Chapter 24: Seeing Nothing
Lan Qian was only nine years old at the time, and when the rat tide came, he stood on a tree at the very edge of the Jianmu Forest, holding a smaller Jianmu bow in his hand, and like the other young tree spirits of the Jianmu clan, he kept shooting arrows at the sea-like mountain rat swarm. And his father's name is Lan Hua, he is the elder of the clan, and he usually has the best relationship with the patriarch Lan Mu. At that time, he was working with other elders in the clan to stop the tide of mountain rats outside the Jianmu Forest, wielding a Jianmu staff to fight with the mountain rat demon that had turned into a demon.
The spirits of the Jianmu clan can shoot arrows with bows when they are six years old, and they have their own talent for archery. Because of the relationship between the rat tide, the spirits of the Jianmu clan have to bear the responsibility of fighting with mountain rats and defending the Jianmu forest since they were young. Therefore, every time the rat tide comes, these young people will be arranged to fire arrows on high logs.
It was not the first time that Lan Qian had participated in this kind of battle, he was extremely brave and his archery skills were also very good, and each arrow could kill a mountain mouse. If you're lucky, you can even shoot through two or three of them with one arrow. But just as he was concentrating on shooting those mountain rats, he suddenly heard a familiar exclamation, which was Lan Hua's voice. Lan Qian looked back and saw that his father Lan Hua was hit by a stone stirred up by the demon rat in the tide of mountain rats and fell to the ground. Then, in an instant, countless mountain rats drowned over Lan Hua's body, devouring every piece of his father's flesh and blood in an instant, and immediately only a pair of bones remained.
Lan Qian looked at this unbelievable scene, his eyes were split, and his whole body suddenly trembled as if he had been struck by lightning. After a moment of silence, a scream of grief erupted from his throat, and the shrill sound filled the entire place of the fight, piercing the clouds above. All the mountain rats and the Wood Spirits were instantly attracted by the scream, and looked up at the place where the sound had occurred. At this moment, I saw Lan Qian jumping down from the Jianmu tree, and at the same time, the Jianmu bowstring in his hand sounded, and eight arrows were sent out in a row in a single breath.
Each of the eight arrows pierced the void, but without making any sound, they shot directly at the mountain rats that were surging outside the Jianmu Forest. Those mountain rat demons are being entangled by the elders of the other Jianmu clan. There is no time to clone for a while. Seeing that it was just a Jianmu arrow shot by a small Jianmu spirit, no one cared at first, let alone thought of blocking it. But when they didn't hear the familiar sound of Jianmu arrows breaking through the air, they felt that something was wrong. It's too late. Eight Jianmu arrows fell silently. After shooting eight mountain rats in a row. The mana contained in it suddenly exploded, and hundreds of mountain rats were torn apart by the burst of mana, splashing countless flesh and blood.
The air of blood wafted through the sky. Lan Qian's arrow was eight shots, and the mountain rats that rushed in front were almost swept away by him, and even shot several mountain rat demon leaders directly. Having lost the restraint of the leader, the mountain rats that had not turned into demons retreated in fright. Although the number of mountain rats is large, but the courage is very small, the mountain rats in front of them retreat, the mountain rats behind know that something is wrong, so they immediately retreat back, and suddenly the whole rat tide is in chaos, no matter how the remaining mountain rat demons are restrained, there is no way to recover the retreating rat tide, so they have to leave with hatred.
And after Lan Qian shot these eight arrows, his whole body was exhausted, his body seemed to be emptied, and a feeling of soreness and tiredness surged from the bottom of his heart, making him already unconscious when he fell in mid-air. Fortunately, at this time, the rat tide had receded, and the patriarch Lan Mu saw Lan Qian falling, and hurriedly cast a spell to take him to his side, calling again and again, but Lan Qian never woke up.
On the side, Elder Lan Mao hurriedly stepped forward to investigate with his divine sense, confirming that Lan Qian was only over-consumed by mana and damaging his vitality, and told Lan Mu not to worry. Lan Mu breathed a sigh of relief, in fact, Lan Hua would not have had an accident just now, just at the time of the war, there were three mountain rat demons who were lurking in the rat group, and suddenly burst out, and attacked Lan Mu together, with the intention of killing him, the patriarch, first, and making the Jianmu clan chaotic, so as to break the Jianmu clan.
The three manas attacked at the same time, Lan Mu couldn't reach it, he shouted, and the mana around his body suddenly exploded, shaking back the mountain rat demon that was originally entangled with him, waving the wooden staff, and waving two green lights one after another to block two of the three mana, but the last mana left couldn't be dodged. At the critical juncture, Lan Qian's father on the side saw it and immediately waved the wooden staff in his hand, and a green light flew out rapidly, blocking the fatal blow for Lan Mu. But Lan Hua's distraction was exploited by the mountain rat demon who was fighting with him. Seeing that the opportunity could not be missed, the mountain rat demon immediately sent out two arc-shaped mana, and at the same time used the mana to roll up the stones on the ground to cover the attack and attack Lan Hua in the back.
In a hurry, Lan Hua fired two mana and a wind blade in a row, breaking the same mana of the mountain rat demon, and the wind blade also struck the right eye of the mountain rat demon, and rolled out the eyeballs when he landed. The mountain rat demon screamed in pain and fell into the group of rats and fled, but at the same time, Lan Hua was unexpectedly hit by the sneak attack stone, and the mana was sluggish, and he was immediately hit by the mana sent out by another mountain rat demon next to him, and immediately fell to the ground, only to be bitten and eaten alive by other mountain rats.
It can be said that if it weren't for saving Lan Mu, Lan Hua wouldn't have died so easily. Lan Mu lost his friend, his eyes were already red just now, and when he saw Lan Qian in a coma again, he was naturally very anxious, so he lost his opinion, otherwise, with his cultivation, how could he not see that Lan Qian was just over-depleted of vitality?
In this battle, Lan Hua died heroically and was buried by Lan Mu near Jianmu, the first generation of Jianmu Essence who bred Lanhua. This is the rule of the Jianmu family, but all the tree spirits that belong to the two Jianmu trees must be buried around the two Jianmu trees in order of generation after death. One of the differences between the Essence of Jianmu and other monsters is that the offspring born of the monster of the Demon Transformation will not be a monster, but an ordinary creature. However, the offspring born of the spirit of the building wood is directly the spirit of the building wood, which is also very rare in other spirit races, most of the spirit races are unable to have children, there is no ability to reproduce, can only rely on the original body of the grass and trees to perceive the spirit, and then breed new spirits.
When Lan Qian woke up, he had to accept the fact that his father had died in battle. His mother disappeared when he was very young when he went out to collect fruits for food, and it is said that she was most likely taken captive by practitioners. Lan Hua was sad for a long time, and wanted to go to the cultivation world to find a wife many times, but Lan Qian was too young to be young, and Lan Mu and others persuaded him hard, so he didn't make the trip. With his identity as the essence of Jianmu, he was afraid that he would be killed by all kinds of monsters or other creatures within two hundred miles of walking out of the Jianmu Forest! Moreover, when he went to those cultivators to inquire about his wife, it was actually no different from sending a sheep into the tiger's mouth.
So Lan Hua was depressed for many years, and he depended on Lan Qian, and Lan Qian was also influenced by his father. Since childhood, he has not liked to talk. This time, my father was killed in battle. made Lan Qian even more silent. However, since Lan Qian woke up, he had the same skill that the clansmen and even the elders would not have, that is, to shoot Jianmu arrows with the same power as the eight arrows that day. It's just that Lan Qian also found out. Every arrow shot. The vitality in your body will be sucked away a little by the arrows.
In the beginning. He is not yet proficient, and the vitality that is drained every time is uncertain, sometimes too much. Sometimes, after each shot a few arrows, he would fall into a coma due to excessive consumption. As he grew older, he gradually mastered how to consume his vitality and shoot powerful Jianmu arrows, and every time he resisted the rat tide, Lan Qian was the bravest and most powerful.
It's not that the other Jianmu Spirits in the Jianmu Essence clan can't use mana to shoot arrows, on the contrary, each of them is born with the ability to do it, but none of them have the power of Lan Qian. When Lan Mu found out about this, he also asked Lan Qian about it, but Lan Qian didn't understand what was going on at that time, and of course he couldn't say it clearly. Although Lan Mu was strange, he didn't ask much, just thought that Lan Qian had a unique ability and was the best in the Jianmu clan, so he made him the captain of the Jianmu clan's escort team, responsible for guarding the safety of the Jianmu clan.
This situation is very common among the clan of monsters or spirits, and every once in a while or a few generations of the clan will appear a particularly powerful clan to help the race through life and death difficulties. Therefore, Lan Mu thought that Lan Qian was in this situation, he had a deep relationship with Lan Hua, and Lan Hua died for himself, so he took great care of Lan Qian, but he didn't know what happened to Lan Qian. And Lan Qian himself didn't understand why he had that ability, but he understood that this qiē was at the cost of consuming his vitality, so he never mentioned it to other tribesmen, but when he didn't resist the rat tide, he always tried his best to shoot as many arrows as possible, and each time more than the other.
Lan Qian wished that he could live as long as he could, so that he could shoot more arrows and protect the entire Jianmu clan like his father. But the constant consumption of vitality reminded Lan Qian that if he continued like this, it seemed that his life would not last long. This made Lan Qian feel very panicked, and his panic did not come from the fact that he was about to lose his life, but because he would no longer be able to protect the qiē he wanted to protect.
Therefore, since seeing Lu Zheng's archery skills, Lan Qian's eyes suddenly lit up, this cultivator knew how to shoot the most powerful arrows, and it seemed that he didn't have to consume vitality like himself. In this way, he was very excited, if he could learn the art of archery as a cultivator, he would not die so early, and he could teach the other Jianmu spirits in the clan, so that he could completely resist the mountain rat demons, and even destroy them in one fell swoop, so that the Jianmu clan would never have to live that kind of fearful life again.
And there is a different aura on this cultivator in front of him, Lan Qian has not seen other cultivators, and he has also heard that his mother was abducted by cultivators, although he is not like Lan Yao who hates cultivators, but in fact he is far more disgusted with cultivators than Lan Yao.
But this cultivator is different, since the first time he saw this cultivator, Lan Qian felt that this cultivator was different, his eyes were so pure and firm, his handsome face was so light and resolute, and there was a convincing feeling all over his body, which made him feel that there was a majesty that could not be violated lightly, but when he got along, he could feel that his heart was full of joy all the time, which made him have a long-lost sense of closeness. (To be continued......)