邪神之道 B1

Ancient Battlefield

"Eh? What's this?"

With the face of a naïve child and the red chrysanthemum in hand Ye Gui Feng finds himself standing before an open area of the forest.

There were many valuable fruit trees and herbs growing out here but the most staggering sight of them all is the giant tree at the far back.

Ye Gui Feng is currently picking up these fruits that have fallen off of their trees. As for these herbs he would carefully pluck them out of the soil beds.

As much as Ye Gui Feng would like to take all of them he would always leave a few behind to insure that they would regrow later.

"Hmm I should come back here more often in the future. This is truly just a treasure trove."

Taking a few more steps forward towards the giant tree at the far back Ye Gui Feng raises his head to look up at the tree.

Its entire trunk looks very strange as it is seemingly made up of thousands upon thousands of growing vines that had sprouted out of the ground.

"Hm?"

Strangely Ye Gui Feng's eyes make out the shape of a face on the trunk of the tree.

"...!"

Placing a hand onto it a tremor runs through Ye Gui Feng's body causing his eyes to widen.

The giant tree suddenly wrinkles up as if all its water is being drained.

To Ye Gui Feng this looks almost as if the three is withering away through the aging of time.

Ye Gui Feng takes a few steps back as he watches the ancient tree continuing to wither away.

Momentarily a figure emerges from within the tree and falls onto the ground with a light thud.

The figure is a dark haired girl dressed in a ripped set of gray robes.

Being somewhat hesitant to approach Ye Gui Feng carefully stretches his hand out and pokes the head of the girl with his index finger.

"..."

There was no reaction in the slightly. Poking a few more times Ye Gui Feng eventually relaxes his guard and carefully walks over to the side of the body to gently flip it onto its back.

Ye Gui Feng's first reaction is shock as his mouth subconsciously moves to mutter a few inaudible words.

The girl's face is that of a dull gray color and she doesn't seem to be breathing.

"What a beautiful face and yet..."

This was a corpse and not a living person. There was a hole in the stomach area of the body. Although this is a corpse there seems to be something about it that gives off a hint of life.

Perhaps it was because this girl had once been a cultivator so upon death her body will continued to contain a hint of vitality because of the magic energy that she had accumulated throughout her life time.

"*Sigh*"

Gently Ye Gui Feng sets down the red chrysanthemum onto the chest of the corpse and clasps his hands to offer a prayer.

"Hm...!"

That is also when the blood red chrysanthemum shines and floats over the head of the corpse. Its roots turn into a sharpen dagger as it stabs into the side of the corpse's head!

A tremor runs through the corpse as the red chrysanthemum shines. The treasure plant spews out blood colored particles almost as if it was a person spewing out blood.