(The highest state of lying is to make falsehood true)

Chi Lian swayed behind him, watching Lan Feng and the others walking towards the maple tree.

Lan Feng and the others stood still in front of the maple tree. Through the fire energy and faint moonlight, they could clearly see the original appearance of the maple tree.

I saw the two-foot-tall branches of this maple tree leaning against the rocks, with thousands of branches shaped like umbrella towers. There are five leaves like willow leaves, and each one is as red as burning blood. The trunk is as thick as two people can hug each other, and the top is as white as suet.

The ointment is as warm and moist as jade, semi-permeable to the inner fire; a faint red light shines around the tree, and dots of gold bugs flicker on the leaves.

Youdao means that the dark mountains appear alive, and the warm breeze blows through under the cold moonlight.

Lan Feng stooped down and grabbed a handful of soil under the maple tree. He put it in front of his nose and smelled it. It was indeed the same smell as Grandma Fuyan's cigarette stick.

"who are you...?"

As the firelight trembled, a thin voice floated out from the maple tree.

"This person is a stranger. Since he couldn't find his way out, and he heard that there were fire butterfly spirits in the mountains, he came to ask where he wanted to go..." Lan Feng said, looking at the golden insects dancing around.

"Ask where to go? Haha..." The voice sneered, "Coming here is a dead end, so why talk about where to go?"

Lan Feng also smiled and said: "Death is not scary. What is scary is living in pain..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the gold bugs and fire energy dancing around the tree began to dissipate, forming a halo of light surrounding Lan Feng and the three of them.

"You...are not human?" the voice said.

Lan Feng said: "What about the human race? What about the gods and demons? We are just asking for directions."

The voice said: "Oh? I would like to ask, how did you find this place?"

"Does this matter?" Lan Feng asked.

"It doesn't matter," the voice said, "I just want to hear the story before you die."

The halo of light circulated and gradually formed the appearance of a young girl in front of Lan Feng and the others.

Lan Feng saw that this girl was agile, but she was strong on the outside and weak on the inside. There was a trace of tiredness between her brows, and she was not as energetic as her voice sounded.

He said: "We were passing by the Wu Clan looking for someone, and after listening to the story told by Granny Wuyan, we wanted to come over and see if you knew the person we were looking for. I heard that your name is Maple Spirit?"

"Grandma Buyan?" A voice came from the mouth of the maple spirit illusion, "I don't remember what Grandma Buyan is. I have accepted too many people over the years..."

Ruoxue saw the maple spirit's illusion and shouted angrily: "As the spirit of the maple tree, you are supposed to protect the people here, but now you take pleasure in collecting human souls. How can God tolerate you?!"

After hearing this, Maple Ling laughed and said, "The ones I collected are all those heartless souls. I'm afraid my sister doesn't know the pain of this love poison, right?"

Lan Feng said: "Being happy with each other is the best destination in the world, but in this world, men and women cannot live forever just by being happy with each other.

I admit that there are indeed heartless people in the souls of the people you have taken in, but there must also be helpless people!

If you are born a girl, you are often influenced by your parents in your marriage, and you may not be able to find a husband as you wish; if you are born a boy, you are trapped in power, position, and money, and you cannot take away your beautiful soulmate.

These helpless actions are labeled as negative in your eyes?!

Do you and Fengjing and Youxi have a clear understanding?!"

After hearing this, Maple Spirit Phantom smiled disdainfully.

"It's all excuses. If you lose, you lose. How can there be so much helplessness? Since you are here, just stay!" Maple Spirit's phantom sound stopped, and the golden insects in the halo danced towards the three of them.

Chi Lian, who had been observing from behind, saw Maple Spirit's illusion taking action, and immediately rushed in front of Lan Feng and the others.

"evil

You beast! You dare to contradict your master?!" Maple Spirit's illusion saw Chi Lian coming, and with a wave of his hand, he knocked it unconscious to the ground with the golden insect's stream of light.

Lanfeng frowned, and immediately activated Yinghuo obstacle avoidance to cover the three of his party and Chi Lian. At this time, Hai Yesheng's eagle eyes flashed and noticed the swarming of these golden insects, but the maple spirit illusion seemed to have become weaker.

.Moreover, beside this illusion, there was a pool of water stains that was not there just now...

"Young Master, look," Hai Yesheng pointed at the water stain and said.

Lan Feng raised his eyes and took a look. This maple tree was originally a remnant branch of the ancient fire sycamore tree, with the aura of fire inside. Although the rainy weather had just passed, the stone eaves of dozens of meters were enough to block the mountain rain. This water

The appearance of Zhiwu is inexplicable!

He stared at the fading figure of Maple Spirit, and his mind quickly sorted out the clues in the story about Granny Wuyan.

The maple tree fell from the sky... gave birth to a pair of fire butterflies, and then fell in love with the water spirit... fell in love with the water spirit?!

Lanfeng stared at the puddle of water and looked at the illusion of Maple Spirit. A terrible thought emerged in his mind.

"Brother Hai, my mother-in-law's story may have been tampered with." Lan Feng said.

Hai Yesheng was stunned and said: "Oh? How could the young master see this?"

Lan Feng shook his head and said, "I'll find out if it's true or not by trying it. Yinghuo, please protect this obstacle for me first!"

The spirit of Yinghuo came out of Lanfeng's body, and he jumped and sat on Ruoxue's shoulder.

Lanfeng flew out of the demon fire to avoid the obstacle, and the phoenix feathers of his arms stood upright to form feather blades and hit the maple spirit illusion directly.

Seeing this, the Maple Spirit Illusion hurriedly recalled the golden insect and turned towards Lan Feng to attack. Unfortunately, Lan Feng's movement was so fast that before the Golden Insect could get close to him, the punch had already hit the Maple Spirit Illusion!

After this punch, the illusion instantly sunk inward, forming an adsorption force that bound Lan Feng's arms!

At this time, the expression on the maple spirit illusion was still sluggish, but the voice was extremely loud!

"go to hell!"

With a command, the Nowhere Gold Insects gathered towards Lan Feng with firelight. In an instant, Lan Feng was possessed by these golden insects and burned into a fireball!

"Lanfeng!!" Ruoxue shouted. When she saw Lanfeng being submerged in the flames of these golden insects and unable to move, she thought he was in danger, so she spread her snow bat wings and tried to get over.

Hai Yesheng saw this and immediately pulled Ruoxue.

"What are you doing?! Didn't you see that kid was in danger?" Ruoxue said angrily.

Hai Yesheng chuckled, looked at Ruoxue's anxious look and said, "In danger? What kind of danger are you in? I'm afraid the girl has forgotten who the young master is, right?"

Ruoxue was stunned, and Hai Yesheng smiled again: "Young Master is Bi Fang Shenniao, the son of Luan Feng, the direct descendant of the ancient Phoenix. Phoenix is ​​the source of all fires in the world. If the Young Master has ten thousand ways to die, he will definitely not be killed by this one.

The flames will burn you to death."

After hearing this, Ruoxue felt relieved. She saw that the fire was getting stronger and stronger, and the voice in Maple Spirit's illusion also began to laugh to itself: "Do you still have a way to survive now?"

The illusion originally thought that Lan Feng had been burned by the fireball at this time, but unexpectedly, a voice came from the fireball: "Are you ready to reveal yourself?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the golden insects in the fireball began to stir, and the firelight on their bodies was absorbed into Lan Feng's body bit by bit.

In a moment, the fire light disappeared, and the golden insects fell to the ground one by one because they lost their fire energy.

Lan Feng poured out the flames with one finger of his backhand, but it did not shoot towards the maple spirit illusion, but towards the water stains on the side!

In an instant, a scream came from the water stain. The water stain absorbed the water vapor from the earth's veins, and slowly turned into a man. He screamed in pain, and rolled on the ground to put out the fire.

Lanfeng was afraid that this guy would try to escape, so he said, "I'm sorry," and then he used demonic fire to form a fire prison to trap him inside.

The three of them stepped forward and saw that the man had a handsome face and a slight hint of blue in his hair. Isn't this the same person from the story of Grandma Fuyan?

"Let me out! Let me out quickly!" You Xi struggled in the fire prison. The shimmering demonic fire was undoubtedly like purgatory for a water spirit like him.

Lan Feng said: "You are Youxi, right?"

Seeing that he recognized her, You Xi said fiercely: "You guys, who are you? Why can you see through my spell?!"

Lanfeng smiled and said: "I've felt something strange since you first came out. As fire butterflies bred from maple trees, there should be nothing to fear in this world, but what we saw was an illusion. Explanation

, there must be some reason why we can't see the true body. This is one of them.

Secondly, from the time you were talking to us, you can tell that the source of the voice must be an energetic voice, but the face of this illusion has always maintained a depressed expression, as if someone has taken away his consciousness.

What makes me even more curious is that in the story of Granny Wuyan, Maple Spirit was betrayed by Feng Jing and You Xi. Logically speaking, she should hate them both to the bone, so I am refuting your idea of ​​collecting human souls.

Finally, I deliberately mentioned Maple Mirror and Swimming River.

But your performance was just dismissive, and your mood was not as volatile as you imagined.

From then on, I began to doubt the authenticity of the story told by my mother-in-law.

It wasn't until the end that I saw the illusion of weakness and the water stains on the ground, and then I connected all the clues together. Where did you hide the Fire Butterfly Sisters?"

There are many lies in this world, some will be exposed and some will not.

Some lies are for gain, some lies are for fear of losing, and some are for protection.

But no matter whether these lies are good or bad, there will always be people who treat them as truth.

Over time, these lies will be accepted by most people, but no one knows the truth.

When a lie is deeply ingrained in everyone's mind, the truth will become a lie in everyone's mouth.

This is the most terrifying thing about lies.

Lan Feng questioned You Xi, but the latter smiled evilly.

"You'd better let me out, or if you wait a little longer, you will die in an ugly way," You Xi said.

Ruoxue raised her eyebrows, drew out her brocade-haired bone blade and stabbed Youxi right in the lower abdomen. Youxi was in pain and began to howl like a ghost again.

"If you don't say anything, the next knife will be placed across your neck!" Ruoxue drank.

Na Youxi looked at Lanfeng and the others fiercely. He took out a piece of bluestone from his arms and crushed it into pieces, saying, "You're done!"

For a moment, the black grass behind Lanfeng and the others began to shrink, and soon they gathered into the shape of an old man.

When Youxi saw the old man coming, he quickly said: "Lord Mountain God, please help me quickly. These monsters have broken my illusion!"

The old man said angrily: "Where did you come from? How dare you act so recklessly here?!"

Lan Feng felt upset, as a simple task was delayed again and again by the river cruise.

He raised his hand and released demonic fire, which ignited the black grass and burned the old man into nothingness in an instant.

"That's it? This is what you rely on?!" Lan Feng joked.

Poor Youxi thought it was a few little demons who came to cause trouble, but Lanfeng unexpectedly killed the mountain god in an instant, and a look of fear finally appeared on his face.
Chapter completed!