Volume 1 The Wind Rises in Lingzhou Chapter 85 Spring Hunting in the Hundred Mountains (Twenty-Five)
After two days and one night of sleepless full speed forward, Bai Bing and the others, who set off from the Upper Evil Ridge, finally passed through the deep valley about fifty zhang long, and then just like Xu Yan felt at the time, they looked at the two stalagmites that were shrouded in blue mist, only about half of them remained, and their moods were a little heavy and complicated, but compared to the scenery in front of them, what really worried Bai Bing was the deep physical exhaustion caused by the entire team rushing with all their might.
Bai Bing glanced back at the four fellow disciples behind him, and said a little helplessly: "This place is close to the edge of Dengbei Mountain, and then it is the range of that evil stream, we are in such a desperate hurry, although the time has been more than doubled, but the physical load is too great, let's sit down and rest for two quarters of an hour, and by the way, eat some dry food to fill our stomachs." ”
Gu Xueqing and Qiu Yuanjin had no objection to Bai Bing's proposal, and along the way, they basically reached the point of non-stop, and they really needed to rest. For them, it is good to rush in the daytime, after all, the sight is clear, but it is really a bit difficult to rush at night with torches, many sections of the road, not even a road, if it is not for someone in advance in this dense forest out of the slightest trace of the road, they can not distinguish the direction at all.
Things like maps become a kind of chicken rib at night, because they can't even see the reference objects clearly, but fortunately they stumbled along the way, but they managed to get here.
"Senior Brother Bai, we have all come to this position, if we continue like this, it will not take half an hour to completely get out of the range of Dengbei Mountain, will Little Senior Brother really come here? Will we have already passed by him in our previous trip?"
There is no doubt that the whole area of Dengbei Mountain is very vast, but compared to the stalagmite forest in the middle and the stretching mountains near the outermost Wugong Mountain, after really entering the northern hinterland, in fact, this area is no longer as intertwined and complex as the terrain outside, and the roads under their feet are naturally no longer so intertwined.
Bai Bing's face at the moment is dusty, full of wind and frost, and there is no longer the dignified appearance of the folding fan when it was swaying in the past, it is the black hair, which is also messy by the dense and prosperous countless branches and leaves along the way, but although he looks haggard, but that delicate face has always maintained a unique whiteness and cleanliness, and I don't know if he is alone. When others didn't notice him, he secretly shaved his beard, otherwise at his age, he should be the same as the two Qiuzi sect disciples behind him, covered with stubble.
However, in the current situation, even Gu Xueqing and Qiu Yuanjin, who are women, have noticed this, but they don't have the extra heart to care about these trivial matters.
Bai Bing hesitated for a moment before he said slowly: "It shouldn't be, since we entered this mist forest, there are not many roads for us to pass freely, and haven't you noticed, this way, not only have we never encountered a single disciple, not even a spirit beast, if they are still stagnant in the previous mountain forest, they can't be silent at all, so I think they should not have found the golden hairpin stone orchid, so they can only continue to walk north." ”
"That's right, but now this is the northernmost part of Dengbei Mountain, if we can't find any trace of the little junior brother under the two stalagmites in front, do we have to continue to go north? Then we have to follow the evil stream to Sanjing Creek, that place ...... Even the elders of the major sects did not dare to set foot in that place easily, and the danger level was almost no less than that of Dushan among the Hundred Mountain Ancestors. ”
It was Gu Xueqing who spoke this time, she hesitated, and after hesitating for a moment, she then asked with some confidence: "Of course, if Senior Brother Bai decides to go, we naturally have no objection." ”
Although Bai Bing had never personally set foot in this area before, as a great disciple of the Qiuzi Sect, this mountain was running through several mountains in the Spirit Beast Mountain Range, and it left the lives of all the disciples of the major sects in that spring hunt fifteen years ago, and its danger factor was only that of the single mountain, and Sanjing Creek, which was known as the 'Little Forbidden Land', he naturally would not be ignorant.
After thinking for a moment, he finally shook his head and said, "No, if we still can't find any trace of the junior brother at the junction, let's retreat." ”
......
Seeing a huge head rising in the waterhole, not only the three women of Baihe Jianzhuang standing by the waterhole were frightened, but even Wu Hao, who was constantly approaching the three of them, was also shocked by this thing and suddenly stopped.
The giant beast in front of him, his eyes are green, and when he looks at it roughly, his body looks like a huge anaconda, but on closer inspection, it looks more like a dragon out of the water, but obviously, it just looks like it, and it is not really these ordinary spirit beasts that can be seen.
Wu Hao opened his eyes to look at this unheard of monster, feeling the powerful aura emanating from its body, and a trace of jealousy flashed in his thick eyebrows and big eyes, but then it turned into a strong battle intent. Such a powerful spirit beast must also have a sixth-level starting point according to the guarantee, so for a pure martial artist like him, he undoubtedly can't help but want to go up and fight against him. Because this is the most wonderful opportunity to temper his own body.
"Whew!"
The huge water monster let out a roar of anger after seeing clearly the human cultivators who had rushed into its realm in front of him.
A powerful stream of air erupted from its massive bloody mouth.
The three women closest to it in the White Crane Sword Village instantly felt that a gust of wind swept over them, but what made them even more uncomfortable than the strength of this wind was that at this moment, they also smelled a foul smell that filled the wind, and this smell, like the smell of a rotting corpse, could almost make them faint.
The senior sister of the White Crane Sword Village, feeling the aura of rage emanating from this water monster, couldn't help but think back to her fellow disciple who was the first to jump into the pool, and almost didn't have to think about it to know that she must have been swallowed by this beast.
Among the three, the one with the highest cultivation was the senior sister who had just entered the middle three realms, but when she faced this spirit beast, she only had deep fear in her heart, but she didn't have the slightest courage to dare to confront it.
As we all know, as a sword cultivator who mainly attacks and kills, if he loses the will to win in the first place, then he will naturally lose the sharpest sword intent he can use.
"Whoa!"
After a roar, the monster's body moved again.
Its huge body continued to rise, just like a real dragon jumping out of a waterhole, and in the blink of an eye, it rose nearly forty zhang.
Immediately afterwards, under the gaze of Wu Hao and others, it flew out of this waterhole directly in the sky.
"Seven...... Rank 7 spirit beast?"
The three disciples of the Chenyang Sect who really stood in place and did not move forward any further, after seeing this flying water monster, they were undoubtedly in a huge shock, but compared to the shock, the fear in their hearts was actually much more, because they were present at the moment, and they couldn't help but think in their hearts at the moment, "Is there still a way to live?"
They looked at the huge water monster flying in the air with sad faces, but they could only pin all their hopes of survival on the body of the senior brother who was not far from them.
"Whew!"
There was another loud roar, which spread throughout the mountains and fields, and then this unknown spirit beast turned around in the air, turned its body, and its head fell to the ground rapidly, sweeping straight towards the female disciples of the White Crane Sword Village who were on the edge of the waterhole and were already too frightened to move.
As a result, there was no accident, this water monster was just a light flick of its tail, and it smashed its tail on the three female disciples of the White Crane Sword Village, smashing them into this bottomless pool.
Like the female disciple who jumped close to the waterhole first, the three of them disappeared in the blink of an eye after falling into the water.
Seeing that all the female disciples of the White Crane Sword Village had sunk to the bottom of the pool, Wu Hao, who was still about thirty zhang away from them, did not feel relaxed about this, because he immediately found that this flying water monster had focused his attention on himself after dealing with them.
"Come on, let me see how strong you really are. Wu Hao muttered to himself, his eyes were like torches, he watched the water monster rushing towards him quickly, and still had no intention of retreating.
An orange-red light suddenly drilled out from the center of his eyebrows, and it was the martial arts true qi that could only be formed after breaking through to the fourth rank.
Wu Hao split the released true qi into two and concentrated it on his left and right hands, and it was not until this water monster was only three zhang away from him that he suddenly pushed out his hands with true qi.
The orange-red light, like a newborn morning sun, rose from Wu Hao's hands, and then turned into a huge wave-like river tide, which hit the head of this water monster.
"Whew~"
The water monster was hit by Wu Hao's frontal palm, and even if it let out a miserable scream, it was beaten backwards along with its body that was more than 30 zhang long.
Obviously, this is an unexpected scene, or rather, this is the consequence that this water monster has to bear if he underestimates Wu Hao's strength, but Wu Hao can't help but sink in his heart when he sees that he has at least seven successes before he can only push it out of the ten zhang.
The strength of this water monster was far beyond his prediction, so when the other party was defeated and had not yet come to his senses, he immediately turned his head and shouted to the three fellow disciples behind him: "Use your fastest speed to leave this area, and I will be responsible for the rear." ”
Seeing his senior brother, he actually knocked the seventh-level water monster backwards with one palm, and these three disciples of the Chenyang Sect were already determined in their hearts, and they couldn't help but gush out with the blood in their bodies. They knew that their senior brother was very strong, but they didn't expect it to be so strong, but at this moment, after hearing the other party's words, there was a trace of solemn tone, they quickly calmed down.
"But ......"
Before the disciple finished speaking, Wu Hao shouted in a deep voice: "Go!"
Seeing that his tone was unquestionable, the three of them didn't dare to hesitate any longer, so they could only turn around and retreat.
However, as a spirit beast that had reached the seventh level and could fly in the sky, how could this water monster not understand what Wu Hao was saying? Not to mention that these outsiders suddenly broke into its territory and disturbed its cultivation, not to mention, the person in front of him even gave it a palm, although that palm could not really hurt it, but as a seventh-level spirit beast, when it was provoked by a human being who was weaker than its own cultivation, how could it easily let them go?
The water monster shook its huge head and quickly adjusted its body back, and then it faced Wu Hao and the others, and opened its huge mouth again, but this time it was no longer the same as at the beginning, as if it had just woken up and yawned, because from its mouth, it spit out a burst of white anger.
White as mist.
But before Wu Hao was hit by these fogs, he felt that there was a compelling cold in these fogs, and if he didn't defend immediately, then this cold would most likely freeze his whole body. In the blink of an eye, the mist touched the stream beneath his feet, and the entire stream started with the monster and instantly froze into a cold glacier.
Wu Hao felt that the temperature in the entire heaven and earth suddenly plummeted by dozens of degrees, and he couldn't help but be horrified, and immediately controlled his martial arts true qi and turned into a light shield to wrap himself tightly to prevent this cold from directly invading his body.
However, he could indeed resist this chill temporarily, but his three fellow disciples who had not yet entered the fourth rank and had not even been able to condense the true qi of martial arts could not resist it at all, so after only three breaths, they were running south in the stream with all their might, and before they successfully turned across the mountain bay, they were successfully caught up by the cold qi behind them, and then they turned into three very vivid human ice sculptures in an instant, just like the stream under their feet.
Seeing his fellow disciples being frozen in an instant, Wu Hao, who knew that they were already more and less auspicious, was full of anger in his heart, but he didn't have the slightest way to save them, because he felt that the cold qi from this water monster could not only freeze everything it touched, but also freeze the martial arts true qi that he had conjured.
Feeling a chill hit his perception, Wu Hao, who was wrapped in true qi, could only watch as the snow-white ice spirit surrounded him, and then froze him into a huge ice egg.
The water monster that spit out a mouthful of natal true qi immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he had successfully frozen these human cultivators in front of him, and as soon as this breath was released, the aura that was already very powerful in its body quickly withered. No one knew that in fact, it was using this kind of power now, and the pressure was actually very huge, but fortunately, it only spent this little price to solve these human cultivators, which was completely acceptable to it.
But right now.
"Click!"
There was a sound of ice cracking suddenly from the ice egg, causing a small crack to appear on the thick ice. The sound was so inaudible that the monster didn't hear it until half an hour later, when thousands of cracks like spider's silk appeared all over the ice egg, but it was too late.
"Boom" with a loud bang.
It's like the sound of a boulder exploding when it hits a cliff.
Wu Hao, who was frozen by the ice, finally broke through the ice after running his true qi in his body dozens of times.
The ice chips shot out like silver needles in all directions, and when they hit the ice around them, which had long been frozen by the water monster, they couldn't help but let out a crackling and screeching sound, and there were countless ice slags among them, which fell directly on the water monster's body.
Without waiting for the water monster to react from its shock, Wu Hao, who had just broken free from the ice egg, took his body and frantically shot at it.
Another burst of dazzling orange-red light shone out from his hands, but this time, Wu Hao turned his palm into a fist and slammed his fist into the head of the water monster.
Ignoring the terrible screams emanating from the other party's throat, Wu Hao, who had used all his strength, didn't dare to fight, and swept out directly. Then, he trampled on the frozen stream and fled frantically to the south.
The water monster that withstood Wu Hao's punch, although it was still not too injured, it couldn't help but be angry to the extreme, so it finally spit out a mist glowing with crimson blood in the distance and couldn't bear it.
This blood-colored mist turned into a huge figure like its own body in an instant, and swept wildly from the sky.
......
After seeing Zhou Yu rushing with a sword, Xu Yan didn't dare to hide the slightest clumsiness, because the other party's cultivation was very clear to him, only one step away from the five-story building, plus Zhou Xian, who had stepped into the Middle Three Realm for more than a few months, and all the two disciples of the Yunlan Sect and the Chunzi Sect attacked together, he could only do his best to fight the enemy.
This battle is undoubtedly much more severe than Xu Yan expected. It can be said that he really fought against more than a dozen sword cultivators at the same time with the power of one person. And it was only after he collided with Zhou Yu and the others for dozens of rounds that he heard an amazing roar from behind the mountain bay in the north.
This sudden roar made Xu Yan and Zhou Yu and the others who were fighting at the scene have a trace of stagnation, and at the same time made them feel a trace of inexplicable jealousy in their hearts, but unfortunately, hatred in Zhou Yu's heart finally replaced all his reason, so he just paused for a breath, and then raised his sword and continued to rush towards Xu Yan.
Seeing the other party rushing towards him like a mad dog, Xu Yan was a little inexplicable, the other party wanted his life, he could understand, but the other party wanted his life so red-eyed, but it made him feel a little wrong.
"Bell!"
Picking away a long sword that stabbed into his chest, Xu Yan seized one of the few perfect moments, and slammed a fist into the body of a certain Yunlan Sect disciple, directly knocking the latter's body upside down and flying out.
He still didn't use all his strength with this punch, but the opponent's entire chest was sunken in, and by the time the opponent fell to the ground, he was already dead and couldn't die anymore.
Seeing that among the people he brought, there was already a third person who accidentally died under the iron fist of the other party, Zhou Yu's slender eyes were finally full of blood, and he was extremely angry.
So, he raised the long sword in his hand, suddenly slashed his fingers, and then used the blood flowing from his fingers to wipe the cold light on the sword.
A bloody light suddenly lit up from Zhou Yu's long sword.
Xu Yan Huo Ran opened his eyes and saw that under the anger of the other party, he slashed a sword at him from afar.
This sword was full of monstrous blood, and it surpassed the limit of what a four-story sword cultivator could use.
However, before Xu Yan could make any defense against Zhou Yu's sword qi, in the valley to the north, a figure was rushing towards him.
Immediately after, in the mid-air behind this figure, another phantom with blood like a long dragon flew directly out of the mountains and rivers, and let out an angry roar.