A touch of morning light pierced the darkness outside the sky, and the earth was once again shrouded in light, and on the land outside the giant city, countless flowers and trees were sprouting, as if the destruction of the battle had not affected them at all. It's a thriving scene that is heartening and thankful to see that no matter how bad we have been, this land has not taken those bad deeds to heart.

Although he only rested for a short time last night, Fei Wuxian already felt very satisfied, after all, it was eventful. After moving his body, Fei Wuxian walked to the stone table in the courtyard and sat down, reached out, took out a pot of tea, and poured himself a cup. After taking a sip of it comfortably, Fei Wuxian suddenly felt a sense of peace in his heart.

"Whew!"

With a breath, Fei Wuxian closed his eyes and began to think about what to do next.

......

Empty and desolate desert, as far as the eye can see, there is only a flat desert. The low sky also seemed to be covered with dust, with a yellow-brown color that could never fade, illuminating the dry dead grass.

In such a place, there are also villages and people. It's unimaginable, but so is their poverty.

It was also part of the Celestial Star Dynasty, where water conservancy was repaired, towns were renovated, and it was once built as a peaceful countryside. But the dynasty will always decline, since the death of the first three emperors of the Celestial Star, the Celestial Star Dynasty has been divided and constantly struggling, so the waterways have long dried up, and the land system has been left unmanaged for a long time, but the peasants continue to live in this place only because of habit. The harvest of the mulberry orchard is getting worse and worse every year, and the annual rent owed by the peasants is getting more and more in arrears, and finally it becomes abject poverty from which they cannot escape, and it is almost the inevitable fate of everyone to sell themselves into slavery and become slaves who are worse than cattle.

Even though life has been so difficult, no one has left their hometown.

It seems to be a kind of inertia.

Yun Yinkong led the county lord Wei Yu and Chan'er through the dilapidated village, although there were still people in the cracked field who were hoeing the soil, there were only a few people, but when the three of them ran to the mountains and forests, and came to the wilderness behind the village, they saw that most of the people had gathered here.

From a distance, in the midst of thousands of heads, sporadic smoke rose from the cracks of people, and many people held incense in both hands, bowed to the front, and kept muttering words in their mouths. More villagers gathered around a towering tree, looking up and not knowing what they were looking at.

The giant tree was wide and hugged by ten people, and at the bottom of the intertwined roots, there were protruding or concave nodules everywhere, some of which were as huge as a carriage, and some of which were raised like derived warts, and only then did some branches grow horizontally at a height of more than ten zhang. As far as the eye could see, there was only a black dot towering into the sky, and there was no way to know how tall the giant tree was.

Yun Yin was frightened, and secretly thought: What are these foolish people doing surrounding the Zhitian Tree? So he pulled a middle-aged man and asked, "What are you doing here?" Why are you surrounding this giant tree?"

The man looked at Yun Yinkong a few times before he said, "Little brother, you are from out of town, haven't you heard of the deeds of this demon tree?"

Yun Yinkong shook his head, and Chan'er and Wei Yu County Lord, who followed him, also shook their heads, none of them had heard of any deeds of the demon tree. The middle-aged man and everyone around him were a little disappointed when they saw that the clouds were empty, but they were even more enthusiastic:

"This demon tree suddenly flew here a few years ago, and the sky is about to fall into disaster. ”

"There are often bones under the trees, don't you think it's scary?"

"I've heard the heads of people under the trees talk, it's terrifying......"

Some people even said: "This tree is definitely a demon tree, it specializes in killing people, sucking people's blood and essence, and the tree demon will turn into a human form if it kills a hundred people!"

Hearing these people say this, Yun Yinkong also understood what was going on, so he looked at Chan'er, and Chan'er also looked at him, with a clear smile in his eyes, which made Yun Yinkong feel a little shy and embarrassed, and couldn't help touching his head, looking a little cute.

"Hee-hee, I know you want to go and see, then go ahead, we'll wait for you here. ”

Chan'er covered her mouth and chuckled and said, her tone full of ridicule.

With Chan'er's consent, Yun Yinkong silently swam into the crowd with light skills, and quickly slid to the front. Only then did I see that inside the human wall, a seven-star altar had been built under the tree, and a Taoist priest with hair was wielding a peachwood sword, ringing the bell, shaking his head and chanting the scriptures.

"One invites the heavenly soldiers, the other invites the earth spirits, the three people are prosperous, and the four evil spirits are extinct...... the Taoist priest sprayed rice wine, and the talisman on the wooden sword burned with a bang, and the people shouted loudly, and they worshiped the five bodies to the ground.

"Duh! The tree demon must not mess with my palace, and now I will detain you and go to see the old gentleman, who is sick like a law, accept it!"

The Taoist priest waved his sword, pasted many yellow talismans on the tree, and turned his head to the crowd: "Fellow villagers, the demons in this tree have been detained by me, and after three hours, the demon soul will be cleaned, and then this tree can be cut down, and the territory will be peaceful from now on." ”

Everyone cheered with relief and shouted, "Master Tongtian, you are really strong in mana!"

"Master Bao Tranquility, please receive offerings from the devotees. ”

"Mage, Mage......"

The Taoist priest proudly stroked the two whiskers on his lips, and proudly walked down the Seven Star Altar, and everyone automatically separated the two sides and saw him off.

Yun Yinkong couldn't help but laugh secretly after hearing this, and then said: "Don't listen to him, whoever comes to cut down the tree in three hours will die!"

Everyone was silent, and in a terrible dead silence, Master Tongtian looked at Yun Yinkong angrily, seeing that Yun Yinkong was gorgeously dressed, and the person was not like a mortal, he had a little scruple in his heart, and after thinking for a while, he sneered: "This friend, how to call it?"

Yun Yinkong smiled: "You are not qualified to ask my name, a bluff like you, who does not know whether to live or die, just look for death by yourself, why do you have to lie to people and send them to death after three hours?"

Someone shouted, "What do you mean by that?"

"Are you saying the dryad hasn't been taken in yet?"

Master Tongtian also said angrily: "I have detained the tree demon, and after three hours, I will be able to completely dissolve the evil spirit, who are you demons, who are you here to slander my Taoism! Could it be that you are in league with this demon tree?"

After hearing this, Yun Yinkong laughed and said: "Hahahaha, you are really humorous, if you are really sure, you will personally cut down this tree, do you dare?"

The Taoist priest said, "Why don't you dare, if I can cut down this tree, what will you do?"

"Whatever you want. ”

"Very well, if I can't do it......"

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Yun Yinkong sneered: "You don't have to make a gambling curse, in short, you will never be able to do it, and you will bury the dog's life!"

Master Tongtian was so angry that his beard stood on end, and he said sharply: "Wait until I immediately turn into a dryad and open your eyes!"

"Hahaha...... Do you have too long to live even three more hours?"

This only made Master Tongtian more unconvinced, he shook his sleeves heavily, re-ascended the high altar, and called, "Open the altar!"

The two blue-clothed children immediately rearranged everything, Yun Yinkong sneered silently, and watched under the altar.

Master Tongtian burned incense and offered paper, and he made a great work, and Yun Yinkong was bored to watch, but he could only endure it.

Master Tongtian spilled out many yellow talismans, chanted words, shouted violently, pushed out with both palms, and the paper talisman caught fire at the same time, sparks fell in mid-air, and everyone in the audience exclaimed, and they worshipped.

This Taoist priest has changed again and again, it is all a trick to get angry in the air, and Yun Yinkong is funny to watch. In fact, with a little star power cultivation, you can do it to burn paper in the air, but this Taoist priest doesn't even have this star power, it is purely the result of yellow phosphorus dipped in his fingernails and flicked out, you can imagine how weak this Taoist priest is. But just these three tricks and two styles can bluff the foolish people, which really makes Yun Yinkong not know how to feel.

Master Tongtian shouted: "Fire attacks evil spirits, refining demons, collect!"

As he spoke, he raised the real sword that was on the side and swung it towards the tree.

The silver light flashed, and the fire rune paper had not yet fallen, and there were a few knocks, and several heads rolled down the Seven Star Altar.

Everyone shouted and screamed in amazement, and the head of Master Tongtian was still reading: "Receive, receive, receive......"

At this time, the body that raised his sword on the altar and wanted to swing it fell down with a "bump" to the ground.

The two boys, too, were separated from their heads and fell to one side.

The villagers screamed and dispersed.

In the blink of an eye, there was no one under the tree of the sky, only dust and smoke curling on the ground.

In the distance, Chan'er and Wei Yu saw that the villagers were scattered, and they were surprised in their hearts, so they moved their feet and quickly came to Yun Yinkong's side, and asked, "Brother Kong, what happened here? Why did they all run away." ”

"If you look at what's on the ground under the tree, you can see why those people are running away. ”

Yun Yinkong did not directly answer Chan'er's question, but pointed to the corpse of the Tongtian mage under the tree. Chan'er looked in the direction of Yun Yinkong's finger, and when she landed, she saw the corpses of Master Tongtian and the two little boys under him, blood spilled all over the ground, coupled with the hideous appearance of Uncle Tongtian's roots, it was indeed a little terrifying.

"No wonder the villagers ran away. ”

Chan'er nodded, and then asked, "Then why is this?"