But he was prepared, took out a handful of lit grass from behind his back, and spewed out a mouthful of water vapor at the branch.

"Poof—"

The thick branches burst into flames, shrinking faster than they came.

What came out of the boy's mouth was a large gulp of wine.

He also threw the burning grass to Granny Mu, and after doing this, he ran to the stream without looking back.

It was a small river in the summer, but it shrank into a stream in the autumn and winter, so that under his feet were all flat stones, and there were no blades of grass.

Granny Mu is good at handling plants, and it is when he sees this that he runs to a place where there are few plants and trees.

Granny Mu snorted, and wanted to make a move, when suddenly a shadow flashed in front of her. She immediately sensed that something was wrong and strode back.

But the red shadow in front of her was like a maggot attached to the bone, and it approached her door at once!

I don't know what Chitose did, he got out of the heavy restraints, and a silver light immediately crossed the air, and the murderous aura was awe-inspiring!

Granny Mu held the wooden staff in her hand, but she didn't use it to resist the other party's attack, but hugged it for the first time, and turned around-

She actually wanted to use her body to protect this wooden staff!

It's a pity that Granny Mu's movements are finally a step slower.

As soon as she turned around, there was a "cluck" sound in the air.

It's dull, it's subtle, but it sounds clear enough in the stillness of the night.

The wooden staff in her hand was cut off by Chitose.

Granny Mu's movements paused, and she turned her head to stare at Chitose in disbelief: "You, how do you know that I am ......"

Her already elongated facial features quickly became blurred, and she began to lose her human form.

"It's just a trick. Chitose stood still, the wisp of silver light was put into his sleeve, and no one could see it, "This wooden staff is your body!"

Whether it was the mountain bandits, Shen Gu, Zuo Shen and the others who saw the wooden mother-in-law on crutches, they all thought that she was a monster, and natural attacks would beckon her, but they failed to hit the body.

Therefore, Granny Mu can escape quickly if she is injured in various ways.

The old woman, however, was an illusion, nothing more than a forest. It was the staff she held in her hand that really devoured the flesh and blood of the living!

Granny Mu stared at Chitose, as if she had finally suddenly realized: "You, you are not human!"

Chitose gave her a perfect smile. Granny Mu didn't count the killing, but she couldn't help but shudder when she looked at her. The other party's eyes are like poisonous snakes about to pounce on rabbits.

She was about to beg for mercy, but Chitose was already impatient, reached out and copied the severed wooden staff, and with a "quack" sound, the rest of the part was broken in two.

The movement was sharp, as if she had broken not the resentful wood spirits that had harmed countless people, but the firewood that burned the fire.

The old woman screamed, her voice full of unwillingness.

Losing the blessing of the resentful wood spirit's mana, she stood in place, and soon turned back into a small tree, with a burden hanging from the branch.

"Come here. Chitose hooked his finger at the boy, "Ran out without permission, who gave you the guts?"

Without her much to say hello, the boy ran over and stepped on the fire on the ground, picked up the burden left by Granny Mu, and looked up at her for a moment.

Of course, he knew the danger of Fang Cai, this monster ate countless people, and even the officers and soldiers had no chance of winning it.

“...... Don't pretend to be innocent to me. Chitose didn't have a good air, "You think I can't deal with her?"

The boy quickly shook his head.

He's just buying Chitose a little more time. This is a deep mountain and dense forest, and if he didn't have Chitose's help, he wouldn't have been able to get out on his own.

It is precisely because he knows the situation in front of him that he must take this risk.

Chitose's gaze fell on the wooden staff in his hand. After being broken, the layer of blood that floated on the surface of the thing was gone. "This resentful wood spirit is not very remarkable, and in the past, I would have crushed it with one finger. She sighed, a little wistful, "But now the power we have accumulated is too precious to be wasted lightly, and it must be effective in one blow." Otherwise, I won't have the energy to heal you, you know?"

The boy gently shook his head and stroked the wooden staff. It looked like a dead thing, with cold tentacles and a hole in the head of the staff.

The previous appeasement caused his short and thin man to shoot an arrow, and it happened to hit here, and Granny Mu fell off her horse.

"It's not dead. Chitose stretched out her hand, and the glass lamp slowly emerged from her eyes, "Have you ever heard of 'dead wood in spring'? If you abandon it, within ten days, it will sprout again and turn into three resentful wood spirits." ”

That is to say, if you want to complete the task of the wooden bell, you have to completely settle the grudge against the wood spirit. The boy understood, picked up two pieces of wood and gently put them into the glass lamp.

Again, as before, the flames in the lamp exploded, and the wooden staff was gone.

The other piece of staff was attached to the head of the staff, which was shorter, and was left by Chitose: "The texture is good, let's see what magic weapon can be used." ”

She stretched out her hand to wipe it in front of the boy's eyes, and he saw more than a dozen ghosts standing in the empty woodland, saluting them respectfully, and then slowly turning into nothingness.

"Granny Mu" is dead, and their wish has been granted, so they don't have to be trapped here anymore.

Almost at the same time, the boy felt a fever in his chest. He took out the wooden bell and put it in the palm of his hand, and found that the words "Granny Mu" on it slowly disappeared.

This period of cause and effect ends here.

The lotus mouth of the bell oozed a little golden light, and it flew towards Chitose.

She pointed to the glass lamp, and the golden light fell into it.

The boy always felt that the flame in the lamp seemed to be a little stronger.

"This time, the task is more difficult, so the wish power collected by the wooden bell has increased significantly. By the way, I forgot to tell you last time, the darker the color of the flashing light of the wooden bell, the more difficult it is to prove, and accordingly, the more rewards will be given. ”

The boy clutched the wooden bell tightly, and his gaze was not as calm as his face. At this time, the glass lamp floating in mid-air turned back to its original gold, and the flame was still only the size of a bean, but the light was bright and warm.

I don't know if it's an illusion, it's like a mung bean has grown to the size of a red adzuki bean.

Chitose breathed a sigh of relief. The boy may not have noticed, but she knew to herself that after devouring the resentful wood spirit, the slightest crack in the glass lamp had become a little shallower.

Although only a tiny little bit.

This resentful wood spirit already has some Taoism, and it is a tonic for her. After taking its aura for itself, the glass lamp can repair itself.

Counting the remuneration assigned to her by the wooden bell, this action to kill Granny Mu is a double harvest.

Oh no, no, there's one thing missing: Granny Mu's legacy.

The boy opened the bag and found that there were more than a dozen jewels inside, but not even a single ingot of silver. The most beautiful pearl is the size of a finger, smooth and round, there are as many as three, and the lowest value is two gold bills.