Chapter 18: The Divine Tree
The comfort of the Divine Tree Star made Zhao Tiancheng forget everything. Today is the 31st day of coming to Shuxing, and Ouyang Piaoxue's siblings and the remaining seven team members, under the leadership of Zhao Tiancheng, are preparing to risk a place called Heavenly Punishment Valley. Everyone had so much fun this month, visiting almost half of the tree stars. Only the Valley of Damnation, the Temple of the Tree Star Sacrifice, and the sea are gone.
The Valley of Damnation is located in the northeast of the planet, the entire Valley of Damnation seems to have been split from top to bottom to form a valley hundreds of kilometers long and tens of thousands of meters wide, the bottom of the Valley of Damnation is a corrupt layer formed by tree roots and thick fallen leaves, growing various vegetation and some shrubs, but more are the roots and branches of the sacred tree. The intertwined roots on both sides of the Valley of Damnation have been completely carbonized into hard fossilized wood. The fossil wood glows with black oil, and there is brown tree oil pouring out, so that there is a faint aroma like sandalwood and musk in the mouth of the entire Heavenly Damnation Valley. Zhao Tiancheng and they came for this kind of aroma, this is because they heard the elves say that there is a natural aroma of tree crystals produced here, which is formed by the crystallization of the sap oil flowing from the sacred tree after years of accumulation, so Ouyang Piaoxue and Xiao Bao'er forced Zhao Tiancheng to come to the Valley of Heaven to find it.
Zhao Tiancheng was of course helpless against these two beauties, one big and one small. Standing at the mouth of the valley in embarrassment, looking at the deep canyon and worrying, how could they go down? Ouyang Piaoxue They don't have the ability to fly. And Xiao Jin's body is too big to go down at all.
couldn't think of a way to simply call out Zhou Zhengwu of the Kingdom of God, and Zhou Zhengzhou quickly appeared in front of him: "Your Excellency Commander, Zhou Zhengwu reported to you and asked for instructions." "
"Has the Shenguo Academy of Science and Technology developed a flying machine?" is the situation now?" Zhao Tiancheng asked.
"Report to Your Excellency Commander, the Science and Technology Institute of the Divine Kingdom Base has produced the smallest matte individual aircraft, and the maximum interstellar battleship has reached the fourth world speed, and is currently building a particle collider, and will soon put into production the superlight starship. Report completed, Your Excellency the Commander. "
"Uh, so fast, wait until I go back and get some solo aircraft for them. How many humans are being recruited by the Divine Kingdom Base now?" Zhao Tiancheng asked again.
Zhou Zhengwu thought for a moment and said: "The Kingdom of God is now a soldier, a scientific and technological research institute, a production plant, a mining, prospecting site, and an electric field, and all the workers, management, and troop personnel 264801605 have reported to Your Excellency the Commander. "
"Sister, hundreds of millions of personnel!" Zhao Tiancheng's eyes fell to the ground, and he hurriedly picked them up and put them back in his eye sockets and said, "Be careful not to explode too many places, unless you immigrate to other bases." Can the main base car of the Kingdom of God check out the other bases I left along the way, and try to see if I can get in touch?"
"You can contact Your Excellency the Commander, and the next generation of starships will set off from the starry sky outside the gods and set up a starry sky base station, through which the base station emits particle electronic pulses and can easily contact other base vehicles. "
"That's good, come on, work hard! By the way, bring them back to the Kingdom of God to train and fly, and you don't need to transfer the aircraft out. Zhao Tiancheng thought that Ouyang Piaoxue couldn't use the flying machine directly at all, so it was better to go back to the Kingdom of God to study and study in a driving school, and then said to Ouyang Piaoxue: "Sister Piaoxue, let's go back to the Kingdom of God to train and then look for Xiangjing?"
Ouyang Piaoxue said coquettishly: "I don't dare to be your Piaopiao sister now," After speaking, she followed Zhou Zhengwu back to the Kingdom of God with a smile, and the other teammates hurriedly followed.
Sent back to Ouyang Piaoxue, Zhao Tiancheng activated the mecha and flew down the valley floor of the Grand Canyon, where a large area of primeval forest grew, looking at the surrounding environment in this primeval forest, he felt surprised: "This place is really magical" He flew along the gap between the roots of the thick divine tree, and soon noticed that there were cultivators in this canyon, because his system intelligence brain prompted him to encounter the defensive formation arranged by the cultivators.
Zhao Tiancheng was surprised that there were still human beings in this Divine Tree Star, and he flew over quickly.
Coming to the defensive formation, Zhao Tiancheng found that this was an extremely ordinary formation, it was a large-area defensive formation, not used to defend against people, but a formation used to prevent water. Li Qiang looked at the forest with only the huge divine tree root system, and there were relatively few other plants, and he understood that this canyon might often be washed by the waves.
Zhao Tiancheng easily used the full moon scimitar to break through the defense and walked in. The further you went, the more flowers and plants grew into a haphazard manner, and the trees were almost all cut down, leaving the stumps with dense branches growing and clumps all over the valley. In the center of the defensive array was a flat bluestone square, and a lot of weeds grew at the joints of the bluestone slabs, which seemed to be an abandoned camp.
There are more than a dozen dilapidated wooden buildings on the side of the square, and in front of each wooden building are two tall stone pillars carved with circular totems. It's the first time I've seen such a strange totem. The totems on each pillar were the same, with a strange circle encased in countless tiny circles, like nine rings, very much like the microcosm of the huge beehive in the Elven Square. The shape of the pillar is a bit like an hourglass, thick at both ends, thin in the middle, and a strange image in each circle, which gives people a very strange feeling.
Zhao Tiancheng looked around, found no one and no suspicious items. He walked up to a wooden building, pushed aside a plank that stood in the way of the stairs, and suddenly he stopped and listened, and couldn't help but laugh.
The mecha flashed with silver light, Zhao Tiancheng flew to the square, the scimitar in his hand slashed downward, and he heard a "boom" sound, and the bluestone slabs on the square flew to both sides as if they exploded. Zhao Tiancheng slashed several times in a row, revealing a huge hole in the center of the square.
In front of me is a crypt.
Looking at the hole exposed on the ground, Zhao Tiancheng couldn't help but be curious, and he was very excited to finally see the first normal human on the Divine Tree.
A wisp of green smoke emerged from the mouth of the cave, and a human figure gradually condensed. Zhao Tiancheng found that this was a spirit formed after the death of a person, and it was not a human creature at all, and the first time he saw a ghost also made him creepy.
The green smoke condensed into a thin man, wrapped in a thin layer of black mist, and he saluted: "Seniors are invited in." ”
Zhao Tiancheng was very nervous and asked, "Who are you?"
The spirit said: "Senior, I'm just a wisp of remnant soul, I don't have a name, senior, please!" He turned and jumped into the crypt.
Zhao Tiancheng flew behind him, and the spirit suddenly dispersed and disappeared into the ground, Zhao Tiancheng's divine eyes could see it clearly, and the spirit ran along the cave wall all the way in.
The cave in the ground is not big, and soon along the passage came to a hall, and there was a huge stone pillar in the middle of the hall, which was the same as the stone pillar totem I saw just now, but this stone pillar was an illusion formed by a magic weapon. Zhao Tiancheng clearly saw the spirit floating in, and he smiled: "Open the passage." "
The spirit muttered the incantation, and after a while, the stone pillar began to expand and expand, and soon enveloped Zhao Tiancheng, and the circle carved on the stone pillar spread out like ripples on the water. Zhao Tiancheng secretly looked at the system map and found that there was no red area in this map, and his heart was full of determination as he watched those strange circles come up and waited motionlessly.
It felt like sinking into water, and Zhao Tiancheng and the spirit sank straight down.
After about a few minutes, the circle around his body gradually dissipated, and suddenly there was a light in front of him, Zhao Tiancheng found himself in an illusion realm, but the illusion of the cultivation realm had no effect on him at all, and under his system map, all illusions could be seen through. The spirit said: "Please follow me, the illusion here is very powerful, and when you get inside, it is an ordinary illusion." ”
Under the leadership of the spirit, Zhao Tiancheng quickly entered the inner phantom array.
It is a beautiful green plain with flat grasslands and forests. Zhao Tiancheng used his brain to take a look, this is just a rudimentary phantom array, there is no change of the four seasons in it, and there is no embellishment of birds, beasts, fish and insects. Not far away, there is a lonely circular nest type wooden building, Zhao Tiancheng has seen such a nest like a building in the square and canyon along the way, and two stone pillars are also erected in front of the wooden building. Zhao Tiancheng asked curiously, "Do your clansmen live in this wooden building?" The spirit replied, "No, they live on the other side, here is the station of the sacrifice, and the sacrifice counts you to come." ”
"Count me coming?" Zhao Tiancheng was taken aback, he couldn't help but be a little excited to meet such a person in this inconspicuous place. You must know that Zhao Tiancheng has a lot of things to understand, he is lost in the starry sky and has never been able to find his way back. If someone can predict and guide, he will be able to get useful information, and Zhao Tiancheng is very much looking forward to seeing the sacrifice.
The spirit floated into the wooden building, and after a while, an old voice inside said, "Distinguished guests, please come in." ”
Zhao Tiancheng dodged and flew in.
It was a small place, without any furniture, and on the floor sat cross-legged an old man, with a thin face with a snow-white beard, and a sparse white hair dragging to the floor, and on the floor in front of him was embedded a one-foot-square mirror, in which the clouds and smoke were ethereal. The old man squinted at Zhao Tiancheng for a long time and said, "Alas, I didn't expect my predecessor to be so young, I'm sorry, I've been paralyzed here and can't salute you." ”
The spirit sat beside him, and he was startled when he heard the old man's tone, which was a respectful address to the elders. Zhao Tiancheng sat cross-legged in front of the old man, stared at him, and asked with a smile: "How did Lord Sacrifice know that I would come?"
The priest is an old man, he smiled slightly, squinted his eyes, looked down at the mirror in front of him, and said, "The Divine Tree Star Elf Clan has survived by relying on this treasure and special witchcraft...... Hehe, I already knew it, and I've been waiting for you here. The Tree Elves need your help," he paused for a moment and then said, "I know you're amazing, you're a powerful human from the Great World, but ......" He suddenly stopped and looked at Zhao Tiancheng quietly
Zhao Tiancheng knew that Wu Lao must have something to ask for him, so he said bluntly: "Sacrifice Lord, if you have anything, just say it, we can help each other." If I can help the Dryads, I won't put it off, and of course, I need your guidance. ”
The priest said: "Ever since I dedicated my soul to the Elven Divine Mirror, I have been paralyzed in front of it, and everything is conveyed by this spirit, ordinary people cannot enter my small building, as long as they enter, their souls will be taken by the Divine Mirror." I have never left here since I made a sacrifice to the Dryads. ”
Zhao Tiancheng asked, "Do you want me to cure your paralysis?"
The sacrificial eyes lit up for a while, and he sighed: "If my predecessors can cure my paralysis, alas, the function of the Divine Mirror will be invalid forever, forget it, I am also used to being with the Divine Mirror." "
Zhao Tiancheng looked puzzled and waited for the sacrifice to continue.
The priest turned to the spirit and said, "Go and fetch the seeds of the sacred tree." Then he said to Zhao Tiancheng: "The tree elves have lived in this Divine Jupiter for 10,000 years. We Dryads were originally the same as humans, not what we are now. "
Zhao Tiancheng looked curious and shocked, he didn't disturb the sacrifice and let him continue.
The sorrow on the priest's face continued, "We Dryads have been cursed by an unknown one, and this curse has been blessed on our heads to keep the Dryads in their current form forever.
After I used the Divine Mirror to calculate hundreds of times, the Divine Mirror has only recently shown the shadow of its predecessors. So I knew that the seniors would come, and the future of the Dryad clan would be on the generations. "
Zhao Tiancheng's heart swelled with extreme shock! This sacrifice can actually calculate the future! He had a vague feeling in his heart, so he asked out loud, "Do you need me to help you migrate?"
"Yes senior, I figured out that you have great abilities and can help the Dryad complete the migration. "
At this time, the spirit floated in, holding a halo flowing seed in his hand, and the divine tree seed was very similar to a god-level spar, containing a huge amount of life energy. Zhao Tiancheng took the Divine Tree Seed, and immediately understood, and at the same time, the system sound sounded: Obtain the Tree of Life Tree Seed Unit 1
Putting away the tree seeds, Zhao Tiancheng nodded to the spirit and said, "Thank you for your hard work." Then he said to the priest, "Lord Priest, in this case, do you predict what will happen to me in the future?" He was curious about the Divine Mirror sacrificed by the Elven Clan, and he wanted to see how the Divine Mirror predicted.
The priest hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll ask the Divine Mirror to speculate right away." He began to chant incantations continuously, faster and faster, but his voice was indistinct, making people listen like the buzzing sound of mosquitoes, and after a while, the surface of the divine mirror began to smoke, and the sacrificial face showed a hint of redness, and he suddenly shouted: "Clumsy!" Then he bit the tip of his tongue and sprayed a mouthful of blood on the mirror.
When not in use, the mirror looks like a mirror embedded in a wooden board, and there is nothing peculiar about it, only when it is activated by a specific person, the wonderful prediction function of the mirror will be revealed.
With the sacrifice, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and several fist-sized bubbles rose from the divine mirror, like beautiful soap bubbles.
The bubbles slowly rose, and at a height of a foot above the mirror, several bubbles turned into five circles.
The priest recited a mantra with great difficulty, and a faint image appeared in the five circles, just like a movie, and an image appeared in each circle, but it was very faint and flashing, and it was extremely fast, and it was not clear at all if I didn't pay attention.
Zhao Tiancheng hurriedly activated the system function to record the content displayed on the screen, otherwise he would not be able to see and grasp it in time.
After about a minute, the image described by the five circles suddenly shattered, turned into five green smokes, and retracted into the mirror.
The priest said with a happy face: "Thank you seniors for helping us, so I can rest assured......" Before he finished speaking, his whole body suddenly trembled violently.
Out of nowhere, the spirit quickly took out a black elixir and fed it to his mouth.
The priest waved his hand in pain, closed his eyes, and said no more.
The spirit explained, "Every time the priest uses the Divine Mirror to make a prediction, it is extremely sad, and it is very hurtful to have a long recovery time to predict. ”
Zhao Tiancheng looked at the sacrifice with a worried face, and he didn't have any medicine to treat his mind. Then the first image recorded by Zhi Brain was released, and the place shown in the image was Zhao Tiancheng's divine plane, and there was a towering tree standing upright, which was obviously a copy of the divine tree in front of him. Many human-shaped elves flew up and down, laughing and laughing.