Xiong Huai looked at Zhang Zhilin standing aside and didn't say anything. He just couldn't help but think of what his master said to him, "This time when you leave Changli Province, don't be as casual and comfortable as you were at home. Remember, no matter how you deal with anyone, , we must keep a vigilant mind.”
At that time, Xiong Huai was curious and asked his master why. The master just said lightly, "A person is like a puppet. The only thing that can mobilize this puppet is profit. Therefore, when people meet each other, they will think whatever they want." It is to protect your own interests. In order to protect your own interests, you will actively draw an invisible barrier... Therefore, even if you actively choose to trust others, it is very likely that the other party will not choose to trust you, and it is even possible that Harm you."
Xiong Huai looked at Zhang Zhilin. He knew that it was okay for Zhang Zhilin to do this. After all, the elixir was given by an unknown person, so it was inevitable that he would be a little distrustful. So Xiong Huai didn't say anything.
The two quickly surrounded Hook Snake. Seeing this, Hook Snake seemed to understand that he could not escape, so he was aroused with ferocity and rushed towards Zhang Zhilin. His body of more than ten meters stood upright, looking like It was very scary. The smelly saliva dripped on the hook snake's belly, and the hook snake's tail spread out. The first tail that looked thicker pointed at Xiong Huai, and the second tail that looked smaller also pointed at Xiong Huai. Zhang Zhilin.
Xiong Huai explained, "The belly of the hook snake is relatively fragile, but it is full of venom, and the venom is still useful, so it is best not to start with the belly. The hardest thing about the hook snake is its tail. , but this kind of monster has a characteristic, that is, the newly born tail when it first breaks through is much smaller than the original tail, and it is also much more fragile. Therefore, its weakness is now its tail."
After Xiong Huai finished speaking, Zhang Zhilin nodded. Xiong Huai then said, "I am responsible for its poisonous tail, and you are responsible for defeating it. How about it?"
Zhang Zhilin nodded after hearing this. So the two took action. Zhang Zhilin waited for the opportunity to move, while Xiong Huai took out a silver gun with a red tassel and a silver gun pattern on it, with water-like spiritual power swimming on it, like ripples. While the spiritual power was rippling, there was a sound. The dragon roar accompanied it.
Xiong Huai straightened his gun and stabbed the hooked snake. The hooked snake soon started fighting with Xiong Huai. The hooked snake's tail strangled Xiong Huai's silver spear, but Xiong Huai didn't panic at all. His eyes were like water, calm and clear. His arms were like the wind, sweeping across, waving the silver gun directly, moving it left and right, and skillfully throwing off the shackles of the hook snake's tail, and the silver gun also took advantage of this to break free. However, the hooked snake refused to let go and swung its tail towards the bear. Xiong Huai had his gun at his side and fell back diagonally. When the hooked snake saw Xiong Huai falling, it immediately bit Xiong Huai like it was preying on him. There was a gust of fishy wind in front of Xiong Huai, but Xiong Huai's face was as usual, and his heart was tense, feeling the moment when the water fell... When the snake's head was only a few inches away from Xiong Huai, Xiong Huai shouted, "The wine is still warm!" "Then the silver dragon mocked the thunder, the light moved the wind, and shot out a spear. A phantom of a silver-headed dragon spraying green gas appeared directly from its mouth, and the silver spear stabbed the hooked snake straight. The gap between Hook Snake and Xiong Huaiben was only a few inches, but the distance was widened by this shot, and this shot stabbed straight into Hook Snake's belly, and the hot and fishy blood was immediately hit by the bear. The arms were released. Xiong Huai was spattered with blood, but he didn't panic at all.
Zhang Zhilin looked at Xiong Huai's smooth offensive and concluded that Xiong Huai was at least in the realm of gunmanship in terms of his attainments in spears.
Xiong Huai stabbed the hooked snake, and the hooked snake began to retreat in pain. Xiong Huai took advantage of the victory and pursued it, and then stabbed the hooked snake with his spear. When the hook snake saw this, it instinctively swung its tail and released a large amount of poisonous gas. However, Xiong Huai was already prepared and directly threw out the golden bag. The bag immediately became like a gluttonous fat man and directly gulped the poisonous gas. Breathe it in big gulps into that fat belly. While Xiong Huai kept using his gun to curb Hook Snake's movements, he shouted to Zhang Zhilin, "Do it!!"
Zhang Zhilin did not answer Xiong Huai at all. He slowly closed his eyes, his soul perception was infinitely amplified, and finally directly called on the surrounding spiritual power. Xiong Huai was still anxious about why Zhang Zhilin didn't take action, but he immediately saw Zhang Zhilin The spiritual power that was constantly emerging around him finally began to slowly circulate around Zhang Zhilin. The spiritual power slowly turned into gold, and finally Zhang Zhilin caught the spiritual power. This time is different from the past. The golden spiritual sword condensed by Zhang Zhilin before was condensed with the spiritual power of the spiritual sea in his body. However, now it is made with the spiritual power of heaven and earth, or in other words, the metallic spiritual power between heaven and earth is directly used. .
Zhang Zhilin held the golden sword and raised it, with the horizontal sword in his hand. At this moment, Zhang Zhilin seemed to be a different person.
Zhang Zhilin was eerily silent. He just watched Xiong Huai and Hook Snake fight with each other coldly, showing no sign of stepping forward to help. The hook snake had already sensed Zhang Zhilin's threat, but when Zhang Zhilin refused to take action, he actually relaxed his vigilance and began to slowly deal with Xiong Huai with all his strength. Xiong Huai suddenly felt the pressure, but he also knew that Zhang Zhilin was looking for an opportunity, so he had no choice but to bear the hook snake's attack.
Finally, at the moment when Xiong Huai retreated, Zhang Zhilin caught the delay of Hook Snake's attack, and ran forward, directly behind Hook Snake in the air, his sword roared in the wind and made a sharp cry, but this caused The attention-grabbing sound seemed to explode in an instant, and by the time it was noticed, it was already unstoppable.
When the hooked snake reacted, Zhang Zhilin's sword had already chopped directly on the hooked snake's tail - the sword could not chop, but Zhang Zhilin's sword could not be said to be chopping, it could not be described as chopping, as if Only the word chop is more appropriate. This hooked snake is like fish or meat on the chopping board, only the parts that have been chopped...
With one sword strike, the hook snake's tail was cut off!
One sword! Clean and neat! Even Xiong Huai was fascinated by this sword. Xiong Huai couldn't help but ask himself, if he were to do it himself, could he withstand this sword? Xiong Huai is not sure...
But the hooked snake was dead but not stiff. Even though its vitals had been destroyed by Zhang Zhilin, it was still breathing a sigh of relief. With this breath, the hooked snake actually controlled its tail and desperately released a large amount of poisonous gas towards Zhang Zhilin. Zhang Zhilin reacted, but he could no longer escape the scope of the poisonous gas.
Zhang Zhilin simply refused to do anything and swung the sword with all his strength.
The poisonous gas had slowly and completely enveloped Zhang Zhilin, but Zhang Zhilin slashed out with his sword and actually broke open a gap in the poisonous gas, and Zhang Zhilin immediately escaped from the gap.
Xiong Huai breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and he couldn't help but admire Zhang Zhilin's swordsmanship in his heart. At this time, Zhang Zhilin fell out of the poisonous mist, looked at the hook snake warily, and then slowly sat down after finding that he was completely dead.
At this time, Zhang Zhilin was panting heavily and seemed to be exhausted. Xiong Huai thought for a moment, then stepped forward and handed over a pill.
Xiong Huai said, "This is an elixir sold in shops, which can quickly restore spiritual power."
Zhang Zhilin glanced at Xiong Huai, but saw that Xiong Huai's eyes were clean and clear, cleaner than anyone he had ever seen, and there was no color of desire in them...
Zhang Zhilin took the elixir, smiled and said, "Sorry." Then he looked at Xiong Huai, who was in a daze, and said, "Thank you."
Xiong Huai also laughed after he reacted. He knew why Zhang Zhilin said sorry, but he was just sorry for the initial distrust. As for thank you, it expresses trust and gratitude.
Xiong Huai recalled faintly that his master would always say such words as "the world is unified" and "the Kyushu clan". However, every time he mentioned these things, his master would also say that people's hearts are unpredictable and it is difficult for the world to be unified. Then At that time, Xiong Huai felt that if he didn’t try it, how would he know if it would work? Xiong Huai also knows the difference between people, but it doesn't matter. He believes that his actions will eventually influence a group of people...
Xiong Huai knew that his behavior was a bit childish, but in Xiong Huai's eyes, no matter what, he had to complete it, and he had to do his best. After all, if he didn't try to live without regrets for years, and if he didn't make a bloody breakthrough, how would he know? In your years, can't you realize your dreams?
Xiong Huai's dream is to realize what his master said about the world being one family, one family in all nine provinces, and all brothers in the four seas!
Although it sounds impossible...but I have to give it a try after all...
Zhang Zhilin crossed his legs to regain his spiritual power, and Xiong Huai stood by to protect Zhang Zhilin.
After a while, Zhang Zhilin exhaled a breath of purple breath, but it was the trace amount of hook snake venom that had accidentally entered his mouth.
When Xiong Huai saw Zhang Zhilin waking up, he happily walked up to Zhang Zhilin and asked, "Which parts of this hook snake do you want? You and I are evenly divided!"
Zhang Zhilin showed an expression of bewilderment, and then said with curiosity, "This hook snake has nothing but snake venom. It is also poisonous in other parts, and basically cannot be used as medicine or to make elixirs. I can't see it." You need to pay attention to this thing.”
Xiong Huai said with some dissatisfaction, "How can you waste it? These are all good things." Then he pointed to the meat of the hook snake and said, "Just its meat is so delicious. How can you throw it away?" ”
Zhang Zhilin was a little helpless. If hook snakes were really so valuable, a large sect would have hunted them long ago. Would they allow such a thing to live carefree in the desert? I don’t know how Xiong Huai could say this thing is a good thing.
Xiong Huai looked at Zhang Zhilin's expression and immediately thought about something, so he said, "If you don't want it, then I will keep it?"
Zhang Zhilin really didn't know what was good about this hook snake, so he nodded. Seeing this, Xiong Huai happily took out a scimitar and went to clean up the entire hook snake.
Zhang Zhilin was a little speechless. He could tell at a glance that the scimitar in Xiong Huai's hand was also a magic weapon... However, this magic weapon seemed... only suitable for removing bones and cutting flesh... Damn rich people... Xiong Huai's family must be extremely wealthy. It's just that this kid doesn't seem to know the principle of not exposing wealth, so he seems to have to find an opportunity to remind him.
It took Xiong Huai a long time to clean up the entire hook snake. The entire hook snake was stored by him.
The two of them saw that the sky had darkened, and even the stars were appearing on one side of the sky. So the two had no choice but to rest where they were for the night.
At this time, Xiong Huai took out the hook snake meat that he had packed, added it to the pot, lit the fire, sprinkled unknown seasonings, and added another liquid. A fishy smell immediately came from the pot. Zhang Zhilin looked at Xiong Huai's pot with bitter hatred, pinched his nose, and asked Xiong Huai, "You...won't want..."
Xiong Huai glanced at Zhang Zhilin and said with great dissatisfaction, "Do you understand? This fishy soup is made from the old meat from the back of hook snakes. The poison in the hook snake meat is astringent and relieves the taste of the fishy soup. It needs to be simmered for a while. , after the two are neutralized, the taste is endless."
Zhang Zhilin looked at the pot that kept bubbling and smelling fishy. He really disagreed and said with some disgust, "You can eat it."
Xiong Huai was about to say something, but then he remembered something, so he left with a smile and went to cook the hook snake meat.
Within half a day, the hook snake meat began to emit bursts of sweetness. The sweet fragrance was not as rich as other meats, but it was not a vague fragrance, but a continuous fragrance. The scent won't make people suddenly feel hungry, but it will keep tickling other people's taste buds, which is really unbearable.
Xiong Huai served himself a bowl. The snake meat was smooth and elastic, and the snake soup was thick and fragrant. Xiong Huai had a great appetite and ate a bowl directly.
Zhang Zhilin on the side had already smelled the aroma of the snake soup, and he felt a little hungry. Coupled with the smell of the prepared snake soup, Zhang Zhilin's index finger was really moved. The soup was fragrant and lingering, making Zhang Zhilin's heart itch.
Zhang Zhilin was a little helpless, but then he saw Xiong Huai looking at him. His eyes seemed to be laughing at him, which immediately made Zhang Zhilin a little angry, so he closed his eyes and ignored Xiong Huai.
Seeing this, Xiong Huai laughed evilly, then filled a bowl of snake soup and placed it in front of Zhang Zhilin.
There was a continuous flow of aroma under Zhang Zhilin's nose. Finally, Zhang Zhilin gave up, picked up the bowl, and tasted it.
Zhang Zhilin only took one mouthful of snake meat, and his whole body started to tremble. Then he let out a long breath, and then drank the hot and sweet snake soup. After being shocked, Zhang Zhilin took a long breath and said slowly, "It smells so good..."
Seeing this, Xiong Huai shook the spoon in his hand proudly, and Zhang Zhilin sat directly next to Xiong Huai, and the two of them shared the pot of snake meat soup. It's a hearty meal.
When they woke up the next day, they found that the pots and pans were in a mess and they were sleeping next to each other. So the two of them tidied up.
The two got to know each other completely, and after getting to know each other, they found out that they were traveling on the same road, both going to Hangu Pass, so they traveled together.
Xiong Huai directly took Zhang Zhilin to the teleportation array outside the desert.
Whether they are humans, monsters, or merchants, they all have teleportation arrays, but the teleportation arrays of these three major forces can only be teleported on their own chassis.
Most of the teleportation arrays of the human race are in the hands of the major clans. As long as you pay a certain amount of spirit stones, you can perform simple teleportation. As for that kind of inter-provincial transmission, not only does it require a large amount of spiritual jade to pay, but it also requires identity.
Xiong Huai came directly to Zhang Zhilin and used the teleportation array to travel. Although he did not cross provinces, he also saved a lot of energy.
Here Zhang Zhilin and Xiong Huai kept walking, but it was still raining lightly outside Hangu Pass.
The woman at Hangu Gate couldn't help but become curious. what is going on?
Finally, more than three months later, Zhang Zhilin and Xiong Huai arrived at a teleportation point outside Hangu Pass...
And the rain outside Hangu Pass actually gradually became lighter...
When the two of them arrived outside Hangu Pass, the rain at Hangu Pass... stopped...
