The clouded leopard moves forward unhurriedly, and the terrain in the wilderness is complex, with endless mountains, large forests and swamps, and some lakes, which encompass almost all the environment.

Especially in the forest, the hundred-meter-high trees can be seen everywhere, the thick canopy blocks the sunlight, making the trees look a little shady, and the ground is covered with dead branches and rotten leaves that I don't know how thick.

Since it was summer, the inside of the forest was extremely hot, and it was the time when mosquitoes were raging, Hong Jun found a mosquito repellent grass that emitted a spicy smell, crushed it and applied it to his skin, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

Hong Jun rode on the back of the Kuiyun Leopard, his eyes were on the six roads, his ears were listening to all directions, his senses were extremely keen, and he mastered all movements within a radius of ten zhang.

In Hong Jun's eyes, everything around him was filtered, and everything with energy would have a faint glow on its appearance. According to past experience, the color of the light is uncertain, red, yellow, blue, green, blue, white, and black, and Hong Jun does not know why this is so, and it is speculated to be related to the nature of energy.

Suddenly, a red light broke into his eyes, and Hong Jun gently patted the head of the Kui Cloud Leopard, and it obediently stopped.

Hong Jun jumped down and walked towards Hongguang, used his long knife to push away the weeds blocking in front of him, and looked at it when it was a half-foot-tall plant, and immediately smiled.

"It turned out to be a firethorn grass, and I was lucky to find a useful herb not long after I left the tribe. ”

It grows in a hot and humid environment, can be applied externally to treat sores and ulcers, and is also one of the main raw materials for boiling Vulcan ointment, needless to say, it also contains energy. However, the energy of a single flame thorn grass is not much, and according to Hong Jun's calculations, it will take at least dozens of plants to withstand a pot of Vulcan ointment.

Hong Jun uprooted the Flame Thorn Grass, sat back on the back of the Kuiyun Leopard, took out the Blue Lotus Treasure from his arms and placed it on the Flame Thorn Grass, and then took out a gray-black stone that was only the size of a finger and placed it on the other side of the bronze mirror.

The things that contain energy in the Great Wilderness are of different sizes and are not easy to carry, so Hong Jun also brought out this stone and transformed the things he found into the stone for storage.

The Flame Thorn Grass withered at a speed that was almost visible to the naked eye, and in just a dozen breaths, its energy was transformed into a pile of grass ash, but the stone did not grow much larger.

"Accumulate a lot, gather sand into a tower. If you can find dozens of herbs every day, that's not bad. Hong Jun was full of confidence and was not a little discouraged.

However, a few days later, Hong Jun was disappointed.

It was night, the forest was dark, Hong Jun sat on the branch of a big tree hugged by five people, resting against the trunk, more than three feet high from the ground. The clouded leopard was lying under the tree, having just eaten a whole reindeer, and was licking its front paws contentedly.

Through the moonlight through the cracks in the canopy, Hong Jun played with the stone in his hand, which only slightly enlarged compared to a few days ago.

"In five days, a total of twelve herbs were found, and there was a bone that I didn't know what it was, and the energy was equivalent to three herbs, which was not enough to transform half a jar of Vulcan ointment. Hong Jun was a little depressed, and then he knew that he was too optimistic. The consumption of his cultivation is very large, in the past, a jar of Vulcan Paste could be used four or five times, but now it is barely enough for three times, due to the resistance produced by long-term use, the effect has also been reduced, and a jar of Vulcan Paste may not be able to make much progress.

In the past five days of harvest, the transformed Vulcan Paste is not enough for Hong Jun to use once, let alone break through the bottleneck.

In fact, Hong Jun also knew that his efficiency was already extremely high, and the soldiers of the Shaoyan Department entered the Great Wilderness, often without harvest for ten days and a half months, and it was not strange to return empty-handed.

"It's only a few dozen miles from here to the tribe, not too far, and the herbs are almost picked by the tribe's warriors, so it's very sparse, and it seems that you have to go somewhere else. ”

Hong Jun took out a roll of animal skins from his backpack and opened it, this was the map handed to him by the high priest the day before departure, which marked several dangerous areas within a radius of three hundred miles from the Shaoyan Tribe, and warned himself not to get too close.

"Dangerous places where tribal warriors dare not go, there must be a lot of herbs nearby, maybe there will be a big harvest. Hong Jun thought in his heart, he was not impulsive, nor did he leave his parents' advice behind, he wanted to break into the forbidden area, just grasp the general direction and go a little bit there.

After a few glances on the rudimentary map, Hong Jun quickly found the closest danger zone to him, about one hundred and ninety miles to the north, there was a small lake, the lake was extremely deep, and there was a powerful wild beast lurking in it, it was older than Shao Yanbu, and it was rumored to be hundreds of years old.

"Tomorrow we will go north. Hong Jun made a decision, and then squinted his eyes and rested.

The next day, when the first rays of sunlight appeared on the eastern horizon, Hong Jun woke up, jumped from the tree, washed briefly, ate dry food, and rode north on the clouded leopard.

Approaching noon, Hong Jun was in a good mood, because he had found three herbs this morning, almost catching up with the harvest of the past day.

"It seems that the decision to go north was the right one. ”

Suddenly, the clouded leopard stopped, looked around, sniffed vigorously a few times, but found nothing, and his pupils showed a look of doubt.

Hong Jun's expression changed, the Kuiyun leopard's sense of smell was very keen, and it was more useful than his senses in the Great Wilderness, and several times, before he found the abnormality, it had already detected the beast that was quietly approaching in advance. This time, the Kui clouded leopard must have also noticed the smell of the enemy, but there was no trace of it, which was quite strange.

Hong Jun raised his vigilance, jumped down, slowly unsheathed the long knife in his hand, and looked around.

One person and one leopard were silent for a long time, the enemy still did not appear, only the chirping of birds and insects could be heard in his ears, and after waiting for a while, the Kuiyun leopard finally couldn't help but roar.

"Roar!"

The sound shook the four fields, startling a group of birds not far away, and flew into the sky with a bang, attracting the attention of Hong Jun and Kui Cloud Leopard. At this moment, a black shadow flashed in the corner of Hong Jun's eyes, shooting in front of him almost instantly.

Hong Jun didn't want to think about it, and raised his knife to slash.

With a "dang bang", the long knife seemed to slash on the stone and splashed a spark, the black shadow was hit to the ground, the clouded leopard pounced violently, and the black shadow bounced backwards and disappeared behind a big tree.

The black shadow was extremely fast, Hong Jun didn't have time to catch up, and the Kuiyun Leopard also pounced, and roared a few times irritably.

Hong Jun didn't dare to relax, just now he vaguely saw that the black shadow was a hideous-looking mink beast, only more than two feet big, but it had a pair of five-inch long claws, extremely hard, and the long knife was cut on the claws, which shocked his mouth numb. Hong Jun was also afraid for a while, this sable is not big, but its strength is not inferior to his own, if he hadn't reacted quickly to block a knife, I'm afraid he would have had his throat cut at this time.

"This sable must be a wild beast, with such speed and great strength, ordinary beasts are not its opponents at all. ”

Hong Jun stood beside the Kuiyun Leopard and waited, he was afraid that the sable would suffer a loss in his hands, so he turned to the Kuiyun Leopard. With the speed of the sable, the Kuiyun Leopard is definitely not its opponent, and it is estimated that by the time the Kuiyun Leopard reacted, its neck had been cut off by the sable's claws.

After waiting for a long time, the sable never reappeared.

"Could it have left?" Hong Jun's gaze scanned back and forth in the surrounding trees, and found no trace of the sable, he raised his perception to the highest level, but the environment in the forest was too complicated, and all kinds of noisy sounds were mixed together, and the sound of the sable crawling could not be distinguished at all.

"Savage beasts are all retribution, if you don't solve it, it will always lurk around you in the future, maybe when it suddenly attacks, it will be impossible to prevent it. ”

Hong Jun felt a big headache, and suddenly a flash of inspiration came to him, thinking of the pair of claws of the sable, such an extraordinary thing is very likely to contain energy!

He immediately turned his light brain with all his might, the colorful colors faded like a tide, and the world in his eyes instantly turned into a dull gray, but everything was extremely clear, and everything that contained energy was not hidden.

Hong Jun turned his head quietly, and soon found the figure of the sable behind a big tree, it was hiding in the shade of the thick trunk, less than ten zhang away from Hong Jun, and it quickly shifted from time to time, jumping silently to another tree, but the pair of front paws were as conspicuous as lights in Hong Jun's eyes, no matter where it hid, it couldn't escape Hong Jun's lock.

"The energy of this pair of claws is very high, and it can withstand more than a month's harvest, and if you can get it, it will not be in vain. ”

Hong Jun was extremely moved, but on the surface, he pretended not to find the sable at all, put away his long knife, and rode on the Kui Cloud Leopard to continue north.

Sure enough, the sable did not give up and quietly followed all the way.

Hong Jun sneered in his heart, as if he didn't know at all, after walking for a while, he found a place to rest at noon as usual, threw the long knife aside, took out the dry food and gnawed it slowly.

Finally, the sable couldn't help but go around to the direction behind Hong Jun, slowly lurking closer, and when it was less than three feet away from Hong Jun, it suddenly turned into a black shadow and pounced on, and its sharp claws aimed at the back of Hong Jun's neck.

The sable was extremely fast, seeing that the claws were only a few feet away from the back of Hong Jun's neck, he choked, Hong Jun suddenly pulled out his knife and turned around, the knife flashed, as if he had rehearsed countless times, and slashed the sable impartially. This time, Hong Jun had already prepared, and the long knife no longer cut the sable's claws, but went up a little more, and cut off the two front paws of the sable with great skill.

"Squeak......" The sable fell to the ground and cried out in pain, it still wanted to escape, but it lost its front paws and its speed dropped greatly, and it was pounced on by the Kui Cloud Leopard, with a big mouth, and simply bit off its neck.