Chapter 113: Don’t ask, it’s Magic
Nine o’clock in the morning, Sky Screen Live Stream.
“Have you heard? The Lighthouse lost a Super Hornet.”
“Yeah, I heard that too. It crashed last night.”
“Hey, I’m from Florida, how come I didn’t know?”
“Don’t mention it, brother. Yesterday, any mention of the crash online was met with a large-scale ban on accounts. Only in the Sky Screen Live Stream can we say what we want without being controlled.”
“Damn, no wonder my usual military forum was shut down. So there was a crash. But something this big, no matter how you try to block the news, you can’t stop it.”
“They only care if you did it, not whether you succeeded. Not succeeding is a matter of ability, not doing it is a matter of attitude. Figure that out first.
And even if they can’t block it, they can at least delay it for a few days. After a few days, new events will happen, and the public’s attention will naturally be diverted.”
“This is a big embarrassment for the Lighthouse, so they naturally have to block it to avoid being ridiculed.”
“Actually, I don’t think it’s necessary to block it at all, because the Lighthouse is obviously unlucky. Their fighter jet was shot down, not because of the fighter jet itself. If it were another fighter jet, it would still be shot down.”
“Wait, didn’t the Hornet have a problem and crash on its own? How could it be shot down?”
“The news I received is that it crashed after an emergency landing because it wasn’t fully fueled.”
“What the hell kind of emergency landing crash? Where did this fake news come from?!”
“Why are you saying I’m spreading fake news? I think you are! You only know how to speak for the Beasts, you traitor!”
“I…”
“Hold on, what’s the situation with that Spiked Crocodile last night? Any news yet?”
“I’m not sure. It’s said they couldn’t kill it, but it seems to have been seriously injured by a mine and has now run underground.”
“Ugh, what do we do? We can’t go underground to catch it either. The team members who go to the island in the future will be in trouble.”
“In my opinion, it’s simple. The island isn’t big anyway. From now on, catch one ferocious beast whenever we see one, until we’ve caught everything on the island. Then bury mines everywhere underground. No food, and all mines. It’ll die sooner or later.”
“Can we think of a more reliable method?”
“It is said that the United Nations has a neutron bomb as a backup plan. The neutron flow from a neutron bomb explosion can penetrate dozens of meters of rock layers and can also avoid large-scale radioactive contamination. But the problem is that the destructive power of the neutron bomb is still too great, and the value of the island is too high. We don’t plan to use this type of weapon unless it’s absolutely necessary.”
“According to the biologists’ estimates, infrasound waves seem to be able to interfere with that Spiked Crocodile. We can use UAVs to carry infrasound wave jammers to force the other party to stay away from the exploration team. For now, it seems that’s all we can do.”
“Everyone, don’t worry. Everyone is working hard to cultivate now, and some Geniuses are making rapid progress. Coupled with various Precious Medicines, maybe someday we can give birth to a Supreme Grandmaster. Then maybe we can blow up the Spiked Crocodile on the spot like Qi God.”
“If one person can’t do it, then a group can. We can always eliminate it!”
……
In the Live Stream Room, Qi Xuan, riding Sunday, walked forward while speaking to the camera:
“Yesterday morning, we found a skeleton. We can confirm that this world does indeed have Natives, and they are quite strong.
After my search yesterday, a friendly Spiked Crocodile provided me with information. Now we already know which direction the Native’s tribe is in.
Let’s follow this direction and take a look.”
The netizens were speechless when they heard this:
“Oh yeah, yeah, you have to be killed to be called friendly, right?”
“Do you have some misunderstanding about the word ‘friendly’?”
“It seems that in this world, only your enemies can truly survive.”
“Don’t worry, the enemies will become friendly sooner or later.”
“Spiked Crocodile, finally know that guy’s name. Seriously, it’s quite fitting.”
“Qi God, quickly tell us how to kill this Spiked Crocodile.”
“What’s there to say? Just shoot it with an arrow and it’s dead. Does this need explaining?”
“Damn Supreme Grandmaster, you think you’re so great?! Just you wait! I will definitely become a Supreme Grandmaster in my lifetime, next year, or even tomorrow!”
……
Qi Xuan rode Sunday slowly forward, his journey relaxed, but not without vigilance.
After killing the Spiked Crocodile yesterday, as he had predicted, the Spiked Crocodile’s essence and blood floated to the 【Nangong】 Token. The token then changed, revealing a route map. The end point on the map was written as Nangong.
Undoubtedly, this was the route map to their tribe.
It seemed that the Nangong Tribe wanted to thank the outsiders who helped them kill their enemies, so they designed this on the token, actively guiding the outsiders to their tribe.
And this approach can also reflect some things from the side—
First, the Nangong Tribe is very confident and is not afraid of outsiders knowing their tribe’s location. As guessed yesterday, this must be an extremely powerful tribe.
That’s why they are not afraid of external risks, not afraid of potential enemies, and dare to face all opponents. This strong confidence has been revealed through the design of the token.
Second, the Nangong Tribe’s attitude towards outsiders should be relatively friendly, because outsiders may accidentally discover the corpses of their tribe members, or they may have killed the enemies who killed their tribe members for other reasons.
But the Nangong Tribe doesn’t care about the process. As long as they helped in killing the enemy, they will actively reveal their tribe’s location and invite them to visit.
Finally, besides the Nangong Tribe, there must be other tribes in the surrounding area, otherwise, they would not need to display the tribe’s location on the token.
This thing is for outsiders to see. If there are no outsiders, and no outsiders have appeared in the surrounding area for a long time, what’s the point of making such a design?
In general, he has determined that this is a very powerful and hospitable tribe.
Even so, Qi Xuan still acted cautiously in today’s actions, and did not charge through the forest as he did yesterday when tracking the Spiked Crocodile.
Because in the following journey, he will come into contact with the members of the Nangong Tribe at any time. Although they are friendly, there may also be other taboos, and even these taboos may overwhelm his favor for helping to kill the tribe’s enemies.
For example, the hornless people.
Those with horns are considered people, and those without horns are considered underdeveloped untouchables, and may even be expelled or killed… The hornless people in front, dare to fight a pig?
These are all possible, and he has to consider them.
In addition, Qi Xuan is also worried about whether the Nangong Tribe still exists.
After all, two hundred years have passed since that person was killed.
Two hundred years is neither long nor short. Many Foundation Stage cultivators can only live that long without taking longevity Precious Medicines.
Even in the relatively stable border areas, the replacement of Foundation Stage cultivators within small sects can often cause violent turmoil, not to mention in this dangerous Jungle.
If he is not careful, the entire tribe will be hit hard, and it may even be defeated or destroyed by other tribes.
But it’s useless to worry about those things now. Anyway, time has already passed, and he can only accept the current outcome.
If the Nangong Tribe has persisted until now, and can treat him kindly in the following contact.
He also wants to take this opportunity to learn more about everything related to this world.
For example, why are there four suns hanging in the sky?
Why do the suns collapse?
Why does the ground change dramatically after the collapse, and the Spiritual Energy concentration rises sharply?
How do others avoid the disaster of the collapse?
When will the next collapse be?
……
And so on.
This series of questions can only be answered by contacting the local Natives.
Therefore, compared to cultivating silently on his own, Qi Xuan prefers to contact the Natives.
Because this world is too dangerous. Compared to the huge disaster caused by the sun collapse, the risk of contacting the Natives is simply not worth mentioning.
But no matter how low the risk is, he has to find a way to reduce it, be cautious and avoid it, and it’s best to have no risk contact.
With a feeling of trepidation, Qi Xuan rode the pig and moved forward.
The morning’s Live Stream was easily spent in this slow journey.
In the afternoon, the audience outside immediately discovered that the environment in the Live Stream Room had undergone a huge change:
“What’s going on? Why is it so dark around here?”
“Why are even the trees black?”
“I’m so f*cking, this is too gloomy. Where the hell did we go?”
“Qi God, you wouldn’t have gotten lost, would you? This place doesn’t look suitable for living at all.”
……
Indeed, as the audience said, the place they were in looked very dangerous.
The area was covered with Luo Xuan trees of different thicknesses and heights.
Qi Xuan had never seen such a bizarre Luo Xuan tree. It felt like someone had splashed a large area of black paint.
But the direction indicated by the Nangong Token was to go deeper.
This made him more and more vigilant.
Fortunately, besides the slightly grotesque appearance of the trees around here, he didn’t encounter any danger.
After walking for more than half an hour, the journey was relatively peaceful. Not to mention ferocious beasts, he didn’t even encounter a single insect.
Of course, this doesn’t mean there are no insects around. They are probably hiding, and he has no intention of looking for them.
Just as he was thinking, Qi Xuan saw a group of trees in front of him, and he suddenly pressed Sunday and stopped.
A group of trees.
Indeed, it was a group.
Countless deep green branches, as thick as thighs, twisted and intertwined with each other, forming a huge tree group that covered an area of over a thousand square meters.
Seeing this tree group, the netizens were shocked:
“What the hell is this thing?”
“How come the trees are all grown together? No photosynthesis?”
“In that ghost place on the Floating Continent, many trees can probably survive even without photosynthesis.”
“Indeed, the Beasts and plants in that place can’t be explained by common sense… But this tree is too outrageous! How can they all be intertwined?!”
……
Standing in front of the huge tree group, Qi Xuan paused slightly before introducing to the camera:
“This tree group in front of you is called the Earth Firefly Tree. As you can see, it has an irregular spherical shape, with a diameter of about thirty meters. Countless branches grow spirally upwards, and each branch actively wraps around the nearby branches like it has a life of its own, forming a close symbiotic structure.
But it’s not quite the same as the banyan trees we often see. Banyan trees cover the fields, and a single tree forms a forest, but they only have one root system. But this group of Earth Firefly Trees looks like one tree, but it’s actually composed of many Earth Firefly Trees. Each branch that appears on it represents an Earth Firefly Tree.
Since the Earth Firefly Tree appears here, it must mean that there are ferocious beasts or human corpses inside.
Well, I’ve already seen the skeletons. Let’s have a good fight with this tree.”
With that, Qi Xuan didn’t delay any longer.
He got off Sunday and walked straight ahead.
The Earth Firefly Tree is not an ordinary plant. It should be classified as a Demon Plant, just like a Demon Beast. It has the possibility of growth and advancement, and it will also hunt the creatures around it.
At this moment, seeing Qi Xuan approaching, some of the branches on the tree group began to slowly writhe like giant pythons.
Seeing this scene, the netizens were all shocked:
“This… this tree is actually alive?!”
“Nonsense, of course it’s alive! But how can this tree move?!”
“Has it evolved into a thousand-year-old tree demon?”
“This is too outrageous. It’s okay to have all kinds of ferocious beasts, but why is the plant’s aggressiveness so strong?!”
“Qi God just said he was going to fight it. I was still wondering what’s so special about this tree? Now it seems that we really have to fight.”
“No wonder the skeletons he encountered before were all Supreme Grandmasters. In this dangerous and terrifying environment, without the strength of a Supreme Grandmaster, it’s hard to survive at all.”
“They are all strong people who were forced out.”
“It’s going to be a fight! Qi God, take it down!”
……
Several branches, as thick as forearms, shot towards Qi Xuan like arrows.
Qi Xuan raised his hand and took out the Dragon Spear, and the huge power erupted, breaking these branches on the spot.
But the vibration from breaking them made him raise his eyebrows slightly.
This tree is really a bit too hard.
“It’s a pity that I know your weaknesses like the back of my hand!”
He quickly charged inside, and a large number of branches shot towards him like a rain of arrows.
With the sweeping of the spear, the evasion of Spiritual Sense, and the resistance of Flowing Form, he successfully broke through the countless arrows and arrived in front of the Earth Firefly Tree’s mass of branches.
Before the branches could writhe and launch a powerful killing move, Qi Xuan casually activated a Talismans.
A Talismans that he never thought he would use in this place—the Torrential Rain Talismans.
In an instant, a torrential rain fell, pouring down at close range on the tree.
Almost instantly, those branches that were watered, were corroded by acid, emitting white smoke, and quickly retreating into the ground.
However, the rain came too fast and too hard, and they couldn’t quickly avoid the rain as usual.
So that only half of them had escaped, many branches drooped to the ground and were watered to death on the spot.
Yes, its fatal weakness is water.
But it has to be an excessive, violent rainfall to quickly kill it.
Otherwise, once it escapes into the ground, it won’t be so easy to kill it.
This thing’s root system can migrate.
After killing the Earth Firefly Tree on the spot, Qi Xuan said to the audience in the Live Stream Room, who were extremely surprised:
“I didn’t expect to encounter a torrential rain. I don’t need to do anything.
Let everyone know that although this Earth Firefly Tree is powerful, it is difficult to be harmed by swords and knives, and it is difficult to be burned by fire, but its fatal weakness is water.
Once it encounters excessive torrential rain, it will die on the spot, and even outsiders don’t need to do anything…”
Qi Xuan babbled a lot, but the audience in the Live Stream Room felt very suspicious:
“I always feel that this rain is not right.”
“Yeah, it seems that it didn’t rain anywhere else, but it rained here on the Earth Firefly Tree. This targeting is too strong.”
“It can’t be that Qi God is artificially creating rain on the spot, right? Martial Arts can’t do this either.”
“Who knows? What if there is a Martial Arts that can create cold air?”
“Okay, okay, scientific Martial Arts, right? Take my Lorentz force electromagnetic palm!”
“Don’t ask, just say it’s Magic.”
“Please, give us Magicians a way to survive. I’m already practicing Martial Arts—Magician Liu Chang.”
……
Looking at the corpses of the Earth Firefly Trees scattered all over the ground, Qi Xuan then reminded:
“Don’t look at how easily and simply this Earth Firefly Tree died. In fact, these trees are extremely difficult to deal with without water. The tree body is hard, and the toughness is also extremely strong. Not to mention ordinary fists, even if you take a few cannonballs, it may not be able to be blown up.
And they can also secrete a special glue. Once you are stuck, it’s basically over.
In addition, the most dangerous thing is not its mature form, but its seeds.
The tree seeds of the Earth Firefly Tree are too dangerous. They quietly lurk in the ground. It is not until a ferocious beast passes by that they will suddenly burst into growth, pierce the ferocious beast’s body on the spot, absorb nutrients from it, and usher in a period of rapid growth.
Therefore, they are also called 【Silent Killers】. Everyone must be careful when walking outside.”
As soon as he finished speaking.
The next second, next to the Light Screens all over the world, another brand new Light Screen appeared.
Inside the Light Screen, the Indian Exploration team, who had guided the Bunker Buster to kill the Golden Sand Scorpion not long ago, were walking lightly in a forest, with many weapons and equipment, as well as a large amount of harvest, and their expressions were more relaxed than ever before.
Suddenly, a slight vibration came from the ground.
The crowd only had time to show a surprised expression. The next second, countless sharp branches suddenly shot out from the ground, like a rain of arrows shooting towards the sky.
When the movement disappeared, a small forest of four or five meters high suddenly appeared on the spot. Each small tree in the forest was only the thickness of a thumb, and it was a fresh, tender green.
But this touch of tender green was gradually dyed red by countless flowing blood.
The trees swayed slightly in the blood, and the corpses above swayed with them.
In a daze, it seemed that a sucking sound could be heard.
“Goo-jee……”
“Goo-jee……”
The picture gradually faded.
The people in the Joint Command were stunned.
The people all over the world were also stunned.
And after reacting, in an instant, countless barrages poured into Qi Xuan’s Live Stream Room like a waterfall:
“You f*cking jinx, can you stop talking?!”
“Has this mouth been blessed, or is it cursed?”
“Please, Qi God, we can’t always only verify the bad things!”
“I surrender! I surrender, okay? I’ll go buy insurance!”
……
Soon, the Live Stream was about to close.
After Qi Xuan went offline, he continued to move forward.
He took the initiative to attack this group of Earth Firefly Trees, purely because when he met them before, he saw the skeletons in the forest, and they were human skulls.
This shows that it must have attacked humans before, and it may have been the one that impaled people when it first grew.
I don’t know how many unlucky people there were.
Qi Xuan walked past the soft branches and soon came inside the tree group.
Inside the tree group was a large pile of skeletons, scattered, with humans and Beasts, all remnants of being hunted and devoured by the Earth Firefly Tree.
There were five adult skulls inside.
There were round penetrating wounds on each skull.
“It looks like they are really a group of unlucky people.”
Qi Xuan was quite speechless.
The attack power caused by the Earth Firefly Tree’s seed explosion is even stronger than the mature stage, almost comparable to a Third Rank peak strike. This is to allow the seed to successfully capture prey when it explodes, thereby absorbing nutrients and quickly going through the weak growth period and entering the mature period where it can hunt on its own.
He happened to encounter the seed explosion. Even if he had 【Flowing Form】, he might not be able to withstand it. These five people could only be said to be quite unlucky.
By analyzing the skeletons at the scene, he found that the five people who died were all in the late Qi Condensation stage.
This discovery made Qi Xuan’s eyebrows furrow slightly.
It was an accident to encounter a late Qi Condensation stage cultivator before.
But now that five late Qi Condensation stage cultivators have appeared in a row, this can only show that the Nangong Tribe is indeed more powerful than imagined.
It can almost be determined that there must be Foundation Stage cultivators in the tribe.
As for the Golden Core… this is not easy to say for the time being.
After all, it’s not so easy to break through to Golden Core. It’s too small a chance to encounter a tribe with Golden Core.
In addition, what made Qi Xuan’s heart slightly clouded was.
These five people all had horns.
But the positions of their horns were quite free.
Some were on the back of the head, some were on the thigh bones, some were on the spine, and even some were on the pelvis.
Seeing the abnormally protruding bone spur on the pelvis, Qi Xuan was stunned on the spot.
It’s acceptable to grow in other places, but how the hell do you sit with it growing on your butt?
Doesn’t it feel uncomfortable?
Or does every stool have to have a hole carved out for it, specifically to accommodate that bone spur?
What about the bed for sleeping?
Can’t you stay still all night?
Could it be that the bed is full of holes, and you want to put the bone spur in that hole to fix it when you want to sleep in a certain place?
Qi Xuan only felt it was incredible.
The good news is that the bone spur doesn’t necessarily grow on the forehead, so it’s not so obvious.
The bad news is that there must be a place on the body where the bone spur grows, and you can’t get away with it.
There is still a distinction between hornless people and people with horns.
I don’t know what’s going on with those bone spurs?
Race characteristics? Genetic mutation? Or some kind of illness?
In addition, another point worth noting is that he did not find other tokens at the scene.
The 【Nangong】 Token seems to be only that one.
It seems that, as guessed before, that person’s identity was relatively special, so he could hold the token.
Could it be because his horns grew on his forehead, and the position was more standard than others?
Qi Xuan couldn’t be sure.
He turned his gaze to the pile of odds and ends inside, or rather, the pile of relics.
This time, there was a new harvest.
