Xiao Ding listened to what Shen Tongguang, the "No. 1 Divine Doctor in Zhongzhou", said, and went to Funiu Mountain to find the 10,000-year-old lightning stiff wood. As a result, near the location marked on the map drawn by Shen Tongguang, a huge charred black wooden stake was found.

Near this charred black stake, Xiao Ding didn't find a monster, but found a vine that could transform and transform. He didn't recognize it at first, and he almost suffered a big loss, but then the word "phantasmagor vine" popped into his head.

There is an introduction to the illusion vine, which comes from the encyclopedia of cultivation stored in his brain. According to the records in this book, the phantom vine is a spiritual creature in the cultivation realm, which can absorb the aura of heaven and earth, take the essence of the sun and the moon, and if you cultivate for a long time, you can cultivate into a demon.

However, this kind of spiritual creature should not exist on the earth, and Xiao Ding can't understand why he actually encountered this phantom vine on Funiu Mountain today.

Before cultivating into a demon body, this phantom vine can already transform into the shape of other animals, and can use the animal attack methods of the transformed form to capture the prey, and then bind the prey, and use the secreted sap to slowly digest and decompose the prey and finally absorb it to become its fertilizer.

Just as pitcher plants can use traps to prey on insects, this morphed vine preys on not just insects, but much larger animals, or humans.

Xiao Ding dodged the attack of the tiger transformed by the phantom vine in embarrassment, and saw that a big tree in his position just now was thrown to the ground by the phantom vine, and there were bursts of dust.

In the face of such a ferocious attack, Xiao Ding didn't know how to crack it, so he had to dodge one after another.

Fortunately, the tiger transformed by the phantom vine has always been connected to the ground and cannot be detached.

So, Xiao Ding deliberately dodged farther away and escaped from the tiger's attack range.

But the phantom vine refused to give up, his body shook, and he turned into a snake shape again, directly elongated the snake body, and shot towards Xiao Ding.

Ding ran backwards again. He knew that even if the phantasmal vine turned into a serpentine shape and its body became longer, it would not be able to break away from its roots. So he picked up the light body technique and quickly ran away in a straight line.

Sure enough, just as Xiao Ding thought, the length of the phantom vine also has a limit. Once Ding is out of its limiting length, it won't be able to attack Ding anyway.

Xiao Ding turned around, secretly thinking about how to deal with the illusion vine. He didn't expect that the monster that Shen Tongguang was talking about was actually such a guy.

Perhaps when Shen Tongguang saw this phantom vine at that time, it was unknown that this phantasmagoric vine was transforming into some kind of animal.

However, if you want to get the lightning strike wood, you must kill this illusion vine.

But how do you deal with this difficult guy?

Xiao Ding thought about the weapon in his space, the mace was the most convenient to use, but it didn't seem to be easy to use against this soft vine. Preferably with a weapon such as a broadsword and axe, which can cut off its vines.

But in addition to the mace, there was only the sword he usually used, and a sharp dagger.

Using a sword and a dagger to cut down the calf-thick vines seems to be a little insufficient.

At this time, Xiao Ding's mind suddenly remembered the Han Qianhu, the military general of the Great Xia Kingdom, whom he met on the battlefield in Yongzhou, and the big axe he used was quite suitable for cutting this vine. It's a pity that he did take Han Qianhu's big axe at the beginning, but at that time, it was directly thrown to the arsenal and melted down, and it was used to build a beaded crossbow and a Mo knife.

By the way, the Mo knife can also be used, but now he doesn't have such a weapon in his hand.

After thinking about it, Xiao Ding still took out the sword from the space, although the sword was too light and thin, it could still be used for cutting after all. I don't have anything else in my hand, so it's better to use it first.

This sword was a reward given to him by Zhou Siyuan, the governor of Yongzhou, and the steel mouth was not bad, he had used it many times to fight the enemy, but he was not broken by himself.

With the sword in his hand, Xiao Ding looked towards the phantom vine, and saw that the phantom vine was still constantly changing its shape, intending to attack his side.

I saw that it changed into the shape of a wolf at one moment, into the shape of a wild boar at another time, and into the shape of a bird at another time, but unfortunately it could not fly off the ground.

It didn't take long for the animals, insects, and birds common in the mountains and forests to change all over again, but unfortunately, it couldn't attack Xiao Ding.

Only when you transform into a large snake can you attack the farthest distance.

So in the end, the phantom vine transformed into a snake shape again and pounced towards Xiao Ding.

This time, Xiao Ding just dodged back slightly, and then, with a wave of the sword in his hand, he slashed towards the snake's head.

Xiao Ding has great strength and extremely fast speed, and the phantom vine dodges a little slower, and is slashed by Xiao Ding's sword.

But after all, the vine was too thick, and the sword was too thin, and this sword did not completely cut off the vine, but only cut a deep gap.

The green juice in the vine's body dripped down the opening. The rest of the body also began to squirm violently, as if in great pain.

It's a pity that the plant can't make a sound, otherwise Xiao Ding would have heard its screams of pain.

The phantom vine rolled and struggled on the ground for a while, then continued to turn into a snake and attacked Xiao Ding.

Xiao Ding was still the same as before, flashing slightly, and then swung his sword and slashed at the wound just now.

This time the wound deepened again, and it looked like it had been cut in half.

From the wound, a large amount of green juice flowed out again, as if it were the blood of the phantom vine.

The shapeshifting vine rolled and struggled on the ground again, and it was a long time before it attacked again.

This time, Xiao Ding still drew the scoop according to the gourd, still looking at the sword wound before, and slashed towards the wound with all his strength.

This time, because of the full force used, the snake head transformed by the phantom vine was directly cut down by Xiao Ding to the ground, transforming back into the original appearance of the vine.

After the vine was cut off, a large amount of green juice spewed out from the broken section of the phantom vine, and Xiao Ding sniffed it in his nose, feeling that there was still a faint fragrance of grass and trees.

However, not long after the phantom vine rolled and struggled on the ground this time, it re-conjured a new snake head and came out, still trying to attack Xiao Ding.

Xiao Ding had experience this time, so he slashed the phantom vine at the farthest place that the phantom vine could attack, and cut the same position every time, and it didn't take a few strokes to chop a section of the vine down.

After repeating this, the phantom vine, which was more than a dozen zhang long, had been cut down by Xiao Ding and thrown to the ground piece by piece.

In the end, the remaining vines that were more than three feet long were also chopped down by Xiao Ding.

At this time, Xiao Ding was already tired and sweaty, and most of the spiritual power in his body was consumed. After all, this sword is too unwieldy. It's too much work to chop vines with it.

However, when Xiao Ding looked at the 10,000-year-old lightning stiff wood again, he was even more dumbfounded.

A large log the thickness of a round table, how could he break it without the tools he had?

It stands to reason that Xiao Ding only needs to dig down a small piece of this lightning strike wood and go back to it to make medicine. However, when Xiao Ding learned that this was a good thing that was rare in ten thousand years, he became greedy, this kind of good thing, maybe it will be of great use in the future, how can he not take it all back?

Isn't it a tyrannical thing to put here in the wind and sun?

So, Xiao Ding was worried, and what he thought in his heart at this time was that when he went back, he must make a big axe like the one used by Han Qianhu when he was free and put it in the space for backup.

If you have such a big axe in your hand now, you can cut down this big wooden stake in a few strokes with your own strength.

Now, however, he had only a thin sword and a small dagger in his hands.

Xiao Ding looked at the sky, and when he saw that it was noon, he thought that it was better to eat something and drink some water to replenish his strength, and then find a way to dig this tree.

He took out the water bag from the space, drank a pass of water first, and then took out a can of chicken soup that the Nine Princesses had made for him from the space that had been stored earlier.

When he was in Jiaozhou and Jiangzhou before, almost the ninth princess would send him chicken soup every night. He couldn't finish drinking it, so he put it directly into the space.

Anyway, time in the space is static, what it looks like when you put it in, and what it looks like when you take it out. Even when the chicken broth was taken out, it was steaming.

After eating and drinking, Xiao Ding threw the severed phantom vines on the ground into the jade pendant space, this kind of spiritual thing that should have appeared in the world of cultivating immortals, but appeared on the earth, although Xiao Ding didn't know what this thing would be used for, but when he thought that this thing was not a mortal thing, he put it all into the space.

After all, having such a fetish as space in your hand is just a matter of putting your hands in it.

When you're done collecting the illusion vines. Xiao Ding looked around this 10,000-year-old lightning stiff tree several times. I found that this huge scorched wood was not as I thought before, the surface of the wood was scorched by lightning, and I touched the carbon black of my hands. The huge scorched wood in front of me, although it is also charred black, the surface is shining with lustre, just like the enamel on the surface of porcelain, and it will not fall black when touched by hand, but it feels smooth and delicate in the hand, as if touching the jade.

Xiao Ding sighed at the magic of this lightning strike wood, and then began to use his sword to cut along the perimeter of the bottom.

Although the sword is not enough, it is better than nothing. He thought that as long as he cut all the sides of this stump, he might be able to break the stake with brute force.

However, the imagination is beautiful, but the reality is difficult.

Even cutting around the circle takes a lot of effort.

It is impossible to break if it is shallow, but it takes a lot of strength and time to cut deeply.

So, Xiao Ding tossed the big wooden stake for almost two hours.

Finally, with his unremitting persistence and efforts, he cut the stake into a deep circle, and then took out his mace and used his brute strength to knock down the giant tree.

At the moment when the giant tree fell, Xiao Ding felt that all the strength in his body had been exhausted.

He also put the giant tree into the jade pendant space.

Although it takes up a lot of space, the jade pendant space is large enough, and it is more than enough to put down this giant tree.

Xiao Ding felt that the wood chips cut down should not be wasted, so he collected them all in the space regardless of his fatigue.

Just as he lay on the ground collecting wood chips. He suddenly felt that there seemed to be an aura overflowing from under the roots of this big tree.

Could it be that there is something good under the roots of the tree?

He immediately remembered the few water spirit beads he had obtained in the sword washing pool in Jiaozhou Sword Washing Villa, and at that time, he also went down to check because he felt the fluctuation of spiritual energy in the water, and found the water spirit beads.

Today, he felt the same way again, could it be that there is something hidden under the roots of this tree?

After having this idea, Xiao Ding immediately didn't feel too tired. Immediately take the dagger out of the space and dig under the tree.

The reason why the dagger is changed to use is because the dagger is shorter and not easy to break, and it is also faster to dig the soil with the dagger in hand.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Xiao Ding to dig to a depth of about three feet, he scanned it with his divine sense, and found that there seemed to be a round thing inside the roots of the big tree.

So, he started digging towards the center of the big tree's roots.

It's a lot more laborious now.

The so-called stiff pan wood is actually a kind of peach wood, and the roots under the soil are not scorched by lightning, and they are also very hard.

Xiao Ding finally dug out a hole in the root of the tree, and when he dug to the center of the tree, he immediately saw a green round bead, exuding an infinite rich wood aura.

"Wood Spirit Bead!" Xiao Ding blurted out happily.

He stretched out his hand and took the wood spirit bead in his hand, carefully feeling the wood attribute aura emanating from it, and was very happy in his heart.

However, at this moment, he suddenly heard someone not far from him: "What are you holding in your hand?" Leave it to the old man to take a look! ”

Xiao Ding was shocked, and said in his heart, who is this?