Chapter 681: Broken branches turned into ancient trees

Chapter 681: Broken branches turned into ancient trees

"It was..." Li Fan frowned slightly, as if he was trying to remember.

Ximen Yu stared at him and listened attentively.

"I can't remember." After a long time, Li Fan shrugged and said helplessly.

"You..." Ximen Yu's face froze, "How could you forget such a strange thing so easily?"

He looked at Li Fan with disbelief on his face.

"Fellow Taoist Ximen, why don't you tell me what this dead branch is. Maybe I will remember it as you talk." Li Fan suggested with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Ximen Yu narrowed his eyes and scanned Li Fan back and forth.

Li Fan, on the other hand, was not afraid at all and looked at him calmly.

Seemingly unsure of Li Fan's strength, Ximen Yu finally chose not to act rashly.

The body turned and the dead branches guarding him were displayed in front of Li Fan again.

After a moment of silence, he said: "In fact, I don't know the origin of this object. At that time, my progress in researching the earth veins hit a bottleneck."

"Under the rule of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, the power of the earth veins is firmly locked by the protective array covering the entire territory. It is really difficult to use and study it without authorization. I have tried many methods, but it is still difficult to find a breakthrough point. Just when I was about to change my research direction..."

"About two years ago, the power of the earth here suddenly exploded. It seemed that thousands of miles away, an earth disaster that could destroy an entire state occurred. The resulting chain reaction. I was overjoyed when I saw this, and of course I took advantage of this rare opportunity. opportunity to absorb the power of the overflowing earth veins.”

"And this dead branch is what I discovered from the power of the earth's veins."

Ximen Yu said slowly, but Li Fan looked thoughtful after hearing this.

"Two years ago, it seemed that it was the time when the red flames burned the sea. Was it the impact of Hong Xi's forced extraction of the earth veins in order to force out the red flames hidden in the earth veins?"

The black and yellow earth veins are connected into one body. Even though they are thousands of miles apart, they may still influence each other. Previously, there was a sunken island in Congyunhai. Affected by the "hundred mountains turning into flat rivers" in the distance, it surfaced from the bottom of the sea.

And the abnormal movement of the earth veins that Ximen Yu observed here may be caused by the aftermath of the battle with Chi Yan.

Li Fan looked at the dead branches that were still spraying out the earth-yellow power of the earth veins, and asked with some confusion: "The power of the earth veins is extremely pure. How come there are dead branches caught in it? There are only a few ordinary trees deep in the earth veins. After a while, it will be crushed into powder by the strong pressure. How can this dead branch not only survive in the earth veins, but also attract the power of the imprisoned earth veins? "

Li Fanfu looked at Ximen Yu again: "The Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance must not have noticed the abnormal movement of the earth here. Otherwise, if it is related to the safety of the protective formation, they will definitely send people to solve the hidden dangers here."

Ximen Yu's expression changed slightly, but he did not refute.

"This dead branch does have some kind of magical power. It seems to have the same origin as the earth veins, so I extracted some on a small scale for research. They will only be regarded as the normal fluctuations of the earth veins themselves."

The power of the dead branches erupting from the earth's veins seems to be intermittent and contains a certain pattern. It gradually weakens at this moment, and eventually no more leyline energy flows out.

Ximen Yu carefully put away the jade bottle.

"Same origin as the earth's veins?" Li Fan savored this sentence carefully.

Ximen Yu took out a stone slab from the storage ring. It seems to have been peeled off from a rock wall somewhere, and the traces are extremely ancient.

The lines are also quite abstract, but you can roughly understand what they depict.

Many little dots represent human beings. Worship and live on the earth.

Underground, there is a large upside down tree growing.

Tree roots are densely packed and rooted in every corner of the earth.

But the tree crown goes deep into the ground, reaching straight to the center of the earth.

"This is what I found in a certain geological fault when I was studying the changes in ancient and modern terrain. It should be left by the ancient mortal tribe."

"It's not just this mural. I have found similar ancient records in various places in the Xuanhuang Realm."

"I suspect that the so-called earth veins are derived from the roots of this ancient tree. And this dead branch of mine belongs to that ancient tree."

Ximen Yu explained.

"Although these information left by mortals are extremely crude. What is seen through mortal eyes may not be the whole story. But precisely because they are mortal things, we immortal cultivators tend to ignore them by default. Therefore, what should have been erased The record can survive," Ximen Yu said with a sneer.

"The tree of earth veins..." Li Fan touched his chin.

"That's not right." Suddenly, he shook his head.

"Although it is very similar to what I saw in the illusion, it was still a little different at the time." Li Fan said firmly.

Ximen Yu was not surprised either. After thinking for a moment, he said: "It is possible that the ancient tree you saw is even older."

"Maybe it's the source of the Earthline Tree."

Li Fan was surprised: "The tree of earth veins also has a source?"

Ximen Yu took out black stones from nowhere and crushed them to the dead branches stuck on the ground. The black powder is quickly absorbed by the dead branches and seems to become more energetic.

"It is said that between heaven and earth, there was only one mother tree in the beginning, which controlled the destiny of all living beings in the world."

"Later, great changes occurred, and the mother tree suffered heavy damage. Some branches fell from it and fell into the world."

"One of them turned into an ancient tree."

Ximen Yu looked at the carefully cared for dead branches with affection and said slowly.

A glint flashed in Li Fan's eyes: "How did Fellow Taoist Ximen learn about this? It's really unheard of."

Ximen Yu's eyes were fixed on the dead branches and he didn't answer.

Li Fan was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly.

"Ah, after what my fellow Taoist said, I seem to have remembered it. It was here that I met the dead branch."

Li Fan casually drew the terrain of Tianling Prefecture and marked a location.

Only then did Ximen Yu retract his gaze from the dead branches and remember the location firmly in his mind. Then erase the map.

"Times have changed. I have returned to my hometown several times over the years, but I have never seen that dead tree again. So fellow Taoist Ximen, don't have too much hope." Li Fan warned.

Ximen Yu smiled and said: "Such a rare thing is of course hard to come by. But I have always been lucky. After I finish my research on the theory of earth veins, I will definitely try my luck."

"Then I wish Fellow Taoist Ximen success in advance!" Li Fan clasped his fists and was about to leave.

"Fellow Daoist Han Wuyou, right?" Ximen Yu threw a communication talisman over, "I feel like you and I have some fate. Keep this thing, maybe we will meet again in the future."

Li Fan put away the talisman and stopped staying.

After his figure disappeared, the cave door was closed again.

Ximen Yu frowned deeply: "The sky and the earth are like trees, and life is spent day and night..."

"Is it possible that it still exists in the world?"