Sister, I don't want to be a furnace anymore. I'm about to become an immortal.

Chapter 18: Mysterious Dryad

Looking at the densely packed giant snakes below, Xiao Yichen felt a little tingling on his scalp.

"Oh my god, if we kill them one by one, it will take a long time." At this time, no less than 50 giant snakes crawled out of the swamp, and some monsters around were scared away by the noise. Xiao Yichen hid on the branches and quietly observed everything below. After all the giant snakes crawled out, he roughly counted them and there were more than 70 of them.

"A head-on confrontation is definitely not going to work. I have to find a way to bypass them or lure them away." Thinking this in his mind, he poured energy into the sword again. When he felt it was about right, he controlled the sword and shot it in another direction, making a lot of noise.

Sure enough, after successfully attracting the attention of the giant snakes below, they all swam towards the direction where the long sword was flying like arrows.

The area became empty in an instant. When there was no trace of the giant snake below, Xiao Yichen quickly used the big tree as a springboard and carefully moved towards the open space at the other end of the swamp.

When he thought everything was going well, he suddenly sensed a dangerous aura behind him. He quickly lowered his head and saw a small, muddy-yellow water column flying over his head and hitting the trunk of the big tree in front of him. A sizzling corrosion sound came from above.

"It's corrosive?" He didn't dare to be careless. He looked behind him and looked around, but did not find any trace of the enemy. He looked at the swamp again and guessed that the other party was probably hiding in it. However, even if he knew that the other party was hiding under the swamp, he didn't dare to rush in. He didn't know the opponent's strength at present, but that corrosive attack could definitely hurt him, and he was unwilling to take the risk.

"I'll let you go. If you come again, don't blame me for being rude." He turned around and continued to move forward slowly. This time he was much more cautious. He turned back from time to time to observe the situation of the swamp behind him. Now he was in the light and the other party was in the dark, so he had to be careful.

Just when he was about to reach the edge of the swamp, the dangerous breath came again and he quickly dodged downwards. This time he saw the other party's appearance clearly. It was actually a snake. However, the size of the snake in front of him was not much different from that of a normal snake. In addition, its body was almost the same color as the surrounding environment. It was really difficult to be discovered in this dim environment.

"No wonder I couldn't find it just now." At this time, the little snake was spitting out its tongue at Xiao Yichen. He was too lazy to play around with it. Since he had already discovered the other party, he would kill it. He gathered two balls of energy in his hands and blasted them towards the little snake's position.

Two violent explosions sounded in the swamp. The snake was also extremely fast and dodged them easily, but the aftermath of the explosion still knocked it to the ground and covered it with mud. Seeing this, Xiao Yichen took out another long sword and controlled it to shoot in that direction. The little snake seemed to sense danger and quickly jumped to the side and disappeared from Xiao Yichen's sight again.

Just when Xiao Yichen thought that the other party had escaped, he didn't know that the little snake had quietly climbed up a big tree near him. After Xiao Yichen relaxed his vigilance, the little snake suddenly rushed towards his neck. Xiao Yichen was caught off guard and was bitten hard.

He grabbed the other's tail and pulled it hard, tearing off a small piece of skin from the neck. He swung the sword in his hand and instantly cut the snake in two, and died.

Feeling that his brain was a little out of control, he didn't care about anything else. He immediately crossed his legs and mobilized the energy in his body to surround the toxins that entered his body. After a few minutes, he opened his eyes again.

"Huh... Fortunately those giant snakes were lured away, otherwise I would have really capsized in the ditch." He exhaled heavily and looked at the small snake on the ground that he had just cut into two parts with a sword. "It's true that the smaller the thing, the more poisonous it is." With a sigh, he stood up again and continued to walk deeper.

There was one thing that puzzled him. Logically, he should have entered the center of the misty swamp, but he had been walking for so long and had not seen a trace of mist.

"Did I find the wrong place? That shouldn't be the case." He took out the map and looked at it again to make sure that the direction was correct.

After looking around, he saw the corpses of various monsters soaked in the swamp everywhere. He looked at his feet carefully and tried to avoid these corpses as much as possible.

We continued to go forward for about one or two kilometers, and the environment seemed to suddenly break. It was no longer a gloomy and terrifying swamp, but more like a paradise.

Without the mud and stench of the swamp outside, there is a soft and green meadow under your feet. The green grass sways gently in the breeze. Colorful wild flowers bloom on the meadow, emitting bursts of fragrance, which makes people feel very relaxed.

In the very center, there is a crystal clear lake, like a huge mirror, calm and peaceful. Next to it, there is a big tree similar to the one outside. Xiao Yichen did not dare to be careless. The quieter the place, the greater the crisis must be hidden.

He came to the most conspicuous lake and threw some things into the lake in the same way as before, but this time no monsters were startled. He checked around again and made sure there was no danger. Then he leaned against the tree, took out the map and looked at it carefully again.

"This shouldn't be the case. This should be the center of the Misty Swamp. How could it be like this?" He scratched his head and looked around. Not only was there no danger, but there was no trace of the Lingshu Fruit that he came here to look for.

"Lingshu Fruit, Lingshu Fruit, where on earth are you? Lingshu Fruit... Lingshu Fruit... tree?" He suddenly jumped up, quickly left the tree he was leaning against, and stared at it with a vigilant look on his face.

After taking a closer look, he returned to the edge of the area and observed the trees in the swamp. He then ran to the big tree next to the lake, touched his chin with his hand, and walked around the tree to observe it.

"It doesn't seem to be any different." Suddenly, he drew out his sword and stabbed it towards the big tree.

"Hey hey hey hey...why don't you have martial ethics, little kid?"

A sound like thunder exploded in Xiao Yichen's ears, and he saw the big tree disappear out of thin air, avoiding the attack. Seeing this, Xiao Yichen quickly retreated and came to a slightly safer place. He saw that the big tree that was originally beside the lake actually appeared in another position at this moment, which shocked him.

"Holy crap??? Is this tree a spirit?"

I saw the big tree in front of me was shaking its trunk constantly, and slowly, a human face appeared on the trunk. It looked so weird. Xiao Yichen swallowed his saliva, tightly grasped the long sword in his hand, and stared at the other party.

"Little baby, don't be nervous, I won't hurt you." The human face growing on the tree trunk suddenly spoke.

Hearing this, Xiao Yichen did not relax his vigilance, but asked seriously: "Who the hell are you?"

"Haha, you are so rude. I am the Lingshu fruit tree you were talking about just now." said the human face on the tree trunk.

Hearing this, Xiao Yichen snorted coldly: "Are you kidding me?"

Seeing that the other party didn't believe it, the tree face actually showed a helpless expression, then shook the trunk vigorously, and a fruit fell from it. The fruit floated in the air and slowly drifted towards Xiao Yichen.

Seeing this, Xiao Yichen took the fruit and examined it carefully. "It really is exactly the same as the Lingshu Fruit described in the records."

He put the Lingshu Fruit into the space ring, slowly put down the sword in his hand, and bowed slightly to the big tree. Since the other party gave him the Lingshu Fruit so generously, he couldn't show hostility anymore.

"Haha, not bad, you are still very polite. So, baby, I have been here for hundreds of years. On weekdays, I can only keep company with those unintelligent guys outside. You stay with me for a while and help me relieve my boredom. How about I give you the fruit just now?" Tree Face said with a smile.

Xiao Yichen looked a little puzzled and said to the tree, "Is it that simple?"

"Haha, this fruit is very precious to you, but to me, it's just so-so. One fruit in exchange for a short period of entertainment, I think it's still worth it." The big tree replied with a smile.

Hearing this, if Xiao Yichen refused again, it would be really inhumane, even though the other party was a tree.

Cautiously walking to the big tree, the man and the tree started chatting about irrelevant things. Xiao Yichen was a little embarrassed at first. After all, he was only good at coaxing pretty girls. Facing an old man who was hundreds of years old, he really couldn't find a topic to talk about. But the other party didn't care at all. In its words, even if Xiao Yichen was sleeping here, it would find it interesting.

Xiao Yichen sighed inwardly: "Isn't this just an empty-nest elderly person?"