dognovel Chapter 1153 The Trial of the Undying Wood Illusion (2)
Chapter 1153 The Trial of the Undying Wood Illusion (2)
The Sacred Tree Festival is a time of great upheaval and change!
The wind on Mount Buting was like a suppressed beast, breathing heavily.
The smoke and ash from the fiery volcano, like rolling dark clouds, obscured half the sky.
The balance of the three realms, which had lasted for millennia, was ruthlessly shattered on this day, like a mirror reflecting the past.
The new order, like a lighthouse faintly visible in the fog, may depend on which of the three in the illusion can stand out like a crane among chickens.
What truth is hidden behind that unknown "ancient contract"?
All of this is like a treasure buried deep underground, waiting to be discovered by the world.
Xuanluo's "thought" head suddenly whispered, as if it were a summons from the underworld: "The spirit of the 'Eternal Wood' has awakened, and the Heavenly Emperor's divine medicine is acting strangely... Is there some connection between the two?"
"Bian" spoke through the skull, his voice trembling as if in the wind: "Did the Goddess send Yun Li here merely to issue a warning?"
Ming closed his eyes, as if pondering the endless mysteries of the universe: "I think the secret that our Three-Headed Kingdom has guarded for generations is probably like a veil that is about to be lifted, and can no longer be hidden."
Beneath the altar, the lava lake was dark red like blood, reflecting the uneasy faces of everyone, like startled birds, as if they were mirrors reflecting the surging fear in people's hearts.
Today, the Sacred Tree Festival has become like an airtight prison.
Suddenly, "Jin" waved his hand, and a huge water mirror appeared in mid-air.
The fate of the entire Southern Wilderness now rests on the shoulders of the three people in the mirror.
In this deathly silent and oppressive atmosphere, Su Xiaoya suddenly sensed something unusual.
At the edge of the light curtain enveloping Kua Feng and his companions, a faint ripple seemed to emanate—it was neither spiritual power, nor fire element, nor wind force, but rather a rhythm that felt familiar to her.
The rhythm was like the croaking of frogs in a rice paddy on a summer night, crisp and melodious; like the chirping of cicadas under an old locust tree, noisy and enthusiastic; like the fragmented characters marked "Blue Star's Legacy" seen in ancient book rubbings, bringing a slight tremor the moment they touched my fingertips.
"Don't you think..." Su Xiaoya turned her head, her voice so soft that only Yu Shuheng could hear it, "that the aura of this 'Jin' is a bit strange?"
Yu Shuheng's eyes flickered slightly, and he quietly made a hand seal with his fingertips. A wisp of extremely fine green wood spiritual energy cautiously probed the light screen like a gossamer thread.
However, the moment the spiritual energy touched the edge of the light screen, it evaporated into a wisp of white smoke, just like water droplets thrown into boiling oil, disappearing without a trace, as if it had never existed.
But in that fleeting moment of contact, Yu Shuheng's pupils suddenly contracted.
He caught it.
Deep within that light curtain, there was a faint, almost imperceptible scent, carrying the aroma of burnt grass and wood.
The smell was not the scorching heat of the Crimson Volcano, but rather—more like firewood that had been slowly simmering in a farmhouse stove for 100,000 years, which, though long since turned to ashes, still stubbornly retained a trace of the roots of plants.
"It's a plant-based technique, but it's suppressed so badly by the fire element that it's almost impossible to detect."
Yu Shuheng's voice was so deep it seemed to freeze into ice. As a Jianmu tree, no one was more familiar with the scent of plants than him.
Su Xiaoya's heart skipped a beat.
Plant-based magic, fire elemental suppression, and that strangely familiar rhythm...
When these three things collide, the feeling is... strangely familiar.
A ridiculously absurd thought suddenly flashed through Su Xiaoya's mind...
Before she could think it through, a sudden change occurred in the scene.
The seven light screens suspended in mid-air suddenly began to tremble violently, as if they had been struck by some powerful force.
Each light screen seemed to transform into a giant drumhead, constantly emitting a dull thud.
At the same time, a deafening roar came from inside the light screen.
The sound was like a thunderclap, deafening, and contained boundless anger and majesty.
Upon closer listening, one could discern that the speaker was Yan Shuo.
His face was contorted with rage as he roared, "You insolent brat! This, this is actually the Dragon-Trapping Lock!"
However, before everyone could react, another scream followed.
The person who spoke out this time was clearly Yun Li.
But her cries were quickly drowned out by a fierce howling wind.
Without a doubt, it must have been Kua Feng who fully activated the power of the wind spirit within the illusion to create such an astonishing spectacle.
At this moment, the face of the one sitting on the body of the Emberwood grew increasingly gloomy.
His eyes, burning with dark red flames, were like two molten lava pools, locked tightly onto the light screen before him.
His knuckles even turned slightly white from excessive force due to his intense focus and tension.
His previously calm and composed demeanor now revealed a hint of barely concealed anxiety.
"I go!"
Jin cursed under his breath, his voice filled with barely concealed frustration, "Can't even break this little array, what a fucking piece of trash."
The low curse, when it reached Su Xiaoya's ears, sent a shiver down her spine and felt exceptionally familiar—this was not the language of the Southern Wilderness, nor the common language of Qingyuan Star, but rather—the common saying of Blue Star.
It's as if ten thousand years haven't been able to smooth out the curls on the tip of the tongue, the earthy, earthy accent that belongs to Earth.
Su Xiaoya suddenly looked up at the figure floating in mid-air and couldn't help but blurt out, "Damn!"
Jin seemed to notice her gaze and turned to look at her.
The instant their eyes met, Su Xiaoya clearly saw a fleeting, almost startled emotion flash across those fiery eyes.
"You..." Su Xiaoya had just opened her mouth when Yu Shuheng secretly tugged at her sleeve.
Yu Shuheng shook his head slightly, signaling her to calm down.
But his own gaze fell on Jin, filled with inquiry, wariness, and a hint of... disbelief.
Just then, the once calm and still illusionary light screen suddenly began to ripple.
Immediately afterwards, the sounds of fierce and brutal fighting surged forth like a tidal wave.
In the blink of an eye, the entire space was filled with an atmosphere of tension and bloodshed.
With a heart-wrenching scream, Yan Shuo's massive body fell miserably from the light screen like a kite with a broken string.
A shockingly large, bottomless gash appeared on his chest, as if one could see the bare bones inside.
The charred, blackened muscle that flaked outwards was even more gruesome, with wisps of black smoke constantly rising from it, emitting a pungent and unpleasant odor.
Before he could even get a foothold, Yan Shuo suddenly coughed up a mouthful of scarlet blood, which splattered onto the scalding ground, forming a pool of glaring blood.
His hand trembled as he pointed at Jin, his face contorted with rage as he demanded, "You never intended to choose an heir! What you really wanted to do was..."
However, before he could finish speaking, his words were drowned out by a sharp, piercing sound.
With a sharp crack, a raging fire tornado struck Yan Shuo with lightning speed.
The attack was incredibly powerful, sending him flying into the air before he crashed heavily into the incredibly hard lava lake wall behind him.
In an instant, the world spun around him, and everything went black. Yan Shuo finally couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed unconscious.
"How long-winded," Jin said coldly, his expressionless face revealing a gaze as icy as he slowly swept over the remaining two light screens.
Meanwhile, Yun Li and Kua Feng, who were trapped inside, seemed to realize the seriousness of the situation. Surprisingly, the two chose to temporarily put aside their prejudices and work together to overcome the predicament.
In an instant, the wind howled and the flames surged, the two complementing each other. Propelled by the wind, the flames grew even more ferocious and violent, crashing down on the light barrier with earth-shattering power.
After a series of arduous efforts, they finally succeeded in tearing a narrow but passable gap in the seemingly indestructible light screen.
Su Xiaoya stared wide-eyed at the hand seal, not blinking, afraid of missing any detail.
To her surprise, she discovered that this hand seal was not a unique hand seal of fire magic, but rather... one of the most basic and simplest of plant magic spells—the Growth Induction Seal!
However, this seemingly ordinary fertility-inducing technique revealed an extremely bizarre and terrifying side in his hands.
When the hand seal was finally completed and fell, something unexpected happened: within the two originally calm light screens, something suddenly seemed to be ignited and began to grow wildly.
These suddenly appearing objects turned out to be charred black vines!
They spread at an astonishing speed, as if they had their own lives.
What's even more terrifying is that every vine is burning with an inextinguishable flame, like a ferocious fire serpent, baring its fangs and claws as it lunges at Yun Li and Kua Feng.
Ah... Another piercing scream rang out, this time even more agonizing than before.
Without a doubt, it was Yun Li who made the sound.
At this moment, she was completely trapped in a desperate situation. Those terrifying, fire-serpent-like vines tightly wrapped around her body, constantly burning her skin and bringing waves of excruciating pain.