"Under the tree?" Li Xiu looked at the roots of the big tree. The trunk was buried directly in the soil, and no protruding roots could be seen at all.

"You don't have much time left. If you don't give up, just dig it out quickly. It's useless even if you dig it out. Many people have tried before. Even if you dig it out, you still can't take it out." said the old voice.

"Why can't we take it out?" Li Xiu asked while asking the Jedi to dig the ground.

The Jedi Knight slashed with his sword continuously, creating a big hole in the ground. Many roots below were shaken by the Jedi Knight's sword, but they were not broken.

"Those attacks you cut at the roots will also come back to you. You'd better be careful, otherwise you will only die a more miserable death." said the old voice.

"What's the difference? If you get stabbed once, you'll die. If you get stabbed ten times, you'll die anyway. It's better to buy some more time." Instead of drawing the Jedi's attention, Li Xiu made him cut the soil with even greater force and entered the super-spiritual state directly.

when!

The super-spiritual Jedi Knight swung his sword a few times, and suddenly it seemed as if he had hit something metal, causing a metallic trembling sound.

"Found it." Li Xiu asked the Jedi Knights to dig up the nearby soil, and sure enough, they saw something stuck on a thick tree root.

Let the Jedi Knight come out, Li Xiu went down himself, wiped off the dirt, and found that the exposed part was a black metal handle.

I just don't know whether it is the hilt of a sword, a knife, or the handle of some other weapon, because the part below the hilt has been completely embedded in the thick tree roots, and its shape cannot be seen.

Li Xiu held the handle and pulled it hard, but the handle didn't move at all.

As expected, this thing was inserted directly into the tree root that even the super-spiritual Jedi Knights couldn't cut, and it went all the way to the handle. It would be strange if it could be pulled out easily.

No wonder the old voice said that even if this thing was dug out, it couldn't be pulled out.

Li Xiu stepped aside and let the Jedi Knight go down to pull it out.

The Jedi Knight gripped the handle with both hands and exerted force, the fluorescence all over his body burst out wildly, and later he directly entered the super spiritual state. The fluorescence all over his body was rising, but the thing inserted in the tree root still showed no signs of loosening.

"Why is it so tight?" Li Xiu couldn't help but frown. Even the Jedi Knight couldn't pull it out. I'm afraid this thing is really difficult to pull out.

"Don't waste your energy, you can't pull it out." The old voice poured cold water on him again.

"Why can't it be pulled out?" Li Xiu asked casually.

"Before you, many people have tried all kinds of methods to pull it out, but all failed. No one knows why it can't be pulled out, because no one has ever been able to pull it out." The old voice paused and continued: "It's useless to use brute force alone. Don't say that your demon spirit has just become super spiritual, and the upper limit is still very low. Even those who have reached more than 80% of the upper limit of super spiritual have tried to pull it out, but it still didn't work."

"Has there been any super spiritual trial participants here?" Li Xiu was a little surprised.

“Trial-takers, magic armor masters, ordinary people, over the years, I don’t know how many people have come here, and ended up becoming fertilizer for this divine tree. I have seen too many of them.” The old voice sighed.

"There is also a magic costume master? Why would the magic costume master come here?" Li Xiu was a little surprised.

"You are a very curious person, but you only have less than three minutes left. You should think carefully about how to make use of these last three minutes." said the old voice.

"The magic armor master who came here can't pull this thing out even with his magic armor?" Li Xiu asked.

"Of course I can't pull it out. Changshengtian's strongest magic armor master at that time lost his life here." The old voice said disdainfully: "If even the super spirit can't pull it out, how can a magic armor master pull it out? As a trial-taker with a super spirit, how can you ask such a question?"

"One last question, are you from Changshengtian?" Li Xiu asked in a deep voice.

Even the Jedi Knight cannot be pulled out, so now Li Xiu can only try using his own Lightspeed 2. This is his last trump card.

But if the person in the tree is from Changshengtian, seeing his magic outfit might expose the fact that he stole the super spiritual gem.

If he could pull the thing out and leave here alive, Li Xiu would have to consider whether or not to keep his mouth shut, so he first had to find out whether this person was a member of Changshengtian like Wan Chaochun and Baye.

After hearing Li Xiu's question, the old voice did not answer immediately. After a few seconds of silence, the old voice replied: "I used to be a member of Changshengtian, but later I was not. Do you think I am a member of Changshengtian?"

"Why didn't it happen later?" Li Xiu asked again.

"Young man, are you really not afraid of death? You only have two minutes left. Are you sure you still want to continue chatting with me?" The old voice seemed a little surprised at Li Xiu's calmness.

"If you're willing, I'm very interested to know." Li Xiu remained calm. The reason why he was calm was because he knew that it was useless to be calm. He just had to do what he had to do. Emotions could not turn into good results, but might make the results worse.

"Someone actually wants to hear my story at the last moment of his life. Is my story so interesting? If you want to listen to the story with your own life, then I will tell you. But this story is too long and you don't have enough time, so I will just briefly tell you." The old voice continued: "I joined Changshengtian for a woman, but the woman chose another person from Changshengtian. I was so sad that I left Changshengtian and never had any contact with Changshengtian again."

"Is it that simple?" Li Xiu was stunned.

The old voice laughed and said, "You only have a little over a minute left to live, and you still want to hear a story. I have never seen anyone like you before. If you could live, I could tell you this story in detail. Unfortunately, you are almost dead now."

"In that case, let's make a deal. If I can survive, you will tell me the whole story, how about that?" Li Xiu said with a smile.

"This agreement is meaningless. You can't pull out that thing, so you can only die." said the old voice.

"Just die. If you can't die, can you tell me the story?" Li Xiu asked.

"I've never met someone like you who wants to hear stories even when he's dying. Okay, I promise you, if you can survive, I'll tell you my story in full." The old voice said solemnly, "You seem to suit my taste. If you have any last words or wishes, you can tell me. If you ever find yourself out of this predicament, maybe I can help you with it. You'd better speak quickly, because you only have less than a minute left."

"No need." Li Xiu said, took out the Lightspeed 2 from his backpack and put it on directly.

The next second, Lightspeed 2 completely wrapped around Li Xiu's body, and golden light patterns appeared on the black magic suit.

"You are actually a magic armor master. This is very interesting. Did you become a magic armor master first, or did you become a trial-taker first?" the old voice asked in surprise.

"I can tell you this story after I survive." Li Xiu said as he came to the handle.

He grasped the handle with both hands, and the magic light pattern on Lightspeed No. 2 immediately burst into dazzling light. Rays of golden light rose from his body, and white smoke began to rise from the gaps between the magic suits.

This is an overheating and melting phenomenon caused by power overload. Lightspeed 2 is already considered pretty good. If it was replaced with Lightspeed 1, it would have been scrapped by now.

“I’ve already told you, it’s useless. You can’t even pull out the Super Spirit, let alone the Magic Armor… It’s… Impossible…” The old voice suddenly uttered a cry of surprise before it could finish its words.

Between Li Xiu's hands, the handle was rising little by little, and the exposed part emitted a dazzling white light.

The entire blue room was illuminated by the white light.

"It...actually...moved..." The old voice was trembling with excitement. After so many years, someone was finally able to pull out that thing. This gave him, who was almost in despair, hope of regaining his freedom.

The white light under the handle illuminated the entire room like dawn.

Li Xiu straightened his waist gradually and slowly pulled out the object that was shining with incomparable light from the tree roots, with the speed getting faster and faster.

White smoke was rising from the Light Speed ​​2 on his body, as if there was boiling steam constantly coming out from inside.

bite!

With a slight tremor, the thing was completely pulled out. Li Xiu's body was completely upright, holding the thing in both hands, standing on the huge tree roots.

The strong white light on the thing quickly converged after it left the roots of the tree.

Only then did Li Xiu see clearly that the thing he pulled out from the tree roots was not a sword or a knife, but a four-sided mace that was more than four feet long.

The body of the mace and the handle were both as black as ink, except for a faint white fluorescent word "Ling" on the body near the handle.

Li Xiu didn't have time to appreciate the appearance of the mace. He jumped up with the mace in one hand and swung it towards the green leaf stalk on the branch.

The bladeless four-sided mace was swung on the petiole, and it actually broke the petiole directly.

It is clear that even the Jedi Knight's extremely sharp samurai sword could not hurt it at all, but this edgeless spiritual mace could cut it off with one sweep. It is really unscientific.

Something even more unscientific happened after Li Xiu caught the green leaf after landing. Li Xiu clearly just cut the green leaf and did not let the magic mace touch anything else.

However, outside the trajectory of the magic mace, a large tree that was some distance away from the mace was actually cut diagonally. The upper half of the tree slid down from the broken end and fell heavily on the wall.

The tree was actually hollow inside, and a monk in a grey robe was sitting inside the tree hole.

This monk had delicate features, smooth skin, and fair skin that was almost glowing. He looked a bit like the legendary Tang Monk.

The young monk was sitting cross-legged in the tree hole, one hand on his chest and the other holding a rosary. His face was full of shock and ecstasy, and he looked into Li Xiu's eyes.

Li Xiu didn't have time to look at the monk, and quickly took off the Lightspeed 2 on his body. The temperature inside the Lightspeed 2 was now alarming, and it was almost roasting him.

Lightspeed No. 2 fell to the ground and returned to its compressed state, but the entire magic suit was still emitting hot white steam. Looking at this situation, Li Xiu estimated that Lightspeed No. 2 would follow in the footsteps of Lightspeed No. 1 and leave.

"I don't know how the old official will vilify me after I go back." Li Xiu sighed and looked down at the magic mace and green leaf in his hand.

This spiritual mace is quite heavy, but still within Li Xiu's acceptable range. However, this thing does not seem to be a contract, at least he did not sense the energy fluctuations of a contract on the spiritual mace.

I tried to drop a drop of blood on it, but the blood flowed down the mace and dripped directly onto the ground. It could not be absorbed by the spiritual mace at all.

"What exactly is this magic mace?" Li Xiu was curious, but now was not the time to study it, so he turned to look at the monk in the tree hole.

When he heard the voice, he thought it was an old man, but he didn't expect it to be such a handsome young monk.

The shock and ecstasy on the young monk's face had subsided, and his indifferent and calm look had a sense of solemnity.

However, this young monk had no scars on his head, but there was a little red between his eyebrows. Coupled with his red lips and white teeth, Li Xiu's first thought when he saw him was "Tang Monk".

"Do you want to hear more of my story?" the monk asked.

"Can you tell me your Buddhist name first?" Li Xiu asked the monk with a smile.

"What's your Dharma name?" The monk was slightly stunned.

"As a monk, shouldn't you have a Buddhist name?" Li Xiu was stunned and asked in confusion.

The monk smiled, stood up and walked out of the tree hole, saying as he walked: "I am not a monk, I am just born bald."

"You are not a monk, why do you have a white hair dot between your eyebrows?" Li Xiu said, staring at the red dot between his eyebrows.

"That's not a white hair, it's just a red mole." The monk paused and said seriously: "My name is Tang Tianzhen. You can call me by my name or my courtesy name, but please don't call me monk."

"Okay, Tianzhen." Li Xiu looked at the string of beads in Tang Tianzhen's hand. It looked a bit like Buddhist beads. Then he looked at Tang Tianzhen's solemn face like that of Buddha, and thought to himself, "Isn't this really a monk?"

"In terms of age, I am more than qualified to be your grandfather. Can you change to a more formal title?" Tang Tianzhen sighed.

"I don't know how old you are, but looking at your face, I really can't call you elder. So you can choose between Xiao Tang and Tian Zhen," said Li Xiu.

"That's still naive." Tang Tianzhen said with a wry smile.

"Okay, Tianzhen, now it's time to tell me your story, right?" Li Xiu looked at Tang Tianzhen and smiled.

Tang Tianzhen sighed again: "This story is very complicated, let's talk about it after we get out."

"I'm not in a hurry, you can talk slowly." Li Xiu was unmoved. He was still waiting for the magic suit to cool down. Now the cooling system of the magic suit was still running. He didn't dare to pick it up until the temperature dropped. It was too hot.

"Okay." Tang Tianzhen said helplessly: "What happened is that I fell in love with a beautiful girl from Changshengtian, and that girl also liked me at first, so for her, I joined Changshengtian. But later, for some reasons, she left me and got together with someone else, so I left Changshengtian in grief and never interacted with anyone from Changshengtian again."

"Did your hair fall out at that time?" Li Xiu asked.

"No, I was born without hair. It has nothing to do with the girl leaving me. You think too much." Tang Tianzhen was helpless when he saw Li Xiu's face full of disbelief. Anyone who heard his story would think that he became a monk because he couldn't get the love he wanted. But he really didn't do that. He was born without hair.

"What you said is too general. Where is the complete story?" Li Xiu said somewhat dissatisfiedly.

"This is what happened." Tang Tianzhen insisted that it was that simple.

Li Xiu also realized that when Tang Tianzhen agreed to him, she didn't even think that he, Li Xiu, could really survive. He must be regretting it now.

Seeing Li Xiu staring at him without saying a word, Tang Tianzhen looked at Li Xiu as if nothing had happened, without any sense of guilt at all.

"I understand. A man like you who is handsome and has good temperament, with delicate skin and tender flesh, doesn't look like he comes from a poor family. There should be only one reason why the girl broke up with you, and it's all because of men. I understand." Li Xiu glanced at an indescribable part of Tang Tianzhen, turned around and walked towards the door, intending to open it and leave.

Tang Tianzhen's face flushed immediately. Seeing that Li Xiu was about to open the door and leave, she gritted her teeth and said, "It's not what you think. It's my appearance."

"With your looks, you're not the most handsome man in the world, but you're not far from it. What's there to explain? We're all men, we all understand." Li Xiu nodded.

Tang Tianzhen's eyes twitched, and he actually cursed, "Fuck you, I already said it's a look problem. That woman said that every time she went to bed with me, she felt like she was having sex with that thing, and she felt guilty about blasphemy and couldn't bear the psychological pressure..."

Li Xiu was stunned when he heard what he said, then looked at Tang Tianzhen's appearance carefully. He had a full forehead, a square chin, fleshy cheeks, round and drooping ears, clear eyes, and a red mole between his eyebrows.

He is indeed good-looking, but after he said that, the more Li Xiu looked at him, the more he felt that his appearance was indeed a little too upright and too kind.

"Haha!" Imagining the scene that Tang Tianzhen described, Li Xiu couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Try to smile again?" Tang Tianzhen said gritting his teeth.

Li Xiu stopped laughing. It was not good to laugh like that. He tried to hold back his laughter and said, "Tian Zhen, it's not a big deal. Just find a girl with better mental qualities. I'm going out now. If you can go out, let's go out together."

Tang Tianzhen restrained his evil look and followed Li Xiu out of the blue wooden house.

When Chu Jun saw Li Xiu coming out, he was overjoyed. However, he was slightly startled when he saw that there was a young monk with handsome eyebrows and red lips following Li Xiu.

"Let's talk later. I'll go exchange the beads first." Li Xiu took Lu Ye and walked towards the wooden house where Mr. Ba was.