He secretly thought in his heart that Zhu Hou's adventure in the secret realm of Thunder Cloud Cave was far beyond his imagination, so it seemed that he had to be more careful.
Sun Jilong in front was walking along the river, and Li Bochen gathered his energy and continued to follow. After walking another seventy or eighty steps, the valley turned a corner. Around this turn, you could see a slightly more open valley. The valley would continue to the north, then narrow, and then turn again. The last time I met Zhu Hou with Chang Qiuwu was in that place.
But when he turned around, he found that his eyes suddenly opened up - it was no longer an open valley, but a plain. His heart skipped a beat, and he squinted his eyes to look further into the distance. He could vaguely see the shadowy mountains around him. It turned out to be a basin between valleys, but in the middle of the basin, another hill protruded.
He had some doubts before, but now he realized that he had entered the ruins of the Thunder Cloud Cave Secret Realm that his grandfather said was "designed according to the energy of the earth"!
It turns out that the entrance to the secret realm is the valley! ? Was it Zhu Hou who opened the ban and let Sun Jilong in tonight?
If it were true, it would be a big win - I might as well capture Zhu Hou tonight and force him to find out his secrets!
He thought of this and was about to follow closer, but saw Sun Jilong suddenly stop.
The place where he stood was leaning against the mountain wall, with rugged rocks and vegetation growing on it. After standing down, he turned around and looked left and right, and took out the short knife from his waist. Li Bochen thought he had noticed someone following him, but it didn't look like he was following him. Just as he was hesitating, he suddenly saw something move on the rock wall. He climbed down a few steps, put his head above Sun Jilong's head, and stared at it unsteadily. Looking at him.
It seemed to be a person, wearing rags and ragged clothes, with disheveled hair, but Sun Jilong was still unaware of it. Li Bochen's heart skipped a beat and he thought to himself, could this be Zhu Hou?
Sun Jilong was still turning his face to look around. The man's body was not moving on the rock, but his head was moving with him. When Sun Jilong slowly realized that something was wrong, he suddenly looked up. He was so frightened that he took two steps back. Zi sat down on the ground.
The person on the rock wall suddenly jumped to the ground, and Li Bochen saw her clearly - it turned out to be an old woman. He had a sharp mouth and a sharp face, and his eyes were staring straight at Sun Jilong's waist. His expression was greedy and vicious, and he was simply inhuman.
Sun Jilong hurriedly raised his hand and grabbed it at his waist, then threw the bag he was carrying in front of the old woman, and a chicken rolled out of it. The old woman immediately stretched out her hand to grab the chicken, bit off the head in one bite, and chewed it loudly. Sun Jilong then shakily stepped back for a while, stood up, and slowly backed away.
This old woman's behavior is not human in any way. Li Boxen's heart moved - could it be a demon?
A local tiger always controls some ferocious beasts, mostly tigers, leopards, bears, and the like. He had heard that if these beasts were lucky and ate some spiritual things, they might live longer. And because he was driven by the tiger and contaminated with spiritual energy, he slowly opened his mind and transformed into another form.
This principle is actually similar to the transformation of a monster into a human form through cultivation and into a royal family like Princess Shinra. However, monsters are inherently full of spiritual power, and it is much more difficult and rare for ordinary wild animals to become monsters.
No wonder Sun Jilong brought a chicken in a cloth bag just to get rid of the monster. If he were him and suddenly saw a face sticking out from above his head, he would probably be scared to death.
Thinking of this, he planned to slowly sneak past the monster. But just as he was about to take a step, he suddenly heard a slight sound on the rock wall beside him. He subconsciously looked up and saw a big pale face.
The big face hung above his head, which was slightly larger than a human face. The two eyes had no whites and were pitch black, and there was a ring of white hair around the face, like a beard. At this moment, he opened his mouth, half-smiling but not smiling, and his mouth was full of yellow teeth like knives.
Li Bochen felt his head buzzing, so he took out the magic knife with his backhand and raised it.
The thing above his head was about to reach out to catch him, but his head was cut off by him. It rolled to the ground and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a white tiger head.
This thing's body was also clinging to the rock wall. Its head was missing, but its body stood up straight before it fell to the ground and turned into a tiger corpse.
There was a big river next to him, and the water was turbulent and loud. Therefore, the sound of this thing falling to the ground was drowned out by the sound of running water. But the old woman in front who was eating meat and drinking blood suddenly straightened her body, holding half a chicken in her hand, and suddenly turned her head twice.
Not seeing anything, he suddenly pulled out a section of his neck and turned his head two more times.
Li Bochen hid behind the tiger carcass that was covered by weeds. He held his breath and concentrated for a while before the old woman slowly retracted her neck and started tearing up the chicken again.
He then looked at the tiger head on the ground and thought to himself, it's not easy for you to become a monster, but you accidentally scared me, so you can't blame me.
There was a big river next to him, so he secretly used his strength to throw the tiger carcass and head into the river. When I entered this secret realm, I wanted to send out Yin soldiers to explore the way, but I thought that since this place was designed with earth energy, the Yin spirits might trigger some restrictions, so I didn't call them out. Unexpectedly, they were attacked by the tiger demon without knowing what he was doing. Feeling closer.
After this experience, I am more careful. He bowed and slowly passed the old woman along the river, but the thing didn't notice him. It only raised its eyes and looked around again when he passed by, and swallowed the rest of the chicken in his hand. , chewed it randomly, and spit out a hairball with a pop. He stretched out his hand again and swept to the cliff.
Li Boxen didn't know how many such monsters there were on the cliff, so he kept an eye on Sun Jilong and walked as close to the river as possible. After walking more than a hundred steps, the peaks in the basin became clearer. From a distance, it was just a black shadow, but now the outline could be vaguely seen clearly.
The top of the mountain seems to be divided into three parts, which looks like a tower. There is a flat land under the tower. The top of the mountain should have been flattened. There seemed to be some phosphorescence on the flat ground, and I didn't know what was emitting it.
Li Bochen learned from his previous lesson, so he looked into the river as he walked, fearing that something might jump out, but he could only see clusters of aquatic plants growing on the edge of the shallow water, dancing with the current.
Sun Jilong walked for a while and reached the bottom of the mountain. At this time, you can see the river looping around the bottom of the mountain, like a moat. Li Bochen squinted his eyes and made a visual inspection, and found that the width of the river was roughly the same in every place, and it seemed more like it had been artificially repaired.
A thought occurred in his mind - the secret realm was built by the sect to take refuge and hide treasures. Are the three towers on the mountain the place where treasures are hidden? Then Zhu Hou must be on the mountain!
Sun Jilong stopped by the river, put his hand to his mouth and imitated a few bird calls, then squatted in the grass and waited. Seeing his behavior, Li Bochen was very puzzled - this secret place should have been taken over by Zhu Hou, so why did he still act like a thief when he got here? Could it be that you are afraid of something? Those monsters?
After a while, there was a faint light flickering between the grass and trees on the mountain, all the way down. At this time, Li Bochen took a closer look and knew what it was - it was the reflection of armor.
Running down the mountain was an armored man. Then were those faint lights that I saw from a distance also human beings? Chang Qiuwu said that as soon as Zhu Hou died, more than two hundred of his soldiers left immediately. Looking at it now, I am afraid that a considerable number of them followed him here!
The armored man ran to the foot of the mountain and faced Sun Jilong across the bank. Then I heard the man say: "Why are you here at this time!?"
Sun Jilong shouted at the top of his lungs: "It's important! I want to see the general!"
The man asked: "How can we see you at this time? Why don't you come during the day?"
Sun Jilong said: "How can I come out during the day!? You call the general!"
The man said: "Bah! You have lost your mind! How dare I ask the general to come down? He has been having a temper these days and is trying to kill someone with a knife!"
Then he said: "If you have anything to say, say it quickly! If you have to see the general, swim over here! Do you dare!"
Sun Jilong immediately fell silent, hesitated for a while, and said: "Okay! You tell the general - I said it - that Li is back again, claiming to be Wang, and now he behaves like a king. Hou, if the general wants to come back, you have to hurry! If you are late, you will be in trouble!"
The man was stunned and said: "What?! The surname is Wang? Is it real or fake?"
Sun Jilong scolded: "True or false is none of your business! Go!"
The man thought for a moment and said, "Okay. Then be careful, don't wake up those things and make trouble all night again!"
Sun Jilong said: "Don't worry, I remember the way."
Li Bochen was lying by the river listening to the two people talking, and thought to himself that those things that man was talking about must be monsters. Then he asked him why he didn't come during the day. Did he mean that those monsters like to be active at night? When Sun Jilong said "remember the road", did he mean how to avoid those things?
That's possible. A monster is a beast that has become a spirit, but its habits are influenced by the past, so it also divides some territories, right? Fortunately, I followed Sun Jilong all the way, so I must have avoided a lot of them. The man asked Sun Jilong if he dared to swim across, saying that there was one in the river too?
Li Bochen thought of this and glanced into the water around him. He could only see aquatic plants in the shallows. He thought for a while, then used his knife to poke into the water plants. Unexpectedly, a pale and pale face suddenly turned under the grass, with all the facial features swollen, as if it were a corpse that had been soaked for a long time!
Even though he was prepared in his heart, he was so shocked that he immediately broke out in white hair and sweat. But as soon as this face turned, something in the water seemed to be frightened, and a large face suddenly appeared densely, as if there were all corpses underneath!
A thought flashed through Li Bochen's mind - are these monsters too? ?
Cut it out with one knife. The white face was chopped into two halves, and the river water was immediately stained with a large area of black, which seemed to be blood.
As soon as they saw the blood, the remaining white faces gathered over, churning and making a splash in the blood. With such a commotion, the whole river turned white - I don't know how many faces surfaced!
At this time, Sun Jilong was turning around to go back. He was startled when he saw this scene and couldn't help but scream.
As soon as the sound fell, I saw densely green eyes lighting up in the darkness behind the surrounding grass and strange rocks.
Li Bochen felt something bad, so he immediately took two steps away from the river and squatted down with his knife, calling out the Yin soldiers to protect him.
Sun Jilong was about twenty steps away from him, but those eyes surrounded both of them. Looking up into the distance, he saw large and small eyes connected together, and he didn't know how many there were.
Even though Li Boxen was brave, he was trembling in his heart at this time. It's not because of these things, but because when I followed Sun Jilong just now, was he walking among these monsters? It was the people from Leiyun Cave who used to protect this secret realm! ?
Sun Jilong shouted, then froze for a moment, turned around and wanted to run up the mountain. But as soon as he took a step, a monster suddenly came out of the darkness and bit his left arm. The thing looked like a rabbit, but it had a mouth full of fangs, eyes glowing green, and was extremely ferocious.
Sun Jilong screamed again in pain, and slashed at the thing with the short knife in his right hand. The monster felt pain and jumped into the grass. But before he could take another step, two more jumped out from under his feet and bit him on the calf.
Li Bochen could see it clearly, and with just this one move, two pieces of flesh were torn off along with his clothes. Sun Jilong screamed, fell to the ground, and swung his knife to chop the two. The two held the meat in their mouths and retreated into the grass.
He was probably in pain and scared, so he yelled "get away" and stood up again. But the bitten leg couldn't use its strength and fell again after taking only one step. Five or six more ones jumped out of the grass and gnawed at him. Sun Jilong cried out in pain and swung his knife with his hands and feet, but he only managed to scare away two or three of them.
At this time, more and more eyes were focused on him. He screamed in pain while crawling a few steps. Suddenly, a pig-sized creature jumped out, grabbed his knife-holding arm, and shook him like a It's like a sack. His voice also went up and down, howling like a wild animal.
The remaining monsters all pounced on him, biting him violently. Sun Jilong could still scream, but his voice was torn and distorted. It took dozens of breaths before the sound disappeared, leaving only the sound of chewing in the darkness.
The man by the river was dumbfounded. He waited for a while and waited for the white faces in the river to start writhing endlessly. Then he yelled and ran up the mountain in a pee, shouting: "General, General, here we go again!" !”
At this time, the lights on the top of the mountain were lit, and there was only a sound of people shouting and soldiers clashing. I wonder if they were mobilizing troops.
The smell of human blood soon spread, and the valley basin that had been quiet before began to boil. Countless figures jumped up in the grass, all rushing toward Sun Jilong. When they saw the light on the mountain and heard the voices of people, they all rushed towards the moat. Li Boxen saw the monsters, big and small, gathered at the river and roared, but he didn't dare to go into the water for a while. When more came from behind, they pushed those standing by the river down.
The river suddenly started to churn, as if the white-faced monsters in the river were tearing apart the monsters that fell into the water. The bloody smell suddenly became stronger, and the monsters by the river seemed to have lost their minds and jumped into the water one after another to grab food. I just heard a burst of howling ghosts and wolves all around me, like I was in a netherworld.
Li Bochen squatted by the river, and some monsters rushed toward him. But perhaps the Yin soldiers around him masked his popularity, and they avoided him after just a brief sniff.
He took a deep breath inwardly - no wonder he couldn't see the lights on the mountain before. It turned out to be because he was afraid of these monsters!
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