Xie Yixiang slowly pulled the reins in her hand and stopped the horse. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It's a dense wood, and it's surprisingly quiet. It was twilight, but it was unusually hot, and it seemed as if a sudden shower was brewing between heaven and earth, and the remaining rays of sunlight shone through the cracks in the trees and dappled on the towering tree in front of her.

It was a large tree that could barely be hugged by four or five people, and its shape was towering into the sky, and its straight trunk was pitch black and shiny, and it was submerged in the canopy, like a huge canopy. Looking up, I couldn't see the shape of the branches and leaves at the top of the big tree.

At this moment, under the big dark tree, there was clearly a person wrapped in a white cloak, sitting there cross-legged. He didn't seem to be afraid of the heat at all, and he shrouded his head, face, hands and feet in his cloak, and he couldn't tell whether he was male or female, old or young. And his white cloak was spotless, with no additional patterns or decorations on it, but it was in great contrast to the dark black trunk of the tree behind him.

As the days waned and the time passed slowly, the breath in the woods became hotter and hotter, but the people wrapped in the cloak did not move too much from beginning to end. Although the air around him was so quiet that there was no sound, but he couldn't hear the person's heartbeat and breathing, and from a distance, his whole person seemed to be a statue from the ancient flood period, through time and space, after thousands of years of wind, frost, snow and rain, has been quietly waiting until today.

Could it be that he is waiting for someone destined to wake him up?

Seeing this pitch-black towering giant tree, as well as the mysterious person wrapped in a cloak under the tree, Xie Yixiang couldn't help but smile slightly bitterly: It seems that he has lost his way again, and finally returned here - the same tree, the same person.

In order to rush to Longdong Mountain in the north of Chengdu Mansion as quickly as possible, Xie Yixiang crossed Hankou, Xiangyang, Hanzhong, and Yuejian Pavilion on the way, almost stepping through most of the Central Plains. It took her only three and a half days to travel a full 1,500 miles. Who knew that not long after coming down from the official road, in order to take a shortcut, she actually entered this unfathomable woods by ghost, and then she was completely lost in it, and she was sleepy for two hours.

It seems that Taibai Cheng is not deceiving, this Shu Dao is difficult, and it is really difficult to go to the blue sky. Xie Yixiang couldn't help but regret a little in her heart, in this unfamiliar Shu land, she just had to look for it along the official road town and village, even if she had to walk a little longer to reach Nalongdong Mountain, but at least she wouldn't get lost. Why bother to follow the guidance of passers-by and take shortcuts, so as to trap yourself in this wood?

You must know that when Xie Yixiang first entered this forest, she had already seen this towering tree early in the morning, and also saw the mysterious person sitting cross-legged in front of the tree.

But the afterglow of the sunset was clearly in front of him, and he who was moving in a straight line actually returned here again after half an hour, and once again saw the mysterious man in the cloak under the tree. It can be seen that the so-called "straight walking" in the woods is actually a big circle, and then he returns here.

But Xie Yixiang still ignored the mysterious person under the tree, and the second time she chose to go west, and carved a lot of marks along the way, but the result was exactly the same as last time, and she went back to this place again, in front of this dark towering tree. And the mysterious man wrapped in a cloak under the tree still didn't move in the slightest.

Thinking of this, the wry smile on Xie Yixiang's face immediately turned into a sneer, and she jumped off the horse.

In this piece of forest in front of you, where is the "ghost hitting the wall", it is clearly a formation, a formation that will make the entrants lose their way and thus go around to the same place. Although she was not proficient in the art of Qimen Dunjia, she could guess a thing or two before returning to this big tree twice in a row.

If this entire forest is indeed a formation, then the towering tree in front of you must be the core of this formation. In jargon, this is where the so-called "eye of the array" lies.

As for the mysterious man sitting cross-legged under the tree, wrapped in a white cloak, he was naturally the master of the entire formation.

Who is this mysterious person? Why do you want to block your way with a formation? Xie Yixiang stepped forward with questions, her right hand casually brushed her waist, and gently touched the hilt of the knife. When she came six feet in front of the mysterious person, she stopped and said lightly, "Hello." ”

She said this very softly, as if she was afraid that her voice would break the dreamlike silence in the woods. As her words came out, the dappled light and shadow seemed to move, but the mysterious man in the cloak still didn't move. After a long time, I heard a young man's voice coming from inside the cloak, and asked emotionlessly, "Are you here?"

It turned out that this mysterious man hidden in the cloak was actually a young man, and listening to this voice, I am afraid that he is not even twenty years old, and it is a little reluctant to say that he is a "man", at best he can only be regarded as a "boy".

Xie Yixiang couldn't help sneering slightly, it seems that the boy in this cloak is just a junior disciple of a family, and there are probably other masters behind him. However, when she thought about it again, the other party's answer was obviously to know herself, and she was deliberately waiting for herself. At that moment, Xie Yixiang smiled and said, "The Venerable Driver has set up such a strange formation, so naturally he wants to block my way?"

Hearing this, the boy in the cloak seemed to sneer and said, "Nonsense! The 'Broken Delusion Array' in this wood, the unparalleled Ink Guardian in the world, is not something I can do. After a pause, he added: "If this 'array of delusion' alone is sufficient to hinder you, why should I come? ”

Xie Yixiang was slightly stunned, and couldn't help blurting out: "Mo family?"

From Dongting Lake to Poyang Lake, and then to Chengdu Mansion, it seems that he is destined to become associated with the Mo family. It's just that I don't know what this earth-shattering case that happened in Longdong Mountain has anything to do with the Mo family? Xie Yixiang hurriedly calmed down, savored the words behind the boy, and immediately asked: "Is it possible that the so-called 'crossing' is actually a good intention, and you want to help me break the formation?"

I only heard the boy in the cloak say lightly: "The one who 'breaks delusion', as the name suggests, is to cut off all delusions in the world. Seeing that you have been in the dust all the way, and your expression is uncertain, it is natural that you have something in your heart, so that you will have delusions, and you will naturally be trapped by this array. Therefore, in order to get out of this array, we must first cut off our delusions. ”

Xie Yixiang was puzzled when she heard it, so she had to ask rhetorically: "Cut off the delusions?"

The boy snorted coldly and said: "Although 'Mo Shou' is invulnerable, there has never been such a thing as 'Mo Attack'; as long as you don't 'attack' it, there is no way to talk about the word 'Shou', let alone take the initiative to 'attack' you." So to get out of this formation, in fact, you just need to turn back. ”

This time, Xie Yixiang understood, and hurriedly looked back, only to find that the sunset was nearing its end, casting the last rays of afterglow not far behind her. And where the afterglow shone, sure enough, it was the entrance to the woods when he entered, only a dozen steps away from him. It's a pity that I'm in a hurry, so I haven't looked back.

For a moment, Xie Yixiang couldn't help but hesitate. If you go back the same way, take the official road to Chengdu Mansion first, and then turn north from Chengdu Mansion to Longdong Mountain, it will only take two or three more hours, not to mention delaying the trip. What's more, the "Broken Delusion Array" in front of him is very weird, and the boy in the cloak doesn't know whether he is friend or foe, and now that he is in a foreign land, it is better not to have more trouble.

If he knew that there was a problem with this forest from the beginning, Xie Yixiang would naturally prefer to take more detours, and would never choose to take a shortcut through this forest. But he had clearly wasted two hours here, and wouldn't it be a joke to go back just because of a few words from the boy in his cloak?

Thinking of this, I don't know if it's because "the country is easy to change and the nature is difficult to change", or because I got along with the stinky Dai Qi for a long time a few days ago, Xie Yixiang's stubborn temper suddenly appeared, and he immediately took a few steps and came straight to the boy who was sitting cross-legged, and then pulled out the chaos around his waist, and slashed out like lightning.

Her knife did not slash at the boy in the cloak, but at the towering black tree behind the boy. With the flash of the crimson sword, a large amount of blood splashed out.

Xie Yixiang was suddenly shocked, she was obviously pulling out a knife to cut down a tree, but how could blood burst out?

She hurriedly took a few steps back, and looked closely, only to see that the place on the trunk of the tree that had been struck by the slash was only a shallow knife mark, and in this knife mark, it was clear that a large stream of blood was gushing out!

How can a tree bleed?