Mortal bone

"Tick!"

"Tick!"

"Tick!"

After listening to Master Nakasyapa's spiritual thoughts, Xu Taiping began to fall into a coma.He didn't know how long he had been in a coma until he was awakened by the sound of water dripping on the ground.

"This is... where?"

Xu Taiping struggled to get up on his stomach, and found that his body was like a lake, and he could easily stand on the surface of the lake.

"I'm not still dreaming, am I?"

Xu Taiping glanced at the lake, and found that the surroundings were pitch black, with only a little light on the water in front of him.

If you look closely, you can see the tree that exudes a light blue halo. Every leaf of this tree is extremely green. From time to time, water droplets will seep out and fall into the lake along the leaves.

The sound of water droplets that awakened Xu Taiping, no accident, should have come from this tree.

And this tree, the overall silhouette, looks like a hand.

The thick trunk is like an arm, and the main branches are like fingers.

"Why am I dreaming of a tree?"

Xu Taiping became more and more confused.

In fact, he rarely dreams, let alone such a weird scene.

"call!……"

And just as he was trying to get close to the tree to check what was going on, a cold wind suddenly blew up on the originally calm lake.

Xu Taiping wanted to get closer, but was blown back by the cold wind.

Immediately afterwards, he saw a black lotus leaf with a colorful halo growing under the tree at a speed visible to the naked eye.

When Xu Taiping came back to his senses, a flower bud grew out from the bottom of the lotus leaf, and then quickly bloomed, withered, fruited, and withered.

Finally, one by one lotus seeds fell from the withered lotus pods, and fell into the water with a "boom boom".

Because the whole process only took five or six breaths, so Xu Taiping didn't wake up until all those lotus seeds fell into the water:

"Is this... the magic lotus in my body?!"

Just when he was startled, the few lotus seeds that fell into the lake earlier began to take root, sprout and grow lotus leaves, lotus flowers, and lotus seeds, and finally more lotus seeds fell into the lake.

In just a moment, the entire surface of the lake was covered by the black lotus emitting seven-color fluorescent light.

Seeing this scene, Xu Taiping felt an inexplicable fear in his heart, and at the same time, a strong thought surged in his heart - "This black lotus cannot be allowed to grow any longer!"

Whether it's a dream or not.

Thinking of this, he rushed out desperately, trying to uproot the lotus in the lake.

"Crash!..."

But at this moment, the branches and leaves of the palm-shaped tree suddenly shook vigorously, and immediately pieces of green leaves flew down from the branches, and finally gathered under the tree to form a figure.

The figure clearly looked like a boy of twelve or thirteen years old, but he had a face more beautiful than many women, and his skin was even more white as jade.

"Who are you?"

Xu Taiping couldn't help asking out loud.

But the boy just gave him a faint smile, and then stretched out a hand towards the black face covering the entire lake.

"boom!"

The moment the boy stretched out his hand, the lotus leaves that were swaying in the wind suddenly turned into angry faces. They roared and rushed at the boy, as if they wanted to tear him to pieces.

But the faces transformed by the lotus leaves suddenly turned into balls of ashes the moment they approached the young man.

All of a sudden, the remaining lotus plants all sank into the water.

Seeing this, the young man showed an alluring smile, and then stretched out his hand to grab the surface of the lake.

In an instant, several black lotuses flew out from the bottom of the lake and flew to the young man automatically.

The young man raised his hand to hold up all the hundreds of red lotuses, and then gave a firm grip.

Just hearing a "boom", hundreds of black lotuses finally turned into a black lotus seed with the color of black amber in the boy's palm.

The boy picked up the black lotus seeds, shook them playfully at Xu Taiping, and then threw them into his mouth.

"Eh!"

"Gulong..."

Seeing that he was going to eat the black lotus, Xu Taiping just wanted to stop him, but he was still a step too late.

And after the young man ate the black lotus, his figure turned into leaves and flew back to the palm-shaped tree.

"Wait, is this boy transformed by that strange hand?"

Reminiscent of the boy's method of annihilating those black lotuses into ashes just now, combined with the shape of the big tree in front of him, Xu Taiping suddenly had a very bold guess in his mind.

At this time, a strong wind blew up on the lake again.

Only this time, the strong wind was extremely gentle, making people feel at ease inexplicably.

At the same time, Xu Taiping saw a black lotus growing at the foot of the big tree.

The slender lotus stems kept growing upwards, wrapping around the trunk and branches of the big tree.Finally, a black lotus bloomed on the top of the tree's branches and leaves, and a lotus platform appeared at the bottom of the tree.

"The big tree and the magic lotus transformed by the strange hand... merged into one?"

Xu Taiping only felt his scalp go numb.

"Why isn't Taiping awake yet?"

"Yeah, it's been a long time!"

"Peace!"

Before he could think carefully, one after another suddenly came to his ears.

"Is this Sister Lingyue, Bai Yu and Ping An?"

He immediately recognized who was calling him.

"I'm here!"

Xu Taiping responded instinctively, and struggled to follow the prestige, trying to find where the three of them were.

But at this moment when he turned his head, his vision suddenly brightened, and a strange bed top appeared in his vision.

He rolled his eyes and turned his head to look around.

I saw that this was a very old house, both the bed under him and the furnishings in the room were very old.

In addition, he also saw a familiar figure—Second Senior Brother Qing Xiao.

At this time, the second senior brother was sitting cross-legged on the ground with his back on the ground, concentrating on guarding a pill furnace.

"Isn't this also a dream?"

Xu Taiping thought for a while, and finally tried to call out:

"Second Senior Brother?"

Hearing Xu Taiping's voice, Dugu Qingxiao, who was sitting cross-legged in front of the alchemy stove, suddenly trembled.

Following him, he turned his head to look at Xu Taiping in disbelief.

After a long time, he trembled and said:

"Taiping, you... are you awake?!"

Seeing the bloodshot pupils of the second senior brother, and the excitement and surprise on his face, Xu Taiping was finally sure that he was not in a dream.

"Brother, how long have I been in a coma?"

Seeing Dugu Qingxiao being so surprised, Xu Taiping guessed that he must have been in a coma for a long time this time.