Chapter 77: Return the Pearl
It's just that they didn't expect that what rushed up to kill them like crazy was countless branches and scattered rattans. The plants that were impossible to move were now alive like poisonous snakes, and the sharp tips turned into sharp blades, and in a moment they cut the clothes on their bodies, and some of them had already injured their skin, oozing red blood.
And this bloodshot that was so faint in the air that it could barely be smelled made them even more crazy in an instant!
"Are all the trees in this forest crazy? How do you all move? ”
Even though Yushu had followed his master in Yuanling Mountain for many years, and even seen some elves and demons, he had never seen the trees that were originally normal come to life, so that he was so shocked that his forehead and nose were sweaty, and his back was even more damp and cold.
Feng Huanling pursed her lips and didn't say a word, the soft sword in her hand was slightly glowing with moonlight silver in the darkness, which made her feel like Long Yucang was by her side in a trance, and she was immediately relieved. Seeing a vine approaching, she didn't panic and eagerly didn't waste any of her strength in vain, and saw the right time before she slashed out with a sword and cut off half of the scattered vines.
As a result, an even more bizarre picture appeared, and the broken vine, which could only flow out of green liquid leaves at most, actually flowed out of scarlet blood like a human.
"What the hell are these things?"
Seeing this terrifying situation, Feng Huanling couldn't help but let out a low sigh.
If these things were easier for people to do, at least they wouldn't die after being killed, but these branches and vines seemed to be endless, even the green vine that had just been cut off in half, still rushed to kill without fear of death, and even threw the blood that kept flowing out onto Feng Huanling's body.
"Princess, be careful!"
Seeing a tree vine wrapped around Feng Huanling's calf, Yushu turned around and cut it off with a sword, and at the same time, a branch poking out of the thousands of branches of the Tree King pierced straight into her ribs.
"Yushu!"
Feng Huanling screamed in pain, although she also swung her sword to cut off the branch, but she was a step too late after all, and she could only watch as the blood of the jade tree and the blood splattered from the broken branch spread out a snow mist, staining her eyes red.
At the moment when he threw out the fireworks, Feng Huanling suddenly remembered that these trees should be afraid of fire, so he hurriedly found some dead branches from the ground, took out the fire folds and lit them, and then threw or swung them at the attacking branches and vines. Seeing this, Yushu no longer cared about the wounds on his ribs, picked up the dead branches with his free hands, and attacked those crazy branches after igniting them, which could have some deterrent effect.
Even if they fought back desperately, there were more and more injuries on the two of them after a while, especially Yushu, who was fully protective of his master, the original jade dress had almost been dyed bright red, and the original jade-like color could not be distinguished.
"Huanling!"
Long Yucang, who had broken through the formation all the way, finally arrived at the location of the Tree King in the center of the Lost Forest, but he was immediately shocked by the sight in front of him.
"Lord Wang, I'm fine, Yushu ...... her"
It wasn't until he was embraced by Long Yucang that Feng Huanling found that his body was already as cold as ice, and the soft sword and torch in his hand were only moving mechanically.
"Don't worry, I'm here. Don't be afraid, it's okay. ”
Long Yucang whispered in Feng Huanling's ear was only an extremely concise few words, but it was strangely reassuring.
With a roar like a tiger roaring and a dragon's roar, Long Yucang's body was full of silver, and with this light alone, he forced those branches and vines with teeth and claws to retreat, making the jade tree on the verge of life and death suddenly lose its threat and loosen its body.
"Demon, do you stop and show up by yourself, or do you want to die under this sword?"
Long Yucang, who hadn't even glanced at the chaotic trees and vines around him, pointed his sword straight at the stout tree king, and the tip of the Howling Sky Sword that turned into a snow-bright light had already pierced into the body of the tree.
As early as when she discovered the anomaly, Feng Huanling had slashed the tree king with a sword, because she thought that all the visions were caused by this oldest tree. But her sword failed to leave a trace on the tree, but the invincible blade appeared with a shocking curl, which shows how hard the seemingly ordinary tree body is!
However, Long Yucang seemed to be just a casual stab, and he easily pierced the body of the tree, causing the tree king to scream in pain, and the sound was terrifying.
"It turned out to be the Xiaotian Sword, I didn't expect that it would be a Yuanling Mountain monk who came back this time, and it was still in such a position, it was really unlucky!"
The king of the trees uttered a strange human voice, as if he were just a young child, but he had lost his virginity, and he was ghostly and gloomy.
"You must have devoured a lot of human and beast essence blood over the years, if you don't get captured obediently, not to mention the lives of those trees and grandchildren outside you, don't blame this seat for ruining your thousand-year cultivation immediately!"
At this time, Feng Huanling didn't know what it meant for Long Yucang to capture the thousand-year-old tree demon, but he just wondered why he didn't just slash this demon that devoured the essence of humans and beasts.
"You, really don't kill me?"
The Tree King didn't seem to believe that he could be so lucky, and when he bumped into the high-ranking monk of Yuanling Mountain, he even had a chance to live.
"As long as you confess the Lord, this seat will not kill you."
The corners of Long Yucang's mouth were clear and radiant, and the shallow arc that was slightly hooked to wipe people's hearts was terrifying, making the evil qi all over his body seem to turn into ethereal fairy qi in an instant.
After a long silence, the branches and vines of the trees with teeth and claws on the periphery shrank back into their original harmless appearance, and the sky above the Lost Forest gradually dissipated, and the sunlight slowly broke through the clouds.
Although he didn't know what was going on, Yushu also knew that the danger was at least over for the time being, so he fell to the ground with weak legs, "Lord, fortunately, the slave and maid finally saved the princess's life, and finally lived up to the trust and returned the princess to the princess ......."
Before he could finish his words, Yushu, who had tried his best and lost too much blood due to serious injuries, fainted as soon as his eyes rolled white.
"Lord Wang, Yushu ......"
Although Feng Huanling's legs were also a little weak, after all, he was in the arms of Long Yucang, bathed in the immortal aura exuded from his body, and he didn't even feel the pain of the wounds on his body, so he became more and more nervous Yushu, whose face was pale and bloodless.
"Don't worry, she's fine."
Long Yucang only glanced at the jade tree in the snow-dyed dress, and when he had just withdrawn the Howling Sky Sword, Luo Xian had already passed through the Lost Trace Forest and found their location.
"Princess, Yushu just fainted, it's really fine."
After Luo Xian stepped forward for a brief inspection, he confirmed his master's words to Feng Huanling again.
"Oh, it's fine."
Feng Huanling was completely relieved at this time, and immediately fainted in the arms that made her extremely relieved, but Long Yucang was so distressed by her pale prostration that his eyes were as dark as ink.
At the beginning of Nangong Anye, it was extremely difficult to lead people to cut down the trees in the Lost Forest, even if ten people offered a big tree, it was difficult to cut off one of them even if they had cut down several guillotine knives and axes. What's even more strange is that it looks like an ordinary wood, but when the marks are cut, what flows out is bright red blood like a person, and it is accompanied by a thick and abnormal bloody aura.
Just when many forbidden troops gradually did not dare to continue to attack, the cloudy sky suddenly began to clear, but in the blink of an eye, it strangely changed from lead clouds to cloudless.
At the same time, the woods they were cutting down were no longer as hard as iron, but much better than ordinary trees, but still bleeding crimson blood.
"Well, there is no need to cut down any more trees, dig a pit under each tree, and then rebury all the bones that were dug up."
When Long Yucang came out, there was already one more person in his arms, but he was covered by his wide robe, and he couldn't see what it looked like, but everyone was vaguely sure in their hearts that it must be the princess.
Otherwise, who would be worthy of letting King Cheyue personally hold such a treasure in his arms?
"Lord, you said that there are ...... under these trees Buried in the bones? ”
Although the experience of killing enemies on the battlefield is not as good as that of General Yan back then, Nangong Anye has led the forbidden army in charge of the palace guards for many years, and he has seen and committed not a small number of killings, but he was still frightened by the words spoken by King Cheyue with a calm face.
"Could it be that there are demons in this Lost Forest? The people who disappeared here in the past were all eaten by demons? ”
"Yes, it must be the right prince to go in and subdue and kill the demon, so we will cut down the tree outside and suddenly have no effort."
"But this is the summer palace, and there is the body of the Royal Dragon here, how can any demon dare to hide?"
“……”
The surrounding forbidden soldiers talked in a low voice, even if they deliberately lowered their voices, they were still inevitably heard.
Long Jingming's face changed slightly, and then he smiled with concern and asked, "Uncle Huang, is the princess okay?" ”
"Thanks to the Holy Blessing, it is all right." Long Yucang quietly tightened his arms, as if this way he could be sure that the person in his arms was really fine, "There are actually no demons in the Lost Forest, but an ancient tree that has grown here for thousands of years has given birth to elves, and they don't want to be disturbed by others to practice, so they set up a formation here so that people can't easily set foot on it." ”
As soon as King Cheyue's words came out, it immediately caused a small uproar, and they all said, "It turned out to be a thousand-year-old tree spirit, not a demon, no wonder it was not forced back by the divine power of the true dragon emperor."
After saying what he had to say, Long Yucang didn't stay any longer, and said goodbye to Xuan and left the Lost Forest with Luo Xian, who was holding the jade tree in his arms.
However, Long Jingming stayed, and watched the forbidden soldiers dig out one white bone after another under every tree in the Lost Forest, and his eyes were faintly visible, vaguely like the water of the Lethe River on the Huangquan Road in the underworld.
I don't know if he thinks in his heart that among the many corpses that are already difficult to identify here, there is a body that belongs to his mother, Concubine Li.
Long Jingming no longer had a smile on his face, but his eyes were still staring at the white bones that were accumulating in front of the Lost Trace Forest, "Shangshan, Uncle Huang, he is really good at making a living, he actually broke through the Lost Trace Forest that thousands of forbidden troops were powerless by just one person, and he is worthy of being the master disciple of the Immortal Venerable of Yuanling Mountain." ”
"The Holy Lord is right, but the Lost Forest is a thousand-year-old tree spirit, and it is not common for them to be captured by cultivators, after all, they are not creatures in the same world." Miao Shangshan has been in the palace since he was a child, and he has served two emperors personally, but he feels that he is getting older, and he seems to be more and more unable to see through the Emperor Xuan in front of him, "It's a pity that King Cheyue's Taoist ability to catch demons and subdue demons is not used in the court and the opposition after all." ”
Hearing this, Long Jingming seemed to be quite satisfied, and pursed his lips without saying anything more. Seeing this, Miao Shangshan secretly wiped a cold sweat.
At that time, Long Yucang had already carried Feng Huanling back to Fengyi Pavilion like a fly, but he didn't let any subordinates interfere, personally changed a dirty dress for her, carefully washed it, and then put on a clean and refreshing bedclothes, and then carefully placed her on the bed.
After all this was done, Long Yucang shook the bag in his sleeve and released a cloud of turquoise mist.
"I've also healed her injuries for you, so you can start to confess now, right?"