In the hot summer, even though it is still early in the sky, there is still a bit of heat in the air.
North of Shanhai Village, Laolinzi.
After having breakfast at home, Ling Yi and Zhang Lei, who had greeted Ling Xiaoshan and Zhang Dahe respectively, each carried an iron birch slingshot, a cloth bag of polished stones, plus a sickle, flint, rope, and dry food.
Wait, with Ah Huang and Miaomiao following, we entered a place that many adults in the village stayed away from.
As soon as they entered the forest, they saw Ah Huang playing around and looking happy. Meow Meow, who usually looked aloof, also jumped up and climbed up in twos and twos, climbed up to the high branches of a big tree, and looked down from above. Because the canopy of trees overhead blocked the increasingly hot sunlight, the temperature in the old forest dropped by at least three to five degrees compared to the outside. Ling Yi and the two of them, who had just come to join us, had a slight sweat on their foreheads.
I feel quite refreshed.
A gust of wind blew through the forest, bringing greetings from the northern land of Douluo Continent to Ling Yi and Zhang Lei.
According to Ling Yi's inquiries from various sources, behind the forest, which is more than twenty miles deep, the mountains stretching for unknown distances seem to be connected to the "Ice Forest" in the north of the [Tian Dou Empire].
As for the "Ultra North" further north, that is unknown. It is obviously beyond the cognitive scope of the people Ling Yi can currently contact.
Stepping into the forest, Ling Yi held a sickle in one hand and caught the stick that Meow Meow had pushed down from the branch above his head with the other hand. His whole expression was solemn, loose on the outside and tight on the inside.
Even though this is only the outermost part of the old forest, only seven or eight meters away from the sun-drenched place behind it.
In the forest with complex environment, it is right to be cautious after all.
The most unlucky guy in "The Transformation of Stars", Immortal Emperor Niyang, a dignified eighth-level Xuanxian, a powerful being in the immortal world, obviously got a great opportunity from the divine realm, but because of stepping on a poisonous insect from the divine realm
, was poisoned to death.
What the hell is this?!
This is both a matter of luck and lack of caution. As a time traveler, Ling Yi often takes this as a warning.
It can be said that the 'unlucky ghost' Ni Yang Immortal Emperor and the 'gou sage' Li Changshou were both regarded by Ling Yi as a beacon on the road to spiritual practice.
It’s just that one is a negative example and the other is a positive example.
Holding a black wooden stick about the thickness of a thumb and about one meter long in his hand, Ling Yi occasionally pushed aside the dead branches and leaves on the way forward, and swept away some vines and weeds that were entangled in the road.
This scene made Zhang Lei, who was a few steps behind, feel a little jealous.
Although, he also had a wooden stick in his hand that Meow had just pushed down from the high branch of another big tree.
This one is thicker than the one in Ling Yi's hand, about the thickness of a small egg, nearly 1.5 meters long, and has an overall withered yellow color. It's not as good looking as Ling Yi's black one with a slight metallic sheen.<
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"Ayi~"
Zhang Lei staggered away from Ling Yi in front of him and struck the wooden stick in his hand diagonally forward. He glanced at the stick in Ling Yi's hand and said: "I'll go to the "Iron Birch Tree" today to have a look. I also want to break one."
Iron birch branches..."
He lowered his head and glanced at the withered yellow wooden stick in his hand, and saw that there were two bug eyes and a thin crack on it. A look of disgust flashed in his eyes:
"Look~" Zhang Lei raised the wooden stick in his hand towards Ling Yi: "I only put it on the tree for a few days, and two eyes were eaten by insects——"
"Okay~" Ling Yi took the time to glance at Zhang Lei's raised stick and nodded to him: "As long as there is one of the right size -"
After finishing speaking, Zhang Lei adjusted his direction with a smile on his face and walked towards the location of the "Iron Birch Tree" in the old forest.
Along the way, Ling Yi was focused and always paying attention to the goings-on around him.
Thanks to the development of spiritual power in recent years, in addition to the great progress in mental power, Ling Yi's five senses have also been greatly developed.
As long as he pays attention to the induction, everything within a radius of tens of meters will be reflected in his mind.
However, the farther away it is, the blurrier it becomes, and the closer it is, the clearer it is.
For example, right now, Ling Yi could easily sense the crawling tracks of some insects and ants in the grass a few meters around him, and his ears automatically simulated the sound of "rustling~".
There are also the sounds of high-frequency flapping of the wings of mosquitoes and flies flying in the surrounding air; there are insects parasitizing inside the tree trunks, sucking the sap of the big trees...
Ling Yi can visualize these scenes in his mind without having to use his eyes to see them.
This is the way of spiritual cultivation that Ling Yi relied on from the many novels he read in his previous life, including "The Emperor of the Galaxy", and spent several years imitating and copying this world, as well as his own talents and qualifications -
—The second stage of deep sleep!
Unfortunately, as introduced in that novel, in deep sleep, you cannot move and must be absolutely quiet. If your body moves a little, you will wake up
Wanting to reach the third stage of exercise and enter deep sleep, Ling Yi currently only has some guesses, but has never been able to get in.
……
After a while, Ling and Yi arrived at their destination.
Here, we are still in the outer area of the old forest, but it is still several miles deep. The surrounding trees are taller, and the sunlight transmitted through the forest is much sparser than before.
A clearing with a radius of about thirty meters suddenly appeared between the dense forests. In the center of the clearing was a dark 'small' tree about twelve or three meters high.
Compared with the surrounding trees that are all 20 meters upward, this dark tree with a metallic luster does seem a bit small.
"Iron Birch Tree" is a kind of soul power plant. The specific age is unknown. Anyway, my grandfather Ling Changqing said that this tree grew here when his father, Ling Yi's great-grandfather Ling Xu, was a child.
At that time, the tree was about ten meters tall. After so many years, it may not have even increased by one meter in height.
As for the name "Iron Birch Tree", how did the villagers of Shanhai Village, which is remote and backward and lacks information, know about it? The villagers themselves don't know. It seems that the older generation has already called it that. When did it start?
The old people who are still alive can't figure it out, and they think it seems to be more ancient~
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It’s not that no one has paid attention to this soul power plant. Compared to going to the soul hunting forest to hunt for soul beasts’ soul rings, this “iron birch tree” that grows honestly in the ground is much safer.
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But unfortunately, there is currently no soul master in Shanhai Village who can turn this "Iron Birch Tree" into a soul ring.
Another one is this "iron birch", which is really too hard!
Several adult laborers spent a long time chopping with axes and hatchets. The blades of the knives and axes cracked, and their arms were sore and weak, leaving only a few marks on the trunk.
Over the years, the villagers of Shanhai Village can only pick up some naturally fallen branches and put them to good use according to their size, length, and shape. Even these fallen branches are as tough as ordinary iron tools.
It is also not easy to be moth-eaten or worn out.
Faced with such a tough "iron birch tree", why did Ling Yi agree so casually and help Zhang Lei break a branch?
Obviously, the life of cheating is such self-confidence!
For example, the iron birch stick in Ling Yi's hand was the one he climbed up the "iron birch tree" last year and took it from a branch seven or eight meters above the ground.
That moment, that moment, this moment.
Zhang Lei was very lucky. He came here specifically for this purpose. Unlike before, he came and went in a hurry every time. After spending a little time, he found a branch on a branch that was about the same size and length as the stick in his hand.
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I saw that Ling Yi raised his foot and kicked at the root of the tree. He was like a monkey. Using his hands and feet together, he climbed up to the middle of the "iron birch tree" in the blink of an eye and arrived at the branch he had aimed at before.<
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He took one step forward, then squatted down and sat down, straddling one-third of the branch with a diameter of about fifteen centimeters.
Clamp the branch with both legs, hold the branch with one hand to steady yourself, and hold the sickle with the other hand. Place the blade of the blade against the root of a branch a few feet in front of you and grind it carefully.
Ling Yi mobilized his mental power and sensed the texture of the joints at the roots of the branches.
At a certain moment, Ling Yi's eyes narrowed slightly, and the sickle he raised slightly in his hand "swiped" and dragged...
"Tsk——"
With a slight sound, a branch that looked like it was made of black iron broke and fell to the ground.
"What a pity~" Ling Yi sat up straight, pressed his hand on the tree trunk under his crotch, stood up, and shook his head silently in his heart: "Although I can learn from the idea of Pao Ding's solution to the problem of cattle, I can make a difference without being generous.
I can do it with ease, but the forward swing of this move is too long, and now I can only split the material...'