Chapter 1708: Heavenly Burial Mountain: Maple Demon
Located in one of the less than two counties to the north of Hiba-gun, in the lesser-known county of Dali, the area is famous for the fact that the local residents practice the burial method of heavenly burial, that is, the burial method of letting the body of the deceased be eaten by birds and beasts, and because of the high terrain that has been prevalent in sky burial for many years.
This mountain is quite large and has a radius of one hundred and fifty miles, much higher than the surrounding environment, and the height can even be said to be rare in the territory, ordinary people can be tired and half dead from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and because the terrain is high to the top of the mountain, the air has become thinner, and the temperature here is somewhat low, unless there is a funeral that needs to be held, the general people do not enter much.
The method of sky burial seems inhumane, in fact, it is just the custom of local residents, the name of the sky burial mountain plus this custom sounds a kind of creepy feeling, in fact, as far as the mountain range is concerned, except for the higher terrain, there is nothing special here and the rest of the place, the same trees on the mountain are lush, and even because the family and friends of the deceased will come to clean up the remaining dry bones after the sky burial, the whole mountain still looks beautiful.
Therefore, the land is close to the battlefield of the Desert Ten Thousand Clans and the Zhan Yun Nation and the Dali Army, and from time to time, there are countless people who have infiltrated the Desert Ten Thousand Demons and the Zhan Yun Demon Clan's secret agents and secretly fought and died, so the funerals on the Heavenly Burial Mountain have been endless for nearly half a year, and the cries have been endless.
When Xiao Sha, Feng Ling, and Chu Wenxin came, it was daytime, and they were still condescending under the clouds, and they could see the funeral procession coming in and out of the foot of the Heavenly Burial Mountain below from a long distance.
Of course, this is not enough to affect them, they are not here to see the funeral, but to find the maple demon that Hanyu said before.
And with the characteristics of the maple demon itself, it is not difficult to find at all, after coming to the volley, the volley levitates and hides the breath, and sweeps down slightly below the clouds, Xiao Sha and the three can clearly see a large area of bright red maple trees that spread for two or three miles at the end of the road somewhere in the middle of the mountain.
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Seeing that the specific location of that large area of maple trees was roughly consistent with what Han Yu said, Xiao Sha and the three of them condensed slightly, and sighed in their hearts for the vitality of this maple tree, and at the same time secretly raised their vigilance!
Judging from Feng Ling's experience in the last battle, the strength of this demon is at least ten times that of the locust tree demon grandma that everyone encountered in the Chinese Ghost Story World, and the strength of three hundred and twenty tricks is indeed not something to fear for them at this time, but the ability to reproduce rapidly under the crisis and the ability to escape from the rampaging Feng Ling's hands are not to be considered.
At this time, the maple tree with strong vitality has already bred such a large number of maple branches in only ten or twenty days, which shows the strength of its vitality and the rapid reproduction, and the Heavenly Burial Mountain itself is a place to bury the dead, you can imagine the reason why this maple demon came here, and now this area is full of dead people almost every day, and it can provide it with a large amount of corpse nourishment almost every day, which is indeed the best place for it to live.
Perhaps it is because he knows the truth that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, and it seems that the various funeral processions at the foot of the Heavenly Burial Mountain have come and gone in the mountains without being attacked or frightened. This maple demon didn't attack the living during this period, it seems that the last time Feng Ling directly melted the mountain range under the anger of the Fengshan Mountain Range, it was deeply impressed, and the time since coming here has been very responsible.
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"How? Do you plan as originally planned, or do you observe and re-plan according to the situation? ”
Carefully hiding his figure under the suspended clouds in the sky, looking at the red in the Heavenly Burial Mountain Range below, Xiao Sha whispered to Feng Ling and Chu Wenxin who were around him.
The last time was to transport the azurite to the root when it was invincible, and then cut off its own rhizome rapidly, turning into thousands of root snakes that broke the ground and swam to other places before escaping from the Maple Mountain Range.
The information provided by Cold Rain is also somewhat similar to that provided by Feng Ling, it seems that this thing only needs a rhizome or any branch to be active, and it only takes a little time to recover after escaping.
Just like everyone can see now, Feng Ling said that the large number of maple roots that spread and flew in the shallow soil layer that escaped at the beginning have been completely wiped out as she melted the entire Fengshan Mountain Range, and there are definitely not many maple roots that can escape in the end, but it has only been less than a month, and there is such a large area of maple trees rooted and cultivated below, which shows that the ability of this thing may not be enough compared to everyone's combat power, but the ability to escape is not small, if you give it an escape next time, it will not be so easy.
The so-called original plan was a method discussed by the three of them on the way here, with the characteristics of the maple demon having its own memory and thinking ability, their original plan was that Feng Ling would go down to the woods to hang out and startle the snake, if the maple demon was afraid, he would not dare to act rashly, and the only choice he could make was to escape quietly or directly pretend to be dead.
And they have a way to deal with both options!
At this time, there is still cold rain around the Heavenly Burial Mountain Range, and a formation temporarily set up for observation at that time because of curiosity exists, which can make people who have mastered the core of this array sense any details of the underground movement, and everything in the mountain can be observed, if the maple demon splits the roots and escapes like last time, they are naturally sure to intercept all the roots, if there is a fish that slips through the net, as long as it is out of the range of the formation, it is contaminated with the earthly qi after the formation is changed, and there is nothing to hide.
It would be more convenient if the Maple Demon pretended to be dead, Feng Ling could split the Maple Tree one by one and directly start looking for the blue crystal to force it to move, while Xiao Shachu and the two of them relied on the formation left by the cold rain to intercept those split rhizomes to ensure that the Maple Demon was solved at one time.
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This is the reason why they didn't bring cold rain this time, if Han Yu hadn't laid out a formation to observe the earth's qi because he was curious about what this was, in Xiao Sha's half-step unity of heaven and man could not monitor such a large range of changes in heaven and earth, this operation Hanyu had to come, but now there is a lot less trouble.
"Wait until the evening, it's crowded now"
Xiao Sha's voice came out, and Feng Ling whispered to the two of them: "This guy should be a frightened bird now, I'm afraid that if there is a little abnormal movement, it can be frightened into anger and run away, and if it is not good, it will endanger the innocent, now there are many people in the mountains below, don't move yet, at night, you go to take over the formation first, and then I will try it, be careful, this time you must catch them all." ”
"So...... OK too"
Xiao Sha looked at the fiery red maple tree below and didn't speak, Chu Wen thought about it and nodded and agreed!
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Out of caution, they did not land for the next half day, but raised their bodies and hid in the clouds, looking at the maple tree below through a layer of fog with extraordinary eyesight, although they had already made a rough plan, they also hoped to discover a little bit of the characteristics of the maple tree.
But after half a day, they were all disappointed!
Maybe it was really scared by Feng Ling last time, this maple group didn't move at all times during the day, even if some of the funeral processions below walked directly into the maple group, these fiery maple trees were motionless like dead things, not to mention attacking the living like in the Fengshan Mountain Range, even the dead people on the ground didn't move.
As the sky gradually darkened, the people and processions who came to the funeral in the mountain range had begun to return on a large scale, and there were many wild beasts in the mountain, although there were many warriors among the mourners, but they didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble here, so they all left the Heavenly Burial Mountain not long after dark.
And shortly after these people left, when the sun had completely gone down and the whole world had become dark, these maple trees moved!
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At this time, Xiao Sha, who had once again reappeared from the clouds, three gray-brown withered vines of different thicknesses that could be clearly seen, stretched out from the ground like weeds, and quickly pierced through the corpses in the Heavenly Burial Mountain.
They have a wide range of activities, and the corpses that penetrate are not only within the maple forest, but those rhizomes can be seen emerging from the soil almost within a radius of dozens of miles near the maple forest!
The first thing these rhizomes did after penetrating the corpses was to cooperate with each other like insects and wriggle and pull, in the process, Xiao Sha and they could see the cruel sight of the flesh and internal organs on those corpses being torn apart and sprinkled on the ground, and then the torn flesh and blood entrails would be rolled up by those gray-brown rhizomes, and once rolled up and wrapped, it would not take long for them to be completely digested and corroded into the power of the maple tree itself.
However, in just about three or four incense sticks, the corpses that were broken through and pulled by the rhizome became white bones, with blood on them and all around, but the flesh and internal organs and meridian epidermis were all gone, which felt very similar to the bones left behind after the heavenly burial.
"It's the perfect celestial burial"
Condescendingly, he watched more than a dozen corpses being 'eaten' into white bones by the rhizomes, and the maple rhizomes that extended from the ground were all taken back when they were full of food and drink, Chu Wenxin said slowly: "Its wisdom is really not low, before I came, I asked Xue'er to help me check the information on this side of the Heavenly Burial Mountain, if a corpse is 'buried' to only white bones, there are no missing joints, ribs on the white bones, and no beast tooth marks, it is a perfect heavenly burial for people in this area, and it is a symbol of auspiciousness and health for future generations. According to the general celestial burial process, after placing the body, the relatives will collect the body after fifteen to twenty days, and they will be happy to see such an intact skeleton. ”
"Oh? How can this still be done? ”
Xiao Sha didn't know much about the customs near the Heavenly Burial Mountain, and he was a little surprised to think that this maple demon was actually disguised with a perfect heavenly burial.
"That's right"
Feng Ling nodded and said, "That's what makes it interesting, but it's not simple...... The Maple Demon is also okay, if the follow-up visual inspection should be more powerful than the Maple Demon, the alien beast race of Tianyun Mountain, the fire-shaped monster remnants of the Burial God Field, and the poisonous water soldiers of the Ten Thousand Poison Cave also have such wisdom, but it will be difficult, especially the alien beasts of Tianyun Mountain are extremely deep in the ground, if we want to escape, even if we add Sister Hanyu, our chances of winning will not exceed seventy. ”
"Whatever, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, we are the spirits of all things, as long as we have the heart, there is almost no hurdle that cannot be passed, and if we are escaped, we will find it again, since we are sure that there is such a bureau behind the whole world, what are we worried about, get it."
Xiao Sha licked his mouth: "There is no one down there now, Feng Ling, you and stay here, Lao Chu and I will go down to take over the formation, and when we successfully summon you, you will go down, don't do it after you go down, try to intimidate it and see what it does, if there is no reaction, advance step by step and start looking for Lanjing directly"
"Row"
Feng Ling agreed to come down!
Immediately, Xiao Sha and Chu Wenxin flew out for dozens of miles, directly out of the range of the Heavenly Burial Mountain, and then landed on the ground, and after gathering their own breath with all their might, they quietly walked towards the east of the Heavenly Burial Mountain, which was more than ten miles away from the maple forest.
Han Yu and Dong Tianle had observed that the core of the formation set up by this maple demon was in this place, as long as they controlled it, it would be more difficult for the maple demon to escape than to ascend to the sky.
And in mid-air, Feng Ling in the clouds moved with one hand, and the fiery red blood appeared in her hand!
At this time, the blood is not stained, after Feng Ling's long-term cultivation of the sword scabbard like red jade, the sword handle is full of blood, fiery red, and there are flashes of spiritual light from time to time.
And from the perspective of the foundation of this sword, once the divine weapon is achieved, it will be extremely powerful!