Chapter 9: Dryads

Sun Huang heard a scream in his dream, jumped up, and stroked a soft sword in the air with his right hand at his waist.

"Who"

Then Zhao Tianyi lay down on the ground and roared loudly.

"What's the matter?"

Tang Xuan's arm crossed Qian Xiaoli's shoulders and both stood up.

Qian Xiaoli stood up and jumped a few times on the ground with her feet, and twisted her waist, as if shaking the dust on her body.

Tang Xuan hugged her tender waist with his left hand, pulled out the dagger from his calf with his right hand, clenched it, his dark eyes glowed with starlight, and he glanced at it in the dark night.

"Chick, what's wrong with you?"

Qian Xiaoli slowly woke up from the fright, her cheeks were pink, she looked at Tang Xuan, looked at him in a hurry, and gritted her teeth.

"I, I, I felt something touching me. โ€

Zhao Tianyi got up and patted the hay on his clothes. Danfeng's eyes were half-narrowed, and his mouth was cracked. Staring at Tang Xuan, he smiled with bad intentions.

Sun Huang reacted, straightened his face, and rubbed his upper lip against the olecranon's nose.

"Hmph, Tang Xuan, pay attention to your proportions. โ€

Tang Xuan thought that he was very wronged, and spread his hands outstretched.

"Uncle, what do you mean by this, what should I, I pay attention to?"

Zhao Tianyi frowned slightly, and his mouth grinned even wider.

"Brother Xuan, Brother Xuan, don't say it, quibbling is equivalent to a weak heart. โ€

"What else do you pay attention to, huh, when we weren't young?"

Qian Xiaoli understood from their conversation, what did she mean?

"Brother, it wasn't Brother Xuan who did it. โ€

"Uncle, uncle, I really didn't touch the chick. โ€

"Hmph, wake me up in an hour. โ€

Sun Huang didn't want to listen to Tang Xuan and his sister-in-law's quibbles, so he sat by the fire and closed his eyes.

Zhao Tianyi looked helpless when he learned from Tang Xuan, and muttered softly.

"Uncle, uncle, I really didn't touch the chick. โ€

Sensing that Tang Xuan was comparing the dagger in the air, Zhao Tianyi stared at him, closed his big mouth like two small sausages colliding together, and sat behind Sun Huang, the two of them were back to back, ready to sleep.

Tang Xuan and Qian Xiaoli were left staring at each other. I touched it casually โ€“ it was so elastic. โ€™

Is it really Brother Xuan who makes it badโ€”so comfortable. โ€™

"Chick, sleep. โ€

Qian Xiaoli smiled and fell asleep peacefully, Tang Xuan'er listened to the four directions, held the dagger tightly with his right hand, gently stroked Qian Xiaoli's green silk with his left hand, and whispered softly as if he was talking to his lover.

"The Tao is very good, the name is very good, the name is famous, the name is not very famous. Nameless, the beginning of heaven and earth, named, the mother of all things..."

The leaves above his head suddenly stopped shaking, like ears, listening intently. The roots of the trees in the ground popped up a little, like a good baby listening to Tang Xuan's preaching.

Tang Xuan surged back to the first chapter of the Tao Te Ching, and there was a ball of hot air jumping up and down in his lower abdomen. Reach out and touch your lower abdomen, everything is as usual.

Time passed slowly, and the first part of the Tao Te Ching, the Tao Sutra was finished in Tang Xuan's strange sound. Full of energy, the heat of the lower abdomen surged to the limbs.

Tang Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly, looked around, and saw Sun Huang standing up silently and stretching his waist.

"Tang Xuan, you rest, I'll guard. โ€

"Good"

Tang Xuan closed his eyes and slowly leaned against the root of the tree.

What is the purple gold rice that my mother gave me, what do those words mean, where did the purple gold rice go, will it be in my body, or will it disappear in this continent. โ€™

'Today's yellow animal skin, with purple gold rice painted on it, a Taoist scripture, why is Chinese a rune here. โ€™

Clouds of mist wrapped around Tang Xuan.

'Is it a prank by some time-traveler?'

'Why is there a warm current in the lower abdomen, where does this warm current come from and where does it go?' โ€™

Half-asleep and half-awake, Tang Xuan felt that someone was patting him on the shoulder. A gentle smile on her face.

"Chick, don't make noise, let my brother sleep again. โ€

Tang Xuan's muttering to himself disturbed Sun Huang, he didn't look back, and snorted coldly, "Women are annoying", picking up two dry firewoods and throwing them into the fire. Whisper reminders.

"Pay attention to the impact, there are bachelors here. โ€

Tang Xuan narrowed his eyes and scratched at his shoulder with intuition.

"Don't make any noise, let me sleep again. โ€

Sun Huan, who was still preparing to add firewood next to the fire, clenched his fists, rubbed his upper lip against his hooked nose, and exhaled heavily. Slowly turn your head and gnash your teeth.

"You guys have been here for a long time, can you not be here... Works"

He was still in his throat, his eyes widened, and he saw an incredible scene.

The right hand tugged at his waist, and the seven-foot software crackled in the night sky.

"Yokai"

Sun Huang let out a loud shout, waking up Tang Xuan and the others, and also waking up the dark beasts guarding the hunt. Disturbed by the slapping of Tang Xuan's tree roots, it pierced into the ground at the speed of lightning.

Tang Xuan heard the warning sound, picked up Qian Xiaoli with his right hand, hugged her into his arms, and clenched the dagger in his right hand. Falcon-like eyes look up and down.

Zhao Tianyi was awakened, rolled on the ground and picked up a wooden stick.

"Youkai, where are youkai? Don't you come here!"

Tang Xuan noticed Sun Huang's eyes staring behind him. A layer of cold sweat broke out on the back of his neck, and his body slowly turned back.

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, afraid of seeing an incredible monster, his whole body had turned around, and he didn't find the man-eating beast he imagined.

"Hi ยท

Let out a long breath.

Qian Xiaoli was still wiping her eyes in Tang Xuan's arms, and shouted with a pout.

"Brother, what are you fuss about. โ€

Sun Huang woke up from the fright, the soft sword in his right hand was still crackling, and he slowly squatted down and picked up a wooden stick with the biggest fire.

"I, I, just saw a monster, like a dozen hemp ropes slapping back and forth on Tang Xuan's shoulders. โ€

Tang Xuan's eyebrows jumped, staring at Qian Xiaoli's watery eyes.

"Chick, did you touch my shoulder just now?"

Qian Xiaoli stared and shook her head innocently.

Tang Xuan hugged Qian Xiaoli with his left hand and took two steps back, pushing her down behind him. His eyes narrowed slightly at the tree.

"Who, come out for me?"

Tang Xuan's left foot pulled out a ditch on the fire, and a wooden stick with a flame fell on his left hand.

Zhao Tianyi learned from Tang Xuan, but he failed several times, so he had to bend down and pick up the biggest fire stick.

Qian Xiaoli also picked up a burning wooden stick.

Four men, four sticks, stood under the towering tree. The wind was light and couldn't carry the sound of leaves.

Tang Xuan raised the torch high with his left hand, and he couldn't see the center of the tree, the top of the tree, and the unknown creatures hidden behind the tree.

"Who's in the tree? come down for me, or I'm going to burn the tree." โ€

Zhao Tianyi stood between Sun Huang and the two, pursing his sausage lips.

"Who, who, come down quickly, or I'm going to set fire to the tree." โ€

One breath

After ten breaths, there was still no movement, but the wind blew the robe and green silk, and also cooled the hearts of the four people.

Tang Xuan raised the fire stick higher and attached it to the body of the tree. The trunk of the tree was blackened by the fire.

"Okay, I actually took my buddy's words as the wind in my ears. โ€

"Burn"

Three torches were attached to the trunk at the same time.

Zhao Tianyi thought that he was the most witty, and the fire stick was raised high, wanting to set the branches and leaves on fire.

Zhao Tianyi stood on tiptoe and raised the fire stick, the fire stick was lifted by him by an inch, and the leaves floated up an inch silently, just one inch short of being able to ignite it.

Angry, Zhao Tian threw a fire stick at a cluster of densest leaves.

"Tell you to bully Lao Tzu. โ€

"Bump"

The four of them could see clearly and understood, and a wrist-thick vine man suddenly flew out from the center of the tree, as agile as a snake, sweeping away the fire stick thrown by Zhao Tianyi.

"Rub, what a ghost!"

The four of them broke out in a cold sweat at the same time, and Tang Xuan took Qian Xiaoli's little hand and stepped back.

Zhao Tianyi didn't dare to pick up the fire stick, so he ran away.

Sun Huang's right soft sword dance was impermeable, and his long legs moved back.

"I'm not a ghost, I'm a spirit, a tree spirit. โ€

A gentle sound flowed from the middle of the tree.

Tang Xuan's brows frowned slightly, and his pupils stared at the middle of the tree.

"It's a person, it's a ghost, it's a spirit, come out and show your face, and everyone can communicate. โ€

"It's okay, don't be intimidated by me. โ€

"Dude, I haven't seen any demons and monsters, so I showed up quickly. โ€

"Giggles"

Zhao Tianyi and Sun Huang heard the tactful voice, and their eyes were confused.

A fist of blue light in the center of the tree slowly flew in front of the four of them. Inside the mask was a tree, its whole body was crystal clear, like a peerless jade carved out, and the four of them were surprised to find that it was exactly the same as this big tree.

Tang Xuan didn't know what they were thinking, his eyes narrowed into slits, his mouth was half open, and the dagger he was clenching had fallen to the ground.

Zhao Tianyi and the two men were no better, the surprise had not dissipated, and they had a look of regret.

Only Qian Xiaoli's watery eyes were bubbling with a little starlight, and her cherry mouth was drooling.

"It's beautiful. โ€

"Thank you, human girl, for the compliment. โ€

The ethereal voice of the blue came slowly from the large light mask of the fist.

Tang Xuan watched Journey to the West since he was a child, and when he grew up, he watched fantasy online texts, and You Long's eyebrows frowned slightly.

"You are the dryad spirit of this tree, and you have not asked the girl for her name. โ€

The light mask tree slowly floated to Tang Xuan's eye level half a meter away.

"My single name is a 'ๆฆฃ'"

Qian Xiaoli bypassed Tang Xuan, holding the light mask tree with both hands and smiling like a flower.

"Huh, this name sounds so good!"

The tree twinkled in the light mask.

"Xiaoli, this name is as beautiful as you are. โ€

Qian Xiaoli's eyebrows curled and she carefully observed the jewel-like tree in her hand.

"Thank you for the compliment, did you just pat my brother Xuan on the shoulder?"

"Hehe, seeing that you are tired, you must have been on the road for a day, fate let you come to my side, for the friendship of the landlord, for you to relax and relax your body. โ€

After the ghostly sound of the tree spirit, tens of thousands of telephone lines appeared on the ground, swaying each other, twisting their waists and limbs to please the four people.

Tang Xuan was so frightened that he grabbed the dagger, ready to fight the tree at any time.

"Friends, don't be nervous, I'm too lonely, too lonely, I haven't met a human for too long, I'm too happy, I want to say hello to everyone and make friends. โ€

Tang Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly, staring at the tree spirit in Qian Xiaoli's hand.

"How old are you, and how long has it been since you've met a human?"

"I don't remember how old it is, but I've seen it ten times. โ€

Tang Xuan's mind remembered the hundred stars alignment, what kind of stalk is it, every thousand years on this continent, a hundred light blue planets will appear in a chain at noon.

Qian Xiaoli opened her cherry mouth widely, and Zhao Tianyi grabbed the back of her head with five paws, trembling her lips.

"10,000 years"

"It's definitely more than 10,000 years old, and I don't know how many winds, frosts, snows and rains I experienced before I was a tree and didn't have my intelligence. โ€

"You all sit, I'll give you a massage. โ€

Tang Xuan looked at the roots of the trees that looked like snakes, and if he broke into his secret parts, goosebumps stood up on his skin, and he was busy swinging his hands.

"No, don't bother the Dryad Girl. โ€

"No hassle"

Zhao Tianyi and the others also politely refused.

"A huge Wuyue forest, you come to me, everything is fate. โ€

"I'd like to ask you to do me a favor. โ€

"I won't make you work in vain. โ€