The darkness dissipated and Zhang Xiaozhu woke up from the shock. All his clothes were soaked with sweat.
He turned his arms in a panic, and when he felt that his arms were safe, he breathed a long sigh of relief and secretly rejoiced: "Fortunately, it's not true!"
Thinking back to the painful torture last night, he turned pale and swallowed hard.
Those hands crushed his shoulder bones and arm bones bit by bit, crushed them into crumbs and then ground them into powder. The scary thing was that his consciousness remained awake during the whole process, so his spirit and body were inhumanely tortured and tortured.
persecution.
"I...my two fucking arms were pinched off, and they still refused to let me go. They even asked me to carve words. Damn..." Zhang Xiaozhu looked at the two words on the ground in front of him and wanted to cry.
tears.
I saw only two words drawn on the ground, "Zhang" and "小", presumably they were written by him after he was unconscious last night.
Zhang Xiaozu missed the ghosts very much. If there were ghosts, these ghosts and monsters would have nowhere to hide. However, he still received no response to his calls.
"Fuck your motherfucker!"
Zhang Xiaozhu's eyes flashed fiercely, and he cursed fiercely in his heart. He firmly grasped the handle of the knife with his right hand, and decided to fight to the death with those damn hands tonight.
Butcher Zhang and the other three woke up one after another. Judging from the rosy complexion on their faces and the uncontrollable smiles on their lips, they must have gained a lot this night.
boom!
Niu Dawa smashed a rock with one punch and grinned: "Haha, I penetrated the force gate!"
"I have also penetrated the force gate." Zhang Tufu clenched his right fist and put it in front of him, feeling the surge of force gate, he couldn't help but said happily.
"I'm still a little bit behind." Jin Zhihui's expression turned slightly gloomy, feeling that she was still a little behind.
"Pawn, where are you?" Niu Dawa looked at Zhang Xiaozu and asked.
"I..." Zhang Xiaozu opened his mouth, feeling a surge of sadness in his heart, and lamented: "There is nothing behind my tombstone, so I fell asleep all night again."
He didn't tell them about the crushed bones, because telling them would not help them and would only increase their worries.
"It's okay. Brother will protect you and make sure no one dares to bully you." Niu Dawa stepped forward and patted Zhang Xiaopou's shoulder to comfort him.
"It's not on the tombstone, maybe you can check to see if it's on the coffin.
There's no reason why everyone else has it, but you don't have it, so there must be other reasons." Butcher Zhang analyzed it for him.
"Well, I'll take a look tonight." Zhang Xiaozhu nodded. Thinking of tonight, he couldn't help but shudder with fear.
Rumble——
The rock-backed monitor lizards were heard running in the distance again, and it was unknown who provoked them.
Niu Dawa and Zhang Xiaozu heard the sound and immediately touched it because they had finished eating the Yanxiang fruit and needed to replenish it.
Although Yanxinguo can also replenish physical strength, and the effect is far better than Yanxiangguo, the taste is really difficult to tolerate.
The two quickly picked two large Douyanxiang fruits and returned, and then the group of four continued to climb to the top of the mountain.
At noon, we finally climbed to the top of the mountain.
Looking at the huge phoenix skeleton and the towering sycamore trees, Zhang Butcher and Jin Zhihui were shocked for a long time before they came back to their senses.
"It's so beautiful!" Jin Zhihui looked at the rain of red sycamore flowers falling in the valley, with an intoxicated expression on his face.
"The phoenix is an auspicious beast that protects Jiuzhou, and the people of Jiuzhou should worship it." Butcher Zhang knelt on the ground and worshiped the phoenix's bones devoutly.
Hearing what he said, Zhang Xiaozhu and Niu Dawa looked a little embarrassed, because one of them wanted to take Phoenix's Wutong Tears, and the other wanted to take Phoenix's Demonic Pill, and they didn't care about Phoenix's life or death at all.
Compared with Butcher Zhang, they couldn't help but feel ashamed.
"Old man, what do you mean is that we should not seize Wutong Tears and his demon elixir, but protect him from the ashes and rebirth?" Zhang Xiaozu helped Zhang Butcher up and asked.
Zhang Tufu shook his head and said with a smile: "The Phoenix reborn from the ashes does not need our protection. When the time comes, he will naturally flutter his wings and take off, unless there is a powerful being of the same level as him to stop him, but that level of battle is no longer
We can intervene, so we just watch.
As for Wutong Tears and Demonic Pills, if there is a chance, they will naturally have to fight for it, because these two things are not directly related to Phoenix Rebirth.
Tears of the sycamore tree are the milk of life that the sycamore tree absorbs the immortal body of the phoenix and gathers the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and finally condenses and breeds it.
Although the Milk of Life contains the supreme power of life, which can make dead trees sprout new branches, turn white hair into green hair, and make all living things reborn, the rebirth of the phoenix does not rely on it.
The Phoenix's rebirth really relies on the sycamore tree. The sycamore tree absorbs his immortal body to grow. When he wakes up, the sycamore tree will feed itself back to him and reshape his immortal body for him.
As for the Phoenix Demon Pill, the presence or absence of the Phoenix Demon Pill will not affect the Phoenix's rebirth, because it will reshape the Demon Pill when it wakes up from the fire.
If the original demon pill is still there, He will swallow it up. If it is no longer there, that's okay.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to be reborn without the demon pill, and it would be too easy to be prevented from being reborn."
Hearing what Butcher Zhang said, Zhang Xiaozhu and Niu Dawa felt relieved.
Niu Dawa looked up at the sycamore tree and said, "According to what you said, as long as this sycamore tree is cut down, won't He not be able to be reborn?"
"That depends on whether you can beat it." Butcher Zhang said.
"Who? Wutong tree?" Niu Dawa asked in surprise.
Butcher Zhang looked at him and asked with a smile: "You don't think it's just an ordinary sycamore tree, do you?"
"Uh-" Niu Dawa scratched his head and said: "A tree that can absorb the immortal body of a phoenix must be extraordinary, so-"
His heart skipped a beat, and he looked at the sycamore tree and asked in surprise, "Will it attack you if you get close to it?"
"Then how can we capture the tears of the phoenix tree and the demon pill?" Zhang Xiaozu looked at the tall sycamore tree that covered the sky and the sun, and couldn't help but feel an invincible sense of defeat in his heart.
Butcher Zhang smiled and said: "Such rare treasures from heaven and earth cannot be obtained by asking for them. Let's wait and see what chance brings. You cannot force them."
Then he changed the subject and said: "Let's bake the flaming fruit and flaming heart fruit first, otherwise they will rot quickly in such a high temperature."
"You guys are roasting while I go find Xiaobing." Zhang Xiaozu said.
He was worried about Zhang Xiaobing's safety and wanted to go around the valley to look for her, thinking that she might have gone up the mountain.
"I'll look for it with you," Niu Dawa said.
Zhang Xiaozu waved his hand and said: "No, I can go alone. There are so many flaming heart fruits, which can easily arouse the greed of others. You stay here and be careful."
"Then be careful." Niu Dawa warned.
Zhang Xiaozu bowed down and grabbed a handful of rock ash, wiped it vigorously on his face so that no one could recognize his appearance, and said with a smile: "That's enough. The valley is too big, and I will most likely not be able to return before dark."
Come on, don't worry."
The valley is indeed so big that tens of thousands of people gather on the steep slopes of the valley, but it still looks scattered. At first glance, it seems like there are only a few people.
Fortunately, the valley is big enough, otherwise there might have been a fierce fight over the position.
Extreme Fire Crystal and Red Flame Earth, these two treasures are enough for people to fight for.
But there are always greedy people who want to get something for nothing and snatch the fruits of labor from others.
Zhang Xiaozu walked around the valley for half an hour and saw five corpses lying on the steep slope. There were signs of being rummaged in the pockets of their clothes. It looked like they had been killed and the treasure taken away.
This made Zhang Xiaobing worried, fearing that Zhang Xiaobing would be targeted by strong men and bullies if he was alone and weak.
"Brother, please don't go any further." A man in his thirties walked towards him and waved his hand to Zhang Xiaopou, signaling him to turn back quickly.
The man's steps were hurried, and he glanced back nervously as he spoke, as if he was avoiding something.
Zhang Xiaozu glanced ahead and saw nothing strange, so he asked in confusion: "What's going on in front?"
The man kept walking and whispered: "The Shen family in Zhongzhou are collecting the head tax in front of them. Everyone must hand over two treasures, otherwise they will not be allowed to dig for treasures."
As he said that, the man passed by Zhang Xiaopou and left in a hurry.
Zhang Xiaopou hurriedly chased after him and asked: "Aren't they afraid of offending the public when they do this banditry? You know that everyone has no cultivation now, so if they really want to fight, they will not be weak."
"Oh, three of them have already broken through to the sea. Who is their opponent? Stop talking and let's go." The man quickened his pace.
Zhang Xiaozu did not walk with the man, but stopped and looked ahead. Sure enough, he saw a man wearing the Shen family's attire from a distance.
A team of three to five people, totaling seventy or eighty people, lined up in a row on the steep slope of the valley, forming a long snake formation and advancing forward, unwilling to let anyone go.
A large number of people who are unwilling to pay taxes are hurriedly fleeing this way.
"The Shen family is really overbearing!" Zhang Xiaozu couldn't help but feel nervous as he stared at the Shen family in the distance. The Sea Realm was a realm that he could not compete with at the moment and should not be provoked.
However, even if there were no masters from the Sea Realm among the Shen family, he would not dare to provoke them because they could crush him simply by their numbers.
The close combat of the Shen family is not something that can be easily talked about.
"With so many people in the Shen family together, everyone who came in must have gathered together. Maybe we can go up and inquire about Xiaobing's situation to see if he has fallen into their hands."
He thought to himself, and immediately made up his mind to eat the Yanxiang fruit and Yanxin fruit he brought with him, leaving only one in his pocket.
Then I touched the rock ash on my face and felt that my body was a little clean, so I simply rolled in the rock ash until I was covered in ash.
"Hey, kid, stop digging now."
About a quarter of an hour later, three men from the Shen family came to Zhang Xiaopou, who was pretending to dig for treasure, and asked him to stop.
Zhang Xiaozu raised his ash-covered face, grinned brightly at the Shen men, and asked, "Brothers, what's the matter?"
The three members of the Shen family were startled by Zhang Xiaopou's ash-covered face, whose appearance was unclear, and they wondered if he had just emerged from the ash.
