Chapter 290: Shadows in the Canopy

Tang Xiaohao looked at Su Man, he didn't see despair in Su Man's eyes.

So, Tang Xiaohao asked, "Aunt Suman, you must have had other plans, right?" Can you tell me? Let's see if we can find a way to do it."

Su Man said in a deep voice, "I originally thought that if the Heavenly Array Barrier failed one day, then I would lead the Mountain Boy to fight to the death against the Bone Hunters relying on the Jianmu Divine Tree, because I once stumbled upon that on the Jianmu, there is a chance that the magic will lose its effect."

Tang Xiaohao nodded and said, "I think this is the next policy, what about the middle policy?"

Su Man shook his head: "Donkey, in this place, there is no middle strategy and best strategy, even if there are other methods, they are all lower strategies."

Tang Xiaohao said, "Just tell me, do you have any other plans?"

"There's another one," Su Man said, pointing to the east, "There is an area to the east of Jianmu, where it is all soft soil, but there are big trees, I have seen it from afar, it should be possible to build a tree house, and the most important thing is that that area is a place where other monsters in the Fog Mountains dare not set foot easily."

Tang Xiaohao immediately asked, "Why?"

Suman explained, "That's what the Governor told me."

When Tang Xiaohao heard this, he immediately asked Tang Rongrong to lift the head of the burial building.

Su Man was also surprised to see the head of the burial building, and only after Tang Xiaohao explained what was going on, but what Su Man said about the general envoy was actually not referring to the burial of the Ming Building, but Chu Yan, and the burial of the Ming Building was just a substitute for the dead ghost on the bright side.

However, the burial tower also knew about the area known as the burial ground that Suman was talking about.

Tang Xiaohao asked, "Buried bones? Is it a graveyard?"

"Yes, strictly speaking, it's a cemetery, but all the monsters buried in that cemetery are foggy."

The reason why Fu Minglou knew it was because in the early years, before the bone hunters coaxed the Liang Cheng Kang family to send people to build the Seven Star Trick Road, they had to survey a suitable area first. Therefore, he sent people into the mountain in advance to investigate, and the survey would naturally disturb the monster tribe that was originally entrenched here.

For the bone hunters who are good at magic seals, it is not difficult to deal with these monsters that ordinary people fear, and in a few days, most of the monster races that were originally entrenched here were wiped out, and not only that, but some monsters were captured alive, and from the mouths of these monsters, they learned about the burial place.

There is more than one burial ground in the Wulian Mountain Range, and the original burial place is the battlefield where those monsters fought for territory after Longji Mountain became Wulian Mountain.

Because there are too many youkai who have died, they simply turn the original battlefield into a graveyard, and then if a youkai dies, they will be thrown there directly, and over time a burial ground will be formed.

Fu Minglou said with a smile, "The reason why even those monsters don't dare to set foot in the burial ground is because there is another kind of monster called the bone spirit there."

"Bone Spirit?" Tang Xiaohao was puzzled, "What kind of monster is that?"

Fu Minglou said: "Monsters are roughly divided into two kinds: monsters and elves, the monsters are awakened by animals, and the elves are awakened by plants, and the bone spirits are the bones of monsters that have become a new kind of monsters for some special reason after their deaths, which are very rare in the land of Jiuyuan, but there are many in Wulian Mountain, so many that you can't imagine."

Tang Xiaohao remembered his experience in Liangcheng: "Won't the monster become a ruin after death?"

"The pony really knows a lot," Fu Minglou was slightly surprised, "Indeed, the corpse of the youkai after death is called the Hades Ruins, and the Hades are the appearance of the Youkai before they awaken, which is the so-called original form. When the flower spirit dies, it will become the original flower, and the wolf demon will show the original wolf form after death. These ruins still retain the magic power that youkai had when they were alive. I guess it's because these ruins and their own magic power are mixed together, and finally the corpse of the youkai, that is, the ruins, becomes a new youkai, that is, the bone spirit."

"I see, I seem to understand," Tang Xiaohao nodded slowly, "Just like after a person dies, only corpses are left when living beings leave their bodies, and corpses that lose their living creatures will become zombies under some special circumstances?" The ruins have become bone spirits, it should be like this, right?"

Fu Minglou's eyes rolled: "That's right, yes, the horse is real

Intelligent, these bones are like zombies that people turn into, they don't have minds, the only difference is that these bones don't wander around, they only stay in the bone-burying place where they were born, but if any living creature enters the bone-buried place, they will be killed immediately."

After listening to Fu Minglou's explanation, Tang Xiaohao looked at Su Man: "Aunt Su Man, when you think of burying bones, you shouldn't have made the worst plan, right?"

Su Man nodded with difficulty, and then looked at Zedu and the other mountain boys: "There is no way for these children to return to their original appearance, if they can't be protected here, then I can only lead those god-killing bone hunters to the bone burial ground, and take the children to die with those miscellaneous pieces."

"Aunt Suman, calm down!" Tang Xiaohao immediately said, "Unless the bone hunter doesn't know what's in the bone burial ground, otherwise, your plan like this can only send you to death."

Suman asked, "What do you say?"

Tang Xiaohao asked, "How many more mountain children are there?"

Suman said, "There are only one hundred and thirty people in all."

Tang Xiaohao asked again, "What about the women sent by the caravan?"

Su Man said, "Thirty-four, including me."

Tang Xiaohao recalled, "How many people can be accommodated in the treehouses on the top of Jianmu?"

Su Man roughly calculated: "About fifty or sixty people, that's it at most, what are you going to do?"

Tang Xiaohao turned to look at those half-demons: "They are all half-demons, they have no magic power, although they can change into their original form, but half-demons such as rabbits, chickens, and ducks have almost no attack power, so they need to be hidden at the top of the treehouse with those women."

Su Man nodded in agreement, and then led the group of people and the half-demon group towards the location of the Jianmu Divine Tree.

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At the same time, Higashiyama Takashi was flying rapidly in the black forest, shouting constantly, trying to find the war spirits who were still in the black forest.

It's just that after walking through the area where the war spirit is located for a long time, he didn't see a war spirit.

Higashiyama Xiao stopped and muttered to himself, "Maybe they were all sucked in by the Dragon Armor Order at that time?"

Dongshan Xiao was still unwilling, and shouted around for a while, and after making sure that there was no war spirit, he began to fly forward to carry out the scout mission given to him by Tang Xiaohao.

Because of Tang Xiaohao's prior advice, Dongshan Xiao flew very high, almost flying against the top canopy of those black trees, only in this way would he avoid being discovered by the bone hunters at the first time.

Who knew that as soon as he flew for a while, Higashiyama Takashi heard a strange sound coming from the canopy, as if something was moving within the canopy.

At first, Higashiyama Takashi thought that he had heard it wrong, and he listened to it for a while he was suspended in mid-air, and after making sure that he heard it correctly, he slowly rose, intending to enter the black canopy to see what was inside.

Just as Higashiyama Takashi's head was sticking in, a hand suddenly covered his mouth and dragged him directly into the trunk of the tree to hide.

Because the undead are incorporeal, they can hide directly in the trunk of a tree.

Dongshan Xiao, who was taken aback, turned his head one hundred and eighty degrees, and only then did he see clearly that it was a war spirit who dragged him in.

Higashiyama was about to say something, but the war spirit covered his mouth again: "If you make a sound, those monsters can hear it, and only by hiding here will you not be discovered by those things."

Higashiyama asked in a very low voice, "What is it?" Are you the only one? Are there any other Spirits?"

The war spirit said, "You can slowly lean out and take a look."

Dongshan Xiao heard what the war spirit said, and then he stretched his neck and slowly poked his head out of the trunk.

The moment he leaned out, Higashiyama saw a foot stepping directly towards his head.

Fortunately, Higashiyama Takashi had no entity, so the foot stepped directly through his head, stepped on the branch next to him, and then continued to jump forward.

Only then did Higashiyama Xiao see clearly that there were many people wearing tattered clothes or armor, and their bodies were rotting and jumping forward at the top of the canopy, and the number was amazing.

Just when he probed, at least a dozen or so passed.

Higashiyama Takashi immediately retracted his head back into the trunk of the tree and asked the previous war spirit, "What are those?"

The War Spirit hesitated for a moment and said, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be a corpse."

"Corpses?" Higashiyama Takashi recalled, "Is it the human corpse that was killed by the Decei Armor and didn't completely absorb the light essence qi?"

The war spirit nodded and said, "Yes, we encountered these corpses thousands of years ago, although they are terrifying, but for our Xiliu army, they can still be dealt with, at least ordinary weapons can be killed, but those half-demons in front of them are miserable, they can only fight with these corpses in close combat, and the odds of victory are not great."

Dongshan Xiao let out a long breath: "That's okay, my friend, it's the horse who took the dragon armor order last time, and he has already taken away all the half-demons and gone to the Jianmu Divine Tree where the mountain boy is."

The War Spirit nodded, "Huh? Actually, I saw you before, but I was afraid that I would be sucked away by the Dragon Armor Order, so I didn't dare to show up, what are you going to do when you come back?"

Dongshan filial piety: "Save you."

The War Spirit was surprised: "Save us?"

Dongshan Xiao immediately said: "My brother, it is Tang Xiaohao, who is the concubine of the court, who specially brought us back, because he guesses that the bone hunters will not let you go, so he wants to save the war spirits, half-demons and mountain boys here."

The war spirit was silent, it didn't expect that Tang Xiaohao, who was just a one-sided relationship, would return to save them.

The War Spirit asked again, "Why? He didn't have to do that, we used him and almost killed him."

Dongshan Xiao thought for a while, shook his head and said, "I don't know, he is like this, what he means is that it is one who can save one, and he also said that all things have spirits, even if you are dead, you are only living in another form, it is also life, and if it is life, you will be saved."

The battle spirit was full of incredulity, and he couldn't believe that Tang Xiaohao would make such a decision.

Higashiyama said again, "How many do you have left? You call the rest of your companions, and hurry to the Jianmu Sacred Tree to make peace with the horses, and I'll check how many corpses there are, and if there is anything else behind them."

Just as Higashiyama was about to burrow out of the trunk, the war spirit grabbed him.

Higashiyama asked, "What are you doing?"

The war spirit looked at Dongshan Xiao and said, "I calculated before, at least about three hundred corpses jumped from the top of the canopy, and there are at least five of them, which are the leaders of the armor, and the rest, you go and investigate, I will call the other brothers now, and we will see you in the Jianmu Divine Tree."

A smile finally appeared on Higashiyama's face: "Okay, I'll see you in the Jianmu Divine Tree." Look at the book

Higashiyama Takashi carefully drilled out of the trunk and shuttled forward under the cover of the trunk.

No matter when he was alive and became a resentful spirit, he never became so happy and confident.

Tang Xiaohao is right, only Dongshan Xiao can do these things.

I'm not a weak chicken, I'm strong, I'm a good friend of the colt! For the first time, Takashi Higashiyama felt that his existence was valuable and meaningful.

It was also at this time that Higashiyama Xiao discovered that there were five people running on the Seven Star Strange Road Mountain Road below.