Chapter 57: Rainforest Clearing
On the western border of Dayan, there is a landmark area called the Eternal Rainforest.
The Eternal Rainforest is very large, almost spanning most of the western border of Dayan. The dense vegetation blocks most of the sunlight, making the rainforest dim everywhere. Only the occasional spots that secretly fall from the leaves prevent the dim rainforest from being so dark that nothing can be seen.
In the dim cloud forest, it is hot and humid. Thick rotten leaves mixed with the corpses of various creatures piled on the ground, emitting bursts of indescribable disgusting smells. Some rotten leaves are mixed with something unknown, and they actually emit bursts of mist of various colors in this steamer-like rainforest. Most of these mists are also disgusting, but a few of them smell pretty good, and even make people feel addicted to them.
However, if you really believe that these good-smelling mists can benefit your physical and mental health, then congratulations, you are already dead. Because these mists of different colors and smells have a well-known unified name - miasma.
The "beauty" of miasma is well known, and the reason why the Eternal Forest can be used as a natural protective barrier by Dayan is that the miasma here is not only fatal to ordinary people, but even to monks, some of the beautiful miasma can also play these powerful creatures beyond mortals to death.
The Eternal Rainforest, which seems to be a forbidden zone for life, is not dead silent. Although it is not suitable for humans and most animals to live, it is a paradise for many poisonous insects and beasts. These creatures who are born to like hot and humid environments are extremely poisonous. Miasma that is fatal to other creatures is actually a tonic for them.
For millions of years, these creatures have lived here generation after generation, dividing the entire rainforest into unknown areas, each guarding one side. If other creatures step into their territory, they will immediately launch a fierce attack until all the intruders are killed or expelled.
For them, the rainforest is like a country with princes everywhere and each king. Here, they have their own rules.
However, this rule was broken not long ago. Deep in the rainforest, with a thunderous roar, a strong wind that had never been seen swept through, blowing away the miasma and humidity in the rainforest. The invisible pressure in the strong wind also made the residents of the rainforest panic, making them run around or shiver in their nests.
After the strong wind swept through, the rainforest gradually became quiet again. The frightened residents began to tremble out of their nests and restarted their lives in fear.
They are so happy without opening their intelligence, as long as their territory is still there. But some creatures with high intelligence are not like this. They have already understood curiosity and fear, and began to walk out of their territory and run all the way to the place where the loud noise occurred. They want to know what it is that caused such great damage to their homes.
Full of curiosity and fear, they kept quiet tacitly while running all the way. Whether it was the ferocious beasts that liked to roar whenever they had something to do, or the insects and snakes that could only make a rustling sound, they all tried to keep quiet. Even when some ferocious beasts with old grudges met, they did not fight directly as they did in the past, but just bared their teeth at each other, roared a few times to show their threats, and then went their separate ways and continued to move forward.
Because, ahead, there were greater threats and unknowns waiting for them.
When they passed through the rainforest and came to the place where the explosion occurred, everything in front of them stunned them.
The familiar rainforest was gone, and it seemed that there was a bald spot in the rainforest, and a large strange open space appeared. In the open space, all the big trees were broken in half, and some of them were even uprooted. Among these broken pieces of grass and trees, you can occasionally see some insect and beast remains, as if telling the horror that happened here.
The strange scene made the poisonous insects and beasts that came to the scene stop in place, and no one dared to cross the line while looking at each other. They were afraid, afraid that if they entered, they would become one of those limbs.
Fear should have made them leave, but they were already curious and eager, and they were unwilling to leave. Because, with their intelligence, they already knew how to desire to be strong, and they wanted to obtain this power that could destroy everything, even if it was only a small part.
They were in a dilemma, and finally made a choice according to their instinct. They chose to stay where they were and wait and see. They were waiting, waiting for the first guy who dared to step into it. As long as there was the first person who stepped in and proved that there was no danger here, they would start to act and enter to find the power that might make them stronger.
This is wisdom, the talent they have when they open their intelligence and know how to think.
Similarly, this is their sorrow. Because their wisdom is not enough to make them understand a truth - the first person to eat crabs often has the biggest harvest.
I don’t know how long it took, one day, a sound of breaking through the air came from the sky. The anxious beasts who had been waiting for a long time immediately looked up at the sky.
In the sky, an old man in a green Taoist robe was flying towards here on a huge brown gourd. If Li Chuyi was here, he would definitely find that gourd familiar, because it was very similar to the Taoist's gourd. However, the Taoist's gourd was bumpy and looked very broken, even worse than the wine gourd of the beggar on the street, while the gourd the old man was riding was smooth and faintly shiny, and it was obviously an extraordinary magic weapon.
Soon, the gourd carrying the old man flew to the edge of the open space. The old man just glanced at the insects and beasts below who were looking at him at the same time, and then flew past without stopping, flying directly to the center of the open space.
Below, the poisonous insects and beasts who had been waiting for a long time saw that there was actually a guy who dared to break into this area first, and he was not dead yet. They didn't think there was any difference between flying and running, as if they heard the order to charge, and immediately rushed forward, rushing forward one after another.
Amid the roars, the beasts rushed forward.
They rushed forward, but they didn't know what they were looking for. But their little wisdom and instincts told them that it was right to follow the figure in the sky. The strange beast dared to step into this place first, and without hesitation, so he must have discovered something. As long as they followed him, it would be right.
So, a strange picture appeared in the open space in the rainforest. An old man in a green robe was walking in the sky, and hundreds of beasts on the ground followed closely behind him. From a distance, it seemed that the old man in the green robe had done something that was hated by heaven and man and offended these beasts, and it seemed that these beasts were the pets of the old man in the green robe. The scene was extremely strange.
"These brainless idiots." The old man in the green robe looked behind him and chuckled.
Ignoring those who followed him, the old man in the green robe looked ahead, holding a Taoist spell in his hand, and silently sensing something with his eyes slightly closed.
Suddenly, his expression slightly changed, he opened his eyes and looked forward, grinning, and chuckled: "I found it, it's here."
If Li Chuyi was there, he would definitely see at a glance that the place he was looking at was the space crack that sucked him into the void.
"My friend, I hope you are still alive, it's worth my effort to find you."
A breeze blew, and the old man in green robe fluttered his clothes, revealing a token on his waist, with a tripod painted on it, and two big characters engraved in the complex pattern - Hundred Tribulations.