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Chapter 154 Two Roads

"baffling……"

Looking at Su Muzhe's retreating back, Su Wen felt a little confused.

He and Cheng Zi have nothing to do with each other - if you really want to insist on it, you can only say that both Shimen and Cheng Zi are Confucianists.

However, the Confucian views held by Qingshan Academy are quite different from those of Cheng Zi. The debate between Qingshan Academy and Heshan Academy for a period of time even led to a rift within Confucianism. Qian Haoran was even prepared to fight with

Cheng Zi had a debate.

If Cheng Zi hadn't taken the initiative to show up, and even took this opportunity to get out of the palace, Gou Wenling, causing both sides to divert their attention, this debate might have already begun.

So Su Muzhe still owed Cheng Zi a favor to him...Su Wen felt that he had made the wrong choice.

But Su Muzhe didn't give him a chance to explain and left directly.

Of course, Su Wen also thought about it. Was he thrown to Guixu by Ying Tianchang... Could it be that he was also part of Cheng Zi's plan, and that was why Su Muzhe acted like this? Su Wen had no way of verifying it.

"Is this a forbidden object?"

After speculating on the motives of Cheng Zi and Su Muzhe to no avail, Su Wen finally focused on the bead string in his hand. There were nine beads in the bead string. It was hard to tell what kind of material they were made of, but they were heavy and had a warm feel to them.

Color.

Each bead was also engraved with some characters, which Su Wen recognized as the names of nine famous families.

"Put it away first..."

Su Wen was a real person and thought that if he was lucky enough not to encounter Ying Tianchang or any danger similar to him, he would keep the beads. After leaving Guixu, he would ask the teacher to return the beads to Cheng Zi. If he encountered...

Then he would use it to save his life, but he had to remember Cheng Zi's favor and pay it back if he had the chance in the future.

Holding the bead string in his hand, Su Wen suddenly asked Earthly Branches: "Do you know the origin of this thing?"

"Dad, I'm just an ordinary little taboo, how could I possibly know this kind of thing." Earthly Branch said depressingly: "But judging from the aura, each bead has the extraordinary power of the corresponding path sealed in it. Under certain circumstances,

can use."

There is not much difference between Earthly Branch's rhetoric and his thoughts.

He solemnly put the bead string into a close-fitting bag. There was also a carving knife wrapped tightly in cotton cloth.

After doing all this, Su Wen began to lean on the fence, waiting for the live sand to appear.

After mastering the movement patterns of living sand, Su Wen's fear of living sand gradually disappeared.

Of course, it is impossible to say that he is not afraid. His sense of security comes from the special nature of the hut. As long as the fence does not allow outsiders to come in, it will still have a sheltering effect. The live sand will not pose any threat to him.

There was just one question that had always troubled Su Wen. He had never been able to figure out what was calling his name outside the hut.

He asked Di Zhi, but Di Zhi said that it was just a little taboo who didn't understand anything and knew nothing about Guixuli. This was naturally an excuse. When he first met Water Fairy, Di Zhi didn't say this.

.

But after several exchanges with Earthly Branches, Su Wen also found that Earthly Branches really couldn't answer some questions for him.

Part of it is because it does touch on its knowledge blind spot, but part of it is because it involves taboos related to the Earthly Branches themselves, so the relevant information cannot be disclosed. Only under specific circumstances, after the taboos are lifted, can it be disclosed to Su to a limited extent.

arts.

After the call of Huosha disappeared, Su Wen also began to try to explore the surrounding area. Su Wen believed that Ren Zhengan placed him here because there must be something for him to do, but Ren Zhengan did not explain, he could only say

This was Ren Zhengan's test for him.

Of course, there can be many kinds of tests. Su Wen feels that being able to survive in such a weird place is the biggest test.

After a few days, he basically figured out the dangers around the hut.

The most dangerous thing is live sand, not because it is weird, but because it is almost integrated with the surrounding environment, and not all live sand lives according to the rules. There will still be live sand that breaks away from the group, disguises itself as sand, and lies on the beach.

Waiting for prey to pass by.

This kind of live sand is also the most dangerous.

This is a symbol of a certain degree of wisdom and a manifestation of extraordinary power.

This type of live sand has at least the level of Sequence 1, and most of it has reached Sequence 2 standards.

Su Wen was attacked by them when he passed by the sand several times.

However, with the help of the skill of Drawing the Ground as a Prison, the sudden attack by the living sand had basically no effect. Instead, Su Wen used an ice pick to freeze it, and finally knocked it into a piece of gravel, turning it completely into sand.

Unfortunately, the living sand that attacked Su Wen had very few extraordinary attributes and could not extract extraordinary items at all, let alone forbidden items. Apart from training his reaction speed and being sufficiently frightened, there was not much gained.

Su Wen also figured out the name of the trees around the hut: Ghost Willow.

The ghost willow not only has a sinister name, but it is also highly poisonous. The sap can be turned into a deadly poison simply by refining it.

The most bizarre thing is that people can be confused by ghost willows mainly when they are near ghost willows. It is easy to collect the juice of ghost willows and eat the fruits, which eventually leads to poisoning and death.

However, Gui Liu's method of confusion can only target the ordinary natives of Guixu, and has little effect on extraordinary people.

Only the extraordinary beings who first opened up this place would be poisoned if they were hungry and chewed tree bark, ate fruits, or chopped ghost willow wood for firewood for cooking.

Extraordinaries who have been hanging out in Guixu for a while basically know what they can't do and don't know how to do it.

The danger of ghost willows is not limited to their toxicity. Some ghost willows with well-developed root systems can also attack nearby prey through their roots, dragging them underground and turning them into nutrients.

Of course, there are not many such ghost willows. These ghost willows are also equivalent to extraordinary beings in the human race, and there are not many in number.

But Su Wen couldn't tell which ghost willow tree had such ability and which one didn't.

So he could only watch the Ghost Willow Forest from a distance, keeping his distance.

"Hey...these ghost willows...seem to be a little closer to the hut?"

In Su Wen's impression, the ghost willow forest is almost a hundred meters away from the thatched house, but in recent days, it seems that the ghost willow forest is closer to the thatched house.

After mastering the ability to draw the ground as a prison, Su Wen's judgment of spatial distance will only become closer and more accurate, without the possibility of misjudgment.

In other words, when he felt that the ghost willow forest was approaching the hut, it was definitely not an illusion, but a fact.

"How is this going?"

Su Wen picked up a stone, threw it next to the ghost willow forest, and made a mark. He planned to come back tomorrow to check the location of the mark to determine whether it was auditory hallucinations in his eyes or whether the ghost willow forest was indeed moving towards the hut.

"Snapped!"

But just when Su Wen turned around, he seemed to hear a whip sound in the ghost willow forest, and the stone he threw flew back towards him with strong wind!

"I'm going! What happened?!"

Su Wen turned sideways to avoid the stone. After the stone made a sand pit on the ground, it bounced up and rolled for a while before completely stopping.

Su Wen picked up the stone on the ground, identified it briefly, and recognized that it was the one he had smashed out before.

"Damn this!"

Su Wen did not turn around this time, but faced the Ghost Willow Forest and stepped back step by step.

He wanted to see whether the one who attacked him was the Ghost Willow Forest itself, or the weird thing hidden in the forest.

"Susu..."

At this time, Su Wen saw a rustling sound in the ghost willow forest. A large area of ​​ghost willows seemed to have suddenly grown much taller, and then slowly moved forward.

Su Wen held his breath for a moment.

As Gui Liulin moved forward, he also saw many octopus-like tentacles commotion on the ground, but they made no sound.

"really!"

The Ghost Willow Forest not only moves on its own, but also attacks people with its roots!

"What should I do?"

Su Wen was a little helpless.

According to the speed at which the ghost willow is moving, it will erode the location of the hut in just a few days.

The hut is naturally capable of resisting the ghost willow forest and will not let the ghost willow forest destroy the house, but... the ghost willow forest can surround the entire hut.

At that time, will he leave the hut? It won't be long before he will be trapped and die in the hut.

And abandoning the hut would be a dead end. Without the protection of this safe house, he wouldn't be able to survive even one night.

With a dark face, Su Wen went back to look through the transcribed notes. He quickly found the article about Ghost Willow and studied it carefully.

Ren Zhengan didn't write much about ghost willows, mainly because this kind of thing was already well known in Guixu, and there was no point in recording it.

But to Su Wen, all knowledge about Guixu is precious, and there is nothing meaningless.

Fortunately, when Su Wen looked back at Ren Zhengan's diary-like records, he found some useful content.

"It's really boring to scoop up seawater and chop down trees to build houses day after day. But once you get lazy, these strange trees come closer..."

In Ren Zhengan's diary, he rarely complained about boring life. This entry records that he complained once after cutting down trees for more than ten days in a row, and he stopped complaining after that.

The reason for no longer complaining seems to be very simple. The record after this log is: "I was promoted to Sequence Three today."

Based on this log and going forward, it can be judged that Ren Zhengan built the hut when he was in the historian's sequence two, and then was promoted to the historian's sequence three in the process.

Su Wen believed that after Ren Zhengan became a transcendent in the third sequence of historians, Ghost Willow Forest would not harass him again.

After reaching this level, Gui Liu could no longer do anything to Ren Zhengan and could only acquiesce in his existence and keep a distance from the hut.

But Gui Liu discovered that after the hut changed its owner, Gui Liulin was ready to do something again.

"This is treating me like a soft persimmon..."

Su Wen sighed repeatedly.

"what to do?"

Su Wen fell into deep thought.

But in fact, he knew that there was no need to think about such a problem at all. There were only two ways in front of him.

Either leave here, or follow Ren Zhengan's example of chopping down trees.


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