Huangmaojian is different from Dengbei Mountain, its overall mountain situation presents a three-stage style, and it is precisely because of this feature that the strength of the spirit beasts in the mountain is gradually divided.

In the outermost part of the yellow hair tip, the spirit beasts all over are not too powerful, most of them are second-level spirit beasts, and only a very small number of third-level spirit beasts will haunt, which is also the area that the disciples of the major sects often come and go when they travel in teams. After entering the middle section, the number of spirit beasts in the mountain began to decrease significantly, but their strength gradually increased.

In the middle of the mountain range, it is basically difficult to meet the traces of second-level spirit beasts, the reason is naturally because as primitive and pure creatures, they are already full of blood and killing among each other, if the weak ones break into the middle area, the result will only become the belly of other spirit beasts in vain.

The tip of the yellow hair is still the same as it should be, it does not show a very abnormal phenomenon like climbing the back mountain, the former is silent most of the time, such as when there are no spirit animals fighting each other, such as when the sun is warm.

Xu Yan now roughly understood why there were so many spirit beasts scurrying around in the area of Dengbei Mountain, even in the outermost area, the reason was very simple, those spirit beasts that should have grown in the northern hinterland, and even near the range of the evil stream, should have felt the toxicity and danger contained in those floating fogs in advance like Xiao Cai, so they had to flee from the range shrouded in the fog before the fog caused a fatal danger to them, and only after the monster in Mitsui Creek stopped spreading the fog could they return to the northern area。

After three days of separation from Chen Qinghe and the others, Xu Yan, who was walking alone on the tip of the yellow hair and was about to enter the middle mountain range, suddenly asked Xiao Cai in his consciousness: "Do you know, what kind of spirit beast is that monster growing in Mijing Creek?" It stands to reason that outside of Dushan, there should not be such a powerful spirit beast, and it can force Wu Hao to flee wildly, it is estimated that he has broken through to the level of the seventh level, no matter how bad it is, it must have the strength of the late stage of the sixth level, in addition, why does it spew out those fogs every fifteen years?" ”

In the past three days since entering Huangmaojian, with the help of Xiaocai's perception, Xu Yan has hunted more than ten spirit beasts with Inner Dan, but all of them are third-level spirit beasts, and half of them are used as remuneration and directly swallowed into Xiaocai's body.

Those Inner Dan all contain extremely powerful energy, but for Xu Yan himself, because of Chen Qinghe's instructions, he did not choose to swallow it directly, but Xiaocai's body is a colorful Sky Swallowing Python, and it has reached the level of the late fifth level, and its body is already quite strong, and its body is used to withstand the backlash of these third-level spirit beasts after swallowing the Inner Dan, and there will be no problems.

Xiao Cai swallowed the next third-level spirit beast's inner pill half an hour ago, and was digesting the energy it brought to itself for its own use at the moment, but after hearing Xu Yan's question at this moment, it still chose to stop cultivating first. Xiaocai didn't know why Xu Yan suddenly asked this question, but replied truthfully: "I don't know what kind of species it is, but I can be sure that it appeared in Sanjingxi much earlier than me, at least four or five hundred years." ”

When Xu Yan heard this, he couldn't help frowning, the spirit beast that had grown for so long was no matter how barren the heaven and earth aura in the mountains and forests here was, its strength should not be underestimated. His face was a little ugly and asked, "What about the other question?" ”

Xiaocai said bluntly: "Of course, I don't know the specific reason for those fogs, but I have only discovered this law in recent decades, and this is the third time since I appeared in this area. ”

When Xu Yan heard this, he shook his head, obviously this question was in vain.

Seeing Xu Yan's ugly face falling silent, Xiao Cai asked, "Why are you asking this, don't you want to fight it?"

Xu Yan grinned and replied: "How can this be, I haven't been arrogant enough to this extent, even if I encounter a slightly ferocious and rude fifth-level spirit beast, I have to escape, and I dare to deal with it? ”

"Hey, what do you mean by that, I've reached the point of the late fifth level now, my cultivation is a lot higher than yours, besides, I couldn't take you before, and it's not that I really can't take you, I just don't want to use my natal trick, otherwise you would have been my belly food." ”

After Xu Yan heard this, he couldn't help but smile dumbly and said: "Okay, okay, if you are amazing, then after entering the middle area of Huangmaojian, if you encounter any spirit beasts again, it will be up to you to deal with it, and you can also take this opportunity to exercise your actual combat ability, and you will only use your own body to throw it away when you meet an opponent of the same level in the future." ”

When Xiaocai heard that he was going to fight, he was lazy by nature, and he was a hundred unhappy, so he immediately exhaled and said: "I don't, I don't want to fight, you just need to give me more Neidan spirit grass and the like, and my strength will naturally rise slowly." ”

Xu Yan saw its IQ, and it was really like an underage girl, and suddenly said angrily with a black line: "You have to figure it out, it's not that I deliberately want to find you to be a coolie, but since you yourself want to take a path of cultivation that is different from your nature, then you must first learn to change your original way of cultivation, which I told you at the beginning, besides, the transformation trick I gave you can certainly make you grow to the point of transformation, but you really don't want to reach the point of turning into a dragon?"

Xu Yan continued: "If you still rely on swallowing foreign objects to improve your realm, then even if you really break through to the transformation stage, you will at most be a relatively special colorful sky-swallowing python, and you will not be able to completely shed the python body and become a dragon." ”

Hearing Xu Yan's righteous and stern admonition, Xiao Cai directly muttered aggrievedly: "But even if I participate in the battle, I may not be able to really take the Jiaohua Dragon, and we are not used to being competitive, can we just take the Jiaohua Dragon after increasing the killing?"

Xu Yan saw that he was a little thankless, and he was also a little impatient, but he finally chose to break through a little bit of heaven and said: "Of course it can't, I just want you to change your gentle nature first." Species evolution, this involves fighting against the rules of this heaven and earth, I won't go into detail with you first, but it's by no means what you can imagine now, in addition, whether it's transformation or evolution, you need to have enough strength as a base, otherwise how can you survive the catastrophe?"

Seeing that Xiaocai fell into silence, Xu Yan did not continue to put pressure on it, and his tone softened, and then said: "Okay, what I just told you is true, but the final decision is still in your own hands, if you don't want to, I will naturally not force you, as long as the time is up, no matter whether you can transform in the end or not, I will take the initiative to cancel the blood contract between you and me and return you to freedom." ”

After Xiaocai was silent for a long time, she didn't dwell on this issue, but said to Xu Yan with some hesitation: "I have a question, can you ask ......?"

Xu Yan seemed to anticipate what she would ask, so he directly interrupted her and said calmly: "I know what you want to ask, but those things are still untouchable for you and me now, if one day, you can really grow to the point where I can always take you with you, then everything you want to know will naturally be known, right?"

Xu Yan suddenly sighed as if talking to himself, and said quietly: "Knowing too much, it's actually not a good thing!"

......

Two hours later.

Xu Yan came to the area he was extremely familiar with according to the road he had walked before, it was the place where he landed eight hundred years ago after escaping a drop of source blood from the heavenly gully, with the help of the chaotic rules of heaven and earth, and at the same time, this is also the place where he personally killed Zhou Mi and Luo Tong, as well as the disciples of the Chenyang Sect after inheriting Xu Yan's body a few months ago.

Looking at this familiar scene, Xu Yan inevitably felt a little emotional, but it was obvious that after a period of wind and rain here, the traces of the battle left before were completely gone, only the half-truncated sword that was covered by the fallen leaves could vaguely make Xu Yan recall the cruel life-and-death duel before.

At that time, he was only a two-story kendo cultivator, plus the first three tricks of martial arts cultivation, and he was also forcibly and passively rushed away, and the foundation was not stable at all, if it weren't for Yan Ziyi's too cautious nature, whether he could survive at that time really had to be said, after all, the two Chen brothers at that time were both seriously injured, and they were far away from here, as for himself, it was impossible to have a second drop of source blood to be resurrected, and on the other hand, Yan Ziyi and Xu Niu at that time were basically still at their peak, if they were really bold and dared to rush forward, then Xu Yan would definitely die when he was almost exhausted at that time。

Looking at the half-cut short sword under his feet, Xu Yan carefully reviewed what he had experienced before, but he still couldn't help but feel embarrassed by it.

Such a life-and-death situation, Xu Yan has not experienced it, and even in the countless years that he has existed, it is very common to go through the ghost gate, but there is no doubt that the most dangerous one is in front of the heavenly gully that connects the other side of heaven and earth, and someone cooperated with the power of the rules of heaven and earth to give a sneak attack.

That sword could be said to be the most powerful sword under the entire Heavenly Domain that Xu Yan had come into contact with, although it still couldn't kill him completely in the end, it destroyed the supreme power that he had spent all his life getting, and made him return to his original form when he was born.

Feeling the ups and downs in Xu Yan's heart at the moment, Xiaocai hesitated for a moment before she couldn't help asking, "What's wrong with you?"

When Xu Yan heard this, he shook his head slowly, and he didn't mean to share it with him, so he replied casually, "It's nothing, it's just that I've been here before, and I think it's still familiar." ”

Xiao Cai saw that he didn't want to say more, so she didn't insist on asking, after all, she gradually realized that Xu Yan didn't look like a novice who had just entered the cultivation world, as for his character, he was the kind of person who was extremely self-conscious, if he was willing to share something with you, then he would never hide it, but if it involved his bottom line, he would never reveal the slightest information.

Xu Yan stayed in place for about half an hour, then continued to walk forward, and then said to Xiaocai Chuanyin: " By the way, after we entered this area, we came to the middle of the Huangmaojian Middle Mountains, if we continue to walk forward for half a day, we will go to the upper mountain range, which is the only mountain range connected to Dushan, but because the strength of the spirit beasts growing in it is relatively strong, usually we, the disciples of the cultivation sect, do not dare to enter the inside at will to collect medicine and hunt by ourselves, thinking that after so many years, there should be a lot of precious spirit grass and the like growing in it, you can play your role as a medicine beast at that time, as for the reward, it is still calculated according to the way discussed before, I will keep half of it, and the remaining half, then give you the body, how about it?"

Xiaocai has no opinion on this, of course, after all, if it comes to this mountain range to look for spirit grass, it will inevitably attract some spirit beasts to fight, although it itself is a spirit beast in the late fifth level, except for those monsters in Dushan, its cultivation can be regarded as quite good in the mountains of the Hundred Mountains Ancestors, but in the end it is not particularly familiar with fighting and fighting, therefore, even in the face of a truly fierce fourth-level spirit beast, it may inevitably be injured.

Seeing that Xu Yan was so easy to speak, Xiao Cai immediately replied excitedly: "Of course it's no problem, I won't tell you, I already smell the breath of spirit grass now." ”

Since she had already entered this deep mountain area and no longer had to worry about meeting other sect disciples halfway, Xu Yan did not continue to hide her body in her cuffs, but let her lie on her shoulder, and let her feel the breath of the spiritual grass growing in this mountain range while walking.

After getting Xiaocai's confession, the benefits to Xu Yan were obvious, because from the beginning of climbing the back mountain, he had been on the road and collected a lot of spiritual herbs from it. Therefore, her title as a medicine beast is by no means in vain, but as long as she enters her perception range, she can clearly capture the breath and location of those spirit grasses by confiding in her snake letter, and at the same time, she can also sense the breath of spirit beasts, which is undoubtedly the most powerful help for Xu Yan to complete the task of hunting in the city this time.

Xu Yan opened his mouth and asked, "Where does it grow, I'll rush over now." ”

Xiaocai replied bluntly: "It's about two miles in front of you on the left." ”

Xu Yan got an accurate answer, so he replied with a good word very briefly, and then sped up and walked forward quickly.

It was only a distance of two miles, and for Xu Yan's walking speed, it only took about two quarters of an hour to reach it, but when he arrived here, he found that the scene in front of him was actually a cliff.

Xu Yan looked at the bare cliff in front of him, and found that under the cliff was the Baizhang Valley, and immediately asked Xiaocai with a slightly cold face: "There is only this cliff in front of me, on such a steep stone wall, I don't think I can even keep a little bit of soil, not to mention whether there will be spiritual grass growing on it, even ordinary weeds are difficult to grow a single one, you can't be wrong." ”

Xiao Cai, who was lying on Xu Yan's right shoulder, spit out the snake letter after hearing this, and then replied: "Of course not, the breath of this spirit grass is nearby, I am completely sure that you can lean out of the cliff first." ”

Xu Yan saw that its tone was so determined, and that during this period of time, it was a hundred probabilities, but he did not doubt that it would deceive himself, so he immediately followed its opinion, firmly held the rock with one hand, and leaned out most of his body on the other hand, and then found that there was a cave that seemed to be pure natural on the yin side of this cliff.

The entrance to this cave is not large, semi-circular, about one zhang at its widest point, and about one zhang and three feet high.

Xiaocai opened her mouth and asked, "What, have you ever found any trace of spirit grass?"

When Xu Yan saw that scene, he immediately said angrily: "I didn't see the spirit grass, but there is one in the cave, do you want to say that the spirit grass grows in the cave?"

Xiaocai replied: "Yes, since there is no trace of it on the cliff, then it must have grown in this cave, anyway, I have already told you the specific location, but whether you want to pick it or not, that is your own business." ”

Xu Yan didn't care about the other party's tone to entertain himself so quickly, but when he saw that if he wanted to collect this spirit grass, the risk was not small, so he raised his eyebrows and asked: "What is this spirit grass, can you feel it, if it is not very important to me, then forget it, after all, it is not easy for me to enter that cave, this cliff is a hundred zhang high, if I accidentally fall to the bottom, then I will have to fall into a pile of flesh." ”

Xiaocai hesitated for a moment, and said with some twists: "Hmm...... If I'm not mistaken, it should be...... It is supposed to be a 'metamorphosis grass' that has been growing for about 70 years. ”

"Shapeshifting grass?"

Hearing this answer, Xu Yan's heart couldn't help but be slightly stunned, the Transformation Grass was indeed useless to him, but it was quite useful to a spirit beast like Xiao Cai, although its name was quite exaggerated, it could grow for seventy years, if it was given to Xiao Cai at this moment, it could at least increase its cultivation for thirty years.

Seeing that Xu Yan's face was a little embarrassed, Xiao Cai naturally didn't dare to force him, so he took the initiative to say: "This transformation grass is really useless to you, or forget it, anyway, there is more than this spirit grass in this mountain range, we will find it again." ”

Hearing Xiao Cai say this, how could Xu Yan not know her thoughts, otherwise why didn't she say that it was the transformation grass earlier, but she had to wait until he came here to say it? Xu Yan couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "Little snake spirit, you have a lot of thoughts, I think you should be the reincarnation of a fox spirit in your last life." ”

Without waiting for Xiaocai to argue, Xu Yan continued to ask: "By the way, there shouldn't be any powerful spirit beasts hidden in this cave, right?"

Hearing that the other party was going to take the risk of picking the transformation grass for himself, Xiaocai couldn't help but rejoice: "No, no, there is nothing in it, you can put a hundred hearts." ”

Hearing what the other party said, Xu Yan sighed helplessly, but then he no longer hesitated, walked out of the cliff sideways, and slowly climbed towards the cave along the uneven cliff.

Half a quarter of an hour later.

Xu Yan finally entered this cave, but before he could check the situation inside, in the dark depths of the cave, there was a pair of golden eyes, and cholera opened.

A powerful spirit beast aura surged wildly like a tide.