Following the old man into the village, Shen Du also took this opportunity to observe the surrounding environment.

The living and living environment here is still in a primitive state, which is in stark contrast to the rapidly developing real world.

Even compared with the world, it is much behind.

In his opinion, the way of life of the creatures of heaven and earth here is more like the ancient times of the world.

Although their physique, qi and blood are strong, their cultivation method is an extremely primitive method, and they do not have a systematic and complete exercise.

You can see it in the way the children are trained.

The population of the whole village is not large, only more than 300 people, of which the real young adults are a minority, accounting for only one-fifth.

Along the way, many children in the village were quietly looking at Shen Du, and some children were grimacing at Shen Du, their eyes full of curiosity.

The old man waved his hand to drive away some children who tried to come forward, shook his head helplessly, and said with a smile: "Please forgive me, guest." ”

"They don't have any bad intentions, it's just that the people in our village have never seen outsiders, so they behave like this."

The people in the village behaved like this, which also made him, the villager, extremely faceless, so he tried his best to explain.

He had heard people say before that the people who lived in the inner zone were not like them.

It is a truly civilized place.

Shen Du's heart moved, and he pretended to be unintentional and asked casually, "Has the village chief been outside?" ”

"Sort of!" The old man smiled and said with a smile: "When I was young, I walked in with a few people, but I didn't go too deep, and I only went to a larger village. ”

"I've heard from the people in the villages there that there are old people who have been to the inner district when they were young."

Because of this, he will understand the inner zone.

People like them have lived here for generations, rarely leaving for the rest of their lives, and may not know what the outside world looks like until they die.

As for what the outside world is like, I listen to what the elders say.

There are fierce beasts outside, and even if they want to get out, they don't have a chance.

This is not only the case for them, but also in many villages in the vicinity.

The biggest regret in his life was that he didn't go to the legendary inner district to see what the civilized and prosperous place was like.

That's why after seeing Shen Du, he hurriedly stopped everyone.

To be able to walk alone in this dense forest full of fierce beasts is unimaginable.

If they offend such people, I am afraid that their entire village will be buried together.

The old man has lived for a long time, and he has seen a lot of things, even if he is limited by various factors, but after living for so long, he can be regarded as an old man.

Shen Du nodded, retracted his gaze, and looked at a wooden house in the clearing in front of him.

These are the few wooden houses in the entire village.

The old man turned his head to look at Shen Du and laughed softly, "Please wait a moment, I have already asked someone to prepare dinner." ”

"There are no good things in the village, please forgive me."

Shen Du shook his head and said, "The village chief is too polite. ”

Shen Du looked around and asked casually, "There should be other villages around here, right?" ”

"Yes!" The old man smiled and nodded, and soon sighed again, and said helplessly: "But there has been no life in the forest recently. ”

"According to the old man in the village, this is the anger of the mountain god."

"Recently, quite a few villages have fled to the outskirts."

"In the past, I could meet some people from other villages in the forest, but now I probably can't meet them, and we will move out in a few days."

"Huh?" Shen Du frowned slightly, slightly surprised in his heart, and asked, "You also want to move away?" ”

"Where to move?"

The old man glanced at Shen Du, but he didn't have any doubts in his heart, but he just whispered with a lonely expression: "Let's take one step at a time." ”

"I don't know where to go."

"Alas~" The old man sighed deeply, looked up into the distance, and said softly: "When the fierce beasts in the forest are asleep in a few days, go out along the forest and find a safe land again." ”

Every once in a while, the beasts of the forest leave, and no one knows where they have gone.

According to the old people in the village, they all went to sleep at the feet of the mountain god.

While most of the beasts will leave, a small number will still live in the forest.

This time I relocate, I don't know how many people will be killed by the beasts.

But now they have to go, all the villages are moving, and they can't survive if they stay here.

The old man looked up, his expression was full of emotion, and he sighed softly, his eyes showing reluctance.

But even if they are reluctant to give up, they can only leave this place where they have lived for decades.

As the head of the village, he has to think about the whole village.

It's all about being alive.

A different color flashed in Shen Du's eyes.

He thought of his mission.

Destroy the world!

Heaven and Earth Tribulation!

It is very likely that this world is also suffering from the catastrophe of heaven and earth.

If it weren't for that, there wouldn't be this task!

As far as he knew, the tasks of destroying the world issued by the True Realm were all when a world suffered a catastrophe of heaven and earth.

When he saw the dense woods around him, he wondered why he had such a mission.

It seems that the catastrophe of this world is presented in a different way.

Shen Du looked at the old man and said casually, "The situation is not so serious, is it?" ”

Hearing this, the old man raised his eyes and looked at Shen Du for a slight start, pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "It's not the first time we've seen a noble person from the inner district. ”

"Some time ago, I met a person fleeing from a large village, and they said that they saw a noble person from the inner district on the road."

"Not long ago, when the hunters in the woods came back, they said that they had found a strange corpse."

"Recently, these fierce beast riots have become more and more obvious, if you don't leave now, I'm afraid you won't have a chance to leave in the future."

Shen Du's heart was slightly shocked.

According to this old man's words, the strength of the people living in the inner district must not be weak.

This world is evaluated as an A-level world, and in a sense, this world has a strong person in the Open Heaven Realm.

Shen Du was secretly frightened, but he still didn't know what had happened to this world.

What is the great calamity that was born in this heaven and earth?

The old man chatted for a few words, and seemed unwilling to talk more about this topic, so he quickly changed the topic and asked Shen Du about the inner area instead.

He hadn't been to any of the inner districts, and how could he know.

But fortunately, the village chief hasn't been there either, so he made up some at random.

Anyway, what the inner area is like, what he says is what it is.

Time passes,

In the evening, everyone in the village prepared a sumptuous meal to entertain Shen Du.

It's just that most of them are some prey, the meat of fierce beasts.

Everyone was busy until late, and then they left.

It can be seen that such a gathering is also rare for everyone in the village, and everyone's faces are full of smiles.

late at night

The sky is dark, and in the dark room,

Shen Du slowly got up, walked out of the room, and probed in the village.

During the day, he didn't have a good time to probe carefully, but now he has a chance to do so.

He's been strange since he came here.

There are many fierce beasts in this dense forest, and many of them are quite strong, although the strength of these villagers is good, they are far from the possibility of gaining a foothold in this place.

After walking around the village, we finally stopped in front of the big tree in the center of the village.

Shen Du looked up at the towering canopy of the tree and said to himself, "It seems that the strangeness in this village is because of this ancient tree." ”

This towering giant tree has no end in sight, and it is also particularly eye-catching among the many trees in the village.

And in the whole village, there is only this ancient tree that has not built a house, but built a house under the tree.

This unusual scene is too dazzling.

Shen Du stared intently at the ancient tree, and gently covered his hand on the ancient tree, and the power of the primordial god invaded it.

Suddenly, Shen Du's face changed.

"This is ......" Shen Du's pupils shrank, and he looked at the ancient tree in front of him in surprise.

Alive?!

Unlike other trees, he felt a unique breath of life in this ancient tree.

It was a breath unique to living beings, a breath similar to that of a living person, and within this ancient tree, there was an extremely weak consciousness, as if in a newborn fetus.

There was a faint sense of repulsion in his vague consciousness.

It was clearly just an ordinary ancient tree, but in its body, it faintly gave him the feeling of a martial arts powerhouse, as if he would come to life in the next moment, bursting out with a strength comparable to that of the Cave Heaven Realm.

In other words, it's not a tree anymore, it's a different kind of creature.

Now he finally understands why this village can live in this dangerous forest.

The aura emanating from this ancient tree invisibly frightened those fierce beasts, and at the same time shielded the breath of the creatures living here.

In the eyes of those fierce beasts, there is only one "fierce beast" with a powerful aura here, and it will naturally take the initiative to retreat.

If this is the case in other villages, then there are probably many similar ancient trees in this dense forest.

The power in this ancient tree is extremely special, faintly connected with this heaven and earth, and the breath inside is even more pure.

In a sense, they may act as the "gods" of this world.

Although the two may seem very different, there are many similarities in essence.

"You have a special breath on you......"

"I've never seen anything like you."

At this moment, an old voice suddenly sounded in my ears.

Shen Du was shocked in his heart, and raised his eyes to look up.

On top of the ancient tree, a vine the thickness of an arm slowly stretched out, slowly spreading towards Shen Du, but there was no killing intention.

The vine resembles a giant python, and at the other end of the vine, a thin figure of less than half a meter is connected, like a woodcut statue.

At this moment, the wood carving seemed to come to life, and the expression on his face was vivid.

"Don't be nervous!"

Above the ancient tree, there were faint words.

"With your strength, you should be able to feel that the vitality in my body is on the verge of exhaustion, and there is not much strength left, so it will not harm you."

Shen Du looked at the wood carving intently, only to find that the lower half of its body had been connected with the ancient tree.

Or maybe it grew out of an ancient tree.

What the hell is this thing?

"Huh!" The ancient tree carving let out a rare laugh and shook his head, "I'm nothing." ”

"I am the spirit of the ancient tree here, and I have to worship the creatures here to be enlightened, and I am a congenital soul."

"It's just that you and I have never seen it, the breath on your body is very unfamiliar, but it faintly makes me feel familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere."

"It's a pity...... Can't remember. ”

A hint of surprise flashed in Shen Du's eyes, and he asked, "Do you know how to read minds?" ”

"I can vaguely perceive something, which is also my ability."

The wood carving sitting on the ancient tree said quietly: "It's just that Ling's strength is too strong, and I have spent most of my strength, and I can only see these." ”

Shen Du reacted quickly.

This should be a similar ability to those beasts.

Shen Du was not worried about what this ancient tree would see, and as he said, the vitality of this ancient tree spirit was on the verge of exhaustion, and it would not last long, and it would only be a matter of a few days before he died.

"You poured the last of your strength into this ancient tree?"

"Yes!"

The Spirit of the Ancient Tree said calmly, "The creatures here have worshiped me for generations, and now I can no longer shelter them, so I can do my last bit for them. ”

Shen Du shook his head slightly, and said in a deep voice: "This will consume your few vitality, if you don't do this, maybe you can hold on for some more time." ”

No wonder when he explored the ancient tree before, he could sense a vague consciousness, thinking that it was the original consciousness of the ancient tree.

Now it seems that it was the spirit of this ancient tree that gave birth to a new consciousness and poured its own power into this ancient tree.

"Huh!" The spirit of the ancient tree smiled indifferently: "It's just a return to heaven and earth, this is our fate." ”

Shen Du said in a deep voice: "I want to know, what's going on here?" ”

The village chief didn't know much, but he felt that the spirit of the ancient tree should know something.

The spirit of the ancient tree looked sad and said slowly, "I don't know, it's just that the vitality of our innate spirits is constantly dying. ”

"Over the years, I have sensed that many of my companions have lost their lives, and they have completely disappeared from this heaven and earth."

The Spirit of the Ancient Tree suddenly turned to look into the depths of the dense forest, and said calmly, "I can sense that there is an evil force there that is eroding the entire world. ”

"There's a rotten, disgusting smell there."

"There are many living beings who are dying, and the breath of death is encroaching on this world little by little."

Shen Du knew what the Spirit of the Ancient Tree was talking about.

Heaven and Earth Tribulation!

That is the power of the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth, and this world has gone to destruction.

Before, he wondered why this place was full of life, but now it solved the doubts in his heart.

The spirit of the ancient tree sighed, and the vines that stretched slowly retracted, and the luster on its body dimmed a little.

It was originally asleep, but it was only because Shen Du probed with the Yuan Shen that it woke it up from its slumber.

"I'm going to sleep."

"The creatures of this place don't know anything, and I hope you don't embarrass them."

"If you want my heart, you can take it......"

The last words fell, and the spirit of the ancient tree fell into a deep sleep again.

Shen Du retracted his gaze, glanced at the people in the village, and walked deeper into the dense forest.

Once he was bent on preventing the power of the Great Tribulation from destroying the world, but now he wants to destroy other people's worlds, which has to be said to be a kind of irony.

It's just that he can't care so much.

People are selfish, and even if they don't do all this, others do.

(End of chapter)

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