Chapter 123, Soul Devouring Tree

Chapter 123, Soul Devouring Tree

Chapter 123, Soul Devouring Tree
Huang Niu didn't move herself and let the two big men drag her to some soul well. This made Hua Changxi feel relieved. As long as she was not dead, she had a chance to escape.

Hua Changxi was dragged by two big men and came to a well entrance in the stone mountain that was emitting white light.

The diameter of the well entrance was about ten meters. Hua Changxi was pushed to the edge of the cave, bathing in the white light. Not only did she not feel any discomfort, but she felt very comfortable.

The two big men also looked intoxicated, greedily inhaling the white light.

When Hua Changxi was guessing what the white light was, a big man took the Buddhist beads from her wrist. After making sure that she had no other storage magic weapon on her, he took off the iron claw on her left shoulder.

Without waiting for her to react, another big man kicked her in the lower back and kicked her into the well.

After falling into the well, Hua Changxi found that without the iron claws, he could control his body again. He immediately gathered his spiritual power, and spiritual clouds appeared under his feet, stabilizing his body that was falling continuously.

Just then, a rustling sound came from my ears.

Because the white light in the well was too bright, she couldn't see anything at all and could only ride the cloud to carefully avoid the location where the sound came from.

"Crack~"

Hua Changxi originally thought that she could avoid the danger in the dark by carefully dodging, but unexpectedly, a crystal clear white branch appeared out of nowhere and hit her accurately.

Hua Changxi felt at that moment what it meant for the soul to tremble.

This kind of pain is somewhat different from the physical pain I experienced before. It is just as unbearable, and it can make people feel desperate and want to give up on themselves.

"Crack~"

Another branch hit Hua Changxi accurately as she dodged quickly, causing her to almost lose her spiritual cloud and fall down.

Realizing that he could not avoid the beating of the branches, Hua Changxi did not care whether the two big men on the wellhead had left or not, and rode the cloud directly to the wellhead.

Perhaps sensing that she was trying to escape, the next moment, she was beaten even more violently, and several branches flew out of the air at the same time.

"Crack~"

Hua Changxi was dodging in a panic riding on the cloud, but no matter how she dodged, she could not avoid the branches. The branches seemed to know her location very accurately.

Hua Changxi could no longer withstand the constant beating of seven or eight branches and fell from the air.

"boom!"

Hua Changxi fell heavily to the ground. The light near the ground was not as dazzling as in the sky. At this time, she could see some things clearly.

The next moment, she was tongue-tied.

A crystal clear, lush, tangled, umbrella-shaped giant tree at least several thousand meters tall, emitting a bright white glow, appeared in her sight.

Holiness. This was Hua Changxi’s first impression when she saw the giant tree. But slowly, a look of fear appeared on her face.

She remembered the record of this tree in "Bai Cao Jing Zhu", which is a soul-devouring tree that specializes in devouring the spiritual power of living beings.

No wonder this place is called the Soul Well. The yellow cattle threw her down here so that she could be used as nutrients for the Soul-Eating Tree.

"Susu~"

The sound of branches rubbing against the ground was heard in her ears. Hua Changxi looked in the direction of the sound and saw several white snake-like tree roots coming towards her, trying to trap her.

When Hua Changxi saw it, she did not dodge. Since she knew that it was the Soul-Eating Tree, she also had a way to deal with it.

Others may not be able to escape when they encounter the Soul-Eating Tree, but she can.

"Boom~"

Hua Changxi circulated her spiritual power, and flames burned all over her body. Then, fire lotus bloomed on her body.

A firebird flew out of the fire lotus and hovered above Hua Changxi's head.

As if feeling threatened, the tree roots that wanted to trap Hua Changxi paused for a moment, but after a while, they continued to wrap around her.

At this time, the firebird flew out and spewed flames towards the roots of the tree.

The Vermillion Bird Fire was like a maggot to the Soul Devouring Tree's roots. Once it was infected, the Soul Devouring Tree could not get rid of it. Although it could not burn it to ashes directly, it caused the roots to twist painfully.

Sensing the danger, the Soul-Eating Tree's roots cut off themselves, removing the roots that were attached to the flames, and the remaining parts quickly shrank back.

When Hua Changxi saw that the roots of the Soul-Eating Tree had retreated, he immediately walked to the remaining roots that were attached to the Vermillion Bird Fire and waved his hand to extinguish the flames.

Although the Soul-Eating Tree is deadly dangerous, its entire body is a treasure. Whether it is the branches and leaves, the roots and stems, or the soul flowers and fruits it produces, they are all rare treasures that replenish soul power.

Hua Changxi picked up a few pieces of soul-eating tree roots and put them into the Shennong Ding.

After the Nascent Soul stage is the Spiritual Platform stage.

When reaching the Lingtai realm, cultivators need to absorb a large amount of soul power to strengthen their soul body in order to prepare for the later condensation of the primordial spirit.

Since he had encountered the Soul-Eating Tree, Hua Changxi, relying on the Suzaku Fire, wanted to bring back more items from the Soul-Eating Tree, so he carefully approached the lone tree root.

The roots of the Soul-Eating Tree are intertwined, and the part connected to the trunk looks like a volcano. Going downwards, countless roots continue to radiate outward and take deep root in the earth.

Hua Changxi didn't dare to go to the place where the tree roots gathered, and only dared to focus on those sparsely distributed tree roots. Because it had not condensed the Vermillion Bird Fire, the Soul-Devouring Tree, which didn't feel the danger, had no way of trying to entangle Hua Changxi, so it pulled itself out of the ground and attacked Hua Changxi.

At this time, Hua Changxi condensed a fire lotus, let the firebird fly out, and burned the tree roots.

After luring more than ten tree roots in this way, the other tree roots were no longer fooled.

At this time, Hua Changxi also discovered something special. A little white light was revealed in the sunken place where a tree root had grown out.

Hua Changxi dug in the depression for a while and dug out dozens of white jade-like stones.

Soul crystal!

When Hua Changxi saw the soul crystal, excitement showed in his eyes. This is an essential resource for cultivating the primordial spirit!
Hua Changxi began to dig out the depressions formed by other tree roots and dug out dozens of soul crystals.

When storing the soul crystals into the Shennong Ding, Hua Changxi was surprised to find that the Shennong Ding had absorbed all the soul-devouring tree roots and soul crystals that she had collected before. However, she soon showed a look of sudden realization.

As she read more monk books, she also learned a lot of common sense.

She guessed that the Shennong Ding was most likely a divine weapon, which could also be called a Horcrux.

There are two kinds of magical instruments used by monks, one is spiritual instrument and the other is divine instrument.

A spiritual weapon of better quality can be stored in the cultivator's Dantian Qi Sea as a life-saving magic weapon. When the Nascent Soul leaves the body, the spiritual weapon can be carried with him. A divine weapon of better quality can be stored in the spiritual platform in the cultivator's brain. When the Primordial Spirit leaves the body, the divine weapon can also be carried with him.

Spiritual weapons rely on spiritual energy for nourishment, and divine weapons require both spiritual energy and soul power for nourishment.

"Shennong Ding, please leave some for me."

The roots and soul crystals of the Soul Devouring Tree were all absorbed by the Shennong Cauldron. Hua Changxi felt helpless. Although she didn't need them yet, she wanted to prepare some. Hua Changxi could only try to continue to obtain the roots of the Soul Devouring Tree. In this way, she was getting closer and closer to where the roots gathered.

After burning a soul-devouring tree root with a diameter of half a meter, a sound of breaking through the air was heard, and seven or eight branches more than one meter thick fell from the sky and hit Hua Changxi heavily.

Hua Changxi knew that he couldn't avoid the branches, so he chose to fight back.

There are fire lotuses surrounding his body and fire birds circling above his head.

“Pah, pah, pah~”

The branches of the Soul-Eating Tree whipped the petals of the Fire Lotus, directly extinguishing dozens of flaming petals. However, the branches did not suffer any good consequences as they were attached to the Vermillion Bird Fire. In the end, the branches were forced to break off and were quickly retracted.

Seeing the branches retreat, Hua Changxi breathed a sigh of relief. He waited for a while, and after making sure that there were no more branches coming, he retracted the fire lotus.

Looking at the seven pieces of Soul-Devouring Tree branches lying on the ground, each more than one meter thick and more than ten meters long, Hua Changxi was secretly delighted and quickly went over to put them into the Shennong Ding.

This time, the Shennong Ding didn't absorb it all, leaving some for her.

Afterwards, Hua Changxi did not plan to continue digging the roots of the Soul-Devouring Tree. Although she had the Vermillion Bird Fire that could burn soul power, the use of her magical powers would consume a lot of spiritual power.

Now she is still in danger and she has to save her spiritual power to escape.

Just as Hua Changxi was about to find a way to leave the Soul-Devouring Well, she heard a low call.

"Help!"

Hua Changxi followed the sound and searched for a long time before he saw dozens of human-shaped objects like cicada pupae at the place where the light was brightest at the roots of the tree.

There is no need to think about it, those cicada pupae should be the monks entangled by the tree roots.

The human-shaped cicada pupa was surrounded by wisps of white light, which continued to gather above the trunk of the Soul-Eating Tree. Hua Changxi knew that the Soul-Eating Tree was sucking their soul power.

"Help!"

The weak whisper sounded again.

After hearing this, Hua Changxi hesitated. If she wanted to save people, she would have to burn the roots of the Soul-Eating Tree. In that case, she would definitely be attacked fiercely by the Soul-Eating Tree.

These people have nothing to do with him. Judging from the two battles he saw when crossing the wooden bridge before, many of the monks who came to the Ghost Market are hostile to each other. When they see those weaker than themselves, they will burn, kill and rob.

She didn't want to take any risks for such a person.

She must escape from this Soul-Devouring Well, and it would be best not to alarm the yellow cow in the stone mountain.

The yellow cattle could change into human form and there was no spiritual energy fluctuation on its body. She guessed that the yellow cattle was most likely a demon beast that cultivated its soul.

She is only a cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage now, and has not even opened her spirit platform, so she cannot withstand attacks from her soul.

Saving these people would cause the Soul-Eating Tree to riot, which would definitely alert Huang Niu, which would be very disadvantageous to her.

Thinking of this, Hua Changxi moved away from the roots of the Soul-Devouring Tree and came to an open area. While being on guard against sudden attacks from the Soul-Devouring Tree, he held the top-grade spirit stone in his hand to quickly replenish his consumed spiritual power.

One after another, top-grade spirit stones turned into powder in her hands. After she replenished all the spiritual power she had consumed, a spirit cloud condensed under her feet, and she was ready to escape from this soul-devouring well.

The spiritual cloud was slow to rise. Hua Changxi looked back at the dozens of human-shaped cicada pupae. Did he really want to let these human cultivators become nutrients for the Soul-Devouring Tree, and wait until the Soul-Devouring Tree bloomed soul flowers and produced soul fruits, so as to enhance the strength of Huang Niu and other monsters?
After hesitating for a long time, Hua Changxi still flew towards the roots of the Soul-Eating Tree on the cloud. When she was still dozens of meters away from the place where the roots were gathered, she condensed a bunch of fire lotuses and quickly attacked the human-shaped cicada pupae.

The next moment, she didn't care whether the fire lotus had burned the roots of the Soul-Devouring Tree, or whether the cultivators inside could come out. She threw a few bottles of Soul-Resolving Pills in a place where no tree roots had taken root, and rushed towards the well without looking back.

Sure enough, dozens of fire lotuses attacked, and the Soul-Devouring Tree became furious. Dozens of branches broke through the air and lashed towards the fire lotuses.

This instead made Hua Changxi feel blessed, and the Soul-Eating Tree attacked the fire lotuses, instead of stopping her from escaping from the deep well.

Hua Changxi didn't expect to have such a harvest. Seeing the branches flailing below, he felt a little guilty and threw down a few bottles of healing pills. Then, he no longer cared about what was happening below and rushed towards the wellhead.

When she reached the mouth of the well, Hua Changxi did not rush out directly, but hung by the edge of the well to investigate the situation above. Seeing that there was no one there, she quickly left the Soul-Devouring Well.

After leaving the Soul-Devouring Well, she carefully returned along the same route the two big men had taken her in.

Before, she was caught by iron claws and was like a walking corpse, but her eyes could still move and she remembered the route.

Just as Hua Changxi passed by the hall where Huang Niu was, a loud noise suddenly came from the stone mountain.

"Oh no, something happened at the Soul Well."

"Hurry and tell the Venerable that something happened in the Soul Well."

Before, Hua Changxi walked in the stone mountain and did not encounter any living creature, but at this moment, countless monsters ran out of the stone mountain and ran towards the Soul Well.

Hua Changxi took advantage of the fact that the monsters' attention was diverted and quickly ran away. Soon, she arrived at the gate of Niutou Mountain.

Although she didn't sense the presence of spiritual energy at the mountain gate, she didn't dare to be careless. It was because this ghost market, no, she thought it should be called the ghost world, felt like the territory of soul cultivators.

She had not yet reached the Lingtai realm and was unable to project her spiritual consciousness, so she had no way of finding out whether there were any soul-cultivating demons hiding outside.

The noise in the stone mountain was getting louder and louder. Hua Changxi observed the mountain gate quietly for a while, gritted his teeth, and rushed out of the mountain gate at a high speed on the cloud.

Just as she was about to fly out of the mountain gate, a giant python that merged with the gray mist appeared out of nowhere and blocked her way.

Guessing that there would be guards at the mountain gate, Hua Changxi was not surprised. He condensed the fire lotus and took the initiative to attack the giant python.

It was not until the battle started that she saw the entire python.

It is so huge that the python's body is several meters thick and hundreds of meters long.

Seeing the white moon mark on the giant python's forehead, Hua Changxi recognized that this was the Moon Python mentioned in the "Illustrated Book of All Spiritual Meridians" given by Shennong Ding.

The Moon Python can emit a poisonous mist. Once the poisonous mist is inhaled into the body, it will pollute the spiritual altar and trap the soul.

She hasn't condensed her soul yet, but she has a human soul body. After inhaling the poisonous mist, she will probably be unable to control her body, just like when she was hooked by the iron claws before.

Hua Changxi saw that mist was already gushing out of the giant python. His face changed drastically, and he gathered spiritual energy in his hands, and a fire lotus was condensed.

"Boom~"

Countless spiritual energy surged out, and the fire lotus grew rapidly. The seventy-two flaming lotus petals quickly enveloped the entire mountain entrance, directly enveloping the Moon Python in the fire lotus.

After burning the Buddha's hand on the Five Finger Mountain, the Fire Lotus possessed the power to burn mountains and boil seas; after stimulating the lotus bloodline, the Fire Lotus opened up the Lotus Domain magical power, coupled with the Suzaku Fire that can burn the primordial spirit, that is, the soul body, the Moon Python that was just about to launch an attack panicked, and began to rush around in the Fire Lotus.

Hua Changxi used up nearly 30% of her spiritual power by using the three magical powers at the same time. Seeing that the Yueming Python was trapped, she immediately rushed out of the fire lotus and rode on the cloud to quickly leave Niutou Mountain.

A thousand meters after she flew out of Niutou Mountain, a "moo~" of an angry bull's cry sounded in the night sky, and then the figure of a giant bull with a bright white glow emerged on Niutou Mountain.

Hua Changxi originally thought that he had blocked Niutou Mountain with the fire lotus, causing the yellow bull to become furious. However, the next moment, a golden "卍" character flew out and directly smashed the giant bull to pieces.