Zhang Yun continued to march downwards with difficulty, meditating and recovering five or six times during this period, and finally reached a position more than 3,500 meters above the ground. He found a safe small hole and continued to meditate to restore his internal strength.
Suddenly, a faint fragrance floated from nowhere. He was breathing in and out and felt refreshed. Most of the fatigue in his body disappeared immediately, and the scratched wound on his thigh began to squirm slightly.
Signs of healing.
Zhang Yun, who felt the strange changes in his body, suddenly opened his eyes, and his excitement was beyond words. He thought to himself: "Such a magical aroma must be emitted by a being at the level of elixir. It seems that
It's time for me to turn around!"
He was excited, but he was not dazzled by the sudden information, and he judged in his heart:
"Before entering the cave, I had already checked the stone walls up and down, and within a hundred meters to the left and right, and found nothing abnormal. Any place where there is a magical medicine must be guarded by poisonous insects and vicious beasts, let alone a magical herb of the level of a magical medicine! In
In such a large space, you can smell a faint fragrance from such a long distance. Will the sense of smell of those poisonous insects and beasts be worse than mine?"
"The most important thing now is to recover your skills first. With such a rare elixir, there will definitely be a large number of poisonous insects and ferocious beasts swarming in. Right now, fists are the last word!
So I was meditating while smelling the wisps of fragrance. The internal energy that usually takes two hours to recover actually only took less than half an hour to recover this time. It’s really incredible!
The wound on his leg didn't seem to hurt anymore. Thinking of this, he quickly opened the bandage. Sure enough, it was completely healed, with not even a scar left on the skin. This strengthened his confidence: "Such a miraculous effect can be called a reversal."
God! Just as the characteristics of the elixir are described in "Secrets of the World of Immortal Cultivation", we must get it at all costs!"
Thinking of this, he continued to slide down the rope slowly. The further he went down, the stronger the aroma he inhaled in his nose became: "It seems that the target is undoubtedly below!"
With secret joy in my heart, I became even more cautious, until my eyes saw the end of the rope, and no trace of the elixir was found, but at this time the air was already filled with a rich fragrance!
Zhang Yun judged: "The elixir should be very close to its current location. I have to take the risk to check it out. I feel unwilling to go back like this!"
I carefully observed the mountain walls on the left and right, and found that on the mountain wall ten meters away on the right, there was a crack as thick as an arm's length that stretched down to the end. I looked back at the more than ten small logs left in the medicine basket.
He gritted his teeth and said secretly: "Fight!"
After making up his mind, he tied the end of the homemade "soft rope gun" firmly to his right wrist, used his inner strength on his right hand, and threw the dagger out at the right position. The dagger shot out like a meteor, dragging a long
The tail was accurately nailed into the crevices of the stone.
After pulling hard for a few times, I found that it was very strong, so I grabbed the end of the rope with my left hand, pulled hard with one hand, and immediately jumped into the air, flying towards the crack in the stone wall.
When he came closer, he quickly grasped the handle of the dagger with his right hand, fixed his body, took out the wooden stake and nailed it firmly into the gap in the stone wall.
First, fix the end of the rope on the wooden stake, then attach a live buckle to the end of the dagger and hang it on the wooden stake. After sliding down the rope for more than 20 meters, he stopped and nailed it again.
Good wooden stake, the latch hanging on it fell off with a shake of his right hand, and the "soft rope gun" returned to his hand.
I followed the instructions for more than a dozen times, until the last wooden stake was nailed up, and I could no longer go down, so I stopped. It is estimated that at the original end of the rope, I dropped another two hundred meters.
Zhang Yun holds the wooden stake with one hand, hangs his body upside down on the stone wall, and looks diagonally downward with his eyes.
I saw: about two hundred meters below, a spot of light was shaking non-stop. I quickly calmed down and used all my skills in my eyes, and then I could see clearly: a purple flame was slightly moving in the middle.
, there are more than thirty pairs of golden dots surrounding it, constantly shaking, surrounding the purple flame in the middle.
Looking towards the purple flame, the flame emitted a faint light, illuminating the ground more than one meter around it. It seemed that there should be a protruding platform below, which seemed to be quite large.
If you look closely, you can see that the flame is coming from a small purple flower. The flower is swaying in the wind, and there are several pairs of dark purple leaves growing underneath. I can't help but think: "This is it?"
Zhang Yun, who was deep in thought, suddenly had a flash of light in his eyes, and he couldn't help but exclaimed: "Could this be the 'Purple Flame Orchid'?"
In this silent, dark cave, the cry caused a commotion around him. He quickly reached out to cover his mouth, feeling a wave of fear in his heart.
After a while, the surroundings calmed down, and then I started to think: "I remember what was described in the book "Secrets of the World of Immortal Cultivation". At that time, I mainly paid attention to the fairy grass that can increase life span. Regarding the description of Purple Flame Orchid, I
It was just a brief glance."
"I remember the book said that this fairy grass blooms every ten thousand years, always during the full moon! The book also introduces some rare and rare beasts. It seems that we need to study it carefully!"
After thinking about it, there are still about ten days until the fifteenth of this month, and I thought: "It seems that I came at the wrong time this time!"
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh at himself: "There are still more than two hundred meters away from the platform below. If it is ripe now, it is not the right time! Are you going to jump like this? Even to death, I don't believe that with my own lightness, I can jump from
He jumped from a height of more than 200 meters and was unharmed!"
"There is still plenty of time. Go back and prepare slowly. It seems that luck is still on your side!"
Although the sun and moon are no longer visible in the sky outside, the growth of this fairy grass depends on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, so the flowering time should not change much.
While he was making his wishful thinking, he noticed that on the platform below, a pair of green eyes suddenly appeared seven or eight meters away from the "Purple Flame Orchid".
Seeing this, Zhang Yun couldn't help but shudder in his heart: "Snake! Judging from the size of its eyes, it is probably more than twice as big as the two giant pythons he killed some time ago!"
This giant snake with green eyes, as soon as it appeared, was like a huge boulder thrown into the calm lake. It suddenly stirred up a storm, and the scene below suddenly boiled!
I saw more than thirty pairs of golden dots around, swimming quickly, and quickly divided into more than ten pairs to surround the giant snake.
Zhang Yun thought at this time: "These golden dots are originally living creatures. It seems that these dots are also their eyes. I just don't know what kind of monster they are!"
At this time, the green eyes suddenly shook violently, and they saw three monsters with golden eyes being whipped out. They only heard three sounds of metal hitting the stone slabs on the ground, and then the three monsters crawled away as if nothing was wrong.
He got up and ran over to join the battle group.
The remaining seven or eight monsters saw their companions injured, and suddenly swarmed forward quickly. Next, they could only hear the sounds of sharp blades rubbing against scales and cutting flesh...
The giant snake swayed desperately at first, then slowly slowed down, and the light in its green eyes dimmed, and finally disappeared...
There seemed to be no casualties among the dozen monsters, so they turned around and joined the battle group on the other side.
The war group on the other side is now in a stalemate. It seems that this guy who wants to fish in troubled waters has not taken any advantage!
Zhang Yun has already judged at this moment that the monster surrounded by monsters is a huge scorpion.
He had caught many scorpions in the mountains before and used them as medicinal materials. At night, some fluorescent dots would appear behind the scorpions. The dots were arranged very regularly, so they were easy to identify. Judging from the size of the dots behind them, it was estimated that this
A scorpion is the size of a millstone, and it is the king of scorpions with twelve dots on its back!
It is said that the Tianjiu card that people play now originated from scorpions. There will be some fluorescent dots on the back of adult scorpions at night, and the number of points is different, and the combination method is also different.
In ancient China, there was a genius who was passionate about gambling. At that time, people called such people "gamblers." Once, he and a few fellow gamblers went to a nearby mountain village to gamble, and they had fun until late at night!
Urgently needing to urinate, he went to the hillside behind to urinate. While draining the water, he suddenly noticed a two-meter-long white strip of light appearing in front of him more than ten meters away, slowly swimming towards the front.
He quickly picked up his pants and ran forward, rubbed his eyes, looked over in the dim moonlight, and suddenly shouted "Oh my God!" and quickly covered his mouth.
With an uneasy feeling, he looked over carefully and saw a group of fist-sized scorpions crawling forward in a diamond-shaped formation. They were not affected by his voice just now and were still moving forward neatly and slowly.
The backs of the scorpions shimmered with fluorescent light, and different dots were clearly distributed. The scorpion at the top of the line was extremely powerful. It was more than twice the size of the other scorpions. It had the most dots on its back. After counting, it turned out that
There are twelve of them, two in pairs walking down the row. When you get to the third row, there is obviously a certain distance from the three rows behind;
The one at the back has eleven dots, with five dots on the top and six dots on the bottom; the two behind them are side by side, both have ten dots on the back, but one has five dots on the top and bottom, and the other has four dots on the top and six on the bottom...
Next, there are two in a row with nine dots, and three dots in a row with eight dots...
They moved forward in a diamond-shaped formation of one, one, two, two, three, three, three, two, two, one, one. At the end was a scorpion with two fiery red dots on its back. I counted them all.
Twenty-one.
Seeing this, the lady was overjoyed and couldn't help but thought to herself: "Is this God showing up? It seems that my chance to become a successful person is right in front of me!"
Thinking of this, he quickly knelt down on the ground and kowtowed three times in the direction of the scorpion's crawling direction. Then he stood up and used a branch to draw the dot changes on the scorpion's back on the ground, silently remembering it in his heart.
At this time, he had no intention of playing anymore, and his pocket was empty because of the loss, so he went back to the house to say hello, and ran back home that night regardless of everyone's enthusiasm to persuade him to stay.
When he returned home, he lay on the bed and tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. When he closed his eyes, he saw those combinations of points in front of him.
I simply stopped sleeping, got up, went to the back of the house, chopped a bundle of bamboo poles, and chopped them into dozens of two-inch bamboo pieces. Then I used the points I wrote down from the scorpions to burn the iron bars red on the bamboo board.
superior.
He named it the "Scorpion Card", then took the twenty-one cards in his hand and studied them day and night, forgetting sleep and food.
Finally, his hard work paid off, and he actually figured out several different ways to play!
He first started teaching from his gambling friends and neighbors. At that time, people's gambling methods were very simple. Gambling was mainly based on throwing dice. There were so many novel changes in the scorpion card, and it spread quickly and became all the rage.
Lasts forever!
The gambler who invented the scorpion card also became a famous figure. Anyone who gambled with him using the scorpion card would win without a doubt. Later, he also won back a large fortune with this deck of cards, and people also gave him gifts.
He was nicknamed "The Scorpion King"!
Later generations developed the current Tianjiu card on the basis of the Scorpion card: in order to increase some entertainment, people doubled the number of some cards. This part of the Tianjiu card is called Wenpai, a total of twenty-two cards.
, the remaining ten cards are called martial arts cards, and the Tianjiu card has a total of thirty-two cards.
The main ways to play are: Tianjiu card, pushing Pai Gow, pushing the Cow card, and playing the Cow card after removing eight miscellaneous cards...
Zhang Yun had also read some introductions about scorpions in ancient books, so when he used to catch scorpions, he always looked at their points, but he had never found the twelve o'clock "big sky" and the two o'clock "earth".
What often appears are "one six", "two six", "big five" and so on...
The book says that there is only one in a million scorpions with twelve o'clock "big sky" appearing on their backs. They can definitely be said to be the king of scorpions!
I saw the twelve dots on the Scorpion King's back spinning constantly, probably swinging its extremely poisonous scorpion tail!
Of the twenty-odd monsters surrounding him in the center, none of them dared to take the initiative to attack, and the two sides faced off like this.
After a few more minutes of stalemate, two purple-gold light groups suddenly walked out from the inside of the mountain wall. Their shapes were the same as the monster's eyes, but more than twice as big. I saw this monster with only purple-gold eyes coming into the encirclement.
Outside, there was a squeaking sound.
For a moment, the situation became no longer calm. When the surrounding monsters heard the sound, they suddenly became crazy and rushed forward regardless of life or death.
It was a mess below, but the battle came to an end after a while. The golden eyes of six monsters lost their luster, and it seemed that six monsters were dead. The twelve points on the giant scorpion were also scattered in five or six directions.
, must have been torn apart by random blades.
Zhang Yun couldn't help but take a breath of cold air and thought: "What a scary monster! And the monster with purple-gold eyes should be their king. Unexpectedly, these monsters have unified orders, and they seem to be more difficult to deal with.
Now, I don’t have much confidence in defeating them!"
"It's better to observe for a while longer and make complete preparations when we go back. As the saying goes: Know your enemy and know yourself and you will never be in danger!"
Zhang Yun continued to watch for more than an hour, during which three battles took place. In the first two times, he did not see what kind of creature attacked the monster group, but the monsters easily cleaned it up, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
The last and most intense one was a group of giant rats with green eyes. This time there were fifty or sixty of them, and they attacked the monsters as soon as they appeared.
The place below immediately became a mess, with the sound of sharp knives cutting flesh and bones, and the sound of teeth rubbing against metal... In just a moment, more than thirty rats lost their lives, and five or six more were bitten by monsters and rolled into the depths.
Damn it, it seems like I can’t survive!
Compared to the giant rats, the monster's losses were almost negligible. The monsters that fought with the rats on the platform were all safe and sound!
Zhang Yun took another deep breath: "The monster has such a hard shell!"
Suddenly there was a "squeaking" sound from the darkness. Although the giant rats were a little reluctant to leave, after receiving the order to retreat, the remaining twenty or so rats no longer wanted to fight and retreated into the darkness, leaving only
The next two are hiding in the dark to detect the enemy, waiting for the next opportunity.
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