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I took out my lighter and struck it. As soon as the flame came close to the tree, the face on top of it was filled with terror. By the time the flame touched the book, the face was in agony, and the faces of the others in the tree were filled with expressions of terror and pain.

"Is this tree alive? Or is the person in this tree alive? " I scratched my chin and said to myself

Hamborg pushed me away and took out a paper knife from his pocket. He stabbed it into the trunk of a tree and a stream of blood red liquid flowed out of the knife's mouth.

"This tree is a little interesting," Mao Babao also came over, and approached the trunk of the tree, using his nose to smell the scent of human blood.

The three of them huddled together, researching on the blood-like thing. Suddenly, I felt a pain in my butt, and my entire body flew out, smashing Mao Babao and Hamborg onto the ground, right after falling, I heard a sound of wind blowing behind me.

As soon as I fell to the ground, I turned my head to look, and just in time to see a thick tree branch, like a large hand full of leaves, encircling Old Taoist Qiu, grabbing onto him and walking up, in the blink of an eye he was already two to three meters tall. Old Taoist Qiu was also unyielding. He whipped the branch with his horsetail whisk in his right hand and with a wave of his left hand, a string of small fireballs flew towards the tree branch.

Hamborg's two hands grabbed onto my waist, and with a whoosh, he threw me towards Old Taoist Qiu. I adjusted my posture a little, and then fiercely stuck the talisman paper I was holding onto a tree branch.

In terms of speed, the Old Taoist Qiu was an instantaneous technique. But in terms of ruthlessness, Hamborg was not afraid of anyone. The two finger-wide piece of paper stuck onto the tree branch with a 'pa' sound. Following the change in Hamborg's hand seals, it immediately combusted. This fire was unlike the Old Taoist Qiu's fire that would end immediately, it was like a liquid, burning along the wound, and very quickly, a palm sized hole appeared on the place where the talisman paper was burned. Old Taoist Qiu was also a person that would go up at a cheap price when he saw this, holding a fireball in his left hand and using his right hand to whisk the dust cloud, he instantly focused his attack on the wound, and in a few moves, caused the hole to grow from the size of a palm to the size of a washbowl.

The tree branch could not hold on any longer and with a series of movements, it tried to throw Old Taoist Qiu to the ground. Old Taoist Qiu was unforgiving, he used his left hand to grab onto the tree branch, his right leg once again exerted force, causing his entire body to fly up another section. His right hand waved the horsetail whisk with great force, like silver, it swept towards the dense leaves on the tree crown. After doing this, Old Taoist Qiu used both of his hands and feet to steadily land on the ground, borrowing the force of the tree trunk to pat his robe as if nothing had happened.

"Impressive, Taoist!" I gave him a thumbs-up. Old Taoist Qiu ignored me. He took a leaf off of his robe and passed it to me. "Fourth Boss, look at this leaf.

I took the leaf and spread it on my palm. The leaf was smaller than an ordinary locust tree. The edge of the leaf was extremely sharp. It looked like a blade! Old Taoist Qiu added on from the side, "This tree just caught me and this leaf is already cutting me. If this was a normal person, they would have died with just a few cuts."

"This is a little interesting." Mao Babao went closer to look at the leaf for a long time, then placed it into his mouth and bit onto it with his teeth. "Pah!

As we were watching, we suddenly heard Hamborg cry out, "Three sirs, be careful, something is coming down!"

Just as the three of them took a step back, a black shadow hit the ground and raised a cloud of dust.

When the dust settled, the four of them went up to take a look. I was shocked, isn't this the Kong Shuangquan that we are looking for?

At the moment, Kong Shuangquan was accurately called a "human being", he did not have a single strand of clothes on him, only a torso that stood erect, the branches of the locust tree were like tentacles that pierced his skin and pierced into his body, the few bundles of branches were like bandages that wrapped around his eyes and mouth, he was extremely skinny, if he did not know beforehand that he had a tattoo, he would not have been able to recognize him.

Hamborg pointed to the wolf head on Kong Shuangquan's chest and said, "Fourth Boss, making a tattoo is still useful."

I rolled my eyes at him. "You think this is going to happen?" Try posting a Weibo post to the internet now? No one will believe you, and you might even have to curse that you are making it up. "

Hamborg let out a long sigh. Other than drilling, there's no signal at all for a live broadcast. "

"You two stop talking. Come take a look at this." Old Taoist Qiu greeted coldly from behind Kong Shuangquan. Unexpectedly, Mao Babao was also by his side, and for once, the two of them saw things the same way. Mao Babao picked up a branch and waved it at me, "Fourth Boss, this is going to be interesting."

I took the branch and felt that it was warm in my hand, unlike the usual cool plants. What seeped out from the branch was not plant juice, but something red that looked like blood. Smelling it close to his nose, he could smell a faint scent of blood.

"This tree is filled with extremely dense yin aura, but logically speaking, it shouldn't grow here. "This is a Feng Shui Treasure Acupoint, this kind of thing is left here ~ ~ ~ this ~ ~" Old Taoist Qiu was not too sure about his next step.

"Ahh, I'll say it to the few of you. Let me first tell you something before my eyes. Is this person dead or alive?" Hamborg asked a serious and critical question.

I squatted down and stared at Kong Shuangquan's chest for a while. I realised that his chest was still moving up and down, but I felt that something was amiss, as though his heart was beating way too vigorously, completely unlike someone who could not differentiate between life and death, could it be that this person was more alive now?

Old Taoist Qiu stood silently at the side. Hamborg scratched his head but did not make a sound, while Mao Babao, who did not care about his fat body, squatted down and carefully flipped through the branches. After a long while, he held a branch in each of his hands and said to me, "Fourth Boss, I know what's going on. This person really can't say whether he is dead or alive."

The branch that Mao Babao's left hand was holding was a little thick, and the color of the broken branch was light pink. The branch that his right hand was holding was a little thin, and the color of the broken branch was bright red.

"What do you mean?" Hamborg stared with his eyes wide, his face at a loss.

"Move left, move right. Do you understand? " Mao Babao waved the branches in his hands separately.

I muttered to myself, "Mr Mao, what you mean is that this tree absorbed the nutrients from the ground, and then transferred them into Kong Shuangquan's body to help him survive. But at the same time, it also mixed the nutrients with human blood, and then cycled it out to nourish something else?"

Mao Babao laughed, "That's right! "In the past, there was a dish that was cooked this way. First, I had to …"

"Shut up! Don't say it! I still want to have a good meal in the future! " Hamborg almost wanted to stick a talisman onto Mao Babao's mouth.

"This Penniless Priest doesn't think so." The Old Taoist Qiu finally spoke, he would not let go of any opportunity to target Mao Babao, "If it's like this, then how many people can support this tree? Even if everyone in the town hung up, it still wouldn't be enough. And the tree, though it was refined, had no intelligence, and could not move. Who had moved it here? What is the purpose of moving a black locust demonic tree to a Feng Shui treasure cave? "

Hamborg waved his fist and sent a bunch of tree branches flying, he turned and said, "Then it's useless. We still have to go to that small dark room. The question is, how do we get up there? "

I swung the flashlight around in a circle. This is a typical pit. The four walls were made of hard earth that couldn't be penetrated by swords. The only gap that fell was five or six meters high, and it was hard for us to reach it without grabbing it or stepping on it. No wonder those people could throw us down so easily. They were scared from the fall, and there was even a locust tree spirit that had nothing to do with us. Normal people really wouldn't be able to get out of this place.

Old Taoist Qiu stared at the Pagoda tree for a long time without uttering a word. Then, he took out his horsetail whisk and shook it, causing the hair on the horsetail whisk's head to stand on end. It was held in his hand like a small spear. Old Taoist Qiu extended his hand and pierced the horsetail whisk into the tree trunk. This time, it went in by half a foot and pierced out with a fist-sized hole. Then, he used the momentum to pull out the horsetail whisk and made another stab. Blood was flowing out of the hole in the tree that he poked out. The faces on the tree ridges were filled with extreme pain, and their noses and mouths were crooked. Looking at them made me feel pain. But the Old Taoist Qiu just kept stabbing and not even a speck of blood was left on his body. It was truly free and easy.

I was dumbfounded. This wasn't something an ordinary person could do. I raised my head to look at Old Taoist Qiu's "climb the tree", but then I accidentally discovered something. I pulled Mao Babao to the tree trunk, pointed at one of the human faces, and asked: "Mr Mao, do you think this face looks familiar?"

Mao Babao and Hamborg came closer, and carefully studied the bark face with closed eyes. Mao Babao pointed at its nose and said, "Does this look like the owner of our inn? Look at the scar on the side of his nose. "

Mao Babao said, and Hamborg suddenly realized, "That's right, that's him! I even said it was a pity about his scar. "But why did he grow this tree?"

"Hehe, this is getting interesting. This is all done, it's all fun. " I scratched my chin. I thought of a possibility, but felt that it was too mysterious, so I didn't say anything for a while. He turned his head and asked Mao Babao: "Mr Mao, how do we go up?"

Mao Babao smiled as he took out a pair of chopsticks and waved it in front of me. "We have this!"

Under Mao Babao's lead, Hamborg and I inserted a pair of chopsticks and began climbing up. With Mao Babao by his side, there was only this one benefit, there was no lack of tableware, and there were even seasonings.

Although the tree was thick, it wasn't very tall. After climbing for ten minutes, they arrived at the top of the tree. The large tree was split in two, forming a small platform. The branches and leaves of the tree had all been handled carefully. After bending around and gathering in the middle, they formed a small platform. Judging from the position, it should be the location of the small dark room.

Looking at the scene from the edge of the platform, it could be said to be a terrifying forest. Every few meters, there would be a corpse that was similar to Kong Shuangquan, strung up on a tree branch. There were roughly a hundred of them, and in the middle of the tree branches, there were even some vague egg-like things. In the middle of the platform was a small depression. In the middle of the depression was a bottomless hole, and on one side of the hole was an empty altar table for unknown purposes.

Hamborg used his light to look at the egg-like things on the branches, and suddenly turned his head and asked me: "Fourth Boss, come take a look, is there a person inside the egg?"