Chapter 257 Elephant Bones

Huo Gannian and Yun Chen stood stiffly, watching the huge snake head slowly approach, sizing up the two weak "uninvited guests" in front of them with cold eyes.

A snake tongue longer than a human was ejected from the giant python's mouth, brushing past the two of them, making a heart-pounding hissing sound.

It felt like someone had whipped them from a distance, and Huo Gannian and Yun Chen's entire faces were numb.

I have never seen such a big python.

How many thousands or tens of thousands of years does it take for it to grow this big?

For a moment, the two even wondered whether they were seeing the legendary dragon.

The two men and the python stood facing each other, and the surroundings were as quiet as death.

Even the wolf-slaying colt and the water dragon in the distance were silent.

After an unknown amount of time, the giant python slowly lowered its head and then lay motionless, as if it had fallen asleep.

Huo Gannian gently gestured to Yun Chen, signaling her to step back.

She took a tentative step, and when the giant python didn't react, she kept backing away, trying to touch the sword on the dragon's back in the water.

Estimating that the distance was about right, she should retreat to the horse's side. She stared at the giant python, on high alert, not daring to look back, while reaching back to touch.

I searched everywhere in the air for a long time, but couldn't find it.

When I turned around, I saw that the two horses had run farther than before without me noticing.

She was both angry and amused, and could only take a few quick steps to get the sword.

When she walked back quietly with two swords in her hand, she saw Huo Gannian standing in front of the snake's head, looking at it with his head tilted. He had let down his guard, like a grandfather watching his beloved grandson taking a nap.

Yun Chen didn't dare to speak, but just patted his shoulder and looked at him inquiringly.

"It's okay, it's asleep."

Huo Gannian suddenly spoke, scaring Yun Chen so much that his hair stood on end, and he gestured frantically to him to be quiet.

Huo Gannian was amused by Yun Chen's appearance and explained:

"This must be a Basilisk. It awakens in winter and sleeps in summer and autumn. Right now is its dormant period, so it's not aggressive. I've seen it in ancient mythology books before, but I didn't expect it to be real."

Yun Chen took a deep breath to calm himself, walked to Huo Gannian, and looked at the giant python like him.

The giant python closed its eyes and slept peacefully, and it exuded a special and pleasant smell, similar to that of incense and candles.

At this moment, Huo Gannian suddenly remembered the note Guanxu gave him when he left the Taoist temple.

His intuition told him that the note should be used here.

He unfolded the note, and sure enough, the content on it had nothing to do with the first question he asked at the Taoist temple:

"There is a snake called Ba Snake on Ling Mountain. It swallows an elephant. After three years, its bones are soaked. If you cut open its belly, take out several portions and burn them, a gentleman can prolong his life by ten thousand years."

It is said that this mountain is called Lingshan, and there is a giant python in the mountain that swallowed an elephant three years ago.

Now, three years have passed, and the elephant bones have been soaked in the snake's belly, becoming as textured as jade.

If you cut open the snake's belly, take out the elephant bones, burn them into ashes and eat them, you can prolong your life by thousands of years.

"Ten thousand years old" is definitely a figment of the imagination, but it is obvious that the elephant bones in the belly of this python have the effect of strengthening the body and prolonging life.

It's such a rare thing that most people have probably never even heard of it.

Huo Gannian held the snake's head and pushed hard.

He was tall and long, and his hand made Yun Chen's face look big, but when placed on the snake's head, he looked as small as an ant.

The Bashen didn't move at all, showing no sign of waking up.

I guess if the torch hadn't been leaning against the snake's body and burned it, the python wouldn't have woken up.

In this way, it is not difficult to obtain elephant bones.

Two people, two swords, first chopping off the snake's head and then cutting open its belly, it only took half an hour.

Yun Chen looked at the sleeping python. Although it was huge and terrifying, it looked very docile.

She felt a little uncomfortable, "Anian, should we... kill it? It must have gone through many hardships to grow to this size..."

Huo Gannian understood what she meant and gently stroked the snake's head.

"No. Picking flowers, taking fruit, eating meat, killing enemies... all have righteous reasons. But to take an animal's life simply to live a few more days is truly inhumane."

Yun Chen nodded in agreement: "A man is innocent, but he is guilty of possessing a treasure."

"Everything has a spirit. This world belongs to everything, not just to humans."

After Huo Gannian finished speaking, he pulled Yun Chen and started walking back, preparing to return the same way.

At this time, the snake seemed to have a spirit and suddenly woke up. It curled up its body slightly and spit out the elephant bone.

After spitting out the elephant bones, the python nodded to the two of them, then moved its huge body and gradually disappeared at the end of the dark road.

Huo Gannian and Yun Chen stood there in a daze, staring at the elephant bones that emitted a strong fishy smell for a long time, unable to react.

It was not until the note in Yun Chen's hand caught fire and then burned up that the two of them came to their senses.

Unexpectedly, the note would spontaneously combust. Yun Chen was so burned that he let go of his hand. The note burned and flew in the air, turning Guan Xu's words into ashes bit by bit, leaving only four small fragments.

Yun Chen leaned closer to the fragments: "What a coincidence, there are exactly four words left unburned, 'yes', 'no', 'share', 'fate'?"

Yun Chen didn't understand what this was, but Huo Gannian understood that this was the answer Guanxu gave him.

The answer was exactly the first question he wrote down when he was at the Taoist temple:

He and Yun Chen.

Just four words scattered among the ashes, with no order, could have so much to say.

Huo Gannian sighed helplessly:

"He is truly a master."