The food on the round table was quickly emptied, and the allure of the food faded. Meanwhile, the peach blossoms on the peach tree turned blood red.
The people who had been lying on the round table, seeing that there was no food left, had their eyes gleaming with hunger and kept shouting that they were starving.
"Dear guests, you have finished enjoying your first meal. Please continue to enjoy your meal!" The mechanical female voice sounded again, this time with undisguised joy.
Gu Ye immediately sensed something was wrong and shouted to the people around him:
"run!"
He led the way towards the only two doors in the hall, with the others following closely behind.
The others who weren't eating at the round table also sensed something was wrong and rushed towards the door.
As they turned around, the peach tree in the center began to tremble, and peach blossoms fell in a soft, steady stream.
The people at the round table, as if they had seen some unparalleled delicacy, rushed to the foot of the peach tree like madmen, grabbing peach blossoms and stuffing them into their mouths.
As the peach blossoms gradually faded, the figures of the people who had been lying under the peach trees also changed drastically.
Their skin turned into peach bark, which looked very dry and rough. Even their eyeballs turned into wooden beads, as if they were embedded in their heads. They all became tree people.
The peach tree, which originally had no face, suddenly had all the masks on everyone's faces fly towards it. Even the disguises made by Gu Ye and the others were completely rendered useless. The masks also merged into the tree stump, and facial features appeared on the stump. It opened its mouth wide, let out a long howl, and issued commands.
All the tree-people under the tree looked at Gu Ye and his group, who had rushed far away.
"Stab~~~"
As soon as the peach tree's voice rang out, all the tree people rushed towards them at an extremely fast speed.
"What do we do?!"
As Chu Ling heard the increasingly dense footsteps behind her, a look of anxiety appeared on her face.
Gu Ye tried to use the cards, but after some attempts, the cards remained unresponsive in the spiritual space.
Behind them, the other card masters also looked bewildered and nervous.
As card masters, cards are their livelihood; without cards, they are just ordinary people with slightly stronger bodies.
Among the crowd, one person remained remarkably calm, seemingly oblivious to the danger around him. He looked around curiously, as if he were a tourist.
However, when he glanced at Gu Ye, his expression changed drastically. A hint of fear flashed in his eyes, mixed with a trace of excitement and greed.
"This card domain is truly peculiar!" Xu Yuanmo couldn't help but exclaim inwardly.
"Of the future emperors, four sovereigns, and ten supreme beings, five will rise from here."
"What a blessed place! No wonder it was jokingly called the 'nightmare of fake trials' by later generations."
Xu Yuanmo hung leisurely in the middle, his eyes always on Gu Ye.
Perhaps it was his intense gaze that made Gu Ye, who was running ahead of him, feel his stare and frown as he turned around to look at him.
Xu Yuanmo quickly looked away, adopting a tense and downcast expression.
Unable to discern anything, Gu Ye turned his head away, suppressing his doubts.
Xu Yuanmo's lips curled into a smile, inwardly bursting with laughter:
"Great Emperor of the Burial Domain, I have endured all hardships to return, all for the sake of you."
"Let's start with this card domain!"
Just as the treants were about to catch up, a light, melodious flute tune came from the end of the corridor.
Upon hearing the flute, the tree-man seemed to have encountered a natural enemy, and fearfully dared not continue the pursuit, slowing down its speed.
Upon seeing this, everyone's faces lit up with surprise and delight.
"quick!"
Soon the tree people were left behind by the others, and they arrived at the end of the corridor, where an ordinary little door came into view.
The small door's decoration clashes with the corridor's opulent splendor, making it easily overlooked.
Everyone stopped at the doorway, but no one dared to push the small door open; no one wanted to be the first to do it.
"Get out of the way! What are you doing here, afraid of dying? Let your Grandpa Luo see if a door can kill me!"
Now that the tree people were no longer pursuing him, Gu Ye had time to carefully observe the people who were still alive.
The person who spoke just now was a middle-aged, burly man with a scar on his face. His suit was nowhere to be seen, and he was only wearing a shirt.
Several buttons on his shirt were undone, revealing the gold necklace around his neck.
There were two men who looked very similar, standing close together, clearly working together.
An elderly man with gray hair and a boy wearing glasses, their ages should be similar to Gu Ye and the others.
The two people standing closest to the small door were Xu Yuanmo, who had just arrived, and an ordinary-looking woman.
All eyes turned to the burly man who was walking toward the side door. He swaggered to the door and casually pushed it open.
But the small door wouldn't budge under his grasp. The burly man was visibly taken aback, then flew into a rage, roaring at the top of his lungs, "A mere broken wooden door dares to block your Grandpa Luo's path!"
Before he finished speaking, he mustered all his strength and exerted force again, but the small door remained as steady as a rock, without even the slightest tremor.
Just then, a bespectacled boy timidly pointed to the handle on the small door:
"This...this door...it seems to be pulled open, not pushed open."
Upon hearing this, Chu Ling burst out laughing.
The burly man's face instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot. He glared fiercely at Chu Ling, who was laughing so hard she was doubled over, but when he caught a glimpse of the cold expressions on Gu Ye and the others beside Chu Ling's face, he could only swallow his anger.
He sheepishly withdrew his hand, scratched the back of his head, and forced a sheepish smile: "Thanks for the reminder, young man."
Despite his best efforts to conceal it, Gu Ye still caught a fleeting glimpse of murderous intent and resentment in his eyes.
Gu Ye immediately felt a sense of unease and became secretly on guard.
Seeing that everyone was still staring at him, the burly man turned around, grabbed the handle, took a deep breath, and pulled the door open with force.
This time, he felt little resistance as he opened the door, while the people behind him stared nervously at the slowly opening door.
If there is any danger, they will definitely run away immediately.
As the door opened, the flute music resumed, revealing a scene of birdsong and fragrant flowers, with a refreshing, slightly damp forest breeze wafting in.
The room stretched as far as the eye could see, with only countless large trees standing within it, and soft sunlight filtering through the leaves from somewhere.
On a swing hanging from a crooked tree, a woman in green with her eyes closed is playing a flute, while various birds perch on the tree.
Strangely, all the birds were deformed, as if they had been contaminated by something.
Some of the birds looked like they had been through a great battle; their deformed bodies were still bleeding. But strangely, they were still dancing to the sound of the green-clad woman's flute.
They thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful flute music, seemingly oblivious to the pain in their bodies.
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