Qingduan Chen and the others were shocked and asked Daddy Bai about the specific situation, and Daddy Bai explained them one by one, and they only knew about the changes in the world of the Shenmu Continent and the suffering process of mankind in the past five hundred years.

More than 500 years ago, the Shenmu Continent was a rich treasure land full of vitality, more than 70% of the places were suitable for human habitation, and the rest of the land was occupied by spirit beasts. The earth has a good ecology, abundant products, clean and rich air, and is full of aura, which is not only suitable for ordinary human life, but also suitable for monks to practice, and also nourishes the living beings of the entire continent.

At that time, the entire continent had a total population of about 10 billion, and there were hundreds of millions of monks. Although there is no unified human power on the entire continent, and there are constant strife and vendetta between countries and tribes, it is a continent ruled by human beings, where human beings thrive and pass on the torch.

More than 500 years ago, the spirit beasts on the continent began to attack humans on a large scale, before that, although humans and spirit beasts often killed each other, but both sides only did the necessary hunting, not needless indiscriminate killing. Therefore, there is a certain balance overall. Now, that balance has been upset.

There were many human casualties, so the political powers, big families, and big sects of various countries began to organize high-level monks to take action and slaughter vicious spirit beasts. Eventually, a large-scale vendetta finally broke out, with heavy casualties on both sides.

The war between man and beast has been going on for ten years, and humans have basically always had the upper hand, but suddenly a big change occurred, which made the combat power of humans fall into a trough all of a sudden.

I don't know what day it started, but some keen monks noticed that the aura in the air began to become scarce, and even the air began to become thinner. In less than a month, the density of air and aura had dropped by more than thirty percent, and as a result, all the monks and even all the humans were aware of the problem, and a great panic began to spread among the human race.

Monks not only need to cultivate aura, but most of their magic, martial arts, magic weapons and other combat power need to be used as a medium for aura, and the consequences of not having aura can be imagined.

Even ordinary people also need Reiki, and without Reiki, they are prone to fatigue, sickness, and need to eat more. This greatly increases the difficulty of survival.

Spirit beasts also need aura, but they are inherently stronger than humans, and human beings can only suppress spirit beasts by absorbing aura and cultivating, and in the absence of aura, human beings are not opponents of spirit beasts at all.

The high-ranking human cultivator quickly sensed the problem, and the root cause turned out to be from the Divine Tree.

The Divine Tree is a large tree located in the center of the continent, it is covered for thousands of miles, it looks like a forest, but in fact it is a single tree. Some people call it 'Fuso', others call it 'Usan', but the most recognized name is 'Shenmu'.

The main trunk of the sacred tree is located in the center of the 'forest', with a diameter of 100 zhang and a crown of nearly 1,000 zhang. Its huge root system spread out in all directions, and many small tree trunks were born, eventually forming a forest of sacred trees in a radius of thousands of miles.

Shenmu is a god that everyone on the mainland fears, and no one dares to cut it down and destroy it privately. This sacred tree forest does not belong to any country or force, every year, all forces on the mainland will unite and selectively cut down two or three branches of the sacred tree with a diameter of five to ten zhang and a height of about 100 zhang. Because of its toughness, grain and color, it is an excellent building material for building a palace or a large ship.

For Shenmu, this is just a drop in the bucket. At the same time, every time people cut down, they have to make a big sacrifice to show respect and gratitude.

It was discovered that the aura and even the air were sucked away by this sacred forest. No one would have imagined that the Divine Tree they revered would take revenge on them in such a way. In the eyes of humans, if Shenmu is really a 'god', then it should also protect humanity instead of revenge and punishment.

As more and more spiritual energy was absorbed by the divine wood, the concentration of spiritual energy on the continent continued to decline, and the combat effectiveness of human beings was greatly reduced, and the war with spirit beasts began to be at a disadvantage.

Finally, the human monks were determined to find out what was wrong with the Divine Tree, so a team of nearly a hundred high-level monks stepped into the core of the Divine Wood Forest for the first time in thousands of years.

A few days later, the team came out, nearly a hundred people entered, and less than ten people came out. According to the people who came out, they encountered a large number of fierce demons in the Divine Wood Forest, and except for a few of them, everyone else died at the hands of the big demons. And they didn't enter the center of the Divine Wood Forest at all, and they still didn't understand what the reason for the decrease in spiritual energy was. But they guessed that these big demons must have used the Divine Tree, and what kind of anti-heaven demon method was used to cause the Divine Wood to absorb spiritual energy.

The frightened human beings organized a large number of masters again, this time in the team, there were nearly a thousand masters above the Jindan Realm, hundreds in the Xiandan Realm, and eleven masters in the Shenyuan Realm.

This time, the human monks were divided into four teams, and they fought into the Divine Wood Forest from four directions, southeast, northwest, and sure enough, they encountered a large number of evil beasts and demons.

The human monks seemed to be numerous and powerful, but as a result, most of them died in the Divine Wood Forest, and less than fifty monks escaped one after another, and most of them were seriously injured and difficult to recover.

The reason why the human race failed miserably was not only because the Divine Wood Forest had become the base camp of the demon beasts, gathering countless great demon beasts, but more importantly, because in the Divine Wood Forest, human beings could not feel the slightest aura, therefore, the combat power of the human monks had dropped by at least fifty percent, while the spirit beasts and the big demons were the opposite, and their combat power was greatly blessed in the Divine Wood Forest.

After these two battles, nearly half of the top strength of the human race has been removed, and it is no longer possible to organize a decent team for a large-scale attack.

Some small-scale groups of monks quietly resorted to secret raids, such as setting fire to the Divine Wood Forest, but the result was completely ineffective, and they gave their lives in vain.

Gradually, more and more human monks were killed by demon beasts, and the balance of power between the two sides became stronger and weaker, and the number of humans plummeted, while the number of demon beasts increased rapidly. A hundred years later, almost all human cities have been overrun by monsters, and the destruction of humanity seems inevitable.

However, when humanity was about to perish, the monsters also began to have a crisis. At the beginning of the human-beast war, the monsters were very united, but when they completely overwhelmed the humans, they themselves began to fight each other.

At the beginning, both the big demon and the surviving humans thought that the demon beasts led by the big demon were in sight of victory, so they began to fight for power. It wasn't long before they woke up together that the monsters were not fighting for power, but for resources.

Because, due to the continuous decline of aura and air in the entire continent, a large number of plants have withered and died. After a hundred years of war, the vegetation on the continent was less than one-fifth of its original size, and most of the spiritual objects that were originally generated from the land and rivers, such as spiritual stone veins and earth veins, had also dried up.

Yes, not only humans and spirit animals need aura and air, but plants also need it, or plants need it even more. Without aura, plants and spiritual veins, both humans and beasts have only a dead end, and sooner or later.

I don't know why, even if the beasts won the war, they didn't let the Divine Wood Forest stop absorbing the spiritual energy, and later, a large number of spirit beasts, including countless big demons, came out of the Divine Wood Forest, because, in the Divine Wood Forest, they could no longer obtain any energy, and the spiritual energy absorbed by the Divine Wood Forest no longer provided them with a slight. Obviously, Shenmu is out of control.

The great demons, like humans, have no way to take the Divine Tree.

They have won the entire continent, but the resources they have access to are not as good as before. A large number of spirit beasts began to die, either killing each other or dying of starvation. It's just a little later than humans.

Another few hundred years have passed, and the entire continent has slowly evolved into what it is now. The vegetation is less than one-tenth of its original size, and all living things, including humans and beasts, are less than one-tenth of its original size.

The Divine Wood Forest is still absorbing spiritual energy and air, and the ecology of the entire continent cannot be restored at all. The Great Demons divided the entire continent, each occupying a piece of land and becoming the lord of that land, the 'Great King', enslaving the humans on the land and allowing them to engage in agricultural production to meet the needs of survival. After all, the lack of aura has resulted in them having to eat a lot to sustain their consumption, and at the same time, they have to increase their rest time to reduce their consumption.

After Daddy Bai said this, it was almost dusk.

"Five hundred years have passed, and in the blink of a finger!" Daddy Bai took a sip of tea, put down the cup, and said solemnly, "Three young heroes! As far as I know, the cause of the human-beast war back then was related to a group of monks from the Heavenly Dragon Continent. I have a hunch that perhaps your arrival will bring about great changes once again, and put an end to the history of our human enslavement. I wish I could see that day! ”

"Why did Daddy say that?" Qingshi said, "We're just passing by, wanting to cross the Shenmu Continent and continue eastward. How can we three boys have this ability? Daddy laughed. ”

"That's not right!" Daddy Bai said, "The talent of the three of you is so high that I have never seen it before. If you want to talk about ability, you are young, but the feeling I feel is unfathomable. At present, on the Shenmu Continent, either the human race will continue to be enslaved, but if there is a glimmer of hope for freedom, then this hope must fall on you. ”

"White Daddy!" Qingshi smiled, "Don't say that we are just passing by, and we don't want to take on any responsibility to save the fate of mankind." Even if we really have such an idea that we don't know the sky, I'm afraid we don't have the ability to do so. ”

"Hey, hey!" Daddy Bai smiled slyly and said, "I'm afraid I can't help you!" Since you have come to the Shenmu Continent, there are only two ways to go, one is to surrender to the monsters and be enslaved by them; The first is to fight it to the end and never die. ”

"Hmm~" Qingshi thought and said, "Is there no third way?" For example, bribe a big demon and let him lead us through. Or we modify our disguise, move forward in a low-key manner, and quietly cross the continent. ”

"Huh!" Daddy Bai smiled, "This is naturally feasible in theory, but how feasible it is, you should understand it yourself, right?" It seems to me that you have missed the last chance you have. ”

"Why?" Qingshi said, "Please Daddy for advice!" ”

"If you're going to sneak over," said Daddy White, "then you should disguise yourself as soon as you land, and sneak away without revealing your whereabouts." Now that you've shown your face in front of hundreds of people, it's impossible to sneak around again.

"As for buying a big demon to take you across the continent, this difficulty is lower than stealth on your own, but you must be able to successfully buy the first big demon who sees you, otherwise as long as there are other big demons who know, this method will not work. And I can be sure that we, the Bald King, will never be bought by you. ”

"Hmm!" Chen Tianye smiled and said, "I believe this." How can the king who even wants to grab underwear be bought? ”

"Yes!" Daddy Bai said with a smile, "The Bald King will only rob you all over your body without leaving a trace of it, how can you allow you to keep your belongings to buy him?" ”

"But he hasn't seen us yet!" Duan Wutian said, "Let's go now, go to the territory of the next big demon and try it, maybe the next one won't be so vicious!" ”

"It's too late to leave," said Daddy White, "but you've already shown your face, and even if you leave at once, he'll find out about it sooner or later." No matter how far you go, he will catch up. ”

"Really?" Qingshi said lightly, "So, let's meet this Bald King." ”

"That's right!" Daddy Bai blinked and smiled, "Didn't you come to visit him on a special trip?" Hehe! ”

"It's good!" Qingshi also smiled, "Since that's the case, let's see it!" Whether he can be bought or not, I don't think is certain. ”

"You still want to buy him?" Daddy Bai was surprised, "It definitely won't work!" ”

"You can't buy it with spirit stones," Qingshi said with a slight smile, "Then try it with your fists." ”