Chapter 11 Weird Seeds
Xiao Lin's Flowing Cloud Light Body Art was practiced to the extreme. In the process of practicing this light art, he was pleasantly surprised to find that after infusing the clear water in his body into his legs, his body was as light as a leaf. He could float several feet away by lightly stepping on the ground. He also found that his endurance seemed to be particularly good after practicing the Dry Water Sutra. Even if he flew for a day, the clear water in his body was enough to support him. After the clear water was consumed, he only needed to find a stream and sit beside it for half a day to recover.
Feeling the changes brought about by his practice of the Dry Water Sutra, Xiao Lin was full of joy, but the only regret was that he had been looking for mineral veins everywhere for more than a year, but still found nothing.
While roasting the hare, Xiao Lin looked at the fire and fell into deep thought.
"I don't know how my father and little sister are now? Xiao Shi should have returned to Huai County, right?" Xiao Lin said to himself with a sigh.
"Mmm..." A hissing sound suddenly came from outside. Xiao Lin was startled. With a slight shake, a breeze swept past, and he came to the cave entrance and looked up at the sky.
When he saw the scene in front of him, he couldn't help but be stunned.
In the sky, a giant eagle with a length of three meters was fighting with a snake. What made Xiao Lin stunned was the snake. The snake was only more than ten meters long, which looked less than half of the length of the giant eagle, but the snake actually had a pair of thin cicada wings, and its tongue was spitting out, and a pair of triangular eyes flashed with fierce light.
This scene made Xiao Lin terrified. He had seen many wild beasts in the Tianlu Mountains, such as blue wolves like calves, black bears with a height of two meters, and even a tiger with a length of three meters, but this was the first time he had seen a snake with wings.
"Huh?" Xiao Lin exclaimed, rubbed his eyes, and looked at the sky again.
It turned out that there was a person behind the winged snake, about ten feet away, but this figure looked much smaller than the eagle and the snake, so Xiao Lin didn't notice it at first.
The man was stepping on a three-foot-long piece of hazy yellow light, and his hands were holding a strange posture, staring at the giant eagle intently.
As if sensing that someone was looking at him, the man suddenly turned his head and glanced at Xiao Lin.
Xiao Lin was shocked. He didn't expect that the man was so alert that he could be sensed by him just by looking at him. Xiao Lin hurried back to the cave, carried the bamboo basket on his back, picked up his crossbow and jumped down the cliff and flew into the valley.
No matter how stupid Xiao Lin was, he understood that the flying snake was most likely commanded by that man. Once that man killed the giant eagle and freed up his hands, who knew if it would be disadvantageous to him. A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. This is Xiao Lin's usual way of dealing with the world.
In a hurry, Xiao Lin used his Qinggong to the extreme, stepping on flowers, plants and rocks all the way, flying towards the depths of the valley.
After flying for an unknown period of time, Xiao Lin came to a cliff. A waterfall fell from the cliff. Xiao Lin was flying along this river. Looking at the abyss under the waterfall, Xiao Lin frowned slightly.
He looked around, trying to find a way to cross the canyon. Suddenly, he felt a breeze behind him. He turned around and saw the scene behind him. His face suddenly changed and turned pale.
It turned out that three meters behind him, there was a young man in his twenties. The young man had fair skin and regular features, but his thin lips made him look a little mean. He was looking at Xiao Lin with a smile.
"Huh? He actually cultivated to the third level of Qi Refining?" The young man showed a little surprise on his face and said to himself.
Immediately afterwards, Xiao Lin felt a gust of fishy wind coming from his nose, and a green shadow flashed and landed beside the young man. It was the strange snake with wings.
Seeing the strange snake, Xiao Lin felt that his breathing was a little difficult. It was nothing to see the strange snake from a distance before, but now the strange snake was close at hand. The long body and ferocious snake head, plus the cicada wings that kept flapping with a humming sound, all made Xiao Lin feel cold.
Taking a palm-sized feather with a faint yellow light from the mouth of the strange snake, the young man smiled.
"With this feather from the neck of the ordinary first-level wind spirit eagle, I can refine another first-level magic weapon." He looked carefully at the palm-sized feather in his hand for a few times, and then a yellow light flashed, and the feather in his hand disappeared.
Xiao Lin was stunned. When he was very young, he had heard the story of immortals from the village elders, but the behavior of the person in front of him was exactly the same as the immortals in the story.
"You...you are an immortal?" Xiao Lin asked carefully.
"Immortal?" Touching his chin, the young man sneered: "If in the eyes of mortals, I can indeed be called an immortal. I wonder what this fellow Taoist is called? What sect are you from?"
"I...I am Xiao Lin, an outer disciple of Bailian Hall."
"Oh, it turns out that he is a casual cultivator who accidentally practiced the magic formula." He muttered to himself, and then the light in the young man's eyes turned cold.
Seeing the young man's eyes, Xiao Lin was startled and his heart sank.
"I have been waiting in Shuiyun Valley for three months for this Wind Spirit Eagle. Many disciples from other sects have been plotting for this Wind Spirit Eagle. I finally found the right opportunity. I took advantage of the opportunity when this Wind Spirit Eagle sheds its feathers once every ten years and its strength is greatly reduced, so I was able to kill it with one strike. If this matter is leaked out, I can't guarantee that no one will plot against me. I originally saw that you are a casual cultivator and don't even have a storage bag, so it's normal to let you go. But you can only blame yourself for seeing something you shouldn't have seen at the wrong time. I will send you off now."
Xiao Lin was shocked. As soon as the young man finished speaking, the strange snake opened its bloody mouth and pounced on him. The fishy smell made his stomach churn, and he wanted to vomit out everything in his stomach.
With his mind racing, Xiao Lin took out the dagger in his arms without hesitation and threw it at the strange snake. At the same time, he jumped into the abyss under the waterfall without hesitation.
"Huh?" Xiao Lin heard the young man's surprised voice, and then he felt dizzy and completely lost consciousness.
On the cliff, the young man looked down at the bottomless abyss under the waterfall and frowned slightly.
"Humph, it's so high, even if I fall down, I will be dead. I think this rookie who has inexplicably stepped into the threshold of cultivation will not be able to survive even if he has ten lives. Don't blame me, blame yourself for your bad luck." However, after thinking about it, the young man gently patted the storage bag on his waist, and a ball of yellow light flew out of it. If you look closely, you can see that there is a yellow leaf in the yellow light. With a flash of yellow light, it arrived at the feet of the young man. The young man flew to the waterfall with this leaf magic weapon. After searching for a while on the dark pool of water, he made sure that no one floated up, and then he turned into a yellow light and disappeared into the sky.
Shuiyun Valley, a dozen miles away, a green stream ran through the valley, and not far away, on a stone by the stream, a person was lying on the ground.
After a while, the man lying on the ground moved slightly and managed to stand up. He looked around, pursed his cracked lips, and drank a few mouthfuls of stream water with his hands. He was a little more energetic, then turned over and sat on the bluestone. This person was Xiao Lin who jumped into the waterfall.
Three hours later, Xiao Lin, who was shrouded in a layer of misty water, opened his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief.
Xiao Lin himself did not expect that he would still be alive after jumping into the abyss. Originally, when the young man who controlled the snake finished speaking, he knew that the young man had murderous intentions towards him. Facing the huge monster snake, he was absolutely dead. Almost instinctively, he chose to jump into the abyss, just to avoid becoming a meal for the monster snake, but he never thought that he was quite lucky and survived.
He took out a jade box from his arms, which was only the size of a palm. After falling into the abyss, he unexpectedly saw a gray light not far away from him. However, in the abyss, undercurrents surged. Although he was good at swimming, he could not help himself and could only go with the flow.
Coincidentally, the water flow actually sent him to the side of the light. Xiao Lin grabbed the gray light without thinking and stuffed it into his chest.
The jade box was translucent. Through the jade box, Xiao Lin could clearly see that there was a wrinkled seed inside the jade box.
He stuffed the jade box into his arms again and looked around carefully. Through the incident with the young man, he understood that the gods were not all good people, and were even worse than ordinary mortals. He just saw him kill a wind spirit eagle, but he was going to be killed. This reason really made Xiao Lin speechless, but it also made him understand the cruelty of this world more deeply.
"It seems that I have to be more careful in the future." Xiao Lin muttered to himself, then stood up and put the crossbow on his back. The bamboo basket was lost after he fell into the abyss, and even the two books in his arms were completely wet, but it didn't matter. He would go back and find a place to dry them.
He chose a direction and flew away.
Three months later, on the side of an inconspicuous hill in Shuiyun Valley, a dark cave was exposed on the cliff that was completely covered by unknown vines. Xiao Lin stretched his head out and looked towards the sky. In the sky, a green light flew towards the distance, and behind this green light, there was a red light.
Xiao Lin retracted his neck from the outside of the cave, carefully arranged the green vines outside and covered the cave entrance again. He felt uneasy. In the past few months, this was the second wave of "immortals" he had seen besides the snake-controlling youth. He found that there seemed to be quite a few "immortals" flying in the air in the Tianlu Mountains.
This made him more cautious. After all, if he met a bloodthirsty person like the snake-controlling youth again, he would not have a second abyss to jump into, and it was impossible for him to be so lucky that he would not die after jumping into the abyss.
Xiao Lin, who was hiding in the cave, did not dare to breathe a single breath until an hour later, when he breathed a sigh of relief. He thought that those "immortals" should have gone far away.
He took out the jade box from his arms again. He had been studying the strange seeds in the jade box for several days. Whether it was burned by fire or smashed by stones, the strange seeds were not damaged at all, and the surface was still wrinkled.