Volume 4: Test Feather One Hundred and Three: Evil Wood Blood
"Here...... It doesn't seem like there's really any spirit grass. ”
Yan Xuan flew around and watched, the five of them had now entered this low-lying land, flying all the way without touching the dust, and all Yan Xuan saw was nothing more than rocks and weeds.
As the five of them deepened, the damp mist did not worsen, but the surroundings gradually became cold.
"Why is it getting colder and colder?" Lu Pingchuan said.
"I guess it's almost there." Tang Ping replied.
Less than a cup of tea flew inside, and there were no weeds to be seen under the feet of the five people, and there were scattered rocks below, faintly puddles, and the dampness was getting heavier and heavier, and a jagged and twisted black shadow stood in the fog in the distance.
"Is that what the Evil Wood is called?"
Li Jian looked at the black shadow and asked, in his senses, the feeling brought to him by the black shadow in the mist was different from all the other demon beasts he had encountered before, in the wild, he sensed the demon beasts, it was nothing more than a sense of crisis that was weak or strong, and this evil wood was in danger and made him have an inexplicable disgust.
"Okay, that's the evil wood," Tang Ping motioned to a few companions to slow down, "At this time, you must not fall to the ground, there are many kinds of evil trees, each with different means, but almost all evil trees can be used to drill out of the ground to hurt people, let's fly over to this place, there are almost no weeds on the ground, and there is a dense root system of the evil wood underneath, as long as it falls on the ground, the evil wood will notice, It will drill out of the ground with its roots, wrap people tightly together, and then drag them into the ground, slowly restraining them. ”
Yan Xuan listened and looked at the ground below with some nervousness.
"Eh, Sister Tang," Lu Pingchuan asked curiously, "Then according to what you say, this evil wood should be a kind of demon beast, so is it a demon beast or a tree?" ”
"This ...... It's hard to say," Tang Ping replied to Lu Pingchuan's question, which was also a little difficult, "All things are born in nature, and there are always some things that don't follow the logic, why only monks and demon beasts and spirit beasts can practice, why can't plants and trees, my sixth grandfather once told me that since there is a spirit wood, there should be an evil wood, or the evil wood is actually a kind of spirit wood, but the spirit wood is beneficial to the monks, and the evil wood is harmful to the monks, just like there are some of us monks who practice diligently to increase their cultivation, There are also those evil cultivators who have evil intentions and always use harmful methods to get something for nothing. ”
"Oh," Lu Pingchuan seemed to understand, and then said, "Since this is the case, then we are all here, why don't we get rid of this evil wood, so that no one will be hurt by it here in the future." ”
"That's difficult, Brother Lu, this evil tree will speed up its own seeds when it knows that it will die, and then that kind of seed will escape with the wind, even if we can uproot the evil wood and burn it clean, but before that, its seeds don't know how much it has been sown, we turn around and leave, but it won't take many years for evil trees to grow here, and it will only be more than before, maybe it can grow into an evil wood forest."
"Oh," Li Jian asked curiously, "then there is no way to eradicate this evil wood?" ”
"Of course there is a way, but it's a lot of trouble, eh...... Need to use a method similar to Qian Boy's Locking Spirit Array," Tang Ping seemed to recall, "I remember when I didn't come to the sect and was still in the Tang family, I heard them talk about it, it is said that there was a small evil tree near the Tang family in the past, and the Tang family wanted to remove the evil wood, but they were afraid that the grass would not be rooted, so they used a slow method, and they arranged a formation around the big place of the evil wood, so that the aura in that place became less and less, hmm...... It's getting less and less and not disappearing all at once, just like a pot of flowers, watering it less and less and the interval is getting longer and longer, and not giving it the last drop of water, after a long time, the flower will inevitably die, and the evil wood in the formation will slowly weaken because of the disappearance of the aura little by little, until it finally withers and dies, but even if the evil wood dies at that time, the formation cannot be removed immediately, and it must continue to be maintained for several years, just in case it still has seeds to take root and sprout, In the end, the evil tree can be burned clean with fire, so that an evil tree can be eradicated. ”
"It's so troublesome." Li Jian said.
"Good fellow, how many years does it take to kill a tree like this?" Lu Pingchuan asked.
"Well, it is said that it took nearly a hundred years to completely eradicate that evil tree." Tang Ping replied.
"So long." Yan Xuan said.
Qian Chao's heart moved when he heard Tang Ping say that the Tang family arranged a formation around the evil wood, but he was immediately relieved, after all, the Tang family from which Tang Ping was born was a prominent family in the cultivation world, and the depth of the background must be extraordinary, and it was not uncommon for a few monks who could arrange the formation, although he was interested in the formation she mentioned, but it was expected that Tang Ping definitely did not know the method of arrangement, so he did not ask.
A few people chatted and flew closer to the evil wood, and the cold was even stronger at this time, and the five of them finally saw the true face of the evil wood.
This is probably the lowest part of this depression, and the ground is a waveless backwater, and in that backwater, you can still see the shimmering white bones of some beast or demon beast, half-buried and half-buried in the mud at the bottom of the water. In the middle of that stagnant water there is a lone big tree, this tree is thick enough for seven or eight people to enclose, the tree is more than forty feet high, the trunk is mottled and cracked, concave and convex and twisted, ugly and abnormal, along the trunk up to the top of the tree, where the canopy of the branches are criss-crossed, dense like a pile of dry bones, people look at the heart and have a very uncomfortable feeling, amazingly, under the closer look, there are only branches and not a leaf.
Lu Pingchuan saw such a tree for the first time, with his experience, whether at home or in the sect, the trees he saw were all luxuriant, and it was the first time he had seen such a tree, he couldn't help but ask curiously: "This tree is not small, but is it alive or dead, why is there not a single leaf, Tang Meizi, what kind of evil wood is this?" ”
Yan Xuan thought that he had just arrived in Youming Valley, and there was an evil tree on the map that Tang Ping showed him to relieve his boredom, so he also said: "Ah Ping, is this the kind of tree called Baizhang Bone you said?" ”
"This ......" Tang Ping looked at the tree blankly, the reason why Tang Ping knew more about the spirit wood was because she preferred the method of making spirit wine, and most of the spirit fruits needed to make spirit wine were born on various spirit trees, so Tang Bonian, who taught her to make spirit wine, also told her a lot about various spirit trees, so Tang Ping could know about this evil wood, but after all, today was also the first time she saw the evil wood, although her sixth grandfather gave a lot of books, but what she got in the book was different from what she saw with her own eyes, At this time, Tang Ping was turning over the books that recorded the spirit wood in his heart, and finally the outline of the evil wood in front of him overlapped with the description in a book he had read, "This...... It's Blood Yinmu, yes, that's right, it's Blood Yinmu. ”
"Blood Yinmu, why did you come up with such a strange name?" Lu Pingchuan said.
"There are two unique features of this Blood Yin Wood. One is that this evil wood is not very powerful, but the fruit it bears is very strange......"
"What's weird?"
"The fruit it bears is called the Blood Yin Fruit, this fruit is not poisonous, well, it is not of much use to us monks, but the aura it exudes has a fatal allure to the demon beasts, and it is precisely because of this that it can attract the demon beasts passing by, and then be killed by it."
Several people were surprised when they heard this, they didn't expect that this evil wood called Blood Yin Wood actually had such a method, thinking of this, several people looked at the looming white bones in the stagnant water under them, it seems that these unlucky guys must have been attracted by the breath of Blood Yin Fruit and lost their lives.
Qian Chao withdrew his gaze from looking down and asked, "Then what is the other unique feature besides its fruit?" ”
"Another, I said that this Blood Yin Wood is not very powerful, but if the demon beast attracted by the Blood Yin Fruit is very powerful, it can neither kill nor resist, wouldn't that be bad, so this Blood Yin Mu will also ask for help."
Lu Pingchuan couldn't understand and asked, "Please help?" What kind of help, could it be that it can ask for other evil trees to help? ”
"No," Tang Ping said, "The helper it invited is not another evil wood, but the kind of demon insect that will not be attracted by its blood Yin fruit, so whenever the blood Yin wood is found, then there must be a lot of demon insects nesting and living on it, and the demon beasts that are usually attracted are killed, and the demon insects and this blood Yin wood will share the blood food equally, and once the powerful demon beast comes, then the demon insects that inhabit it will inevitably attack it in groups, and kill the powerful demon beast together with the blood Yin wood, which can be regarded as protecting this blood Yin wood." ”
Li Jian listened to the interface and said: "Miss Tang is right, there are indeed a lot of demon insects on the tree, and we didn't get close to it, so those demon insects didn't show up. ”
Li Jian had already sensed it when he got close to this evil wood, this blood Yin wood in Tang Ping's mouth, don't look at the height of the tree, but almost the thick trunk has been hollow, and I don't know how many demon insects are nesting in the trunk, thinking that if this blood Yin wood attracts more powerful demon beasts, the demon insects in this trunk will immediately fly out to attack and kill the demon beast.
Lu Pingchuan listened and looked at the blood Yin wood, but he couldn't see that there were demon insects hiding there, but he didn't doubt Li Jian's words, and said: "In this way, I didn't expect that there are so many strange things in this cultivation world, and insects can be accompanied by a tree!" ”
Qian Chao's heart moved as early as when Tang Ping said the first unique feature of this Blood Yin Wood, he looked at Tang Ping, and sure enough, the girl's expression was a little excited at this time, so he asked, "Then is there any Blood Yin Fruit on this tree now?" ”
"Then you have to look closer," Tang Ping noticed Qian Chao's smiling gaze as soon as he said this, and knew that his plan was seen through by this kid, so he pouted at him and said, "That blood Yin fruit is not big, like a small ball, and the color is not bright, you can't see it here, we have to get closer to find it." ”
Yan Xuan had long been a little afraid of this eerie tree, and when he heard Tang Ping say that he had to go over to see the fruit of the evil tree, he resisted a little, and said: "Ah Ping, what is the use of the fruit of this evil tree, if it can't be used in medicine or wine, it's better for us not to look at it, after all, there are still a lot of demon insects on the tree, and it's better for us to have more than one thing." ”
"Sister Yan," Tang Ping said, "Although that Blood Yin Fruit can neither be used in medicine nor brewed wine, if we can find one or two to pick up, maybe the Yunzhu Fruit we saw earlier will be able to get our hands this time!" ”
Li Jian listened to Tang Ping's words at this time, and after a little thought, she understood what she was going to do.
Lu Pingchuan and Yan Xuan still don't understand.