The soft soil exudes a rotting smell, the dark and twisted tree branches, and the gray clouds that cover the sky.
Is this the demon realm?
Qin Shaoyou couldn't help but feel his heart tremble.
After a lot of twists and turns, he landed here out of thin air.
As far as the eye can see, there is an endless black forest.
Yes, it is the black forest!
Almost all the trees here have lost their leaves, leaving only bare branches, intertwined in layers, looking like ghostly tentacles, which is chilling.
The air was filled with a pungent smell, and some unknown blood-red flowers and plants could be vaguely seen among the woods.
Although Qin Shaoyou couldn't name these things, he was certain that these couldn't be spiritual herbs!
After all, no one would think of swallowing these weird plants.
Qin Shaoyou swallowed and became more vigilant.
The place where he is now is the outskirts of the black forest, and not far behind him is the pitch-black "city wall".
It seems that if you want to enter the demon realm, you have to go through the dark forest in front of you.
Qin Shaoyou took out the locator talisman on his body, but the talisman was very quiet now, which meant that there were no fellow members of the Yuan Ling Sect within a hundred miles.
After discovering this situation, he couldn't help but chuckled at himself.
He was thinking about hiding from everyone before, but now it seems that it is not easy to find a fellow disciple.
Putting away the locator, Qin Shaoyou looked around again to see if there were any disciples from other sects. After all, they were the most dangerous people outside.
Fortunately, he was "lucky" and appeared in a place where others might not be able to find him. For the time being, he was safe.
However, he did not relax his vigilance. After thinking about it, he put on the "Blue Scale Armor" inside his Taoist robe, put the wind and thunder wings on his left and right arms, and buckled the "Devil-Slaying Bow" in his storage box.
The place closest to the exit of the bag can be taken out immediately as long as he has a thought.
Qin Shaoyou is so cautious, and he is not making a fuss. After all, the data shows that there are many third-level monsters here. With his cultivation level of the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm, if he is not cautious, he may not be able to survive after seven days.
After doing all this, he calmed down.
He wandered around outside the black forest and found an entrance that didn't look too dangerous, and then carefully walked into the pitch-black forest.
It was very quiet in the woods, with only the sound of rustling footsteps left.
But at this moment, even this usually inconspicuous movement made Qin Shaoyou feel a little numb.
Somehow, he felt that this "strange noise" would bring him danger, so he immediately performed the shadow-chasing step, his steps became lighter, he hung a little above the ground, and he jumped several feet away.
In this way, he walked silently for several miles without any accidents along the way. At that time, he was the only one in the entire black forest.
Qin Shaoyou couldn't help but wonder if other people would encounter such a situation?
Where were they transported to?
Just when he was distracted, the sound of "pattering" water came from not far away. The sound was clear and sweet, and it was shocking.
Qin Shaoyou's face lit up with joy and he immediately headed towards the direction where the sound came from.
After passing through several dense and tangled trees, he finally saw the sky again.
Although the sky is not bright, it is still more comfortable than the dark sky in the woods.
A small stream appeared in front of him. The stream was gurgling and beating on the pebbles on the shore. He felt a chill even before the person came near.
On both sides of the creek, the number of blood-red plants has obviously increased. They are clustered in clusters, and the flowers are swaying gently in the breeze, which looks eerie.
Qin Shaoyou felt something bad and was about to run away. Unexpectedly, there was a rustling sound coming from the woods behind him.
And not just one place, but a whole area!
The forest that was motionless just now actually moved at this moment!
They twisted the branches and swam back and forth in the air. Although their movements were slow, they scared Qin Shaoyou into confusion.
It wasn't until this moment that he noticed that a full moon had hung in the sky at some point. Under the moonlight, these trees seemed to be alive!
Fear arises naturally.
what to do?
A cold light flashed on Qin Shaoyou's hand, and he took out the Tianyao Broken Sword, and was about to escape from this place in the air. At this moment, there was a strange movement in his storage bag, and a voice that had not appeared for a long time came into his
mind.
"Master, you must not activate your spiritual power!"
The speaker is a ghost boy. He fell into a deep sleep after devouring a large number of resentful souls outside Shang'an City. He usually hides in the Qiqiao Exquisite Umbrella. If it hadn't taken the initiative to show up every time, Qin Shaoyou wouldn't be able to remember it.
There is also such a magic weapon.
The ghost boy turned into a ghost mist and floated in front of him.
"How do you say this?"
Qin Shaoyou asked with a frown.
"Master, please look back."
The ghost boy pointed at the creek. At this time, the clear water in the creek had turned into a weird green, and the blood-red flowers and plants just now had all withered and rotted, and they all fell into the water. Red and green
Mixed together, it's disgusting.
Qin Shaoyou looked horrified, wasn't this horse riding too exciting?
"Master, just stand here and don't move. Those tree spirits won't attack you."
"But if you activate your spiritual power, they will go completely crazy!"
The ghost boy warned him solemnly that he was also a "ghost", but now he only dared to wander by the stream and did not dare to approach the "tree spirits". This shows how scary this place is.
Qin Shaoyou's brows furrowed more and more, and he felt more and more that the ghost boy in front of him was not ordinary, and his experience was far greater than what he was told.
"What the hell is going on?"
Even though he knew the current response, Qin Shaoyou still wanted to figure out the situation here.
After all, this place is too weird, who knows if there are other dangers.
The ghost mist transformed by the ghost boy fell into a brief silence, seeming to be hesitating. After careful consideration, it still told Qin Shaoyou truthfully.
"The so-called cultivation is actually the accumulation process of spiritual energy in all creatures. The spiritual energy is converted into spiritual power and stored in the body. The more places it is stored, the higher the cultivation level. The higher the cultivation level, the larger the size of these creatures."
"When these powerful creatures die, the spiritual power in their bodies loses control, and they quickly turn into spiritual energy, escape, and return to heaven and earth. This process is called returning to the ruins."
Qin Shaoyou couldn't help but nod. What the ghost boy said was completely consistent with his current understanding.
This also explains why the seven great masters are much taller than a bunch of people.
"Generally speaking, when monks who have cultivated in the lower three realms die, the phenomenon of returning to ruins is not obvious. But when they cultivate in the middle three realms, or even enter the legendary upper three realms, their return to ruins is not the same.
It’s a small thing.”
"The black forest you see now is actually the place where a certain great monk returned to his ruins!"
"Judging from the current situation, the monk who died was at least at the God Transformation Realm, and may even be at the Fusion Realm!"
"Once a person with such cultivation dies, the aura released from his body is extremely terrifying. If these auras fill a very small area for a period of time, they will force the living beings in this area to absorb far more than they can.
The aura that carries the upper limit!”
"Just like this forest!"
"The time it takes for plants to cultivate into spirits and develop spiritual intelligence is much longer than that of monsters. They receive so much spiritual energy in a period of time, and their bodies are forcibly matured, but they do not possess spiritual intelligence. They can only rely on
Act on instinct!”
"So Master, once you activate your spiritual power and are sensed by them, they will treat you as nourishment..."
Hearing this, even Qin Shaoyou, who has a high psychological endurance, couldn't help but tremble.
The place where high-level monks return to ruins?
Didn't several cultivators in the realm of gods die during the battle in the Demon Realm? Could it be them?
But Kang Xingliu said that the main battlefield of the war was in the central area of the Demon Realm. Could it be that he entered it directly?
But the situation around here is different from what’s marked on the map?
Thinking of this, Qin Shaoyou took out the map and searched it several times under the moonlight, but could not find any matching marks.
It seems that the people who came in before have never been here.
Or people who have been here have never been out at all.
"Then what's going on with the creek and the flowers?"
"This is not a stream, this is the essence of the wood spirit. It is the essence condensed in the bodies of these trees when they were still alive. For practitioners who cultivate the wood spiritual root, it has the effect of greatly improving the spiritual root attributes!"
"It's just that after such a long period of exposure, the effectiveness is probably reduced by half."
"These red flowers and plants are called Yiyehong. They only grow where tree spirits gather. They live and die, and will wither when exposed to the moonlight. Their sap is highly poisonous and will corrode the vitality of the infected body. It was once the most evil path.
A thing of love.”
Ghost Boy has almost become a ready-made encyclopedia, and these extremely unpopular information are treasures to it.
This made Qin Shaoyou even more convinced that his origin was unusual.
"I see!"
"Then I want to collect some. Do you have any ideas?"
These things are of great use to Qin Shaoyou, so it is naturally impossible for him not to be tempted.
Wood spirit essence is one of the main materials for refining wood spirit pills. He didn't expect to see it here.
Generally speaking, this kind of wood spirit essence needs to be condensed artificially and requires a large amount of spiritual grass as raw material, because each century-old spiritual grass can only condense a small drop.
The essence of wood spirits gathered into a "stream" like this is simply appalling.
As for this red leaf, now that I think about it, Qin Shaoyou is still a little scared. Fortunately, he was cautious enough before and didn't touch it with his hands, otherwise he would have drank a pot of it.
"Now these two things are mixed together and cannot be separated. However, after dawn, the red leaf will turn invisible and its toxicity will completely disappear. Only then can you take it."
Qin Shaoyou was overjoyed when he heard this. As long as there was a way to get these two spiritual materials, he wouldn't mind waiting a little longer.