si-mexico Chapter 225: Brothers in the Woods
Chapter 225: Brothers in the Woods
Coming out of the land of the Phantom Mink Clan and heading east, there is a forest. Perhaps because of the Three-legged Golden Crow, the temperature in this forest is very high. It is also because Zeng Wenyu absorbed the Flame Lion's innate flame, otherwise he would feel the heat unbearable just by approaching this forest.
There are many dehydrated mummies in the woods, most of which are the bodies of the Fire Lion clan. These dead bodies have different shapes, but none of them want to escape.
"How is it? Can you still hold on?"
Just when Zeng Wenyu thought that he, Xiaoxue and Xiaoli might be the only ones here, a man's voice came from a distance.
"It's OK, but Senior Brother, do we still need to move on? The temperature here is obviously abnormal, and we don't have many summer-relief pills. If we go any further..."
"Although it's scorching hot here, look at the bodies of the fire lions around. They are all heading inside. This is either the burial place of the fire lions, or there are some treasures here, otherwise it wouldn't attract so many fire lions. Junior brother, let's hold on a little longer. Maybe we can reach the end if we walk a little longer."
"Okay, Senior Brother..."
This was a conversation between a pair of fellow apprentice brothers. Zeng Wenyu carefully walked forward a few steps and hid behind a tree, watching the two brothers. They were pouring out two pills from a pill bottle and swallowing them one by one.
That should be what they call the summer-relief pill. Zeng Wenyu also knew about this kind of pill. The inferior ones would be used by ordinary cultivators as a summer-relief pill, while the better ones would be used when entering certain extremely hot forbidden areas of fire to help cultivators balance the temperature inside and outside the body, but the lost water would not be replenished.
Zeng Wenyu also had this kind of elixir. When he left Dandingmen, this kind of summer-relief pill was among the various elixirs that Li Shengnan gave him. Before, when he was in the lava cave, Zeng Wenyu and the two little ones relied on the summer-relief pill to hold on for such a long time.
But the Summer Heat Pill is just a pill after all, and pills have a time limit for their effectiveness. The higher the temperature in a place, the shorter the duration of the Summer Heat Pill will be. Judging from the current temperature in this forest, even a pill with 100% effectiveness can only last for a quarter of an hour here at most.
Without going up to talk to the two cultivators, Zeng Wenyu followed them slowly. The two cultivators' cultivation was only at the initial stage of Dan realm, and they did not notice that Zeng Wenyu was following them. They just continued to go deeper while resisting the scorching heat.
They continued moving forward for about an hour, during which time the two brothers took a total of twenty summer-cooling pills. After all, the deeper they went into the forest, the higher the temperature became, and the shorter the duration of the summer-cooling pill's effect. At this point, the effect only lasted about five minutes.
"Brother, we have used up all the summer heat pills... I think we should go back. If we continue to go in, we will become mummies like those flame lions."
"Yes, how about you leave first, Senior Brother? I have a higher level of cultivation and can hold on longer. I will go in a little further, and maybe I can reach the end."
"Forget it, Senior Brother. We have come so far and have used up all the Summer Relief Pills. With our cultivation levels, how can we continue to move forward without Summer Relief Pills? Senior Brother!"
"Brother, don't you still have the Summer Relief Pill in your hand? Take it out and let's continue walking inside. I have a feeling that if we walk a little longer, we will be able to see the treasure!"
"But Brother! How are we going to get out after we have used up all the summer heat-relief pills? And what if there is no treasure inside?"
When the senior brother heard what his junior brother said, he stood there, his face changing from gloomy to bright, as if he was considering whether or not to continue moving forward.
After thinking for about a minute, the senior brother turned to look at his junior brother and said, "Alas... there is no other way. Junior brother, you are right. With our cultivation levels, we can no longer go in. Let's just leave from here."
"Great, Senior Brother! Let's go!"
The junior brother was very happy and he immediately turned around and was about to leave, but at this moment, his senior brother standing behind him suddenly attacked. The junior brother had never expected that his senior brother would attack him. A sharp rock spike pierced into his back, and the sharp tip protruded from his chest.
The junior brother spat out blood from his mouth. He turned around and looked at his senior brother: "Senior brother, you..."
"I'm sorry, Junior Brother. Now that we've come this far, it's time for you to return the resources I gave you before!"
In fact, even if the heart is broken, the cultivators in the Dan realm have the means to resist, but that junior brother did not resist at all. He just looked at his senior brother silently, without even resisting, just waiting for his life to be completely lost, and finally died at the hands of his senior brother.
The senior brother pulled the storage ring from his junior brother's body and put it on his own hand. He took out a bottle of summer heat pills from the storage ring, poured out a pill and put it into his mouth, then left without looking back.
Zeng Wenyu, who had been hiding nearby, walked out from his hiding place and came to the body of his junior fellow apprentice. He squatted down to check on his junior fellow apprentice's condition.
"Your heart meridians are broken. Does your senior brother really not have any feelings for fellow disciples? Just for the so-called 'treasure' that may or may not exist, he killed you right here..."
Sighing and shaking his head, Zeng Wenyu left the corpse. He was not going to help the cultivator to get revenge. After all, he did not resist his senior brother even when he died. Even if he was still alive, he probably wouldn't want him to interfere in their affairs, right?
Without paying any more attention to the corpse, Zeng Wenyu continued to move forward. He wanted to see if that senior brother would regret killing his fellow apprentice when he saw that the so-called "treasure" he mentioned was something he had no way of getting close to.
Continuing to move forward, although Zeng Wenyu was no longer afraid of the flames and high temperatures in this world, the flames of the Three-legged Golden Crow were not ordinary flames. Zeng Wenyu had gradually felt the heat, but it was still within his tolerable range. It was just that this high temperature was no longer something the Summer Cooling Pill could withstand. The senior brother had to start using his cultivation to hold on, and only when he really couldn't hold on any longer would he swallow a Summer Cooling Pill to slightly relieve the pressure on his spiritual energy.
After walking a distance forward, the temperature around me began to rise sharply. Fire had already begun to burn in front of me. A large amount of flames were clinging to the trees and burning, while the burning trees were still lush and leafy. Even though every part of the tree had been set on fire, the branches and leaves were still swaying with the flames.