Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

Chapter 326 Looking at each other
Dead leg! Move!

Despite his active thoughts, Wei Xi's legs and feet were not cooperating.

Although the paper man disappeared from her sight, the cold feeling still clung to Wei Xi's limbs, almost turning her into a cripple.

What's worse is that the previously silent paper figures began to move slowly: the blurry but restless faces turned towards Wei Xi, whose limbs were on strike, and their originally empty eye sockets were occupied by dark green flames.

Anyone who is timid would be scared to death by now.

Fortunately, Wei Xi was in good spirits and could even spare some time to use his stiff hands to push Lingyin back onto her collar.

The bird is going crazy but no one can help it, Wei Xi thought expressionlessly.

Wei Xi threw the paper lantern to the ground with great difficulty, then lifted his left foot, which seemed to weigh more than a thousand pounds, and stomped down hard.

The flame, which was already on the verge of collapse, died under Wei Xi's feet, bidding farewell to this strange world.

The emergency measures taken by Wei Xi had an immediate effect: after the flames were extinguished, the paper figures in the yard became visibly calmer, with their heads lowered. Except for the green flames flickering in their eye sockets, they looked like normal paper figures.

"It seems this lantern is more useful than I thought," Wei Xi's eyes were still searching for the paper figure with eyes, "it seems that it can attract the paper figure's attention to a certain extent..."

"Or maybe this lantern is their eyes... Using the lantern must have alarmed them!"

Thinking of this, Wei Xi became more interested in the wood of immortality.

If you don't get the lantern, you won't be able to discover the secret of petrification; if you get the lantern, you will be the focus of the paper people. Judging from Wei Xi's current miserable situation, this ending may not be a good one.

By the same token, those who believe that the Saint is in the house will be pierced repeatedly; those who want to see the Saint must fight wits and courage with the paper cuties in the dangerous yard.

Even though he was violently buried alive by the insect-headed man at the beginning, Wei Xi was able to hold on until now and was truly tenacious.

Even Wei Xi, with her patience, could not endure this kind of repeated torture. Her body and mind were now on the verge of extreme tension, and she could fall into an endless abyss at any time.

"I can't die here," Wei Xi held on to this thought, the veins on his forehead bulging, "I've decided to comb the Saint's hair!"

"The most urgent thing is to find that paper figure with eyes! Otherwise, I won't be able to move at all... If I miss this opportunity to see the Saint, I'll just be a wooden lump for the rest of my life!"

Because the coldness that controlled the limbs did not start when Wei Xi discovered the symptoms of petrification, she believed that the root cause was not petrification but the eyes of the paper man.

As the music became increasingly eerie, Wei Xi lit the only remaining tinder, swung her stiff arm, and lit the paper figure closest to her.

The sparks instantly turned into flames, spreading along the paper man's arms to his entire body. The painful howls almost pierced Wei Xi's eardrums. Two clusters of dark green flames shot out and dissipated into the air.

If Wei Xi activated his spiritual power at this moment, he would be able to see the painful remnants of spiritual power behind the dark green flames.

Without intense pain and obsession, the monk would not leave such traces of despair.

This is the last trace left in the world by a cultivator of not very high cultivation level, and now it has returned to the world along with flames.

Unfortunately, Wei Xiqifu, who was covering his ears, was sealed, so he knew nothing.

"This fire is even making noises..." Looking at the paper figures covering half the yard and the spreading flames, Wei Xi thought with a bitter face, "I'm in trouble now!"

Just as Fellow Daoist Wei had anticipated, for nearly half an incense stick of time, the paper figures in the courtyard collapsed one after another. The wailing, accompanied by the increasingly loud, terrifying and spooky "Carrying the Bridal Sedan," made the courtyard even more terrifying than the underworld.

Wei Xi gritted his teeth and searched for his target in the flames.

But the first thing Wei Xi spotted was the fleeing nei thorn. It huddled in a corner, its face filled with fear. Its eye sockets didn't glow green, nor did it have any strange eyeballs. Instead, its mouth kept moving, spitting out wrinkled fruits of various sizes.

As soon as these fruits fell to the ground, they turned into six-fingered monkeys of different heights. The little monkeys, whose fur was still wet, piled up one on top of the other, and in the blink of an eye, the pile was as high as the courtyard wall.

Now, Wei Nei Ci was much more energetic. He hurriedly got up and climbed out along the crooked monkey ladder.

Even though it had turned to wood, it was still light and buoyant, quickly climbing up the wall and pushing off with its arms. Just when Wan Nei Ci thought it had escaped, a branch appeared out of nowhere and hit it hard, cutting it in half.

Wei Xi's waist ached from watching this, but she didn't look away.

"This is the Immortal Wood," Wei Xi thought confidently, "Is it really the Immortal Wood that's controlling... the illusion? Or is it the secret realm?"

Wei Xi was careless in his theoretical studies and couldn't tell the difference with the things in his hands.

"This should only be a part of the Longevity Wood... How big must the entire Longevity Wood be!"

Wei Xi sighed in his heart and secretly felt lucky that the wood was quite reasonable, otherwise it would have split him in two.

Although it is not a good habit to poke the chest with wood and turn people into wood, Wei Xi was glad that his body remained consistent.

Praise the Immortal Wood! Praise it for having the ability but choosing to go crazy!

After stopping Wei Nei Ci from escaping, the branch as thick as Wei Xi's thigh disappeared cleanly and neatly.

The newly born six-fingered flower-mouthed monkeys were confused and naive. When they saw the thorn in their anus was broken into two pieces and they were in a chaotic environment, these little monkeys became very panicked and ran around everywhere. Soon they got into trouble.

The "death" of Wei Nei Ci (Wei Xi felt that whether she was completely dead or not was debatable) and the brief appearance of Changshengmu actually only lasted for a moment, and Wei Xi quickly turned his attention back to finding the paper man with eyes.

The flames raised the temperature of the air. I don’t know what the paper used to make these paper people was made of, but it could actually produce so much smoke that people couldn’t open their eyes.

Wei Xi's eyes were red. It was a luxury for her to move her arms. She could only let herself be surrounded by the burning paper figures. The fire had already spread to her body.

At the critical moment of life and death, Wei Xi would not waste time on avoiding the problem which would only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. She knew that only by finding the paper man with eyes could she escape successfully.

Fortunately, the fire was set in time, and Wei Xi finally found the paper man with eyes under the plaque.

This paper man was obviously much smarter. It guessed Wei Xi's purpose of forcing it to show up, so it simply ran into the house and hid.

Even though the gaze was fixed on him, the paper man with eyes remained calm and composed. He even stopped at the door and faced Wei Xi, with his wooden eye moving non-stop.

Wei Xi's acting skills are superb. He has a sad and angry look on his face. He struggles to move his stiff body, looking sad and angry as if he wants to chase the thief but is unable to kill him.

The paper man was very proud of himself. He stood under the plaque and didn't go into the house, just wanting to make fun of Wei Xi.

At this moment, a red rope tied the paper man's ankle, then climbed up and wrapped around its legs before the paper man could react.

"go with!"

With a loud shout from Wei Xi, [Qiansi] threw the paper man against the wall. At a suitable distance, [Qiansi] loosened his restraints and let the paper man fall out.

Along with the [Pulling Thread], Wei Xi's control over her body also came back. She immediately moved her hands and feet, watching the Longevity Wood that appeared again tear the paper man into two halves.

Without having time to laugh at the death of the paper man, the burned Wei Xi rushed to the courtyard gate and opened it amid the sound of music that was close at hand.

A coffin, four insect-headed men, and Wei Xi lying on the ground struggling, appeared in front of Wei Xi.

　Normally, a fire stick is not so powerful, but the one Wei Xi bought was invented by his senior brothers and sisters in the sect, so it is more durable.

　　In addition, these monks had died long ago, and only a little bit of spiritual power remained placed in the paper figures. The pain was because it was frozen at the moment before death, and had nothing to do with Wei Xi.

　　The plot of "Eternal Wood" dragged on for quite a while. On the one hand, this material was quite important, and on the other hand, I was exhausted both physically and mentally from the postgraduate entrance exams... I guess there are less than ten chapters left of "Eternal Wood".

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