Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 49: Tiger Roaring Valley (1)
Huxiao Valley is located at the southernmost tip of Qingyun Mountain.
After walking down the Xinxion Peak and walking along the long mountain road, the scene in front of Tang Jie suddenly opened up and he actually saw a village.
The village is not big, with only a few dozen households, but it is noisy and lively. Several men dressed as villagers are holding down a big-horned cow. One of them holds a long-eared sharp knife and stabs the cow with one knife. He took out a few coins and handed them to a student standing next to him. The student took the money and muttered, "That's all." He shook his head and left.
Some old ladies were drying herbs on Shaichang Mountain, and there were also some middle-aged women giving money to students.
You can still see some iron cages further away. The cages contain all kinds of beasts, including some low-level monsters.
Tang Jie knew that this was Huxiao Village.
Huxiao Village is a very peculiar place in Xiyue College. The villagers here mainly make a living by trading the produce of the valley with students.
After students have harvested in the valley, if they feel it is cumbersome, they can sell it to the villagers here. The villagers will process it on the spot, process it and then sell it back to the college. Sometimes there is less prey in Huroar Valley, and the villagers will help catch some and throw them into the valley.
Behind the village is the entrance to Tiger Roaring Valley. There is a guru sitting at the entrance who is responsible for collecting fees. There was also a sign posted next to the guru, which wrote all the rules after entering the valley.
There are many rules, such as not using powerful spells to damage the landscape environment of the valley, herbs that are less than one year old cannot be excavated, some herbs cannot be excavated by cutting off their roots, some herbs that are less than three years old cannot be excavated, etc.
As for whether you know how to tell the difference, the college doesn't care. Anyway, it's taught in class. If you bring something you shouldn't, just wait to be punished.
As soon as Tang Jie came over, a middle-aged woman came up to her and smiled apologetically: "Brother, you want to enter the valley? Why don't you buy a map from me first? It only costs ten spiritual coins."
"Map? Ten?" Tang Jie asked in surprise.
"That's right." The woman clapped her hands and said, "Brother, don't think it's expensive. With my map, I won't be afraid of getting lost wherever I go. You know, my man also drew this map after going through many hardships. ."
"Why should I be afraid of being lost?" Tang Jie said with a smile: "You need to get a license to enter the valley. Every time you enter the valley, you will be automatically teleported out after six hours. If there is danger, you can also temporarily teleport. I don't have to be afraid no matter where I go. Are you lost?"
The woman smiled and said: "That's what I said, but in addition to showing the way, my map also has information records. I can remember exactly where there are monsters and herbs. Forget it. See, little brother, you are also a lovable person. I will suffer a little loss today. As long as you have five spiritual coins, it will be settled."
"So, your map must be a good seller."
"That's natural." The woman boasted.
"In this case, if you think about the various medicinal collection points marked along the way on this map, the ones that can be harvested have already been harvested, right? Even if there are some that are not illuminated, I'm afraid it's not that good." Tang Jie said leisurely. .
The woman's face immediately froze and she said with a serious face: "It turns out that she is not easy to fool. If you don't want to buy it, you should have told me earlier. It cost me so much money."
As he spoke, he waved his hand and left.
Tang Jie saw it funny and shouted: "If you are willing to give me a piece of spiritual money, I will buy it."
The woman immediately turned her head: "Okay!"
I quickly put the map into his hand, lest he regret it.
Tang Jie looked at the map. Although the drawing was rough, the terrain was roughly marked, and it did come with information. It was not a fake, so he paid the money.
When they arrived at the entrance of the valley, several students were standing there. When they saw Tang Jie approaching, one of them said, "Are you going to Tiger Roaring Valley? Are you interested in traveling with us?"
The terrain of Tiger Roaring Valley is complex and there are many monsters, so students often enter in groups.
However, Tang Jie had his own plans when he came here, but he could only refuse the kindness.
The student saw his refusal and didn't say anything. He just sneered: "Another self-righteous one."
Tang Jie didn't take it seriously, and after paying the two hundred spirit coins, he went into the valley.
After entering the valley, Tang Jie looked at the map and walked along the mountain road.
The Tiger Roaring Valley may not look big, but the space inside is really quite big. After walking for a while, Tang Jie saw no one around, patted his chest and said, "You can come out now."
A little head poked out from Tang Jie's arms, it was Yiyi.
Looking left and right first, she suddenly turned over and jumped onto Tang Jie's shoulders, jumping on her feet and shouting: "Oh, I'm finally out, I'm out!"
Then he looked at the surrounding scenery and exclaimed loudly: "Wow, so beautiful!"
The scenery of Tiger Roaring Valley is indeed good. They are standing on a grassland at the moment. Some unnamed flowers are blooming not far away, with various colors including red, green, pink, and purple. Colors of purple and red complement each other, and further away is a lush forest.
Mountain wind occasionally blows through the valley, bringing with it a roaring sound; birds fly through the pine sand, and there is a crisp cry; there are also rays of sunshine in the forest, bringing out the fragrance of fresh grass.
Yiyi jumped off Tang Jie and ran quickly on the grass with her bare feet, giggling from time to time.
For her, this was her first time in such a big place without having to hide herself, so it was no wonder she was so happy. This made Tang Jie feel a little guilty. After all, it was because of his lack of strength that he did not dare to let her appear in front of others. Everyone knew that the three great demons of Xiyue were full of treasures, so who would dare to use them as materials for refining? ?
In this world, power alone cannot decide everything, but without power, nothing can be decided!
"Brother, is this our new home?" he asked while running.
"Sorry, that's not the case here. We can only come here for six hours." Tang Jie replied.
"Yeah..." Upon hearing this, Yiyi pouted sadly.
"But if we can gain enough from this trip, we can come every day in the future."
"Really?" Yiyi became excited and jumped back onto Tang Jie's shoulders: "Tell me, what do we do?"
"Simple, find herbs and kill monsters." Tang Jie answered.
There are only two types of resources in Tiger Roar Valley. One is spiritual plants that can be used as medicine, and the other is valuable monsters. The former needs to be found, and the latter needs to be fought. Anyway, neither is so easy to obtain.
At this moment, hearing what Tang Jie said, Yiyi nodded: "Well, look at me!"
As soon as he closed his eyes, he took a deep breath.
The spirits of grass and trees are naturally sensitive to the scent of fairies and ghosts, and can smell the unusual scent even from a few miles away. After all, this is an important basis for the creatures to avoid danger in the early stage.
After a moment, Yiyi pointed to the distance with her little hand: "There are Zhilan over there, there are water chestnuts over there, and over there, over there and over there..."
Her little hands were swiping at random spots, which made Tang Jie dazzled and he could only say: "It takes two years to harvest orchids."
"You can't smell it!" Yiyi replied dissatisfied, her little nose wrinkled and she continued to sniff randomly. Suddenly she yelled and covered her nose: "It stinks, it stinks... There is a big snake over there, heading here. Come here!"
She pointed to the west with her little hand.
"Big snake?" Tang Jie quickly picked up the map and looked at what creatures were nearby. His expression changed slightly: "It's a spotted snake!"
The Spotted Snake is a kind of monster in Huxiao Valley. Its whole body is colorful, its oral fluid is poisonous, and it likes to eat living animals.
This thing is considered a tyrant in the Tiger Roaring Valley, and the students dare not mess with it. Unexpectedly, Tang Jie bumped into it as soon as he entered the valley.
No need to ask, this must have been caused by Yiyi.
The spirits of grass and trees are certainly sensitive to the breath of monsters, but those monsters are also sensitive to her breath. This kind of spiritual life is not only a great tonic for humans, but also for monsters. Therefore, as soon as Yiyi appeared, a The spotted snake pounced immediately.
Although Tang Jie also knew that this might happen if he brought Yi Yi here, he didn't expect it to happen so quickly and urgently.
At this moment Tang Jie knew something was wrong and shouted: "Let's go!"
He grabbed Yiyi and stuffed it into his arms, then quickly ran forward.
Just a moment after rushing out, I saw a colorful snake swimming over from a distance.
The snake was seven or eight meters long, as thick as a bucket, and had a pair of green eyes that could make one's scalp tingle.
It spat out a long letter and beat the air, catching the scent left in the air. Then with a long hiss, it chased Tang Jie in the direction of his escape.
Running all the way, Yiyi shouted in Tang Jie's arms: "It's still chasing!"
"It's really troublesome!" Tang Jie continued to run wildly.
"Didn't you say we came here to kill monsters? Why are we still running?"
"Because it is not included in the monsters I plan to kill!" Tang Jie replied angrily.
As the most basic practical training place for students, Tiger Roaring Valley is said to be safer than the outside mainly for three reasons.
First, there is a teleportation jade token. If they encounter danger, students can leave immediately through the teleportation token. This is the greatest guarantee for students' safety, but leaving early means missing out on opportunities. The college will never let you re-enter unless you pay again.
Secondly, all the monsters here have data. There will definitely be no monsters that are not in the data and that students have never seen before. Therefore, students know very well which monsters they can deal with and which ones they cannot.
Thirdly, there are no monsters above the psychic level here. There is only one high-grade monster, and the rest are all middle- and low-grade monsters.
According to the division method of Qixia Realm, fairies and ghosts are generally divided into five levels: channeling, enlightening, transforming, distracting, and returning to the void, which correspond to the five realms of Taoists, and each level is divided into upper, middle, and lower grades.
As for Yiyi, she has not yet entered the market.
Except for these three, the other situations are the same as the outside world. If you are slow to react and get eaten by a monster, you can only blame yourself for your incompetence.
And monsters are very different from students.
Students’ realm belongs to their realm, and their strength belongs to their strength.
The realm is like the level of the students, and the spells are like skills. It is useless to have an empty level without skills and equipment, so there are many practitioners whose real strength is lower than the realm.
Monsters are different. Their strength is directly related to their own realm. Their strength is determined by their level. In particular, some monsters have extraordinary talents and are extremely powerful even in the psychic stage. In addition to strength, their improvement in realm also contains factors of wisdom, and their development direction is very different from that of humans.
Because of this, there are many monsters who are above the level of performance. Even if it is a monster in the psychic stage, it is not surprising to overwhelm a cultivator who has transcended the mortal realm.
This spotted snake is a mid-level monster in the Tiger Roaring Valley.
Even if it is not a powerful being, such a level alone means that its strength is comparable to the invincible students of the Linghu level - Tang Jie has not reached this stage in Lingquan, how can he dare to fight it? ah.
At this moment, running wildly, Tang Jie asked Yiyi to return to her flower shape while running.
After changing back to the flower shape, the spirit energy of the spirit body will be restrained, and the dissipated spirit energy will be greatly reduced.
It's just that the spotted snake has already smelled it, so it won't give up easily. No matter how restrained this spiritual energy is, there is still a little bit of it in the air. It has been following its path all the way, but it refuses to let go. Instead, it gets closer and closer.
"Damn! It's really hard to deal with!" Tang Jie saw that he couldn't get rid of the big snake. Instead, he was chased closer and closer by it, which gave him a headache for a while.
Although he had the jade token and would not be in danger of his life, he could not accept the fact that he was kicked out as soon as he entered the valley.
"What should I do now? What should I do?" Seeing that it was useless to transform into his original form, the little guy's head popped out again.
This is great, the big snake chased him even harder.
"What can we do? Let's race with it." Tang Jie rolled his eyes helplessly.
When he thought about being chased as soon as he entered the valley, he was very upset.
Hearing this, Yiyi burst into tears: "It's all my fault, it's all caused by me... Wuwu..."
She cried so sadly that Tang Jie was embarrassed. Knowing that he had spoken badly in a hurry and hurt the little girl's heart, he could only touch her head and said: "It's not your fault, honey. , It’s just a snake, it can’t do anything to us?”
"But now it is chasing us..."
"Yes, I know." Tang Jie looked back.
The dust and smoke rose in the distance, and the big snake swam with an astonishing momentum. It suddenly let out a hiss, the sound was so sharp that it almost pierced the eardrums.
Tang Jie snorted: "Don't you just want to eat? I'll let you eat until you're full!"
As he spoke, he suddenly changed direction and rushed towards the other side.
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On a meadow on the south side of Tiger Roaring Valley, a group of bighorn cattle were pacing slowly, gnawing on the green grass on the ground.
Bighorn cattle are undoubtedly the lowest link in the biological chain of Qixia Realm. Apart from the sharp horns on their heads, they have no other weapons.
Their only meaning in Tiger Roaring Valley is to become food for those monster beasts to ensure the normality of the food chain.
According to the rules of the academy, these creatures that do not actively attack can be captured alive and brought out, but they cannot be killed directly. Occasionally, if a student has nothing to gain in the valley, he will catch one and sell it for ten spirit coins, but only one at a time.
At this time, the bighorn cattle are drinking water by the stream.
A calf was disobedient and tried to push its way to the front, but was gored by a bad-tempered bull and hit its head. The calf screamed a few times in frustration on the ground, then got up and returned to its team. It returned to its mother in grievance, and rubbed against the cow a few times, looking for comfort.
Then something happened that it could never understand.
In the distance, a person is running towards this side at full speed.
The man suddenly rushed closer, and then the calf saw his mother suddenly flying...
"Moo..." The calf made a frightened cry in its own way.
The cattle are boiling.
Grabbing another big horned ox casually, Tang Jie threw it backwards. This big horned ox weighed seven to eight hundred kilograms. Even with Tang Jie's current body, it was quite difficult to throw it. At this moment, It was the phaseless golden body that was activated.
The big-horned bull flew in the sky and landed towards the colorful giant snake. The big snake opened its mouth wide, and the snake's head suddenly expanded, and it swallowed the big-horned bull in one mouthful.
Although it came to eat Yiyi, since someone brought food to its mouth, it didn't mind eating a proper meal on the way.
The cattle ran in panic, and Tang Jie ran after the cattle, then grabbed another cow and threw it behind him.
He threw it specifically into the snake's mouth. The greedy nature of the snake made it refuse any comer, and it swallowed another one, still chasing after it.
"You have a good appetite... Let's see how many you can eat!" Tang Jie snorted ~IndoMTL.com~ and threw two more cows in succession.
The spotted snake swallowed four cows in a row. Even with its size, it began to become bloated. It could no longer pursue it and finally stopped, but its big eyes were still staring at Tang Jie. I was still working hard to swim forward, but it was much slower and cumbersome.
"Chase! You have to keep chasing me!" Tang Jie sneered: "Beasts are just beasts. No matter how powerful you are, you can't change your nature."
After saying this, sweat dripped down Tang Jie's forehead.
He was chased so hard by the big snake just now. If it weren't for the fast speed of Zidian Jumping Technique, he might have been forced out of the valley now.
At this time, the herd of cattle had run away. Tang Jie saw that the big snake was too full to move. He thought, could he take the opportunity to kill it?
He took a few tentative steps towards the big snake and slowly approached.
The big snake ate too much and was completely paralyzed on the ground and unable to move.
Seeing Tang Jie getting closer and closer, the spotted snake suddenly straightened up and opened its mouth towards Tang Jie. With a roar, a large amount of venom was sprayed down overwhelmingly.
Fortunately, Tang Jie was alert, and the Zidian Jumping Technique was still in operation and quickly retreated. The venom fell from in front of him like rain and landed on the grass, which withered immediately.
A drop of venom fell on Tang Jie's arm, corroding a large piece of his flesh like strong acid.
Looking at the big snake again, it stared straight at him, revealing its fangs full of barbs and sharp thorns. It stretched and retracted its long letter, pointing directly at Tang Jie.
Obviously, even if this big guy is too full to move, he is not something he can deal with now.
Tang Jie pointed at the big snake unwillingly: "You are cruel!"
He turned around and left.
"Hiss!" The spotted snake hissed angrily.
Obviously, neither party is satisfied with this ending.