The little beggar seemed to notice Yan Feipeng's strange mood swings, and was about to turn his head to look.
But at this moment, Xiang Shu suddenly spoke again: "Little brother, can you take us to the ancient well to check it out?"
As soon as these words came out, the little beggar's eyes immediately returned to Xiang Shen, and he nodded repeatedly: "I will take you there right now!"
With that said, the little beggar ran out of the ruined temple first.
Xiang Shen turned around and glanced at Lin and Yan, smiling slightly: "Why don't you two go take a look together?"
"OK."
Lin Qi didn't notice any difference and readily agreed. Just as he was about to follow Xiang Shen, he saw that the senior brother beside him had a pale face and cold sweat on his forehead, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying.
Lin Qi's expression changed slightly, "Senior brother, you..."
"I'm fine!"
Yan Feipeng quickly interrupted his junior brother, barely regaining his composure, "Let's follow him quickly."
After saying that, Yan Feipeng couldn't help but grabbed Lin Qi's hand and quickly left the ruined temple. He rushed behind Xiang Shen before slowing down.
Lin Qi looked on confused, what happened to senior brother?
Yan Feipeng's mind was also a mess at the moment.
Fellow Taoist Shen stopped Lin Qi from contacting the scholar, and pointed out the strangeness of the little beggar with words. He had obviously discovered the danger long ago and secretly warned him.
But since he was aware of the danger, why didn't Fellow Daoist Shen just leave here with them? Instead, he went to the ancient well that the little beggar deliberately mentioned?
Yan Feipeng couldn't understand, but the intuition he had developed through many years of traveling told him that it might be safer to stay with Shen Daoyou than to leave directly with his junior brother.
The little beggar trotted all the way, and the group soon arrived at the street where the ancient well was located.
It seems that because of the rumors that the ancient well is haunted, the streets are empty and deserted.
Lin Qi looked around and saw only a locust tree taking root at the street corner. He couldn't help but wonder: "Little brother, where is the dry well you mentioned?"
"Just under the tree."
The little beggar pointed to the locust tree.
The locust tree is very old, with eight main branches extending from the root. The longest branches have drooped to the ground, casting a huge shadow.
Lin Qi took a closer look and found an inconspicuous dry well in the shadows.
its not right.
With such a big tree blocking the view, even if there is a moon at night, the light is very dim. How did the scholar see clearly the movements of the little beggar by the well?
This thought suddenly came to Lin Qi's mind, and his eyelids twitched. He was about to send a message to remind his senior brother, but he saw that Xiang Shen was already following the little beggar and was about to walk under the tree.
The branches and leaves of the old locust tree swayed and were raised slightly, as if they were like a bloody mouth, trying to choose someone to devour.
"No! Senior brother, let's go rescue her quickly!"
Lin Qi didn't have time to say anything more, so he hurriedly sent a message and immediately chased after him.
Yan Feipeng's expression suddenly changed, "Junior brother, wait!"
There was a commotion from behind, and the secretly watching eyes suddenly left Xiang Shen and fell on Yan and Lin. Even the little beggar looked back.
And at the moment when the little beggar turned around, a Qingyue sword chant suddenly sounded in his ears.
Danger!
The little beggar's expression changed drastically, and he immediately retreated and distanced himself from Xiang Shen.
However, before he could make any move, he saw a white sword light rapidly enlarging in front of his eyes.
puff!
The sword light instantly penetrated from between the eyebrows, bringing out a pool of blood. The little beggar's eyes quickly dimmed and he fell to the ground dead.
This change happened so fast that before Lynch could see the process clearly, there was another body on the ground.
He looked at the little beggar's body and was completely stunned.
Xiang Shen looked indifferent, raised his hand and clicked again. The sword light immediately changed its direction and stabbed towards the mouth of the well with lightning speed!
Wow! !
The surrounding branches that stood still suddenly came to life, and the electricity shot towards the sword light, trying to wrap it tightly.
Before he even got close to the sword light, he was strangled by the sword into a sky full of sawdust.
Then there was a "pop" sound, and the sword light sank into the mouth of the well, but it seemed to be piercing a flesh and blood body.
A large amount of blood immediately gushes out from the dry wellhead.
"How dare you!"
A face full of anger emerged from the roots of the tree, and it was clearly the old pharmacist from before.
He shook the eight main branches suddenly.
Boom!
The earth shook, and countless tree roots burst out of the ground, turning into sharp swords and stabbing Xiang Shu.
Lin Qi hurriedly dodged several tree roots and was accidentally hit by one of them. He felt like he had been hit hard and vomited blood and rolled aside.
Yan Feipeng, with quick eyes and quick hands, caught his junior brother and stepped back.
Lin Qi wiped the blood from his mouth and looked at the powerful locust tree demon in horror.
What kind of cultivation level does this old tree demon have?
He can't even catch a single tree root. Can Fellow Daoist Shen be able to stop him when he faces thousands of roots?
Facing the overwhelming invading tree roots, Xiang Shu's expression remained calm, his sword flashed under his feet, he walked calmly between the gaps, and slowly approached the tree roots.
At the same time, continue to control the flying sword to wreak havoc in the dry well.
The blood boils and fills the mouth of the well.
"ah!!"
The human face on the root of the tree let out a painful howl, with a red light in its eyes, and suddenly shook a shining main branch and pulled it towards Xiang Shu.
Xiang Shen's eyes narrowed and he actually advanced instead of retreating, reaching out to grab the main branch.
The locust tree demon was not surprised but overjoyed when he saw this.
This branch is the hardest part of its body. Not to mention humans with weak bodies, even monsters in the same realm cannot benefit from it.
This human sword is really powerful. It is worried about how to deal with it, but it does not expect that this person is so trusting and still does not recall the flying sword, trying to resist its main branch with the body, it is simply courting death!
Thinking this, it immediately controlled the main branch and pumped towards Xiang Shu at a faster speed.
next moment.
boom! ! !
As soon as the golden main branch came into contact with Yubai's palm, the strong wind raged, and the circular aftermath spread instantly.
Xiang Shu firmly grasped the main branch with one hand, his black hair dancing in the wind behind him. He raised his eyes and glanced at the frightened Sophora tree demon, and then yanked back!
Tear! !
"impossible!!!"
Amidst the screams, the golden main branch broke in response, and the entire heaven and earth shattered with it.
Amid the roar, countless fragments of the sky rolled back, gradually revealing the real world.
Lin Qi stared blankly at the sky and the earth, with only his slim figure standing alone among the flying debris in his eyes.
"Shen... Fellow Daoist Shen... so amazing!"
Yan Feipeng was also so shocked that he swallowed his saliva.
Senior Shen looks so slender, but he can burst out with a power even more terrifying than a monster. It's terrible!
There will still be some time before the illusion is completely shattered. Xiang Shu was not idle either. He simply dodged his body, jumped on top of the locust tree demon, and pulled out six of the remaining seven main branches.
The locust tree demon screamed repeatedly, so painful that the face of the tree root became blurred, and he immediately begged for mercy: "Senior, have mercy on me! Have mercy on me! The little demon had no choice but to obey orders and did not intend to harm anyone."
Xiang Shu ignored it. She had no intention of killing the locust tree demon.
She threw aside the seventh main branch, then sat down on the last main branch, waiting quietly for the illusion to be completely shattered.
Tens of breaths later, the fragments of the illusion that rolled around completely disappeared, and the day instantly turned into night. The lively mortal town also disappeared, turning into a valley overgrown with weeds and gloomy.
The locust tree demon is rooted in the center of the valley. Around it, corpses are everywhere, surrounded by a large number of colorful human-faced snake demons. A rough count of them is no less than a thousand.
"What kind of monsters are these?!"
Lin Qi had never seen such a terrifying scene before. He was so frightened that he trembled all over. "Brother, let's go to Shen Dao quickly."
Friends over there!
Yan Feipeng casually sensed the aura of a human-faced snake demon, but it was not inferior to him, and his reaction was not much better than that of his junior brother. He nodded quickly, carefully avoided the place where there were many demon snakes, and leaned towards Shu.
Xiang Shen sat on the bare main branch, scanning the surrounding snake monsters, and soon saw a human-faced snake corpse.
The face on the snake corpse was clearly that of a little beggar.
On the faces of the snake monsters around them, you can also see two scholars, as well as the faces of mortals who were active in the town before. They all have numb expressions and are no longer agile in the illusion.
"Not to mention the weirdness of these snakes with human faces, most of them are in the demon elixir stage, and a smaller half are in the transformation stage, but none of them can transform into human form. It is indeed as what the third senior brother said, it is a bit weird."
Thinking of this, she reached out and grabbed it with five fingers. The token that landed next to the little beggar's snake body immediately flew up and fell into her hand.
This token seemed to be made of cold jade in the illusion, but now that the disguise was gone, it turned out to be just a rotten wooden token.
The illusion just now was too real. If there weren't too many flaws in the acting skills of the locust tree demon and the human-faced snake demon, she might not be able to react.
The sword intention of the sword cultivator can cut off all illusions. Why did she just use it to have no effect on the illusion?
Xiang Shen was filled with doubts, but this was obviously not the time to get to the bottom of things.
She gathered her thoughts and flicked her finger, and the token flew out and hung in front of the tree root man's face.
"If you want to survive, you have to fight hard."
When the locust tree demon saw the token, he immediately understood Xiang Shu's purpose and quickly confessed:
"Senior, those five people are sealed in the amber jade deep in the valley."
The locust tree demon shook its branches and pointed out a direction.
Xiang Shu left a flying sword, pointing at the last main branch, and then his body flashed and floated into the valley.
The valley was dimly lit, and an altar dozens of feet high stood in it.
There are several sacrificial pits of different sizes around the altar, and the surrounding land is soaked in blood and glows with a dark red color.
Pei Shi was lying in one of the sacrificial pits, sealed by the amber jade. His body could not move, his mouth could not speak, and only his eyes could move.
Forty-nine days...
Today is the day that the "adult" in the Sophora Tree Demon's mouth eats.
Pei Shi couldn't help but despair.
Being sealed in this amber, he was unable to send a message back to the clan to ask for help. The elders of the sect probably didn't know that the five of them were in danger.
This time, I'm afraid I'm really going to fall into trouble. I don’t know how sad Master will be when he gets the news...
As he was thinking this, he suddenly saw a blurry figure appearing on the edge of the sacrifice pit.
Pei Shi's heart was shocked, and he couldn't hide the look of fear in his eyes.
The eater is here?
