Among the five peaks of the inner mountain, there are few people on it. Even the inner disciples rarely walk in the mountain. Therefore, there are very few paths that can be walked. In order to avoid being discovered, the two of them walked in dense forests far away from mountain roads.
Fortunately, one of them was born in the mountains, and the other had been wandering in Kyushu since childhood, so they had rich experience in surviving in the wild. They each made two stone axes from sharp stones and branches, which could not only be used to drive away wild beasts, but also chop thorns to clear the way.
Seeing that the sun was turning westward, the two of them turned along the foot of the mountain to the south of Tianjue Peak. They had already bypassed Jinyuan Peak and came to the valley between Jinyuan Peak and Chaoyang Peak.
"Jingyu, it's getting late. We just arrived at Chaoyang Peak. If we want to get to Shaoyang Peak before dark, we still have a long way to go."
Mu Jingyu wiped the sweat from his forehead, raised his eyes and looked around and said, "Brother Qin, I think we should eat something here first to replenish our strength. Let's walk over in one breath."
The two ate dry food at noon, wandered around the mountains for half a day, and were chased by vipers for five or six miles. They were already hungry.
Qin Yunchuan nodded and said, "That's fine. It won't be too late for us to leave after we've eaten."
The two found a relatively flat piece of grass nearby and sat down. Each of them took out some dry food from their arms and filled their stomachs randomly.
"Hey! Brother Qin, do you feel a heat wave?"
Mu Jingyu suddenly felt a slightly hot air wave blowing from the dense forest not far away. When it blows on the body, it still feels a bit hot.
It was early autumn and we were in the mountains again. After it gets dark, I already feel the slightest bit of chill. Where can I feel the heat?
Qin Yunchuan looked curiously in the direction of Mu Jingyu's finger and saw a faint red flame in the dense forest. As a gust of autumn wind blows, the constant flickering rises.
Qin Yunchuan picked up the stone ax and touched it carefully, wanting to see what was going on.
"Be careful!" Mu Jingyu warned in a low voice.
As Qin Yunchuan slowly approached, the hot feeling became stronger and stronger. Carefully parting the grass, he looked towards the fiery red flame.
"Ah!" Qin Yunchuan just blurted out in surprise, then hurriedly reached out to cover his mouth.
Behind the dense forest, I saw a giant beast that was as big as a liger, lying on the grass with its eyes closed and meditating.
The fiery red hair is about one foot long and covers the whole body. With the breathing, it swayed up and down, looking like a burning flame from a distance. A pair of pointed ears stood on the back of the head, trembling slightly from time to time.
Looking down from the ears, a fiery red mane grows down the long forehead and reaches the tip of the nose. The slightly closed sharp mouth opens and closes, and balls of heat are sprayed out from its mouth.
"Oh my God! What a big rat!"
Qin Yunchuan couldn't help but exclaim in his heart, and walked lightly along the way back to the open space.
Mu Jingyu asked, "Brother Qin, what's in there."
Qin Yunchuan waved his hand to signal him to lower his voice, and then he lowered his voice and replied, "Jingyu, there is a giant ferocious-looking rat lying there."
Hearing this, Mu Jingyu stretched out his hands and gestured, "Giant vicious rat? How huge! Is it this big? Or this big?"
Mu Jingyu also saw some huge rats in the vast mountains. Even the cats in the village would stay away when they saw him.
Qin Yunchuan shook his head, pressed his arms and replied, "The giant red-haired rat is as big as a tiger in the mountains. I have been wandering around Kyushu for many years, and I have seen a lot. But such a huge rat, But this is the first time I’ve seen him!”
Mu Jingyu's face was full of disbelief: "Brother Qin, don't lie to me! How can there be such a big mouse in this world!"
"It's also possible that it just looks like a giant rat." If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Qin Yunchuan would not believe it.
"Okay, let's not talk so much. It's better to stay away from it before it wakes up."
Mu Jingyu responded and quickly collected all kinds of debris on the ground together with Qin Yunchuan. He carefully followed the mountain road, wanting to escape from this place quickly.
Hearing a crunching sound, Mu Jingyu accidentally stepped on a dry branch and broke it. He was so frightened that he suddenly stopped and looked back with some palpitations. I saw that there was still no movement from behind the dense forest, and I breathed a sigh of relief.
He gently shook his hand, indicating that there was no movement without the giant rat. Then he opened his legs and walked forward.
Little did he know that as soon as his other foot touched the ground, he suddenly felt his body sink. Ah screamed and fell into a small cave.
It turns out that there is a cunning rabbit's hole below. Because it was covered with a layer of dead leaves, Mu Jingyu stepped in without paying attention.
"Are you okay?" Qin Yunchuan quickly supported Mu Jingyu and asked in a low voice.
Just as Mu Jingyu was about to reply, he suddenly heard several low roars of ferocious beasts coming from the dense forest behind him.
Their hearts skipped a beat and they both turned their heads. I saw a ball of fiery red flames suddenly standing up from the dense forest. The ferocious beast with a rat face was squinting its shining eyes, looking at the two people not far away.
At this moment, there was silence in the jungle. Apart from the low roar of the ferocious beast, the only sound left was the thumping of their heartbeats.
The two people and the beast stood still for a moment. Just when the two of them didn't know what to do, the rat-faced beast suddenly came out from behind the dense forest. Walking at a leisurely pace, he slowly approached the two of them.
What to do? What to do? What to do! The two looked at each other, their minds at a loss. After a while, I felt the blazing heat getting closer and closer, and then I suddenly came back to my senses. They both shouted, pulled up their legs and started running.
"Brother Qin, what kind of monster do you think that is? It looks like a mouse but not like it. The fiery red fur on its body is like a ball of fire. Even if it is far away, the heat will be unbearable!"
"Don't worry about what it is. It's not a cat or a dog. We'd better stay away from it to avoid being eaten by it!"
"Hey, I don't seem to feel so hot anymore. Is it because it didn't chase me?"
The two of them panicked and ran a distance of more than a hundred feet in one breath. Only then did they realize that the ferocious beast did not seem to be chasing them, so they couldn't help but turn around and look curiously.
I saw silence in the dense forest behind me. Where could I see half a giant rat? Just when the two thought they had escaped danger, they suddenly heard a roar coming from a distance. The next moment, a monster with a fiery red body rushed out from the dense forest and appeared in front of him in an instant.
"My mother! It's actually coming after me!"
Before Mu Jingyu could even scream in surprise, Qin Yunchuan grabbed his arm and started running wildly in the forest.
The giant rat seemed to be angry that the two of them had disturbed its peaceful dream, and chased after the two angrily. The thick limbs hit the ground hard, making loud and dull noises. The huge body ran rampant, breaking several trees along the way.
Within a few breaths, they appeared behind them. Feeling the heat coming from behind, both of their hearts seemed to have stopped.
"Look, there is a small river ahead! This giant rat is on fire and may be afraid of cold things like river water. As long as we jump into the river, we might be able to escape."
Qin Yunchuan pointed ahead and saw a river no more than ten feet wide appearing in front of the two of them.
As they spoke, the two of them had already rushed to the river. Just as Mu Jingyu was about to speak and tell Qin Yunchuan that he was not familiar with water, he was pulled by the latter and jumped into the river.
Although it doesn't look very big from the outside. Unexpectedly, when I got into the water, I was shocked to realize that the river was bottomless. Moreover, the water flow under the surface of the river is also extremely turbulent, far from being as calm as it seems on the surface.
Mu Jingyu grew up in the mountains since he was a child, and his water ability is only average. If it were just a small river, I could barely cope with it. But the current in the river was very fast. As soon as I entered the water, I choked a few times and panicked. His limbs were flapping randomly, trying to maintain his shape. Unexpectedly, it became more and more chaotic and sank straight to the bottom of the river.
It turns out that this seemingly small river is actually the Huaijiang River surrounding Jiuhua Mountain. Since it is called a river, it naturally means that the water flow is huge. It's just that this valley is too narrow. When it flows through here, it is squeezed by the peaks on both sides, making the river appear to be too small.
After the two entered Jiuhua for the first time, they naturally knew about the Huaijiang River. But how can we connect this small river with the huge Huaijiang River! It wasn't until I jumped down rashly that I realized something was wrong.
Qin Yunchuan was wandering in Kyushu, so his water quality was naturally good. He leaned out of the rushing river in a few seconds, but when he looked around, Mu Jingyu was nowhere to be seen. After shouting a few times, no one responded, so I felt bad about shouting and quickly dived into the river again.
Although he has good water skills, he can't help himself in the surging river water. He quickly held his breath and concentrated, mobilized the true energy in his Dantian, and dispersed it into his limbs, and then managed to stabilize his body.
After looking carefully for a moment through the dim river bottom, he saw Mu Jingyu struggling hard. She swam to his side on all fours, hugged him from behind, and then rushed out of the water with all her strength.
"Jingyu, are you okay?"
"Ahem! Brother Qin, please tell me in advance next time you jump into the river. My water quality is not very good."
Seeing that he still had the energy to talk, Qin Yunchuan knew that his problem was not serious. However, the most important issue now is not this. I don’t know if the giant rat is coming.
As soon as I thought of this, I suddenly felt a huge wave of water crashing down from upstream. I saw a fiery red figure leaping out of the air and hitting the river heavily.
"My mother, this guy who is covered in fire is not afraid of the river water!"
Although I still don’t know what kind of ferocious beast this is, but according to common sense, a ferocious beast like this that is covered in fire is usually afraid of water. Who would have thought that this guy didn't have the slightest fear of the river and jumped in without thinking.
Little did the two of them know that this ferocious beast that looked like a giant rat was actually a fire beast! Although this fire beast is not as powerful as the ancient ferocious beast, it is still extremely ferocious. Even if some people who have just entered the Guiyuan realm meet them, it will be difficult to deal with them.
Originally, there was no such ferocious beast in Jiuhua Mountain. Who knew that just over ten days ago, this ferocious beast that had not yet awakened its spiritual intelligence had sneaked into Jiuhua Mountain from nowhere.
At the beginning, Master Tianyang also ordered people to capture and kill him alive to avoid harming his disciples. Unexpectedly, this ferocious beast was extremely cunning. After entering the mountain, it lurked day and night. It rarely appeared in the mountain and never attacked Jiuhua disciples.
After searching for several days, it narrowly escaped. Master Tianyang saw that he was not likely to cause trouble in the mountains, so he gave up his intention of killing everyone. It's just that the disciples of Yan Ming Tian Luo Peak have stepped up patrols on the five peaks of the inner mountain. It is forbidden to suddenly run out of the inner mountain and invade the four peaks of the outer mountain.
Moreover, since the fire beast appeared in the inner five peaks, many monster beasts entrenched in the mountains have consciously avoided its territory. Therefore, after the viper chased the two people to Jin Yuan Peak, it gave up the pursuit because of fear of the fire beast.
Moreover, this fire beast is not afraid of cold things like ordinary fire-attribute beasts. Because the whole body is covered in flames and is covered with fur, even if it enters the water, there will be no serious harm.
After the huge beast's body fell into the water with a bang, it caused a huge wave. The turbulent current rushed down and rushed towards the two of them.
It's just that his actions are not as fast as before, it seems that he just wants to drive the two people out of here.
