This small hole was very strange. The sizes inside were all the same. After crawling out about ten feet, Su Ming saw the end in front of him and slowed down his movements.
He gradually approached the exit cautiously. At first glance, he was stunned for a moment and then took a deep breath.
This is a fire cave with countless cone-shaped stones hanging upside down. The surface is dry and cracked, as if it can break away at any time. The ground is originally pitch black, but there are strips of red rocks scattered here and there, reflecting the place here in the brown.
The heat inside is several times stronger than outside.
Not far away, there was a dark skeleton. The skeleton was about eight or nine feet long. Su Ming recognized it at a glance. It should be the bones of a python.
On the skull of the python, there is a bone horn as thick as an arm, and the color of the horn is also pitch black.
Su Ming had never seen such a long python, but he had vaguely heard from his grandfather that there was a kind of python on Wulong Mountain very early on. It was extremely ferocious. This kind of python had horns on its head and was called
It is a horned python, and the sharpness of its horn can often become a treasure offered to the tribe.
In their Wushan tribe, there is the bone horn of a horned python, which has been passed down by the clan chiefs for generations.
"Could it be a horned python?" He visually inspected the python's skeleton, then looked at the small hole where he was, and vaguely got the answer.
While pondering, Su Ming took out a leaf of herbal medicine from the basket behind him and threw it downwards.
The herb drifted down and made a sizzling sound when it touched the ground. After about a quarter of an hour, it slowly dried up. Then he tried a few more times and finally determined that the heat of the ground here was not weak.
, but he can endure it for some time, provided he doesn't touch those red rocks.
At this moment, Xiaohong was already impatient. If she hadn't known that this place was dangerous, she would have jumped out long ago.
Su Ming climbed out cautiously, jumped down, and stepped on the ground. His feet immediately made a sizzling sound, and a wave of heat spread throughout his body along the soles of his feet, but the soles of his feet would not be burned for a short period of time.
After Xiaohong entered the fire cave, she was immediately sweating profusely from the heat. After thinking for a long time, she returned to the small cave again. She said nothing and didn't come in. Instead, she left in a flash and ran away to play somewhere.
Su Ming did not try to persuade him, but walked forward quickly with the knitting basket on his back. He could guess that this place should be connected with the inside of the Black Flame Peak, and there might be a place suitable for quenching.
After walking not far, there was an empty space in front of them. I didn't know where to go. There were some potholes on the ground. The heat was much stronger here. Su Ming could even feel the burning heat under his feet.
He hesitated for a moment, and just as his steps were about to fall, a heat wave suddenly erupted, causing Su Ming to scream and retreat. The pupils of his eyes shrank. He saw a flame as thick as an arm coming from the ground in front of him.
A pit suddenly popped up, instantly reflecting the cave in the firelight.
Su Ming took a deep breath and stepped back again until he pushed to the entrance of the cave. Then he looked at it intently. It took half an hour for the flames to gradually dissipate. But not long after, another pothole erupted again.
flame.
Over and over again, each other continues.
"Fire..." Su Ming stared at the potholes, his eyes slowly revealed a bright light, and he was even more surprised.
"There is indeed a fire here! However, it appears intermittently, not that kind of stable eruption..." After Su Ming was pleasantly surprised, he pondered for a moment and felt a pity for it.
"That's all. Although you may be able to find a better place by entering the mountain directly from the top of the mountain, it is better to be hidden here, and if there is danger, I can leave quickly.
Then I will temporarily use this place as my first quenching cave in my life!" Su Ming looked around with excitement as he murmured.
"We have fire, but we still need a desolate cauldron... I can make one myself!" Su Ming's eyes fell on the scattered stones on the ground.
"These rocks have been here for so many years and have not been incinerated into ashes. They are obviously extremely heat-resistant and should be able to be quenched..." Su Ming scratched his head, changed the herbs under his feet, jumped down again, and chose a piece.
The big stone seemed to be suitable. After hesitating for a moment, I touched it, but it didn't feel too hot, just warm.
After deciding to use this big stone as a material, Su Ming took out his medicine knife. This knife was very sharp and he often took it out to polish. With this knife, Su Ming used all his strength to chop at the stone.
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This was a boring process, but Su Ming had long been used to it and was not impatient at all. But while he was cutting, an idea suddenly flashed in his mind, and he looked at the bones of the python not far away, especially the bones on its skull.
Black horn.
After pondering for a while, Su Ming walked quickly, looked near the skull for a while, and then knocked on the python bone. With this knock, only a crashing sound was heard, and the bones immediately became broken into pieces.
The end was scattered all over the ground.
Among the broken pieces, there was only a black bone horn that was not shattered.
"This corner is indeed extraordinary. I was just wondering how the python got in." Su Ming picked up the bone horn and scratched it on the wall nearby, and immediately made a scratch. This scene did not faze Su Ming.
Accident.
"I just don't know why this horned python had to crawl in from the outside..." Su Ming couldn't figure it out, so he walked to the big stone with the bone horn and started to chop it.
With the help of this corner, a few hours later, a quenched stone furnace that was fifty or sixty-six percent similar to the desolate cauldron in Su Ming's memory was formed. Su Ming even made an extra lid to keep the interior of the desolate cauldron.
The heat does not escape.
"Try it first." Su Ming looked excited as he pushed the deserted cauldron to the potholes, pressed his mind, and slowly waited.
Several more hours passed, and with the flames erupting again and again, flames finally broke out in a pothole in front of Su Ming and close to him.
Almost at the moment when the flames burst out, Su Ming pushed the quenching stone furnace fiercely, causing the desolate cauldron to cover the pit where the flames burst out.
Su Ming looked nervous. Whether it can be quenched depends on whether the desolate cauldron can withstand the high temperature.
Soon, the stone furnace turned red, the heat wave spread out, and the sound of cracking echoed, but a large number of cracks appeared on its surface. Su Ming felt a thump in his heart, but after waiting for a long time, he did not see the stone cracking.
Then I slowly felt relieved.
"One hour... There is only one hour for each quenching. It shouldn't be enough..." Su Ming's eyes showed deep thought. He could be said to have put a lot of effort into quenching.
"You can do it this way!" Su Ming took a few steps back. Although he had an idea in his mind, he did not act rashly. Instead, he stood on a place where the ground was not sour or too hot, staring at the potholes.
It takes a whole day to watch.
During this period, the little monkey came by, felt it was too hot, left some wild fruits, and ran out to play again.
As for the stone desert cauldron, it has withstood the test. It has not been broken despite several flame impacts.
"The flames that erupt from these small holes in the ground have some rules, but there are no rules..." One day later, Su Ming took the bone horn and swung out, came to those potholes, and quickly opened a ravine on the ground.
, connecting one of the pitted holes to the bottom of the desolate cauldron.
His movements did not pause, and he drew six strokes in a row and then quickly retreated. Not long after, when a flame burst out from one of the small holes in the pit, it was obviously diverted and poured into the bottom of the stone furnace along the ravine in the ground.
"It's done!" Su Ming watched for a while, looking for gaps to draw five more ravines. He continued to observe for a whole day, determined his method, and extended the fire in a large area, and then he felt relieved.
In fact, he also hesitated. The lines and connections of these ravines were not drawn randomly. It was necessary to keep the flames at the place where the Wild Cauldron was located neither too large nor too small, otherwise abnormalities would easily occur.
After all, in his observations, there were several times when several potholes erupted into flames at the same time. If the connection was wrong, it might be dangerous.
After solving these two most basic problems, Su Ming calmed down and started his first tempering in the Black Flame Peak according to the scenes in his memory.
The food was eaten by little monkeys, or Su Ming went out to hunt some small animals, dragged them here directly to the fire, and cooked them before eating. There was also something about the Montenegro Grandpa. Su Ming also went out hunting during this period.
, met the hunting team from his own tribe and informed him of the matter.
Time passed day by day. This was his quenching place. From time to time, voices of annoyance would be heard. In half a month, Su Ming's eyes were already red. In the past half month, he had refined it countless times, but unexpectedly
Not once was successful!
He is now at the first level of blood coagulation realm in practice, and has four blood lines. As long as he can get two more, he can step into the second level of blood coagulation realm.
Once he reaches the second level, Su Ming can perform his first barbaric technique under the barbaric image inheritance he obtained!
This was Su Ming's dream, and it was also the source of motivation for him to continue refining medicine stones.
But the failure of this month's tempering made Su Ming almost disheartened, but the stubbornness in his bones made him unwilling to give up just like that.
"I don't believe it anymore! Xiaohong, help me collect the medicine again!" Su Ming muttered, throwing the basket towards the grinning little monkey at the entrance of the cave, and continued to refine it.
The little monkey caught the basket, grinned, turned around and ran out.
One day, one day, one day...
Failure, failure, failure...
Until another half month passed, in the afternoon, Su Ming stood in front of the deserted cauldron with disheveled hair. He held two herbs in his hands, both of which were red, one with six petals and the other with five petals.
"Which one should I use..." Su Ming knew he didn't have much time to think, so he gritted his teeth.
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Seeking Demons is supposed to be a slow-burning book, with a large chapter, and it cannot be full of passion when it is written... The opening chapter of Xian Ni is even more bland, maybe this is the style, and it cannot be changed.
Just read it patiently and you won’t disappoint fellow Taoists. This is Ergen’s guarantee.
Carefully read the title of the first volume of Yipin, and then think about the title of the book, you will find that if life is just like the first time, sometimes it is about more than just emotions...
It is a kind of emotion, a kind of complex inner feeling when looking back many years later... If we look back now and look at ourselves many years ago, how will we feel...
The name of the first volume may not refer to the novel's characters and characters, but to the Su Ming you see today.
Taste slowly, read slowly... and I will write slowly...