Chapter Twenty-Six: Thunder and Earthquake
The five-step snake on the tree is not only surprisingly big, but the momentum in its eyes is far from being comparable to that of an ordinary five-step snake, it has an extremely ferocious and powerful, terrifying aura, and its eyes are gloomy and cold, like a very conceited cold-blooded killer staring at its prey, and has already regarded its prey as a dead person.
There is no doubt that this one is the snake demon that Master and I have been looking for for a long time, but I didn't expect it to hide in the hollow of the third big camphor tree.
"Master, back off!" I hurriedly called Master, but I didn't dare to move, because I felt that the snake demon was staring at me, and if I moved, it might pounce from the tree, and I had little experience dealing with poisonous snakes.
Master had already raised his machete, and when he heard my frightened scream, he stopped and turned his head to look at me, and then he saw the huge five-step snake in my sight, and then his body also stiffened, and he didn't dare to move. Anyone who has ever confronted a viper knows that if you don't move, it won't attack, but if you move so hard, it will immediately deliver a fatal blow when it senses danger.
Master and I didn't dare to move, but the snake demon in the tree slowly but firmly slid out of the hole in the tree, it was calm and unhurried, like a powerful and proud king entering the venue and appearing on the stage. Its scales are thick, the pattern is bright and bright, in addition to the pattern that the five-step snake should have, there is also a faint golden dazzling, which shows its extraordinary.
"Snake, snake, big snake!" Someone in the distance also spotted it and screamed loudly.
"Oh my God, such a big soldering iron!" More people screamed.
"That's a five-step snake, it's highly poisonous, don't be biedong, let me ......" A person shouted, running quickly to this side, as if it was Wu Zhangya's voice.
Behind me, Wu Zhangya slowed down, took out a small black cloth bag from her pocket, tore open the cloth bag and poured out a black-brown pill, and then kept spitting on the pill, rubbing her hands and smearing it on the back of her hand and wrist...... I smelled the pungent smell of medicine, and the extremely arrogant snake demon on the tree suddenly stopped, and instead of staring at me and my master, he stared at Wu Zhangya instead. I could feel it a little angry, a little scared.
"Let's go, let's go!" Wu Zhangya whispered, he was very nervous, and finished painting his hands and arms, then his face, neck, and clothes, and his eyes were fixed on the snake demon.
Master and I only had to add to the chaos here, so we began to retreat slowly, and after taking a few steps back, we increased our speed, and only stopped after retreating five or six meters away.
The snake demon began to move its body outward again, and the entire snake body was exposed, with a sharp horn thorn at the end of the tail that was more than half a foot long, and the length of the whole body was more than three meters, because its body was curved, I could not accurately estimate it.
Several of the villagers shouted, all to the same point, they had seen such a big five-step snake, but no one had ever believed that the five-step snake could grow so big.
The snake demon did not get down the tree, but swam along a big branch to the big camphor tree in the middle, this time it was closer to Wu Zhangya, condescending, and could launch a fatal blow at any time.
Wu Zhangya originally wanted to catch it, but at this time he was also a little frightened, and seeing that Master and I had retreated, he also began to retreat step by step. The snake demon was probably also a little afraid of the snake repellent in his hand, so he didn't continue to approach, his body coiled up, his head shrunk back in the middle, and he made a gesture of imminent pounce and then didn't move.
With such a huge five-step snake entrenched in a tree, who would dare to cut down the tree? After all, the master was an old man, so he quickly had an idea, and said to the villagers behind: "Go back and carry dry firewood, there is gasoline, diesel and tung oil, and set fire to them!" ”
"It makes sense, even snakes are afraid of fire." Wu Zhangya also retreated, but she was already sweating and tired, "I have never seen such a terrible snake, more terrifying than facing a bandit with a gun." ”
"Because it's a demon!" Master said.
Most of the villagers went back to get dry firewood and fuel, and those who were still present hid far away, and my master, grandmother, uncle and others also walked more than 10 meters away from the big camphor tree to prevent the snake demon from injuring people. At this moment I suddenly saw a man emerge from the bushes on the hillside behind the tree, unkempt and wearing a tattered cotton jacket, running down barefoot and rushing towards the first camphor tree.
This man was the "genius madman" in the village, and I exclaimed, "What is he going to do?"
"Oh, it's not good!" Master also exclaimed, "He has been controlled by the long-tailed (weasel), and he wants to destroy the talisman array!" ”
The snake demon was still entrenched in the tree, I didn't dare to go over, so I had to look at Wu Zhangya, Wu Zhangya didn't dare to go over, just hesitated for a moment, the old madman had already grabbed the two talismans and tore them apart.
I was angry and angry, I spent so much effort and risked my life to suppress the dryad, but he was ruined, but he was already crazy, and at this time he was controlled by the monster, how could I blame him?
According to my guess, only the first of the three big camphor trees has absorbed filthy blood and filthy qi for many years, and its cultivation has advanced by leaps and bounds, with an independent personality and powerful abilities, and at the same time, its temperament has changed drastically. Although the second and third camphor trees are a little spiritual, they have not yet formed an independent mind, but they are absorbed by a weasel with a climate and a five-step snake attached to the tree, and the spirituality of the tree itself is gone, so the first big camphor tree is hostile to weasels and snake demons.
The cultivation of the camphor tree is higher than that of the weasel and the snake demon, but its body cannot move, and some things can only be done by the weasel and the snake demon, so it can only be tolerated and allowed to stay on the second and third trees. The weasel demon and the snake demon need to borrow a tree to cultivate and accept the incense of the villagers, and they don't want to leave here, and sometimes they can only obey the command of the big camphor tree...... This is the complicated relationship between them, friend and foe, but they are in the same boat, so now the snake demon and the weasel demon show up to save the big camphor tree.
The snake demon was eyeing the tiger, and no one dared to approach, so he could only watch as the old madman ripped off the rune paper one by one and tore it to shreds. Neither the weasel demon nor the snake demon dared to touch the rune paper directly, so the weasel could only control the old madman to do this, and in terms of charm and the ability to control people's minds, the weasel was not much worse than the fox spirit.
The camphor tree began to move again, and this time the shaking was far more violent than the previous one, the thousands of branches of the whole tree were shaking, the ground was arching rapidly, and the thick roots of the trees were like pythons emerging from the soil. A large amount of red mist emanated from the tree, and the wind could not disperse, like a flood spreading in all directions, and it was completely invisible from four or five meters away, and at the same time, the blood was so thick that it was almost impossible to breathe, as if the red mist was made of blood.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but I seem to see an incomparably huge person struggling in the mist, as if trying to get rid of something, and a powerful aura makes me have to step back.
"Master, is it going to become a human?" I shouted loudly, but the sound I heard was very small, I don't know if it was the sound of branches trembling, the sound of breaking earth, the whistling of air currents, or the howling of someone, which made my voice seem faint and small.
"Probably not, it's only been more than a thousand years, and it's impossible to become a human ......"
Master's words seemed to come from the sky, and I couldn't be sure what was affecting me, but at this moment I was affected by a powerful liliang or phenomenon, and I felt like a little ant...... Maybe it's getting dark, right? Because of the obscuration of the blood mist, the light was not bright, but at this time it was even darker, not much brighter than the night of the full moon, the heavens and the earth changed color, everything trembled, and of course the little human beings seemed very small.
I suddenly felt an inexplicable panic and despair in my heart, and it felt like the sky was about to fall, and it was useless to hide anywhere, and I would definitely break my bones to pieces. I dragged my mother and master to run backwards, and suddenly my feet went limp, and I couldn't stand and fell forward, but fortunately, my mother and master immediately grabbed me and continued to run forward.
I found that my legs could not exert my strength, and there was a very terrible pressure on my body, which made it difficult for me to breathe, and even to move my little finger, but my mother and master were not affected much, and they were running with me alone. Rub, I actually want two frail old men to drag me away, how can I be embarrassed!
How could a dryad make such an earth-shattering change? I was puzzled, but I couldn't concentrate on it at this time, I was oppressed by an indescribably powerful liliang, terrified to the extreme, it was an instinctive fear......
My mother and master panicked and ran in the direction of leaving the village, and I was dragged away like a dead dog. The sky was darker, almost to the point where I couldn't see my fingers, but the terrible pressure and fear just now was reduced a little, it seemed that the farther away from the big camphor tree, the weaker the pressure and fear became, I regained my strength a little, my legs were able to move, and I ran hard to reduce the weight of my mother and master, and my speed increased a little.
After running for a while, I suddenly found that the blood mist was gone, and the haze was gone, but the sky was still the same black, like an upside-down black cauldron. This...... What's going on?
When I looked back, I saw a purple light that was dazzling, and a bucket-sized purple lightning burst down from the sky, hitting the first camphor tree. At the same time my ears roared, my whole body was numb, and a huge impact hit my feet, and I flew up involuntarily, and then fell, and "saw" countless stars twinkling.
I'm not sure how long it took to regain consciousness (estimated a few seconds), my head was still dizzy, and I couldn't hear anything in my ears. I propped myself up from the ground, and I found that my mother and master were also propping up from the ground, and their mouths were moving, but I couldn't hear anything.
Are my ears deaf? I was a little scared, but I soon remembered that I would be temporarily deaf when I was hit by too strong a sound, and I was not necessarily really deaf. The lightning bolt just now......
I stood up and looked ahead, and saw only two large trees, the first of which was gone, and there was a large pit in the ground, and a blackened trunk was lying in the pit, still smoking.
I suddenly understood that the fear and pressure I had just now did not come from the big camphor tree, but from the heavenly thunder, which was the demon fox's instinctive fear of the heavenly thunder in my body. Before the thunder exploded, there was a strong pressure, so that the monster could not escape, because I had a demon spirit, so it was also affected, and I couldn't even move on my feet, fortunately my mother and master dragged me a little farther away, otherwise I might have been greatly affected.
The dark clouds in the sky quickly dispersed, and I saw a faint cloud of colorful clouds behind the dark clouds, like a woman in ancient costume riding on a unicorn, somewhat similar to the fairy girl in the crested hall, but it only dissipated in the blink of an eye.
Is this my delusion, or is it a manifestation of the gods? Did the lightning accidentally hit the tree, or did God open his eyes and send Thor to knock down the demon tree?