Zuan: "..."
I was actually looked down upon by a tree.
Seemingly noticing his strange expression, Huoshu Yinhua hurriedly said, "Don't... don't do anything rash. If you don't accept my conditions, I'll just take you all down with me."
Zu An laughed: "You think you can take me down with you?"
Hearing the disbelief in his tone, Huoshu Yinhua replied, "This is a mine. The miners say it's easy for it to be filled with explosive gases and can't be exposed to open flames. If you piss me off, I'll set the entire mine on fire, and none of you will survive."
Zu An and Yu Yanluo's expressions changed instantly, especially Yu Yanluo's. This mine was the lifeblood of the Yu family, how could she let it be destroyed?
"Then why doesn't it explode when you're always burning like this?" Zuan asked suspiciously.
“I can absorb those gases and slowly burn them instead of exploding them directly… If you push me too far, I won’t care and will just detonate them,” the fiery tree said.
Zuan was speechless: "You speak so fluently, I'm starting to wonder if there's someone hiding inside you."
"I am a flower, but I've been here for far too long, listening to the miners talk and learning from them," Huoshu Yinhua said, shrugging.
"You just said you were a tree." Zuan was speechless, but he was genuinely worried that it might try to take them both down with it. "How about this, answer one more question for me, and I'll let you go."
"Okay, okay, ask away." Hearing that his life had been saved, the fiery tree and silver flowers immediately perked up, and his body rose a few inches higher than before.
"Where did those scale-like death worms underground come from? When did they appear?" Zuan asked. Since this tree has been here for so long, it should know these things.
"You've made two problems," Huoshu Yinhua said, hands on her hips, seemingly somewhat dissatisfied.
Zuan didn't say anything, but simply drew his Tai'a sword.
Huoshuyinhua was also quick to understand and immediately changed her tune, saying, "You must be talking about that ugly bug that's covered in black smoke, right? I've never seen it in all these years I've been here. It seems to have appeared about ten days or half a month ago. At that time, a spatial rift appeared deep in the mine, and it crawled out of it."
"A spatial rift?" Zuan was taken aback. Could it be that the strange insect came from another world?
In fact, the secret realms I've visited over the years are, in a sense, other worlds, except that it's usually humans who enter these other worlds, and I've rarely heard of ferocious beasts coming from them.
"This is really troublesome. If these strange insects keep coming in, there will be widespread death and destruction," Yu Yanluo said worriedly. This is Yunzhong County, which is also the mine of their Yu family. Having lived here for so many years, she has naturally developed feelings for everything here.
Huoshu Yinhua explained, "That spatial rift isn't very stable. It's already the limit for such a powerful being to get through. It's unlikely that any other being of the same level can get through in a short time. However, it's uncertain whether the spatial rift will stabilize over time."
Zuan looked at it suspiciously: "Are you really a tree?"
Huo Shu Yin Hua straightened up: "The longer you live, the more you naturally know."
Yu Yanluo, who was standing nearby, asked curiously, "Why didn't that strange insect come and eat you?"
"Don't you have any common sense? That strange insect isn't a herbivore, and besides, it prefers darkness and doesn't like my bright environment, so we should keep to ourselves," Huoshuyinhua replied.
Zu An laughed: "He really knows how to pat himself on the back."
This tree is quite strong, but it's far inferior to that strange worm.
Let's keep to ourselves, just like when I said Kobe and I combined for 81 points.
Huo Shu Yin Hua turned the flower crown to the other side, completely ignoring his words.
"Where is that spatial rift?" Zuan put away his joking mood.
"How many questions have you asked now?" Huoshu Yinhua was quite dissatisfied, but after being glared at by the other party, she had no choice but to answer, "I'm not too sure about the specifics. I can only sense that it's in that direction. According to your human calculation method, it's about twenty miles away."
Zuan and Yu Yanluo exchanged a glance: "We need to find a chance to seal that spatial rift."
Yu Yanluo shared the same thought, but still frowned and said, "But the strength of that death worm is far beyond our reach. If we go there, we'll just be throwing our lives away."
Zuan said, "Have you forgotten there's still one person?"
Yu Yanluo's eyes lit up: "You mean Yan Xuehen?"
But his expression quickly darkened: "But if she sees us, she'll probably kill us first."
“She won’t kill us,” Zuan said with a strange expression. He wondered how long the Golden Phoenix’s effects would last, but surely they wouldn’t wear off so quickly. “Besides, since she considers herself a member of a prestigious sect and takes it upon herself to protect all living beings, she will surely be able to distinguish between what is important and what is not if we tell her the information we have.”
“Alright.” Yu Yanluo agreed with him. Although Yan Xuehen was a bit fierce, even she wouldn’t doubt his character.
Just then, the two noticed something amiss beside them. Looking up, they saw the fiery tree and silver flowers emerging from the ground, their dense root system splitting into two branches, like two legs, and already running far away.
Upon seeing that the two had spotted him, he ran while shouting, "Don't chase me, or we'll all die together!"
As he spoke, he gestured to the flames on the branches.
In the blink of an eye, it disappeared into the distance.
Zuan: "..."
Yu Yanluo: "..."
Today was truly eye-opening. It's one thing to encounter a talking tree, but this thing can even run away?
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