GBP Chapter 316
Chapter 316
Apparently, the ground that looks like rocks is actually covered with living plants.
"Floating light!"
Yu Xi immediately summoned Fu Guang to transform, rolled out of Zhong Xian's arms, rode on Fu Guang's back, turned around and swung out a sword energy, cutting off the vines that were trying to attack them from behind.
More and more vines came, and she controlled the floating light to bite the vines that were ready to move near the rock wall, and climbed around the rock wall to prevent any vines from attacking her.
Su Xianyun was not used to using a sword, so his magic lines spread out in all directions, surrounding him and preventing any fish that could escape from getting close.
Jizhi held a vine and chewed it.
Gu An squatted beside him, staring at Yu Xi and asked curiously, "Second Brother, did you find anything?"
Jizhi scratched his head, swallowed the vine, and said in distress:
"I ate this when I was a kid. It had a very unique flavor, but I can't taste it anymore."
When Zhong Xian saw that Yu Xi was safe, he put away his spirit boat, and the Fenmie sword in his right hand was already coated with a layer of crimson flames.
He landed steadily on the vine. When touched by an outsider, the sharp thorns hidden under the skin suddenly emerged without warning. The several-meter-long thorns could pierce a person in an instant.
However, these sharp spikes could not move forward after touching the bell strings, and did not even leave a scratch on the bell strings.
Zhong Xian didn't even avoid it. His long eyes contained a cold and ghostly look, but there was a smile in his eyes. He was so nonchalant that he seemed to not take the vines that wanted to take his life seriously at all.
Fenmie drew an arc of sword light in his hand, and the sword tip pressed down, piercing straight into the vines on the ground.
After a brief period of calm, mottled and uneven bumps suddenly emerged from under the vines, as if creating ripples on the calm lake surface.
These mottled marks, centered on the sword edge of the bell string, spread to all the vines in sight with an uneasy dull sound, and all the vines were frozen in time at the same moment.
The air trembled, the earth shook, and with a deafening explosion, the vines began to explode one by one from the inside. The evil spirits formed by ghost energy tore the inside of the vines wantonly. The vines that had just covered the entire valley were shattered in an instant, and large amounts of green juice splashed everywhere.
Su Xianyun's face changed slightly, and he quickly used a puppet to cast a barrier around himself and Yu Xi to prevent them from being stained by the juice.
Gu An quickly dragged Ji Zhi behind Yu Xi and used Su Xianyun's barrier to avoid the juice attack.
In the heavy deathly atmosphere, Zhong Xian drew out his sword, shook off the juice on the blade, looked at Yu Xi first, and when he saw that Yu Xi was fine, he swept his eyes over all the withered vines around him and put away his sword.
"Let's go, get out of here first."
He summoned the spirit boat again: "There are still many plants in the mountains and underground. They will emerge soon. This place is not suitable for staying for long."
Everyone nodded and returned to the spirit boat. Before getting on the spirit boat, Su Xianyun carefully collected the juice of the ancient giant vine. He was delayed for a moment and was almost left behind by Zhong Xian again.
While sitting on the spirit boat, Gu An told Ji Zhi about what happened when he chewed the vines:
"Second Brother said he ate this kind of vine when he was a child. This might be where he lived as a child."
When these words were spoken, everyone on the spirit boat was stunned.
Zhong Xian frowned and looked at Ji Zhi without saying a word.
Su Xianyun took out the plant juice he had just collected and said, "This vine can't be eaten. It's poisonous."
"Is it poisonous? I don't know."
Ji Zhi said blankly, but when he heard Su Xianyun mention that it was poisonous, he remembered something: "When I ate it, they were very angry."
Yu Xi held Ji Zhi's hand and asked, "Who is angry?"
"'Father', they told me to call them that." Ji Zhi said honestly, "They are the ones who raised me."
Hearing this, Yu Xi was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said angrily: "'Father' is family, they are not!"
How dare those monks ask Ji Zhi to call them "Father"?!
Ji Zhi was stunned for a moment, then panicked and said hurriedly: "They are not, they are not, sister, don't be angry with me..."
Before he could finish his words, Yu Xi had already hugged his waist tightly.
"I'm sorry, I'm not angry with you, second brother."
Although Jizhi didn't know why his sister suddenly hugged him, he was still very happy to hear that she was not angry. He hugged his sister in his arms and buried his head in her hair.
"Sister, you don't need to apologize!"
These days, his younger sister is always snatched away by Zhong Xian and Su Xianyun, and he can't even hug his younger sister.
Zhong Xian chuckled at this time and said softly:
"Those people were probably angry because they thought Jizhi was going to be poisoned to death, but he wasn't. How dare they ask Jizhi to call them 'Father'?"
Zhong Xian was angry.
Gu An and Su Xianyun both looked at Zhong Xian with some awareness.
Gu An tilted his eyes, and at this time he was very tactful and said nothing, so as not to be annoying. He just sat next to Ji Zhi to accompany Yu Xi.
Su Xianyun looked at Jizhi and said in a somewhat stiff tone: "Jizhi, are you sure that this is the vine you ate?"
Jizhi shook his head.
Gu An explained from the side: "Second Brother said he can't taste it now."
Su Xianyun thought for a moment, then changed the question and asked, "Do the vines you eat also have these thorns?"
This time Jizhi nodded.
Yu Xi also pricked up his ears and looked at Su Xianyun:
"Brother Su, do you have any ideas?"
Su Xianyun nodded, and when he spoke to Xi Shi, he was not so nervous anymore:
"There aren't many thorny vines like this, and even fewer that can grow this large. They can't stay out of the soil for too long, otherwise they'll rot. If the vine Jizhi ate had thorns, it was most likely an ancient giant vine."
Hearing this, Yu Xi immediately had an idea: "If we can find the location where the ancient giant vine can grow, can we determine where my second brother lived as a child?"
Jizhi has been trained as a medicine man since birth. The place where he grew up must be the most confidential place of Xuanxing Sect, and also the place where medicine men are hidden. Maybe clues related to Jizhi's soul can be found there.
Su Xianyun nodded:
"I need to find the roots of the ancient giant vines so that I can find the source of their growth. If the monks want to use the ancient giant vines as a medicinal ingredient for making medicine men, then the source of their growth is most likely where the monks raise... feed the medicine men."
Having said that, Su Xianyun let out a breath and looked at Zhong Xian.
This time he didn't need to speak. Zhong Xian waved his hand first, then leaned against the edge of the spirit boat and said:
"I know, I know. I'll find a safe place to check on you later."
Su Xianyun asked suspiciously, "You won't abandon me again, will you?"
Zhong Xian rolled his eyes and turned away from him.
Yaoling Valley was a hidden gem, with no map showing how to enter. Zhong Xian circled the area but couldn't find the entrance. Instead, he encountered a swarm of bizarre plants, each more ferocious than the last, even stranger than those planted by Su Xianyun.