All over the mountains, tens of thousands of soldiers are guarding several hilltops; at the foot of the mountain, there are mad beasts rushing around without any care; in the sky, willow catkins like snowflakes are floating in the air.
These tens of thousands of soldiers could not hold off the beasts, Liu Xu and the others could not understand, they could not defeat them, could not escape, and there was only endless despair.
The seriously injured were lying on the ground, while the less injured were standing. They looked at the willow catkins that covered them like heavy snow... Tens of thousands of people just stared blankly into the distance.
In mid-air, Qin Ran looked at the despair of tens of thousands of soldiers over there and stopped, because he was also desperate.
"Have you ever foreseen such a scenario?" he asked Su Changqing.
Su Changqing had foreseen this.
He knew that if the Devouring Demon Willow was destroyed, many people would die, many cultivators would die, and many lives would die. He had anticipated such a scenario.
But...but!
I have thought about the deaths of millions of people in my mind, but it has never been as shocking as seeing with my own eyes tens of thousands of soldiers standing in the tide of beasts waiting to die.
He hadn't imagined it would be like this.
Su Changqing was not far from Qin Ran. He saw willow catkins falling in front of him. They landed on the damaged armor of a soldier. The willow catkins disappeared, and then the soldier withered.
One, two, three... hundreds, thousands...
In the blink of an eye, thousands of passionate men who sacrificed their lives for their country turned from living people into mummies.
Su Changqing looked back and saw countless dried corpses of monsters, birds, beasts, and insects in the forest, mountains, and treetops behind him!
The bodies were lying among the rocks, and the bodies were hanging on the dead trees...
Willow catkins fell down, and the world turned into hell.
"So, that's how it is." Su Changqing murmured.
It turns out that this is how the Devouring Demon Willow devours everything.
"Brother Su, I don't think you need to chase me anymore." Qin Ran's voice came at this time.
Su Changqing looked over and saw white willow catkins falling on Qin Ran, on his hair, on his shoulders, and then falling on his body like snowflakes, melting and disappearing.
"Since I set foot on the path of cultivating immortals, I have been afraid all the time. I always feel that I will die in the next second, killed by some magical power or spell thrown by a powerful person. I have thought of many ways to die, many, many..."
Qin Ran looked at Su Changqing, "But I never thought that I would be sucked dry by the catkins. I know that the Devouring Demon Willow is very powerful and terrifying, but I didn't
I thought I would die from it, and I thought I could at least escape to another realm."
Willow catkins also fell on Su Changqing, but the catkins on his body did not melt. To him, the catkins seemed to be ordinary catkins. One catkin after another fell on his body, and his shoulders and hair turned white.
"I am just a passer-by in this world, and I will be dead if I die. But there is one thing I cannot let go of... that is my stupid disciple. So I beg Brother Su to help me with this matter..."
Qin Ran and Su Changqing shared their last words, "Shiyin has a high talent for cultivation. If you like her, please accept her as your disciple. If you don't want to accept her as your disciple, please send her back home because she is not suitable for the cultivation world.
"As for Zhuifeng and Long Qiqi, let Zhuifeng go free, and let Long Qiqi walk the right path to immortality..."
After hearing Qin Ran's last words, Su Changqing was silent. He nodded and was about to agree, but then he suddenly realized something...
That is, why is it that others would die as soon as they are touched by willow catkins and would not survive for more than a moment, while Qin Ran can speak so many lines here
After leaving his last words, Qin Ran closed his eyes, spread his hands, and pointed them towards the sky, hoping to die in the most dignified manner possible.
He waited for the willow catkins that merged into his body to suck him dry, but after waiting for a long time, he found that he was still fine, still alive, and not dead yet.
There was no sign of being absorbed by the catkins at all.
Qin Ran frowned, then used his spiritual sense to look inside his body, and found that red electric sparks were constantly coming out of his body.
The red lightning was clearly a thunderbolt!
In addition to the thunder in the muscles, the Jiuzhou Ding in the dantian is also constantly releasing thunder. These thunders go from the dantian to the flesh, burning all the willow catkins that have invaded the body.
"Thunder?!" Su Changqing looked at the red lightning flowing in Qin Ran's body and asked in surprise.
He knew that Qin Ran used thunder to refine his body, but could the thunder that remained in his body have such an effect
“How can you actually survive this way?” Qin Ran couldn’t help but smile bitterly.
He looked forward and saw mountains and fields full of dead bones. The primeval forest had turned into a desert. All life had vanished and the world had turned into a purgatory. Among the tens of thousands of soldiers, only a few were still untouched by the willow catkins.
This doomsday scene gave him the illusion that everyone was dead and he was the only one alive.
He looked carefully and saw that Li Shiwen was still alive, buried under countless dry bones...
He was knocked down by his own soldiers, who used their flesh and blood to save his life.
.
"Do you still want to kill me?" Qin Ran asked Su Changqing.
Su Changqing looked at the dry bones on the ground and said nothing.
"If you don't kill me, I'll go meet my friends first." Seeing that Su Changqing didn't say anything, Qin Ran continued, and then he stretched out his body and came to Li Shiwen.
Qin Ran squatted down on the bones and asked Li Shiwen, "Why didn't you leave?"
Li Shiwen heard the voice and turned around. Seeing Qin Ran, hope flashed in his eyes. He became excited and asked Qin Ran for help: “Save… Save them! Please save them!”
“I can’t do anything!” Qin Ran shook his head. He looked up at the willow catkins falling from the sky, which seemed to be endless like falling snow. He said, “I am just lucky enough not to die… I will die too.”
Now there is still a lot of lightning flowing in his body. Once the catkins get close, they will be burned by the current. But how long can this lightning last? This is just the thunder that remains in his body.
The hope in Li Shiwen's eyes faded, he calmed down, and became numb again.
After a while, he answered Qin Ran’s question: “Why should I leave? I am a soldier who protects my country and guards the border. I have to leave because of danger? When facing the enemy, as a general, don’t think about how to defeat the enemy, but think about how to escape?”
"This is not a disaster that mortals can handle..." Qin Ran said, looking away. Suddenly, among the corpses of the soldiers, there were mice looking for food going in and out. Rats are everywhere. He threw a stone and shot the rat to death. Then he continued, "This is not something that monks can handle either."
Su Changqing followed, stopped in mid-air, glanced at Li Shiwen, and still said nothing.
"This is something they should have resolved." Qin Ran pointed at Su Changqing in mid-air, "But they chose Daoguo.
"So we're all going to die."
As Qin Ran spoke, he remembered the time when Li Shiwen invited him to drink, so he rummaged into his Qiankun bag and pulled out a pot of wine. He took a sip and handed it to Li Shiwen.
"There's no snacks, so I'll just make do with it..." He said, and suddenly remembered the rat, and laughed, "It's not that I don't have anything. You treated me to a drink with a roast chicken, so I gave you a field mouse in return."
He went over and picked up Shushu's body, took out a sword and performed a hair removal surgery on Shushu's hand.
But just as the sword cut through Shushu's skin, Qin Ran suddenly realized something...
How do mice survive with all this catkins flying all over the sky