299. "Demon Forest"

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After a while, nothing unusual happened.

Not a trap attack?

He tilted his head sideways, carried the valley to the place where the reflection had just appeared, and swept the front of the passage to make sure that there was nothing unusual, and then fixed his eyes on the place where the reflection just now.

Another reflection came from the light source, and it turned out to be a pocket watch.

He stepped forward and picked up the watch, which was rusty and he had to break it gently with his hands.

The picture inside is of a little girl and her parents, and the little girl is smiling beautifully. They had pointed ears, but human faces, and a dark blue creature like a puppy lying on their heads.

Pointy-eared people?!

The word came to his mind almost instantaneously, and it seemed that they were right.

He carefully closed the watch and put it away, deciding to speed forward.

Now that there are legendary items related to the Sharp-Eared Clan in this place, it seems that this group did exist and had a rumored period of prosperity.

After analysis, it seems that this passage was undoubtedly excavated during the war.

So the sharp-eared people are not completely extinct? Someone survived and escaped from the Di'an Plateau through this passage, avoiding the pursuit?

In any case, this discovery is already very valuable for this exploration, so there is even more reason to go ahead.

The place where the sharp-eared people live, according to all the information that Yuwen Xuanyu currently has, is the hinterland of the Di'an Plateau, which just coincides with this direction, and it may not be possible that the place pointed by this secret passage leads to the place where their tribe lives.

Moreover, his destination was the far north, and the secret passage was also to the north, so it would not delay his journey.

If you're lucky, you'll be lucky enough to find the remnants of a contract scroll or other item from the Sharp-Eared Clan in the ruins, even better!

The premise is that this secret passage can reach the ruins of the sharp-eared community.

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It was a long and long journey, and they couldn't tell the time underground, even if they were still on the ground.

In short, Yuwen Xuanyu felt that he had been in a hurry for many days, but this passage seemed to have no end, extending infinitely, giving him the feeling that he had entered a corridor of time and space, wandering all the time, unable to get out.

He was already showing a hint of impatience.

Now he was in a dilemma, and in his memory, only every other way, he would find a trace of a pause, and each trace was different, which gave him the feeling that he was constantly moving forward, otherwise he would have thought that he was in the same place in an infinite loop, and then ended up trapped here and died.

This feeling is actually very terrifying, this kind of aimlessness, and he can't even tell whether he is moving forward or not, which makes him feel the bottom of his heart.

He really didn't know how the man who dug this passage managed to hold on. These days, just rushing to the ground is going crazy, not to mention that the man has to dig out the passage.

This feeling is like being locked up, with no concept of time, and there is no other breath of life around except the walls, which is crazy and uncomfortable.

Luckily, the further he went, the more he could see the rest of the place, the more advanced the things that made the light source, and even the scraps of food, and he was more sure that it was an escape passage that stretched out of the hinterland to the outer rim. If it weren't for these things reminding him, I'm afraid he wouldn't have had the strength to hurry, and it would be like falling into an infinite loop.

He analyzed that the "owner" of the excavation passage, when he was in a hurry, constantly tried to reduce the burden on himself, constantly discarding some unnecessary things, and only brought digging tools, food, and light sources.

According to the distance calculation on the road, if this road really leads to the hinterland of the plateau, then the length of this secret road must have exceeded his imagination.

Looking back now, there should have been a lot of bends along the way, but Yuwen Xuan, who was in it, couldn't notice it, and now he wasn't sure if his direction had deviated. There's no point in talking about it anymore.

His mind began to become nervous invisibly, and even a trace of panic appeared at a certain moment, and he began to gradually reduce the frequency of his rest, and hurried blindly with his head down, hoping to leave this evil place as soon as possible.

After several more days of traveling, he noticed that some children's graffiti began to appear on the walls of the secret passage, but he did not stop to examine it carefully, but only glanced at it.

The picture on this is probably the historical story of the sharp-eared people, the historical story that adults orally tell children, there will be some additions or prunings, Yuwen Xuanyu speculated, these should be the masterpieces of the little girl in the pocket watch.

Since there are traces of a child's drawing, it should be accompanied by an adult. Otherwise, it would be impossible for a little girl to dig this passage with her own strength, and there were no traces of corpses along the way, so it seems that there are at least two survivors who escaped successfully.

At this moment, he had already begun to plan for the future, hoping to find the surviving Sharp-Eared Clan.

The Sharp-Eared are powerful enough for a small group to thwart the Daredevil's vast government system, and they are the only humans in the world who have ever had the most intimate activities with the Elves, so they should be more willing to help them fight the Daredevils than the natural elves.

Of course, these are also later words, the world is so big, it is not easy to find them. All he had now was a broken pocket watch.

Yuwen Xuanyu is constantly improving his speed, since it has been determined that this is an escape secret passage built by the Sharp-Eared Clan in order to avoid the pursuit of the Night Demon Clan, it means that there is a high probability that the giant monster will not appear here, and now there is a 90% chance that it is safe here.

After all, so many years have passed since the war, and the Daredevil have all withdrawn from the plateau area, and there are no traces of battle in the secret passage, which means that they are not aware of the existence of this secret passage. In addition, the demon vine also said that in the war, the sharp-eared clan has been completely extinct, that is, this secret passage will not be known by a second person except for the survivors of the war, that is, the "master" who excavated it.

The only possible danger is the elves. After many years, it is possible that some earth elemental spirits will find it here and then live here, but the chances are very small, and there are no similar traces found along the way.

After a little analysis, Yuwen Xuanyu began to accelerate more unscrupulously, he had to find the exit as soon as possible, otherwise he might really be driven crazy.

At the beginning of the secret passage in the future, it will extend straight, and there will be no more bends, at least in Yuwen Xuanxuan's thoughts and vision.

The road was smooth, and after about four or five days of traveling, a white dot finally lit up in front of me.

It's a light source!

It should be that the exit is almost there. No, it's almost the entrance.

The closer he got, the brighter the light became, as if he saw hope, and Yuwen Xuanyu was a little excited.

As he got closer, he began to slow down.

By the time the naked eye could fully see the entire hole, he had completely stopped and began to move slowly against the wall.

Blue light flashed, and a curtain of water fell above his head, and his figure vanished.

This is illusion stealth, a long-lost skill, and it's really easy to use.

He walked slowly to the entrance of the cave and found that there was a large underground space outside, like a crypt.

There are many entrances to the space like this secret passage, which stretch far away, and a beautiful box hangs on the edge of each hole.

These boxes are exactly where the light source is, and the boxes seem to have been specially processed, and it is not difficult to see that the contents inside are the rich spiritual power elements floating in the sky on the ground.

The Di'an Plateau is covered by huge black clouds all year round, and there is no daylight time, and all the light sources in the area are supplied by elemental particles scattered in mid-air.

I can't imagine that someone can collect these floating elements in the air in a special way and use them as a light source.

This crypt is like a central area, connecting all the secret passages. In addition, the most in the whole space are vines, all kinds of vines are staggered, crawling everywhere, and some of them also extend into the secret passages, which is very lush.

"Wouldn't it? Could it be that there are so many Spiky Ear people who survived? they all scattered and fled?" Yu Wen Xuanyu looked at these secret passages a little distracted, and didn't know what to do for a while.

"Don't worry about these for now, why don't you care how many of them survive, you look at this. There was plenty of light here, and there was no need for a light source from the valley, so he flapped his ears and flew up, and the illusion shadow body was canceled due to his distance.

The valley circled around the top, where there was a protruding cylindrical stone building, which should have sunk down from the ground.

The entire cylinder was also wrapped in vines.

"Look at this vine, it didn't appear all the way just now, and it wasn't until here that a whole bunch of them appeared. This place can't really be occupied by that monster, right?" Gu Li tiptoed back to Yuwen Xuan's side, trying not to make too much noise.

"Probably not, if that monster was nearby, we should be able to sense it. Along the way, I didn't have the same feeling as last time, and there was no trace of monster movement on the ground, so that guy shouldn't be here. ”

Yuwen Xuanyu said as he squatted down and broke the vines at his feet, "Don't worry, these vines should just be ordinary plants that want to take root and absorb water, so they have grown like this." ”

As he spoke, he walked in the direction of the other passages, and looked at them all.

"These vines are here and there's no sign of vine growth in all the passages. There should be a plant that is more than 10,000 years old. If it can grow like this, maybe this ground is a treasure land, and it is very likely that some community is stationed. Let's split up and see if we can find the mechanism to go up?"

"Look no further, your analysis should be correct. Tanari stared at the column for a long time before saying, "I think I think I've found that mechanism." It seems that the Sharp-Eared Clan should use a special kind of enchantment to completely isolate the contents on both sides of the enchantment. ”

Tanari pointed to the cylinder above and said, "The bottom of that column is the passage to go up, but there is water on it, but this water will not fall, just like the entrance when we entered, I think it must be the exit hidden by the barrier." ”

"Is there water?" Yu Wenxuan looked at it for a while and said, "You mean to say that this cylinder, it's a well?"

"Yes! It should be a well!"

"Okay, let's go over and have a look. Saying that, Yuwen Xuanyu flicked the bracelet on his wrist, the jade bow appeared, and the blue light condensed from the string.

The green light departed, and the remnant of the wind activated.

It was just a moment of respite, his body was easily repositioned by the green light, and he reached out to touch the bottom of the column, condensing his spiritual power in his hand and infusing it into the stone brick.

Sure enough, in the next second, a huge suction force came from inside the stone brick, and he was pulled into it fiercely.

Grunt.

Breathing was blocked almost instantaneously, the air was withdrawn and it was impossible to breathe. Sure enough, it was a well, and Yuwen Xuanyu was now trapped in the water.

With his eyes half-squinted, he pulled the jade bow again and shot upwards, and the Remnant of the Wind activated again, and his body disappeared into the water, appearing in mid-air.

At this moment, his body trembled, and a huge sense of crisis attacked him without warning.

Before he could react to what was going on, his body was knocked out by a strange force.

Seeing this scene, Gu Li, who followed closely, hurriedly lay on the wall of the well with his breath, not daring to move or make a sound.

In less than half a second,

Bang!

A loud bang came, and Yuwen Xuanyu was beaten into the ground.

"Damn, who is it?!" His reaction was also extremely fast, the defensive ice that had been urgently generated on his back had been shattered, and he struggled to get up and immediately went to find the enemy.

Soon, a wooden man came into his field of vision!

Cold sweat soaked my back invisibly.

He had seen this kind of wooden man before, it was in the Sword Tomb Illusion Realm, the puppet she summoned when dealing with Tianen!

Why is this stuff here?!

Is there a puppeteer nearby? And an old-timer-level puppeteer!

It stands to reason that the guy who is manipulating it should not be far away, otherwise the puppet would not have reacted and attacked from the moment he appeared in the well. He was about to look around to see if there was anything else in his body, when the wooden man got started, and it raised its right arm behind him, and in this position rushed towards it.

At this moment, Yu Wen Xuan's eyes widened!

This posture! This trick! He couldn't be more familiar with it!

It's an air mortar!!

"Won't it?"

Why does it use the same moves I used to make?

He knew the power of this move.

"Don't succeed!" Yu Wenxuan gritted his teeth, and pulling the bowstring was a one-hit elemental shot.

A flash of green light flashed, and with the powerful penetration and speed of the wind elemental, before the wooden man could dodge, its right arm was shot off in the blink of an eye.

It stopped, but it didn't seem to feel any pain on it, and it fell to its knees, slapping its left palm on the ground.

The palm came out, and a circle of turquoise formations turned.

This pose?!

"Wouldn't it?

In less than half a second, the same formation appeared under his feet.

Shh

Yu Wenxuan gritted his teeth, exerted force under his feet, bounced up, shook the jade bow in his hand, and turned into a jade sword.

He swung his sword down.

Just as the huge water column burst out, it was diverted by the jade sword, and after the water column touched the tip of the sword, it was all frozen into icicles, and it branched off on both sides of Yuwen Xuan's tree.

Until the entire column of water was completely frozen, he stood at the fork of the column and stared at the wooden man.

The wooden man shook his body and continued to rush towards him with his feet in a galloping stride.

"Bastard!" Yuwen Xuanyu was really annoyed, this wooden man had been imitating his moves.

Although he didn't know what was going on, his intuition told him that it was not a good sign.

The jade sword in his hand was transformed into a bow again.

The bow was wound, and the ice-blue arrows were stored.

"Guri! ”

"Good ......" Hearing the call, Gu Li hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed, and he quickly flew out of the well with his ears fanned.

Soon he found the two sides of the confrontation, he spread his hands and stretched out his hand at the wooden figure, and a dark blue circle appeared in front of his palm.

The water dragon was activated, and small water jets gushed out from the formation.

This amount of water is not destructive, but it is enough!

The small column of water silently struck the wooden man, and since it could not feel the murderous aura and destructive power, it was unmoved!

Yu Wenxuan smiled disdainfully, a puppet is a puppet after all, without the ability to think and react concretely, just like an idiot.

He released the string, and the ice-blue arrow-like energy drew an ice ray and hit the wooden man accurately, and the ice-colored energy passed through the wooden man, and almost instantly, the water stains on the entire wooden man's body were frozen, and finally turned into an ice sculpture and stood in place.

Yuwen Xuanyu didn't want to destroy it, this guy was too weird, not to mention why there was a puppet in this place, just because it would use the skills it used to have, it was already too incredible.

There was no way this thing would appear here out of thin air, and he wanted to find some clues from this wooden man.

"What is this?" said the valley as it approached cautiously when it saw it for the first time.

"It should be a puppet, I've seen it in the Sword Spirit Illusion Realm. According to Tian'en's predecessors, this is a puppet manipulation technique that only the older generation of puppeteers use. Yuwen Xuanyu walked around the wooden man, and found that the place on the back of its head was engraved with a spell, which should be the source of this wooden man.

"This, isn't this chanting magic?" Guri recognized this spell at a glance, derived from the chanting magic of the Yuwen family.

Yuwen Xuanyu was not too surprised by this, and seemed to have an answer in his heart.

"Heh, it turned out to be the Lord of the Thousand Hands Alliance, it seems that he is also looking for something on this plateau......" Yuwen Xuanyu fell into deep thought, "If you guess correctly, they should have also received the news, and they are looking for Jayne! Otherwise, they are looking for me......"

Thinking far away, of course, entering the Di'an Plateau, only Jasmine, who is traveling with her, knows that the leader of the Thousand Hands Alliance should not be aware of it, after all, she has disappeared in this world for a long time, and there have been certain changes in both her appearance and temperament.

Unless he also planted eyeliner on the plateau, but it was impossible to find himself so quickly, in this case, the target of the Thousand Hands Alliance Lord could only be Jayne!

Gu Li didn't know what the former was analyzing in his heart, and asked, "How do you know that they are looking for Jayne or you?"

"Because the leader of the Thousand Hands Alliance killed Xiao Feng to death! In order to get the power of the spiritual wind from Xiao Feng, he captured him alive, and then extracted the power of the spiritual wind from Xiao Feng's body through a special method...... But in the end, he didn't succeed, Xiao Feng broke free from his control in order to save me, and now his whereabouts are unknown. However, Jayne's true identity is another small seal in the parallel time and space, so the leader of the Thousand Hands Alliance must find him. In the same way, I also have the power of the spiritual wind, so he may be looking for me. It's just that the power of the spiritual wind in my body is not pure, so he took Xiao Feng away at the beginning, instead of taking me away. ”

"Of course, even if he wasn't interested in the power within me, he had another reason why he had to destroy me. In a world, only one Yuwen Xuan is enough...... Or rather, what was he afraid of. Yu Wenxuan clenched his fists and sighed after a long time before he relaxed his body.

He walked away around the wooden man, "This thing can't be destroyed for the time being, or it will reveal our whereabouts." Although the goal of the Thousand Hands Alliance Lord is not necessarily us, we are definitely an obstacle that he must remove as soon as possible, and now that you are here, if I were him, I would definitely nip us in the bud before our strength grows!"

After looking around, Yu Wenxuan rushed towards the rhizome that was exposed on the ground under a huge tree, this stem was very huge, as tall as four or five people, it was a relatively safe place for him, and after reconfirming that the danger was temporarily removed, the two of them finally had time to observe the terrain of this place.

The wellhead they came out of seemed to be in the middle of the entire region, and it was very conspicuous.

This place can be said to be an entire architectural structure that only exists in the rumored fairy forest, and all the buildings are built on giant trees.

Everywhere there are towering green giant trees, and all the things and structures that can be used every day are built on top of trees, and it is a vast forest system with lush vegetation and various vines and branches that are intertwined and spread all over the land.

There is also a hanging spring in the middle of the air, and the rippling water continues to refract the light of the Dao, which is a bit quiet and comfortable.

If you look closely, you can see that the spring is actually wrapped in transparent plants that are connected by vines to the thick trunks of the surrounding trees.

The buildings on the giant trees look a little dilapidated and lifeless, but these dilapidated buildings have only evolved over the years, and on the whole, they give people the feeling that they have not been damaged or looted by the war, which is a bit out of place with the scene of corpses everywhere.

The scattered bones are a clear indication that a huge war has broken out in this place, and judging by some of the preserved skeleton features, they must be the victims of the Sharp-Eared and Daredevils.

Since this was the main battlefield of the war, why did all these buildings not show any signs of destruction?

Could it be that their fights are like children playing at home?

Yuwen Xuanyu was amused by this idea of his own, how could the battle that could exterminate a race be only to this extent? It seemed that the mystery of this sharp-eared clan, as well as the mystery of their territory, was beyond his imagination. However, for him, these are no longer traceable, he is not a professional scientific researcher, he cannot deduce and reproduce the scene from small things, and there is no relevant literature and historical record knowledge to analyze these strange situations.

He has never been an inkblot person, and since it is something that he cannot explore, there is naturally no need to continue to delve into it and add to his distress.

He didn't have that much time, and now was not the time to delay for too long.

After confirming once again that there were no other dangers here, Yuwen Xuanyu paused, and the rush these days had consumed a lot of physical strength. They had already penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Di'an Plateau, and they didn't know what they would encounter later, and from now on, he had to keep himself in the best condition at all times.

The raid just now was indeed careless, if it weren't for his strong body, if he didn't lose a piece of flesh, at least he would have lost a layer of skin. He vaguely remembered that the moment the wooden puppet attacked him, the Fire Separation Purgatory Armor in his body activated its own defenses, and quickly condensed a large amount of elemental power in his abdomen, which alleviated the force of that blow.

It seems that a high-quality puppet armor can help the puppeteer master is also relative. Yuwen Xuanyu is very clear, this Fire Purgatory Armor is forging various functions in his body almost all the time, and now he is not an ordinary anti-beating!

The silent forest, I don't know how many years I haven't stepped into the human tracks.

This kind of pure place is supposed to be the habitat of many creatures, but after a cursory inspection, it is found that there are no living forms here, including small insects.

It's just too weird.

Legend has it that although the Sharp-Eared people are in seclusion, they are far more than isolated from the world, and more importantly, except for some simple daily necessities that have been dilapidated, nothing else has been found in these tree buildings that can record or prove anything about the Sharp-Eared people.

Could it be that this "fairy forest" has many secret rooms that are invisible to the naked eye? Like the secret passage under the bottom of the well, all the confidential documents and records are hidden in the secret room?

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