Chapter Fifty-Eight: Unexpected Reinforcements

Guan Zheng stood condescendingly three feet in front of Ruan Zhan and stopped, his face flashing many complicated expressions such as guard, suspicion, nervousness, and contempt, and did not take a step closer.

And Ruan Zhan was still as motionless as a fossil.

For a minute, Guan Zhengcai hesitated for a moment before raising his foot and entering the empty circle in front of Ruan Zhan.

But although he walked in, he didn't make a move on Ruan Zhan, just walked slowly around him, while continuing to chant the spell to summon the Gu in Ruan Zhan's body, while urging those monsters who had been on the periphery to get closer.

In Xiao Xia's anxious gaze, those monsters tentatively approached Ruan Zhan. Because of Guan Zheng's urging and Ruan Zhan's silence, gradually, those monsters became bolder, getting closer and closer to Ruan Zhan's position, and some had even climbed up his body.

At this time, Guan Zheng was finally relieved, he rubbed in front of Ruan Zhan, stopped all actions, and thought for a while, as if he wanted to think about how to torture him. Finally, he took one out of the small bamboo tube hanging from his waist and pulled the lid open.

"This is my most powerful Gu, I didn't expect to give you a taste today." He said and glanced at Xiao Xia and Wanli, who were anxiously watching at the 'window', and shook the things in his hand proudly, "Have you ever seen a honeycomb?" You'll see the human honeycomb in a while, and this handsome guy won't die yet, and become a handsome honeycomb guy walking around, haha-"

He laughed loudly, raised his hand, and was about to pour the Gu worms in the small bamboo tube onto the top of Ruan Zhan's head, but at the moment when the dozens of Gu worms like black beans were poured out, the mutation protruded!

Ruan Zhan, who seemed to have turned into a stone statue, suddenly jumped up, and with his left hand, he casually offered a charm, and a spark appeared in mid-air, heading straight towards the Gu worm, while his right hand swung a bloodwood sword and slashed straight at Guan Zheng.

"I knew you were faking!" Guan Zheng shouted and hurried back, pulling out a black wooden stick from his waist with one hand to parry the bloodwood sword that slashed down from the air, and with the other hand he rushed to withdraw the Gu worm that was about to be burned by the rune fire.

However, the Bloodwood Sword did not smash into Guan Zheng, and suddenly swept down in mid-air, slashing towards his waist in Guan Zheng's panic. Guan Zheng was shocked, he knew that although the Bloody Wood Sword was a wooden sword, it was an indestructible weapon in Ruan Zhan's hands, and if he didn't hide, he would have to be cut in half. So, he couldn't care about those Gu worms anymore, and hurriedly waved his stick to block them. Before the Gu worms he had worked so hard to refine could be used, they were ruthlessly burned to ashes by the Fu Fire.

However, the impact of the black wooden stick and the bloodwood sword that he expected did not come, but he felt a fall from his waist, and a 'pounce' sounded in his ears.

"It's broken!" As he thought about it, his heart was cold on the spot, and he immediately realized that he had finally fallen for Ruan Zhan.

The next second, when he looked down, he saw that it was his little drum that had been cut in half, and he could no longer use it, that is, he could no longer control those snakes, insects, rats and ants!

"So you brought me here to destroy my baby!" Guan Zheng gritted his teeth.

"Seems to be working." Ruan Zhan sneered and looked around.

Due to the destruction of the small drum, those animals, ghosts, insects and snakes have been freed from Guan Zheng's control, and the instinct for survival has caused them to run in all directions, and they have disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"Hello skills!"

Ruan Zhan didn't speak, and gave him a tacit acquiescence.

When Guan Zheng summoned the Gu in his body, he didn't feel it. On the contrary, the pain of entering a meat churn was almost unbearable for him. However, he understood that if he couldn't withstand it, Wanli and Xiao Xia would not be able to wait for reinforcements to arrive, and then they would be completely defeated.

And he tried his best to fight against the Gu that was doing something in his body, just to wait for the best time to fight back.

He knew from the beginning that his fire spell would not be able to stop Guan Zheng, because Guan Zheng's skill was definitely great enough to use everything in this mountain forest. And how many shady things are hidden in a mountain forest is simply impossible to calculate. So he had to find a way to destroy the tools he used to command these insects and animals.

He learned differently from Guan Zheng, but he knew that all laws were the same sect, and summoning those things was not something that could be done just with witch dances and spells, the key part was the small drum. It is not an ordinary drum, it must be cultivated in the same way as the magic weapon of Taoism, so as long as it is destroyed, it can fundamentally cut off the attack of those 'grass soldiers'.

Everything is wrong and crooked. Just when he was struggling to get close to Guan Zheng, his Gu poison flare up at an inopportune time, which made Guan Zheng think that he could attack him, but he didn't expect to fall into Ruan Zhan's plan. Ruan Zhan understood that there was a protective circle formed by the innate aura around him, and if Guan Zheng killed him, he would have to enter this circle while he was at his weakest, then he could find a way to destroy that drum!

So he desperately endured the pain and anxiety, just waiting for the moment when Guan Zheng approached! Fortunately, when Guan was about to play that honeycomb Gu on him, he also happened to suppress that ghost Gu, so that he could complete his plan at once.

"Do you think you can defeat me this way? Immature! Guan Zheng tore off the half of the waste-like drum on his waist, and took a few steps back, facing Ruan Zhan from afar.

In terms of physical strength and fighting, he knew that he was not Ruan Zhan's opponent, and he might not even be as good as Wan Li; In terms of strategy, he originally thought that what he had done was already seamless, but he didn't expect to be controlled everywhere, but fortunately, he had other methods, and he was very confident that he was the best master in this mountain forest.

Out of Ruan Zhan's attack range, he began to run wildly around, people who didn't know thought he was scared away, but Ruan Zhan saw that he ripped off all the bamboo tubes hanging on his waist as he ran, and dumped all the things in the bamboo tubes on the ground, looking desperate. Moreover, something was still muttering in his mouth.

Ruan Zhanyi stretched out his hand to withdraw the enchantment and looked at his watch, "Be careful, he's going to control Fujiki to attack!" It looks like we're going to fight and retreat. He took a deep look at Xiao Xia, "That banner is very heavy, but you must hold it back, because I guess there is still a ghost Gu soul behind me, and those things are only under his control, and they have nothing to do with the destroyed drum, so I can't put it away for the time being." Can you? ”

"Okay!"

"Me?" Wanli asked, moving his shoulder.

"Don't you have both wisdom and strength?" Ruan Zhan glanced at Wan Li and saw that he was not injured, "You must follow me closely, as long as we get to the agreed place, as long as the reinforcements arrive at three o'clock in the middle of the night, we have the possibility of victory." ”

Before Wan Li could answer, the sound of 'clicking' footsteps sounded in his ears, and he saw Guan Zheng running back again, although he was a little out of breath, but he was excited, "I'm tired of playing, you guys die!" He shouted, waving his hands forward!

The sound of breaking the sky came out, and I saw the wild vines unique to the deep mountains and dense forests rushing out of the darkness like demon snakes, some clinging to the ground, and some seemed to swing over, and rolled straight towards the three people!

In the blink of an eye, a wild vine had already rushed in front of the three people, and Ruan Zhan was the first to block the front, swinging the bloodwood sword and slashing horizontally mercilessly. It's just that the wild vine seems to have life in its entirety, and after it is broken, the rest of the vine still continues to dance demonically, trying to roll him up. He had to swing his sword until he cut the wild vine that struck first into inches long, revealing the rhizome behind it.

If you look closely, there is something wrong with that rhizome, it actually has eyebrows and eyes, like a baby's face, and at first sight, you know that it is a strange Gu made by Guan Zheng that has transformed into a rhizome, and the plant that controls it normally has become a monster.

At this time, more wild vines and unknown plants swept in from all directions, and for a moment, the place where the three people were located seemed to be a low-lying place, and the green waves on all sides poured in, and they were about to be submerged in an instant.

At this time, there is no time to say anything, and there is no clever maneuvering, and only a bloody way is the last word. So the three of them didn't speak, Ruan Zhan and Wan Li faced each other with their backs to each other, protected Xiao Xia in the middle, and retreated to the west while fighting.

Ruan Zhan wielded the bloodwood sword in his right hand, slashing and slashing this strange treasure of the realm like a woodcutter, as long as he shook the thing in front of him, he would never let go, only to see the branches and leaves in front of him, and as he retreated, the road he walked on was full of residual leaves.

And Wan Li on the side was not ambiguous, he used the wooden stick full of charms, and he also saw what he was smashing, and those vines and plants were either ignited by the flames that burst from the charm, or they were bounced aside by the blue electric sparks. The place he passed slowly stretched into a thin line of fire.

Xiao Xia was protected by the two of them in the middle, and he didn't encounter a big attack except that his feet would be entangled in the weeds that sneaked in. Even if she was entangled, Ruan Zhan would immediately slash with a sword, and the restraints under her feet would be immediately lifted. What was more difficult for her was to hold on to the cracked banner, which was already heavy enough to exceed the pull of her slender arms, and it was still staggering, as if it would not go.

Because just as Ruan Zhan analyzed, behind those plants that were driven by demonic qi and seemed to breed wantonly, there were dozens of ghosts trailing behind, causing the cracked flags to exert a great suction, instinctively trying to include them.

She remembered Ruan Zhan's words, and dragged the broken flag, so there was an obvious drag mark where she passed.

These three different traces stretched slowly and side by side to the west, and no step along the way was easy to walk, but the distance of 100 meters made all three of them tired and panting, and they just gritted their teeth and persevered. But just as they were exhausted, another clearing appeared behind them.

The place was a small valley, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there was a small waterfall in front of it, and a small pool had accumulated below, and the only entrance was very narrow, because Ruan Zhan and the others retreated, and the surging vines and weeds were blocked for a while, and they did not catch up.

Guan Zheng had been following behind, his hands straight and pointing at them. Seeing that they had retreated into the valley at this time, the plants could not catch up, and instead of being anxious, they laughed triumphantly.

"Do you think you're the only ones who can design traps?" He changed his posture in his hands, drawing strange circles in the air, "Wait to become a cocoon!" Ha ha! ”

I saw that the movements of his hands were getting more and more urgent, and before the three of them could judge what he was going to do, they felt a tightness on their waists, and they were immediately pulled to the edge of the mountain wall by a strange force, and before they could struggle, they were entangled by wild vines several times.

"Don't struggle, it's just going to get tighter and tighter." Guan Zheng was no longer nervous at this time, and his face showed a sense of relaxation and pride after fatigue and defeating the enemy, "I saw you retreat westward, and I knew that you were coming to this small valley. ”

Ruan Zhan struggled for a while, but it had no effect at all, and looking at Wan Li and Xiao Xia again, they couldn't even struggle. Xiao Xia remembered Ruan Zhan's words that he was going to die pulling the cracked flag, so he was tied to the flag, and the situation was fine, while Wanli's lower limbs were completely entangled, and in a few moments it would be completely covered by vines that were still 'crawling'.

"Ruan Zhan, you are really smart but you are mistaken by cleverness. Although you have investigated your surroundings, don't you know that I have lived here for many years and am not more familiar with it than you are? You think that this place is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the entrance is narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack. But I don't know that the wild vines on the mountain walls here are many and tough, and they don't need to be rooted, so they are easier to control, and I used the flying Gu technique to control the wild vines on these four walls when you took the first step back this way. Haha, be trapped to death by your own choices! ”

Ruan Zhan still didn't speak, feeling like he was trapped in quicksand, the more he moved, the more he couldn't be free, he simply stopped moving, and his thoughts turned sharply.

The Bloodwood Sword was still in his hand, but Guan Zheng was more afraid of him, so the wild vine wrapped around him was first rolled over by the waist and tied together with his arm, so that his hand could not move at all. And now those vines are climbing faster and faster, and they have slowly wrapped the three of them layer by layer, he is half buried, and Wanli and Xiao Xia are only left with one head exposed.

In an instant, he understood what Guan Zheng meant by 'human cocoon'. He's going to wrap them in vines and trap them like silkworms!

"Fuck, I didn't expect Lao Tzu to turn into a white and chubby cute silkworm baby one day!" Wanli is still talking and laughing freely at this time.

"The spring silkworm is at the end of the dead silk, see how long your nonsense can be exhausted!" Guan Zheng paced and walked a few more meters into the valley to find a better angle to admire the 'human cocoon' tied to the side mountain wall.

He looked at Natsu.

Xiao Xia would not have been wrapped so quickly because of the protection of the broken flag, but she was much smaller than the two men, so now she was almost in sync with Wanli, just because of that flag, the vines wrapped around her body loosened a little after being tightened for a while, and she didn't have to be strangled like Wanli to even breathe.

She was tied to Ruan Zhan's side, and she was very flustered, but when she saw Ruan Zhan by her side in a blink of an eye, she stopped struggling, so she was inexplicably stable and not very afraid.

Guan Zheng saw Xiao Xia's demeanor, and knew in his heart that Xiao Xia's sweetheart was Ruan Zhan, so he couldn't help but be jealous, and with a finger of his hand, the vines that stopped Ruan Zhan's waist shrank violently, making Ruan Zhan vomit and almost vomit a mouthful of blood!

"Broken ribs, right?" Guan Zheng smiled maliciously, "I can also make a dead man's cocoon, as long as I exert more force, the broken rib will pierce into the internal organs." Or do you want to turn the bones outwards and be a hedgehog? ”

After he finished speaking, he looked at Xiao Xia, admiring her heartache expression that almost shed tears, and he didn't know whether it was the joy of revenge or more sadness and loss.

Ruan Zhan stubbornly held back the blood that was about to spurt out of his throat, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he thought of a way to get out of the predicament.

He raised his head, and before he could tell Wanli how to cooperate, he was the first to break into another person, a person standing at Taniguchi - a beautiful woman in red!

Reinforcements have arrived!

Although he knew that the reinforcements would never come to their rescue, only for his next plan, she finally arrived.

As long as he finds a way to break free from this bondage, he has a chance of winning!

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