The Dead Zone is a place that few people can reach. Now most of its area is submerged by sea water, turning it into a huge island. However, due to its special nature, even the sea surface around the island is filled with black death energy.
When Zhou Zhilu and his group arrived at this unfamiliar sea area after a five-month journey by fleet, they looked at the deathly aura ahead with solemn expressions.
Fortunately, Zhou Zhilu had been to the underground world of the Dead Zone and witnessed the strong deathly aura there, so everyone was quite well prepared.
Hundreds of Buddhist disciples and students of sacred learning in Confucian robes walked out of the ship in the middle. They flew forward and landed in front of the fleet.
For a moment, the sounds of Buddhist scriptures and saints' books were heard one after another, and the golden and white lights intertwined to dispel the black fog ahead.
So with the help of the abilities of both factions, the fleet slowly moved forward.
Nearly a month later, a horn suddenly sounded in front of the fleet, followed by a horn at the rear, which spread to the entire fleet.
As the horn sounded, the entire fleet was in an uproar. Zhou Zhilu rushed out of the room, jumped to the top of the mast, and looked into the distance.
"The horn sounds, the Death Zone arrives..."
Zhou Zhilu squinted his eyes and vaguely saw the silhouette of a huge island through the thick black fog.
Fusu below also saw this scene. He ran back to the room crying with joy and slapped Huike on the bald head who was in meditation.
"Wake up! We've finally reached the Dead Zone! We've reached land!"
The black sea water washed over the beach, and a large ship stopped not far away. People jumped out of the ship one after another, stepped on the water, and reached the shore in a few moves.
"This is the dead zone...it's so monotonous." Fusu couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the scene in front of him.
The sand under my feet was snow-white, and the strange-shaped trees not far from the beach were black.
At this moment, they were wearing colorful clothes, as if they had walked into a black and white silent movie.
Zhou Zhilu squatted down and grabbed a handful of white sand. After feeling it, he said, "This sand has been contaminated by death energy for many years and is highly corrosive."
Then he shouted to the people behind him, "Everyone, be on guard at all times. Those below the seventh level must remember not to remove their Buddhist prayer beads or Taoist talismans! This island is filled with deathly aura. Without these to dispel the deadly aura, your bodies will age rapidly. Do you understand?"
"Yes!" everyone behind him answered in unison.
They were not the only fleet coming to the Dead Zone. The Great Song Dynasty joined forces with other races to form multiple teams, which set out in batches from different directions and landed in the Dead Zone from multiple angles.
Zhou Zhilu, who is now at the eighth level, is the leader of this team, managing a team of nearly a thousand people.
He flew into the air, looking down at the people below, and calmly gave the order: "Everyone is divided into ten teams, each with a hundred people. The two teams of the sea tribe will stay here and move the supplies on the ship.
"The Mountain Giants will penetrate ten miles into the area, searching for a place to set up camp. The Wood Spirits will be responsible for exploring the surroundings, identifying the creatures and plants near the camp. The Rock Tribe will explore freely, but no further than twenty miles from the coastline..."
After giving instructions to everyone, Zhou Zhilu, Fusu and Huike led a team of 100 people as the vanguard and began to explore the island.
"Sasha."
Zhou Zhilu rubbed a black leaf with his fingers and wondered, "The energy on these leaves is very strange. It's not just death energy, but also a special power. This power makes people feel... a little creepy."
Seeing this, Fusu also picked up a leaf, closed his eyes, and felt it for a while, shaking his head and saying, "It's cold, chilling to the touch, sticky, and invisible. It fears righteous energy and attacks the heart... Tsk, why does it sound the same as the ghost records in my Taoist temple?"
"Ghost Record?" Zhou Zhilu asked curiously.
"It's actually a book that records some strange events. The description of the power of ghosts in it is very similar to this feeling... Well, although they are called ghosts, they are actually special beings that absorb some special powers after the body dies and the soul remains."
Hui Ke, who was standing by, interrupted and said, "There are similar records in our Buddhist sect as well."
Zhou Zhilu glanced down at the leaf in his hand, rubbing it gently and saying, "The spirit is lingering, a special existence... Is there really a ghost on this island?"
As we moved forward, the originally black and white world suddenly appeared with another color, a red flower with five petals and tiny tentacles in the middle.
But this red color looks so strange among the dense black bushes.
Zhou Zhilu frowned as he looked at the red flowers blooming in the grass. He exchanged glances with Fusu and Huike beside him, and saw the caution in each other's eyes.
It was just a flower, but it made them feel a little palpitation.
Zhou Zhilu said to the back: "Everyone be careful, don't touch these flowers..."
"ah!!!"
However, before he could finish his words, a scream suddenly came from the team.
I saw a soldier's finger firmly attached to the pistil of the flower, and the tiny tentacles in the pistil were rapidly wrapping around the soldier's finger.
In the blink of an eye, the soldier's entire right hand was wrapped by tiny tentacles, and then red flowers grew from under the skin of the soldier's right hand, breaking through the skin and bones, and blooming on the hand with blood.
The soldier suddenly screamed miserably. Zhou Zhilu came to the soldier in an instant, turned his right hand into a palm, and swung it down in an instant. With a cry of pain, the soldier's right arm was cut off and fell to the ground.
After waving his hand to stop the bleeding of the soldier, he looked down and saw that the arm that fell to the ground was gradually withering and turning black, turning into a piece of black dead wood, and on the dead wood were several bright red flowers blooming.
This strange scene immediately caused the entire team to talk about it.
Zhou Zhilu shouted sternly, "Everyone, be quiet! This is the Death Zone, a forbidden area where one wrong step will cost you your life! No one is allowed to touch or shout without my permission. Do you hear me?"
"yes!"
However, after passing through the black jungle, a crimson garden appeared before everyone.
The boundless sea of red flowers, gently blown by the wind, countless red petals flying in the air.
"There are so many of them. How can we get through?" Fusu asked in surprise.
Zhou Zhilu twitched his long sword, frowned, and said, "If it really doesn't work, we can only destroy it without any effort."
Huike sighed, clasped his hands together and said, "Amitabha."
However, at this moment, as if sensing the malice of the crowd, a strong wind suddenly blew in the air, and countless red petals swept towards everyone like rain and snow.
Wherever the petals touched, gorgeous red flowers bloomed, and many soldiers in the rear were affected.
Suddenly, flowers sprouted on their faces, necks, and even in some people's eye sockets.
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