Cultivating Immortals in the Family: Rising from Beast Familiarity

Chapter 43 Hunting the Sable

Red pine is a tall and sturdy pine tree, generally more than ten feet high.

Once such trees become forests, they will attract and breed several special kinds of pine caterpillars, and it is difficult for them to breed in the places where they grow.

In the red pine forest where Zhou Chun and the others are now, there are red pine trees as high as ten feet everywhere, many of which are more than a thousand years old.

The ground of the pine forest is covered with thick pine needles, and there are various thorny shrubs, thorns and weeds, which are very inconvenient to walk on.

Pine caterpillars that are as long as fingers often fall from the tree.

In such a place, if you are not very courageous, you really can't stay in it.

At this moment, Zhou Chun and the two put on bamboo hats to prevent the pine caterpillar from falling on them, and let Zhou Zhengyong's red-tailed monkey break through the thorns and thorns to open the way, and soon went deep into the pine forest for more than ten miles.

"Sable marten likes to prey on all kinds of rats. This red pine forest is so big, there must be a lot of squirrels and mountain rats in it, and there may be rat monsters like gold-toothed rats and flame rats."

"If we manage to catch one, we can use it as bait to lure the Purple Flame Marten out."

Under a red pine tree, Zhou Chun and Zhou Zhengyong squatted down, looking at the black-brown mink droppings on the ground beside them, Zhou Zhengyong whispered his plan.

The Purple Flame Marten travels alone, and its lair is very secretive. If you want to find its lair in this vast pine forest within three days, you must be lucky.

Therefore, the method of "leading the snake out of the hole" seems to be the most useful.

"Brother Yong, it's not impossible for you to do this, but those rat monsters are just as timid and cautious, and it's quite difficult to capture them alive, especially since we don't have enough time."

Zhou Chun didn't doubt whether Zhou Zhengyong's method was useful, but he also pointed out the difficulties.

"I was prepared for this, and I went to the elders of the family to ask for some food that rat monsters like to eat, and also some drugs."

When Zhou Zhengyong said this, he looked at Zhou Chun and said, "Next, let's split up and take food to look for the activity traces of those rat monsters."

"Okay, let's try this first."

Zhou Chun nodded, agreeing with his approach.

Immediately, Zhou Chun took some dried fruit, food and drugs from Zhou Zhengyong, and they split up with him to search for traces of rat monsters in the pine forest.

Both of them are proficient in the art of controlling beasts, and their ability to find monsters is stronger than those experienced casual cultivators.

From feces, minion marks, to nearby plant species, changes in temperature such as dryness and humidity, all can help them judge whether there are traces of certain types of monster activities nearby.

Take the "Golden Tooth Rat" as an example, this squirrel-like rodent monster has two golden front teeth that can bite through even steel.

So they often use hard stones to grind their teeth, and they like to inhabit places with a lot of hard rocks.

Zhou Chun shuttled around the pine forest, carefully observing the passing area with his spiritual sense and naked eyes, looking for traces of rat monsters and beasts from subtle observations.

After half a day like this, he found a total of three places that might have lairs of rat monsters, and chose a place that he thought had the highest probability and squatted down to guard it.

I saw that he sprinkled some dried monster meat and dried fruits containing weak spiritual power somewhere in the pine forest, sandwiched a drug similar to the shape of dried fruits, and then sprinkled some collected beast feces and repellent in the vicinity. Ant powder.

In this way, common rodents, ants and other insects dare not come to enjoy the food even if they smell it.

After doing all this, Zhou Chun hid in the distance, silently running the "Lin Yin Chan's Resting Art" to restrain his breath.

He has been practicing both kinds of secret arts for almost a year. Although he has not practiced both secret arts to the point where he can use them well, he can still use them by preparing in advance.

At this moment, Zhou Chun was hiding in the bushes and weeds. The color of his body and the nearby bushes and weeds was completely integrated, and his own smell was also covered by the fragrance of plants and trees under the effect of secret techniques.

Even if someone passed by now, it would be extremely difficult to spot Zhou Chun in the bushes with the naked eye and sense of smell.

And in order to avoid alarming the rat monsters that might appear, he specially sprinkled some fresh beast feces with a pungent smell nearby to keep things from being leaked due to his own smell.

Of course, the disadvantage of this is that even if he wears a homemade mask, he still has to endure the stink, which is sour.

Time passed, and after squatting for nearly an hour, Zhou Chun finally saw a big red-haired mouse with red fur appear in sight.

That big rat was as big as an adult's calf, and it wasn't affected by the smell of ferocious animal feces that Zhou Chun spilled nearby.

After turning his eyes to look around, and sniffing with his nose, he crawled directly to the dried meat and dried fruits, and happily ate these delicious foods.

After eating up all the food that Zhou Chun spilled in one breath, the big mouse turned around and prepared to return to the nest the same way.

But it hadn't gone far before it felt dizzy, and its body swayed uncontrollably from side to side.

Not long after, this little thing couldn't bear the effect of the medicine and passed out.

Only then did Zhou Chun leave his hiding place and picked up the unconscious rat.

He picked up the back of the big rat's neck and looked it over, then said to himself: "Fortunately, it's just a first-level low-grade monster flame rat. Beast Pill] I'm afraid I still won't be able to fascinate it!"

Then he took the flame mouse and went to look for Zhou Zhengyong.

Compared with Zhou Chun, Zhou Zhengyong's luck was much worse, and he didn't get anything after waiting for a long time.

Seeing Zhou Chun walking over with the unconscious Flame Rat at this time, he also heaved a sigh of relief.

"Brother Thirteen, it's good that you have gained something, this time you really helped Brother Wei a lot!!"

With words of gratitude in his mouth, he immediately took the unconscious flame mouse from Zhou Chun, and started to deal with it.

For an undomesticated flame mouse to obediently attract purple flame martens to prey in a fixed area, it naturally needs some special treatment.

This is not difficult for Zhou Zhengyong and Zhou Chun.

Beast-monitoring families like the Zhou family have long researched and developed many methods in order to capture all kinds of monsters alive.

At this time, Zhou Zhengyong used drugs and silver needles to stimulate and destroy the flame mouse's brain, making it go crazy. At the same time, he piled up some collected sable sable feces around it to prevent it from escaping from the fixed area.

Later, in order to prevent the purple flame sable from discovering the two of them, Zhou Zhengyong, who does not know the secret technique of breathing, left the scene far away, and only handed over the spirit beast bag containing his red-tailed monkey pet to Zhou Chun. Lay nearby and wait for the purple flame marten to come.

Squeak! !

I saw the flame mouse with a broken brain, scurrying around in a forest glade, screaming loudly.

There is no spirituality in its eyes at all, only a burst of madness, bloodshot and red eyeballs, which looks quite scary.

After hearing the sound, some rat-hunting beasts in the pine forest came to have a look, and when they saw that the owner of the call was the flame rat, they ran away in fright.

Ordinary rats are indeed the food of these beasts, but the flame rats can do magic.

Even if it's just an ordinary fireball, it's still enough to burn a tiger to death.

Time passed little by little, and the flame mouse's physical strength was gradually exhausted in the process of screaming, and its throat was so hoarse that it was difficult to make a loud sound.

The figure of the Purple Flame Sable never appeared.

This made Zhou Chun, who was squatting in secret, a little anxious.

It was their luck that they were able to catch this flame mouse, but it was very difficult to catch another one as bait.

It's just that he was in a hurry, but Zhou Chun didn't dare to act rashly.

The purple flame marten is extremely vigilant and cautious, maybe it is watching secretly somewhere at this time.

If he startled it with a rash action, even if he could catch another flame rat as bait, it would be impossible to lure it into the trap in a short time.

In this way, with the passage of time, the flame mouse on the ground could no longer even make a sound, as if it had completely died.

It was late at night, and most of the stars and the moon in the sky were blocked by the canopy of the trees, only the stars were scattered in the forest, and Zhou Chun could only see the general outline of the flame mouse.

He didn't dare to use his spiritual sense to monitor, because although his spiritual sense was invisible, many monsters could sense it and would know that he was being watched.

Therefore, unless the Purple Flame Marten showed up and needed to use his spiritual sense to lock its position, Zhou Chun would never dare to release his divine sense.

And just when Zhou Chun's eyes were already sore, and he felt that it was about to be difficult to hold on, he finally found something abnormal in his vision.

A black shadow flashed, and a huge black shadow the size of a yellow dog appeared next to the Flaming Rat, and it took the Flaming Rat in its mouth and flew towards the depths of the forest at an extremely fast speed.

This scene suddenly made Zhou Chun's spirit tremble, and immediately released his consciousness to lock on to that figure.

It really is a purple flame mink!

Zhou Chun heaved a sigh of relief from the results of the spiritual scan, and then hurriedly chased after that figure.

At the same time, a long whistle came from his mouth, echoing Zhou Zhengyong who was waiting in the distance to come to help.

But the purple flame sable is very fast in the forest, even if Zhou Chun blesses himself with the "Wind Control Technique", he can't outrun it by far.

So after sending out the signal, he released Zhou Zhengyong's red-tailed monkey, and let the monkey, which was also very sensitive in the forest, chase after the purple flame sable, and at the same time sacrificed his flying magic weapon to chase after it.

(End of this chapter)