Danger?
Where is it dangerous?
It's just a mutated willow tree, isn't it?
Her cheap husband is hindering her from leveling up and building her career.
Jiang Si twisted her wrist, freeing herself from his grasp, grabbed his shoulder, pulled him back, and stepped forward: "Don't go, it's dangerous, I'll do it!"
Agares' pupils contracted slightly, and he raised his foot to step forward.
Jiang Si noticed that he was still going to stop her, so she glanced at him and reminded him again, "Why don't you take this opportunity to heal the wound on your mouth? It's really damaging to your image, Marshal Agares!"
There was no one else around, did he bite himself?
Is he really that bored?
Agares lowered his foot, his gaze deep as he stared at Jiang Si: "If someone likes it, then it'll stay!"
Does anyone like it?
Who likes it?
Anyway, she doesn't like it.
Jiang Si's voice turned cold: "Suit yourself, but stand back a bit, don't get your blood splattered all over you!"
Agares did not retreat, but stood still. "It's alright!"
He said that.
She can't be blamed for splattering his blood all over him.
Jiang Si's expression turned serious. She picked up her Tang sword and walked towards the huge black willow. When she reached its base and looked up, the endless branches of the black willow resembled a giant fan.
The people hanging above were skeletons, colliding with each other and making a whooshing sound. The soil underfoot was dark red and sticky, and there were many broken and withered bones.
With a snap, Jiang Si broke a leg bone on the ground. The huge willow tree heard the sound and waved its thin, silk-like branches at Jiang Si.
Jiang Si gripped the knife hilt with both hands and slashed at the branch attacking her. The knife struck the thin, black branch, and the green willow branches wrapped around the black branch along with her knife.
She drew her knife, and the branch that attacked her was fighting with the willow. She continued forward with her knife, walked to the black willow, and reached out to touch the huge willow trunk.
This is a poplar tree, a mutated poplar tree, whose branches have turned into willow branches that droop down like a beaded curtain!
In ancient China 3,000 years ago, the poplar tree was the oldest species in the world at that time, and was known as the "living fossil tree".
Some people praise it: "Living for a thousand years without dying, standing for a thousand years after death, remaining undecayed for a thousand years after falling, the three-thousand-year-old poplar, a history of one hundred million years!"
The mutated poplar tree in front of us has 16 levels and has stood here for at least a thousand years.
It mutated so that instead of drawing nutrients and water from the soil, it began to eat meat and drink blood.
It uses its branches to encircle people, zombies, and animals, strangling them and hanging them from its willow branches. Then, it pierces their hearts with sharp branches, and blood flows from their hearts, onto the branches, and onto the ground, providing nutrients for its roots.
What attacked them earlier were the branches of this thing. Its roots are stuck here and can't move, so it can only rely on its dense branches to spread out to a distance and find its food.
Jiang Si reached out and grabbed a branch, using it as leverage to flip upwards. Her body moved lightly upwards, and after dozens of jumps, she arrived at the top of the willow tree.
The willow trees have gained the upper hand, with green branches overshadowing the black branches, making the whole tree a mix of green and black, as if it has become a new mutated tree.
She stood atop the willow tree, looking down, and her cheap husband looked smaller than before.
She stomped on the willow tree and said to the willow tree entwined around it, "Little willow tree, your true form has gone to find the Zombie King. You must not be defeated by the level 16 willow tree, otherwise your true form will laugh at you and look down on you even more, thinking you are just a little piece of trash!"
A branch of the willow tree, which was entwined with the willow, waved at the ginger shreds, as if to say, "What the main body can do, this branch can do too."
Jiang Si watched Yan Liu sway and wave her sword, a smirk playing on her lips as she twirled the Tang sword in her hand: "Little darling, I knew you could do it, you've got her!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he plunged the Tang sword in his hand into the very center of the black willow tree, and instantly the huge black willow branches stood upright.
The willow branches entwine around it, dragging it downwards.
Jiang Si released her spiritual energy, which enveloped the blade, and gripped the hilt with her left hand. She pressed down and cleaved a hole in the center of the black willow tree trunk.
With a hiss, the knife continued downwards, pulling her down with it.
The tree trunk, too large for several people to encircle, plummeted from above, giving the feeling of falling off a cliff, with nothing to do with the unknown below.
Two or three minutes later, Jiang Si stepped onto the ground. At the same time, a putrid smell wafted over. She quickly took something out of her spatial storage and stuffed it into her nose, then condensed a fireball to illuminate the surroundings.
However, when she looked around, her pupils constricted. The roots of the huge mutated willow tree were rotting, oozing a scarlet, blood-like sap.
The sap corrodes the tree, causing it to slowly rot. Several plump, white tree maggots wriggle and gnaw at the heartwood.
With a flick of the knife, Jiang Si pierced the bodies of several plump, white maggots, revealing the disgusting white liquid inside. They struggled, suffered, and died.
After dealing with the maggots, she raised the ball of fire in her palm, looked around, but couldn't find the crystal core of the black willow tree.
She was slightly puzzled; the crystal core of this thing should be inside its body.
But not now!
Could it be that its crystal core was eaten by those maggots?
Pooh!
If those maggots could digest its crystal core, they wouldn't be maggots anymore!
Someone else took it?
No, it's not possible either.
If someone else takes it, its attack power won't be so strong, and it's impervious to water and fire. So... it's still down there!
Jiang Si looked down at her feet, which were pitted and scarred by maggots, like a pockmarked face, with holes big enough to hold water.
She lifted her foot and stomped down. With a crash, the ground beneath her feet cracked open. She jumped to the side, and a huge hole appeared.
Jiang Si stepped forward and looked down. The ground below looked like an abyss, dark and bottomless. She threw the fireball in her hand down and jumped down.
Luckily, her nose was plugged, otherwise the stench inside would have knocked her unconscious.
After sliding down for several minutes, she heard the sound of water. She threw down a willow branch and used it to jump down. Just as she was about to land, Agares landed faster than her, stretched out his arm, and caught the falling ginger shreds steadily.
She caught him in a princess carry.
Jiang Si looked bewildered, staring at his jawline, and after a long while, she found her voice: "Didn't I tell you to wait? What are you doing down here?"
They're trying to steal my business!
Can this be tolerated?
Agares looked down at her: "Whatever you're looking for, don't worry about me, I won't take it from you!"
Ginger shreds: "..."
Did she finally speak her mind?
How could her suddenly cheap husband know that she was worried he would steal her?
Jiang Si licked her lips guiltily and chuckled dryly, "What are you saying? You're a marshal and a prince of the empire, what good things haven't you seen? Please put me down!"
Agares' gaze shifted from her face to what lay below. His ears were red, his face flushed and his expression cold and aloof. He asked in a detached, rigid voice, "The water below is blood, the blood of vomited corpses. If you step on it, you'll step into rotting flesh. Are you...are you sure you want to come down?"
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