Chapter 377: Quick Decision

Yuan Ming turned back not because he wanted to leave, but because he wanted to go to the other two areas to see the situation before making plans.

Not long after, Yuan Ming came to the colorful garden. Before he stepped in, he smelled a mixture of more than a dozen different flower scents.

Yuan Ming's nostrils twitched, and he inhaled a little, and suddenly felt the flower fragrance was pleasant and refreshing.

He walked slowly into the garden, and soon found that there were many old spiritual flowers and herbs. Although they were not too rare, they could be exchanged for a lot of spiritual stones. He immediately rolled up his sleeves, and a ray of light rolled out, and he put them all in his pocket.

But at this moment, he suddenly frowned, and felt that the flower fragrance in front of his nose turned into a disgusting bloody smell.

He immediately looked up. The sea of ​​flowers that were originally competing for beauty suddenly turned into a sea of ​​blood and corpses in his eyes. The so-called red flowers and green leaves were clearly blood-stained hands, feet, fists and palms. They seemed to be swaying in the wind, but in fact they were the twitching and shaking of fingers and toes.

In his palm, a spiritual flower that had just been picked turned into a broken palm. The root of the flower was constantly bleeding, and its fingers were desperately stretched forward, as if trying to touch Yuan Ming's palm.

Seeing this, Yuan Ming frowned, but did not throw the spiritual flower in his hand away. Instead, he moved his mind, and the soul power in his sea of ​​consciousness rippled out. The spiritual consciousness swarmed and fell on the strange flower in his hand, but he saw that it was still the original colorful appearance.

In addition, everything covered by the spiritual consciousness was still extremely terrifying in Yuan Ming's eyes, but there was nothing unusual when he looked at it with the spiritual consciousness.

"It's not an illusion but a poison?" Yuan Ming seemed to have sensed something, and immediately closed his sense of smell, isolating himself from the influence of the flower fragrance, and the strange scene in front of him also disappeared.

But at this moment, the ground under Yuan Ming's feet suddenly became extremely soft, and a huge suction force came from below, swallowing up a small part of his legs in just a moment, and was still accelerating to pull him down.

Yuan Ming's heart trembled, and he immediately raised his hand to release Huazhi and King Kong. At the same time, he pinched the magic formula, and a large piece of bone-white flame instantly ignited on the white bone knife, and slashed towards the ground under him.

Huazhi and King Kong were just released, and they took action at the same time according to Yuan Ming's orders.

Huazhi instantly inserted his arms into the ground, and countless purple vines grew and rushed towards Yuan Ming's feet. King Kong quickly stepped forward, grabbed Yuan Ming's arm, and cooperated with his magic power to pull him out of the soft ground.

As if sensing that Yuan Ming was about to escape, the suction in the mud suddenly increased, but when the white bone knife sank into the ground and the purple vines followed closely, a frightened howl came faintly from under the mud.

The next moment, Yuan Ming felt the suction below loosen, and the whole person instantly flew up from the ground, and was thrown into the sky by the brute force of the unexpected King Kong.

Yuan Ming was in mid-air, and quickly used his magic power to stabilize his body and looked towards where he had just stood.

I saw that the ground of the garden kept rising and falling under the pursuit of the branches and vines, as if there was a giant python swimming in the mud.

Yuan Ming raised his hand to recall the white bone knife, and observed the direction of the "giant python" in mid-air. When he saw the right time, he pointed suddenly, and the white bone knife whistled out, and just collided head-on with the "giant python" when breaking the ground.

What surprised him was that the white bone knife made a crisp sound when it chopped on the monster's head, as if something was broken. The monster also cried out in pain, and then burrowed into the soil again, as if trying to escape.

Yuan Ming immediately pinched the magic formula, and the white fire on the bone knife immediately seemed to be alive, and pounced on the monster before it was completely buried in the soil.

The monster was burned by the white fire, and countless pale white ice crystals suddenly appeared on its body surface, and its movement speed slowed down a lot. Taking this opportunity, the vines released by the flower branch took advantage of the momentum and quickly grabbed the monster out of the soil and hung it in the air.

Yuan Ming didn't see the monster's appearance until then. It was not a giant python, but a strange lizard covered with white hair. There was a piece of black tortoise shell on its head, and a small part of it was broken. It was expected to be the trace left by the white bone knife just now.

The strange lizard hanging in the air was still struggling. As its body shook, several white hairs fell off. As soon as it landed, it disappeared like a drop in the ocean. Then, the flowers in that area bloomed instantly, releasing bursts of fragrance, attacking the flower branches.

However, the flower branches were vines, and with Yuan Ming's guidance, they would not inhale the fragrance of the flowers at all, and naturally there would be no special reaction.

Yuan Ming looked up and down at the monster, and suddenly recalled a monster called "Drilling Fang" mentioned in the classics he read that year.

Speaking of which, this Drilling Fang is similar to the ground monster. Not only does it have the ability to drill the ground, but it can also control the softness and hardness of mud and stone to a certain extent to trap and kill the enemy.

In addition, the white hair on this monster is also quite strange. Once it falls off, it can make the flowers and plants in an area emit a poisonous fragrance. After inhaling it, you will fall into an illusion, but this illusion acts on the body rather than the spirit. It is not a big threat to the cultivator, but it will be regarded as a shortcut to find this monster.

However, the city of Yindu was originally shrouded in an illusion array, which greatly compensated for the shortcomings of this monster's magical power, making it difficult for cultivators who entered its territory to distinguish between reality and illusion, and eventually being devoured by this monster.

However, now that the illusion array has been broken, Yuan Ming, who came here, has a strong soul and is an expert in illusion. With only this little ability of this monster, it is a bit of a show-off. With only the cultivation of a third-level monster, the combat power shown is not as good as some second-level monsters.

Yuan Ming raised his hand and the white bone knife rushed over, cutting off the head of the earth-drilling beast. Its body was immediately absorbed by the branches and soon became a dry corpse.

Without the monster blocking him, Yuan Ming continued to explore the garden, and finally found several old spiritual herbs, but there was no other harvest.

For ordinary Jindan cultivators, the harvest in the garden is already rich. So many spiritual herbs, whether exchanged for spiritual stones or refined into pills, are already very impressive.

However, in Yuan Ming's mind, this place is a treasure land that can be on par with the City Lord's Mansion. Some spiritual herbs that can be used in the Jindan stage are far from satisfying him.

Yuan Ming left the garden and returned to the dense forest. His eyes wandered between the lake and the rockery, and finally chose to step onto the trestle bridge on the lake.

Five Yuanying stage masters explored the City Lord's Mansion together, and their speed was probably faster than his, so he had to get ahead of everyone, fight quickly, get the treasures in the garden, and then rush back.

Among the several areas, only the three-story attic gave Yuan Ming a special feeling. He was cautious not to go there before. Now that he found that there were no treasures hidden in the garden, he thought that there would be no treasures in the stone mountain area either, so there was no need to waste time.

Yuan Ming hurriedly walked on the corridor bridge, followed by Huazhi and King Kong. The man and the two beasts were alert to the surroundings and searched for treasures along the way.

As the three of them got closer to the island in the lake, the lotus leaves beside the corridor bridge gradually increased.

Among the tender green leaves, the lotus pods drooped their heads. In the breeze, they were like sleepy children, touching the lake surface from time to time. After a circle of ripples, they woke up for a moment, straightened their backs in a hurry, but could not hide their sleepiness, and soon they drooped again.

Yuan Ming looked around and felt that the wood attribute aura around him was several times richer. On a whim, he cast a spell to pick a lotus pod and dug out several lotus seeds with rich aura and fragrant aroma.

He used his spiritual sense to cover the lotus seeds, and after a moment of investigation, he found that there was nothing unusual about them, so he tried to eat one.

After the lotus seeds entered his stomach, Yuan Ming immediately felt a warm current flowing through his body, and the mana he had consumed before was instantly replenished, and even his cultivation had improved a little.

Seeing that the lotus seeds had such magical effects, Yuan Ming's eyes suddenly lit up, and he called Huazhi and King Kong to pick them with them.

While picking, Yuan Ming also dug out the spiritual lotus roots hidden under the lotus leaves. Although his specific effects were not yet known, just by the rich spiritual energy on them that was no less than that of lotus seeds, he knew that they were not ordinary things.

One person and two beasts swept forward while moving forward, but suddenly, Yuan Ming found that in the depths of the lake far away from the corridor bridge, under the cover of layers of lotus leaves, colorful rays of light gushed out, like a rainbow after rain, dazzling and extremely gorgeous.

Yuan Ming sensed the rich spiritual energy coming from behind the lotus leaves, and his heart suddenly moved. He immediately floated down to the lake and walked towards the rays of light.

He pushed aside the lotus leaves blocking his way, and a colorful little lotus came into view. The lotus was already in full bloom, and the three layers of 72 petals were pink, reflecting the dozen colorful lotus seeds in the center. The rich spiritual energy condensed into mist, rising and falling with the sunset, as if it could breathe.

Yuan Ming was deeply attracted by the beautiful scenery in front of him, and was amazed in his heart. He was about to pick it, but just after taking two steps, his eyelids suddenly jumped, and a strong sense of crisis emerged from his soul.

Yuan Ming's heart jumped suddenly, and before he could react, he felt a pain in his ankle, and then his body flew up uncontrollably, like a bug falling into a spider web, hanging upside down in the air.

At the same time, the calm lake surface suddenly rolled and surged, and two blood-red vines covered with barbs emerged from the water and stabbed at Yuan Ming.

Seeing the ferocious appearance of the two vines, Yuan Ming quickly pinched the magic formula and summoned the bronze tripod. Endless flames gushed out of it and condensed into a shield in front of him to block the vines.

However, facing the blazing fire, the blood-colored vines seemed to be covered with a thin film, and there was no sign of burning itself. At the same time, under the continuous whipping of the vines, the flame shield continued to shrink and soon broke apart.

Almost at the moment when they found that Yuan Ming was attacked, Huazhi and King Kong standing on the corridor bridge reacted at the same time, and at this time they also began to use their own methods.

Huazhi's figure quickly approached and directly stretched out his arms. The purple-black vines condensed into a dark purple giant sword and whistled and slashed at the blood-colored vines.

The blood-colored vines immediately changed the target of attack, and the body covered with barbs rushed up to meet the giant sword. When it was about to touch, it twisted its body and directly entangled it. The barbs scratched the vine giant sword and even tore off a lot of vine bark and tree chips.

Seeing that Yuan Ming was hanging upside down in the air with two blood vines entangled around his ankles, King Kong immediately circulated his internal energy to cover his feet, walked on the water, and flashed to Yuan Ming's body. He grabbed a vine that was wrapped around his ankles and tried to tear it into two pieces with both arms.

During this process, the barbs on the vines tried desperately to pierce King Kong's body, but they were like hitting a copper wall, leaving only sparks and unable to penetrate at all.

However, the toughness of the vines was beyond King Kong's expectations. He almost exerted all his strength, but only tore a small hole in the vines and failed to tear it apart completely.