Although the little apprentice sister is weak, she can fight

Now Zhu Yu has reached the great perfection of Tengyun Realm, and Su Tingyu seems to be only in the early stage of Tengyun Realm. If a fight really breaks out, she can only find Mu Jiu from Xitian Realm to mediate.

"Then you can't tell Senior Sister about what happened tonight."

Zhu Yu nodded in response, "I know."

Shen Qiao breathed a sigh of relief, but then heard Zhu Yu change the subject.

"But if he opens his mouth again, just ignore him."

Shen Qiao: “…”

That's all well and good, but is there really anything else on your mind besides fighting?

"Young Taoist Priest! Young Taoist Priest!"

Zhang Wan, who had not appeared all the way, suddenly appeared in human form and "floated" over in a hurry. Shen Qiao had just tried to help her break free from the spell, but because of his understanding over the years, he knew that she was not trying to escape, so he ignored her.

"That...over there..."

She quickly hid behind Shen Qiao, her quiet face now full of fear.

Shen Qiao saw her tremblingly pointing her finger in a direction. Looking in that direction, he saw a group of black figures with different postures standing at the edge of the darkness as far as his sight could reach, thanks to the occasional beams of moonlight seeping through the intertwined dead branches above his head. The strange thing was that neither of them actually noticed when they were standing there.

Shen Qiao was stunned for a moment. She had clearly been projecting her spiritual sense outwards. These things were no more than a hundred meters away from the two of them, but her spiritual sense network didn't detect them?

Zhu Yu calmly pushed Shen Qiao behind him, and his originally nonchalant expression became more serious.

The night wind blowing through the woods rustled the dead leaves on the ground, making an unsettling rustling sound. Shen Qiao watched with a tense nerve, and asked Zhang Wan, "When did you notice it?"

"Just...just now..." Zhang Wan said fearfully, but quickly shook her head, "No, that's not right. It should have been moving this way while you were talking."

"I thought...there was something strange around here, so I wanted to help you look around, but they..." Zhang Wan was obviously terrified, her tongue was trembling so much that she couldn't even speak straight.

"Suddenly, I bumped into him... His face was so black! I couldn't even see his features! I didn't dare stay any longer, so I just came back."

This description is so deafening that it makes people's eyes go dark.

Shen Qiao calmed down and slowly closed his eyes.

Zhu Yu couldn't see her spiritual world, but he knew that she was using her spiritual sense to test her, so he just stayed by her side without saying anything or interrupting.

Shen Qiao sensed it, but found that this thing could only be seen with vision, and once he closed his eyes, it would disappear from his perception range.

The divine consciousness cannot capture it?

She remembered Wang You saying that there was only one thing in this world that could not be touched by spiritual consciousness...

"Mirror flowers and water moons." Shen Qiao muttered unconsciously.

Zhu Yu translated her words, "Shadow?"

Shen Qiao nodded.

During the conversation, those dark "people" quickly gathered around.

Zhu Yu drew his sword and pointed it at the one approaching, but saw that the thing just passed through the sword lightly.

With this "person" leading the way, the others behind followed closely. Groups of insubstantial darkness appeared and disappeared like ghosts in the forest where light and shadow intersected in a rhythmic manner. It was a shock just from a visual point of view.

Shen Qiao deliberately raised her hand to stop the "person" who passed by her. The moment of contact, she felt a stinging sensation like being stung by a bee's stinger.

"You..." Zhu Yu frowned, obviously not advising her to do this.

"It's okay, give it a try." Shen Qiao calmly withdrew his hand.

"It was felt, but no real damage was done."

She looked in the direction the shadows were coming from, "I want to go over there and take a look."

These things cannot appear out of thin air, there must be a source.

"it is good."

While the two of them were discussing what to do next, Zhang Wan's attention was always focused on Shen Qiao's action of retracting his hand.

Just now... was there a little gray mist melting into Shen Qiao's skin?

"Wanwan?"

Zhang Wan was called back to her senses and quickly followed, "I'm coming."

Maybe... I saw it wrong?

Walking against the tide of shadows, Shen Qiao deliberately observed these shadows and found that although they were all a pitch-black mass, he could roughly tell their height, weight and appearance from their outlines, and there were even some children's figures among them.

There were so many people that it was impossible to count their number. It took her and Zhu Yu almost a quarter of an hour to get out of the crowd.

The two looked around and found that a group of people had passed by here during the day. There was a piece of dry bark missing from the trunk of one of the trees. It was knocked off by the waiter who passed by and bumped into it.

Because of this, Shen Qiao looked at the tree a few more times, but the more he looked, the more puzzled he became. "What kind of tree is this? Why don't I remember seeing it in any book?"

Zhu Yu, who was patrolling the surroundings, was also a little confused and said, "I don't know him."

Shen Qiao frowned.

Don’t you even know Zhu Yu?

"Someone is watching us." Zhu Yu suddenly added.

"Same as during the day."

Shen Qiao pondered Zhu Yu's reminder, and then thought of what Zhang Qiyan said during the day - it felt like being stared at by countless pairs of eyes.

At that time, everyone felt more or less uncomfortable, so no one paid attention to the wording of Zhang Qiyan's words.

Now that I think about it, maybe there’s something strange about this forest itself.

"division......"

click-

Shen Qiao was about to speak when he saw Zhu Yu had already thrust his sword through a tree trunk. "What?"

She was just thinking about whether she should cut one open and take a look.

But Zhu Yu's move was just right.

Here comes a new clue.

"There's something inside." Zhu Yu pulled back the sword with a dark face, then made a hand gesture and lit a cluster of flames on the tree.

"It's soft."

Shen Qiao: “…”

This horrifying description sounds quite exciting.

She secretly observed Zhu Yu and found that he was checking his sword with a serious expression. Normally, this man treasured his sword the most, but now he probably felt that he could not accept that it had touched something dirty.

The flames burned along the trunk of the tree. Zhu Yu controlled it very well, burning only the outer bark. However, as the bark was burned to ash, a burning stench became noticeable in the air.

The smell of rotting flesh...

The entire scene inside was revealed, and Zhang Wan couldn't help but cover her mouth with both hands, her pupils shrinking suddenly.

Embedded in the tree trunk is the corpse of an adult with cracked skin and a swollen body. Because there are too many cracks on the body, its specific appearance can no longer be distinguished. It just stands upright with its hands folded on its chest, and its whole body exudes an eerie sense of tranquility.

Perhaps because Zhu Yu had just stabbed him, the body of the corpse slowly shrank like a punctured balloon.

The two watched this shocking scene in silence for a long time, until Shen Qiao noticed that a pair of tentacles seemed to be emerging from the center of the corpse's eyebrows.

She was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously asked, "Is this... an insect trap?"