Chapter Fifty-seven: Several forces gather and leave
Time passed and it was quickly approaching midnight.
In the courtyard, Cheng Di and others were fully clothed. Except for a few Qingyi guards who were too seriously injured and were left in the courtyard to recuperate, the others were still fully clothed even if they were injured, standing neatly in the courtyard, waiting to set off.
Fang Xiong knocked on Zhang Sui's door and called twice in a low voice.
Zhang Sui, who was exploring the effect of the power of merit in the void of consciousness, woke up with a start and found that it was completely dark outside. He had been in the void of consciousness for several hours without knowing it.
Zhang Sui scratched his head, a little confused as to what the situation was between the time in the void of consciousness and the time in the outside world.
Last time, I felt like I had been in the consciousness space for a long time, and when I came out, I found that the time in the outside world had basically not passed. But this time, I felt that I had not been in the consciousness void for long, but several hours had passed in the outside world.
If this situation is not considered clearly, it can cost lives at critical moments.
Zhang Sui heard Fang Xiong's cry and knew it was almost time.
So he stood up, patted the dust on his body, opened the door and walked out. He and Fang Xiong Gao Shou went to the courtyard to gather with everyone, ready to set off.
At this time, there were three people standing next to Dewey. In addition to Cao Gang and Qin Ye, there was also Cheng Song, who looked uncomfortable being held by Qin Ye.
Cheng Di and all the green-clad guards looked at Cheng Song with a little strange eyes.
Zhang Sui also felt very interesting when he saw this.
Dewey said to everyone: "This is just the right time to set off. The power of the Eye God is obviously fading and will soon enter a weak state. However, the Eye God cultists controlled by him may become even crazier at this time. You should still
Be more careful!"
Hearing this, Cheng Di and others nodded.
Seeing that everyone was in the right mood, Dewey ordered Qin Ye: "Xiaoye, it's up to you now."
Everyone was a little puzzled.
Dewey explained: "Tongshen has a magical power that can make people lose their bearings and time. It knows that it will be in a weak state now, so it will definitely use this magical power to the maximum extent.
Due to her bloodline talent, Xiaoye happens to be the nemesis of this magical power, so just follow her."
Everyone was stunned.
Qin Ye happily took Cheng Song's hand and said to him: "Brother Song, our bloodline is very powerful. Wait a minute and you will see how I use it. With your talent, you should be able to learn it very quickly."
Cheng Song nodded and said nothing.
Zhang Sui smiled in his heart and said: "It's developing very fast. In the afternoon, I am still Big Snake Brother, and in the evening I am Brother Song. Not bad!"
After everyone left the courtyard, Qin Ye held Cheng Song's hand and walked in front, with Cao Gang guarding him at the side.
Qin Ye closed his eyes and spit out his tongue. His normally normal tongue suddenly bifurcated and turned into a standard snake letter. He made a hissing sound and kept licking the surrounding air before taking it back into his mouth.
When Zhang Sui saw this scene, his body began to get goosebumps again.
Soon Qin Ye pointed in a direction and said, "Go this way!"
As he spoke, he stepped forward, followed closely by Cao Gang, Dewey and others.
Zhang Sui looked at the direction and found that he was not heading towards the center of the village in his field of vision.
He secretly used the art of knowing the land, and was surprised to find that the center of the remote land was exactly in the direction pointed out by Qin Ye.
Cheng Di and others had actually been watching Zhang Sui's expression. After all, Zhang Sui's skill of throwing shoes to identify positions was really impressive.
Seeing Zhang Sui nodding and following Qin Ye's direction, everyone immediately followed him.
The strange thing is that the direction Qin Ye pointed out is not a straight line, but goes back and forth as if in a circle.
Every time he changed directions, Zhang Sui couldn't help but use the art of recognizing the ground, and found that he didn't miss it even once.
Zhang Sui was still wondering: "Does that secluded place keep changing its direction? Or is it just blinding our senses?"
After going back and forth like this for almost half an hour, suddenly a towering tree appeared in front of everyone's eyes on the empty avenue.
Everyone suddenly felt that the surrounding light had become extremely dim. If they could still see the waning moon in the sky when they set off, everyone seemed to have entered a quiet, deep, and extremely dark space.
If the air wasn't filled with a kind of shimmering particles, I would have been unable to see anything.
Looking up at the sky, the waning moon has long since disappeared. Looking back at the way we came, there is no trace of it.
It seems as if the space we are in now has been separated from the original world and is completely an independent small world. It turns out that this is the true meaning of the secluded place: a deep and dim place, far away from the mundane world.
The giant tree towers into the sky, and it is estimated that a dozen people holding hands could not surround it.
There was obviously no wind blowing in the remote land, but the branches and leaves of the giant trees were rustling.
The most shocking thing is that the giant tree actually has a pair of giant eyes, but they are closed tightly at this time, as if they are asleep.
Since Zhang Sui entered this place, he felt like a mouse entering a rice barn. He felt that everything around him was filled with the power of doom and spiritual power, especially the majestic power of the giant tree, which made Zhang Sui want to climb up.
Holding and kissing.
If this can be absorbed, it is estimated that all the methods of change that are not restricted by the power of rules can be directly unblocked!
At this time, there were several groups of people scattered around the giant tree. At a glance, they were clearly distinguishable.
The party with the largest number was the Eye God Cultists. There were about two to three hundred of these Pupil God Cultists, and these people surrounded the giant tree.
There is a tall altar directly in front of the eye of the giant tree. There are ten or twenty men in black who are dressed differently from ordinary Pushen cultists. They are probably the top leaders of Pushen cult. They are standing on the altar and writing.
What are you wearing?
The group of green-clad guards captured by the men in black, along with forty or fifty other arrested people, were being controlled by the black-clad cultists to kneel down near the altar.
There was another party of men and women, dressed in silver-white robes, carrying long swords on their backs. There were about ten or twenty people sitting cross-legged about two hundred paces away from the giant tree. They were sitting there quietly and breathing without making a sound.
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There is also a group of people who are more strange, there are about twenty or thirty people, tall and short, fat and thin, men and women, and different clothes. They sit around two or three stone tables I don’t know where, staring at the Tongshen cultivators.
Talk broadly.
What surprised Zhang Sui the most was that many people were cracking melon seeds, and some were nibbling watermelons. They were just a bunch of people eating melons!
These three people and horses form a triangle from their positions.
At this time, Zhang Sui and his party broke into the place, attracting the attention of the three parties. However, the Taoist party and the melon-eating crowd just looked at them, and there was no reaction.
Only among the Tongshen believers, the expression of the little leader Zhang Sui and the men in black whom they had seen changed, and he quickly walked up to the altar and whispered a few words in the ear of what looked like a leader.
The leader of the men in black turned to look at Zhang Sui and the others. The light emanating from his eyes allowed Zhang Sui and the others to see clearly from such a distance.
The leader gave a few instructions, but he didn't know what he said. The little leader of the men in black walked off the altar and returned to the crowd, but there was no movement.
Zhang Sui and the others were worried that the Tongshen cultists would come and cause trouble. After all, there were too many of them. But judging from the situation, the men in black didn't want to pay attention to them for the time being. They were probably waiting for the sacrifice to be over before they came to cause trouble for them.
But Zhang Sui and the others couldn't wait that long. After all, there were still so many Tsing Yi guards in the hands of the Tongshen cultists. Once they started offering sacrifices, they would be sacrificed.
Cheng Di was a little anxious, but looking at the number of people on the other side, there were too many. Except for Zhang Sui's second general Heng Ha and Dewey, the others on his side were ordinary wounded soldiers. If he rushed up rashly, he would probably die in vain.
Seeing the expression on Cheng Di's face, Dewey comforted him: "Commander Cheng, don't be impatient. Things will turn around naturally after a while. Those people will not allow those Pushen cultists to sacrifice easily. There are plenty of opportunities to save people."
After Cheng Di heard this, his expression slowly calmed down. Everyone began to wait patiently for the opportunity.
Zhang Sui suddenly thought of something and asked Cheng Di: "Didn't you enter here and see this giant tree when you were hunting down the Lingmu Cult ten years ago? Was this what the giant tree looked like at that time?"
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Cheng Di shook his head and said: "When I entered here, what I saw was just a big tree surrounded by one or two people. It is incomparable to this giant tree."
Zhang Sui nodded and asked, "Do you know what the Taoist priests sent by the imperial court did to that big tree at that time?"
Cheng Di continued to shake his head and said: "I don't know. The two Taoists asked everyone around them to leave at that time, but the big tree soon blossomed and bore fruit. They only need to come here once a year to collect the fruit until three
You were not allowed to enter here until a few years ago.”
Zhang Sui nodded and secretly thought about it. Maybe the two Taoist priests used some method to make the big tree condense the power of the body together, just like the jujube tree at home, which can store the power of the spirit.
Common among jujubes.
I just don’t know what happened later, which caused this giant tree to mutate and gain magical powers, create this secluded place, and escape the fate of being picked by Taoists. All of this is probably related to those Pushen cultists.
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Just as Zhang Sui was thinking about it secretly in his mind, the celestial phenomena in the land of Youli suddenly began to change.
The originally dark and deep sky suddenly began to turn white, a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, and everyone faintly heard bursts of roaring thunder from far to near.
Zhang Sui secretly thought in his heart that the outside world thought that there was only lightning without thunder, but it turned out that the thunder was isolated in the secluded land and was not transmitted out.
The Pushen cultists began to get nervous. The leaders of the men in black who had just written on the altar handed the things that looked like talismans written in their hands to the men in black beside them.
After taking it, the man in black immediately came to the audience and handed the talisman to other men in black. After the men in black took the talisman, they quickly distributed it and posted one behind the captured people.
The Taoists on that side who were originally sitting cross-legged on the ground all stood up when the lightning appeared, looking at the giant tree with solemn expressions.
The melon-eaters over there also ended their chat and looked at the giant tree, some ready to move.
Cheng Di and others became even more nervous and tightened their grip on the weapons in their hands. Dewey and others stopped chatting and looked at the giant tree silently. Zhang Sui's palms began to sweat.
At the scene, it felt like everyone was tense, waiting for something to happen.
Zhang Sui knew very well that the critical moment was coming.
A melee between several parties may be about to break out!