Evil Master and Disciple

Facts have proven that Sanzhier is much more capable than the Buddhist Jade Cicada in finding spirits and treasures.

In front of the mysterious diffusion array, the overflowing spiritual power of the earth veins was decomposed into hundreds of thousands of tiny spiritual auras, causing Yu Chan to get lost when she arrived here.

But in front of Sanzhier, everything seemed to be no problem.

At this moment, Sanzhier seemed to have turned into a drug-sniffing dog, sniffing constantly while climbing up the huge tree trunk according to the mysterious smell that no one could feel.

This giant tree is really huge. The trunk near the ground is more than ten feet thick. It would probably take hundreds of people to hug it.

At this moment, it is dozens of feet above the ground, and the main trunk is still four or five feet thick.

A group of people flew on swords, staring at Sanzhier who was climbing up.

Suddenly, Sanzhier stopped on a branch where horses could run.

It seemed to have discovered something and kept sniffing.

Then he stood up straight and pointed his little paws at the tree trunk.

At this moment, the two jade cicadas also sensed something and turned into two faint golden lights, flying to the tree trunk that Sanzhier pointed to, making a rather harsh sound when vibrating their wings.

Shen Tianqi's veil fluttered, his eyes gleaming brightly as he said, "This is it!"

Upon hearing this, everyone landed on the nearby branches, opened their spiritual consciousness and telekinesis, and held their swords in alert.

Ye Feng carried Zi Dian Qing Shuang and flew to San Zhier, landing on a broad branch.

Then he reached out, picked up Sanzhier and put him on his shoulders.

"Sanzhi'er, you've got some skills! When this is over, I'll get you a hundred roast chickens. I guarantee you'll stuff yourself to death!"

Sanzhier grinned and squeaked, as if he couldn't wait to be stuffed to death by the roast chicken.

Ye Feng squinted his eyes and looked at the tree trunk where the two jade cicadas were circling continuously.

He frowned slightly and said, "From the outside, the bark of the trees around here looks the same. Logically, shouldn't there be a tree hole here that people can enter and exit?"

Shen Tianqi slowly stretched out his hand and pressed against the tree trunk.

Ye Feng and Yun Shuang'er immediately said, "Be careful..."

Shen Tianqi turned around and said, "It's okay."

As she spoke, she placed her palm on the thick tree trunk covered with vines, and a faint golden Buddha light emanated from her palm.

The next moment, everyone saw a dark green light appearing on the rough tree trunk.

Shen Tianqi decisively retracted her hand and took several steps back. After she saw the dark green light gradually dissipate, she breathed a sigh of relief and turned back to say to everyone, "It's a barrier."

When everyone heard this, they all showed surprise.

After so much hard work, I finally found the right place!

Ye Feng asked: "Boundary? Can it be opened?"

Shen Tianqi slowly shook his head and said, "The person who set up this barrier is very powerful. I don't know if I can break it."

Ye Feng frowned and said, "If all of us work together, can we forcefully break this barrier formation?"

Shen Tianqi said, "I don't know. Now we need to find out how big this barrier is and what kind of barrier formation it is."

Li Muzi waved his hand, and the disciples began to carefully explore the nearby tree trunks.

Suddenly a disciple said, "We have discovered something here."

Ye Feng, Yun Shuang'er and others flew over following the sound and saw a purple mark on the tree trunk under the disciple's feet.

Ye Feng took a closer look and said, "Is it the purple blood of the Earth Spirit Beast? I was wondering why there are no traces of the Earth Spirit Beast on the ground. It turns out it flew down from this big tree."

The place where the corpse of the earth spirit beast was found was about six or seven miles south of this big tree.

Ye Feng had seen the Earth Spirit Beast fighting with the Tongbi Spirit Ape. This guy had bat-like arms and a long tail.

Maybe the earth spirit beasts can't fly, but they can definitely glide.

Jumping from such a height, gliding for six or seven miles is simply not worth mentioning.

In fact, Ye Feng could have discovered earlier that the earth spirit beast did not come from the surrounding mountains, but from some very high place.

But he overlooked many details.

Not only did he ignore Sanzhier's name, he also ignored the area around the Earth Spirit Beast's corpse. There was no trace of any Earth Spirit Beast activity or passing by.

This made everyone waste most of the day before finding this place.

The purple blood of the Earth Spirit Beast was found here, which confirms that the Earth Spirit Beast had appeared on this big tree.

At the same time, one thing was also made clear: the earth spirit beast was injured when it came out of the big tree.

Soon everyone figured out the scale of this magic circle.

There is not one magic circle barrier, but three.

What was just activated by Shen Tianqi's palm power was the protective formation.

It is similar to the protective barrier that monks put around their bodies when fighting, which can resist to a certain extent.

There is also an illusion array behind the control array. As the name suggests, the function of this illusion array is to confuse others and hide the original tree hole.

The last one is the expansion array, which is a spiritual power diffusion array that turns the spiritual energy overflowing from the ground into strands and spreads out.

Through everyone's exploration, they soon discovered that this expansion array was the most mysterious and had the largest area.

The other party actually used the entire tree to extend the formation to every branch above.

The spiritual power of the earth veins emanated through the dense branches and leaves on countless tree trunks.

That's why those strands of spiritual power are distributed so evenly within a radius of dozens of miles, avoiding Yu Chan's perception.

Unfortunately, the cicada is only one foot tall, but the badger is ten feet tall.

Yuchan was bewildered, but the little green-haired badger was not.

Sanzhier knew from the beginning that the ground connection point here was the big tree.

Without the constant nourishment from the underground spiritual veins, this Cloud-piercing Cypress would never have been able to grow so tall.

After all, there are quite a few cloud-piercing cypresses within a radius of dozens of miles, but only this one grows so tall.

The sun has set and the moon is beginning to rise.

Dozens of strange lights appeared in the western night sky.

The disciples on guard outside immediately sounded the alarm.

It was a false alarm, the visitors were Fu Jinghong and Tu Qianchi.

The fight in the square has ended, and the two men came here again with a dozen people.

Soon, Fu Jinghong and others were led by the disciples to the giant tree where Ye Feng and others were.

As soon as they met, Fu Jinghong said, "I heard that you have found the connection point of the earth vein here?"

Li Muzi nodded slowly and said, "Well, this time it was thanks to Junior Brother Ye's pet. Otherwise, it would have been difficult to find that the connection point was on the trunk of this big tree dozens of feet above the ground."

Fu Jinghong glanced at Ye Feng.

Ye Feng said with a smile: "Old Master, you paid for the 100 roast chickens, but they are not for me, they are a reward for Sanzhier."

"Old Ye, what's wrong with your eyes?"

"Uh, don't worry about these details..." Ye Feng immediately covered Wu Qing's right eye, looking a little embarrassed.

Fu Jinghong looked at the girls around him who couldn't help laughing and guessed what was going on.

Now is not the time to sit there and watch the show. I was just about to ask what was going on here.

A red light streaked across the night sky, flying from the west, like a meteor falling to the earth.

There were constant warning sounds from outside.

The alert disciples in the air went up to stop them.

The flames swooped down directly.

Everyone immediately dispersed, ready to capture him in one fell swoop.

When the red light flew above the big tree, it turned into Hong Jiu in white clothes.

Ye Feng was startled and shouted, "Hong Jiu? Why is it you? Does what happened here have anything to do with you?"

Hong Jiu said: "Quickly remove the outer sentries and leave that big tree. I will give you an explanation."

Fu Jinghong narrowed his eyes and said, "Muzi, do as Hong Jiu said. Retreat!"

Everyone hesitated for a moment, but finally quickly evacuated from the tree.

Hong Jiu did not leave, but took his men to the place where the corpse of the earth spirit beast was found before.

Hong Jiu used his palm power to clear a large open space, and then chopped a nearby broken tree into small pieces.

A bonfire was lit in the open space.

Fu Jinghong and others looked at each other, wondering what Hong Jiu was up to.

After the flames started burning, Hong Jiu looked up at the sky, then looked towards Xingluo Peak in the west.

Ye Feng is in a complicated mood now.

He felt that Hong Jiu's appearance here must be related to what happened here.

I've always treated him as a friend.

I didn't expect that this guy, who looks so gentle, would do such a heinous thing as using a girl's body as a furnace.

The flames of the bonfire were so big that they could be seen from a long distance.

At this moment, except for the three disciples who were lying in ambush far away, all the others were gathered here.

Seeing Hong Jiu stopped moving, Ye Feng asked, "Hong Jiu, why did you build such a big bonfire? Are you involved in this matter?"

Hong Jiu said slowly: "I am trying to prevent you from alerting the enemy. Every night, someone comes here to absorb the spiritual energy of the earth veins. If you gather on the big tree, they will definitely notice that the secret of the tree has been exposed.

The purpose of lighting the bonfire was to let the group of people know in advance that there were many people in the valley, so that they would not dare to get close.

I've been secretly watching this Cloud-piercing Cypress for half a year now. It's protected by a mysterious barrier that creates a world within the tree, cut off from the outside world. I'm certain the people inside don't know you've discovered the tree's secret yet, so we can't alert them now."