Summer nights in the Hengduan Mountains are always refreshing. The "whooshing" mountain wind blows across the continuous ridges, shaking the big trees and grass among them, making a unique "rustling" sound.
Li Xuangang has been staying in place for several days. Every once in a while, he returns to the temporary cave to take a rest, and then returns to the original place to continue observing.
In the past few days, there was no movement in that cave, and even Li Xuangang couldn't detect the breath of the third-order black forest python inside.
If he hadn't accidentally seen the black python sticking its head out of the cave's entrance, he would have thought that the black python had left during the period of his absence.
When Li Xuangang saw the black python sticking out its head at the entrance of the cave, he thought it was finally leaving the cave temporarily, but he didn't expect the black python to just stick its head out.
After spitting out the snake letter and briefly detecting the surrounding aura, he immediately retracted it.
This move made Li Xuangang a little confused.
However, not long after the Black Forest Python behaved like this, Li Xuangang was surprised to find that not only could he not feel the breath of the Black Forest Python, he could not even feel the breath of the third-order spiritual plant.
This made Li Xuangang panic for a moment. His first reaction was that the black python had already left with the third-level spiritual plant.
But when he was blown by the breeze and his head came to his senses again, he knew that this possibility was extremely slim.
If a third-level spiritual plant is not transplanted by an experienced spiritual planter, it is impossible to move its position at all. Obviously, this black forest python cannot have the ability to transplant spiritual objects.
Li Xuangang thought for a few times, and the most likely guess was that the black python used some unknown method to cover up his aura and that of the third-level spiritual plant.
Before, it explored the entrance of the cave and then used the snake letter to sense the surrounding aura. It is very likely that it was verifying whether its method worked and whether there was really no aura before leaking out.
The more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed, and Li Xuangang began to wonder what kind of method this black forest python used to cover up the aura of the third-level spiritual plant so perfectly.
Did he know that this spiritual plant had just entered the third level some time ago, which was when the spiritual energy around the body was at its most unstable, and it was not easy to completely suppress this unstable spiritual energy fluctuation.
The only way he knew was to build the mountain guard formation on Taiqiu Mountain. That formation could perfectly cover the aura of the green plum tree on the top of the mountain, preventing it from leaking at all.
But at the same time, Li Xuangang also knew that it was because there was an entire third-order low-grade spiritual vein on Taiqiu Mountain, and this cave obviously did not have such conditions.
In his perception, the concentration of spiritual energy emanating from this cave was only at the middle level of the first level at most, and it was impossible to support the operation of an array like the Taiqiu Mountain Guarding Array.
In the end, Li Xuangang no longer struggled with why this black forest python could perfectly suppress the auras of himself and the third-order spiritual plant. He only needed to make sure that the other party was still in the cave, and that the third-order spiritual plant inside had not been affected by it.
Just leave.
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Ever since Li Xuangang discovered that he couldn't sense the aura of this black python, he didn't dare to be careless anymore.
Therefore, he did not return to the temporary cave to rest, but stayed in place day and night, quietly observing the situation of the cave.
Finally, after a few more days, Li Xuangang waited until the black python came out of the cave again, and this time it not only poked out the python's head, but the entire snake body came out of the cave.
The snake's body, which was more than ten feet long, slowly passed through the entrance of the cave. The black scales on it were constantly rubbing against the gravel on the ground, making a "swishing" sound.
Li Xuangang waited for several days and finally waited for the black python to come out again, so naturally he would not miss this good opportunity to observe.
While suppressing his breath to the lowest level, he secretly stared at the black forest python coming out of the hole.
According to Li Xuangang's observation, the black python did not move far after leaving the cave, but instead wrapped itself around a huge ancient tree nearby.
The quiet moonlight shone down and reflected on the dark scales of the black forest python, making it look a little cold.
Seeing this, Li Xuangang moved his position slightly, so that he could better hide his figure and find a better observation angle.
The huge black forest python coiled its body around the tall ancient tree and stretched its head out from the top of the tree.
There was a black vertical pupil in its faint yellow eyes, and it looked quietly at the full moon in the sky. The snake's body was moving slowly to maintain its balance on the tree.
This black forest python was just bathing in the moonlight, maintaining this posture for several quarters of an hour.
Li Xuangang, who was observing it from the side, did not dare to relax. He knew that this black python must have a reason for doing what it did. As the saying goes, if something goes wrong, there must be a monster.
While Li Xuangang waited patiently, the black python coiled on the ancient tree suddenly opened its upper and lower jaws to the maximum extent. And the body from the snake's neck down began to squirm continuously, as if it wanted to vomit something.
come out.
Li Xuangang finally observed the information he wanted to see, so during the next period of time, he did not even dare to blink, and tried his best to directly reflect the picture he saw with his eyes in his mind.
The black forest python regurgitated the cud for a while, and finally something slowly began to appear in its mouth: it was a white bone.
Frowning slightly, Li Xuangang continued to watch calmly. He didn't feel too deeply about this slightly terrifying scene. He also roughly guessed who the white bones were. If nothing unexpected, it was the person who had been killed by Heisen before.
The python swallowed the foundation-building monk.
Although he had previously determined that the other party was probably in serious danger after being swallowed by the Black Forest Python, but now he actually saw the other party's skeleton, he could not help but feel a little emotional.
But at the same time, Li Xuangang was a little surprised. The skeleton of this foundation-building monk was so powerful that even the gastric juices of the Black Forest Python couldn't corrode it.
When most of the skeleton gradually emerged from the Black Forest Python's mouth, Li Xuangang finally knew the reason why his skeleton had not been corroded.
It turns out that it’s not that the bones of the foundation-building monk are so special, but that his bones are wrapped in a layer of soft armor with many spikes. The spikes embedded in the soft armor are nearly two or three inches long, and each
One of them shone with silver light in Li Xuangang's sight.
Although most of the spikes were corroded and rusted by the gastric juice of the Black Forest Python, Li Xuangang was sure that this piece of soft armor must have been a second-level magic weapon, otherwise it would not have been able to withstand the gastric juice of the Black Forest Python.
corrosion.
Seeing this scene, Li Xuangang probably guessed what happened to the foundation-building monk after he was swallowed by the black python.
When the foundation-building monk was swallowed by the black forest python, Li Xuangang was very sure that he had no spiritual energy left in him and was at the end of his rope. The internal muscles of the black forest python were strong and would definitely attack the foundation-building monk who was swallowed.
The monk squeezed it so that it could not move.
Therefore, under the influence of these two factors, Li Xuangang believed that it was impossible for the foundation-building monk to launch an attack in the belly of the Black Forest Python. In the same way, it was impossible for him to take out such a soft item from the storage bag.
The ability to put on armor.
According to Li Xuangang's conjecture, this foundation-building monk probably had this piece of software on his body before he was swallowed by the Black Forest Python.
After he finished thinking about this, the black forest python finally spit out the bones left by the foundation-building monk, but the spikes on it still caused a lot of trouble for it.
At least within Li Xuangang's line of sight, he could see blood flowing out of the corner of the mouth of the black python. It was obvious that it was scratched by the spikes on the soft armor when it spit out the skeleton.
When the skeleton fell to the ground from the mouth of the Black Forest Python, a large pool of dark brown blood gushed out from the Black Forest Python's mouth. It seemed that the spiky soft armor on the skeleton had tortured it.
Been there for a while.
Li Xuangang silently wrote down these details, maybe these details will be of some use to the family's subsequent actions.
After completely spitting out the foreign matter inside itself, the Black Forest python spit out the snake letter, and a trace of human ease appeared in its eyes. But then when he saw the skeleton that fell to the ground, the look in its eyes
The relief turned into irritation.
I saw it quickly descending from the ancient tree, then using the tip of its tail to pick up the skeleton of the foundation-building monk, and deftly peeling off the soft armor on his body.
Then, it directly used its body to smash the remaining bones that were not protected by soft armor, and felt relieved. The black forest python used its tail to pick up the discarded soft armor, twisted its body and slowly came back.
Arriving at the cave.
Only Li Xuangang was left at the scene, still peeping from a distance.