flstandardbreds Chapter 175 You lied to me
Chapter 175 You lied to me
After Luo Wangchan's shocking words, the atmosphere among them became even more awkward.
Jiang Xuan: "Haha... It feels like a test of courage."
She was just making small talk, and the others didn't know how to respond, but since Jiang Xuan had started talking, they all responded and chatted a little bit.
There's no way around it. These people just had an average relationship in the original plot, probably because their fates were not compatible.
Even in his first life, Ying Huai, who had not yet been reborn, did not actually agree with Shen Wenqu.
Oh, it’s the guy who talks about love every day and talks about destroying the world.
This is one of the few evaluations in his heart.
Jiang Xuan estimated that about half an hour had passed by now. If they could hold on for another three hours or so, it would be dawn. When the time came, they would rescue Chen Que and then rush to join the main force.
There were gusts of evening breeze in the gloomy woods at night. Jiang Xuan shrank his neck, always feeling that something was brushing against the back of his left shoulder.
pat.
It was Ying Huai who first saw clearly that there was blood on her shoulder.
Before Jiang Xuan could react, Ying Huai pushed him hard. He was holding a dry branch in his palm, and after crushing it, blood with a fishy smell actually dripped out.
Ying Huai: "Did this branch just drink your blood?"
Jiang Xuan turned his head and pulled up his collar to take a look, and sure enough, he saw two barely noticeable holes at the place where he had been burned.
She had seen this kind of tree before in the demon world, and most people called it a snake tree.
At night, the branches look like long snakes hanging on the tree trunks.
But this was the first time Jiang Xuan had seen a tree that could eat people.
Luo Wangchan: "Jiang Xuan! Are you okay... Do you feel numbness in your shoulder? Let me see if there is any pain behind you."
Luo Wangchan, who had been a little shy just now, stood up straight and brushed away the vines that were wrapped around Jiang Xuan's clothes. She frowned slightly and looked a little puzzled.
He took out a compass to calculate, and from time to time he looked up at the thin moon hanging on the top of the trees, and suddenly realized something.
But as soon as Luo Wangchan turned around, Jiang Xuan was entangled by the branches again.
In fact, she couldn't feel much pain. Perhaps there was something in the branch that paralyzed the nerves, so that the prey could not feel the feeling of having its blood and spiritual power taken away.
If Ying Huai hadn't been so sharp-eyed just now, she might have been left with nothing but an empty shell.
Shen Wenqu didn't care about anything else and just drew his sword and swung it, cutting off all the vines that were wrapped around Jiang Xuan's arms and waist.
Jiang Xuan cooperated by using the Qingfeng Sword to cut off the branches that were blocking her, but the more she chopped, the faster that thing grew. After a while, Jiang Xuan's vision was blocked and she couldn't even see outside.
Shen Wenqu and Luo Wangchan were so anxious that they used both talismans and sword formations, but the situation became increasingly out of control.
Jiang Xuan felt that her vision was a little dark. Her wrists and ankles were tied tightly. She could even hear the squeaking sound of the branches swallowing her blood.
Ying Huai smelled the strong smell of blood in the air and looked at Jiang Xuan through the layers of branches.
In the darkness, his originally pale face looked a little scary, but in such a chaotic scene, he smiled at Jiang Xuan.
He lifted the talisman and placed it on the palm of his hand. After a flash of spiritual power, cracks appeared on his palm along the direction of the talisman, and blood rushed out from under the scar.
The vine that originally grabbed Jiang Xuan suddenly stopped, tentatively crawled on the ground, meandered forward, and finally stopped at Ying Huai's feet.
The branch seemed to have a spirit, and the blood droplet climbed upwards, finally clinging tightly to his wound.
He dropped his hands, leaned backward, and fell into the layers of low bushes. He disappeared in a moment.
Jiang Xuan felt as if he could breathe suddenly. He didn't know who was holding on to him but it took him a long time to finally see clearly again.
Ying Huai is missing.
What a madman...
Rumbling--
Thunder burst out from above Jiang Xuan's head, and the thoughts in her mind popped up at the same time.
Luo Wangchan: "Ying Huai's fate is also unchanged, and its location... is right under our feet"
He held the compass and calculated again and again without giving up, but the results were always the same.
Jiang Xuan felt a headache and looked up at the narrow, dark sky.
If they continued to wait like this, until they were all swallowed up by the forest, and Jiang Xuan was the only one left, she was not sure if she could rescue so many people at the same time.
Chen Que and Ying Huai are both alive, which proves that this ghost forest needs to keep its prey alive, or even perhaps has reached some kind of symbiotic state with its prey.
Jiang Xuan tilted his head and measured his golden elixir through his abdomen.
In such a short time, he swallowed up nearly half of her spiritual power.
It seems that this forest is very hungry.
Before Shen Wenqu could react, Jiang Xuan had already thrown the small coal ball into his arms, and like a fish leaping over the dragon gate, he jumped into the dark bushes around him and disappeared.
Shen Wenqu: "Jiang Xuan!!!"
He was about to draw his sword and catch up when he was stopped by Luo Wangchan. At the same time, he grabbed the little coal ball who was staring at his hind legs and trying to get into the woods.
Little Coal Ball: "Let go! Jiang Xuan, Jiang Xuan has been eaten! Let go..."
Luo Wangchan: "Calm down, both of you. We are outside now so we have a layer of protection. If you all go in, you won't be able to call for reinforcements even if you wait until dawn!"
He raised his finger and used the spiritual fire to burn out a small area of space, then sat down upright holding the small coal ball, looking with determined eyes at the trees around him that were about to devour them.
Shen Wenqu opened his mouth to refute, but in the end he covered his head and put the sword back, then sat down with an impatient look on his face.
"Wait...wait until dawn? What do you mean wait until dawn?"
He suddenly felt that this was a bit strange.
Luo Wangchan, however, held the compass and looked up at the sky for a while, then carefully grabbed the little coal ball's hind legs before speaking.
"The flow of time here is at least three hundred times slower than outside. We have been here for at least half an hour, but the position of the moon has not changed at all."
Three hundred times?!
In other words, instead of having to wait for only one night, now it takes half a year?
During this period of time, they also have to be vigilant at all times to avoid being caught by Lin Zi on the wounds and having their spiritual power and blood devoured. How easy is that?
Several people sat in the forest. At this moment, there was nothing they could do except pray and wait.
On the other side, Jiang Xuan fainted the moment he flew out, probably because he lost too much blood. His lips were pale and he was hung by vines like a corpse, hanging in a place that looked like a water cave.
She wrinkled her nose, having been awakened by the fishy smell of the puddle. Her entire back was numb and she had no feeling at all. She could guess without looking back that it was the strange branch that was drinking her blood.
Jiang Xuan's feet were off the ground, and he couldn't even move his legs slightly, as he was tied up tightly.
The wounds on her body that had just healed were opened again, and she even felt a chill in her internal organs, as if a hole had been opened and wind was blowing in.
But, I can’t die.
For every ten mouthfuls of her blood the branch drank, it would feed her a little sap, giving her just enough energy to maintain the most basic vitality.
Jiang Xuan lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then decisively stuck out his tongue, pressed the root of his tongue between his teeth, and actually bit down hard.
Her tongue swelled up and blocked her trachea. She felt like her eyeballs were about to burst. It took a long time before everything in front of her went completely black.
A breeze blew over Jiang Xuan's head, and he seemed to hear a sigh. After his first breath, Jiang Xuan lay on the ground and stretched.
She first put on all the protective magic weapons in her Qiankun bag, then picked up the sword and raised it high as if to cheer herself up, then turned around and walked out of the curtain cave in a menacing manner.
Jiang Xuan had the thick armor that Liu Rumo had spent a lot of money to make, and his new body was not injured at all, so those strange vines naturally could not get close to him.
Jiang Xuan struggled to stick his head out of the armor, poked the snake wood with his sword like a chicken pecking at rice, then quickly went back in, laughing foolishly for a while.
Hehe, I can’t eat her now.
Now she has something to play with.
Jiang Xuan crouched down, crouched every 10 steps and rolled every 5 steps as he walked forward wearing thick iron armor. He searched dozens of empty curtain holes before he finally saw a figure.
The tall and thin shadow almost scared Jiang Xuan. After taking a closer look, he found that it was Chen Que.
His usually cold and droopy eyes were half-closed, his eyelashes were wet, and he looked completely powerless. His talisman master's robes and jade pendant hung loosely on his body.
Jiang Xuan, wearing thick armor, walked around his back and found that the main injury was on his wrist.
As soon as she saw the handprint-like marks, she knew that Chen Que was probably attacked by the man-faced beast and had jumped into the woods in a panic.
A set of secret realm combos, all of which happened to be experienced by this poor guy.
In short, what we need to do now is to wake Chen Que up.
Jiang Xuan was wearing armor, which made his movements somewhat inconvenient. He could only awkwardly move his shoulders and swing his arms out, and with a "click" sound, he patted Chen Que like a penguin flapping its arms.
Chen Que's eyelids twitched, and Jiang Xuan immediately moved his body left and right, swinging his body like a happy penguin. After a few clicking sounds, Chen Que slowly opened his eyes.
In his blurry vision, he first saw the silver armor that almost blinded his eyes. In the narrow gap in the armor, someone's eyes flashed by.
I'm dreaming again...
Chen Que closed his eyes, and the smell of death seemed even stronger than before.
Jiang Xuan became anxious, and came out of his armor, and patted him gently on the face with his warm fingertips.
"Chen Que? Chen Que? Hey, you just woke up, I saw it"
When the man heard her voice, he closed his eyes tighter and his lips moved.
Jiang Xuan saw that it was some kind of talisman chanting the Heart Purification Mantra and found it somewhat amusing. He pressed his eyelashes, thinking about how to prove his identity.
"Shen Wenqu and I came to look for you and got swallowed. It was really me."
Yes, Chen Que recited the Heart Purification Mantra even faster.
Jiang Xuan simply took off his armor, and naturally picked up the Qiankun bag that Chen Que was about to lose, and asked him if he had any talismans to protect himself.
She was beginning to regret it now, as she had basically slept through all the classes on amulets in the sect. Perhaps influenced by her senior brother, she became very enthusiastic in learning the Thousand Mile Killing Formations. As a result, she now could only walk around with armor on her back.
Chen Que pursed his lips and said nothing, but after a moment he relaxed.
"The one written in red cinnabar, starting from the third sheet is the amulet"
Jiang Xuan raised the corners of his lips, as if to tease him intentionally, "Do you now believe that I'm not an illusion of a tree demon?"
Chen Que shook his head gently, as if he had never spoken a word, his heart as dead as a vine.
The more silent this man was, the more Jiang Xuan wanted to tease him. Perhaps it was because he had been separated from his fellow brothers for too long without anyone to quarrel with or play around with, or perhaps it was because he had regained his energy after being reborn. Jiang Xuan didn't know why.
"Chen Que, you are so rich, tsk tsk, you have been using official paper from the beginning."
Chen Que closed his eyes, but in his mind he was thinking about the expression on Jiang Xuan's face when he said this. It was obviously such an unbearable situation, and the person in front of him might also be an illusion. His important Qiankun bag was obviously in her hands, but Chen Que suddenly felt relaxed.
"I'm not very good at reading this spell. Can you draw it for me to see?"
Chen Que felt his fingertips being pinched.
Jiang Xuan had secretly learned Chen's talisman technique once. In fact, even if a simple amulet was drawn using Chen's method, she could probably make out a rough idea of it. But she had a reason for saying this.
Chen Que shook his wrist, pinched his fingers together, and drew a circle in the air with his slender joints. Under Jiang Xuan's gaze, he slowly dropped a last point, demonstrating the gesture on the talisman.
Well, it seems that the hand bones are not broken, so it’s not a big problem.
Jiang Xuan raised the stack of talismans, and Chen Que felt that he could see the powerful golden spiritual energy surging in front of him even with his eyes closed.
She clenched her fingers and burned more than thirty amulets, half of which were given to Chen Que.
Jiang Xuan directly grasped the ghost tree and pulled it tentatively, trying to tear off all the vines that were attached to his wrist.
"Hiss... Ouch"
Jiang Xuan held Chen Que's fingers soothingly with his left hand, then raised his right hand and saw a mark suddenly appear on the palm of his hand as if it had been burned by fire.
Chen Que suddenly opened his eyes and saw Jiang Xuan wearing the familiar crescent-white monk's uniform. His eyes felt a little hot and his throat was tight, unable to make a sound.
Yes, it was a hair tie, he remembered it correctly.
It was just that he seemed to have remembered the wrist guard wrongly. He originally thought that Jiang Xuan was not wearing any wrist guards, only sword sleeves that slightly covered the back of his hands.
He didn't know how long he had been trapped here, he almost forgot he was still in the competition.
The man kept his gaze on her face as soon as he opened his eyes. While Jiang Xuan was looking at this ghost tree, she felt like a hole was about to be poked in her face.
"It's okay, it's okay... I'll get you out quickly, it won't hurt. Um... were you with anyone before? Is there anyone else here?"
Jiang Xuan felt like he was taking care of a child and tried his best to distract Chen Que.
She just noticed that Chen Que was trembling in pain when he was peeling it off.
The man shook his head in confusion. Being so close to Jiang Xuan, he couldn't control the frequency of his blinking, which was somewhat inappropriate.
"I happened to run into Senior Sister Song and Senior Sister Fang before, but then we met a monster, which seemed to be chasing Xue Zhe all the way. Then we ran separately, and the man-faced beast followed me. I wanted to hide in the forest, and then I lost consciousness."
Jiang Xuan wasn't sure if this was the butterfly effect caused by her saving Chen You.
The twins are connected by fate, and after Chen You's plot line was broken, there might have been some kind of "borrowing luck" from Chen Que, which led him into this situation of the living dead.
Jiang Xuan thought about it and tried for a long time but failed.
Fortunately, Chen Que was very obedient and let Jiang Xuan play with him without saying a word. Even though the wound on his wrist hurt, he just seemed to look at her a little more closely.
Forget it, there is no other way. I can only use the method of that crazy Ying Huai.
Jiang Xuancai made a gesture when she saw Chen Que's eyes changed. His whole body tensed up. He looked at the fingers she was pinching and then at her face. After holding it in for a long while, he shook his head with all his strength.
“No…No way.”
Jiang Xuan originally planned to ignore it and continue to practice the magic formula, but in the blink of an eye, he saw someone crying.
Perhaps it was because of the angle, Chen Que was born with a pair of droopy eyes, and he looked at everyone coldly, even fiercely, but when he cried, the corners of his eyes seemed to droop a little.
He lowered his head, and his tears fell on Jiang Xuan's arm. Apart from crying, there was nothing he could do to stop Jiang Xuan.
"Just share a little bit of the burden temporarily. After I take over the ghost tree, we can work together to break free and maybe we can succeed."
Jiang Xuan knew it by heart, so he lowered his head and looked into Chen Que's eyes and lied.
"You lied to me"
He muttered hatefully, and looked away and stopped staring at Jiang Xuan.
Jiang Xuan laughed suddenly, thinking that this side of Chen Que that she had never seen before was quite interesting.