18, Strange Tree
In the early morning, the whole forest is shrouded in a thin layer of mist, crisp bird chirping and faint fragrance of flowers come from afar, the sun is shining, a slight wind blows, the mist is enchanting, and the lush grass on the ground is shaking. All this is like a dream, like a fairyland.
But in Wu Long's eyes, there was weirdness everywhere, he didn't believe everything here, and he couldn't digest the information he got from Black Dragon Lao Li for a while. He only wanted to do one thing now, leave here with the two Xuanyuan sisters, and then go back to the northwest to ask his father, what the hell is going on?
In the battle last night, he was too seriously injured, after a night of cultivation, most of his true qi has recovered, and there is definitely no problem with walking, the problem is that the terrain here is not familiar, and he has to bring the two sisters of Xuanyuan, plus the terrifying black dragon Lao Li, it is really difficult to leave here. For the sake of today, we can only do the opposite. So Wu Long returned to the wooden house, woke up the two sisters, and only said that this place was very dangerous and that they needed to leave immediately, and the two sisters looked at each other, and jumped out of bed without saying a word. Wu Long carried his sister innocently, and the three of them ran out quickly.
Wulong simply said that it is very dangerous here, and then talk about it in detail when we get to a safe place, it is easy to be caught when we return the same way, so we run in the opposite direction first, such a large forest, it is convenient for us to hide, if we can get out of the forest, it is the best, if we can't get out, we hide in the dark, we can also be safer, and it is good to find a chance to go out again.
"Brother Xiaolong, I believe in you."
Wu Long shook Xuanyuan Innocence on his back and said with a smile, "Thank you"
"Hmph, with bad intentions."
Wu Long looked embarrassed, but his steps were not slow, and the three of them were cautious along the way, hiding left and right, and moving towards the depths of the seemingly boundless forest.
The three of them went all the way forward, sleeping in the open air, and the three of them did not feel bitter. Wulong has had a military career, and the two Xuanyuan sisters have also lived a precarious life as beggars, the Baixiang Divine Doctor is really magical, the two sisters don't know how she has been treated, and their bodies have recovered as before, Wulong doesn't believe that the Baixiang Divine Doctor will do anything to them, after all, the two of them are used to absorb for themselves, at this point, Lao Li will not lie to himself.
The further you go through this forest, the more leafy it becomes, obscuring the sky and the sun, and gradually, the sun can no longer shine down. Wulong's sense of direction is becoming more and more blurred, but fortunately, Xuanyuan is naΓ―ve, and he intuitively guides the direction of the three of them, so as not to get lost.
The three of them went out day and night, but in fact, it could not be said that it was day and night, because the whole forest was already a dark and dreary scene. The three of them could only keep hurrying, and then take a break when they were tired. But it didn't take long for them to discover a problem, the three were not carrying food with them. At first, I ran away because of nervousness, and I didn't have time to worry about eating and drinking, but once the feeling of hunger started, it would hit me continuously.
Several people were lying on the ground, hungry and dizzy.
Xuanyuan Tianxiang said weakly: "This traitor really has bad intentions, he saved us with false intentions, and now he wants to starve us to death, and then force us to hand over what they want!" β
"My eldest princess, don't you wronged the good people anymore, don't I starve to death?"
"Sister, you save some effort, the more you talk, the hungrier you get."
"I'm going to starve to death anyway, I'll tell you traitor, don't think about your tricks, when I recover a little strength, I'll kill you first, it's really, really blind, blind, only then will I believe you"
"Sister, don't, stop talking"
"It's when you say he's a good person that I believe him, and before I die, I have to kill you first"
"Sister, you say, without Brother Xiaolong, wouldn't we be alive now?"
"Hmph, what's the use of living a few more days, no, isn't it also death? You see, he doesn't dare to speak."
"It's not going to starve, is it? Little, Brother Xiaolong, are you still, still alive? β
"Didn't you say that, little princess? The more you talk, the hungrier you get."
Suddenly, Xuanyuan said innocently, "Sister, Brother Xiaolong, you, have you smelled, smelled any fragrance?" β
"No, no?"
"Are you hungry and stupid? What's the fragrance? β
"Smell carefully"
"It seems" Wu Long perked up, got up, and staggered in one direction.
After a while, Wu Long took back a handful of wild fruits.
The three of them couldn't name it, it was the size of a jujube, and its whole body was fiery red, exuding a fragrance. The three of them didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly stuffed it into their mouths, the fruit was fiery and clear, the entrance was cool and juicy, and after eating a dozen of them, the hunger suddenly disappeared, and the three of them rested for a while and prepared to continue their journey.
"Sister, Brother Xiaolong, shall we give it a name?"
"What's the name, boring."
"This fruit saved our lives, so listen to the little princess."
"Let's call it Little Red Fruit, how about it?"
"Hmph, boring"
"Good name."
"Hee-hee, Brother Xiaolong"
So, the three of them picked a lot of small red fruits together, Wulong took off his coat and made a package, Wulong carried the little princess on his back, Xuanyuan Tianxiang took the package without saying a word, and several people continued to hurry.
After a few more days of walking, the three of them were bored, and the initial panic had disappeared, replaced by a dazed mood of looking at the trees everywhere. They didn't know how long they would have to go, or what would await them ahead.
Only Wu Long insisted on insisting, he firmly believed that for the two princesses around him, there must be no good end to turning back now, although there is danger ahead, there will also be a turnaround.
Princess Celestia has lost much patience with Wu Long, and she even suspects that all this is a lie made up by Wu Long himself, in order to steal the secrets of the two sisters alone. She even had a plan to take her sister to escape alone, if it weren't for her sister saying to wait and see, Wu Long might have already gone on a journey and returned from a certain expedition, and he wouldn't be able to see the two sisters.
The three of them became silent, Xuanyuan was really tired, Wu Long squatted down and carried her on his back, and the three of them basically didn't talk today. Wu Long couldn't stand this atmosphere and was about to speak, when a loud roar mixed with a roar came from the front. The cries of wild boars and unknown monsters were accompanied by roars. The three of them slowed down, Wu Long patted the little princess on the back, signaling that she didn't have to be afraid, then bent down, put down Xuanyuan innocence, glanced at the eldest princess Xuanyuan Tianxiang, nodded, moved a few times, and disappeared behind a big tree.
Wu Long saw some bright light in front of him from a distance, and walked along the light, his vision brightened, and a circular place was about twenty or thirty zhang in size. Wulong hid in a big tree, and looked at it from a distance, the surrounding trees and flowers were all outside the circle, as if they had been deliberately cleaned up. The sun shines straight in, in the middle of the circle, there is a strange tree, one person is high, the arm is thick, in this woods where several people and more than a dozen people hug each other, it is very small, the purple trunk is straight to the sky, near the top, there are cyan leaves, the top of the main trunk, there are black flowers, the flowers bear golden fruits, the size of a fist, from a distance it looks like a walnut shape, at this time under the sunlight, it shines.
Wu Long really couldn't think of what kind of plant this was, Lao Li said that this was a world that Xuanyuan Taiyi opened up that belonged to the demon clan, so it shouldn't be strange that a strange plant like this would appear, and he didn't have time to think about it at this moment. Because around this plant, there are two huge demon beasts roaring and attacking each other.
A giant boar with a long tail, a whirring sound and a huge fangs that attack opponents.
Its opponent was a giant python, its head held high, sometimes hitting the boar's body with its huge head, sometimes opening its jaw, trying to bite its opponent with its fangs, hissing and spitting scarlet red letters, while constantly spewing black and purple poisonous mist.
The two demon beasts came and went, and the sound of the collision was thumping, and Wu Long only felt that the big trees under his feet were shaking slightly. The wild boar is strong and thick-skinned, and every time it lowers its head to hit or flick its tail and whip the python as it tries to entangle itself, it makes the python shake its head and roar.
The giant python has a huge body, and it was about to entangle the wild boar several times, but it broke free, and came down three or two times, making its own skin and flesh open. As a last resort, the python coiled its body like a hill. The wild boar ran around the python, knocking its head down from time to time, trying to knock the "hill" down.
Wu Long watched the battle from a distance, and his heart was beating in shock. The huge force that burst out of each impact of the wild boar seemed to hit his heart, and with the continuous impact of bang bang, Wu Long could only carry the black dragon breath and swim all over his body, at the same time, he imagined that he was the wild boar or the giant python, imagining that he kept hitting and being hit.
"Bang, bang, bang"
One after another, endlessly, imagining that he kept swinging his star strike Hirano to smash at a target, or that there was a person who was constantly using the star strike Hirano to attack him, and he held his arms and resisted all the time.
This kind of imagination is different from the general imagination, Wu Long can clearly feel that he is swinging his fist, a punch is thrown, and he can even feel the thick feeling and pain from the fist hitting the real thing, when driving his arms, he can feel the strong force from his arms, gradually, Wu Long doesn't know how long it took, until his fists began to tremble, and his arms began to break. There was even a punch, after swinging it, as if hitting the extremely hard boulder, all the fingers were broken, and the arms he was holding were also directly fractured, and he was beaten by the punch on his chest, and the entire chest cavity was concave, he still didn't stop, his fingers could no longer be clenched, and his arms could only be raised halfway.
Wu Long spurted out a mouthful of blood, his consciousness was finally awake, he was still himself, his hands and arms and chest were intact, the two demon beasts were still roaring, and the tree under his feet was still there, but he didn't know when he changed from standing to sitting, he closed his eyes, and carried the black dragon's breath to circulate all over his body, the black gas was steaming, and the two demon beasts seemed to feel something, and stopped their movements at the same time, just roaring and howling at the surroundings uneasily. After a long time, Wu Long here gently exhaled with a breath of turbid air, opened his eyes, and the black gas around his body was like a whale sucking, and he rolled back, Wu Long muttered, "The second is finally complete." "Now, there are a few more tricks that can be used." β
Wu Long suddenly felt the strangeness of the two demon beasts, and hurriedly held his breath, the two demon beasts did not notice the abnormality, and fought again.
The effect of the giant python's defense as an attack is remarkable, the wild boar gradually loses its strength under the continuous consumption, coupled with the poisonous mist spewed out by the giant python, the strength of the wild boar's impact is finally smaller and smaller, and the howl is weaker and weaker every time, and the body has become scarred, bleeding purple-black blood.
Finally, after dodging the impact of a wild boar, the giant python bit down on the huge tail that followed it, and then flicked wildly, through the fangs, continuously injected poison into the boar's body. The huge body of the wild boar fell to the ground with a bang, and finally it was defeated, and the giant python roared in the sky, and the giant tail swept aside, throwing the wild boar aside, which happened to be where Wulong was.
Wu Long was startled, jumped away, and leaned against a big tree with his back. Over there, the wild boar landed and knocked down a big tree, which broke off and fell down with a bang, smashing countless branches with it. The wild boar rolled a few times and did not move, and at the same time, the broken branches and grass clippings that were lifted up just covered up Wulong's movements.
Wu Long looked at it here, his heart was concerned, there was still a dragon and a tiger in front of him, and the long-tailed wild boar was lying on the ground at the moment, with one of his fangs broken, and he was lying in the stump and broken leaves at the moment, and a black and purple blood foam continued to flow out of the corner of his mouth.
The giant python defeated the enemy and did not pursue, but still coiled its body together at the moment, staring condescendingly at the strange plant. Several times he cautiously stretched out his huge head to touch the golden fruit, but immediately withdrew it like an electric shock, and kept screaming at the sky, as if telling some great feat, and as if he was going to protest or urge someone sternly.
The golden fruit becomes more and more dazzling in the sunlight, and in the roar of the python, the color of the fruit begins to gradually darken, from gold to purple, and then to purple red. The surrounding light began to dim, the sunlight gradually disappeared, the wind and clouds changed, there appeared in the sky like a tornado, dark clouds obscured the sun, the wind was blowing, and finally, the whole fruit became dark and translucent, the dark cloud vortex in the sky became lower and lower, and the surrounding trees shook violently.
Wu Long felt someone approaching behind him, and one turned around, it was the two Xuanyuan sisters.
At this moment, the two were also stunned by the vision in front of them, Wu Long signaled the two not to act rashly, and whispered what they had seen before, and finally "Shall we take a detour and leave, this giant python is so powerful, we can't resist it." β
Sister Xuanyuan Tianxiang nodded in agreement, during the period when Wulong left, the two sisters had another dispute, one wanted to leave, and felt that Wulong would either never return, or there was another conspiracy, otherwise why did he go for so long, but the younger sister was naΓ―ve but disagreed, saying that something must have happened to Brother Xiaolong. In the end, the two decided to go out to look for it, and when they heard the noise in front of them, they came to check.
Now Wulong and Tianxiang decided to take a detour, but Xuanyuan innocently said, "Wait and see, I always feel that things are not so simple" and groaned.
"Jianmu?" Wu Long asked, "You say, could this be the legendary Tongtian Jianmu?" β
"How is that possible? The building wood is ten thousand feet high, and it is a channel to communicate heaven and earth. Xuanyuan Tianxiang asked rhetorically, "And Jianmu is guarded by a yellow bird, there is only a big pig and a giant python here, and it can't be compared to the legendary Jianmu Eight Poles." β
"Sister, what Brother Xiaolong said is not unreasonable, you see this purple body, green leaves, black flowers, plus Brother Xiaolong said that the black fruit was yellow at the beginning, isn't it exactly what Jianmu looks like?" Innocent paused: "Haven't you grown up yet?" β
"The little princess is right, it's just that the legend of Jianmu has existed for thousands of years, and it is impossible to grow longer and smaller, which is where I am confused."
"That is, how do you explain this? And Jianmu was born in Duguang Lingqiu, where is this? Is it the space opened up by Taizu, just by virtue of a tree that looks like it, it is said to be a building tree? Joke, besides, what about the Jianmu Guardian Beast, the Yellow Bird? β
Wu Long and the little princess didn't speak, just when the three of them were silent, a clear phoenix chirp came to the sky, a huge black shadow swept by, the three of them looked up, only to see that the sky was covered by a bright yellow canopy, for a while, the canopy opened, a huge yellow bird spread its wings in the sky and circled, the yellow bird was so huge, as if the sky could no longer contain its figure.
"Yellow Bird!"
The three of them exclaimed, according to legend, Jianmu is a passage for the heavenly immortals to play in the lower realm, and to cultivate the world's spiritual creatures into immortals and ascend to the sky, guarded by the divine beast Yellow Bird. It's just that for some reason, this building wood is so small.
The giant python in the field became more and more manic because of the appearance of the yellow bird, and its coiled body seemed to be bigger again, and at the same time it tightened more and more, and its roar became more and more harsh, and it hissed and spit snake letters at the yellow bird.
The yellow bird no longer circled, once raised its figure, then turned around, and swooped down on the giant python, the giant beak slammed down, the giant python couldn't dodge, shook the huge head, knocked it from the side, and suddenly drew a blood mark on the giant python's body.
The yellow bird waved its giant wings, blew away the poisonous mist emitted by the giant python, and pecked with its claws, and for a while, the giant python was injured in many places. The giant python became crazy, shook its huge tail, and whipped on the yellow bird, several huge yellow bird feathers fell one after another, the yellow bird suffered pain, and the attack was more violent, and after a few rounds, the giant python that had gone through a big battle was finally defeated, and the flesh and blood of the yellow bird's claw grabbed the entire head were blurred.
The yellow bird trampled the python under his feet, raised his head and roared to the sky, the sound shook the sky, and then pecked the python's body into tatters. The giant python has also changed from being invincible at the beginning to dying now.
Just when everyone thought that the next thing was the inevitable death of the giant python, the wild boar that fell in front of him struggled to stand up without knowing where the strength came from, and then roared twice, and ran, it was full of four hooves, and rushed towards the two beasts in the field like a mad rush.
The yellow bird heard the call and stopped. The giant python was so exhausted that it couldn't scream anymore, and the two divine beasts looked at the figure that was rushing towards them, and they didn't move.
The wild boar was unstoppable, and the ground where its huge body stepped on it shook as it shook.
It seems that it is vowing to take this opportunity to take revenge.
But unexpectedly, its head was lowered, its hooves jumped, it actually crashed into the yellow bird, its only remaining fangs, stabbed the yellow bird in the stomach, the yellow bird wailed, its wings waved, the wild boar flew to the side at a faster speed than just now, in this dense forest, knocked out a bloody path, this time, its two fangs were broken.
It struggled to its feet again, and walked forward step by step, and the yellow bird was furious, let go of the python, and walked towards the boar. A mouthful of the wild boar's belly through, then look up to the sky and chirp, wave wings, grab the wild boar with its claws, and then slowly rise into the air, rise to a very high place, release the claws, the wild boar rolls and smashes down, crushed to pieces.
It turned its head and walked towards the python, but at some point, the python was gone, it was furious, opened its beak, and the next moment, it spewed out light blue flames, burning the surrounding trees.
Wulong and a few people were stunned, the light blue flame couldn't even feel the temperature, but the surrounding trees turned into powder, and several people quickly dodged, and the yellow bird was still hovering in the air and screaming, while spewing flames, and finally disappeared.
The three of them rose from the ashes and looked at each other.
"Ahh An exclamation, "Brother Xiaolong, you have a snake in your hand,,,,"