The Great Wild God - Chapter 27

Chapter 27 Cultivate Bitterly in Cold Winter
(New day, do you still want me to continue my honest night shift? Please use the red ticket, click, collect and poke me … After autumn, the surroundings of Python Fang Ridge experienced another few days of heavy rain. Wildhorse Stream’s water potential surged, and floodwaters poured in from the mountain pass, submerging all the valleys on the northern side of Python Stone Stronghold.

However, before the water subsided, a bone-piercing and marrow-picking cold wave suddenly struck again. In almost two days, the narrow and long flooded valley that was nearly twenty kilometers deep froze firmly and covered with a layer of ice.

The rainstorm turned into heavy snow the next day, covering the mountain valley of Python Fang Ridge with snow white.

After Wild Horse Stream froze, it became exceptionally easy for the tribes of Montenegro on the north bank to launch a surprise attack. Chen Xun could only temporarily put aside his cultivation and go with Zong Sang and the other Black Python barbarians to the valley entrance on the south bank of Wild Horse Stream to stand guard against the wind and snow.

This was the fourth cold winter Chen Xun had experienced in this world. He felt that this year’s cold wave had arrived very early, and the cold wind that poured in from the valley entrance was exceptionally bone-piercing.

He was almost at the peak of the fifth level of the Barbarian Martial Arts. His body was covered in beast hide, and he wore scales. His bare hands and feet were still painfully cut by the bone-piercing cold wind. It was just winter, and no one knew how many people in the stronghold would not be able to survive this cold winter.

Under the frozen ice overnight, there were many corpses of birds and beasts, as well as many drowned barbarians. They were washed over from somewhere upstream of Wild Horse Stream by the flood. Under the ice, there was a look of despair and despair as they struggled to drown.

The mouth of the valley was about six to seven hundred meters wide. Outside of the valley was Wild Horse Stream. The naturally formed mud dam had long since been shattered by the explosive flood.

Chen Xun placed the Heavy Sharp Spear on his knee and squatted on a boulder. Looking at the mouth of the valley under the snow and ice, he thought to himself that if the Black Python could organize its men and build a 600-700 meter long stone dike here, the gorge that was nearly 20 miles deep would become a treasure land that was hard to flooded or drought.

Although the Black Python now possessed the mountains within a radius of several dozen kilometers of Wild Horse Stream and was able to enter the Python Teeth Ridge to hunt without restriction, most of these hunting areas were rugged mountain valleys. Only a small gentle slope to the south of the stone stronghold and this valley were flat ground for the rare mountain dam in the Python Teeth Ridge.

The canyon was nearly twenty kilometers deep. The narrowest entrance was only six to seven hundred meters wide, and the widest was only three to four kilometers wide. However, the terrain at the bottom of the canyon was flat and open. It was a rare flat land that could be cultivated in the mountains.

Floods from Wild Horse Stream all year round brought in a large amount of fertile soil, making it extremely precious.

Chen Xun read the Canglan Miscellaneous Records and learned that the Canglan ancestors had gathered wild grains and cultivated them on flat slopes a thousand years ago, and that herbivorous beasts had a longer history of herding them.

If they really wanted to make good use of this canyon’s flat dam, the Black Python clansmen would not have to worry about the food problem of the thousands of clansmen.

However, the biggest problem Black Python faced right now was that its strength wasn’t enough.

Even if the Black Python had the ability to build a stone embankment at the valley entrance to block the summer and autumn flooding from the upper reaches of Wild Horse Stream, planting grain and raising animals, besides the coveting of the Montenegrin tribes on the north bank of Wild Horse Stream, the large number of wild birds and beasts gathered to hunt in the mountains was a serious threat.

Seeing Grandpa Zongtu and Nan Liao walk over, Chen Xun shook the snow off his armor and jumped off the boulder. He walked over and said, “Grandpa, it’s really cold this winter. I’m afraid the stronghold needs to make some preparations for such a heavy snow storm.”

“The once-in-a-decade cold wave isn’t easy to endure!” Wu Gong Zong Tu frowned. His old face was squeezed together like withered bark from an old tree, and he was filled with unspeakable anxiety.

“Cold wave?” Chen Xun had only experienced his fourth winter in this region, and he didn’t know how much of a threat the once-a-decade cold wave posed to the Wildlands tribes that lived north of Python Fang Ridge.

‘”Ah Xun, from today onwards until spring, you shouldn’t enter the mountain again,” Wu Gong Zong Tu said seriously. “This cold wave is even more severe than before. I wonder how many wild beasts will come out of the mountains to feed, and the stone wall of the stronghold needs to be repaired more quickly …”

Although Python Fang Ridge was only a branch of Tu Shan, the deepest peak was also high into the clouds. Half of the mountain was covered with snow and ice all year round, looking white from afar.

When a cold wave struck, the stone strongholds in the valley turned into ice. How cold would the mountains above the clouds be?

This was just the beginning of winter, and the entire long winter would last for five to six months.

In order to avoid the harsh cold, large numbers of birds and beasts would migrate from the harsh mountains to the mountains that could shelter from the wind. Those wild beasts that did not leave the mountains all year round, although they were not afraid of the harsh cold, in order to feed, they would appear more frequently at the edge of Python Fang Ridge in the cold winter.

As the cold wave came from the north, the northern lake wasteland region would face an even more cruel test. A large number of fierce birds and ferocious beasts that lived in the northern lake wasteland region or even further north would migrate southward to avoid the cold. This would pose a more fatal threat to the surrounding tribes.

Cang Lan Za Lu had many records of the entire village tribe being devoured by beasts.

It was as if to confirm Chen Xun’s worries, at this moment, two sharp roars came from the far north. Chen Xun turned around and saw two black shadows flying over from the distance. In the blink of an eye, he saw two giant vultures pouncing down from the blue sky into the valley.

In the blink of an eye, a giant vulture grabbed a mountain leopard and jumped into the sky again. The other giant vulture quickly grabbed a giant snake from the valley and soared into the air, heading towards the depths of Python Fang Ridge to the south.

The giant vulture flew over. Its fleshly wings were even bigger than a barbaric bull’s. Its entire body was covered in azure-gray armor scales, and it didn’t have a single feather. Its huge body was like a divine iron. Under the illumination of the white cold sun, it scattered cold light.

Scaled Vulture!

Cang Lan Za Lu and Xi Huang Jing both mentioned that this strange bird was a hundred times stronger than the Azure-eyed Condor in the sky. The mountain leopard had a tough body and ferocious claws. Under the iron claws of the scaled eagle, there was no room for struggle.

Seeing this, Chen Xun was secretly shocked.

Looks like the stronghold still needs to prepare more living beasts … Wu Gong Zong Tu looked at the Scaled Vulture flying into the depths of Python Fang Ridge and said to Nan Liao worriedly.

Even if they were able to capture and kill a ferocious beast like this, they would surely suffer heavy casualties. However, there were only twenty Barbarian Souls in the entire village, and none of them could afford to lose any of them.

If such ferocious birds and exotic beasts came to attack the stronghold, all the Black Python could do was throw out the living beasts that had been prepared long ago to protect the clansmen.

“Grandpa, there’s still a month before winter arrives. I want to take a trip to the lake region in the north” Chen Xun said to Grandpa Zongtu.

In the past, Chen Xun had no ability to walk out of the surrounding mountains, so he could only restrict his activities to the Black Python Hunting Zone. Even the Lake Plain fifty to sixty miles north had no chance to take a look.

Right now, the major tribes of the Northern Mountain were busy preparing for the cold. Hunting squads rarely sent out on a large scale, so it was extremely unlikely that Chen Xun would encounter Black Mountain Tribe Man Wu in the wilderness.

Even if he unfortunately encountered a high-grade brute force like Gu Hu in the wilderness, it wasn’t like he didn’t have a chance to escape even if he wasn’t capable of enemies.

After next spring, Su Qingfeng would send people to Python Fang Ridge to select the tribal clan disciples recommended to enter the Azure Water School. Chen Xun thought for a while and decided to give it a try.

Although the Nine Nether Battle Spear of the Black Python was profound and profound, far from being within the reach of the Great Roc Secret Fist, not to mention the fact that there were no secret manuals for the cultivation of the Barbarian Soul after the Heavenly Barbarian Realm, even how the true blood of the Barbarian Realm should be condensed, the Black Python did not have any detailed cultivation techniques.

At this moment, the Azure Water Learning Academy was the only way for Chen Xun to cultivate in a profound Barbaric Martial Art Technique or any other profound cultivation technique.

However, after seeing Su Ling and Su Yi’s actions, Chen Xun knew that Cang Lan was not a place to live, and that the Su Clan was not a man-to-man believer.

He wanted to go to Canglan after spring, and his own strength would continue to strengthen, so that he would have more confidence.

Although he still had ten Essence Gathering Pills in his hand, ten Essence Gathering Pills were only enough for him to cultivate at full strength for a month.

Right now, the wild beasts in the depths of Python Fang Ridge were starting to get restless. It would become extremely dangerous to go into the mountains to pick herbs. If he wanted to find more spirit herbs for cultivation, he would only go to the northern lake region to try his luck.

The Canglan Miscellaneous Records recorded that there was a lag of one to two months between the onset of the cold wave and the large-scale migration of beasts to the south. Chen Xun wanted to use this time to make a trip to the lake region in the north to see if he could pick up any spirit herbs.

Even though the cold wave was bone-chilling, Chen Xun still needed to cultivate to the fifth level of the Barbarian realm, and he needed to cultivate like this to temper the bones around his body.

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Chen Xun didn’t expect to fight anyone on this trip north. The heavy spears and scales were all placed in shacks. He brought along the black sheath longsaber, the giant iron bow, and a pot of iron arrows. He carried a specially made medicine basket on his back and faced the cold wind as he crossed Wild Horse Stream and climbed over mountains and mountains to the north.

The lake area north of Python Fang Ridge was now frozen into an endless expanse of ice. Large amounts of weeds and trees were buried under the ice and snow.

Although the lake region was flat, lush and dense with vegetation, and there were many birds and beasts living in large areas of primitive forest, in spring, summer, and autumn, changeable rainstorms and large amounts of melted glacier water would flow out from the high mountains around Python Teeth Ridge and Tushan Ridge, forming crisscrossing rivers and lakes in the plain region.

In these areas, barbarian tribes could occasionally enter and hunt, but no tribe could survive in the floods that would flood everywhere every once in a while. The wild beasts that lived in the vast primeval forest in the lake region were not necessarily any weaker than the fierce birds and ferocious beasts in the mountain valley.

There were only a few scattered tribes that struggled to survive in the mountains and hills where the stars were distributed in the Lake District.

It wasn’t that the cold current didn’t have any benefits.

The deep lake swamp at the edge of the primeval forest was originally an extremely fierce place, but it was now frozen tightly by the cold current. A large number of poisonous insects, snakes, and flood dragons hibernated under the ice layer, not easily breaking through the ice to injure others.

Above the ice-covered snowy plains, there was no hindrance from the terrain.

Of course, Chen Xun didn’t want to become the prey of a raptor. He didn’t dare to walk carelessly on the snowy plains. Instead, he carefully headed north along the sparse forest region where the lake and the primeval dense forest intersected.

He left Python Fang Ridge with a white fur hat on his head, a white fur beast robe, a giant iron bow, and a long black sheath saber. He was also wrapped in white fur and fused with ice and snow. Only in this way would he be able to concentrate more on searching for the spiritual herbs he needed to cultivate in the snowy and icy sky.

Some herbs were usually accompanied by poisonous insects, snakes, and flood dragons, and few herbalists dared to go deep into the lake region to gather them.

After winter arrived, the poisonous snake flood dragon would either drill into the mud hole or hibernate in the depths of the lake. As long as Chen Xun patiently searched the edge of the lake under the ice and snow, the harvest of his trip would be far greater than entering the Python Fang Ridge’s deep mountains.