Chapter 40 Rainy Night, Giant Snake, Leopard
Rainy night, forest, monsters...
Fear!
The tree canopy is very lush, and the leaves catch all the raindrops, not letting a single drop of rain fall directly to the ground, until they can no longer hold it, and the excess raindrops gather into thick drops and fall under the tree. So the rain in the forest is crackling, with thick drops of water falling continuously.
The rotten leaves on the ground are very thick, and have absorbed a lot of water, becoming like a swamp. At this time, when water drops hit it, they will make a strange "puff" sound.
The strange sound of "puff puff" keeps ringing, and in the distance and near places that cannot be seen, there are some birds singing and beasts roaring continuously, like a terrifying concerto in the dark night.
The master and the apprentice sat side by side in the tree hole, leaning against the tree wall behind them, looking at the darkness outside through the transparent water film from the tree hole.
In fact, they can't see anything, but they don't know what to do.
Suddenly at a certain moment, there are very light footsteps climbing up from under the tree. Listening to the sound of the pads and nails touching the trunk, it should be some kind of cat or leopard.
"Master..." Li Shiyin called softly, with fear in her voice.
"Shh!" Qin Ran hurriedly told her to be quiet.
The big cat went up the tree, and soon, there was another "rustling" sound of the snake. Listening to the movement of it crawling on the ground, it was known that this was a fairly large snake. It slid through the swamp, climbed up the tree, passed through the tree hole, and then...
stopped.
For a moment, Li Shiyin and Qin Ran both stopped breathing.
The giant snake stopped outside the tree hole, and the snake's tongue kept hitting the water film, making a very light "bo bo bo" sound.
The sound was very rhythmic and extremely terrifying.
Although the formation was set up, Qin Ran still quietly picked up the seal, compressed the Dantian cyclone, and prepared to deal with the giant snake that might come in at any time.
"Ah..."
Suddenly, the big cat on the tree roared, and the "bo bo" sound of the snake's tongue hitting the water film stopped immediately. There was a terrible silence outside the tree hole for a few seconds, and then the "rustling" sound of the snake was heard again. The giant snake left and continued to climb up the tree.
The tree hole remained quiet until the terrifying "rustling" sound could no longer be heard, and then there was the sound of Li Shiyin exhaling gently. After a while, Qin Ran took a deep breath.
"Master, why would the snake listen to the tiger?" Li Shiyin asked quietly.
"That's not a tiger, it should be some kind of leopard." Qin Ran answered in a low voice, "It's hard to say what the relationship between them is, it's not necessarily a subordinate relationship..."
The two squeezed into a very small tree hole and sat next to each other. After experiencing a tense moment just now, the mood calmed down and found that the temperature in the tree hole was much higher.
Qin Ran felt that he was sweating. After starting to practice, he hadn't sweated for many years, but now he was sweating. He knew why.
In this tree hole, he seemed to smell a warm and faint fragrance...
"Qin Ran, Qin Ran, this is animal instinct, hormones, and hormone interference." Qin Ran kept scolding himself in his heart,
"You are a cultivator, isolated from worldly desires, you are a person who wants to become an immortal, how can you be disturbed by such low-level animality! You are a human, a cultivator, an immortal, not a beast!"
"Master, which one is more powerful, a snake or a leopard?" Li Shiyin asked again.
She seemed to get closer, and when she spoke, the warm breath from her mouth was particularly sweet.
"It's an illusion, an illusion, and a demon in the heart!" Qin Ran's heart was constantly pulling.
"Judging from the breath alone, the snake is stronger." He answered in a steady voice. The tree hole was dark enough, and no one could see his struggling face.
"Snakes are stronger?" Li Shiyin was surprised, "What kind of snake is it? What realm is it in?"
"I don't know what kind of snake it is, but judging from its breath, it is equivalent to the Jindan stage, and it is a relatively powerful Jindan stage." Qin Ran replied.
"Taishang Laojun, Queen Mother, Tathagata Buddha, Sage Confucius, Sub-Sage Yan Hui..." He recalled some noble images in his mind, "Liuxia Hui who was not disturbed when sitting on the lap..."
"Liuxia Hui?" Li Shiyin asked, "Who is Liuxia Hui?"
"Ah?!" Qin Ran was stunned. Did he accidentally say what he was thinking in his heart?
"Liuxia Hui, um..." Qin Ran's voice finally showed panic, "He is an ancient gentleman with noble virtues."
"What does it mean to be not disturbed when sitting on the lap?"
"Ah!!!" Qin Ran panicked for a moment. He even said this?
"Yes, this, it means..." He stammered and couldn't say it.
Fortunately, at this moment, a loud "bang" suddenly sounded outside the tree hole, drawing their attention away.
"Roar!!!"
Then, there was another roar. Judging from the sound, it was probably the leopard.
After it roared, a bright beam of light lit up. Qin Ran looked carefully with the light and recognized that it was a golden clouded leopard, with an adult body size of a bull and a strength of the Golden Core Stage. At this time, it was on the ground, breathing towards the tree.
The beam of light flickered, and then another extremely heavy object fell from the tree. It hit the dead branches and leaves with a "snap" sound, splashing countless water and flying more than ten meters away. Many water splashed on the water film in the tree hole.
This time, it was obviously the giant snake that fell down. After it landed, it slid quickly, coiled up, and stood upright with its head in a defensive posture...
So the relationship between the giant snake and the giant leopard was not a subordinate relationship, and it was not even friendly, but a hostile relationship.
The snake was the tree following the leopard, and the snake was the predator that took the initiative to attack!
At this time, the snake coiled up to defend, probably because the leopard was injured.
The light beam just lit up, and Qin Ran could clearly see that there were two blackened tooth holes on the neck of the golden-patterned clouded leopard. Apparently the snake got defensive, waiting for the leopard to deliver its poison.
The leopard was not willing to be captured without mercy. It bared its teeth, roared in warning, and walked back and forth around the coiled snake, looking for opportunities to attack.
After pulling for a long time, the leopard suddenly realized that if he didn't do anything, he might not have a chance to do it, so he stopped wandering, leaned down, and pounced forward, with his claws first and his words behind. He wanted to hold the giant snake down first, and then Give it a bite.
Unfortunately, the leopard did not expect it. The moment it realized that it might not have a chance to take action, it had no chance. At this time, the snake venom entered its body and its movements had slowed down.
In a life-and-death struggle, if the movement slows down, it means death. The snake, looking for an opportunity, suddenly popped out its body, which was as tight as a spring, and took a bite at the leopard's neck.
The leopard failed to avoid it and was bitten on the neck again, waving its claws and struggling. But the snake couldn't give it a chance, and quickly wrapped its body around it, tightly wrapping its torso.
The sound outside the tree hole became smaller and smaller, and the sound of the leopard struggling became smaller and smaller. After a while, it finally disappeared.
The snake let go of its body, bit the leopard, and went deep into the forest.
The sound of snakes gradually became distant, and Qin Ran frowned: "Won't it just swallow it?"
If you don't eat it directly, where will you go with it in your mouth? Do snakes have such habits? He doesn't quite understand.
"Is the snake gone?" Li Shiyin asked.
"Yeah." Qin Ran shook his head. Although he was puzzled, he had no intention of exploring... That was not exploring, that was seeking death.
The movement of snakes and leopards disappeared, and the tree hole suddenly seemed extremely quiet, even awkward. The birds and beasts roared in the darkness outside the tree hole again.
Kieran is not a person who knows how to chat. After thinking for a while, he finally couldn't find anything to say, so he pretended to be asleep.
After a while, Li Shiyin, who was bored, called her master several times and found that he was already asleep. For some reason, she suddenly sighed and whispered twice: "Master? Master?!"
Then she also fell asleep, leaning on Kieran's shoulder.
At first, both of them pretended to sleep, but after sleeping for a while, the fatigue of the day came over them, and they really fell asleep.
Until, at a certain moment in the middle of the night, the ground suddenly began to shake...
Qin Ran was frightened and woke up!