Chapter 1166: Snakes Get in the Way
The two mountains of Iron Head and Shovel Head are not high, a bit like the Stygian Mountain near the Stygian Lake, but it is a little more angry than the Stygian Mountain, at least you can still see a little green here, unlike the Stygian Mountain, which has no grass.
I am accustomed to seeing the mountains and mountains in the south of the Yangtze River, and the mountains in the north of the Yangtze River can also enter the eyes of You Yong, a group of natives of Jiangnan.
As for the mountains in front of you, it is more appropriate to call them stone piles than mountains! However, this place is more famous, and in the mouths of some rangers or charlatans, this is the place of death, and as long as you come here, you should avoid it from afar! As long as you are not in a hurry, you would rather spend a few more days of effort and take a detour!
It's a pity that the Xuan army didn't have a choice, for the whole battle situation, they had to arrive in Yuezhou as soon as possible, so they had to cross this terrifying snake valley.
The pioneer camp stopped in front of the valley, and before they had entered, they had already seen the sight of snakes on the side of the road. If it were a few more days at night, when the first snow fell in Jiangbei, those snakes would go into hibernation, and then they would not be afraid of them!
But Xuanjun didn't have that time, and it just so happened that these snakes also wanted to stock up on some food before hibernation, so now it became the time for the snakes to dance around before winter!
The army smeared the spicy nose water made of the spicy nose grass mixed with water that had been made by the women who had worked all night in the original realm, and even on the horse's legs, and in their hands they also held some liquid in small jars, which smelled very bad, about two hundred jars, and had to be sprinkled on the ground after entering.
When they were ready, Guan Yuanguang gave the order to set off, and the pioneer battalion began to enter the Snake Valley! Xuan Bao followed by him, just in case!
I have explained in advance, the snake is timid, the bigger the movement, the better, this is the truth of the grass and the snake, but it is not very sensitive to sound, and what it can perceive best is the vibration of the ground.
Therefore, Guan Yuanguang let the army dismount and march, increasing the ground vibration, and the entire pioneer battalion walked more funny, all of them walked forward with steps, making the entire valley echo loudly!
The valley is actually quite quiet, and occasionally one or two squirrels jump by, startling everyone. I thought that there were only poisonous snakes and nothing else in this snake valley, but I didn't think that there were many animals, and there were even monkeys on the mountain, but there were more snakes, so I called it this name.
has been moving forward, the line is very long, more than 70,000 people, even if the pioneer battalion in front has already left the valley, the rear of the palace tail troops have not yet entered!
As the pioneer battalion walked, he poured down the jar in his hand, and the pungent smell of liquid in it was sprinkled on both sides of the line, and the people in front walked by, and the person behind continued to sprinkle on the ground after his jar had dried, and so on.
In fact, last night, Xuan Bao also thought of a better way to protect the army forward, that is, to release those divine beasts and let them guard the army on both sides, and no snake would dare to come out!
It's a pity that the divine beasts can't be found now, they have just finished fighting a battle in the inner wilderness, and now they are all facing evolution, so they have been on Baiyun Mountain these days, just like the four polar beasts of the year, they will not come back until they finish evolving.
It's just that the four polar beasts recognized the lord back then, but this time it was the cultivation of the beast pill that improved, and the delay was a little longer, so Xuanbao didn't want to disturb them!
The army was neither slow nor fast, after all, it was going to be as fast as it wanted to go! The snake didn't see much, but the two mountains were full of chickens and dogs, and they seemed very lively.
The sudden appearance of such a group of living people in the valley that had always been calm, even if they did not take the initiative to make a disturbance, it was enough to arouse the interest of the aborigines here.
Before it was time to get out of the valley, the small jars in the hands of the pioneer camp were already empty. However, the distance ahead is not far, and it will probably take only a stick of incense to get out of the valley.
Everyone stopped stamping their feet, and hurried out of the valley, seeing that the pass was in front, and the front team suddenly stopped!
This time it was not the cavalry who took the lead, it seems that the lesson of last night is still fresh in Guan Yuanguang's memory, he doesn't want to let the cavalry sacrifice these treasures for no reason, so let the cavalry battalion be the pioneer, and the cavalry is interrupted and protected by the front and rear.
At the forefront is the Silver Hook Team, although these elites selected from the cavalry have only cooperated with the horsemen for less than a week, but they have also been exhausted by Huli**, whether it is equestrian or calm kung fu, they are already a little hot, and at this moment, everyone's eyes have a panicked look!
It's not that they don't leave, but the war horse under the crotch is stagnant, if they hadn't been tightly holding the reins, it is estimated that they would have turned around and fled long ago!
And the mountain road in front of me is paved with snakes of all sizes, all kinds, yellow and green! Countless snakes are entangled together, and if you don't look carefully, you think they are flowers and plants spread on the ground!
Just by seeing these snakes, you already know that the Snake Valley is worthy of its name! On the nearly 500-step mountain road, there are all kinds of snakes crawling, and you don't have to fight them, just looking at them already makes people feel a chill down their backs!
Snakes stand in the way.
In the legend of the Central Plains, snakes must be killed when they block the way, because this is their way to reincarnation, and killing it is helping it.
But thousands of snakes are blocking the way, that is reincarnation? That must be killing people! Not to mention iron heads and shovels, even the uncommon poisonous snakes such as flat-headed wind, five-step snakes, bamboo leaf greens, etc., are all found here!
There are no snakes on the mountain, snakes are on the road. The fishy smell emitted by a large number of poisonous snakes completely obscured the smell of the liquid spilled on the road, and now there are no such things, and the spicy nose water rubbed on everyone's body does not seem to work!
As soon as he heard it in front, Xuanbao's heart sank, and he saw that the two horses rushed to the front, it was Guan Yuanguang and Hu Lichi, so they clamped their legs, and let Chihong Liuyun catch up.
Seeing the scenery in front of them, everyone gasped. Guan Yuanguang said with a gloomy face: "There is no way, you can't turn back, you can't let the entire army stop here, you have to rush over!"
This decision was also supported by Hu Lichi, who has never liked to compromise, even in the face of a group of snakes, he will not back down.
"Don't act rashly yet!" Xuan Bao shook his head and said to the two: "Unless you kill all the snakes at once, no matter how much you trample to death, you will get their crazy revenge! I have seen poisonous snakes on Caixia Mountain that have their heads cut off and can bite people to death, and it is not a good way to fight hard!"
When he said this, everyone dared not move! But stopping here was a dead end, and two-thirds of the entire army was blocked in the valley, and once they fought with snakes, the consequences would be unimaginable!
If you can't go to war, don't go to war, this is the principle that Xuanbao is following now. Xuanbao walked in the front and said to Guan Yuanguang: "You guys wait here for a while, I'll go over and take a look." ”
Guan Yuanguang also wanted to remind Xuanbao to be careful, but after thinking about it, what is there in this world that can hurt the emperor?
Indeed, when Xuanbao rode the red rainbow flowing clouds to those snakes, the poisonous snakes that had already felt the aura of danger avoided one after another!
And Xuan Bao had already seen at this time that these snakes were not like they were in a stalemate with the army, they were climbing from the direction of Tietou Mountain to the opposite Shotou Mountain!
This is just a snake on a mountain, it has such a scale, so if all the snakes on the two mountains come out, what kind of scene will it be? No wonder this place is called Snake Valley, it is simply the kingdom of snakes, and all of them are poisonous snakes, because non-poisonous vegetable snakes can only be eaten by other species or other animals here!
Because there were people on the mountain road, and more importantly, those unpleasant smells, the snakes on Tietou Mountain chose to move from here to the opposite side.
But why did they move? Or were they in danger? Could it be that some predator was present here and they had to retreat?
Xuanbao let the red rainbow Liuyun stand near the snakes, and did not disturb them, watching these snakes rush over the mountain road like a tide and climb into the gravel and weeds on the opposite side!
The Xuanjun brothers in the pioneer camp watched with fear as Xuanbao rode the red rainbow and stood next to the pile of snakes, as if they could touch those sticky things as soon as they stretched out their hands!
Soon, a scene that stunned them even more appeared, Xuan Bao actually turned over and dismounted, and walked straight into the group of snakes, but did not let the red rainbow Liuyun follow!
The fire aura of the red rainbow flowing clouds can indeed avoid snakes, but before it arrives, the snake group that has always liked cold and dislikes heat is far away, it has not yet reached the point where it can send and receive its own aura freely, and it will not do it, after all, it is a divine beast, not a human, and it is only instinct for cultivation, and there are not so many skills.
Xuan Bao stood among the snakes, and even crouched down, looking at the poisonous snakes crawling under his feet. He hid his divine consciousness and did not let his aura come out, which was something he had been practicing a lot in the past two days, and it could be regarded as a kind of practice.
In this way, you can hide in the world, and you won't feel very conspicuous anywhere, and before you get close, you'll already be noticed by someone.
Snakes use their forked tongues to distinguish smells, and although they see the person in front of them, they do not feel his breath, and they do not know whether they are dead or alive, friends or foes.
So they didn't attack Xuanbao, but when he was a stone that suddenly appeared, he made a detour. However, Xuan Bao found Ni Duan on their bodies, and some snakes had some bite scars!
This is the one that has just been bitten, and it is still bleeding, and those injured snakes are all highly venomous snake species without exception!
Strange, what is so unafraid of death? Even such a poisonous thing dares to provoke? Xuanbao looked up at the sky, and occasionally birds passed by, but there was no large flock of eagles.
Eagles eat snakes, but if just a few eagles dare to come to these two snake mountains to find food, it will definitely not succeed! Generally, there are snake kings in such places, and there are many king snakes under the snake king!
The difference between the two is that the snake king is like the father of the eighteen villages, while the king snake belongs to the owner of the village like Babu and is in charge of his own domain.
These king snakes are used against those heavens and earths, such as eagles or hedgehogs. Therefore, once you want to prey from the group of snakes that have formed a scale, you must have enough to defeat the snake king, and you can't fight alone!
Soon, Xuanbao heard the roar from Tietou Mountain, the cry was very special, and there was more than one voice.
There was a faint aura attacking, and there was a spirit beast here! Is it the snake king? Or is it its enemy?