Half a month later.

Xue'er's cultivation has reached the middle stage of practicing tendons (the middle stage of the third layer of longevity), and the first glimpse of the immortal swordsmanship is the way. Zhang Fan cultivated the True Dragon Purple Qi Technique to the middle of the fourth layer, and the Son of Heaven swordsmanship first glimpsed the doorway. The two felt that they had the strength to protect themselves, so they prepared to go into the mountains to practice.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Fan and Xue'er prepared weapons, armor and medicine baskets, etc., and entered the mountains and forests early.

At noon, the sun was blazing. As soon as the two reached a swamp, they heard the cry of a buffalo coming from a short distance. They thought to themselves, "What the hell is going on? There are so many wild cows screaming here." So I decided to go and have a look.

On the edge of a small murky lake with a radius of several hundred meters and the edge covered with aquatic plants, thirteen buffaloes are fighting with seven crocodiles.

Zhang Fan recalled the books he had read about brute beasts before, and found that the buffalo herd consisted of nine third-grade late buffaloes, three fourth-grade early buffaloes, and one fourth-rank mid-stage buffalo. The seven-headed crocodile consists of five fourth-grade early crocodiles and two mid-fourth-grade crocodiles. He thought to himself: "Crocodiles live in the water all year round, they are strong in the water, and they like to prey on other brute animals. Buffalo live on swampy land all year round and have little combat power in the water, feeding on succulent plants and trees. Buffalo often need to go to the lake to drink, and crocodiles often hide underwater to sneak up on the brutes who come to drink. Therefore, there is a predatory relationship between the two brute animals, the crocodile and the buffalo. I'll watch here now, and when the two brutes are both defeated, wouldn't it be nice to kill them again." Then Zhang Fan honestly stayed aside and watched.

The three Sanpin buffaloes were drinking quietly on the shore of the lake, looking a little hurried, apparently they had been drinking here before, and had been attacked. At the same time, a black-armored crocodile in the early stage of the fourth rank looked at the three buffaloes who were hurrying to drink water a few meters away from the river bank, and then slowly sank its huge body under the water and quietly approached the buffalo. Obviously, this is not the first time this crocodile has hunted a buffalo, it has been experienced for a long time, and this time it has also made a careful plan.

When the crocodile has swam to a distance of about two meters from the buffalo, it is ready to gather strength and, as usual, make a surprise attack and kill its prey. The buffalo was aware of the crocodile's approach, but they were not sure if there was a crocodile lurking nearby, and the buffalo, who had been thirsty all day, had not yet drunk enough water, and wanted to store a little more fresh water in their stomachs while there was no danger now, hoping that they would hold on for a while longer in the next period of time to keep themselves away from the crocodile hunt.

The crocodile noticed that the stupid buffalo was still as greedy as ever, and when he got the chance, he drank his fresh water, thinking, "These buffaloes are stupid, but now is my chance to hunt them." So he immediately mobilized his huge tail, struck the lake with his tail, and took advantage of the huge force from his tail to quickly open his bloody mouth and bite the neck of the buffalo closest to him like lightning. The three buffaloes found that the enemy was attacking them again with the usual vile means, and thought to themselves, "Run, we can't fight it." If you run slowly, you won't see your siblings again. Immediately he raised his front hooves, turned and fled backwards. The crocodile plot succeeded, it shot out of the water like lightning, and in one fell swoop bit the neck of a three-rank buffalo, and its sharp teeth were fiercely inserted into the buffalo's neck. With years of experience, two lucky Sanpin buffaloes narrowly escaped the crocodile's nirvana, but unfortunately sacrificed the life of one of their companions. The buffalo bitten by the crocodile was punctured by the crocodile's sharp teeth in the middle of the lightning, and the blood flowed and life was passing rapidly. When the crocodile saw that he had succeeded in biting his prey again, he was worried that the prey was not dead, so he dragged the buffalo to the lake, and in order to make the prey completely dead, he kept beating the prey in the water until the buffalo on his mouth stopped moving. The buffalo had already been bitten by the northern crocodile at the moment, life was passing rapidly, and after being dragged into the water by the crocodile, it struggled unwillingly a few times, but unfortunately I don't know if it was not strong enough, or it had no strength at all, and it was killed by the crocodile a few times. The crocodile was overjoyed to see its prey dead and knew that it was time to enjoy its prey, so it began to eat buffalo meat. A few crocodile brothers who didn't catch a buffalo next to them saw that there was beef to eat, and they didn't care about the thick skin, so they surrounded the buffalo carcass like a swarm and ate it. The crocodile that caught the buffalo was very helpless when he saw this, who told everyone to have the same habits, so he turned his grief into strength and accelerated his eating. After a while, the beef was eaten, and all the crocodiles were overjoyed, and they were secretly happy in their hearts, and they didn't have to worry about food today.

The battle between the crocodile and the three buffaloes is just a microcosm of the battle between the herd and the crocodile. After a battle, the buffalo lost three three-grade buffaloes, although the crocodiles did not die in the battle, but several inexperienced crocodiles were still trampled by the bulls, the buffalo and the crocodile are considered to have their own losses and gains.

Seeing that the battle between the cattle and the crocodiles was over, Zhang Fan wanted to attack the brute beasts when the energy of the two brute beasts was greatly reduced, and obtain precious treasures such as beast meat and animal skins. He said to Cher, "Cher, now that the buffalo and the crocodile are both defeated, it is a good time for us to kill the brute beast. Wait a while, you put on the nine-grade armor and nine-grade weapons you got last time, go and kill the third-grade buffalo, and I will deal with the fourth-grade crocodile. Then the two of them walked without a trace, and quickly approached the crocodile and buffalo.

Zhang Fan quickly came to the side of a fourth-grade crocodile, and before the crocodile could react, he killed it with a sword, and then killed the other crocodile. When Zhang Fan successfully killed the three crocodiles, the crocodiles finally reacted and gathered around Zhang Fan's location. Seeing this, Zhang Fan thought: "I can't be besieged by crocodiles, I should divide and attack them, so that I can not only save internal rest, but also quickly kill crocodiles and obtain treasures." So he immediately ran without a trace, got out of the crocodile encirclement, and looked for those lone crocodiles to kill. It didn't take long for Zhang Fan to kill all seven four-grade crocodiles with his advanced cultivation and excellent weapons, and remove crocodile skin, crocodile meat and crocodile bones.

When Zhang Fan killed all the crocodiles, Xue'er also narrowly killed a third-grade late buffalo, which was also an extraordinary harvest. Zhang Fan saw Xue'er returning to him, and said with a smile: "Xue'er, that's right, you can actually kill a brute beast that is a little higher than you." Xue'er was a little shy, and said with a red face: "Fortunately, I have a nine-grade weapon, otherwise I wouldn't be able to kill a third-grade late buffalo." Zhang Fan said with a smile: "Yes, although we can kill high-level brute beasts, we rely on the treasure Xuanqi. In the future, if it is not necessary, we will use three or four weapons. lest others see our weapons and have evil thoughts. Xue'er was very sensible and said obediently: "Thank you, son, the slave knows." When Zhang Fan heard this, he was very satisfied and said with a smile: "Okay." Now that the crocodile has been killed by me, let's look around for any valuable herbs and pick them by the way. When Xue'er heard this, she said, "Listen to the son, the slave family will look for it with the son." Then Zhang Fan and the two of them went up and down around the lake, and finally found a four-grade herb - water hyacinth in the place where the water and qi of heaven and earth gather in the lake, which is the main medicine for refining medium-grade hemostatic pills, which is widely used and has a high value.

Zhang Fan and the others saw the end of the trip, so they found a cave nearby to live.

In the next few days, Zhang Fan diligently practiced the Little Mixed Yuan Gong and the True Dragon Purple Qi Technique day and night, while practicing the Divine Dragon Fist, the Traceless Step, and the Son of Heaven Sword Technique. Half a month later, Zhang Fan relied on brute beast meat and herbs to cultivate to the peak of bone refining, and his fist skills, pace and swordsmanship had been small. Xue'er also gained extraordinary, and she could easily kill the three-rank peak brute beast. Zhang Fan and the others saw that they had gained a lot this time, so they decided to go into the mountain again to try and kill the brute beast.

The next morning, after Zhang Fan and the others finished breakfast, they hurried towards the mountains and forests. At the end of the day, the two of them killed some third- and fourth-grade brute beasts, and found some fourth-grade and below herbs, which was considered a slight gain. In the evening, Zhang Fan and the two came to a place with deep grass and trees.

Xue'er found a black shadow passing through the grass in front of her, and she was shocked and frightened, and hurriedly said to her son: "Snake! Childe, I saw a black poisonous snake in front of me just now, and I was a little scared." Hearing this, Zhang Fan took a closer look at the grass in front of him, and found nothing, but he did not relax his vigilance, and whispered to Xue'er: "Be careful, follow me!" Xue'er heard Childe's words, the fear in her heart immediately disappeared, and she happily replied: "Yes, Childe." ”

Zhang Fan cautiously wandered in the grass, carefully observing the movements around him, and was on guard at any time for the poisonous snakes that might appear around him. Suddenly, a black line attacked Zhang Fan, and then a snake roared out: "Hiss!" He found that it was a four-grade black-spotted poisonous snake that attacked him, and he didn't dare to underestimate this little snake, so he immediately took out a nine-grade weapon and slashed at the snake body, the black snake was immediately divided into two, and the black-spotted poisonous snake was killed before it could attack Zhang Fan.

Xue'er saw that her son-in-law was almost attacked by a poisonous snake, although he later killed the poisonous snake, Xue'er still had palpitations and sighed: "Childe, it was so dangerous just now." Fortunately, the viper died. Although Zhang Fan felt that the black spotted snake that attacked him before was indeed powerful, it was not a threat to himself. smiled: "It's okay, it's just a little snake." However, your cultivation is low, be careful, there may be black spotted snakes nearby. As he spoke, he picked up the black spotted snake from the ground and took the most useful of his own objects, such as gall bladder, skin, and fangs. "Let's go, let's take a look around. After Zhang Fan cleaned up the black spotted snake, he felt that Xue'er still needed to practice alone, so he said to Xue'er, "You also try to practice with poisonous snakes." When Xue'er heard this, she was a little scared and worried: "Childe, I'm a little afraid." Zhang Fan knew what she was thinking, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, poisonous snake gall is a good solution, you can rest assured of the trial." When Xue'er heard this, the worries in her heart were put down, and she replied obediently: "Okay, I'll listen to Childe." When Zhang Fan heard this, he was in a good mood and said with a smile: "Okay, you and I will kill the black spotted snake separately, and we'll see you later." Then the two parted ways and searched for each other in the grass.