Chapter 312: Built-in navigation is different
"Don't get entangled with them." Xiao Yu's voice rang out, "Our target is the source. Chiyu will lead the way, Xuanyi and Tianyan will cover the rear, and Master Jingxin will protect Ah Jiu."
"yes."
Everyone immediately obeyed the order.
"Brother Xiongxiong, go to the left." Jiu suddenly reminded in a low voice.
Xiao Yu did not hesitate and swung his sword towards the empty space on the left.
"laugh."
A dark golden sword light flashed by.
A shrill scream was heard in the air, and a monster that was originally invisible was forcibly struck out from the air. It fell to the ground, twitched twice, and then turned into a pool of black water.
"Well done, Ajiu." Chu Xuanyi gave a thumbs-up from behind. "You're like a humanoid self-propelled monster detection radar."
With the guidance of Ajiu, the "radar", the team's infiltration suddenly became much smoother.
Ajiu can always predict in advance the monsters hiding in the dark and preparing to launch a sneak attack, and Xiao Yu uses the simplest and most effective way to eliminate these threats one by one.
When a monster is cut by the Longyuan Sword, a dark golden dragon flame will ignite at the wound to prevent its regeneration and completely burn it from the inside.
They marched deeper into the forest. The further they went, the more monsters there were and the stronger they became.
The surrounding scene became increasingly strange and terrifying.
The trunks of some large trees actually had faces of suffering people growing on them. The black sap flowing on the ground gathered into small streams emitting a foul odor.
"This place is simply a living hell." Chu Xuanyi cursed under his breath.
After they passed through a strange jungle made of giant fungi, the scene before them suddenly became clear.
A lake located in the center of the forest appeared before them, but there was no water in the lake, only black liquid that was constantly bubbling.
In the middle of the lake stands an enormous dead tree, whose original appearance is completely unrecognizable.
The trunk of the dead tree was covered in dense holes, like a honeycomb. At the crown of the tree hung a slowly pulsating black tumor.
A strong demonic force spread out from the tumor, flowing into the land and lake beneath the feet through the roots of the dead tree, and then spreading to the entire forest.
"Finally found you," Chu Xuanyi gritted his teeth, "Although you look even more disgusting than that rock on the volcano, the ending is the same."
Xiao Yu's brows were tightly furrowed.
"Something's wrong." He said in a deep voice.
"It's... too quiet here."
From the moment they stepped into the open space by the lake, the endless monsters around them all disappeared.
It's a little too quiet here.
Ajiu buried his face in Xiao Yu's arms and his body began to tremble slightly.
"Brother Xiong Xiong..."
"That big bad guy...it's awake."
Almost at the same moment she finished speaking, the black tumor hanging on the huge dead tree in the middle of the black lake jumped "bang".
"Oh my god," Chu Xuanyi almost gasped, "This thing has a heartbeat. Is it a plant or an animal?"
"It's nothing," Taoist Tian Yan said, his face pale as he stared at the tumor. "It's just a monster forcibly combined with the power of the evil demon and the life source of this forest."
"Bang."
Another heartbeat.
As the tumor beat, a crack slowly appeared on the surface of the huge tumor.
A huge single eye covered with bloodshot slowly opened.
When that eye swept over Xiao Yu and his group, everyone felt as if they were being stared at by a cold poisonous snake, and their scalp went numb to their heels.
"Not good." Xiao Yu immediately pressed Ah Jiu's head into his arms and blocked her sight with his cloak. "Don't look at that eye."
However, it was too late.
The moment that eye fully opened, the whole world began to distort and spin in everyone's eyes.
The black lake and the huge dead trees before me were rapidly receding, deforming, and finally turning into a blurry mass of color. In their place, there were endless, identical, twisted dead trees.
An endless maze of dead trees.
"What's going on?" Chu Xuanyi shook his head violently, realizing he was already in a dense forest. All around him were identical dead trees with ghost claws. Even the black mud on the ground was indistinguishable. "Illusion, or space transfer?"
He immediately took out his precious dragon-hunting disk from his arms.
The compass needle, which used to point to the right place, was now spinning wildly in place.
"It's over," Chu Xuanyi slapped the compass. Instead of returning to normal, the needle snapped and broke in two. "This is an heirloom from my ancestors."
"Don't count on your compass." Taoist Tian Yan was not in a good situation either. The handful of copper coins he had just thrown out for divination actually formed a big "death" character after landing on the ground. He was so scared that he quickly took it back.
"The demonic power here is so intense it's capable of distorting the laws of nature." Taoist Tian Yan rubbed his coin with a look of pain on his face. "We've been drawn into a maze it's created using the resentment of this forest. All mystical techniques will be severely disrupted here, and may even produce completely opposite results."
"In other words, we're completely blind now," Chu Xuanyi kicked a dead tree. "This is troublesome. If we can't find that big eyeball, we'll be trapped here to death. And I guess there must be many more 'surprises' waiting for us in this maze."
Before he finished speaking, a rustling sound of crawling could be heard in the shadows around him.
The monsters they had gotten rid of before surrounded them again from all directions.
"I knew it," Chu Xuanyi spread his hands helplessly, "I shouldn't have said such bad words."
"Amitabha," Master Jingxin clasped his hands together, and a circle of Buddha light shone again, protecting everyone in the center. "If the mind is not disturbed, the body will not be trapped. Illusions are created by the mind and are also destroyed by the mind."
"Master, now is not the time to talk about Zen." Chu Xuanyi said with a bitter face, "We have to find a way to get out. Otherwise, even if we are not bitten to death by these monsters, we will be suffocated to death by this stench."
Everyone's eyes involuntarily turned to Xiao Yu.
"Brother Xiong Xiong..." Ajiu's little head was still buried in Xiao Yu's arms, his voice muffled, with a hint of grievance and fear, "I can't see, it's pitch black around me."
"Don't be afraid," Xiao Yu gently stroked her hair, "If you can't see, then don't look. Try listening with your ears."
"Listen." Jiu was stunned for a moment.
"Yes, listen." Xiao Yu guided her, "Calm down and listen to the sound of the wind. It will tell you where we should go."
Xiao Yu himself couldn't explain why he said that. It seemed like an intuition and trust coming from deep in his blood.
After hearing Xiao Yu's words, Jiu really closed his eyes obediently.
She tried hard to block out the roars of the monsters around her and the argument between Chu Xuanyi and Taoist Tian Yan.
Then she heard it.
I heard the sound of the wind.
She raised her hand and pointed to the front left without hesitation.
"there."
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