(The highest level of lying is to make falsehood true)
Chi Lian was swaying behind, watching Lan Feng and the others walking towards the maple tree.
Lan Feng and the others stood in front of the maple tree. Through the fire energy and faint moonlight, they could clearly see the original appearance of the maple tree.
I saw the two-foot-high branches of this maple tree standing against the rock, with thousands of branches shaped like umbrella towers. There are five leaves like willow leaves, and each one is red like blood before burning. There are two people hugging each other on the thick trunk of the tree. The top is like mutton-fat white paste, warm and moist like jade, and semi-permeable to the fire inside. A faint red light shines around the tree, and dots of gold bugs flicker on the leaves.
Youdao means that the dark mountains appear alive, and the warm breeze blows through under the cold moonlight.
Lanfeng stooped down and grabbed a handful of soil under the maple tree. He put it in front of his nose and smelled it. It was indeed the same smell as the smell in the cigarette stick of his mother-in-law.
"who are you...?"
As the firelight trembled, a thin voice floated out from the maple tree.
"This person is a stranger. Since he couldn't find his way out, and he heard that there was a fire butterfly spirit in the mountains, he came to ask where he could go..." Lan Feng said, looking at the golden insects dancing around.
"Ask where to go? Haha..." The voice sneered, "Coming here is a dead end, so why talk about where to go?"
Lan Feng also smiled and said: "Death is not scary. What is scary is living in pain..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the gold bugs and fire energy dancing around the tree began to swim away, forming a halo of light surrounding Lan Feng and the three of them.
"You...are not human?" the voice said.
Lan Feng said: "What about the human race? What about the gods and demons? We are just asking for directions."
The voice said: "Oh? I would like to ask, how did you find this place?"
"Does this matter?" Lan Feng asked.
"It doesn't matter," the voice said, "I just want to hear the story before you die."
The halo of light circulated, and gradually a girl appeared before the eyes of Lanfeng and the others.
Lan Feng saw that the girl was agile, but she was strong on the outside and weak on the inside. There was a trace of tiredness between her brows, and she was not as energetic as her voice sounded.
He said: "We were passing by the Witch Clan looking for someone, and after hearing the story told by Granny Wuyan, we wanted to come over and see if you knew the person we were looking for. I heard that your name is Maple Spirit?"
"Grandma Buyan?" A voice came from the mouth of the maple spirit illusion, "I don't remember anything about Grandma Buyan. I have accepted too many people over the years..."
Ruoxue saw the maple spirit's illusion and shouted angrily: "As the spirit of the maple tree, you are supposed to protect the people here, but now you take pleasure in collecting human souls. How can God tolerate you?!"
After hearing this, Maple Ling smiled and said: "The ones I collected are all those heartless souls. Is my sister not aware of the pain of this love poison?"
Lan Feng said: "Being happy with each other is the best destination in the world, but in this world, men and women cannot live forever just by being happy with each other.
I admit that there are indeed heartless people among the souls you have taken in, but there must also be helpless people!
If you are born a girl, you are often influenced by your parents in your marriage, and you may not find a husband as you wish; if you are born a boy, you are trapped in power, position, and money, and you cannot take away your beautiful soulmate.
Are these helpless actions labeled as negative in your eyes? !
Do you and Fengjing and Youxi have a clear understanding? ! "
After hearing this, Maple Spirit Phantom smiled disdainfully.
"It's all excuses. If you lose, you lose. How can there be so much helplessness? Since you are here, stay!" Maple Spirit's phantom sound stopped, and the golden insects in the halo danced towards the three of them.
Chi Lian, who had been observing from behind, saw Maple Spirit's illusion taking action, and immediately rushed in front of Lan Feng and the others.
"Evil beast! How dare you contradict your master?!" Maple Spirit Phantom saw Chi Lian coming, and knocked it out to the ground with the golden insect's stream of light with a wave of its hand.
Lanfeng frowned, and immediately activated Yinghuo obstacle avoidance to cover the three of his party and Chi Lian. At this time, Hai Yesheng's eagle eyes flashed and noticed the swarming of these golden insects, but the maple spirit illusion seemed to have become weaker. . Moreover, beside this illusion, there was a pool of water stains that was not there just now...
"Young Master, look," Hai Yesheng pointed at the water stains.
Lan Feng raised his eyes and took a look. This maple tree was originally a remnant branch of the ancient fire sycamore tree, with the aura of fire inside. Although the rainy weather had just passed, the stone eaves of dozens of meters were enough to block the mountain rain. This water It’s quite unexplainable for Zhiwu to appear!
He stared at the fading figure of Maple Spirit, and his mind quickly cleared up the clues in the story about Granny Wuyan.
The maple tree fell from the sky... gave birth to a pair of fire butterflies, and then fell in love with the water spirit... fell in love with the water spirit? !
Lan Feng stared at the puddle of water and looked at the illusion of Maple Spirit. A terrible thought came to his mind.
"Brother Hai, my mother-in-law's story may have been tampered with." Lan Feng said.
Hai Yesheng was stunned and said: "Oh? How could the young master see this?"
Lan Feng shook his head and said, "I'll find out if it's true or false. I'll find out if I try it. Yinghuo, protect this obstacle for me first!"
The spirit of Yinghuo emerged from Lanfeng's body, and he sat on Ruoxue's shoulder in one leap.
Lanfeng flew out of the demon fire to avoid the obstacle, and the phoenix feathers of his arms stood upright to form feather blades and hit the maple spirit illusion directly.
Seeing this, the maple spirit phantom hurriedly recalled the golden bug and turned towards Lan Feng to attack. It's a pity that Lan Feng's body movements are so fast that before the golden insect can get close to him, this punch has already hit the Maple Spirit Illusion!
After this punch, the illusion instantly sunk inward, forming an adsorption force that bound Lan Feng's arms!
At this time, the expression on the maple spirit illusion was still sluggish, but the voice was extremely loud!
"go to hell!"
With an order, the Nowhere Gold Insects gathered towards Lanfeng with firelight. In an instant, Lanfeng was possessed by these golden insects and burned into a fireball!
"Lanfeng!!" Ruoxue shouted. When she saw Lanfeng being submerged in the flames of these golden insects and unable to move, she thought he was in danger, so she spread her snow bat wings and tried to pass over.
Hai Yesheng saw this and immediately pulled Ruoxue.
"What are you doing?! Didn't you see that kid was in danger?" Ruoxue said angrily.
Hai Yesheng chuckled, looked at Ruoxue's anxious look and said, "In danger? What kind of danger are you in? I'm afraid the girl has forgotten who the young master is, right?"
Ruoxue was stunned, and Hai Yesheng smiled again: "Young Master is Bi Fang Shenniao, the son of Luan Feng, the direct descendant of the ancient phoenix. Phoenix is the source of fire all over the world. If the young master has ten thousand ways to die, he will definitely not be killed by this one. The flames will burn you to death.”
After hearing this, Ruoxue felt relieved. She saw that the fire was getting stronger and stronger, and the voice in Maple Spirit's illusion also began to laugh to itself: "Do you still have a way to survive now?"
The illusion originally thought that Lan Feng had been burned by the fireball at this time, but unexpectedly, a voice came from the fireball: "Are you ready to reveal yourself?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the golden insects in the fire ball began to stir, and the firelight on their bodies was absorbed into Lan Feng's body bit by bit.
In a moment, the fire light disappeared, and the golden insects fell to the ground one by one because they lost their fire energy.
Lan Feng poured out the flames with a backhand finger, but it did not shoot towards the maple spirit illusion, but towards the water stains on the side!
In an instant, a scream came from the water stain. The water stain absorbed the moisture from the earth's veins and slowly turned into a man. He was screaming in pain and rolling on the ground to put out the fire.
Lan Feng was afraid that this guy would try to escape, so he said "Yinghuo" and used demonic fire to form a fire prison to trap him inside.
The three of them stepped forward and saw that the man had a handsome face and a slight hint of blue in his hair. Isn't this the You Xi in Grandma Fuyan's story?
"Let me out! Let me out quickly!" You Xi struggled in the fire prison. The shimmering demonic fire was undoubtedly like purgatory for a water spirit like him.
Lan Feng said: "You are You Xi, right?"
Seeing that he recognized her, You Xi said fiercely: "You guys, who are you? Why can you see through my spell?!"
Lanfeng smiled and said: "I have felt something strange since you first came out. As fire butterflies bred from maple trees, there should be nothing to fear in this world, but what we saw was an illusion. Explanation , there must be some reason why we can't see the true body. This is one of them.
Secondly, from the time you were talking to us, you can tell that the source of the voice must be an energetic voice, but the face of this illusion always maintains a depressed expression, as if someone has taken away his consciousness.
What makes me even more curious is that in the story of Granny Wuyan, Maple Spirit was betrayed by Feng Jing and You Xi. Logically speaking, she should hate them both to the bone, so I am refuting your idea of collecting human souls. Finally, I deliberately mentioned Maple Mirror and Youxi.
But your performance was just dismissive, and you didn't have as much emotion as you imagined.
From then on, I began to doubt the authenticity of the story told by my mother-in-law.
It wasn't until the end that I saw the illusion of weakness and the water stains on the ground, and then I connected all the clues together. Where did you hide the Fire Butterfly Sisters? "
There are many lies in this world, some will be exposed and some will not.
Some lies are for gain, some are for fear of losing, and some are for protection.
But no matter whether these lies are good or bad, there will always be people who treat them as if they are true.
Over time, these lies will be accepted by most people, but no one knows the truth.
When a lie is deeply ingrained in everyone's mind, the truth will become a lie in everyone's mouth.
This is the most terrifying part of lies.
Lan Feng questioned You Xi, but the latter smiled evilly.
"You'd better let me out, or if you wait a little longer, you will die ugly." You Xi said.
Ruoxue raised her eyebrows, drew out her brocade-haired bone blade and stabbed Youxi right in the lower abdomen, causing Youxi to start howling ghostly again in pain.
"If you don't say anything, the next knife will be placed across your neck!" Ruoxue drank.
Na Youxi looked at Lanfeng and the others fiercely. He took out a piece of bluestone from his arms and crushed it into pieces, saying, "You're done!"
For a moment, the black grass behind Lanfeng and the others began to shrink, and soon they gathered into the shape of an old man.
When Youxi saw the old man coming, he quickly said: "Lord Mountain God, help me quickly. These monsters have broken my illusion!"
The old man said angrily: "Where did you come from, evil spirits, and how dare you act so recklessly here?!"
Lan Feng felt upset, as a simple task was delayed again and again by the river tour.
He raised his hand and released demonic fire, which ignited the black grass and burned the old man into nothingness in an instant.
"That's it? Is this what you rely on?!" Lan Feng joked.
Poor Youxi thought it was a few little demons who came to cause trouble, but Lanfeng unexpectedly killed the mountain god in an instant, and a look of fear finally appeared on his face.
Where did these three people come from...
