Chapter Thirty-Nine: Into the Secret Realm of the West
It turns out that there is a rule handed down by the ancestors in this village, every full moon night, no one is allowed to enter the barren mountain, it is reported that it is because every full moon night, people who enter the barren mountain never see them back.
And now the villagers work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and no one will go to that barren mountain anymore, so these young juniors are not clear enough about this rule.
When they listened to Old Man Ge's words, they also secretly had a conjecture in their hearts, those missing villagers must have encountered the opening of this secret realm, but they didn't have any tokens, so they were lost in this secret realm, so they never came back.
After leaving the old man's house, after careful calculation, it will be the night of the full moon in a few days, and they are not idle this day, they follow these villagers every day at sunrise and sunset, helping these villagers hunt and cook.
These simple villagers accepted their help, and the food sent to Jiangshan and their temporary residence every day became more and more, and they also got a lot of dry food, so that they could support them to eat in this secret realm for ten days.
On a full moon night, a few crows can be heard in the barren mountains from time to time, and it is quite panicked to hear.
At this time, Jiang Shan and his party had already greeted the villagers in the afternoon, saying that they had something to do for the time being, so they would not stay in the village, so as not to panic when the villagers found out that they were gone.
As the time approached, their hearts gradually rose, and sure enough, as soon as the time came, the barren mountain seemed to have a reversal of time and space, and a light flashed, and the people who were originally on the barren mountain disappeared after the light flashed.
After the light that originally shrouded Jiang Shan and the others dissipated, Jiang Shan and the others were already in a forest, but every tree in this forest seemed to connect the sky and the earth, and even the seemingly ordinary shrub that should have only reached people's knees had grown to the waist, and everything here seemed to be twice as big as everything outside.
Naturally, they also discovered the strangeness here, but they were not timid about it, and the group moved at a relatively slow speed.
On the way, they encountered some huge rabbits, badgers and foxes, which were almost the same size as the world outside, and finally made Jiang Shan and his group gradually relax a little.
Perhaps these trees are just because they have been growing here for a long time, so they are so big, and just like that, the sky has begun to shine, and they are still in this forest.
But at this time, everyone was already exhausted, and Jiang Shan also decided to rest on the spot for a while before leaving, after all, everyone was now hungry and tired, and it was obviously not wise to move forward at this time.
Especially as in the previous distribution, a few people went to find some firewood to cook some python meat that they had stored in the storage bag earlier, and now that they were all very tired, this python meat was naturally the best choice.
But when Lu Zhishen and the others couldn't find any branches scattered on the ground, they decided to break some drier branches on the tree to use as firewood, but when Lu Zhishen broke off the first branch, they found something wrong.
After these branches were broken off again, they actually shed a liquid like blood, and this discovery also made Lu Zhishen and the others dare not stay any longer, and hurriedly rushed to the previous residence place, and then informed Jiangshan of this discovery.
Jiang Shan was not too surprised to see this, after all, at that time, he had also seen in the newspaper about this kind of tree that would shed red sap, a tree called dragon's blood tree that grew in Yunnan.
However, the dragon's blood tree is not tall, and it can even be regarded as relatively short, and the trees here are all towering trees, so as soon as they enter this forest, Jiangshan does not recognize this tree as the dragon's blood tree.
After Jiang Shan explained to them the origin of the tree, the people were not worried or afraid, but continued to break some branches.
The shocking change happened at this time, after Lu Zhishen broke several branches in a row, there was a nameless suction force that wanted to suck Lu Zhishen into the tree.
Fortunately, Li Kui was still relatively close, and when he saw Lu Zhishen being dragged away by the tree, he dropped everything in his hand, and relied on brute force to prevent Lu Zhishen from being sucked in.
At this time, Lin Chong and the others also found that something was wrong here, and found that the corner of Lu Zhishen's clothes had been sucked into the dragon's blood tree, so he took out a dagger and cut Lu Zhishen's robe, so that Lu Zhishen was not sucked in by the dragon's blood tree.
As for the torn robe, it was directly sucked into the dragon's blood tree and disappeared, which also made Lu Zhishen break out in a cold sweat, you must know that he is already in the late stage of the spiritual realm, but in the face of the suction of the dragon's blood tree, he has no power to resist at all.
They didn't dare to stay here anymore, and rushed to Jiangshan, where they had stayed before, but they didn't find Jiangshan, Jiang Yujiao, and Li Luoshui.
After searching around here, they didn't find Jiangshan and their figures, Lin Chong and they couldn't help but panic, although because of the connection of the bandit system, they could feel that Jiangshan was safe now, but they couldn't find them.
After thinking about it for a long time, Mr. Gongsun also roughly figured out the key to it, maybe they were sucked into it by this dragon's blood tree, but Jiangshan was holding a token, which meant that they had entered the real secret realm.
As for those who had no tokens, they had no choice but to stay in the dragon's blood forest and wait for their return.
As for Jiang Shan and the others, they were really as Mr. Gongsun guessed, because Jiang Shan was holding a token, so even Li Luoshui and Jiang Yujiao, who were beside him, were brought into the real secret realm.
As soon as they stepped into this secret land, they were greeted by a large area of beautiful scenery, and not far from them was a large waterfall about 100 meters long.
But there is a saying that is not true, often there is always the most sinister thing hidden under the beautiful things.
Jiang Shan, who was well versed in this principle, naturally did not dare to relax for half a minute, and just when he was about to take Jiang Yujiao and Li Luoshui to explore this secret realm, there seemed to be a sound of doubt in the distance.