I was extremely resistant to this, because the living corpse looked far more terrifying than a fleshless skeleton, but the Taoist priest had to drag me over.

"Stop, stop, you let go, can't I go?" I broke free from the Taoist priest, glared at him, plucked up the courage to walk to the corpse, looked left and right, and found nothing but the corpse, so I looked at him and made a questioning expression.

"Damn, didn't you notice that such a small pit, the corpse sitting in it but not falling, don't you think it's suspicious?"

After being reminded by the Taoist priest, I found the clue, looked carefully, and found that half of the corpse's body was outside the stone pit, if there was nothing behind the corpse, it must have fallen out.

"Did you find anything?" I looked at the Taoist priest and said that since this hair said that he had made a discovery, he must know something, and instead of wasting my time guessing it myself, it was better to ask him directly.

The Taoist priest smiled mysteriously, stepped forward, grabbed the corpse's collar in my surprised gaze, without the slightest respect for the deceased, and then suddenly pulled the corpse out. I was speechless by the Taoist priest's actions, but then I realized that something was wrong, there was really a thing behind the corpse, it seemed to be a pipe, and it looked like the fibrous roots of the hell tree, and when I looked closely, I found that this thing was exactly the same as the rhizomes of those demon trees that could run away in Yeling.

Like an umbilical cord, the rhizome poked deep into the spine of the corpse's back, and the other came out of a small hole in the crater, and it was precisely because of its pull that the corpse was held in the crater.

I had barely had time to see what was going on inside, when the rhizome shrank suddenly, and the corpse bounced back in an instant, sealing the crater.

"W-what is this?" I looked at the Taoist priest in horror, trying to get an answer from him.

The Taoist priest did not answer my question immediately, but looked around, and after scanning the entire bone cave, his eyes stayed on the largest rock pit on the top of the cave, and his pupils suddenly shrank, as if he had discovered something again.

"Reporter, you said that you put down the body from the top of the cave before, is this a hole?" The Taoist priest asked, pointing to the pitch-black hole in the roof of the cave.

"Yes! Is there something wrong? ”

The Taoist priest still didn't speak, walked to the bottom of the hole, looked up and stared at it for a long time, and his face suddenly changed. I really didn't want to stay near the corpse, so I walked over to him and pushed him.

After being pushed by me, the Taoist priest came back to his senses, looked at me with an ugly face and said, "Immeasurable... His grandmother's Tianzun, reporter, I don't know if you noticed a problem? ”

"Huh? What's the problem? ”

"The ghost forest on the edge of the sinkhole, which is what you call 'Yeling', the trees in it, each tree has a human face with a strange expression."

I was shocked, and I knew this, and was very impressed by it, because I accidentally got into the face of the tree when I was wrapping the rope, and it caused a strange commotion.

"I know this, why are you talking about this? Does that have anything to do with these caves? ”

The Taoist priest shook his head, nodded again, and said with a gloomy face: "Dao Ye now finally knows why you regard this forest as a forbidden land, originally Dao Ye thought that the most terrible thing in this forest was the Hell Tree and the abyss sealed in the Hell Tree, but now it seems that Poor Dao still underestimates this Yeling, and there is a big secret in this dog's day!" ”

It is not only the Taoist priest who describes Yeling in this way, Zhang Tianxing also said in the message that the Hell Tree is just the tip of the iceberg of Yeling, and the letter I received from Zhang Juming to Zhang Lingjin also mentioned that Yeling is also terrifying, and now it seems that this statement is true, but I still don't understand, especially the Taoist priest who also says so now, where did he see this?

"Daoist, after you finish speaking, what have you discovered, when has it been, can you fucking stop playing dumb riddles."

Maybe it was because he knew the seriousness of the situation, or maybe it was because his conscience found out, the Taoist priest really didn't play dumb riddles anymore, and he told everything he found in combination with his guesses. This is all his speculation about Yeling, but according to his words, this is the secret hidden behind Yeling.

It all started with the ghost forest outside the sinkhole, and by now, we already know that the Hell Tree can use the moth-eaten caverns on the dome of the underground forest to drill out of the surface to hunt, and once a living creature passes by, the Huen root will take the initiative to roll the prey back into the sinkhole and hang it from the Hell Tree. The Infernal Tree then secretes the wax that seals the hanging prey in the wax cocoon, and finally the fibrous roots secrete venom again, digesting the prey in the wax cocoon into nutrients that the Inferno Tree can absorb, which is used to feed the Inferno Tree to grow.

And the existence of the Hell Tree is only to suppress the abyss, perhaps the Hell Tree was planted by the three-eyed people in the past and present, specifically to seal the abyss. The Taoist priest has read the classics and knows some of the characteristics of the Hell Tree, the growth of the Hell Tree requires a lot of vitality and yang energy, which means that if you want to cultivate the Hell Tree, you must feed it a huge number of lives, and all the creatures that die at the hands of the Hell Tree are just a sacrifice, a sacrifice that must be paid in order to seal the abyss.

I really can't imagine what kind of mentality the Three-Eyed people had back then to make such a big sacrifice.

Of course, this is only the secret of the Hell Tree, and in Zhang Tianxing's words, the Hell Tree is just the tip of the iceberg of Yeling. As for the bone cave in the upper part of the sinkhole, as well as the ghost forest outside the sinkhole, that is another terrible secret of Yeling.

The Taoist priest asked me to count the number of stone pits on the wall of this bone cave in front of me, this cave is not very big, I roughly counted it, there are about two hundred, the Taoist priest pointed to the mountains of white bones on the ground and said that these bones were all the corpses in the pit that fell after being sucked dry.

I didn't believe it at first, but as the Taoist priest's analysis deepened, I felt a chill that made people hairy.

With more than 200 stone pits, it seems far from being comparable to these broken bones on the ground, but if it takes long enough, it is not difficult to accumulate these bones. The point is, where did so many corpses come from?

According to the Taoist priest's analysis, some of these corpses originated from the Hell Tree under the sinkhole, and the tail-like rhizomes in the stone pit were extremely flexible and retractable, and it was entirely possible to go deep into the bottom of the sinkhole and snatch the corpses from the Hell Tree. There is also a part, which should be from the corpses buried in the nearby underground, that is, within a certain range of this area, but where there is a dead person, the corpse is buried and buried in the ground, and these rhizomes drag the corpse into the deep cave along the leyline, accumulating dozens or hundreds of generations, and the number of corpses will also reach a terrible level.

This is not speculation, but there is evidence for it. A few years ago, some families in the village made a fortune outside and were ready to move their ancestors to a feng shui treasure for burial, but when the tomb was dug up, they found that the coffin had been destroyed, there were no bones in the museum, and there was a deep hole the size of a basin in the ground. Some people say that it is a hole dug by tomb robbers, and some people retort that it is impossible, first, it is impossible for tomb robbers to take away even the corpses, and secondly, the people in this area are fierce, and it is basically impossible for tomb robbers to dare to patronize, saying that this should be a hole made by pythons or ground rats.

When the man heard this, he became angry, and he had to pour water into the hole, trying to drown the things in the hole, but no matter how much water was poured, no matter how much water was poured, the big hole seemed to have no bottom, and there was no movement.

There are more than one or two cases of this situation, and many people's ancestral graves have been robbed, so the neighboring villages during that time set off a wave of grave relocation, in order to see if their ancestral graves have also had accidents.

In addition, there is one of the most intuitive evidences, that is, more than a dozen corpses in the cave in front of him are wearing funeral clothes.

Of course, in addition to these two sources, the various creatures that have accidentally broken into Yeling over the years are also one of the sources of these broken bones.

I don't know what the Taoist priest's purpose is in saying this, because he just mentioned those ghost forests with strange faces on the surface of Yeling, and what does the grimace carved on the demon tree have to do with this?

Regarding this, the Taoist priest gave an answer that made me creepy and couldn't believe it at all: he said that every demon tree with a human face in Yeling had a person trapped inside.

I didn't quite understand what he meant, and I didn't know what he was saying until he gave me a specific explanation.

"There's something wrong with those rhizomes!"

This is the original words of the Taoist priest, who said that these rhizomes do not belong to the Hell Tree, and are not the same as the fibrous roots of the Hell Tree, these rhizomes have life, they seem to be conscious, so they are constantly hunting for living creatures like the fibrous roots of the Hell Tree, but the purpose of their hunting is not for a single thing, but for ...... The whole Yaling.

Yes, according to the Taoist priest, the whole Yeling is a living behemoth, and it is even more terrifying than the Hell Tree, because the Hell Tree is only a part of it.

It's hard to understand this, in fact, what the Taoist priest said about Yeling is a living thing, not that Yeling is a living monster, what he said is that every demon tree in Yeling is a trapped life. And these beings, most likely, are these mountains of corpses in the bone cave, they are indeed dead, but their souls are not detached, but trapped in the Jereng like their bodies.

The distorted expressions on each demon tree are the embodiment of the struggles of these souls.

The Taoist priest's reasoning was so shocking that I couldn't believe it, and I couldn't believe it, but I have to say that his words really scared me enough.