"Beasts become essences in a hundred years, and trees become essences in thousands of years, but they become essences that are not tolerated by heaven, and it will be extremely difficult to break through when they are about to reach the bottleneck of cultivation, and all the things that will happen to demon beasts eating people."

Lao Li Tou said and turned his head to look at the dense trees in the village, and there was more fear in his eyes: "But few people know that trees can also eat people." ”

"Have you ever heard of pitcher plants? It secretes a special liquid to attract insects into the basket and then digest it completely, and this demon tree is the same, releasing a little sweetness and attracting people to the past. ”

"People will inevitably get sick in their lives, and the demon tree has seized on this and transformed its branches into elixirs that can cure all injuries and diseases, attracting those who are seriously injured and dying."

"And those people will have a significant improvement after taking the branches, but without exception, they will suddenly die after eleven days, and half of their bodies will be buried in the soil, and the branches will bloom, and the demon tree will also bloom red flowers like skulls."

Listening to Lao Litou's narration, the doubts in the village were solved little by little, but there were still some things that could not be testified, such as why the middle-aged woman watched her drink tea and why she smiled.

Although thinking like this, Chen Changsheng didn't mention it at this time, but just asked, "Why are you telling me these things?" ”

"Because you are like my dead son." Lao Li's eyes were full of sadness, looking at Chen Changsheng's face, tears quietly slipped down.

Wiping away the tears from the corners of his eyes, Lao Li Tou realized his gaffe and continued: "There were no villages and these trees here before, and we were born on the grassland almost all of us herding sheep for a living, and we lived by grass, and that day we chased the grass to come here, but somehow my son developed a high fever. ”

"But there is no Langzhong in the prairie here, and when I was anxious, I suddenly saw the demon tree, and the idea that a branch can cure the disease suddenly appeared in my mind."

Lao Li's voice was a little choked up: "But I am also a dead horse as a live horse doctor, so I broke off a branch and fed it to my son's mouth, and the high fever really slowly subsided." ”

"At that time, there was an abundance of forage here, and there was a sacred tree to heal the disease, so we set up tents."

"Because we are nomadic people who live on grass, more and more people come to this grassland to graze, but every two or three people have a minor illness and break the branches of the demon tree to cure the disease."

"At that time, I was still worried about whether the branches of the Divine Tree would be refracted or not, but now I think that everything is its trick, just to become a spirit!" Lao Li's tone became more and more angry, and he couldn't stop chopping his feet.

"So many villagers were cured, and many worshipped it as a sacred tree, but during the period between ten days and eleven days, all those who had taken the sacred tree began to die violently, half cut into the earth, their eyes grew branches, and their skin turned into wood grains, and they grew into trees in the village."

Lao Li Tou looked back at the trees in the village and spoke word by word.

Following Lao Li's gaze towards the village, Chen Changsheng felt that he could no longer look directly at those lush trees, and his well-informed face couldn't help but break out in a dense cold sweat, but his mind calmed down, and his tone became unkind: "Then what's going on with your feet!" Don't say you ate a branch. ”

Looking at Chen Changsheng, who was not good-looking, the corners of Lao Li's mouth twitched helplessly: "I really ate the branches, but I didn't want to, it was the demon tree that controlled us." ”

"The moment everyone who had consumed the branches turned into trees, everyone fell into a panic, but no one noticed that the red flowers on the top of the trees had slowly bloomed, and almost transparent pollen drifted into everyone's noses."

"At the same time, almost everyone's mind sounded the threat of the demon tree, and they were not allowed to leave this grassland for twenty miles, and there was a rule that as long as they were sick, they would take the branches."

Old man Li said with a bitter smile: "We have also tried to resist, but we always can't get down when we hold the weapon in our hands, and we will only obediently eat the branches." ”

Most of the doubts in Chen Changsheng's heart disappeared, and he remembered Bai Ruoqing, who had taken herbs for seven days, and said, "Then there is no way to crack it?" ”

"Yes, there is a saying that has been passed down in us - the spirit of the tree, the root of the earth, the branch of the tree, control the heart, the root of the tree breaks the branch." Seeing that Chen Changsheng smelled the idea, Lao Li Tou suddenly became excited, and said: "As long as you get the roots, you can solve the tragedy of turning into a tree man, but it's a pity that I can't do it." ”

"Where is the tree?" Chen Changsheng asked in a low voice with a sad old man Li.

"You agree, the tree is at the second aunt's house." Old man Li spoke a little incoherently because of his excitement, reached into his arms, took out a slender bamboo tube and medicinal powder, and handed them to Chen Changsheng's hand.

"Meng sweat medicine, blow this to the second aunt's house, even the gods can't wake up." Old man Li boasted proudly and walked towards the village with Chen Changsheng.

Putting the hollow bamboo tube in his hand into his arms, Chen Changsheng and Old Man Li took advantage of the night to come to the door of the second aunt's house.

The door of the second aunt's house is located at the bottom of the slope of the hill, just in the dead corner of the moon, which seems to be silent and terrible in the dark.

Half of the tree tree peeked out of the courtyard from the courtyard, covering the top of the wooden door, creating a good hiding environment for Chen Changsheng and the others.

In the dark, Chen Changsheng put his ear to the wooden door and listened carefully to the sound of even breathing inside, and dipped his fingers in his mouth a little saliva, breaking the corner of the paper window.

Through the small hole, Chen Changsheng saw everything inside, and the second aunt in the dark house was lying on the bed face up, her face was full of peace, and the quilt in her heart rose and fell regularly.

After confirming that the environment in the house was not dangerous, Chen Changsheng took out the hollow bamboo tube in his arms, poured the Mongolian and Han medicine on the cotton at one end of the bamboo tube, and then stuffed the bamboo tube into the house and blew it gently.

The medicinal powder fluttered in the moonlight, filling the room like phosphorus powder along the air, and was inhaled into the lungs by the second aunt little by little.

"One, two, three......" As the medicinal powder entered the lungs of the second aunt, Chen Changsheng silently counted ten numbers in his heart, and after confirming that the medicinal effect was working, he opened the window through the lattice gap in the window.

Looking around at the empty surroundings, Chen Changsheng propped himself on the window frame with one hand, flipped into the room, and whispered to the old man Li who was still stunned: "Go." ”

After speaking, Chen Changsheng came to the side door of the hut and pushed it violently.

The wooden door opened directly under Chen Changsheng's force, revealing the courtyard behind the door.

Looking up, the red flowers on the branches of the demon tree were already in full bloom, revealing the stamens in the center, like distorted human faces leaning closer to each other in the moonlight.

Hua Rui seemed to notice Chen Changsheng who was looking up, and the faces that were close to him were smiling strangely, and the next moment they disappeared.