Rainy night, forest, monsters...

fear!

The crown of the tree is very lush, and the leaves catch all the raindrops. Not a single drop of rain falls directly to the ground. Until they can no longer hold it, the excess raindrops gather into thick droplets and drip under the trees. So the rain in the forest is crackling.

, are thick water droplets falling continuously.

The rotten leaves on the ground are very thick and have absorbed a lot of water, becoming like a swamp. When water droplets hit it, it will make a strange "puff" sound.

The strange sound of "Puff, puff, puff" kept ringing, and in the distance and in invisible places, some birds and beasts roared continuously, like a terrifying concerto in the dark night.

The master and apprentice sat side by side in the tree hole, leaning against the tree wall behind them, looking at the darkness outside through the transparent water film.

In fact, they couldn't see anything, but they didn't know what to do.

Suddenly at a certain moment, there were very light footsteps climbing up from under the tree. Listening to the sound of the flesh pads and fingernails touching the tree trunk, it must be some kind of cat or leopard animal.

"Master..." Li Shiyin shouted softly, with fear in her voice.

"Shh!" Qin Ran quickly told her to be silent.

The big cat climbed up the tree. After a while, there was a "swishing" sound of snakes. Listening to the movement of it crawling across the ground, I knew it was a quite big snake. It slid through the swamp, climbed up the tree, and passed by

tree hole, and then...

Stopped.

In an instant, both Li Shiyin and Qin Ran stopped breathing.

The giant snake stopped outside the tree hole, and the snake kept tapping on the water film, making a very soft "bop-bop-bop" sound.

The sound is extremely rhythmic and the sound is extremely terrifying.

Although there was a formation, Qin Ran quietly picked up the seal and compressed the cyclone in his dantian, preparing to deal with the giant snake that would come in at any time.

"Ouch..."

Suddenly the big cat on the tree roared, and the "boop" sound of the snake hitting the water film suddenly stopped. There was a terrifying silence outside the tree hole for a few seconds, and then the "swish" sound of the snake was heard again. The giant snake

He left and continued climbing up the tree.

The tree hole continued to be quiet, until the terrifying sound of "rustling" could no longer be heard, and then there was the sound of Li Shiyin exhaling gently. After a while, Qin Ran breathed heavily.

"Master, why did the snake listen to the tiger?" Li Shiyin asked quietly.

"That's not a tiger, it should be some kind of leopard." Qin Ran replied in a low voice, "It's hard to say the relationship between them, it's not necessarily a subordinate relationship..."

The two of them were squeezed into a small tree hole, sitting next to each other. They had just experienced a tense moment. When they calmed down, they found that the temperature in the tree hole was much higher.

Qin Ran felt like he was sweating. After he started practicing, he hadn't sweated for many years, but now he was sweating. He knew why.

In this tree hole, he seemed to smell the warm and faint fragrance...

"Kinran, Kieran, this is animal instinct, hormones, and hormone interference." Qin Ran kept scolding himself in his heart,

"You are a cultivator who has isolated worldly desires. You are a person who wants to become an immortal. How can you let such lowly animal nature disturb your mind? You are a human being, a monk, an immortal, not an animal!"

"Master, which one is more powerful, the snake or the leopard?" Li Shiyin asked again.

She seemed to be getting closer, and when she spoke, the warm breath coming out of her mouth was particularly sweet.

"It's an illusion, it's a hallucination, it's an inner demon!" Qin Ran was struggling in his heart.

"Judging from the breath alone, the snake is stronger." He replied in a steady voice. It was dark enough in the tree hole that no one could see his struggling face.

"The snake is stronger?" Li Shiyin was surprised, "What kind of snake is it? What state is it in?"

"I don't know what kind of snake it is, but judging from its breath, it is equivalent to the golden elixir stage, and it is a more powerful golden elixir stage." Qin Ran replied.

"The Supreme Lord, the Queen Mother, the Tathagata Buddha, the sage Confucius, the sub-sage Yan Hui..." He recalled some images of noble character in his mind, "Liu Xiahui, who is sitting calmly in his arms..."

"Liu Xiahui?" Li Shiyin asked, "Who is Liu Xiahui?"

"Ah?!" Qin Ran was stunned. He accidentally revealed what he was thinking in his heart?

"Liu Xiahui, um..." Qin Ran's voice finally showed panic, "He is an ancient gentleman with noble virtues."

"Then what does it mean to be calm?"

"Ah!!!" Qin Ran panicked for a moment, could he even read this?

"Yes, this means..." He hesitated and couldn't speak.

Fortunately, at this moment, a loud "bang" sound suddenly sounded outside the tree hole, drawing their attention out.

"Roar!!!"

Immediately afterwards, there was another loud roar. From this sound, it was probably the leopard.

After it roared, a bright beam of light lit up. Qin Ran used the light to look carefully and recognized that it was a golden-patterned clouded leopard. It was an adult, about the size of a bull, and must be at the Golden Core stage. At this time, it

On the ground, breathing into the tree.

As soon as the light beam brightened and dimmed, another extremely heavy object fell from the tree. It hit the dead branches and leaves with a "snap" sound, causing countless water splashes. It flew more than ten meters, and many water splashes were splashed on it.

On the water film in the tree hole.

What was smashed down this time was obviously the giant snake. After it landed, it slid quickly and curled up, with its head upright in a defensive posture...

Therefore, the relationship between the giant snake and the giant leopard is not a subordinate relationship, nor even a friendly relationship, but a hostile relationship.

The snake is the trailing leopard on the tree, the snake is the predator that takes the initiative to attack!

At this time, the snake was entrenched in defense, probably because the leopard was injured.

The light beam just lit up, and Qin Ran could clearly see that there were two blackened tooth holes on the neck of the golden-striped clouded leopard. It was obvious that the snake was defensive, waiting for the leopard's poisonous attack.

The leopard was not willing to be captured without mercy. It bared its teeth, roared in warning, and walked back and forth around the coiled snake, looking for opportunities to attack.

After pulling for a long time, the leopard suddenly realized that if he didn't do anything, he might not have a chance to do anything, so he stopped wandering, leaned down, and pounced forward, with his claws first and his words behind. He wanted to hold the giant snake down first, and then

Give it a bite.

Unfortunately, the leopard did not expect it. The moment it realized that it might not have a chance to take action, it had no chance. At this time, the snake venom entered its body and its movements had slowed down.

In a life-and-death struggle, if the movement slows down, it means death. The snake, looking for an opportunity, suddenly pops out its body, which is as tight as a spring, and takes a mouthful at the leopard's neck.

The leopard failed to avoid it and was bitten on the neck again. It struggled with its claws. But the snake could not give it a chance and quickly wrapped its body around it, tightly wrapping its torso.

The sound outside the tree hole became smaller and smaller, and the sound of the leopard struggling became smaller and smaller. After a while, it finally disappeared.

The snake let go of its body, bit the leopard, and went deep into the forest.

The sound of snakes gradually became distant, Qin Ran frowned: "Won't it just swallow it?"

If you don't eat it directly, where will you go with it in your mouth? Do snakes have such a habit? He doesn't know very well.

"Has the snake left?" Li Shiyin asked.

"Yeah." Qin Ran shook his head. Although he was puzzled, he had no intention of exploring... That would not be to explore, that would be to die.

The movement of the snakes and leopards disappeared, and the tree hole suddenly seemed extremely quiet, even awkward, and the sounds of birds and beasts roaring in the darkness outside the tree hole began again.

Qin Ran was not a person who knew how to chat. He thought for a while and finally couldn't find anything to say, so he pretended to be asleep.

After a while, Li Shiyin, who was bored, called her master several times and found that he was already asleep. For some reason, she suddenly sighed and whispered twice: "Master? Master?!"

Then she also fell asleep, leaning on Kieran's shoulder.

At first, both of them pretended to sleep, but after sleeping for a while, the fatigue of the day came over them, and they really fell asleep.

Until, at a certain moment in the middle of the night, the ground suddenly began to shake...
Chapter completed!