"All beastmen who enter the Eternal Silence Abyss need to be baptized in the Holy River. By then, the beastmen warriors will not have much energy to keep an eye on us."
The feathered girl who was previously identified as having a secondary bloodline walked beside Chi Ruanfan and spoke to him in a low voice.
Chi Ruanfan was looking forward to meeting Jinzhu in Yongji Abyss when he suddenly heard these words.
He was stunned for a moment, and after confirming that the other party was talking to him, he asked:
"what you up to?"
"Of course I'll run away!" The bird girl asked back, "Do you want to be sent to the Eternal Silence Abyss as a sacrifice?"
When this was mentioned, Chi Ruanfan also remembered it.
These exiles are actually sacrifices to the Lord of the Abyss.
When he first experienced this copy world, he certainly didn't want to become a sacrifice, nor did he want to get close to the strange and terrifying abyss.
But now, he knew that the Lord of the Abyss believed by the Beastmen was Jinzhu, so he was naturally happy to take a trip to the Eternal Silence Abyss.
Chi Ruanfan had just begun to formally understand Jinzhu's feelings for him, and he couldn't bear to see Jinzhu being misunderstood, so he reluctantly advised:
"The beast warriors are not as easy to deal with as you think, and the Eternal Silence Abyss is not as scary as you think. Don't do anything stupid."
The bird girl obviously didn't believe Chi Ruanfan's words. She looked at him with an unreasonable expression and said:
"Do you really want to become a sacrifice to the Lord of the Abyss and be eaten by Him?"
Chi Ruanfan recalled Jinzhu's true form, and then thought about his own racial bloodline given by the world's rules, and laughed:
"I'm afraid he can't eat me."
Among bamboos and iron-eating beasts, it is the bamboo that should be worried about being eaten.
The bird girl didn't know where Chi Ruanfan got his confidence from, so she gave up trying to persuade him.
She looked around. The beast warriors escorting them were walking in front of the team, seemingly unaware of their conversation. The other boys and girls of the secondary bloodline were hanging their heads, looking completely resigned to their fate.
She went to Chi Ruanfan because he was the only beastman among the sacrifices with light in his eyes, but she didn't expect him to be so abnormal.
Passing through the dense and somewhat depressing forest, a river appeared in front of everyone.
The river was not deep, barely reaching halfway up one's waist, and the water was so clear that one could see the sand, rocks and water plants on the bottom of the water.
"Hurry up and get into the water to clean yourselves. Don't bring any dirt into the Lord's territory."
The orc warrior pushed several exiles into the water and urged the exiles behind him in a rough voice.
Chi Ruanfan followed the crowd to the river bank, hesitating and not going into the water.
There are patches of bamboo growing along the river.
Chi Ruanfan's mental strength was extremely strong, so he could sense his watching gazes vaguely from the bamboos.
If he went into the water at this time, wouldn't it be equivalent to taking a bath in front of Jinzhu
"What are you still standing there for? Get off the bed."
A beastman warrior found Chi Ruanfan standing by the river, so he strode forward and raised his hand to push him into the river.
However, when he was about to touch Chi Ruanfan, he suddenly stumbled and fell heavily to the ground.
Chi Ruanfan looked back and saw the culprit who tripped the orc warrior.
It was a piece of bamboo whip, which seemed to have just emerged from the ground, with moist soil still on its surface.
An image inexplicably emerged in Chi Ruanfan's mind.
Jinzhu quietly stretched out his foot and tripped him.
This is not Jinzhu's usual style.
Jinzhu would not hide herself and do things quietly, and she would not do things so lightly.
From this, it can be inferred that tripping the beastman was the self-behavior of a bamboo with Jinzhu consciousness, rather than the instruction of the Jinzhu's original consciousness.
Thinking of this, Chi Ruanfan became a little worried.
He has been in this world for more than an hour, but Jinzhu has not appeared yet. Could it be that he has encountered some difficult trouble
Seeing the beastman warrior standing up cursing, Chi Ruanfan walked into the river.
These bamboos are just ordinary spiritual bamboos with some Jinzhu consciousness, and are no match for the beast warriors.
There was no need to let them fight against the orc warriors because of him in this situation.
The beastman warrior glared at Chi Ruanfan in the water, then turned and walked to the other side.
Chi Ruanfan still felt a little uncomfortable taking a bath surrounded by so many bamboos.
He did not take off the animal skin clothes that appeared on his body after entering this world, and only soaked half of his body in the water.
Something touched his hand under the water.
It's a piece of bamboo whip.
No one knows how these bamboos took root, but their roots are all over the riverbed.
The bamboo whip lightly touched Chi Ruanfan's hand, with a hint of soothing meaning.
Chi Ruanfan used his body to cover himself, bent his fingers, and scratched the bamboo whip, as if he was scratching the feet of a little bird, with a hint of teasing and intimacy.
The bamboo whip seemed to be startled by his actions and "whoosh" went back under the river sand.
Without paying attention to the little silence, the two beast warriors on the shore had already separated.
Two of them went into the dense forest to hunt and collect firewood, leaving only one beastman to guard the sacrifices in the river.
Most of the feathered bird clan were small in stature. The feathered bird girl who had spoken to Chi Ruanfan earlier, used the bodies of other exiles as cover, and quietly shrank to the back of the group.
She slowly backed away while nervously watching the beastman warrior on the shore who was breaking branches with his back to them.
As she gradually separated from the group, she recalled her previous conversation with the iron-eating beast.
Then he knew part of her plan. If he betrayed her...
The feathered girl looked at Chi Ruanfan hesitantly.
The opponent's position was closest to the river bank and also closest to the beastman warriors, and he really seemed to have never thought of escaping.
Just as she was thinking about it, the fellow with the blood of the iron-eating beast seemed to have opened his eyes behind his head and turned to look at her.
There was no emotion in those eyes, as if they were noticing something passing in front of them, and they glanced at it subconsciously, then looked away without any concern.
How perceptive.
The girl almost broke out in a cold sweat.
She thought she was very stealthy, and even the beast warriors didn't notice her gaze, but this time they noticed it immediately.
Suddenly, she thought of what Chi Ruanfan had said before.
—The orc warriors are not as easy to deal with as you think, and the Eternal Silence Abyss is not as scary as you think.
Could what he said be true
The bird girl glanced toward the shore and was surprised to find that the beast warrior had already stripped off all the forks of the branch, leaving only a long stick with an extremely sharp tip in his hand.
Once thrown, the sharp long stick would definitely penetrate a feathered bird with a weak constitution like her.
The bird girl paused for a moment, then returned to the group.
She temporarily gave up the idea of escaping.
On the other side of the river bank, the beastman raised his eyebrows and casually stuck the sharpened long stick into the mud.
Chi Ruanfan didn't care about the undercurrent surging beneath the calm surface; his attention was all on the bamboo whips at the bottom of the river.
The bamboo whips chased him, but then sank into the river sand just as he was about to step on them.
As if taking care of him, he would step on the soft river sand with every step instead of the hard and uneven bamboo whip.
It was like she was playing hard to get, luring him closer again and again, and when he got completely in, she would capture him completely.
The beastmen stayed in the holy river for half a day. The beastmen warriors confirmed that the sacrifices were clean enough before continuing to escort them to the Eternal Silence Abyss.
The Abyss of Eternal Silence is in the deepest part of the jungle.
The closer they got to the Abyss of Eternal Silence, the darker the light around them became, and a gray-black fog lingered, giving off a faint ominous feeling.
"The scope of the Eternal Silence Abyss has expanded again." said the leading beastman.
An orc warrior said nonchalantly, "What's so strange about this? Isn't the Eternal Silence Abyss expanding outward all the time?"
This time, the expansion speed of the Eternal Silence Abyss seems to be a little faster.
The leading beastman thought in his mind but did not speak out loud.
Gradually, the fog ahead turned into inky black.
The black fog was like a boundary drawn by gods, dividing the dense forest into two parts.
The orc warriors stopped in fear.
They bowed their heads and performed a few beastman etiquettes to the black fog, then turned around and drove the sacrifice into the black fog.
As the last sacrifice entered the black fog, all the orc warriors breathed a sigh of relief and turned back along the way they came.
There's no need to worry that the sacrifice will take the opportunity to escape.
In fact, no beastman who entered the black fog boundary could come out again.
That black fog was like a huge monster that would devour all living things.
Only by continuously sending sacrifices into it can its expansion be slowed down.
As soon as Chi Ruanfan entered the black fog, he felt several spatial waves.
The exiles around him gradually decreased and disappeared without a trace.
Soon, he was the only one left around.
This is Jinzhu's territory. Jinzhu hates it most when someone intrudes into his territory. There are many teleportation arrays hidden in this black fog that will send all outsiders away.
Chi Ruanfan waited there for a while, making sure that Jinzhu had no intention of sending him out as well, and then he continued to move forward.
Just as he took a step forward, Chi Ruanfan caught a glimpse of a ray of light.
A few meters away from him, a bamboo tree lit up like a firefly.
More and more bamboos lit up, their fluorescent light illuminating the darkness.
Chi Ruanfan turned around and looked back. Behind him was still inky darkness, but in front of him was a sea of fluorescent bamboo.
Everything was exactly the same as when he first came here.
At that time, Chi Ruanfan wondered why Jinzhu kept only him and did not send him away like she did those intruders.
Now he knew the answer.
Because I love it.
So they are willing to accept him into their own realm, willing to light up the light for him in the dead darkness, and even willing to reveal their true self to him.
Chi Ruanfan walked forward, faster and faster, and finally he started running, running towards the location where Jinzhu's real body was in his memory.
Pieces of fluorescent bamboo leaves floated up and followed him, protecting him as he went deeper into the bamboo forest.
In the deepest part of the bamboo forest is an extremely large and tall bamboo.
In front of the bamboo, stood a slender shadow.
Looking at the bamboo and the tree in front of the bamboo, Chi Ruanfan felt a strong desire in his heart.
He wanted to chew it all over, leaving his teeth marks on it, or even swallow it.
Is it the influence of the iron-eating beast's bloodline on him
Chi Ruanfan was not sure, but he subconsciously suppressed his desire and slowed down his pace towards that place.
When he saw Chi Ruanfan appear, he subconsciously took a step forward.
Then he seemed to be blocked by some invisible barrier. His raised leg could not move forward and could only fall back to where it was.
Chi Ruanfan noticed something was wrong.
He raised his hand and touched the slightly stiff body in front of him, guessing, "You can't leave this bamboo?"
"Yes," Jinzhu said without hiding her own state.
"I only left my bamboo body in this world, not my body. This body came here by force and is restricted by the rules of this world.
But don't worry, Xiaoruan, I can try to modify the rules, and the restrictions will be lifted in a day at most."
"That is to say... you will be trapped here for the whole day. No matter what I do to you, you can't escape."
Chi Ruanfan smelled the light bamboo fragrance on Jinzhu's body. That fragrance made the desire that he had suppressed with great difficulty stir up again.
What Chi Ruanfan said was not entirely right. As long as Jinzhu wanted to leave, he could choose to leave this world at any time.
But he did not refute, but cooperated:
"No matter what Xiaoruan does to me, I won't run away."
"Really? What if I'm hungry and want something to eat?"
Chi Ruanfan licked his lips and thought to himself, I'll just give it a nibble, gently, it shouldn't be a problem, right
Jinzhu didn't think much about it, her eyes uncontrollably following the tip of Chi Ruanfan's tongue sliding across his lips, and after a while she came back to her senses and asked:
"What do you want to eat, Xiaoruan? I can use the space array to bring you all the food."
"No need to go to so much trouble," Chi Ruanfan grabbed Jinzhu's arm and said, "I have already captured my food."
As he spoke, he leaned over and nibbled lightly on Jinzhu's lips.