Chapter 47 The Long Outpost Battle

The further you go, the greater the pressure.

Tang Jie didn't know how far he had gone. He only knew that if the original pressure was still hazy, then as he went deeper, the pressure became more and more real, and even an ignorant mortal could clearly detect it.

Stepping on the thick grass and mud in the mountains, Tang Jie felt a heavy weight on his body. It felt a bit like climbing to the top of Shuiyuedongtian, and his steps were difficult.

Strange power is like air, omnipresent, filling the mountains.

Tang Jie tried to move his body and breathing, and could feel that his current strength had been suppressed to the point where he had just entered enlightenment.

And along with that invisible pressure, there are dangers everywhere in the mountains.

flutter!

A gray line shot out from nowhere and flew past Tang Jie's face, hitting a big tree not far away.

Gray-black rotten water flowed out from the tree, and the tree was quickly corroded and rotten.

"It's gray thread snake liquid." Tang Jie was sure after just one glance. This kind of snake is highly venomous and likes to hide in the grass to release its venom. Its venom is very powerful and is directly related to the realm. Looking at the attack just now, it rotted the entire tree with just one blow. It was at least an intelligent-level gray-threaded snake. In terms of its venom, Tang Jie would be skinned even if he didn't die.

This is just the outside!

Tang Jie did not catch the gray thread snake. This thing is a famous assassin among monsters. It can escape thousands of miles away without hitting a single hit.

He shook his head and said, "Be careful, Yiyi."

"Yes!" Yiyi replied seriously, looking around cautiously with her eyes wide open, even though she couldn't see anything. Without the ability to sense plants, the little girl seemed to have become blind and deaf, and could no longer detect many things.

Yiyi hated this feeling. She looked at Tang Jie and said, "Can't we fly? It's great to fly in the air without so much trouble."

Tang Jie looked up and saw a goshawk passing overhead.

He murmured: "That will cause the mountains to hate you and even attack you."

"Attack?" Yiyi asked softly.

"Yes, attack." Tang Jie replied affirmatively: "Besides, only here do we have a chance to fight back against them."

He said nothing more,

Instead, he continued to approach with one step deeper and one shallower.

Although it is dangerous here, it is not fatal. If he can cope with it, then Nan Ningjiang and others will definitely be able to cope with it.

You must keep going inward.

This is a chase, but also a competition of patience, perseverance and courage.

Before the direct confrontation, the first thing to compare is who can and who dares to go deeper and further.

Taking advantage of the harsh environment in the mountains, it was Tang Jie's plan to naturally eliminate a group of people.

But for Nan Ningjiang, all this was expected and he was fully prepared for it.

On the outskirts of the jungle, a group of people was marching.

At the head were a few old men wearing coir raincoats, rattan hats, and holding bamboo sticks. Behind them were some young men with simple faces in commoners, all carrying bamboo baskets on their backs.

Behind them are Nan Ningjiang and others.

Every time they walked, these young people would take out some white powder from bamboo shoots and sprinkle it on the ground, then kneel on the ground and chant silently. They spoke in the local dialect, which was difficult to understand.

"What are they talking about?" Zhou Fanghua asked his fifth brother. The fifth brother used to be from this area. Although he is not a mountain dweller, he can relatively understand the dialect of this area.

"I'm worshiping the mountain god and praying for his forgiveness." The fifth brother replied, "This is a custom of local mountain people entering the mountain."

"Mountain God? Do they think there is a god in this mountain?" Erying Tianzhong sneered: "What a joke. Don't they know that cultivators are gods!"

Xiaoying next to him also said: "That's right, gods are not worshiped, let alone born, but cultivated by our cultivators. Don't worship the true god in front of you, but worship the mountain god of Lao Shizi, really ridiculous."

Nan Ningjiang smiled: "What's the point of competing with a group of ignorant people? What people worship is always what they imagine. Once it becomes real, it has no value of worship. Just because they don't know what God is, so Only then can we worship God. And like me, it is precisely because we know that God is just a threshold, a necessity, a pursuit, and a direction on our way to immortality that we will not worship God. Even if this mountain really has a God, In our eyes, it’s just a more powerful monster.”

"Then do you think they are useful like this?" Zhou Fanghua pointed at the mountain guides with her chin.

Nan Ningjiang replied: "I don't know. But as long as we know that they are the people who know the mountain best in Moqiu, it is enough." His eyes narrowed slightly: "With them and us, we can be better than Tang Zie goes deeper, farther, and safer... He wants to use the mountains to kill us, huh, he is destined to be dreaming!"

The worshiping mountain people now stood up and walked towards the mountain again.

They did not go straight along the mountain road, but went around the side path.

"Xiao Wu, ask them why they took the detour?" Xuan Zhongzi said.

The fifth brother shouted a few words to the mountain people, and then replied: "They said that there is no mountain road in Tongling Mountain. The so-called mountain road is actually a snake road with a big snake in front. In Tongling Mountain, the first rule of thumb is not to go in the wrong direction. road."

"Then tell them, as long as we are here, don't be afraid of monsters." Someone laughed.

The fifth brother yelled a few times, shook his head and said, "No, the second lesson is, don't get stained with blood easily in the mountains."

"It's a joke, don't they always go into this mountain to hunt?"

The fifth brother's face turned pale: "Don't do it easily! Killing an innocent big snake just to pass by is different from killing it to survive. Also, they don't hunt, they just pick up some dead monster corpses or some Precious materials are sold out of the mountains.”

"Materials?" Nan Ningjiang raised her head: "You said they know where there are precious materials in this mountain?"

"Of course." Lao Wu replied: "They rely on this to make a living. They know the mountain and know where the materials can be harvested and where they cannot. They have sacrificed countless lives for this."

"Is there any place where we can't pick it?" Zhou Fanghua was curious.

"Yes. Some places look harmless, but are actually full of dangers." The fifth brother replied: "If you accidentally pick the wrong one, you will get yourself into trouble..."

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brush!

Tang Jie retreated in a hurry, and with a flash of the sword in his hand, he chopped down the flower that was rushing toward him like a giant mouth with fangs.

The giant-mouthed flower fell to the ground and instantly twisted into a huge strange face, letting out a crazy howl.

The next moment, countless flowers were seen swooping out of the ground, one by one opening their fangs and huge mouths, making whistles that reached the sky, and then a large swarm of bees appeared in the distance, buzzing towards Tang Jie.

"Damn it!" Tang Jie cursed, turned around and ran away.

He just discovered the purple grass that had grown in this area for more than hundreds of years, and planned to pick some of it to use as materials for the formation later. Unexpectedly, before he got the purple grass, it disturbed the strange piranha next to it.

Tang Jie had never heard of these piranha flowers and had no idea what species they were, but their ferocity was shocking, not to mention that they could summon swarms of bees. If he didn't want to go on a killing spree in the mountains, he would Can only run.

This time, he held his head and flew away, covering a very long distance. It didn't end until the bee swarm couldn't catch up with Tang Jie and turned back automatically.

Stopping, Tang Jie looked around.

There are jungle trees everywhere.

Yiyi was a little surprised: "Where are we now?"

"I can't figure it out." Tang Jie shook his head.

It was difficult to tell the direction in the mountainous area, and this random run made them completely lost and no longer knew where they were.

"This is going to be troublesome." Yiyi said, touching his chin in a dignified manner.

"Trouble? I don't think so." Tang Jie smiled: "Don't forget that we don't need to find anyone. As a fleeing party, we don't need to know where we are, as long as we don't run into them. Find someone Only those who need to establish their bearings and identify their own position.”

"Can they?"

"Of course, they have a guide." Tang Jie smiled.

"Guide? That means they are more familiar with the mountain than we are? Doesn't that mean you can't rely on the mountain to defeat your opponents?"

Tang Jie smiled: "It's not easy to be true, but who said that guides are omnipotent? Don't forget that this is the psychic mountainous area, the most changeable mountainous area. All experiences are affected by time and terrain. They are destined to be impossible. Replace everything with experience. What’s more, experience is the accumulation of experience. As long as the experience lasts for a long time, we will also have experience.”

"How long has it been going on?" Yiyi looked at Tang Jie in surprise.

"Yes, this is destined to be a protracted battle. I have no intention of defeating my opponent in a few days." Tang Jie replied meaningfully.

As he spoke, he turned around and continued heading towards the mountain.

As Tang Jie said, his battle with the Tianshen Palace was a tug-of-war. Any opponent who lacked patience and tried to solve the problem in a short time was doomed to fail.

Patience is the key product in this duel. Whoever is more patient and durable will be more likely to win.

What’s interesting is that both Tang Jie and Nan Ningjiang are talents in this area.

Nan Ningjiang seemed to be fully prepared. No matter how much Tang Jie tried to hide, he was like a dedicated hound, chasing after him relentlessly. The traces Tang Jie obtained in the mountains could not be hidden for long, and every time they were discovered, Nan Ningjiang's pursuit would get closer.

Once, Nan Ningjiang's team was only a few hundred meters away from Tang Jie. It was in the dark forest at that time. Tang Jie relied on his Tianmu to spot Nan Ningjiang and others first, and was able to avoid them in time.

In fact, this has become his most important means to avoid Nan Ningjiang. Relying on Shiyi, he is not afraid of spiritual searches, but in terms of insight into the distance, no one in Tianshen Palace can match him.

Of course, Tang Jie also knew that such an advantage could only be maintained for a period of time. It would not be long before Nan Ningjiang realized the problem. By then, he would definitely bring in new experts to make up for this shortcoming. This is also Nan Ningjiang's biggest advantage. No matter what kind of talents he needs, he can always find them as soon as possible.

At the same time, news that Tang Jie was trapped in Tongling Mountain gradually spread.

Countless sects in Moqiu are surging and rushing towards Tongling Mountain.

Some of them are for the huge bounty, some are for the old friends who were killed by Tang Jie, and some are simply the original victims, such as the real people in Wushuang Sword Pavilion.

A large number of cultivators gathered here from all directions.

Tang Jie was running around in the mountains as always.

The Tongling Mountain area is large and has plenty of living space. Even without going deep inside, Tang Jie could live freely. As he lived in the mountains day by day, his understanding of the mountains gradually deepened.

He gradually became familiar with the terrain of this area, knowing where there were nasty monsters, where materials were surrounded by traps, where there were secret mountain paths, and most importantly, he knew what things could be done and what things should not be done in this mountain. Do.

He learned quickly. It only took Tang Jie dozens of days to master the knowledge passed down by the mountain people for thousands of years and the experience accumulated from countless lives.

This is not surprising.

He is a cultivator.

The experience gained by the mountain people at the cost of their lives can be obtained with a drop of blood or an insignificant wound; as for time, it is not a problem. The mountain people aim at survival and profit, but he aims at long-term survival. , so when the mountain people get a little benefit, they will give up exploring, but Tang Jie will not.

This made Tang Jie's learning progress much faster than anyone imagined. He was making progress and understanding every day.

As Tang Jie said, after experiencing it for a long time, you will naturally gain experience.

Of course, since it is experience, there must be lessons learned.

Once Tang Jie saw an ice epiphyllum by a small pool, which was a real elixir. But when he went up to pick it, a group of ice pythons emerged from the pool. They were a group of ice pythons at the peak of their intelligence. They were only one step away from being able to transform. Under the pressure of the mountain, their strength increased so much that Tang Jie could only flee.

Another time Tang Jie was walking, and suddenly his feet loosened and he fell into a hole. There were countless spider demons inside. The spider silk spewed out was so sticky and strong that it was extremely difficult to pull it off even with Tang Jie's peak physique. Fortunately, the golden blade is the nemesis of this kind of spider silk. That day, Tang Jie finally made an exception and killed hundreds of spider demons in one go. Fortunately, the mountain didn't seem to be angry.

As a result of encountering the spider demon, Tang Jie obtained a lot of spider silk. These spider silks are extremely rare materials and can be used to make magic weapon-level fairy binding ropes, golden silkworm clothes, sachets, etc.

The worst thing was that one time Tang Jie was dealing with an ape monster. The ape had a bad temper. When he saw that he couldn't win, he roared and caused a lot of noise. The most terrible thing was that people from the Tianshen Palace were nearby. .

If Tang Jie hadn't been quick to see the opportunity and sneak away first, he might have been discovered by Tianshen Palace.

In this way, various dangers took turns to appear on Tang Jie.

Although Tang Jie and Nan Ningjiang have never officially met each other, they both remember each other deeply.

They left their footprints in various places in the mountain. Sometimes Tang Jie would be stopping on a certain big rock at one moment, and Nan Ningjiang would appear beside the big rock at the next moment, frowning in deep thought.

Because of Feiling Powder, Tianshen Palace will never lose Tang Jie's position; because of the Third Eye, Tang Jie can always detect the crisis first.

The two sides were engaged in an invisible contest as you chased me. The first thing that was staged was such an invisible war.

In this war mainly based on reconnaissance, neither side left a drop of blood, but there were countless thrilling moments.

Unfortunately, even the two parties involved may not be aware of this thrilling situation.

Nan Ningjiang didn't know how many times he had passed by Tang Jie, and Tang Jie was also missing great opportunities again and again.

In terms of fighting in the mountains, both sides are actually novices and have made mistakes.

They also learned from experience and grew rapidly. Although Tang Jie used his own advantages to make continuous progress, Nan Ningjiang was also eager to learn from those mountain people, because he knew that before long, these mountain people would really be gone. used.

The outpost battle will eventually come to an end. Tang Jie could avoid being hunted by the Tianshen Palace a hundred times, but he would never be able to avoid it for the rest of his life.

Nan Ningjiang is not in a hurry.

Because he knew that as long as he was discovered once, Tang Jie would be completely finished - as the hunted party, he may have countless advantages, but he also has a fatal disadvantage, that is, he cannot lose even once.

So Nan Ningjiang is very patient.

They were like a group of cats, slowly searching for Tang Jie, the mouse in the mountains.

The search lasted three months.

In these three months, Tang Jie's shadow was everywhere in the mountainous area based on the blockade. Just as Nan Ningjiang predicted, he did not try to escape from the blocked area, nor did he try to go deeper, but just wandered around this area.

In the eyes of others, this was because Tang Jie knew that no matter how far he escaped, it would be useless, so he might as well use the terrain to weaken the effect of Feiling Powder. After all, although Feiling Powder can point out the direction, it cannot be used all the time. Secondly, it is difficult to give the specific location without the guidance of a specific map.

Only Nan Ningjiang knew that Tang Jie's purpose was more than that.

His purpose of staying here is to get familiar with this place, master it, control it, and then...use it.

What he wants is to fight back, not escape!

Just as Tang Jie knew what Nan Ningjiang was thinking, Nan Ningjiang also knew what Tang Jie was thinking.

Although these two people have never met, they know so clearly what the other is thinking.

Deep in the mountains.

On a small hillside.

A group of bean sprouts are growing vigorously.

No one knew that these bean sprouts were planted three months ago.

No one knows what these things mean.

When Tang Jie knew that the monsters living in the Tongling Mountains were not affected by the mountains, he knew where his chance of victory lay.

This is the core of the delay plan.

For this reason, he endured for three full months, and at the same time fought a long outpost battle with Tianshen Palace.

On this day, Tang Jie finally appeared again in the fields full of beans.

Looking at the beans growing in large tracts, Tang Jie smiled with satisfaction.

As the bean seeds matured, Tang Jie knew that this outpost battle with no gunpowder in sight was finally over. After going through the most difficult time in the early stage, Tang Jie was finally about to usher in his moment of counterattack.

He gently picked up a bean seed and murmured: "The next step is up to you."

On this day, several figures appeared one after another outside the mountainous area.

They entered the psychic mountainous area from different directions and then disappeared into the forest.