"Huh?"

"It's... Delusion?"

Ying Xuan couldn't help but murmur inexplicably.

Stunned, he approached the old tree with a strange expression, but what he saw was just an ordinary tree, and there seemed to be nothing peculiar.

If I had to find anything out of the ordinary, it would only be that this tree was unusually old compared to the other trees on the side, and the bark was dry and estimated to fall off immediately after touching it, but surprisingly, the dead branches and leaves of this tree were still firmly hanging on the branches.

Ying Xuan felt very strange, the old tree in front of him was obviously old and almost dead, but it was still full of leaves, with curiosity, Ying Xuan couldn't help but reach out and touch it gently.

The moment his hand just touched the old tree, Ying Xuan subconsciously made a shadow and instantaneous step, flashed back, and at the same time, his right hand also quickly pulled out the glaive on his waist and blocked it in front of him, his eyes staring at the old tree not far away, looking like a vigilant look of facing a great enemy.

The old tree, which seems to be extremely rough old skin, has no roughness to the touch, but the touch is like... Like human skin.

"Oh, that's interesting. ”

Shadow Xuan held the glaive tightly, and ran towards the strange old tree in an instant, and when he came to the old tree, he jumped up with a step, slammed on the trunk, and jumped up again quickly, and immediately grabbed the glaive and slashed forward the moment it fell.

With the rapid fall of Ying Xuan, the glaive in his hand also went all the way down in the swaying and shining arc of light, leaving an incomparably narrow opening in the trunk of the old tree.

Poof-smack!

The knife marks and cuts, which had not changed in the slightest, instantly spewed out a blood-red rich liquid as Ying Xuan quickly retracted the knife.

The blood-colored liquid squirted out suddenly, and he was so frightened that he stretched out his head and just wanted to approach the narrow opening to look at it carefully, and the glaive in his hand almost came out of his hand, and he quickly dodged and ran away in an instant.

Even though it was already far away, Ying Xuan could still clearly smell the strong fishy stench that was still constantly spewing out of the rich blood-red liquid.

In the Canglan Empire, I have never heard of a tree being stabbed and spurting blood.

Although there are also plant-based beasts such as green vine dryads in the fierce beast forest, when they slash it, they usually only spew green juice from their bodies, and they have never heard of this kind of old dryad that can spew blood!

For a long time, the wound of the old dryad was still bleeding slowly, but compared to the amount of violent spraying after his knife at the beginning, it seemed much slower now, and it was estimated that it was about to run out.

"It's strange, I've never seen this kind of dryad before. ”

With a heart full of doubts, Shadow Xuan held the glaive and slowly walked back to the old dryad that was still bleeding slowly.

Since this old dryad can be different from other plant-based beasts such as the green vine dryad in the fierce beast forest, it means that the level should not be low.

It may even be a mid-level or high-level overlord-level beast, but I don't know why it died here for no reason.

Moreover, looking at the appearance of this old dryad, there is not a trace of energy fluctuations in the whole body, it seems to be the wooden core in the body that stores the mysterious power, and the energy in it has been completely sucked dry by something.

"Judging by the blood spurting out, it seems to be ......"

Thinking of this, Ying Xuan suddenly became vigilant again, clenching the glaive in his hand and looking around.

He reacted at this time, as if the moment he approached the old dryad and reached out to touch it, the feeling of his hand was not as cold as a corpse that had been dead for a long time, but with a trace of flexible warmth.

Looking at the blood gushing out of the old dryad, the color is only slightly dim, which doesn't look like it's been dead for a long time.

"Not long after I died, it should have been no more than a day, and it seems that I still died unconsciously. ”

Ying Xuan muttered to himself unconsciously.

He looked around, hoping to find any clues, but unfortunately there was nothing suspicious around.

Looking at the dead branches and leaves hanging on the old dryad's body and leaving no traces, it is obvious that there is no large-scale battle, and maybe even before the battle starts, this old dryad was unknowingly killed by the enemy.

One last glance at the corpse of the old dryad that had begun to bleed intermittently, Ying Xuan turned around and muttered in confusion as he walked: "What could it be to kill such an existential dryad unconsciously?"

"And it only took the wood core from the dryad's body, and the corpse did not move at all, and there was no damage... Perhaps, that thing is still around. ”

"Oh, I'm going to see what it is. ”

Thinking of this, Ying Xuan did not choose to return the same way to leave the beast forest because of the power of the mysterious thing, but secretly made up his mind and decided to take a look.

He carried the glaive and continued to run briskly towards the end of the trail.

Not long after Shadow Xuan's figure left here, a gust of wind blew from nowhere around the old dryad, which had just fallen silent, and then a black figure came out of the old dryad's body that was still dripping with a few bloods.

The black figure lay on the old dryad and couldn't see the specific form, what kind of creature it should be, with a twist of the body, it revealed an incomparably hideous and terrifying face, blood-red eyes greedily looked at the figure of the shadow in the distance, revealing a trace of a mad smile, for a long time, finally let out a strange sound and a terrible smile.

"Good~ delicious smell!"

"Another one, ......

The figure twisted violently again, and disappeared in place in an instant like a whirlwind.

The old dryad that was still dripping blood and the large pool of blood stains that had gradually solidified on the ground also disappeared without a trace as the black wind passed quickly.

It's business as usual.

Shadow Xuan ran and ran, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

He stopped abruptly, shook the glaive in his hand in front of him, and quickly turned back.

"Huh?"

The path behind him was still empty and empty.

"Just... I feel like something is approaching me..."

"Is that the thing?"

Ying Xuan looked around with a solemn face, and muttered softly.

He had just felt something right behind him.

But if it's really that thing, it doesn't seem like there's any need to hide, after all, it's the kind of existence that can quietly kill the old dryad, and it shouldn't be too difficult to deal with a cultivator like himself.

Ying Xuan felt more and more bizarre and weird in the fierce beast forest, at first he couldn't see the middle and high-level fierce beasts, and then he happened to encounter a bloodthirsty poisonous spider at the level of a middle-level small lord and was inexplicably injured.

Since coming in today, not only has he not even encountered a low-level fierce beast, but he has also encountered those bizarre things just now, which has made Ying Xuan more and more curious about what happened in this fierce beast forest.

Babbling –

At this moment, Ying Xuan suddenly heard a slight sound from the trees on both sides of the path, instantly breaking the strange silence around him.

Just as Ying Xuan slowly stepped forward with a solemn face and raised his knife, ready to see what was in the bushes, a burst of laughter suddenly came from behind him.

"Come out, don't scare this friend. ”

Ying Xuan quickly turned around, only to see a young man with short red hair and a red and black power suit, with his hands crossed in front of his chest, looking at him with an inexplicable smile.

At this time, a red figure also jumped out of the trees, and quickly ran to the young man's side, which turned out to be a fire-based mysterious beast - Flame Jaguar.

Although Ying Xuan's face was hidden under the hood, the hood was made of a special material, which did not hinder his vision, and the young man who suddenly appeared in front of him should be about his age, and there was a cynical smile on his handsome face.

Ying Xuan looked at the young man in the red and black suit, and the young man was also carefully studying Ying Xuan, but because most of Ying Xuan's face was firmly covered, he couldn't see Ying Xuan's face clearly, and could only infer that Ying Xuan's age might be about the same age as himself through Ying Xuan's body shape.

"This friend, I don't know what to call it, is in Xia Lu Yan. ”

The young man who reported his name as Lu Yan asked with a smile on his face and smiled politely.

Hearing the young man in front of him greet him, Ying Xuan's eyes under the hood only glanced lightly at Lu Yan and the scorching jaguar sitting at his feet, and then raised his hand slightly to quickly sheath the glaive in his hand, and turned around and left without saying a word.

It turned out that there was a false alarm, what was going on, he thought it was that powerful ghost thing finally appeared!

Ying Xuan turned around and left without saying a word, which made Lu Yan, who was still waiting for him to reply, instantly look confused.

What's going on?

Do you want to be so faceless?

If someone in Canglan City heard that Lu Yan took the initiative to report his name and ask for acquaintance, he would at least feel more face-saving if he was flattered at that time.

After all, you must know that he, Lu Yan, is the fourth young master of the Lu family in Canglan City, and although the Lu family is the same as the Ye family, they both belong to the first-class family, but the Lu family is an old first-class family, and the strength and heritage are not comparable to the newly-promoted first-class night family.

Moreover, he is the fourth youngest of the Lu family, Lu Yan, but the descendants of the Lu family, who are deeply loved by the old lady of the Lu family, are also because of their romantic nature, informality, prominent family background, and heroic marriage, many children of the family or rangers in Canglan City hope to be friendly with him.

However, although this fourth young man has a wide range of connections and likes to make friends, he is not everyone who makes friends, he has no ability, he doesn't bird you, and he doesn't like you.

In other words, among the younger generation in Canglan City, there are really few people who are looked down upon by him Lu Yan.

In addition to making like-minded friends, he also loves to explore and play.

This time, it was the abnormality of the Fierce Beast Forest that had been spreading in Canglan City, and I heard that even some big people began to sit still and wanted to investigate what happened to the Fierce Beast Forest, which also made Lu Yan very curious, so he came to find out.

He met Ying Xuan by chance, he didn't see any other people along the way, he thought that Ying Xuan was the same as him was a fellow traveler who came to explore the beast forest with curiosity, and saw that he had an extraordinary bearing, so he came over to make friends and get to know each other, but he didn't expect that the other party didn't bird him, so he turned around and left.

"Hey, isn't this guy so faceless, can't he haven't heard of me?"

Lu Yan saw that Ying Xuan was about to walk away, and smiled strangely.

"Flame, let's go, follow. ”

"Hey, I don't believe my temper anymore, and I still have friends that Lu Yan can't make. ”

Lu Yan called out to the Flame Jaguar at his feet, and quickly chased after Ying Xuan who was far away.

"Hey!"

"I say, friend!"

"Slow down, wait for me!"

Listening to the shouts that followed closely behind, if it weren't for the clue traces of the mysterious thing along the way, Ying Xuan really wanted to quickly shake off Lu Yan behind him in an instant.

Ying Xuan, who was running, suddenly found it again, and hurriedly stopped and walked to the side of the road, where there was still a tree in front of him.

"Huh? It's the Dryad again. ”

Shadow Xuan carefully looked at the dryad in front of him.

The tree demon in front of him was different from the old tree demon he had seen before, the old tree demon before he died and didn't even show his demon-shaped face, if he hadn't been attracted by the smile under the illusion, he touched the bark of the tree, and then made a cut and was almost sprayed with blood by the old tree, Ying Xuan couldn't even find out that the old tree was actually an old tree demon.

Now it's another one, but its dryad face is fully visible on the trunk.

The two pitch-black eye holes were wide open, the big dry mouth was also very exaggerated, and the two big shape-shaped hands were raised high, watching the movement, as if they wanted to resist in front of them.

From its expression, it is not difficult to see that it has a frightened face, as if it saw something extremely terrifying before it died.

After Ying Xuan was carefully observing beside the dryad, Lu Yan, who was closely following him, also ran over.

Panting, Lu Yan bent over and looked at Ying Xuan, feeling very strange, just along the way, he obviously chased Ying Xuan with all his might, but he could clearly see that Ying Xuan's figure was not far from him, and he was about to catch up, but he always kept such a distance, so he could only promise that he would not lose it, but he couldn't get closer at all.

"Hey, friend, what are you doing here?"

Lu Yan bent over and gasped, looking at the shadow Xuan in front of him who was carefully observing the dryad, and asked suspiciously.

Ignoring Lu Yan on the side, he still pulled out his scimitar and slashed hard at the trunk.

With his experience, he calmly moved quickly to the side, and Lu Yangang beside him felt strange, and poked his head forward, only to hear a "poof!", and from the deep gap drawn by the glaive, a blood-red liquid suddenly squirted, followed by a fishy smell.

The scorching Jaguar, which has a keen sense of smell and has long been expected, also quickly jumped to the side and avoided it perfectly.

"Lay down...... !"

At this time, its owner, Lu Yan, who was stretching his neck and didn't have time to avoid it, was shot in the face perfectly.

Ying Xuan on the side, with his hands clasped in front of his chest, was expressionless, just quietly looking at Lu Yan, who was really full of red light, with a look that he had expected a long time ago.

PS: Lu Yan (read yan)

PS1: Congratulations to the male protagonist on the launch

[To be completed... To be continued ......】