Chapter 100: The Giant Tree
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It was getting brighter.
The rain ceased, and the first rays of light of the morning fell through the thick clouds in the sky and the mist wafting in the dead waters.
In the forest, there was silence everywhere, but slowly, with the glimmer of light, gradually began to make noise. In an unknown place, the first birdsong sounded. Suddenly, with the light sprinkled between the branches and leaves, the whole forest seemed to wake up from the slumber of the night, far and near, and everywhere was the sound of early morning cheers, welcoming the new day.
At this moment, in the forest, there is a mist as thin as a white veil wafting everywhere, and people walk in it, and their faces are faintly moist. Coupled with the particularly fresh air in the forest, inhaling the body really has the taste of open-mindedness.
Ghost Li took a deep breath of the morning air, looked forward expressionlessly, and even the little ash lying on his shoulder stretched a lazy waist.
Dozens of zhang ahead, in the direction of the golden pillar of light last night, the fog suddenly became thicker, confused, and it was impossible to see it really. It's just that this mist is different from the miasma on the edge of Nesawa, the color is not gray, it is already pure white. Looking from afar, I saw the mist gently drifting in the forest, wisps and layers.
There, perhaps, is where the treasure is!
Ghost Li slowly turned his head and looked to the side, Lu Xueqi was standing two feet away from him, dressed in white like snow, silently staring at the fog in front of him.
After all, they still didn't do it.
For a whole night, after the surprise and faint excitement at the moment of the first meeting, there was a long silence between the two of them.
The distance between the two is only three feet, but it seems to be a huge chasm even greater than the "Necromantic Abyss" back then, deeply engraved among them, and even more engraved in their hearts.
Even when the brilliant golden pillar of light rose into the sky, they turned to look, and on their faces illuminated by the golden light in the sky, in this strange place, they felt a little more cold.
The past has changed after all......
Lu Xueqi seemed to feel something, turned her head, and met the ghostly eyes, her eyes were as clear as water, maybe in the depths of her bright eyes, there were faint ripples, but at this moment, no one could see it.
She looked at the man in front of her, he was standing beside herself in the forest, and at this moment, she finally found that he was no longer the boy he was at the beginning!
On the face that was once so familiar, there are more vicissitudes and calmness, and less innocence and smiles.
She lowered her head slightly, her eyes were like water, and she stayed on the Tianyu Divine Sword she was holding in her hand, as if she was thinking about something, and after a while, her voice was soft and fluttering, and she suddenly said, "You come back!"
She didn't raise her head, didn't move, and didn't even change the expression of her face in the slightest, only she held Tianxi's hand, and her slender and white fingers gradually tightened.
“...... Senior Brother Zhang!" she said softly, softly.
You're coming back......
These four words are words that float in the morning breeze, surround him, and then rush into his heart one by one like stones.
Oni took a deep breath and closed his eyes. The cold soul eater in his robe, like the most loyal friend, has never left him!
Long.
When he opened his eyes, there was a faint smile, and he said slowly: "I don't need this name for a long time." ”
The corners of Lu Xueqi's mouth moved, and she slowly raised her head, but after all, she didn't say anything and was silent.
They had been standing like this, but the distance in the middle seemed to be a little farther away at the moment. The early morning light sprinkled on the face of that beautiful woman, slowly exuding a touching beauty, and the mist in the forest seemed to be attracted to her, and gently fluttered around her.
At that moment, her face seemed to be a little blurred.
Lu Xueqi turned around, took a step, didn't say anything, walked towards the depths of the mist, and left the man behind him.
It's just that just when her figure was gradually blurring in the fog, she suddenly heard the voice of the man behind her, and it came slowly: "Will you kill me?"
Her figure disappeared into the white mist, and no one could see her eyes, her expression, her body anymore.
In the early morning that was silent, I don't know how long it took, her fluttering voice came from the fog: "I will." So when you can kill me, go ahead and do it......"
The sky was bright, but the feeling of walking in the fog was still dim. The fog in this part of the place is far thicker than in other places, and you can't look too far away.
Walking in the forest, Ghost Li has already noticed that although this place is also a forest in addition to the fog, it is very different from the outside. Except for the tall trees that still stand in the mist, there are few bushes and thorns in the forest outside on the ground, I wonder if it is because the fog here is too thick to see the sun.
But the most surprising thing is that the countless poisonous insects, beasts, and exotic flowers and plants that once roamed the Dead Plain Forest suddenly disappeared. Ghost Li walked in this forest for at least half an hour, and he didn't even see a single poisonous insect.
Here, it seems that there are no animals at all, and it is lifeless.
Ghost Li frowned and continued to walk forward. The little gray on his shoulders was also much quieter at the moment, his hands clutching his shirt tightly, but a pair of clever eyes were still dripping and spinning, constantly looking around. Because of the lack of thorns and shrubs, and those annoying poisonous insects and beasts, walking on the ground is much easier. This is the first time since entering Uezawa.
Lu Xueqi was ahead of him in this mist, and the ghost was outside the mist, and he deliberately waited for a long time before entering, at this moment, he didn't know where Lu Xueqi was at all?
It's just that he walked through the forest like this, carefully paying attention to possible movements around him, but his heart always unexpectedly passed the figure of the woman in white.
"Come back...... Ghost Li said these four words softly to himself in a voice that only he could hear.
Qingyun Mountain, Big Bamboo Peak, Shoujing Hall, Small Courtyard, Bamboo Forest......
The corners of his mouth twitched, and a slightly bitter smile appeared, and he said, "I can't go back, right, Xiao Ash?"
"Squeak!" Ash the monkey squeaked softly, not knowing what it meant.
Ghost Li stretched out his hand and touched Xiao Ash, and after a moment, he suddenly perked up, smiled, and took a big stride towards the depths of the mist.
After half an hour, the trees in the forest became thicker and thicker, and almost everywhere in the back were giant trees with more than two people hugging each other. The ghost stared around, secretly frightened.
In the past ten years, he has been stimulated by the battle of Qingyun Mountain back then, coupled with the subtle influence of the magic weapons around him, the Blood Devouring Bead and the Soul Devouring Bead, in addition to concentrating on cultivation and gradually becoming violent and devouring, he also learned other knowledge from the Ghost King. And the ghost king of this generation is really an unborn talent, not to mention the strange way, and he is even more well-read and all-encompassing.
Because of Baguio's relationship, the ghost king almost regarded him as his own, and taught him wholeheartedly, under his intentional cultivation, today's ghost Li is not only Taoist practice, but even his experience is far from being comparable to the ignorant little disciple of Qingyunmen back then.
He observed the huge trees in the forest at the moment, in fact, not all of them were rare and rare strange trees, among them were oak trees, maple trees, locust trees, etc., and there were many ordinary mountains outside the dead river. The strange variety of trees here is so huge that it is already astonishing to be half the size of them, not to mention that there are so many trees all gathered together.
What's even stranger is that the place where these giant trees are located should be full of life, but under this thick fog, not only is not a single animal in sight, but even the thorny shrubs that I occasionally saw when I first entered are gone. Even on the ground, except for the roots of the giant trees that occasionally emerge from the ground, there is only a sturdy and yellowish soil, and there is not even grass.
Under the cold mist, there was a sense of slaughter.
Ghost Li frowned deeply, muttered for a long time, looked around, and saw the huge trees towering to the sky, straight and towering, walking in the forest by himself, as if he had fallen into a huge labyrinth.
He suddenly waved his robe, and the whole person rose up, unwilling to stay in this strange place for long, and harnessed the soul devourer, and flew forward in the dark blue light.
This time the speed was naturally much faster, but considering that the location of the strange treasure might be nearby, Ghost Li did not fly to the woods, but only six feet above the ground, flying quickly while carefully searching the ground.
Time passed quietly, and there was still silence in the woods, only the sound of him breaking through the sky echoed in the forest. The trees in the woods, as the ghost gradually deepened, the torso became more and more huge, and most of the trees that caught his eyes at this moment were already incredibly thick ancient trees that required six or seven stout men to hug them, and if you didn't want to, you could know that the trees here have a lifespan of hundreds or even thousands of years!
In a strange atmosphere that was getting thicker and thicker, the ghostly figure suddenly stopped.
It's been dawn for a long time, but the fog here doesn't seem to have dissipated at all, as if this layer of fog has coexisted with this forest since ancient times.
In the deepest part of this forest, the ghost stood in the air, looking ahead.
In front of him, a wall stood impressively!
Wooden walls!
The rough texture of the trees, hard and slightly cracked, suddenly protruded from the depths of the mist, and a wooden wall as high as three feet high, as strong and powerful as a dragon, lay deep in the earth.
Ghost Li looked at it coldly, motionless, and carefully looked at the wooden wall, and the corners of his eyes began to twitch slightly. Then, he slowly moved his body, leaned in, and gently stroked it with his hand.
The moment he touched it, there was a gentle and rough feeling, and Ghost Li faintly thought of something in his heart, but he couldn't believe it. He withdrew his hand, and his body slowly floated forward along the wooden wall.
The white mist gradually dispersed in front of him, and then slowly condensed behind him, and the wooden wall in front of him became taller and thicker, gradually turning into a circular shape, and the height was slowly rising.
Finally, when the height was almost six feet, when he reached the end of this wooden wall, the ghostly body stopped.
He breathed deeply, but he still couldn't calm his mind, and in the unstoppable heartbeat, everything in front of him finally appeared in front of his eyes through the fog.
The massive wooden wall, at the end of the mist, blends harmoniously into a much larger object.
In the sky, suddenly a ray of sunlight shone through the mist, and then disappeared again, obscured by the mist.
Ghost Li finally affirmed the incredible conjecture in his heart just now.
The huge wooden wall was a section of tree roots......
The fog was layered, drifting, he gasped slightly because he was too surprised, and then Huo Ran raised his head, and his gaze was like light through the mist, rushing away, straight up.
It was as if it was a lightning bolt in the silence, and with a roar, the whole forest trembled, and what appeared in front of him was a huge tree that completely surpassed his imagination, and the trunk of the tree was so thick that he could not see the edge in this mist, and the trunk wrapped in rough bark stood majestically like a huge hill, and soared into the sky, and submerged into the mist, as if he had entered the clouds!
The ghost is as powerful as an ant, and it seems insignificant before this giant tree.
What would it be like for a giant tree that is even six feet tall to its roots?
Ghost Li slowly retracted his gaze, and at this moment, the little gray on his shoulder screamed in a low voice, and seemed to be a little uneasy. Ghost Li tilted his head slightly, suddenly smiled, and said lightly: "The world is so big, there are no surprises, we are really frogs at the bottom of the well." Let's take a good look at this tree!"
Under his feet, the dark cyan light emitted by the Soul Eater suddenly lit up, and after a while, the ghost roared softly, and with the sound of breaking through the sky, a man and a monkey rushed straight into the sky, submerging into the layers of mist.
The wind was blowing, and it was a little sharp because of its speed. In this mist, it is a bit like the situation in the wall of miasma when he first entered the inner ze, but after all, it is different, first, there is no poisonous gas, and second, it can be seen farther. It's just that this layer of fog has actually condensed to an extremely high place, and the ghost has been flying up along this incredible huge tree in front of him, and now it has been flying for half an hour, and this fog has not yet dissipated, and I really wonder if it will be connected with the clouds in the sky like this.
At the same time, Ghost Li also noticed that the trunk of the giant tree in front of him was gradually changing. When it was on the ground, it was naturally the base of the giant tree, which was unimaginably thick, and above the tree, there was nothing but rough bark.
But after flying for a long time, branches have begun to gradually appear on this giant tree, and the most striking thing is that it began to appear just now, wrapped around the trunk, similar to a strange plant like a vine, criss-crossed, with huge leaves, but at the top of the branches and leaves are blooming colorful flowers, red and yellow, orange and purple, it is very beautiful, and it seems to have a faint fragrance floating in the wind.
But until this moment, he still couldn't fully see how thick the trunk of this giant tree was.
The wonder of creation is really incredible, this strange tree in front of me is only afraid that it is really tens of millions of years old, so huge!
"Shhh
There was a sharp sound that broke through the air, and the cyan light flickered, rushing out of the mist. The mist under his feet also drifted upwards a little with his figure, and then fell gently, as if the waves had gently subsided.
Ghost finally broke out of this fog!
Heaven and earth suddenly open up!
The sky was blue, cloudless, and the sky was clear, and the white mist under his feet was boundless, wrapping around the giant tree in front of him, and the closer he got to the giant tree, the thicker the fog became.
At this moment, Ghost Li was already high in the sky, and he finally saw the giant tree in front of him clearly.
Even at such a high place, the trunk of this giant tree in front of him was still a hundred feet thick, and when he thought of the distance from the ground to the present, what he saw in front of him was not a tree, but a towering mountain!
However, it is clearly a tree.
And it still stretched upward, and the huge trunk of the tree still stretched straight up to the sky, except for the equally shocking thick branches.
Ghost Li raised his head and looked into the distance, and there seemed to be a faint shadow in the depths of the blue sky.
He smiled suddenly, towards the blue sky.
Which man, in the face of this scene, can not feel pride?
He flew up and broke through the air!
The speed is getting faster and faster, and the wind is like a knife.
The higher it flew, the trunk of the giant tree gradually shrank, and later, it had become only a few tens of zhang in size, but despite this, it was still shocking. At this moment, there are already clouds that float beside the trees from time to time.
This giant tree seems to be like the ladder to the sky in ancient legends, straight to the sky!
After flying upwards for about five feet, the ghostly body finally stopped, and in front of him, the trunk of the tree, which had been straight, suddenly separated the two huge branches here, stretching out to the left and right.
The ghost groaned for a moment, then slowly flew over, landing at the fork of the giant tree. It is said to be a fork, but in fact, with the size of this giant tree, it is not too crowded to have dozens of people standing here. When the ghost Li just landed on the tree, there was a "squeak", but Xiao Ash jumped down first, the monkey raised his eyes and looked around, and then carefully touched the trunk, obviously very curious, the first time in his life to see such a huge tree, even if it was a monkey, he was also surprised.
Ghost Li smiled slightly, and didn't care about Xiao Ash, this way flew up, his heart was really shaken, before this, he couldn't imagine that there was such a huge tree in the world, and at this moment, after the initial shock, he had already thought, could it be that strange treasure, it was actually on this incredible giant tree?
The two branches of the bifurcation, similar in size, almost dozens of zhang thick, volleyed across the air, like two giant dragons leaping horizontally in the air. From here, the foliage gradually flourished, and the extension distance was quite long, standing at this fork, it was impossible to see the edge on either side.
Ghost Li thought silently for a while, then made up his mind, turned around and shouted, "Little Ash." ”
The monkey Ash was jumping up and down on the trunk of the tree, as if he was not afraid of being so high above the ground, and sometimes he ran to the edge of the trunk and looked down with his probe, and the monkey was quite bold. This time, I heard the master shouting, "squeak" twice, jumped back happily, and jumped on the shoulders of the ghost.
Ghost Li smiled slightly and said, "Let's go!"
The little gray eyes were rolling and nodding frequently, it seemed that the monkey was also quite curious, grinning non-stop, very excited.
Ghost Li looked left and right, pondered for a moment, and then without hesitation, he regained control of the soul devourer, and flew towards the branch on the left in a dazzling blue light.
This flight was a long time, but although it was high in the sky, there were still countless huge leaves on the huge branches of this giant tree, which were extremely luxuriant. But for some reason, I didn't see any fruit and flowers, but the nameless vines that had been wrapping around the giant tree from the trunk below, blooming and spreading.
As the ghost continued to fly, the branches on this side gradually became smaller, but for some reason, the vines became thicker and thicker, and the flowers in full bloom also increased, and then they were almost everywhere, dizzying, and an inexplicable fragrance wafted in the air.
Suddenly, the body of the ghost that had been galloping was forced to stop in mid-air, and it was so urgent that there was a faint sharp sound.
The trunk of the tree in front of you is suddenly completely covered by countless vines, the flowers compete with each other, from top to bottom like a sea of flowers, condensed into a wall, and in the sea of flowers, there is a stone gate towering, five zhang high, three zhang wide, embedded in the trunk of the tree, surrounded by countless vines and flowers, only leaving a thick boulder in the middle, engraved with the four big characters of the ancient seal body.
"Heavenly Emperor's Treasure Trove!"
Faintly, there was a voice like Huang Zhong Da Lu, echoing in the blue sky, shaking the heart.
The ghostly gaze was immediately retracted, and fell on the white figure in front of the stone gate, in the sea of flowers.
As if she had heard the movement behind her, the woman in white slowly turned around, and countless beautiful flowers were under the blue sky, and suddenly they laughed together, lining her peerless face, and her pride was blooming!
In the sea of flowers, she is the brightest and most vivid color.
The ghost was in mid-air, and he had mixed feelings in his heart for a while, and he was stunned.