Chapter 197: Back to Yan Shi
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Climbing a mountain is not a very difficult or troublesome thing, but climbing such a towering tree in the physical sense is really not an easy thing.
Especially since there is Lingling, a little girl who is not a mage yet, in the team!
"There are branches up there!"
The branches were huge and people could walk, run and jump on them without any problem. The long branches stretched out randomly in the sky, just like the interconnected roads in a city, with no one knowing where they led to.
The leaves are not very dense, otherwise the sunlight cannot shine through. In the dim world of branches, a beam of light that occasionally falls makes this place look as beautiful and incredible as a dangerous place.
“Puff, puff, puff~~~~~~~~”
The sound of something flapping could be clearly heard from among the large leaves, but when everyone looked, they found nothing there.
The leaves of the Heavenly Crown Purple Forging Divine Tree are so large that a small person like Lingling can even stand directly on them.
“Eh~~~~!!”
A cry inexplicably came out, as if it came from higher up in the entire branch and leaf world, and as if it extended to other main trunk worlds.
After all, this kind of environment is not familiar to humans, and any disturbance around makes people feel more and more uneasy.
"I always feel like something is watching us." Lan Luo looked around.
"That's normal. This is someone else's territory. It would be strange if nothing was watching us. I hope it's not a brutal and powerful race." Zhao Manyan said.
“Eh~~~~~~~~!!!”
There was another cry, and this time the sound was very close to everyone. The sharp feeling made people feel very uncomfortable.
“Blah blah blah!!!!!!!!!”
Suddenly, a noise like thunder exploded from the branches and leaves that blocked out the sun. There was also the vibration sound of countless wings flapping at high speed and sharp and piercing cries. In an instant, the silence turned into a boiling and noisy sound like a pot exploding!
Green and yellow afterimages passed by, behind the large leaves, under the branches, and in the darker areas higher up, hovering near them...
"It's a demon bird!" Lingling said.
"Poison needle!!!"
As soon as Lingling finished speaking, Zhao Tingxi quickly threw out several poisonous needles.
The poison needle pierced into the body of the demon bird. In just a breath of time, the demon bird died of the poison and fell to the ground from a high altitude.
However, there were a lot of demon birds, and Zhao Tingxi, who needed to protect others, felt a little uncomfortable in this situation.
"Find a way to lead the way up. I'll stay here to cover your retreat!" Zhao Tingxi spread the bone wings behind him.
"Go here!" Lingling sat on the back of Feichuan Wolf and led the way for everyone.
Feichuan Snow Wolf kept jumping on the branches and leaves, and after a few leaps, it reached a higher place. There were not many demon birds here, so it seemed that it had exceeded their airspace.
Zhao Tingxi covered everyone and brought them to a higher area. Sure enough, the demon birds stopped chasing them. These guys seemed to only be active in the airspace between 1,500 and 2,000 meters above the Tianguan Big Purple Tilia tree.
The demon bird is a kind of flying monster that can be found everywhere in the world. It has a strong reproductive ability and can be found mostly in places with forests. Although it is at the bottom of the monster food chain, it can still be very aggressive when it unites.
However, under Zhao Tingxi's protection, these evil birds had almost no impact on everyone.
After climbing up for hundreds of meters, we found that there were basically no monsters in this area.
"It's too quiet here." Lingling said in a low voice.
It was still a world of branches and leaves. The intertwined trunks and branches were like a huge tree maze. Now they couldn't even tell where the main trunk was. Coupled with the dim starlight in the dark night, the atmosphere became inexplicably tense. "Ha Hu~~~~~~~~~~~!"
“Ha-hu~~~~~~~~~!!”
A sound was approaching, accompanied by a cyclone of fishy smell coming from above. It sounded like the snoring of some creature.
Everyone looked around, trying to see what it was.
Mo Fan had a very good vision in the dark. Right in front of him, he suddenly found a creature with a head like a lizard and a body like a leopard lying on a large tree branch, sleeping soundly!
Mo Fan didn't dare to speak and pointed at the creature hidden by many branches and leaves.
Lingling was a genius. After seeing the dark face, she knew what it was. She said in a very low voice, "That's a four-life lizard tiger, a commander-in-chief. It's extremely sleepy, but when it wakes up, it's very, very scary!"
“Does this guy have four lives?” Zhao Manyan asked weakly.
"Yes, its life form is very strange. Even if it suffers a fatal injury, it can sleep for a day and act like nothing happened. That's why the Four-Life Lizard Tiger dares to challenge anything. Some of the most powerful ones are not even afraid of monarch-level creatures!" Lingling said.
"In that case, ordinary demons would not approach the territory of the Four-Life Lizard Tiger, right?"
Lingling nodded: "That's right, generally speaking, no demon will take the initiative to provoke the Four-Life Lizard Tiger."
"In that case, we can hide here for a while and spend the night first," Zhao Tingxi suggested.
"I think it's possible!" Zhao Manyan was the first to agree.
Zhao Manyan's magic energy is now being consumed very quickly, and the remaining reserves of magic energy are directly linked to Zhao Manyan's courage.
"Rest first, and then set off again after you've rested enough!"
“Sleeping powder!!!!”
After deciding to rest here, Zhao Tingxi directly gave the Four-Life Lizard Tiger a dose of hypnotic powder, allowing the Four-Life Lizard Tiger, which already slept very deeply, to sleep even more deeply.
"We should be at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters now, right?" Lan Luo said.
She said this to Chen Ying, but Chen Ying was staring at the curved night sky in front of her, looking very absent-minded.
"What's wrong, Chenying?" Lan Luo asked worriedly.
"I...I seem to have seen this scene..." Chen Ying said seriously. After a while, she denied it and said, "I should have seen something similar."
“There should be very few people who know about this sacred tree. If it weren’t for the rebellion of the mountain people, we would not have been able to get here.” Mo Fan said.
"It's a painting. I've seen similar paintings before... I remember it was in my grandma's room. There was a painting hanging in her room. The painting depicted a scene like this: leaves stretching to the sky, branches forming a path, and stars in the distance!!"
“If that’s the case, it seems like we’re back to the starting point.” Mo Fan said with a wry smile.
Everyone present knew that Yan was the previous totem guardian of Moon Moth Phoenix, and she knew a lot.
But Yan didn't intend to tell what she knew, so she could only find the answer herself.
Now the clue has been found, and it points to Yan.
The clues to the totem came back to Yanshi...
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(End of this chapter)
