Chapter 20: Into the Phantom Forest
Along the way, the people of the Bai family did not come to disturb, and Bai Liangqiu did not come to Puyu again. It seems that the symptoms are temporarily suppressed. In this way, when the sun was about to set, the group finally arrived at the city "Phantom Forest Town" around the Phantom Forest, and except for a few small fights with wild beasts along the way, they did not encounter the situation of the man in black before.
"Prince Puyu has arrived, are you with us or..." The carriage slowly stopped, and Bai Liangqiu's voice came from outside the car.
"If you are not familiar with life, you naturally have to rely on Bai Guliang. After getting out of the car, Pu Yu hugged her fists and expressed her meaning.
"Okay, then Prince Puyu will come with us later. Yueyue's symptoms are also temporarily stable, thanks to the pills of Prince Puyu. Bai Liangqiu solemnly bowed to Pu Yu and his party.
"It's okay! Pu Yu also talked more and went back to the car. The carriage slowly headed for the place where the night would live.
"Xiaoqing, don't you feel anything!" Pu Yu looked at the scenery outside the window, it was a very ordinary town construction, most of the people on the street were people who wanted to participate in the four courtyards, and some trees were scattered among them, adding a bit of novelty.
"Well, the surrounding trees are not ordinary ornamental trees, at least they are spirit trees of several hundred years. Xiaoqing pointed to the big tree in the center of the town.
"This tree is a thousand-year-old phantom tree, it can't be wrong, no one should be good at this kind of thing. Xiaoqing said with an oath.
"Well, I'm afraid this exam is not as simple as before, the last time I came, the trees here didn't give me such a feeling, this change seems to be artificial! My intuition tells me that this is a conspiracy, and it is likely to have something to do with the man in black before. I'll investigate it later, and you take Xiao Huaichun directly back to the hotel. Pu Yu's face was solemn, and she fell into deep thought, as if she was recalling something.
"After a while, if Bai Liangqiu asks, he will say that I will purchase some things, and don't reveal my whereabouts for the time being. After saying that, Pu Yu walked out of the carriage alone and ran towards the door that he had just passed.
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"My lord, it's almost all arranged, just wait for the spirits who came to apply for the four courtyards to be caught on their own, and the rest will be left to their own devices. "Place the last purple hedron behind a tree in Phantom Forest. Several men in black also quickly left, heading out of town.
After a while, an ordinary tree gradually began to grow, and slowly there were faint purple lines on the leaves.
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Pu Yu came to the door and observed the trees at every moment, ripped off a piece of their leaves and put them in the horoscope, ready to take them back and test them one by one.
Soon, Pu Yu came to the center of the town, and Pu Yu sat casually under the thousand-year-old tree that Xiaoqing had said, grabbed a little of its soil and put it into the life chart. After finishing his work, he was about to return to the tavern when he suddenly saw a group of people in the center of town.
"Oh! At this moment, the people of the Zhao family were talking and laughing with another group of people, and walked into the nearest hotel together. The hotel is next door to the white family's residence.
Pu Yu quickly returned to the house through the message left by Xiaoqing. Sitting at the table, he took out the leaves collected from the entrance of the town and covered them with a white cloth, but the results that emerged were only ordinary leaves of the corresponding year. Finally, place the soil on the table and cover it with a white cloth.
"Phantom Crystal Soil, soil contaminated with purple phantom stones, trees will evolve into phantom trees in a short period of time, emitting phantom qi. ”
"Damn, that's it. Xiaoqing, do you know this thing?" Pu Yu handed the white cloth to Xiaoqing.
"I know, this is the soil cultivated by the Phantom Tree, where did you find it, did you go to the Phantom Forest?"
"This soil I brought from the center of town, these leaves are other leaves in the town, would you like to see it too? ”
Xiaoqing picked up the leaves and stretched out a rattan to cover the leaves. Gradually, the leaves and rattans are connected to each other, and they all emit a faint purple color. Soon, the purple color gradually faded, and Xiaoqing retracted the rattan. Look at Pu Yu.
"Well, that's right, these are obviously mutated by the influence of the Purple Phantom Stone. But things like Purple Phantom Stones are rare, and they are generally distributed around the Refining Domain, so they won't..."
"Well, I think so too, but this place is so far away from the refining realm, and the possibility is very small, so it should be produced elsewhere, but it is not ruled out. At this time, don't spread the word for now, and let me know as soon as you find out about the illusion...."
"Boom... Knock....knock" There was a knock at the door.
"Prince Puyu, come to the conference hall, we are ready to discuss the plan for the Phantom Forest. A voice outside the door interrupted Pu Yu and Xiaoqing's discussion. After getting up, Pu Yu gave all the leaves and soil to Xiaoqing for safekeeping, and went out to the conference hall by himself.
With Pu Yu entering, everyone basically arrived, in addition to the Bai family, there were two other families, and the group was the Zhao family, and the other was the group of people who I saw talking to the Zhao family in the afternoon. The Zhao family obviously didn't know Pu Yu after being confused by Xiaoqing Phantom Mist, and they all looked at Bai Liangqiu and waited for his introduction.
"This is Prince Puyu, who is going to the four courtyards with us this time. Bai Liangqiu was worried about what conflict the Zhao family would have when they saw Pu Yu joining, but fortunately, there was no problem at present. Bai Liangqiu obviously didn't know that the Zhao family's memories were manipulated by Pu Yu.
The meeting was finally over, and Pu Yu immediately left the conference hall, looking at the scalps of the people who stayed behind and were still discussing enthusiastically, it was really difficult to hold a meeting.
Pu Yu also learned that he also cooperated with a family, the Wang family. is also the same as Bai Liangqiu's situation, he sent the younger generation to the four courtyards. Pu Yu didn't pay much attention to the rest of the matters, anyway, the soldiers came to cover the party, and the water came to cover the earth.
After returning to the room, Pu Yu threw herself into bed and fell asleep. Outside the window, the transmission cat flew into the distance.
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At night, at the entrance of the Phantom Forest, the black-clothed people who appeared during the day gathered together.
"Now act separately, activate the phantom tree in the city, and then find a few targets this time, follow them into the phantom forest, remember not to do it in advance, to avoid startling the snake, so as not to be detected by the old monsters in the four courtyards. Action!" several black shadows immediately dispersed, flying in all directions of the town.
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In the spiritual courtyard of the four courtyards, two figures stood on top of an upper peak.
"There are some people who are ready to make a move this time, you go to the three major bends and always pay attention, don't interfere easily if you don't break the rules, and find out who it is by the way. Go ahead, keep you informed of anything. ”
"Yes!
"It's going to be a mess. Looking at the transmission in his hand, the figure on the top of the mountain disappeared, and the breeze blew by.
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After getting up, I cleaned up briefly and set off towards the Phantom Forest. Unconsciously, the surrounding trees were emitting a faint purple aura.
The twelve walked towards the entrance of the Phantom Forest, and soon reached the entrance and walked in. After a while, the entrance disappeared, and another entrance appeared not far away, and another entrance entered through another entrance, and so on.
"Boss, this shouldn't be the real route of ours, we started the wrong route, we are almost a few hundred meters away from the right road, now you see how to do it. Xiaoqing protected Xiao Huaichun while transmitting the message to Puyu.
"Well, we can only follow the people of the Bai family first, it would be too abrupt to leave directly. And we can help if we can. ”
"Be careful, we may already be in the illusion at this time, we will follow the illusion, and we may be able to get out in two hours at most. "The phantom disk that Bai Liangqiu took out can be exchanged for spiritual points in the four courtyards, and it has a guiding effect on the illusion. This also cost Bai Liangqiu a lot of spiritual points.
Everyone followed Bai Liangqiu for two hours, and gradually discovered that something was wrong, they had obviously been here before. Everyone is also getting irritable at the moment because of the passage of time. And Pu Yu has been silently following behind everyone to listen to Xiaoqing's perception of this place, at this moment they are actually only a few dozen meters away from the real exit, but this is the time when they can't open their legs.
At this time, a group of people who set off earlier than the Bai family and his party also encountered such a situation, and the team leaders were very confused. But soon, when he saw the exit, a group of people ran towards the exit, and after a while, all the people except the spirit died at the exit, and the person with the spirit body was taken away by the man in black, unknown life and death.
After resting for a while, the Bai family continued to walk according to the instructions of the phantom disk, and the farther they walked, the farther away they were from the real exit. Gradually, they came to the place where they had been killed.
"The exit has arrived. The leader of the Wang family looked at the exit and ran directly there, wanting to escape quickly. Before Pu Yu could remind him, the people of the Wang family rushed out. The result was the same, except for the child of the Wang family, the rest of the people all died inexplicably at the exit. Pu Yu was also taken aback when she saw this, she did such a desperate job. The Bai family and the Zhao family were also stunned by the situation in front of them. Although the Phantom Forest is not a safe place, over the years, very few people have died in the Phantom Forest.
Suddenly, three black shadows appeared behind him, attacking three groups of people respectively, Pu Yu and Xiaoqing had already noticed it, and directly sucked in their backhands, and Xiaoqing quickly pulled the other two families to his side. The three men in black were frozen in the air.
"White girl, take the spirit of the Wang family, you take it first. After speaking, Pu Yu rushed to the three black-clothed people who were fixed without hesitation, although they were all at the peak of Yuanying, but they were still too far behind Xiao Qing Puyu. Pu Yu directly turned his right hand into a claw and tore the dantian of the three of them to prevent the explosion they had encountered before. After doing all this, he quickly returned to Xiaoqing's side.
"Someone actually saw through it, presumably my second brother and third brother were killed by you!" Dozens of black-clothed people came out of the exit one after another, and the spirit of the Wang family was collected by them in a container, and Bai Liangqiu was also captured by them and fell unconscious.
"You're the one behind the scenes?" Pu Yu looked at the person in front of her with open eyes.
"Behind the scenes? Looks like you know a lot! Tell me what else you know. If you know more, you may lose your head. ”
A man in black walked out carrying Bai Liangqiu, threw it casually, and looked at Pu Yu and the others.