Xiao Yifeng suddenly realized, and then felt horrified.
This weird thing is actually a tree root?
After turning a corner, he found that there were dense white buds growing under the roots of many trees.
These sprouts were twisting regularly and looked extremely disgusting.
There are corpses hanging under the buds, which are being absorbed by the Corpse God Tree. You can clearly see the blood flowing like blood vessels.
At a glance, there were thousands of corpses hanging in the air. Some people seemed to be not dead yet, and their legs twitched from time to time.
"Is this one of the hundreds of thousands of people who are missing?"
Xiao Yifeng's face didn't look very good. Zhao Wuji hummed and said in a low voice: "Yes!"
"You use these people to feed the Corpse God Tree?" Xiao Yifeng asked.
"We have no choice but to continue walking with you, the master of the palace." Zhao Wuji said in a low voice.
Xiao Yifeng could only continue to follow him down. The further down, the more shocking it became.
At the same time, waves of rhythmic vibrations slowly came, causing Xiao Yifeng's heart rate to unconsciously synchronize with it.
With this vibration, the aroma produced by the Shipo Divine Tree becomes more intense, making people intoxicated.
The four of them came to a huge pit. In front of them was the tangled roots of the sacred tree gathered here.
Zhao Wuji's deep voice came slowly from the front: "My Xuan Yin Mansion has always been refining corpses. This Corpse God Tree is naturally able to gather Yin Qi and is a natural place for refining corpses."
"We complement each other with this sacred tree. The huge corpse energy generated by corpse refining gathers here, and it gradually formed a scale over countless years."
Xiao Yifeng and others also saw the huge mass of flesh gathered by countless corpses and surrounded by the roots of the sacred tree.
The meat ball was thirty feet in size. Countless corpse energy and wood-attribute spiritual energy gathered on it, and it was beating rhythmically like a human heart.
Every time it expands, it absorbs the majestic corpse energy from the earth, and then contracts and disperses the corpse energy onto the roots, flowing towards the sacred tree, and transporting it to the branches.
Zhao Wuji saw the shock on Xiao Yifeng's face and said in a deep voice: "We call this thing the Heart of the Corpse God!"
Zhou Wenhan was also a little shocked and said: "How come this Heart of the Corpse God is so big? The last time it was only five feet in size."
Zhao Wuji explained: "In the past twenty years, it seems to have reached a mature stage, absorbing corpse energy and flesh and blood crazily, and growing rapidly."
Xiao Yifeng frowned, pointed at the heart of the corpse god and said: "What does this have to do with the corpse king? He couldn't come from this, right?"
Zhao Wuji nodded and said: "The palace master is right, that corpse king came from the heart of the corpse god, but I don't know how he got in."
Xiao Yifeng said in disbelief: "Didn't you bury it yourself? Haven't you ever gone down to check it yourself?"
Zhao Wuji sighed and said: "This corpse god's heart was not like this before. It had no flesh and blood before, and there was nothing inside."
"But six hundred years ago it became what it is now, with flesh and blood growing on it, and it was closed to the outside world. We have never gone in to see it again."
Xiao Yifeng looked at the beating Heart of the Corpse God and said meaningfully: "Since this Heart of the Corpse God has existed for a long time, it won't grow flesh and blood inexplicably, right?"
"Master Mingjian, it really grew out of nowhere." Zhao Wuji shook his head.
Xiao Yifeng asked: "Did you see the corpse king come out of it with your own eyes?"
Zhao Wuji nodded and said: "Yes! At that time, the corpse king broke out from inside, and the third elder and the sixth elder saw it with their own eyes."
"He was far from as powerful as he is now. He killed many disciples of my Xuanyin Palace and fled before I came."
Xiao Yifeng asked: "Could it be that one of you buried the corpse in it and finally gave birth to the Corpse King?"
Zhao Wuji shook his head and said: "I don't know, but this corpse god's heart refuses to be approached by anything. Even I can't get close, and I don't know how the corpse king got in."
Xiao Yifeng felt that this guy must be hiding something, and asked doubtfully: "Why did he want to kill your Xuanyin Palace disciples, and then come back to kill the elders in your mansion?"
Zhao Wuji smiled bitterly and said: "I really don't know about this. After the Corpse King left, we also hunted him down, but he escaped."
"Perhaps he has a grudge against my Xuanyin Mansion for pursuing him. He has committed many murders in the Zhao Kingdom. Now that he has become stronger, he took the opportunity to kill the elders of my manor."
Xiao Yifeng nodded, looked up at the corpses hanging everywhere, and asked in a deep voice: "Why do you want so many human blood sacrifices?"
Zhao Wuji laughed dryly and said: "This corpse god's heart has started to change in the past twenty years, and we have to sacrifice blood to appease it."
"I think it was the Corpse King who was causing trouble. Since the Corpse King left, the Corpse God's heart has stabilized again. I don't think it will happen again in the future."
Xiao Yifeng did not expect that it was actually to appease the heart of the Corpse God with flesh and blood, and to allow the Corpse God Tree to continue to operate normally.
He didn't know what to say for a moment. This time it was to appease the sacred tree, but what about next time?
"Just to appease this demon tree, you actually behaved so recklessly. Seriously..."
Zhao Wuji smiled and said: "Master, don't be angry yet, this tree is of great significance to our Xuanyin Sect, and look what it is!"
He took out a huge drum and hammered it slowly, and bursts of drum sounds with a special rhythm came out.
Soon the drum beat resonated with the corpse god's heart, and the corpse god's heart was driven by his drum beat to beat at a high frequency.
The roots of the Shipo Divine Tree began to beat, and the leaves of the sacred tree outside began to sway, and the sacred tree seemed to be in some pain.
Those roots were devouring those corpses crazily, and the heart of the Corpse God was beating at a terrifying speed, as if it was about to explode.
Zhao Wuji threw out a hollow feather arrow and shot it on the flesh of the Heart of the Corpse God. A clear and transparent liquid spurted out from it, which he carefully held with a jade bottle.
The heart of the Corpse God began to calm down, and after a while, it began to beat regularly again.
Zhao Wuji gave the jade bottle to Xiao Yifeng and said with a smile: "This is the immortal liquid that the palace master wants!"
"In the past six hundred years, it could only be withdrawn once every ten years, and that's all. In the past twenty years, it could be withdrawn once every year."
"As long as the palace master can show his noble hand, the remaining immortal liquid from the past years can be handed over to the palace master."
Xiao Yifeng took the Immortal Liquid, pondered for a moment and said, "That's all, I will cover this up for you, don't worry."
Although he had already guessed, his heart sank when it was confirmed that the Immortal Liquid was indeed made from human life.
For him, since these Immortal Liquids have been refined, it would be a waste not to use them.
He has no mysophobia and no sense of guilt.
He can use the Immortal Liquid that has been refined, but this does not mean that he supports using living people to refine the Immortal Liquid, nor will he actively encourage others to refine the Immortal Liquid.
After all, there is no killing without buying and selling.
If given the chance, he would ruthlessly destroy this harmful corpse tree.
