There are nearly 10,000 puppet trees in the Puppet Forest.
The leaves are withering and the old trees are bearing fruit.
Gu Yuxi poked a few old trees with her long sword, and when she saw that no trace of inferior life blood was flowing out, the four of them turned their attention to these small fruits.
"Can I eat it?"
"It's also for healing?"
The small golden fruit was hard but soft, and was not some strange crystal. Everyone took one and looked at it carefully.
Roots, stems, leaves, fruits, each part has different effects.
The four of them were not reckless enough to eat the fruit as soon as they saw it.
"Who should I ask to test the medicine this time?" Qian Tong asked suspiciously.
Zuo Qingqing was not around, so there was a shortage of someone to test the medicine.
Xu Zhi searched for a long time but couldn't identify anything.
In the end, all the brothers and sisters looked at the senior brother. If something happened, senior brother would be the one to come.
"You want me to take a bite?"
Qian Tong was shocked and finally accepted the task silently.
As a senior brother, you must take the lead.
"Master has a lot of knowledge, should we ask him first?" Gu Yuxi asked.
"What if it's a good thing?" Yan Jinbai seemed a little hesitant and said, "Grandmaster Yagyu and Grandmaster Juzi also like to take advantage. They are both fine now and don't need to ask us anymore."
What he meant was quite straightforward: bad things are not terrible, but good things are taken advantage of by others.
"I'd better take a bite. I feel that the fruit has softened a bit. I'm afraid it won't last too long."
It is not appropriate to take the fruit down for testing because it is easy for other people to learn the information.
It is not appropriate to bring Yan Xuankong up, as it will easily make Yagyu Sogen and others suspicious. It is easy for the Grand Master to fly to this place.
They don't have much time. If the great masters have finished adjusting and resting, or if they don't go down for a long time, Yagyu Somoto and others will come over quickly. After all, they also have a need for these healing juices.
If the fruit is beneficial, they can take advantage of it as much as possible while there is still some time left.
Qian Tong held the slightly softened fruit and felt that even if it was a poisonous pill, he would not die if he licked it.
After all, he is also a master, and his body and medicine resistance are quite strong. Many powerful medicines have no effect on him, and many powerful poisons have no negative effects.
Even Xu Zhi, who is invulnerable to all poisons, is not as good as him in some aspects. After being promoted to Grandmaster and connecting the minds of the Second Bridge of Heaven and Earth, Qian Tong has more advantages than Xu Zhi in detoxification and coping with mental shocks.
"How about it?"
"Poisoned?"
"Do you want to induce vomiting? Drink water to dilute it."
Xu Zhi held a large bottle of drinking water and waited for Qian Tong to nod before pouring it into his mouth.
Bah.
Bah, bah, bah.
Qian Tong took a bite, licked it, felt it for a while, and then swallowed it.
After hesitating for a few seconds, he chewed the whole fruit, made a chewing sound, and began to swallow it.
"It feels like there is less meaning if you don't eat it completely. The taste is neutral, not astringent, not sour, not bitter, not sweet, not spicy, just like chewing something tasteless..."
Before he finished the introduction, his face suddenly turned red, his expression was slightly angry, and he stood still.
After a second or two, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
Everyone was startled and were about to pour water to induce vomiting when they saw Qian Tong wake up and come back shouting.
"There is a Yingguo man who hacked me."
"Cut you?" Xu Zhi asked doubtfully, "Senior Brother, are you hallucinating?"
The three brothers and sisters were just about to beat their backs, pry their mouths, and pour water. They didn't see any Yingguo people.
If there are no unexpected circumstances, there will be only four cultivators left in the group of Ying Kingdom, which is one less than the number of Dongyue people.
"Hallucination?"
Qian Tong took a breath and said, "How could there be such a real hallucination? I was just slashed by him, from here to here, and it still hurts now."
He opened his clothes and saw a red mark on his chest extending from his shoulders to his abdomen.
If the killing was real, Qian Tong would have been chopped into two pieces.
"How can an illusion produce real effects?"
"This is an effect that is weakened countless times."
"Any other questions?"
Several people looked at it with horror. Xu Zhi looked at these golden fruits and felt that they were familiar but also completely different.
"Senior Brother, were you killed by the person in the hallucination?" Xu Zhi asked.
"That's right, that Yingguo cultivator drew his sword too quickly, and I couldn't guard against it."
Qian Tong shook his head and said: "It wasn't that bad at first. It was just that he suddenly entered a fighting state inexplicably and had no weapons in his hands. He killed him instantly with a knife."
He felt it for a while and saw the red marks on his skin gradually fading away. He finally nodded and said, "It's just a hallucination. There are no other bad effects."
"Let me try one."
After the first brother is finished, it's time for the second brother to take action.
Qian Tong brought a lot of information, which made Xu Zhi hold the gilt armor-breaking stick tightly when eating the fruit of the puppet tree.
After eating a piece of fruit, Xu Zhi felt a surge of air in his chest, and his vision was blurred.
A Yingguo cultivator dressed in black came rushing forward.
Draw the sword, draw the sword.
The strike was like flowing water, fast and deadly, and as accurate as the textbook Ying Guo swordsmanship.
Xu Zhi picked up the stick and struck back.
The ability of this Yingguo cultivator in the hallucination is very unique, at least at the master level, but he is not yet a match for Xu Zhi.
With just three consecutive strikes of the Qianjun Stick Technique, the opponent's weapon had already left his hand. When Xu Zhi made up for it with a stick, Qingming returned to his eyes.
He still stood there with the stick in his hand, maintaining his eating posture and not moving much.
"What does it feel like?"
"What is shown in the hallucination, is it also a Yingguo cultivator?"
"Have you been cut? Let me see where you are injured."
"Shh."
Xu Zhi made a gesture to silence himself, narrowed his eyes slightly and began to recall everything in the hallucination.
As Qian Tong said, apart from hallucinations, this fruit indeed has no effect on the body after swallowing it, and it does not even feel like it satiates hunger.
But vaguely, he felt that there was something more.
This feeling was very weak and not obvious, even he had to experience it quietly.
Losing is one kind of ending, winning is another kind of ending.
Qian Tong's perception is not wrong, and neither is his feeling.
If there is any abnormality, it can only be that the two people behave differently in their hallucinations.
"It seems to have the effect of a thousand opportunities."
Xu Zhi vomited: "But I seem to be eating the brains of a bull."
After thinking about it again and again, Xu Zhi felt that this was very close to the effect given by the Martyrs' Shrine in the Xinghuang Ruins.
The difference is that those are the imprinted influences brought by the powerful powers of some barbarians in ancient times, while the fruits of these puppet trees are the abilities derived from the cultivators of the Ying Kingdom.
This is even like him receiving the golden fruit of the World Tree at the Altar of Nature to enhance the level of natural magic.
But this feeling is far weaker than the improvement of the jungle goblin.
The effect given by the fruit of this puppet tree is quite strange. Perhaps you can only recognize the real effect after eating a certain amount.
"The smaller the fruit, the weaker the opponent in the illusion may be. From small to large, you can adjust according to your own fitness."
There is nothing wrong with eating the fruit, and it seems to have a weak benign effect.
The eldest brother and second brother passed the test, and Yan Jinbai and Gu Yuxi took the fruit with confidence.