Chapter 356: The Living Sacrifice

The flower demon and the tree demon fought in the lake non-stop, and the mud and sand under the lake were even more noisy, the roots were entangled, the vines were bound, no one let anyone, no one refused to eat a bite, and it didn't take long for a small pond to be turned upside down by them, muddy water splashed everywhere, where have the big and small fish and shrimp seen such a battle, frightened and frightened to splash the water, floating on the surface of the mud, desperately fanning their cheeks.

Qin Yuan was speechless, it was just a shameless thing for the Scorching Blossom Tree Demon to be like this, it was a shameless goods, but he didn't expect that the Rose Flower Demon was not far behind, and he didn't show weakness when he competed, and the barbed vines pulled out the Scorching Blossom Tree Demon with blood marks, which was completely a posture of a shrew fighting with ten nails greeting each other's faces.

"Miss Rose, you help me keep a good look at this guy, if it dares to run, beat me to death, and I'll go around somewhere else. Qin Yuan looked at it for a long time, and saw that the momentum of the Rose Flower Demon and the Scorching Blossom Tree Demon was rising steadily, and they both got a lot of benefits, so he put his mind at ease and gave a word of advice.

"Mr. Qin, don't worry, if this guy dares to run, I will chop him into firewood to see you." The Rose Flower Demon agreed, and it could be regarded as understanding Qin Yuan's purpose for bringing her here.

The Zhuohua Tree Demon shouted angrily: "Boss, my loyalty to you can be seen in the world, higher than the mountain, deeper than the sea, you just don't leave, I am your person in life, and your ghost is your ghost ...... death."

Qin Yuan had goosebumps all over his body, believing it was called a ghost, if there was no such rose demon watching, he would be sure that he would not see the ghost as soon as he turned his head.

Without bothering with this goods anymore, Qin Yuan walked quickly into the distance.

Walking all the way, he checked the leylines all the way, and also picked a lot of spiritual fruits, picked a lot of herbs, and walked farther and farther, he gradually broke away from the place where everyone was stationed, and walked out for dozens of miles.

During these dozens of miles, the leylines below each place were constantly moving, and the closer you got to that towering peak, the more intense the leyline's activity became.

Qin Yuan confirmed the goal, went straight to the mountains, and walked out for sixty or seventy miles, he was in a verdant field, the grass and trees were waist-deep, and as far as the eye could see, an abnormal dark green color, as if it was a deep black pool where aquatic plants were too luxuriant, covering and crawling bottomlessly, like the dark green mouth of a huge monster.

The dark green was dotted with countless bright flowers, and huge trees rose to the sky, the green leaves were fresh and tender, and the branches were twisted and swirling, like giants far away, watching Qin Yuan, a strange visitor, vigilantly.

Qin Yuan's heart trembled slightly, and a sense of vigilance was born.

He had seen those trees, they all existed on the way here, and they were not strangers, but they were all small shrubs that were no taller than his waist and only knee-high, but these in front of him were several meters high, and they were many times thicker.

He could confirm that these shrubs were of the same variety as those he had encountered before, with the same leaf shapes, the same bark textures, the same barbs, and the same stretched branches, but they were magnified countless times before him, like the contrast between a dwarf and a giant.

"Could this be caused by the abnormal activity of the leylines?" Qin Yuan thought in his heart, apart from this explanation, it was difficult to explain the reason why they had undergone such an abnormality.

Qin Yuan stepped on the rugged ground that was almost invisible, and carefully walked in front of the nearest "shrub", a three-finger-wide "scar" on the body of the tree curved along the root of the tree to the crown, and the bark at both ends of the "scar" was uneven, first from the inside out, as if it was split by a huge force.

He touched it lightly, and there was some mucus on his fingertips, and he put it in front of his nose and sniffed it gently, there was a faint fragrance.

There are also signs of this bark cracking on other trees.

He estimated from the cracks in the bark and the traces of undried sap that the trees must have not been rising for long, and that the cracked bark was caused by the trunks growing too quickly.

"What is the reason for such a change in the leylines?"

Qin Yuan carefully searched Xin Wu's life experience, as if he had never seen such a strange thing, the ancient deep mountains and ravines, and the primeval forests had almost left Xin Wu's footprints, but there had never been a place where something like that had happened.

"No, there seems to be a place. ”

Qin Yuan found a similar phenomenon from Xin Wu's memory, which was not encountered in the deep mountains and old forests, but in the home of a rich and noble man during the Tang Dynasty.

The rich and noble family planted an old tree, and no one knew its origin, even the eldest in the family, and this old tree had existed here since he could remember.

One year, there was a great drought in the world, and there was no harvest in the fields, and the old trees were drooping to death, but the rich households at that time had become anxious because of the rent collection, and they did not have the heart to take care of it.

Later, one of the descendants of the rich family went missing, and everyone remembered clearly, before falling asleep, the subordinate did not have the slightest abnormality, but when he woke up, the subordinate disappeared without a trace, and the strange thing is that his luggage, some copper coins hidden under the bed board, were all not taken away, even the clothes he took off last night were scattered in their place, almost exactly the same as the night before, and no one had touched.

The rich family didn't care at that time, and it was not uncommon for servants to desert and flee without permission, for various reasons, they symbolically searched for it, and reported to the local yamen.

A month later, three or four more descendants of the rich family disappeared one after another, and it was not until the youngest son of the rich family disappeared without a trace overnight that they realized that something was unusual.

The officials of the government came to check and found no clue.

The servants were sent out to search for them within a radius of dozens of miles, and spent a lot of money to offer rewards, but they still did not lose the whereabouts of the servants and the youngest son of the rich family.

Xin Wu happened to pass by at that time, and when he heard about it, he dressed up as a Taoist priest, came to the rich man's house, and after checking it, ordered the rich man to cut down the old tree.

The rich family was reluctant at first, this old tree might be older than their family's age, thinking that it would be a spiritual tree, suppressing their family's feng shui spiritual creature, and unwilling to follow Xin Wu's advice.

"It's been a great drought for three months, the seedlings are dry, and the weeds are dying, but why this old tree is not affected by the drought, but is as green as jade, verdant as a wash, don't you think it's strange?" Xin Wu asked.

The rich man looked at it a few times, and suddenly realized that this was indeed the case, but he clearly remembered that the old tree was dying a while ago, and its branches and leaves were wilting, but why did it suddenly become so verdant?

"Daoist, why is this?" the rich man asked.

Xin Wu replied, "Cut it down, dig up the ground, and you will know." ”

The rich man thought for a while, and finally cut down the old tree according to Xin Wu's words, and dug out its huge old roots, and at the moment when the old roots were dug up, the rich family cried.

They found the missing descendant below, as well as the missing young son......

At that time, everyone was rumored that the old tree had become a demon and devoured the living, but in fact, only Xin Wu himself knew that the murderer was not the old tree, but someone else.

A middle-aged Taoist priest in a dilapidated Taoist temple obtained a book of evil arts, sacrificed the human body alive, raised the old tree, and made its core carry spirituality for it to use to refine magic weapons.

Qin Yuan found that the earth's leylines here were changing, which seemed to have a little meaning.

It's just that he wasn't sure if this was a living sacrifice, because the scope involved was too large, and the effect was too great, and he couldn't figure out how many lives it would take to do so!

He estimated that even if all the cultivators who entered this world were sacrificed alive, it would be extremely difficult to reach such a level.

While thinking about this, Qin Yuan walked forward slowly, and put away a few spirit fruits beside him, and suddenly, just as he picked a few fruits and put them into the storage bracelet, a black shadow passed from the corner of his eyes, the hairs on his body stood on end, and an extremely dangerous aura surged into his heart.

On a deformed bush about ten meters in front of him, on the twisted black branch of a dragon walking snake, there was an equally twisted black snake!

The big snake's arms were thick, the black scales on its body shimmered with a jade-like luster, the scarlet snake letter was uncertain, there was a red sarcoma in the middle of the top of its head, and its two gloomy eyes were staring at Qin Yuan.

A sweet smell reached Qin Yuan's nose, thinking that it should be the poisonous mist breath spewed out by the poisonous snake.

Qin Yuan's pupils shrunk to the size of a pintip, and his temples throbbed suddenly!

He had been vigilant as he inspected the leylines, the bushes, and the fruits, but he did not expect that not far from him, there was such a big snake lying on his stomach, and he did not realize it!

"Hiss!"

When the red tumor black snake saw that Qin Yuan had found it, it didn't care, but raised its head provocatively, and slowly squirmed along the branch, and between the branches swaying, it was getting closer and closer to Qin Yuan.

Qin Yuan could see a hint of humanity in its pupils, and it seemed to be laughing!

Laughing at Qin Yuan, an ignorant person, who entered its territory, he was also happy that his meal had been settled!

Qin Yuan secretly screamed bad luck, the more strange-looking the poisonous snake, the more poisonous it will be, and the sweet smell that permeated the air at this time just shows that this beast is by no means easy to match.

Qin Yuan could imagine that once ordinary people were touched by its poison, they would definitely lose consciousness within a few seconds and become its delicious meal. Although his body's resistance to toxicity is very strong, there is no guarantee that it will have no effect under its fangs. And if you are affected by it in the middle of the battle, you will surely die!

The red tumor black snake was getting closer and closer to Qin Yuan, and Qin Yuan had already entered its attack distance, but it did not rashly attack, but tried to get one step closer and have more certainty.

And Qin Yuan also took out the big iron sword, levitating at his side, and was making a "buzzing" trembling sound.