"There seems to be really no spiritual herbs here."
Yanxuan looked around while flying. The five of them had now entered this low-lying land. They flew over without dust on their feet. All Yanxuan saw were rocks and weeds.
As the five people went deeper, the damp mist did not get worse, but the surrounding area gradually became colder.
"Why is it getting colder here?" Lu Pingchuan said.
"It's probably coming soon," Tang Ping replied.
There was less than a cup of tea flying inside again. There were no weeds under the feet of the five people. There was a mess of rocks below, and there were faint puddles. The moisture was getting heavier and heavier, and the mist was everywhere. A rugged and twisted black shadow stands in the fog in the distance.
"Is that the so-called evil tree?"
Li Jian looked at the black shadow and asked. In his perception, the black shadow in the mist gave him a feeling different from all the other monsters he had encountered before. In the wild, he felt that the monster was nothing more than He had a weak or strong sense of crisis, and besides being dangerous, this evil tree also gave him an inexplicable disgust.
"Okay, that's the evil tree." Tang Ping motioned to several companions to slow down, "You must not fall to the ground at this time. There are many kinds of evil trees, each with different methods, but almost all All evil trees can use their roots to come out of the ground and hurt people. When we flew over this area, there were almost no weeds on the ground. The root system of the evil trees was densely covered below. As long as it fell on the ground, The evil tree will notice it, and will use its roots to come out of the ground, wrap the person tightly into a ball, and then drag the person into the ground and slowly destroy him."
Yanxuan looked at the ground below nervously.
"Hey, Sister Tang," Lu Pingchuan asked curiously, "Then according to what you said, this evil tree should be a kind of monster. So is it a monster or a tree?"
"This... it's hard to say," Tang Ping said with some difficulty in answering Lu Pingchuan's question. "There are always some things that are born that don't follow the rules. Why can only monks and monsters and spiritual beasts be able to practice? Why are plants and trees... It can't be done. My sixth grandfather once told me that since there are spiritual trees, there should be evil trees. In other words, evil trees are actually a type of spiritual trees. It's just that spiritual trees are good for monks, while evil trees are good for monks. Monks are just harmful, just like among us monks there are those who practice diligently to increase their cultivation, and there are also those evil cultivators who have ulterior motives and always use ways to harm others to get something for nothing."
"Oh," Lu Pingchuan seemed to understand, and then said, "In that case, since we are all here, why not get rid of this evil tree so that no one will be hurt by it here in the future."
"That's going to be difficult, Brother Lu. When this evil tree knows that it is going to die, it will produce its own seeds quickly, and then those seeds will float in the wind and escape. Even if we can uproot the evil tree and start another The fire was burned cleanly, but its seeds had been sown countless times before that. We turned around and walked away, but in a few years there will still be evil trees growing here, and there will only be more than before. Maybe it can even grow into a forest of evil trees.”
"Oh," Li Jian asked curiously, "then there is no way to eradicate this evil tree?"
"Of course there is a way, but it's very troublesome. Well...you need to use a method similar to Qian Xiaozi's spirit locking formation," Tang Ping seemed to recall, "I remember whether I came to the sect or was still in the Tang family. At that time, I heard them talk about it. It is said that there used to be a big evil tree near the Tang family. The Tang family wanted to get rid of the evil tree, but they were afraid that cutting the grass would not remove the root, so they used a slow method. They surrounded the evil tree. A formation was deployed in that large area, making the aura in that area less and less. Well... it became less and less instead of disappearing all at once. It was like a pot of flowers. Watering it made it more and more... They come less and less and the intervals between them are getting longer and longer. If you don't give it a drop of water until the last drop, the flower will definitely wither and die. If you use this method, the evil wood in the formation will slowly die due to the spiritual energy. It disappeared and weakened bit by bit, until it finally withered and died. However, even if the evil tree withered at that time, the formation could not be removed immediately. It would have to be maintained for several years, just in case it still had seeds to take root and sprout. Only in the end can a fire be used to burn all the evil trees, and only in this way can an evil tree be eradicated."
"It's so troublesome." Li Jian said.
"Good guy, how many years will it take to kill a tree like this?" Lu Pingchuan asked.
"Well, it is said that it took nearly a hundred years to completely eradicate that evil tree." Tang Ping replied.
"So long." Yanxuan said.
When Qian Chao heard Tang Ping say that the Tang family arranged a formation around the evil tree, his heart moved, but he was relieved immediately. The Tang family from which Tang Ping was born was after all a prominent family in the spiritual world. The depth of knowledge must be extraordinary, and it is not unusual to have several monks who can arrange formations. Although he was interested in the formations she mentioned, he was sure that Tang Ping did not know how to arrange them, so he did not ask questions.
The few people chatted and flew closer to the evil tree. At this time, the cold air became stronger, and the five people finally saw the true appearance of the evil tree clearly.
This is probably the lowest point of this depression. The ground is a waveless stagnant water. In the stagnant water, you can see the sparkling white bones of some kind of beast or monster, half-buried and half-buried in the mud at the bottom of the water. . There is a lonely big tree in the middle of the stagnant water. This tree is thick enough for seven or eight people to surround it. The tree is more than forty feet high. The trunk is mottled, cracked, twisted, and ugly. Along the way, The trunk goes up to the top of the tree. The branches on the crown there are criss-crossed and dense, like a pile of dead bones, which makes people feel very uncomfortable when they look at it. What is surprising is that upon closer inspection, there are only branches and not a single branch. leaf.
Lu Pingchuan saw such a tree for the first time. Based on his experience, no matter at home or in the sect, all the trees he saw had lush branches and leaves. This was the first time he saw such a tree. He couldn't help but asked curiously: "This tree is not small, but is it alive or dead? Why doesn't it have a single leaf? Sister Tang, what kind of evil tree is this?"
However, Yanxuan thought that when he arrived in Youming Valley, there was an evil tree on the map that Tang Ping showed him to relieve his boredom, and he also said: "Aping, could this be the kind of tree you mentioned called Baizhang Bone?" Tree?"
"This..." Tang Ping looked at the tree blankly. The reason why Tang Ping knew more about spiritual trees was precisely because she preferred the method of brewing spiritual wine, and the spiritual fruits needed to brew spiritual wine , most of them are born on various spiritual trees, so Tang Bonian, who taught her how to brew spiritual wine, also told her a lot about various spiritual trees, so Tang Ping could know about this evil tree. , but after all, today is also the first time she has seen evil trees. Although her sixth grandfather gave her a lot of books, what she got in the books is different from what she saw with her own eyes. At this time, Tang Ping was thinking about those books that recorded the spiritual trees. I flipped through the books in a hurry, and finally the outline of the evil tree in front of me overlapped with the description in a book I had read, "This... is the Blood Yin Wood, yes, that's right, it's the Blood Yin Wood." .”
"Xue Yinmu, why did you get such a weird name?" Lu Pingchuan said.
"This Blood Yin Wood has two unique features. First, this evil tree is not very powerful, but the fruits it produces are very weird..."
"What's weird?"
"The fruit it bears is called Blood Yin Fruit. This fruit is not poisonous. Well, it is of no use to us monks, but the aura it emits is fatally attractive to monsters. Because of this, it Only in this way can the passing monster be attracted here, and then be killed by it."
Several people were surprised when they heard this. They didn't expect that this evil tree called Xue Yin Mu could have such a method. Thinking of this, several people looked at the bones looming in the stagnant water below them. It seemed that these unlucky guys must be. He lost his life because he was attracted by the scent of blood fruit.
Qian Chao withdrew his gaze and asked, "Besides its fruit, what is its other unique feature?"
"The other one, I said that this Blood Yin Mu is not very powerful, but if the monster attracted by the Blood Yin Fruit is very powerful, it can neither kill nor resist. Wouldn't that be bad? Therefore, this Xue Yinmu will still ask for help."
Lu Pingchuan couldn't understand what he heard and asked: "Please help? What kind of help? Could it be possible that it can ask other evil trees to help?"
"No," Tang Ping said, "The helpers it hired were not other evil trees, but the kind of monster insects that would not be attracted by its blood fruit. Therefore, whenever a blood tree is discovered, there must be many The monster insects will build their nests and live in it. The monster beasts that are usually attracted will be killed. The monster insects and the blood Yinmu will share the blood food equally. Once a powerful monster beast comes, then the monster beasts that live in it will be killed. The demonic insects on the body will definitely attack in groups and kill the powerful demonic beast together with the Xueyinmu. This can be regarded as protecting the Xueyinmu."
Li Jian listened and said, "Miss Tang is right. There are indeed a lot of monster insects on that tree. We didn't get close to it, so those monster insects didn't show up."
Li Jian had already sensed the evil tree when he was close to it. Although the tree was tall and strong, the thick trunk was almost hollow. There were countless demonic insects in the trunk. Just build a nest inside. If this bloody wood attracts a more powerful monster, the monster insects in the tree trunk will immediately fly out to attack the monster.
After hearing this, Lu Pingchuan looked at the Xue Yin Mu, but he couldn't see any monsters hiding there. However, he did not doubt Li Jian's words and said, "That's it. I didn't expect that there are weird things in this world of cultivation." There are so many bugs that they can keep company with a tree!"
Qian Chao's heart was moved when Tang Ping mentioned the first unique feature of Xue Yinmu. He looked at Tang Ping, and sure enough, the girl's expression was slightly excited at this time, so he asked: "What about this?" Are there any blood fruits on the tree now?"
"You'll have to look closer to find out," Tang Ping noticed Qian Chao's half-smiling gaze as soon as he said this. Knowing that his plan had been seen through by this kid, she curled her lips at him and said, "That bloody Yin The fruit is not big, just like a small ball, and the color is not bright. It cannot be seen here, so we have to get closer to find it."
Yanxuan had already been a little afraid of this tree that looked extremely gloomy. When Tang Ping said that he wanted to lean over to see the fruits of the evil tree, he resisted a little and said: "A Ping, what is the use of the fruits of this evil tree? If It can't be used as medicine or make wine, so we'd better not look at it. After all, there are still a lot of monster insects on the tree. It's better to do less than to do more."
"Sister Yan," Tang Ping said, "Although the Xue Yin fruit can neither be used as medicine nor wine, if we can find one or two and pick them off, maybe we can get the Yunzhu fruit we saw earlier this time!"
After listening to Tang Ping's words, Li Jian understood what she wanted to do after a moment's thought.
Lu Pingchuan and Yanxuan still don't understand.
