Chapter 295: False Illusion, Battle in the Nest
The group of people were fortune-telling underground and blocking the "eyes" of the strange beast. Luo Feifei finally locked the location of the strange beast again, which was in a lake with a peculiar shape like a maple leaf.
Li Xiang and Luo Feifei had heard of this kind of strange beast in their previous lives. If it was an adult, they might not be able to deal with it now, but it was obvious that the one invading the earth now was just a cub.
What they didn't know was that this was an abandoned cub with a genetic defect.
Luo Feifei flicked her slender fingers and used water mist to condense the shape and features of the lake. Around the lake, there were more than ten sturdy towering trees.
Yaki Toto was dancing and jumping with excitement. When Li Xiang asked him in the aboriginal language, Yaki Toto said he knew the place, which was called "Boiling Lake".
"Boiling Lake?"
"The lake water is hot, and sometimes there's fire at the bottom of the lake," said Yaki Toto, gesturing.
Li Xiang understood immediately. Isn't there volcanic lava underneath? It is a kind of hot spring geothermal, just like Mount Fuji in Japan. The strange beast knows how to enjoy it, and actually chose such a place as its nest.
As for those towering trees, they are among the tallest trees in the Amazon rainforest, growing up to 50 meters (160 feet) tall.
Yaki Toto said that those trees were unlucky and could not be cut down because they were the homes of evil spirits. Not to mention cutting down these trees, even passing by them could cause illness.
Li Xiang thought, this should be the famous Huimba tree in the Amazon rainforest. From a scientific point of view, there is a connection between deforestation and new diseases. To be precise, it should be that the destruction of the ecosystem will bring new diseases. Many Western research institutes have published similar papers.
However, compared to cutting down these trees, the destruction caused by the beast was even greater, not by an order of magnitude. The area of 200 to 300 kilometers had already become a "devil's land".
Li Xiang asked: "If I ask you to cut down those trees, will you do it?"
Everyone also looked at Yaki Toto.
Yaki Toto did not hesitate and raised his sword high: "When the roots of the strangler fig wrap around the ankles of the sun god, my blade will cut the shackles for Paya!"
"Let's go."
Li Xiang was quite satisfied and led everyone forward. Since there might be too many "aliens' spies" on the surface, Li Xiang decided to lead everyone to burrow underground to prevent the alien beasts from escaping early.
Although others could not understand what Yaki Toto said, it was not difficult to tell from his fanatical expression that his loyalty to Li Xiang was unquestionable.
After walking for a while, Li Xiang stopped.
"What's wrong, Brother Xiang?"
"There is a hunting team from a primitive tribe up there that is in crisis."
Li Xiang repeated his words to Yaji in the tribal language and asked, "I wonder if this is someone you know?"
Yaki was very excited. He wanted to save someone even if it was someone he didn't know, just like Paya saved him before.
Li Xiang nodded, and then the group "floated" out of the ground.
Then we saw three tribal warriors being besieged by zombie animals.
There were six mutated jaguars, and several tribal warriors had already fallen. Of course, several jaguars had also been chopped down. The tribal warriors were in danger.
Yaki Toto thrust his sword into the ground and roared. The rotten corpses around him suddenly exploded. Bloody banyan vines emerged from the corpses and entangled six mutant leopards. The vines pierced into the leopards' eyes and injected hallucinogens. Soon, several leopards killed each other in madness and fell to the ground one after another.
The three tribal warriors looked at each other.
Yaki Toto took off his armor and shouted, "Hunters of the Blood Tooth Tribe, do you still recognize me?"
"Ah, Master Toto... haven't you already..."
Although they were not from the same tribe, they all made a living in the rain forest. Several tribal warriors recognized Yaki Toto, the last eagle-eyed shaman of the Yanomami tribe, and hurried over.
"I didn't die, I was saved by Paya, but all my people died." Yaki Toto said angrily.
After a conversation, Yaki Toto asked them to go back as soon as possible, but Yaki himself had to follow Li Xiang and the others to kill the demons and could not send them off.
"Lord Toto, if you have nowhere to go, you can come to our tribe later." The warrior of the Blood Tooth Tribe invited.
"You are always welcome in our tribe."
Yakitoto hugged them to express his gratitude, then followed Li Xiang and others and sank into the ground again.
On the surface, three warriors from the Blood Tooth Tribe were stunned, and they all prostrated themselves and kowtowed at the same time.
The ochre-colored ball of light traveled underground, and soon, Li Xiang and his companions arrived near the Boiling Lake. Li Xiang used his earth-related abilities to instantly build a high rock wall around the entire Boiling Lake.
Luo Feifei's slender fingers passed through the mist, ice crystals condensed into frost flowers on her eyelashes, and azure blue energy spiraled up from the soles of her feet, instantly weaving a dome covered with six-sided ice flowers above the lake.
The ice crystal dome combined with Li Xiang’s high rock wall was like a lid, locking everyone inside.
Close the door and beat the dog.
The strange beast was lurking at the bottom of the boiling lake, trapped with nowhere to escape.
Luo Feifei has insight into supernatural powers and the use of water-related supernatural powers, and knows the movements of strange beasts like the back of her hand.
"This strange beast has evolved a 'mimicry core', and the fourteen Huimba trees by the lake have become its child nodes. If we want to completely kill this strange beast, we must destroy its main body and the fourteen nodes at the same time, otherwise the centipede will be dead but not stiff." Luo Feifei had seen this thing in her previous life. Its racial talents are camouflage, escape, and parasitism, and it is quite difficult to kill.
This lake is thousands of acres in size. How could Luo Feifei's current range of vision be so wide? The ice crystal dome just now also showed the power of her water-derived ice ability. Li Xiang couldn't help but secretly admire her. It seemed that Luo Feifei had not slacked off these days, but had practiced hard.
In fact, if Luo Feifei hadn't been "holding it back", she would have broken through to the seventh level long ago.
Immediately, Li Xiang gave orders. He and Luo Feifei attacked the body of the monster head-on, while maintaining the rock wall and the ice crystal dome to prevent the monster from escaping. The others went to destroy the fourteen nodes by the lake.
Those were the fourteen tallest Huimba trees by the Boiling Lake, blocking out the sun and being very eye-catching. There were exactly seven people, Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, Lei Xiaohui, Lei Jiaming, Xu Xuan, Zhang Youyou, and Yaki Toto, and each of them was responsible for clearing two nodes.
"Is there any problem?" Li Xiang asked loudly.
"No!" the others said in unison, loud and clear.
Since Yaki Toto didn't speak the language, Li Xiang quickly told him again alone. Yaki Toto patted his chest, waved his sword, and ran towards the two nodes designated by Li Xiang.
Others also took action.
At the same time, Li Xiang and Luo Feifei jumped into the lake, stirring up huge turbid waves. Li Xiang was wearing the Giant Whale Holy Armor, and he could go to the deep sea, let alone such a lake.
Luo Feifei is even more of an elf in the water. Once in the water, she is like a fish in water and several times stronger than on the shore.
However, as soon as they entered the water, they felt "the world suddenly changed."
…
Rotten leaves were floating in the air, and the dirty lake water disappeared, replaced by the fresh fragrance of pine wood. Li Xiang's pupils shrank slightly - the old leaky house that had been demolished long ago reappeared before his eyes.
The mother had a kind and gentle face, her cuffs stained with mud from the ferns in the back mountain, the thorny berries that had fallen into the bamboo basket were still covered with morning dew, and the hem of his father's patched trousers was rolled up with half a leaf of Quercus glauca.
Is this the early morning in late spring of 2008?
Li Xiang has a very vivid memory of this, because that was the last time he spent with his parents.
That afternoon, my parents went on a long journey to work at a construction site in another place. When the disaster struck, they never came back. My grandmother, with her old age, sent me off and built a tomb for me.
"Xiang'er, try this quickly. Your father climbed three cliffs to pick these. They are sour and sweet and delicious." His mother fed him the fruit with her own hands. The juice burst into his mouth and the sour and sweet feeling exploded along his nerve endings.
Li Xiang swallowed the thornberry and took a deep breath. Was he really reborn back to 2008? If possible, he would really like to go back.
"Dad, Mom, don't go out to work, and don't go to Wenchuan." Li Xiang said hurriedly.
"Where can we get money if we don't go out?" Mother shook her head.
…
An ice crystal palace appeared in front of Luo Feifei. She was wearing a white wedding dress, dressed beautifully, holding a white tiger sword in her hand. The groom appeared, it was Li Xiang.
"Getting married, why am I still holding the White Tiger Sword? This is my wedding, I'm not here to steal the bride." The moment Luo Feifei saw Li Xiang, she quickly put away the sword, her eyes were smiling, full of happiness, she and Brother Xiang finally got married.
"Fei Fei's swordsmanship has improved again." Li Xiang came over to hug her and kiss her. The real touch made her tremble and dizzy.
…
At the same time, Yao Yao and others also felt that the world had changed.
"Yao'er, let me test your transformation and clone skills." In the hotel room, Li Xiang pinched Yao Yao's smooth chin with his fingers and said softly.
Yao Yao was immediately excited. She immediately flashed and seven or eight different beauties appeared around her. If the room was not too small, she could have spotted more than a hundred of them.
"Brother, which sign do you want to flip, or... do it together?"
"Let's go together." Li Xiang nodded excitedly.
"I will drain you dry~" Yao Yao giggled, her whole body burning hot, and led many clones to pounce on him.
…
Zhao Xueqing suddenly discovered that she was being attacked by the vine technique.
The vines she materialized were out of control, and instead tied up her limbs and hung her in the rainforest in an extremely shameful posture.
Li Xiang appeared and reached out to grab the flower vine growing from her tailbone and played with it. She trembled all over. That was one of her most sensitive parts...
…
"Dad, can you let me see the hatchet?" In Li Xiang's dilapidated old house in Lijia Village, Li Xiang suddenly grabbed his father's calloused hand.
The anti-slip cloth wrapped around the wooden handle of the hatchet is clearly visible. This cloth was wrapped by him personally five years later, but by then, his father was no longer around.
Li Xiang's nails dug deep into his palms.
The ability to sense the earth veins suddenly set off a wave of shock in the sea of consciousness - thirty meters below the stove, where the glass marbles should have been buried in childhood, was now surging with the unique energy ripples of obsidian veins.
"Everything is false, break it!" Li Xiang stretched out his hand and grabbed it lightly. The 7,200-kilogram white jade golden hook Eight Desolate Giant Python Stick appeared in his palm. He smashed it hard into the sky, and the dilapidated old house was shattered in an instant. Everything in front of him collapsed and disappeared, and the stinking lake water in the real world was surging around him.
And Luo Feifei was right beside him.
By the lake, Yao Yao and others only stumbled half a step in the real world.
"It's just an illusion."
They were in the illusion for a very short time, but just like a dream, although the time in the outside world was short, they actually experienced many things in the dream and it felt like several hours had passed.
Everyone also came out of the "dream". If it was any later, everyone would be parasitized.
Luo Feifei, Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui all felt a burning sensation on their faces and their legs were a little sore. In their "dream", Li Xiang had tortured them badly.
Fortunately, the mask protected it so others couldn't see it.
The ice crystals condensed on the blade of Luo Feifei's sword reflected a strange spectrum: "The strange beast is using the geomagnetic field to interfere with cognition!" The extreme coldness emitted by her electric phantom armor spread rapidly along the surface of the lake. Twenty-seven tentacles under the ice were dragging fourteen placenta-like things towards the magma layer.
“Die!”
Li Xiang activated the "Earth Pivot Evolution Record", causing the ground to crack. The lake water rushed into the crack, exposing the true form of the strange beast at the bottom of the lake.
The phantom was angry, its psychic tentacles dancing: "You ignorant and backward natives of the Earth, bear the wrath of the noble race!"
Under its powerful spiritual power, the magma at the bottom of the lake erupted and soared into the sky.
Li Xiang built a thick basalt barrier to block the magma; Luo Feifei took the opportunity to launch the "Extreme Cold Star Explosion", and the cold wave spread, freezing the lava.
Twenty-seven translucent tentacles protruded from the lava layer, and at the end of each tentacle grew a nautilus-shaped spiral mouthpart. Luo Feifei's White Tiger Sword drew an ice crystal track in the air, and the tip of the sword pierced into the tentacle, which exploded instantly, and frost flowers flew.
At the same time, Xu Xuan's wind blade destroyed the southeast node, Zhang Youyou's fire tornado burned the southwest node, Lei Xiaohui's steel gun penetrated the northwest tree trunk, and the corpse-scented konjac controlled by Yaki Toto bloomed in the north...
When Lei Jiaming's 300-kilogram sword chopped the last node, Li Xiang shook the white jade golden hook Eight Desolate Giant Python Stick in his hand. On the stick, the shadows of the eight heads and eight tails of the Yamata no Orochi danced wildly. With a force of 220,000 kilograms and a speed of Mach 11, he carried the 7,200-kilogram holy-level giant stick and penetrated into the third compound eye of the Queen Mother like a meteor.
System: "A 27th-order mutant creature, the Thousand-bearded Dark Abyss Queen, has been detected."
From the fluorescent plasma exploding at the bottom of the lake, a translucent spirit was pulled out by the golden hook.
The Thousand Bearded Dark Abyss Queen was panicked. She had not expected that Li Xiang's strange weapon, the Golden Hook, could actually harm her spirit body. She compressed herself into a phantom, between reality and illusion, changing at will, but she was immune to physical attacks. This was also where her confidence lay.
It panicked and tried to escape, but Li Xiang would never let it go. The phantom of the Yamata no Orochi strangled and devoured it.
System: "Congratulations to the host for killing the 27th-level Saint-level mutant creature, the Thousand-bearded Nether Abyss Queen Mother. You will be rewarded with 2,700 achievement points, three 13th-level mutant spiritual medicines, the Thousand-bearded Soul-condensing Ginseng, and the 25th-level extraordinary item, the Nether Abyss Soul-summoning Mirror."
(End of this chapter)
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