Chapter 28 The Ancient Tree Has Spirits
The place where Nan Xiao and the others are now, except for the place where the ancient tree is rooted, is a bottomless abyss surrounded by miasma.
The surrounding stone walls stretched upwards, and looking up, all one could see was a patch of blue sky. The stone walls were smooth and lacked any support points, and climbing up at this height was unrealistic, not to mention there was a wounded man, and Nan Xiao couldn't carry him.
After being trapped here for two days, Nan Xiao tried many methods, but all ended in failure. In the end, he came to two conclusions.
First, wait for someone to rescue you.
Second, after practicing to the foundation building stage, you can fly out by yourself.
There is not only no trace of miasma around this ancient tree, but on the contrary, the spiritual energy is very rich, making it a good place for meditation and cultivation.
But this secret realm is only open for half a month. Can she break through the foundation-building stage in the remaining time?
The possibility is very slim.
This disciple of the Spirit Beast Sect has not been in very good health these past two days. He has had recurring high fevers and has been in a coma most of the time. He can't be relied upon at all.
Since he couldn't leave at the moment, Nan Xiao was not idle either. He dug up all the spiritual herbs growing around the ancient tree.
After all, we're here.
At first she was a little afraid that the vines would stop her, but they didn't. The vines seemed dead, wrapped around the trunk of the ancient tree, without any movement, as if everything she had experienced before was an illusion.
There was another thing that she couldn't figure out: what was the purpose of this demon in capturing them.
If you wanted to kill them, why not just kill them directly when they were dragged in and unconscious on the first day? Why tie them up?
But later they broke free from the restraints, and the demon spirit didn't care about them and let them do whatever they wanted.
Strange, so strange.
Anyway, the current situation couldn't get any worse, so Nan Xiao simply started to move, pulling the vines pretending to be dead on the tree trunk and asked:
"Hey, can you hear me? I want to ask you something."
vine:"······"
The demon remained silent and just pretended to be dead.
This human being burned her with fire, was not a good person, and ignored her.
"If you ignore me, I will set fire again." Nan Xiao said seriously, and then a ball of fire condensed in the palm of his hand, a clear threat.
Seeing this, the vines that were pretending to be dead suddenly retreated from the trunk and climbed to the highest point of the ancient tree branches.
The slender branches of the ancient tree were bent down by a bunch of vines.
Nan Xiao: “…”
"Come down, or I'll burn this tree too."
She put one hand on her waist and pointed at the vines above with one hand, like a little bully who was doing evil.
The little vine shook its leaves and curled itself up into a ball, but it showed no intention of coming down.
"I'm really burned." Nan Xiao placed the fireball at the root of the tree, secretly looking at the timid vine.
"Okay, little girl, your flames can't hurt me, so don't scare it."
An old voice sounded beside his ear, scaring Nan Xiao so much that he shuddered.
Damn, this tree is actually an intelligent spirit.
"Are you talking?" Nan Xiao was not sure, so he asked another question.
"It's the old man."
Nan Xiao asked, "Um, Grandpa, I don't have any other intentions. I just want to know why you captured us? And how can we leave here?"
Judging from the sound of this tree and the outline of this tree, it is at least a hundred years old, or even earlier.
As I said, if I wanted to kill them, I would have done it long ago. Why wait until now?
It would be better to get things clear so that there is hope of leaving here.
"This starts with the egg you stole."
Nan Xiao was puzzled, his bright eyes filled with confusion. He asked curiously, "Is that really a divine beast egg?"
The ancient tree chuckled softly, "People love to spread rumors and believe everything they hear. That's not true, that's not true."
"That's just an ordinary monster egg. It's the child that the snake demon prayed for hundreds of years to obtain."
As the ancient tree's voice fell, a weak young man's voice refuted, "That's impossible. There was a strange phenomenon in the sky before, and some said it was a divine beast descending to the world. And when we saw this egg, it also emitted an auspicious light. It was definitely the aura of a divine beast."
They had gone to such great lengths to tell him that this was just an ordinary monster egg. How could he accept this?
It was unknown when this kid woke up, or how much he had heard. Nan Xiao reached out and pressed his shoulders, trying to calm him down. "Little Senior Brother, don't be anxious. Listen to what Grandpa says."
Li Buyan pursed his lips and said nothing. He obviously didn't believe what the old demon said.
He wanted to see what it could say.
Nan Xiao: "Grandpa, please continue."
The ancient tree continued slowly, "That is indeed an ordinary monster egg. It just happened to be contaminated with the aura of a divine beast. You can take out the egg and have a look. I think it's time for it to hatch."
"We had no intention of targeting you. It's just that the Nascent Soul demon beast you killed had a connection with me. Before it died, it sent me a message, asking me to save its child. I originally just wanted Xiaoya to bring the egg back, but I didn't expect this child to kidnap you."
Hearing this, Li Buyan took out the monster egg from the storage ring, his eyes full of disbelief, and muttered: "How is it possible?"
The light that originally lingered on the shell faded, revealing its original gray appearance.
This is a monster egg that couldn't be more ordinary.
"Did you swap the eggs while I was unconscious?" Li Buyan staggered to his feet with wounds all over his body. His sword pointed at the ancient tree, and the originally bright sword body was now shaking slightly due to his trembling arms.
"Junior brother, calm down." Nan Xiao said helplessly.
Can you wait for the demon spirit to finish speaking?
"Junior Sister Nan, this matter has nothing to do with you. Please step aside so as not to get hurt."
Nan Xiao: “…” In your condition, let alone hurting her, it would be difficult for you to even pull out a blade of grass.
She sighed and said, "Junior brother, you forced me to do this."
She reached out her hand and slashed down with a knife, imitating the way she saw in TV dramas.
Well... I'm not dizzy.
It doesn't matter, she still has a backup plan. Under Li Buyan's puzzled gaze, Nan Xiao quickly fed him a pill, and within three seconds he fell straight to the ground.
"Grandpa, just continue talking. Don't pay attention to him." Nan Xiao secretly took a recording stone in her hand, lest the boy wake up and accuse her of swallowing his eggs. Where would she go to seek justice then?
"The little girl is quite interesting." The ancient tree was no longer surprised by Nan Xiao's actions. It had been observing the two cultivators for the past two days.
One was seriously injured and could only stay awake for a few minutes every day. The other was more energetic and had a good attitude. He climbed up and down his old bones every day and dug up all the spiritual herbs around him, not considering himself an outsider at all.
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