Ye Xuan led Fat Tiger and walked slowly in the deep forest. No matter how hard he controlled his strength, his shoes still made a slight sound when they landed on the ground.
I don’t know what a tragic scene it would be to be trampled by ghost cows in Zhongshan Mountain.
He looked sideways at the towering tree, thinking to himself that if this tree were in the outside world, it would take hundreds of years to grow, but it would only take three months in the Zhongshan realm.
But as soon as March passed, the big trees that had grown up were trampled and broken, leaving no bones left.
These trees are of great use to ordinary people. They can be used to build houses and cook pots. They are also useful to the poor people, but the cost of harvesting them is too high.
After all, cutting down trees will definitely cause trouble, and the people living in the tombs below will probably lose their lives because of a few trees, which is not worth it.
After walking through a dense forest with lush foliage and vines, the trees gradually became sparse, and only the wild grasses remained lush.
Ye Xuan stopped behind a tree and slowly squatted down with his back against the tree.
He frowned slightly, his nose twitched slightly, and he smelled a suspicious odor.
This smell is somewhat similar to the smell of Heihe river mud, the kind of stench that can wake people up while sleeping, similar to the stench of thousands of animal carcasses rotting in jars.
However, there was no demonic energy flowing around.
There should be no one who would dig out the mud from the Heihe River to build a house like he did.
Ye Xuan smiled silently, took out the message talisman bought from the intelligence dealer from the magic bag, and input a stream of zhenqi into it, and then a misty clear light spread out, and each light spot emerged in the clear light, forming a
A simplified map.
The map indicates the location of the monster and the only way to get to that location.
Apart from that, there is nothing else.
If you follow the rules and follow the map, you will inevitably face unexpected and dangerous situations - you may encounter people from the Zhongshan Mountains on the way, or you may step into the traps set by the Zhongshan people.
There are so many kinds.
If Ye Xuan were to hunt monsters alone, he would definitely be unable to move forward in the mountainous environment where dangers are unknown, and he would most likely become someone else's prey.
But with Fat Tiger by your side, you can avoid many dangers in advance with its sense of smell.
With its cooperation, Ye Xuan is already equivalent to a powerful and "experienced" demon hunter.
Those monster hunters who hunted monsters and refined flesh and blood pills for sale would probably be envious of Ye Xuan for having such a strange creature as his companion.
For example, right now, Fat Tiger was not obviously excited when he was sniffing the stench, which indicated that the source of the stench was no longer dangerous.
Ye Xuan opened the message talisman and looked at it carefully, then clicked on his location on the simplified map.
It's not far from the monster beast's lair, less than twenty miles away.
The stench lingered in his nostrils, making it difficult for him to calm down, so he went directly to explore the monster's lair.
First go to the place where the stench is emanating.
Was it someone who died or something else happened?
After clearing away possible unstable factors around you, there will be far fewer variables before hunting monsters.
Ye Xuan made up his mind, nuzzled his lips and gave Fat Hu a look.
Fat Tiger's ability to observe people's emotions is much better than that of waiters in high-end restaurants.
It shook its tail towards Ye Xuan, turned towards the direction where the stench came from, flipped its four paws, and silently passed through the trees.
There were no vines or trees tangled under his feet, so Ye Xuan could land silently, following Fat Tiger closely, following him like a shadow.
It's hard to tell the direction in the forest, but if you follow Fat Tiger, you won't get lost.
After running wildly for a while, a man and an animal hid behind the bushes.
The stench here has become so strong that it is almost unbearable, and even tears will flow out.
Fat Tiger's sense of smell is extremely sensitive, so he was very agitated by the stench, spinning around and making a slight humming sound from his nose.
Ye Xuan patted the fat tiger on the head and gave it a Jingyuan Dan as a reward. He looked towards the opposite side of the bushes. On the big tree where the two of them hugged each other, the formation was broken, revealing a portal.
The lower half of the small door was also blasted to pieces, and wood chips were scattered everywhere, mixed with pools of black mud.
A skeleton was crawling under the small door, its lower limbs were hidden in the tree hole, its arms were trying to push forward, and it was holding on to a bunch of grass blades.
The skull is facing the direction of the bushes, and its empty eyes are looking at the bushes.
There are still strands of blood attached to its bones.
Those blood streaks have not completely dried up.
——This man died not long ago, and he must have suffered great pain when he died.
Ye Xuan guessed.
What method can strip away all flesh and blood from one person while leaving the other person's skeleton intact?
Ye Xuan looked at the pools of black mud on the ground and knew what the black mud was: it was river mud from the Black River!
Could it be that the corpse demon in the black river came out to cause trouble?
But the corpse demon itself is not very strong. It can be cut into pieces with just a few sword rays. How could it have the ability to eat away a person's flesh and blood!
Ye Xuan's mind was spinning, and he was about to send a Rakshasa to investigate the tree hole. Suddenly, a few pools of black mud scattered on the ground seemed like living creatures, spreading towards the skeleton whose flesh and blood had been wiped out, covering the bones in an instant.
The next moment, the skeleton covered with black mud stood up straight from the ground, its joints moved, and its mouth opened wide. A gust of wind spiraled upward between its neck bones, passed through the mouth, and burst out, like a snake spitting a message: "
Hiss——”
The upper body of the skeleton was covered with black mud, and there were still exposed bloodshot bones in many places, making it look particularly hideous and gloomy.
The joints of its legs flexed and then opened like springs.
His body jumped up and the next moment he fell into the bush where Ye Xuan was hiding!
There was no one behind the bushes, and the skeleton looked around with its eyes filled with black mud -
Click!
A bolt of lightning burst out from behind the tree on the side and suddenly fell on the skeleton, causing it to stagger and tremble with black mud all over its body. The wisps of evil energy were dispersed by the lightning!
The skeleton stopped and turned around in an instant, heading towards the tree.
Ye Xuan leaned out from behind the tree, with the aura behind his head spread out, his hands clasped together, and he uttered the true words: "Hum!"
Whoosh!
The Buddha's light centered on him, stretched out several feet, and enveloped the skeleton.
The black mud is like the first snow meeting boiling water. Bubbles keep popping up and making a gurgling sound. The dirty black color fades away in an instant and turns into pale!
Wow!
The black mud was purified, the demonic nature of the bones was suddenly extinguished, and they were scattered all over the ground.
The pale river mud covered the bones, and no longer had the ability to shape dead objects into demons, just like the color of the river mud refined by Ye Xuan after the mysterious power was extracted from the tree stumps.
From this pool of river mud, gray shadows gradually floated out, each with a mutilated face. As soon as they came into contact with the Buddha's light, they clung to it and turned into threads of cause and effect.
The black river is always filled with corpses and demons. After their souls are destroyed by the years, their souls are polluted by the mud and merge with it. Therefore, there will be incomplete dead souls in the river mud, which will contaminate my Buddha's light with cause and effect.
Now the question is where did those zombie demons come from?
Thousands of years have passed, and no matter how many corpse demons have accumulated in the river, it should be washed away at this time. Why does it seem that there is no change every time I go to the Black River?
No matter what, judging from the current situation, something happened in the Zhongshan realm.
Regardless of whether this change is limited to a small-scale fluctuation here, I have to make some preparations after returning.
In order to avoid being in a hurry when such a demon stained by black mud invades the territory.
Ye Xuan sent Rakshasa to explore the underground room under the tree hole, and found two corpses whose flesh and blood had been eroded, but there was no black mud around them.
He buried the three corpses together, took away more than ten flesh and blood pills from the living room, and took Fat Tiger to the monster's lair.
The message talisman did not indicate whether the beast was a bird or a beast. Ye Xuan only knew that its strength did not exceed the bone refining realm.
For a monster of this level, Ye Xuan is absolutely sure to succeed in hunting it.
One person and one beast set out early in the morning to hunt. Even if something unexpected happened in the middle, it was not nearly noon when they set foot in the territory of the monster.
Entering here, without Ye Xuan's instructions, Fat Tiger started running around, sniffing here and there, and not long after, he discovered some clues about the monster.
It looked sideways at Ye Xuan and signaled its owner to follow it.
Ye Xuan nodded in agreement.
Fat Tiger turned his head and started jogging bumpily, his four paws landing on the ground, as light as a feather. Seeing this, Ye Xuan also deliberately controlled his footsteps, following Fat Tiger, passing through the trees.
Not long after, the two stopped in front of a jungle with lush vines.
Ye Xuan took Fat Hu to find a hidden place and hid his appearance.
The vines here wind around the trees and intertwine with each other, forming a place that looks like a huge bird's nest.
If the vines were allowed to grow freely, they would never look like this. It must be 'man-made'.
The vines are densely overlapped, and the branches and leaves are entangled, forming a relatively solid 'city wall'.
The location where Ye Xuan and Fat Hu were located was between the 'Bird's Nest City Wall' and a tree. You could see what was going on in the Bird's Nest by standing on tiptoe.
In the very center of the bird's nest, you can see a lot of hay matted there, and the things inside are obscured by the hay, making it difficult to see clearly.
Monsters should be birds - could I just catch a bird monster laying eggs and hatching?
Ye Xuan felt strange in his heart and was ready to make a move.
Suddenly, a burst of croaking and whistling sounded across the sky and fell into his ears.
He quickly looked up and saw a pitch-black bird as big as an ox with a crest on its head, swooping down from the side and squatting in the hay.
The black bird has black feathers with a metallic blue glow, which looks like metal. Its beak is clearly that of a crow bird, but the crest on its head is a bit nondescript.
Is this a crow?
Crow meat is sour!
When Ye Xuan was depressed, the feather crest on the crow's head suddenly closed like a fan, and a vigorous demonic aura emitted from it like fire, covering the place.
This demonic aura is so strong that it cannot be possessed by demonic beasts below the Bone Refining Realm. Its level of tyranny is on par with Uncle Qian’s aura!
Ye Xuan's scalp went numb instantly and he wanted to run away.
But escaping rashly would definitely attract the attention of the crow, so I just hid behind the tree and observed the ‘crow’.
‘Crow’ turned his back to Ye Xuan and wiggled his butt.
After a while, Ye Xuan saw it slowly lay a hot lime-gray egg covered with spots from behind its butt.
The eggs, all the size of ostrich eggs, fell into the haystack.
Due to the obstruction of the haystack, Ye Xuan lost its trace in his field of vision.
After laying this egg, the evil spirit of the 'crow' suddenly became much weaker. It croaked for a while, fluttered its wings and flew away, but soon disappeared.