ninety thousand miles

Chapter 647 Blood Pool

"Is it a bird demon?" Li Chuan asked.

"It doesn't look like it." said Elder Li.

Li Chuan thought of Elder Li's suspected identity as a bird demon, and was very convinced of his judgment, so he said: "The process of alien parasitism is divided into several stages. At first, it will borrow dying creatures to enter the world, and then parasitize ordinary creatures, but in the end its host must be a human or an intelligent demon, or a half-demon. So if these birds are ordinary birds, maybe they are part of the parasitic process designed by Chi Lin."

"They can't be called ordinary birds," Elder Li pondered for a moment and said, "The birds flying in the Cangwu wilderness have some spirituality. It's a pity that there is no more sacred tree in Qifeng Gorge, and there is no hope for those birds... No," he suddenly became serious, "Is there still a sacred tree growing in Youxi Valley?"

"Yes." Wen Guying turned sideways and said, "And I judge that no matter where the sacred tree grows, its roots will penetrate deep into the blood pool, draw energy from the blood pool, and will continue to spread along the course of the Sanqing River."

Li Chuan happened to see the pattern on the wall next to him, and he said, "Could there be roots of the sacred tree here as well?"

Reviewing the past should say: "It is not whether it will happen, but it is definitely there."

"Are we walking on the roots of the sacred tree?" Li Chuan asked.

"That's about right." Wen Guying said in a nonchalant tone, "Our goal is the blood pool. Is there any essential difference between walking among the corpses or walking on the roots of the sacred tree? Don't we all have to walk through it?"

"That's right." Li Chuan recalled Elder Li's words and asked, "Will birds be attracted to the sacred tree? Or what?"

"It's hard to say." Elder Li said after a moment's silence: "When I followed those birds, they were obviously very afraid of some places. The current situation of the sacred tree is still uncertain, and it's hard to say what will happen."

He paused and added, "Chi Lin is a great man."

"But my luck is not very good." Wen Guying said.

"It's not that he's unlucky, but that God is not on his side," said Elder Li.

"So..." Wen Guying sighed, "So he wants to seduce Weng Xian, just like Tian Su did before, and replace the way of heaven with his own way."

"A lot of things must have happened in the upper realm." Zhu Qingyun said.

"Yes." Wen Guying said.

"I hope... the winner is not Weng Xian." Li Chuan said.

Gradually, the road became wider, and at the same time, there were more and more corpses on the ground.

"Shadow, there." Zhu Qingyun shouted.

Everyone looked in the direction Zhu Qingyun pointed, and saw a shadow in the distance quietly extending out from the corpses and then turning into the stone wall.

The gemstone on the hilt lit up, illuminating the surroundings. The shadows clinging to the stone wall continued to curl up and peel off under the cover of the scorching sword energy.

"Keep going." Wen Guying said, walking forward quickly.

The people behind followed closely.

The further you go, the wider the road becomes.

As he walked, Li Chuan felt something falling from above in a trance, and then something grew out from the ground and entangled his feet.

"Be careful." Zhu Qingyun said.

The white sword light flashed, and Li Chuan's feet loosened. He looked forward and saw that shadows of varying depths had blocked the entire tunnel. They came towards the sword energy, one after another, endlessly, and although Wen Guying's sword light could hurt them, there was no way to make them completely dissipate.

Wen Guying stopped and lowered his head, as if thinking about how to deal with these shadows.

"There seems to be a shadow inside the shadow, it's a little different." Yu Chen stared at the front and said. So Li Chuan carefully identified them. They were all shadows, all the same. Maybe he had to enter a mysterious state to see clearly. When he was about to ask Wen Guying if he needed him to rub the pot, Elder Li came up from behind.

Elder Li said, "Let me do it."

"Okay." Wen Guying said.

Li Chuan saw Elder Li sprinkle something into the shadows. Small and round, maybe seeds? The seeds rolled to various places in the tunnel, and then grew rapidly, growing leaves and blooming... Almost in the blink of an eye, the branches and leaves weaved into cocoons, trapping the endless shadows in them. The shadows that appeared later would also be gathered into them by the stretched branches and leaves.

The road reappeared.

"Xuanzhi." Zhu Qingyun recognized her.

"Very insightful." Elder Li commented.

"Let's keep going." Wen Guying said.

"Don't we have to worry about these anymore?" Li Chuan asked.

"It's not that we can't, it's just that the consumption is too great and there's a pool of blood ahead." Wen Guying said.

"That different shadow ran away." Yu Chen said.

"I know, let's go." Wen Guying said.

They quickly passed through the tunnel full of sedges. When they reached the end of the tunnel, Li Chuan was already out of breath. After stopping, he rested his hands on his knees and observed the scene ahead.

They finally came out.

At this time, they were standing at the entrance of the cave. A thousand feet below the entrance, there were nine circular pools with deep red liquid rolling in them. The ground outside the pool was covered with a layer of pebbles, or some kind of stones that looked like pebbles. Those oval stones of different sizes formed patterns on the walls around the underground. Li Chuan could recognize some of them, such as containers, trees, the sky, etc., while others were too abstract to recognize their meaning.

Looking around, there were holes everywhere, and the hole where they were standing was just one of hundreds of holes.

Where do those holes lead to?
Are the cracks in the secret realms that have appeared on the ground in the Cangwu Wilderness connected to these caves one by one?

As Li Chuan was thinking, he raised his head and looked towards the highest point. There seemed to be a cave there, which might lead directly to the outside world.

This place was definitely not formed naturally, but was built by the original consciousness.

"What should we do now?" Yu Chen asked.

"I'll go down and take a look." Wen Guying said.

"Wait a minute," Li Chuan stopped Wen Guying and said, "Let me take a closer look first."

"Okay." Wen Guying said.

Li Chuan took out the butterfly spirit, and the light of the full moon lit up in his palm.

He took a deep breath and focused.

Everything began to disintegrate in his eyes. He felt a little dizzy, and then he sat down, and it seemed that he was sitting on a familiar cushion, and someone was holding his hand.

After waiting for the dizziness to pass, a world made up of dots and horizontal lines unfolded before his eyes.

There are many familiar structures, and some that you have never seen before, but after a closer look you will find that they are just variations.

(End of this chapter)