Lord of the Desert

Chapter 506 Huge Waves
Four hours later, two suns the size of date pits emerged from the clouds.

The daylight is at its best.

The team rested beside a lake pearl with a radius of 100 meters.

The nearest giant tree stands about three or four hundred meters away, blocking one-fifth of the horizontal field of vision, with its upper end submerged in the turbid atmosphere.

Flames roared beneath the gravel-hardened stills.

After seven days, the team still had enough food, but the water supply had to be replenished.

Hong Fan stood by the lake, and the true energy of the sand world he released illuminated the land within a radius of dozens of meters.

After the first round of distillation was completed, Xu Ziang came to the lake to fetch water.

"How is Yuchen doing?"

Hong Fan asked with concern.

"Don't worry, Zishou. I used the Snow White Fragrance Cream and my temperature has dropped. I just fell asleep."

Xu Ziang replied.

Hong Fan nodded and looked into the distance.

Under the Tyndall effect, the tree mountain cast two clearly defined, majestic shadows, reminding him of the flying buttresses of Western churches in his previous life.

The Gothic architectural style strives to be tall in order to be closer to the gods.

Xu Ziang turned around with the leather water bag, and did not notice that a water beast floated silently under the lake, its wide mouth slightly opened, revealing fine short teeth.

Out of water, biting, dragging back...

The water beast was ready to attack when it saw its prey on the shore looking back. It just waved its hand and was surrounded by endless heat.

The water in an area of ​​several meters in radius suddenly boiled, and after more than ten seconds, a corpse about ten feet long floated up.

"Hulumen."

Hong Fan looked at the floating corpse for a while, then turned around and called out.

"I don't recommend eating this until you're out of food and arrows."

Hu Lumen came over with a wine jug and fanned the sour air with his hand.

"That was not what I meant."

Hong Fan lowered his voice.

"Is there dragon blood in Zi Wuchang?"

"What dragon blood?"

Hu Lumen didn't understand at first.

"The blood of the ancestor dragon."

Hong Fan repeated, looking at the swaying branches on the outer edge of the tree mountain, chasing the agile black shadow that was shuttling back and forth among them at high speed.

"Yes, there is."

Hu Lumen sat down by the lake and looked at him strangely, not understanding the source of his unconventional thinking.

"This was once the battlefield between the Ancestral Dragon and the Thousand-Eyed Demon God, so of course there is dragon blood covering the dust. In fact, there are many treasures in Zi Wuchang that are related to the two gods, and they are all unique in the world."

Hong Fan did not speak again, his gaze gradually fading into nothingness.

Looking inward, the Dragon Soul Tree was forming fruit at a slow and uneven pace - although the skin and flesh were not yet visible, it already had structures like meridians and blood vessels, and the progress was about one half.

This change began since entering Zi Wuchang.

The second distillation was completed successfully, and everyone's water bags were mostly filled.

Xu Ziang came to fetch water again. When he bent down, he saw ripples on the mirror-like surface of the lake. Just as he was about to dip his water into the water bag, he was stopped by Hong Fan.

The latter looked serious and gestured to the right.

Xu Ziang turned his head and saw Hu Lumen with his hands on the ground, his cheeks twitching and tense, and the birthmark on his left cheek looked as hideous as if it were alive.

"Go up and take a look. Something is coming from the west."

Hu Lumen suddenly opened his eyes.

"Everyone is on alert."

Hong Fan gave an order to Xu Ziang, who wrapped himself in sand and stepped on water to run and leap, rising to a height of a hundred meters in a moment.

The sand wings extended and hovered briefly.

At the end of his sight, he saw the gray line again - this time the line was obviously thicker, and even showed slight ripples.

At this moment, Hong Fan's whole body seemed to be electrified.

He had realized what the so-called "thing" in Hulumen was - it was the sea waves, the tides, the cliffs made of water, and the vast ocean running wildly...

"There's a tsunami coming from the west."

This was the first sentence Hong Fan uttered after he landed, and no one could understand it except Hu Lumen.

The group's initial destination was thousands of miles to the west, which was clearly a wasteland.

The wind was still blowing, and the lake was covered with turbulent waves.

A few people who didn't believe it climbed to the top of the tree to look around, but when they came down, their hands and feet were weak and they could hardly speak.

"How to do?"

Lai Huazang asked after several breaths.

"Let's go up the tree."

Hong Fan pointed to the surrounding trees and mountains and immediately gave an answer.

He wasn't sure if these tree mountains could block a world-destroying tsunami, but he knew that an executable plan was more important than anything else at the moment.

"Yes, climb the tree. This tree is taller than the mountain. It will surely withstand the big waves!" "Go to the tallest tree!"

The crowd was excited for a while.

The team really came back alive.

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The wind never stopped, making the leaves in the forest and the water rustle.

The giant tree was as straight as a pillar. Everyone stood at its feet like ants, feeling slightly dizzy when looking up.

"It is more than five hundred feet high, and its base diameter is over one hundred and fifty feet. Its size is comparable to that of other spirits."

Hu Lumen put his hands on his hips and exclaimed in admiration.

"Honghuang Spirits" is a general term for all gods before the arrival of Zulong. It is generally not used because it is slightly disrespectful.

The branches on the surface of the giant tree are densely and knotted, each with hanging aerial roots interconnected, and deeper into the tree there are a large number of channel-like pores.

Hong Fan crossed his arms and observed, unable to understand how a plant could grow so big.

How are internal nutrients transported?
How is the water absorbed by the roots pumped to the top?
What kind of organic material can provide sufficient supporting strength?
How can we obtain enough energy through photosynthesis when the relative surface area (ratio of surface area to volume) is extremely low?

These questions were quickly answered.

"Zishou, only the outer thirty meters of this tree are alive. The inside is all hollow stone."

Holding a torch, Xu Ziang walked out of a tree hole more than one meter high with two of his men.

"In my opinion, this giant tree did not grow naturally, but was formed by the accumulation of skeletal remains of coral polyps over hundreds or thousands of years, similar to the coral reefs we have over there."

"This tree is hollow? Will it be unable to withstand..."

Someone's face changed and hesitantly said.

"Let me try."

Hong Fan waved his hand and shot a low-speed fire jade into the deepest tree hole. It flew forty meters and then collided and exploded.

The incandescent light flashed suddenly, illuminating the hollow skeleton inside the giant tree and the slightly damaged surface - it was harder than granite.

The echoes came back again and again, mixed with the sounds of living things running and screaming.

"Let's go up, we don't have much time."

Hong Fan gave the order.

It is an easy task for a martial artist to carry forty or fifty kilograms of equipment and do the body movement with one arm and two fingers, and climbing among the dense and horizontal branches is far less difficult than climbing a vertical cliff, let alone any obstacles.

It's just that due to the terrain, the team is longer.

Hong Fan was covered in sand armor, and one person was left behind to cover his retreat.

On the one hand, this is to prevent danger, and on the other hand, sand cannot be readily available once leaving the ground, so it must be carried with you.

Five minutes later, the team reached an altitude of 200 meters.

At this time, everyone looked to the west and finally saw clearly everything that Hong Fan described.

The tsunami has entered the border of the forest area - the waves above it that connect to the sky are white, and the main trunk below is gray-blue - it still looks narrow and quiet, silently changing everything in its path.

As everyone was watching, a geological eruption vent was covered by the waves, and a half-finger-high lava column suddenly overturned and disappeared, leaving only some vague and indistinguishable mist.

Too far away, still no sound.

But the oppression and terror in this silence are so strong that they are beyond words.

Without Hong Fan's urging, everyone accelerated upwards. When they reached an altitude of 500 meters, the wind was so strong that it was inconvenient to communicate with words.

Hong Fan jumped over the five-meter-wide gap in the wood and felt a chaotic vibration under his feet.

"careful!"

He shaped his helmet and shouted a warning.

Eighty meters away, a six-legged beast suddenly jumped into the void on the left side of the team.

[Is this guy going to jump off a cliff? ]

Just as the human warrior was wondering, the beast grabbed the vines with its hind legs and swung back faster.

The sharp claws tore, broke the arm shield, and split the sea beast's leather armor.

The strong man in the Guantong realm flew backwards and vomited blood.

The elite members of the Martial Arts Academy surrounded and covered the beast immediately. As weapons clashed with their sharp teeth and claws, they saw that the beast's back and armpits were full of lotus-like holes. Blind snakes poked out from them, climbing and biting left and right following the sound.

At the same time, the second six-legged beast jumped out of the tree hole, locked a person with its forelimbs, then flipped over on all fours and dragged him back like lightning.

The wind was so loud that it interrupted communication between the front and back.

The vibrations above Hong Fan's head continued to approach.

On the upper right side of the head, a third six-legged beast crawled out from behind the vine pile. Its six limbs with three toes were able to move and grasp, and it was hanging upside down and moving very fast.

The sand giant swung his right fist, but was bitten to death by three rows of sharp teeth.

The extremely brief wrestling was enough for Hong Fan to summarize his opponent's parameters.

Weighing over 1,500 kilograms, his agility and strength are comparable to that of a peak warrior, and he has excellent dynamic vision and particularly keen hearing.

The six-legged beast loosened its claws and spun to the ground, using its weight and rotation to make deeper teeth marks on the sand armor, trying to tear off the limbs of its prey.

"go away."

Hong Fan said contemptuously.

The sand in the beast's mouth suddenly heated up to a red heat, and then turned into a burning stream that poured into its throat, reflecting a red light on its body surface all the way.

This is not a blow that carbon-based organisms can withstand.

The six-legged beast stumbled back and gasped in pain. Its body was covered with symbiotic snake beasts that had escaped from the holes due to the extreme heat, and it eventually fell from the giant tree...

(End of this chapter)