"Clan leader, he has left, and he has been gone for a while." The investigating Fox clan looked around the bamboo garden, relying on their keen sense of smell and perception to roughly judge the time when Cao An and others left, at least Half an hour ago.
In Ziyunjia, with the strength of Cao An and his team, the distance traveled in half an hour was no longer something that the fox clan could catch up with. The monsters have a strong sense of territory. Even though Ziyunjia is extremely vast, , seems to be free, but in fact there is not much real freedom in it.
Randomly stepping into the territory of other great demons, no matter what the purpose is, will be regarded as a provocation.
With Hu Youxian's temperament, he didn't dare to gamble. Seeing people going to the empty courtyard, Hu Youxian turned his attention to his clan members. From their seriousness, he could clearly feel something called trust. Loss, let’s not count the previous ones, right or wrong is not so obvious, but recently, two consecutive decisions were wrong, and all the tribesmen have witnessed it.
'I'm probably really old. '
Hu Youxian thought so, with a look of dejection between his brows, and glanced at the foxes around him with a slightly frustrated look.
"Let's go back to the clan and start choosing a new leader of the Fox clan. I'm old and it's time to retire."
If in the past, when he said this, someone from the tribe would have come to dissuade him, but this time there was no such thing. All the Fox tribe members just lowered their heads in silence. He was indeed old, and the responsibilities and burdens he had carried for so many years made him a little afraid. He was frightened and had lost all the energy in his heart. It seemed that he was no longer suitable to be the leader of the clan.
He had lost all his energy, but his tribesmen were still in their brave years. Stepping on the soft soil, Hu Youxian missed himself a little when he was young. At that time, it seemed that he could ignore all this. Back then, he had also Like them.
'After the power of the clan leader is handed over, will it be good or bad for the entire Fox clan? 'As soon as this idea appeared in Hu Youxian's mind, he stopped thinking about it. After handing over the position of the leader of the Fox Clan, all this has nothing to do with him. As a member of the Fox Clan, he needs The only thing he can do is to die when his clan needs him.
Hundreds of years of practice are just one death.
Thinking of this, Hu Youxian only felt that what had always trapped him in the past became irrelevant the moment he made up his mind. It was just like that. He no longer worried about gains and losses. He was light-hearted and had nothing to do. Even the steps under his feet changed. He felt more relaxed. Their wild fox clan had produced more than just demon kings before.
The Yehu clan back then had even entered the central demon court of Ziyunjia, and was one of the most powerful demon clans in the demon clan. What’s more, the demon clan has a long lifespan. For many elders in the clan, they They had witnessed the power of the Fox Clan with their own eyes, and compared with the current Fox Clan, the gap drove them to urge the development of the Fox Clan with an almost perverted obsession.
With a smile on his face, Hu Youxian quickly followed the team.
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The ancient maple forest, where Cao An and his party were standing was already at the edge of the ancient maple forest. The originally lively dance of monsters in the entire ancient maple forest had long since fallen and dispersed, along with the treasures in the yellow maple cave. After being looted, there was only a bunch of low-level and defective treasure soldiers that were of no use at all.
Cao An collected about a hundred pieces, which were all used by these little demon minions before, so that when it was time to 'divide the spoils', no one wanted to take them, but Cao An took them away. No, it won’t take up any space anyway. Once it’s collected in the yellow-skinned gourd, it can be fed after it has finished digesting.
In the naturally formed cave, Cao An saw what a real demon should look like, or what a real man-eating demon should look like. Most of the human bones on the ground were young and strong, because they could enter here. There are only young and strong hunters who can still run.
None of these bones are complete. They look like they were thrown on the ground randomly after being eaten. In one of the caves, it can even be described as three feet of bones. Cao An stood there for a long time. Silently, he sat cross-legged and recited the scriptures for three days. When he came out of the cave, it was already the afternoon of the fourth day.
Cao An spread out the map and looked at the location on it. The description of Ziyunjia on this map was not accurate. Many areas inside were blank, and only the edges were barely usable. When Cao An was planning the route, he chose This is this part. Ancient Maple Forest is just a term among the demon clan, and there is no clear title on the map.
As a result, the only feedback from the map later was that it was a large swamp. The label included the words: poisonous miasma transpiration, demons infested, but nothing else.
"Chang Qing, what do you think of this Daze..."
Before Cao An finished speaking, he realized that he was talking to an evergreen tree, so he stopped talking in time and did not continue.
Chang Qing didn't care, and replied with a smile: "I don't know much, I just occasionally heard them talk about it from some little monsters. There are three big monster kings in this big lake. You don't need to take the rest to heart. They can't control you." There are no very powerful monsters outside Ziyunjia, but with the master’s current level of cultivation, he can easily break through.”
"Three demon kings?" Cao An looked at the area of Daze on the map. No matter how you look at it, there is no room for the three demon kings, right?
You know, based on the territory that Huang Feng controls, Cao An's territory as a demon king is already much larger than that of Daze in front of him. There are actually three demon kings in such a small area.
"Young master, I don't know. The three-headed demon kings in this big lake were almost all promoted at the same time. They were very jealous of each other. There were also disputes later, but no one could do anything about it. In the end, the three-headed demon king The king didn’t know what he was thinking, so he imitated the human race’s friendship and monopolized this great swamp.”
Cao An's gaze seemed to penetrate the many maple leaves and see the swamp.
"In other words, when we step here, we may not face one demon king, but three demon kings together?"
"That's right. Their sworn brother is a three-headed crocodile. His strength may be slightly better than Huang Feng's. I haven't heard of any weapons. Among their clan, even after they transform, their physical body is their strongest weapon; 2. The younger sister is a big herring and is good at swordsmanship; the third younger sister is an anaconda-turned-spirit, no one has seen what kind of treasure she uses, but she has to guard against it."
Cao An nodded. This bit of information was useful, but limited. Over the past few days, he had remembered the details of the battle with Huang Feng. The monsters here were not comparable to the ones he had encountered in Shiwanda Mountain. Huang Feng If Feng can have the opportunity to hold treasures such as the purple and black gourd, it cannot be ruled out that other demon kings have similar treasures.
And I just lack the knowledge of the treasures of this world. Who knows if these three people will have one or two strange and unpredictable treasures in their hands. Don't capsize the boat in the gutter.
"Because Huang Feng left, this ancient maple forest suddenly became the best place for us to stay in Ziyunjia. Let's rest for the night and then we will enter Daze tomorrow."
Chang Qing hunted a sheep. Seeing the sheep that Chang Qing had taken care of, Cao An suddenly moved in his heart.
A whim is always something that comes from your heart.
"Little Dou'er, big brother will take you to eat something different today. Go and collect some firewood nearby."
Li Douer looked at the sheep and said, "Isn't it a roasted sheep? How else can it be eaten?"
"You're looking down on people, aren't you? Today, big brother will teach you how to eat it. Keep it to yourself as you haven't eaten it before. Go and travel by yourself in the future. If you get greedy one day, you can try it."
Cao An looked at Chang Qing and said, "By the way, your body is an evergreen tree. Can you eat meat?"
"I have transformed into a human body. After breaking away from the demon body, I am actually not much different from a human being. If you, sir, can eat it, I can naturally do it, but sometimes it is not necessary. Logically speaking, sir, you can do it too. Without eating, in the realm of heaven and man, energy can already be exchanged naturally. Eating these impure foods will be a burden."
Cao An shook his head, "For me, thoughts are more important in practice. If you can also eat, you will have a good meal today."
As he spoke, he took out the Nian Sword and used this treasure weapon to cut the mutton for a bite to eat. Cao An was probably one of the very few people who were obsessed with eating. He flipped his wrist and picked out the pieces of meat. A few rays of cold light fell, showing how fat and thin they were. A whole pile of mutton slices was laid out, much faster than the machine in memory.
Each piece is similar in shape and thickness.
He set up a big pot and brought Li Douer's firewood over. There were few people here and there were firewood everywhere. While the soup was cooking in the pot, Cao An began to prepare the dipping ingredients, one for each person. Thanks to the people behind him, It's a big gourd, and anything can be stuffed into it, so that this time, even in Ziyunjia, the ingredients are quite complete.
“Taste the hot pot!”
After Cao An finished speaking, he took the lead in picking up the pieces of meat and putting them into the hot soup. The dipping sauce looked very appetizing.
Chang Qing, who had been watching all this calmly, couldn't help but swallow when he saw Cao An's slow movements. He imitated the gourd and took a big bite like the scholar Cao An. Soon, His face turned red visibly, and he coughed twice, but he couldn't bear to spit out the food in his mouth.
It wasn't until he swallowed it completely that he breathed out quickly.
Cao An smiled and said, "Can't you eat spicy food? That's right. You are an evergreen tree. Learn how people eat hot pot. If you can't eat it, pour some dipping ingredients and add some soup base. This may make you feel better."
To Cao An's surprise, Li Dou'er seemed to adapt quickly and could eat spicy food very well. Cao An made the dipping sauce himself and knew that the spiciness might be higher, but Li Dou'er didn't react at all and ate his mouthful. They were all flying with their chopsticks, obviously conquered by this way of eating.
Chang Qing shook his head, "No need, just get used to it slowly. I finally understand why there is a saying about appetite among humans. Chang Qing still has a lot to go through."
The most important step on the path to spiritual transformation from a demon to a human being is to understand everything about being a human being, including joy, anger, sorrow, joy, emotions, and worldly affairs...
Of course, if the talent is enough to defy the heavens, then there is another matter. Some bloodline races have extremely high innate upper limits. They do not need to go through this to reach a height that is difficult for ordinary people to reach.
But this does not include Chang Qing, who knows his position very well.
