Chapter 5: The Crow's mouth appears

Author: Mu Chenke

Chapter 5: The Crow's mouth appears

In the next few days, in addition to practicing, Xu Chen also went out to pick up feces every morning, but he was not far away, only within a hundred miles of the mountain gate.

Of course, there must be not much harvest. Either one or two or three or four, it depends entirely on luck and my experience of picking up manure for several years. Although I have not emptied it every day, I can only describe it as shabby.

In addition, if you are lucky, you can find a few low-level herbs, but the value is not high and slightly better than nothing. At most, you can use it to refine some elixirs to trade with the royal family of the Song Dynasty or exchange for some food, drink, defecation and other supplies for daily food, drink, defecation and other supplies in the mountain gate.

In fact, the herbs near the mountain gate have been constantly plundered by disciples of Taiyuan Gate throughout the ages, and they are almost extinct.

Apart from picking up feces, Xu Chen would go to the medicine garden to observe two or three times every day, but he found that the resurrection tree had no change since the first day of the buds. Even the new leaves showed no signs of growing, and even the buds seemed to have some signs of wilting.

I'm such a fucking crow's mouth.

Xu Chen felt that his guess became reality so quickly.

This should never happen.

You should know that the Great Elder put three spirit stones on the Resurrection Wood at one time as fertilizer. At present, the medicinal materials in the entire medicine garden are growing wildly due to the abundant spiritual energy. Many spiritual medicines that seem to die on weekdays begin to grow leaves and bloom with a hundred times more energetic spirits.

In other words, the resurrection tree blossoms not because of the influence of spiritual energy, but because of other reasons.

Xu Chen thought about it repeatedly and finally felt that it might have something to do with the fresh stool that was buried in the end.

And to prove that this matter is very simple, it is to go to the Linghu Cave to pick up a piece of fresh feces and try it out.

but……

Thinking of the horror of a group of foxes roaring after leaving that day, Xu Chen had some calves and decided not to take risks.

He wanted to tell the third elder about this, but when he went to Chaoyang Peak once, he found that the third elder was refining a second-grade spiritual pill that he wanted to give to the Emperor of Song. Now at a critical moment, he dared not disturb him and had to come back.

After observing for three more days, he found that the two buds had obvious signs of withering, and even the leaves on several new branches were slightly yellowed.

Xu Chen was a little anxious now.

Although it is not his business to die of the soul or not, the spiritual talismans and talismans that the Great Elder rewarded were still on his body. If he really died, he would not have the reward. The Great Elder might be furious when he came back. It would be light to beat him up. It would be possible to rush down the mountain if he was useless. The consequences would be terrible.

After thinking about it, Xu Chen finally gritted his teeth and decided to go to the Lingfox Nest again.

After all, it has been seven or eight days since I have only stole a few pieces of cake, and a group of foxes will not hold grudges. Besides, the disciples of Taiyuan Sect have gone to the Lingfox's nest to steal feces once or twice, and they have never been missed and attacked by a group of foxes.

So the next morning, Xu Chen got up at dawn, washed up and ate some dry food and bread, and then rode the first-grade flying sword to the Lingfox nest.

The goal this time is very clear, which is to steal a piece of fresh feces and leave if you don’t turn around.

Of course, safety first. Ten miles away from the Linghu Cave Valley, Xu Chen stopped to regain his vitality, and then flew in slowly against the forest in a sneaky low altitude, falling half an inside and out of the cave, and then slowly touched it as before.

This time it was still very smooth, and it made Xu Chen feel a little worried.

Because the valley was too quiet, there was no sound at all, and even a bird could not be seen.

"What's that?"

More than ten feet away from the cave, Xu Chen saw through the sparse branches that seemed to be lying on the ground in front of the Spirit Fox Cave. He continued to get closer and look carefully and found that there were several foxes of all sizes.

It seems that today is not auspicious day. Xu Chen turned around and tiptoed to retreat, but accidentally stepped on a dead branch, and a crisp sound sounded very clearly in the quiet valley.

"Oops!"

Xu Chen threw out the flying sword without hesitation, stepped on it and fled in a hurry.

However, when he flew out for more than ten miles in one breath, he found that there was still quiet behind him, and there was no fox roaring or catching up with him.

He wiped his sweat and fell on the ridge for a while, and found that a group of foxes were still motionless.

He was a little confused now, and at the same time, he began to quickly recall the scene he had just seen.

At this time, the sunrise in the east has just risen, and now it should be the best time for all animals to go out for food.

Judging from his more than three years of experience in picking up dung, it is impossible for foxes to lie outside the cave to bask in the sun early in the morning, after all, the time is wrong.

So he decided to go back and take a closer look.

Soon, Xu Chen rode the flying sword back to the place just now. Through the sparse branches, the situation in front of the cave was still the same, and several foxes were lying motionless on the ground.

Sure enough, something was wrong.

Xu Chen hesitated for a moment and took out a courage to pick up a stone and threw it far away and at the entrance of the cave. A group of foxes did not move at all.

Now even a fool knows that something is completely wrong.

"Can all the fences die?"

Xu Chen muttered to himself, then tiptoed through the woods and approached the cave until he reached the range that the spiritual consciousness could cover. Then he let go of his spiritual consciousness and sweep it gently, and then breathed a long breath. Sure enough, the six foxes, big and small, in front of the cave, were all dead, without a trace of breath.

But he did not have any joy in getting rich, but instead he was in a more tense and serious mood.

This flock of foxes has a great power, with a radius of hundreds of miles and an old fox that is about to reach the second level. If it can be wiped out in one go, only a more powerful monster can do it.

Second or third order?

Xu Chen couldn't help but shudder.

He hesitated for a long time, and finally curiosity overcame reason. He reached out and took out two talismans and held them in his hand, and slowly walked to the entrance of the cave.

One of these two talismans is an amulet, which can release a protective aura to resist the full-strength attack of at least the late-stage cultivators of the True Yuan Realm. At the Taiyuan Sect, almost no one can break it except the three elders.

Another jade talisman stores a spell, and it is a group attack spell. When it is activated, five wind blades will be released, and the attack power will also reach the late-stage True Yuan realm of cultivators with all their strength.

This defense attack can at least ensure that he escapes unsuccessfully under the attack of the second-level monster spirit beast. As for how far he can run, it depends on how far his energy can support him to fly.

Of course, if a monster or spirit beast above level three comes, you can only wait for death. Unless the elder comes in person, you can only turn into a bastard.

The six-headed foxes, most of them underage, seem to have been dead for several days. A few small ones have begun to rot, and there is a yellow-brown liquid flowing everywhere on the ground, as if it is traces left after diarrhea. There is a foul smell in the air, which is disgusting.

Xu Chen gently plucked it with his feet a few times, then pinched his nose around him to observe, and finally carefully plucked his courage into the cave.

However, as soon as he walked in, he saw a fox lying on the ground. He was quite large and should have been adults. Of course, he had been dead for several days.

The smell in the cave is stronger.

Loomingly, there seemed to be a fox lying on the ground deeper.

Xu Chen felt his heart beating and held his breath and continued walking in. Sure enough, he walked three feet away and saw a dead fox. He continued to walk to the fork in the last road. He couldn't help but shake his body and found that several of them were densely poured into the fork in the last time he picked up the feces. He walked in and counted carefully and found that there were five in total.

In other words, thirteen foxes died from outside the cave and more than ten feet away from here, and more than half of them were adults.

And the total number of foxes in this nest is only more than ten.

In other words, this nest of foxes is basically dead, with at most three or four remaining.

Although he didn't see the old fox that was almost the second level, Xu Chen's nervous heart was much more relaxed, and at the same time he also felt more uncontrollable excitement.

Now he is really going to make a big splash.

Ordinary underage foxes have no value after death, but these adult spirit foxes are valuable when they die, and at least one spirit stone is worth a piece of spirit stone. Of course, if you catch them, you can buy several times more spirit stones.

Through this observation, he has found that these foxes did not die from attacks by other monsters, but seemed to have been poisoned.

Because as we entered the cave, there were traces of diarrhea everywhere along the way.

What awesome poison!

Xu Chen couldn't help but start his heartbeat to speed up again.

Any animal can tell the difference between food, and most of the group of spirit foxes are already a little intelligent and will never eat randomly. It is understandable to say that one or two are poisoned to death, but if a litter is poisoned to death, it is beyond the scope of understanding.

Could it be that they were attacked by other highly venomous insects and snakes?

Xu Chen was shocked and suspiciously left the entrance of the cave. After standing at the fork on the right that led to the depths of the cave, he thought for a while, and walked in slowly with the courage.

If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get a tiger's son? These foxes died strangely. He had the urge to figure out the whole story, and he vaguely felt that the sudden bloom of the resurrection tree should be related to the poisoning of these foxes.

After all, the fresh feces I picked up last time also seemed to have signs of diarrhea.

Xu Chen walked in with one foot high and one foot low, and took advantage of the dim light. After walking for more than ten feet this time, he found a fox three feet tall dead on the road.

The fourteenth one is now.

Xu Chen became even more courageous and walked in the winding and winding along the largest alleyway. After a quarter of an hour, his eyes suddenly lit up and a spacious cave dozens of feet in radius appeared. There was a crack on the top dozens of feet high. Bright light was transmitted in, and there were fern vines around him, and dripping spring water dripping down.

There are also some moss and green weed plants on the ground of the cave, and there are gravels of large and small everywhere, but the entire cave looks clean and the air is still fresh, without any disgusting smell.

On the dry side of the cave, there are some nests made of dead grass and branches, which seem to be the place where a nest of foxes sleep.

A gray-white fox with dirty fur curled up in the grass nest and was motionless.

(End of this chapter)
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