There are many monsters, spiritual trees, and spiritual grasses in Pipa Ridge, but various ores are difficult to find here. It is said that they are buried very deep and are difficult to obtain. This is what Qian Chao got from the mouths of his senior brothers.
When the five people arrived and took a closer look, they discovered that this place called Pipa Ridge was a group of rolling, but low, hilly mountains. The mountains here are low and gentle, and the trees are dense. At a glance, you can only see a patch of green.
Fallen leaves accumulate in the forest, and when you step on it, you feel soft under your feet.
However, the trees were so dense that the few people here could not hear the sound of birdsong, and even the shadows of flying birds were difficult to see.
"Hey, Mr. Qian, why do I feel like this place is a little scary?" Tang Ping said uneasily.
Qian Chao did not answer after hearing Tang Ping's words, but looked at Li Jian. Li Jian understood and said: "There are a lot of things here. They paid attention to us as soon as we arrived here, but there are no powerful characters nearby. They He only dares to spy on us secretly."
"What good things can be found around here?" Tang Ping asked again.
"The last time I listened to the senior brothers chatting in the Chengqi Hall, it was said that several senior brothers worked together to kill a warp beast here."
"Oh!" Tang Ping suddenly became interested after hearing this.
The so-called bending beast should belong to a kind of monster according to the classification of spirit beasts by Tang Ping's Yuling Party. However, this kind of monster is different from the Zhuanzhufeng that lives at the mouth of Guanxi and the mountain guard that they have seen before. Unlike the greedy ants on the beast, the warp beast is a solitary monster insect. The size of this monster insect is far beyond ordinary people's imagination. The larvae are four to five feet long and the adults are nearly ten feet long. This beast has a flat body and a layer of armor on the surface of its body. It is as strong as scale armor, has many whiskers under its body, is good at running, and is covered with colorful grass. In addition, the warp beast is good at condensing its breath, so it is extremely difficult to identify it when hiding in the woods. They use this as a means of hunting. Often when the warp beast emerges from hiding and bites its prey with the dense fangs in its mouth, the prey will be horrified to realize that it is about to die.
What Qian Chao said about several senior brothers working together to kill a warp beast was actually just a few sect disciples who were looking for spiritual herbs in Pipa Ridge. After being tired, they got together to rest and talk. Unexpectedly, they were killed by a nearby warp beast. Normally, there are many monks, and the warp beast will not take the initiative to provoke them. However, it happens that the place where these people are sitting around is the place where the warp beast lays its eggs. Therefore, the warp beast becomes crazy and takes the initiative. appeared to attack these people. Even though there were a lot of them, about four or five people, two monks were still bitten by the warp beast during the fight. Later, after working together to kill the warp beast, although they took the medicine with them, The antidote medicine they carried only delayed the onset of the poison. They had to rush back to the sect for treatment immediately, otherwise the poison of the warp beast would take effect and the two of them would definitely die.
After Tang Ping told about the warp beast, the others couldn't help but be a little more careful about the dense vegetation and bushes in front of them.
Lu Pingchuan has been hunting since he was a child and has seen many snakes, insects and beasts. He heard what Tang Ping said was so new and asked, "Can there be such big insects?"
Tang Ping replied: "There are bigger ones, we will see them in the future."
According to the usual practice, Li Jian and Lu Pingchuan divided the work again. Li Jian walked in the front. He could detect any hidden dangers in advance with his senses. Lu Pingchuan walked in the back. If anything caught up behind him, it would be left to him. To deal with it, Qian Chao walked with Tang Ping and Yanxuan. If anything happened, he could handle it with the spiritual weapon he carried.
A few people searched carefully in this mountain forest. With Yanxuan's eyesight, she also found a few spiritual grasses of good quality, which she picked one by one. It's just the outside of Pipa Ridge. Based on this, if you go inside, you will definitely be able to find a lot of spiritual herbs.
After walking forward for a while, everything was fine at first, but Qian Chao noticed something different about Li Jian. In fact, not only Qian Chao, but the other four people also noticed that Li Jian's pace slowed down slightly and there were still a few steps while walking. Use your own sword energy on your right hand.
This was a very subtle and wonderful feeling. It was obviously Li Jian's secret move, but the other four people felt it. It seemed that Li Jian had sensed the danger and was about to take action.
Sure enough, after Li Jian walked forward for more than ten feet, a white light flashed in his right hand. He had already grasped a cold-light spiritual sword and stabbed it into the ground beside him without hesitation.
There was a strange squeaking sound, and the body of the spirit sword shook in the soil, as if it was nailing some living thing into the soil. The thing struggled for a while and then became silent again.
Li Jian withdrew his sword and stamped his foot. After the ground rolled over, a dead beast as big as a dog and in the shape of a giant rat emerged from the ground.
Although Lu Pingchuan was walking behind, he saw all Li Jian's actions, and even saw the big rat emerging from the soil clearly. He had never seen such a big rat before, and he couldn't help but say : "Hey, that's interesting, the mice here are so big!"
He suddenly received Li Jian's sword and struggled violently. Therefore, the dead giant rat had a ferocious appearance. Yanxuan took one look at it and refused to look at it again. However, Tang Ping got closer and took a closer look, and used his hand to A branch of the tree fiddled with the big mouse's head a few times.
Li Jian watched Tang Ping study the big rat carefully and said, "This guy noticed that we were coming. He wanted to leave but was reluctant to leave. He even sneaked up to prepare to attack us."
Tang Ping had already recognized the big rat at this time and said: "This is Diding, which is actually a powerful big rat. Since it is hiding here, there must be holes dug by them in the soil below. And it must be accessible in all directions. This kind of monster has the strongest teeth in its mouth. If it bites it, it will not let go. Even if we have armor on our bodies, we will inevitably be injured. This is just an ordinary thing. Well, there is only one female rat in a group of nightmare rats, and all the nightmare rats are her offspring, so she is called the queen of nightmares and is the most powerful. There is another characteristic of this nightmare rat, that is, regardless of whether No matter how far away you are, as long as one nightmare in the group dies, the queen will immediately know that now that this guy is dead, a large group of nightmares in the underground will know that a foreign enemy has invaded, and they will definitely take revenge. Tricky, if we continue walking in this direction, I'm afraid there will be a lot of trouble. We are here to find the spiritual grass. In my opinion, it is better to fly inside for a while and then fall down."
"Sister Tang," Lu Pingchuan said after hearing this, "Aren't they just bigger rats? Do we still have to avoid them?"
"Brother Lu, the monsters we encountered in the past did not live in groups, at most they were in pairs. This group of monsters can range from a few hundred to thousands. It is not easy to deal with, not to mention the monsters. In the end, it’s really hard for the five of us to handle it.”
After listening to Tang Ping's words, Lu Pingchuan looked at the giant rat body like a big dog again, and then he understood why Tang Ping wanted to avoid this nightmare. Thinking of so many big rats rushing towards him, even if he had experienced it, Lu Pingchuan felt a little nervous about the big scene of the Mu Kui beast, so he said: "Hey, dear, there are so many of them, so we'd better stay away."
The five of them had no objections to what Tang Ping said, so they prepared to fly directly to the center of Pipa Ridge as Tang Ping said. They were already flying. Lu Pingchuan glanced at the dead rat below and asked, "That thing is useful." ?"
Tang Ping was a little disgusted with the nightmare, so she said: "It's not of much use, so let's forget it."
"Well", in fact, Lu Pingchuan was not willing to pick up a dead rat after returning to the sect, let alone use the dead rat's meat for cooking.
The five people flew for a while, and they landed when they estimated that even if the Nightmare wanted to take revenge, he would not be able to find them. After all, he could not find the spiritual grass on the ground while flying in the air.
The further you go into Pipa Ridge, the more spiritual grass you encounter. There are even some spiritual grass growing in clusters together. Yanxuan's eyebrows are filled with joy. At this time, Tang Ping and Qian Chao also He started to help, leaving only Li Jian and Lu Pingchuan to look after him.
Just like this, we went all the way deep into the mountains.
Even though Pipa Ridge looks low from the air, you can only notice the complex terrain when you are in it. Although the mountain is not high, the more you go inward, the more criss-crossing it becomes. Because of the vegetation covering it, these ravines are difficult to see in the air. Li Jian discovered that it was Li Jian who was careful and walked ahead to find those dangerous places where he might lose his footing. From those criss-cross ravines, the sound of rushing water could be heard, or the cold wind could make people's hearts go numb. Most of these ravines pointed downwards. All they could see was the thick fog, which was bottomless, and they didn't know what was happening below. The five people were afraid that there might be powerful monsters hidden inside, so they didn't go into the ravine to find out.
However, after searching for a while and finding a lot of spiritual herbs, Yanxuan suddenly seemed to have discovered something.
She twitched her nose gently a few times, carefully identifying the smells around her. There seemed to be a cool sweetness in the air that she noticed, but the trace of sweetness was vague and absent. She wanted to distinguish it carefully. The direction the smell came from seemed to be nowhere to be found.
"Miss Yan, what's wrong?"
Li Jian noticed Yanxuan's behavior and asked curiously.
"Brother Li, have you smelled something sweet?" Yanxuan asked, wrinkling his nose.
"This..." After hearing this, Li Jian sniffed around. It seemed that there was really such a sweet smell, but it was very indifferent. If Yanxuan hadn't mentioned it, Li Jian would have just taken it as that. It is emitted by the surrounding mountain flowers.
Among the five people, Yanxuan has the most contact with spiritual herbs. He can distinguish some spiritual herbs with just his nose without his eyes. The taste of ordinary mountain flowers is naturally different from the vague and sweet taste. This is Yanxuan Very sure.
However, the mountains around the five of them were densely wooded. Just when they all sniffled after hearing Yanxuan's words and tried to distinguish them, the sweet smell seemed to disappear with the mountain wind.
"Don't worry," Tang Ping said with a smile. She seemed to smell the sweetness, so she said, "Come on, please Da Huang show us the direction."
With that said, Tang Ping took out the little Golden Monkey Rhubarb from her spirit beast bag. She always felt that the sweet smell seemed to be similar to some kind of rare and exotic fruit. Since it might be a fruit, she was so greedy. Rhubarb can definitely tell which direction it is.
"Hey, little one, take a whiff. Is there anything different?"
Following Tang Ping's question, Dahuang quickly jumped on her shoulders, grabbed Tang Ping's black hair with two small paws, and then turned her little head in all directions, twitching while turning. The sound of breathing came out from the nose.
"Zhizhi!" Soon, Dahuang, whose sense of smell was far beyond that of ordinary monks, became excited. He grabbed a lock of Tang Ping's hair with one small paw and pointed the other small paw in a direction, and kept shouting excitedly.
Tang Ping frowned when it caught it. After seeing clearly the direction Dahuang was pointing, she picked it up and stuffed it into the spirit beast bag regardless of Dahuang's objection.
"Over there," Tang Ping pointed in the direction Dahuang pointed, "Dahuang said there are good things over there!"
Sure enough, as the group of people walked forward in the direction pointed by Dahuang, the refreshing sweetness became stronger and stronger.
The five people walked around among the rocks and trees, and finally found the source of the sweetness in a dense forest.
In a sparse place with trees in the forest, there is a bush that stands out. The bush has tight branches and leaves. If it were not covered with goose-yellow fruits about the size of your thumb, it would be no different from other bushes. The goose-yellow, round and round fruits are the source of that alluring cool and sweet taste.
When they were still far away, Yanxuan was wondering what kind of fruit it would be, and when Tang Ping saw the fruit, there was already a look of surprise on her face.
"Yun...Yun Zhuguo!" Tang Ping murmured, and she was about to walk over involuntarily.
"Miss Tang, stop quickly!" Li Jian suddenly shouted anxiously.
Everyone was originally attracted by the small goose-yellow fruit, and no one paid attention to Li Jian's expression. Only after Li Jian spoke out did they all look at him. Only then did they realize that Li Jian had unknowingly had the fruit in his hands. Each held a green bamboo spiritual sword, and looked nervously and solemnly at the position of the cloud pearl fruit in Tang Ping's mouth. Due to the tension in his body, under the circulation of spiritual energy and the swell of the sword energy, his robes were slightly windless. put.
