Not far from the pond, there was a small courtyard made of wood and stones, and after a visit, Liu Qi found that the place in the courtyard was covered with moss and weeds, and a relatively flat large stone in the center was covered with layers of fallen leaves, and even a stool-like stone in the house had fallen a layer of dust... It is now almost certain that it is uninhabited.

Looking at other places, Liu Qi unexpectedly found that there was not a single beast in the valley, and under the scanning of his primary cloud power, even ants were rare! Radiate the primary cloud power, and outside the valley, there are not only beasts, but even some low-level primordial beasts!

It can be seen from the distribution of various small animals on the surface that further, with the halfway of the mountain around it as the boundary, outside of this, there are almost all kinds of beasts, birds, and primordial beasts; Of these, there is hardly one...

On the slower slopes, where there were relatively few animals, and further along, we came to the road beyond the east gate, and near there there was a village-like place inhabited by mountain people.

On the other three sides, on either side were winding mountains, and on one side was the walls of the imperial capital, but it was a long way off, and between the valley and the walls was a tall mountain range, on which the forts and stone steps were faintly visible.

It can be said that this is a valley outside the imperial capital, a seemingly ordinary small valley, if you walk along the path, it is not too far from the east gate, no wonder Zhao Xuechan and her sister and brother choose to live here, free and comfortable, why not?

It's just that although this place is a little hidden, it is not too difficult to find, and it should be easy for people who often go into the mountains to find it, and according to the environment here, the rest of the people must be happy to live here, the question is, why can only the two sisters and brothers find it?

Liu Qi vaguely felt that this place was not so simple as it seemed!

After thinking for a moment, Liu Qi sat cross-legged in the void, closed his eyes, and the primary cloud power came out of his body, enveloping the entire valley, making a holographic scan of this place, and carefully observing the distribution and survival of the surrounding beasts.

As a result, the three-dimensional situation of the entire valley was immediately displayed in Liu Qi's field of vision, and all the scenes inside were also very vivid... A moment later, the actions of a beast at the edge of the valley caught Liu Qi's attention...

It was an eagle, chasing a rabbit on the ground, and the direction in which they were flying was this valley.

At this time, the rabbit, which had been running down the jungle in the mountains, found the eagle rushing towards it at an increasing speed in the air, and panicked, and suddenly crossed the range line of the valley and rushed in!

The eagle in the sky stopped suddenly, flapping its wings in the sky, not daring to take a step forward, and then circled for a moment, and actually turned around and flew away! Judging from the departing figure, it was faster than when it was chasing the rabbit just now, and it seemed that it was afraid of something...

On the other hand, the rabbit only crossed the boundary line for two or three steps at this time, and then stopped, and his limbs shook suddenly!

Liu Qi immediately commanded the delicate detection of the primary cloud force, and clearly found that the rabbit's eyes showed fear, as if he had seen something very frightening, his body shook, and slowly retreated...

Just as he was about to cross the dividing line, the rabbit crashed to the ground!

Liu Qi was suddenly a little surprised, and immediately commanded a trace of primary cloud power to enter the rabbit's body, only to find that it was originally unconscious! Then entering the rabbit's brain domain, Liu Qi found that the place was undulating, as if he had been greatly stimulated...

Liu Qi, who was a little curious, instructed the primary cloud power to smooth out all the turmoil in his brain domain, and then withdrew the primary cloud power, and after a while, the rabbit woke up, and there seemed to be some doubts in his eyes, but then he glanced at the valley and ran away!

This made Liu Qi even more puzzled, whether it was the eagle or the rabbit, it seemed that they didn't dare to break into this valley easily, and after the eagle saw this, even if there was prey in front of him, he didn't dare to cross the line to pursue! The rabbit broke into this place in order to escape for his life, but immediately trembled with fright, and finally retreated to the border, but still fell unconscious...

"Is there really something weird here?" Liu Qi couldn't help but secretly guess.

“… It's a pity that the rabbit has not yet developed a psychic mind, and cannot read its memories directly, otherwise it would have been able to understand..."

Liu Qi couldn't help but sigh, followed by a sudden brightness in his eyes, and then thought, "Yes, in the scan just now, there are still low-level Yuan Beasts around here, won't you know if you grab one and try it?" ”

Thinking of this, Liu Qi was a little excited, and doubled the range of holographic scanning, and several low-level Yuan Beasts immediately appeared in his field of vision, among which the one with the highest cultivation had reached the peak of the second order, which was the best object for reading memories.

So, Liu Qi commanded the junior cloud force to focus on that point, and finally saw the situation there clearly, only to find that it was a snake, all blue, it was difficult to be found in such a hungry dense forest mountain range, fortunately he used a holographic scan to see it, if you look directly at it, it is estimated that it will be ignored... I saw that its body was thicker than that of an adult, and its length was two or three feet...

The place where the snake was located was a hidden cave relatively close to here, and I saw its fist-wide eyes, green and oily, looking out vigilantly, its whole body was shaking, and a layer of white substance was expanding outward from its tail...

Liu Qi was stunned for a moment, because this Yuan Beast was in the process of molting, in this process, the surrounding Yuan Qi energy enveloped it, and a part of it was pouring into its body, it was estimated that only if it successfully molted completely, it would be able to enter the third order!

Looking at its appearance, Liu Qi was a little hesitant, whether to read its memory or not, after all, now it is advancing, if it is disturbed by himself and causes it to fail to advance, it will be a sin, after all, he has no grievances with it...

After thinking about it, Liu Qi felt that it was better to help this guy advance first, and then read his memory, because even if he found other Yuan Beasts, he would also have no grievances, and it was not good to take the initiative to disturb them, although they were Yuan Beasts, they were also part of nature...

So, Liu Qi carefully observed its situation, and unexpectedly found that it was difficult for it to succeed, because although the vitality energy around it was sufficient, it absorbed too little into the body, and the energy consumption of the molting was very fast... At present, it has just shed its tail, and its breath has begun to weaken, and although it is still vigilant in its eyes, it has begun to be a little sluggish...

After continuing to observe for a while, Liu Qi obviously observed that the speed of its molting was getting slower and slower, its momentum was getting lower and lower, its breath was getting weaker and weaker, and even the vitality energy around it began to escape outward, and even less and less entered its body!

Liu Qi knew that the main reason for this situation was that this snake would not absorb the energy around it, no, it was not that it would not absorb it, but it did not have the practice of absorbing energy, and its current absorption was just the instinct of being a primordial beast!

Liu Qi couldn't help but sigh again at the importance of the exercises, a good exercise can allow cultivators to practice at a faster speed and occupy a lot of advantages, and if there is no law decision, only rely on instinctive absorption, can only rely on the accumulation of time, and whenever you advance, the difficulty will be doubled... In most cases, it will be like this snake, and the advancement will eventually fail!

But after hesitating for a moment, Liu Qi still didn't lend a helping hand at this time, because Liu Qi wanted to see if this snake would take the initiative to give up his promotion, if he took the initiative to give up, then it was not worth helping himself.

Because it can help once, it can help twice, but it can't help three times and four times, and in the end it has to rely on itself!

The path of cultivation is full of thorns, and without a resolute heart, there will be no strong achievements! If it were human, it would stand still; If it is a primordial beast, it is possible that it will be killed by someone in order to seize the meta core in its body! Therefore, cultivation requires a resolute heart and a self-motivated mind!

At this time, the snake has shed half of its skin, and the energy around it is only the innermost layer that surrounds it, and the breath has become weak, so to speak, at this time, a beast may kill it, but the snake's eyes are still vigilant, although it is a lot scattered, but it is still persistent! The power that once belonged to the second-order peak primordial beast is still there!

By two-thirds of the way it had shed, the energy around the snake's body had returned to normal, and like the rest of the valley, there was no sign of energy converging at the time of advancement, and the speed at which the energy entered its body became even slower!

But the snake still didn't give up! The eyes suddenly appeared, the eyeballs suddenly turned red, and the vigilance did not decrease in the slightest, but the sloppiness in it suddenly disappeared, turning into stoicism! Open your big mouth and suck in violently, and all the energy in front of you is inhaled into your body!

The speed of the molt increased a little at this time! The green snake's red eyes showed a hint of joy, and its head turned to the other side, and it sucked in again, although the absorption was limited, but it still maintained the slow progress of molting...

Seeing this, Liu Qi decided to make a move, this snake has already shown its determination to pursue advancement!

From the original green eyes to all the red through the body, Liu Qi knew that it was going to desperately advance, it had handed over its life, not asking for anything else, just for advancement, even if it died, it would not regret it!

Because of the way it absorbs energy with its mouth, it will produce abnormal fluctuations in energy, and its advanced aura will also spread, and other primordial beasts in the vicinity will know the difficulty of its advancement, and according to the laws of nature, it is likely to attack it in groups!

Sure enough, in the holographic image that instinctively retained, several primordial beasts close to it began to move, and the direction was exactly the cave where the snake was, and the fastest was an eagle, the peak of the first order, although it was far away, it flew quickly from the air, and went straight to where the green snake was!

A second-order tiger also ran wildly in the jungle, rushing towards the location of the advanced green snake; There is also a wild boar that is also a second-order, although the speed is relatively slow, but it is still leading two first-order wild boars, quickly approaching!

A moment later, the eagle, the tiger, and three wild boars came at the same time!

The tiger and the three wild boars took one side each, and the eagle hovered in the air, its eyes fixed on the advanced green snake in the cave!

At this moment, this green snake also discovered the arrival of the three-headed primordial beast, and after taking a big breath of energy again, it glared at the enemies of the three sides with vicious eyes! Although he knew that he was definitely going to die, he didn't have the slightest fear and made desperate preparations!

Obviously, the green snake is not afraid of life and death!

If you fail to advance, what will happen to your life? From now on, living in the shadows, waiting for the approach of death? It's better to die!

Therefore, looking at the enemy who came at the critical moment of advancement, the green snake was furious!

However, at this moment, the four primordial beasts looked at each other, and none of them took the lead in attacking! At this moment, a young figure appeared in the center of the Quartet, it was Liu Qi who had lifted the stealth state, and the fierce momentum on his body flashed violently, whether it was the eagle in the sky, or the tiger on the ground, or the three wild boars, they all felt the coming of death, without the slightest hesitation, turned around and ran!

The big green snake on the opposite side was also trembling by Liu Qi's momentum, but it still didn't run, not that it didn't run, but it was in an advanced molt, even if it wanted to, it couldn't run... If the advancement is not successful, at most the strength will be regressed by one level, and you can start over, but the big green snake has already gambled on his life, and if he moves too much, not only will the advancement fail, but he will also face death!

In fact, its failure to advance has become a foregone conclusion, this is for sure, of course, the premise is that there is no participation of Liu Qi, but unfortunately, this is impossible, because Liu Qi has already come and decided to help this green snake.

Looking at the green snake in front of him with a look of fear, Liu Qi smiled indifferently, waved his hand and shot out several purple healing qis, entering its body from various parts of its body! The thick energy quickly traveled through his body, and wherever he passed, the meridians that were about to fail to advance and become withered were quickly repaired, and were broadened and strengthened under the strengthening of Purple Healing Qi!

The momentum of the green snake immediately began to climb, and the red eyes also returned to green, and the energy around it surged again! Unfinished progression, got to continue! With a wave of Liu Qi's hand, the nearby energy density almost became liquid!

But Liu Qi still frowned, because although he controlled the energy that moved, the snake in front of him would not take the initiative to absorb it! After thinking for a moment, the primary cloud power surrounded the Heavenly Butterfly Mark, accompanied by the primary exercise "Devouring of the Scholar", which was directly sent into the brain domain of this green snake, however, Liu Qi did not immediately turn on the relevant functions, because the strength of this snake was too low, and it was useless to collect it.

Therefore, Liu Qi set certain conditions on his seal, if it didn't hang up, when it cultivated to a high level, the mark would automatically turn on the function of peripheral members! Of course, its memories were also copied at this time.

The advanced green snake felt very comfortable in his body at this time, especially the meridians, and he felt more than ten times stronger! The energy richness around me can be used for bathing, and the meta-core is starting to become full, and the speed of absorbing energy has become much faster!

After the young man pointed to himself, the green snake felt that he had suddenly learned the technique of absorbing the energy around him, and immediately tried to run it, and as a result, the energy around him immediately "exhaled" into his body, which was more than a hundred times faster than before!

The green snake immediately realized that the young man in front of him had no ill will towards him, so he glanced at the young man gratefully, and then ran the suddenly learned exercise wholeheartedly, and the surrounding energy immediately poured in, the yuan core quickly became full, and the molting became extremely fast!

Looking at its appearance, Liu Qi knew that this snake had already comprehended the devouring of Shizhi, and there was no problem with the advancement in front of him, so he smiled indifferently, and his figure flickered, and appeared in the void of the mysterious valley again.

Maintaining the scanning of the primary cloud power, Liu Qi began to check and sort out the memories copied when he sent the imprint, this is not too careful, Liu Qi was immediately startled, it turned out that although this snake was only second-order strength so far, it had lived for more than five hundred years!

According to its memory, the lifespan of a snake is more than ten years at most, but this green snake is special, when it is about to die of old age, it very accidentally discovered the battle between two first-order primordial beasts, and the two primordial beasts finally lost both...