Chapter 204 Ambush

Click!

Xu Mu waved the thunder sword in his hand and split the branches blocking the road in front of him.

According to the white cat's tip, flying would easily lead to attacks from monsters. In order to save spiritual power, Xu Mu chose to walk on foot.

"The trees here are really tough!"

Xu Mu picked up the branches that fell from the ground. The leaves are green and tender, and the trees are dark brown. If you tap them with your fingers, they will immediately make a thumping sound like gold and iron.

Xu Mu grabbed his fingers and exerted force. With a bang, the branches burst into pieces and flew everywhere, and some of them penetrated deeply into the soil.

Judging from experiments, these seemingly ordinary trees are already harder than ordinary iron. With a little refinement, they can become a good low-level magic weapon.

"There is plenty of spiritual energy here, and there are a lot of ferocious beasts in and out. It's impossible to survive if it doesn't stay the same."

The puppet cat explained to Xu Mu boredly.

"makes sense!"

Xu Mu nodded.

Like people, plants evolve in response to their environment.

This is also the reason why more spiritual plants will be born in areas with abundant spiritual energy.

Of course, more dangers will arise.

"It's a pity that these plants and trees contain evil spirits, otherwise we could have collected some!" Xu Mu said regretfully.

This place is rich in spiritual energy and has not been visited for many years. There are rare and rare plants, spiritual fruits and spiritual trees everywhere. If collected, it will definitely be a big fortune.

"Although these Suzuki cannot make magic weapons, they can be used to make puppets, so they are not completely worthless."

The puppet cat stretched and continued: "Although it allows you to save spiritual power, if you continue walking so slowly, the spiritual power consumption will probably be even greater."

There is no contact between this place and the outside world, and there are evil spirits everywhere. Xu Mu needs to use spiritual power to protect his body at all times, and the spiritual power consumption is not full at all.

If you are using defensive magic weapons, your spiritual power consumption will be even greater.

"Senior, don't worry! I just want to familiarize myself with the environment first. Besides, your master doesn't set a time limit either!" Xu Mu said with a playful smile.

"Whatever!"

The puppet cat lay on his shoulder, squinting its eyes lazily, as if it didn't want to talk nonsense to him.

Seeing how cute it was, Xu Mu couldn't help but want to reach out and stroke it. Before his hands could touch it, a white aura suddenly emitted from the puppet cat's body, blocking his hand.

"what are you doing?"

The puppet cat suddenly opened its eyes, its dark pupils staring at him.

"Senior, don't get me wrong, I just touched you!"

"..."

The puppet cat snorted coldly, jumped off his shoulder, and landed on a nearby tree.

"no!"

The puppet cat raised its chin and looked at Xu Mu with disdain, just like a arrogant little princess.

"alright, that's fine!"

Xu Mu spread his hands indifferently and continued walking forward with his sword in hand.

The trees get taller and taller as you go inward, and some can even stretch into the clouds, like trees supporting the world.

The hardness of this kind of tree can already be used to refine fourth-level spiritual weapons, and the heart of the tree can even be used as the main material for sixth-level spiritual weapons.

It's a pity that the evil spirit contained in this kind of tree is even heavier. Let alone being used to refine weapons, just holding it in your hand can disturb your mind. Even demonic monks must be cautious when using it.

The more he observed, the more Xu Mu felt there was something wrong here.

Especially after inhaling a wisp of evil spirit into the body and trying to refine it to no avail.

It's not like he hasn't come into contact with demonic monks, and he even has many refined corpses with evil auras on his hands.

But whether it was the demonic monks he came into contact with or the refined corpse in his hands, the evil spirit contained therein was qualitatively different from that here.

If we have to compare, one is water and the other is mercury.

Whether it's destructive or corrosive, it makes a world of difference.

This is also the reason why he deliberately delayed.

If you don't figure it out, if you dare to mess around there, you know what kind of monsters you will encounter later.

The white cat turned a blind eye to his actions, as if letting him discover the secrets here.

But just as Bai Mao said, the longer he stayed, the greater the consumption of spiritual power, and the more disadvantageous it was to him.

Although he carried many spiritual stones and elixirs to replenish his spiritual power, he could not stay there indefinitely.

Not to mention, these evil spirits can also affect his spiritual thoughts to a certain extent and consume his mental energy.

Replenishing mental power is much more troublesome than spiritual power.

Xu Mu looked at the puppet cat, which was moving silently among the branches. It seemed that the cat didn't care about the erosion of the evil spirit at all.

However, considering the identity of the opponent's puppet, it seems that it is not incomprehensible.

It was probably for this reason that the woman asked them to follow her.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, a man and a cat suddenly stopped. The puppet cat jumped back onto Xu Mu's shoulder without hesitation, with a hint of vigilance in his expression.

Although it is not afraid of the evil spirit in the space, its actual strength is not strong and it still has to rely on Xu Mu.

Xu Mu squinted his eyes slightly and looked at the surrounding environment.

At this time, they were in a dense forest, surrounded by dense ancient trees. The smallest ones required two people to hug each other, and were hundreds of meters high. The bark of the trees was dark red, and pieces were attached to the trees like scales.

The thick leaves above the head blocked the little light, forming a path of mottled light and shadow on the rotting leaves on the ground. The surroundings were so quiet that only the chirping of birds and the slightest sound of wind could be heard.

Xu Mu released his spiritual thoughts to check, but did not find any clues, but he clearly felt like he was being watched.

"It's probably disguised. Try attacking nearby!" the puppet cat reminded.

"good!"

Xu Mu nodded, took out three fourth-level ice sword talismans from his storage bag, and threw them in three directions.

These talismans were made by Leng Yuening in his spare time, and Xu Mu had quite a few of them. For him now, these talismans were of little use, but they were very suitable for testing and could save the spiritual energy in his body.

puff!

The talisman burned in the air, and the runes on it were activated, quickly absorbing the surrounding aura of heaven and earth, and condensed into a handleless blue ice sword, exuding cold energy and shooting towards the surroundings.

One of them shot towards Kong Chu, as if it had hit an invisible rope. After flying a certain distance, it actually solidified in the air.

Another shot into the sky and disappeared among the thick foliage.

The last one shot towards a tall giant tree. With a pop, the ice sword seemed to have pierced into some liquid, and then a round lump of dark brown bark fell from the tree together with the ice sword.

Hiss!

After the round piece of bark landed on the ground, it immediately let out a harsh neighing sound, and then ejected eight limbs. It opened six yellow compound eyes and struggled desperately on the ground, trying to get up, but the ice sword stabbed it too hard. There is obviously not much strength left.

"Spider monster?"

Xu Mu recognized it at a glance as an insect-like monster, but he couldn't confirm it carefully. Waves of hissing sounds instantly filled the entire dense forest.

"Could these be...!" Xu Mu looked up sharply.

All the big trees swelled up one by one like goosebumps, and then the joints and limbs popped out from under the bark of the trees. The dense yellow compound eyes opened at the same time. As they turned, they all looked at Xu Mu on the ground.

grass!