Chapter 3434

Implementation of the main entrance, extraordinary existences would also get senile dementia, just like the old tree man in front, who had been telling stories there for half an hour, starting with a sentence "This has to start from thousands of years ago," then to when it was still a small tree, then to whether rainwater was richer in nutrients, or whether groundwater was sweeter.

If this old tree man was doing it on purpose, that would be fine; put a sword on it, and everything would be said. The problem was that this old tree man really wanted to help Su Xiao and the others, but its senile dementia was relatively severe. After saying a piece of valuable information, it would suddenly go off-topic. After remembering it later, it would restate the useful information.

During the old tree man's patient narration, Ona was a bit sleepy, but she still had an expression of rapt attention, for fear of attracting the old tree man's attention, causing the other party to break the train of thought.

After the old tree man narrated for about an hour, Su Xiao understood the general situation. Don't think that he got a lot of information in this hour; the important information was the following two points.

1. Without the protection of light secret arts, one cannot enter the tree hole filled with "darkness," otherwise one will be eroded by darkness. That is "darkness" that has been qualitatively changed by the power of the abyss.

2. To get the protection of light secret arts, one needs a Dark Stone to temporarily wake up the nearby Tree of Origin. If there is no Dark Stone, one can go and trade with the "Shadow Spirit."

The so-called "Shadow Spirit" is the pitch-black figure Su Xiao saw just now. It is not a living thing, not a ghost, not an energy body, but an existence that feeds on disease and pain.

Don't think that the "Shadow Spirit" is the savior of living beings. Where there is a "Shadow Spirit," before long, disease and pain will be eaten up. By then, the "Shadow Spirit" will randomly pick living beings, seriously injure them, make them suffer, and make them sick, feeding on this.

The "Shadow Spirit" is a disaster. Its combat ability is powerful, and after absorbing a certain amount of disease and pain, it will split into sub-bodies.

The Yada people once wanted to imprison the "Shadow Spirit" to turn it from a "pest" into a "beneficial insect," but they failed. This thing is neither a physical body nor an energy body. It can travel between physical and illusory, and can even temporarily enter other people's dreams to escape.

Learning the characteristics of the "Shadow Spirit," Su Xiao, as an alchemist, was very interested in it. Although he already had a 【Dark Stone】, he was still prepared to try and trade with the "Shadow Spirit."

According to what the old tree man said, what Su Xiao saw just now was actually a sub-body split by the "Shadow Spirit." Its main body was located in a small house, and one could see the small house by walking east along the Mist Wall.

When the old tree man spoke to the end, it revealed its selfishness. It was too old, so old that it couldn't pull its tree roots out of the mud to walk like other ancient tree people. Daring to do so would cause it to die in a short time.

The old tree man's selfishness was that if Su Xiao got the information he needed, he should give it some water. The Black Forest was dark and sunless. Not to mention rain, it couldn't even see the sun.

Su Xiao signaled Baha to take out several large buckets of fresh water, and it poured them for the old tree man for a long time. Nourished by the clean fresh water, the wrinkled old face on the old tree man's trunk seemed to relax, and before long, it fell asleep soundly.

Su Xiao looked at the Tree of Origin located further north. Behind the Tree of Origin was a mist wall towering to the sky, which was the end of exploration.

Not in a hurry to enter the tree hole on the Tree of Origin, Su Xiao walked east along the Mist Wall, and Wood and Ona were of course together.

After walking for less than 10 minutes, Su Xiao really saw a small house among the strange-looking trees.

The area of this small house was a few square meters. The outer wall was bone-white, as if spliced together by ribs, presenting an arched shape as a whole. The door was spliced together by hand bones, and the door handle was exceptionally unique. When opening the door, it was like shaking hands with that skeleton hand.

Pulling the door open, the scene inside the bone house appeared in Su Xiao's eyes. The room was not big, divided into two parts, inside and outside. The inner side was filled with darkness, and the outer side was a chair piled up with skulls.

The "Shadow Spirit" was both dangerous and had no faction or kindness. Its interaction with him only had two types: battle and trade.

If it was a battle, then anything would do. If it was a trade, one couldn't stimulate it. The number of living beings entering the bone house each time could not exceed 1, and one had to sit opposite it.

Su Xiao sat on the chair composed of skulls. As soon as he sat down, the darkness in front quickly gathered, forming a dark human shadow and the black chair beneath it.

The Shadow Spirit didn't say a word. Seeing this, Su Xiao took out a crystal bottle, which contained 【Dark Matter】. Every time he treated the Diao Mao King, he could get some of this extra harvest.

Su Xiao threw the crystal bottle to the Shadow Spirit. The Shadow Spirit considered it, and a 【Dark Stone】 was squeezed out of its palm and thrown to Su Xiao.

Completing this trade, the Shadow Spirit's body drifted into darkness, preparing to end this trade. Su Xiao naturally wouldn't allow this situation to happen. He took out a 【Dark Sediment】 contained in a crystal bottle.

This was also an extra benefit of treating the Diao Mao King. The 【Dark Sediment】 looked like a pure black tentacle the thickness of a hair. This was a special substance produced in the Diao Mao King's body after being eroded by 【Dark Matter】. For the Diao Mao King, this situation was terrible, but 【Dark Sediment】 was very valuable.

The 【Dark Sediment】 Su Xiao obtained was not much, not only because there wasn't much 【Dark Sediment】 in the Diao Mao King's body, but also because every time this thing was extracted from the Diao Mao King's body, the Diao Mao King would be in so much pain that she would faint several times. Once when extracting this thing, the Diao Mao King's heartbeat stopped, and it was only after Su Xiao's rescue that she recovered. During the rescue, several ribs were pressed and broken. The Diao Mao King could be considered to have escaped death.

After Su Xiao took out the 【Dark Sediment】, the Shadow Spirit opposite condensed into a human form again, squeezing a Soul Crystal (Large) in its hand, meaning to exchange it with Su Xiao using the Soul Crystal (Large).

Su Xiao lit a cigarette and exhaled smoke from his mouth. Under the control of his mental power, this smoke turned into a cross shape. According to what the old tree man said, the Shadow Spirit was more sensitive to shadows and smoke.

The cross represented refusal, and ○ represented agreement. This was a simple way of interacting with the Shadow Spirit.

Discovering Su Xiao's refusal, the Shadow Spirit seemed to feel disappointed. The Soul Crystal (Large) in its hand was swallowed back.

Su Xiao pointed to the Shadow Spirit's right hand. The Shadow Spirit raised its right hand in confusion, making a gesture of wanting to shake hands with Su Xiao.

This was obviously misunderstood. Su Xiao's right hand was in the shape of a palm knife, making a gesture of cutting off his own left forearm.

This time the Shadow Spirit understood. Its left hand turned into a sharp blade, and without hesitation, it used this black blade to cut off its own right forearm.

The Shadow Spirit's left hand knife turned back into a palm, grabbing its own right forearm. Black liquid dripped from the broken arm, like fresh blood dripping to the ground.

Su Xiao pointed to the right forearm held in the Shadow Spirit's hand, and then handed over the crystal bottle containing the 【Dark Sediment】.

The Shadow Spirit shook its head, meaning it was not enough. This one 【Dark Sediment】 was not enough to exchange for one of its arms.

Su Xiao took out all three 【Dark Sediment】 he had, and after taking out a bottle of Evil God Blood, the Shadow Spirit opposite was very satisfied and threw its right forearm to Su Xiao.

Su Xiao didn't touch this dark forearm but took out the 【Container Core】. After this thing was repaired, its durability reached 530/530.

This was the 【Container Core】 Su Xiao obtained after killing the Container in the Dark Star. The Container was not an object but a name. That was a son of the king who was given high hopes but was deprived of everything. The meaning of his existence was only to seal the Feather God.

The 【Container Core】 was bone-like as a whole, looking like a pure white skull the size of an apple, but except for the two eye holes, there were no other holes on it, and the texture was much thicker than a skull.

As Su Xiao activated the 【Container Core】, the right forearm thrown by the Shadow Spirit turned into a stream of black mist and merged into the 【Container Core】.

Su Xiao prepared to save a part of the Shadow Spirit's body in this way. It could absorb disease and pain, and this arm likely had similar effects.

【Hint: The Container Core and the Shadow Spirit's origin energy have good compatibility. Do you want to perform this unknown fusion?】

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao was a bit surprised. He didn't expect that the Container Core and the Shadow Spirit's origin energy could be fused. He decisively gave up the fusion. As an alchemist, the thing he disliked most was this kind of unknown and random fusion.

Based on Su Xiao's experience along the way, those situations where random fusion occurred and then heaven-defying secret treasures appeared were all fakes. Su Xiao had tested it personally more than once before, and each time he was pitted, so he decisively gave up the illusion and felt deeply that he didn't have that dog-shit luck.

Unknown fusion or random fusion, the things fused out were likely to be extremely pit-like. The finished product obtained in that way could be compared in one sentence: waste opening the door for waste, waste to the home.

Su Xiao put the two away. Finding the Soul-Severing Shadow Stone was more important. After finding the Soul-Severing Shadow Stone, he would combine the 【Container Core】 and the 【Shadow Spirit Origin Energy】 in a safe way.

Ending the trade with the Shadow Spirit, Su Xiao got up and left. With his perception, killing this Shadow Spirit to take the benefits was not very wise. Otherwise, he, Wood, and Ona would have taken action together just now.

Su Xiao had just left the bone house when Wood walked into it. A moment later, the bone house door opened with a bang, and Wood was pushed out by the surging black mud.

No need to think to know that Wood must have tried to trade with the Shadow Spirit with the Abyss Jar.

The Shadow Spirit was indeed interested at first, until it touched the Abyss Jar, and it almost said goodbye to this beautiful world.

The Shadow Spirit was indeed not to be trifled with, but it couldn't be compared with the Abyss Jar. The Skeleton Gambler back then was more powerful than the Shadow Spirit, and it wasn't cleaned up by the Abyss Jar until it had no temper at all.

The bone house composed of huge ribs closed and gradually sank into the mud. Ona, who hadn't had time to trade, glared at Wood.

Wood didn't speak, threw two 【Dark Stones】 to Ona, and threw two 【Dark Stones】 to Su Xiao.

"This mysterious existence, average."

Leaving this sentence, Wood walked toward the Tree of Origin. Thinking about it, the two great battles between the Abyss Jar and the Overgrowth of Madness left too deep an impression on Wood.

The group returned to the Tree of Origin. Su Xiao, who had four 【Dark Stones】, took out one of them and pressed it against the bark of the Tree of Origin.

Hum~

A wave spread, the 【Dark Stone】 was absorbed by the Tree of Origin, and a piece of bark the size of a palm fell off, revealing a white faint light on it.

Su Xiao picked up this piece of bark. The bark felt flexible. As soon as he picked it up, white faint light appeared all over his body, shrouding him in it. Not only that, his brand also notarized follower sharing. A light silk thread spread from the bark and linked to Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha, and they were also shrouded in white light.

【Hint: You have received Light Protection (this state lasts for 3 hours and 24 minutes).】

With Light Protection, one could enter the tree hole shrouded in "darkness" to continue tracking the monkey's footprints. Su Xiao was just about to move when he sensed something falling from above, so he raised his hand to catch it.

An amber in the shape of a pebble landed in Su Xiao's hand. This amber radiated a warm yellow halo, and inside was a long, thin light worm. This light worm was not trapped to death by the amber but was swimming inside, leaving traces with golden light particles along the way.

Just looking at this amber made people feel comfortable. This fell from the Tree of Origin.

Su Xiao felt that his luck seemed to have turned, but on second thought, if he was lucky now, wouldn't he be unlucky when he went deep into the tree hole later?

【Hint: You obtain Wandering Luan.】

【Wandering Luan】

Origin: Tree-Born World, unique.

Quality: Special.

Carrying Effect: Absorbs the carrier's bad luck and reverses the carrier's fortune.

Introduction: This is a kind of insect-bird unique to the Tree-Born World. It is a bird when flying in the sky and an insect when landing on the ground. By chance, it was trapped by the resin falling from the Tree of Origin and finally became in this state.

Selling Price: Can be sold (but after selling, your own luck attribute will permanently -5 points).

……

Seeing the attributes of 【Wandering Luan】, Su Xiao couldn't help but be surprised. His luck had never been very good, but today, this problem was solved?

Su Xiao had a feeling in his heart that 【Wandering Luan】 was unreliable. However, this was a unique output of the Tree-Born World. Maybe the problem of fortune was really solved today.

"Bai Ye, what is this?"

Wood saw the extraordinary nature of 【Wandering Luan】.

"Just a piece of amber."

Su Xiao put 【Wandering Luan】 into his arms. This thing had to be carried with him to be effective.

Before long, the whole team had added Light Protection, but no more 【Wandering Luan】 fell from the tree.

"Bai Ye, your luck is very good."

Ona spoke. Hearing this, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang looked up, and Baha had a conflicted expression. For so long, this was the first time it heard someone say Su Xiao's luck was good.

"……"

Su Xiao didn't speak and raised his foot to walk toward the tree hole on the Tree of Origin. The moment he entered the tree hole, the small crystal bottle hanging on his sword hilt was pulled off by a suction force, and with a pop, it exploded, and the Ghost Race Queen's blood inside evaporated into the air.

As he went deeper, Su Xiao walked into the darkness. The deep darkness around him was like wanting to swallow him whole. The faint light on his body firmly withstood the erosion of the darkness.

On both sides of Su Xiao, above, and under his feet, were rough wood, with a light brown color revealing green.

The tree hole was spiraling downward. After going deep downward for about ten meters, both sides suddenly opened up.

This was a cylindrical underground space. Below was bottomless, and inside were crisscrossing tree roots, some thick and some thin.

Although these tree roots were messy, some tree roots nearly 1 meter thick had been artificially repaired. The thick tree roots spiraled downward, like a plank road spiraling downward.

Along the tree root plank road, Su Xiao went deep downward for tens of meters. The surroundings became open, and the tree roots were even messier, like small paths branching out in all directions, leading to the darkness tens of meters away.

Su Xiao explored along the golden footprints left by the monkey. Walking here required caution. The tree roots had been exposed to the underground air for a long time, and thick greasy moss grew on them, which was very slippery when stepped on.

Su Xiao jumped from a tree root half a meter thick to the path formed by the thin tree roots below. Wood and Ona, who were at the back, also jumped down.

Drip.

The sound of water came. Su Xiao's hand pressed on the sword hilt, and thousands of crises suddenly appeared in the surroundings.

Vertical pupils opened in the darkness around, staring at Su Xiao and the three, as if deciding who to fight with.

Hiss hiss hiss~

A burning sensation appeared on Ona's hand, and a dark mark appeared, looking like a vertical pupil's eye.

Ona's face remained unchanged, but the corners of her mouth curled up slightly. In this big tree hole, "darkness" permeated everywhere. These "darkness" had too many unknown characteristics. As long as it was an experienced person, they wouldn't use space abilities here.

"Two, don't blame me."

Ona's skin thickness was not as good as Zui Yasi's. Right now, she was stared at by monsters in the darkness and wanted to drag Su Xiao and Wood into the water together to share the risk.

Ona said "don't blame me," which showed that she still had a bit of conscience left. If it were Zui Yasi, that dog thief would definitely say with a smile: "Two, don't thank me."

The darkness around gathered gradually, having a tendency to surround Su Xiao and the three. Those vertical pupils closed, and the peeping feeling around disappeared.

A black panther walked out of the darkness around. Its body size was several times larger than a normal black panther. A tiger in front of it could at most be counted as a big cat.

This black panther had a pair of blood-red vertical pupils. From its gaze, it was intelligent.

"The supreme consciousness that controls this world, opened the Mist Wall? What kind of life are you? You look very similar to the Yada people in the legends."

The black panther stopped and spoke human language.

"Hello, Brother Panther."

Baha tried to get close. The black panther glanced at it, and then that expression seemed to be a cold smile, very unfriendly.

"What are you laughing at? Look at your silly appearance, a face of a spare tire."

Baha decisively turned hostile. Facing unfriendliness, it was just like this.

"Spare tire?"

The black panther, to be precise, the Dark-Form Hunter Tone, didn't know the meaning of spare tire.

"It means that you love someone very much, but that person doesn't love you, and you have a look of 'I only love you in this life'."

"You are looking for death, you deserve to die!"

The Dark-Form Hunter Tone, poked in the pain point, bared its sharp teeth. Looking at that look, it had really experienced this situation.

"Last chance for you, before you disturb the Queen, now... go back... get lost."

The Dark-Form Hunter Tone's sharp claws protruded, issuing an ultimatum.

"Hello, Queen's spare tire."

"Roar!"

The Dark-Form Hunter Tone pounced like a black shadow, its speed reaching the extreme.

Zing!

A slash cut through from top to bottom. The Dark-Form Hunter Tone pouncing toward Baha was cut into two halves. The upper half fell onto a piece of tree root, and the lower half fell into the bottomless darkness below.

"You are very strong. Even when I was at my strongest, I was not as good as any of you three. But I am 'darkness' now, 'darkness' that has lost its soul and freedom."

The Dark-Form Hunter Tone walked out of the darkness around. Its body was intact. The upper half that had been slashed and fell on the tree root had disappeared.

It could be said that the Dark-Form Hunter Tone in the big tree hole was almost immortal. It had merged with "darkness." The known methods to kill it were two: 1. Dispel the darkness in the big tree hole, 2. Let it leave this darkness, and then kill it, so it couldn't reorganize through darkness.

"Boss?"

Baha was asking if it could kill the Dark-Form Hunter Tone in a short time. If not, it must not drag it out with the other party. The time of Light Protection was limited.

"Can't kill it in a short time."

"Understood."

Baha spoke in a low voice, and its expression changed. A harmless smile gradually appeared on its face. Since it couldn't be killed, then lure it away. First, give the Dark-Form Hunter Tone a "talk therapy" to pull full hatred.

Baha asked: "Your name is Tone?"

Tone didn't answer, just staring at Baha.

"If I'm not mistaken, the Queen you mentioned is the Ghost Race Queen? According to my understanding, the Queen you worship doesn't seem to be that great. She became the Ghost Race Queen, but she was unwilling to sit on the stone throne……"

"Fart, the Queen sat on the stone throne for 30 years! The Queen sat on that broken stone chair almost all day since she was 5 years old."

The Dark-Form Hunter Tone was angry to the extreme.

"Oh? That is to say, the old guys of the Ghost Race slandered the Ghost Race Queen? The crown wasn't taken away by you?"

"Of course, it was."

The Dark-Form Hunter Tone looked up slightly, as if taking away the Ghost Race's crown was not a shameful thing.

"It was those old guys who were unwilling to accept reality. In order to survive, they took away the Queen's legs. No! They didn't have the ability to take away the Queen's legs at all. It was the Queen who gave her legs to them to repay their upbringing. Time will prove who is right and who is wrong."

The statement of the Dark-Form Hunter Tone was completely opposite to the information provided by the old Ghost Race member.

Su Xiao judged that the latter's information was closer to the truth. First of all, the information provided by the old Ghost Race member was that after the Ghost Race Queen successfully ascended to the throne, she first led the Ghost Race to conquer the White Swamp, but she didn't beat the Mushroom Tribe. After a disastrous defeat, the Ghost Race Queen refused to sit on the stone throne and was unwilling to absorb the soul-chilling mist drifting from the millions of ice slaves.

There were many doubts about this statement. Su Xiao saw the Mushroom Tribe before. The Mushroom Tribe was indeed strong, but the Mushroom Tribe's attitude toward the Ghost Race Queen was clearly not treating a loser, but respect.

Even for the Ghost Race Queen's statue, those ordinary Mushroom Tribes were willing to risk their lives to protect it. Without a strong sense of worship, there wouldn't be such a situation.

There was another point. When Su Xiao obtained the Ghost Race Queen's blood before, the crystal bottle containing the blood continuously released cold air. Hanging on his waist, he felt his waist was cold, so he hung it on the end of the sword hilt.

Such cold blood didn't look like something possessed by an ice-type powerhouse. The blood of an ice-type powerhouse wouldn't be so cold. This involved energy control and the reverse side of mastery.

If the Ghost Race Queen had absorbed the soul-chilling mist for more than 30 years, then it made sense for the other party's blood to be so cold.

"I understand, it was those old guys of the Ghost Race who slandered the Ghost Race Queen."

Baha had an understanding look.

"At least you have some brains."

The Dark-Form Hunter Tone said this in its mouth, but in reality, it was thinking about how to solve Su Xiao and the three. Although there was a gap in combat power, it was prepared to rely on its own immortality to win this battle, so as not to let these intruders disturb the Queen's slumber.

"Brother Panther, today I'll give you a lesson. Even if you are almost immortal, don't talk nonsense with the enemy."

Baha's voice had just fallen when the Abyss Jar appeared in Wood's hand. A pitch-black silk thread had already protruded from the Abyss Jar, and the other end was connected to the Dark-Form Hunter Tone's brow.

Sensing this situation, although the Dark-Form Hunter Tone was angry in its heart, it didn't show it. After it carefully investigated and confirmed that there was nothing wrong with itself, it said: "You feathered animal……"

The Dark-Form Hunter Tone had just opened its mouth when a look of horror appeared in its eyes. The next moment, it was forcibly dragged into the Abyss Jar. Because its body size was much larger than the 10 cm diameter jar mouth, it was squeezed until it crackled when it was sucked into it. The sound was very cruel.

In the blink of an eye, the Dark-Form Hunter Tone disappeared. Its immortality was vulnerable under the Abyss Jar.

Along with the disappearance of the Dark-Form Hunter Tone was the darkness around. After this darkness disappeared, shadows appeared one after another. Their shapes were different, some were human, some were animals. These were not energy but living beings with flesh and blood.

These dark creatures surrounded the surroundings. A blood spear broke through the air and shot out, and then pierced the head of a dark creature.

The blood spear was corroded at a speed visible to the naked eye, but that dark creature also fell to the ground and died suddenly. The bloodstains that flowed out corroded the tree roots below until they hissed.

The corrosive power of this kind of dark creature was extremely strong. Su Xiao didn't even intend to use his sword to slash directly.

The dark creatures around gathered more and more. After the Dark-Form Hunter Tone died, it seemed to have triggered some kind of defense mechanism here.

After a series of roars, the dark creatures around pounced. Su Xiao was just about to fight, but he sensed that it seemed that no dark creature had locked the attack target on him, and more were rushing toward Ona, who had a dark mark, and the rest also pounced on Wood.

Under such circumstances, Su Xiao naturally wouldn't take action. Killing these dark creatures that were both difficult to deal with and had no kill rewards was not worth the loss.

Under Ona's surprised gaze, dark creatures rushed past Su Xiao's left and right sides, rushing straight toward her. Seeing this scene, Ona felt that she had been calculated again.

Before long, the three-person team was scattered by the dark creatures. Su Xiao stood still and was chased by many dark creatures, Ona fled upward, and Wood rushed into a side hole on the right.

Waiting for the dark creatures to disappear from sight, Su Xiao jumped onto the tree root below full of doubts and continued to move downward along the monkey's tracks.

Along the way, Su Xiao encountered many dark creatures again, but these dark creatures acted as if they didn't see him, but instead chased after Ona, who could no longer be seen. This was very confusing.

Su Xiao felt that his luck was too good, good to the point of being unbelievable.

20 minutes later, Su Xiao grabbed a hanging tree root with one hand, used it as a descent rope, and arrived at the very bottom of the big tree hole.

This place was cylindrical as a whole. Directly in front of Su Xiao were two metal giant doors covered with moss.

On the two giant doors, there was a relief face. Because of Su Xiao's arrival, the metal face on the door had already opened its eyes. It asked dully: "Password."

"……"

Su Xiao looked around, didn't see any password written nearby, and found this, so he took a few steps back. The crystal layer clung to his right calf and right foot. He was going to use a "key" called Close Combat Master to open the door.

Suddenly, a faint wave disappeared from Su Xiao's arms. Sensing such a change, he took out 【Wandering Luan】 from his arms and found that the light worm inside was dead. The luck-turning object he had just obtained not long ago actually died!

【Wandering Luan】 might still have hope of rescue. Su Xiao checked its attributes.

【Wandering Luan】

Status: Extinct.

Introduction: Water has a source of withering, and the reversal of fortune by the Luan worm is the same. After reversing a certain amount of fortune, the Luan worm will perish. This Luan worm perished precisely because of this. It had already tried its best.

Selling Price: Can be sold to Reincarnation Paradise. After selling, you will permanently increase your luck attribute by 4 points.

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(End of this chapter)