Chapter 189 Golden Thread Cicada
The black needle-winged bird was extremely fast and flew to the edge of the cliff in the blink of an eye, leaving no time for Su Ziyi to hide.
Immediately, he stood there like a motionless clay doll, not daring to move. Fortunately, the black pinwings were in a hurry to return to their nests and did not notice an extra piece of human-like mud on the top of the cliff. They hurried past and plunged into their nests on the cliff.
It was also at this time that Su Ziyi discovered a black needle-winged bird's nest hanging on the side of the highest and steepest cliff here.
The bird's nest is huge. In order to support the huge body of the black needle-winged bird, more than half of it is embedded in the cliff, just like a cave. Only a small part is made of black mud and branches. It is just right. It can allow an adult black-winged bird to come in and out, which is quite safe and warm.
But Su Ziyi complained a lot because the nest was facing his direction.
This pair of black pinwings had several cubs, so as soon as they approached, there was a "babble" sound inside the nest, and the more courageous cubs directly stuck their heads out, and a pair of The eyes are like black pearls, and they are excited about the food that is about to fall into their stomachs.
This pair of adult black pinwings did not return directly to the nest. Instead, they dropped the food in their talons and hovered outside the nest with two powerful wings. They stretched out their long and pointed beaks to help return food. The ungrown cubs tore the body of the monster apart, and only after the cubs were full did they poke their heads in and eat the remaining parts.
By the time they were all satisfied, the stars had climbed into the night sky.
Although the mud on his body perfectly concealed his aura, such a close distance really made Su Ziyi dare not move rashly. Even if the muscles on his body were crying out with pain, he could not even think of rubbing them. He still stood there in that posture until the moon was dim, his whole body was stiff, and morning dew fell all over him.
The moment the sun peaked above the horizon, Su Ziyi could no longer feel the presence of his body.
It wasn't until he was in a trance and heard the chirping of the chicks that woke up in the nest that he felt a glimmer of hope in his heart.
Monsters of level four and above do not need to eat every day, but cubs are different. They have a small appetite, and because of their large growth needs, adult monsters have to go out to hunt every day to fill their stomachs. So, when the two adult black-winged birds whistled loudly and fluttered their wings to leave the nest, Su Ziyi felt like tears were about to fall.
After the black needle-winged bird was out of sight, Su Ziyi immediately shook his body as if having a convulsion, grinning and loosening the muscles that had become hardened into one piece. In order not to waste time, Su Ziyi rubbed his muscles while jumping towards the cliff with blue grass, looking like a lame rabbit.
However, by the time he finally reached the edge of the cliff, most of the soreness and hardness in his body had disappeared, and his body was finally able to stand firmly. But when he stood on the edge, he realized that he had thought of the situation here a little too simply.
The Creator's method was so miraculous that he cut the majestic mountain peaks with a single cut. The cut was fast, accurate, and ruthless. The section was smooth and straight. At a glance, it was hundreds of feet high. It made people feel slightly dizzy just looking at it. The blue grass that Su Ziyi needed grew in small gaps in the cliff. The slender green grass stems swayed in the wind and were so weak that they seemed to break at any time.
But Su Ziyi was extremely happy when he saw this scene.
In addition to its requirements on the growing environment, bluegrass itself is not a very precious spiritual grass. Just because it is a natural neutralizing agent that can be used in many elixirs, many years ago, the cultivators on Qingze continent were crazy about picking blue grass, not even the seedlings, and waited until the cultivators By the time we realized the bluegrass population was dwindling, it was too late.
According to Su Ziyi's understanding, there are only some forces with strong backgrounds and some blue grass surviving, but the number is not very large.
Therefore, when he looked down, he saw at least ten fingers of blue grass rooting on the cliff, and all of them had entered the mature stage. This really made it difficult for him to suppress his excitement.
From this, after collecting himself, Su Ziyi began to figure out how to pick these blue grasses.
If he had established the foundation at this time, he could control the sword and fly, but he was still only a monk in the Qi refining stage, so he could only use ordinary people's methods to solve this problem.
He first went to pick the blue grass that he saw for the first time yesterday. Because the blue grass grew on the protruding rocks of the cliff, it was quite easy to stay, so he picked it up without any effort. The other party has it in his pocket. Then, he took out the green horn knife that he had not used for a long time from his storage bag, held the handle behind his left hand, and used the rock as a starting point to aim at the blue grass closest to him and jump!
As soon as my feet stepped on the cliff, I felt a little sprained, and it made me fall uncontrollably. But Su Ziyi immediately adjusted his body shape, accelerated his speed and rushed forward, overcoming the infection caused by gravity at an extremely fast speed, and stretched out his free right hand when he passed the target blue grass. He quickly plucked the opponent and then continued to rush towards the next blue grass.
In less than half a cup of tea, he had collected half of the blue grass using this method.
But at this time, his momentum could no longer support him, and his whole body began to fall uncontrollably, and he couldn't even put his feet on the ground. Seeing this, Su Ziyi directly wrapped the green horn knife in his left hand with his spiritual power and thrust it hard into the cliff. At the same time, he stepped on the cliff with his feet slightly bent, and successfully stabilized himself as his fall accelerated. The figure is hanging on the cliff.
After hanging here, Su Ziyi took out another dagger from the storage bag, but this one was only made of ordinary iron. But when Su Ziyi wrapped the spiritual power in it, it had the ability to easily insert into the cliff, allowing Su Ziyi to use two weapons as mountaineering picks to move closer to other blue grasses little by little.
This method is time-consuming and labor-intensive, but it is not a problem for Su Ziyi.
First, because he has reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining now, and ordinary physical work will not cause any loss to him; second, the pair of black needle-winged birds just left not long ago, leaving him with relatively sufficient time. So he hurriedly hurriedly and slowly picked up all the blue grass roots and leaves before the sun rose over the mountain, and successfully climbed back to the top of the cliff.
As soon as he returned to the cliff, he slumped down and tried to take a breath. Unexpectedly, just as he was holding his body back with his hands and looking up at the sky, he just caught a glimpse of a crow out of the corner of his eye. On the needle-winged bird's nest.
But at this moment, two small heads were placed on the top of the black and yellow nest, looking at Su Ziyi with malicious eyes.
Su Ziyi immediately realized that they were the young of the pair of adult black needle-winged birds.
The two black-winged birds did go hunting, but the two little ones still stayed here, and because of the noise he just made, it was inevitable that these two little guys would discover his existence. Although they were small, it was obvious that Su Ziyi was not of the same species as them, so the looks they looked over would not be very friendly.
Su Ziyi's movement was noticed by the other two. They immediately couldn't stand still and started chirping rapidly. They waved their still fragile wings and tried to climb over the nest to chase Su Ziyi. But because the nest was too high, they spent a long time and only managed to get their heads out. They even rolled back because of lack of coordination in their hands and feet.
This made Su Ziyi burst into laughter. He naturally knew that such cubs did not pose any threat to him, and even if they really turned over, their strength, which was only a third-level monster, could not do anything to him, so he was quite Don't worry, continue to sit there and catch your breath.
After a long effort, the two cubs finally realized that they could not climb over the nest, which made their young minds extremely confused. After looking at each other, I remembered how my parents looked when they left every day, as if they were waving the wings on their backs? After thinking about it, they also began to tentatively move their wings that were not yet fully fledged.
At first, this feeling was unfamiliar, but as they waved more often, the inheritance hidden in their blood inspired their love for flying. Their little eyes were full of excitement, and their wings flapped faster and faster. Quickly, a small gust of wind was brought up and all the small branches in the nest were lifted up. In the end, they even seemed to be lifting off the ground!
This moment gave the two cubs hope. They exchanged glances and flapped their wings faster.
But after all, they were young and their bodies hadn't grown yet, so the moment their heels finally left the ground, their wings suddenly cramped and they fell uncontrollably, making them squeak in pain.
Su Ziyi, who noticed all this with his spiritual consciousness, only found it funny.
After resting enough, Su Ziyi ran on the spot, using the height of the cliff to rush up. After a while, he arrived at the edge of the nest, and stabilized himself with the dagger in his hand, with a smile on his face. Looking at the two cubs that fell into a ball in the nest. As soon as he appeared, the two cubs noticed him immediately and immediately screamed louder in anger.
They turned over awkwardly and barked at Su Ziyi for a long time. They found that this did nothing but make Su Ziyi laugh more happily. They immediately pecked the nest with their long beaks in anger, intending to Find something small to throw at Su Ziyi.
Su Ziyi was just watching the fun and had no intention of killing these two little things, because he was worried that if he touched them, the two adult black needle-winged birds would not let go and cause a commotion. Even if he left the place by then, One piece will also be affected. Therefore, he was just watching from the side. He had not come into contact with the monster cubs yet.
When the two cubs touched a small hard object with their beaks, they immediately picked it up, regardless of what it was, and threw the object away with a flick of their heads. He was not very strong, but because of the short distance between the two parties, he still hit Su Ziyi easily. But how could Su Ziyi be hit like this? He stopped the thing as soon as he stretched out his hand, and subconsciously lowered his head to look at the thing in his hand. As a result, He was stunned as if he didn't expect it at all.
He really didn't expect that the thing casually thrown away by the black needle-winged bird baby was actually another ingredient of the Foundation Establishment Pill - the Golden Thread Singing Cicada!
You know, he had already resigned himself to this spirit insect, but he didn't expect to receive an unexpected surprise here!
The golden-threaded cicada is not big, only about the size of a large fingernail, so the young black needle-winged bird can easily throw it over. It looked exactly like what Su Ziyi saw in the illustrated book. It was slightly yellow in appearance and looked just like an ordinary cicada, except that it was a little smaller and had a bright golden line on its back.
But it is this golden thread that determines that it has a very different status from ordinary cicadas!
When the chicks of the black needle-winged birds saw Su Ziyi reaching out to catch the things they threw, they thought they had hit Su Ziyi, so they immediately became happy and threw things faster and faster. After Su Ziyi found out the identity of the thing in his hand, he quickly tightened his mind and looked towards the nest with excitement, waiting for the two cubs to throw out more golden cicadas.
In this way, the two of them threw and caught each other, and in a short period of time, Su Ziyi had about twenty golden-threaded cicadas and some other useless sundries in his hands. But this is enough to satisfy Su Ziyi. You know, as long as the alchemy skills are passed, these twenty or so golden thread cicadas can produce at least ten foundation-building pills!
Therefore, when he saw that the two cubs could no longer throw anything valuable and just threw some small branches at him angrily, he left without any attachment.
However, his departure does not mean that he is leaving this area.
He just found a relatively secluded place, reactivated some silt, replaced the dried silt on his body to prevent his breath from being exposed, and had a hearty meal, where he could observe the Black Needlewing's nest. Stopped at the hole.
The reason for doing this was that he believed that since there were so many golden-threaded cicadas in the nest of the black needle-winged bird, the two adult black needle-winged birds must often appear in each other's growth area. So he could follow this clue and follow the black needle-winged bird to investigate.
Of course, he also knew that this behavior was very dangerous, but he also knew that he could not always count on luck.
He didn't know how many Foundation Establishment Pills he needed to build his foundation, but he knew that just the little golden thread Singing Cicada in his hand was not enough for their family, so he had to take risks. And there is only one chance for this adventure. If he is lucky enough to find a place behind the Black Needle-Winged Bird, then everyone will be happy. If not, then he will not have time to return to this mountain range and try it again.
So, this time, he took the gamble.
Chapter 190 The snipe and the clam fight
As soon as the two Great Black Pinwings returned, they noticed something was wrong in the nest.
They made a low "yeah" sound, and the two cubs who were so angry with Su Ziyi immediately responded with "chirp", their calls were childish and rapid, even if Su Ziyi couldn't understand their language, he could still hear it. These two cubs are complaining.
Sure enough, in the next second, the two big black needle-winged birds threw the prey into the nest, flapped their wings and flew, hovering high in the sky, making a high-pitched chirping sound. The cry contained pressure, which made Su Ziyi, who was relatively close, a little uncomfortable. However, in order to avoid being discovered, he still endured the pressure of this pressure motionlessly.
And this coercion also caused riots throughout the forest. The monster beasts, who always had a strong sense of territory, felt that they had been offended, and they all let out one after another roars in their own territories, which made the whole forest tremble, and the aura mixed in them was chaotic, making Wu Zhen even more confused. The wingbirds had trouble identifying the intruders the youngsters were talking about.
Therefore, in the end, they can only return in despair and return to their nest.
After all, they are not the most powerful beings in this mountain range. If they offend higher-level monsters, they may get bad consequences.
As a result, the riot originally caused by Su Ziyi ended hastily.
Su Ziyi also breathed a deep sigh of relief after seeing the two black needle-winged birds returning to their nests and not intending to investigate further. The forest at night was quiet and boring, and because he was worried about disturbing the black needle-winged bird not far away, Su Ziyi did not dare to eat or practice. He could only sit there and wait for the arrival of tomorrow.
Early the next morning, when the sun rose to the same position as yesterday, the Black Pinwing set off again.
However, this time there was only one black needle-winged bird that went hunting. The remaining one was extremely vigilant and guarded near the nest, waiting for the intruder from yesterday to appear again.
It flew at low altitude within its own territory, scanning every inch of the land below with sharp eyes, trying to find out all the incongruous places inside. Seeing this, Su Ziyi, who was hiding in the shade of the tree, curled up. At the same time, he saw another black needle-winged bird that had turned into a small dot on the horizon, and felt anxious in his heart.
If this continues, he won't be able to catch up with the opponent at all.
But for the sake of his life, Su Ziyi had to suppress this anxiety in his heart. And when the black needle-winged bird disappeared completely, Su Ziyi felt at ease. He stopped doing other things and just sat there peacefully to avoid being discovered by the black needle-winged bird in the sky. Wait until the other party When you are far away, secretly grab something small from the storage bag and swallow it in one gulp to fill your stomach.
However, this time the frightened Black Needle-winged Bird continued this patrol operation for three days.
Su Ziyi also sat under the same tree for three days.
At this time, his state of mind was calm, without any anxiety or irritability, as if nothing could disturb him. The black-winged birds had no choice but to give up their plan to continue patrolling, and left the nest together on the morning of the fourth day after failing to catch any intruders for three consecutive days and failing to catch enough every day.
Su Ziyi also stood up immediately.
He put the two essences of the Five Elements tightly wrapped in the mud into his storage bag, gathered up his spiritual energy and followed them. Although the steep cliff was in front of him, he did not hesitate at all. He inserted the green horn knife and the iron dagger into the cliff wall and climbed down like yesterday, but at a faster speed.
When he finally reached the bottom of the cliff, the two black needle-winged birds were only the size of fists in his field of vision, which gave Su Ziyi the courage to pursue them. So without any hesitation, he wrapped his feet in spiritual power and rushed forward.
The road along this road is not very easy to walk, but because of his spiritual sense to explore the road, Su Ziyi can always find the best and closest one, so after a long time, he did not lose sight of the two black needle-winged birds. , far behind. And he chased for nearly an hour. At this time, his place was already a hundred miles away from the cliff. Fortunately, the two black needle-winged birds did not sprint away, otherwise he would have been killed long ago. Lost it.
This area is obviously a hunting ground frequented by these two black needle-winged birds. Once they arrived here, they chose their targets with great accuracy. It's just that they have been hunting too fiercely recently. Those low-level monsters are all extremely vigilant. They hide immediately when they see their shadows in the sky, and some even run directly into the territory of other high-level monsters. The Black Needlewing, which had poor combat ability in the forest, felt helpless for a moment.
Su Ziyi took advantage of this to close the distance and get closer.
Originally, in Su Ziyi's imagination, the place where the golden-threaded cicada could appear would be a mountainous area with hard soil, but he did not expect that it would be a plain area with abundant water and lush grass. There are green trees and grass all over the place, and large and small lakes and puddles are like pieces of glass scattered among them, which looks extremely magnificent.
The number of monsters here is also quite large. As soon as Su Ziyi spread out his consciousness, he discovered two or three groups of low-level monsters, far exceeding the number he had ever encountered in the Fallen Immortal Forest. At the same time, along with so many monsters, the number of spiritual grasses and spiritual plants in the forest also increased greatly. Su Ziyi couldn't help but swallow his saliva when he saw this, and decided to practice here after solving the matter of the Golden Thread Cicada. .
Over there, after circling for a long time, the black-winged birds finally found prey that they could attack.
What they were looking for was a demonic beast with black scales all over its body. It looked somewhat similar to the harpoon armor that Su Ziyi had encountered in the middle layer of the Meteor Fairy Forest before, but it was larger and its scales had a metallic sheen. Under the sunlight, some golden light is faintly reflected. This kind of monster is called the gold-loving beast, and it belongs to the same family as the Fengsu Jia, but it is different in habits and abilities.
But if forced to choose, the Black Needlewing will be more inclined to eat the Harbinger Armor instead of eating the Gold Devouring Beast.
Because the outer scales of the Gold Devouring Beast are too hard! Even if they are fourth-level monsters, it will take a lot of effort to defeat them. But it is undeniable that although gold-devouring beasts are difficult to catch and taste bad, they are of great benefit to practice, so in order to improve their abilities, they will try their best to catch gold-devouring beasts. But the number of gold-devouring beasts is too small, even if they want to fight, it will be difficult.
Therefore, they are really lucky to meet two gold-devouring beasts in this area today, one of which is pregnant.
The war is about to break out.
As a third-level peak monster that feeds on metal, the Gold Devouring Beast does not usually appear in this area. It was just because one of the pair of gold-devouring beasts was about to give birth and needed more spiritual energy that they had to come here. But they didn't expect that as soon as they emerged from the soil, two pressures stronger than them came down from the air, which immediately aroused their anger.
"Chichi——"
The larger one immediately blocked the big-bellied gold-devouring beast from behind. It lowered its front half and made a threatening sound of "chichi" in its mouth. Its two small eyes flashed. They stared at the black needle-winged birds rushing towards them, and the scales on their bodies stood up with a "clatter", looking completely prepared.
Although the black needle-winged bird was wary of the gold-eating beast's defense, it did not look back. When they flew less than 30 feet away from each other, the feathers on their bodies suddenly became hard, and then some of the tiny fluff in each feather "snapped" away from the feather handle, like extremely tiny strands. Like a black needle, it shot toward the gold-devouring beast with a force that splashed the sky.
Suddenly, the down and the scales came into contact, making a continuous "nailing" sound, like the rain on a spring night.
Although the scales of the gold-eating beast are powerful, the down of the black needle-winged bird is not vegetarian. After a wave passed, dots of white marks were left on the scales of the gold-devouring beasts, proving that their attacks had a certain effect. So, just as the first wave of downy needle rain ended, the black needle-winged bird flapped its wings, and another wave of attacks came.
In an instant, everything from the gold-devouring beast to the black needle-winged bird was filled with increasingly fierce black drizzle.
When the black drizzle stopped, it was already a stick of incense later. As soon as they stopped, the auras of both of them shrank at an extremely fast speed, and their physical condition didn't look very good either. All the scales on the gold-devouring beast have become pitted, and quite a few of them have been broken off and mutilated.
As for the black-winged birds, their miserable condition is not too alarming. The shooting of so many rounds of down has caused a lot of feathers on their bodies to be missing, and they look like chickens that have been scalded with boiling water.
However, up to now, there is still a fight between them.
However, the Black Needle-Winged Bird is a fourth-level monster, and its condition is obviously much better than that of the gold-loving beast. After jumping down from mid-air, he immediately retracted his wings and stretched out his claws, revealing his pointed claws to grab the back of the gold-loving beast that was already on the verge of being broken. The gold-loving beast also realized that something was wrong and immediately wanted to escape, but it was so fast. Can you beat the Black Needlewing? In just two breaths, the broken scales and soft flesh on the back were scratched directly by the black needle-winged bird!
But at this moment, a sudden change occurred!
No one could see it clearly, only a black figure sprang out from the nearby forest. It was as fast as lightning, and it swept away the black needle-winged bird that was holding the gold-loving beast, including the bird and the beast at once. , quickly circled in front and then went back into the forest. The next second, two short screams came from the forest, followed by a strong smell of blood and the sound of "crunching" chewing hard objects.
Such a sound will inevitably make people shudder.
What is even more frightening is that at the moment when the black needle-winged bird and the gold-loving beast died, the other monsters present came back to their senses and looked in the direction in which the other side disappeared with great fear. The black needle-winged bird that was lagging behind planned to escape without even thinking about it, but because it flapped its wings and made a sound, it immediately disturbed the unknown killer again, and the "crunching" chewing sound stopped. , turned into a gust of wind again and chased out, catching the black needle-winged bird in the blink of an eye, and tightly imprisoned the black needle-winged bird in mid-air like a kite string.
It was also at this time that the true face of this unknown killer was truly revealed.
This is a weird-looking monster with no arms or legs, but it doesn't look like an ordinary snake. It has a right-angled triangle-like head, and a row of fine serrated hard shells on its back. It looks like It's like a saw. Despite its funny appearance, it is a real sixth-order monster - Wan Lun Eel, a strange monster that specializes in eating spiritual things. Whether it is spiritual minerals, spiritual plants or monsters, as long as it is rich Everything containing spiritual power is their food.
According to rumors, the Wanlun Eel is the only one among many monsters that has the ability to evolve from low-level to high-level, and can even reach the legendary tenth-level monster. However, their promotion requires a large amount of spiritual supplies. As a result, many years ago, when they appeared, they were beaten and killed by cultivators, and they had no chance to advance to high levels.
Until two thousand years ago, an alchemist named Tuo Manzi discovered that the flesh and blood of Wanlun Eel, after being properly processed, could help practitioners remove some old and hidden wounds in the body. Refined into a pill, it can suppress the inner demons of cultivators when they are promoted, increasing the chance of promotion by at least half!
When this news came out, it immediately caused a sensation in the entire Qingze Continent, and the cultivators' pursuit of Wanlun Eel became even more enthusiastic.
Then, the number of eels became less and less, and now, it seems as if they have almost disappeared.
And this Ten Thousand Wheel Eel undoubtedly dragged the blessings of the swamp realm, so it can grow up to this point safely. But this blessing could no longer be maintained. Just when it stabbed the black needle-winged bird through with its saw teeth and planned to eat the opponent's body, there was a whistling sound in the forest behind it. Voice.
The next moment, at least a dozen foundation-building cultivators appeared in mid-air with swords, forming a powerful force and rushing over.
As soon as this power appeared, Wanlun Eel immediately threw away the black needle-winged bird that it had just taken a bite of, and prepared to escape.
The other gold-loving beast that was lucky enough to survive was extremely clever and hid in the soil as early as possible, desperately escaping back through the mud hole where they came from. Fortunately, the group of cultivators behind were all focused on Wan Lun Eel and did not care about it, a third-level little monster. Without even looking at it, they flew directly through the mid-air here and chased after Wan Lun Eel who had already escaped. wheel eel, so it successfully escaped.
The impact of these dozen foundations also affected Su Ziyi, who was still a little further away.
The moment the Wanlun Eel appeared, Su Ziyi sensed a huge threat, which made him freeze on the spot. The appearance of the group of cultivators behind made him even more secretive. He stayed still for a long time like a puppet. It was not until those two breaths that were quite dangerous to him disappeared that he slowly moved in that direction. Keep walking.