Life-and-Death Asura Tree
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A tree that is 100 meters tall.
In this world teeming with colossal creatures, it's not that big.
But.
This big tree is really eerie.
The black branches resembled the skeleton of a creature.
Stiff and sharp.
There were no leaves among the branches; instead, a grayish-black mist filled the air.
Just like the surrounding Mist!
One by one, human heads of different sizes, shapes, and appearances.
Hanging among the branches.
It's as if the fruit is the result of this big tree.
Xin Linlin's head also hung among the branches of this big tree.
His headless body climbed up a tree and tightly hugged its head.
At this moment, Xin Linlin's head was gaping open like a blood-red maw.
It frantically tore at the Soul-Binding Lock.
As for the other heads on the tree...
They surrounded Xin Linlin's headless corpse like piranhas.
It opened its blood-red maw and desperately tore at the body.
But.
Xin Linlin's headless body had long been forged into a Heaven-Tier Lower Grade Weapons by him.
So they weren't eaten up by these people for the time being.
Yet it remains scarred and battered.
But this scene...
Even Jiang Fu felt a chill run down her spine.
He almost instinctively pulled Shi Jiu into his arms.
God Sequence: Dodger activated!
This tree is Strangeness!
"What's wrong?"
Shi Jiu nestled in Jiang Fu's arms and asked with some confusion.
Jiang Fu was taken aback. "Didn't you see that tree?"
Shi Jiu noticed that Jiang Fu's expression was off.
He quickly used his Eternal-Rank Eye of Insight ahead.
"I saw it!"
"A vibrant White Spirit Fruit Tree must be the so-called Fifth-Tier Spirit Fruit Tree."
Jiang Fu's expression hardened.
He was about to speak.
The woman's head that had attacked him Fangcai came at him again.
It resembles a sinister ghost face.
It lunged at Jiang Fu's face and bit down hard.
At this moment, Jiang Fu's Evasion Ring and Dodge Sequence were activated simultaneously.
The woman's head missed again.
But Shi Jiu was held in Jiang Fu's arms.
But it seemed as if they hadn't noticed anything unusual at all.
"How so!"
Jiang Fu was horrified, but he ignored the woman's head.
"What I saw was a black, Ghost Tree filled with deathly energy and covered with human heads!"
... Could it be that some kind of strange entity exists here?
Even the God Sequence Dodger couldn't Dodge it?
Now.
Shi Jiu was in Jiang Fu's arms.
The two could clearly feel each other's presence.
But.
They seem to exist in two completely different worlds.
Shi Jiu had also noticed the anomaly.
The God Sequence: Hell and the God Sequence: Space Controller were activated simultaneously.
Shi Jiu listened to Jiang Fu's account.
His brows furrowed tightly.
At this time.
Whether it's the Eye of Insight or their Sequence.
They're all telling them.
What they saw was real!
It is not a hallucination, or a hallucination caused by some other factor.
Regardless of that white Spirit Fruit Tree.
The black Ghost Tree is real.
However, the System Screen floating in front of Jiang Fu did not provide any prompts.
This is abnormal in itself.
Suddenly.
Shi Jiu lowered her head.
He looked at the black Soul-Binding Lock that Jiang Fu was holding.
One end of the Soul-Binding Lock was tied to Xin Linlin's headless corpse.
Shi Jiu reached out and grasped the Soul-Binding Lock.
The scene before her remained unchanged.
It was still the same lush and verdant scene.
But.
Shi Jiu's Sequence, however, had already 'seen' the existence of that Human-Head Ghost Tree through the Soul-Binding Lock.
They also saw Xin Linlin's headless body being torn apart by human heads.
Shi Jiu said softly, "Don't let that corpse get eaten!"
Jiang Fu understood Shi Jiu's meaning.
In my heart, I silently wished Xin Linlin's headless corpse Multiply by Ten harder.
Then...
Boom!
That's the sound of a tooth being knocked out.
Shi Jiu breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Then the Soul-Binding Lock was released.
"Let's go out first, then come back in."
As they were talking.
The God Sequence: Controller activates instantly.
Their bodies appeared in quick succession.
They left the Fog Zone shortly afterward.
Back outside the City Walls.
At this time.
Inside and outside the City Walls, a great battle had just taken place.
The battlefield is being cleaned up.
Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu entered the Misty Zone.
In a short period of time, the Martial Artist here had already repelled four attacks by Mutated Beasts.
The Fog Zone is teeming with all sorts of monsters.
Shi Jiu had been using the Teleportation of the God Sequence Space Controller to travel with Jiang Fu.
That's why we didn't encounter any Mutated Beasts or anything like that.
"It's those two Bearded Pirates!"
"They've emerged from the Misty Zone!"
The instant Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu appeared.
This immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding Martial Artists.
What's the situation inside the Misty Zone right now?
The Adjutant Ying killed a Fifth Tier Mutated Beast lurking nearby with a single blow.
He looked at Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu, who had landed beside him, and quickly asked.
Jiang Fu was about to speak.
"Wow--"
A sharp, piercing scream came from the Mist.
Immediately afterwards.
The head of the woman who Fangcai been chasing and biting Jiang Fu.
They actually broke out of the Fog Zone.
With its mouth wide open, it lunged at Jiang Fu's head.
Shi Jiu saw this.
A fierce glint flashed across her pretty face.
She gently clenched her little hand.
Sledgehammer with Pink Bow around its neck appeared in her hand.
The next moment.
The Sledgehammer was swung.
Bang!
The head was instantly smashed away.
Above the void, it transforms into a parabola.
Then...
Bang!
Another muffled thud.
The head exploded into a flower of blood.
Jiang Fu was still holding Shi Jiu.
He looked at Adjutant Ying, "That's the situation."
The Adjutant Ying and the surrounding Martial Artists were stunned.
A head that keeps chasing and biting people?
No!
What on earth are they fighting?!
Mutated Beasts, Boundary Beasts, Domain Demons... a Rubik's Rubik's Cube that has come to life.
The previously Stitched Beast made of corpse parts was, at least, the ability of the Boundary Beast, Pupil Demon.
But this head is a bit outrageous...
Even human heads can come out and bite people now.
Could it be...?
Are there ghosts in the Fog Zone?!
At that very moment.
A Martial Artist suddenly spoke up.
His voice was filled with grief. "That severed head just now belonged to Nan Zhiyi, the eldest daughter of the Nan Family!"
"Nan Zhiyi, is she dead too...?"
Upon hearing these words, the surroundings fell into a deathly silence.
Nan Zhiyi.
The eldest daughter of the Nan Family, one of the Eight Great Families of the Xia Country.
Twenty-four years old.
One of the leading figures of the younger generation in the Xia Country.
The Return to True Realm Transcendent!
Sequence Martial Artist!
God Grade figure adored by countless young Junjie.
They were previously stationed at the Defense Walls.
One of the many Martial Artists who went missing after the Mist invaded.
But I never expected it would end up like this.
Originally, many people still held onto a sliver of hope.
They believed that a peerless genius like Nan Zhiyi would not fall so easily.
Until now.
This last glimmer of hope has become a bloody reality.
Shi Jiu paid no attention to the emotions of the Martial Artists around her.
In the Wilderness Zone, people are bound to die.
At one point, she herself was prepared to die in battle at any moment.
"Let's go back."
Shi Jiu grabbed the Soul-Binding Lock from Jiang Fu's hand.
God Sequence: Space Controller activated.
The two figures vanished.
After several spatial Teleportations.
Following the guidance of the Soul-Binding Lock, Shi Jiu returned to that area.
This time.
She finally saw the dark, Human-Head Ghost Tree on its trunk.
"It really is it!"
Shi Jiu looked at the pitch-black Ghost Tree in front of her.
At the same time, she recalled the White Spirit Fruit Tree she had Fangcai seen.
"The Life-and-Death Asura Tree"