This kind of red coral-like branch is difficult to burn under normal circumstances. It needs to be burned in a blazing fire for a long time before it can be ignited. If you want to ignite it smoothly and quickly, you need to use magical powers. Once it burns,
The firepower is extremely long-lasting, and a branch can burn for almost a whole day. If it is activated by some kind of magic power, the flame it emits can be close to pale white, and the temperature is extremely high.
Wufuqiu disciples do not cut down the cold fire pine in the mountains, but they look for this special branch every year, which is also called cold fire wood. The cold fire wood collected in the mountains will be collected and specially stored. What is the use of this thing?
There are many. For example, when smelting the embryo of fine steel with ore on the Fire Peak, it can be used to sacrifice the furnace fire. Then, with the help of the magical power of weapon refining to create the embryo, various fine steel utensils can be obtained.
At this time, Huwa and others walked up a high slope. Down the slope in front was a forest of cold fire pine trees. Looking at the tall trees, many of them may have grown for thousands of years. After the pine needles fell in winter, the forest became sparse. Everyone
From a high place, they saw a man chopping wood in the forest. He was an old man wearing a linen cotton robe, holding a thick-backed machete with a long pole. His attire was no different from that of an ordinary old man in an ordinary village.
But this is deep in the Southern Wilderness, not around Hongjin City. Apart from birds and beasts and various demon clans, where can such an old country man come from? This old man is chopping firewood, and there are several branches under his feet, like
The clusters of red corals in the pure white snow—what he chopped was actually the cold fire wood!
Everyone hid behind the trees high up to peek, Xiaojun lowered his voice and said: "Junior brother Xiaolu, do you think the old man was transformed by a monster?"
It’s no wonder that Xiaojun would ask this question, because it is said that monsters often appear in the Southern Wilderness since ancient times. The beasts start to practice spiritual intelligence. If they have seen human civilization, they will often understand the method of transformation. This cultivation has broken through the fourth level.
After reaching this state, you can transform into a human being.
In fact, it is not just demon cultivators. As far as Huwa knows, if those demon cultivators in the deep mountains and wild wilderness can break through the four realms, they can also change their bodies and hide their special physical signs, making them look no different from ordinary people. For example, the Yu tribe in his hometown once had
That clan leader, Mao, usually looks like an ordinary person, and does not have a pair of wings on his back. The original demon clan appearance is equivalent to the original form of some kind of monster.
Monsters are humans and not born demons, but after all, they are born different from ordinary people, so they are called monsters.
There can't be ordinary people's villages in this area. Even if the villagers around Hongjincheng cut firewood, they can't cut it deep into the wilderness. So although this old man looks ordinary, he appears in a place where he shouldn't be.
, the wood he chopped was not the firewood that ordinary people needed, it looked very strange.
He was either a certain kind of demon cultivator, or a member of a certain demon clan in the nearby area, but his cultivation must have broken through the four realms - this is what Xiaojun thought. But Hanxiong was surprised and said: "The appearance of that person, I
How come it looks so familiar?"
Huwa whispered: "Of course he looks familiar. We met at the market in Hongjincheng, the old man who sold you the sword embryo... I thought at the time that he shouldn't be an ordinary person, but now it seems.
His skills are indeed extremely profound, obviously superior to those of us!"
Not only Huwa but also Panhu recognized the old man chopping wood. The old man did not show any magical powers, so why did Huwa give him such a high evaluation? Because while they were talking, the old man waved the long pole in his hand.
With his machete, he chopped down another piece of cold fire wood from a high place.
To collect cold fire wood, disciples of Wufuqiu must first climb up to a tall tree, step on the branches and grasp the trunk firmly, and then use their precious swords and axes to cut it down. Because the special branches are too hard, it is difficult to
It can be cut off. And the old man seems to be too old to climb the tree. Therefore, the handle of the machete is a long pole. He stands on the ground and lifts the pole to extend the knife to a high place to chop.
I didn't see him making any special moves. With just a wave of his hand, the cold fire wood that was difficult to damage with a knife and ax fell down as easily as chopping vegetables. Huwa is also an expert and knows how to cut high trees in this way.
It is very difficult to force the thing at hand. Even if the force is enough, the long handle of the knife will probably be broken first instead of the tough cold fire wood, unless some magical powers are used.
However, he did not sense any fluctuations in the energy of the old man's body. It was just an ordinary action of chopping wood. Huwa secretly speculated - what method can be used to chop down the cold fire wood like this? If the strength of Wu Ding Gong is revealed,
Put in a long pole and a machete, and shake your wrist to exert force when swinging. The moment the blade touches the branch, the force will come out directly, and it should be able to cut the cold fire wood.
But this is just a theoretical speculation. Although it seems to be the simplest movement, it requires the combination of the strength of Wu Ding Gong, the skill of moving strength, and the objects in the hand. Every subtle detail must be mastered and practiced.
To the extreme. But seeing that the old man just waved his hand lightly, even Huwa felt inferior.
Cutting off a piece of cold fire wood is certainly not difficult for Huwa. But with the old man's method, Huwa thought that he couldn't do it. Although his Wu Ding Gong had been cultivated to an extreme that ordinary people could not imagine, he still couldn't do it.
A big difference.
Besides, all this is Huwa's speculation, and the old man may not have used the method Huwa thought of. In fact, Huwa didn't see how he cut the cold fire wood at all, it was just a swing of the knife pole. Could it be that
What kind of magic was used?
Hanxiong whispered again: "Should we go over and say hello?"
It was very strange to meet such an old man in the deep mountains, but it was obvious that he was not a bad person. Even if he was a powerful demon cultivator, he had no ill intentions towards Huwa and others. Since we met him in Hongjin City
We have met each other, and we have received benefits from them. We are even more destined to meet each other now, and we should show up to meet each other.
However, Huwa made a silent gesture, used his spiritual consciousness to stop his voice and said: "It seems someone is coming over there again, let's take a look first and then talk!"
While they were talking, a person suddenly ran from a distance along the valley at the foot of the high slope. His hair was disheveled, his clothes were messy, and he looked very panicked. The snow in the forest was very thick, and ordinary people would sink deeply every time they stepped on it.
But the man's posture was a bit strange. He twisted his waist very quickly, but accidentally fell into the snow several times. He got up and continued running.
Although she was wearing a large fur coat, when she took a closer look when she started running, she was a woman with a graceful figure. Huwa frowned slightly, he recognized that the person was a snake girl, but it was not the one he recognized.
Miss Qiluo is so far away. If it were before, Huwa would not be able to detect the vitality and rhythm characteristics of that person. But now he has broken through the fifth realm, and his soul stretching sense is far more subtle than before. More importantly,
He was already very familiar with Snake Girl's running figure.
The person who came was an ordinary snake girl, not like Zi Luo who had magical powers. She ran wildly in the snowy field for some reason, and suddenly found an old man chopping wood in front of her, and was also surprised. But
The old man obviously didn't look like a bad guy. The snake girl accidentally tripped in the snow again, got up and shouted: "Old man, a murderer is chasing me, please help me! ... No, you
You are no match for the murderer, so run away and hide."
The old man glanced at the woman, walked over with a machete in hand, passed the woman's side, thrust the long handle of the machete up there, looked at the direction she ran in and said: "Little lady, you don't have to worry! Although I am an old man,
I’m old, but I’ve been walking in this wilderness all year round. What kind of poisonous insects and beasts have I not seen? Why should I be afraid of thugs!”
Before he finished speaking, a low roar came from the front, and a black panther came galloping in the snow. There were six people who appeared with the black panther. The ones running at the front were the disciples Fu Bao and Yi Sun of the Beast Mountain.
.This group of people actually appeared here, and when they met again, they were hunting for a snake girl.
…
Huwa has never seen Fubao, he is the master of the spiritual beast Black Panther. Before he could meet him, Fubao was hit by the black panther thrown back by Huwa and fell into the dense forest and was injured. Immediately afterwards, Yisun and others approached him.
Huwa took action and chased him into the valley, where he was almost buried alive by a rock slide.
Later, Yisun and other five people climbed over the mountain col after the rock collapse to settle the score with Huwa, and Huwa's companions also arrived. Yanfeng's junior brother Yan Gang revealed the identity of the woman they were chasing in his speech, and gave them to
Ran away in shock.
This group of people were also worried for a while, fearing that the masters on Wufu Qiu would come to them, so they found a secluded place deep in the mountains to hide and recuperate. They did not go to Wufu Qiu to join in the fun on the winter solstice. But after their injuries were healed,
He quietly returned to the Hongjincheng area to inquire about the recent situation, and found out that no one was pursuing him, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
At first, the casual cultivator named Xiaolu only met the snake girl. Hanxiong and others who arrived later had never seen the snake girl. Everything was just the other party's guess, and the snake girl must have run away long ago.
, there is no evidence to accuse them. It is estimated that Hanxiong and others did not cause any trouble, and the masters on Wufu Hill did not arrest them.
This is what Yisun and Fubao thought. They didn't know that Huwa later found Qiluo and a series of things happened. This group of monks from the Beast Mountain no longer worried, and gradually felt unwilling to give in. Wufuqiu
Of course, they had missed the grand opening of the mountain gate during the winter solstice, but they came to Hongjincheng this time to experience the journey and look for various opportunities.
These people relied on their powerful supernatural powers and brought the spiritual beast Black Panther into the Southern Wilderness. It was already a severe winter in the Southern Wilderness with heavy snow covering the mountains. Many birds and beasts were hidden, and monsters were lurking. The environment was harsher than in summer, but there were less dangers.
Much more. They were looking for some special elixirs and materials along the way, but they still wanted to find traces of the Snake Girl, especially the monk named Fu Bao.
Fu Bao is the most beloved disciple of Cong Yu, the sect master of the Mountain of Beasts, and is also Cong Yu's nephew. A black leopard, a spiritual beast raised in the mountain since childhood, was also tamed and driven by him. This trip was mainly because of Fu Bao.
Leopard finally broke through the four realms of cultivation, so he wanted to go out of the mountain to see the world. He took the spirit leopard and five other senior brothers with him. (To be continued...)