Chapter 199: The Edge of Life and Death
The situation of Wang Cheng and others can be said to be neither good nor bad.
They successfully withdrew from the Snake Valley, but were also trapped in the Snake Valley.
At this time, most of the poisonous fog in the Snake Valley had dissipated, and from time to time, monsters and barbarian warlocks would pass by nearby areas, and even monsters would break into the valley to find food.
In order to avoid being discovered by monsters, Wang Cheng and others had already moved into the underground of Snake Valley. They temporarily opened a cave underground for living, and also filled the entrances and exits of the cave with mud and stones. They had to use the "earth escape technique" to slowly pass through the three-meter-thick mud and stone layer to reach the ground.
Moreover, in order to prevent the monsters who can escape from the ground from being discovered and suddenly attacked by them, everyone specially built the underground cave into a cave hall, leaving a few feet wide space in the cave hall.
Even so, the five people were still very crowded in such an underground cave.
"Sister Yan, are we hiding underground and not going out next?"
After staying in this underground cave for almost five days, Qian Song finally couldn't stand this kind of life and started to ask in a low voice as Yan Ying.
People stay here these days and dare not do anything. They count the time almost every day. This kind of life is really uncomfortable for cultivators who are used to the fulfilling life every day.
When Qian Song was extremely upset when he thought about how long he would have to spend like these days in the future.
His mood reached his face, his face was as gloomy as water and his brows were furious.
"If Junior Brother Qian feels uncomfortable waiting like this, you can also go up and get some breath, and complete the tasks assigned by Master Duanmu, and investigate the situation of the reserve team behind the Yaoman."
Yan Ying glanced at Qian Song and responded to the other party’s question calmly.
She has a deep concentration and is calm, and has not been confused by this kind of life.
When Qian Song heard her words, he immediately knew what she meant. He couldn't help but look at Zheng Lun and asked, "Junior Brother Zheng, what do you say? Do you want to go out with me to take a look?"
"My junior brother, my injury has not completely healed yet. I'd better wait until I recover my injury first before going out."
Zheng Lun shook his head slightly, but also refused Qian Song's invitation.
Qian Song's face became even more ugly after being rejected one after another.
He was forced to turn his eyes away and turned to Wang Cheng and asked, "Where is Fellow Daoist Wang? I see that Fellow Daoist Wang has been unable to bear this kind of depression these days. I wonder if I want to go up with Qian to get some breath?"
Wang Cheng actually didn't feel bored, he was just worried about the situation in the sect.
However, when he saw Qian Song being rejected one after another, he was worried that if he refused again, he might offend the other party, which made the other party unable to help but expose his anger on him.
Therefore, after pondering for a moment, he nodded and said, "Since fellow Daoist Qian invites him to come out for some breath."
Hearing his words, Qian Song's face also relaxed, and he couldn't help but smile and said, "Fellow Daoist Wang is indeed a cheerful person, so let's go out now."
Immediately, the two of them used the "earth escape technique" to slowly escape from the ground and appeared on the ground of the Snake Valley.
It was night, and the sound of poisonous snakes spitting out their letters could be heard everywhere in the Snake Valley.
There were once a group of demon snakes here. Even if those demon snakes are either dead or escaped, they are also a habitat that many ordinary poisonous snakes and low-level demon snakes yearn for, so there are still many snakes inside.
"Let's go there and take a look. There seems to be a Lingshan over there. I wonder if the owner of Lingshan has also been summoned to the front-line battlefield."
Qian Song flew into the air in a hazy way and watched for a while, then landed on the ground and expressed his thoughts to Wang Cheng.
Wang Cheng was just giving him a face and accompanying him out for a while. He thought he could just breathe in the ground of Snake Valley, but he didn't expect that he was really going to go out and sway.
At that moment, I had to whisper: "It's not good to do this. Now there are figures of monsters everywhere. If we are exposed, I'm afraid Fellow Daoist Yan and the others will be implicated."
Qian Song heard this, but waved his hand indifferently and said, "Fellow Daoist Wang is too worried. Those low-level monsters have limited wisdom. Even if we find out whereabouts, they will not know how to report to the high-level monster barbarians. Moreover, the war is approaching, and the high-level monster barbarians in front of them have no time to specifically draw people to search and deal with us!"
Speaking of this, when he saw that Wang Cheng was still reluctant, he looked slightly dark and said in a deep voice: "Besides, detecting the situation of the demon barbarian behind the enemy. This is the task given to us by Master Duanmu. Fellow Daoist Wang, since you have asked Senior Sister Yan to ask Master Duanmu for help to take care of your Qingyun Sect, shouldn't you be rewarded now?"
I shouldn't have come out with you!
Wang Cheng looked at Qian Song who held the banner of righteousness high, sighed in his heart, and could only nod his head helplessly and said, "Okay, what you said makes sense, Wang just accompany you for a trip."
So the two of them immediately used the breath-catching technique to restrain their breath and quietly rushed towards the Lingshan that Qian Song said.
The Lingshan Mountain is actually not close to Snake Valley, four or five hundred miles away. When Wang Cheng and the others arrived here, the sky was about to brighten.
However, when the two of them arrived at the foot of the mountain, they found that there was a rare White Barbarian tribe on the mountain.
Among the three types of barbarians, black barbarians, green barbarians and white barbarians, the white barbarians are the smallest and the smartest ones.
In terms of wisdom, the wisdom of adult white barbarians is generally equivalent to that of 14 or 15-year-olds of human beings. They no longer need the teachings of barbarian warlocks, but they know how to build villages, build weapons, plant grains, and tame wild animals.
In terms of the proportion of warlocks, the White Barbarians are also far higher than the other two types of barbarians. Basically, more than five warlocks can appear in one hundred white barbarians.
The White Barbarian tribe that Wang Cheng and the others saw now is not big, with only two or three hundred people living together in a stone village on Lingshan.
These white barbarians have white skin as white as frost and snow, their hair is white gold, their eyes are brown, their bodies are tall and strong, and they are wearing simple clothing woven with animal skins and plant fibers such as silk and erectus.
But even with clothes covering their body hair, which was as vigorous as the other two types of barbarians, was as clear as they were.
"Depending on the situation, this barbarian tribe seems to have taken root here for a long time. This is strange. This place is only hundreds of miles away from the Snake Valley. The Snake King and more than a dozen second-level demon snakes are hundreds of miles away. Why should these barbarians live here safely while surrounded by a group of snakes?"
On a big tree with thick branches and leaves, Qian Song and Wang Cheng looked at the barbarian stone village thousands of feet away through the gaps of the branches and leaves. Looking at the ordinary white barbarians who were busy, they couldn't help but look at each other and saw the doubts in each other's eyes.
You should know that although the demons are regarded as enemies by cultivators, they are not as close to each other as a family.
Especially in the eyes of low-level monsters who do not have a "big picture view", barbarians and cultivators are their prey and food, and they even prefer barbarians who eat a lot of meat.
Before the cultivators truly came to Yuanlong Star, the demon clan and the barbarians were even more mortal enemies. When the cultivators first came, they even cleverly said that they would gain the trust of the barbarians and joined forces with the barbarians to kill a large number of high-level demon clans.
This led to the cultivators who later showed their fangs and attacked the barbarians, the demon clan also chose to take the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and hunted down these enemies, barbarians.
It was not until the top leaders of the two tribes discovered that cultivators were in great difficulty and if they did not join forces, they would be in danger of extermination. They were willing to put aside their hatred and cooperate under the leadership of the top powerhouses of the two tribes.
However, two races that have been hated by the times and have been fighting each other for many years have been hated and fought each other for countless years. How could they be able to let go of hatred so easily?
In particular, the low-level existences of the two clans are seriously insufficient in intelligence and cannot communicate effectively. These low-level existences are the foundation of the two clans and cannot be given up.
Therefore, in the subsequent wars, the cultivators still frequently used the feudal rift between the demon and barbarian tribes to sow discord, including disguising as barbarians and stealing high-level demon cubs, allowing tamed spirit beasts to destroy the barbarian tribes, etc., constantly arousing hatred between the two tribes and allowing them to continue fighting.
This hatred that has been engraved in the bloodlines of both sides is as difficult to resolve as they are now facing the hatred of cultivators.
To sum up, although the high-level monsters and high-level barbarians try their best to restrain their monsters and barbarians from fighting each other, because of the general lack of wisdom in the low-level two tribes, they still cannot do this most of the time.
Under such circumstances, it is really strange that a White Barbarian tribe with only two or three hundred people dared to set up a village hundreds of miles away from the Snake Valley.
When Wang Cheng thought of this, he immediately looked at Qian Song with a serious expression and said, "Fellow Daoist Qian, if something goes wrong, there will be a demon. In Wang's opinion, it is better not to have any trouble."
They are lurking behind enemy lines now, and safety is the most important thing. Otherwise, if something happens, there will be no place to run if you want to run.
But Qian Song does have different views.
He said with a serious expression: "Fellow Daoist Wang is such a bad word. It is precisely because something abnormal will happen that there must be a demon. We need to investigate the situation more clearly. After all, this place is only hundreds of miles away from Snake Valley. If there is really a strong man hiding, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not find us. Then he notify the third-level barbarian warlock to come and kill us!"
What he said made sense. After hearing this, Wang Cheng couldn't help but frown and began to think.
After pondering for a while, Wang Cheng said with a serious expression: "Even as fellow Taoist Qian said, we should not make any decisions about this matter. At least we must discuss it with fellow Taoist Yan and others and make a decision together."
Although Qian Song had been a bit arrogant before, he was not a fool who knew nothing.
After hearing Wang Cheng's words, he thought for a moment and nodded slightly, "It's getting brighter now, and walking back and forth can easily reveal our existence. You can interrogate Senior Sister Yan and the others' opinions."
Wang Cheng agreed with him and then watched him send a message to Yan Ying.
But what Wang Cheng and Qian Song did not notice was that when Qian Song sent a message, an old white barbarian woman who was originally sleeping on the stone bed in the underground stone chamber of the White Barbarian Stone Village suddenly opened her eyes, and a sharp cold light flashed in her brown eyes.
The old white barbarian woman quickly got up and walked out of the underground stone chamber. Then, without disturbing any white barbarians, she quietly left the stone village and soon arrived at the forest where Wang Cheng and the others were.
Wang Cheng and Qian Song were still unaware of all this at this time. The two of them were alert to the outside world and could not find the old white barbarian woman who had already reached hundreds of feet.
The old woman in the White Barbarian seemed to know the spiritual consciousness of the cultivator. When she was about a hundred feet away from Wang Cheng and Qian Song, she took the initiative to stop.
For foundation-building monks, within a hundred feet is the strongest range of spiritual consciousness alert, and their sense of danger will be greatly enhanced within this range.
If you want to conceal their spiritual sense within this range, it is difficult to attack them even if you have spiritual weapons like [Xuyun Sect] to cover them up.
At this moment, the old white barbarian woman stopped a hundred feet away, and only walked back and forth from the corner of her eyes on Wang Cheng and Qian Song, she touched her right hand to her waist, and a thin green needle appeared in her hand.
Just at this moment, Yan Ying's reply happened to be back, and Qian Song took the reply and was looking at it carefully.
Seeing this, the old woman in the white barbarian shook her wrist and the faint green needle that was originally going to hit Wang Cheng, instantly changing her target and squeezing towards Qian Song.
The light in the woods in the early morning was not very bright, and the speed of the faint green fine needles flying was almost past the sound.
A hundred feet away is just a matter of a moment.
When Wang Cheng and Qian Song were alert to the warning and noticed the faint green needle, it was too late for them to respond.
In just a moment, Wang Cheng "witted" to see the faint green needle hit Qian Song's back and pierced directly into his body.
"Fellow Daoist Qian is careful!"
The belated reminder sounded from Wang Cheng's mouth, and at the same time, the yellow light shield released by the [Huanglong Pearl] was also raised.
When the white-haired old woman shot out the faint green needle, she pointed it out at the same time, and a platinum of light burst out from her fingertips and shot towards Wang Cheng.
This platinum of light fell on the yellow light shield on Wang Cheng's body, and instantly made his body fly backwards, and the shield outside him was directly broken.
Fortunately, he was wearing a spiritual weapon-level defensive inner armor. With this defensive inner armor, he offset the residual power of the platinum light column, so he did not get injured directly in this attack.
It was also this blow that made Wang Cheng know that the white-haired old woman was definitely a second-level top-grade barbarian sorcerer, and she was not an ordinary second-level top-grade barbarian sorcerer. She was probably a powerful existence just one step away from being able to advance to the third level, just one step away from the Snake Valley Snake King.
Therefore, after he was knocked out, he immediately used the [Qingyun Sword] to escape with all his strength, and even did not care whether Qian Song was still alive.
But the white-haired old woman didn't want to let him go, so she immediately murmured a few difficult spells, waved her hand, and a platinum light blade slashed towards Wang Cheng.
After Wang Cheng sensed the movements of the white-haired old woman through his spiritual sense, he quickly sacrificed the [Spirit-Suppressing Ruler] to fight against the platinum-gold light blade.
[Spirit Size] This second-level mid-grade spiritual weapon finally played the role of savior this time, successfully blocking the platinum light blade that was slashed, and gaining Wang Cheng extremely precious time to escape.
The white-haired old woman didn't expect that Wang Cheng could block this attack, and she didn't expect that Wang Cheng's flight speed was so fast.
By the time she realized this, Wang Cheng had already escaped four or five hundred feet away. Qian Song, who was attacked by her, did not die immediately, but instead turned into a green light and disappeared from the spot.
Chapter completed!