When you pass through the city gate under the stone city and step into the city of Masivo again, what you encounter is only desolation and ruin.
Among the thorn bushes were mixed clothes of various colors, and there were also scattered weapons.
Occasionally, there are some shriveled wolf heads, lizard heads, and fallen bones, adding a bit of a weird atmosphere to the surroundings.
"Why is this happening? The Holy Artifact and the World Tree are both guardians. They should not harm the residents of the city..." Edney kept murmuring.
As long as your brain is normal, you can basically see the fate of the residents in Stone City.
No different from the roots inside a tree, these thorns swallow up everything they can digest.
The only thing that is relatively gratifying is that this World Tree also recognizes four tokens. They can pass through the thorns and enter the body of the World Tree.
"The effect of that juice is indeed very powerful. It is better than the blood of life that only has the ability to restore."
"If you had been there at the time, you would have been able to dig out the demon flower."
"Master, we have called you several times, but every time you say you are unavailable and want to study the art of lightening yourself."
Yan Xuankong didn't know much about the incident in the Heart of the Tree, so he made fun of the scenes that everyone encountered at that time.
The high-level holy water was in the heart of the tree. This news made him slightly depressed. If he had known it, he might as well have run away with his disciples.
The reason why he initially participated in the rebellion against Dongtian was because he came here for this high-level holy water.
Anyone would be interested in this great medicine, and he was no exception.
I can’t help but feel a little sad about losing the opportunity.
But the most important thing now is to solve this strange world tree.
They had cut down the tree in the construction tunnel before, and were very familiar with the hardness and resilience of the wood of this giant tree. It was almost impossible to rely on manpower to cut down this giant tree.
Everyone also has to look for the back door, which is the possible consciousness carrying center of the World Tree.
The World Tree is the outer shell, and the sacred weapon Edney mentioned belongs to the inner part.
This broken sacred artifact continues to affect the World Tree, and Talos's backdoor must be in this sacred artifact.
Whether it is eliminating Talos's backhand or removing the sacred artifact, it is possible to stop the crazy behavior of World Tree.
If you keep a straight path when traveling, the distance between the heart of the tree is not far.
In just over ten minutes, everyone entered the heart of the tree from outside the stone city.
It was no different from the previous few days. The Heart of the Tree was empty. Xu Zhi and others had long been used to this place.
But Edney seems unable to accept the fact that the mutilated sacred vessel escaped.
"Why is it missing? It should be rooted in this place. It is impossible for the sacred artifact to move around on its own."
"As long as the World Tree still exists, the sacred artifacts rooted in it cannot be destroyed. Without the spell to collect the sacred artifacts, no one can pull it out."
Mentally fluctuating from time to time, Edni probed hundreds of meters within the World Tree.
Her spirit checked every possible gap, trying to find the sacred artifact.
Suddenly, a hint of panic appeared in her, her face instantly turned pale, a trace of blood and tears overflowed from her eyes, and the released mental wave suddenly retracted.
"It's looking at me, why is it like this?" Edney said in surprise, as if she had seen something unbelievable.
"What did you see?" Sogen Yagyu asked in a deep voice.
Just doing the detection, Edney suffered mental trauma, and what the other party saw and heard must contain important information.
"Let's go quickly. We need to go quickly."
Edni looked at Xu Zhi, who was holding the token, and she pointed to the passage through which she entered.
Suddenly, the passage closed directly, and no trace could be seen on the tree wall.
After shaking the token in his hand, Xu Zhi's face suddenly turned ugly.
"Your token is a bit unreliable."
No one who has experienced being squeezed by a channel wants to experience it again.
Moreover, the Heart of the Tree is at the center of the World Tree. Even if Yan Xuankong and others are here, it will take a lot of energy to get through it.
"It has become conscious and has just erased the backdoor mark I placed on the sacred vessel."
Edney pointed bitterly at the World Tree, and with some uncertainty pointed at the ground where the Gourd Demon Flower sank.
At this time, she couldn't tell clearly whether the control of the sacred weapon failed, the world tree developed a free consciousness, or whether the sacred weapon possessed sanity.
During the detection, Edney saw a pair of opened golden eyes.
She was discovered in an instant, and the little spiritual mark of the back door on the sacred vessel was completely removed.
Edney could vaguely feel the emotionless coldness in her eyes, as if a normal person would casually swat a mosquito to death when it saw it flying by.
When everyone was trying to figure out the situation, they saw a pair of golden eyes emerging from the heart of the tree.
The cold gaze cast down on everyone, and everyone couldn't help but shudder.
"Trees also have eyes?"
"It's because the sacred instrument has eyes. The gourd is golden, so there may be some connection."
"The eyes of Saint King Talos are still golden when he is angry."
The golden eyes that suddenly appeared looked at everyone coldly. This kind of gaze did not have the ability to kill, which made everyone lower their guard a little.
"scold"
Yagyu Sogen and Yan Xuankong on the side suddenly took action.
As the two swords passed by, they saw that the tree wall covering the golden eyes was cut away layer by layer.
The several-meter-long tree wall only lasted less than three seconds before it was broken into countless pieces of wood.
"Pretend to be a ghost"
Yan Xuankong looked at the tree wall with no eyes anymore and gave a low drink.
When the two of them took action this time, they did not find any artifact hidden under the eyes.
As the body of the World Tree rolled around, the place cut out by the two men was swallowed back, and the surrounding areas surged rapidly, starting to form new walls.
In a blink of an eye, the golden eyes appeared in their original position again, still staring at everyone coldly.
"Is this the manifestation of the magic mark you mentioned? Why can't it be broken?" Yan Jinbai asked in a low voice.
"This may not be called a magic mark."
Xu Zhi felt a bad feeling in his heart. The sealing of the passage was inseparable from the golden eyes. Edney's mark belonged to the back door, and these tokens also belonged to the back door. The other party was trying to erase the back door method that had been planted in him.
Nowadays, the usefulness of the token has obviously been reduced to a lower level. It is the same as holding Fu Er's anti-magic chain in the past. It can only maintain a space and cannot have the effect of opening a channel.
In just a few seconds, a nose and mouth began to appear under the golden eyes, and the head and body began to transform.
"Its consciousness is beginning to take shape. This must be the consciousness of World Tree."
Edney's eyes suddenly widened, her expression mixed with excitement and panic.
This is a very contradictory emotion.
It was as if he had seen the fruits of his efforts, and he seemed to have foreseen the fate he was about to face.
The life forms on the tree wall are obviously using the people in front of them as references, and their bodies combine the characteristics of the faces of the people in the heart of the tree.
Xu Zhi felt that the other person's head was very similar to his own, with two hair curlers.
Looking at one place alone, the body formed by the life form in the tree is very perfect. When these perfect body parts are spliced together, a strange and distorted feeling arises.
Combining men and women, old and young, this figure finally formed the appearance of a weirdo.
There seemed to be a little satisfaction in his cold golden eyes.