Chapter 339 Old Sophora Tree
Bodies everywhere, the stench of rotting mold.
Yin Xiu felt as if she had slipped into a ball of cotton that had not been washed or exposed to the sun for several years, and her chest felt a little tight.
Fang Yin turned his head, his face not relaxed.
"Did your people take action?"
Yin Xiu shook his head, "Calm down, if I have someone who can kill all these Qigong practitioners, why should I follow you in circles under the ground for so long?
Is this fun? Or is it because you are beautiful? ”
"But I do look pretty good."
Fang Yin fiddled with a strand of hair and calmed down a little.
"Then do we still want to stay here?"
"Why not?"
Yin Xiu glanced at her, "It's better to have a change than nothing. In my opinion, I would rather all these people turn into corpses and lie here than have them disappear without a trace."
"You are such a terrible person." Fang Yin couldn't help but sigh.
Yin Xiu didn't care whether she was praising or criticizing, she just raised her hand and dropped the illuminated talismans in several places in the hall.
Then, the originally dark hall immediately became brighter, revealing the layout and the corpses.
There are a lot of things that should be in a Taoist temple, including portraits of the ancestors and statues of various gods. There is even a peach wood sword and a bagua on the table.
A corpse was crawling in front of the sacred table enshrining magical weapons. Apparently at the last moment of his life, he wanted to use the power of these magical weapons, but unfortunately he failed.
After counting, there were about a dozen corpses lying on the ground. There was almost no struggle, no blood stains, and no trace of the murder weapon.
"How did they die?"
As if asking Fang Yin or herself, Yin Xiu took out her gloves and put them on her hands.
He then went to one of the bodies and turned the deceased over.
From the twisted, deformed and swollen face of the deceased, Yin Xiu could no longer judge the time of death. He only felt that the face looked like a scroll fished out of the lake, wrinkled by water.
Yin Xiu looked around his chest, neck, back and head, but found no external injuries.
"How disgusting."
Fang Yin spat on the ground.
Yin Xiu didn't look at her, but said coldly: "Don't dislike anyone. You will probably look like this after you die, and it might be even worse."
"Then I just hope that if I really die, I won't have those weird things growing on my hands."
She opens the sleeve of a corpse and instructs Yin Xiu to take a look.
There were black veins on the pale arm, like veins, or like some bug crawled around in the blood vessels, leaving behind toxins.
"Does this look like tree roots?" Fang Yin asked.
"I don't know."
Yin Xiu took out the knife and lightly slashed the arm. Along with the thick body fluid, there was also a piece of plant root.
"This is?"
Fang Yin suppressed his nausea and stretched his sleeves to cover his hands, intending to touch the roots.
At this moment, as if the well rope turned into a grass snake, the tendrils suddenly twisted and burrowed towards her fingers.
Fang Yin was taken aback and quickly pulled back his hand.
Just when the root was about to move forward, when it was following, a black light flashed and the root was cut into two parts.
One part retracted into the body of the corpse, and the other part kept swaying and beating on the ground. After a while, it finally lost its activity and died.
"What is this? A man-eating plant from the Amazon?" Fang Yin screamed.
"No, it's not a plant, it's a monster."
At this moment, in Yin Xiu's eyes, the severed roots were emitting strands of black energy.
monster?
Fang Yin suddenly remembered something and looked outside the door.
From their direction, the old locust tree in the courtyard could no longer be seen, but it was part of it, but it stretched over.
Those were its roots. The rough bark was wrapped in roots as thick as a forearm. They came densely and quickly crowded the main entrance of the hall.
That old locust tree moved!
Yin Xiu ignored the scene outside the door, but stood up and threw the talisman towards a corpse on the ground.
When the talisman fell on the corpse, a small spark exploded immediately, and then the entire corpse began to twist and expand.
Black roots emerged from under the pale skin, scrambling to squeeze out as if fleeing for their lives, but as soon as they emerged, they withered and died on the ground, like pieces of dry wood.
At this point, Yin Xiu already understood what was happening here.
Why is there such a lush old locust tree under the dark ground?
Why did these mysterious Qi Refiners all die in the hall in such bizarre and strange ways?
These roots should be part of the locust tree outside.
The locust tree was killed in this way and absorbed the Qi and blood of these Qi refiners. It thrived and even achieved a certain level of breakthrough. Yin Xiu couldn't help but think of the previous monsters such as Mr. Huang San. Maybe this locust tree was also one of them?
But even so, the monsters that ate people, the monsters like Mr. Huang San, Liu Qing, who just absorbed incense and spiritual energy, have turned into completely different creatures.
Just like a bear that eats people is obsessed with the salty taste in the blood.
Even if this locust tree used to be a spiritual tree in a certain temple or an elf in the mountains, it has now turned into some kind of bloodthirsty beast.
After realizing this, Yin Xiu clenched the knife tightly in his hand.
At this moment, tiny sounds kept coming from above their heads.
It was the sound of something stretching, entwining, crushing roof tiles and masonry.
"How big do you think that locust tree is?" Fang Yin asked.
Beads of sweat appeared on her head. Even though she knew she would be in danger, she still felt nervous out of instinct when her opponent was an unnatural monster.
Yin Xiu was much calmer. After all, he had killed monsters and made friends with monsters.
"I heard that there are some mushrooms in the Amazon rainforest. The part above the ground is very small, but the part underground is so intricate that it is almost as big as a football field.
It was still a tropical rainforest. An explorer thought he had discovered a vast forest, but later he learned that the trees he thought were many were actually from the same tree and were part of it. ”
Fang Yin seemed to understand what Yin Xiu meant, "You mean, this tree might be bigger than we imagined? It's much more than what we see?"
"Yes, what's more, what we are facing is not a biological creature, but a monster, and they can use magic."
"Then aren't we doomed?" Fang Yin said desperately.
"Not necessarily."
"Why?"
Yin Xiu grinned, "Because I can also do magic!"
As he spoke, he threw a few talisman papers forward.
"Tai Shang Laojun is as urgent as a law, a thunder and fire talisman, an edict!"
Boom!
Several fireballs exploded at the entrance of the hall. As broken branches and fragments flew away, the entire hall shook involuntarily.
It seemed that the huge creature shrank its hands in pain, or it seemed that it was shaking because of anger.
Seeing that the dense branches at the entrance of the hall were exploded, Yin Xiu jumped out, followed closely by Fang Yin.
Then, the two of them saw two huge lanterns hanging high in the air, like two moons.
Falling in Fang Yin's eyes, there were two rays of fire.
But in Yin Xiu's eyes, there was overwhelming black energy.
The locust tree spirit may have used some method to cover up his aura before, so no one noticed anything strange.
Now that it has revealed its true form, the standing part alone is probably more than ten meters high. No one knows whether there are roots underneath or how long they are.
"The sky and the earth are infinite, the universe borrows the law!"
Yin Xiu stretched out his hand, and two flying dragons formed by the talisman paper connected end to end flew out of his sleeve.
Those talisman papers were originally only vaguely drawn with talisman gallbladders, but now when they passed by Yin Xiu's fingertips, they were stained with wisps of purple energy, and runes with flying dragons and phoenixes appeared on them.
The two flying dragons finally opened their fangs and claws and flew towards the place where the lantern was.
Then, the two lanterns seemed to be suddenly extinguished by the wind.
Instead, there were explosions and rising fireballs, illuminating the entire cave and revealing the rugged and rough body of the locust tree.
The strong wind also lifted Yin Xiu's windbreaker, and Fang Yin's hair was blown wildly by the wind.
In the extreme confusion, she turned around and asked: "Are you actually a Taoist priest?"
"Can I still be a monk?" Yin Xiu asked.
"I tested you twice before, but you didn't respond at all. I really thought you were a monk!"
"I just stayed up too late and have some kidney deficiency!"
As they spoke, Yin Xiu and Fang Yin jumped aside. Where they were originally standing, countless tree roots pierced out from the ground like spears, each one as thick as the mouth of a bowl.
If they were still standing there just now, I'm afraid they would have turned into a bunch of people by now.
After Yin Xiu jumped away, there was no hesitation at all. After a few jumps, she reached the top of the Taoist temple.
Here, part of the roots that originally belonged to the huge locust tree are slowly moving.
It seems that because the body is too big, its reaction is a bit slow, and the speed of moving the end of the body is also slow.
Yin Xiu held her breath, hid behind the ridge of the roof, and cast her gaze into the distance, in the direction of the pool.
I saw there, like a giant snake climbing ashore, countless roots were emerging from the water, densely packed, almost covering the water surface.
They have no chance of escaping now...
(End of chapter)