Chapter 22: Red Phoenix Bird Nest

The cool breeze has no letter, and the summer night is hard to sleep.

At dawn, Zhang Xingyu, with a pair of dark circles under his eyes, and Hu Siping ran to the city gate early to wait.

Who knew, they were early, but the two brothers Wang Dashan and Wang Xiaoshan were even earlier than them.

The four greeted each other and stood at the city gate waiting quietly while holding their horses.

After an hour, Li Dalong, Liu Lüzhu, and the other three arrived one after another.

After another half an hour, Hou Dengyun arrived late.

The seven gathered together, left the city gate, and galloped south on horseback.

After galloping without stopping for three days, they arrived at the vast seashore.

Walking west along the seashore for another day, undulating mountain ranges appeared in front of everyone.

Hou Dengyun led everyone, turning seven corners and eight turns, as if he were very familiar with the road, and arrived at the foot of a towering and majestic mountain.

"Everyone, this is Qifeng Mountain." Hou Dengyun pointed to the lush mountain and introduced.

When he introduced it to everyone, his face was full of smiles, and those small eyes had already narrowed into a slit.

This Hou Dengyun was obviously very familiar with this place, why did he say he got the news from someone else's mouth at the beginning.

Zhang Xingyu was suspicious in his heart, so he secretly raised his vigilance.

The seven tied their mounts at the foot of the mountain and then climbed the mountain on foot.

Qifeng Mountain has steep terrain, dense shade, and narrow and difficult mountain roads.

Everyone climbed for half a day before arriving at the mountainside.

There is a clear water pool about three or four acres in size on the mountainside. A white waterfall fell from above, hitting the rocks by the pool, splashing pieces of misty water.

Wild peach trees grow around the water pool. In these few days, the peach blossoms are in full bloom, and pieces of pink petals drift into the pool, flowing down the mountain with the pool water.

Peach blossoms follow the flowing water all day long, where is the cave in the clear stream?

What a peach blossom world.

Everyone was already tired from walking, and without waiting for Hou Dengyun to speak, they found places to sit down and rest one after another.

Zhang Xingyu secretly looked at Hou Dengyun. He saw his expression was trance-like, his eyes were blurred, as if he was caught in deep memories.

After resting for half an hour, everyone recovered some physical strength and continued to climb toward the top of the mountain.

The mountain breeze caressed, the clouds and mist drifted, and the scenery in the mountains changed step by step.

Everyone seemed to have entered a fairyland, stopping and looking around one after another.

Hou Dengyun didn't urge them either. Everyone watched the scenery while slowly climbing to the top of the mountain.

The higher they went, the sparser the vegetation on the mountain became. By the time they were near the top of the mountain, except for bare rocks, only some unknown moss remained.

At sunset, everyone finally arrived at the top of the mountain.

The top of this Qifeng Mountain is about ten acres in size.

It's strange to say that in the center of this bare mountain top, there actually grew a very tall phoenix tree. The diameter of this tree trunk must be at least ten meters, and the tree height is estimated to be over a hundred meters, and the lush branches and leaves covered the entire mountain top.

Zhang Xingyu looked up and saw birds of fire red flying in and out of the canopy.

These birds have three golden feathers on their heads, fire-red wings on their ribs, sharp red beaks like chickens, long and thin necks like snakes, bulging backs like turtles, and thin and long feet like cranes.

First-tier monster, Red Phoenix Bird.

These Red Phoenix Birds are the hunting targets of everyone's trip.

"Shh"

Li Dalong was about to speak, but Hou Dengyun made a gesture of silence to everyone.

Under Hou Dengyun's command, everyone leaned silently against the tree roots to rest.

Night fell, the mountain wind roared, and the temperature at the top of the mountain dropped sharply.

The phoenix tree leaves above their heads faintly emitted a weak red light, isolating the cold air outside.

A night without words.

The next morning, when the sun shone on the top of the mountain, Zhang Xingyu woke up.

The morning at the top of the mountain was exceptionally quiet.

Layers of mist permeated the phoenix tree, and the sunlight fell on the mist, reflecting rays of colorful halos.

After another two hours, the fog dissipated, and the Red Phoenix Birds resting on the phoenix tree left their nests one after another, spreading their wings and flying toward the mountain forest.

One, two, three...

Zhang Xingyu counted silently in his heart.

A total of fifty-six Red Phoenix Birds flew out.

When no more Red Phoenix Birds flew out of the tree, Hou Dengyun took the lead in standing up.

"It's time, let's climb to the top of the tree." Hou Dengyun said loudly to everyone.

"Why go to the tree?" Wang Xiaoshan asked the question in everyone's heart.

Hou Dengyun pointed to the bird nest and said: "Let's climb into their nests. When they fly back, we will catch them all in one net."

After saying this, he took the lead and climbed upward.

He was agile, like a gecko, and in a short while, he had steadily climbed more than ten meters upward.

Seeing him like this, everyone didn't hesitate anymore and climbed onto the tree one after another.

The bark of this tree was very rough, and there were pits and branches on the trunk to exert force. It wasn't too difficult for several people to climb.

Zhang Xingyu was super fast. He was a rock climbing enthusiast in his previous life and had challenged dozens of cliffs and precipices with others. For him, climbing this tree was no pressure at all, just like a piece of cake.

Everyone climbed for half an hour and climbed near the canopy.

There was a spherical bird nest on the branches below the canopy, about thirty meters in diameter, built from fire-red feathers and red tree bark. Looking up from the top of the tree, this bird nest looked like a very huge tea egg.

Seeing the bird nest, Hou Dengyun was overjoyed.

He climbed into the bird nest quickly and then stood inside, waving to everyone to signal.

Zhang Xingyu also followed everyone and climbed into the bird nest carefully.

At this moment, Hou Dengyun was standing in the center of the bird nest, looking at everyone with a full face of smiles.

The pocket hanging from his waist had already bulged high, obviously having collected something.

Seeing everyone looking at the pocket at his waist, Hou Dengyun laughed: "Everyone, I picked up a few Red Phoenix Bird eggs. There are quite a few in the bird nest, you can pick up a few yourself."

Hearing his words, everyone scattered and searched for Red Phoenix Bird eggs everywhere.

Zhang Xingyu arrived at a corner of the nest and found a red bird egg there.

He picked up the bird egg and looked at it, finding that apart from the eggshell being fire-red, the size and shape were no different from ordinary chicken eggs.

However, the value of this bird egg was naturally incomparable to ordinary chicken eggs.

A first-tier monster's bird egg, uh, sell it to the market. It must be able to sell for quite a few gold coins.

Zhang Xingyu put the bird egg into the cloth bag he carried with him and continued to bury his head and search.

A quarter of an hour later, everyone returned to the original spot one after another. Li Dalong and Liu Lüzhu had smiles on their faces that couldn't be hidden, and it looked like they had definitely found quite a few Red Phoenix Bird eggs. The pockets at the waists of the Wang Dashan and Wang Xiaoshan brothers were also

After dividing up the Red Phoenix bird eggs, the few of them each chose a spot within the nest to rest.

They stayed until the sun tilted to the west, when a burst of noisy bird cries came from outside the nest.

Everyone stood up one after another, drew their carried Dharma weapons, and took their respective positions, waiting with focused attention.

After a moment, the heads of Red Phoenix birds poked in one by one.

"Kill!"

At Hou Dengyun's command, everyone swung their Dharma weapons in unison to hack and slash at them.

Aiming at the neck of a Red Phoenix bird, Zhang Xingyu swung his sword and hacked over.

That Red Phoenix bird could not dodge in time and immediately had half its head hacked off; the head and body fell together toward the bottom of the nest.

Seeing that everyone had successfully attacked the Red Phoenix birds, Hou Dengyun took out several large leather bags and jumped to the bottom of the nest to collect the Red Phoenix bird blood.

Although several Red Phoenix birds had died, they were all fierce and unafraid of death. Furthermore, with their nest occupied, they became even more anxious and desperate.

They used their sharp beaks to peck while pushing hard to drill into the nest.

The struggle continued.

More and more Red Phoenix birds entered the nest, and everyone had to deal with the attacks of two or three Red Phoenix birds at the same time.

Over there, Wang Xiaoshan used a Dharma blade to hack off one of a Red Phoenix bird's wings, but he had the eyeball of his left eye pecked out by another Red Phoenix bird.

"Ah!"

Wang Xiaoshan let out a loud cry, wanting to cover his eye with his hand.

Just at this moment, the sharp claws of another Red Phoenix bird swung toward his neck.

Wang Xiaoshan could not dodge in time, and a deep wound was clawed into his neck. Perhaps because an artery was injured, fresh blood gushed wildly from his neck.

Wang Xiaoshan's body tipped over and fell downward.

"Xiaoshan!"

Beside him, Wang Dashan reached out wanting to grab him, but was pecked on the arm by a Red Phoenix bird.

Blood dripped everywhere.

Wang Dashan failed to grab his brother.

Wang Xiaoshan smashed heavily onto the bottom of the nest and then had no more sound.

"Brother!"

Wang Dashan, with reddened eyes, hacked at the Red Phoenix birds regardless of his own life.

Before long, he had become a bloody person, and he had also hacked four or five Red Phoenix birds to death.

Zhang Xingyu and Hu Siping stood back-to-back.

Each of them dealt with the Red Phoenix bird attacks from one side.

Before long, they had killed four or five Red Phoenix birds, while they themselves had suffered very little injury.

To their left, Da Long and Lv Zhu also adopted their tactics, struggling to resist the Red Phoenix birds' attacks.

And below them, Hou Dengyun paid no heed to the situation above.

He was concentrating intently on collecting the Red Phoenix bird blood.

Before long, he had collected two full large leather bags.

Seeing that more and more Red Phoenix birds were entering the nest, the situation was becoming increasingly critical.

Wang Dashan was the first to be unable to hold on; pecked full of holes by four or five Red Phoenix birds, he also fell down unwillingly.

Zhang Xingyu felt his strength gradually being exhausted, and swinging his arms became more and more difficult.

If this continued, he and Hu Siping would also lose their little lives.

Thus, while struggling to resist, he shouted to Hu Siping behind him: "Fourth Brother, I will count to three, and we will jump down together."

"Good." Hu Siping's reply came from behind.

"One, two, three."

The two of them gave a hard kick and descended together to the bottom of the nest. Fortunately, although there were a few abrasions on their bodies, there was nothing serious.

At the same time, Li Dalong and Liu Lvzhu also jumped down with great tacit understanding.

Seeing that Hou Dengyun was still collecting bird blood, Liu Dalong shouted loudly: "Boss Hou, we can barely hold on anymore, you must act quickly."

"A bunch of trash!" Hou Dengyun cursed secretly.

He raised his head and reached into his pocket to take out a white fishing net.

He simply tidied up the fishing net and then threw it hard toward the three Red Phoenix birds above his head.

With one throw and one pull, in an instant, he had firmly trapped the three birds in the net.

Subsequently, he took out a wooden stick and stepped forward to knock the Red Phoenix birds unconscious one by one.

With Hou Dengyun's participation, the pressure on Zhang Xingyu and the other four was greatly reduced, and the situation gradually became unfavorable for the Red Phoenix birds.

Another quarter of an hour passed; Zhang Xingyu and Hu Siping had just killed four Red Phoenix birds, only to find that Hou Dengyun had already knocked out a large pile.

Amazing!

This method of Hou Dengyun's, using a fishing net plus a big stick, was truly extraordinary!

This Boss Hou was so well-prepared; he was clearly very familiar with the habits of the Red Phoenix birds. Just based on this skill, even if he had come alone, he could have wiped out this whole flock of Red Phoenix birds. Then why did he still need to find them to be his helpers? Could it be that he was a selfless person who took pleasure in helping others and felt no joy if he didn't?