longevity road trip

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"Senior Zhang, please wait."

When Zhang Shiping was about to leave the city gate, a lean monk in a black shirt walked past Zhang Shiping, stopped suddenly, and saluted Zhang Shiping respectfully.Zhang Shiping looked like a strange person, he had eight levels of qi training, his eyes were very lively, he seemed to be a quick-witted person, and he didn't know why the other party called him, and he blocked his way inexplicably.

Zhang Shiping showed a look of impatience, frowned and asked, "What's the matter with you?"

"Senior Zhang, can you move to the Jinxiu Restaurant in front of you? There are several seniors waiting for Senior Zhang there, and sent me to call Senior Zhang over." The man smiled and pointed to the restaurant with the biggest sign in front of him.

Hearing what the other party said, he still definitely called himself Senior Zhang. He didn't tell others when he came here. The only person who knew his surname was Zhang, that monk Chen Chuan from Duan Xuan Pavilion. Could it be that there are acquaintances there?

"Lead the way ahead." Zhang Shiping thought for a while, and then said to the lean monk in black.Who the hell is in that restaurant, and whether I recognize him or not, I'll know when I go there.

The lean monk hurriedly led the way, Zhang Shiping followed behind, and soon arrived at the entrance of Jinxiu Restaurant, took Zhang Shiping up to the third floor, stopped outside a private room with orchids embossed on the door, opened the door to invite Zhang Shiping go in.

Zhang Shiping walked to the door, saw four people sitting inside, and two of them were really acquainted, so he simply walked into the private room and took a seat.

"It turned out to be Su Daoyou and Chen Daoyou. I thought someone called me, but I didn't expect it to be you two." Zhang Shiping looked at the two foundation-building monks who were also from Jiaozuo Sect. One was Su Shuang, who built the foundation at about the same time as Zhang Shiping. Yes, the other one is called Chen Qi, who established the foundation a few years earlier than Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang.

I heard that Chen Qi didn't take the Foundation Establishment Pill when he was building the foundation, and relying on his great perseverance and luck, he succeeded in building the foundation after half a year of retreat. Zhang Shiping took a second look at Chen Qi. No matter how temperament is, the heart of seeking Tao alone is much tougher than ordinary monks.

This kind of person who is so ruthless to himself will not be half-hearted towards others. You must know that Zhang Shiping established the foundation in order to be [-]% and avoid some accidents, but he succeeded in establishing the foundation after taking two foundation establishment pills. of.

"I happened to see Zhang Daoyou getting off the carriage just now, so I sent someone to stop him in a hurry. If Zhang Daoyou walked faster, I would have missed the good news." Su Shuang said with a smile on his face, with a little innocence on his face Xie was stupid, picked up a small white porcelain wine glass, drank three glasses in a row to express his apology, and licked the wine glass after drinking, looking like a drunkard, the other three people sitting on the edge of the wine table also toasted with a smile Respect to Zhang Shiping.

Seeing the enthusiasm of the four people, Zhang Shiping was a little bit embarrassed. He just came here to have a look. He has been fasting since the establishment of the foundation. Apart from taking pills and drinking spiritual water, he has basically never touched anything else. What's more, Zhang Shiping is somewhat vigilant about things outside.

So Zhang Shiping didn't pour wine in return, but clasped his fists at Su Shuang and Chen Qi, and after meeting them, he asked, "I don't know what you want from me?"

Several people put down their wine glasses, glanced at each other, and nodded, then Chen Qi cast a spell to prop up a spiritual shield, and then introduced the other two people on the table to Zhang Shiping: "Friend Zhang, these two are fellow Daoists Huang Qifa, Li Changdao friend."

Su Shuang continued to speak in an extremely excited tone: "Friend Zhang Daoist, do you know what we found?" Before Zhang Shiping could say anything, he hurriedly said again: "A few of us discovered an ancient monk's cave, but due to the restriction of the cave, we need to Only five people can break through the formation with mana, when I was thinking of a way, I didn't expect to see you Zhang Daoyou, what a coincidence."

Zhang Shiping didn't believe that there is such a good thing as a pie in the sky. After thinking for a while, he was about to refuse, but when he glanced out of the corner of his eye, he immediately changed his words:

"Is it such a coincidence? It seems that I'm lucky, but if we work together to break the formation, how to divide the things in the cave, it's better to make it clear first."

Zhang Shiping said with a dignified face, but there was a bit of excitement in his tone. Although it was well hidden, it still revealed a little bit of a money fan.

Huang Qifa, who looked like a farmer in his fifties, glanced at Li Chang, smiled and said to Zhang Shiping: "You see, Zhang Daoyou, no one knows what is in this ancient monk's cave. But let's make things clear in advance. It is the best. Although everyone put in the same effort when the cave was broken, and everyone in the cave shared equally, but Fellow Daoist Li Chang is a formation master. If he needs anything at that time, he can choose first, and then Of the three of us, you are Daoyou Zhang at the end."

He turned his head to look at the other people in the private room with a look of impartiality.

"Of course, if there is something valuable at that time, which causes us to be unable to share it equally, we will use spirit stones to make up for the person who has less points,"

"I have no objection." It was Chen Qi who expressed it first, and he said with an expression on his face.

Afterwards, Su Shuang hurriedly agreed, because this distribution method was quite beneficial to Li Chang, a formation master, and he did not object. Finally, Zhang Shiping thought for a while, and agreed to the distribution method proposed by the other party.

Several people chatted amicably for a while in the private room, and then they got up to say goodbye to each other, and agreed to meet at a hill called Gegen Mountain, thirty miles north of Hongyi City, at noon.

After a few people walked out of Jinxiu Restaurant, Su Shuang said that Baizuifang had newly opened a batch of vintage wine. He shook his empty wine gourd, and bid farewell to Huang Qifa, Li Chang, and Zhang Shiping. Chen Qi still looked indifferent Followed closely behind Su Shuang.

Zhang Shiping also smiled and separated from the two, with a look of joy on his face, and walked towards Su Shuang and Chen Qi in different directions.

The two of them also turned and walked towards the place where they settled down.

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After more than an hour, when it was about to set at sunset, he made a big circle around the outer city of Hongyi City, and after confirming that there was no tail behind him, he walked into a small restaurant near Baizuifang and swept around. At a glance, after seeing Su Shuang and Chen Qi sitting in a corner, he walked over and sat down, looked at them, without speaking first.

Chapter 109 The Oath

"Zhang Daoyou, you're here, let Brother Chen and I wait for a while." As soon as Zhang Shiping took his seat, Su Shuang looked at Zhang Shiping, not at all as innocent and stupid as before.

"Aren't you two going to explain to me first?" Zhang Shiping tapped on the table lightly, looking at Su Shuang and Chen Qi.When he was in Jinxiu Restaurant just now, he wanted to reject the four of them's so-called ancient monk's cave.But out of the corner of his eye, he saw that Su Shuang gave him a signal while toasting, so he didn't refuse immediately.

How can there be such a good thing in the world, after discovering the ancient monk's cave, he said it and shared it with others, Zhang Shiping sneered in his heart, the saying that the formation requires five foundation-building monks to cast spells together to break the formation, maybe they are not lying .

But why did he have to find him, Zhang Shiping couldn't help thinking.He came here because he and Su Shuang and Chen Qi were both disciples of Jiaozuo Sect.

But this is not the Jiaozuo Sect. During the Jiaozuo Sect, the sect regulations stipulated that monks above the foundation stage should not kill each other. As long as there is any discovery, they will be investigated to the end, so Zhang Shiping can't help but keep an eye on him. Innocent.

Because the head of the sect, Chang Younian, the treasure of Jiaozuo Zong's golden pen and jade is not for decoration.

This magic weapon connects the spirit veins of mountains and rivers with a radius of [-] li of Jiaozuo Zong, and is connected with each large array of Jiaozuo Zong, so it can clearly detect all places of Jiaozuo Zong.Moreover, within the scope of Jiaozuo Sect, as long as the foundation-building cultivator crushes or activates the token of the inner sect, Jiaozuo Peak can immediately sense it. Certainly, so as long as the other party is not in a daze, basically no Foundation Establishment cultivator would dare to attack another Foundation Establishment cultivator within the sect.

However, Jiaozuo Zong adopted a free-ranging attitude towards the disciples in the qi training period, and the sect would not care about any fights between the qi training monks.If even in Jiaozuo Zong's environment, which is so much better than the outside world, he still can't get ahead, then this monk has no hope, either because his aptitude is too poor, or because he has a problem with his temper, and it is difficult to become a master.

As long as the two sides of the Jiaozuo Zong's qi-training monks do not fight in some places where the Zongmen expressly prohibits fighting.

Or if someone else finds out and reports it to the sect, apart from these two points, there are no other taboos.

So when Zhang Shiping was in the Qi training period, he was very careful, for fear of being robbed halfway.

But these are actually just incidental effects. The most important thing about the golden pen and jade is for the inheritance of the sect's orthodoxy.

After more than a hundred years since the Jiaozuo ancestor established the sect, considering that if the sect dies one day, the inheritance of the sect's orthodoxy will be in danger of survival. In order to prevent this situation, great efforts have been made to forge this magic weapon of the sect's inheritance .

After thousands of years of cultivation, the power of this golden pen and jade talisman is stronger than that of ordinary fourth-order magic weapons, and within a hundred miles of Jiaozuo Peak, if there are many years regardless of the spiritual damage of the magic weapon, it will explode in an instant Its shocking power is very likely to seriously injure or even kill the unsuspecting Nascent Soul cultivator, let alone if the Nascent Soul cultivator controls this magic weapon.

And it is precisely because of this golden pen and jade talisman that he will not go out of Jiaozuo Zong's radius of [-] miles for many years. Even if he goes out, he will leave the inherited talisman to prevent accidents.

Both Su Shuang and Chen Qi smiled, and said to Zhang Shiping in unison: "Don't be in a hurry, fellow Daoist Zhang. You will know when we explain the whole thing clearly."

"Then ask the two fellow Taoists to tell you what's going on." Zhang Shiping looked at the two people in front of him in a panic, and he was not in a hurry. I know what the hell the two of them are thinking.

"Tell me." Su Shuang pointed at Chen Qi, and then picked up the wine glass for a drink.

Chen Qi changed hands and took out a blue-and-blue striped formation plate from his storage bag, quickly said a few formulas to it, and shot a few flashes of light on it. A table is wrapped up.From the outside, only the vague figures of a few people could be seen, and as for the voices, they couldn't hear them at all.If there is no spiritual consciousness far surpassing that of Chen Qi, a monk in the early stage of foundation establishment, it is impossible to find out the slightest news inside.

After activating the Qingluo Jueyin array disk, he saw that Zhang Shiping's eyes didn't have any waves, so he took out a fragmented picture and handed it to Zhang Shiping. Made of various materials, but Zhang Shiping immediately suppressed this idea.

The cracks on it are very old and should be torn for a long time. The mountains, rivers and rivers are outlined in secret script on the map, and there are also signs in ancient script. There are some codes in the inconspicuous places. I can only look at a general idea, so it doesn't look like a fake fake.

Zhang Shiping looked at the map again, and compared the terrain recorded on it with the map graphics recorded in his mind, perhaps because of the places recorded on the map, because of the vicissitudes of life and the changes of the earth, Zhang Shiping did not arrive for a while The opposite terrain.

However, after reading the map, Zhang Shiping returned the map to Chen Qi, and said with a sneer, "Fellow Daoist Chen, don't say that you can conclude that there is an ancient monk's cave based on this fragmented map. Can you really think that Zhang is a three-year-old child?" I don’t know how many things appear in the world of cultivating immortals every year. Many of them are the seniors of the Nascent Soul cultivators. They have lived for thousands of years. There are very few real treasure maps.

Chen Qi knew that these treasure maps were almost all fakes. Even though he and Su Shuang had already found the location of the cave, since the cave was protected by a formation, they spent three days and three nights trying to crack it. , but didn't even have a clue to crack it.

In desperation, they had no choice but to go to the formation master and roughly describe the cave formation. After hearing this, Li Chang only roughly judged that it was a five-element formation, and five monks were needed to break the formation according to the principle of the five elements' mutual generation and mutual restraint. , how to break the formation, Li Chang, the formation mage, needs to take a closer look on the spot.

As for Chen Qi and the others, they basically had a general understanding of the Zongmen's Foundation Establishment cultivators. They knew that Zhang Shiping was majoring in fire attribute exercises, but they just met by chance this time.

Chen Qi told Zhang Shiping the whole matter, Zhang Shiping did not immediately agree, but thought about it, after considering whether what the other party said was true or not, after a few breaths, Zhang Shiping said solemnly: "Then Zhang must thank you Chen Daoyou Fellow Daoist Su, given this opportunity, Zhang must not be ignorant, but before searching for the treasure map, how about I wait for the three of us to make an oath, so that everyone can feel at ease."

"Zhang Daoyou, you..." Su Shuang next to me was a little angry when she heard this, but she immediately held back and said, "The three of us are all disciples of Jiaozuo Sect, so we are naturally different from outsiders, so this oath is unnecessary. .”

Zhang Shiping didn't speak, didn't make any concessions, and the atmosphere on the table suddenly became a little stiff. After a while, Chen Qi spoke first, "Okay, just follow what Zhang Daoyou said."

Only then did the three of them make an oath that before returning to Jiaozuozong, the three of them would watch over and help each other;

Then the three separated, and Zhang Shiping opened a guest room here to stay temporarily.

Chapter 110 Breaking the Formation

Zhang Shiping was in the guest room of the restaurant, he didn't care whether Su Shuang and Chen Qi were sincere, and the oath was made, there was no room for them to go back on their word.He meditated quietly all night, and by the way, he practiced the Qibaoqing fire fan he just bought from Duan Xuan Pavilion, at least he can use it first, and then he will adjust his state to the best and wait for the dawn.

"Woooooooo..."

"Woooooooo..."

The rooster crowed, Zhang Shiping opened his eyes, seeing that the sky outside was still ashen-blue, he didn't get up, he continued to practice the Qibaoqing fire fan, and didn't get up until the time was almost up.

After leaving the Red Clothes City, he drove the ancient Qingling boat, which turned into a blue frightened bird, soaring into the sky.

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Thirty miles to the north of Hongyi City, on the Gegen Mountain, there are five flying rainbows falling before and after.When Su Shuang and Chen Qi saw that the other three had arrived, they immediately drove the flying magic weapon to lead the way, and it turned into two white lights, flying through the air at an extremely fast speed.

The two of them were familiar with the road, and they hardly stopped to identify the direction along the way, so the five of them flew and stopped. Three days later, they landed in an inconspicuous hill and valley. Zhang Shiping saw that the valley was very ordinary, and the spiritual energy was extremely lacking. , feeling somewhat suspicious.

Zhang Shiping immediately let go of his divine sense, covering him seven to eight feet away, and any disturbance inside could not be concealed from his extremely sensitive divine sense detection.Not far away, Huang Qifa and Li Chang were the same as Zhang Shiping. When Zhang Shiping suddenly swept across a huge oval boulder several feet high in the valley, he found some clues.

"Wait and go in quickly, there is only three breaths, and the restriction at the entrance of the cave will return to its original state." Chen Qi did not show off, he led the crowd to the huge boulder several feet high, lunged on his hips, and sank into his dantian , like a worldly martial artist, he punched the boulder, and the boulder shattered immediately, blasting into dozens of pieces of large and small gravel, revealing a deep and secluded passage.

After the passage was opened, Chen Qi strode forward and walked into the passage. Several people went in one after another. Zhang Shiping fell at the end, stepped on the gravel, and followed into the passage. However, when Zhang Shiping just entered, there was only one After breathing for a while, the boulder at the entrance of the cave returned to its original shape, blocking the entrance of the cave, preventing any light from entering.

Chen Qi and Su Shuang were also aware of this situation. When the boulder returned to its original state, they took out the moonstone emitting bright yellow light to illuminate the passage.

Li Chang took a few glances, and he was obviously very interested in the newly restored formation restriction.Nowadays, in the world of cultivating immortals, phantom formations are mostly used, and it is rare to see this kind of formations that create both reality and reality.

The bright yellow light illuminates everywhere, and there are many fiery red crystals piled up in this passage. Under the bright light, they are dazzling, emitting extremely dazzling fire, extremely beautiful, and it is really charming.

Zhang Shiping checked the passage with his spiritual sense, and was surprised. The aura contained in these fiery red crystals was no weaker than that of spirit stones of the same size. Looking past, this passage did not know where it led. , this kind of crystal is spread all over the channel, leaving only a channel that just passes through.

Among other things, these fiery red crystals alone are already an astonishing wealth, Zhang Shiping was instantly moved, but looking at Su Shuang and Chen Qi, Zhang Shiping did not do anything.

However, Huang Qifa and Li Chang couldn't bear the temptation. They broke off a crystal pillar with a thick arm from the wall of the passageway. Before putting it in the storage bag, the crystal pillar disappeared, and the broken crystal pillar disappeared. A new crystal re-grows, the shape is exactly the same as the previous one, and they tried a few times unwillingly, but finally gave up, and Chen Qi and the two walking in front should know about this situation, but they didn't remind them or turn around and sneer , as if nothing happened.

The passage was winding and getting deeper and deeper. They walked for half an hour, and Zhang Shiping made sure that he was not lost in a maze and was not standing still.

From the very beginning, Zhang Shiping did not believe in his heart that this was the cave of the ancient monks, but now, he began to believe a little bit in his heart, and he couldn't help but become solemn in his heart.

Everyone was speechless, and took another cup of tea time, walked out of the passage, and there was a huge stone milk cave with a depth of several tens of feet below. The entrance of the cave they walked out was not far from the top of the cave. The stalactites and stalactites hang upside down. Several people took out the flying magic weapon, drove the magic weapon to fly out, and walked between the stalactites and stalactites. There were stalagmites of different heights and sizes under the cave, and there was also an underground river flowing.

Several people walked through the stone milk cave, and after flying for a while, Zhang Shiping and the others killed several white pythons hovering on the stone milk stalactites, and a group of bats with fangs. They flew out of the large stone milk cave and entered a A relatively small stone cave was placed in front of a dark, five-foot-high, two-foot-wide iron gate.

As soon as the few people fell down, a ghostly light rose in front of the iron gate, colorfully flowing, pushing everyone away, more than three feet away.

At this moment, Zhang Shiping felt that he had no room to resist at all, he couldn't help but feel sinking and alert.

After Li Chang looked at the colorful formation in front of him, he gradually became serious from the extremely relaxed expression just now. He wiped his storage bag, and eight bronze-colored rings "buzzed" appeared around him. Beside him, Li Chang took one of the rings and held it in his hand, while the other seven instantly became animated and flew towards the formation of Youguang.

The seven bronze-colored rings, and the aura shield of the spirit formation, were either pushed away at the touch of a touch, or emitted a cyan light that shone on the faint light, and the faint light shield continued to have slight ripples.

Li Chang was constantly testing the formation, while Zhang Shiping and the other four stood behind him, watching quietly. They knew that breaking the formation was a delicate task, and it was not so fast.

Until an hour later, Li Chang was still probing, and took out three purple round beads the size of an ordinary baby's fist from the storage bag, and matched them with the ring.

After another two hours, he put away all the magic tools. Without further ado, he immediately took out a mid-level spirit stone from the storage bag, meditated on the ground, and breathed out to restore the mana that wasted just now.

Zhang Shiping, Su Shuang and other four people had already taken out the futons and sat cross-legged on the ground.

After a long time, Li Chang, who recovered his mana, took out four forbidden formation disks from his storage bag and gave them to them with a bit of pain, "One formation disk is one hundred spirit stones, otherwise I will get more points after breaking the formation." one serving."

The four mid-level spirit stones were taken out from the four-person storage bag and handed to Li Chang in exchange for the ban-breaking array in his hand.Zhang Shiping, who already had great expectations for this ancient monk's cave, naturally would not be stingy, and the other three also thought the same way, so they took out the spirit stone very frankly.

After Li Chang explained the precautions for breaking the formation to the four people, Zhang Shiping and the other four stood in different directions according to what he said, and issued a few bursts of magic light in Li Chang, like a stone cow entering the sea. Nothing has changed.

But after about ten breaths, Li Chang shouted anxiously, "Cast a spell, break the formation."

When Zhang Shiping heard this, he immediately pressed his hand on the formation plate, and a crimson aura with the mouth of a bowl came out from the formation plate. Different places in the method, with greater or lesser strength, constantly wear down the unknown five-element formation in front of him.

After two cups of tea, the formation suddenly shattered.Zhang Shiping put away his mana, took out the elixir to replenish mana and took it, he had already consumed two or three levels of mana just now, if there was a little more time, Zhang Shiping would have to consider whether to continue cracking it.

But looking at the cave that was no longer protected by formations, Li Chang pushed open the iron gate, and everyone walked in with great anticipation.

Chapter 111

The dark iron gate of the cave mansion opened with a bang under Li Chang's push. Because of the long time, the iron gate made a "cracking" sound during the opening process, as if the skeleton lacked lubrication when twisting. .

The five of them took only a few steps back and forth, Li Chang held a ring in his hand, and the other seven rings were very obediently beside him, only a few inches away from his clothes.

Then Chen Qi took out a khaki bead from the storage bag, and it instantly turned into a light yellow mask to protect himself. Zhang Shiping had already taken out the magic jade shield and turned it into a spiritual mask, emitting a blue light, and slowly Walk slowly through the door.Later, Su Shuang and Chen Qi also sacrificed their own defensive magic weapons, turned them into aura shields, and followed them into the cave.

As soon as Zhang Shiping stepped in, there was a vast expanse of whiteness in his eyes, and an extremely cold and piercing cold air rushed towards the five people instantly. This cold air containing the ice attribute suddenly froze the aura shields of everyone, and the temperature dropped sharply. The five people inside the shield exhaled white mist.

The white tide surged past the five people, and slapped heavily on the wall of the cave. Some of them rushed out of the iron gate, instantly freezing all the stone platforms outside the iron gate, leaving ice edges everywhere.

The complexions of several people changed slightly, but the five of them were already prepared for this unexpected situation, and immediately cast spells to drive away the cold air.Zhang Shiping immediately used the fire crow cover to counteract the sudden cold.

When the white cold air dissipated and settled on the ground, Zhang Shiping finally saw the scene in the cave, couldn't help becoming nervous, and immediately slapped his storage bag, with Luo Jun sword across his shoulder, holding Qibaoqinghuofan stared nervously at the front, instead of moving forward for half a minute, instead retreated a little bit, paralleling Su Shuang and Chen Qi.

In the cave, a pool occupies [-]% to [-]%. The water surface of the pool has long been frozen, and the ice surface is piled up one after another. When it reaches the shore, it looks like a thousand piles of snow. The wall surrounded the cold pool, but everyone was in no mood to appreciate the scenery.

Because their attention was all attracted by the scenery in front of them, a dark iron pillar with more than a dozen people hugging it, tens of feet high, the iron pillar supported the stone cave, and was deeply inserted into the stone. The end is submerged in the frozen pool, I don't know how deep it is.

Several thick chains were wrapped around the iron pillar, tightly binding an ice-bound serpent. Only the head and upper body of this bucket-thick snake were exposed in the cold pool, and wrapped around the iron pillar.Part of the exposed snake's body has been turned into bones, without any vitality.

Even in the face of a dead thing, Zhang Shiping still felt a fierce and fishy smell rushing towards his face.The five of them couldn't help but swallowed, and took a few steps back.

But it was Huang Qifa who exclaimed, wanting to say something, but immediately stopped his voice and stared at the cold pool ahead.At the place where the snake corpse touches the cold pool, there are two lotus plants growing, one is as black as ink, and the other is as white as jade. Around the lotus, it looks like something from a fairy family.

Several people looked at the black and white double lotus, and couldn't help but become active. Zhang Shiping had seen it in an ancient book, but he had just scanned it in a hurry at that time, so he couldn't remember clearly, but he was sure that it was definitely an extremely precious panacea.Because it was the ancient book that Zhang Shiping had read, and it recorded some extremely rare treasures of heaven and earth. At that time, Zhang Shiping thought that these things in the book had long since disappeared in the world of cultivating immortals, where can they be found?

Among Zhang Shiping's five people, Li Chang was the most excited. He held a brocade handkerchief in his hand, and seven rings were tightly guarding him. Can you pick out the things in the cave first?" He asked in a cautious tone.

"Of course." Chen Qi smiled and looked at Li Chang, as if asking for permission.Whoever wants the black and white double lotus will naturally take it.He was thinking about it, and wanted Li Chang to try it first, to find out the way.

Li Chang looked at Chen Qi and knew that he wanted black and white double lotus, so he had to be a pioneer first.Li Chang raised his head and looked at the snake, which had been partly turned into white bones, and suddenly his confidence was not so strong.