ninety thousand miles

Chapter 635 Trap
After entering Youxi Valley, the river was already very narrow, less than two feet wide. The further they went in, the narrower the river became. Before it got completely dark, they reached the source of the Sanqing River, the Sun and Moon Spring.

"Where is the sacred tree?" The spiritualist cried out in amazement. She searched around and said, "At this time, the sacred tree has not decayed yet. Where has it gone?"

Wen Guying's mind swept across Youxi Valley and said, "There is no sacred tree. I have checked."

"Perhaps your records are wrong. The sacred tree decayed earlier." Elder Li looked around and said, "I feel that there is nothing special here, except..." His eyes fell on the Sun and Moon Spring and said, "Except for this spring water."

Hearing this, Yu Chen dragged his feet slowly to the edge of the spring. He squatted down and stretched out his hand as if to touch the water.

"Don't touch it!" Elder Li shouted.

Yu Chen shuddered, as if he had just woken up. He immediately took two steps back and said, "There's something wrong with this spring water. I seemed to have seen Junior Brother Sun just now."

"I said it couldn't be so smooth." Wen Guying walked to the spring and threw a branch into it.

The branch sank and dissolved into the turquoise spring water.

"The spring water is poisonous?" Yu Chen was stunned. He looked at the Sanqing River that stretched outward and said, "The water in the Sanqing River is poisonous?"

"Impossible." The spiritual master flatly denied, saying, "If the water of the Sanqing River is poisonous, then the entire Cangwu wilderness should be barren."

Wen Guying picked up another longer branch, submerged a section of it in the water, and quickly took it out. The part that was soaked in water began to twist and break, and the bark of the part that was not soaked in water also peeled off at a speed visible to the naked eye. Wen Guying let go of the branch, and the branch fell to the shore. After the branch dissolved, the soil on the shore also changed, and clumps of mud splashed out from it...

Elder Li swept his sleeves and threw the piece of soil into the spring.

A mud pit appeared beside the spring.

Li Chuan looked inside from a distance and there seemed to be no abnormalities. He asked with some concern: "Will the water seep in? Also, the mud and rocks around the spring don't seem to be affected? What's going on?"

Wen Guying did not answer Li Chuan's question, but raised his head and looked at the sky.

"What are you looking for?" Li Chuan asked.

"Where is the moon?" Wen Guying asked.

Li Chuan also looked up. It was a dark, moonless night.

"This should be the place where the sun and the moon rotate..." Li Chuan suddenly turned around and looked at the Sun and Moon Spring again.

"What did you find?" Wen Guying asked.

"I don't know, no, I know..." Li Chuan took out the butterfly spirit and said, "The sacred tree and the moon are here. This is a trap, Master Wen, this is a trap." Li Chuan panted and said, "It knows the existence of the butterfly spirit. I used it in the tunnel, so it let us walk here. This is a trap."

Li Chuan held the butterfly spirit tightly and said, "We don't have time. Now I will let this place sink into the abyss of the heart, and then we will find a way to get out."

"Are you still able to contact your people?" Wen Guying asked the spiritual master.

"Sure." said the spiritual master.

"Ask Jiang Mei and the others how long they can hold on." Wen Guying said.

"Okay." The spiritual master said and closed his eyes.

This time she did not chant any spell, but all the bone ornaments on her body shook as she trembled.

After a moment, she opened her eyes and said, "I can hold on for a quarter of an hour at most."

Wen Guying nodded and said, "Give it a try, Brother Li."

"Try what?" Li Chuan asked.

"That's the key," Wen Guying pointed at the butterfly spirit in Li Chuan's hand and said, "The key to unlocking the ultimate secret of Cangwu Wilderness is in your hand." "This is a trap. It was designed by the secret realm, or maybe Chi Lin, or maybe it was the demon spirit. It's because of the demon spirit that the secret realm is spread all over the Cangwu Wilderness." Li Chuan became incoherent, "I finally came here with the key."

"We are in a dream, Li Chuan." Wen Guying said in a deep voice.

Li Chuan couldn't see Wen Guying's face clearly.

The darkness made everything seem unreal. Was it a dream? Wen Guying, who was talking to him at this moment, Gong Er and Peng San, who were standing beside him, and Miss Zhu, who was looking at him worriedly... were they real? Was he already in a hallucination? He seemed to have looked at the spring water several times just now. Maybe he had already fallen into a hallucination.

Then he found himself at the spring, looking down at the dark water.

Why didn't anyone call him?
Are you all in a hallucination?

It was a trap. From the moment they entered the secret realm, they had already stepped into a trap.

Li Chuan calmed down, he was sure he had never been so calm.

This is the dream of the secret realm. In its dream, it is supreme and invincible. Only by breaking the dream and leaving here can there be a possibility of escaping.

He knows very little, just one trick.

And the secret realm was expecting him to use that move.

Li Chuan stared at the spring water. He took a deep breath and said, "Yes, it was just a dream."

He took out the butterfly spirit and immersed his mind in it.

His palm felt hot, and the branches and leaves of the sacred tree on the butterfly spirit's abdomen stretched out, turning into a full moon in his hand. At the same time, a full moon also appeared in the spring water, and a sacred tree grew out of it, constantly moving upwards, breaking through the water, and stretching its branches and leaves wantonly.

Golden leaves were flying in the night, and the golden light enveloped everyone.

The others stood there motionless, maintaining their previous expressions and movements, as if time had stopped for them.

Maybe he was the problem? But whatever.

Concentrate.

The kettle sounded.

The deep silk sprinkled on the people covered in golden light.

surge.

The sound of the kettle spread, causing ripples in the spring water. Li Chuan felt the rise and fall of the ripples. The breath of the heart seeped out from the surge. In the golden light, everything in Youxi Valley began to become blurred and began to dissolve.

The spring overflowed and soaked the road under his feet.

My shoes and socks are all wet, the spring water is so cool.

Are his feet still there? Li Chuan lowered his head. His feet were fine, his shoes and socks were still there, but they were all wet. It seemed that there was no poison now. Could it be that the moonlight was the antidote?
At this time, the leaves fell into the spring, forming a golden road.

Do you want him to walk over?
When Li Chuan was thinking this, a fallen leaf happened to fall on his feet. He glanced at the others and then looked at the mountain in the distance, which was in the southeast.

He took a step forward.

He kept rubbing the kettle, bathing in the moonlight, and in the melting of all things, he stepped onto the road paved with golden leaves, and walked forward step by step. The spring water gradually flooded over his feet, calves, and knees...

(End of this chapter)