After some conversation, Qin Xianyu realized that the gray ape was a fierce creature.

This mountain is different from other mountains. There are often some wild beasts with red eyes and dark hair. This type of wild beast is collectively called ferocious beasts.

Not only the previous gray ape, but also tigers, wolves, bears, and even goats and wild deer.

Any wild beast with red eyes and dark hair is violent, extremely fierce, and bloodthirsty. Sometimes even rabbits will hurt people and eat meat, which is full of evil.

"Our ancestors all lived in the mountains. Many years ago, the tribe members were often eaten by these ferocious beasts. Later, they found that these ferocious beasts were afraid of the red sun stone, so they beat the red sun stone into powder and sprinkled them on the arrows and blades, and finally they could drive away these ferocious beasts."

The hunter sighed: "In fact, even if there is a Red Yang Stone, these ferocious beasts are very powerful. If you are not careful, you may be attacked from the darkness. You will lose your life without any time to react."

This group of hunters, the leader, is named Li Ying, has the most experienced hunting experience. They set traps and chase prey, and are all first-class experts.

Although Qin Xianyu was an outsider, Li Ying and others saw that he was not old, he was pretty and had a kind attitude.

When Li Ying talked about this ferocious beast, he mentioned the Hongyang Stone again. Qin Xianyu couldn't help but ask: "What is Hongyang Stone?"

Li Ying smiled and said, "It's a red stone in the mountains. Although this thing is a stone, it has a pungent smell and is not harmful to people. However, for ferocious beasts like gray apes, it's as powerful as poison."

At this time, a young man behind him said, "The Hongyang Stone specifically restrains these ferocious beasts, and is not poisonous to other animals, but is extremely poisonous to ferocious beasts. Not long ago, Uncle Li shot an arrow and shot a red-eyed black bear. After two or three days, he saw the black bear dead by the tree, and the places where the arrows on his shoulders were rotten."

Qin Xianyu was secretly shocked.

The black bear has a huge body and thick skin. It is not fatal if an arrow hits it, not even if it is just a shoulder, it is not a vital point? But it would be fine if Li Ying had an arrow that could injure the black bear. After a few days, his shoulders rotted and died, which shows that the red sun stone is indeed highly toxic.

From what they said, it seems to be only poisonous to ferocious beasts.

"It's just because of the poison of the Red Yang Stone." Li Ying said with a smile: "But you have to be careful. These gray-haired or black-haired red-eyed ferocious beasts are much more powerful than ordinary people. They are also rough and thick in skin and flesh. Generally, arrows without red Yang Stone powder may not be able to be injured. Even if you have a sword, you probably can't cut these ferocious beasts with one sword."

Qin Xianyu smiled secretly and said to himself: "Brother Li doesn't know that I have true energy cultivation and a secret sword that can even be split into rocks, let alone wild beasts? But as he said, these ferocious beasts are rough and thick in skin, and ordinary people can't cut off even if they hold sharp weapons? How could there be such ferocious beasts?"

If you think about it carefully, the gray ape before was indeed weird. Not to mention the fierceness, it looks weird just because it looks like it is.

Now that I think about it, this gray ape is indeed much more fierce than an ordinary ape. If the fur is thicker, it is not incredible.

Follow Li Ying and the others all the way back to their village.

The village is built against the mountain, with fences around it, one person is tall, and there are some big rocks piled outside, probably to be guarded against wild animals. Looking closer, there are about a hundred families in the village, with some dry meat, some bows and arrows hanging and hunting knives in front of each house.

Every family has hunters, and they are all good hunters.

Qin Xianyu had long heard that some villages were built in the mountains, isolated from the world and supported themselves. They just hunted and fished and did not contact outside. However, this was the first time he had seen such a village isolated from the world.

This village is quite curious about an outsider, but it is not so mysterious here. There are mountain roads nearby, and people often pass by them. Therefore, the outside world knows this mountain village.

For example, the prime minister marked such a village on the topographic map.

"Although in the eyes of outsiders, we are isolated from the world, sometimes when someone walks on mountain roads, they occasionally go into the mountains and forests and come to our village. In addition, sometimes when we need something, we will buy some of them outside, but we are used to living in the mountains and may not go out for a year or two."

Li Ying smiled and explained to him, then led him into the village.

The people are simple and everyone is not wary of such an outsider, but instead is a little enthusiastic. Especially the outsider is a teenager who looks closer, which makes everyone more cautious.

In the eyes of older people, teenagers are just children who have grown up a little.

Children are always easy to get close to.

Qin Xianyu figured out this section and smiled bitterly.

...

That night, Li Ying was very kind to treat, fish soup and bacon, all of which were good.

Outside, bacon is rare, more expensive than ordinary meat. It costs dozens of silver dollars for not much larger one, nearly one tael of silver. Most people can only eat two yuan during festivals, but those who are a little poor will never be willing to eat it in their lifetime.

In this mountain village, there is no concept of money. They hunt and fish every day and have enough food, so they don’t care much about these meat.

After thanking Li Ying that night, Qin Xianyu talked to him and asked about some things about the ferocious beasts and the nearby earth veins. However, Li Ying didn't know much about these things, and only said that the elderly in the village knew a lot.

So Qin Xianyu found an elderly man in the village and asked him about it.

The old man has gray hair and is over 90 years old, but he is strong and sometimes he will take a bow and arrow out to hunt when he is stubborn. He likes to lean under the trees outside the village every day, so many people call him Chengshu Gong.

"You baby actually met a gray ape? Well, it's just luck to be able to survive."

Mr. Cheng Shu looked at him, drank a little wine, and said, "We have it in our village hundreds of years ago. At that time, our ancestors wanted to hide from the war, so they found a mountain forest to live in seclusion. Gradually, there were hundreds of families. Of course, there were more than these people, but from time to time, some people wanted to move out of the mountain and settle outside. For example, a few months ago, a boy from the Li family took his family to live in the city outside."

Qin Xianyu coughed lightly and whispered: "Mr. Cheng Shu, I actually want to know about these ferocious beasts."

"Oh, old man, I'm going to get out of here." Cheng Shugong grinned and said, "These things, for sure, should have appeared decades ago. Originally, the village hunting and fishing for a living, and it was passed down from generation to generation, and it was calm. Just a few decades ago, the red-eyed gray wolf suddenly jumped over the fence in the village and took a child away. At that time, the bow and arrow were fired, and it shot it into a hedgehog. Unexpectedly, it shook its body and shook it off. Everyone knew that it turned out to be thick and thick skin and could not even be injured."

"After this, people often went out to hunt but couldn't come back. Later, they found that several species of wild animals had turned red and their fur changed color."

"This beast is fierce and likes to hunt, and has thick skin and can't hurt arrows. It's not as deep as before when it was cut by a hunting knife, but only hurts the surface."

Cheng Shugong sighed: "In fact, before the gray wolf, people often hunted but couldn't come back. But after that, everyone realized that it was because of this ferocious beast."

Qin Xianyu listened quietly and said to himself: "There has not been such a ferocious beast for hundreds of years. It suddenly appeared decades ago? Could it be related to the earth veins? In theory, the earth veins have evil spirits, which are the places that practitioners dream of. If there is any abnormal movement, they should have been discovered long ago. However, the Prime Minister's reward was to the Imperial Heavenly Prison, and the Imperial Heavenly Prison attached so much importance to it, obviously this place had not been discovered before."

Qin Xianyu just listened quietly to Cheng Shugong, but did not interrupt.

Mr. Cheng Shu sighed when he talked about the incident that year and said, "If it weren't for the discovery of the Hongyang Stone, everyone would have moved away from here long ago. But later he found that these ferocious beasts were afraid of the Hongyang Stone, so he found a solution. Later, he crushed the Hongyang Stone into powder and sprinkled it on weapons. He found that as long as the ferocious beast was injured, the ferocious beast would be like being poisoned."

"With something like Hongyang Stone, the village has been saved."

Cheng Shu Gong looked at the sky and said, "At that time, there was still war outside. I heard that the Great Chu Dynasty was going to fight the Great Destiny. If he moved out of the mountain and went outside, he might have been affected by the war, and he would have disappeared. As for now, with the Red Yang Stone, he was not afraid of ferocious beasts, so he lived there again. It has been decades since now."

When Qin Xianyu heard this, he finally asked, "What is that Hongyang Stone?"

Cheng Shugong said: "That was dug in the mountains. Originally, a family wanted to pick up soil to fill the ditch, but they dug out the Hongyang stone. The hill was right behind, and all the Hongyang stones came out from there."

Qin Xianyu became interested and said, "Hongyang Stone? I want to see it."

"Want to see?" Cheng Shugong smiled and said, "No need to bother, I have it here."

He took out a stone from his arms, and it was red all over, and under the dark sky, it looked a little red.

Qin Xianyu took the Hongyang Stone and suddenly felt a little hot, but he was very familiar with it.

Mr. Cheng Shu saw the boy playing with the red sun stone and said with a smile: "Grind this thing into powder, stir some water, and apply it on weapons, and you won't be afraid of ferocious beasts. I see, you are wearing a sword, so I'll give you some."

As soon as he finished speaking, he took out a small bag of powder from his arms.

Qin Xianyu took it respectfully, opened it and found that he became more and more familiar. He picked up some red powder, sniffed it at the end of his nose, frowned and thought for a long time.

"Cinnabar?"

A word flashed through Qin Xianyu's mind.

Isn’t this cinnabar?

But this pack of cinnabar is actually purer than the one from Qingcheng Mountain?

How is this possible?

How come the stone dug out of the mountain becomes cinnabar after being crushed into powder? Even if it is natural cinnabar, it is actually purer than the cinnabar of Taoist ancestral mountain in Qingcheng Mountain. What's going on?

Qin Xianyu was shocked and speechless.
Chapter completed!