The mountain forest is very quiet in the afternoon, except for the occasional sound of wind and birdsong. The sunlight shines from the sparse branches in the forest to the grass on the ground. Looking up along the mottled and thick tree trunks, among the crisscross branches of the tree crown, you can I saw bird's nests made of dead branches and dry grass standing on it. The crown of the tree was more than ten feet high from the ground. Occasionally, one or two large birds with shiny feathers could be seen on the branches guarding the nests, but those big birds stood still. It was motionless there, as if it were made of iron.
Suddenly, several sharp bird calls broke the tranquility of the forest. At the same time, the sound of flapping wings from the distant sky came over like a tide. Those big birds that were originally made of iron immediately seemed to have received the news. Like a command, he flapped his wings almost at the same time, let out a high-pitched chirp, spread his wings through the canopy of the tree, and flew away. Soon, the noisy birdsong was heard in the sky above the forest. It sounded like there was a large flock of birds. Birds have invaded this mountain forest, and now they are like a dark cloud covering the sky above this mountain forest. The sunlight that penetrates the forest has disappeared, and only the noisy and sharp chirping of birds can be heard from above. Although the large birds that originally guarded the bird's nest were not dominant in number, they were extremely brave. They used their sharp beaks to peck, flap their wings, and scratch with their sharp claws to constantly drive away these intruders. However, It was impossible to see clearly through the canopy.
The birdsong became more and more noisy, naturally attracting all the big birds guarding their nests in the entire mountain forest.
At this moment, from another direction, not above the tree canopy, but under the tree canopy, many black-winged birds flew into the forest almost silently.
As soon as they entered the forest, they immediately spread out, each looking for a bird's nest on the tree crown, and then got into it.
Not long after, the birds chirping above the tree crown were still noisy. Those black-winged birds that had got into the nest came out again. They did not fly away. They just stood on the edge of the nest and looked inside carefully, and then poked their heads in again, using He pinched an apricot-white bird egg between his upper and lower beaks, then tilted his head and opened his mouth, and the egg fell down. After doing this, the black-winged bird spread its wings. flew away.
"Hurry up, don't break it." Tang Ping, who had been secretly guarding under the tree for a long time, gently pulled Qian Chao's sleeve next to him and whispered.
Qian Chao was originally looking up at the tree crown above his head. The birds above the tree crown were fighting extremely fiercely, and a few bird feathers fell through the branches. He had just caught a falling feather and was curiously holding it in his hands. When Tang Ping's feathers turned out to be like daggers, she heard Tang Ping's words. She stretched out her other hand, aimed at the falling bird egg, and used her own magic to gently lift the egg. With his support, the bird's egg, which originally fell faster and faster, gradually slowed down when it was still more than ten feet above the ground. It became slower and slower, and finally fell lightly into Tang Ping's white little hand that had been extended long ago.
"Okay, I finally got one." Tang Ping caressed the bird egg in her hand and couldn't put it down.
"Sister Tang, this bird's egg is not enough to eat. How about I go to the tree and pluck all the bird's nests, then roast them and eat them." Lu Pingchuan said, staring at the bird's nest on the tree.
Where is the food here!
Tang Ping was about to say something when she saw another black-winged bird getting into the nest on a nearby tree. She pulled Qian Chao and whispered: "Over there, look there, hurry over."
Yanxuan was squatting on the grass to dig out a spiritual grass. Li Jian was standing by her side. They couldn't help but shook their heads when they saw Tang Ping sneaking over with Qian Chao and Lu Pingchuan.
Sure enough, after the three people waited under the tree for a while, another bird egg fell from above. Qian Chao did the same thing, and then Tang Ping caught the bird egg in his hand.
"Hey, you've made a lot of money, you've made a lot of money!" Tang Ping beamed with joy as she held the second bird egg.
At this moment, a chirping sound that was different from the noisy birdsong above came from a distance, and then the noise above seemed to pause for a brief moment, and then the intruding birds above could be distinguished. The large group of birds seemed to want to escape, because the noisy birdsong in the canopy began to move elsewhere, naturally away from the mountain forest.
"It's over, the birds are back." Tang Ping said with some regret.
Just after saying this, another bird chirping mixed with fright and anger suddenly came from above the head. The bird chirp was high and sharp, making people feel sore in their ears.
Tang Ping was immediately shocked and said: "I've been discovered, let's go, let's go!"
"Ah?" Yanxuan had just taken out the spiritual grass from the ground. When he heard Tang Ping yelling to leave quickly, he was a little confused. He was stunned on the spot and wondered in his heart. Two groups of birds were fighting. What does it have to do with him? Run away. what?
"Hurry, Sister Yan. If you leave too late, it will be too late. Hurry up!"
Seeing Tang Ping's anxious expression, Yanxuan stopped hesitating. He didn't take care of the spiritual grass in his hand, just held it in his hand and fled out of the forest with a few people.
A moment later, the five people, who had escaped the entanglement of the large flock of birds, stood on a small mountain peak, looking down at a large area of countless birds above the mountain forest, patrolling up and down the forest, looking for and driving away intruders.
"It's so dangerous!" Tang Ping said with lingering fear, thinking about the scene when she was chased by a large group of birds.
"I said Sister Tang, there is such a large group of birds, why should we run away? Why don't we just catch a few and roast them?" Lu Pingchuan looked at the large group of fat birds and felt it was a pity.
"Brother Lu, don't think like that. Those birds are easy to deal with one or two, but if hundreds or even thousands of them come around, you can't stop them even if you are a physical practitioner."
"Then you only got two eggs, which are not enough to eat..." Lu Pingchuan muttered.
"This is not for food!" Tang Ping said angrily, and looked at the two bird eggs in her hand with pity. "The name of this bird is the blade-winged warbler, and the other name is iron idiot. You also saw those birds just now." Come on, the feathers on the wings of those birds are as sharp as swords, their claws are as sharp as steel hooks, and even their beaks are as sharp as iron chisels. They are a very powerful bird, but they are born in groups. We in the sect, our Yuling Sect, also have this kind of birds for our disciples to raise, but the quality is always a little worse than the wild ones outside the sect. Huh, I will hatch these two little guys and take good care of them. , it can definitely compare with those in the Yuling Sect."
Thinking of the Lingyan beast named Atu that Tang Ping had adopted, and the two little spiders named Bai Yuniang, Yanxuan asked curiously: "Is it possible that such birds are also very valuable? But? There’s a big group down there.”
"Of course," Tang Ping said, "this kind of bird is equivalent to a low-grade spiritual bird when it is a young bird. Most of the adult birds are medium-grade. There is a king bird in every group of blade-winged warblers, and that one will usually be a high-grade bird. Spirit birds, so we have to escape quickly. It will be difficult to deal with being entangled. There are also some more numerous blade-winged warblers, and their bird kings may be mid-level spirit birds. If we encounter them, That would be tragic.”
"Isn't that as powerful as that sparrow?" Yanxuan's expression changed after hearing this. The sparrow on the giant wooden island is the most powerful bird she has ever seen, although she has never seen that sparrow. The whole picture of the sparrow, only one of its paws was seen through the hole when it was hiding in the hole.
"Among a group of idiots, only the King of Birds has the chance to become so powerful. Other birds don't have this chance." Tang Ping said.
Qian Chao thought of another question and asked: "If you want this bird so much, why don't we just go to the nest to get it when the chaos starts there? We still have to wait for that kind of black-winged bird." If we throw it down, wouldn't we get more if we go get it ourselves? Also, what kind of bird is that black-winged bird?"
"You don't understand this!" Tang Ping said proudly, "The name of that black-winged bird is the thief flycatcher, also called the thief flycatcher. Well, this kind of thief flycatcher can't be raised even if you raise it. What a big improvement, so not many people use it as a spiritual bird, but it does have a characteristic, that is, it only lays eggs and does not hatch any chicks, and the young birds of the thief flycatcher and the young birds of the iron fool are very Like, so when it’s time to lay eggs, the thief flycatcher will find a way to secretly lay its eggs in the iron fool’s nest, just so that the iron fool can help it hatch and raise the young birds..."
This statement is very interesting. Several people have never heard of it. Yanxuan also interrupted and asked: "Ah! Is there such a bird?"
Li Jian asked: "Then why did it throw an egg out of the nest? Is it because it was afraid that the idiot would find an extra egg?"
"Well, almost, but it also plays another very important role," Tang Ping said. "The iron fool also has a strange problem. When the young birds hatched from a nest of eggs grow for a period of time, the iron fool will choose After a while, they cruelly abandoned all the weak ones, leaving only the strongest one to continue raising. The thief flycatchers also know the habits of the iron nerds, so the male birds among them attract the iron nerds who guard the bird's nest. Then the female bird sneaks into the nest of the iron fool to lay eggs, and then selects and throws out the egg of the iron fool in the nest with the best quality, so that her offspring will be abandoned after hatching. The chance is much smaller. Strangely enough, it is not easy even for our monks from the Yuling Sect to pick out the best eggs from the iron idiot's nest, but the thief flycatcher can find them quickly and accurately. Which nerd's egg is the best, and then throw it out, so as long as we wait under the tree, we will definitely get the best egg in the nest. Both of them in my hand are very good. of."
"The dove occupies the magpie's nest." Qian Chao shook his head after hearing this.
"How come this kind of bird...is so cruel?" Yanxuan felt sorry for those little birds that died for no reason.
"There's nothing we can do about it. Many monsters that are born in groups have this habit. They always have to keep individuals strong to survive as a whole." Tang Ping said.
Li Jian nodded at this statement.
"Hehe," Lu Pingchuan laughed, "Why do I always think that Sister Tang is teaming up with that thief to steal other people's eggs, haha!"
"Brother Lu! Don't say that!"
After laughing for a while, Qian Chao looked at the mountainous terrain in front of him, then took out a map to see where he and his friends were.
"There is a place I have always been curious about," Qian Chao said, looked around, then displayed the map on a nearby rock, pointed at the map and said, "We are here," and then pointed to another place. "And this is the ruins we went to this time. Well, we have walked half the distance. The place I am curious about is here."
Qian Chao tapped his finger on the map.
Several people looked at the place pointed by Qian Chao's finger.
The map was hand-drawn by Qian Chao. The entire map contains mountains, rivers and rivers of unknown size. The details are extremely detailed and complicated, but the whole article feels very grand. I have to admire Qian Chao's patience and the skills at hand. Kung Fu, but the place Qian Chao pointed at didn't seem to be big. The drawing there was not detailed, there were only five small black dots drawn with a pen.
"There are no place names here," Tang Ping tilted her head and looked at the map, then looked up at Qian Chao and asked curiously, "Five little black dots, could they be five mountains? What are you curious about?"
Qian Chao said: "As I have said before, when I collected various maps, I found that there are some places without names on many maps. Even if it is a detailed map drawn by predecessors, there are always a few places. There is no name for this place, and even the drawing is omitted and just left blank, so I am a little curious about what place it is. For example, in this place, I accidentally discovered some of the later people's comments in the Jiuxuan Library. The description there is very simple. It seems that there are five mountains there and some simple maps they drew, but that's it. Such a place has been deliberately hidden on many sect maps. It shouldn't be a place there. It’s a normal place, but we don’t want to leave it now. I was wondering if I should go and take a look, but I was also worried about whether there would be any danger there, so..."
Qian Chao meant to ask these four companions whether they wanted to go, but before he could finish speaking, Lu Pingchuan said:
"Go, why not go, in case there is something good there!"
Tang Ping said: "You are afraid that there are dangers there that we cannot handle, right?"
Yanxuan was a little worried after hearing this. After all, it was a place that couldn't even be marked on the map. It probably wasn't a good place.
Li Jian said: "Is there such a place among the dangerous Jedi outside the sect?"
Qian Chao replied: "No."
The so-called dangerous places are places that are absolutely forbidden to the Qi Refining disciples in the sect. There are clear signs on any map of such places, usually drawn with red pen, to warn the disciples not to set foot there.
Li Jian didn't speak any more and just nodded, indicating what he meant.
Tang Ping saw it and said: "Since it's not a dangerous place, we can go and have a look, and be a little more careful. Since there is no sign there on the map, there should be less people there. Maybe we can find something there." It’s not a small gain. If there is any danger, Brother Li can know in advance. In that case, we can withdraw early.”
Yanxuan felt a little more relaxed after hearing what Tang Ping said, and nodded to Qian Chao. Indeed, if there are really few people going there, then naturally there should be a lot of things waiting for a few people, not to mention The place on the map is just a little bit, but it should actually be a very large area. There are quite a lot of things to think about. To make your own elixir, you need to collect more spiritual herbs.
Seeing several of his companions nodding, Qian Chao said, "In that case, let's go take a look there, but it will be tomorrow anyway."
