After setting Baiyun Peak as the current goal, Yin Xiu and his party began to climb up.
Even though it is already winter and the wind is blowing, walking in the forest is not very cold. On the contrary, it makes you break out in thin beads of sweat.
Yin Xiu wiped the sweat off her face and looked back, only to see Liu Banxian had broken off a branch from the roadside at some point and was climbing up step by step.
"Logically speaking, as a Feng Shui master, shouldn't you be used to going up mountains and down rivers?" Yin Xiu asked him.
Liu Banxian sighed, "That was in the past. And the current boss will complain if you ask him to get up earlier. If you really ask him to crawl into the deep mountains and dense forests, what kind of ancestors are we? We will have to sever the relationship on the spot. < br>
They only like to visit commercial buildings, financial centers, and stop and choose offices in the city. As for other things, they are too lazy to do anything else. ”
"This is a good job." Yin Xiu said.
"Okay?"
Liu Banxian shook his head, "It's not good at all. Do you think they are ladies in a nightclub? That's what they say? These people don't even believe in their mothers, let alone a Feng Shui master.
So without any real information, who would dare to deal with them? It's not a big deal if you lose your reputation, and you won't be able to deal with it if you get beaten up. ”
"Trouble!"
"Yeah, it's so troublesome!"
Liu Banxian took off his sunglasses and wiped the fog on them with his sleeves.
At this moment, a scream was heard, and a black shadow fell from the top of the tree and hit Liu Banxian's head.
Ren Qi's eyes widened, and he pressed his hand on the hilt of the sword, and a cold light flashed.
Immediately, the black shadow split into two parts in the air, and blood sprinkled all over the group's bodies and faces.
Only then did someone realize it and started shouting.
"Mandrill, it's the mandrill that's coming to rob people!" someone shouted.
Yin Xiu followed the man's gaze to the ground and saw a bloody monkey head on the ground, with blood-red eyes wide open and teeth bared.
The monkey head is about the same size as a human head. As for the other half of the body, it is a waist that is much larger than that of an ordinary ape. It is covered with golden hair and has sharp claws.
"That's right, it's a mandrill."
Hai Dongqing looked serious, "But I have never seen mandrills appearing in such a place before. This is not a deep mountain, and those beasts should not move here."
Mandrills, even experienced hunters, generally regard them as monkeys, let alone ordinary people.
However, Hai Dongqing has heard the rumors about these "big monkeys" very clearly. It is said that they are quite spiritual and live in clusters in the mountains and are rarely seen by people.
But if they are extremely hungry, then whether it is the wild beasts in the forest, the chickens, sheep, livestock in the village, or even human babies, they will become their prey.
In the small village where Hai Dongqing was born, it is said that there are children who have suffered from the vicious hands of these mandrills.
Fortunately, the hunter in the village was at home at the time, and he rescued the child from the mandrill.
But the mandrill's claws also left several terrible claw marks on the child's face.
When Hai Dongqing was a child, he had met the child who was said to have been attacked by a mandrill from a distance. The scars on the other person's face at that time made him remember it deeply.
Before he could think about it carefully, Ren Qi had already taken off his two swords, holding one on the left and one on the right in his hands. Yin Xiuye and Ma Xiaoyu were leaning shoulder to shoulder, observing the surrounding situation one after another.
Hai Dongqing immediately twitched his nose and suddenly smelled a fishy smell that he had never seen before in the forest, as if he was in a wet market where live birds were being slaughtered.
He immediately took off his hunting bow, put the arrow on the string, and looked around to be alert.
Yin Xiu glared at him, "Didn't you say that the moving creatures in the mountains have nothing to be afraid of?"
Not to be outdone, Hai Dongqing said, "If I had known that I would encounter this kind of thing as soon as I entered the mountain, I would not have come even if I paid more money."
"You better be."
Yin Xiu rolled her eyes, held a talisman in each hand, and carefully looked at the trees above her head.
Among the branches, many black shadows were passing by, blowing up strong winds, like big black fish swimming under the pool, or some kind of indescribable creature.
"Mandrills, others think they have become spirits. As long as they become enemies with them, they will never stop fighting. Now that they have seen blood, I'm afraid..."
"Isn't that just right?" Yin Xiu and Ma Xiaoyu said in unison.
"Just right?" Hai Dongqing couldn't help but be surprised.
"Of course it's just right."
Even Ren Qi agreed, "Instead of waiting for us to search for them all over the mountains and plains, it would be much easier to ask them to come to us. Now it is best for them to come with the whole family, so that they are neatly organized."
As soon as he finished speaking, there were many tiny sounds among the trees, as if mice were running across the ceiling in groups.
When the sound got closer and closer, Hai Dongqing turned his head suddenly and shot an arrow at the dense branches above his head.
The feather arrows whirled into the forest leaves with a shrill cry.
Immediately afterwards, a black shadow fell from the trees, followed by another, with a howl, like a heavy rain carrying branches and leaves falling.
The porters screamed in fright. If Yin Xiu hadn't shouted to stop them, they would have been frightened by the movement and fled in all directions. They didn't even see the mandrill clearly.
Ren Qi could see it most clearly. It was a monkey that was half as tall as a man. It had red eyes and fangs, a gaping mouth, and its four claws were like steel knives. It was full of filth and had a permeating chill.
The leading mandrill had a white mark on his face, which looked like a painting or a birthmark. It ran from his forehead to between his eyes, adding a strange aura to his already terrifying face.
As soon as it landed on the ground, before it could stand on its toes, it immediately rushed towards Ren Qi impatiently, as if it really wanted revenge.
Ren Qi stared at it. It was only when the mandrill opened its bloody mouth and the fishy wind hit his face that Ren Qi finally moved his hands.
laugh!
The white-fronted mandrill swung out a claw, and the sword in Ren Qi's hand collided, and a dazzling fire burst out.
Immediately afterwards, its muscles knotted, and its hairy claws split from the middle, spraying out blood flowers and flying pieces of meat.
Before the mandrill could feel the pain, Ren Qi extended his sword again and pierced the old monkey's throat. With a flick of his wrist, a monkey's head rose into the sky again.
Ren Qiyi succeeded in the attack, and the others were as nervous as before. After being inspired and shocked by him, they no longer had the anxiety and panic before. Instead, they squatted down with their heads in their hands, trying to cover their bodies with bags or long poles to avoid Get the mandrill's attention.
There were also a few people like Wei Dahong who took off their fire guns from their horses and hurriedly aimed at the mandrills.
Those mandrills really didn't care about the porters who were easily available. They were in groups of three and five, surrounding Ren Qi. Some feigned attacks, some shouted, and some tried to step forward to sneak attack.
However, as long as they cross the thunder pool, Ren Qi will definitely be able to chop off their heads.
After losing several mandrills in succession, these creatures understood and just jumped and screamed around him.
On the other side, while Ren Qi was attracting a few mandrills, Ma Xiaoyu and Yin Xiu attacked from the left and right, driving away the bloodthirsty mandrills and preventing them from getting closer.
It has to be said that these creatures move very quickly in the woods. As long as they want to escape or deal with them, Yin Xiu and the others can only keep a distance from them, but it is difficult to kill one or two of them. And if they really wanted to fight into the forest, it would be tantamount to abandoning the defenseless porters here and letting them be attacked by mandrills.
The two sides immediately fell into a stalemate.
However, Yin Xiu felt something strange in this strange stalemate, but he couldn't explain it for the time being.
As the number of mandrills increased, Yin Xiu finally realized what he was doing.
Those mandrills only attacked Yin Xiu and a few people, and even Liu Banxian was among their targets. However, none of the mandrills attacked Hai Dongqing. It seemed that they were all avoiding him.
However, Hai Dongqing's enthusiasm for shooting with a bow and arrow is very special. Whether it is the archery posture or the sound of the string, it makes him stand out in the crowd, like someone holding a firecracker.
But those mandrills were really avoiding him, and they didn't even have time to pass him by. It was as if some kind of restriction had been placed around Hai Dongqing to keep the mandrills away.
【not good! 】
Almost as soon as this thought appeared in Yin Xiu's mind, before he could say anything, smoke and dust filled the air under Hai Dongqing's feet.
With him as the center, the ground several meters around began to collapse, like a swamp subsidence.
Several porters were farther away from him, and when the ground began to collapse, they had already crawled away from the ground where the strange phenomenon occurred.
And Hai Dongqing was at the center of the change, and the pressure from all around suddenly pressed on him, making him almost unable to move, and his whole body was about to sink into the ground.
"What's going on?" Liu Banxian shouted.
At this moment, he could only see the black air around him, the source of which came from the gaps under Hai Dongqing's feet.
These black auras were rich and gloomy, more sinister than the most dangerous house he had ever seen, and even comparable to the zombie king he had seen before.
"There's something down there!"
Yin Xiu shouted, and together with Ma Xiaoyu threw the talisman under Hai Dongqing's feet.
As soon as the talisman paper fell under his feet, several sparks exploded. Before Hai Dongqing could react, Yin Xiu pounced on him, hugged him, and then used her feet to jump away from the gravity. vortex.
"The Dragon God gave the order, and the Fire God Zhurong borrowed his method to punish the evil!"
Ma Xiaoyu threw out several more talismans, and a formed fire dragon floated in the air and fell to the ground, and fireballs rose into the sky.
Following a moderate vibration and sound, a small earthen bag the size of a millstone protruded where Hai Dongqing had been standing.
After the soil bag bulged, it quickly swept towards the direction of Yin Xiu, digging a shocking tunnel along the way.
At the same time, the mandrills that were still confronting Ren Qi abandoned him and chased Yin Xiu.
"Master Patriarch, bless you!"
Liu Banxian shouted and was immediately pushed behind him by Ren Qi.
"My ancestor is a Taoist priest, Sanqing Tianzun. Who is your ancestor? I don't seem to have heard you mention it?" Ren Qi asked.
Liu Banxian shook his head repeatedly, "I said it casually."
"I can see it!"
Ren Qi glanced at him sideways and turned the sword in his hand. A mandrill immediately hit the sword and died on the spot.
However, their current opponents are not these monkeys, but the monsters hiding underground.
Ma Xiaoyu's spell could not stop the monster under the ground from advancing. It was approaching Yin Xiu at an extremely fast speed.
"Can you leave by yourself?" Yin Xiu looked at Hai Dongqing in her arms.
Hai Dongqing immediately blushed, "I told you a long time ago to let me down. I'll shoot them to death with one arrow!"
"How brave!"
Yin Xiu let go and gently pushed Hai Dongqing's lower back. Before Hai Dongqing could react, he floated gently to the branch like a fallen leaf.
Without any obstacles, Yin Xiu turned around, opened her mouth and swallowed a mouthful of cold wind, her eyes filled with desire.
"Five ghosts bring wealth!"
As the smoke condensed and dissipated in Yin Xiu's hand, he held the famous sword Chaofeng in his hand.
After unscrewing the weight at the bottom of the sword hilt and stuffing a tube of talisman paper into it, the Wind-Mocking Sword was immediately covered with frost, and snowflakes visible to the naked eye condensed and fell on the tip of the sword.
As he rounded his sword and waved it in the air, several mandrills approaching him immediately screamed, and frostbite appeared on their bodies.
The one closest to him was torn apart by the pressure of the sword and the cold wind. Even the blood condensed in an instant, leaving only a black and blue fracture.
After forcing away the many mandrills, Yin Xiu faced the unknown object lurking underground and stood still with both feet.
When Ren Qi saw this, he immediately stepped down and chased the star and chased the moon. He formed a pincer attack with Yin Xiu and attacked the soil bag together.
The two swords stabbed down together, the sword pressure thrust with sharpness, and then a violent explosion was heard, and the fire lit up.
The dirt bag was attacked by the two men and burst open in the middle. White air rose into the sky like a fountain, knocking Yin Xiu and Ren Qi back.
Immediately afterwards, Yin Xiu heard everyone's exclamations one after another.
He looked up and saw that a large hole had been opened between the forest leaves where the sky was almost invisible, and the surrounding sunlight shone in.
However, the sunlight was blocked by another terrifying object.
It should be a red pillar, like a mountain rock, or a towering red giant tree.
Just because its surface is neither smooth nor rough, more like something tightly pieced together.
However, it is also very huge. Just the part that is exposed above the ground is already covering the sky and the sun. It is five or six stories high, and it is still rising upwards.
At a glance, Yin Xiu felt that at least five or six big men would have to reach out to hug it.
However, this is only the part that is exposed on the ground. There seems to be a large part hidden under the ground.
The coquettish red color with soaring black energy almost scared the courage of the porters and made them distracted when they appeared.
Even Hai Dongqing couldn't help but turn pale, and there were beads of sweat on his palms.
"What on earth is it?"
"Big Red Snake..."
Yin Xiu thought of the legends and information she had heard from the little white fox before.
It turns out that there really is such a monster in the mountains of Changbai. (End of chapter)