking moves, the rest of the people just moved their eyes.
There would have been no wails of despair, no terrible dissolution of flesh and blood, and if it had not been for the splashing water, and the reddish bubbles that rose from the depths of the pool from time to time, everyone would have thought that the nun had never been here at all.
At that moment, the closest to the waterhole was Huang Heng, so the fear in his heart at this moment was also the strongest. It was completely crushed, and the monks in the Qi refining period were completely vulnerable in front of the demon beasts hidden in the deep pool, and they might not be as good as the chickens when facing the eagles.
Remembering that he had stopped by the pool before, his face turned pale, staring at the pool water that was gradually becoming a little red, not caring about his face, nor caring about the yellow Wuzi that was swaying slightly in the rippling water, and even ignoring the same door that was crawling on the edge of the pool, so he quietly retreated.
The edge of the pool was quiet for a while, and after a moment of silence, I don't know who took the lead, and everyone fled in all directions.