Chapter 391 - Chapter 391: Chapter 383 The Demon Bird’s Lair_1 (2/2)

The Golden Ox’s golden light was incredibly potent; with it by his side, he had an additional helper in times of danger.

Additionally, he now also had three new helpers: the Black Spider Gu, Green Demon Bee, and Gold Devouring Ant. The termite swarm had also expanded significantly. His strength was several times greater than before.

Regrettably, his proficiency in the Medicine King Sutra had been stuck at the peak of the Acquired Realm, unable to break through to the Innate Realm.

This Cultivation Technique was inherently difficult to advance.

Advancing in major realms was much more difficult than in minor ones.

Without consuming elixirs, progressing from the Acquired Realm to the Innate Realm could take one or two months of effort, which was considered quite normal.

And that was with the massive amount of medicinal qi from the Ancient Banyan Tree available for absorption.

Xiao Qing’s grandfather had, after all, never been able to ascend to the fifth level of the Mortal Realm before his death.

After Qin Niu set out into the mountains with the Green Ox, he headed straight for the main peak.

Today, he intended to bypass the main peak and see what lay beyond it.

Due to the rain, the leaves of the grass and trees in the mountain were all wet.

Fortunately, he was wearing the King Pig Leather Armor, which had a waterproof feature, or else he would have been drenched by now.

The Green Ox, on the other hand, feared neither the heavens nor the earth.

It didn’t care about the water droplets on the grass sticking to it. A few shakes were all it took to flick off the water beads.

The man and the ox reached the vicinity of the main peak but did not dare to ascend, instead finding a small path to circumvent it.

This main peak might only be over two thousand meters tall, but circumventing it required covering a mountain path of at least seventeen or eighteen li.

And that was a conservative estimate.

This peak likely belonged to the ‘stout’ type.

But even an ordinary two-thousand-meter peak would have an astonishingly large base circumference, or else it wouldn’t be able to stand towering into the clouds.

It took Qin Niu and the Green Ox nearly three hours to finally circumvent the high peak successfully.

He was now behind it.

A bit disappointed.

The other side was still mountain peaks and not short by any means, probably reaching fifteen to sixteen hundred meters.

It stretched like a dragon’s spine far into the distance.

Most mountain ranges were like that, one peak connected to another in an endless chain.

“Where would that fire bird be cultivating?”

Qin Niu gazed at the succession of peaks, but he didn’t notice anything unusual.

The fire bird was covered in flames and also breathed fire when attacking enemies, which indicated it likely cultivated fire-based magic.

Therefore, places with fire energy would surely appeal to it.

But where could one find fire in these mountains?

Qin Niu had read in books about a large mountain that burned perpetually, never extinguishing even after ten thousand years.

The region for a thousand li around that mountain was scorched earth.

And people referred to that mountain as Flaming Mountain.

There was another type of mountain that could spew hot magma, known as a volcano.

But a volcanic eruption often leaves traces.

The boiling magma spurts out and flows downward. Once cooled, it can potentially form distinctive volcanic rocks.

None of the peaks ahead showed signs of volcanic activity.

It was a rainy day, and according to the fire bird’s habits, it was unlikely to come out to cultivate.

Qin Niu decided to climb to the top of the mountain ahead to take a look.

A mountain fifteen to sixteen hundred meters high could easily be scaled to the peak in half an hour with his cultivation level.

He proceeded to climb up the mountain with the Green Ox at once.