"It's..." Li Fan frowned slightly, as if he was trying to recall.
Ximen Yu stared at him and listened intently.
"I can't remember." After a long time, Li Fan shrugged and said helplessly.
"You..." Ximen Yu's face froze, "How could you forget such a strange thing easily?"
He looked at Li Fan with disbelief.
"Fellow Taoist Ximen, why not tell me what this dead branch is? Maybe as I talk, I might even remember it." Li Fan suggested with a smile.
When Ximen Yu heard this, his eyes narrowed and his eyes swept back and forth on Li Fan.
Li Fan was not afraid at all and looked at him calmly.
It seemed that Li Fan's strength was inaccurate, and Ximen Yu did not choose to act rashly in the end.
The body turned and the dead branches protected by him were reappeared in front of Li Fan.
After a moment of silence, I said, "I don't know much about the origin of this thing. At that time, my progress in studying the earth veins was in a bottleneck."
"Under the rule of the Wanxian Alliance, the power of the earth veins was firmly locked by the protective array covering the entire territory. It was really difficult to call and study without authorization. After trying many methods, it was still difficult to find a breakthrough point. Just when I was about to change my research direction..."
"About two years ago, the power of the earth veins here suddenly started to riot. It was like a chain reaction that was enough to destroy a state of earth veins. I was overjoyed when I saw this, and of course I seized this rare opportunity to absorb the power of the earth veins that were overflowing."
"And this dead branch was discovered by the power of the earth's veins."
Ximen Yu said slowly, but Li Fan felt thoughtful after hearing this.
"Two years ago, it seemed that it was the time node for the Red Flame to burn the sea. Is it the impact of Hongxi forcibly extracting the Earth Veins in order to force out the Red Flame hidden in the Earth Veins?"
The Xuanhuang Earth Veins are connected and connected. Although they are thousands of miles apart, they may have an impact on each other. Previously, there was a sunken island from the sea of ​​clouds, which was affected by the distant "hundreds of mountains turned into plains" and floated out of the seabed.
The abnormal movement of the earth veins observed here may be caused by the aftermath of the battle with Chi Yan back then.
Li Fan looked at the dead branches that were still squirting the power of the earthy yellow earth veins, and asked in confusion: "The power of the earth veins is extremely pure. How can there be dead branches sandwiched inside? Ordinary trees will be crushed into powder by powerful pressure for only a few breaths deep in the earth veins. Where does this dead branch come from? It can not only last in the earth veins, but also induce and absorb the imprisoned earth veins power?"
Li Fanfu looked at Ximen Yu again: "The earth veins here are abnormal movements, I believe that the Wanxian Alliance has not discovered them yet. Otherwise, it is related to the safety of the protective formation, and they will definitely send people to solve the hidden dangers here."
Ximen Yu's expression changed slightly, but he did not refute it.
"This dead branch does have some magical power. It seems to have the same root and origin as the earth veins, so I will draw some of them on a small scale for research, and it will only be regarded as the normal fluctuations of the earth veins itself."
The power of the dead branches erupting the earth veins seems to be intermittent and contains some pattern. At this moment, it gradually weakens, and eventually no longer has the energy of the earth veins flow out.
Ximen Yu carefully put away the jade bottle.
"The same origin as the earth's veins?" Li Fan savored this sentence carefully.
Ximen Yu took out a stone slab from the storage ring, which seemed to be peeling off from a rock wall somewhere, with extremely ancient traces.
The lines are also quite abstract, but you can roughly understand what they describe.
Many small dots represent humans. Sacrifice and live on the earth.
And underground, there is a big upside down tree growing.
The roots of the tree are densely packed and rooted in every corner of the earth.
The canopy goes deep into the ground and reaches the center of the earth.
"This was discovered in a geological fault when I was studying the changes in ancient and modern terrain. It should be left by the ancient mortals."
"It's not just this mural. I have found similar records from ancient people all over the Xuanhuang Realm."
"I suspect that the so-called earth veins are derived from the roots of this ancient tree. And my dead branch belongs to that ancient tree."
Ximen Yu explained.
"Although these information left by mortals are extremely simple. It is seen by mortals, but it may not be the whole picture. But because it is mortal things, we immortals often ignore them by default. Therefore, records that should have been erased can exist instead." Ximen Yu said with a sneer.
"Is the tree of the earth veins..." Li Fan touched his chin.
"No." Suddenly, he shook his head.
"Although it is extremely similar to what I saw in the illusion, it was still a little different at that time." Li Fan said confidently.
Ximen Yu was not surprised. He thought for a moment and said, "It is possible that the ancient tree you saw is even older."
"It may be the source of the Earth Vein Tree."
Li Fan was surprised: "The tree of the earth veins also has its source?"
Ximen Yu took out black stones from somewhere and crushed them and sprinkled them on the dead branches that were inserted on the ground. The black powder was quickly absorbed by the dead branches and seemed to become more energetic.
"It is said that there was only one mother tree between heaven and earth at the beginning, which was in charge of the fate of living creatures in the world."
"There was a huge change later, and the mother tree suffered heavy damage. Some branches fell from it and fell into the world."
"One of them turned into an ancient tree in the earth's vein."
Ximen Yu looked at the carefully cared for dead branches and said slowly with love.
A glimmer flashed in Li Fan's eyes: "Where did fellow Taoist Ximen know about this? It's really unheard of."
Ximen Yu's eyes were locked on the dead branches and did not answer.
Li Fan was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly.
"Ah, after fellow Taoist said this, I seemed to remember it. I met the dead branch here."
After drawing the terrain of Tianlingzhou, Li Fan marked a location.
Only then did Ximen Yu retract his gaze looking at the dead branches and keep it firmly in his heart. Then he wiped the map away.
"Time has changed. I have returned to my hometown several times over the years, but I have never seen that dead tree again. So fellow Taoist Ximen should not have too much hope." Li Fan reminded.
Ximen Yu smiled and said, "Of course such a strange thing is hard to come by. But I have always been lucky. After I finish the research on the Earth Vein Theory, I will definitely try my luck."
"Then I wish fellow Taoist Ximen success in advance!" Li Fan clasped his fists and was about to leave.
"Fellow Daoist Han Wuyou, right?" Ximen Yu threw a communication talisman over, "I feel like you and me are a little destined. If you keep this thing, maybe we will see you again in the future."
Li Fan put away the talisman and stopped staying.
When his figure disappeared, the gate of the cave was closed again.
Ximen Yu frowned deeply: "The world is like a tree, and it will live a life of life day and night..."
Chapter completed!