Chapter 450: Nothing Wrong? Nothing Wrong!

Xiang Ningyan shrank his head, not daring not to speak.

"Rumor has it that after a pure-blooded E-Immortal clansman dies, the 'E' in their body will turn into an 'E' (nightmare), like a closed world, trapping those who disturb their corpse inside, unable to escape for eternity. Flesh and blood gradually disappear until finally only the heart remains, merging with the 'E'."

As Xiang Ningyan spoke in a trembling voice, Qingqiu narrowed her eyes and swept her gaze over the surroundings rapidly.

Xu Qing's expression remained normal without much change, his gaze falling into the distance, continuing to observe, while the Captain laughed lightly.

"Sure enough, a descendant of the E-Immortal Clan, actually knowing the Aro'e tribulation, not bad, not bad."

Almost the moment the Captain finished speaking, suddenly a thumping sound came from between heaven and earth, just like the sound of a heartbeat, echoing, causing the earth to shake and the mountain ranges to sway, as if blood was flowing within them, exuding more blood light.

As the sky became increasingly crimson, Xu Qing and the others were also shrouded in this blood light. Soon, Xu Qing frowned. He discovered that his body was missing.

A piece of flesh and blood the size of a fist was missing from his right leg.

No blood flowed down, nor was there any sense of pain. All the disappearances happened silently.

Xu Qing didn't panic. After checking the wound, the poison-prohibiting elixir in his third heavenly palace operated, and the poison intent instantly permeated his whole body.

At this moment, others also successively appeared to have flesh and blood disappearing. Qingqiu lost half a palm, and Xiang Ningyan's right ear, along with a small part of his face, was also lost in this instant.

"It's started, it's over!"

Xiang Ningyan screamed, terror and despair appearing in his eyes. But his scream had just come out when the Captain approached rapidly, took something unknown, and stuffed it into Xiang Ningyan's open mouth with a slap.

Afterwards, he patted Xiang Ningyan's stomach. Xiang Ningyan's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but swallow the thing in his mouth, speaking in horror.

"You you you, what did you feed me?"

"Be good, you'll know in a while." The Captain smiled but not smiled, and after speaking, he looked towards Xu Qing.

Noticing the Captain's gaze, Xu Qing looked at him. All kinds of performances of the Captain along the way had already confirmed his guess.

"Little Junior Brother, do you believe me?" The Captain smiled and transmitted his voice.

Xu Qing nodded, raised his right hand and waved, the Purple Moon Tiangong shook, and the aura belonging to the Purple Moon spread and merged into Qingqiu's body on the side.

It didn't invade her body, but wandered and spread throughout her body, helping her resist the disappearance power of this place with the Purple Moon status. Afterwards, amidst Qingqiu's complex expression and confusion, Xu Qing transmitted his voice calmly to the Captain.

"Eldest Senior Brother, do you mean that we still need some time before we can leave? How long?"

Hearing this, the Captain laughed. Xu Qing knew what he wanted to express with just one sentence. This kind of tacit understanding made him very happy, so he transmitted his divine sense.

"Little Junior Brother, I know you have many questions in your heart, but this matter cannot be said, only done. Just believe me. The Heavenly Peak Sovereign was right. The method of entering the True Immortal Ten-Intestine is like arranging puzzle pieces. It cannot be broken into by force. The previous Shebishi was the first puzzle piece, and the current Aro'e is the second puzzle piece."

"We need about half an hour here, at most an hour, and then we can leave."

Xu Qing nodded upon hearing this, sat cross-legged, waiting silently, and also let the Purple Moon aura wander more on Qingqiu.

Qingqiu's heart became increasingly complex. This was not the first time she had felt that this evil Black Heaven clansman was different towards her.

"This evil Black Heaven clansman must have ulterior motives!"

Qingqiu took a deep breath and told herself silently in her heart.

Just like this, time passed bit by bit. The Captain's body was also disappearing, but he clearly had a method to counter it, and the speed of disappearance was not fast. As for Xu Qing and Qingqiu, it was even slower.

Only Xiang Ningyan had no one to help, but weirdly, he didn't continue to disappear.

It was just that there was no joy in Xiang Ningyan's heart, but instead, he felt increasingly terrified, because he discovered that although he didn't disappear, his stomach was gradually bulging high.

As if something was being nurtured in his stomach...

Looking at his stomach, Xiang Ningyan's face was pale, his eyes widened, and he instinctively looked at the Captain, begging.

"My Lord, what did you feed me? Why do I feel that my stomach is a bit wrong..."

As he was speaking, Xiang Ningyan's stomach swelled outwards abruptly, becoming even larger. He instantly became tense to the extreme.

Qingqiu gasped, and Xu Qing's expression was also weird. He remembered those beloved beasts of Wu Jianwu.

"What do you feel in your stomach?" The Captain walked to Xiang Ningyan's side, expectation in his eyes, speaking softly.

"I feel like something is kicking me in my stomach." Xiang Ningyan was really about to cry.

"Rest assured and raise the fetus!" The Captain coughed.

Xiang Ningyan wanted to scold, but he didn't dare. At this moment, while sweating on his forehead and indignation rising in his heart, he suddenly felt the thing in his stomach start to move, seeming to be at the position of the navel, drilling outwards.

"My Lord, it it it..."

Xiang Ningyan was horrified. The next instant, his Dao robe wrapping his stomach tore with a rip at the navel, revealing a tip.

The gazes of the three, Xu Qing, looked over immediately.

Compared to the Captain's expectation, Xu Qing was more curious.

As for Qingqiu, watching this scene, her heart trembled, and she was incomparably wary of the evil methods of the Black Heaven Clan.

And Xiang Ningyan, his heart was filled with endless terror, and he screamed directly. Following that, his Dao robe tore with a rip, and strips of tender green vines wound out from within.

These vines were very thin, winding together rapidly, spreading and growing, soon reaching three feet long, and their color also turned brown, exuding an ancient aura.

"Youling Vine!!" Xiang Ningyan looked at the vines and exclaimed in shock.

The Captain revealed a touch of surprise in his eyes and looked at Xiang Ningyan a few more times.

"Interesting, I found that what you know is really not small."

During his words, the vines growing from Xiang Ningyan's stomach bent at a height of three feet. In just over ten breaths of time, they actually bent into a circle.

The moment the head and tail connected, fluctuations appeared in the circle, rippling like water, as if turning into a round door.

"Let's go!" The Captain blinked at Xu Qing, his body flashed, and he drilled directly into the circle.

Xu Qing didn't hesitate, grabbed Qingqiu, and rushed straight into the circle. After disappearing in an instant, Xiang Ningyan was anxious. Just as he was about to ask for help, a hand stretched out from the circle, grabbed the part of the vine connected to Xiang Ningyan's stomach, and with a pull, dragged Xiang Ningyan's body into the circle.

The next instant, the vines forming the circle with Xiang Ningyan's departure shrank rapidly and finally disappeared.

When the crowd appeared, it was still the jungle where the True Immortal Ten-Intestine tree was located, but it was not the area where the woodpecker was before, but... directly arrived at the very depths of the True Immortal Ten-Intestine tree.

That was under the Ten-Intestine tree!

The moment he appeared, Xu Qing's mood rose with strong waves. This was the moment he was closest to the True Immortal Ten-Intestine tree since he walked all the way here.

The ten-intestine trees in front of him were each a hundred feet thick, huddled together, occupying a range of a thousand feet, winding in different directions in the air hundreds of feet high, until they rose into the clouds, swaying.

Countless slender leaves grew on them, and the texture of each one seemed to contain laws, exuding rich spiritual energy fluctuations. It was imaginable that any one of them, if taken out, would be of astonishing value.

There were even countless branches spreading. The value of those scattered branches was clearly far beyond the leaves, with treasure light flowing on them, containing not only the power of laws but also Dao rhyme textures.

Any one of them was a supreme treasure.

Any single one of them is a supreme treasure.

The tree itself was entirely dark brown. Aside from the branching twigs and leaves, the trunk was covered in protruding eyes. At this moment, they were staring at Xu Qing and the others, and while permeating a fishy stench, they also emitted an astonishing pressure.

The feeling it gave people was that this Ten-Intestine Tree... was alive!

Or rather, this True Immortal was alive!

Under this pressure, Xu Qing's vision became blurred.

It was as if that Ten-Intestine Tree had transformed into a heaven-shaking figure, dancing and performing sacrifices up ahead, while a sea of fire and countless cultivators dancing in the same manner appeared all around.

This blurriness made Xu Qing extremely uncomfortable. The world before his eyes changed constantly; at times it was the True Immortal Ten-Intestine Tree, at times it was the sea of fire and the dancing shadows, gradually overlapping with each other.

His body also seemed to twist along with it, and the intestines inside his body trembled as if they were about to leave his body.

Xu Qing's breathing became rapid. The Third Palace's poison pill and the Fourth Palace's Purple Moon—the power of these two palaces erupted simultaneously, spreading throughout his body and also reinforcing Qingqiu, which finally dispersed some of the blurriness in his eyes.

Qingqiu's face was pale as she gritted her teeth tightly, bloodshot eyes appearing as she barely held on.

As for the Captain, his cultivation base was also erupting at this moment. Within his pupils appeared faces, and within the pupils of those faces were more faces, overlapping layer upon layer to share the pressure from the Ten-Intestine Tree for him.

Only Xiang Ningyan remained as usual. While his entire body emitted an iron-like color, the vines on his stomach also rose and swayed, synchronized with the Ten-Intestine Tree.

He had wanted to escape, but the other end of the vine was held tightly by the Captain. No matter how he tried to break the vine, he could not do it, and he could only sit there in a daze with a mournful face.

Xu Qing took a deep breath, and after his mind recovered, he immediately observed his surroundings.

Beneath this True Immortal Ten-Intestine Tree, the color of the soil was dark red, and likewise, there were no dead leaves or broken branches. Thus, Xu Qing instinctively cast his gaze toward the leaves and branches of the Ten-Intestine Tree in front of him.

"With so many branches, it should be fine to snap one off!" Xu Qing licked his lips and looked toward the Captain. At this moment, the Captain also looked at him, and both of them saw the impulse in each other's eyes.

Xu Qing's body lunged forward.

The Captain, dragging the extremely reluctant Xiang Ningyan, also lunged out. In an instant, they reached the base of the tree and struck one after another with Xu Qing.

The Captain tore off three leaves, stuffed them into his mouth, and swallowed them.

Xu Qing snapped off a branch and swiftly placed it into his bosom.

After the two finished, they looked at each other.

"Nothing happened?"

"Nothing happened!"

As they spoke, the True Immortal Ten-Intestine Tree suddenly began to vibrate, swaying very violently, and a ripple of awakening emanated from it.

This scene immediately made Xiang Ningyan gasp. His gaze toward Xu Qing and the Captain was as if looking at people courting death. At this moment, he truly felt the madness and abnormality of these two people.

But the next instant, Qingqiu also moved. She actually stood up as well, grabbed a leaf, pulled it off fiercely, and put it in her mouth to eat.

"Damn, why are you like this too!"

Seeing the Ten-Intestine Tree vibrating more and more, terror appeared in Xiang Ningyan's eyes.