"Something else is coming." Li Jian said again.
As soon as I finished speaking, something suddenly jumped down from the valley not far away, and then the sound of "plop-plop" continued, mixed with this burst of "cuck-quack" sounds, and several people looked at it and suddenly felt... Uncomfortable, those who jumped down turned out to be a group of huge toads as big as buckets. Their fat, round bodies were squatting there. The one that jumped down first raised its head and stared at it with greedy eyes. The nocturnal larvae in the light spit out a long blood-red tongue nearly ten feet long, and immediately stuck to the two nocturnal larvae that were entangled together. The long tongue went away quickly and returned quickly. When it returned to the toad's mouth, it seemed that it could I saw the guy chewing it with satisfaction.
There were really a lot of toads jumping down, and they kept coming, almost densely packed in the valley. Their target was the nocturnal larvae in the red light, and countless long red tongues kept spitting upwards from their wide mouths. , the long tongue came and went so fast, with the sound of howling wind, and there seemed to be countless long whips waving in the whole valley. Every time a long tongue came back to the mouth, it would blow the red light. The nocturnal larvae in them are rolled in and eaten. It seems that these large toads regard the nocturnal larvae that gather here to reproduce as a feast.
The five people looked at all this in a daze.
However, Qian Chao discovered that although the nocturnal larvae in the red light were constantly being eaten by the big toads below, they did not seem to be missing at all. I am afraid there is an endless supply of nocturnal larvae joining in, but The belly of the newly added night larvae is not that red. After all, it is because it is not smart enough and does not know that there is a fatal danger here, so it still rushes into the red light one after another.
Several other people gradually discovered it. Yanxuan looked at the nocturnal larvae that were constantly stuck in his mouth with the tongue of the big toad below, and murmured:
"After eating so many, those insects are not missing at all. How many night larvae are there around here?"
"It's too many to count. We caught up today. This night is probably the most important night for the nocturnal larvae, so they all come out. Anyway, this big toad is always full, and there are always times when it is lucky that it is not eaten. After these large toads are full, other night larvae can lay their eggs to reproduce."
Compared with these bugs, Lu Pingchuan is more interested in those big toads. Under the leadership of his master, Senior Kang Fu, he once killed a mirage using the "Suppressing Roar" technique. The mirage looked like A big toad the size of a millstone was much larger than the ones gathered in the valley now. Coincidentally, when a big toad passed by the cave entrance of several people, it jumped and fell into the hole arranged by Qian Chao. In the spirit locking formation, the guy fell to the ground and became as motionless as dead. Lu Pingchuan stared at the motionless toad carefully.
"This... this monster is a big toad, right?" Lu Pingchuan murmured, "My dear, this is the first time I've seen so many of them! Sister Tang, is this big toad useful?"
Tang Ping glanced at the big toad lying motionless in the spirit locking formation and said:
"The name of this kind is the Linen Toad. It can barely be considered a low-grade monster. It is not very useful. You can use some toad venom from it. There should be some medicines available from Sister Yan, but the toad venom of this Linen Toad is not a very good thing. If we need toads, there are better big toads we can find, there is no need for these guys to use them."
"Oh, Bai has grown so big." Lu Pingchuan said with some pity.
After watching for a while, the five people gradually discovered that as the big toads ate greedily, those guys began to glow with a faint red light. The red light on the big toads that came earlier and ate much was even brighter. Brighter, these red lights are concentrated on the back of the big toad. The bumps and bumps on the back are shining with red light. It is indescribably weird. Looking across the valley, it looks like there are many lights on the ground. It looked like a red lantern and kept jumping around, but this big toad didn't have any legs or belly.
"This red light... they all come here for this red light!"
"This red light must be good for these monsters. The linen toad cannot float in the red light like the night larvae, so we can only get them by eating the night larvae," Tang Ping stared outside. "However, this kind of red light will definitely not attract only these two kinds of guys. Wait a minute, before dawn, there should be a lot of things coming here."
"Sister Tang, is this red light good for us monks?" Lu Pingchuan asked.
"There should be some," Tang Ping suddenly laughed. "Brother Lu, go out and catch a few of the brightest toads, set up a fire and roast them to eat. The red light will probably be enough to nourish you."
Several people couldn't help but smile after hearing this.
Lu Pingchuan looked at the ugly appearance of the big toad and thought for a while before giving up.
Qian Chao said:
"I have read in books that in some mines that produce spiritual stones, there will sometimes be such a light, but it is not red, but green and white. It is said that when that kind of light appears, we monks If you practice in that light, it will be very beneficial, much better than the spiritual veins."
"There is such a thing!" Yanxuan was curious after hearing this.
Tang Ping said:
"I have heard of this, and it was in the Tang family. My sixth grandfather told me that the Tang family has several spirit stone veins that are being excavated, and this kind of thing has appeared in the mine. What happened, huh! My third grandfather knew about it and hurried over, but he still didn’t meet him. He had been waiting in the mine for more than a year, but it was all in vain. He was disappointed. After leaving, it appeared again, but the blue-white light was much lighter than the last time, and it lasted for a shorter time. It seems that my third grandfather is an unlucky person!"
Because of some old events, Tang Ping had a bad impression of her third grandfather, so she was very happy when talking about this incident.
Lu Pingchuan was very moved after hearing this:
"Hey, brother Qian, can we also find a vein of spirit stone?"
Qian Chao smiled and said: "It's so easy to find. A vein of spirit stone can support an aristocratic family. If you find a place, you can start a sect. However, among the sects of aristocratic families in the world, it seems that only a lot of them are established, and a lot of them have perished." , but there are not many new ones, which shows how difficult it is to find this kind of mineral vein."
While several people were chatting, Li Jian's expression changed and he said:
"There's something in the pool."
After hearing this, several people stopped talking and looked at the pool.
There was a sound of water, and in the eyes of several people, a big fish as long as a human arm and as thick as a calf rushed up from the pond, carrying a string of water droplets that were reflected red, and jumped up It was more than two feet high. When passing by the floating red light, I saw the whitebait reflected in the red light opened its mouth and swallowed the night larvae in the red light in one bite. It actually swallowed it when it fell. Two of them went in, and then they fell back into the water with a "plop".
"Hey! What a big fish!" Lu Pingchuan said happily when he saw the big toad. Naturally, the big toad was inedible, and it made him uncomfortable to see it. But for such a big fish, the meat must be delicious. At this moment, he really started to get angry. The thought of grilling fish.
Yanxuan said: "I didn't expect all the fish to come here to grab the bugs to eat!"
Next, the five people were even more surprised. The pool water seemed to be boiling, and the sound of "swishing" kept coming. Fish kept jumping out of the water, opening their mouths and fighting to grab the fish in the red light. Night larvae, rising fish and falling fish can sometimes collide with each other, and there are even slow-moving fish that are jumped up quickly and are knocked away all of a sudden. This small pool suddenly becomes lively. , the water is rolling, the water droplets are splashing, and the sound of water is endless.
But after all, this pool is not very big, so there is not much red light floating over the pool, but there are a lot of fish in the water, so it seems that only the fish that jump up at the beginning are eaten. When it comes to the night larvae in the red light, even if the ones behind them jump up, it will be in vain. After all, the fish are relatively stupid. When they see the night larvae in the red light elsewhere, they get anxious and even jump up diagonally towards the red light. In the light, the insects were eaten, but when they fell, they could no longer return to the pool. They even hit the big toads, making them jump in surprise. There are quite a few fish like this, writhing and jumping on the ground. Some lucky ones can jump back into the pool, while others can only jump around on the ground, even getting farther and farther away from the pool, but I don't worry about them getting dehydrated. But when they die, the water in the pool is churning, and a lot of water splashes out, which can allow them to linger for a while.
Lu Pingchuan was even more happy when he saw it. He was thinking about catching a few fish and roasting them later. But now, he didn't even have to do it himself. These silly fish were fighting to jump to the ground on their own. This was really unexpected. What a good thing. Staring at the big fish jumping on the ground, he smiled and said:
"Hey, don't waste these fish later!"
Tang Ping was also staring at the fish. She had been staring at the fish since the first one jumped out of the water. After staring for a while, she seemed to confirm something. She said:
"This pool should be an eye of the sea. From here down, along its direction, it should lead directly to the sea to the south."
"Oh?" After hearing this, several people became interested again. Qian Chao asked, "Why do you see it?"
Tang Ping pointed to the fish on the ground that was still twisting and jumping violently and said:
"It's very simple. This kind of fish is not something that can be found in lakes and rivers in the mainland. It is a kind of sea fish. It can be regarded as a low-grade or low-grade monster in the sea."
After hearing this, Qian Chao immediately took out a map, looked at it with the red light in the cave, and then said in surprise:
"It's such a long distance!"
Tang Ping said again:
"There must be more than one eye in the sea. I know a few. My senior sister Ruoyun told me. I will mark them on your map later. At a certain time every year, the monsters in the sea will emerge from those eyes. , or looking for food or doing other things. Well, it seems that there will be something like this in a while. It should be very lively. It is said that if you kill the monster in the sea, you can get a lot of good things. Something, but I don’t know what it is. It’s just that most of the monks in the sect who come to join in the fun are high-level Qi refining practitioners. If we go there, we have to be more careful. But, I’ll ask again when I get back. , there are always some sea eyes that others don’t know about, how about we go to those places to try our luck?"
Yanxuan said in surprise: "There is such a thing!"
Li Jian was quite moved after hearing this.
Lu Pingchuan was naturally even more happy: "Hey, we must go then. I heard that the food in the sea is more delicious than the food on the ground!"
…
After a while, Li Jian's expression changed.
"Something strange."
Li Jian kept letting go of his senses, and through this he discovered something vaguely wrong.
"Brother Li, what's wrong?" Tang Ping asked.
"Those fish," Li Jian pointed out with his hand, "I kept watching. The first fish to eat the worms were gone long ago, and I noticed that the later ones, as long as they were lucky enough to eat one or two nocturnal larvae, They all dived down in a hurry and swam away without looking back. There were even some timid fish in the water that almost reached the surface, but somehow they didn't rush up to grab the night larvae. , instead turned back. You see, although there are still a lot of fish there, they are much less than at the beginning. Many fish are coming one after another, even if they jump up and don't eat the bugs, they are all Running away is the same as running away, is something coming again?"
After hearing this, several people looked over. Sure enough, there were really fewer fish in the pool, and the water in the pool was not as churning as it was at the beginning. There were more nocturnal larvae in the red light above the pool than the fish. When the fighting was at its most intense, it was much denser, but there were fewer fish. Could it be that something powerful was really coming?
I just don’t know if the powerful guy who may be coming will come from the ground or emerge from the bottomless pool!
"Isn't it possible that something will come out of the pool tonight?" Qian Chao said.
"This is impossible to say. If it is true, we will kill it and take it back." Lu Pingchuan said.
