"Speaking of this, there is one thing that I find very strange." Li Muye's eyes were solemn, "The trees here seem to grow naturally without any human intervention, but the height of the tall trees is more than 20 meters, which is a bit unusual."
Chen Xiao was puzzled, "What's suspicious about this?"
Li Muye said: "Among these trees, there are a few that grow exceptionally tall, with some reaching as high as 40 or 50 meters. I don't know what caused them, but they only grow to more than 20 meters."
Chen Xiao thought about it and couldn't help laughing: "There should be some kind of restriction in this wild garden, which prohibits any tree from being taller than twenty feet, so that it is neat and beautiful. No matter how much we let the plants grow freely, the nature of this wild garden is also a garden, which is artificial. Can't people trim it into shape?"
In Chen Xiao's opinion, this is nothing surprising. Which park has green areas that are not neatly maintained?
Li Muye found it a little difficult to understand, but when he saw that no one else expressed any doubts about it, he gave up pursuing the matter.
"It is precisely because the trees can only grow to a height of more than 20 meters at most, and the spiritual beasts cannot survive here because they grow too big. Therefore, the spiritual beasts here have more or less mutated. The first point is that their bodies are not very large. Another point is that it is probably due to the same reason that the strength of the spiritual beasts here is strangely consistent, and they are all roughly between the out-of-body state and the distraction state."
Jing Hui was stunned and cried out, "What's the logic behind this? It's understandable that the height of the trees is limited, after all, they grow in the ground and are easy to manipulate, but how is the strength of this spirit beast limited?"
Xi Yunting said calmly: "There is no overlord in the wild garden, and the strengths are all average. Whenever a spirit beast is about to break through, the other spirit beasts will instinctively attack in groups."
Several people suddenly realized that this was the case.
Xi Yunting said: "Even if the spirit beasts don't have this awareness, Chongshan must have set up relevant conditions before to restrict the appearance of spirit beasts with too high strength."
"From the state of out-of-body experience to the state of distraction..." Chen Xiao pondered, "It seems that I was right. Chongshan is used to leaving room for maneuver when doing things. These seven mountain-guarding spirit beasts are that opportunity."
Tang Ru was confused, "Xiaoxiao, what do you mean?"
Chen Xiao explained: "Chongshan has taken refuge here. The first two checkpoints he set up are not fatal. For friends who come to visit, those who know the method can go in directly. And those who don't know but have a strong desire to see him, if they can pass this test and find the key, they can enter smoothly."
Tong Nuonuo listened quietly for a long time, and finally said: "Then is the exit something in the spirit beast's territory, or the spirit beast itself?"
Chen Xiao sighed and said, "There is too little information to make any inferences. We can only try."
Tong Nuonuo nodded and said nothing.
Chen Xiao looked at him a little worriedly. He knew Tong Nuonuo must be very conflicted, but the timing was not right and he couldn't talk to him in detail.
The activity range of the spirit beasts drawn by Li Muye shows that the territories of the seven mountain-guarding spirit beasts are not small.
He said: "The seven spirit beasts are actually seven types of spirit beasts, some of which are solitary and some live in groups. Among them, more than half are probably not the original beasts, but their descendants."
Xi Yunting said: "The strength of the descendants should not be as strong as the original beast."
Jing Hui made the final decision: "Then choose one from the descendant spirit beasts."
Among the seven types of spiritual beasts, which one is the original beast and which one is the offspring? This requires Li Muye to observe more closely.
So, the group decided to move to the territory of one of the seven spiritual beasts.
They don't have much time left to maintain their lead. No matter how slow the Meat Mountain Giant moves, he should be able to come out of the magic circle in three or four days.
Chen Xiao and his friends found a place far away from the beast path and waited there, while Li Muye left the group and followed the clues left by the spirit beast.
Li Muye's expression changed, and he turned around and looked behind him: "Come out, why are you following me?"
After a while, Tong Nuonuo walked out from behind some trees, followed by a puppet.
Tong Nuonuo was embarrassed to be discovered, but then he changed his expression to be serious, "Actually, I have something to ask you. I have some questions in my mind, and I can't help but speak them out."
Li Muye didn't care about his somewhat impolite attitude. He looked at Xiaoxun with interest and said, "If you hadn't touched the leaves, I wouldn't have found you. How did you hide your smell?"
Hiding one's life is the specialty of experienced veterans, but hiding one's scent is a skill that only jungle experts above the master level can master.
Li Muye was very sure that Tong Nuonuo could not reach this level, which made him feel strange.
"I added a new function to Xiaoxun. It can cover me within a certain range so that living creatures cannot detect the smell." Tong Nuonuo said.
Li Muye raised his eyebrows in amazement, "You are truly a genius in mechanical engineering!"
As soon as you hear this function, you know it was a sudden idea of Tong Nuonuo, and it was developed specifically to deal with the wild garden beasts.
Tong Nuonuo was a little embarrassed by his straightforward praise. He said with a straight face: "Don't ignore what I said before. I have something to ask you."
Li Muye looked at his persistent eyes and chuckled, "If you can catch up, I will answer you."
After saying that, he turned around, jumped over the huge tree roots protruding from the ground, and quickly shuttled through the dense forest.
"Hey! Stop!" Tong Nuonuo shouted angrily.
Li Muye did not stop, and when he was about to disappear from sight, Tong Nuonuo panicked and quickly used her body skills to chase him.
The trees in this dense forest were full of branches and twigs, leaving no room for Tong Nuonuo's mechanism to fly. He could only jump and leap between the trees to chase.
Xiao Xun set the mode to follow him and also moved at a very fast speed.
Tong Nuonuo stared at the figure in front of him without blinking, but he was getting farther and farther away. After he could no longer see the person, he chased for a while, but when he found that he could not catch up at all, he gave up in frustration.
"He didn't even intend to answer me, how could I possibly catch up!" Tong Nuonuo muttered softly.
Turning around, he saw a completely unfamiliar place behind him. However, Tong Nuonuo was not very worried because Chen Xiao had specially left a mark on Xiaoxun to help him find his way back when he got lost.
Tong Nuonuo asked Xiaoxun to lead the way. Xiaoxun's eyes flickered and he turned around and walked in the direction he came from.
Just as he passed by a big tree next to a shallow pit, a figure flew down from above his head, grabbed his waist and carried him down from the tree.
Tong Nuonuo screamed in fright, and at the same time he made a sound, a big hand covered his mouth.
"You are so timid." Li Muye said jokingly. Tong Nuonuo's eyes were about to spit fire. She used both hands to pull his hands off, "Am I timid? It's you who is too scary! Who wouldn't be scared?"
Li Muye began to call out names in a serious manner: "Fellow Daoist Xi, Chen Xiao, Tang Ru, and Jing Hui from the Jin Chan Sect. I think their first reaction would at least be to defend themselves."
Tong Nuonuo choked. Compared to others, his reaction was a little slow, but it was only that slow, okay!
Tong Nuonuo was so angry that her cheeks flushed, "Let me go!"
Li Muye smiled and said, "You have something to ask me, why don't you take this opportunity to ask me?"
Tong Nuonuo's face straightened and he asked, "Why do you hate ordinary immortal cultivators so much?"
Tang Ru was also a foreigner, and occasionally suffered disadvantages and discrimination because of his identity, but he was not as cynical and jealous as Li Muye.
Li Muye was cold and ruthless towards ordinary cultivators. Sometimes, his gloominess and coldness came from the bottom of his heart. This situation was too unusual. There must be other reasons for this hatred.
Li Muye's smile faded. He put Tong Nuonuo down and turned his head away. It was obvious that he didn't want to answer.
Tong Nuonuo sighed, "You don't want to say it. But I don't want to be like this. I am always affected by your erratic mood, which confuses me..."
Li Muye turned his head and looked at him, with a strange light flashing in his eyes. That look made Tong Nuonuo uncomfortable. He felt shy at first, and then suddenly became angry about this emotion.
Guang felt that Li Muye was capricious, and his own moods were just as changeable.
Li Muye let go of him and looked at Xiao Xun, who had come back automatically because his master was too far away. "Do you know why I saved Tang Ru in the first place?"
Tong Nuonuo didn't understand why he suddenly brought up this matter, "You didn't say it was because you are all from a minority tribe."
"Yes." He nodded, took a breath and exhaled slowly, "Also, our experiences are very similar. We both suffered inhuman persecution."
Tong Nuonuo's eyes widened, and it took him a while to react. He stammered, "What? Do you mean, is that what I thought? Have you also been abused by a bad guy like Wu Xuzi?"
Li Muye was amused by his appearance. He twitched the corner of his mouth slightly and shook his head: "It's not just me, but our entire tribe, even our entire Heaven Realm, are controlled by the devil's clutches. We are living a life worse than death."
Tong Nuonuo couldn't believe it, "There is such a dark place in the realm of Taoism?"
Li Muye's expression was gloomy. "Of course there is. There are many people in the world of immortal cultivation who have been robbed of their own energies. Our tribe is just particularly unlucky. We were born in the wrong place and fell into the hands of a vicious force."
Tong Nuonuo felt a little dizzy, and asked, "Then how did you get away?"
Li Muye looked at him with an extremely complicated look. He said, "Speaking of which, this matter has a lot to do with you and your friends. It was because of the failure in Hanshan City that we were able to truly break free from the shackles."
Tong Nuonuo's expression became stern, and he said seriously: "Explain yourself clearly, what's going on?"
"My tribe is called Lishu. We are naturally close to animals and have a special inheritance method. After training, we can always produce excellent animal tamers. The Heaven Realm where my hometown is located is controlled by a large sect, and the entire Heaven Realm is subject to its rule..." Li Muye gritted his teeth, his expression became ferocious and full of hatred, "Only my tribe was used as a tool to make money because of the inheritance method. We were treated as slaves and treated wantonly. Humiliation, whipping and abuse are commonplace!"
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