On the evening of the eighth day when Xu Yan entered the range of Mount Bei. As the hour of You approached, the sunset was like fire in the sky and the red clouds were everywhere.

Xu Yan stood on the top of the stalagmites that were close to the northernmost hinterland of Chongbei Mountain. He looked up to the distance, but could not see anything, because at his feet, this gray sea of ​​fog became more intense and deeper than two days ago. In other words, it was no longer like fog floating, but like the thick smoke that was fascinated by the Bai family burning straw.

Xu Yan suddenly asked the colorful sky-swallowing python in his consciousness: "As a local snake in this area, do you know why the golden hairpin stone orchids have become so rare in climbing the mountain? This kind of spiritual herb can only exert its value when refining the 'restoring pill'. In addition, if it grows for less than a hundred years, it is not a particularly precious medicinal material. But I have been searching here for eight days, but I have only found two on this stalagmites. Do you know where there are such spiritual herbs?"

The original body of the colorful sky-swallowing python has been hiding in Xu Yan's cuff at this moment, but before it has broken off its relationship with Xu Yan's master, its spiritual consciousness will remain in Xu Yan's sea of ​​consciousness.

The colorful Sky-Swallowing Python replied: "Although the golden hairpin stone orchid is not particularly precious, it is one of the few spiritual herbs in this mountain that can become spiritual treasures in the world. Therefore, over the years, it has been poached by people even the roots. It is probably you practitioners who want to transplant it. You also know that its growth conditions are very harsh, and they only grow in the cracks of rock cliffs. But even so, over the past few decades, there are still a continuous stream of practitioners coming here to find them. Naturally, they are all dug up."

After saying that, the colorful sky-swallowing python hesitated for a moment before continuing: "Actually, the golden hairpin stone orchid you snatched from me was discovered by a practitioner more than ten years ago, but that man's strength was not as strong as you, and later I swallowed it into my stomach."

When Xu Yan heard the following sentence, his face turned dark.

In fact, he knew very well that although the colorful Sky-Swallowing Python, known as the "Medicinal Beast", was a snake-python-like spirit beast, he did not like to kill and had a violent personality. Only when someone robbed the spiritual treasures of the world it had been protected for a long time, or some very precious spiritual herbs, would it rise up to resist. But no matter what, after Xu Yan learned that it had swallowed someone alive, he couldn't help but think, indeed, no matter where it was, this was a world where the strong prey on the weak.

Xu Yan did not care about its cannibalism, but continued to ask: "Can you feel that there are still remaining golden hairpin stone orchids in this area?"

The colorful Sky-Swallowing Python replied bluntly: "My cultivation is not enough now. I can only feel its breath after entering the range of less than five miles. However, you don't have to hold too much hope. The stalagmites we are in are one of the three stalagmites in the northernmost part of the mountain. If there are not on the remaining two stalagmites, they will basically not be able to exist again. And if you go north, you will have to leave the range of the mountain." It suddenly became a little hesitant and said: "No matter whether there are golden hairpin stone orchids in the north, I advise you not to go north anymore, especially not to get close to the valley in front."

After Xu Yan got the map of Baishanzu from Bai Bing, he roughly remembered the basic location and location in this mountain, so he knew where it was talking about. However, the map and the real scene were different after all. Moreover, the colorful Swallowing Heaven-Swallowing Python was originally born in this mountain and river, so he must know the mountains better than him.

After hesitating for a moment, Xu Yan asked with curiosity: "Why can't you get close to that valley?"

The colorful sky-swalking Python was a little afraid when he remembered the valley and did not choose to hide it. He said bluntly: "Because there is a strange stream flowing in that valley. There are three connected pools in a section of stream not far from here. These three pools are very strange and bottomless. Before I had already developed my wisdom, I had rashly entered, but I almost died inside. I could feel that there must be very powerful monsters in the pool, and have you noticed that the entire area in the north of the mountain in the north of the mountain was already filled with this thick smoke."

"Do you know where this fog comes from?"

"Well, you may not believe it. Their source actually emerges from those three pools. It will appear every fifteen years. Calculate the time. It has been fifteen years since this happened last time."

"I want to go and take a look after you said this."

"No, you don't know how powerful it is. I remember that about fifteen years ago, many foreign practitioners broke into this area, but before those people approached the valley, they were poisoned to death by the fog floating in the forest. I advise you to leave soon, while it is still too late, otherwise when the fog turns red, its toxicity will even exceed my natal venom."

"Fifteen years ago... it was the idiot you swallowed by you, who rashly broke into here?" Xu Yan couldn't help but quips, and then said, "Will these fogs change color?"

"Well, it will continue to change colors over time. It will start with light gray, and then it will continue to deepen after two days to turn into dark brown. Then, it will be blue, cyan, and in the end, it will be red. Every time it changes a color, the toxicity contained in it will increase by several times. If it were red fog, even I would never dare to get any stains. If I hadn't lived above these fog layers for more than thirty years, I might have stopped staying in this area long ago."

Hearing this information, Xu Yan couldn't help frowning, and combined with the changes in the fog below, after thinking for a while, he recognized the other party's proposal, and nodded and said, "Since that's the case, then I won't go. When I go and check the remaining two stalagmites, I will leave here."

"By the way, how long does this fog change? I have to pinch the time. Don't turn red before I go down the mountain, that's bad."

The colorful sky-swallowing python replied: "Two days! The mist of each color can last for about two days. After two days, it will start to turn into another color. If you don't stay on this stalagmites for two days, it should be completely timely."

When Xu Yan heard the other party's tone with a little sarcastic feeling, he immediately replied angrily: "The reason why I delayed here for two days is because I met you. If you hadn't pestered me, I would have left here long ago."

"You nonsense. Even if I don't stop you, you will only leave a few hours earlier. I left my breath on this golden hairpin stone orchid early. If I hadn't waited until it really matured and bloomed, I wouldn't have woken up from my sleep, unless you wanted to sneak attack me before it blooms. Besides, this golden hairpin stone orchid was mine. If I hadn't worked hard to protect it for more than 30 years, it would have been picked by someone, and you were just a flower-picking thief who had come out halfway."

"Oh, don't just be too greedy. For you, my magic trick can be worth about a hundred orchids. Besides, I just took you a flower-core and three petals, and I will give you the rest to eat. No matter how you calculate it, I will lose more. So, in the next period of time, you have to use your own talents and abilities to find some precious medicinal materials in the mountains, spiritual treasures of heaven and earth, do you know?"

Regarding the sharp words and eloquent ability, the Colorful Swallowing Heaven Python, as a spiritual beast that is only level 5, naturally cannot be compared with Xu Yan, and it was speechless immediately. It neither made any refutation, but it did not agree to Xu Yan's conditions.

Seeing that it was silent, Xu Yan did not continue to get involved with it, but instead said: "By the way, what's your name? I heard that some spirit beasts have memories and inheritance since they were born."

"No, my bloodline is not rare."

"Since that's the case, you are now considered my spiritual pet. Then I'll get one for you?"

"Why do you have to have a name?"

"Because... if you have a name, it will be easier to communicate, right?"

"It's up to you."

"Well, let me think about it. Since you are a colorful sky-swallowing python, then I will call you Xiaocai in the future. How about it?"

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Xu Yan himself was very satisfied with the name because he felt that when it truly transformed, with its current sound, he might be a cute girl?

Seeing that the other party did not answer, Xu Yan felt that it had just replaced the answer with silence. Then he stopped talking and walked to the edge of the cliff, jumped and jumped directly. But just after falling about two feet, he reached out and grabbed a vine attached to the stalagmites, and finally climbed down slowly along the vine.

It is said that going up the mountain is easy and going down the mountain is difficult. Xu Yan has deeply experienced this difficulty at this moment, because it took him almost an hour to successfully climb down the stalagmites.

...

"Senior Brother Yan, we really have to take that woman to continue to go deeper. That woman is a complete burden. Not only can we not afford to eat, we also have to spend our lives to protect her. Otherwise, we might as well stop worrying about the elder brother. Anyway, he doesn't know whether we have caught her. After you play with me, I'll have a good time, and then I'll..."

A disciple in a yellowish robe did not say the last words, but just reached out and gently touched his neck.

It was Yan Ziyi, who captured Cai Zhenjing, who heard this, but she couldn't help but glared at the disciple with a fierce expression, and angrily said, "I've been brave enough to eat the leopard. You dare to understand the wrong ideas that the person you want from the elder brother? Get out of the way and make sure there are no spiritual beasts in this area, and we will camp here for the night."

When the disciple heard that the other party had rejected his proposal, he was disappointed and could only go to explore the way with a look of disappointment.

Yan Ziyi and others can be said to be the last group of people who entered this place. As for the others, they undoubtedly passed this place early. However, even as the last group of people who entered the hinterland, they still seemed very difficult along the way, because before entering this fog, they encountered at least four or five groups of spiritual beasts that were rushing out wildly.

After a big battle, there was a team of seven people, and they immediately lost two disciples. The most important thing was that they didn't have to die, but in order to protect Cai Zhenjing, who was banned from his cultivation, they finally lost their lives.

Seeing Yan Ziyi's face so gloomy that it seemed like water was dripping. Cai Zhenjing, who was being watched and unable to use his cultivation at all, couldn't help but sarcastically said: "Ha, even if you send someone to explore the way forward, there will be spiritual beasts coming out of this forest over time, and then biting you beasts to death. I advise you to let me go as soon as possible, otherwise..."

"Bang!"

A sudden crisp sound directly interrupted Cai Zhenjing's words.

Yan Ziyi slapped her pretty face with a backhand, leaving a scarlet palm print, and then a trace of blood spilled out from the corner of her mouth. Yan Ziyi stared at her with murderous aura and said in a cold voice: "You better calm me down. If you, a bitch who thinks of yourself, dare to say a little more, I will deal with you now, and then kill you with one knife and throw it to feed those beasts."

Since the other party was controlled by him, Yan Ziyi discovered that the woman in front of her seemed aloof and cold, but in fact her mouth was very long-winded and insulting. Along the way, he had listened to her sarcasm a lot. Now, when he was in a very bad mood, he could not resist the anger in his heart, and immediately slapped her in the face.

After Cai Zhenjing was slapped in the face, her already messy hair completely scattered on her head, making her look even more miserable, but she always had a cold face and was not afraid of Yan Ziyi's threat at all.

Since being captured, Cai Zhenjing has known that his final outcome is probably no different from those of his fellow junior sisters, but it's just a matter of time.

She relieved the scorching pain on her face, and after she recovered, she continued to weakly say, "Okay, then you come. If you have the ability, you can kill me now. You are such a coward who just says nothing but does not do it!"

Yan Ziyi saw that she dared to speak back and was so angry that he trembled. He walked towards her with a cold look in his eyes. He said furiously: "Okay, very good, you bitch, you have successfully angered me. Since that's the case, I will fulfill you now."

He winked at the other three disciples guarding Cai Zhenjing, then grabbed Cai Zhenjing's right hand and dragged her directly into the dense forest. Because Cai Zhenjing had her cultivation level and was also a sword cultivator, he naturally could not resist the pulling and pulling of third-grade martial arts cultivator Yan Ziyi.

While eating the pain in her hands, she was dragged into the dense forest by the other party.

Seeing Yan Ziyi dragging Cai Zhenjing and disappeared in front of him in a blink of an eye, the only three remaining disciples of Chenyang Sect all looked indifferent. After a moment, one of them said, "Then... Cai Zhenjing was asked by the eldest brother. We just watched Senior Brother Yan make her, right?"

"Otherwise, what can we do? Is it true that Xu Niu dares to dissuade Senior Brother Yan? Don't you know what kind of person he is? Xu Niu, it's not me that I'm talking about you, who doesn't know among the disciples of the sect, would rather offend Senior Brother than Yan Ziyi? Please be more careful. As a cultivator, if you continue to be so straightforward, one day, you will not even know how you die."

It was Xu Niu, who also came from Xujia Village, who heard this, that his dark face was a little disappointed, but he finally sighed helplessly. It is true that Yan Ziyi's vengeful personality was very clear about him for a long time. Therefore, he witnessed the other party dragging Cai Zhenjing into the dense forest, but did nothing.

The Chenyang Sect disciple who was arranged by Yan Ziyi to explore the way did not go too far, but just walked around the huge stalagmites for half a circle. Then, seeing that Yan Ziyi had turned back, he stopped moving forward.

He is not stupid. In this dark and dense forest, who knows if he will suddenly encounter some ferocious spirit beast? Walking alone in such a place is undoubtedly a suicide.

So, the disciple stayed carefully at the corner of the stalagmites, and dragged the time to pass slowly. In his opinion, the sky was almost dark today, and as long as he spent another quarter of an hour, he would be considered a match-up when he went back and said that he had not encountered any spiritual beasts or the like.

A rustling sound suddenly came into the disciple's ears. He glanced at him in a daze, couldn't help but tighten his heart, and his face was even more panicked and said to himself: "Damn, are there really spiritual beasts?"

However, after looking for a while, he saw nothing, which made him even more nervous.

It was not until a cup of tea that the sound became clear and audible. There was no doubt that the disciple of Chenyang Sect was already extremely frightened at this moment. If he hadn't figured out the direction of the sound at this time, he might have run away completely.

He suddenly looked up and wanted to see clearly what the sound was coming from above his head, and then he saw a figure jumping downward in his direction.

"Bang!"

A dull sound like a drumbeat sounded from the dense forest.

Just a punch, Xu Yan flew out the Chenyang Sect disciple who had a shocked look on his face after seeing clearly. The latter punched him like a rag bag and fell heavily on the ground more than ten feet away.

His body rolled up with fallen leaves, but he fell into dissipation.

Xu Yan looked at the other party fainting with a expressionless face. He never expected that he would spend an hour climbing down the stalagmites and meet a disciple of Chenyang Sect, but since he met, he would never let the other party feel good.

Of course, not only the disciples of Chenyang Sect, but if he met Yunlan Sect or Baihe Jianzhuang, he would do the same, because he knew very well that in this spring hunt, the three major sects had already pointed their finger at him and the Lotus Sect.

"If you want to blame, you will only blame your luck for being so good."

Xu Yan glanced at the Chenyang Sect disciple who had unknown life and death with a calm expression, and spoke sarcastically with great difficulty. Then he stopped hesitating and turned around and wanted to go towards the remaining two stalagmites.

He did not plan to spend the night here. Since even the disciples of Chenyang Sect appeared in this area, he had roughly guessed that the disciples of the other two major sword sects should have surpassed him in their schedules. Therefore, he had to travel overnight to catch up with them. As for whether they could catch up in the end, they could only leave it to fate.
Chapter completed!