Atlas of Heaven and Man

As Chen Chuan walked towards the first basement floor, the signs of his ethereal state became noticeably more pronounced. The further he went, the more severe this condition became. Not only that, but the sense of being watched also became omnipresent.

At this moment, the hair of the flying head ghoul on his wrist and the raccoon stone pendant hanging on his body also trembled slightly.

It seemed that he was indeed facing a paranormal entity.

Because paranormal relics can sense paranormal entities. However, the raccoon stone pendant also showed such agitation, perhaps sensing some kind of threat?

At this moment, the temperature ahead dropped slightly. After walking down the stairs, he saw a metal door, but it was locked. He stepped forward and pressed his hand against it, and the connection of the door frame emitted a creaking sound. Bricks and bolts gradually cracked and popped out. Under the force, the entire door twisted and deformed, then crashed backward with a loud bang.

After the dust behind the door settled slightly, he walked in and then saw a "tree."

To be precise, it was a field interference creature, but it felt several times larger, almost half of the hotel's entire basement floor was occupied by this thing.

Those branches extended outwards, covering the entire underground space, and even penetrated the floor slabs like intangible objects, extending upwards.

If it were just this, it wouldn't be much, but what was terrifying was that the branches were hung with bare arms, hanging down like vines.

And on the lower part of the trunk, there were human feet, neatly arranged and piled up around, spreading outwards in circles along the roots.

Chen Chuan glanced at them. Some of the hands were slender, some were thick, and they should have been taken from the bodies of different men and women, looking mixed and disorderly, as if randomly pieced together on the branches.

And near the root of the branches, there were countless hairs that looked like they came from human bodies, some of which were entangled on the branches, while on the ground, layers of tattered clothes were scattered all over.

The reason he felt he was being watched just now was because those branches had already extended into many corners of the hotel and were trying to influence him.

If a normal person came here, they should gradually be attracted or captured by it.

Such changes have occurred in just three years. If it continues to grow, I don't know what it will become.

At this moment, seemingly because he was not affected, the thing let out a high-pitched scream like a human voice, and the lights that had been on in the basement floor suddenly flickered.

After observing, Chen Chuan stuck the Snow Monarch Saber into the wall on the side, grasped the hilt with both hands, pulled it out with a clang, then held it in one hand, turned it around, and slowly walked up.

The strings of branches above suddenly waved down at him.

Chen Chuan slashed upwards with the saber. Previously, the Snow Monarch Saber had limited lethality against the flying head ghoul because the two sides could hardly make contact. However, at this moment, when this saber went up, the bloodline on the back of the saber became a bit more vivid. With a chi sound, it cut off those branches, and the severed human hands fell down with a crackling sound, and something that seemed like red juice splashed out from inside.

After continuously slashing open the branches that tried to block him with several slashes, a sense of comfort rose in his heart.

In the past, he could only rely on hard consumption and physical contact, or various unique methods to complete the elimination of the paranormal entity, but this direct and brutal handling method was the most convenient.

He advanced while clearing obstacles, and his speed was not slow at all. He crossed a distance of thirty to forty meters almost in a breath. When he was ten meters away from the trunk, he stepped on the ground and lunged forward, almost instantly arriving in front of the thick trunk.

At this time, the strange tree let out a higher-pitched scream, and the roots hanging with strings of human legs and hairs turned out from the ground, trying to prevent him from approaching.

But such an approach exposed the targets as the vital points of itself.

Chen Chuan gave a low shout, lunged forward, and a round of saber light suddenly bloomed in front of his body, breaking through all the entanglements around him. Various broken limbs fell like rain, and he jumped out of the heavy obstacles and came to the front of the tree trunk. While in mid-air, he gripped the hilt with both hands and slashed diagonally from top to bottom!

As a crescent-shaped saber light flashed past, a long diagonal crack was immediately cut open on the trunk.

The strange tree let out a miserable hiss, and tasteless and scarlet juice spurted out from the trunk. Chen Chuan landed behind, and the momentum of his forward charge did not stop. He twisted his waist and brought the saber across again, and another saber light intersected with the trunk.

In the huge cross-shaped crack, the bright red liquid almost poured out wildly. At the same time, the entire strange tree bulged and made a sound similar to vomiting.

With a whoosh, countless internal organs and fragmented軀幹噴了出來, and this entire floor space was immediately covered in them.

Chen Chuan stared at this thing. Although it seemed to have been severely damaged under two slashes, he found that those places were rapidly closing. These attacks should not have touched its real vital points.

He quickly thought and made a decision. He swung the saber, bent over and rushed forward, and in just an instant, he rushed in from the broken gap.

After entering the inner room, he only looked up and saw many internal organs hanging and strung together around him, slowly bulging as if breathing. In the most central part, there was something wrapped like a brain.

This thing should have been nourished by the fragmented internal organs and liquids around it, but now they were all flowing out along the gap. This was undoubtedly the part that this strange tree was desperately trying to protect.

He took a slight breath, stepped forward a few steps, and suddenly spun around, slashing diagonally at the thing!

At this moment, as he came in, the gap that had been cut open outside immediately closed inward, and those limbs and appendages filled the gap, secreting a red gelatinous liquid, quickly repairing the crack.

It was just that when these actions were halfway through, they suddenly stopped. After a while, whether it was the tree trunk branches or the limbs on it, they all began to rapidly dry up and wither, and finally fell to the ground section by section as if they could not hold on, and then smashed and scattered on the ground, turning into scattered black dust.

However, the whole process did not make a sound, as if these were just intangible things that did not exist in reality.

In just a dozen seconds, the trunk of the entire strange tree turned into collapsed ashes and piled up into a thick layer of ash on the ground.

Chen Chuan took off his hat, patted his body a few times to remove the ashes, then put it back on, glanced around a few times, and confirmed that the thing had been completely removed.

However, there seemed to be a thick thing under the ashes. He poked it with the Snow Monarch Saber, and a thing about the size of a fist rolled out from inside.

Chen Chuan bent down and reached out, picked it up, and blew off the ashes on it, and saw that it was a thing that looked like wood and was carved from jade into the shape of a heart.

This should be the relic of this strange tree.

He put it away and walked out of the basement. Originally, the entire hotel felt lifeless, but when the paranormal entity was dealt with, things like insects and ants seemed to emerge all at once.

At the same time, his boundary permit also recovered, so he immediately contacted the city patrol team and asked them to come over to deal with it. Dealing with it was secondary, just to inform the superiors through them that everything was normal here, and there was no need to take any special measures in the future.

Returning to the top, he pushed open the door and walked out of the hotel, took a breath, and then walked towards the parking lot.

But after only a few steps, he saw several people who looked like gang members surrounding his car, and a off-road vehicle was parked in front, hanging a hook cable on it.

Chen Chuan looked at it with his boundary permit. These people were all gang members with densely packed criminal records and detention records on their bodies. The leader among them even had an arrest warrant.

He calmly reached into his pocket, gently pinched it, and a stone instantly shattered into a dozen tiny particles, and casually pushed one particle onto his knuckles.

"Boss, someone has come out from inside." A gang member saw Chen Chuan and immediately shouted.

The gang leader was stunned. He didn't expect that the person who went in could still come out. He squinted his eyes and looked at it, and with just one glance, he realized that Chen Chuan might not be simple.

So he decided to give the other party face.

He patted a younger brother, "Go over and say hello to him. The above has told us not to let people in or let people out. We just took care of the car for him. Let him take a sum of money for safekeeping, and this matter will pass. We won't stop him from going out."

"Understood, boss." The younger brother threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, and then swaggered up with a few people. When he got closer, he said, "Hey, that..." But before he could finish his words, with a bang, he fell to the ground.

The other gang members reacted quickly. Realizing that there was a situation, they immediately dispersed to both sides and took out the weapons they carried with them. But before these people could judge the situation clearly, they fell down one by one, lying on the street in a mess.

Chen Chuan just walked slowly towards the car.

The gang leader felt something was wrong. He immediately left the car and ran outwards. At this time, he found that the boundary permit had recovered, and immediately sent a reminder to the outside: "Blockade, blockade! Tough guy! Get the weapons!"

Chen Chuan didn't look at him, he walked directly towards the car, and flicked the finely broken stones in his hand. The gang leader had already run twenty meters away, but at this time he staggered forward a few steps, then fell forward and lay there motionless.

Chen Chuan arrived at the car, turned his hand, and the car door opened.

At this time, he paused and looked back. The little boy was looking at him. He nodded to him, then sat in, closed the door, started the car, and drove towards the blocked section of the road.

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