Chapter 26: Joy and Sorrow
Zhang Xiuyuan's words shocked everyone, and they all put their eyes on the rattan, only to see that the small red flowers that were still galloping just now suddenly quieted down.
The faintly flashing red fluorescent light on the petals flickered faster and faster, and the fluorescent light on the blood-red rattan seemed to flow more and more, moving quickly in one direction, and gradually the red petals became more and more bright red, like blood, looking delicate.
Suddenly, the blood-red petals began to slowly close to the middle, turning into the shape of a fruit, and every time a flower was completely closed, it would emit a dazzling red light. As more and more flowers were gathered, the flickering red light came and went like red lightning.
As soon as such a situation appeared, Hua Rong suddenly said to Li Ding: "Your vitality can't protect your body yet, don't do anything for a while, remember not to let those red powders stick to you, let alone touch the red rattan, otherwise you will die." ”
Hearing this, Li Ding couldn't help but shudder, he couldn't imagine that picking spirit fruits would be so dangerous.
"Bang Bang ......"
Suddenly, a crisp popping sound sounded, and I saw a burst of red light everywhere the rattan was reached, completely printing this small space red. In just an instant, around the Broken Sword Stone, the sound of crackling sounded one after another.
In that red light, Li Ding was surprised to find that the fruits that those small red flowers had gathered and turned into were rapidly growing in size as if they were bursting, and the crackling sound was like this. As the fruit grows to about the size of an egg, it becomes more and more bright red, and there are drops of red liquid on the bright red surface.
If he hadn't seen this strange scene with his own eyes, Li Ding wouldn't have believed it anyway.
However, at this moment, an inexplicable whirlwind was generated in the place covered with red powder, and for a while, the red powder spun and danced, forming a huge red wind pillar of several zhang, which shocked Li Ding subconsciously dodged and retreated. But the whirlwind only swirled around the Broken Sword Stone, and did not blow anywhere else.
However, with the appearance of the wind pillar, the strange fragrance before disappeared instantly, and was replaced by a strange fishy smell, faintly like the smell of blood, which couldn't help but surprise Li Ding again.
However, what surprised him even more was that some of the people beside him flew towards the flying red powder at this time, including Hua Rong and Ye Xinyi, leaving only a small number of people to watch cautiously.
Withdrawing from his figure and staring at it carefully, Li Ding realized that those who entered the wind pillar had a layer of vitality shields of different colors. And these people also wrapped their palms with vitality before picking the spirit fruit from the rattan and putting it in the cloth bag prepared in advance.
But that spirit fruit is obviously not easy to pick, and it takes a long time to pick one every time. This practice is obviously very draining of vitality, and I saw that some people would quickly flash out after each one, and only after the body recondensed the vitality cover, would they go in again.
However, Hua Rong, who was covered in a blue and red light, was shuttling back and forth among the red wind pillars, as if what she said to Li Ding just now was just a joke. In addition, Ye Xinyi didn't seem to be afraid of those red powders at all, a light blue light shrouded her whole body, and her figure flickered, and after a while, she would put a spirit fruit into a cloth bag.
But what surprised Li Ding the most was Xue Yun, I saw him standing in the pillar of wind, his white clothes fluttering like a leisurely stroll, his body was just a faint cyan light mask, and there was nothing in his hands, he just used his hands to pick those spirit fruits, and the palms of his hands were actually dyed blood red by the dripping liquid.
"Hoo ......"
Suddenly, Hua Rong flew out, her little face was swollen and she gasped: "I'm so tired, it's too draining, it took me half a day to pick three of them." ”
As soon as the words fell, the blue light flashed, and Ye Xinyi also flashed out, and said with a smile: "Little junior sister Hua Rong is really powerful, didn't I just pick three of them." ”
"Why don't you use knives, you can't take them off faster. Li Ding said suspiciously.
"Those powders are extremely corrosive, don't you see what those trees have become?" Ye Xinyi said.
Li Ding then put his eyes on the surrounding trees, and was surprised to find that among the flying red powder, the originally vigorous trees all began to wither at this moment, as if the formation of this spirit fruit had absorbed all the vitality of these trees.
"Our vitality is still in the early stage of transformation, it is impossible to wrap sharp weapons, as long as it is metal, as soon as it touches the red liquid on the spirit fruit, it will break immediately, and it will not work at all. Moreover, the rattan is not afraid of the attack of the transformation vitality, and can only slowly twist it. Ye Xinyi said.
This was the first time Li Ding saw Ye Xinyi's face become serious, but he found that her eyes were staring at Xue Yun, because Xue Yun still had no intention of coming out in the wind pillar.
"Hmph, it's just a golden silkworm glove, if it weren't for that thing, I don't think he would have been able to take any of them off. Hua Rong said.
Li Ding then remembered what Yuan Fei threw to Xue Yun before, and he didn't look at it carefully, and he didn't know what was the magic of this golden silkworm glove, which could make Xue Yun have no worries about those red powders.
"The golden silkworm gloves are made of golden silk, which is just enough to resist the corrosive power of this spirit fruit, and the most energy-consuming place for picking spirit fruits is the hands, Xue Yun has taken a big advantage, it seems that there are almost a dozen of them, right?" Ye Xinyi said.
As he was talking, he saw that Xue Yun finally flashed out, his face was a little tired, but he looked extremely excited.
"How is it?" Yuan Fei immediately stepped forward and asked.
"Haha, fifteen. Xue Yun smiled, turned his head to look at Ye Xinyi, and the corners of his mouth brought a hint of disdain, with a proud expression.
As he spoke, Xue Yun threw the cloth bag in his hand to Yuan Fei, who immediately opened it and looked at it, then flipped the cloth bag over. When the blood-red spirit fruits fell out, suddenly the white light on Yuan Gang's left hand flashed, and those spirit fruits disappeared.
"What's going on?" Li Ding asked in surprise looking at this scene.
"Put it in the spirit ring, otherwise the spirit fruit will quickly dissipate the spiritual energy, but the main thing is to prevent it from being corroded by the liquid on it, which is not fun." Hua Rong stretched out her right hand as she spoke, only to see a turquoise ring on her middle finger.
"Spirit Ring, can this thing hold things?" Li Ding was extremely surprised, but before he could ask again, Hua Rong had already entered the wind pillar again.
Ye Xinyi smiled faintly at Xue Yun's side, as if she hadn't heard Li Ding's question at all, and flashed in almost at the same time as Hua Rong.
Li Ding, who hadn't even found the activation of the vitality, couldn't help anything, so he could only watch from afar. But this time, Hua Rong only picked one and jumped out, but seeing that there were fewer and fewer spiritual fruits on the rattan, Hua Rong didn't care about resting, and she flashed in again.
It may be that the rest time is too short, this time Hua Rong took half the time to pick a spirit fruit than before, which couldn't help but make Li Ding a little anxious.
"Bang Bang ......"
Suddenly, the previous popping sound sounded again, and the flying red powder foam obviously accelerated the speed of rotation, and it was no longer possible to see the situation inside clearly for a while, and the wind pillar at this time obviously had a tendency to expand, Li Ding and those who did not have the strength to enter had to hurriedly retreat, and the scene suddenly became a little chaotic.
"Whoosh......"
Just as Li Ding was retreating, a sound of breaking wind suddenly came from behind him, and Li Ding, who sensed a trace of danger, hurriedly turned around, only to see a golden light and shadow striking fiercely.
Li Ding didn't have time to react, and the golden light and shadow hit him in the back. For a while, Li Ding only felt the pain of tearing in his back, and he was immediately out of breath, and a powerful impact force made his body instantly take off into the air, flying towards the flying red powder.
"Poof......
couldn't help but spurt out a mouthful of blood, and Li Ding, who was almost unconscious, felt as if his body was tightly wrapped in something, and he couldn't move. In a trance, he seemed to see Yuan Fei's face with a hint of a sinister smile, and at this moment he actually had a feeling that he was extremely close to death.
"Haha, fifteen more. Suddenly, an excited cry came, and then a figure instantly swept out of the whirling pillar of wind, just appearing on the route of Li Ding's flutter.
"Be careful!" a shrill exclamation rang out at the same time, followed by a dull crash.
"Boom ......"
In the flash of light, Li Ding only felt that his chest seemed to be hitting a hard stone, and his entire chest seemed to be shattered. However, just then, his flying figure slowed down instantly, and he fell heavily to the ground, just landing on the periphery of the flying red powder.
Spit out a mouthful of blood again, and Li Ding completely lost consciousness at this moment. No one would notice that the mouthful of blood that Li Ding sprayed on the ground was actually absorbed by the ground at once.
"Ah......h
When a terrible scream suddenly sounded, time seemed to stop at this moment.
The flying red powder stopped in the air in an instant, but soon the powder began to scatter like a fine rain of blood under the surprised gazes of everyone standing on the periphery.
In the distance, Yuan Fei's face, which was still full of hideous color just now, instantly froze, and his mouth opened wide and he couldn't speak. Zhang Xiuyuan beside him flashed rapidly, and quickly swept into the blood red and picked up a person.
I saw that the man was dressed in white, but at this time, most of the clothes on his body were broken, and his face was also stained with blood.
"Yuan Fei, you did a good job, why did you do this?" Seeing the situation of the person in his arms, Zhang Xiuyuan said angrily to Yuan Fei.
"I just want to deal with Li Ding, how could I know that this kid Xue Yun would suddenly come out, ...... Deliver it to the pharmacy. Yuan Fei said hurriedly, without explaining to Zhang Xiuyuan, and in the suspicious eyes of the rest of the people, he picked up Xue Yun and ran towards the outside of the forest.
Zhang Xiuyuan was also suspicious, looked at Li Ding on the ground, gritted his teeth, and picked up Li Ding and ran away.
Here, with the red powder scattered, everyone inside had already shown their figures.
Within ten zhang of the Broken Sword Stone, the blood-red vines disappeared, and the withered trees stood there bare. Hua Rong immediately looked for Li Ding, but there was still Li Ding's shadow there.
"What about that kid just now?" Ye Xinyi also found out that Li Ding was missing for the first time, her face turned pale, and she asked a companion who had been on the periphery.
The companion said to Ye Xinyi: "Report to the eldest sister, that kid was injured by Yuan Fei for no reason and has been sent to the medicine hall." ”
"What?" Hua Rong and Ye Xinyi exclaimed at the same time, their bodies rushing towards the outside of the woods.