Chen Si had been hung upside down for an unknown number of days. After being exposed to wind and sun, his whole body was swaying in the air like a scarecrow.
As the tree roots gradually spread into his capillaries, his skin had turned blue-black and began to truly blend with it.
Now the only normal part of the body is only the chest. However, after days of erosion, the light of the Art of Ascension to Immortality has become dimmer, and it seems that it will be extinguished at any time.
However, deep in his consciousness, Chen Si still didn't give up. He frantically mobilized the immortal energy in his body to attack the tree roots, trying to force them out of his body. However, his remaining immortal energy was no more than a mantis' arm acting as a cart, and had no effect at all.
The originally fragmented pictures have become more fragmented, and some have completely turned into fine sand, blending into the darkness.
The surroundings were getting darker and darker, and Chen Si's consciousness seemed to be put in a bottle, with less and less contact with the outside world.
He suddenly thought, could he be trapped in this life forever?
Looking into the dark nothingness, he finally panicked and began to rush left and right, trying to break the barrier with brute force.
However, the more he bumped into it, the faster the fragments of the scenery disappeared, and soon there was only the last palm-sized fragment left in his field of vision.
Chen Si finally despaired. He quickly picked up the fragment, fearing that it would be completely destroyed into the void.
"Can't you get out..."
He lowered his head and his eyes lost their light.
At this moment, he suddenly saw a dark figure vaguely appearing in the red mist in the distance from the fragments.
The shadow was very small, half the size of a man, like a jackal, and its green pupils flickered in the red mist.
Chen Si recognized it, and the beast followed him and Ran Zhu, wondering what An was thinking.
At that time, I was seriously injured and ignored it, but I didn't expect it to follow it here!
But when the black shadow gradually came closer, Chen Si could see clearly that it was not a wolf, but a person.
It's just that the man was thin and short, crawling on all fours like a dog.
It's the village dwarf!
The dwarf sometimes stopped to look around furtively, sometimes he took a few steps along the shadows of the trees, and finally arrived at the banyan tree in the courtyard under the cover of night.
He looked up at Chen Si, then picked up Chen Si's broken Tang Dao on the ground, bit it in his mouth, and climbed up with all four limbs on the ground.
The dwarf's arms and legs were as thin as bamboo poles, clinging to the banyan tree as if they might break at any time.
But he still gritted his teeth, looked resolutely, and did not dare to relax at all and crawled towards Chen Si.
Chen Si looked at the thin figure through the fragments. At first he felt doubtful, but then he became unsure.
Are you here to save me? Why did he save me?
Before he could think about it, the dwarf had already climbed onto the branch, slid down one of the vines, and finally landed on Chen Si's shoulder.
He took out the half-broken knife from his mouth and worked hard to cut the vines.
However, after a while, the vines showed no reaction at all, not even a single knife mark was left.
Chen Si looked at this scene, and hope burned in his originally dead heart again.
He quickly and laboriously mobilized the last ray of immortal energy he could control and injected it into the broken knife. The dwarf immediately felt a light touch on his hand and waved it hard. The vine that was as hard as iron just now was cut into pieces like tofu in an instant. Two halves.
At this moment, in the endless darkness around Chen Si, another fragment suddenly appeared.
As other vines were cut off one after another, the fragments became more and more numerous and eventually spliced into a complete picture.
Chen Si took a closer look and found that he had returned to the real world.
He stared at the attentive dwarf and asked in a deep voice: "Why did you come to save me?"
The dwarf turned his head and grinned, showing an ugly but sincere smile.
"You gave me food, and I said I would repay you."
Chen Si couldn't help but be filled with doubts when he heard this ridiculous reason, but looking at the bright eyes on the dwarf's ugly face, he subconsciously believed it.
At this time, the split vines began to squirm, and the entire banyan tree seemed to be slowly waking up due to pain.
Now most of Chen Si's body except his head was still imprisoned. Seeing that something was wrong, he quickly shouted: "Sprite!"
A shadow suddenly appeared in the dark night, wrapping around Chen Si's body. It kept changing its shape in the air, and the vines wherever it passed quickly disappeared.
The banyan tree was twisting more and more, as if the human body was in convulsions.
"who is it--!"
A sharp scream cut through the night, and the shadow of a woman quickly escaped from the shabby tile-roofed house. She was wearing a red wedding dress from the countryside, with exquisite makeup, but her skin was as pale as if she had been soaked in water for many days.
Seeing the sprite quickly devouring the branches of the banyan tree, the woman's face turned gloomy in the blink of an eye. Her skirt fluttered and flew to the sprite in an instant, turning back into a ball of red mist and entangled with the sprite.
Black and red were evenly matched, and for a while it was impossible to tell the winner.
It's just that more and more fleshy branches of the banyan tree are extending towards Chen Si, trying to regain control over him.
Chen Si shouted again: "Horned Dragon!"
Ever since he was almost taken away from his body last time, Qiu Long and him had developed a vague connection, and now they were even more connected. As soon as he heard Chen Si shouting, he jumped out from his right arm, spreading his fangs full of finesse. The mouthparts greedily gnawed at the vines.
Soon, Chen Si regained control of his right hand. He took the broken knife in the dwarf's hand, injected immortal energy into it and slashed it, forcing back the vines spreading in all directions at the critical moment.
The horned dragon's devouring speed was also extremely fast. In just a few moments, the vines wrapped around Chen Si's body were cleared away.
Chen Si wanted to recall it immediately, but this little thing was obviously not enough to satisfy its appetite. It ignored Chen Si's order and pounced directly into the main trunk of the banyan tree.
A hole immediately appeared in the branches of the banyan tree, which were made of flesh and blood. Blood gurgled out continuously, and the smell was extremely fishy.
Chen Si couldn't care about Qiu Long for the time being, solving the immediate trouble was more important.
After these days of observation, he discovered that the red mist around him was exhaled by the human corpses attached to the banyan tree. Every time a woman showed her true body, she needed to condense the red mist, so its origin must be this banyan tree.
He immediately stopped caring about the woman fighting with the monster, jumped down from the air with the dwarf, and raised his fist at the root of the banyan tree.
With each punch, a blood hole as big as a bowl appeared on the root of the tree, and flesh and blood splattered everywhere.
The color of the woman who could still compete with the monsters gradually dimmed, and she began to be at a disadvantage.
Seeing Chen Si destroying the foundation of her enlightenment, the woman felt extremely heartbroken, and her eyes became fierce, as if she had made some kind of determination.
