Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 43 Hunting the Purple Flame Marten

Red pine is a tall and sturdy pine tree, generally exceeding ten feet in height.

Once these trees form a forest, they will attract and breed several special types of pine caterpillars, and it will be difficult for similarly tall trees to grow in the place where they grow.

The red pine forest where Zhou Chun and his companions are now located is dotted with red pine trees that are more than ten feet tall, and many of them are over a thousand years old.

The ground of the pine forest is covered with thick pine needles and various thorny shrubs, thorns and weeds grow on it, making it very inconvenient to walk.

Pine caterpillars as long as fingers often fall from the trees.

In a place like this, if you are not brave enough, you really can't stay there.

At this moment, Zhou Chun and the other man put on conical hats to prevent pine caterpillars from falling on their bodies, and let Zhou Zhengyong's red-tailed monkey lead the way, clearing the way through the thorns and brambles. Soon they went more than ten miles deep into the pine forest.

"The Purple Flame Marten likes to prey on all kinds of rodents. This red pine forest is so large that there must be a lot of squirrels and mountain rats. There might be golden-toothed rats, flame rats and other rodent monsters."

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

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

The purple flame marten is a solitary being, and its nest is extremely secretive. To find its nest in this vast pine forest within three days, one must be extremely lucky.

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

"Brother Yong, your method is not bad, but those rat-like monsters are also timid and cautious. It is not easy to capture them alive, especially since we don't have much time."

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

"I have prepared for this. I went to the elders of my family to ask for some food that rat monsters like to eat, and also some drugs to knock out the monsters."

Zhou Zhengyong said this, then looked at Zhou Chun and said, "Let's split up and each take some food to look for traces of the rat monsters."

"Okay, let's try this first."

Zhou Chun nodded and agreed with his idea.

Immediately, Zhou Chun took some dried fruits and sleeping pills from Zhou Zhengyong, and then they split up to search for the traces of the rat monsters in the pine forest.

Both of them are proficient in the art of taming beasts, and their ability to find monsters is even better than those experienced independent cultivators.

From feces and claw and tooth marks to nearby plant species and temperature differences such as dryness and humidity, all can 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 incisors that can bite through even steel.

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

Zhou Chun shuttled through the pine forest, carefully observing the areas he passed through with his spiritual sense and naked eyes, and looking for traces of activity of rat-like monsters from subtle observations.

After half a day, he found three places where there might be nests of rat monsters, and chose the one he thought had the highest probability of being there and waited there.

He was seen scattering some dried monster meat and dried fruits containing weak spiritual power somewhere in the pine forest, and sandwiching a kind of drug similar in shape to the dried fruits among them, and then sprinkling some collected beast feces and ant repellent powder nearby.

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

After doing all this, Zhou Chun hid far away and silently practiced the "Lin Yin Chan Xi Jue" to restrain his breath.

He has been practicing both secret arts for nearly a year. Although he has not yet mastered both to the point where he can use them as he wishes, he can use them through advance preparation.

At this moment, Zhou Chun was hiding in the bushes and weeds. His body color completely blended in with the nearby bushes and weeds, and his own smell was also covered up by the fragrance of grass and trees under the effect of the secret technique.

Even if someone passed by now, it would be difficult to find Zhou Chun in the bushes with the naked eye or sense of smell.

In order to avoid alerting the possible rat-like monsters, he also sprinkled some fresh beast feces with a very pungent smell nearby to ensure that his own smell would not leak out and ruin things.

Of course, the downside is that even if he wears a homemade mask, he still has to endure the stench, which is extremely sour.

Time passed gradually. After waiting for nearly an hour, Zhou Chun finally saw a big red-haired rat appear in his sight.

The big rat was as big as an adult's calf, and it was not affected by the smell of wild animal feces that Zhou Chun had scattered nearby.

After rolling its eyes to look around and sniffing a little, it crawled directly to the dried meat and dried fruits and happily started eating these delicious foods.

After eating all the food Zhou Chun spilled in one go, the big rat turned around and prepared to return to its nest.

But it had not walked far when it began to feel dizzy and its body swayed from side to side out of control.

After a while, the little thing couldn't stand the effect of the drug and passed out. Only then did Zhou Chun leave his hiding place and pick up the unconscious rat.

He lifted the rat up by the scruff of its neck and looked at it for a while, then said to himself, "Fortunately, it's just a low-grade first-level monster fire rat. If it had reached the middle-grade first-level, these few [Beast Bewitching Pills] probably wouldn't be able to confuse it!"

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

Compared with Zhou Chun, Zhou Zhengyong's luck was much worse. He waited for a long time but got nothing.

At this time, seeing Zhou Chun coming over with the unconscious fire rat, he also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thirteenth brother, I'm glad you made some progress. You really helped me a lot this time!!"

Speaking words of gratitude, he immediately took the unconscious fire rat from Zhou Chun and started to deal with it.

If you want an untamed fire rat to stay in a fixed area and attract purple flame martens to hunt, it naturally needs some special treatment.

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

Beast taming families like the Zhou family have long researched and developed many methods to capture various monsters alive.

At this time, Zhou Zhengyong used drugs and silver needles to stimulate and destroy the fire rat's brain, making it crazy. At the same time, he piled up some collected purple flame marten feces around it to prevent it from escaping from a fixed area.

Afterwards, in order to prevent the purple flame marten from discovering the two of them, Zhou Zhengyong, who did not know the secret art of concealing his breath, left the scene far away. He only handed the spirit beast bag containing his red-tailed monkey spirit pet to Zhou Chun, who then lay in ambush nearby and waited for the purple flame marten to come.

Squeak! !

I saw the fire rat with a broken brain running and jumping around frantically in a clearing in the woods, constantly making loud screams.

There was no spirit in its eyes anymore, only a look of madness. Its bloodshot and red eyes looked quite scary.

When some mouse-catching animals in the pine forest heard the sound, they came over to take a look. When they saw that the owner of the cry was the fire rat, they were frightened and quickly ran away.

Ordinary mice are indeed food for these beasts, but fire mice can cast spells.

Even if it is just an ordinary small fireball, it is still enough to burn a tiger to death.

Time passed little by little, and the fire rat's strength was gradually exhausted in the process of screaming, and its throat became so hoarse that it could no longer make a loud sound.

The figure of the Purple Flame Marten never appeared.

This made Zhou Chun, who was waiting in secret, a little anxious.

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

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

The Purple Flame Marten is extremely alert and cautious, perhaps it is secretly observing somewhere at this moment.

If he acted rashly and startled it, even if he could catch another fire rat as bait, he would not be able to trick it again in a short period of time.

As time went by, the fire rats on the ground could no longer make any sounds, as if they were completely dead.

It was late at night, and the light from the stars and the moon in the sky was mostly blocked by the treetops. Only a few stars were scattered in the forest, allowing Zhou Chun to only see the general outline of the fire rat.

He didn't dare to use his spiritual sense to monitor, because although spiritual sense is invisible, many monsters can sense it and will know that he is being watched.

Therefore, unless the Purple Flame Marten appeared and he needed to use his spiritual sense to lock its position, Zhou Chun would never dare to release his spiritual sense.

Just when Zhou Chun's eyes were already sore and he felt he could no longer hold on, he finally noticed something unusual in his sight.

I saw a flash of black shadow, and a huge black shadow as big as a yellow dog appeared next to the fire rat. It picked up the fire rat and flew towards the depths of the forest at an extremely fast speed.

This scene suddenly made Zhou Chun tremble with excitement, and he immediately released his spiritual sense to lock onto that figure.

It is indeed the Purple Flame Marten!

The result of the spiritual sense scan made Zhou Chun feel relieved, and then he hurriedly chased after the figure.

At the same time, a long howl came out of his mouth, responding to Zhou Zhengyong who was waiting in the distance to come and help.

However, the Purple Flame Marten is extremely fast in the forest. Even if Zhou Chun uses the "Wind Control Technique" to control the wind, he can't outrun it.

Therefore, after sending the signal, he released Zhou Zhengyong's red-tailed monkey, letting this monkey, which was also very agile in the mountains and forests, to chase the purple flame marten, while he used a flying magic weapon to catch up.

(End of this chapter)