Start from a baby to become a Taoist

Chapter 230: Snake Bitten, Turned into Bones

"However, even if the venomous snakes come to slaughter the village now, I am sure I can survive it." Xu Ran is very confident now.

In this way, Xu Ran stayed in the pot until night fell, when he woke up.

Xu Binghu and Lian Ji, who had been guarding Xu Ran, saw their son wake up and immediately took him out.

"Xiao Ran, you finally woke up!" Lian Ji said excitedly.

"Xiao Ran, how are you? Are you feeling unwell?" Xu Binghu asked.

Xu Ran waved his hands and said, "It's okay, I just feel like my whole body has gained a lot of strength."

Xu Binghu quickly asked, "How much has it increased?"

After thinking for a moment, he said, "About 1000 pounds!"

"1000 jin!!!" Xu Binghu exclaimed.

"Yes, 1000 jin!" Xu Ran confirmed.

"The power can be unleashed with just a move of the hand." Xu Ran said in his heart.

"Hurry! Xiao Ran, punch me and let me feel it!" Xu Binghu said excitedly.

Of course he was excited.

It took me two rounds of body training to reach the level of 1000 kilograms, but Xu Ran was able to reach this level in just one round of body training, which is enough to show that he has unlimited potential!

"Dad, are you sure?" Xu Ran asked.

"Xiao Ran, just fulfill your father's wish!" Lian Ji said from the side.

Xu Binghu nodded, his face full of anticipation.

"All right!"

After saying that, Xu Ran calmed his dantian. After a moment, he suddenly opened his eyes, and a coldness as sharp as a knife burst out of his eyes. He stepped on the ground with both feet, jumped up suddenly, and rushed from the front.

The speed is so fast, like stepping on a whirlwind, and the sound of the wind is like the sound of a flute.

In an instant, Xu Ran arrived in front of Xu Binghu and punched him.

Xu Binghu reacted immediately, crossing his hands in front of his chest. The sharp wind from his fist left a blood mark on his face.

"boom--"

The moment the two men came into contact, Xu Binghu took several steps back.

After a long while, he finally reacted, shook his head, and said, "Xiao Ran, your 1000-pound strength is very full!"

As a hunter, Xu Binghu knew very well that if a person could fully display all his strength, he would be invincible in confrontations of the same level.

Obviously, Xu Ran, who is less than one year old, has achieved this.

It has been two months since his strength reached 1000 kilograms. During these two months, he hunted in the mountains every day, fighting against prey and monsters. Even so, exerting a strength of 700 kilograms in actual combat is already very outstanding.

As for Xu Ran, whose strength has just reached 1000 kilograms, he can exert a strength of 1000 kilograms in actual combat.

This kind of comprehension ability is really terrifying!

"Haha! Maybe this is talent!" Xu Ran laughed.

Xu Binghu was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "That's right, this is talent. Xiao Ran was born on a meteor, so he is gifted and can do things that ordinary people can't do. It's normal!"

"Xiao Ran is a genius, and the whole village knows this." Lian Ji also echoed.

……

Soon, two months passed again.

That day, Xu Ran was meditating in the yard.

"Lie——" Xiaobai's voice sounded in the sky and then fell in front of Xu Ran.

"Hey! Xiaobai, you've reached the Qi Refining Stage!"

After refining the body, it is the Qi refining stage, where humans and monsters are the same.

Then, Xiaobai put down the thing in the bird's beak, and saw that it was several red fruits, the same as the ones brought back to him before.

"Xiaobai, is this what you collected after not going home for a month?"

Xiaobai held his head high, waiting for his master's praise.

During these two months, Xiaobai could be regarded as the king of the mountain in the outskirts of the mountains.

Almost all the monsters were cleared out by Xiaobai, especially the tiger monsters. The tiger monsters were almost nowhere to be seen within a radius of a hundred miles.

It seems that when I rescued it from the tiger's territory, although it had not hatched yet, it subconsciously regarded all tigers as its enemies.

So, even if Xiaobai doesn't come back for a month, they don't worry about anything happening.

Xiaobai knew that he was in the wrong, so he put his bird head on Xu Ran's shoulder and rubbed it.

"You mean, you stayed away for a month just to prepare a birthday present for me?" Xu Ran understood what it meant.

Xiaobai nodded.

Right!

Today is my first birthday. No wonder when I got up, my father didn’t go out hunting, and my mother was still sneaking around in the kitchen, not knowing what she was busy with. So this is what happened.

However, for others, a first birthday may be a good thing, but for him, it is a mixed blessing.

Because, his own disaster of the year, the poisonous snakes slaughtering the village is coming!
If it is not handled properly, it is very likely that the lives of the entire village will be lost.

When Xu Ran was about to say something, a voice came from his mind.

[I'm one year old now, and I'm about to face my first disaster in life—a venomous snake slaughtering a village.]

In the hot summer, sweating is as follows.

Old man Zhao took a hoe, bent over, and planted the seedlings in the rice field.

With each time he planted rice seedlings, his heart grew happier.

Two minutes later, Old Man Zhao straightened up, wiped the sweat from his forehead, walked to the edge of the field, drank some water and rested.

"Alas, I'm too old to do this anymore," Old Man Zhao muttered to himself. "It's only been a short while, and I haven't even finished planting a third of the seedlings."

As he spoke, he looked at the distant mountains with envy in his eyes, "If our Shitou Village was also close to the mountains, we wouldn't have to farm for generations."

Shitou Village is about a hundred miles away from Dahuangbian Village, but the only route that leads to the mountains is a natural barrier. If you want to go into the mountains to hunt, it will take dozens of days to go back and forth.

This alone destroyed their idea of ​​making a living by hunting.

Fortunately, the rice fields in Shitou Village are extremely fertile and people can make a living by farming.

Farming is hard work. Although it is stable, it is difficult to get ahead. Women from other villages are unwilling to marry, and women in the village try their best to get married. This cycle repeats itself, so that the population of Shitou Village is becoming increasingly sparse.

Old man Zhao is still single.

After resting for a while, Old Man Zhao got up and continued to plant rice seedlings.

As soon as I stepped into the rice field, a black shadow passed by quickly and I couldn't see its shape clearly.

Old man Zhao rubbed his eyes and said, "I'm old, I have no strength, and even my eyes don't work well."

After saying that, he continued to pick up the basket and planted the seedlings one by one.

"Sigh~"

After a while, I felt a pain in my feet.

"There are really more and more leeches in the ridges. In a few years, I'm afraid even the only rice field will be taken over by these leeches."

After complaining, Old Man Zhao continued to plant rice seedlings.

Soon, night fell, and Old Man Zhao dragged his tired body and walked slowly towards the wooden house step by step.

"Old Zhao, you're back~~"

"Well, let me tell you, there are more and more leeches on the ridges now. One left a big mark on my calf." The villagers of Shitou Village greeted Old Man Zhao enthusiastically, and he was happy to respond. After all, he had no wife at home, so if he wanted to talk to people, he could only take advantage of this period of time.

The villagers were also very curious about the leeches that Old Man Zhao mentioned.

"Old Zhao, lift up your trouser legs and take a look to see if the leeches are poisonous."

Old man Zhao sat on a stone pier by the roadside and rolled up his trouser legs.

"Look, it's just like this. We have been farmers for generations, so how come we don't know the toxicity of leeches?" Old Man Zhao said unhappily.

"Huh? That's not right!" The villagers looked at Old Man Zhao's calf and said puzzledly, "This mark doesn't look like a leech!"

"How could that be?" Old Man Zhao was incredulous. "Besides leeches, what else could bite your calves in the ridges of the fields?"

Old Man Zhao was very confident in his guess.

"It's really not!" Seeing that Old Man Zhao didn't believe him, the villager continued, "Look at the marks yourself. There are only two small blood holes, and there is a little black stuff on the wound. It doesn't look like a leech bite at all."

"Let me see!" Old man Zhao looked down at his calf and his face suddenly changed.

"Damn it, this isn't a leech, it's a snake!!!"

"snake!"

As soon as Old Man Zhao's voice came out, the villagers who were watching the excitement around were startled and started talking.

"Snake? Old man Zhao is so unlucky that he actually encountered a snake in the field?"

"Alas, Old Man Zhao has had such bad luck in his life. He never got married, and now he's old. He was even bitten by a snake while farming."

"Alas~~ It seems that farming is also life-threatening. It would be better to go hunting in the mountains like the neighboring village."

"But fortunately, the snakes in the ridges are not poisonous, so it's no big deal!"

Old Man Zhao also heard this and quickly said, "That's right, the snakes in the ridges are not poisonous, so don't worry."

"What is that black stuff on the wound? Isn't it venom?" someone asked.

"Won't you touch the mud when you're transplanting rice? You're just talking nonsense!!" Old man Zhao immediately retorted.

"Okay, I won't talk to you anymore. I'm going home to eat."

After saying that, Old Man Zhao quickened his pace and walked quickly towards home.

I don’t know if it was a psychological effect, but after I found out that the wound on my calf was caused by a snake bite, my calf began to feel numb.

If he hadn't wanted to avoid embarrassment in front of the villagers, he would have walked with a limp.

When the villagers saw that Old Man Zhao was walking without any problems, they all thought that it was not a snake bite. The black stuff next to the wound was also mud from transplanting rice seedlings.

"Squeak--"

Old man Zhao took three steps at a time and arrived home in a short while. He went straight to the kitchen and took out the steamed buns he had made two days ago from the pot. He didn't care that they were cold and ate them in big mouthfuls.

"How could you be bitten by a snake?"

Old man Zhao ate his steamed bun while lifting up his trouser leg to check the wound again.

As a result, he found that his calves had turned completely black. The protruding blood vessels on his thin calves had also turned black, like a thin tube stained with ink, which was extremely scary.

Seeing this, Old Man Zhao stood up suddenly and wanted to go to the village to find a doctor.

As soon as I stood up, I felt dizzy.

With a "bang", Old Man Zhao fell to the ground.

At this time, the moon is above the branches.

Like the Dahuangbian Village, Shitou Village has no entertainment activities at night. After dinner, people stroll around the village, talk about the mountains here and there, and after a simple social activity, they go home and prepare to go to bed.

"Do you think Lao Zhao will be alright today?"

The person who spoke was the villager who met Old Man Zhao at the village entrance today. At this moment, he was lying in bed with his wife.

"It's not like you were bitten by a venomous snake. What are you afraid of? At most you'll just have to stay in bed for a few days."

"Yeah, that's true. He's just one person anyway, so it's enough for him to have enough food. There's no rush to plant rice."

As he was speaking, several rustling sounds were heard from the beams.

"Hiss-hiss-hiss-hiss--", it sounds particularly creepy.

"Husband, do you hear any noise in the rafters?"

"What sound? I didn't hear it. Are you hallucinating?"

After thinking for a while, he confirmed, "No, there must be some noise in the beams."

"Yes, there was a sound," the man said. "Maybe the snake that bit Lao Zhao on the ridge of the field today has come to our house and is now on the beam, staring at us!"

"What are you talking about so late at night?" The woman patted the man several times with her hands, her body trembling slightly.

"Didn't you say there was a sound in the beams? Now you look, maybe you can even see a pair of eyes."

After saying that, the man pulled the woman's head and made her look at the beam.

"Ah!!!" the woman exclaimed, "There are eyes, there are eyes."

"Is this true?" The man also looked up and saw a pair of dark green eyes on the beam, staring at the two of them.

"Run, fast!"

Before he could finish his words, a black snake fell from the beam and bit their necks before they could move.

In an instant, there was no sound.

Taking advantage of the dim night, the poisonous snake crawled out of the wooden door and crawled towards another house.

Not long after the poisonous snake left, the two people who were bitten to death in the room turned green all over, their eyes bulged, and blood vessels burst all over their bodies, which was extremely creepy.

That night, most of the Stone Village was covered by poisonous snakes, and nearly half of the people were bitten to death by the snakes.

Early the next morning.

The surviving villagers woke up, had breakfast, and strolled around the village as usual.

I found that today was different from usual, there were a lot fewer people.

"What's going on today? So many people are sleeping in? Don't they have to go to the fields to work?"

"Could it be that you heard yesterday that Old Zhao was bitten by a snake on the ridge of the field and you're afraid to go?"

"Everyone has gotten injured in the fields before, so how can we stop going just because of this little thing?"

"That is, if we don't farm, how will we support our family?"

"Let's go and call them. If the people in Stone Village stop farming, I'm afraid even fewer people will be willing to marry into their family."

After reaching a consensus, the villagers gathered at the village gate and headed towards other homes in a mighty procession.

The first one is Old Man Zhao.

Old Man Zhao is a famous bachelor in Shitou Village. Not only in Shitou Village, but also in the area within a hundred miles, most people have heard of this name. Old Man Zhao has also become the signature of Shitou Village, although it is not a good reputation.

If Old Man Zhao, an old bachelor, gave up and stopped farming, once the news got out, the reputation of Shitou Village would be even worse.

After a while, everyone came to Old Man Zhao's door and knocked hard.

"Lao Zhao, Lao Zhao, come out quickly."

"Old Zhao, hurry up and get up. It's time to go to the farm."

Everyone called for a long time, but there was no response.

"Do you think anything will happen to Old Zhao?" someone said.

"That shouldn't be the case. The snakes in the fields are really not poisonous at all."

"So we all called him that, and there was no response?"

(End of this chapter)