She returned to the door of Wu Lin's house, picked up the fish stone from the puddle, and remembered that Feng Yan asked Lin Rong to search her body when she was in a semi-coma, but she searched through but did not find the whereabouts of the fish stone, she guessed correctly, this fish stone is not just as simple as bringing an ominous curse, it also has another layer of secrets, Feng Yan should have accidentally missed something, but he didn't expect to go around and around, such a thing was picked up by Yu Huan and arrived in Li Xiruo's hands.

Li Xiruo put the fish stone in the cloth bag, got up and walked to the place where they worshiped the sacred tree, and it had been a long time since he came here, and the first thing he heard was the reputation of the sacred tree, but Li Xiruo didn't have the heart to see it until today.

The sacred tree stands alone on a piece of open land, covering an area of nearly 1,000 square meters, the people of Wu Yang stand in front of it, there is no sense of existence at all, Li Xiruo is the same as everyone, the first time he saw it, his heart stretched out a sense of sublimity, that is the respect and fear of the extraordinary things that are more than usually seen, assuming that this sacred tree will move, it only needs to move its body slightly, and none of the people below can run.

Therefore, for the ritual of sacrificing it also needs to be lofty and grand, the villagers bought four pillars of incense, about half a person high, two pillars of incense in front of them, two pillars of incense in front of the tree, after ignition, offer various sacrifices, it is estimated that it is to ask for the safety of people and animals.

Then each villager used a wooden plank to build three doors and six wooden pillars in front of the sacred tree, Zuo Siqi opened the door behind him and watched, and asked the villagers next to him, "What is this doing?" ”

"This is a temple that has been built, and the doorkeeper is painted on the door, and we will start the sacrifice and invite someone to do divination."

Zuo Siqi nodded, Li Xiruo saw her and Zhou Runye, and walked up, Zuo Siqi saw her and said in surprise: "Why did you come back?" ”

Li Xiruo made a shushing gesture, and then asked Zuo Siqi: "Did anything happen in the three days that I was away?" ”

Zuo Siqi nodded: "There is a person named Feng Yan, who came to the Lin family and rummaged through, saying that he was looking for stones, but his face was quite gloomy after he didn't find it." ”

Li Xiruo sank her eyebrows, in fact, she was a little strange when she heard Feng Yan looking for Yu Jingshi in a semi-coma, she didn't understand why Feng Yan was so determined, and even ran directly to Wu Lin's house, which proved that he already knew that Yu Jingshi was here.

Li Xiruo was thinking about it, Zuo Siqi pointed her in the direction and said: "Look, he and the one named Lin Rong are standing not far from the tree, I heard from Wu Lin yesterday that when the sacrifice is over, there is an activity in their village, and the young and strong guy can climb this sacred tree, as long as the young leaves are cut to the highest place, the sacred tree will bless him." They seem to be eager to try it too. ”

She looked at Lin Rong and Feng Yan, others were indeed eager to try, but they did have gloomy expressions, as if they were participating in something life-threatening.

Lin Rong felt the unusual gaze, and looked back at the crowd, Li Xiruo hid behind Zhou Runye in time, and was not seen by him.

Feng Yan looked at Lin Rong still looking around, and warned: "It's better to concentrate, otherwise you won't be able to get the rest of the antidote." ”

Lin Rong looked cold: "You have already broken our agreement to bring her here, what qualifications do you have to teach me now." ”

Feng Yan smiled: "Her life is qualification, if she can't get something, I'll let her return to the west." ”

"Then you don't want to live."

Feng Yan listened, if it weren't for the presence of many people, he would have looked up to the sky and laughed: "I can't live if I can't get things, do I still care about your threat?" Barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes, what I do is a life-fighting deal, I want to die together, if you want her to live, you have to let me live first. ”

Lin Rong didn't speak, he looked up at the towering tree in front of him, among the lush branches and leaves, he couldn't see it at a glance, just like an abyss born in the sky, the more he climbed, the more he moved into the darkness.

When it came to the sacrifice, what Li Xiruo didn't expect was that the person who sacrificed was actually the hunchbacked woman who was setting up a stall that day. She changed into a decent dress today, but her hair was still messy, she inserted a pine branch in the ground, three pillars of incense, three bowls of rice, three bowls of salt, one wine and one tea, and a fat sheep, after kneeling down, took out a small wooden tube, began to shake the hexagram, everyone saw that there was a hexagram in the tube, the village chief stepped forward and turned over, and asked the hunchbacked woman to explain the hexagram.

The hunchbacked woman squinted: "Reverse hexagram." ”

Sacrificial sacred tree, can only be smooth, can not be reversed, if it is a reverse hexagram, it must be shaken again, waiting for the end.

The woman shook the hexagram again, but she didn't expect it to be a reverse hexagram, at this time there was already an uproar in the crowd, and the woman left an indifference on her face, and continued to shake the hexagram, but she still went down the hexagram, and everyone worshipped, I don't know where the sacrifice is wrong, and it will always be a reverse hexagram.

When the woman shook out the reverse hexagram again, her indifferent expression couldn't hold back, and she continued to shake with a serious expression, Feng Yan couldn't help but ask beside her, "When can I climb the tree." ”

The village chief looked at him with a shocked expression, as if he didn't understand why he didn't care about the hexagram first: "Of course, it has to be an auspicious hexagram to have the next plan." ”

Seeing that the woman shook out the reverse hexagram again, Feng Yan turned around and left.

The hunchbacked woman said: "Some people have evil thoughts about the sacred tree, and they bow down to the sacred tree with disrespect, this is the warning of the sacred tree, you should disperse quickly, otherwise you will suffer a great disaster." ”

Feng Yan came back at this time, and when he heard the woman's words, he said, "Don't be in a hurry to assert it first, it's better to make another divination." ”

The woman shook her head: "It will be the same ending." ”

"You try again."

Listening to Feng Yan's affirmative tone, the woman had to shake it again, and after landing, Feng Yan took the hexagram in front of the village chief and handed it to the woman.

The woman looked at the hexagram, stared at Feng Yan and said, "Humility hexagram, the most auspicious hexagram." ”

Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, they thought that something would happen today, and it seemed to be a false alarm.

But Li Xiruo saw it really in the back, Feng Yan changed the hexagram, and his techniques were skilled and sophisticated, which was indeed difficult for ordinary people to see.

After the sacrifice, the village chief announced that those who had aspirations could climb trees to fetch things, but advised everyone to put safety first and not to do anything to win.

Of course, everyone also knows that this is to get a lottery, and secondly, if this can climb to the top of the tree, it can also fight for the name of a hero, but unfortunately, for so many years, every person who can really climb up, and the person who climbed to the highest said that this tree grows strangely, and when it reaches the top, the branches are somewhat layered with the trunk below, and ordinary people cannot climb up unless they sacrifice their lives.

In order to measure the height of climbing, everyone has a red line in their hands, and when they reach their limit, they tie the red line to the trunk and throw it down, and after touching the ground, they cut it off next to the trunk at that end, and then measure the length.

Lin Rong took the lead, he went up first, and then Feng Yan, Lin Rong climbed very fast, and he just started to go up on the trunk of the tree, and when he entered the dense branches and leaves, the people below were basically not very visible.

Li Xiruo frowned, walked through the crowd, approached the trunk of the tree, and stared at the tree with dead eyes.

The higher you go, the more people give up, this tree is more than 30 meters high, like a building, it must be dangerous to climb with bare hands.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the three people had already given up, leaving only Lin Rong and the other guy from Shashu Village.

Everyone looked at the brilliant place, but they didn't expect that the sunny weather just now turned cloudy, and when they looked up at the sky, it was already gray, and before they could react, there was a sudden thunder in the sky, which scared many people to scream.

Some of them came to their senses and immediately shouted at the trees, "It's thunder, come down quickly." ”

The young man at the bottom hurriedly climbed down, and because he was afraid, he jumped down more than a meter high, turned his leg, but he didn't care about the injury on his foot, and quickly escaped from the range of the tree.

Soon after the thunder, showers began to fall, and the village chief hurriedly evacuated the screaming people, and a few well-intentioned people stayed under the trees and shouted Lin Rong and Feng Yan, but none of them moved. I saw the branches of the trees in the high places swaying, and I didn't know if they had climbed there, or if they had been blown by the wind.

Li Xiruo saw that there was no movement on the tree, pushed away those people, and was about to climb on it, but was stopped by a group of people: "Girl, this is not good, this is all thunder, aren't you going up to die, not to mention, we have never had a precedent for a woman from a country to climb a tree." ”

Li Xiruo glanced at them coldly: "Let go!" ”

The man was stunned by this look, and immediately didn't dare to stop it, and watched Li Xiruo climb up.

Li Xiruo reluctantly got up to the trunk of the tree, and when he looked up, he saw two figures competing to go up. Outside the leaves was a deafening thunder, and the raindrops smashed into Li Xiruo's face through the gaps, Li Xiruo wiped his face and continued to climb up.

The rain soaked the trunk of the tree, and it was a little slippery, Li Xiruo tore off the shirt inside his coat and tied it to his hands in strips, held the trunk, and jumped up.

Lin Rong looked up with resolute eyes, even if the rain drained his eyes, he didn't blink, his heart was only at the top, and it seemed that he had blocked out the thunder outside.

After he got on a tree trunk, he suddenly heard a voice: "Gu Minghan, what are you doing?" ”

He was stunned, and immediately looked down, and saw Li Xiruo standing on the trunk of the tree, his body swaying a little, and his brows furrowed: "What are you doing when you come up, go down quickly." ”

Li Xiruo grabbed the branch next to him with one hand, freed one hand, and stretched out to Gu Minghan: "You go down with me, you can't stay here any longer." ”

Gu Minghan looked at Li Xiruo and didn't speak, Li Xiruo was angry with him for the first time: "Didn't you hear the thunder outside?" You're going up, and you're the one who dies. ”

Feng Yan was on Li Xiruo's left side, he looked at the loosening in Gu Minghan's eyes, and said to him: "Don't forget, you can't get Cangyun, and you don't want to get the antidote from me." ”

Hearing this, Gu Minghan resolutely turned his head and continued to climb up.