There was a dense layer of snake carcasses floating on the surface of the "Youya Lake", with their bellies turned up, and occasionally there were snake carcasses twitching, which was very scary. On the bank, the hunting team had already removed the thick and long giant pythons from them. Drag it ashore in the pond.
On the shore, they were peeling off the belly, peeling the skin, cutting the meat, dividing the work to deal with the python corpse, and collecting various precious spiritual materials such as python meat, python skin, and python heart.
On the protruding rock where the "Snake Corpse Magic Grass" grows in mid-air on the high cliff, Xuanqiao is staring closely at the "Snake King Fruit" with a dazzling blood-colored aura on the branch of the magic grass. This fruit is almost ripe and is being quickly dissolved and consumed. Absorbed massive amounts of snake blood.
But the vine-like roots on the stone wall that were bulging and dense, like blood vessels, have returned to a withered state. Although there are a large number of snake corpses floating in the pool, there is no trace of blood in the pool water. The snake blood is flowing out from the dead snakes, and all of them have been killed. "Snake King Fruit" swallowed.
As time goes by, the dazzling blood-colored aura of the "Snake King Fruit" slowly dissipates. Looking closer, the fruit is shaped like a peach and as big as a fist. The skin is dark red, the top is convex, the belly is round, and the fruit body is from top to bottom. There are several black twisted lines wrapped around it, each like a small snake connected from end to end.
"One, two,..., five!" After counting, Xuan Qiao's pretty face couldn't help but glow with excitement, because only by deriving the fifth fruit pattern from the "Snake King Fruit" can the cultivator's ability to overcome tribulations and condense the original golden elixir be improved. quality.
"Snake corpse magic grass" blooms and bears fruit. Each time it blooms, it attracts snakes to eat each other and swallow a large amount of snake blood to give birth to "fruit-fetal snake patterns". The first four "snake patterns" do not have a large demand for snake blood. , once or twice blooming, it will condense.
When the fifth fruit is reached, the demand doubles. It is possible that the snake blood swallowed by one flowering is not enough to fully meet the demand for snake fruit. A five-striped "Snake King Fruit" takes 600 to 800 hours from flowering to maturity. Years, this shows the rarity of this fruit.
"Take it!" Xuan Qing took out a fine fragrant wood medicine box, and then used a magic spell to pluck the "Five-striped Snake King Fruit" out of thin air, put it into the medicine box, and then put it into the bottom layer of the storage bag. .
I saw the "Snake Corpse Magic Grass" that was as tall as a person. When the snake king fruit on the branch was picked, it was like a person having his bones removed. He withered and collapsed to the ground.
Even though this "Snake Corpse Magic Grass" withered in an instant, as long as its huge root system was not damaged, it would be possible for it to grow, bloom, and bear fruit again after a hundred years.
This is also why there are places like "Youyatan" where the "Snake King Fruit" can often be found with a high probability. The five sects have an unwritten consensus that picking the "Snake King Fruit" on the first and second lines in the secret realm is prohibited, as well as all other places. The act of destroying the "Snake Corpse Magic Grass".
Nowadays, the Great Wilderness Sword Sect among the five sects has been replaced by the Tianluo Tantric Sect. It is not known whether the Tianluo Tantric Sect will follow this tacit rule, but if you want to fish in the swamp and kill the chicken to obtain eggs, which is a stupid act that harms others and does not benefit yourself, the Tianluo Tantric Sect has decided I won't do it either.
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"Congratulations, Master!" Seeing Master Xuanqing pick the Snake King Fruit, he jumped down from the rock halfway up the cliff with a happy face. I guess this Snake King Fruit has condensed into "five lines" and has almost collected the corpses of the pythons. The crowd immediately gathered around, and Taoist Xuanbao took the lead in speaking.
"Yeah!" Xuan Qing smiled and nodded.
Although this Snake King Fruit is a common trophy for the team members and must be handed over to the sect after leaving the secret realm, the sect has regulations that all members of the picking team have priority in redeeming the Snake King Fruit they picked.
And Xuan Qing is the captain of the Xuan Zi team, so he naturally does his part to deal with this Snake King Fruit.
Of course, the exchange conditions for the Snake King Fruit are not low. There are two exchange conditions for the "Five-striped Snake King Fruit" sect. One is that it has two million contribution points.
The second is to hand over a hundred Qingke Dan, which not everyone can afford to redeem, but Xuan Qing volunteered to lead the team this time, so naturally these are already prepared.
"Congratulations, uncle!" Liu Yu also stepped forward to congratulate.
Although as a member of the team, he also had the priority to redeem this Snake King Fruit, but Master Xuanqing was a generation older than him, so naturally he would not be able to get this one.
But this is a good sign. If the team behind picks another one, the opportunity will come. According to the sect's harsh exchange conditions, the only ones that can meet the requirements are myself and Brother Xuanbao.
As far as Liu Yu knew, although Senior Brother Xuanbao was a member of the family, he was not from a big family and did not hold an important position in the sect. It was not easy to improve his cultivation so far, and he should not have so many contribution points.
"Master nephew, I took the initiative to join the secret realm this time. I think I came here for this spiritual fruit. There are still more than twenty days before the secret realm is closed. Master uncle will do his best to help you find it." This nephew of Xuanyu is not simple, he has a lot of sect contribution points in his hand, and he said immediately.
"Then Xuan Yu will thank my uncle first!" Liu Yu said with cupped hands.
"The closest potential snake king fruit growing point here is called "Stream Reef Beach", which is about three days away. According to records, six hundred years ago, Wanyao Valley harvested a "five-striped snake king fruit" here. "Fruit." Judging from the growth cycle of this fruit, it is very likely that the Snake King Fruit will grow here." Xuan Qing took out the map of the secret realm and pointed to the west direction.
"Stream Reef Beach!"
"Very good!"
"Then what are you waiting for? Let's leave now!"
Everyone couldn't help but said excitedly.
"Have you packed them all?" Xuan Qing asked Taoist Xuan Bao after taking a look at the large number of python corpses scattered everywhere. There were clean skulls, scattered skeletons, and piles of scattered intestines, stomachs and other organs. road.
"Master, these giant pythons are too big and numerous. Some low-value spiritual materials such as water and bones can only be abandoned. We can't hold so many." Taoist Xuanbao said with a look of regret.
There were nearly forty giant pythons, and a large amount of python meat, scales, bone marrow and other precious spiritual materials were carved out, almost filling all the storage bags of the team members.
These bones, intestines and other debris are only of relatively low value, but outside the secret realm, they are just a piece of spiritual stone. Normally, they would be moved away at any cost, but in this secret realm, they can only be abandoned in the secret realm. This is a pity, what a pity.
Taoist Xuanbao comes from a small family, and it is extremely difficult to reach this stage of cultivation. Now he is the patriarch of the family. He has to maintain his own cultivation and take care of the affairs of the family at the same time.
Life is tight and money is extremely tight. If you are not a householder, you don't know how expensive oil and salt are, and everything costs money.
However, this time the team gained an extremely rich harvest, including a "Five-striped Snake King Fruit", two giant python beast pills, three sixth-level python spirits, six fifth-level python spirits, a large amount of python flesh and blood, scales, snake hearts, snakes, etc. Bones, snake teeth and other rare spiritual materials can be exchanged for massive contribution points and spiritual stones after leaving the secret realm.
Unfortunately, due to time constraints, some giant pythons have been dead for too long, and their souls have naturally dissipated.
Otherwise, more giant python souls could be absorbed, but fortunately, he, his master, and junior brother Xuanyu all practiced the "soul-popping technique" and captured the living souls of those high-level giant pythons in time.
As for the living souls of those fourth-level giant pythons, they could only watch them disappear. These were all huge sums of spiritual stones. Thinking of this Xuan Bao couldn't help but bleed.
"That's it, everyone is tidying up, and we'll leave in a moment!" Xuan Qing knew that this was the only way to do it, nodded, and then walked towards the burning firewood pile in the distance.
Taoist Lingguang stood beside the ashes with a lonely expression. When he found the body of Taoist Lingmu from the belly of the diamond python, it had corroded into a slimy minced meat and had to be cremated so that the ashes could be taken out of the secret realm. .
"Junior brother, please forgive me!" Xuan Qing came to the side and comforted him with a deep breath.
"The old Taoist is incompetent, I shouldn't have brought him here if I had known it!" Old Taoist Ling Guang shook his head and said leisurely, his expression getting older and older. The dead Ling Mu was his nephew. If he could stop the diamond python at that time, his nephew would be dead. Then he would not lose his life, and he felt very guilty in his heart.
"Uncle Master!" Chen Chen couldn't help but his eyes turned red.
"The incident happened suddenly. Junior brother, you have tried your best. Junior nephew Ling Mu was swallowed by the evil python. Everyone present is responsible. Pindao makes the decision. Twenty percent of the proceeds from this pool will be used as a pension to compensate junior nephew Ling Mu." Xuan Qing sighed. said in a tone.
"I thanked my senior sister on behalf of Ling Mu!" Old Taoist Ling Guang couldn't help but thank her.
Everyone cleaned up for a while, then left Youya Pond and set off in the direction of the "Stream Reef Beach", leaving behind layers of snake corpses floating in the pond, and a large number of python corpses that were skinned into skeletons on the shore. It would not be an exaggeration to say that this scene was like a sea of corpses and a mountain of bones.
"Stream Reef" is a shoal in the stream, consisting of piles of rocks and sand dunes. The shoal bisects a forest stream in two. It is small in area and resembles a spindle in shape.
At this time, the shores around the shoal and the water in the stream were covered with snakes and pythons of various sizes. The snake heads were scurrying, layer upon layer, and the size of the snake group was no smaller than before Youyatan.
Among the raised boulders in the middle of the shoal, there is a tall "Snake Corpse Magic Grass" growing impressively. Among its open buds, a nearly mature snake king fruit is exuding a light and attractive fruity fragrance. , as Xuan Qing expected, the "Snake King Fruit" does grow here.
However, in an open area a hundred miles downstream of the shoal, two groups of people and horses were facing each other across the stream. Judging from the fact that everyone on one side was carrying a spirit beast and the other was wearing a bright yellow sect robe, it seemed that one of the two groups was a spirit animal. The Beast Sect, on the other hand, is the Huang Sheng Sect.
It turned out that the two parties rushed to the "Stream Reef Beach" and discovered the flowering snake corpse magic plant. Because the snake corpse magic flower had not fully bloomed, and because other personnel from the two parties had not arrived yet, although the two parties discovered Each, but neither of them chose to take action rashly.
Now that both teams have arrived, in order not to disturb the snakes and affect the ripening of the King Snake Fruit, the two sides chose the battlefield to decide the outcome in the lower reaches of the shoal.
Whoever wins will be able to occupy the "Stream Reef Beach", and in one or two days, there is a high chance of picking up a "Five-striped Snake King Fruit".
Judging from the tense situation where both sides summoned their respective magical weapons and looked at each other with cold eyes, this battle was obviously about to break out.
The person standing at the front of Huang Shengzong's side is holding a flaming mountain-climbing sword. The person with an excited expression and eagerness to try is Di Qing, the "Fire Demon" who is known to be warlike in the sect.
The leader of the Spiritual Beast Sect, with a look of disdain on his face, sat astride a ferocious beast with four eyes on its face and a body that looked like a tiger but was not a tiger at all, squinting at Huang Shengzong and his party.
This person's human name is "Biao Chi", and he is a direct member of the Suo family of the Spirit Beast Sect. His grandfather is the Jindan elder of the Spirit Beast Sect "Sang Teeth". Behind him are the wolves, tigers and leopards of the Spirit Beast Sect, all of them roaring at Huang Shengzong and his entourage. .
