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Chapter 352 at a loss
Chen Ziyang stepped forward with his sword in hand, and walked into the light curtain composed of light spots emanating from the soul's body.Dots of light fell on him, and then disappeared.

After these light spots disappeared, a cold feeling spread throughout Chen Ziyang's body. Although all the souls here were sucked into the ancient tree, there were too many souls gathered here. The light spots emitted can make people feel a kind of chill, which shows the strength of the mana contained in these souls.Chen Ziyang couldn't imagine what the tree demon would grow into after all the souls were sucked into its body.

Hundreds of years of planning have allowed the tree demon to gather tens of thousands of souls here, and these souls have been transformed here for more than 2000 years. The power contained in the souls is beyond his comprehension.

Looking at the old trees full of sprouts, Chen Ziyang felt that plants are really amazing. No creature in the world can live for more than 2000 years, but plants can.At this moment, the ancient tree in front of me has regained its vitality after being dead for more than 2000 years.It's no wonder that the dragon's blood strains in the dryad's body have such magical effects.

When approaching the ancient tree, Chen Ziyang walked very slowly, carefully guarding his surroundings.The Dryad should have known of his arrival. At this time, the Dryad had recovered part of his mana, so it might not be so easy to deal with it.

But at this time, the dryad seemed to be still focused on absorbing the soul, and did not immediately appear to stop Chen Ziyang.Chen Ziyang, who came near the ancient tree, raised the ancient Xuanming sword in his hand, and stabbed at the root of the tree trunk.

He used eight percent of his strength for this sword. Chen Ziyang felt that if the tree demon was really hiding in this ancient tree, then he should leave some leeway to prevent the ancient Xuanming sword from piercing too deeply. In case it gets stuck in the trunk, it will be difficult to pull it out again.After all, the tree demon's movements are very flexible. If there is a delay in drawing the sword, it is very likely that the tree demon will seize the initiative.

But what Chen Ziyang didn't expect was that the Xuanming ancient sword he stabbed with eight percent of his strength didn't even pierce the bark, but only made a small dent on the surface of the trunk. .

An unbelievable expression appeared on Chen Ziyang's face. He knew the sharpness of the ancient Xuanming sword, but he never thought that such a sharp sword would have no effect on this ancient tree.You must know that the ancient Xuanming sword could cut off the arm of the tree demon's natal seed in the hands of the manaless Yang Lei before, which is enough to prove that the ancient Xuanming sword has a restraining effect on the tree demon.

But now that the Ancient Xuanming Sword had pierced it, there was no effect. Chen Ziyang's heart felt a little hairy. He hurriedly withdrew the Ancient Xuanming Sword.

This time, Chen Ziyang, who was holding the Xuanming ancient sword and chopping at the ancient tree, used a lot of strength, and the ancient sword changed from stabbing to chopping, so the destructive power should be much greater.

After the sound of "Dang", Chen Ziyang held the ancient Xuanming sword and was shaken back several steps. After the ancient Xuanming sword slashed on the ancient tree, there was a sound of gold and iron clashing. Chen Ziyang It felt as if the sword he had just slashed was not on a tree, but on a boulder.

Chen Ziyang, who was shaken back, only felt that his arms were numb from the shock, and a burst of pain came from the tiger's mouth of his right hand instantly.Seeing that Chen Ziyang had been shaken back, Yang Lei ran over in a few steps and helped Chen Ziyang stabilize with both hands.

"Buzzing..." After the Xuanming ancient sword slashed, there was a buzzing sound from the trunk of the ancient tree, and the sound of the ancient sword slashing on the ancient tree echoed in the trunk.

"That's right, the trunk of this ancient tree is empty, otherwise there would be no such echo, but this ancient tree is really too hard, how can it be broken open?" After his hands were numb from the shock, Chen Ziyang said to himself.

"Isn't it difficult to deal with the hollow one? The dryad must be hiding inside. Let's climb to the top of the tree and stab down from the top. There is no hard old tree to protect the dryad." Yang Lei said.

Although what Yang Lei said made sense, Chen Ziyang felt that this method was not feasible.The trunk is undoubtedly hollow, but at this time the hole above the trunk has been completely filled by the beam of light composed of souls. If you really climb above the trunk, you must face these souls head-on.

Seeing the beam of light getting thicker and brighter, Chen Ziyang shook his head. He didn't want to use the method Yang Lei said, and he didn't want to directly face these residents of the ancient country of Mimi unless it was a last resort. After all, the power contained in these souls is too powerful, and Chen Ziyang feels that he is not fully sure that he can deal with it.

Then he put away the ancient Xuanming sword, and took the soul-suppressing paperweight in his hand.Chen Ziyang knew that besides the ancient Xuanming sword, Chen Ziyang knew that the only thing he could rely on to deal with the tree demon was the soul suppressing paperweight. Now that the ancient Xuanming sword was useless, he could only try the paperweight magic weapon.

When Chen Ziyang woke up Yang Lei before, he bit his middle finger. Just after he slashed vigorously with the ancient Xuanming sword, the wound on his middle finger was shaken open, and blood flowed out from the wound again.After smearing the blood on the middle finger on the soul-suppressing seal under the soul-suppressing paperweight, he stepped forward again, holding the soul-suppressing paperweight instrument, and slapped it on the trunk of the ancient tree.

"Crack" the soul-suppressing paperweight was firmly printed on the trunk of the ancient tree. When Chen Ziyang took back the soul-suppressing paperweight, he saw the pattern of the soul-suppressing seal smeared with his own blood on the On the trunk of the ancient tree, but after waiting for a few seconds, there was still no response.

This was within his expectation.After all, the key to the soul-suppressing seal is the word "soul". At this time, in front of him is an extremely hard ancient tree. It is indeed inappropriate to use the soul-suppressing seal here, but Chen Ziyang, who has no other way, still wants to try it.

Seeing that the soul-suppressing seal was useless, Chen Ziyang took out a stack of talismans from his body, and neatly arranged the stack of talismans. He clamped the end of the stack of talismans with both hands, and then Chen Ziyang Yang's two palms rotated in opposite directions, and the talisman paper spread out instantly under the squeeze of his palms, turning into a fan shape.

Chen Ziyang held the talisman with one hand, and with the other hand, he smeared the blood of his middle finger on the fan made of talismans, so that each piece of talisman was stained with a little bit of his own blood, and then he put the A number of talismans were thrown towards the top of the tree trunk, trying to use these talismans to prevent the ancient tree from absorbing the soul.

A large number of talismans flew towards the root of the beam of light, but before these talismans approached the most central beam of light, the dots of light emanating from the soul touched these talismans.

Each piece of talisman paper burned instantly when it came into contact with these light spots, and after only a few seconds, all the talisman papers were reduced to ashes, falling together with dots of light.Even the talisman closest to the tree trunk is still far away from the tree trunk, and cannot be approached at all.

After seeing that the ancient Xuanming sword, soul-suppressing seal, and his own talisman had no effect on the ancient tree, Chen Ziyang raised his head and looked at the top of the ancient tree, then he gritted his teeth and turned to face Yang. Ray yelled, "Go ahead."

After tossing his backpack to Yang Lei, Chen Ziyang pinned the ancient Xuanming sword to his waist, held the handle of the soul suppressing array law enforcement device in his mouth, and with both hands and feet, he pointed towards the top of the ancient tree. climb up.

Now Chen Ziyang's heart was pounding, he really didn't know how to deal with this ancient tree.You can only try the method Yang Lei said.

Although he knew that his soul-suppressing paperweight should have a restraining effect on the souls of these ancient residents of Yumi, but after all, there are too many souls here, and the mana contained in the souls is also very strong. Can the small soul-suppressing paperweight in my hand play its due role?

The trunk of the ancient tree was only more than three meters high. Standing on the ground, Chen Ziyang jumped, and after climbing a few times, he approached the highest point of the trunk of the ancient tree.But now Chen Ziyang, who was so close to the tree hole, couldn't climb anymore.

During the few seconds when he climbed the tree, Chen Ziyang felt a coldness that he had never felt before.A large number of souls were injected into the trunk, and when Chen Ziyang climbed up, he was much closer to these souls.

A large amount of yin qi emanating from the soul gathered at the top of the trunk of the ancient tree. Chen Ziyang, who entered the yin qi, felt that his limbs would no longer be able to move, and he even felt that his blood had been frozen. Living.

Chen Ziyang, whose limbs were stiff, saw that the trunk of the ancient tree in front of his nose was getting farther and farther away from him, and he knew that he had fallen backwards.

"Er Yang, what's the matter with you?" Seeing Chen Ziyang fall on his back, Yang Lei hurried over, helped Chen Ziyang's upper body up, and then pulled him to a position farther away from the ancient tree.

Although his body didn't obey his control, Chen Ziyang's head was still awake. He hastily circulated his whole body's mana in accordance with the mental method of shutting down qigong to drive out the Yin Qi in his body.

Fortunately, the yin qi in Chen Ziyang's body is not too much. At the same time, his mana can also restrain these yin qi to a certain extent. In addition, the movement of the mind of qigong can mediate the functions of the human body in the shortest time. , After running the mana for a circle, Chen Ziyang opened his mouth violently, and let out a big breath of cold air.

This breath of cold air was exhaled from his mouth, just like the breath exhaled from a person's mouth in the mid-winter and twelfth lunar month at minus [-] degrees. The white mist dissipated quickly after being sprayed out.

After exhaling this Yin Qi, Chen Ziyang immediately felt the existence of his limbs again. After slowly standing up with Yang Lei's support, he hurriedly moved his limbs.

"No, the yin energy above is too heavy, and I can't go up at all." Chen Ziyang felt that his actions just now were too reckless, because he was worried that the mana of the tree demon would increase by one point every second. , so I made a big mistake, that is, I did something beyond my ability.

The number of these souls is large, and the transformation time is long, which has far exceeded my imagination. Not only myself, but maybe even my experienced master has never seen such a soul.Take out any of these souls and put them anywhere, they will be ghost-like existences, and at this time there are no less than tens of thousands of such souls here.

If it weren't for the absorption of this ancient tree, within such a short distance, the Yin energy emitted by these souls would be enough to freeze two people into popsicles.Chen Ziyang now feels at a loss.

"I'll go to your grandma." Seeing that Chen Ziyang almost took his life, Yang Lei cursed, and ran towards the ancient tree with the engineering shovel in his hand. After two steps, he came to the ancient tree. Desperately waving the engineer shovel, he chopped off the roots of the old tree that were exposed outside the ground.

"Dang...dang..." The roots of the ancient tree are as hard as the trunk of the ancient tree. After three or five chops, Yang Lei also felt that his tiger's mouth was so painful that he could only pinch it with his numb arms. Holding the engineer shovel, he walked back dejectedly.

"What should we do now? Let's just watch helplessly. If there is no other way, I think the two of us should turn our heads and leave. Now the tree demon is still absorbing souls and has no time to talk to us. If the tree demon recovers its mana , We don't even have time to run, we might save our lives by walking now." Yang Lei said tentatively in Chen Ziyang's ear.

"Go? Where can we go? According to the current absorption rate, it won't be long before all these souls will be absorbed by this ancient tree.

When I was linking with the tree demon soul before, I got a lot of information from it. Many residents in the ancient country of Yumi went to the desert tens of kilometers away from the ancient country of Yumi when they fled. None of the people went out. They all died under the magic power of the tree demon, and their souls were all sucked back. Do you think we can go that far? "

"Then what should we do? Are we just waiting to die here?"

"Don't make noise, let me think about it." Chen Ziyang said while staring at the upper part of the ancient tree.

When he had just climbed onto the ancient tree and fell down on his back, Chen Ziyang seemed to have seen two strange marks at the break at the top of the trunk of the ancient tree.

Because he was always eager to deal with the tree demon, Chen Ziyang lost his due calmness. After being invaded by the Yin Qi in his soul, he calmed down instead.

Judging from the traces of the fracture at the top of this ancient tree, this ancient tree should have been destroyed by an external force. This ancient tree is hidden deep under the body of the tree demon. This location should be inaccessible to the residents of Yumi Ancient Country. of.

In other words, this ancient tree was not destroyed by the residents of the ancient Yumi country during the previous human tree war, so what destroyed the upper part of this ancient tree?

While thinking about these questions, Chen Ziyang slowly moved his steps around the trunk of the ancient tree in the center, trying to find the two traces left on the trunk of the ancient tree that he just saw .

After moving a few steps horizontally around the trunk of the old tree, Chen Ziyang stopped and looked carefully at the top of the trunk of the old tree.

(End of this chapter)