Chapter 1649: Chapter 1649
Witnessing a monkey and a large bird’s... shouting match, the two were still immersed in that shock, astonished by the intelligence of the oversized monkey and its peculiar preference. When it held the bird’s feathers, it was grinning with delight, so much so that it couldn’t be suppressed, even bouncing on the way back.
Xu Shanshan rubbed her face, regaining her composure, and asked, "Where should we go next?"
Li Yifei shook his head and said, "I don’t know... but we can walk further inside. This place is very strange. This valley looks small, but once you enter, it’s actually quite large. We’ve been walking for a while, yet it feels like we’re still on the edge of the forest."
"Alright, let’s walk further inside," Xu Shanshan nodded.
The two quietly climbed out of their hiding spot and, after moving some distance away, walked forward with large strides, deliberately bypassing those angry large birds. These creatures initially relied on flying high and landing from above to mercilessly mock the monkeys, not expecting the monkeys to throw stones and even snatch their feathers, which made them extremely furious, each one calling out angrily.
Continuing forward, the forest here grew even taller. The two passed by a large tree with a diameter of perhaps six or seven meters, not only thick but also towering, probably more than twenty meters high.
Li Yifei didn’t recognize this type of tree. Xu Shanshan looked up at the watermelon-sized fruits hanging on the tree and murmured, "I wonder if these fruits taste good!"
"Then I’ll climb up and get a few for you," Li Yifei laughed.
Xu Shanshan quickly shook her head and said, "No, no, no need. I’m not hungry now. Let’s talk about it when I’m hungry."
"Okay," Li Yifei said.
The two walked and chatted, their mood rather pleasant. Although they didn’t know if there was danger, it was definitely much better than being trapped in the temple.
After walking for about an hour, with darkness approaching, they decided to stop. Exploring at night was too unsafe. Li Yifei carried a pile of leaves on his back, collected along the way, intending to make clothes from them.
They stopped, with Xu Shanshan making clothes, and Li Yifei using leaves to set up a simple bed. They prepared to rest on the spot. It seemed that there were no dangerous animals in this valley, at least not yet. There weren’t even poisonous insects or snakes. Along the way, only once did Li Yifei accidentally get scratched by a tree branch, bleeding a little on his leg.
At night, the two lay down, Xu Shanshan divided the fruits she found and gave some to Li Yifei.
In the middle of the night, Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan suddenly woke up, opening their eyes simultaneously, eyes filled with vigilance. Just a moment ago, both felt the presence of a powerful force.
Seconds later, a terrifying aura emanated from deeper in the forest. Li Yifei immediately sat up, and Xu Shanshan followed suit.
"Could it be Bai Shan?" Xu Shanshan asked.
Li Yifei clicked his tongue and said, "It’s possible. I’ll go take a look; you stay here and don’t move."
"No, let’s go together. If it really is Bai Shan, this aura proves it’s no ordinary being."
Seeing Xu Shanshan’s firm stance, Li Yifei thought for a moment and nodded in agreement, saying, "Alright, we’ll go together and assess the situation." The rıghtful source is 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝⁂𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚⁂𝔫𝔢𝔱
The two, dressed in leaf-made clothes, stealthily moved toward the source of the aura.
Halfway through, they heard a mooing sound, low and rumbling, like thunder, making their ears buzz. Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan paused, unable to suppress a sense of joy. Although Master Void said he didn’t know what Bai Shan looked like exactly, anything that had lived for thousands of years should be quite powerful, otherwise, how could it survive for so long?
And this was the place where Bai Shan was supposedly kept. If it truly existed, then... it was very likely the powerful creature just ahead.
After another ten minutes, they finally arrived within less than a hundred meters of the powerful aura. At the same time, they also got a clear look at the terrain. Ahead was unexpectedly another valley, not very deep, but dozens of meters down. They were now on the edge of a cliff, with the powerful aura just below the edge.
Tonight’s moon was very round, with bright moonlight, illuminating the valley below clearly.
Yet, both were dumbfounded, for below the valley, a scene, both bloody and absurdly comical, was taking place. The valley wasn’t large, roughly the size of a football field, surrounded by cliffs. It was more like a prison than a valley. Without some special means, it would be difficult to climb back up if one fell in.
And at this moment, in the very center of the valley, stood a massive creature. It was a pig, and Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan were sure they weren’t mistaken. The pig snout, pig ears, pig eyes, and pig body clearly indicated this creature was a pig, not your common white pig for eating, but a giant black wild boar. Yet this pig was extraordinarily large; if estimated correctly, its size was comparable to that of a fully grown elephant.
Its tusks are also about a meter long, truly astonishing.
What surprised the two wasn’t just the size of the pig, but even more so its posture. It was sitting on the ground, with its two hind legs stretched forward, its two front legs propped between the hind legs, head raised, looking at the sky or the moon, no one knew how long it had been looking, and from time to time it let out a roar or two.
A mooing sound, rather than the common grunting of pigs, hearing this sound, one would think it were a cow.
If it were just the posture, that would be one thing, but more speechless to the two was that as soon as they lay against the cliff edge to observe, the pig turned its head and looked in the direction where they were, its giant pig eyes blinked, and it made a puffing sound, as if saying, "You’re here?"
This meant that this terrifying creature knew of their approach, so as soon as they appeared, it sensed them immediately.
With a puffing sound, the two immediately felt that powerful aura.
With such a terrifying and gigantic pig, what do you think the two felt, especially after seeing a giant monkey first.
"Is this ’Journey to the West’?" Xu Shanshan shrunk her neck back, muttering.
"Nah, there’s no White Horse or Sha Monk yet!" Li Yifei responded after a few seconds of silence.
"As for dragons, we already have those giant pythons." Xu Shanshan added.
As soon as she finished speaking, the pig stood up, perhaps tired from sitting, shook its body, moved around a bit, walked to a spot at the bottom of the valley, and stomped its foot. A clicking sound came from below, and a cliff suddenly cracked open, revealing a cave seven to eight meters high and about ten meters long. The pig didn’t enter, instead, it returned to its original spot, where a gigantic python suddenly appeared, even larger in size, approximately twenty meters long and bulkier. It slithered into the valley from that cave, the pig didn’t seem surprised, didn’t even bother to look.
Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan’s mouths had already formed an ’O’ shape, first a giant monkey, then a giant pig, and now a huge python, a white one at that, by its shape clearly the White Snake reborn, oh no, more like the White Horse, the white python was pure white, its scales reflecting the moonlight, appearing to glow, moving silently.
Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan were speechless, as if they were in the world of "Journey to the West"; a monkey, a pig, a white snake, wasn’t this the combination of the senior disciple, the second disciple, and the White Horse?
Unfortunately, they didn’t have filming equipment, otherwise, they would surely capture this.
After the white python emerged from the cave, it closed, and the python began spiraling around the valley bottom, circle after circle. The giant pig also paced anxiously, occasionally glancing at Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan.
The white python coiled in one corner, suddenly curled its body, interlocking its whole body, then extended its head out, beginning to climb up, its thick body slowly rising.
The giant pig, no longer circling, started retreating, running to the other side, as the white python endeavored to extend its body, although it was twenty meters long, it couldn’t climb that full length, at most half, or maybe a bit more with effort.
Perhaps not even ten meters, because the white python wasn’t climbing straight up the cliff, but maintaining a certain curve and distance, looking as if it were resting against it.
Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan watched these creatures, then suddenly saw the giant pig make a sudden move, charging towards the white python.
Xu Shanshan covered her mouth, eyes wide open, thinking the giant pig was about to attack the python, but several seconds later, they saw the giant pig leap with force, its hooves stomped the ground, followed by a second step on the python’s body, third step also on it, and fourth step it reached the highest point the python could support, then jumped with force.
The huge pig’s face was clearly visible; such a massive creature was surprisingly agile, managing to leap over ten meters, astonishing.
But... over ten meters plus over ten meters is only just over twenty meters, still a significant distance from where Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan were, as the giant pig’s body reached its peak, it began to descend.
After the white python completed its assisting and stepping-stone duty, it quickly slithered away, the giant pig landed with a thud, hitting the ground with its backside, the whole valley seemed to shiver with a rumble, and the pig grunted as it fell.
"Oh my god..." Xu Shanshan didn’t know what to say; turns out these two creatures were coordinating to attempt an escape out of the valley.
Li Yifei wiped his face, unable to hide his astonishment, feeling a bit overwhelmed; these two terrifying creatures not only harmonized together but could even collaborate.
It seems their intellect isn’t low either.
However, with such a fall, was it really okay? As Li Yifei wondered, he saw the giant pig move, getting back on its feet from the ground, snorting, shaking its head, and calling out to the python twice.