Chapter 15: The Ancient Stone Tower Appears

"The barrier is loose! The barrier is loose!"

There was an unusually excited shout from somewhere on the mountainside, and at the same time, the air also shook faintly, and the energy fluctuations were ten times stronger than before, then a hundred, a thousand times...... It was like a person's return to the light before death, and the moment the seal collapsed, a dazzling white light suddenly erupted, causing the adventurers who were closer to retreat in a hurry.

The few people who moved a little slower were reduced to nothing in the brilliant light, not a single scream was released, and not a single piece of armor was left.

After the glare faded, a large forest had inexplicably disappeared, replaced by a bare ground of rocks, seemingly from ancient buildings that had long since collapsed.

In the middle of the Stonehenge, a stone tower gradually emerges from top to bottom, as if an invisible tide is receding, slowly revealing the great mystery that has been hidden for thousands of years.

The base of the stone tower is 100 meters in diameter, showing a trapezoidal shape that is wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, and it is like a cone-shaped tetrahedron that has been cut off the tip. The body of the tower is cracked and covered with old moss, but the flickering halo on its surface reminds people that this is not a simple ancient stone pile!

Among the adventurers who came to the Devil's Forest, dozens of people above the Battle Master level had all gathered here.

This must not be an ordinary ruin, because the Devil's Forest was a killing place 5,000 years ago, and it was the battlefield of the ultimate duel between the Holy Emperor and the Demon King, and the Holy Emperor himself and his twelve gods and generals had squandered their blood here, but the things they used must be artifacts, even if it was just the stone they touched, it would have magical power, and it could be called a treasure in the world!

After the seal is completely gone, what will come to the world? What kind of fight will there be around the treasure hunt? Everyone at the scene has serious expressions, they are closer to their companions, and their weapons are tighter, even if they are all masters, it is impossible not to be nervous.

As the earth on the body of the tower collapsed, a closed stone door gradually appeared on the pedestal.

"This is the entrance!"

Soon someone couldn't restrain himself and wanted to get closer so that he could react as soon as possible.

When one person makes a move, he will immediately lead everyone, and a conflict will arise, more than a dozen teams and seven or eight lone masters will fight on their own, the shouts of cooperation and the angry scolding of the enemy will be resounded, and the dark night forest will be instantly illuminated by all kinds of fighting light.

There were also people who did not participate in the melee, and a cultivator who was good at robbing tombs had already begun to act, digging quickly in the distant woods, and several accomplices were on guard for him.

"The area of the Saint Emperor's ruins will not be small, it should be underground, and you will definitely be able to find it if you dig it like this!"

The excavation speed of the third-order cultivator was far from being comparable to that of ordinary tomb robbers, and the robbery hole was getting deeper and deeper, and the accomplices could barely see his figure anymore, only to see a spade of dirt constantly flying up.

"Hey, there's something!" the digger's muffled voice came from underground.

"What is it? Do you want to find a basket to carry the earth?" said one of his accomplices, crouching on the edge of the pit, shouting below.

He was answered by a terrible scream, and at the same time there was a crunchy sound like crushing flesh and bones, and then several columns of blood erupted from the well, carrying a shovel into the air, and a severed hand was still held on the handle of the spade.

What is it down there? The accomplices are all running away crying wolf, and no one dares to go down to probe any more, so naturally there will be no answer.

At the same moment, Changle and Wendy were laughing happily and running together on a huge horned warthog.

As a monster, the horned warthog has a high level of intelligence, and after being rescued, he is very grateful to Changle and Wendy. When it found out that Changle was struggling to find the fluorescent mushroom, it drove the little pig into the grass nest and hid it, and then motioned to Changle to follow it, and in view of Wendy's exhaustion of mana and weakness, the big pig even prostrate and motioned for them to ride.

So Chang Le hugged Wendy on the pig's back, rode behind himself, and held the little girl's shoulder to help her keep her balanced.

The pig's back is wide, and even if there is no saddle, it will not be a fart. Wendy didn't have much experience riding horses, let alone such a new thing as riding a pig, and she soon screamed with excitement.

The oncoming wind blew Wendy's hood back and her cape blonde hair fluttered like a waterfall, quickly brushing Changle's face.

Chang Le yelled: "It's itching, put away your rotten mop!"

Wendy laughed back, leaning her little head more deliberately on her usual face, and shaking her head desperately.

With a giggle, she conjured a long sword in her hand, shouted "Rush", and slashed at the branches of the trees, apparently imagining herself to be a valiant cavalryman.

The "charge" lasted about ten minutes, and the horned warthog led them to a hidden valley, then signaled goodbye, and hurried back to take care of the piglets.

Chang Le and Wendy, on the other hand, were so shocked by the scene in front of them that they lost their ability to speak.

It was a sea of fluorescent mushrooms, and the dots of white light gathered together, stretching for hundreds of meters, like a brilliant galaxy falling into the world, and the gloomy devil's forest turned into a dream garden at this moment.

"It's beautiful!" After a long silence, Wendy murmured, "Big brother, don't destroy them, this is a masterpiece of nature!"

Chang Le was also a little stupid, he didn't need too much anyway, so he nodded, carefully picked a few and stopped moving. This is enough money to rescue my father, not to mention that there are still some animal meat and hides in the cold storage, which should also be sold for some money.

Wendy crouched down, curious, and held out her small hand to one of the largest fluorescent mushrooms.

"Beware!"

Seeing this, Chang Le hurriedly shouted to stop him. The mushroom is a carnivore that fluoresces to attract small insects, and then captures and digests targets with corrosive slime on its canopy cover. Wendy doesn't need to hold the handle of the umbrella with two fingers, but touches the glowing umbrella surface with her index finger, and she will inevitably be hurt!

He was still a little slower, and Wendy jumped up with a "oops" as if she had been burned by fire, and then clenched her right wrist with her left hand and let out a small cry like a kitten.

Chang Le didn't have time to think about anything in his head, he grabbed Wendy's hand for the first time, and sucked her injured index finger in his mouth, saliva can't treat this injury, but it can quickly dilute the corrosive mucus.

It took a few seconds for Chang Le to react, he didn't want to see Wendy crying when he was hurt, but he hurt his tongue.

So the painful side was replaced by Chang Le, who retreated to the side and held on to the tree, bending down and spitting "baba". When the oral mucosa comes into contact with this fluid, the damage is much greater than that of the fingers, which are protected by the skin.

Wendy held her aching fingers for a moment, then rushed to Chang Le's side, pulled him straight, and the tips of her fingers lit up with a dazzling white light, poking her lips into his mouth.

"What spell?!"

Chang Le saw that this light was suspicious, very different from the healing technique that Wendy had performed before, and knew that the little girl would sometimes mess around, so he hurriedly asked while dodging. But his tongue was already swollen, and "what spell" sounded vaguely like "what flower protection".

"Haha, your tongue is swollen too much, I'll give you a shrinking technique!"

"No! don't make trouble!" Chang Le couldn't cry or laugh, and his mouth was tightly closed and he desperately retreated, in case her tongue was too small, the situation would only be worse!

"Haha, don't be afraid, it's purification!"

At such a tense moment, Wendy still can't forget her naughtiness. However, her purification technique was quite effective, and the corrosive liquid instantly decomposed and disappeared, and the pain in Changle's tongue was greatly relieved.

Chang Le didn't say thanks, only smiled bitterly. If I knew that she had this hand, I wouldn't have to meddle in my own affairs and suffer in vain.

"Silly brother!" Wendy looked at Chang Le with both hands on her back, an innocent smile on her face.

"You're stupid! You're the one who reached out to touch the mushroom, not me!"

"You're stupid! I really don't understand, you're knowingly committing it!"

"Well, I'll save you, I'm stupid. ”

Chang Le sighed, his face full of helplessness being burdened by a silly child.

"You're a big-tongued monster!" Wendy tilted her head to look at Chang Le, smiling even more happily.

Looking at Wendy's appearance, Chang Le sighed softly, this little girl is pure and kind, but also naughty and cute, so that people can't be angry with her at all.

Seeing that Chang Le had not spoken, Wendy smiled and added:

"What do you think? Prince Monopoly?"

Chang Le snorted:

"That black pig, you also ride. ”

"Hey, I'm Princess Black Pig. ”

Listening to Wendy's words, Chang Le was suddenly stunned, and his chest rippled with inexplicable sadness.

He had this kind of "prince and princess" dialogue once, with Alain, on the roof of the blacksmith's shop. The oath of the mountains and the sea is still in my ears, but the "princess" is going to marry the butcher Hesheng.

He turned his head to look at the boundless sea of fluorescents, and the seventeen-year-old boy had already given birth to the feeling of "the vicissitudes of the world".

"Big-tongued, what's wrong with you? mad at me?"

Wendy put her hands behind her back and cautiously leaned over to see Changle's expression.

Chang Le shook his head and smiled bitterly:

"Fairy tales are harmful, how can there be so many princes and princesses in the world?"

"I'm a princess!"

"Hehe......" Chang Le looked at the fantastic fluorescent sea, smiling without saying a word.

"I'm really a princess!" Wendy was already a little anxious.

"You're still a child, you're naïve. Chang Le changed to the vicissitudes of "coming over".

"No matter how innocent I am, I'm also a princess!"

"Okay, good, you're a princess......" Chang Le finished speaking, paused, and couldn't help but whisper, "This sentence...... I think I've said this to people before. ”

"Who?"

"My former fiancée, I was nine and she was seven. ”

"It's embarrassing to hook up at such a young age!" Wendy smiled and criticized, seeing that Chang Le's expression was not very good-looking, and asked, "You said 'formerly' fiancée, but that's not now?"

Chang Le smiled bitterly:

"She got married the day after tomorrow and invited me to drink the wedding wine. ”

He didn't want to say much about Alain, and Wendy continued to ask for a while to no avail, and then began to roll his eyes, and then laughed evilly:

"That Alain promised to marry you and then repented, it's too bad!

"you! I'll take Alan as my sister, I can't hurt her!"

Wendy smiled at the corners of her mouth, but her eyes became more and more cunning:

"That's it, the eldest brother went to her wedding banquet, I dressed up beautifully, put on the most expensive jewelry, pretended to be the eldest brother's new love, compared her, and gave the eldest brother back face!"

"Don't make a fuss...... Chang Le didn't pay much attention to the wedding banquet in his heart, "You're still a child, what are you compared to Alain?"

"I'm not a child anymore! I'll be fourteen next month!" Wendy said, trying to hold her head up, but she was still a child after all, and no matter how strong she was, she didn't have breasts.

Chang Le couldn't help but want to laugh, and pretended to be sad:

"Even if you take someone to compare Alain to Alain according to your idea, I should always bring a beautiful woman......"

"Big Tongue blames you for calling me ugly!" Wendy's small fists hit Changle in a series of blows, all hitting Changle in the shoulder.

While the two were frolicking, Wendy suddenly looked up and pointed to the treetops in the woods:

"Big brother, look!"

Chang Le had already heard the movement with the "Soul of the Cunning Rabbit", and immediately looked in the direction Wendy pointed:

"What's that?"

"A flash of vindictiveness! There are a lot of masters fighting halfway up the mountain! It must be good-looking! Let's go, go over and see!"

"Uh...... can see the light of fighting spirit, at least he is also a war master, and people are grabbing treasures, I'm afraid they are all red-eyed, let's not join in this fun, life is precious. ”

Chang Le knew that if he pulled a cart of free bread to the untouchable area, and no one presided over the distribution, it would definitely lead to robbery and fighting, the untouchables grabbed the bread, and the cultivators grabbed the treasures, there was no difference in the nature of the behavior, and the fierceness and cruelty of the latter would only be ten times that of the former!

Wendy didn't know the cruelty of the world's hearts, her face was full of innocent smiles, her arms hugged Chang Le's arms, and she tried her best to pull him forward.

"Go, go, go, you can't usually see it!"

"Don't make a fuss! I don't want to die yet! I'm old and ......."

Chang Le was struggling with half-truths, suddenly stopped shouting, jumped away like an electric shock, and suddenly withdrew his arm from Wendy's embrace.

Because the upper arm seems to have touched something just now, it is very small, but it is full of elasticity. After all, Wendy is about to turn fourteen, and under the wide robe, her young and immature breasts are already germinating. This immediately made Chang Le wake up that he couldn't treat the other party as a real child, and he needed to be cautious about physical contact.

Wendy didn't know Chang Le's complicated thoughts, and stomped her foot hard:

"Coward, if you don't go, I'll go by myself! My teacher may be over there, I'll help!"

Chang Le stared blankly at the back of the wayward girl, thinking that this little mage had a very high failure rate in casting spells, if he didn't have his own company to protect him, and walked alone in the forest at night, he was afraid that he would be eaten by the monster before he saw the teacher.

"I'll go with you! If I die, you'll be the victim!"

Chang Le chased after him helplessly, Wendy giggled, turned around and grabbed his arm again. didn't go far before he shouted that he was tired, and hung on Chang Le with a shyness.

Around the stone tower at this moment, the battle has entered a white heat, the competitors with slightly inferior strength have been defeated, and several people have died in the battle, and a group of people are gradually approaching the stone gate, occupying an advantageous position, just waiting for the barrier to disappear completely and break in.

At this moment, several black shadows who had been silently watching suddenly activated, one of them threw off the robe that covered his whole body, revealing a white hair, as well as a bright knight's armor all over his body, and a dark golden flame rose from his whole body, causing his whole person to turn into a round of midday scorching sun, the light was condescending, almost illuminating half of the Western Devil Forest.

"There's also a war spirit who has endured until now!"

The person in front of the stone gate let out an angry roar, and dark red light flames quickly rose from his body, and at the same time, two scimitars with condensed fighting spirit also extended out of his hands.

This person is also a "war spirit", and it was with his strong strength just now that his team was able to dominate the group. The fourth-order war spirit is a genius among cultivators, an elite among elites, and a dragon and phoenix among people!

"Smack!" A flash of lightning lit up in the glade, shaking everyone's eardrums with severe pain, this is a real thunderbolt!

The weapons condensed by the fighting spirit of the two war spirits collided, stirring up the power of nature around them, and instantly emitted dozens of lightning rays and fire balls!

Once the thunderbolt sounds, it never stops.

In addition to the elemental agitation, there was also the impact of pure power, and the concentric circular ripples quickly dispersed, silent, and not eye-catching, but they swept past several careless onlookers, causing their bodies to twist into strange shapes, screaming and flying out.

The rest of the people hurriedly retreated, each raising their shields and weapons, and used their fighting energy to resist the powerful aftermath of the fierce battle between the two war spirits.

Among them, surrounded by golden flames, it was the mysterious knight who had previously proposed to take Chang Le as an apprentice, and he was beaten with Chang Le at that time and took a few punches with "ouch ouch", but it was just a playful play, and this moment was the explosion of his real strength!

A golden spear condensed from his hand, and with a single swing of his hand, it could stir up a piercing whirlwind.

That light shield is even more extraordinary, the shield is full of brilliance, like a nebula in the sky, this is not a simple armor condensed by fighting energy, but the signature talent skill of the defense system war spirit: Yuan Qi Shield!

Although the battle is fierce, the suspense is not big, the Red Flame Swordsman is an offensive war spirit, and his sword skills are also fierce and gorgeous, but the Golden Armor Knight, as a defensive war spirit, is the natural enemy of the physical attack profession!

The light blades of the two sides intersected again, and when they waved their arms, the light knife in the left hand of the Chiyan swordsman flew into the sky, and then turned into a little bit of broken light and disappeared, and he also took this opportunity to admit defeat, swept back dozens of meters, retreated to the front of the stone gate, and stood with a few of his partners before letting out a few sneers:

"Count Fontaine, as the Imperial Marshal and Deputy Minister of Military Affairs, how can you be interested in stealing things from us laymen?"

"If I'm not mistaken, you're Mr. Tagler, the Sect Master of the Hundred Battles Gate. The golden-armored knight Fontaine raised the flame spear in his hand, his expression and tone were equally majestic, "I have admired you for a long time. But in the Empire, all the ancient ruins and productions belong to the royal family, and the Havilland Empire's code is clearly written, have you never studied it?"

"Joke! The little king calls himself emperor, which is funny enough, and even the ancient ruins have to be occupied, and he can't do it himself!"

"The pillar of the law is strength, since Your Excellency is determined to resist the law, let's see who is not self-sufficient!"

Before Fontaine could finish speaking, the four subordinates behind him threw off their robes at the same time, revealing their silver-shining armor, and pulled out their giant swords with a "hurry".

Obviously, the four of them are the elite of the marshal's subordinates, and the royal heavy cavalry standard equipment of Yishui is shining with cold light and murderous atmosphere. And their bodies are also faintly fluorescent.

Tagler was not afraid, but laughed and said:

"It's just four war masters, a dignified imperial marshal, and there isn't even a single magician under his command?"

The person behind him slowly lifted his hood at this time, revealing his old face, and then sneered and pulled out a wand from his sleeve, and with the light on the wand, Tagler's body was covered with a layer of hazel, stone skin magic!

Apparently this is where Tagler's confidence comes from, and the team with the support of the magicians is even stronger!

Count Fontaine frowned, but he did not flinch, with a light spear in his hand, he led four of his subordinates to rush towards the stone gate,

Five-on-five, an all-out battle between two teams!