Chapter Fifty-Eight: Ancient Trees, Ancient Vines, and Strange River
"A big river has wide waves, and the wind blows the waves and the flowers reflect the ...... on both sides" Richard was indulging in singing the song taught to him by Hu Menglin, holding Ou Liling's little hand and running behind the team. Suddenly, www.biquge.info cracked fruit in Hu Menglin's hand slammed into his head.
It had been twenty days since they had encountered a particularly powerful opponent, and everyone relaxed a little for a while. After all, no one can stand the tension for months! Hu Menglin simply taught everyone to sing.
Although Richard's talent is much worse than that of Mercury Daoren, his advantage is that he is thick-skinned and bold enough, no matter what the tune of the song, he has to roar twice, which often makes everyone cry and laugh.
Mercury Dao people are the opposite, unless Hu Menglin specifically asks her to sing a song, she will sing it aloud, as for other people's thoughts, it is estimated that she is not in her consideration at all.
Just as Richard was singing, a shrill voice suddenly sounded in front of him, like a stone scratching against glass, making a hoarse hiss. Hu Menglin suddenly had goosebumps on his body.
Richard, who was happy, stopped abruptly and quickly drew a spear. This is already the only weapon he has left, the main artifact, the Ghost Head Spear!
Everyone stood guard for a while, but there was no movement ahead. Ou Leng looked at Hu Menglin, and then slowly began to move forward. After a while, Ou Leng's face was solemn, "There is a big river in front, as Richard sings, the waves are wide, and you can't see the head!"
Seeing that there was no danger, the crowd immediately ran over. There were no trees on the steep rock walls, and the ground was covered with rocks in front of the stone walls, while a large river was flowing slowly, the water was not muddy, and a few small fish could be seen swimming around.
Everyone did not dare to despise it, since entering this "Luofeng Ridge", there was nothing that was not offensive and dangerous. Beneath the seemingly calm exterior is sure to be a dangerous heart!
Hu Menglin took out a piece of snake meat and threw it far into the water. I saw a sudden wave on the surface of the water, and dozens of giant fish suddenly appeared, desperately biting, as if they were not grabbing meat, but trying to eat each other.
One of the fish was injured a little in the scramble, and was quickly divided by several fish around it, and a little bubble flooded out of the water, without a trace of blood.
"This fish is weird, you see they don't bleed, and besides, this fish is a little bigger, what do you eat for a living? Is it cannibalism?" Mercury Daoist people have a very deep perception of water, so they can see some situations through the water that others can't see. "There are almost all of these big fish under the surface, and there are some small fish, but small fish are more dangerous, and they often bite big fish and run away!"
People can't see it, but they can feel the strangeness of it. There are hardly any larger plants on the shore, let alone woods. What are so many fish eating, it can't be the people who eat it, right? Thinking of this, everyone shuddered for no reason!
The more I think about it, the harder it becomes, everyone is worried, can't cross the river, how can they leave this place, do they go back?
Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard another "crunch" sound from the water's edge, like the sound of teeth clenching glass. Everyone looked intently, but saw a few small fish gnawing on a stone between the cracks in the stones.
Fish that eat stones?
Seeing that it was very close to the water's edge, the crowd did not rush over, but used a net-shaped artifact to cover the fish and stones and drag them over.
Seeing the fish and the stone, everyone was even more shocked, the fish actually had no eyes, and the stone was actually a human skull, but it was bitten so that the shape of the head could not be seen. Could it be that the stones under the cliff are all skulls?
Hei Ying netted a few more stones, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that they were all stones, but this skull didn't know where it came from, and it was gnawed by an eyeless fish.
"Let's go upstream, maybe there's a little bit of a narrower place!"
After walking for five days, they found a large tree with a radius of several kilometers. Yes, a big tree, although it looks like a piece.
This tree leans on the river, stretches the rhizome into the water, like a jungle, the roots of the tree stand in the air, and the stems and leaves spread to the surface of the river, and there are a few green vines on the tree, which are more than ten meters thick, and the red flowers on the vine are flashing like eyes, which looks strange and deep.
"If you dig a piece out of this tree and make it into a boat, you guess it will be no problem to cross the river!
The frightened crowd saw that the trees did not react at all, so they breathed a sigh of relief.
Hu Menglin stepped forward, approached, and asked loudly, "If you understand what we are saying, you can shake it!"
The tree didn't move, but the vine moved a few times. Hu Menglin was stunned for a moment, and then said to the rattan, "What kind of place is this, can you cross the river?" The rattan shook a few times, and then fell silent.
After discussing it, they decided to go up further, and after walking for a few more days, they could not see a single tree again. Then the people went back down and walked for many days, but there were still no plants.
Back in front of the tree, the ancient vine suddenly spoke, "You don't have time, there are already chasing soldiers coming behind!"
Hu Menglin was stunned for a moment, this ancient vine didn't know how to speak, why didn't it squeak at first? Ignoring his doubts, Hu Menglin asked about the origin of the river and how to cross it.
"You eleven lifeforms, sixteen souls, we have to charge half of it to let the rest of you cross the river, this is the rule of the Soul Washing River!"
Hu Menglin looked around, and everyone shook their heads, indicating that they hadn't heard it!
Gu Teng smiled, "It's normal if you haven't heard of it, it's called the Devouring God Pool in the outside world!
Ou Leng's face changed, "It is one of the dangerous places in the fish ghost world, and it is said that no one has ever survived!"
Gu Teng smiled, "Our countless Chaos Epochs were moved here, and the fish in the river were all transformed by the souls of the trialists, and now that the souls in the pool have reached a sufficient number, the entire pool has become a soul washing river!"
If you had thought that it would have been impossible to cross the river, the fish in the river would have eaten your soul, or the little fish would have eaten your flesh!
But now it's different, Hanoi has enough souls, so you only need to give half of your soul and body, and the rest can pass in peace!"
Hu Menglin shook his head, "Impossible, none of us will be missing from the ten of us! There must be other ways!"
Gu Teng shook his head and said, "This is the only way, don't try to pull it down!" I warn you not to fight the idea of this tree, it is the guardian of the whole river, I believe you understand the meaning!"
Everyone looked at each other. If this ancient vine hadn't lied, it would have been obvious that those young sect masters, servants, and trialists of the higher planes were chasing after them!
What to do, do you rush across the river, or just fight those guys!
Gu Leng nodded at Hu Menglin, "Let's have an idea! If these fish are really soul bodies, then we really don't have to be opponents, after all, the number is too huge, and there are those eyeless small fish, it will definitely be very troublesome!"
Hu Menglin smiled, "I have to find a way from this tree, I don't believe it, the tree is not afraid of fire!" As he spoke, Hu Menglin motioned for everyone to get out of the way, and he called out the spirit of the oil lamp.
The Spirit of the Oil Lamp rubbed his eyes, looked at the giant tree in front of him, and then "swished" into Hu Menglin's spear, the speed of which made everyone staggered.
Hu Menglin was shocked in his heart, this spirit of the oil lamp is not simply the spirit of the main artifact, but also the "true meaning" of the seventh fusion painting, which can be said to be extremely wise. Now, it was so afraid of the giant tree, apparently it knew the giant tree or sensed it.
Sure enough, it took a while for the lamp spirit to emerge to see that there was no danger, and then ran into Hu Menglin's armor.
I don't know what this guy said to Hu Menglin, but after a while, Hu Menglin's eyes became a little red, obviously a little anxious!
"Hu Menglin, what's going on?"
As soon as he finished asking, he suddenly heard a tremor in the body of the tree, "Haha, it turns out that someone else knows me!
The leaves on the tree suddenly gathered together, forming the face of an old man.
Hu Menglin was just about to give a salute, but when he saw the old man shake, Hu Menglin was actually thrown out, "For the sake of you and I both cultivating the Great Life Technique, there is no need for you to bow down!"
While speaking, Hu Menglin suddenly found that the other eight people were all shorter, it turned out that these people had already knelt down, and they didn't need to think about it to know that they were unwilling!
"Old man, you are already the main god, why is it difficult for us little characters, is it interesting?" Hu Menglin tried his best to calm his breath and make himself appear calmer.
"Hu Menglin, right, tens of thousands of miles away are looking for your traces, in this space, your kid's reputation is too great, almost every species has heard your name! By the way, I also heard that your kid has an ancient building wood recipe on his body, this is a good thing, if you really have it, just lend me a day, and I will let you all pass!"
Hu Menglin's mind suddenly appeared again with words that rang like Huang Zhong Dalu, but this time, obviously the voice was suppressed by something, and it was much smaller, which also made Hu Menglin see part of the text, "At the beginning of the avenue, it lies in the first one, one life two, two lives and three, and three lives and Jianmu"
Hu Menglin spat out a mouthful of blood, obviously his strength was too low, and forcibly peeping at this text was counterattacked.
The tree-shaped main god waved the leaves, and a piece of green juice rushed into Hu Menglin's mouth, "It's not difficult for you, obviously you have made an oath, the secret that can't be said is that you can't say it, I know the power of the Great Oath Technique."
By the way, what Fujisan said just now is true, either you cross this river by yourself and withstand the soul washing, and the power of the soul will increase exponentially, otherwise you will be left with your soul scattered and become the fish of this river, and you will never be reborn!
One more thing, this river is my ancestral artifact, the Devouring God Cup, which means that if your soul fails to withstand the test, it will become my nourishment, otherwise I will lose some of my soul power and send it to you!"