Tomb Raiders in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 66 Maggot Gu
The expression on Zuo Ci's face kept changing, after about three or four breaths, Zuo Ci took a meaningful look at Li Mojin.

"This is the way the world is, it's just that you are discovering the true nature of the world now."

"Then what should we do now?" Li Mojin didn't have time to play tricks with Zuo Ci, so he asked anxiously.

"boom!"

The ground erupted again with a roar, and many houses could already be seen collapsing amidst the roar, bursts of tiles breaking and walls collapsing loudly.

"Wait!" Zuo Ci narrowed his eyes and looked at the scene in the village. At this moment, Li Changkun and Li Mojin suddenly felt that Zuo Ci in front of them had become very dangerous.

This may be an illusion...or it may be an irresistible force emanating from Zuo Ci.

"Crash-"

All kinds of creatures in the river are hitting the river bank, and the fish jumped onto the bank desperately, flashing their fins, and their movements are very similar to those of a person kowtowing...

A finger-thin water snake swam out from the bottom of the water, straightened up high, then fell down, prostrated on the ground, and then straightened up again, as if it were a person who was kowtowing.

A white water bird, about the size of a human's palm, landed on the bank of the river, with its two wings spread out, its head stuck to the ground, and then the two wings closed, tightly attached to the "forehead"!

He was so devout that he even wiped blood on the pebbles on the river bank.

Seeing it in the eyes of everyone, gusts of cold air came out spontaneously.

Are these commonplace animals becoming spirits, or is it just like this?
"Don't think too much, what we can manage, naturally we have to do our best, facing what we can't do, thinking too much won't help!" Zuo Ci comforted everyone in this way, led them across the small arch bridge, and ordered Li Mojin and Li Changkun took care of Zuo Xiaoqing and hurried back to Dao Village.

Zhang Faqiu stared at the ancient mulberry tree. It was already the tenth day. The trunk of the ancient mulberry tree was about to be cut off, and green blood began to emerge from it!

Zuo Ci said that only dragon blood is green!
A very strange fragrance began to permeate the air.

Fragrance!

This is also a sign of dragon blood!
Zhang Faqiu's breathing became short of breath. Not to mention an earthquake at this moment, even if the sky falls apart, he will persevere!
It's about whether he can continue talking, how can he not pay attention to it?

"Roar--"

There was a sonic boom in the air, like a beast roaring.

The expressions of Xiahou Dun and Xu Chu changed subtly, but they didn't stop what they were doing.

Among the green liquid flowing out from the tree trunk, there are only a few, and most of them are crimson liquid, which is extremely viscous and has a very strong fishy smell, no different from human blood.

Human blood has a stronger and more mysterious smell than the blood of livestock such as pigs and dogs.

"Roar--"

This time, the violent roar rang out in Zhang Faqiu's ears like a nightmare with boundless hostility.

Zhang Faqiu gritted his teeth and didn't say a word, but blood was already flowing from his ears.

"This is the final test. Whether you can persevere depends on your own good fortune!" Zuo Ci returned behind Zhang Faqiu after not knowing what to do.

Zhang Faqiu clenched his teeth and made a creaking sound. He is trying his best to control his body now. That weird roar seems to be affecting a person's soul, which is irresistible. Not to mention persevering through the roar.

Zuo Ci, on the other hand, stood beside Zhang Faqiu as if nothing had happened. Apart from a slightly solemn expression, there was no other change.

"Boom-"

This time, the earth shook exaggeratedly, and the soil under the entire Lousang Village was completely split apart. Fist-sized stones rolled out of the soil, and one could vaguely see something alive in the soil. Things are wriggling.

"What is that!" Zhang Faqiu was alert, and shouted loudly. There were still soldiers left on the left and right, and they also looked at the rolled up soil in shock.

Immediately afterward, from the soil, Yingying Yueyue could see the dark white skeleton protruding from the soil, Zhang Faqiu could see it clearly.

At this time, the soil cracked, and the living creatures rolling and drilling in the wet soil also revealed their true colors, which turned out to be strange snakes!
These snakes are not any kind of snakes that Zhang Faqiu has seen before. The big ones are as thick as an adult's arm, and the whole body is like a cylinder. What's more, these weird snakes have a head on their head and tail.

"hiss--"

Zuo Ci gasped, as if he had recognized this thing.

Without waiting for Zhang Faqiu to ask, Zuo Ci said: "This is the maggot Gu recorded in ancient witchcraft classics!"

"Are you kidding? Do you mean that maggots grow into the thickness of human arms?" Zhang Faqiu hurriedly took a few steps back.

Zuo Ci explained that this kind of maggot was recorded in Taoist classics handed down from ancient times. It is a monster that guards the gate of the ghost country. If ordinary people are bitten by this kind of maggot, even their souls will be eaten.

In other words, the underground of Lousang Village is the entrance to the legendary ghost country!

All the houses in Lousang Village have collapsed, except for Liu Bei's old house, which is still standing, and there is a very strange thing, the soil around the ancient mulberry tree has not cracked and rolled, otherwise, Zhang Faqiu and others Still standing here?
"What should we do now? Tell me something, old Zhang!" Xiahoudun hissed, and the scene in front of them had terrified the two of them.

Xu Chu whirled his tomahawk around, but didn't stop.

"Don't stop!" Zhang Faqiu gritted his teeth, and now they are not allowed to retreat.

Xiahoudun, Xu Chu and others are themselves fierce god generals who lick blood with swords on the battlefield. If they attack fiercely, the gods will retreat.

Zuo Ci's face was pale, without the slightest trace of blood, he muttered: "We may be wrong, what is being suppressed here is a ghost country!"

"Ghost country!" Zhang Faqiu's face became tense, it was not the first time he heard this word.

How the situation of the five ghosts carrying the coffin was broken, Zhang Faqiu has never understood, the people around him have kept this matter secret, and have never dared to tell him.

Because if the situation of the five ghosts carrying the coffin hadn't been broken, this place would become a country of thousands of miles of people and hundreds of miles of ghosts.

Zuo Ci went on to say: "We were wrong at the beginning. This is not the kind of demon tree recorded in the ancient books that brought disaster to Emperor Zhou's capital, but another kind of sacred tree that suppresses demons, called Jianmu!"

"Jianmu!" Zhang Faqiu said to himself. According to legend, Jianmu is a sacred tree that communicates with the sky and the earth. A sacred tree communicates with heaven.

Jianmu was used as a medium for the emperor to communicate with heaven and earth in myths and legends. Over time, Jianmu has been contaminated with a sacred atmosphere. According to the saying passed down from later generations, this thing can suppress demons and ghosts.

It's just... the legendary Jianmu shouldn't be "shaped like a cow, with skin, like tassels, or a yellow snake. Its leaves are like Luo Luo, but its wood is like a scorpion." The thing in front of Zhang Faqiu's eyes It is clearly a mulberry tree.

I heard people in the village say that the mulberries produced by this ancient mulberry tree also have the effect of curing diseases.

It can't be compared with Jianmu Baganzi at all, this is obviously a mulberry tree!
"Jianmu itself has no fixed shape, and this piece of Jianmu should not be a pure Jianmu for a long time. Its interior has been infected by the demonic energy it suppressed, and it has become a piece of both good and evil. Demon tree!" Zuo Ci said.

Then Zuo Ci explained to Zhang Faqiu that the so-called Jianmu is not necessarily exactly the same as the shape recorded in the Shan Hai Jing.

All the trees in this world have the possibility to evolve towards Jianmu. In short, Jianmu is the medium through which the ancient ancestors worshiped the heaven and the earth and communicated with the heavens.

At the very beginning, the tree that the ancestors worshiped might be an ordinary tree, perhaps a common pine tree, a common cypress tree, and so on.

But as time goes by, generations of ancestors worship this tree with incense, and the power of faith gathers together. At this moment, the tree will gradually become psychic, and even more extraordinary.

At this point, this tree has already embarked on the path of evolution into Jianmu.

Zhang Faqiu watched the arm-thin maggots burrowing in the soil, his stomach churned, and he almost retched.

Another kind of natural building wood is formed by relying on the terrain to go up the mountain. For example, this ancient mulberry tree stole the energy of dragon veins and the energy of Ziwei Emperor Star from the Liu family era, so it embarked on the road of building wood. of.

Liu Bei may have seen this, so he found that the ancient mulberry tree absorbed his Ziwei Emperor Star Qi, and did not destroy this pattern.

It's just that he doesn't know that this Jianmu, which has not yet fully formed, has already turned into a demon tree!
"What should we do now?" Zhang Faqiu looked at more and more maggots, and when he looked at the past, almost all the places he could see were skeletons brought out from the ground by the maggots. .

If he could not see Li Mojin and others outside the village looking at him from a distance, Zhang Faqiu would feel like he was in a dream.

"Cut this demon tree! At that time, you will absorb the energy of the dragon veins and the energy of the Ziwei emperor star of the demon tree itself. In that case, within three or two years, your life will be safe, and there is nothing you can do about this mere maggot. Old man!" Zuo Ci said with a serious face, and then Zuo Ci began to pinch his fingers and step on the ground.

Zhang Faqiu recognized it, this is the step that triggered the sky thunder!
"Zheng-"

There was a sound of gold and iron intertwining in the air, and Zhang Faqiu saw the Dao sword flashing with a talisman in Zuo Ci's left hand again!

"The profound thunder of the Nine Heavens shocked the sky, and the mighty power of the sky is shining brightly. Lead it with a sword, and the Taishang Laojun is in a hurry like a law!"

(End of this chapter)