Between mountains and seas

Chapter 153

All eyes were on the elm tree, because its posture did look like it was leaning on something, but there was indeed nothing beside it.

Hidemi Fukui walked forward quickly, walked to the side of the elm tree, slightly brushed the weeds on the ground, and immediately shouted: "I am standing right where the tree used to be, that's right, look here The soil is still turning up, so there is indeed a tree here!"

When he brushed the overgrown weeds on the ground, others could see that there was indeed fresh soil on the ground, as if something had been pulled out of the ground.

Komatsu Masao unconsciously turned his head and looked around: "But, what about the tree?" Judging from the existing elm tree in front of him, the original tree was also old, and a big tree that was nearly as thick as two people surrounded it was completely gone now. , Is it possible that I ran away with long legs?

But He Maochuan became vigilant: "Is there anyone else in this woods?" The tree won't run away by itself, it must be pulled out by someone.

If there is anyone in the world of mountains and seas, the first thing He Mochuan thinks of is the special affairs department, and they want to enter Zhongshan, and the special affairs department also wants to enter Zhongshan, maybe everyone bumped into it here ?

Thinking of this, He Maochuan suddenly became nervous. He looked around, but because of the lingering fog, the scenery more than ten meters away was blurred, and he couldn't see anything at all.After hesitating for a moment, he still called out Inugami, and asked Masao Komatsu to summon Maomata as well: "Let them go and check around."

The cat and Inugami ran out in different directions again. Ka Mogawa and Komatsu each watched their shikigami disappear into the mist, their brows furrowed—the farther away the shikigami was, the more he could feel it. The fog inside does have the ability to block contact. If the shikigami goes too far, it is even possible that the two parties will not be able to maintain contact at any time.

Fortunately, their shikigami are relatively loyal, and they are also firmly controlled by them. If it is replaced by a naturally rebellious shikigami like the dog ghost, they might take the opportunity to escape the control of the shikigami.

The influence of the fog distracted He Maochuan for a minute, but just as he was about to look back, he heard Qi Tongmin take a breath: "Mr. Fukui?"

He Mochuan's heart tightened, he turned his head suddenly, and saw Fukui Hidemi standing there, his whole body was stiff.With his arms raised to the sky, and with a terrified expression on his face, he just stood there motionless, as if he had become a statue.

Although arrogant, Fukui Hidemi has indeed received rigorous training, and there is almost nothing that can make him afraid, let alone show such fearful emotions.Moreover, the color of his skin has also changed, from gray to brown, at first glance it looks like bark that has lost its moisture and vitality.

"Fukui-kun!" He Mochuan took a step forward and stopped in shock, because there were tiny cracks like spider webs on Fukui Hidemi's face—no, not just his face, but his exposed wrist Cracks also appeared in some parts, and the cracks extended to the sleeves and collar, apparently the entire surface of the body was cracking.

"What's going on here!" Masao Komatsu was also at a loss in horror, "Mr. Fukui, Fukui!"

Of course Fukui Hidemi couldn't answer, his half-open lips had cracked into pieces, the whole mouth turned into a black hole, and a little green stuff protruded out of the hole.

"Is it a leaf?" Komatsu Masao's voice trembled, "No, yes, it's a branch!" To be precise, it was a twig with green leaves growing out of Fukui Hidemi's mouth.

And it's not just the mouth, Fukui Hidemi's whole body's skin is collapsing piece by piece, what is exposed underneath is not flesh and blood, but branches and green leaves. In just a few minutes, Fukui Hidemi disappeared. In his place was a new-born elm, stretching its thin branches right where he stood, as if in the same gesture of raising its hands to the sky.

On the side, the original thick elm tree also stretched out its branches, as if to embrace this newborn companion.In a few decades, the newborn tree will grow to be as strong as it, and the two trees will be able to depend on each other again and be intimate.

A gust of wind blows over, blowing those gray-brown human skin fragments floating slightly in the air, like burning ashes, after a few flutters, they fall into the wild grass, and they will turn into mud in a short time.

"That, that is definitely not Chaos!" He Maochuan finally realized.He subconsciously turned his head left and right, as if he was afraid that the big blue dog would come back to life and follow behind him, and then he saw Qi Tongmin at a glance, and immediately shouted, "Mr. Qi, what is that!"

Qi Tongmin touched his chin.From the beginning to the end, only the expression on his face was surprised, but there was no fear, as if he had witnessed a wonderful experiment: "If it's not Chaos, then——probably Wood Essence."

"Impossible!" He Maochuan immediately retorted, "It is said in "Taiping Yulan" that the thousand-year-old tree spirit is a green sheep, and the long-lived tree spirit is a green cow! "Shuyiji" also says that the thousand-year-old tree spirit is a green cow!" No listening It is said that Mujing belongs to Qinggou.

"Oh——" Qi Tongmin said unhurriedly, "Have Mr. He heard of Liu Yuxi's poem? It is about wolfberry, and it is said that 'the branch is originally a fairy stick, and the root can be shaped into a dog'." "Continued Legend of Immortals" "It is also said that Zhu Ruzi saw two flower dogs enter the wolfberry bush, and the roots dug out were shaped like two dogs. In addition, "Haoran Zhai Richao" also said that thousand-year-old wolfberry looks like a dog. It is not a thousand-year-old wolfberry. Goji berry is like a dog, but a thousand-year-old wood essence, which originally has the shape of a green dog, not necessarily restricted to sheep and cattle."

He rubbed his chin and added: "It's just that the shape of a blue dog is really too rare. Mr. He said it was chaos. I have no evidence and no proof, so I can't refute it. But Mr. He doesn't need to blame himself too much, even if he was right at the time. Knowing that it is a thousand-year-old wood spirit, there is nothing we can do to save Mr. Fukui."

"What do you mean there is no way!" Masao Komatsu was also anxious.How long has it been since I entered the world of mountains and seas, and a living person has turned into a tree in front of my eyes.In terms of combat power, Hidemi Fukui is actually the strongest one. Without him, Masao Komatsu would feel a little guilty. After all, he knows very well that his own shikigami are not enough in the world of mountains and seas. look.

"If you say it earlier, there will always be a way. Fukui will never die!" Xiaosong also knew that what he said was a bit far-fetched, after all, he really couldn't think of any way to avoid Fukui's death—the Millennium Wood Essence, He had never heard of the lethality of this thing at all, so naturally there was no need to talk about the way of treatment.

Qi Tongmin spread his hands, "But Mr. Fukui is not dead."

"What, what?" Masao Komatsu suspected that he had misheard, "What did you say?"

"I said Mr. Fukui didn't die." Qi Tongmin pointed to the tree, "He just turned into a tree. If we talk about lifespan, his tree can live much longer than us."

Komatsu Masao's Chinese is actually two swords, it's okay to speak slowly, but now he was too shocked, all the vocabulary was forgotten, pointing at Qi Tongmin, his mouth opened and closed again, it was just half a word He didn't say anything, but He Maochuan said with a gloomy face: "So Fukui-kun is still alive? Then, can he be restored to his original state?"

Qi Tongmin shrugged: "I don't know about that. Hmm - if Mr. He still has that ghost skin, maybe he can be saved?"

"No more." He Maochuan looked at him gloomyly, "Is there no other way?"

"I've never heard of it." Qi Tongmin shrugged again, "Honestly speaking, there is too little information about Wood Essence. This is the first time I know that Wood Essence can actually parasitize people and transform them into trees. The previous There is no record of this in the books, let alone a cure, transferring the curse is the only way I can think of."

Komatsu Masao showed a disappointed look, and looked around with some fear: "He Maojun, what should I do?" It's only been a long time since I came in, and one of them was broken, and I don't know what will happen if I go on, he already shrinks a little—live Although Shi is very precious, his own life is even more precious.

He Maochuan seemed to have lost his mind, and finally turned his attention to Qi Tongmin: "Mr. Qi, what do you think?"

Qi Tongmin was looking at the map he had drawn, and sighed for a long time: "If you want to go back, there should be time now."

"I'm afraid it's too late." He Maochuan said coldly, and Xiao Song immediately asked in shock: "He Maojun?"

He Maochuan beckoned, and the white Inugami ran out of the mist, stuck out his tongue and stopped at his feet, panting.He Maochuan glanced at it gloomyly, and said slowly: "Just now, the dog god searched for the way back, but couldn't find it."

Komatsu Masao didn't expect that he let Inugami run back, and said in surprise: "How is this possible? Just now, Fukui-kun..." Fukui Hidemi clearly came and went freely!

He Mochuan's eyes fell on the two elm trees: "I'm afraid it's because Fukui killed a wood spirit at that time..." This forest is probably controlled by these two wood spirits.Twin trees complement each other, and Hidemi Fukui killed one of them to break through the puzzle and walk out smoothly.But now, he fills in the missing position himself, and the puzzle has been restored...

"Then let's do the same!" Xiaosong's eyes lit up, and he raised his hand to summon his other shikigami, "We saw off the tree, and the wood spirit will definitely come out!"

His second shikigami looked like a squatting toad at first glance, but it had a half-human head, and the top of the head was sunken, filled with a puddle of water, so it looked very weird and terrifying.

This is a Kappa.The carapace on the back is blue-gray, with moss growing on it, and it looks quite old.The carapace stretched along the spine and gradually narrowed, forming a crocodile-like tail, and split into thin scales on both sides of the tail.If these scales stand upright, the tail can indeed become a saw, and when it is swung on a person, flesh and blood will fly all over it, and it can be used to saw trees—it should be very efficient.

"This kappa is quite old." Qi Tongmin expressed his appreciation, but what he was looking at was not the scary-looking tail, but the depression on the top of the kappa's head, which was big enough to hold an adult's fist. The water is slightly green, as if it has been in it for a long time.

"Indeed." Masao Komatsu said quite proudly.Although the kappa is a relatively low-level shikigami, it has only been passed down for several generations, and the average kappa cannot compare with it.This is also the reason why he came to the world of mountains and seas - if such a kappa can evolve, it will be able to possess power even surpassing that of an intermediate shikigami, and his status will be different immediately.

"Let me see if the thousand-year-old wooden spirit can beat my kappa." Masao Komatsu directed the kappa to jump over, waved his tail, and chopped at the tree that Hidemi Fukui had turned into.

Yes, he cut down the tree that Hidemi Fukui had just turned into, because this tree was only the waistline thickness of an ordinary adult, and it was obviously much easier to deal with than the big elm next to it.As for the fact that this tree was still his companion before?hehe……

This was indeed the case, when the Kappa swung his tail down, the bark of the tree flew off, and a deep wound was cut out, exposing the white trunk inside.Immediately afterwards, a bright red liquid oozed out from the wound, staining the white part red.

"This—" Masao Komatsu was startled.The liquid looked exactly like blood, and even the sweet smell was exactly the same as blood.

"The millennium wood spirit will bleed, of course." Qi Tongmin said lightly.

Komatsu was really ambitious and thumped wildly.If the Millennium Wood Essence bleeds, why was there no blood at all when the green dog was cut open?

But it's meaningless to argue with Qi Tongmin at this time, besides, if it's not the blood of Mu Jing, then could this bright red liquid be the dragon blood tree?If you think about it again, there is no need to cut down this tree.

So Komatsu Masao only thought what Qi Tongmin said was true, and continued to direct the Kappa to wave his tail.However, before the Kappa swung its tail down again, a big blue dog jumped out from behind the big elm tree and bit the Kappa's tail.

The kappa let out a hoarse cry like a child crying, and swung the dog away with a flick of its tail, but a few pieces of its scales were also bitten off, leaving clear teeth marks on the teeth marks. There are some traces of green, which at first glance look like moss on its own back.

But Komatsu Masao already sensed something was wrong—the kappa's movements became sluggish, as if there was a force resisting his command.

"Oops, that's too bad..." Obviously, Mu Jing wanted to turn the kappa into a tree.

The cat hasn't come back yet, it seems that he lost contact in the misty woods, Komatsu Masao can't call it back at all - now he doesn't have the energy to summon the cat, the kappa is struggling hard, trying to get rid of those green things in his body , These things squeezed into its flesh and blood like growing tree roots, trying to control and assimilate its body.

At this time, He Mochuan couldn't care less about preserving his strength, so he drove the Inugami forward. If the Inugami could devour the Wood Essence, he might be able to save the Kappa—even if he couldn't, killing a Wood Essence would at least allow them to solve the predicament in front of them. There are ways to move forward or backward.

Inugami leaped, threw Mu Jing down, and bit its neck.

This position actually doesn't make much sense, because Wooden Jing is not a real dog, but neither is Inujin, so although Wooden Jing is still struggling, a layer of black energy is gradually lingering on the surface of his body, and he is gradually covered by the black energy. Erosion, the body is gradually shrinking.

Masao Komatsu breathed a sigh of relief—the green substance in the kappa's body began to lose its activity, and was assimilated by the kappa instead.What surprised him even more was that after devouring the green matter, he could feel that the Kappa's strength had increased!

Kappa can absorb the power of wood spirits!Without thinking, Komatsu drives the Kappa towards Inugami, wanting to get a share of the action.However, as soon as the Kappa squeezed to the side of Inugami, Inugami turned his head halfway, bared his teeth towards the Kappa, and let out a low growl from his throat, obviously warning the Kappa to stay away.

The Kappa was startled, and instinctively waved his tail at Inugami.This was a defensive posture, but Inugami misunderstood it—even though this thing is not as rebellious as Inugami, it is still very domineering. Someone wants to take a share of the prey already bitten in its mouth, that is absolutely impossible for Inugami tolerated.

With a deep growl, Inugami swung his paws down and knocked the kappa upside down. Several bloody cuts were cut on the tough scales, and even some of the water in the depression on the top of his head spilled out. .

"He Mo-kun!" Masao Komatsu became anxious immediately.The vitality of the kappa is in that pool of water. When the water dries up, the kappa will die!

He Maochuan frowned.But now the most important thing is to get rid of Wooden Spirit, so he can only issue instructions to Inugami to let him ignore Kappa and concentrate on attacking Wooden Spirit.

However, before his order was issued, suddenly a bolt of lightning struck down from the air, bringing up a series of blue electric sparks, which instantly surrounded Inugami and Kappa.

Inugami howled in pain, and jumped out of the circle of sparks desperately, but the Kappa only had time to hiss hoarsely before falling down, the scales all over his body were scorched, and the depression on the top of his head was even more empty. - all the water is boiled away...

Inugami fled to Ka Mogawa with the little spark still sizzling on his back, but Ka Mochuan couldn't care about his shikigami at all.He turned his head to stare at Qi Tongmin, his voice hoarse: "Qi Tongmin, what are you doing!"

Qi Tongmin stood there, holding a small electric ball between his palms.He smiled at Ka Maochuan, raised his hand and threw the electric ball at Masao Komatsu, who was stunned, and replied amidst Masao Komatsu's screams: "Of course it's just to see you, Mr. He. You don't think that , I will really let you people enter Zhongshan and get the five-color chrysalis, right? If you really think so, then you are too naive."

Komatsu Masao has fallen down.The Kappa's sudden death also affected him, coupled with the shock, he couldn't escape the electric ball at all.At this moment, he is not dead yet, but half of his body has been electrocuted, and he has lost his fighting power.

He Maochuan didn't look at Masao Komatsu at all, but just stared at Qi Tongmin closely: "What a picture! But Mr. Qi, have you forgotten that your life is not your own!" He flipped his wrist, The little man cut out of ghost skin in the palm of his hand was revealed, "Aren't you planning to kill yourself?"