Chapter 11: The Rock Fortress
The white-clothed man who was pierced by the spear was not dead yet, but his lungs and spine were shattered, so naturally he couldn't say anything, and Su Sun didn't have the spirit to listen, he just glanced at the two 'demon soldiers' in front of him who had completely urged the spiritual power to the extreme, so that all the blood vessels and tendons on his face burst out.
The demon soldier, worthy of the name of the demon, was still the same as an ordinary human when he didn't use his full strength to urge the power at the beginning, but as soon as he pushed the power to the limit, his face and hands that were not covered by clothes were instantly covered with woody cyan veins like tree roots, and these wooden roots pulsated with the rapid agitation of the demon soldier's flesh and blood aura, revealing an inhuman heterogeneous texture.
These two demon soldiers were not afraid of death, or they knew that they couldn't run away, so they didn't even say a word, the one on the left directly raised the crossbow and shot an arrow, and then pulled out a scimitar from his waist and rushed forward, slashing at Su Sun's neck, while the one on the right jumped to the ground like a beast, attacking Su Sun's knees and ankles with an armor-piercing cone.
Even if he is possessed by the immortal root, people can distinguish the beauty and ugliness, the demon soldier with the knife on the left is quite good-looking, and belongs to the kind that does not lose his place as a guard in front of the royal family, while the one on the right is quite ordinary, and the roots on his face are covering his ugliness.
But soon, the two of them don't need to care about their appearance: because Su Yan shot like a stick, and took the body of the leading demon soldier to slash down, directly completely smashing the entire head of the demon soldier on the left into a concave shape, and the blood plasma in the eyes and teeth exploded, and even splashed on the body of the demon soldier on the right.
And the demon soldier on the right took advantage of the opportunity of his companion's head being blown up, stabbed Su Sun's knee with all his strength, and then made a gesture to retreat - he couldn't beat it, he could only make the opponent incapacitated, and then he quickly ran away.
The plan was pretty good, but it went wrong from the very beginning.
Su Tian's knees condensed spiritual power, and the triangular spirit patterns were layered on top of each other, and he just raised his knees forward, and the armor-piercing cone that the demon soldier stabbed with all his strength not only did not pierce the skin, but stabbed back in reverse at a faster speed than the previous stab.
Before the demon soldier could react, the cone pierced through his throat upside down, and his head was also grabbed by Su Sun, and with a slight twist, it was twisted open and pulled up like a bottle cap.
The scene was too bloody, and the warm blood with the cyan sap splashed and flowed in the snow, and in just a few seconds, the three white-clothed demon soldiers had lost all their combat effectiveness.
In short, when Su Sun returned to the small village with two still intact and one not very complete, with the head of the cyan wood root under his neck, the escort team looked at him with the eyes of a monster, or rather, a mysterious being.
- This guy, when he fought with himself and others before, did he still put so much water?!
"These guys have their heads pulled out, and they don't seem to be dead yet—is the immortal root this kind of cyan root? It's tough. ”
Su Sun threw the three heads to the ground, and the bones turned around the frozen ground a few times, and he could see that the demon soldier was indeed not dead, and even the neck was slowly regenerating and healing, stopping the blood.
“…… After implanting the immortal root, the person is not a human, but a monster. ”
Mo Ganxiu walked out of the crowd that was still in a stunned state, as the eldest, he was probably used to seeing this kind of undead monster even if he had no body, his mouth was still open and closed, and he seemed to be begging for mercy or scolding.
The old man took out a rather delicate rectangular brass box from his waist, and then pressed the mechanism on it, and suddenly a fiery snake erupted from the spout at the front of the small box, scorching the cyan immortal root and quickly turning it into charcoal.
- How can there be such an ingenious mechanism creation? That's right, the Zhengguo Dynasty here has been in existence for more than 500 years, and if the world history is simply calculated by time, it is also modern.
Under Su Yan's interested gaze, Mo Ganxiu explained softly: "Even if it is Su Shaoxia, you pulled out all the immortal roots, if you just brought a head, I will trouble you to go back and go again later-as long as you are implanted with an immortal root, even if the head is crushed into pieces, as long as you go back with the root and put it in the flesh and blood spiritual fluid, that root can grow into that person again, and have the memory of death." ”
"After defeating the demon soldiers, you need to burn this whisker with fire and thunder, or chop it into minced pieces to completely cut it off forever - but how troublesome is it to chop it into minced pieces? There's no time to do that on the battlefield, so I'm going to have a portable Suzaku box with me to kill these undead soldiers once and for all. ”
"They don't really need brains at all." At this time, the long-haired woman who knew a lot about medical science, a swordsman named Liu Xizhao, also stepped forward, and she did not hesitate to raise the sparse head that was smashed by Su Sun, and used internal force to open its deformed skull to show it, so that Su Sun could see the situation inside
It was a mess of tangled roots, soaked in blue-white wood pulp, which at first glance looked a bit like brains.
Zhou Buyi also stepped forward, looking expressionlessly at the head of the demon soldier whose mouth was still opening and closing on the ground, he shook his head and said: "The demon soldier doesn't need food, he only needs to drink water and shine in the sun to maintain his basic movements—but if you want to fight or recover from your injuries, you need to draw flesh and blood." ”
"This Taibai Mountain Range is covered with heavy snow, and prey is difficult to find, and even if you find a few, it is far inferior to humans...... They couldn't find any other blood to eat. ”
"This, is this the immortal root alive, or the original demon soldier alive?!"
Even Su Tian couldn't help but feel a little creepy when he saw this scene, and felt a strong sense of disgust - could it be that implanting immortal roots was like this? The entire body is occupied by the roots of the Divine Tree, not so much implanted with blood, but by the immortal roots, a corpse that can be regenerated!
"Don't think too much, Su Day, this world has a soul, and the souls of these demon soldiers are transferred in the 'ritual', or 'seized' to the roots of the divine wood. It is true that the Immortal Root occupies and controls their original bodies, but the people are still the same people, if the soul is counted. ”
"It's seething, but it's not as exaggerated as you think...... Your mind is still bound by the original auraless world. ”
Yala's words made Su Sun get rid of the strong disgust of 'I am not me', he shook his head and calmed down, but he also understood the manufacturing process of the demon soldier - through the ritual, the human soul is transferred to the bloodline of the divine tree, that is, the immortal root, and then the immortal root is used to control and erode his body into an empty shell,
In this way, in addition to becoming a near-immortal Shenmu race himself, the damage to his own body is just a 'big shell', to use a relatively simple analogy, the demon soldiers are all pilots who control the flesh mecha, and the injuries of the body are nothing more than the 'robots' that consume 'flesh and blood resources' to repair, so they can use the fierce spiritual power operation method that is almost crazy without care, and burst out with a power that surpasses their own strength.
Of course, it doesn't affect being smashed in the head by Su Sun's shot.
This time, at least no one in the escort team felt that Su Sun belonged to the side of the An Dynasty - although the demon soldiers were called soldiers, they were essentially elite troops that had undergone mysterious rituals and had been implanted with immortal roots, and the ones that still exist today are basically veterans of a hundred battles who have fought with the Hundred Righteous Army for decades, which is extremely precious.
Use the lives of three demon soldiers to make a heinous bitter trick with a low success rate?
The Demon Emperor is not a fool, even if he is, his military advisers are not.
"Well, they're not the only ones."
With a long sigh, Mo Ganxiu, who had completely burned a demon soldier to death, stood up, he raised his hand, rolled up his sleeves, and showed his thin arm, Su Tian looked sideways, but he was shocked - because on Mo Ganxiu's arm, there was actually a little cyan leaf-colored veins spreading!
"Decades ago, tens of millions of people died due to the tyranny of the Demon Emperor, and their flesh and soul were absorbed by the Divine Tree, and the power of the Divine Tree was completely infiltrated into the atmosphere of this mountain and river."
Seeing Su Day's extremely real and undisguised surprised expression, Mo Ganxiu was sure again that this guy really didn't know anything about it, the old man withdrew his sleeve, looked at the corpse of the demon soldier on the ground and shook his head: "The longer you stay on the front line, the easier it is to be eroded by wood qi, and grow this kind of wood root, I don't know martial arts, so I will build some equipment in the rear, and it is already like this......"
"This is the ...... of dependentization"
Exclaimed in his heart, in the current world, Su Yan couldn't say anything, he just deeply felt the horror of the great existence again-according to Yala, the Banyan Immortal Tree is just a divine tree derived from the remnants of the 'Great Dao Tree' that has not yet awakened, which can affect the entire world, so that the people of the whole world, whether they want to or not, will gradually transform into their dependents......
This power ...... It must be eradicated!
In the silence, the team set sail again, but this time, Su Tian pinned three heads with wooden roots hanging from his waist, and in the original mountain cabin, a large pit that was temporarily dug buried all the dead ordinary people.
Su Yan didn't have much to do for them, he could only kill a few more demon soldiers and strengthen his heart to destroy An Chao and Shenmu.
The long trek was boring, and on the way, Su Sun didn't find the shadows of other demon soldiers.
And just when the Taibai Volcano roared again, Zhou Buyi, who was leading the way at the front, let out a long breath and stopped tiredly.
"When you arrive, that's where the divine weapons are refined."
He raised his hand and pointed to a sunken saddle in a gap in a mountain not far away.
Su Sun stared intently.
Then, he saw a simple but well-established rock fortress not far from the Taibai volcano.