Chapter 6
Unfortunately, Zhang Lisheng was never a young man who loved adventures . Although he grew up in a mountain village, going deep into the jungle was a first for him .
Even so, he still possessed basic knowledge about surviving in the jungle . At least he could tell although the trees surrounding him was lush, they were just normal tree types such as birch, locust, jujube, and mulberry . The ground was damp but sturdy . It meant that he was located in a farmland to jungle restoration boundary . The ground where he was stepping on used to be a terraced field that belonged to a mountain farmer in Guawo Village a few years or even decades ago .
Just when he was feeling sorry, he suddenly heard a swish above his head . As he looked up, a blurry shadow flashed across and disappeared within the leaves on a bunch of crossing branches .
He faintly saw what seemed to be a tree snake slithering across the jungle . Zhang Lisheng suddenly became excited as he immediately chanted an incantation . He then shouted 'assimilate' toward the direction where the shadow vanished .
Affected by his witchcraft, a dark brown elaphe that was almost two meters long fell from the top of the tree, however, it did not fall to the ground . Instead, it hung on a branch that stuck out on the side .
And since it had been captured by Zhang Lisheng, how could this normal, non-venomous dark brown elaphe escape? A few moments later, it moved its body, following Zhang Lisheng's 'pst shh…' chant and slithered from the branch to the young man's feet .
Zhang Lisheng was overjoyed as it was his first time performing witchcraft on a worm that he had never fed blood to, not to mention he managed to control it as he wished, just like how he controlled Qing Hong .
Looking at the blurry silhouette of the big snake with a round head, it did not bother him that it was just an ordinary dark brown elaphe . The elaphe was not categorized as a fierce one among the non-venomous snakes, and it could survive by just eating rats and bats . He was not stingy with his blood as he performed his unfinished witchcraft by spurting a mouthful of black blood .
Under the witchcraft's influence, the dark brown elaphe straightened its body and danced in the bloody mist . Its body rapidly expanded and started to distort as its flesh burst out of its skin . Soon, a bang was heard . Its body exploded, and what was left was a pile of mashed meat .
Zhang Lisheng turned much paler after performing witchcraft . Failure to transform the elaphe into a wizard worm made him look even more devastated .
He was stunned as he looked at all the blood stains all over the clean clothes that he just put on . He realized that there were possibilities of failure in witchcraft—it was not as simple as he though .
Fortunately, this was all just the beginning . The minor setback did not depress Zhang Lisheng for too long . He sighed as he snapped back to reality and felt bad for half of the witch power and the mouthful of blood that he sacrificed . He then proceeded to walk deeper into the jungle .
The journey was getting hard .
After crossing the farmland to the jungle restoration boundary, what began to show up were gigantic trees that covered up the sky which had oddly shaped roots . Many natural barriers formed from the twisted vines on them .
Occasionally, there were a couple of wilted, oddly-shaped, big trees in the jungle . Though wilted, these trees seemed like they had never lost their lives although parasitic plants were already growing on them . They looked diverse and beautiful .
There were countless fungi on the jungle ground as well as a variety of exotic plants which blocked the travelers from walking .
Learning from the countless myths that were passed around among the mountain villagers, Zhang Lisheng, who was exhausted from walking, knew that he was in danger as he entered deep into the jungle . He then released his wizard worm Qing Hong .
He knew very well that although he had become a wizard, he was only a Rank 1 Wizard . There was no guarantee that the worms and beasts would not attack him whenever he was not chanting an incantation .
Qing Hong came out of the bottom of Zhang Lisheng's pants and slithered around the trees in the jungle in a ten-meter radius around him . All of the venomous worms and tiny beasts would avoid them wherever they went .
Zhang Lisheng now felt a little safer . He gulped, dragged his sore body, and sat under a withered tree that had slippery moss growing all over it .
As he took a couple of breaths and felt that he had recovered a little of his energy, he realized that he was even thirstier now, and his head was burning . It was actually a very wrong idea to enter the jungle by impulse without preparing anything beforehand .
However, since he had entered the deep jungle, Zhang Lisheng was unwilling to leave without bringing anything back . After a short rest and recovering his energy, he stood up under the withered tree and began to chant an incantation to wake the countless worms that were hiding . He decided to bet on his luck and see if he could hunt his second wizard worm .
Learning from the prior experience when the non-venomous, dark brown elaphe's flesh exploded out of its skin and died from his incantation, Zhang Lisheng intentionally avoided snakes as he picked his next wizard worm this time . After giving it some thought, he figured it would be the best if he could capture a venomous centipede . After all, he had more confidence in tempering centipedes as he had the successful case of Qing Hong before this .
Short-tailed mamushi, forest lizard, forest boa…
The dense jungle had low visibility . Although Zhang Lisheng's knowledge on insects and reptiles exceeded even some of the naturalists all thanks to his father's strict education and the realistic and informative graphics on computers and video introductions, it was difficult to identify the animals that were walking around without a pattern under such condition .
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