Chapter 12: Fruit of Wisdom on the Tree of Wisdom

"Old Wei, don't you agree?"

Wei Shutong ignored Zhao Jie's words and looked at Xia Feng deeply, his face expressionless: "Forget it, let's get started."

Although he was not optimistic about Xia Feng, there was no turning back now. He could only pray that this reckless boy could walk out of the Evil Dragon Forest alive.

"The rules are simple. The Evil Dragon Forest is divided into light and heavy disaster areas. The deeper you go, the faster you'll be eroded by the disaster.

If you don't leave in time, the result will be loss of sanity and death, or even becoming a slave to evil.

At the border of the Light and Heavy Disaster Zones, there is a tree called the Wisdom Tree. Eating the Wisdom Fruit from the Wisdom Tree can effectively restore sanity and resist the erosion of disasters."

Zhao Jie slowly explained the rules. "It's important to note that whenever a Tree of Wisdom appears, a Tree of Life will inevitably appear nearby. Your ultimate goal is to pick the Life Fruit from the Tree of Life! Whoever successfully brings back the Life Fruit wins."

At the end, Zhao Jie grinned, "Also, this time, there's no time limit, no restrictions on methods, no restrictions on life or death!"

Xia Feng was not surprised by Zhao Jie's last words. After all, this was the social ethos of Liuwei Society. They would use any means to achieve their goals. Zhao Jie was a staunch supporter of the winner being king.

Because of this, Qi Xiao killed several of his fellow disciples, and Zhao Jie didn't care at all.

If Xia Feng did not have the identity of a student of Weiyang College, he would have been assassinated by Qi Xiao long ago, instead of using the roundabout way of saving the country by marrying into the family to eliminate his qualification to compete.

"Okay, come with me after you're mentally prepared."

After Zhao Jie presented the token, Xia Feng and Qi Xiao followed Zhao Jie into the city gate corridor.

He didn't feel anything at first, but as he went deeper, Xia Feng suddenly felt his heart tighten.

"Dongdong-dongdong-dong"

His heartbeat obviously quickened a few beats. This was the excitement and desire after sensing the delicious taste. Xia Feng swallowed his saliva. He smelled a wonderful scent. It was -

The taste of Erli!

"Is this Erli?" Qi Xiao walked in front, his face a little pale. He suddenly stopped and leaned against the wall, a little out of breath.

Zhao Jie, who was at the front, stopped and turned around to say, "When evil forces gather, they form an evil force field. The Evil Dragon Forest is currently the largest evil force field outside of the Dark Realm. The first time you enter it, you'll feel chest tightness and shortness of breath, but it'll take a while to get used to it."

As he spoke, he looked at Xia Feng at the back with some confusion.

Xia Feng was stunned for a moment, and quickly leaned against the wall to catch his breath, "Oh, it hurts so much!"

Zhao Jie looked down at his watch and said, "I'll give you a minute to adjust. We can't stay in the tunnel for too long."

After hearing this, Qi Xiao quickly closed his eyes and began to adapt to the evil force field.

Xia Feng followed suit, closing his eyes and trying hard to suppress his rapid heartbeat. He was about to die. He guessed that it was because he lacked evil energy too much. Sensing such a huge evil energy field, he had a stress reaction.

It's like a dying person who has been thirsty in the desert for three days and three nights. When he sees a bottle of mineral water, he will go crazy and rush to grab it.

He narrowed his eyes, while Qi Xiao was still closing his eyes to adapt. Xia Feng had never felt that a minute could be so long.

"Young man, if you regret it, you still have a chance to go back." Zhao Jie glanced at Xia Feng indifferently and suddenly spoke.

Xia Feng looked up at Zhao Jie and said, "Uncle Zhao, Uncle Zhao, my sword has been thirsty for a long time. Can you please stop talking nonsense here?"

Seeing Xia Feng's determined eyes, no sign of retreat and even a little anxious, Zhao Jie nodded.

"Let's go, the exit is just ahead."

After walking a few steps, a dim blood-red light appeared in front of him. After a dazzling moment, Xia Feng squinted his eyes and saw a large, dark and dense forest. A strange, crescent blood moon hung in the sky, like the eye of a terrifying demon, watching this world mockingly.

It gives people a great sense of oppression.

"Don't stare at the blood moon for too long. It will only speed up the process of you being eroded by evil spirits and losing your sanity." Zhao Jie said calmly.

Qi Xiao's pupils shrank and he quickly lowered his head and looked away.

Xia Feng's pupils shrank, and he quickly opened his eyes wide and stared at the blood moon in the sky.

He seemed to see a beautiful fairy winking at him in a very provocative manner, which immediately boosted his adrenaline!

Joy, so joyful. But he just looked at it for a moment longer, then lowered his head and pretended to be scared.

"Once you cross this line, you will truly enter the Evil Dragon Forest, and the competition will officially begin."

Zhao Jie pointed to the red line ahead and said indifferently, "I'll wait here for you. Whoever brings the Life Fruit to the red line first will win."

"Okay, let's all go in."

As soon as Zhao Jie finished speaking, Qi Xiao felt a gust of wind passing by him, and Xia Feng disappeared into the forest without a trace.

"Heh~" Qi Xiao sneered disdainfully, took a step forward, and followed leisurely.

He was not in a hurry at all. After all, as he went deeper into the forest, the concentration of evil energy around him would rise sharply, and his rationality would decrease rapidly. Moreover, Xia Feng was unlikely to learn the C-level spiritual clothing - "Evil Filter" which would only be learned in the fourth grade.

"Filtering Evil" can help spiritualists significantly reduce the concentration of evil force invading the body surface, so as to achieve the goal of surviving for a long time in the evil force field.

Therefore, Qi Xiao, who was proficient in "Filtering Evil", was not in a hurry at all. After all, although this was the light evil zone at the outermost part of the Evil Dragon Forest, the concentration of evil force was still fatal to low-level spiritualists like them, and they could not stay here for long.

For this reason, Qi Xiao was very sure that the further he went, the slower this whimsical Junior Brother Xia would go, and he might not even reach his destination.

By then, he would have far more spiritual power than Xia Feng, so he could naturally surpass him easily.

Therefore, his current strategy is to first obtain the Wisdom Fruit, eat it to ensure his safety, then quickly find the Life Fruit, and finally kill Xia Feng and end the game easily.

*

“Delicious, superb, delicious!”

A black-haired young man in a stand-up collar windbreaker stood on a tree branch. He looked up at the moon with his arms wide open, muttering something incomprehensible. He looked like a perverted cult leader.

After entering the forest, he did not go to his destination immediately, but secretly found a remote place to begin testing the power of the Demon Heart.

He stretched out his hand and pinched it, and the empty air seemed to be compressed to the extreme, releasing a wisp of light gray mist and a large pool of blood-red mist.

The gray fog faintly flashed with golden light under the light, emitting a sweet fragrance. Xia Feng sniffed it and it tasted like vanilla ice cream, sweet, icy and cool, refreshing to the heart.

He also sniffed the blood-red mist, and the stench almost made him vomit, so he quickly threw it aside.

“Zizi—”

The blood-colored mist collided with the trees, and they quickly withered.

But the next moment, it began to grow wildly again, but its leaves turned blood red. Then, several gorgeous flowers appeared. Ten eyes suddenly opened in the center of the flowers, and they turned to look at Xia Feng with malice in their eyes.

"." Xia Feng was silent for half a second, then chopped it off with his backhand several times, "What are you looking at!"

Newly born flowers: "."

According to what we learned from textbooks, Evil Force is composed of "blood beast impurities" and "Evil Spirit Liquid".

This blood-colored mist should be the "blood beast impurities", which can cause organic creatures to mutate, and it cannot be absorbed by the evil demon's heart.

As for the gray mist with a vanilla-flavored and cool scent, it is the "Evil Spirit Liquid" and can be absorbed by the Evil Demon's heart.

The concentration of erli that people often talk about is not the proportion of erli in the air, but the proportion of erli in the erli.

So in essence, the Demon Heart relies on absorbing the "Dark Spirit Liquid" in the Dark Force to repair the heart and enhance its activity.

The wisp of gray mist just now gave him a full 30 seconds of life.

Damn, it's just a drop in the bucket.

His heart was still beating violently, as if it was dissatisfied with the evil spirit liquid that was not enough to fill his teeth. Xia Feng thought about it and looked up into the depths of the dark forest.

"It seems that if we want to significantly extend the time, we must enter an area with a high concentration of leukemia, or even directly find the legendary evil dragon that has been sleeping for ten thousand years!"

As the most terrifying existence in this forest, the concentration of evil dragons around them must be ridiculously high. When he thought of this, he felt a little dry in the mouth.

That must be a delicious dish that will make you crazy happy!

“Go, go, go!”

After thinking about the goal, Xia Feng stopped hesitating and ran as fast as he could into the depths of the forest.

While running, he was thinking about how to better utilize the power synchronized from Mu Qingtong.

[Spiritual Pressure Level: First Level]

[Combat: Master Level (smell, hearing, vision, nerve reaction, combat foresight)]

[N-level Spirit Clothes (6): Illuminating Clothes, Fireball Flash, Ice Soul Blade, Messenger Elf, Eye of Investigation, Bronze Mask]

[D-level Spiritual Clothes (2): Concealed Spiritual Clothes, Triple Waves]

[Spiritual Weapon: *To be Awakened*]

Among the eight spiritual garments, the lighting garment can emit light for illumination, and the bronze mask is used to reduce the sense of presence. They almost have literal functions, and are all auxiliary spiritual garments.

As for Fireball Flash and Ice Blade? The former can throw a fist-sized fireball, and the latter can throw an ice blade. Together with the Eye of Reconnaissance, they are known as the three-piece set for noobs.

These are the three spiritual garments that all first-year students must learn and are the easiest to learn.

This shows how lazy Mu Qingtong has been since she entered school. If she hadn't accidentally learned the triple wave yesterday, she would have never taken the initiative to learn any attack skills.

No, she didn’t learn the triple wave on her own initiative!

By the way, why didn’t this woman learn so many D-level spiritual clothes, but only learned the one about concealment?

According to Mu Qingtong's personality, she would never waste her energy on learning a spiritual garment that would be of little use to her.

Xia Feng pondered for a moment, and suddenly a flash of inspiration struck him. He seemed to understand something.

Concealment combined with the Bronze Mask and Ice Soul Blade, wow, isn't this Lanling King's backstab skill?

It’s worth mentioning that although the bronze mask is an N-level spiritual garment, it was created by Mu Qingtong himself! !

Using a very simple spirit particle structure, a strange spirit garment that can reduce one's own presence was created.

I can only say that this is very Mu Qingtong

Although the invisible spirit robe is called invisible, you can still vaguely see a vague outline. It is not truly invisible, but it is different when combined with the bronze mask.

Even though the invisible spirit robe still has an outline, after its presence is weakened by the bronze mask, it can enter a true stealth state, and it is difficult for the enemy to detect her approach!

"Very good, I've wasted my time!"

but--

Unfortunately, speed-type spiritual clothing is the key for him now.

The arrogant Mu Qingtong probably memorized the spirit particle structure diagram of the D-level spirit clothing "Shadow Step", but was too lazy to analyze it.

It's a scam.

As for the One-tail Spirit Clothes, the progress has reached 98%, only one inner

"roar!!!"

Suddenly, a sharp roar was heard from afar, shaking the surrounding trees three times, and an unknown red-eyed bird flew into the sky in panic.

"Is this the roar of the evil beast?"

Xia Feng stopped in confusion and looked down at the map in his hand with some uncertainty.

"According to the map, this is still the Light Evil Zone. Why are there still Evil Beasts?"

The environment of the light disaster zone is not the best living environment for the nightmare beasts, so the nightmare beasts in the evil dragon forest only move in the heavy disaster zone and rarely enter the light disaster zone.

While thinking, he jumped onto the treetop and looked into the distance.

I saw a huge black hole appearing in the distant sky, and a beast shaped like a griffin was fleeing out in terror, struggling desperately against the huge suction of the black hole.

"roar!!!"

It was futile, it raged helplessly and was swallowed up by the black hole bit by bit.

"Black hole. Is this Sanamu's ability?"

Xia Feng recalled that there are four types of evil beasts: disaster, misfortune, catastrophe, and emptiness.

Sanamu is a type of disaster. It will randomly release black holes, swallow everything around it, and then spit it out from another black hole.

Therefore, the natural disaster caused by the Sanamu passage is also called the black hole disaster.

"He's gone."

Xia Feng jumped off the treetop, turned around and left. Since this road was blocked, he decided to take a detour.

According to the map, there is a fruit-bearing tree of wisdom in the northwest. Although the main purpose of his trip is to go deep into the disaster area to find the evil dragon, it is not impossible to complete the competition by chance.

I guess Qi Xiao should be almost at his destination now, so he needs to hurry.

*

“Hohoho~~”

Qi Xiao's face was pale as he leaned against the tree trunk, gasping for breath. He shook his head a little unconsciously, gritting his teeth and waving his hands around, "Get out! Get out of here!!"

There was an indescribable intermittent whisper in his ears, mixed with sharp and noisy mumbling, surrounding him 720 degrees, as if countless humans, insects and beasts were roaring at him.

Snap——

The knife was inserted into his forearm with the backhand, blood splattered, and Qi Xiao suddenly woke up, but his eyes were still bloodshot, the veins on his neck and forehead were bulging terrifyingly, and he was gasping for breath like a demented beast.

"Damn it! I still underestimated the concentration of evil energy in the light evil zone!"

He pressed his temples, trying to keep himself rational and sober.

After a while, he finally calmed down, looked down at the map, and grinned excitedly, "It's right ahead!"

He quickly stood up and crawled forward. After taking a few steps, he suddenly saw the light!

A big tree over ten meters tall and full of dark red small fruits comes into view. That is the Tree of Wisdom!

Further behind the Tree of Wisdom was a small grassland in the forest. In the center of the grassland stood a huge tree with pale leaves and stems. On the tree was a single pear-shaped fruit of life with a crystal clear skin.

“Huh~~”

Qi Xiao grinned and staggered towards the tree of wisdom. As long as he ate a fruit of wisdom, he would be able to regain his sanity and escape the threat of death!

Then--

Then he could pick all the wisdom fruits and wait leisurely for the arrival of Xia Feng.

Even the most arrogant genius, in the face of death, a fruit of wisdom is enough to make him kneel at his feet and beg for mercy.

(End of this chapter)