If the area of this land is compared with that of Xihai Province, which spans three domains, it is like comparing a local dog to an elephant. However, with an area of six to seven million square kilometers, it is indeed not small. Roughly the size of the state of Australia on Earth. Several humans are like bacteria inside, and coupled with the special overall environment of the Devil's Sea, it is not easy to find them.
Zhang Mu did not dare to be careless.
Because the people who were chasing and killing these people were special forces from the main city, everyone had undergone rigorous training and were good at tracking, searching, assassination and other special tasks. There are a lot of skills to master, suitable for fighting against non-Holy Spirit strong men in any environment.
In addition, you also need to beware of threats from demons and monsters.
"We've been walking for a few hours, and those people shouldn't be able to catch up."
This is an open space in the middle of the black forest. Several people stopped to take a few pills to resist demonization. The negative energy in the Devil's Sea environment is too strong. If ordinary people stay in the nearby energy environment for a long time, they will be eroded by the negative energy over time, gradually increasing the negative emotions of anxiety, anger, uneasiness, and fear, followed by a decrease in attributes and combat ability. In the case of weakening, if you stay in a negative energy environment beyond the endurance limit for too long, or have been living in this environment, you will have hallucinations, become crazy, murderous, and eventually even become demonized.
Zhang Mu cannot become undead or demonized, so he does not need to consider the impact of the environment, which is different for others. I was well prepared for this adventure and had prepared many anti-demon elixirs.
The demon-killing sword was inserted into a broken tree trunk, and Zhang Mu sat down to rest.
I saw a "chichi" sound coming from the broken wood, and green smoke emitted from the place where the sword was inserted, like a red-hot iron piece inserted into a piece of raw meat. Because the positive energy on the Demon Slayer Sword is very strong, and the dead wood is full of negative energy, the energy of the two opposite energies comes into contact, so the ablation effect is produced.
In front of them, on the branches of a half-withered old tree, stood two strange black birds standing upside down. They were bald and had small eyes. They were very ugly. They were standing upside down quietly like bats. Their small scarlet eyes stared at the outsiders who broke into the forest. Under this tree, there is a pair of rotten skeletons, which should be some kind of monster that has been dead for some time.
Dead forest, gray haze. The trees are sparse and do not grow densely. At the same time, they are twisted and twisted, and the tree trunks are covered with tumors. In the harsh environment, creatures always show various mutations. However, no matter what kind of tree it is, the trunk, branches, and leaves are all as black as ink.
At noon, the sky turned dark gray-black, like a thick layer of lead. The sky is black, the ground is black, the trees are black, the whole world has no color at all, and the energy in the fog weakens the sound wave transmission.
Eerie, terrifying, and depressing everywhere.
This is the current environment, much like the scenes and pictures shown in black and white silent movies.
After a few minutes, the elixir begins to work, purifying the body of negative energy.
Zhang Mu drew his sword and said, "It's time for us to leave."
"Squeak!"
Suddenly, the strange bird standing upside down on the tree flew up, and the nearby woods trembled slightly. Dozens more strange birds flew up at the same time, circling in the sky, as if waiting for something
Zhang Mu looked at the remains on the ground, his eyebrows slightly raised, he clenched the hilt of his sword and said, "Be careful, we may be in trouble."
Ye Qianqiu clenched the dragon-slaying spear, Leng Yun and Lin Caiyan each blessed themselves with magic protection, and Qiao Weier prepared for battle. However, it is puzzling that there is no biological activity in the area. Except for trees and strange birds that have basically no fighting power, no threatening food can be found.
"Trees! Watch out for these trees!"
Lin Caiyan was a priest, so she was very sensitive to evil forces. She immediately raised her staff, and the holy light condensed, "Sword of Light!" The radiant sword immediately became ten times larger, and slashed hard at the trees next to it.
boom!
The entire ground rolled, and countless ferocious tree roots broke out of the ground, like dragons dancing wildly, some of which went directly to catch the lightsaber. As a result, Lin Caiyan underestimated Lin Caiyan's attack power. The lightsaber chopped four or five thick tree roots, and finally landed on a tree trunk, with the cut reaching half.
A large amount of blood flowed out from the incision.
Will the tree bleed
But before any question could be raised, the forest began to tremble. The outsider's actions had obviously disturbed something. The trees covered with tumors seemed to come alive in an instant, with terrifying eyes appearing on the huge tumors, and images of human faces and facial features also appeared on the dark tree trunks.
Qiao Weier felt nauseous, "What is this?"
"Tree demon." Leng Yun replied: "I have seen relevant records. This is a very powerful demon."
The entire forest has turned into a huge number of tree demons, hundreds or even thousands. The tree demons are covered with disgusting sarcomas, and the sarcomas have terrifying eyes. The tree roots are lifted up from the ground one by one. Each root is black. If you look closely, you will find that there are purple-red suckers the size of coins scattered on them. The roots of the trees are surging like hundreds of dragons biting each other. The scene is very spectacular.
Zhang Mu's face was as hard as steel and he lowered his voice and said, "Sorry, we accidentally entered the area where demons and monsters are. Break out immediately and get out quickly!"
Lin Caiyan saw that the surrounding area was surrounded by tree roots for dozens of miles. To deal with this kind of plant, using fire attribute attacks should have a good effect. Maybe it could burn all the tree demons in one go. Lin Caiyan is a priest with fire magic ability. She immediately completed a large-scale B-level magic. Countless fireballs fell like raindrops, hitting the rolling tree roots, and instantly turned the surrounding area into a sea of fire.
"Did it?"
Leng Yun quickly shouted: "Don't use fire attacks, it's useless. The tree demon will absorb magic. The more you attack, the stronger it will be!"
Lin Caiyan couldn't believe it, as if to verify Leng Yun's words. The burning flame immediately began to extinguish, and the suction cups on the tree roots opened. Greed sucked in the fire element from the outside. After absorbing enough energy, the tree roots became thicker and bifurcated, giving birth to more roots.
Almost in the blink of an eye, there are more roots surrounding it.
Qiao Weier's expression changed: "Then how should we fight?"
Lin Caiyan said: "Use non-attributed energy, or use thunder or light attacks, because thunder and light elements are the nemesis of demons!"
The tree demon began to attack.
Underground, on the ground, in the air, tree roots appeared endlessly, entwining towards several people. The tree demon is really difficult to deal with. It can absorb almost any attack and become more powerful. Unless it uses pure physical attacks, or attacks with light or thunder elements, it cannot defeat the tree demon.
Too many roots.
Zhang Mu raised the Demon Slayer Sword and chopped off a large area. As a result, without even taking his hand back, a few tree roots wrapped around his right arm, his left arm, and his waist. His feet were immediately vacated. This left Zhang Mu with no place to exert his strength, and the tree roots did not tear apart, just hanging the person in the air. More tree roots covered it, and the whole person was wrapped into rice dumplings.
Zhang Mu was surprised to find that life and magic were decreasing rapidly.
The tree demon's attack method is special. As long as it makes direct contact with the target, it completely ignores defense and directly absorbs life, magic, especially magical power from the prey's body. The loss rate is three times that of life. Once Zhang Mu's magic is sucked dry, he can no longer resist and can only be tortured to death by the tree demon!
"Damn it!"
Zhang Mu turned his body vigorously, and the Demon Slayer Sword released golden lightning, instantly chopping up all the tree roots. Zhang Mu turned back and shattered the tree roots on the ground with his sword before falling to the ground.
Others were not in good condition. Ye Qianqiu's attacks had no attributes and were still very sharp. After turning on the ghost transformation skill, the gun shadows were like a wave, so he could protect himself. Qiao Weier is a hand-to-hand fighter. The most taboo thing about fighting the tree demon is direct contact. Every time she is directly relieved, she will be deprived of a part of her life and magic.
Therefore, Qiao Weier fought very hard, while Leng Yun and Lin Caiyan used thunder magic shields and light magic shields to protect themselves respectively. Except for the light and thunder magic shields, any magic shield would be instantly attacked by the tree demon as soon as it was used. Absorb it, without any defense at all.
"These things are so annoying!" Qiao Weier threw out a hard-to-find B-level magic scroll, and more than twenty barrel-thick thunder and lightning fell from the sky, instantly destroying a large number of tree demons. "I don't have many thunder scrolls. Find a way to break out!"
The lightning destroyed part of the tree roots, and new roots covered the scorched tree roots, and then continued to attack the five people.
The attack is in the whole range, up and down, southeast, northwest and up and down. As long as you touch it, you will immediately lose some life and magic. It is impossible to prevent it and there is no good defense method.
"I have prepared a barrier." Lin Caiyan finished a chant, and the strong light energy condensed on the staff: "You guys help me clear out the nearby ones first!"
Leng Yun completed a complex large-scale advanced thunder spell - [Thunder]. Leng Yun raised the staff high, and suddenly thunder and lightning jumped in the sky. A large wave of thunder and lightning fell around the five people, killing a large area in an instant. This was just the beginning, the second Wave, the third wave, pushed outward layer by layer. The roots of the trees were attacked one by one, shattered by thunder and scorched by electricity, but the new roots could not get beyond the thunder pool.
Zhang Mu cut off dozens of tree roots with a sword, dragged Qiao Weier, who was wrapped into a rice dumpling, and jumped behind Lin Caiyan.
"Holy Light Barrier!"
Lin Caiyan inserted her staff into the ground, and a circle of several hundred meters in diameter appeared on the ground. The tree roots tried to attack, but were blocked by a burst of bright light every time. Attacking from the ground had no effect. This barrier was a full-scale defense.
Qiao Weier tore apart the roots wrapped around her body and lay on the ground, gasping for air.
In such a short time, nearly half of his life was lost.
Lin Caiyan applied several healing techniques, and everyone was immediately restored to full health.
"The barrier can block the tree demon for about 10 minutes. We have time to recover the magic power." Lin Caiyan took out a bottle of super magic potion and drank it. She looked at the crazy tree demon outside with a lingering fear: "I didn't feel anything while sitting on the Shuguang. , now I know that the demons in the Devil Sea are terrifying!"
Several people drank several bottles of magic potion.
It is not advisable to stay here for long.
The five people must break out of the encirclement as soon as possible.
Zhang Mu checked the storage bag and took out several B-level light and thunder magic scrolls. "When the barrier is lifted, we attack in one direction and open a path from the tree demon. Old Ye, your skills [ The God of Death Arrives] Attack and defense are integrated. The tree demon cannot break you under the protection of the God of Death, so you are the vanguard. Qiao Weier will follow, then Lin Caiyan, Leng Yun, and I will take the rear!"
"good!"
"Now let's recover for a while, before we consume a lot of energy."
Suddenly there was a scream.
A black arrow shot through the gap between the tree roots, directly punching a hole in the barrier, and then landed on Zhang Mu's chest. Because the arrow penetrated the barrier, the residual power was not enough to penetrate Longming's armor, so it was bounced away. .
The barrier was broken through and immediately shattered like glass.
The tree demon attacks again.
"who is it!"
A large group of black shadows appeared in the distant sky. Everyone was wearing a mecha. The first ten people among them were dressed as task force members. One of them held a longbow in his hand and shot another one towards Lin Caiyan.
Zhang Mu quickly cut off the hidden arrow with his sword.
"As expected of the main city's special operations team, they were tracked down so quickly!"
Ye Qianqiu frowned and said, "Our current situation is not good."