Chapter 507: One Fruit in One Life, One Fruit in One Life
At the end of the cave is a huge underground space, an unimaginably huge cave. The exit of the cave is on the mountain wall on one side of this underground space. It is almost negligible, just like an ant hole in the hall.
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Most of this underground space is occupied by a tree.
Yes, it's a tree. A tree whose entire body seems to be made of crystal. It's incredibly big. The tree body and crown are who knows how high. It occupies more than 80% of the huge underground space.
This is not an artificial crystal object, but a real living tree. Through the crystal-transparent trunk, you can completely see the structure inside and traces of the flow of life.
This was an ancient tree that was as huge as crystal. In front of him, Bai Candong felt so small that he was even inferior to an ant, as if he had arrived in the country of giants.
What shocked Bai Candong was not the size of the crystal tree, but the fruits on it.
There were many fruits on the crystal tree. Because the tree was so big, the number of fruits it produced could no longer be counted. However, the appearance of the fruits made Bai Candong feel unspeakable horror and fear.
The fruits are only the size of a human head. They are really as big as a human head, because the fruits look like crystal skulls. Apart from their crystal-like shape, they are no different from human skulls.
The huge crystal tree is covered with skulls. From a distance, it looks like a cloud layer covered by skulls. The feeling is indescribable.
And these crystal skulls have a unique meaning to Bai Candong, because the appearance of these skulls is very similar to the crystal skulls he collected on the earth, which was the one that brought him from the earth to this place.
Crystal Skull of the World.
"Did that crystal skull come from this crystal tree?" Bai Cangdong felt a weird feeling in his heart that was beyond words. He stretched out his left hand and looked at his palm.
Everything about her has changed to what Chu Yufei looked like when she was a child. Only the skull pattern on the palm of her left hand is still there, as if it will never change through the ages.
"It's really exactly the same!" Bai Candong looked at the skull pattern on his palm, and then looked at the crystal skull-like fruits. They looked exactly the same.
"One fruit in life, one fruit in life, you only have one chance." A sudden voice came into Bai Cangdong's ears, which shocked Bai Cangdong.
He quickly looked in the direction of the sound, only to find that there was a person on the crystal tree.
He was an old man. Apart from the fact that he was an old man, he really couldn't be described as having any decent characteristics. But just one look at him and I'm afraid no one would forget him again in this life.
Because the old man's body actually grew in the body of the crystal tree. The whole body seemed to be wrapped in the crystal-like body of the tree. Only one face was exposed, and it looked like it had been swallowed by the tree.
Generally, the unspeakable horror is astonishing.
"Who are you?" Bai Candong was initially shocked by the crystal tree and the skull fruit, but he didn't even see the old man growing in the tree.
"Treekeeper." The voice of the old man in the tree was hoarse, as if it was squeezed out from the cracks in the stone, which made people feel unspeakably uncomfortable.
"What kind of tree is this? What opportunity are you talking about?" Bai Candong asked, looking at the old man in the tree who claimed to be the tree keeper.
Everything here made him too shocked, too curious, and somewhat unacceptable.
"Here at the Ancient Yuan Tree, your chance is to pick an Ancient Yuan Fruit. One fruit for a lifetime, one fruit for a lifetime. You only have one chance. If you fail, there will be only death." The tree keeper used his uncomfortable words.
the voice said.
"Why should I pick those Ancient Yuan Fruits? What's the use of those skull-like fruits?" Bai Cangdong was full of doubts. He didn't know if these so-called Ancient Yuan Fruits were related to the crystal skull.
But they look very similar.
"Now that you are here, you have no other choice. Pick the Ancient Yuan Fruit and go out alive, or die here and become the nourishment of the Ancient Yuan Tree. This is the path you must take." The tree keeper said.
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Not getting the explanation he wanted, Bai Cangdong asked again: "What are the uses of these Ancient Yuan Fruits? How can I pick them?"
"I don't know." The treekeeper replied calmly.
"Don't know? How could you not know? You should at least tell me how to pick the Ancient Yuan Fruit." Bai Candong shouted to the tree guard.
"I really don't know. All the people who came to pick the Ancient Yuan Fruit have died. No one can pick even a single fruit. Naturally, I can't tell you how to pick the Ancient Yuan Fruit." The treekeeper's voice was clear.
With unspeakable sadness.
Bai Candong was horrified when he heard that all the people who picked the Gu Yuan Fruit were dead, so if he went to pick the fruit, he would also die.
"What a fucking bastard." Bai Cangdong really wanted to scold those Godsons and Jiudu, but it was useless to think about it. It was just a waste of energy. It was better to think about how to pick the Ancient Yuan Fruit.
What matters is saving your life.
"How did those people who picked the fruits die?" Bai Candong thought for a while and then asked the treekeeper.
Even if you don’t know the correct way to pick fruits, it’s good to be able to eliminate some wrong methods, at least you don’t have to repeat the mistakes of your predecessors.
"Look down." The treekeeper said calmly.
Bai Cangdong's heart skipped a beat. He walked to the edge of the cave and looked down into the underground space. His face suddenly turned pale. He saw that the ground below was covered with skeletons. He didn't know that tens of thousands of people had died there.
The bottom turned into dry bones.
The ground can no longer be seen below, and is completely covered by thick dead bones. This ancient Yuan tree seems to be rooted in the dead bones and growing out.
"Are these people dying just to pick the Ancient Yuan Fruit?" Bai Cangdong asked with an ugly look on his face.
"I don't know. Before I came here, most of the withered bones already existed. I only saw some people who died here and turned into withered bones in order to collect the Ancient Yuan Fruit." The treekeeper replied.
"How did they die?" Bai Cangdong swallowed and asked with difficulty.
"Perhaps I have seen all the ways to die that you can think of." The treekeeper said calmly: "As long as his hand touches the Ancient Yuan Fruit, he will die immediately."
"Isn't it okay if you don't pick it with your hands?" Bai Candong said quickly.
"The Ancient Yuan Fruit can only be picked by hand, otherwise it will be absolutely impossible." The treekeeper said and glanced at Bai Cangdong: "You don't have much time, go pick the Ancient Yuan Fruit."
"What time is running out?" Bai Cangdong frowned slightly, not knowing what the tree keeper meant.
"Don't you notice that there is something different about your body?" There was a chilling tone in the treekeeper's voice.