The wilderness is silent.

Suddenly, there was a roar, and I don't know how many birds were startled and how many beasts were scared away.

Somewhere in an open space, a small mound suddenly burst out of a deep hole, and a young man in a black gold gown was walking out spotlessly.

Feeling the sun at noon, Zhang Fan let out a soft sigh of satisfaction.

In the gloomy cave, after staying for less than a month, the whole person felt as if it was about to decay, and when he appeared in the sun again, he suddenly felt so warm and comfortable.

Even if he is a monk, he is still a human being, so naturally he can't treat the damp and dark environment under the ground as nothing like a gopher, Zhang Fan is helpless!

Otherwise, I wouldn't have stayed for a month, not only would I feel uncomfortable, but I would also delay the precious time I had to find the elixir.

Everything started a month ago, when it was said, Zhang Fan ran the trick and wanted to restore the spiritual power consumed by refining the Nine Flame Dragon Balls, but he didn't want to, driven by the treasure beads, he was addicted to an indescribable artistic conception for a while.

When I woke up again, it was a month later.

At that time, Zhang Fan was stunned, and at the same time secretly rejoiced. Fortunately, it's only one month, but if you enter meditation for two or three months, and miss the time to leave the valley, you will have to stay for another hundred years.

What's more, I have never heard of monks who have missed the wrong time, and there are monks who have survived a hundred years later.

After being shocked for a while, he checked his cultivation, and suddenly turned his surprise into joy, and then became excited about having such an opportunity.

Unconsciously, Zhang Fan's cultivation actually broke through to the realm of the ninth layer of the Qi Refining Period.

After calming down and thinking about it carefully, he also had some of his own opinions about this opportunity in his heart. In his opinion, it is estimated that after refining and integrating the Nine Flame Dragon Ball into his body, in the process of recuperation, he inadvertently brought out a trace of comprehension contained in the orb.

You must know that the monk who once got the Nine Flame Dragon Balls, Zhang Fan dared to say with a guarantee that his cultivation was definitely the lowest, and even in terms of qualifications, he might be at the bottom.

Therefore, every trace of insight contained in it is undoubtedly extremely precious to him.

It is precisely because of the difference in his foundation that the effect is so good, if he is changed to an eleventh-layer monk like Nangong Yi, it is estimated that he will only feel that his cultivation speed has increased slightly.

It's a pity that such an opportunity is hard to come by, otherwise every time you comprehend it, you don't need to do penance and fight.

Dispelling the opportunistic thoughts in his heart, Zhang Fan calmed down and refined the mid-level spiritual weapon Fire Shadow Sword and the top-level magic weapon Mending Sky Net obtained from Nangong Yi, and after being able to use it freely, he broke through the cave and returned to the sun.

When he was embarrassed and had not carefully explored the surrounding environment, at this time, Zhang Fan let go of his divine sense and swept around roughly.

"Huh?" Zhang Fan's face showed a look of surprise, and he couldn't help but probe it again, and it was still the same.

How could this be? There was not a single slightly stronger demon beast around, and some were all ignorant and weak beasts and birds.

At the same time, there are even more strange things, the surrounding trees are growing, and there are some problems with the layout of the elixir, and it seems that the number of each species is actually about the same, as if it has been artificially controlled.

Not all of the plants that have a limited number are elixirs, many of them are just common pines, cedars, and other trees, but the treatment is the same as ginseng and sesame grass.

Because he was full of doubts, Zhang Fan did not leave in a hurry, but walked through the forest leisurely, and occasionally there was a good spiritual grass, so he stopped to pick it.

In this way, after walking for most of the day, my eyes suddenly brightened up and I was out of the scope of the dense forest.

Looking at it, Zhang Fanden was stunned!

In the distance, as far as the eye can see, a cliff towers into the sky, if it is not made of red rocks, it is no different from the cliff of the Faxiang Sect.

Although it is far away, it can still be faintly seen, and there are countless small black dots coming and going on the cliff, which is extremely busy.

What really stunned Zhang Fan was that although the divine consciousness released from afar could not reach the location of the cliff, in the haze, he could still feel the atmosphere that was completely opposite to that in the dense forest.

In the dense forest, it is like a paradise, there are no demon beasts, all the plants are neat and tidy, and the number is limited according to a certain demand, and everything is full of order and peace.

But the cliffs in the distance are different, just a little feeling, you can find out that those small black spots that come and go frequently are all at least first-order demon beasts, and the entire cliff is full of no grass, full of a sense of desolation and vastness.

After hesitating in his heart, Zhang Fan still decided to take a closer look, anyway, with the Nine Flame Dragon Ball in his hand, even if he was a monk in the foundation building period, he was confident that no matter what the situation, he could at least retreat with his whole body.

The point is, his instincts tell him that everything in the jungle seems to have a close relationship with the monsters on the cliffs.

Although it is intuitive, it is not unreasonable, according to the territory concept of demon beasts, if the population of small black spots on the cliff is large enough, this dense forest should be their territory. All the abnormalities in it are naturally closely related to them.

With a slap of the Qiankun bag, the flying cloud boat was released and soared into the sky, flying straight towards the cliff.

After about a quarter of an hour of flying, Zhang Fan felt that the trip was reckless.

It doesn't seem to be very far from afar, but with the speed of his imperial envoy Feiyunzhou, he can't reach it in a quarter of an hour, and this is very problematic.

If it was really as he expected, that dense forest was the territory of the demon beasts living on the cliffs in front of him, how huge should the population of this demon beast be when it was so far away?

The reason why I thought I could get out of it all didn't seem to feel so sufficient!

At this time, it was too late to retreat, and he saw the true face of those little black dots for the first time.

"Fire Crow!" Zhang Fanden was stunned.

The fire crow is a kind of low-level demon beast, roughly in the middle and lower reaches of the first-order demon beast, but this kind of demon beast has a terrible habit, that is, living in groups!

What's worse is that it doesn't like to be grouped yet. This is troublesome, the average flock of fire crows has at least tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands is not a spectacle.

However, the reason that really made Zhang Fan remember this kind of demon beast was not because of the quantity.

Six or seven years ago, when he first entered the mountain gate, he had asked Master Han Hao why his Dharma was called a fire crow? Of course, what Zhang Fan really wanted to ask was, why was it not called the three-legged golden crow, but he didn't dare after all!

At that time, Han Hao's explanation was that this ancient demon beast had never been seen by a monk before, nor had it appeared in any classics. Maybe it was lost in the catastrophe of the ancient monks!

Due to the appearance, and the flame aspect, compared with the first-order demon beast Fire Crow, there seems to be no difference except for one more foot, so the surname Suo is called the Fire Crow.

It is precisely because of this way of getting its name that the three-legged golden crow is implicated with a low-level demon beast like a fire crow, making it seriously underestimated.

While thinking about it, Zhang Fan had gradually flown closer, and his divine sense swept away, and a look of horror suddenly appeared on his face, and even his voice seemed a little trembling:

"There are more than a million fire crows!"

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