Chapter 0598 Star Array
The flea came for the seeds of the nebula tree. In the next three days, it found fifteen more gathering places of demon corpses in a vast area. There was one corpse at least, and hundreds at most. Regardless of gender, age or young, they were all wrapped in a thick layer of ice, which made them look alive.
These beast demons came from two or three tribes. As the rumor said, Bingkui did not leave any survivors, not even the babies who had just been born.
Lian Jinchu also guessed that the murderer was Bingkui, "No wonder the northern demons are so afraid of Bingkui." Staring at the eyes of a little demon that seemed to be still moving, he shuddered, "Bingkui deliberately left the whole corpse just to scare everyone."
Mu Xingqiu did not draw a conclusion too early. He was looking into the distance, and his mind slowly outlined the scenes he had seen in the past three days.
Not far away, the flea was playing a game of chasing each other with the bald man. It found ten nebula tree seeds, all fresh. After eating them, it recovered most of its memories and could recognize the old acquaintances. The blood on its neck faded away, but its eyes were red and yellow.
But some changes remained. The flea was still as powerful as before. One of its horns could lift the bald man to a height of hundreds of feet. This was a dangerous game, but only the two of them dared to play it, and they had a lot of fun.
Mu Xingqiu bent down and drew a dozen dots on an undamaged snow field. "Look, the place where the monster was killed was not random. Bingkui - let's assume that the killer was Bingkui - was using the monster corpse to set up a formation."
Jinchu admired Mu Xingqiu's memory, but he couldn't tell what formation these messy dots were.
Mu Xingqiu looked up at the sky. It was just past noon, but he saw a sky full of stars. "All the places where monsters were killed are consistent with the stars in the sky. The brightness is exactly the same as the number of monster corpses. I can't name these stars, but I can remember their positions."
Jinchu was even more surprised. "What does Bingkui want to do?"
Mu Xingqiu shook his head. "I know this must be a monster formation, but I don't know the purpose. And why are there seeds of the nebula tree?"
This is the most confusing thing for Mu Xingqiu. The nebula tree is only in Wangshan. Under the obstruction of magic, the seeds cannot fly out of the valley. They can only rely on killing each other to reduce their number. This is how the medicinal material Xinghua Feiying came from.
Did the beast monster that was killed come from the vicinity of Wangshan? Or was Wangshan carrying out a certain plan? Or was it not Bingkui who killed the monster at all, but the Taoist priest of Wangshan?
Mu Xingqiu couldn't figure it out. He was thinking silently, and suddenly woke up. What was he doing? Since he doesn't want to be responsible and doesn't want to be the leader anymore, he shouldn't think too much. If he takes a wrong step, he will be trapped step by step. It's better for him to stay away from this place.
Mu Xingqiu turned and walked towards Qilin, leaving Jinchu with a confused look. After a while, the spirit monster sighed and continued to check the monster corpses all over the ground.
Flea and Baldy came up, and Qilin rubbed against Mu Xingqiu intimately, as if he didn't remember that he had fought with him.
Mu Xingqiu thought it was pretending to be confused, but he still hugged its neck and said in a gentle voice: "Okay, spit out the crystal eye, you have no use for that thing, give it to me, I will take you to see Zuo Liuying."
Flea blinked twice with its big yellow eyes, both evil and innocent, as if it didn't understand what humans said.
Mu Xingqiu turned to the other side and said, "Yi Shijun, I know you can hear my voice. Come out and let's talk. You want freedom, and I want to solve some doubts. This is a good deal."
Mu Xingqiu actually couldn't release the crow's soul from the crystal eye. Yi Shijun obviously knew this, so he didn't react. The flea's blood-red eyes slowly turned, always like a silent threat.
One red and one yellow, the flea's two eyes split its face into two styles, and the longer you look at it, the more distorted it feels.
The bald man landed between the two corners, "Flea, be obedient and spit out the crystal eye, otherwise..."
The flea suddenly raised his head, threw the bald man out, and then ran after him and caught him steadily.
The crystal eye will not come out for the time being. Mu Xingqiu doesn't understand what Yi Shijun is doing. Since he controlled Qi Yemang to secretly put the crystal eye into his arms, he must have a plan. Why did he refuse to talk at this time?
The stronger the person, the more he likes to play such tricks. Yi Shijun and Zuo Liuying are no different. As for the Taoist and the demon species, the tricks are more complicated and more difficult to see through.
Jinchu ran over excitedly, holding a beast horn in his hand, "Look."
There were fine lines on the beast horn, which was obviously a demon pill. Mu Xingqiu took it in his hand and immediately understood why Jinchu thought it was special. The demon pill was cold to the bone, like a knife piercing the back of his hand.
"Not only that." Jinchu took back the demon pill, gently folded his hands, and the demon pill broke into two pieces, and several pieces fell from the broken end.
The beast demon has thick skin and flesh, and the demon pill is especially hard, which can even block some ordinary Taoist spells, and it is definitely not so fragile.
"Bingkui is really using magic to use up all the power in the demon pill." Jinchu's excitement quickly disappeared, replaced by more doubts, "But what's the use of this magic? Just to freeze all the corpses?"
Jinchu refused to give up, and kept making various analyses beside Mu Xingqiu, but he had too little information and didn't even know what the nebula tree seeds were. Most of the conclusions he drew were almost blind guesses. Mu Xingqiu wanted to correct him several times, but finally held back.
Mu Xingqiu hugged the flea's neck again, put his forehead against it, and tried to use the third level of illusion to enter the flea's brain, repeating in his heart: "Talk to me..."
Not only did the flea's body become stronger, but its resistance to spells was also much stronger than before. The illusion spell could not penetrate and could only wander around the periphery. I don't know how long it had passed, but Mu Xingqiu suddenly heard something.
"Follow Qilin."
Mu Xingqiu raised his head, and the voice disappeared. Beside him, Jin Cuo was still analyzing various possibilities endlessly, while Bald Man kept counting fleas. It was obvious that only he heard this.
Is this Ishi-kun's response, or is it his own hallucination? Mu Xingqiu had difficulty identifying it. The harder he tried to recall, the more ethereal the voice seemed.
"It's snowing again." Jin Cui pointed to the sky, "The land of monsters is obviously a land of ice and snow. It snows endlessly. Will the winter here never end?"
Mu Xingqiu thought, could the snow be the purpose of Bingkui's magic? He forbade himself to think any further.
"Where should we go next? Continue to look for more corpses?" Jin Cu asked.
Mu Xingqiu patted the flea on the back and said, "Let it choose."
This time, the flea understood Mu Xingqiu's words, stepped hard on the ground with all four hooves, flew into the air, and flew less than half a mile before falling from the sky, making the bald man laugh.
Jin Cuo flew over to check, but he didn't expect it to fall faster. The bald man turned somersaults and laughed. After a while, he became extremely happy and sad. He plopped into the snow, with his head down, making him even more embarrassed.
Mu Xingqiu pulled out the bald man and supported him forward with his hands. The bald man didn't even bother to wipe the snow off his face. He tried hard to fly again, but failed. "It's strange, it's so strange, how can I Can’t fly?”
Mu Xingqiu didn't try. He only needed to use his magic power once and he understood that not only could he not fly, he could not cast any spells or hexes here at all.
Jin Cui jumped up and shouted at Mu Xingqiu: "This is the effect of Bingkui's magic! No wonder so many beasts and monsters fight with swords, and none of them uses magic."
Mu Xingqiu and the others wandered around for three days before they were affected, which showed that the formation did not take effect immediately. Bingkui probably had some magic that could have an immediate effect.
The flea didn't know why, so after trying several times, it had no choice but to walk on the ground obediently.
After nightfall that day, the nearest demon corpse was twenty or thirty miles away, the restriction on the spell disappeared, and the fleas could fly freely again.
During this period, Mu Xingqiu did an experiment and fell with a flea. He found that the power in his body had not weakened, but the spell could not be used, or the effect was greatly reduced.
After being able to cast spells normally, Mu Xingqiu once again used the third level of illusion on the flea, but it was still useless. Regardless of whether he was imprisoned or not, the illusion could not enter Qilin's mind.
Mu Xingqiu missed the seventh-level illusion and his old inner elixir a little. Although the Niwan Palace elixir given to him by the Dragon Demon was powerful, it was not particularly easy to use, and there seemed to be some distance between it and him.
"Where are Flea going?" Jin Cui saw that Mu Xingqiu was following Flea, but didn't know why.
Mu Xingqiu didn't know either. The flea's route was very random, going east and west. It wasn't until a day later that Mu Xingqiu could tell that the flea was heading southeast, which was further east than the old road it came from.
"It's going to take us back to Ice City." Jin Cu also saw it and was very happy with Qilin's choice.
Mu Xingqiu was puzzled. Flea was obviously under the control of Lord Yishi. Why did the demon of souls go to the Ice City? He finally got rid of Zuo Liuying, why did he throw himself into the trap again? Did he think that only Zuo Liuying could free him?
The restriction in the crystal eyes was cast by Mu Xingqiu and several Taoist priests. He believed that as long as he found enough magicians to help, the restriction could be completely broken. There seemed to be no need for Mr. Yishi to ask Zuo Liuying.
But Mr. Yishi did not speak to Mu Xingqiu in any form.
After a few days, things finally became clearer. The fleas were walking a "death route". Along the way, they encountered more and more monster corpses. They all died in the same way, and their distribution locations were vaguely consistent with the stars in the sky.
The flea ate a lot of Nebula Tree seeds, but one of its eyes was always red. Baldy's judgment was that the flea only ate the seeds but not the fresh leaves, so there was a little magic blood that could not be removed.
Mu Xingqiu gradually deduced Bingkui's direction from the distribution of demon corpses.
"Bingkui is not just going to Ice City, they are using demon formations to surround Ice City!"
The ice city that is completely besieged will not be able to cast spells. A group of Taoist priests who can only use swords are like lambs to be slaughtered. Mu Xingqiu must remind them that for him, the biggest question is how deep to intervene.