After all, Liu Qingshan had learned a little bit of medicinal herb knowledge from his mother's side in the Green Mountains, and now he can barely analyze the function of this liquid.

Walking over, Liu Qingshan patiently squatted down and dipped his hand in the liquid, which was sticky, like blood that had been left for a long time. Then I put it on the tip of my nose and sniffed it lightly a few times, and the weird smell became even stronger.

"It's weird, this tree exudes pure soul power enough to become a thick fog. But this liquid can't even feel a trace of soul power in it, and it's not as pure as the liquid of this world. ”

Liu Qingshan's brows furrowed tightly, but he felt that it was really a little incredible, right? You must know that soul power is extremely multiplying in this Fighting Soul Continent, and it is really difficult to find an item that is not contaminated with soul power at all. In addition to this special liquid, this kind of item that is not contaminated with soul power at all Liu Qingshan has only seen one kind - his own [Soul Town Mound].

What's even more strange is that the tree looks so dry and doesn't look good, but how can it have so much nutrients to grow so much sap?

Suddenly, Liu Qingshan's heart suddenly lit up, he suddenly thought of something, and burst out: "This smell? It's really like the kind of embalming liquid used to preserve corpses!"

Thinking of this, Liu Qingshan's mind suddenly had a thrill, and at this time, he finally remembered where he had smelled this strange smell.

This smell is very similar to the disinfectant I used at home in my previous life, and it should be the formalin reagent unique to the Fighting Spirit Continent.

It's just that how can there be such a thing in this tree that is used for embalming and disinfection?

"Is this this? Could it be that this dry and ugly tree will not be able to maintain itself? Doesn't it want to be immortal? Dominate the plant world? Well, okay, as the saying goes, 'rotten wood cannot be carved', but this rotten wood is so ambitious, but it is a good wood with ambition and ambition. Liu Qingshan joked in his heart.

But looking at this bent-necked tree, although I don't know how many years it has existed, but its current state is indeed extremely dry, and it doesn't seem to have a few years to live, which proves that this liquid doesn't have such a magical effect.

Excluding all impossibilities, the most unlikely case may be the correct answer.

"This liquid is indeed an antiseptic liquid, but its purpose is not to protect the tree from decay, but to ......"

Thinking of this, Liu Qingshan stood up and took a few steps back. With a flick of his arm, the [Evil Sword] in his hand slashed towards the dead tree, and the golden sword flashed, and the bark shattered, revealing the trunk.

"But to protect the people in this tree from decay. ”

Thinking of this, Liu Qingshan's face also showed a look of affirmation and horror, and with a hard tug of his hand, he immediately pulled out a large piece of dry bark directly from the tree.

Crash.

The heart of the whole tree was hollow, and it was filled with this black-red liquid, and as the bark was pulled off, the liquid inside was poured out of the big hole with a bang.

As the dark red liquid in the body of the tree continued to fall, revealing blurred hair, heads, necks, and bodies, and finally, a dead body slowly emerged from the dark red liquid.

Rao is Liu Qingshan had long been mentally prepared, but seeing such a person who was almost indistinguishable from a living person standing upright in the trunk of the tree still frightened Liu Qingshan into taking several steps back, and his face became extremely ugly.

Standing in the middle of the tree was a person Liu Qingshan was very familiar with, about forty years old, standing here with his eyes closed, his expression hideous, and he may have suffered unbearable pain and torture before he died. He was completely naked, and the skin of his whole body looked lifelike, as if he were alive, but perhaps he had been soaked in the liquid for a little longer, and the surface of his skin was a little red.

"Second Elder?!"

Liu Qingshan was unprepared, and when he saw this old man standing in the tree, he couldn't help but be frightened, and he couldn't help but scream. This person was the second elder of the Zhuge family who knelt down in front of Zhuge Jun a few months ago, and he was planning to drive Liu Qingshan's family out of the Liu family at that time. But he hadn't seen him for months, and this reunion had turned out to be a corpse buried in a tree.

Looking at the corpse of the second elder, Liu Qingshan was a little unconvinced that this person had died so easily? Although he was driven out of the Liu family by the Liu family patriarch, how did he come to the City Lord's Mansion? Why was he buried in a tree?

There are too many questions, lingering in Liu Qingshan's heart, he doesn't even believe that the original person actually died here so simply, he prefers to believe that this person is not dead, he is just using some wonderful means to improve his strength?

Liu Qingshan's personal thinking habits are very strange, and he is also decisive and refreshing. When he knew that the Second Elder was hiding in a tree and was ready to sneak attack at any time, and that it might threaten his existence, Liu Qingshan was ruthless and decided to get rid of him as soon as possible, kill him first and then study the Second Elder's scheme.

It doesn't matter if he is dead or alive, give him a sword first and then study.

With a flash of golden light, Liu Qingshan shot his sword finger towards the second elder's eyebrows, only to hear a muffled sound, the golden light was not hindered in any way, and directly drilled into the second elder's eyebrows, and a line of black viscous liquid flowed down his head.

was directly hit by Liu Qingshan's sword finger, and whether he was pretending to be dead or really dead, he couldn't jump up at this moment. Liu Qingshan kicked this person twice, and when he saw that this person didn't have any reaction, he let down his guard and sighed: "To be honest, although you targeted our mother and son at that time, I never thought of killing you." But since you died here today, even if we meet fate, no matter how you die, I have the responsibility to take care of your funeral. ”

A pit was dug nearby, and the second elder respectfully put it in. It's strange to say, although the second elder is dead, but this dead man is too well preserved, right? It looks like he is asleep.

In his previous life, Liu Qingshan had heard of all kinds of strange burial methods, such as sky burial, where the flesh of the deceased was cut off and eaten by crows who ate carrion, coffin burial, where hanging coffins were erected on top of cliffs and placed on high in the air, ice burials, tree burials, and so on.

Although there is a tree burial, the tree burial is just a small tree planted on top of the coffin of the deceased. The death of the second elder is indeed shocking and unheard of.

Burying people in trees, this is a big taboo in the world in the previous life, the three souls can't ascend to heaven, the seven spirits can't enter the ground, they can't go up or down, there is no way to go to heaven and no door to the ground, it is the greatest torture for the dead, and the trees originally belonged to the yin, in such an environment, putting on such a formation, it was indeed impossible for Liu Qingshan to figure it out and not see through.

However, this thought only flashed in Liu Qingshan's mind. Next, Liu Qingshan's complexion changed suddenly, and a terrifying thought suddenly entered his mind, and he said in his heart: "Isn't it?"

Thinking of this, the [Evil Separation Sword] in Liu Qingshan's hand swung out again and slashed at another tree without hesitation.

I saw that Liu Qingshan used the blade of the [Separation Sword] to break through the trunk of another crooked-necked tree that looked about the same thickness.

"This ...... Should...... Wouldn't it?"

Liu Qingshan's face was stunned, and he couldn't believe his guess in his heart.

But in order to prove his guess, Liu Qingshan still split it hard, and the bark of the tree was torn off again under Liu Qingshan's repeated swings.

Just as Liu Qingshan expected, there was also a dark red liquid pouring out of this trunk, and as the surface of the liquid continued to decline, inside the trunk, a fairly well-preserved corpse like a living person came out......

Liu Qingshan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then checked the memories in his mind again, he already had a certain guess in his heart, and the thoughts in his heart became more and more firm, and he kept slashing the trunks around him, and his arms kept shaking.

Because of the cultivation of the body, these tasks are actually not difficult for him. In a short time, Liu Qingshan grabbed a big hole in all these strange-looking, ugly and withered tree trunks. Without exception, each of these trunks contained a fairly intact corpse.

I couldn't help but gasp!

What a stroke!

How many people would it have to kill to plant this entire forest?

There are not tens of thousands of trees in this forest, but there are thousands!

Sure enough, Liu Qingshan guessed it, his thoughts were not wrong at all, and he couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.

When he saw the corpses in these trees, Liu Qingshan could be regarded as seeing the conspiracy of the City Lord's Mansion clearly.

This kind of tree has the effect of nourishing the corpse, and the people of the City Lord's Mansion "planted" the corpse of the soul lord into the tree, and with the help of the "photosynthesis" of this tree, a large amount of soul power was continuously generated to help the master of the City Lord's Mansion cultivate. That's why this forest has a pure soul power that is strong enough to form a dense fog, where is this rare tree species? This is obviously a deadly tree!

In this case, it is equivalent to the cultivation of these thousands of people continuously converging into the body of the city lord of Yaoguang City, and he who has gathered thousands of people to cultivate, how shocking will his cultivation be? This is simply unimaginable!

Thinking of this, Liu Qingshan somewhat believed what the shopkeeper said, the city lord of Yaoguang City was replaced by the one hundred and eight giant Kou of Xingluo. And in the past few decades, he has been secretly plotting, planning this terrifying situation today!

While he was concentrating on thinking about the problem, dozens of figures crept in from outside the dark woods. They slowly moved in the gloomy darkness, and silently, they lined up in formation, blocking all of Liu Qingshan's retreats.