"Miss Luo..." Yan Qing murmured, "You asked me before how to deal with it using the Privy Council method, and the answer was to run."
"...Run?" Luo Qing was startled.
"If you cannot understand the ability of the devil, it means that the evil spirit is far beyond the scope of your response. Faced with such a situation, the Privy Council has only one suggestion, save your life."
"But aren't we going to take the Silver Star Tree Boat back?" Li touched the goosebumps on her hands - now the feeling of being stared at was so strong that she almost didn't want to look at the demon's face again. "And the surrounding area is the sea. Even if the dragon girl can carry us, what should we do with so many elves?"
"The elves can be transported away with a large green shuttle, and the imperial ship can be sunk as planned." Yan Qing raised her voice slightly, "You have also seen that this thing is waking up, and the source is the energy of the living! In other words, it will be a matter of time before it wakes up - we have to evacuate the tree boat before then!"
Ordinary attacks have no effect on it. Once you get within three feet of it, you can't escape on your own, not to mention that within two steps is an absolute restricted area, and even lightning can't move forward. It doesn't need to have other abilities, just being able to move is scary enough.
"Don't worry, we haven't reached that point yet." Luo Qingqing thought quickly, "Living people have varying degrees of Qi. There shouldn't be many Qi-sensing people like mages on the tree boat. We still have time to think about it. plan."
Just as she said, although the demon's upper body was lifelike and its robes had a grayish-brown color, the lower half was still pitch black.
"First notify the people at the ceremony site and ask them to try to capture them alive, especially those who are sensitive to Qi like the Iron Knight, and save their lives first." Luo Qingqing said to Li.
The latter immediately complied, "I understand."
"What do you want to do?" Yan Qing frowned.
"Those black lines... I now understand where the other end of them points. The living people on the entire island, including you and me, are the devil's food." Luo said softly, "But as long as they don't die, it will There is no way to forcefully rob the living of their qi.”
In an instant, she felt a strong hostility.
There was so much resentment and hatred in it that even she, who had gone through all kinds of hardships, felt a little dazed. The acid in her stomach went straight to her throat, and she almost vomited it out.
She covered her mouth, gritted her teeth, and continued, "Although we can't get close to the devil, it doesn't mean we can't change the environment around it. If we can sink the devil to the bottom of the sea, it will remain in this posture forever."
"In the deep sea, it is impossible for a person to persist until he is close to its suction range before dying."
"This sea... is the most suitable seal for it."
Luo Qingqing endured the discomfort and expressed his thoughts intermittently.
"I see." Yan Qing couldn't help but look at the other person twice. Faced with such a strange situation, he could still calm down and think about his next move. It was a rare talent among the new batch of alchemists. No wonder she became the listener. "However, towing and hoisting are difficult to work on it. If you want to open the channel, you can only start from one place."
"That's right." Luo gently looked at the ground under the devil's feet, "I think so too."
…
Taking advantage of the gap between Li and Yan Qing going to the ceremony site for reinforcements, the new acting elder of Silver Star Tree Boat, Philomatheni, was brought to Luo Qingqing by Fan.
"Are you the person who knows Lingshu best in Shuzhou now?" Luo Qing asked.
Vann immediately translated the words.
"So be it." Speaking of this, Ferro looked extremely sad, "I should have followed the elders and fought against the Imperial people to the end, but when I saw them arresting innocent people in front of the spiritual tree and executing them one by one, I chose to submit and replace the elders. The mission resonates with the spiritual tree."
When the Noah elf broke the iron lock and rushed into the house inside the spirit tree, the people imprisoned inside could not believe that Silver Star would actually get support from other tree boats.
It wasn't until they withdrew from the big tree and saw a pile of corpses of Imperial soldiers lying on the ground with their own eyes that they finally accepted this fact.
Ferro is one of them.
Therefore, when facing the savior Fan En said, a young girl from the City of Humanity, his attitude was particularly low, "I wonder what your orders are?"
"Did you see the evil spirit over there?" Luo pointed lightly at the other side of the cave.
Ferro's expression changed drastically after just one glance, and he bent over and retched. After a while, he gasped and said, "Is this also something made by the Empire?"
"good."
"They're just—crazy!"
This is also the thought that most people will have.
Evil does not lie in how evil its actions are, but in that it is essentially contrary to the living.
After Luo Qing briefly narrated the situation, he asked the key question, "If a hole is cut at the bottom of the tree boat, can the spirit tree still survive?"
"This... do you plan to sink it into the sea by falling?" Ferro quickly understood her idea, "If you want the evil object to float below, the spiritual tree may also be able to help."
"How to say?"
"In fact, what the tree boat looks like is decided by the elders. In other words, the elders can control the direction of the root veins, turning the hillside into flat ground, and turning the tree stand into a watchtower. But this change is relatively slow. , and it consumes the magic power of the spiritual tree, and the span is usually measured in years."
Luo raised his eyebrows slightly, "It's not considered helpful in terms of years."
"I understand this." Ferro nodded and admitted, "But if we just move the roots, close the magic supply in the orchard, weaving field and other areas, and invest all the energy in the spiritual tree's mobility, this process can be greatly shortened. Perhaps. … A hole can be expanded in an hour or two.”
It was almost dawn in two hours, and before that, the threat from the imperial warships had to be eliminated. Luo weighed it lightly and made a judgment, "It only takes an hour at most. You start with the roots below, and then I will figure out the rest."
…
With a violent tremor, the center of the tree boat, which had not changed for nearly a century, began its reorganization. The dense roots begin to shrink layer by layer from bottom to top. Since the movement range is not large and there are many gaps in the bottom layer, it is not too difficult for the tree boat to achieve.
The battle at the ceremony site has also come to an end. Without reinforcements, a large number of pirates in the guarding force collapsed first. Facing the angry island captives, they knelt down and surrendered without even a few decent resistances. Others The speed is much faster than the object they despise. Without the help of the pirates, the more than two hundred imperial soldiers were almost defenseless in the face of Jinxia's reinforcements. If Li hadn't sent a message to reduce unnecessary casualties, none of these people would have survived.
The sky was already slightly white, and as the morning light was about to break, Luo gently opened his eyes and recovered from his meditative state.
"it's time."
"Are you sure you can do it?" Yan Qing confirmed again.
She nodded in affirmation, "You have to give it a try."
"Okay." Qing Jian turned his hand and let the chains under the cloth rise from the ground, forming a big circle around the demon. "The area shown by the chain is the approximate range where the tree roots spread. But the root veins below It is still more than three feet thick, and the demonic influence still exists below the surface.”
"Thank you." Luo took a deep breath, raised her hand to summon the dragon scale, and then clasped her hands together in front of her chest - this was a new usage she had mastered while practicing and exploring the dragon scale magic. , Dragon-Slaying Sword!”
I saw six dragon scales intertwined with each other, releasing each other's shells, re-merging, and at the same time bursting out with bright golden light. When the light dissipated, a huge sword that was as tall as several people appeared in front of everyone.