From the advent of the mountains and seas

Chapter 77 Shuren
Goblin giants crouched between the beach and the jungle.

The mouthparts between the arms are constantly opening and closing, creating turbulent turbulence, wantonly teasing the "prey" running around on the beach.

An Jing was thinking about how to avoid the sight lock of the evil ghost giant.

He suddenly heard a call from the jungle in front of him, and looked in the direction of the sound with some surprise.

I thought it was Jin Yiwei who had retreated into the jungle and found an escape route.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a tall and thin tree man hanging among the treetops.

It looks exactly like the one they met in the tower before!
"Why is it here?"

Lu Qinghan noticed the existence of the tree man and was equally confused.

You must know that this guy was almost intercepted and killed by them in the tower not long ago, but now, from what he said, it seems that he wants to help them?

"Come to me quickly, I can help you!"

Xu Shi could see the vigilance of An Jing and Lu Qinghan, the treant was hanging upside down among the treetops, his movements looked a little funny.

"In the past, now you can only use a dead horse as a living horse doctor."

Tang Ruosheng, who was lying on An Jing's back, looked back and urged repeatedly,
"Quick, it's about to start!"

At this time, most of the soldiers who accompanied them out of the camp had been swept away by the air current, and their side had become a new target.

The evil ghost giant was very concerned about the three people who had escaped the siege of the airflow one after another, and was leaning down and approaching here.

The effect of accumulating evil spirits was about to disappear, An Jing didn't care much, and went straight to where the tree man was.

Soon.

The huge dark purple head volleyed and fell into the jungle.

The chin was embedded in the ground, and the twisted eyeballs growing all over the face swayed from side to side, searching for the target.

The human beings who were supposed to be nearby suddenly disappeared from sight, which made the evil ghost giant very angry. His arms fell in the woodland, his mouthparts opened and closed, and the strong airflow blew away all the fallen leaves of nearby shrubs, and even the fallen leaves in the canopy were blown away. The branches and leaves were blown into the sky.

The existence of An Jing and others has not yet been found.

Woo~hoo~
The evil ghost giant who failed to track them kept screaming, venting the anger of the lost target.

Until a voice came from the top of his head, he was silent like a cicada, not daring to say another word.

"Noisy, shut your mouth!"

Wearing an apricot-yellow Taoist robe, his figure is no different from ordinary people, but his head has been covered with colorful fungi. He stepped on the giant's eyeballs, walked to the bridge of its nose, looked around, put his hands on his chest and made a seal. Two slices of mushrooms shake.

In an instant, the airflow spit out from the mouthpiece of the evil ghost giant's arms carried a ray of phosphorescent light and spread to all parts of the forest.

"A self-righteous mortal who wants to hide it from me by means of restraint is so stupid!"

The Taoist figure was slightly heavy, with his hands folded in front of his chest, energy from the soles of his feet penetrated into the eyeballs of the evil ghost giant.

In the next second, with the Taoist as the center, the airflow that originally diffused around quickly traced back, engulfing several soldiers from Beizhen Fusi, and sent it directly in front of him.

"Bad product, bad product, still bad product. Could it be that I have misread it? It is really disappointing."

Walking back to the forehead of the evil ghost giant, sitting cross-legged, the Taoist propped his cheek with his left hand, his gaze passed over the three struggling soldiers in mid-air, he waved his hands in disappointment, as the fierce wind whirled past, leaving only broken arms and stumps scattered on the ground.

With a muffled roar, the evil ghost giant got up and left, disappearing into the night.

Until the footsteps completely disappeared.

A tree rose up near the place where the evil ghost giant's head had been.

The roots were wrapped around two long and narrow wooden legs, and the thick trunk was split from it, revealing the three people squeezed inside.

An Jing jumped out first, followed by Tang Ruosheng and Lu Qinghan.

Looking around the devastated woodland, An Jing turned his eyes back to the treant who had changed back to his original form, and couldn't help but say,
"Your hiding method is ingenious. You can actually turn into a tree in just a few seconds."

At first, when the tree man asked An Jing to hold it in its stomach, An Jing refused. After all, this kind of behavior seemed to be asking for a dead end. In the end, he was forced to give it a try. I didn't expect an extra surprise.

"Hey, it's okay, I've been hiding from them on the island for hundreds of years, so I have to have some skills."

The tree man speaks unexpectedly fluently, but the dancing appearance matches its figure, which seems a little bit out of touch.

"Who are you to cultivate people, why do you want to help us?"

Lu Qinghan withdrew his gaze from looking at the corpse in the forest, and asked instead.

"You guys are here to find the elixir, am I right?"

The tree man raised his head to identify the direction, and while talking, he turned and waved for the three of them to follow him.
"I knew that sooner or later someone would come, what's going on outside now."

It may be that it was hard to find someone who could communicate, and the Shuren had a vague tendency to develop chatterbox, Tang Ruosheng hurriedly interrupted,
"Have you been exposed to the elixir?"

"Hmph, contact? You're underestimating me. Back then, I was one of the experimental subjects. I was only one step away from becoming a Taoist, and two steps away from becoming a fairy, um, just two steps!"

The tree man put his hands on his hips, held his head up, and there was a bit of pride on the ravine-ridden tree face.

"Has the elixir been refined?"

Tang Ruosheng was not interested in listening to the tree man's bragging, so he asked.

"do not know"

"do not know?"

"I'm a test subject, not those monks. My job is to take all kinds of pills and undergo various transformations all day long. Besides, it was all hundreds of years ago. You don't expect me to remember it. Remember the details of what happened at that time?"

The tree man felt that Tang Ruosheng had something wrong with his mind, so he raised his hand and broke his "wood",
"Do you have any brains in it?"

Looking at the empty treant's head, Tang Ruosheng fell into a rare silence.

I was speechless for a while.

"You still haven't answered my question just now. Why did you help us escape from the evil ghost giant? We were in the tower before. We were not harmonious, even hostile. What good will it do you to save us?"

It stands to reason that as a tree person, it can be regarded as a Taoist camp, but its actions are completely opposite, and it is difficult not to make people doubt its motives.

"Is that enough reason to want to change back to a normal person?"

Grabbing the branches above his head with both hands, the tree man's mood was visibly depressed, and he muttered in a low voice,

"I'm fed up with this body, I can't eat, I can't sleep, and I can't even pass on the things that I have passed down my family."

"We don't have the ability to help you restore your original shape."

An Jing moved his gaze down to between the tree man's legs, and said with a strange expression.

"Of course I know that you can't do it, but I know what can be done. As long as I can get the qi refining method in the hands of those Taoist disciples, I may be able to reach the realm of Taoist disciples through practice and become the same as them." exist."

"Why don't you ask Taoist disciples directly for help?"

"I tried, not only are they unwilling to help me, but they also want to take me back to study that I can't die. I have endured for so long, and I will never die in the ghostly way I am now. This is the condition for me to help you, you have to help me Get the Qi Refining Method!"

The tree man took the three of them all the way deep into the jungle, saying that he wanted to take them to his own stronghold, and the jagged mouth didn't stop along the way.

Taking this opportunity, An Jing learned about the basic situation of the island.

Although there are not many details about the elixir, there is no shortage of valuable information.

The tree man appeared in the tower because it saw the battle between An Jing and the others and the deer head monster, and knew that the latter had been killed, so he wanted to seize the opportunity to sneak into the tower to steal the Qi refining method, but found nothing. All I found was a bunch of bamboo slips that I couldn't understand at all.

After escaping from the tower, the treant didn't go far at all, but hid in the nearby woodland, and followed An Jing and the others all the way back to the beach camp by means of holding back his breath.

This explains why Shuren took the initiative to rescue An Jing and Lu Qinghan, but not others.

The main reason is to see them teaming up to kill the deer head monster, and want to continue to rely on their strength, hoping that they will continue to work hard and kill those Taoist disciples as well.

Through inquiries along the way, Tang Ruosheng's speculation was confirmed.

The research on the experience of tree people is completely different from that of deer head monster. The latter is the product of the monks' initial research, while the appearance of tree people and Taoists is from the monks who opened up when the road of combining humans and animals was not feasible. new route.

Because of this.

The deer head monster, who claims to be an immortal, is slightly weaker than the Taoist, and can only simply control the giant.

"The new research route must be to transform people into plants-like existences. It and the mushroom Taoist are the best evidence. The monks back then should have mastered some kind of method to allow people to get plants. characteristic."

Tang Ruosheng made an inference based on the information provided by the tree man, paused, and said to himself with some doubts,

"It's just that these researches have been separated from the refining of undead medicine. They came to this island not to obtain Taoism and become immortals here, living pills. Perhaps the living pills refined by Taoists for immortals are part of the undead medicine."

The ultimate goal of the monks on the island is to refine a elixir that can make people live forever.

Transforming people into beasts or plants is undoubtedly contrary to the original intention to some extent.

"Taoists have already mastered such great power, what kind of existence should immortals be?"

Thinking that the Taoists captured humans to refine living pills just to worship the immortals, An Jing couldn't help but looked at the tree man and asked.

"I haven't seen it either, I only know that the immortal lives in the palace at the highest point of the island, and usually doesn't come down at all. All the things are provided by Taoists. Anyway, I have never seen it. Sometimes I even suspect that the immortal is not exist!"

The tree man spread his hands. It's not that it hasn't tried to approach the palace in the cloud all these years, but all of them returned in vain.

While speaking, the tree man walking in the front suddenly stopped.

Several people thought there was danger nearby, so they suddenly became nervous. As a result, the treant turned and pointed to the tree in front left, and then said,

"Welcome to visit my house."

An Jing took a closer look.

Only then did I discover that there was a very simple tree house hidden in the canopy with lush branches and leaves.

If you want to come, that is the place where the tree people have lived for hundreds of years.

　there will be later

　　
　
(End of this chapter)