It turned out that the dry branches that had stretched across the sky before had stopped stretching around, but instead hung down in the sky in an enveloping manner, firmly besieging Ling Yu and the four of them.

When Ling Yu and the four came back to their senses, they found that a withered branch hell had been laid around them at some point, and they were trapped in a cage by the withered branch hell.

"Old bandit, these dead branches are a little weird, the broken sword is a divine weapon, even it can't cut these dead branches, it seems that we have encountered a ruthless character today. ”

Ling Yu suddenly swung out a sword, forcing back the withered branches that seemed to have self-awareness, and said in a deep voice to the chaos beside him. Since the sword was broken and opened, it can be said that it is not strong, but I didn't expect that even so, it would not be able to cut off the dead branches that seemed to be rotten.

Tens of thousands of dead branches fell at the same time, wrapping Ling Yu and the four of them layer by layer.

However, the withered branch did not attack the four of them directly, but slowly condensed into a cage-like dense net, trapping Ling Yu and the four of them in the center.

The afterglow of the setting sun shines through the gaps between the dead branches, casting dappled sunlight on the faces of the four people, like a pattern.

The four of Ling Yu were trapped in a cage made of condensed dry branches, back to back, looking around vigilantly. When the withered branches condensed, they were not detected by Ling Yu and Fu Chao, which showed that there was no divine sense power in the withered branches. But these dead branches are extremely resilient, but they are not easy to deal with.

"Move, move! they move!" Just as the four of them were staring at the dead branches, Xiao Hei suddenly pointed to the dead branches in front of him, his face was full of fear, and he shouted in a lost voice.

Hearing Xiao Hei's exclamation, Ling Yu and the others hurriedly turned their gaze to Xiao Hei. Sure enough, it was found that the dead branches were gradually closing up, and it seemed that the four of them were going to strangle them to death in this wilderness.

"Fight!"

Looking at the withered branches that were gradually approaching him, Ling Yu's eyes flashed with a sharp light. He snapped his sword and slashed at the dead branch in front of him.

"Bell!"

With a crisp sound, Ling Yu was shocked to the point that her mouth was numb, her eyes were full of stars, and her mind was filled with a piercing sound. Under the blow, it turned out to be in vain.

"Xiao Yu, this ancient tree is a holy relic for millions of years, even if the broken sword is forged from the primordial stone, I am afraid it will not be able to hurt the dead branches in the slightest. At this moment, the world reminded.

"Then what should we do, we can't sit still!" Hearing the reminder of the realm, Ling Yu swung three more swords to force the dead branches away. He shook his numb arm and gritted his teeth.

"The five elements of heaven and earth, yin and yang, since gold is not wood, then try fire. Feeling Ling Yu's somewhat frustrated mood, Tianlingzhu also spoke at the right time.

Hearing Tianlingzhu's words, Ling Yu's heart moved. In fact, according to the saying that the five elements are mutually reinforcing and mutually restrictive, it is true that gold is wood, and wood makes fire. However, the broken sword, which symbolizes gold, cannot destroy the dead branches, but instead does the opposite, using the power of fire to burn the dead branches.

Thinking of this, Ling Yu's heart moved, and he drew the power of fire from the dantian to run on the broken sword. The power of fire was the Heavenly Dao divine power that Ling Yu had mastered when he had passed the punishment of the Dao Sect, but after Ling Yu obtained the three-style sword technique, he rarely used the power of fire.

With Ling Yu's movements, a series of golden-red rays burst out from his dantian. Those divine rays were in the shape of flames, wandering among Ling Yu's limbs and hundreds of remains. Finally, the power of the fire converged on Ling Yu's left arm, wrapping the broken sword.

The broken sword blessed by the power of fire turned from black to red, and the heat wave was scorching.

Ling Yu held the broken sword in his hand and slashed at the oncoming dead branches. The dead branches are extremely tough, and I am afraid that they will not be able to destroy them if they are hard to touch. In this case, it is better to follow the advice of the Heavenly Spirit Bead and use the power of fire to give it a try.

The Broken Sword in Ling Yu's palm filled with the power of heavenly fire was infinitely powerful, and the fiery power that seemed to be able to turn heaven and earth into ashes made Ambush feel terrified.

The heavens are on fire, and all things are burned. As soon as the power of the fire came out, it directly forced the withered branches to retreat. The withered branches that Ling Yu had been entangled in before were instantly far away, and he withdrew nearly ten zhang.

Because the withered branches fled into the distance because they were afraid of the power of fire, they gave Ling Yu a chance to breathe. He swung several swords in succession, wanting to continue to expand his advantage.

However, when Ling Yu swung his sword and slashed at the dead branches, he ignored that the dead branches had enveloped all of them. Even though Ling Yu forced back the dead branches in front of him, he couldn't resist the entanglement of the surging dead branches behind him.

"Xiao Yu, there's no way to go on like this! You have the power of fire, but we don't!" Seeing Ling Yu's divine power fully displayed, Xiao Hei could only obediently follow behind him.

Hearing Xiao Hei's words, Ling Yu turned his head to look behind him, and sure enough, he found that when he forced back the dead branch in front of him, the dead branch behind him actually wrapped up again, and gradually shrunk.

"Not good!"

Just as Ling Yu turned his head to look at the dead branches behind him, he suddenly heard an exclamation in chaos. Then, Fu Chao grabbed Ling Yu's arm and pulled him back.

It turned out that when Ling Yu turned his head, the dead branches that had been forced to retreat by him before swept in again, they were pervasive, and they seemed to want to put Ling Yu to death.

"Xiao Yu, you see, I really didn't lie to you, those corpses have finally manifested again!" Xiao Hei danced the cold sealing halberd to force back the dead branches, pointing at the trunk of the dead tree.

Hearing Xiao Hei's words, Ling Yu and Fu Chao took out a talisman from their arms at the same time. This talisman contains a mysterious power of fire, and when the talisman is triggered, the rich power of fire shoots out in all directions, temporarily forcing back the surrounding dead branches.

Then, Ling Yu, Ambush, and Simba looked in the direction of the little black finger.

When Ling Yu and Fu Chao saw the scene under the canopy clearly, they were also the same as Simba and Xiao Hei before, with a frightened look on their faces, and they unconsciously gasped.

It turned out that when Ling Yu tried to cut off the dead branches, new branches grew under the canopy of the dead trees. It's just that those newborn branches are not new branches rippling with the breath of life, but like the branches that wrap Ling Yu and the four of them, they are rotten and withered.

And on the new dead branches, there were cold corpses hanging all over them. The corpses were dressed in white mourning robes and had their hair scattered. Dozens of bodies, both men and women, looked as if they had just died. The corners of their mouths, eyes, nostrils, and ears were filled with blood, which was shocking.

Ling Yu could sense that those corpses had fallen and were no longer alive. But suddenly seeing so many corpses still made Ling Yu's scalp tingle and cold all over his body.

There were seventy-two corpses hanging from the branches, and each corpse died in almost the same condition, which was extremely tragic.

Among these corpses, some of them seemed to be dead, their eyes widened, their eyes were full of blood, and they stared directly at Ling Yu and the others, as if that kind of gaze could reach the hearts of the four people, and hooked out the deepest fear in their hearts.

It's no wonder that Simba and Xiao Hei's faces changed drastically when they saw these corpses for the first time, and even Ling Yu and Fu Chao felt a sudden burst in their hearts and a chill down their spines when they saw these corpses.

Because of the talisman of the power of fire to balance the dead branches of the ancient tree, Ling Yu and the others also got a moment of respite. Ling Yu's gaze passed through the thick dead branches, and he looked carefully at the corpses.

After fixing his gaze, Ling Yu realized that those corpses were not only wrapped around their necks by dead branches, but also countless sharp dead branches inserted into their bodies from the backs of the seventy-two corpses. Their internal organs were pierced and dripping with blood.

Looking at the scene in front of me, it seems that these corpses have just been killed. However, Ling Yu had stopped here for about two hours, and he didn't hear any fighting.

When, then, were these people killed? They didn't have any wounds on their bodies, but it would be wrong to say that they were strangled by dead branches.

A person who is normally strangled will not only have deep purple strangulation marks on the neck, but also a purple-black tongue that sticks out very long. Moreover, their eyes will be filled with blood because of the rupture of blood vessels, like tears, and finally flow out.

However, the blood in the eyes of these people hanging on the ancient trees was not like blood and tears flowing from the bursting blood vessels near the eyeballs, but more like the blood flowing backwards after the internal organs were crushed, and finally the blood flowing out of the seven orifices.

Moreover, the tongues of these people did not reach out, and even if some of them spit out a small part of their tongues, they were not purple and black like strangled creatures.

"Xiao Yu, the death of these people is very strange, it doesn't look like they were strangled to death, but more like they were scared to death, and then they were killed by dead branches penetrating their internal organs. ”

Just when Ling Yu was puzzled, Fu Chao also discovered the strangeness of these corpses.

"If I see this ancient tree become a spirit, I will be scared to death! Xiao Yu, Brother Yu, let's quickly find a way to get out of here. Whether it's dead trees or corpses here, it's all weird, and I don't want to stay for a moment!"

Xiao Hei swallowed hard, he took a few steps back, and said with palpitations.

"Leave?hehe, I'm afraid we won't be able to leave!" Looking at the look of fear in Xiao Hei's eyes, Ling Yu looked around, and finally shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Seeing the helplessness in Ling Yu's eyes, Xiao Hei was very puzzled, and when he followed Ling Yu's gaze to his feet, he suddenly looked like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and his hair suddenly rose. He wanted to jump into the air, but found that even half a step of movement became a luxury.

It turned out that at the feet of the little black four, a lot of tree roots came out of the ground at some point. The roots of these trees are not the same color as the dead branches that besiege them, but they are emerald green and exude vitality.

The roots were like tentacles, and before they knew it, they had wrapped their legs so tightly that they couldn't move.

And what really worried them was not only that, when they found that their feet had been firmly entangled in the roots of the tree, the ends of those roots were like sharp golden needles, piercing directly into the flesh and blood of the four people.

Then, as if attracted by something, the withered branches stuck in the corpses began to draw blood from the seventy-two corpses. Where the blood flowed, the branches of the trees, which had been dry yellow, were instantly dyed blood-red.

The red on the dry branches swam along the corpses towards the roots of the trees, and their targets turned out to be the flesh and blood of Ling Yu and the four.

The scene in front of them was so weird that Ling Yu and the four of them didn't have time to react at all. When they came back to their senses and wanted to use their cultivation to cut off the roots of the tree, they found that their cultivation seemed to be sealed, and no magical power could be used.

"Wow, this demon king hasn't become the ancestor of all demons yet! My Lan Shu sister is still waiting for me in Mizusawa Divine City! I don't want to be harmed by the tree spirit so soon. Hey, is there anyone coming to our rescue?"

Looking at the strange blood that was rapidly approaching him, Xiao Hei shrank his neck in fright, his cheeks turned bloody, and he seemed to be really frightened.

And Ling Yu, Ambush, and Simba also had a sense of despair in their hearts. They have tried everything, but they still can't get rid of the roots of the tree.

Seeing that the four of them were about to be infused with blood from seventy-two corpses, Ling Yu closed his eyes helplessly, at this time, if they could still escape, it would only be a miracle.

However, just when Ling Yu and the four of them were ready to die, a loud roar suddenly came from afar.

"Well, the little tree spirit also dares to be evil, see that this Taoist master has accepted you!"

When that roar rang out, Ling Yu and the four of them suddenly felt a loosen under their feet, and found that the roots of the tree that bound them had been cut off by the golden blades that had been transformed one after another.

Ling Yu, who had regained his free body, was overjoyed in his heart, and couldn't help but look up at the mysterious powerhouse who had saved them.

And when Ling Yu saw the comer clearly, a strange look appeared on his face. He raised his hand and pointed at the strong man, and said incredulously, "It's you!"