I am your natural enemy.

Chapter 463: The Flower of the Divine Tree, Leverage (7k)

In the giant tree area, the man in the long robe stood under the giant tree, looking up at the giant tree that was dozens of meters high with branches and claws baring their fangs.

There was a sunken spot on the trunk, and the huge zombie in gorgeous clothes seemed to have been wrapped inside the tree when it was growing. Now only a face remained on the surface of the trunk.

The man in the robe looked up at the giant tree with its fangs and claws bared, then looked at the giant zombie in fancy clothes who was in a coma, and stretched out his hand to salute.

"I have been indebted to you for all these years. Today, I will help you regain your freedom. The sea is wide and the fish can swim freely.

You have been here for many years, and you have absorbed the essence of the sacred tree and completed your transformation.

One day, it may be possible to achieve a qualitative change.”

There was a hint of emotion in the robed man's tone, as if this was truly a win-win cooperation.

The controlled zombie in fancy clothes had a dull expression on his face and seemed to have no reaction. Only a thin blue-black line slowly emerged from the corner of its eye and penetrated its pupils as the robed man spoke.

The death energy, so dense that it was visible to the naked eye, rolled over and overflowed. In an instant, the death energy and negative energy were absorbed by the giant tree with bared fangs and claws. On the giant tree, a blue-grey flower bud grew out, quickly grew larger, and then bloomed like an orchid.

The next moment, the dark blue lines in the eyes of the gorgeously clothed zombie slowly faded away and disappeared. He still maintained the same dull look as at the beginning.

The man in the robe stretched out his hand, and a drop of rain fell, cutting the flower stalk. The flower blooming on the giant tree fell lightly and landed in the hands of the man in the robe.

"After decades, I finally grew the third flower today. Your Excellency is very polite."

The robed man smiled, turned and left, now just waiting for the right time to come.

His body turned into vapor and disappeared.

A moment later, he returned to the small courtyard where it had been raining.

He returned to the room and opened a wooden box, which contained another identical flower.

When he opened the other jade box, there was a Lycoris flower inside that looked like it was soaked in blood. The flower kept flickering, sometimes blurry and sometimes clear.

After being noticed by the robed man, the flower turned into a hand with slender fingers, swaying its fingers as if dancing and twisting them in a seductive way. Then, the fingers turned into triangular snake heads with sinister eyes, which hissed at him.

The man in the robe didn't care much and closed the jade box.

He took the wooden box to the backyard, looked at the closed door, and put the wooden box down.

"Miss Qi, this is a flower that bloomed from a sacred tree. I leave it to you.

I'm not a good person, but I definitely don't mean to take advantage of you.

When I took the risk to bring you here, I didn't mean to trap you.

But only here can you be protected, and you should know that.

If you've figured it out, sign it.

As long as it is signed, there will be no more danger after today."

The room was quiet, without any movement.

The man in the robe felt a little regretful and unwilling.

"I really want to be your Taoist partner, nothing else.

If you don't want to, then you can accept this flower from the sacred tree.

If I never come back, you can keep it for emergency."

The robed man stretched out his hand, and when it was about to touch the door, his expression changed rapidly, unwilling, ruthless, hesitant, but in the end he held back and did not push the door open.

He turned around suddenly and walked away quickly.

After the man in the robe left, the drizzle in the courtyard began to turn into raindrops, hitting the ground and the roof, making crackling sounds.

On the other side, in a hall in Qingcheng, Wen Yan was mixed among several Taoist priests, looking quite out of place.

Taoist Qingxuzi of Qingcheng looks kind, but when he is trying to fool people, he is full of scientific principles and his tricks come to him effortlessly without even having to draft them.

The Taoist priest who liked to wear a yellow robe looked the kindest. In fact, he was the head of Mount Maoshan. Among all the people present, this Taoist priest was the most ruthless.

When this Taoist uses his Lightning Thunder Fist, it is difficult to leave anyone alive.

Around Maoshan, not to mention the evil ghosts and fierce ghosts, even the lonely ghosts have moved away long ago.

The name of a person and the shadow of a tree have a much stronger deterrent effect than other mountain gates.

Even if you are the headmaster of Wudang, the tradition has always been that if you don't listen to reason, I know a few martial arts and a few Taoist techniques, but I won't kill anyone with a fight.

Originally, Yan Zhikong, the current resident of Laojun Mountain, should have been there as well, but Yan Zhikong said that he had just received the handwritten letter from the founder today, and he had no idea where he had gone to read the letter, so he could not be found.

Wen Yan mingled among a group of old Taoists, and was the representative of Fuyu Mountain. He was also a source of information. In order to enter the water veins, he must have relevant Taoist talismans, and he happened to have the only divine talisman.

In addition, news came from the Lieyang Tribe that time was running out, so Wen Yan was asked to be the representative of the Lieyang Tribe.

Wen Yan himself was a little puzzled. The reason given by the Lieyang Tribe was that he was the person with the highest authority within a radius of 50 kilometers at the moment, and he was also a front-line expert. It was reasonable and legal for him to be the representative, and there was nothing wrong with it.

Wen Yan also asked Black Box, and Black Box told him that there was nothing wrong with it, and it was indeed the case.

But Wen Yan always felt that something was wrong, so he asked Black Box to mark the map for him. Then Wen Yan zoomed out and found that the straight-line distance from Tianfu County Lieyang Division to here was 53 kilometers...

The portrait of the Minister of the Lieyang Tribe of Tianfu County is squatting outside this circle of fifty kilometers.

It is also true that none of the front-line field agents with higher authority than Wen Yan are within the 50-kilometer radius.

Because Wen Yan is involved in so many things, the priority of each event is not low, so his authority is now increasing continuously.

His regular authority level is firmly in the top five in the Nanwu County branch.

This gave Wen Yan a lot of convenience, as he had the authority to directly check many things.

However, the authority levels in the Lieyang Tribe are not often used. The upper limit is only needed when something happens.

When something happens, the authority level is another set of emergency authority levels, which is roughly equivalent to the wartime authority level.

Just like what happened in the underworld before, Wen Yan even had the authority to carry the micro mushroom bomb around alone and choose the right time to detonate it.

Wen Yan definitely doesn't have this authority under normal circumstances.

Therefore, he was pulled to sit in the first circle of the meeting.

Several seniors from Luofu Mountain, Yaowang Mountain, and Kunlun were sitting in the second circle, which made Wen Yan quite embarrassed.

We are holding this small meeting overnight to confirm the intelligence and to think about how to respond.

It is absolutely impossible to change the time of Luotian Dajiao. The date and time are all fixed. If it is changed, it will miss the right time.

It's almost like you've already made an appointment with the saints in advance to have a banquet and pray together tomorrow, but it's already midnight the day before and you say the time has been changed and you all shouldn't come. That's nonsense.

Of course, these are only part of the reasons. The most important reason is that you can’t be timid.

Taking a step back will not lead to a broader world. If people like them dare to take a step back, then people will think that you can take ten steps back or even a hundred steps back.

Moreover, other aliens or other things that have nothing to do with this matter would also feel that if they could take a step back during the Luotian Grand Ceremony, then they could definitely take a step back on another matter.

They had no other choice but to proceed as planned and hold the event on time.

there is always a solution to a problem.

As soon as Wen Yan sat down, someone told him that he could say whatever he wanted to say. This was the Qingcheng Palace. If any ghosts could appear here, or peek, or eavesdrop, no matter what method was used, they could all be unaware and just sit there and die together.

Wen Yan roughly told the story and also told Taoist Qingxuzi about the request of the black snake with a broken horn to go up the mountain to worship it if it were to escape one day.

Qingxuzi agreed immediately. One of their Qingcheng ancestors had taught a demon who had attained enlightenment, and they, the younger generations, had no right to stop him from coming to worship him.

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the headmaster of Maoshan say.

"It's still early in the morning. Since we already know that someone deserves to be killed, we might as well kill him and save his soul. After we come back, we can sleep for a while and won't delay tomorrow's work."

The Maoshan headmaster looked as if it was a matter of course. As he spoke, he clenched his fist and crackling sparks appeared in his palm.

"..." The group of people fell silent.

Two seconds later, Wen Yan pinched his nose and continued. He was the youngest here and he couldn't let the words of his elders come to the surface. That would be so embarrassing.

"Senior, the problem we are facing now is how to find it. I have tried, and the power veins of the water veins and the underground water veins themselves do not completely overlap.

Various corresponding equipment and various ready-made methods will be greatly restricted.

You can only go down and look for it in person. It's purely a matter of luck to find it in a place like this.

And with such a short time, there is basically no possibility of finding it in advance."

In a three-dimensional environment, underground water veins are involved. If there is no time limit, the Lieyang Tribe can play to its strengths, invest sufficient resources, conduct a carpet search, build models, and finally manually search for suspicious key locations.

This kind of search mission is basically equivalent to a large infrastructure project and it is impossible to complete it overnight.

It is impossible to mobilize people and make all kinds of preparations overnight.

"Then let's do it tomorrow, as usual. I'm not good at naval battles, so I probably won't be able to take action." The Maoshan headmaster felt a little regretful.

Others quickly persuaded him to focus on the ritual tomorrow.

Although this man is very powerful, if he really encounters a water battle, his attacks would be tantamount to indiscriminate attacks. Did he save his fellow travelers first?
This has always been the embarrassing thing. No matter if it is the Three Mountains and Five Peaks or other mountain gates, all the fights are on land. If you want to find strong men, there are some. If you want to find strong armies, there are some.

And it basically exists from generation to generation.

But in the water, it is like another realm.

Cai Heizi had previously planned to help the Goddess of Jie'e to ascend to heaven, and left behind a new talisman, which was able to greatly restore the geographical advantage.

But to be honest, this is just equivalent to eliminating the continuous blood loss and sudden death in the biggest negative venue buff, and the disadvantage is still a disadvantage.

This is a natural disadvantage, there is nothing we can do about it.

After the appearance of the talisman of the Goddess of Relieving Evils, the development of this talisman alone is still in its infancy, not to mention more practical coordination, practical spellcasting and the like, which are not yet systematic.

The cooperation nowadays is still mainly to provide blessings and save people from drowning, that's all.

How can you mature so quickly?

Wen Yan listened to the Taoist priests exchanging opinions, and as he listened, he realized that something was wrong.

It seems that he is the only one suitable to do these things on the front line.

After the meeting, Wen Yan couldn't help scratching his head. This wasn't right. Someone was causing trouble. Shouldn't these big guys shout something? I couldn't stand it, so I rolled up my sleeves and started a big fight on the spot.

But, thinking about what those Taoist priests said just now, what they said seemed to make sense.

Either they are practicing both martial arts and are totally unsuitable for water battles, or they are presiding over a ritual, or they are already quite old. Even if they are blessed to avoid drowning, they can only exert one-tenth or one-twelfth of their strength once they enter the water.

And he is the most suitable one.

Wen Yan held the phone, feeling a little regretful. Tomorrow was the 1st, otherwise, he would have wanted Tuoba Wushen to come over.

After re-examining the existing intelligence, Wen Yan felt that his preparations might still be insufficient, so he went home at night and brought some more equipment.

Before dawn the next day, Wen Yan had already gone down to the Octagonal Well.

Under the guidance of the green snake, he fell to the bottom of the well and continued to fall, eventually landing in the waters where the green snake was suppressed.

Eight local underground water veins are arranged in order from eight directions, from high to low, and suppress it here endlessly. Once the restraints are broken, it will recover immediately.

Although the power is far less than that of Suicune's restraints, it is much more clever than Suicune's.

Seeing Wen Yan, the green snake turned its head and crawled out from the water vein that bound its head, revealing its true color of green with a hint of ink.

"He left once last night and came back again. He has already gone deep into the water veins. I can't sense where he is, I just know he is in this direction."

The green snake pointed in the direction of one of the water veins.

"Okay, I've already talked to Taoist Qingxuzi, and he said that you can go to Qingcheng to worship whenever you want, and he has no right to stop you."

"Thank you." The sky began to brighten. There were people presiding over the many altars on the mountain, and the Taoist orchestra had already started playing music.

The main function of Luotian Dajiao is actually to pray for blessings and good fortune, while subduing demons has always been a side job.

This time it was held in Qingcheng, and the people of Qingcheng would preside over the welcoming of gods and praying for blessings on the first day.

Before starting, Qingxuzi was talking on the phone to his great-grandmaster uncle from Fuyu Mountain.

"I'm doing this for Wen Yan's sake. If you don't want to, forget it. I certainly respect your opinions.

Wen Yan himself thought that the child was too young and didn't understand so much. He thought this was a change of loyalty to the sect and would definitely not be happy.

Besides, you can have more than just one Taoist name or nickname.

It's just that having a name, a title, and a date of birth is the only way to ensure there won't be any mistakes."

"You shameless bastard!" The angry roar of the Grand Master Uncle was heard over the phone.

"Okay, then don't bother..."

"Write it." The great-grandmaster uncle gritted his teeth and agreed, then added: "You stinky cow nose, when the ritual is over, you'd better run away."

Qingxuzi hung up the phone happily.

Then, he came to the table and calmed himself down. Three minutes later, he opened his eyes and wrote the word "Wen Yan" on a slightly old talisman paper.

Then he wrote "Qingcheng, silent" at the end.

It means that this is the silent Taoist of Qingcheng.

Then write down Wen Yan’s birth date. After finishing, add the finishing touch to the head of the symbol and fold it into an octagonal shape.

Then, he took the octagonal yellow talisman and came to a pile of tablets that had been placed there. After bowing three times, he placed the octagonal yellow talisman under the tablet in the center.

When the first ray of morning sun shone from the east and illuminated the tablets, Qingxuzi stood in the center of the altar and chanted mantras.

"Disciple Qingxuzi, I respectfully ask the Supreme Savior of Suffering Taiyi... I respectfully ask the gods to protect us, to ensure that our land has good weather, good harvests, and auspiciousness from all directions..."

Qingxuzi chanted for ten minutes in one breath, and only added a sentence at the end after ten minutes.

"I respectfully ask the gods to protect me, the silent Taoist of Qingcheng, and turn misfortune into fortune, and protect my Shenzhou."

In other places, the Demon-Subduing Altar is presided over by the most murderous Maoshan Sect Leader himself.

He stretched out his palm and placed it on the altar. Sparks flashed and two large charred words appeared on the table.

Warm words.

Then he placed the tablet of Zhenwu Emperor and began to welcome the deity.

Tourists began to gradually appear on the mountain. It was naturally impossible to refuse such a large-scale event that was intended to pray for the country and bring good luck to the people.

The aura in the mountains began to change. Ordinary people could not see anything. Even ordinary Taoists could only feel that the clear air was descending, cleansing the turbidity, and the positive energy began to rise.

In Fuyu Mountain, Cai Heizi had advanced the dusk and had not yet fallen asleep. He was holding the phone, talking non-stop, and his hands were typing tirelessly and rapidly on the laptop keyboard in front of him.

Ten minutes later, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and stopped.

The great-uncle Tai Shi was sitting nearby. He only started asking questions when he saw Cai Heizi stop what he was doing.

"how?"

"Everything is ready, and all the Taoist priests are willing to cooperate with us."

"Where is our Wen Yan?"

“Wen Yan has always been a pioneer and brave person, so naturally he has already left.”

The great-grandmaster uncle was a little worried and finally looked at Cai Heizi.

"You always have this nasty habit of hiding your plans from others. Can't you change that? Every time you do something good, you always want people to beat you up."

"Don't blame me for this. I can only do this based on the intelligence I got. Besides, it was Wen Yan who asked me to intervene this time!"

After Cai Heizi finished speaking, he saw that his great-uncle Tai Shi was about to hit him, so he immediately added a sentence.

"This is for Wen Yan's safety!"

The great-grandmaster uncle had a gloomy face and stopped talking.

Cai Heizi looked at his watch and saw that his time was almost up, so he quickly said goodbye and returned to the zombie cave.

If he doesn't leave now, he might be dragged back later.

On the other side, Wen Yan followed the guidance of the green snake and moved forward in the underground water veins.

After entering the water vein, he activated the invisibility technique, and his figure completely disappeared into the water. He moved forward silently, and was completely obscured by the background sound.

He went all the way upstream but didn't feel anything, which didn't surprise him.

If it were so easy to be discovered, the man in the robe would not have been able to accomplish what he was doing.

After waiting for more than ten minutes until sunrise, I calculated the time and it was officially opened.

Wen Yan finally noticed something strange in the water. Something that did not belong to this water vein appeared. It was rejected by this water vein, but it was still absorbing the power of this water vein.

Wen Yan quickly approached and saw thick roots appearing in the underground water veins. These roots penetrated into the underground water veins and swallowed up the water in the veins.

When Wen Yan approached and stretched out a hand, the moment he touched those roots, his characteristics were activated. When he was in a range, he would inevitably fall into it.

The roots kept twisting and changing, forming a pitch-black hole. Wen Yan, accompanied by a large amount of cold water, rushed into the hole and disappeared.

In the giant tree area, the man in the robe calculated the time and stood under the giant tree.

Within the area, a large amount of water appeared out of nowhere from underground. The roots of the giant trees that looked ferocious and seemed to have entered deep winter and began to hibernate began to move like living things. The water that seeped out from the ground swirled and fell into the giant trees and was absorbed by them.

Amidst the rumbling sound, the branches and leaves of the giant tree began to multiply and grow larger and larger.

As more and more icy water flowed, the thick roots of the giant trees began to churn more and more violently, and the entire area began to shake.

This is an overly violent fluctuation, a sign that the domain is about to collapse.

The man in the robe remained unmoved. He stepped on a huge root and followed the thick root all the way up.

In one hand he held the flower that the giant tree had bloomed last time, and in the other hand he held the floating Lycoris flower that looked like it was soaked in blood. Facing the large zombie in gorgeous clothes on the tree trunk, he asked in a deep voice.

"Do you think I look like a human or a god?"

The dull-looking man in fancy clothes gave the same answer as always.

"Not like a man, but like a god."

As he said this, the man in the robe crushed the two flowers in his hands.

In an instant, the domain seemed to be torn apart, and the pure air in the sky fell.

That was the pure air that descended when many large altars were opened at the same time during the Luotian Grand Ceremony and many true practitioners performed rituals at the same time to pray for Shenzhou.

And beneath the earth, there was turbid air rising and the earth's energy surging, turning into a road leading to the sky.

The robed man set out on this path with a hint of anticipation on his face.

The next moment, the image of a python appeared on his face. As he continued to move forward, the python image detached from his body and dissipated, then continued to change and turned into the image of a snake. After the snake image appeared, it continued to detach and dissipate from behind him.

He stepped into the air again and flew towards the sky. The ferocious and fierce look of a bird appeared on his face again. The bird's look gradually became clearer and then blurred. He left it behind and it dissipated into the air.

At this moment, he looked down and saw Wen Yan rushing out of the water.

He smiled and pointed at the giant tree from a distance. He saw that the big zombie in gorgeous clothes was expelled from the giant tree that was constantly changing its shape.

In an instant, the thick air of death and yin burst out like a volcanic eruption.

After the large zombie in gorgeous clothes fell to the ground, a strong resentment broke through the death and yin energy and bloomed. An ominous feeling began to fill the area, and all kinds of vegetation in the distance began to wither and die rapidly.

As soon as Wen Yan came out, he saw the man in the long robe standing in mid-air, as if he was climbing up the stairs and then walking away into the air.

In front of him, the huge zombie in gorgeous clothes was much stronger than the one he saw in his old dream. It felt like they were on a completely different level.

More importantly, this guy seems to have lost his mind...

The mark on his body not only did not stop him, but instead made him a target for the giant zombie in fancy clothes right away.

Before Wen Yan could say anything, the large zombie in fancy clothes disappeared instantly.

In a flash, billowing black smoke fell head-on with violent force.

Wen Yan took a step forward and moved sideways more than ten meters. The claws of the big zombie in gorgeous clothes fell down, and four streams of resentment, death, and yin energy gathered together. The madly surging power, like an air blade, turned into a fan shape and swept across an area of ​​more than ten meters there.

Wen Yan looked down at the clothes at his side. They seemed to have been rubbed against the concrete floor. Even though he was not attacked, he was still affected.

Wherever the breath touched, it was poisoned, a very strange corpse poison.

The nails of his left hand kept absorbing the poison, and it seemed as if it could multiply, doubling continuously.

Wen Yan decisively stretched out his hand, and the blazing yang energy covered it. With the help of his fingernails absorbing the corpse poison, the continuously growing corpse poison was finally controlled.

But the next moment, tender buds appeared on his arms and quickly turned into green leaves and small flowers.

Wen Yan stretched out his hand and pulled it off, and some obvious traces of roots could be seen on the skin and flesh.

The big zombie in gorgeous clothes at this moment was completely different from the ones he had seen before, and even its strength was different.

In the sky, the man in the long robe, standing dozens of meters high, looked back and smiled.

"We have been waiting for this day for a long time. We will use the Luotian Grand Ceremony to invite all the saints and open the Heavenly Palace.

I was deified for the second time, but I didn't need to ascend to heaven. I became a god on earth, the ancient rain master.

As long as there is rain in this world, I will be immortal and omnipresent.

This is all thanks to you.

If it weren't for you, I might not be able to get this flower between the present world and the old dream.

I can only take another path.

I'm in a good mood today, so I'll tell you one more thing.

If you kill him, he will have paid the price for me.

Wrong, you can kill him first."

The man in the robe laughed three times and his face continued to change. This time he took on the appearance of a man. He continued to move forward, leaving it behind.

Wen Yan looked at the big zombie in gorgeous clothes who had lost his mind and took a deep breath.

"Brother, I'm sorry, I wanted to try it with cherry tomatoes first."

Wen Yan reached into his bag and took out a black stone.

The moment the aura of the stone emerged, the giant zombie in fancy clothes instinctively paused its rush forward.

However, in just a moment, he lost his mind and reappeared and disappeared.

The next moment, the big zombie in fancy clothes appeared in front of Wen Yan again. The moment Wen Yan moved aside, he was forcibly pulled back by the grey cloth. The other end of the grey cloth was tied to the legs of the big zombie in fancy clothes, forcibly shortening the distance between the two.

The moment he closed the distance, Wen Yan took the black stone in his hand and hit the back of the head of the big zombie in fancy clothes with a bang.

The blood color in the eyes of the big zombie in fancy clothes disappeared, and the ferocity instantly turned into a hole. His head was sunken a little, and his whole body was hit by a huge force, and he fell to the ground with half of his head buried in the soil.

Wen Yan threw the black stone directly onto the back of the big zombie in fancy clothes. The big zombie in fancy clothes, which had just lost its mind and was extremely ferocious, was now lying on the ground, no different from a real corpse.

(End of this chapter)