Human-Skin Trees and Turbid Creek

Wu Heng could only collect the exposed Scarlet Silver on the mountain's surface. These deposits apparently did not count as part of the vein. From these alone, Wu Heng collected two thousand kilograms of Scarlet Silver.

That was with the mineral vein not yet fully exposed, and the bulk of it still inside the mountain.

After putting away all the Scarlet Silver on the surface, Wu Heng turned his head and saw something strange.

Beyond the muddy yellow waters of Turbid Creek, the forest of black, withered trees from before—every tree bearing funeral couplets—had taken on an entirely different appearance.

The funeral couplets had vanished.

The trees were no longer withered and black. Instead, they had become fresh human skin tones, with flesh-colored skin wrapped around their trunks and extending all the way to every branch.

They resembled living people.

Their roots were like jointed fingers, burrowing into the earth and stretching outward, as though constantly sucking at something.

The hundred-meter-tall trees with human skin-colored bodies looked even more bizarre.

"There still weren't any changes in my perception just now!"

Wu Heng's heart tightened. He ordered a Cursed Disciple into the forest. The instant the Cursed Disciple entered, the Human-Skin Trees reverted to their dry, black appearance, each still bearing funeral couplets.

"The boundary is this Turbid Creek! From this side of the creek, those trees are Human-Skin Trees. But from the opposite bank, they remain withered trees."

He had discovered the pattern behind the trees.

Wu Heng stared intently at the finger-like roots that seemed to be sucking something in. The trees appeared to be absorbing nutrients.

If ordinary trees needed a water source, then were these trees also drawing from the creek water?

If they could absorb the creek water, did that mean they were not afraid of