"Then we'll talk as we go. ”

Li Chengan probably felt that this was not formal enough, and he made a gesture to invite Lin Yi and others into the village.

After Lin Yi agreed, part of the miasma in the mountain forest shrouded in miasma in front of him suddenly dissipated, forming a miasma-free area that could lead to the village.

This time, Lin Yi was not too surprised.

Li Gu'an had already told him the formation principle of the poisonous miasma before, and he also understood that even the Heavenly Mother Wax people had to take special antidotes, since this was the case, then these people must also have the means to control the poisonous miasma and prevent it from spreading.

"Usually, if there are distinguished guests, it stands to reason that our Heavenly Mother Wax will also prepare a feast of 100 insects, although some insects in the mountains look terrifying, but they are actually very delicious. ”

After really entering the village, Lin Yi saw that the earth, stone and wooden houses in the mother wax village were all earth-stone on the lower floor, and most of the upper floors were wooden, and the furnishings in the houses were naturally very simple, but there were some lime and other things in the corners and corners of the house, which looked like they should be snake-proof.

"Originally, we were forced to migrate here because we relied on many insects to survive. But this is the Hundred Snake Mountain, and there are indeed more snakes, and I say so, I must be very strange to you, why didn't we catch snakes and eat meat at that time?"

Originally, Lin Yi and the others didn't think about it, but when they heard Li Chengan say this, Lin Yi and the others suddenly became curious.

Many famous and powerful families in Jiankang City naturally do not get tired of eating, but the tribes in the mountains are not very particular, even when some border troops march, they also rely on digging snakes and catching frogs to supplement some meat.

"This is the secret of our Heavenly Mother wax. ”

Li Chengan led Lin Yi and the others to sit down in the hall on the second floor of a tulou, he looked at Lin Yi and the others with a solemn expression, and said: " At the beginning, our Heavenly Mother Wax was forced by the two tribes in the Ailao Mountain, and soon after fleeing to the Hundred Snake Mountain, in fact, the people of the two tribes did not let go, they still sent a large number of elite soldiers to eradicate us, we did not notice it at the time, and when we found out, they had already invaded the village, and saw that our Heavenly Mother Wax would be slaughtered cleanly, and the tribe would be wiped out, but when all the remaining of our people fled to the depths of the mountain, there was a life-saving incident, and there was a miasma in the mountain, and a giant snake with long horns appeared in the miasma, and the giant snake had thick scales and was difficult to hurt with weapons, and it suddenly rushed out, and the rage was abnormal, although many people died in our clan, but almost all of the elite warriors of the two tribes were killed by it. ”

"A serpent with horns on its head?"

Lin Yi was stunned, "That's the strange Jiao, there is such a strange thing in this Hundred Snake Mountain?"

He had read a lot of notes about the monsters, so he knew very well that in fact, some of the dragons with horns on their heads that were circulated among the folk were not the legendary giant snakes that had been cultivated for a long time and became dragons, and they were only one day away from the real dragon.

According to the records of those notes that Lin Yi has read, this kind of alien Jiao is still often infested in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, but because most of them are harmful, they were cleared by the practitioners and the army at that time, so the more rare the later dynasties, in the last two or three hundred years, the northern dynasty appeared once in the Yingkou area, and the south was in Zhoushan, not far from Jiankang, after a hurricane, there was a corpse of this strange Jiao.

The species that appeared were not all the same, and the xenomorphs that were swept up by the hurricane in the former Zhoushan area should be a xenomorph species in the sea, and they could not survive on land and freshwater after coming ashore, so they died.

According to the records of the notes, two fleshy wings grow at the neck of this frog, and when the wind and waves are stirring up in the water, it can even glide on the water surface, and can also spit water mist, causing fog on the river surface.

Now listening to this strange Jiao in the Hundred Snake Mountain, it seems to be different, it should be some kind of mountain poison Jiao.

This kind of mountain poison Jiao is also called Shanxiao Jiao in some Zhiwei notes, most of them are rough skin and thick meat, live in caves, and are brutal by nature.

"It's this kind of strange Jiao. ”

Li Chengan looked at Lin Yi and nodded, "Although this sudden appearance of the alien Jiao also killed a lot of our clansmen at that time, it was invisibly equivalent to helping our Heavenly Mother Wax Clan survive a catastrophe, and we didn't know much about this alien Jiao at that time, so we were grateful to Dai De, and treated it as a mountain god here. At that time, our people even called it the ancestral snake. ”

"That's a long time ago. Mu En heard some words and was shocked: "Could it be that the alien Jiao is still alive?"

Li Chengan glanced at him, paused himself, as if thinking about how to describe it, and at the same time gave him a slightly calm look.

Mu En suddenly smiled apologetically, resisted his curiosity, and listened patiently.

"If only it were all right. Moreover, the nest of this ancestral snake itself is in an abyss full of poisonous miasma in the depths of the Hundred Snake Mountain, and our people don't want to explore more, just when it is the protector of the god to worship and worship, but then we live in this mountain for a long time, naturally we rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, what to eat, but it has caused trouble. Li Chengan smiled bitterly, and continued, " We found that it has some strange habits, usually it lives deep in the abyss full of poisonous miasma, but it also comes out to bask in the sun twice a year, each time for a few days, during that time it comes out is irritable and abnormal, and it doesn't matter how much we hunt in this mountain, even if the blood is heavy, it can't attract it, but there are several snakes that are just like the side of its protection, if you kill those snakes and let it smell it, it will definitely come out, and it will be violent for a few days before it returns. Our people didn't know at the time, at least more than 30 people died in its Shekou several times, and then no snakes dared to prey, and gradually our Heavenly Mother Wax formed the habit of not killing snakes and eating snakes in this hundred snake mountains. Later, we also figured out that when those two tribes suddenly attacked us, this ancestral snake suddenly appeared, also because their warriors killed a lot of poisonous snakes along the way to chase our people, and there were snakes that could lure it out. ”

Lin Yi thought that the Tianmu wax at that time was a real internal and external trouble, and suddenly felt that it was not easy.

At this time, Li Chengan had already continued, "As soon as we have many people who have died in Shekou, we are naturally very protective of it, and the two times it comes out every year, we call it the Snake Day, and all the men, women and children in the village leave the village and go out of the mountain, which sounds like a unique festival of our clan, but it is actually to avoid its harm." Later, if a strong foreign enemy invades, our warriors will kill some snakes that can lure them out, so that they can come out directly against the enemy, while we quietly hide in the deep caves, so that a certain great clan that must have killed us back then will be destroyed by us. ”

"We have always been respectful and afraid of this ancestral snake, and we don't want to explore more, so that no one will die because of it, but after a few decades, in the middle of a certain snake sun, there is a surprising movement in the abyss where it lives, but it does not leave the nest. Two of our warriors ventured to investigate, only to find that it was molting, but at the same time, they found that not far from its lair, there was a red elixir field, and the two warriors in our clan wrote down the characteristics of the red plants growing there. ”

"Dragon's Blood Grass?"

Lin Yi and the others, including Shen Kun, were all taken aback.

Dragon's Blood Grass is one of the rare high-grade elixirs, and it is rarely produced in the famous elixir mountains of the Southern and Northern Wei dynasties.

It not only contains abundant heaven and earth aura, refining can improve cultivation, in addition, it also has the effects of stopping bleeding, replenishing blood and dissolving poison.

The Great Sage Buyuan Pill and the Sore-Healing Poison Pill refined in the Southern Dynasty are the best elixirs that many powerful men and lords strive for, and there are dragon's blood grass in these two pills, but because dragon's blood grass is scarce, it is not used as the main material, but as an auxiliary material.

Even so, taking the Healing Sores and Poison Pill as an example, this elixir can even heal some wounds on the body that rot into the bones, and some heavy rots that are highly poisonous, which shows the wonder of this elixir.

When they were shocked, Li Chengan had already continued, "We learned about the amazing value of this dragon's blood grass, and later we couldn't help but have some warriors tempted to see if we could collect some dragon's blood grass from the place near its lair. This ancestral snake is sleeping a lot of the time, sometimes a warrior goes in and secretly collects it, and it will not notice, but sometimes it will wake up, and there is no pattern at all, almost all by luck. Therefore, there are many people in our clan who have died trying to collect dragon blood grass, and there are also some lucky people who have succeeded, and Chief Li Xuan, who came out of the mountain back then, is one of them. For this dragon's blood grass, our clan has also found a lot of wonderful uses, in addition to being able to create some cultivators, many of our miasma anti-poison pills are also because of the addition of dragon's blood grass. We know the benefits of this dragon blood grass, but we also understand that it depends on gambling on life, so in the generation of Chief Li Xuan, the clan rules have gradually formed, only some special events, want to prove their bravery, and let everyone in the clan support them, will go in to collect dragon blood grass, we call it the ancestral snake sacrifice. For example, if someone is elected but someone refuses to accept it, he can participate in the ancestral snake sacrifice to compete for the position of leader, but only if he can come out alive and bring out the three dragon's blood grasses. For example, two men in the clan fell in love with a woman at the same time, causing a fight, one of the men successfully participated in the ancestral snake sacrifice, and the other man did not dare to participate, so he naturally gave up pursuing the woman. ”

"I see. ”

Lin Yi, Bai Yuelu and the others glanced at each other, their hearts were all bright, although Lin Yi was not afraid, but he was a little confused in his heart, "Since killing a snake can lead a snake out of the hole, if you want dragon's blood grass, can't you kill the snake first to lure it away, and then take the opportunity to enter its lair to collect it?"

"We have also tried this, but this ancestral snake has a strange nature, it will not leave this Hundred Snake Mountain no matter how much it chases, and if it wakes up, it is very sensitive to the smell of this elixir, even if we have time to collect it, it will wake up immediately, and we who collect the elixir still can't escape. Li Cheng'an smiled bitterly and said, "Some people in our clan have tried to use some utensils to contain elixir, but no matter how tightly wrapped it is, it can still detect it, even if it is buried deeply, it is useless. And even if you swallow it instantly, you can't escape far and be swallowed by it in one bite. ”

"Although our Chief Li Xuan Li coincidentally became the founding general and held an important position in the court, he still kept this secret, but he also studied and verified this kind of strange Jiao in many ways. Li Chengan glanced at Lin Yi, hesitated, or said, "Later, it was determined that this kind of alien snake is called the mountain poison fish, which also appeared in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, it is a giant snake in the dry land, its qi and blood are highly poisonous, and the breath can reach dozens of zhang, but generally speaking, its lifespan is only one hundred years, and this ancestral snake in our mountains may have lived for at least three or four hundred years, because this dragon's blood grass has a buffing effect on it." ”

"Mountain Poison Fish"

Lin Yi was slightly stunned, he remembered in a trance that there was a vague record in a certain classic book that this kind of alien Jiao was brutal by nature, and he would go crazy unscrupulously as soon as he opened the killing ring, so he often broke into the town and was then strangled. But this strange Jiao was so restrained, presumably because he knew that those dragon's blood grasses were very important to it, so he kept guarding it, and never left this Hundred Snake Mountain.

This is also the nature of some alien beasts and insects, so often some places where the elixir is abundant, there are powerful alien beasts and insects.

He still remembered that the book also said that this kind of strange Jiao was full of treasures, but how useful it was, but it was a passing pass, and he must not have understood.

"According to what you mean, as long as I collect enough dragon blood grass from your clan's ancestral snake cultivation method, I can change your previous destiny and let the warriors of your clan join our Tiece Army?" he pondered for a moment, then looked at Li Cheng'an and asked.

"It's not that simple. ”

Li Chengan smiled bitterly and said: "You are not from our clan, but if someone among our clansmen is willing to enter this ancestral snake's lair with you, and then you have to help him collect more than three dragon blood grasses, he can change the order of the previous chief, and then the warriors of our clan can join the Tiece Army." Because according to the rules of our ancestral snake sacrifice, our clan can invite a friend to help, but he must make sure that friend can keep secrets, and after success, that friend is equivalent to our Heavenly Mother Wax own person. ”

Mu En and the others also understood thoroughly.

What Li Chengan means is that Lin Yi is willing to go to the ancestral snake trial is useless, and there must be a clansman from the Heavenly Mother Wax who is willing to follow him in, and at the same time, this person must also be willing to change the orders of the previous chief.

In the eyes of Li Chengan and Mu En, this matter is indeed difficult.

The Heavenly Mother Wax Man has been in awe of that ancestral snake for a long time, I am afraid that it is a last resort, and no one will dare to take the initiative to participate in the ancestral snake sacrifice, let alone now to help outsiders.

But what Li Chengan and Mu En didn't expect at all was that as soon as Li Chengan's words fell, several young voices had already sounded, "If the commander allows, I am willing to go in with General Lin to collect medicine." ”