Chapter 178 Guardian (please subscribe)
The Zhuguo tree is also a spiritual fruit, or a spiritual fruit with the attribute of fire. If it bears fruit, there will definitely be monsters who will occupy it and take it as their own.
Last time, the female cultivator picked a spiritual fruit from her body. I don’t know whether she killed the guardian monster or lured it away through a fight among the team, so that the female cultivator took the opportunity to pick it.
But Wu Tao doesn’t know what the specific situation is.
The only thing he knew and was involved in was that the female cultivator was being chased by two male cultivators. When she saw Wu Tao, she tried to divert the trouble and involve Wu Tao so that she could survive.
If it were another casual cultivator who was not strong enough, it would really be possible for that female cultivator to succeed and die.
But who is Wu Tao? He is a practitioner of both body and law, and is invincible at the same level. What's more, there were soul-eating insects around him at that time.
The female cultivator is really trapped in a cocoon during this trip.
"Go and have a look. If the red fruit is still there and there are fruits, pick them. If not, just give up." Wu Tao is not pushy and has a casual personality.
After all, this thing cannot be forced.
Thinking of this, Wu Tao remembered the location of the Zhu Guo on the animal skin, then stood up and returned to the place where the three-pole water-fire sword array was arranged. He put away the three-pole water-fire sword array and moved towards the location of the Zhu Guo.
The location of Zhu Guo is a place two hundred miles away, a canyon.
The canyon is full of fog and miasma.
Also, despite the fact that the scope of activities of casual cultivators and adventurers has reached three hundred or even five hundred miles, the vastness of the wilderness cannot be explained by its depth. Even if it is one hundred miles or two hundred miles, there are There are some dangerous places that casual cultivators dare not go to at will.
Gu Mingsheng's notes to Wu Tao recorded that there was a dangerous place a hundred miles away, and even the most powerful team of casual cultivators did not dare to go there.
Wu Tao advanced slowly, but with a cautious attitude, he let the Soul-Eating Insects become invisible and move forward as scouts. This could avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Half an hour later, Wu Tao finally saw the canyon.
There are high mountains on both sides, gathering in the canyon in the middle. White mist rises from the canyon. It looks like a dangerous place.
There is also miasma in the mist.
Walking in the wild, with a character like Wu Tao, why not carry a detoxifying pill with him?
Wu Tao looked at the mist, and immediately took out a bottle of antidote pills from his storage bag, swallowed two pills, and then directed the soul-eating worms to enter the canyon first. He wanted the soul-eating worms to become his eyes.
After the soul-eating worm entered the canyon, Wu Tao's spiritual sense was attached to the soul-eating worm, and he could also sense the situation in the canyon. The fog was not very thick. In addition, he was at the ninth level of Qi refining, and his spiritual sense had already It has reached the limit of the Qi refining period and is extremely condensed, so it can sense the surrounding situation.
Seeing that there was no danger, Wu Tao stepped into the canyon.
Walking cautiously in the canyon, the Soul-Eating Insect met three first-level intermediate monsters. However, in front of the Soul-Eating Insect, a high-level monster, they were as papery and vulnerable to a blow. He gnawed away his soul, leaving only a body.
Wu Tao was picking up monster corpses behind him.
After entering the canyon, Wu Tao found that the canyon was really big. Even though there was a red fruit tree 200 miles away in the canyon, no casual cultivator had discovered it. That was because he would have lost his way without the map left by the female cultivator. of.
Following the route on the map, Wu Tao finally arrived at his destination after almost half an hour.
On the cliff, a red fruit tree with a height of three people grows diagonally. There are six flaming red fruits hanging on the tree, which look ripe. Wu Tao felt happy in his heart. He had no hope in the first place, because it was very likely that the person who discovered the red fruit tree would dig it up or pluck all of it.
But at this time, there are still six red fruits in the red fruit tree that have not been picked.
Then, it is very possible that the female cultivator's team did not have enough time last time and could only pick one red fruit, but was driven away by the monster guarding the red fruit.
Wu Tao observed carefully and found some human remains under the red fruit tree, but they were just some remains. If people eat monsters, monsters will also eat cultivators, which can also increase their cultivation.
This shows that Zhu Guo is guarded by monsters.
But Wu Tao found no trace of the monster, nor even sensed its breath.
Wu Tao immediately let go of his spiritual thoughts and scanned the Zhuguoshu, but found no trace of the monster. In desperation, he spread out again and probed the area ten miles around the Zhuguoshu, but he could not sense the breath of the monster.
When something goes wrong, there must be a monster.
Wu Tao didn't believe that with his divine sense that had been tempered by Master Ding, he could not detect the existence of the monster.
Moreover, it is absolutely impossible for wild spirit fruits to be occupied by monsters.
Thinking of this, Wu Tao commanded the Soul-Eating Insect to go and detect it. As a monster, the Soul-Eating Insect would only be more sensitive to the aura of the monster than him.
The soul-eating insect flew towards the red fruit tree, and soon sent a message to Wu Tao that there was a monster on the red fruit tree.
Wu Tao's eyes moved and he quickly extended his spiritual thoughts. This time he was even more detailed. He found out that there was a red fruit. It looked like a red fruit, but it was not a red fruit. Instead, it was a snake-like monster hiding in the red fruit tree. It is extremely good at hiding. On its head, there is a sarcoma similar to a red fruit. Because it occupies and swallows the red fruit, the sarcoma exudes an aura similar to that of a red fruit.
That’s why Wu Tao thought there were six red fruits before, but they were actually five.
“What a monster, so good at concealment and disguise. If I hadn’t had the Soul-Eating Insect, you would have really hid it from me.” Wu Tao felt his heart pounding.
He couldn't even detect it with his divine mind that had been tempered by Master Ding, let alone other casual cultivators. If they really thought there were no monsters and stepped forward to pick them, they would definitely suffer a big loss.
Since Wu Tao has discovered it, and the Soul-Eating Insect is a monster that is better at hiding than the snake demon, the snake demon has not discovered the Soul-eating Insect.
Therefore, Wu Tao suddenly came up with a plan. He would use his trick to pretend that he did not find the snake monster, and then directly give it a fatal blow.
Having made up his mind, Wu Tao pretended to be overjoyed and flew towards the Zhu Guo disguised as a snake-like demonic beast. Just when Wu Tao's hand was about to touch the 'Zhu Guo'.
The snake-like monster was overjoyed. With a flick of its body, it pounced directly on Wu Tao. All the monster aura from its body radiated out. It was a first-level high-level monster, or a late-stage monster.
Wu Tao saw this, but he was not in a hurry, with a smile of success on his lips. He had already given the order to the soul-eating insect. Then, in the other hand, he held the wind and thunder gun in his hand, and with a The gun blasted towards the monster.
The snake monster felt a pain in its soul, and its long body suddenly stiffened. Then, accompanied by the sound of wind and thunder, the spear hit seven inches of it.
With this shot, seven inches of the snake-like monster was immediately shattered. It fell to the ground unwillingly, twisted a few times, and died immediately.
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(End of this chapter)