Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Tanuki and the Earthfire

The tiger was running in front, and Ding Ning followed behind with a magic talisman on his leg, running all the way behind a mountain beam.

Running over the mountain beam, another scene appeared in front of me.

There is a small hill in front of him, the top of the mountain is round, like a big bowl placed on the top of the mountain, Ding Ning was stunned, this is actually an extinct volcano.

The tiger's target was a spring at the bottom of the hill, where the mist rose and there was a faint cloud of smoke, which turned out to be a hot spring.

Ding Ning followed behind and ran all the way to the hot spring.

The tiger circled the hot springs a few times, and then roared twice at the top of the mountain, as if to provoke something.

After a while, a fiery red shadow appeared on the top of the mountain.

Ding Ning looked up and was taken aback, what is this?

The body length is about one and a half meters, and the body is fiery red, saying that the tiger is not a tiger, saying that the leopard is not a leopard, no matter how it looks like a red big civet cat.

But the tanuki was a little too big, and it felt like a leopard.

There were several wounds on his body, which should have been left by the tiger, and when the tanuki saw the tiger reappear, he seemed to be unusually angry, and quickly rushed down from the top of the mountain, and pounced on the tiger.

The tiger did not show weakness, and roared to meet it, and the two beasts met on the mountainside, and soon became entangled and slain.

The tiger is fierce, the tanuki is light, they are all fangs and claws, and they roar again and again, the tiger has an advantage in size, and the tanuki has an advantage in flexibility, but Ding Ning feels that the tiger has the upper hand now.

Ding Ning didn't intend to help the tanuki, but looked at it with bright eyes, this tanuki was obviously a mutated beast that had been nourished by aura, otherwise it would not have grown to such a big one.

Refining the Gathering Spirit Pill also requires a taste of medicine to attract the beast's painstaking efforts, so it should rely on this tanuki.

It's just that Ding Ning, the fiery red tanuki, has never heard of it, and he doesn't know what kind of mutation it has produced to turn it into this color.

The battle lasted about five minutes, and the tiger, after paying the price of several minor injuries, finally bit the tanuki in the neck.

The tanuki let out a terrible howl, waved its paws, and licked the tiger's face with multiple bloody wounds, forcing the tiger to temporarily loosen its mouth, and the tanuki escaped.

But the tanuki has run out of oil, and the injuries on his body are not healed, and he has not been very well cultivated, and now he has suffered a heavy blow to his neck again, and he has not lived long.

Struggling to run to the top of the hill, as if there was something extremely important there.

Ding Ning's heart moved, and he immediately ran to the top of the mountain.

When they came to a cave, the tiger roared at the entrance of the cave, not daring to enter easily.

Looking at the bloodstains at the entrance of the cave, Ding Ning knew that the tanuki was afraid that it would not work.

The temperature inside the cave seems to be very high, and there are waves of heat gushing out.

"Is there any magma in this extinct volcano, and why is it so hot?"

The tiger didn't dare to go in, so Ding Ning pinched a spring character and slowly walked into the cave.

The hole was not deep, and Ding Ning walked a few steps before seeing the tanuki lying on the ground covered in blood.

In front of the tanuki, a small red shadow was rubbing beside it, and the tanuki's eyes were dark, and he touched it with his tongue on the verge of death.

It was a tanuki's child, a young tanuki, and it was also fur like fire.

At this moment, Ding Ning understood a lot of things.

This tanuki is female, and the bones I saw at the beginning should be the male, the male civet cat was killed by the tiger, the female tanuki was pregnant, and gave birth to a small tanuki here, but the tiger wanted to connect the tanuki family to the pot.

I don't know how many civet cats it has given birth to, but there is only one cub here.

If you don't come, this litter of raccoon cats will probably be the tiger's belly sooner or later.

As for the tanuki's fur, it should be caused by the nourishment of the aura in the volcano, which is abundant in the cave, but close to the volcano, they live here, and they have mutated over time.

The female tanuki's eyes dimmed, and finally she closed her eyes and died, and the little tanuki still arched her head in vain, hoping that she would wake up.

Ding Ning sighed, although he would not be sad because of this, he also felt that it was very pitiful for this little guy to lose his parents early.

Since he came, the dead tanuki couldn't let the tiger eat it, Ding Ning first put the little tanuki aside, and then quickly took out the blood in the dead tanuki's heart.

He had already prepared the haode bottle to fill half a bottle, Ding Ning put the bottle away, and then hugged the little civet cat.

The vitality of heaven and earth on his body was released, and the little civet cat, who was still a little restless, closed his eyes comfortably and let Ding Ning hold it in his arms.

"This tanuki should be called a fire beaver, it is already in the aura, a little bit of human nature, go back and raise it well, and it can be regarded as a playmate. ”

The purpose of this trip is completed, the beast's hard work has been obtained, and a little civet cat has been obtained, it is said that Ding Ning should go back.

But Ding Ning didn't plan to leave, he checked inside the cave.

The volcano here is an extinct volcano, and there is basically no possibility of eruption, but this cave is so scorching, and the aura of fire is thick, but because it is at the top of the mountain, it is basically impossible to get close to the magma layer, so where does this heat come from?

Isn't it.

Ding Ning knocked around and found that the stones in a cave were particularly hot.

"This is it!"

Ding Ning was overjoyed, took out a thunderbolt jade ball, and blasted it down at the stone!

There was a thunderclap in the cave, and the little raccoon cat's frightened hair stood up, and the tiger that sneaked in outside turned its head and ran away in fright.

The stone cracked a gap, and with a wave of Ding Ning's hand, a piece of heaven and earth vitality was released, and it hit the stone hard, finally breaking the stone.

A thick wave of heat rose from under the broken stones, Ding Ning's hair was scorched in an instant, and he hurriedly took a step back, ecstatic in his heart!

"Great! Sure enough, it's a free earth-centered fire vein, no wonder there is both aura and so hot here, as long as I can absorb the fire power smoothly, I have the flame of the refining weapon, and I can refine my own magic weapon! Even alchemy doesn't have to be so troublesome as using mortal fire." ”

To get the beast's blood, the materials of the Gathering Spirit Pill are inferior to Bixin Willow, and it is estimated that you can almost get it when you go back, but flame has always been a problem.

Ordinary mortal fire alchemy pills are barely strong, but mortal fire can't do it when refining weapons.

The Earth's Core Fire is the best flame that can be found under normal natural conditions, as long as Ding Ning masters this kind of flame, the alchemy refiner will be invincible after he returns.

Of course, with his strength of qi induction, forcibly absorbing the earth fire is tantamount to looking for death, and it has to be through other means.

The most haode method is to channel the power of earth fire into the container, and then bring it back and slowly assimilate and absorb it with the heaven and earth elemental energy.

However, this kind of container is not easy to find, at least ordinary bottles cannot contain the power of earth fire, and it needs materials that can withstand high temperatures.

As far as Ding Ning knows, the ordinary high-temperature resistant material is stone, and among the stones, quartz stone and pebbles are the most heat-resistant.

Especially pebbles, with a melting point of 1800 degrees, are more resistant to high temperatures than quartz.

There are a lot of pebbles in the lake over there, Ding Ning can use local materials and use a knife to carve jade into a hollow pebble, after all, the containers needed for these earth fires are not as big as possible, the smaller the more convenient to carry, just get more.

Ding Ning was about to leave the cave, but the fiery red civet cat actually jumped onto his shoulder and refused to leave Ding Ning's side.

That's the charm of monks, who can make animals feel close.

The little civet cat is now a little bigger than an ordinary kitten, his eyes are shining, and his claws are very firmly grasped on Ding Ning's shoulders.

But the kitten looks very good, if you take it out and sell it to those girls as pets, it must be very popular, but it must be when it is small, this thing is a little bigger, but it can fight with tigers, killing people is similar to killing chickens.

Leaving the cave and returning to the edge of the lake, Ding Ning didn't see the tiger and didn't know where to run.

Putting the kitten down, Ding Ning began to collect pebbles on the edge of the lake.

Selecting a larger pebble, Ding Ning pierced the inside, the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi combined with the carving knife was very fast, and then solidified into a lid with stone powder after being hollow, forming a small stone pot.

The work was easy to say, but it was very troublesome for even a monk to do, and Ding Ning estimated that the number of stone pots needed was quite large, so this did so that night fell again.

Carve by the lake with the help of moonlight, and look up at the moon and stars in the sky when you are tired.

I don't know if Li Shuanggun and they have hunted tigers, Ding Ning doesn't want these people to really hunt tigers, if they meet again, they should be persuaded to give up.

After carving more than a dozen stone pots, when Ding Ning looked up at the sky again, he suddenly saw a bright light moving in the sky!

Plane!

This is the earth, and the light moving in the night sky will definitely not be a sword fairy, it can only be an airplane, and the height of the light is very low, it is a helicopter!

Ding Ning's heart was alarmed, someone came to this mountainous area by helicopter in the middle of the night, there was no doubt that he was coming at him, and he was the killer's accomplice!

Quickly put away the carved haode stone pot, and beckoned to the little civet cat, the little civet cat was very spiritual, feeling Ding Ning's intention to leave, and suddenly jumped onto Ding Ning's shoulder.

Ding Ning quickly rushed to the jungle in the distance and hid his figure.

A small helicopter circled in the sky and came to a stop in an open area near the lake.

The propeller brought a huge wind that blew the waves of the lake and rolled them.

Ding Ning hid in the forest in the distance, staring at the helicopter with the help of the moonlight, and the murder in his heart was awe-inspiring!

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