He desperately tried to pull at the vines, but his palms were cut and bleeding from the sharp thorns.

Even more terrifying, the vines, stimulated by the blood, went berserk and tightened violently!

At the same time, small bulges appeared on the vines, as if something was sucking or swallowing inside.

To our astonishment, the skin and flesh around Wu Yan's ankle withered and turned black at a visible speed, and then it actually peeled off, revealing the bare white bone!

"Save me, cut it down quickly!" Wu Yan pleaded with the burly men around him who had previously obeyed his commands, his eyes filled with despair and pleas.

But the burly men were already terrified. Looking at the blood-sucking vines and Wu Yan's feet, which had become bones, they didn't move forward. Instead, they screamed and retreated.

"Get away from me! Don't come any closer!"

They brandished their sticks, not at the vines, but at the air.

"Wu Yan!" The old villager's cloudy eyes were fixed on the vine, his facial muscles twitching as he shouted hoarsely:

"That thing is really strange; it can't be cut by ordinary things at all. You have to use iron tools that are stained with black dog blood!"

But where can you find black dog blood at a time like this?

Wu Yan's face was filled with despair.

In the chaos, I drew my lightning sword and charged forward!

Instead of cutting the vines directly, I stomped hard on Wu Yan's shin.

Wu Yan immediately let out a cry of pain, looking at me with a face full of terror, as if he thought I was going to take revenge on him at this moment.

I ignored him and didn't explain anything. Instead, I simply pressed down on the wildly writhing vines.

The lightning sword pierced directly at the junction of the vine and Wu Yan's flesh, and with a flick!

"Sizzle!"

With a muffled thud like severing a waterlogged ox tendon, the Thunderstrike Sword didn't completely cut through the dark purple vine, but it did cut through most of it.

Seeing this, Wu Yan desperately dragged himself backward and finally broke free. His gaze towards me turned grateful.

Luo Tianhe raised an eyebrow, disregarding Wu Yan's presence, and coldly snorted:

Why save someone like that?

“If we eat him, this Ghost Cry Vine will only become more difficult to deal with!” I explained quickly.

But I soon realized that everything I had just done was pointless!

More vines burst forth from every corner of the village, spreading through walls, roads, rooftops, and even ditches!

They no longer distinguished their targets, and would entangle any living creature they saw. Several villagers who were close to the edge and were terrified were instantly entangled by several vines and dragged away with screams.

"Run! Run for your lives!" Someone shouted, and the already collapsing crowd erupted into chaos!

While crying and shouting for their parents, they ran around like headless flies.

Some people rushed to their houses, only to find that the doorways and windowsills were already covered with black vines.

Some people tried to run away from the village, but the dark vines on the road leading to the village surged in like a tide, completely blocking their way out.

"Don't run around, stick together, back to back, this thing isn't that scary!" I yelled, but my voice was drowned out by the cries and screams. The crowd, already on the verge of collapse, didn't listen to my commands at all.

At this moment, they all resented their parents for not giving them two more legs.

Although there were many vines, they were not enough to block all the roads in the village.

Moreover, some vines, once they caught a villager, would stop moving and begin to focus on digesting him, thus giving other villagers a chance to escape.

It really proves the saying that when danger comes, you don't need to run faster than the danger itself, you just need to run faster than your companions.

I quickly scanned the entire area; the village had become a hunting ground for vines. The young tourists huddled in a circle, but they didn't run away.

Firstly, they weren't from the village, didn't know the way, and didn't even know where to run.

Secondly, they all regarded me as their pillar of support at this time and listened to what I said.

Sun Wang and his wife were also beside us, their bodies trembling like leaves.

"Come on, Sun Wang, let's go to your house. Your house is a brick house with small gaps!"

I made a quick decision: these villagers are hopeless and can't be commanded at all.

I brandished my lightning sword and slashed fiercely at the nearest vine that was lunging at me. The vine hissed and smoked where it was struck, and it recoiled slightly.

But more vines surged up, and we fought our way back, finally managing to reach Sun Wang's house with great difficulty.

However, although there were no vines in the cracks of the bricks at Sun Wang's house, the door panels were covered with them, as if they had been inlaid with a living black border.

"Break it down!" Luo Tianhe roared and slammed his fist against the door. The gate groaned under the strain. I used my lightning sword to knock the vines off the door, and Li Huai also stepped forward and kicked the door hard.

"Squeak, bang!"

The door was finally forced open, and we rushed in. We rolled over and braced ourselves against the door, but Luo Tianhe reacted quickly and pulled the cabinet over to block the door from behind.

The house was pitch black, with only the torchlight shining through the window. It was unclear whose house had been set on fire, but the whole village was brightly lit.

Sun Wang's wife fumbled to light a small oil lamp. The dim light barely illuminated the room, and everyone was panting heavily, their faces as pale as paper.

The young tourists were slumped on the ground, clearly terrified, while Sun Wang's wife was trembling as she held her child.

"The window!" Li Huai pointed to the window with trembling hands. Through the cracks in the wooden window, several thin black vines slowly reached in like the spitting tongues of venomous snakes.

I was completely exhausted, so I handed the lightning sword to Luo Tianhe.

Luo Tianhe rushed over and cut off all the vines that had reached in. The severed vines fell to the ground and writhed like earthworms for a few moments before slowly stiffening and flowing out bright red blood.

I was panting as I scanned the room.

That's when we realized that Wu Yan had also come along. He was limping, but he could still keep up with us, which shows he was really physically strong.

Sun Wang noticed him too, his eyes turning cold. He stepped forward and shouted:

"What are you doing in my house? Get out right now!"

Wu Yan's face turned pale and then red. If it were any other time, he would have started cursing, but now he was just a stray dog.

"If I go out, what if I open the door and that thing comes in?" he stammered, feeling ashamed even of himself, but the desire to survive made him choose to abandon his dignity.

"Hehe, didn't you say that thing was a mountain god? You are a chosen one of the gods, so why would you be afraid of that thing?"

Luo Tianhe scoffed, "That son of a bitch ate a lot of insults at me earlier."

He wasn't a saint, the type who could forgive and forget. Now that the other party was down on their luck, he naturally wanted to kick them while they were down.

Wu Yan simply pretended not to hear.