Chapter 105 Cuckoo’s body
Chapter 105 Cuckoo’s body
The land turned into a tangled web of tree roots, with intricate gray and white dead vines entangled in one place. The dense crowds made people subconsciously feel uncomfortable, especially Qin Baiqing, who was extremely disgusted.
She felt a chill rising from the soles of her feet, and her whole body shivered. In a blink of an eye, her fear turned into grief and anger. She stomped on the ground and shouted angrily: "Give me back the valley, bad guys, go away!"
As soon as they exerted force with their feet, the three of them felt the vibration from the ground.
Qin Baiqing was delighted, thinking that she had scared off the tree roots. But before she could claim credit, the next moment, the tree roots entangled and squirmed, sliding under the feet of several people, and the ground shook as the roots slid. Qin Baiqing was shaky and fluttered her hands.
The tree roots sank as they moved, carrying them downwards. Feng Budu was the first to react and immediately used his flying sword to try to pull Qin Baiqing up.
But for some reason, the valley also became a place without any spirits.
Not only was he unable to mobilize his spiritual energy to fly, the tree roots also seemed to sense Feng Budu's attempt to escape, and the roots under his feet slowly and orderly withdrew. Soon, the roots under Feng Budu's feet became sparse, and in contrast, more and more roots wrapped around him, trying to devour Feng Budu.
"Feng Budu, I'm here to save you!" Qin Baiqing had been pulled into the air by the Void Bracelet.
She changed direction and tried to pull Feng Budu back, but the roots of the tree really changed in the dangerous direction, and as if they had gained intelligence, some of the roots attacked her.
The thick tree roots pumped the air, making a sharp whistling sound, and rushed towards Qin Baiqing with the force of breaking through the air.
She raised her hand to block, and after dodging the attack, she regained her fighting spirit. She gritted her teeth and stepped forward again, looking at the tree roots with a determined fighting spirit. She hated these ugly and annoying tree roots.
In the past, if the tree roots dared to target her like this, Qin Baiqing would definitely be the first to burn the tree roots and then cut the trunk for firewood!
But now she wanted to save Feng Budu, so she could only suppress her anger, and silently avoided the direction of the tree roots approaching Feng Budu. She simply gave up fighting back and dared not waste time.
Feng Budu felt distressed and moved, and stopped Qin Baiqing in time, "No need to save me, just walk faster."
His body was entangled by tree roots, with only half of his face exposed. He smiled soothingly at Qin Baiqing.
"I'm fine," he said calmly, letting the tree roots drag him into the ground. He said with some expectation, "Don't worry about me. I think I know where my chance of promotion lies."
Before he could finish his words, the last half of his face was entangled by the tree roots. The flexible but powerful tiny roots dragged a human-shaped figure and disappeared under Qin Baiqing's nose.
"Now is not the time to be sad!" She gritted her teeth and turned back, ready to save Xiao Xingyun.
But what he saw was Xiao Xingyun, who looked calm as if nothing had happened, and calmly allowed the tree roots to swallow half of his body, while still waving at Qin Baiqing.
"No need to come over," he waved his hand, signaling Qin Baiqing to stop where she was, ignoring the danger around her, "I calculated before I came down, this trip will be fine, you don't have to waste your energy saving me."
He even felt that it would be better for Qin Baiqing to think of more solutions for him.
In a blink of an eye, Qin Baiqing was the only one left on the ground. She could only suppress the panic in her heart and think of a solution on her own.
Both of her teammates resigned themselves to death, and she was the one who got screwed!
The heart of the Void Bracelet moved at will. He had originally vowed with confidence that he would protect Qin Baiqing and that he could definitely take Qin Baiqing through this crisis safely.
But soon the Void Bracelet could no longer laugh.
There was greater resistance coming from the ground, and even the power of the void was affected. The dragging force increased, and the void had to consume more power to pull Qin Baiqing so that she would not fall.
"Little Master!" Xukong tried to ascend with all his strength, but to no avail. Finally, he could only warn in a trembling voice: "Little Master, hold on to me tightly, it will consume more energy!"
The energy he needed to hold Qin Baiqing was increasing at a rate of hundreds, and the bracelet was trembling with exhaustion, but it was of no avail.
Each person and each bracelet also descended quickly. Qin Baiqing's feet had been swept by the tree roots, and a chill air flowed along the soles of her feet straight into her heart.
"Don't hurt the young master!" Xukong was immediately furious. He gritted his teeth and looked up, trying to take Qin Baiqing away in one go.
"Void, put me down." Qin Baiqing suddenly stopped the force of void from dragging her, and her figure quickly fell on the tree roots. Countless tree roots, like wolves that smelled blood, entangled fearfully around Qin Baiqing.
When the tree roots realized that Qin Baiqing was harmless, they bared their fangs and swallowed Qin Baiqing in an instant.
Everything happened in a flash and at an extremely fast speed. By the time Void realized what was happening, it was too late.
"Young Master——!"
"Let me save you."
"Hmm... My little master, I can temporarily paralyze the tree roots and take you out."
"Young Master, give the order quickly and we will take you out right away."
"..."
Seeing Qin Baiqing getting deeper and deeper into trouble, more magical instruments were awakened, countless voices urged Qin Baiqing in her ears, and the void setting began to command, trying to take Qin Baiqing out.
"No," she sent a message in her mind, warning all the instruments, "No one is allowed to move now. No one is allowed to come out when I call you."
Even if she could easily get rid of the tree roots, Feng Budu and Xiao Xingyun were still staying underneath.
She couldn't just leave like this, so she quickly thought of a countermeasure in her mind. In the face of Void's puzzled look, she actually opened her mind completely, blocked her five senses, but expanded her spiritual awareness infinitely, using her spiritual awareness that could crush any god to explore the breath extending from the tree roots.
In the tree roots with a cold breath, the spiritual energy belonging to the living people was quickly captured by Qin Baiqing, while the spiritual energy contained in the figure belonged to Xiao Xingyun.
Found one!
She looked carefully, trying to see clearly Xiao Xingyun's safety and the surrounding environment, and soon realized that the roots in front were thicker than the roots outside, wrapping Xiao Xingyun into a cocoon.
But Qin Baiqing knew that Xiao Xingyun was food for the tree roots.
The piles of white bones around represented everything, including magical instruments that had lost their spiritual power, probably because their spiritual power had been sucked away.
No wonder people say that once you go to the Rift Valley, there is no way back. It turns out that there lives a man-eating giant flower tree.
Thinking of the danger from the tree roots, Qin Baiqing became even more worried, fearing that if she showed up a second later, Feng Budu would be eaten up. That's when she would search for Feng Budu's body in the pile of bones.
But no matter how Qin Baiqing spread his spiritual sense, scanning every corner of the valley, big and small, he could not find any trace of Feng Budu.
Another discovery surprised Qin Baiqing even more.
Her spiritual sense had already penetrated the entire Azalea Valley, and she discovered that the tree roots were hidden so deeply and densely that the entire layer of land below was just hidden tree roots.
The reason for so many tree roots is not because of the trees in the valley.
In other words, the trees they saw in the valley had no roots at all. All the roots came from deeper underground, and the "trees" on the ground were actually just branches extending from the tree deep underground.
There was only one tree from beginning to end!
She looked in the direction of her discovery, and finally found that the tree roots around her were extremely similar to what she had originally felt in the illusion. Obviously, they were just part of the illusion!
(End of this chapter)