Chapter 52 Leaving
Bai Zhuo's words made everyone fall into deep thought.
"System, can you give me some hints?" Jiang Yi asked the system for help.
The system was silent for a while, and then replied after a long while: "Host, you can look for anything that is out of place on this mountain."
Jiang Yi understood and began to walk back and forth, looking everywhere.
Since the system said so, it must be within this cycle.
"Miss Liuli, what are you looking for? Did you lose something?" Xu Yuan also stood up and asked her.
"Instead of guessing here, why not look around? Maybe we can find something?"
Jiang Yi even carefully observed the dead leaves that had not fallen from the dead branches, but still did not find anything out of place.
"What are we looking for? This aimless wandering isn't a solution." Xuyuan complained.
Jiang Yi casually mentioned, "A magical instrument that provides spiritual energy to this mountain? Or perhaps a breakthrough point for the maze mechanism? There must be something a little out of the ordinary, right?"
Shen Yu seemed to have thought of something and walked in one direction.
"Chen Yu, have you found anything?" Bai Zhuo followed him.
Jiang Yi and Xu Yuan also hurried to follow.
Shen Yu walked to a tree and stopped.
Jiang Yi and the other two also looked up at the tree with him.
"What's wrong with this tree? There's nothing different about it." asked Xuyuan.
There are many dead and blackened trees like this on this mountain. This is just one of them, and it does not fit the system's description of being abrupt at all.
Jiang Yi thought he had found the wrong tree and was about to look for something else when he suddenly discovered a hint of green on the top of the tree.
How can a dead tree grow green branches?
This tree is very suspicious.
"Xuyuan, can you climb a tree?" Jiang Yi patted Xuyuan's shoulder.
"Can I climb this tree? I'm afraid the tree will break before I climb up." Xu Yuan worried.
Jiang Yi smiled. If it was broken, it meant that this tree was not an important clue, and he could look for another one. If it was not broken, then he could be 100% sure that it was this tree.
"It's okay, just go up." Jiang Yi tricked him.
Chen Yu also thought of this, and did not say anything to stop him. He looked at Xu Yuan and waited for his next move.
Xuyuan saw that the three people had decided to let him climb the tree, and sighed helplessly.
"Okay, I'll go."
Xuyuan rolled up his sleeves and climbed up the tree.
Halfway up the mountain, I found that the black and dry trees did not tremble and fall to the ground, and they were even very strong.
Jiang Yi frowned, that was right.
"I'm at the top of the tree. What now? What should I do?" Xuyuan shouted from the tree downstairs.
"Can you see clearly in the distance?" Jiang Yi looked up and shouted.
Xu Yuan heard this and looked around: "It's foggy and I can't see clearly."
"Then pick the green leaf from the top of the tree!"
Xuyuan looked at the green leaf above his head, reached out and tried hard to pick it, but he found that he couldn't pick it at all.
"I can't pull it!"
It seems that brute force cannot easily solve the problem.
Jiang Yi fell into deep thought.
The obstacles that restrict people from leaving here are linked one after another, so the conditions for leaving are definitely not just this one.
It seems that besides this green leaf, there are other strange things to look for.
Jiang Yi walked away, looking here and there.
"Hey, why are you leaving? Should I come down?" Jiang Yu asked loudly when he saw them walking away without saying a word.
"It's okay, you don't have to come down yet, otherwise you will have to go up again later!" Jiang Yi asked him to stay in the tree first.
"What are you looking for?" Xu Yuan jumped nimbly and landed on a thicker branch. He sat on it with his legs dangling in the air, swaying back and forth.
Barren mountains are earth, and green leaves are wood. According to this logic, should we look for it in the aspects of gold, fire, and earth?
Jiang Yi was thinking in his heart.
This was just a guess. She wanted Chen Yu and Bai Zhuo to look into this area as well. Maybe they would find something unexpected.
Just as I was thinking about how to remind him, Bai Zhuo spoke.
"There are green leaves on the dead tree. As the saying goes, when dead trees grow old, spring comes. Water is the source of all things. Should we go find some water?"
Jiang Yi quickly agreed: "That makes sense."
After searching for a long time, I didn't see any place that resembled a water source.
"Here." A voice came from Bai Zhuo. Jiang Yi hurried over and found it was a small puddle.
"That's all there is, and there's nothing to hold the water?"
"Use this." Chen Yu took out a handkerchief.
This is made of high-quality silk and is blessed with special magical powers, making it waterproof and fireproof.
Jiang Yi took it and scooped out all the water in the puddle. Unexpectedly, water came out from the other side just after he scooped it out.
Jiang Yi thought it was amazing and wanted to scoop some more, but no matter how hard he tried, the water in the puddle remained exactly the same, and the water on the handkerchief remained exactly the same.
"Let's go."
It seems that this is all I can take, and it is enough.
"What's that over there?" In the darkness, Jiang Yi caught a glimpse of a dim golden color.
She took a closer look and saw that it was a piece of gold stone: "Pick it up?"
"Take it, in case it comes in handy," Chen Yu said.
Jiang Yi put it away.
Gold, wood, water, fire and earth. Now that we have gold, wood, water and earth, do we still need to find fire?
Coming to the tree where he made a wish, Jiang Yi thought for a moment, opened his handkerchief, and poured water on the roots of the tree.
The dead tree was motionless.
"Make a wish, and try again to see if you can pick that leaf."
Xuyuan stood up, reached the leaf, and pulled it gently, and the leaf was picked off.
"It's been taken off!" Xuyuan exclaimed.
Jiang Yi understood. It seemed that his guesses so far were correct.
Suddenly, the dead tree shook violently.
Xuyuan was shaken down and somersaulted, but he managed to stand and not fall.
Jiang Yi and the other two quickly dispersed.
But the dead tree seemed to come alive, pulling up its roots and moving towards the four people.
The four of them drew their weapons and prepared to fight.
"Bang!" Caught off guard, a thick and long branch of the dead tree smashed towards them with great force. The four people quickly dodged and a big hole was smashed into the ground.
Chen Yu and Bai Zhuo attacked first, and after trying many times, their spirit swords were unable to cut through the dry branches.
After several rounds, neither of their attacks worked.
Jiang Yi thought of the piece of gold and stone just now.
Jin Kemu.
"Chen Yu! Bai Zhuo! Catch it!" Jiang Yi cut the gold and stone into two and threw them to Chen Yu and Bai Zhuo respectively.
"Smash the gold and stone into pieces and smear them on the spirit sword!"
When the two heard this, they took action quickly.
In an instant, broken gold and stone were smeared on the two people's spiritual swords.
Attacking the dead tree again, the spirit sword easily cut off the branches.
The two men attacked in unison, one on the left and one on the right, stripping the branches of the dead tree bare.
Until finally, only the main trunk was left, and the two of them pierced the dead tree with their spiritual swords at the same time.
The magic sword was drawn out, and the dead tree collapsed with a loud bang.
At this time, the gray smoke in the sky began to gradually dissipate, and the sky returned to its clear blue color.
The air also became fresher.
Jiang Yi breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the illusion of the desolate mountain had been broken.
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