It's not like the youth travel (5)
"Are you sure he will be in the Tree of Destiny?" Lou Guan asked doubtfully.
Xue Fuqing, however, looked confident. She fiddled with her black compass and whispered, "Wang Kun has always been fascinated by feng shui. If he escapes, he'll definitely flee to the Destiny Tree. Even if we can't find him there, we can probably find some clues by following the branches of the Destiny Tree."
When Lou Guan heard this, he felt it made sense, so he also took out his compass.
"But," he scratched his head and said doubtfully, "I'm afraid we can't enter the Tree of Destiny."
Xue Fuqing glanced at him and sneered: "Get rid of the door, only you can't get in."
Could she already enter the Tree of Destiny independently? Lou Guan stared at Xue Fuqing in shock, his mouth hanging open. Xue Fuqing had never had much of a presence in the Feng Shui Academy, perhaps best known for always placing second in the results. Who would have thought this guy would quietly make a fortune?
"Don't look at me like that, otherwise I'll think you're going to bring me up again." Xue Fuqing stared at him with a look that said, "I know what you're thinking," and said slowly.
Lou Guan chuckled a few times and changed the subject, "Then let's get started."
After saying this, he closed his eyes and poured power into the compass. After waiting for a long time, a gust of wind suddenly blew beside his cheek, fierce and carrying a strong sense of danger. Lou Guan habitually shrank his neck and rolled to the side. When he opened his eyes, he found that it was Xue Fuqing.
"What are you doing?!" He yelled, his eyes wide open. Xue Fuqing stared at him for a moment, looking at him as if he were mentally retarded, and then scared away the people around who wanted to watch the fun. He then took Lou Guan's hand and pulled him into his arms.
Lou Guan was shocked and quickly stretched out his hand to separate the two people's chests, saying in panic: "You are sick, Xue Fuqing, you you you..."
"Close your eyes and relax." Xue Fuqing's cold voice slowly entered his ears, and with it came a constant flow of power from his wrist. This power was like a silk thread, entwined between him and Xue Fuqing.
In a trance, the scene before his eyes changed rapidly. When he opened his eyes again, he was faced with a vast sea of stars. Xue Fuqing stood beside him with his arms folded, gazing at the large tree growing in the sea of stars.
"Is this the Tree of Destiny?" Lou Guan murmured. Xue Fuqing ignored him and walked forward on her own. As she left, Lou Guan felt a strange pulling force, pushing him towards Xue Fuqing. As he got closer, he heard her cold voice.
"I want to bring you into the Tree of Destiny. I need skin contact with you, otherwise I can't bring you in."
Hearing this, Lou Guan suddenly remembered his ugly appearance of being startled and laughed dryly.
"I can sense Wang Kun's breath. He will be there in a few steps." Xue Fuqing explained as he walked forward.
That tree is really huge. From a distance, you can see its complicated branches intertwined with each other. Some are very long, some are broken in the middle, some cling to other branches to grow, and some climb upwards on their own...
"how so?"
Xue Fuqing's solemn voice brought Lou Guan's thoughts back to reality.
A dark aura spread from the trunk of the Tree of Destiny before them, and swarms of black insects descended from countless branches. The original branches and leaves withered, and the black insects transformed into humanoid forms, disappearing into the pitch-black void. Xue Fuqing, walking in front, witnessed the insects transforming into spirits before Lou Guan.
Her pupils shrank slightly, and she trembled as she stepped back, looking terrified. Lou Guan only saw black insects falling everywhere. Seeing this, he asked curiously, "They are just bugs, right? There's nothing to be afraid of..."
"No!" Xue Fuqing became excited, his usually calm face twisted. "This isn't an ordinary bug. This bug can transform into a spirit!"
Lou Guan thought she was crazy. How could she say such baseless and absurd things? The spirits had plagued the Floating Island for centuries. They were cruel and bloodthirsty by nature, skilled at deceiving people. They had committed countless murders over the centuries and were an indelible nightmare in everyone's heart. And the Tree of Destiny...
The Tree of Destiny is the end point of Feng Shui. It is a sacred place in the hearts of those who embark on the path of Feng Shui and the dream they pursue throughout their lives. How could it be related to spiritual people?
But the next moment, the worm that was wriggling on the ground suddenly cracked open, and a thick black gas rushed out of its fat body, and a familiar smell hit the face.
The insect, just as Xue Fuqing had said, had transformed into a spirit. Lou Guan was stunned and stood frozen in place, clearly unable to accept this fact. At this moment, Xue Fuqing's cold voice came from the side: "This world has gone crazy."
"How could this happen?" He found it hard to believe what he saw, but he could not ignore these spirits born from the bodies of insects.
How ironic! The Tree of Destiny, which is regarded as a treasure by humans, is actually the source of disaster for the spirits.
"If we tell others about what we've seen, no one will believe it, right?" Xue Fuqing scoffed, looking down at the insects gathering in ever-increasing numbers. Lou Guan was speechless for a moment.
After a while, Xue Fuqing raised her head again and stared at the top of the leafy tree of destiny for a while. As if she had made up her mind, she turned around and walked back. Lou Guan groaned and followed her pace, asking in confusion, "Why don't you go to the front and take a look? Maybe there's some misunderstanding?"
Xue Fuqing turned around and gave him a cold look, then quickened his pace: "If you want to turn a blind eye, I won't stop you."
Lou Guan sighed heavily and followed her to explain, "Don't be impulsive. Let's go back and discuss it carefully."
Xue Fuqing looked up at the pitch-black void and whispered, "There's no time."
Lou Guan didn't know where she got the conclusion that she had no time. He responded randomly and followed her closely.
Suddenly, not far ahead, a white figure flashed by. It looked very much like the missing Wang Kun. The two exchanged glances and chased in that direction. But they came up empty-handed.
"Is that you, Wang Kun?" Xue Fuqing tried shouting into the air a few times, but there was no response. Lou Guan searched the area for a while but found nothing.
Is it an illusion?
But how is it possible for two people to have the same hallucination at the same time?
"I found it, haha, I found it!" Another burst of laughter came from Wang Kun. Xue Fuqing locked onto his direction almost the moment the voice rang out, but unfortunately, he only grabbed a piece of his clothes before Wang Kun disappeared into the darkness again.
It wasn't an illusion, but her Feng Shui technique was about to expire. She had no time to continue looking for the white figure, so she could only grab Lou Guan's arm and pull him back to reality.
As soon as I opened my eyes, screams exploded in my ears one after another.
"The sky! The sky has turned completely black!" someone shouted in panic. Xue Fuqing calmed down and squinted his eyes to look upward in space.
At a glance, it appears to be a mass of dark clouds, but the space created by Feng Shui will not experience any weather changes. The only possibility is that the space is suppressed by a coercive force.
As expected, the elders supporting the formation began to vomit blood one after another, and the space suddenly began to turn upside down. The crowd screamed and was in chaos. Xue Fuqing barely managed to stand firm, grabbed Lou Guan, who was screaming beside him, and gritted his teeth as he rushed to the elders.
Not only were those sword-fighting disciples cowardly, they also took advantage of the situation. They shouted that there were too many of them, and attacked the powerless Feng Shui disciples. The entire space was instantly filled with blood and screams.
"What a bunch of idiots!" Xue Fuqing cursed inwardly, quickly gliding behind an elder and injecting spiritual energy into the compass, stabilizing the formation. Lou Guan, though a little confused, quickly adjusted himself and injected spiritual energy into the formation. Working together, they finally stabilized the space.
"Alright? Alright!" A kendo disciple, his face splattered with blood, dropped his sword as if awakened from a dream. A group of kendo disciples, like bullies who had suddenly turned over a new leaf, hugged each other and burst into tears.
If we ignore the Feng Shui Academy disciples lying on the ground with their eyes open, they look really pitiful.
Hypocrisy. Xue Fuqing couldn't control his eye roll and injected another heavy spiritual power into the compass.
The black clouds lingering in the sky gradually revealed their true appearance. They were tens of thousands of spiritual people. They smelled the leaked spiritual energy and knew that they were hiding here. They wanted to trap them to death in this space.
"If we continue to stay here, we will be trapped to death." Xue Fuqing said to Lou Guan, "The only solution now is to go out and fight."
Her voice was neither too loud nor too soft, just enough to carry throughout the room. But except for Lou Guan, everyone else pretended not to hear. Silence fell over the crowd, and everyone silently lowered their heads.
Xue Fuqing looked at her cowardly classmates, her anger rising rapidly. Pointing at the group of people who couldn't even look her in the eye, she spoke in a clear voice, suppressed with anger: "Staying here means death, and leaving also means death. Leaving at least offers a glimmer of hope. If you survive, you might even have a chance to find the source of the Spirit Rebellion and resolve it once and for all. Staying here means there's no hope at all."
"Are you willing?!"
Her words were so sharp that they made people tremble. But despite this, the crowd remained silent. Xue Fuqing was furious and turned away without saying anything. Lou Guan saw her angry look and reached out to pat her shoulder gently.
After a while, a disciple, carrying a sword, stood up and said, "Of course we understand the truth you're talking about, but it's endlessly difficult. Staying here might save our lives and await rescue, but leaving is a dead end. How can we find the cause of the spiritual rebellion if we die?"
"We are not afraid of death, we are just cautious."
Hearing this, Xue Fuqing sneered and closed his eyes tiredly: "If it is really as you said, 'waiting for rescue,' why has it been so long, except for the increasing number of spirits, there is no news from the outside world?"
The man seemed to have been deeply troubled by what he said. He choked for a moment and said stubbornly, "It must be...it must be that the Feng Shui technique is too secretive, and it is difficult for the rescuers to discover it..."
"Stop kidding yourself!" Xue Fuqing shouted angrily, unable to bear it any longer. "The Floating Island has completely fallen. The spirits have completely occupied the Floating Island. No one will come to save us!"
In fact, everyone had gradually realized this fact in the past few days, but they had never pointed it out. When she suddenly said it, instead of facing the reality bravely, everyone became angry and embarrassed.
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