Du Kang leaned against the stone wall and looked at it, then turned to me and said, "These are the finer roots...... It doesn't seem to be the root of the sacred tree. ”

I asked Du Kang, "How do you judge?" ”

"The tree has a root system that extends from left to right, from top to bottom, and another root system, which is the opposite, from the depths of the cave," said Du Kang. ”

As he said this, I also noticed that the larger roots taper from left to right, while the other roots grew thicker the farther to the right.

I reckon that these new roots may be the roots of the mountain demons.

Previously, Liu Shangang said that he had seen a strange dwarf mule in the memory of the evil god, and that dwarf mule had not only stood in the ruins of Dazhai for many years, but also held the "head" of the mountain demon in his hand.

Maybe the monster we encountered before was the dwarf mule, which had been nourished by demonic energy in this cave for thousands of years, and even if a series of mutations occurred, it was not impossible.

As for the mountain demon, it was originally a demon corpse, as long as the corpse qi did not disperse, it would not die, and the so-called "head" seemed to be the source of its corpse qi, and the dwarf mule brought it to the bottom of the cave, and it grew new roots here, merging with the rotten roots of the sacred tree.

I was thinking about this in my heart, when I heard Liang Houzai say: "The evil god is of course very dangerous, but when we come to this place, the evil god will not be a threat to us, and neither will the mountain demon." ”

I looked at Liang Houzai: "What do you mean?" ”

Liang Houzai said: "Brother Dao, in fact, when you led the evil god Qi field on the ground out of the valley, I felt strange, there was such a big movement, and the evil god didn't react at all, even if we walked here, it didn't directly attack us. You've walked a long way, and you've used the Heavenly Seal several times, and it's impossible for the evil god not to be aware of your existence, but it's just waiting quietly, why? ”

I thought about it for a moment and responded to him, "Because it can't stop us." ”

Liang Houzai nodded: "Yes, I think so too." At the beginning, the dwarf mule should have been bewitched by the mountain demon, so he took the mountain demon's head into the crypt. And the reason why the mountain demon took great pains to come to this place was to absorb the essence of the rotten roots of the sacred tree. Look at the roots. ”

As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed to the root system on the stone wall, and then continued: "Those tiny roots grow around the rotten roots, but they don't rot together with the roots of the holy tree, there is no light here, even if the mountain demon becomes an evil corpse, but its original form is an old tree after all, the tree has no light, can it still grow?" The above-ground part cannot, and neither can the underground part. There is only one explanation for the fact that it can grow such a large root system in complete darkness, and that is that it absorbs nutrients from rotten roots. ”

In other words, the current demon corpse has been fused with the rotten roots of the sacred tree.

Although the essence of the evil god is a self-conscious Qi field, the root of the evil god Qi field seems to be the root of these rotten roots. It seems that the demon corpse is probably trying to make these rotten roots become a part of it, so as to occupy the evil god's Qi field and become a new evil god with substance.

It did a good job, at least it incorporated the rotten roots of the sacred tree into its body, but it couldn't have become an evil god. Don't forget, not only the demon corpse has its own consciousness, but also the evil god, and its consciousness is transformed by the resentment of more than 10,000 people, which is much stronger than the demon corpse.

It is impossible for the evil god to let the demon corpse erase it from this world, and in the more than a thousand years that the two have been constantly merging, it should be in a state of constant struggle and mutual checks and balances. The demon corpse occupies the source of the evil god's Qi field, but it cannot suppress the evil god's will.

Imagine what would be the result of two simultaneous and antagonistic consciousnesses in a body? That is, no one can control this body.

It's no wonder that we've been in for so long, and the evil gods and demon corpses haven't reacted, the two of them should have discovered us a long time ago, but neither of them can control their own power to deal with us.

The monster was their gatekeeper before, and once the door god died, the hearts of the evil god and the demon corpse were exposed to us at the same time.

The demon corpse used its demonic energy to disturb our senses just now, maybe it was the last effort it could do.

At this time, Liang Houzai said to me again: "It seems that things are much simpler than imagined. ”

I nodded first, and then asked Liang Houzai, "The evil god himself can't control his own power, why can Han Jin still use his power to cast a curse?" ”

Liang Houzai explained to me: "Ancient witchcraft is like this, after the blood contract is established, whether the evil god wants it or not, its power will be borrowed, and because of that blood contract, the part of the power that the evil god has been divided will chase you everywhere, and if you still don't die after this power is exhausted, it will divide another force to complete the curse." This is a trait common to psychic witchcraft. ”

Actually, I'd like to ask more about "psychics", but it's not a good time to discuss them.

Liu Shangang walked to the stone wall, put his ear to it and listened, and after a while, he turned his head and said to me, "The sound has become more urgent, I think there must be something in this wall." ”

I took a deep breath and used the technique of "carrying the corpse" to condense the Qi field of the black water corpse coffin on the tip of my index finger, and then touched the stone wall with this finger.

The Qi field of Fantian Yin has completely dispelled the evil qi here, and I can only sense the source of the evil qi through this method.

The moment my fingertips touched the stone wall, I felt something squirming on the other side of the stone wall.

It's not a special sense that comes from carrying a corpse, there is something that does squirm along the wall, and you can feel it just by the touch on your fingertips.

I frowned as I gathered my mind and focused on my fingertips.

The Qi field of the black water corpse coffin flowed into the stone wall and slowly circulated in the large rock formations, and soon, I felt a very strong evil aura coming from the other side of the stone wall.

Demon energy, corpse energy, and the special Qi field of the evil god are all concentrated there.

I put down my arm, let out a breath of turbidity, and then said to the second master: "The evil god and the demon corpse are just across the stone wall, and they are only about a meter away from us. ”

The second master was very surprised: "So close!" ”

I said, "Second Master, can you smash this stone wall?" ”

The second master stepped forward, pressed the surface of the stone wall hard, and asked me, "How thick is it?" ”

I carefully recalled the distance of the black water corpse coffin just now spread on the stone wall, and said to the second master: "It's nearly one meter." ”

"It can't be broken," the second master immediately shook his head: "This is a one-meter-thick rock formation." ”

I sighed helplessly, and asked Liu Shangang again: "Did you bring anything for blasting?" ”

Liu Shangang grinned: "Why don't you bring it, I secretly got a lot of it when I left from Lao Bao, and it finally came in handy today." ”

I patted Liu Shangang on the shoulder: "Don't blow up too hard." ”

Liu Shangang smiled at me, and I withdrew some distance with the others.

If I had a hammer and a chisel for demolition now, I would never have let Liu Shangang use explosives. The impact of the explosion was so violent, I was afraid that the crypt would collapse.

However, Liu Shangang looked confident, he first took out a sapper shovel to clear the roots on the stone wall into a space large enough to place explosives, and then took out a dough-like thing from his backpack, pasted it on the stone wall, and placed a lead on the "dough".

Liu Shangang lit the fuse and quickly ran to our side.

As soon as he arrived in front of me, I heard a muffled "bang", and the explosives stuck to the stone wall exploded, and the broken stone and dust suddenly fell in all directions.

The explosives weren't too powerful, and they didn't send the whole cavern as I had imagined, just a slight tremor from the stone walls and the ground. But only a small hole was blown out of the stone wall, and even Liu Shangang might not be able to get into it, let alone the second master.

I was wondering in my heart, so I heard Liu Shangang say to me: "The clay explosives I make are small equivalent, and I need to blow them up a few more times." Hehe, don't worry, the hole won't collapse. ”

With that, he hurried to the blast mouth, and as he had done so, he had pasted a piece of clay explosive on the stone wall, lit the fuse, and ran to our side.

He tossed back and forth several times, and finally a gap in the stone wall was blown open enough for the second master to pass through, and after that, he put explosives in this gap to widen the gap.

Due to the low power of the explosives, there was no major turmoil in the cave after several explosions in succession.

But I'm still worried that such an explosion might destroy the more fragile parts of the cave structure, and that continuous blasting would also deepen the damage.

At this time, Liu Shangang ran to my side again and said to me: "The last explosion, the stone wall has been opened, and it will be expanded a little." ”

I immediately asked him, "What's on the other side of the hole?" ”

Boom!

As soon as I finished speaking, there was another muffled sound on the stone wall, and this time there was significantly less rubble coming out of the blast mouth than the previous times, and it seemed that the gap had been completely blown through.

Liu Shangang said to me: "It's dark, I haven't seen anything." However, after the explosion pierced the stone wall, the sound just now disappeared. ”

I nodded, picked up the Fantian seal and walked to the blast on the stone wall, while the second master turned on the flashlight to illuminate me.

On the other side of the gap, there was a small stone chamber, and the ground was covered with the rotten roots of the sacred tree and the roots of the mountain demon, but I looked around, but I did not see the "head" of the mountain demon.

The second master came in with a flashlight and shone the corner that the headlamp could not illuminate, and then I saw that there was a half-meter-high hole in front of the left side of the stone room, and the light shone into the hole, and a cluster of earthworms was entrenched there, some of which were still wriggling.

As soon as I saw these things, I couldn't help but feel numb on my scalp, but the second master didn't have any abnormal reaction, he looked at the earthworms carefully, and said to me: "Most of them are dead, and only the top few are alive." ”

I looked towards the entrance of the cave, and sure enough, I found that most of the earthworms entrenched there were not moving, only the top few were wriggling, and they were very sluggish, and seemed to be extremely weak.

The second master probably noticed that my face was not very good, so he asked me, "Are you afraid of earthworms?" ”

I shook my head: "I'm not afraid, or I'm a little nauseous when I see it." ”

The second master smiled and said to himself: "In the past, Lao Chai was also afraid of this thing, but I didn't expect this problem to be passed down." ”

At this time, Du Kang walked to the hole with a sapper shovel, and when he was about to approach the hole, the cave immediately remembered a sound of "Xi Suo Xi Suo", which was very broken, as if many things were moving at the same time.

Du Kang hesitated slightly, but finally walked up and pulled out the giant earthworms in the hole one by one with his hands.