Chapter 74 (Seventy Four) Tree Vine
While walking, a wooden sign on the tree caught Yan Moying's eye. On the wooden sign were the seven words "The sound of the jade flute calls back the shadow."
Yan Moying immediately took out the small jade flute given to him by the old man he met in the dead wood forest and started playing it. For a moment, the melodious sound of the flute resounded through the clear sky, and several birds lined up and hovered in front of Yan Moying amid the sound of the flute. Yan Moying stopped and looked at them. They spun a few more times and then began to guide him. The flying birds led Yan Moying behind a big tree in front, and then dispersed one after another.
"Senior, where are you?" Yan Moying couldn't see anyone around the tree. He didn't know what to do next, so he had to try to call the old man he met in the dead wood forest.
Just as he called, a tree vine quickly jumped out and instantly wrapped around Yan Moying, tightly, throwing him into the air and immediately pulling him back. Then, another tree vine was unwilling to be left alone. It stretched out from different directions and also wrapped around Yan Moying. Immediately afterwards, the third and fourth strips also stretched out and entangled him.
From time to time, some metal debris falls from the nearby trees and scatters to the ground, but it does not fall on the rattan.
Yan Moying struggled while blaming himself for not being careful before. He felt that the surroundings were so peaceful just now. He was careless and did not expect that danger might still occur in this situation. Now that I am entangled tightly with those vines, how can I escape? Yan Moying found that the more he struggled, the tighter the canes seemed to wrap around him. According to this trend, if he continued to struggle, there was no guarantee that he would not be strangled to death by those canes.
He found that only his left hand could move within a limited range, so he took the Hunyuan dagger from his body and cut it into the cane. To his surprise, there were no scratches on the cane where he cut it. Instead, the entire one-inch area with the cut point as the centerline turned into the same metal material as the Hunyuan dagger. He struggled to pull out the sword and found that when the blade touched the rattan, an inch of the rattan became the same material as the blade. He was glad that he had not struck randomly with a dagger or sword when he was excited. Otherwise, many parts of the rattan would have turned into the material of daggers or swords, and the consequences would have been disastrous.
Yan Moying looked up the tree and discovered the source of the metal debris floating on the ground - it turned out that there were several pieces of unknown metal rubbing against each other on the tree. The metal pieces seemed to be quite soft and seemed to be able to wipe off debris with just a gentle rub. Seeing this, he immediately tried to find a way to scatter the debris on the rattan wrapped around him, but no matter how he moved, he was still not close enough to where the debris fell. He picked up the sword and reached out to catch it with the front end of the sword. When beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, the sword finally caught some debris. He sprinkled the debris on one of the canes to test, and sure enough, the area within an inch turned into a softer metal material. When he exerted force, the cane broke from there. Yan Moying saw that since this could break the vines, he did not hesitate to scatter metal scraps on the several vines that were entangled with him. Just a few "click" and "pop" sounds were heard, all the rattan branches were broken, and Yan Moying fell from the sky.
In order to prevent himself from falling to the ground, Yan Moying did a somersault in the air. But after this somersault, he didn't fall to the ground for a long time. (End of chapter)