Nanxuan Marsh is located in a lowland between Quwu Mountain and Yuancheng Mountain. It was originally supposed to be the best passage from Chenyu County to Xijun Tanxi County. However, due to the mountain springs and streams on Quwu Mountain and Yuancheng Mountain, All the water was poured into this depression, forming a swamp that isolated the two places.
Nanxuan swamp is full of dangers. In addition to the mire hidden in the swamp that may swallow people up at any time, it is also a paradise for mud snakes. There are many highly venomous mud snakes hidden in the muddy water of the swamp, which may escape at any time. To cause death.
In addition to these, there are also some desperate cultivators hidden in the Nanxuan swamp. These people either committed murders in Yu County or Xi County. After being hunted, they had to hide in the swamp. There are few human restraints here, and killing people and taking wealth is the most common thing.
However, before coming to Nanxuan Swamp, Yang Junshan also discovered that some monks from Fangshi Town had organized themselves to venture into the swamp, trying to cross into Tanxi County, Xi County. Most of these people were carrying many packages, so they should They were some merchants who openly used this method to avoid the tax cards set by Shantian Sect on other passages, transport the products of Fangshi Town to Tanxi County, and then exchange them from Tanxi County for things that Fangshi Town urgently needed.
A cold light flashed from Yang Junshan's side, and a thin snake as thick as a finger suddenly sprang out from the mud. He cut it into two pieces with the horizontal knife in his hand, and fell into the mud, twisting and struggling, splashing. It stirred up patches of muddy water. Even though this thin snake is short, it is full of strength.
Unlike ordinary monks who need to stick a long wooden stick on the road in front of them when crossing the swamp to prevent them from falling into the quagmire, Yang Junshan is very familiar with the Nanxuan swamp and can clearly distinguish it. Is there a road or a trap under the muddy water? Although it is still impossible to walk on flat ground, at least other people who enter the swamp can walk much faster.
The Hengdao in Yang Junshan's hand was Han Xiusheng's usual weapon. Although it was not a magic weapon, it was made of hundreds of refined steel and was of very good quality. This time he entered the swamp, Han Xiusheng gave him the knife for self-defense. .
In addition, Yang Junshan's seven-stone bow is also slung across his shoulders, and there is a pot full of talisman arrows on his back. Although this seven-stone iron bow is still too soft for Yang Junshan now, at this time he What is needed is no longer the power of the bow and arrow itself, but the power of the talisman arrows that is comparable to the spell and the range that far exceeds the spell.
Heavenly glaze mud is usually found in mud pools where mud snakes gather, and mud pools where mud snakes gather in large numbers are often places where spiritual energy gathers. After the mud snakes have long inhabited the mud pools here, and under the constant whipping of the snakes' bodies, they will become A part of the mud mixed with spiritual energy and the surface body fluids of the mud snake turned into the spiritual material Tianglai Mud.
The quality of the sky-glazed clay itself is not necessarily low-grade. Depending on the color of the sky-glazed clay itself, the sky-glazed clay can also be divided into upper, middle and lower grades. Among them, the cyan sky-glazed clay is the lowest quality and most common low-grade spiritual material. , is also Yang Junshan's first choice for entering the swamp this time; if the color of the sky glaze mud turns red, then its quality will be upgraded to a magic-level mid-grade spiritual material; and if it turns into light yellow, it can be used to refine A high-grade magic weapon is a high-grade spiritual material.
Therefore, the place where sky-glazed mud is most likely to exist in the swamp must be the place where mud snakes gather most densely, and what Yang Junshan is going to this time is a snake pond in the memory of his previous life.
The horizontal knife was like a finger in his hand. All the mud snakes that sprang up from the mire around him, big or small, were chopped into two pieces by Yang Junshan. However, some mud snakes were lurking on the road that Yang Junshan passed until his feet. step down
At that moment, he suddenly stretched out the snake head and bit the calf or foot, but then the bones were broken by the shock of his foot.
Although Yang Junshan had never imprinted the earth-shaking technique on the immortal root as a natal spell, he was able to practice ordinary spells after advancing to the fifth level. Earth-shaking technique and flying sand technique were two direct inheritances of the Yang family. Naturally, there is no reason not to practice the magic.
Although he has not yet succeeded in practicing the earth-shaking technique in a short period of time, it is not difficult to kill one or two mud snakes.
However, the scene that soon appeared in front of him made Yang Junshan a little confused. In his previous life, Yang Junshan had learned a lot of things as a casual cultivator, including the art of tracking. Although the mud and water flowed across the swamp, people would gradually disappear. The traces of the past were covered, but the footprints in front of me had not had time to be filled with mud and water.
Judging from Yang Junshan's experience, the traces left on the ground should be the result of two groups of people walking before and after. The path of the previous group of people was roughly the same as the direction Yang Junshan came from, and they should also have come from Fangshi Town; and The direction of the other group of people was obviously from the south, so they most likely came from Xijun.
However, what made Yang Junshan curious was not that the two groups of people went in the same direction after their paths intersected here, but that the latter group of people was obviously following the previous group of people.
Ha, could it be said that he got into trouble with the desperate monk in the swamp
However, Yang Junshan obviously had no interest in getting involved, but after following this path for a while, Yang Junshan still discovered that the reason why this latter group of people could follow the previous group of people was not because there were people like Yang among them. He is a master of tracking, but the first group of people should have the backing of the latter group, leaving extremely secret marks on the road.
On the rocks that occasionally emerged from the swamp, Yang Junshan peeled off a piece of mud and pulled out a broken runestone the size of a fingernail. This should be a trace stone, which is usually a trace stone. The monks used it to prevent them from getting lost. Someone in the previous group should have secretly placed rune stones in the mud as a mark for the following group to follow.
However, the latter group of people, perhaps because they were too dirty or for other reasons, did not pick up the trace stones in the mud after walking along the mark, but directly crushed them with their feet. However, they never expected to do this in Yang Junshan. In the eyes of tracking experts, this is not an obvious mark.
After walking in this direction for a while, Yang Junshan turned to another direction. This place should be getting closer and closer to the snake pond. There were more and more mud snakes attacking him along the way, becoming more and more frequent, and from now on The mud snakes that emerged from the swamp were getting bigger and bigger and more ferocious.
Gradually, the sound of "clop, plop, plop, plop" came from the distance, like a stream rushing down, the rushing water made a "clop" sound, and the water splashed against the river rocks, making a "crack" sound.
As Yang Junshan walked closer and closer, the noise became louder and louder, until he carefully walked behind a boulder in the swamp, slowly leaned out from behind the boulder, and looked at the scene in front of him.
Although this was not the first time Yang Junshan had seen Snake Pond, he still felt a tingling sensation every time he saw it again.