Chapter 228 The war between ethnic groups!
With a humming sound, the sword light penetrated through the trunks of more than a dozen large trees until it dissipated, and the flames in the sky faded away. Some of the unburned liquid spilled onto the ground, emitting bursts of black smoke.
Seeing that the strange snake was killed with just one move, Chen Jue felt that the newly awakened [Sword Energy] state was very practical.
Not only is it instantaneous and fast, and can it cut through the flesh of living creatures, it can also directly cut through energy shocks with mixed chemical and physical properties such as flames.
Just thinking about the scene of the strange snake spitting fire again, Chen Jue showed a thoughtful look, thinking: "Use bioelectricity to ignite the flammable liquid in the body that can be sprayed, forming a jet of flame."
"The evolution of snakes in this second home has taken a different and extraordinary evolutionary path."
The principle of the strange snake's fire-breathing was actually very simple, just like the acrobats Chen Jue had seen who drank high-concentration alcohol and then breathed fire at a torch.
The only difference is that one relies on external tools, while the other relies on one's own body.
Moreover, the flames that the monster snake spewed out were not low in temperature, mainly orange-red flames, at least 3000℃, enough to melt gold and fossils. If an ordinary person was sprayed by it, they could just set up a feast at the entrance of the village, saving the cost of sending it to the crematorium.
Chen Jue also felt a sense of danger when facing the ball of fire, so he retreated quickly to avoid it.
Although he had awakened the state of [Invulnerability to Water and Fire], and was protected by this aerospace combat suit, which allowed him to resist the burning of ordinary flames, he was not so stubborn as to directly resist it.
What's more, the liquid sprayed by the strange snake is not only flammable, but also corrosive and highly toxic.
Some of the liquid that was not completely burned dripped onto the ground, creating holes in the ground and signs of black toxic corrosion.
"Flammable, poisonous, strong acid... this kind of body fluid can be compared to the three types of hazardous chemicals on Earth..." Chen Jue squatted down to check it, and walked to the body of the strange snake that had been broken into several pieces.
It was seen that the strange snake had extremely tenacious vitality. Although it was cut into several pieces by Chen Jue's sword energy, some of its muscles were still hesitating, and several parts of its body were twisting and wriggling. It died completely after dozens of seconds.
Taking a close look at the shape of the flying snake, Chen Jue recalled an interesting incident when he was a child in Chen Village, where he encountered a cobra crawling into the firewood pile of the neighbor's stove, attracting the whole village to watch.
Some adults would even trick the children by saying that cobras can breathe fire. Unexpectedly, they actually encountered a fire-breathing snake on this strange planet today.
Moreover, the fleshy wings on the cheeks of this strange snake are indeed somewhat similar to the bulging skin folds on the neck of a cobra, but they have evolved the ability to fly. Obviously, they are also stimulated by the high concentration of innate Qi in the air.
"The flying animal photographed by the lunar rover looks very similar to Fei Yi in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. Is it this strange snake? It has a snake body and bird wings. When it appears, it will turn the land red for thousands of miles. It is a sign of drought... It is quite appropriate."
“As for that strange fish that can fly and spray water, it is very similar to the fish mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas: it has a fish body and bird wings, and when it is seen, there will be a flood in the city.” Chen Jue pondered for a moment and felt that he had to be very alert in the subsequent exploration.
We have only stepped a few kilometers out of the invisible isolation magnetic field, and we have encountered these strange beasts with unique abilities one after another. I am afraid that the road ahead will not be so easy.
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He found some stones and built an earthen stove by the river. He scraped some dry firewood from the woods, then Chen Jue pulled out the special dagger on the leg of his combat uniform, filed his nails to create a spark to start a fire, then used a javelin as a skewer to smoke the fish on the stove for a while.
Soon the aroma of fish filled the air. Chen Jue smelled it and felt it was even more tempting than the grilled white fish he had caught in the old forest of Gongshan.
He then used the divine perception enhanced by the [Holy Heart] to sense the roasted golden fish and found that there was no sense of danger. It was pure food, so he tore off a piece of the crispy and soft fish meat and put it into his mouth to taste it.
The moment it took his mouth, Chen Jue felt as if his taste buds were cheering with joy. The tender texture of the meat and the faint aroma of fish were enough to beat all the seafood barbecue Chen Jue had eaten before.
"It has a bit of the toughness of grilled saury, and a bit of the tenderness of fried tofu fish. The taste... is indescribable!" Chen Jue sighed in his heart, thinking that the reason why the meat was so delicious was probably due to the influence of the environmental transformation.
After taking a bite of fish, he checked his stomach and intestines through [Internal Vision] and found no signs of poisoning or harm to the body. So Chen Jue boldly consumed the rest of the fish as a treat and to improve his diet for the journey to the moon after leaving the space station.
If you take too much of those human nutrition supplements, they will taste like chewing wax. This kind of food with the flavor of fireworks is more delicious.
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After eating the grilled fish, Chen Jue extinguished the fire on the earthen stove and walked forward again with his knife in hand.
We also discovered several strange creatures on the way, such as a palm-sized beetle with a straw-like mouth that feeds on tree sap in the form of a weevil.
There are also spider webs with the texture of white cotton threads on the treetops, and fuzzy eight-legged insects that look like spiders. All living creatures seem to be magnified several or even dozens of times larger than the species on Earth, but you can still barely see the shadows of Earth's creatures in them.
However, there were some creatures with peculiar styles, and Chen Jue didn't know how to describe them. They were all insects, slightly small in size, living and breeding in the forest. He did not feel any threat from them.
After traveling peacefully for dozens of kilometers, the shrill cries of birds and hissing sounds came from afar.
Relying on his [Super Ears], Chen Jue was able to locate the source of the sound by listening to the sound, and he quickly moved closer, until he advanced more than a thousand meters and passed through the woods, and found himself outside a mountain stream.
Looking ahead, you can see a giant tree standing alone in the gap between two low hills in front of you.
This giant tree is at least three hundred meters tall. It is very different from the big trees Chen Jue has seen in the forest. Its leaves are yellow and its main trunk is black. Its crown extends like an umbrella, blocking out the sky and the sun. The space under the tree is enough to accommodate half a football field.
On the extended branches, there are vines hanging down to the ground. The ground under the tree should have been a natural scene with green grass and blooming flowers, but now it has been burned into charcoal by dozens of strange snakes over five meters in size that are spewing flames.
Those strange snakes that looked like the remains of the Classic of Mountains and Seas attacked the giant tree in groups, some soaring into the sky and breathing fire, some climbing up along the vines that hung down to the ground.
Fighting with them were a group of slender birds with gray-green feathers.
These birds are three to four meters in size when they grow up, and their wingspan is as wide as eight meters. Their black and grey claws have sharp hooks, and their red beaks emit sharp cries from time to time, which actually create a layer of white energy in the air!
Chen Jue recognized that it was the concrete sonic impact caused by the sound breaking through the sound barrier, which collided with the jet of flame spewed out by the monster snake, exploding into balls of brilliant fire rain in mid-air, which continued to scatter around the giant tree.
After seeing the appearance of these birds, Chen Jue immediately thought of the words mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas: Western Mountains: "There is a bird, which looks like an owl, with green feathers and a red beak, and can speak with a human tongue. It is called a parrot."
However, this parrot is obviously dozens of times larger than the one Chen Jue knew!
Moreover, the ferocity of the fight with those strange snakes was not at all as docile as the domesticated parrots. Instead, it was more like birds of prey such as eagles and hawks, and could emit sound waves visible to the naked eye. These sound waves were very similar to the principle of Chen Jue's secret sound attack technique "Tiger Roaring in the Mountains", and were extremely powerful.
"A war among alien beast tribes?" Chen Jue observed from hundreds of miles away with the added vision of [Clairvoyance].
He discovered that on the top of the tree, there was an even larger, fat monster snake that was nearly ten meters long, fighting fiercely with two parrots that were over seven or eight meters long.
That giant fat monster snake was not only terrifyingly large in size, but the flames that spewed out of its mouth were also cyan-blue in color, which was the color of flames that only appeared when the temperature exceeded 5000℃.
The two large parrots used the hurricane-like force winds created by the flapping of their wings and the sonic shock waves from their mouths to resist the blue-green flames. Occasionally, they engaged in close combat, using their beaks and gray claws to hook and grab the giant fat monster snake.
However, the fat monster snake was obviously gaining the upper hand. After spitting out a few puffs of blue-green flames, it swept out with its tail, creating a huge white sound barrier, and knocked one of the large parrots away with one blow.
When the remaining parrot pounced again, it was hit by a breath of fire that was spewed out again by the fat monster snake. Its feathers seemed to be ignited, and its body turned into a fireball and fell headfirst from the top of the tree canopy.
Looking at the fierce fight between the snake and the bird, Chen Jue suddenly remembered that his martial arts predecessors watched the fight between snakes and cranes and learned the snake-crane eight-strike boxing moves.
However, the fight between the fat monster snake and the parrot was more intense. The life levels of the three largest monsters had definitely reached the [Extraordinary] level.
Just as Chen Jue was about to stand by and wait for the war between the alien beast tribes on this strange planet to end, a loud cry came from the mouth of the parrot that fell to the bottom of the giant tree and turned into a fireball.
It was seen holding up its body, spreading its wings, and crashing headfirst into the trunk of the giant tree. The entire tree shook, and the flames from the surroundings continued to rush up along the trunk and vines, igniting the entire tree and turning the mountain stream into a sea of fire.
The temperature nearby rose sharply, and even Chen Jue, who was hundreds of meters away, felt a heat wave coming towards him. The parrots that were retreating step by step kept flapping their wings to escape, flew out of the range of the sea of fire and merged with another [Transcendent Level] parrot, and then let out unwilling howls one after another, and flew away in a group towards the distant sky, retreating on the spot.
As for those groups of fat monster snakes, after winning the tribal war, they began to hiss with joy, flapped their fleshy wings on their cheeks, and flew to the crowns of giant trees that were burning like torches, and surrounded the fat leader who was more than ten meters long, like they were gathering around a king.
The fat leader's eyes widened as he stared at the burning giant tree, with a hint of anticipation and greed in his eyes.
Although Chen Jue was far away, he could still see the change in the emotions of the leader of the Fat Relics. He frowned and thought, "Didn't these Fat Relics attack the parrots just to eat them?"
Chen Jue was suspicious and waited patiently until the fire in the entire mountain stream gradually died down and the giant tree was burned into a dead tree. The air around him suddenly stagnated, and then a strong mountain wind swept in from all directions.
Chen Jue used the [Xuanmen Qi-Watching Technique] and saw countless golden particles in the air, which began to gather towards the top of the tree trunk under the blowing of the mountain breeze.
"What is this? The siphon effect of the innate Qi?" Chen Jue's eyes focused and he observed carefully, not daring to miss any details.
Soon, a tender green seedling emerged from the top of the giant tree that had been burned to charcoal. Under the infusion of a large amount of innate Qi, the green seedling began to grow and transform continuously, climbing higher and higher like a sesame seed blooming.
When it finally grew to more than half a person's height, the green leaves fell off and a huge flower bud formed at the top.
The flower buds blossomed, and the light golden pollen drifted in all directions with the wind. Chen Jue heard the commotion of countless animals and insects coming from all directions.
In the center of the flower, there is a fist-sized, crystal clear, strange fruit that looks like dark golden jelly!
When the fat leader saw the fruit appear, greed showed in his eyes. Just as he was about to move closer to swallow it, a sudden sound of breaking through the air exploded in the woods in the distance.
All the scales on its body shivered, and the snake twisted its body and flapped its wings to dodge to the side, avoiding the gray light that was shooting towards it.
The two fat brothers behind it were not so lucky. They were shot by the gray light and exploded into a ball of blood mist in mid-air and fell down.
“Hiss!”
Chief Feiyi looked in the direction from which the attack came, and saw a strange upright creature wearing a black combat uniform and holding a javelin walking out of the forest.
"Sorry, little brother, I want that fruit." Chen Jue stared at the giant fat relic and spoke, emitting his mental magnetic field with the intention of asking for the fruit.
Because he could feel that the fruit contained a large amount of concentrated innate Qi. In addition, there was a desire in it that made even a [superhuman] human like him want to swallow it. It was obviously a good thing at first glance.
However, the fat leader obviously did not take the little guy Chen Jue seriously. After hissing at him a few times, he ignored his request and quickly pounced on the fruit.
Seeing this, Chen Jue stomped his foot, and the earth trembled. The ground under his feet broke into several pieces. At the same time, his figure used the explosive force to quickly rush forward and approached the giant tree. The second retractable javelin in his hand shot through the air, forcing the fat relic leader away from the fruit, and at the same time shot and blew up the third adult fat relic behind it.
After the previous tribal war, there were less than a dozen fat relicts left. Now that Chen Jue shot and killed three of them, their numbers have dropped sharply.
“Hiss!”
When the leader Fei Yi saw the death of his fellow tribesmen, his mood changed. He roared angrily at Chen Jue, and the younger brothers around him began to fly towards Chen Jue in groups. Strands of orange-red flames drew trajectories in the air, like a dancing fire dragon shooting towards Chen Jue.
Chen Jue used both hands to take off all the javelins mounted on his body and fired several javelins at the dozen or so fat remnants.
As the javelin pierced through the flame jet attack, Chen Jue roared towards the sky, and the secret sound attack technique of [Tiger Roaring in the Mountains] came out of his mouth, which turned into a sound wave impact and tore a huge gap in the flames in the sky.
He leaped into the air, drew out the Tang sword mounted on his back, and swung it violently, drawing a gorgeous half-moon blade light in the air.
Wherever the knife flashed, snakes were cut in half, blood splattered, and shrill hisses echoed in the mountains.
Chen Jue took advantage of the moment to clear the group of snakes in front of him, stretched out his left hand, pulled out the dagger from his leg, aimed at the fat leader and threw it with all his might.
With a humming sound, the dagger cut through the sky and forced the fat leader away from the fruit again. At the moment of falling, Chen Jue pointed his sword and aimed at the opponent's gap to instantly release golden sword energy, which directly shot out one of its flesh wings.
It’s a pity that the sword energy had already been released once before, and the second sword energy obviously did not have enough time to accumulate, and the power was not enough to kill the fat leader.
"hiss!"
The fat leader roared in pain. Having lost one of his wings, his entire body seemed to have lost balance. He crashed from mid-air over the treetop like a meteorite into the scorched ground at the bottom of the giant tree, raising a cloud of dust.
However, the smoke and dust had just started to rise when the fat leader suddenly felt the danger approaching. His snake scales trembled, and he raised his head and opened his mouth to spray out towards the front.
A high-temperature blue flame shot out, but before the flame could go several meters away, the alloy Tang sword in Chen Jue's hand had already slashed towards it.
With the blessing of the [Holy Heart] and [Red Dust Immortal], as well as Chen Jue's agility value of 5.02, even the bullets fired from the gun seemed to be still in his eyes, and he could grab them with his bare hands, not to mention the white flames ejected from the snake's mouth.
“Swish!”
Another high-speed blade flashed by, leaving a half-moon trajectory on the spot. By the time Chen Jue had strayed from the body of the fat leader, the opponent's head, which was still spewing fire, had already spurted out a circle of blood with a puff. The head fell directly from the neck and fell to the ground, and the flames spewing from the mouth also stopped abruptly at this moment.
Chen Jue looked back at the huge snake that was still struggling on the ground. He used his divine sense to observe that the snake's vitality was rapidly draining away, and it would probably become stiff after a few more jumps.
He took another look at the few remaining snakes that had escaped the net. Those fat and strange snakes that were still alive seemed to be fleeing like crazy from the mountain stream that was filled with blood and scorched earth and was like purgatory.
Probably realizing that their leader was dead, these small, fat monster snakes began to respond with their beastly instinct to save their lives, flapping their wings and fleeing as far away as possible.
Seeing this, Chen Jue did not intend to chase after him. Instead, he shook off the blood stains on the Tang sword, hung the sword back on his back, quickly climbed up the charred giant tree in front of him, and picked the golden fruit on the top.
As soon as he got the golden fruit in his hand, Chen Jue felt a cheering and joy coming from his body through his aerospace suit. He was even more excited than when he first arrived on this strange planet.
He bent down and smelled it again. In addition to the familiar feeling of innate Qi, this fruit also contained an energy that could uplift the spirit.
Chen Jue plucked a few petals and wrapped the fruit, intending to take it back for careful study.
He slid down quickly along the main trunk of the giant tree, retrieved the javelins he had shot before, and dissected the body of the fat leader. He did not find any inner elixir or the like inside, only a shriveled sac and a huge, smelly snake gall.
"Such a large snake gallbladder should be useful if soaked in wine, right?" Chen Jue took a look at the snake gallbladder the size of a bowling ball, and also found a large leaf to wrap it up and planned to take it away. As for the cavity, it was obviously filled with flammable, explosive, and corrosive liquids, and was of no use to Chen Jue.
I observed its structure, studied its principles, and then threw it away.
When passing by the body of the parrot that was burned to death, Chen Jue suddenly stopped, because he sensed the spiritual magnetic field of a new life emanating from the body of the parrot.
Curiously, he used a knife to cut open the parrot's half-charred body, and saw a bird's egg covered with spots and as big as a washbasin appeared in front of Chen Jue.
"Parrot eggs?"
Chen Jue stared at the bird egg for a moment and felt that it was more valuable than the snake gall. He also found a large leaf to wrap it, then ran quickly towards the stronghold along the original path.
