436 Are You the Real World Tree?
This familiar feeling made Qi Lanqing feel uneasy, but she did not back down. She carefully separated a wisp of her spiritual consciousness, attached it to the roots of the tree, went upstream, avoided the perception of the roots, and searched for the source of the roots bit by bit.
Following the tree roots into the void, the strong wind from the space cracks blew over, blowing Qi Lanqing's consciousness into pieces, leaving only a few bits and pieces struggling to cling to the tree roots, breaking through the void and coming to the place where the tree's body was.
The haze covered the whole area, and a strange atmosphere was everywhere. The bottomless abyss seemed to lead directly to the underworld, and when you looked up, what you saw was not the sky, but upside-down mountains.
This is Wanshanyuan.
The last time Qi Lanqing and Jiang Yichen were looking for star stones to make masks for Zhao Shi, they came here.
At this moment, Qi Lanqing finally understood where the familiar feeling about the tree roots came from.
That is the breath of Wanshanyuan.
Or to be more precise, it was the breath of the highly decayed man who attacked them last time in Wanshanyuan.
Qi Lanqing followed his intuition and raised his head, and soon found the mountain that had a corner of it chopped off by Jiang Yichen's sword last time among the ink-like inverted mountains.
At the top of the mountain, a thin man was sitting upside down.
Part of the man's figure and appearance were hidden in the thick fog, blocking him from detection by the outside world.
But on the exposed skin, one can clearly see that the flesh has been severely corroded, revealing blood holes of varying sizes.
Through these blood holes, one can see his beating internal organs, bright red flesh, and white bones.
This was the man who used his flute to control the monsters in Wanshanyuan to attack Qi Lanqing and Jiang Yichen last time.
The difference from last time is that behind him is no longer an empty ink world, but a towering tree outlined in ink.
The giant tree hung upside down, and like him, its entire body was severely corroded. Large holes in the corroded tree revealed a frightening decay and a vitality so strong that it seemed to devour everything.
If you look closely, you will find that these inverted mountains in the sky of Wanshanyuan are all branches of this giant tree.
The giant tree's huge root system spread across the entire sky, extending into the void and disappearing.
As if he had expected Qi Lanqing to appear, when he met Qi Lanqing's eyes, his blood-red lips, which were so severely decayed that the original features could not be seen, were raised high, connected to the back of his ears, revealing a weird smile.
The last time, it was with this kind of smile on his face that Qi Lanqing and Jiang Yichen were thrown into the dream of a Mahayana cultivator.
Qi Lanqing immediately realized that something was wrong and instinctively wanted to cut off the connection with this spiritual consciousness.
But she found that she couldn't do it!
The other party used his extremely high cultivation level to affect the connection between her body and this wisp of spiritual consciousness!
That is a force even more powerful than the Tribulation Crossing Stage!
Fear exploded in Qi Lanqing's heart, but he didn't dare to show it. While thinking about countermeasures, he asked calmly, "Excuse me, who are you?"
"What do you think?" A low and hoarse voice came from all directions. The man unbent his legs and stood up straight.
After not seeing him for several months, his body had become even more decayed. Although he looked like a decadent person, there was a thriving vitality emerging from him.
A bold guess emerged from Qi Lanqing's heart: "Could you be the real World Tree?"
Apart from the real World Tree, Qi Lanqing really couldn't think of anyone else who could have such a strong vitality.
The man was a little surprised: "You actually know that there are real and fake world trees."
"The vitality of the Devourer is not that strong. It devoured the real World Tree, so it can confuse all living beings in the form of the World Tree." Qi Lanqing did not expect that the World Tree was still alive and even cultivated into a human form. He became more and more confused, "Why are you in Wanshanyuan? No, Wanshanyuan was formed because of you?"
"When the Tiancheng Spirit Realm was still hanging on me, the branch that connected me to it grew here." The World Tree Spirit looked at the bottomless canyon of Wanshanyuan. "Later, I was devoured, and the various spiritual realms peeled off from my body. The branch located here died and formed this abyss, which is what you call the 'Wanshanyuan'."
Qi Lanqing finally understood where the special environment in Wanshanyuan came from: "Did the monster in Wanshanyuan grow from the spiritual power left in this branch?"
The tree spirit nodded and looked down at the surroundings: "Even this upside-down, yin-yang environment is caused by this spiritual power."
"Then the Mahayana dream that Yichen and I entered last time, was it the one of Demon Lord Jiangxiao?" Qi Lanqing asked tentatively.
The tree spirit sneered: "You are very smart. You even guessed this. One hundred thousand years ago, the demon world invaded the Tiancheng spirit world. Although Demon Lord Jiang Xiao failed to discover my existence, he did notice the abnormality of Wanshanyuan and guessed that this place was related to the World Tree."
"When he was sealed, he threw in a nightmare as a backup plan and hid it in these upside-down mountains, which is the one you entered later." The tree spirit laughed mischievously when he said this, "I didn't expect that a great demon lord in the Mahayana stage would also have a nightmare."
Qi Lanqing thought that perhaps it was because he had cultivated to the Mahayana stage, but was beaten like that by the Immortal Master Mingchen that he had the nightmare.
Thinking of how cute Xiao Jiangxiao was, she didn't say this to anyone. Taking advantage of the fact that the tree spirit was in a good mood and would answer any questions, she quickly asked the main point: "What did Jiang Xiao want to do by leaving this dream behind?"
"The demon world was on the verge of death, and he wanted to fight for a way out for the demons. After being defeated by Mingchen in the Tiancheng Spirit World, he sensed some of my aura from Wanshanyuan, and wanted to use the World Tree to find another spirit world."
"Unfortunately, Mingchen acted faster and sealed Jiangxiao before he could make any other preparations. If it weren't for the little girl named Jiang Xin who broke in and rescued you and your wife, Jiangxiao would probably have used this dream to lead the army of the demon world to attack the Tiancheng spirit world again."
Hearing the tree spirit mention again that the couple was imprisoned in Jiang Xiao's dream, Qi Lanqing felt uneasy: "Why did you send them there?"
The tree spirit's smile, which had already stretched to the back of its ears, became even brighter, but its voice became even deeper: "Can't you see that I want to devour you?"
Before he finished his words, a bone flute appeared from thin air. The cold wind penetrated the bone flute, making a long, mournful howl.
The tree spirit transformed into a human-shaped body and disappeared. The shadow of the giant tree behind him twisted and grew wildly, covering the entire Wanshan Abyss in the blink of an eye, and even continued to spread outward.
Originally, due to its own special nature, the tree spirit could only live in Wanshanyuan, a place filled with the spiritual power of the world's trees, and could not leave.
Over the years, he has devoured enough cultivators and absorbed enough spiritual power, which is enough for him to seep his power out of Wanshanyuan.
Now he was going to follow Qi Lanqing's spiritual consciousness and descend upon Yunming City, devour all the people in the city, and regain his freedom!
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