Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

"Go now! If good fortune brings us together someday, we'll meet again! If not, this piece of wood will find its own destiny... Go!"

After saying this, the huge tree in front of Wei Xi quickly withered. In the blink of an eye, only a dead forest was left, and there was no trace of the Immortality Tree.

Wei Xi took a wrong step and retreated, and the sound of branches and leaves breaking came from under his feet.

The sound reminded Wei Xi. She raised the wood in her arms to her eyes and looked at it carefully, only then was she sure that she was not dreaming.

Wei Xi pondered in his heart, "Who can tell whether it's real or fake? The most important thing is to get the wood and refine it into a magical weapon!"

"At least I can use my spiritual power now. There's a 50% chance that what the Longevity Wood said is true... Let's leave this place first and discuss this later!"

Wei Xi had made up his mind not to stay here any longer, so he took the wood he got from the Changshengmu in his arms, chose a direction and walked out. His slightly staggering steps were lost in the misty fog.

If someone were here, they would find that there were many thin shadows standing in the forest full of dead trees, silently looking at the direction where Wei Xi left, and after a while they all hid in the trees next to them.

……

Just as Wei Xi thought, after walking on the rugged mountain road for half an hour, the surrounding vegetation coverage returned to the standard level of Nanjiang.

"How strange," Wei Xi turned his head and looked around, only seeing a rich green, with no sign of death at all. "This place looks incredibly lively, but actually the Immortality Tree is about to wither and rot... From the outside, it looks like it's still there!"

Thinking of this, Wei Xi felt a chill in his heart. He didn't even stop walking and continued to walk out with the help of his stick.

After walking for nearly two incense sticks, Wei Xi finally arrived at the village. He walked into the gate with the crossbow in his hand and saw two people tied up on the open ground from a distance.

The one tied up like a big silkworm pupa by vines is Qin Feng, and the one with a spider lying on his face and a pair of pink underpants showing is Lian Gou Xie.

Wei Xi spread out his spiritual power and confirmed that there was no threat around. Then he quickly released Qin Feng and woke Lian Gouqie up.

"……how……"

Wei Xi moved his ears and heard some nonsense. He didn't know what Lian Gou Xie was dreaming about, but he even murmured his hometown dialect.

Not caring what he was muttering at this moment, Wei Xi increased his strength to wake them up.

Before Qin Feng opened his eyes, Gao Han took out his sword, completely waking Lian Gou up from the cold. He groaned and grabbed A Chen from his face.

"It's freezing, turn off the AC!"

Lian Gou's words were full of energy, indicating that nothing serious had happened to him. He even had time to look at Wei Xi and said, "What's wrong with you? Who forced you into this miserable state? You look like you've been crawling through a stove!"

Wei Xi supported Qin Feng and shook his head slightly, saying, "I almost lost my life... Do you two remember what happened after you separated?"

Qin Feng pressed Gao Han's sword handle, leaning weakly in Wei Xi's arms, and replied, "I wandered in the fog for a long time, and was dragged into the illusion again... It's about my parents..."

"First time, second time, familiarity. I knew the truth the moment I entered. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way out... I had no choice but to endure this illusion. Later, a vine... sprang out. I didn't have time to react, and was tied up and thrown here."

Qin Feng spoke lightly, but it was obvious that he was unhappy. She didn't want to say more, so she took out the water bag from her Qiankun bag and started drinking, not forgetting to wipe Wei Xi's face.

"I was wandering around in the fog with Ah Chen," Lian Gouqie continued, a lingering fear in his heart. "Once the talisman ran out, we were cornered by insects. Ah Chen worked hard, chasing away most of them... but we were outnumbered, and soon... we were trapped."

Wei Xiqi said, "I thought you surrendered as soon as we met!"

Lian Gouye smiled smugly, "You know my temper! I wanted to surrender, but when I saw those giant bugs, I couldn't open my mouth!"

Qin Feng put down the water bag and asked with concern, "Did you get what you wanted? Are there any enemies left?"

"...I got it." Wei Xi hesitated for a moment before saying, "The process was not only tortuous but also extremely strange."

While the three of them were resting, Wei Xi quickly recounted the story, shocking Qin Feng and the others. "This Immortal Wood is truly bizarre. It even created a clone to confuse you... and even repeatedly helped you. If you weren't so careful, you'd be in big trouble!"

"Those paper figures are quite strange," Qin Feng added, "could they have some connection with Lian Gouye?"

Hearing this, Lian Gouyu blinked and said with a wry smile, "I haven't thought about it... But from what Wei Xi said, those paper figures are probably controlled by the immortal wood."

"If I really think about it, I'm so much better than them!"

"Oh right," Lian Gouyue slapped his forehead. He pulled out a stack of papers and said to Wei Xi, "I guessed a hundred or so words from them before. Maybe they'll be useful!"

Lian Gou Xie refers to the line of snake writing that Wei Xi saw in the interlayer of the coffin.

Wei Xi was surprised at Lian Gou's speed. He took the stack of papers and compared them one by one.

Due to the limited time for deciphering and the difficult conditions, Lian Gou's work was rather crude. He simply circled the individual snake characters and marked the corresponding Northern Frontier characters next to them.

Fortunately, Wei Xi was not taking the imperial examination, so he checked one by one and finally figured out what the snake-like writing inside the coffin said.

"Ah... internal thorn?"

Wei Xi was quite surprised. This was the name of the paper man holding the lantern. How could it appear in the interlayer of the coffin?

For a moment, Wei Xi couldn't think of any connection, and A Chen, who had woken up, didn't know anything about it.

Ah Chen knew something else. Spider-Man scratched his head with his furry legs and said, "I can feel the restrictions of this place... have been lifted!"

"It just doesn't pose the same threat as before...it seems like the big bug from before has disappeared!"

The big bug that Achen had been avoiding before was the one. Wei Xi checked it again and suspected that the big bug was the one in Sitaya's corpse's mouth.

"In that case, what are your plans for the future?"

"Of course I'm staying here... I'm the protector of this place! There are still a few bodies waiting for me to deal with!"

When Wei Xi heard this, he became even more confused and asked, "Are there any more bodies?"

Ah Chen was childish at heart. Now that he was familiar with the three of them, he didn't hide anything. He nodded and said, "I can sense that the Gu corpses, giant insects, and strange mist around the village are gone... There are still a few corpses on the road down the mountain."

After resting for a while, the three people and the spider moved towards the place Achen mentioned.

This time, with the help of Achen, the local spider, they didn't waste long on the road and soon found the body on the mountain road.

It was the body of our old acquaintance, Uncle Nian, and a dozen or so strong young men.

The body has begun to decompose and it is estimated that he has been dead for two days.

The murderer was obvious: there were many blood-red cocoons on the body, and there were also many corpses of poisonous insects around it.

Wei Xi lifted the triangular scarf to the mouth and nose, used magic to flush the red cocoons off the corpse with water, and then began to examine the body.

These people were carrying a lot of standard equipment, and Qin Feng recognized at a glance that these were supplies from the Ju State army.

In addition to these, Wei Xi also took out a token from his uncle's body, on which were engraved four words: Yuzhang Prince's Mansion.

(End of this chapter)