Cultivating Immortals in the Family: Rising from Beast Familiarity

Chapter 43 Hunting Purple Flame Marten

The red pine is a tall and sturdy pine tree, generally more than ten feet tall.

Once such trees become a forest, they will attract and breed several special species of pine caterpillars. It is difficult for trees of the same height to breed in the places where they grow.

The red pine forest where Zhou Chun and the others are now is filled with red pine trees that are more than ten feet high, and many of them are over 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 growing there, making it very inconvenient to walk.

Often, pine caterpillars as long as fingers fall from the trees.

If you're not brave enough, you really can't stay in a place like this.

At this moment, Zhou Chun and his wife put on their bamboo hats to prevent pine caterpillars from falling on them, and asked Zhou Zhengyong's red-tailed monkey to go ahead and clear the way, and soon they were more than ten miles deep into the pine forest.

"Purple flame martens like 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 golden-toothed rats, flame rats and other rat monsters."

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

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

The Purple Flame Marten lives alone, and its nest is very secretive. If you want to find its nest in this vast pine forest within three days, you will have to be extremely lucky.

Therefore, the method of "lubing the snake out of its hole" seems to be the most effective.

"Brother Yong, your method is not impossible, but those rat monsters are also timid and cautious. It is not easy to catch them alive, especially since we don't have enough time."

Zhou Chun did not doubt whether Zhou Zhengyong's method was effective, but he also pointed out the difficulties.

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

When Zhou Zhengyong said this, he looked at Zhou Chun and said, "Let's split up and each bring food to look for traces of the activities of the rat demons."

"Okay, let's try this first."

Zhou Chun nodded and agreed with his approach.

Immediately, Zhou Chun took some dried fruits, food and poison from Zhou Zhengyong, and then they separated and searched for traces of the rat monsters in the pine forest.

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

From feces, claw marks, to nearby plant species, temperature changes such as dryness and humidity, they can all help them determine whether there are traces of certain types of monsters nearby.

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

Therefore, they often use hard rocks to grind their teeth and like to live in places with a lot of hard rocks.

Zhou Chun shuttled around the pine forest, carefully observing the areas he passed through with his spiritual consciousness and naked eyes, looking for traces of the activities of rat monsters from every detail.

After half a day passed in this way, he found a total of three places where there might be lairs of rat-like monsters, and he chose a place that he thought had the highest probability and squatted there.

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

Ant powder.

In this way, even if ordinary rats, ants and other insects smell the smell, they will not dare to come forward to enjoy the food.

After doing this, Zhou Chun hid far away and silently ran the "Lin Yin Cicada Breathing Technique" to calm down his breath.

He has been practicing both secret arts for almost a year. Although he has not yet mastered both secret arts to the point where he can achieve success, he can still use the secret arts through advance preparation.

At this moment, Zhou Chun was hiding among the shrubs and weeds, the color of his body and the nearby shrubs and weeds completely blending into one, and his own smell was also covered up by the fragrance of the vegetation under the influence of the secret technique.

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

In order to avoid alerting the possible rats and beasts, he also sprinkled some fresh beast excrement with a pungent smell nearby to ensure that his own smell would not leak out and spoil things.

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

Time gradually passed, and after almost an hour of squatting, Zhou Chun finally saw a big red-haired rat with red fur appear in his sight.

The big rat was as big as an adult's calf, and it was not affected by the smell of the beast's excrement scattered nearby by Zhou Chun.

After rolling his eyes and looking around, twitching his nose and sniffing fiercely, he climbed directly to the dried meat and dried fruits, and happily ate these delicious foods.

After eating up all the food Zhou Chun scattered in one go, the big mouse turned around and prepared to return to the nest.

But not long after it had walked, it felt dizzy and its body began to sway uncontrollably.

After a while, the little thing couldn't bear the effects of the medicine and passed out.

Knowing this, Zhou Chun left the hiding place and picked up the unconscious big rat.

He picked up the big rat by the back of its neck and looked at it, then said to himself: "Fortunately, it's just a first-order low-grade monster flame rat. If the cultivation level reaches the first-order mid-grade, these few grains of [Mystery]

Beast Pill] I’m afraid I still can’t charm it!”

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

Compared to Zhou Chun, Zhou Zhengyong's luck was much worse. After waiting for a long time, he still had no results.

At this time, when he saw Zhou Chun coming over carrying the unconscious Flame Rat, he was also relieved.

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

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

For an untamed flame rat to attract purple flame martens to hunt in a fixed area, it naturally needs some special treatment.

This is not difficult for Zhou Zhengyong and Zhou Chun to do.

Beast-controlling 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 rat's brain, causing it to go crazy. At the same time, he piled some collected purple flame marten feces around it to prevent it from escaping from the fixed area.

Later, in order to prevent the Purple Flame Marten from discovering the two of them, Zhou Zhengyong, who did not know the secret of breathing, left the scene far away, and only handed over the spirit animal bag containing his red-tailed monkey spirit pet to Zhou Chun.

There was an ambush nearby waiting for the purple flame marten to come over.

squeak squeak!!

I saw the brain-broken flame rat running around wildly in a forest clearing, constantly making loud screams.

There was no spirituality in its eyes at all, only a look of madness, bloodshot and red eyes, which looked quite scary.

After hearing the sound, some of the rat-catching beasts in the pine forest came over to take a look. When they saw that the owner of the cry was the flame rat, they were frightened and ran away quickly.

Ordinary rats are indeed food for these ferocious beasts, but flame rats can do magic.

Even an ordinary small fireball is still enough to burn a tiger to death.

Time passed little by little, and the flame rat's physical strength was gradually exhausted as he kept screaming, and his voice became hoarse to the point that it was difficult to make a loud sound anymore.

The figure of Purple Flame Marten never appeared.

This made Zhou Chun, who was secretly guarding, feel a little anxious.

They were lucky to be able to catch this flame rat. It would be very difficult to catch another one as bait.

Although he was anxious, Zhou Chun did not dare to act rashly.

The Purple Flame Marten is extremely vigilant and cautious, and may be observing secretly somewhere at this time.

If he had surprised it with his rash action, even if he could catch another flame rat as bait, he would not be able to lure it into the trap again in a short period of time.

As time went by, the flame rats on the ground could no longer even scream, and seemed to be completely dead.

It was late at night, and most of the light of the stars and moon in the sky was blocked by the tree canopy. Only stars scattered in the forest, allowing Zhou Chun to only see the general outline of the Flame Rat.

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

Therefore, unless the Purple Flame Marten appeared and needed to use his spiritual consciousness to locate it, Zhou Chun would never dare to release his spiritual consciousness.

And just when Zhou Chun's eyes were sore and he felt like he could no longer hold on, he finally noticed something abnormal in his vision.

I saw a flash of black shadow, and a huge black shadow the size of a yellow dog appeared next to the flame rat. He picked up the flame rat and flew towards the depths of the mountain forest at an extremely fast speed.

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

Sure enough, it’s the Purple Flame Marten!

Zhou Chun breathed a sigh of relief at the results of his spiritual scan, and then hurriedly chased after the figure.

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

The Purple Flame Marten is very fast in the mountains and forests. Even if Zhou Chun gives himself the "Wind Control Technique", he can't outrun it.

Therefore, after sending the signal, he released Zhou Zhengyong's red-tailed monkey and let the monkey, which was also very agile in the forest, chase the purple flame marten, while using his flying magic weapon to catch up.

(End of chapter)