After leaving the fissure, Fu Yi didn't seem to be scared anymore and didn't ask any more questions. Huai Shi also fell into silence.
The depth here was beginning to deepen.
Originally, it was just a slightly abnormal border, but now it had begun to draw closer to the abyss.
The group of ghosts and the things that were poked out of the sunken city were the best proof. If Huai Shi's reaction was a little slower, or without Fu Yi's help, he might have been eroded by those things and left forever in the rainstorm, or pulled closer to the sunken city.
No matter how powerful an ascender was, once they made a mistake, they would usher in tragic consequences. The so-called hell was such an unreasonable place.
The deeper one went, the more dangerous it was.
The more unreasonable things there were, the stranger it was … or rather, the more miraculous it was. Wasn't the so-called Divine Mark a miracle that had transformed from hell?
Even if it was the archeological team of the Astronomical Association, there were many experienced and cautious archaeologists. It wasn't surprising or strange for them to be defeated in some strange hell ruins.
And the many relics at the border were the embodiment of these disasters, strangeness, and ominous.
If it wasn't for the Great Zarathustra Seal, the present realm wouldn't even be able to maintain a day of peace under the erosion of hell. This huge secret ritual, which was completed by the continuous inheritance of many creators, not only wrote various laws and rules into the present realm, but it also maintained an absolute power advantage in the present realm with a torrent of steel. In addition, like a city wall, it formed a barrier to resist deep erosion.
Among the three major blockades of the present realm, other than the Bifröst that would only be fully activated during an emergency and was usually used as a means of transportation, the one that made the greatest contribution during a stable period was the Great Zarathustra Conclave itself.
As for the last of the three seals, it was a secret among secrets. Except for the higher-ups of the Astronomical Association, not even a word of it was spread out.
However, Huai Shi once heard an unexpected sneer from the Crow when they were chatting. It seemed to be regarded as an example of "taking credit for oneself."
But she didn't elaborate.
These were extremely confidential matters that she had never told Huai Shi.
At first, Huai Shi thought that she was trying to keep him in suspense or deliberately mystifying things. Later, after he gradually came into contact with all kinds of inconceivable information shielding and operation cases of the Astronomy Society, he understood that sometimes, even if he knew this information, his name would appear on the 'Silent Monument' kept by the Continuation Academy. Once he said it out loud, it would be detected by the 'Doomsday Clock' of the Technical Department. And if it was a few decades earlier, the whole process would be recorded by the 'Book of Destiny' connected to the Kingdom of Heaven.
It wasn't that he couldn't tell others, just like how the Stoneforge Academy never forbade others from learning alchemy by skipping the step of buying teaching materials.
Once it was known, someone would have to pay the price for the illegal circulation of this' intellectual '.
During the period of vigilance, it was not surprising that they were even sentenced to "memetic purge."
Therefore, even the dissolute Crow had to keep his mouth shut most of the time. He was afraid that if he let the cat out of the bag, his contestant would be directly teleported to the Tower of London by the Bifröst and sentenced to eternal imprisonment.
This time, she didn't even come in by herself. She could only help him bring in his soul ability in a roundabout way.
As the biggest traitor of the Astronomy Society, Huai Shi felt a lot of pressure …
He even considered whether he should force Fu Yi to withdraw from this exploration.
But after he said it out loud, Fu Yi naturally objected. For some reason, Huai Shi always felt that her objection seemed to be very reasonable. He couldn't make the final decision.
It had been a long time since he was so indecisive, which made Huai Shi a little annoyed.
"Something's coming!"
"The ground is shaking!"
"Can we eat now?"
"Wait a minute!"
Just as he was deep in thought, suddenly there was a messy sound around him.
He stopped in his tracks, raised his head in astonishment, and looked around, but he didn't see anyone. It was just a barren forest around him.
If he was a mountain ghost, he could easily rely on the vitality network here to sense the ghosts hiding in the dark. But now, other than his sense of smell and hearing, it was difficult to distinguish the enemy's location.
"What's wrong?" Fu Yi seemed to have been awakened from a dream. She opened her eyes and carefully glanced at Huai Shi.
She didn't seem to have heard anything.
But why … did she feel a little guilty?
Huai Shi looked down at the stoat in the bell and said seriously, "Don't joke around."
"Hmm?" The stoat was a little nervous subconsciously, and its tail stood up. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Don't joke around."
Huai Shi emphasized again seriously and continued to walk forward. Then, the same sound came from the surroundings. Huai Shi's expression turned serious and he suddenly turned back.
He didn't see anything.
Only the barren forest.
And the strange circles of stripes on the mottled trees.
For some reason, those stripes overlapped in one place, resembling strange faces. They didn't look like humans, but more like lizards or snakes.
Some kind of … combination of cold-blooded animals and trees.
Huai Shi's heart tightened.
"Trees can talk?"
"Someone's coming!" A face on a tree suddenly shouted.
"Fu Yi, did you hear that?" Huai Shi lowered his head and asked.
Fu Yi was at a loss, but then, another tree screamed, "The ground is shaking!"
An impatient face shouted, "Can we eat now?"
"Wait a minute!" A voice in the distance replied.
Huai Shi frowned.
"Someone's coming!"
"The ground is shaking!"
"Can we eat now?"
"Wait a minute!"
… …
Those trees seemed to only know how to say these words. The lips on the faces opened and closed, but other than shouting, they didn't do anything.
It was as if they only liked to sing and rap.
But the more focused Huai Shi was, the more he felt dizzy.
For some reason, he felt that the markings on the trees were beginning to move. In the end, a wolf-like face appeared on the markings on a withered tree. It shouted in horror, "Trees can talk?"
Huai Shi was stunned.
On the tree, his beast face became clearer, and he shouted again, "Trees can talk?"
Huai Shi felt dizzy, and his face became numb … He felt sleepy, as if his consciousness was divided into two, and a part of it still remained in his body.
A part of it had already entered the tree!
"Trees can talk!"
The face on the withered tree widened its eyes, and its tone was eighty percent similar to Huai Shi's. "Fu Yi, did you hear that? Trees can talk! "
"What the hell!" Huai Shi's claws suddenly popped out and swung horizontally forward.
But the tree was like an illusion. As his sharp claws swept past, it instantly dissipated. After it left, it returned to normal, but the face became more and more similar to Huai Shi's. It screamed in horror, "What the hell!"
It was imitating him.
No, now Huai Shi was already regretting making a sound. The more he spoke, the more this strange withered tree resembled him.
He didn't even need to think to know that if this thing became exactly like him, he wouldn't have a good time.
But this appearance inexplicably reminded Huai Shi of the ceremony when he advanced to Mountain Ghost in the past.
Tree Blood Urn!
Wasn't the strange power of the Tree Blood Urn extremely similar to it? It was just that it needed Huai Shi's blood, and this ghost that was still alive only needed to hear Huai Shi's voice.
"Huai Shi, what's wrong with you?"
Fu Yi looked blankly at Huai Shi, who seemed to have gone crazy, and was confused.
"Fu Yi, did you hear that? Trees can talk! "The strange withered tree's screams became more and more shrill," Don't joke around! "
Just as the striped face stared fixedly at Huai Shi, the extreme version of Huai Shi's face suddenly seeped with foul-smelling blood. He snarled, imitated his tone, and constantly pulled at his consciousness and soul.
Until Huai Shi grinned hideously at it.
"You like to imitate people, don't you?"
Huai Shi looked at it indifferently and suddenly shouted, "I swear to uphold the principles of the Astronomical Association and guard the peace of the present realm. I will never let down the honor and responsibility brought by this duty. From today onwards, I uphold —"
The smiling face on the withered tree became more and more hideous, and began to repeat what he said. But halfway through, the face suddenly stiffened, as if it was frozen, and the words came to an abrupt end.
Pa!
A tragic crack appeared on the tree's surface, causing it to let out a hiss.
"You dare to imitate an oath — — do you want to die?"
Huai Shi sneered and raised his claws. On his sharp claws, the cold light of the Axe of Wrath shone. The Hand of Confinement was activated, and it swept horizontally!
The dual attack of matter and Origin Substance instantly exploded, tearing the ghostly face and the entire tree to pieces.
Mournful blood spurted out from the broken tree stump.
It's settled!
On the night of the witch, who is in charge of the Astronomical Association, shouting the oath of the Astronomical Association, a rural monster like you probably doesn't know how to die!
If it was a normal person shouting, it wouldn't be a big deal, but if something with Origin Substance dared to shout like that under the rules of the Astronomical Association, the effect was similar to directly surrendering.
If it was in the present realm, the HR department of the Central Bureau of Human Resources couldn't help but sneer after receiving the report and send a note to the processing department, sending you a black letter.
In less than three minutes, there would be a grenade aimed at your head, letting you experience what it meant to be killed by an 8x scope with a headshot.
If you can't be a member of the Astronomical Association, then be a ghost of the Astronomical Association!
If it weren't for the fact that he was worried that the park would run too far away and be too far away to reach, Huai Shi would have directly shouted a few lines and let it experience the power of the good brothers in the legal department!
Once it lost its strange method of dodging attacks, this guy whose mind attacks had been nullified was just a piece of cake. It wouldn't even be enough to drink two taels of water!
Huai Shi sent them all on their way in no time at all.
From beginning to end, Fu Yi blankly watched as Huai Shi turned into a destructive maniac. It wasn't until the end that she realized what was going on and suddenly realized, "Oh, were we attacked?"
"… …"
Huai Shi was speechless.
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