Konoha's Peerless Peerless

Chapter 161 The Forest of the Divine Tree
After Lan and his party left the palace, they walked straight towards the sacred tree.

After walking out of the ancestral capital, everyone came to the forest, which was still some distance away from the sacred tree. Although it was still far away, standing in the forest, Lan could sense the astonishing energy in the divine tree.

The forest is full of vegetation, and there are wild fruits such as berries everywhere on the roadside. The berries here are twice as big as those in other areas. Seeing the berries full of vitality, Lan walked over to pick one.

Holding the incomparably bright berry in his hand, Lan lowered his head and smelled its aroma, and said, "The vitality of the plants in this forest is far higher than that in other places, and it should be caused by the sacred tree."

Hearing this, Maitreya looked around, looked at the quiet forest and said: "There is no other life here except plants, and do you feel that since we entered this forest, there has been a faint power affects us."

She closed her eyes, stretched out her right hand to hold it empty, and carried a trace of spark-like spiritual energy in her hand. As soon as the spiritual energy appeared, it was blown away by a sudden wind.

Lan frowned and looked at Maitreya, and said, "Maybe it's because I have more energy in my body. I don't feel these things. I only feel them when I enter within a thousand meters of the crown of the sacred tree."

"I don't know, but it's better for us to be careful, after all, no one knows whether the sacred tree has wisdom or not." Maitreya said cautiously.

"Why don't you just let me clean up those dead souls, you stay here and wait for me, it's safer, after all, where have I been." Lan asked.

"No, I want to get as close to the sacred tree as possible. I want to study what kind of power it is. There are not many opportunities like this, so I can't miss it." Maitreya shook his head.

"Yes, there are not many opportunities like this. It is our honor to be able to get close to the sacred tree that gave birth to Chakra. If we can research something from the sacred tree, maybe our onmyoji can be revived." Abe Yishan explain.

Hearing what the two said, Lan didn't intend to continue talking, turned around and looked at the sacred tree covering the sky in the distance, then got up and walked towards it.

The three of them were moving very fast. Although the pressure became heavier as they went forward, this depression was nothing to the three of them who possessed spiritual energy. It didn't take long for the three of them to come to the corpses of those citizens of the ancestral country. .

Looking at the corpse lying on the ground with its back facing the sky in the distance, the three of them became vigilant at the same time. There are too many corpses here. There are at least a thousand of them. These thousands of people are lying very densely. There is no one around them. Blood, and there is no corpse smell in the air, but a faint fragrance.

No one knows what happened to Qingxiang, maybe Kaguya Otsuki knew, but don't worry, she wouldn't tell Lan about it.

Lan wrinkled his nose and glanced at the corpse lying on the ground with his back to the sky, walked forward a few steps and summoned his spiritual hand with spiritual energy to pull the nearest corpse over.

As soon as he pulled the corpse to his side, a strong corpse smell emanated from the corpse.

After smelling the stench, Lan couldn't help but block his nose with spiritual energy, suppressed the discomfort and squatted down, summoned his spiritual hands to turn the corpse over.

After the corpse was turned over, Lan's eyebrows frowned. The corpse was already pale and pale.

While Lan was looking at it, Abe Yishan came over, squatted beside the corpse, took out a silver knife and cut the corpse.

Putting away the silver knife, Abe Yishan picked up the bloodless flesh and frowned, "Do you know when he died?"

"I heard from the residents of the country of the motherland that these people have been dead for more than half a year. What's the matter? Is there a problem?" Lan asked.

"It's weird, this guy's blood is gone. It stands to reason that the body should have been corroded in half a year. Look at him, except for his pale skin, there is no other change at all. This is very abnormal." Abe Yishan said. Take out a scroll.

Just when he was about to seal the corpse away, the corpse began to melt at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The corpse was melting, and the cloudy corpse fluid and corpse oil flowed to the foot of Arashi and Abe Yishan.

Seeing the corpse melting, the two hurriedly got up and retreated to the side. As soon as they retreated to Maitreya's side, the corpse melted away.

The only thing that melted was the corpse that Lan pulled over, and those corpses that were thirty meters away in front of Lan hadn't changed much.

The air was full of rancid smell. Lan frowned and looked at the corpse fluid seeping into the ground, and then asked Maitreya, "Is there any record of these things in ancient books?"

"No, ancient books have been tampered with by many people. Some people don't want certain things to be passed down. I only know that the sacred tree can kill people who get close to it. I don't know anything else." Maitreya shook his head helplessly.

"You guys stay here, I'll go inside and have a look." Lan could still bear the pressure here, and he wanted to see if the Divine Tree would attack him.

After all, Lan was about to get up, and just as he was about to go forward, Maitreya grabbed him and shook his head, "Stop, don't go inside, this place is very dangerous, if something happens, no one can save you .”

Lan turned around and shook his head at Maitreya, and said, "I have a sense of propriety, this is not my limit distance, here is about 1000 meters away from the sacred tree, I can approach the place within [-] meters covered by the tree canopy, I think Let's see if I will be attacked standing over the corpse."

"But this is very dangerous, what should we do if something happens." Maitreya frowned.

"Don't worry, nothing will happen. The power of the sacred tree is enveloped in a circle. As long as I don't enter the range of the tree crown, nothing will happen." Lan shook his head and said.

"In this case, be careful, Abe Yishan and I are waiting for you here, if anything goes wrong, remember to come back quickly." Maitreya instructed.

"I see."

Lan nodded, and then walked towards the corpse along the main road. As Lan approached a little bit, a trace of pressure gradually rose, and when he walked beside the corpse, the pressure only increased a little. There were no unexpected attacks.

After feeling the same as when he was close to the sacred tree before, Lan felt relieved. He turned around and waved to the worried Mitreya and Abe Yishan, and then squatted down to check the corpses on the ground.

The corpse didn't have any smell. Lan reached out his hand to turn him over, but he stretched out his hand hard, but the corpse didn't move at all.

Seeing that the corpse seemed to be embedded in the soil, Lan mobilized the dragon veins to use spiritual energy, just when he summoned the light blue spirit hand to forcibly pull the corpse, a huge force turned into a strong wind and pulled Lan from the corpse. Pushed to Maitreya.

Lan half-kneeled on the ground, raised her head and stared vigilantly ahead.

"Leave... This is not where you should come, leave..."

A hollow voice came from all directions.

Abe Yishan, who was listening to the source of the sound, frowned at Lan after the sound stopped and said, "This sound comes from various places, and I can't deduce its source."

"There's no need to infer its source, it's the voice of the sacred tree." Lan stood up and looked up at the towering sacred tree.

"Is the sacred tree conscious?" Maitreya asked.

"I don't know." Lan shook his head, narrowed his eyes and said, "It's the first time I've heard the voice of the sacred tree just like you. When I broke in before, there was no sound, only a faint There is no repulsive force, the closer I get to the sacred tree, the more viscous the space in front of me will feel."

"It becomes sticky." Maitreya frowned and muttered to herself, then she looked at Lan and asked, "Haven't you been attacked once?"

"No." Lan shook his head, recalled for a while, and then said with certainty: "I'm sure, I haven't been attacked in any way, all I feel is repulsion."

"Repulsive force? Why is it that we are under a kind of pressure, but you are repulsive force? Is it because of your blood?" Abe Yishan asked with a frown.

Lan spread out his palms and glanced, then shook his head and said, "I don't know, maybe it should be."

"Hmm..." Maitreya and Abe Yishan fell silent for a moment, then they looked at the corpses lying on the road in the distance and said, "Since we can sense pressure, these ordinary people should be able to sense it too." , it stands to reason that they would choose to flee when they sensed danger, but why did they choose to continue walking forward? Could it be that there is an illusion affecting them."

"Illusion?" Lan frowned. Now he can't use Chakra, and he doesn't need to understand the seal, and the things contained in Yin Yang Art can't solve the illusion produced by Chakra. He is not sure whether he is in Among the illusion.

Seeing Lan frowning, Maitreya shook his head and asked, "Are there any survivors among those who came to celebrate?"

"Survivors?" Lan rolled his eyes, shook his head and said, "I don't know, I haven't had time to inquire about these things, why don't we clean up the dead souls here first, and then go back and ask."

"That's fine, let's do this first, Lord Yishan, I'll leave these dead souls to you," Maitreya said.

"Leave it to me." Abe Yishan said, and then took out a black hook jade, put the hook jade on the ground, and raised his hand to pinch a few spells.

"Urgent as the law · Onmyoji · soul-stirring!"

Abe Yishan roared, opened his eyes wide and stretched out his right hand, ready to grab the soul from the corpse.

He covered the corpses with aura, but he didn't even find a soul. Not only did he not find a soul, but he didn't even find the breath of a soul. These corpses were like mud, nothing.

Unable to sense the soul, Abe Yishan opened his eyes wide and put away his aura and shouted in shock: "How is this possible? How come these corpses are like dirt, and they don't even have the breath of a soul. This is impossible."

"What? There is no breath of soul on the corpse?" Maitreya and Lan couldn't believe it, and they used their spiritual energy to explore it.

It turned out that they felt the same as Abe Yishan. In their perception, these corpses were the same as dirt.

(End of this chapter)