The Rise of the Cemetery

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Although in the past few years in the large cemetery, Li Xun boasted that he has seen a lot and is invulnerable to all poisons, but when he saw a different kind of "tree of life" winding and growing in front of him, he still had a kind of feeling. The "this world is ridiculous" illusion.

Once the original attribute is changed, the power of life impregnated in the seed of life itself and the boundless death energy of the sea of ​​bones no longer conflict with each other, but instead mix into an indescribably strange force.

It's a combination of life and death!

The predecessor of the Seed of Life is worthy of being the tree of life standing upright. The Ankara Tree of Life rooted in the Green City is a towering tree that can accommodate tens of thousands of elves living on it, and the tree of life in the Holy City of Elves is said to be bigger and taller.

Therefore, with such a "predecessor" in front of him, the buds of life that just sprouted in front of Li Xun meandered out from the depths of the sea of ​​bones like they were instilled with an excess of expansion agent. At the beginning, it was only a tender leaf the size of a palm, but in a blink of an eye, it grew taller and stronger. A strange tree of life with a height of 10 meters and a huge luxuriant and low-hanging crown that almost completely covered the entire sea of ​​bones appeared in front of Li Xun.

The buds of the new tree of life are so big?

Li Xun looked up at this "monster" in shock, and was speechless for a while. This... This is a newborn baby! In terms of size, he has completely crushed himself.

Closed eyes and careful inspection, Li Xun was even more shocked.

Just such a newborn "Tree of Life" sapling has almost occupied all the dead energy in Death Valley Bone Sea. If this continues, Death Valley may not be able to produce anything in the future. The soul crystals are no longer possible, and so are the arms. Even the towering magic tower standing in the distance has been cut off from supply, and can only rely on the mana pool to slowly absorb the free magic energy between heaven and earth.

Such a huge change undisputedly shocked the entire Valley of Death. Countless Lichs and Dracoliches came out of the magic tower and looked in the distance. The managers responsible for maintaining the buildings of the cemetery rushed to the city hall to inquire. The reason is that the Temporary Consul, the Headless Horseman Celty, has been devastated.

This newly born "Tree of Life" is tall and densely forested, but it has completely lost the vitality and greenness that it had in the Green City. Its shriveled and withered tree body is gray, and the leaves that grow are also gray. Countless ghosts and ghosts float out of the sea of ​​bones and circle around it, making people feel disturbed.

The roots of the "Tree of Life" deep in the sea of ​​bones are still winding and stretching. Although Li Xun can't see it, he can only guess it from the crackling noises that erupt in the sea of ​​bones. In order to control the sea of ​​bones more comprehensively, a lot of thick and twisted tree roots that match Li Xun's waist and limbs drilled out of the sea of ​​bones, branching off and branching out fine and dense roots, crawling on the surface of the sea of ​​bones like a snake. .

After a while, the entire bone sea surface was completely covered by overgrown tree roots.

My good fellow, this swallowed my bone sea whole!

"Is this still the tree of life?" Li Xun turned around and asked in doubt.

"This is no longer the tree of life, but should be called the tree of death!" Master Kel'Thuzad's answer was firm.

"The tree of death?!"

Li Xun murmured suspiciously, and looked up carefully. It is true that the tree has grown, but the tree no longer has the slightest vitality impregnated with life, but is full of a sense of decline that invites sinking and death.

If Li Xun's sense is not wrong, I am afraid that this tree of death still has the strange ability to suck life. All creatures within the sensing range of the tree of death will automatically enter a state of life loss, and the destination of the lost life is the huge root system of the tree of death that is hidden deep underground and tightly wraps the sea of ​​bones.

Just as Li Xun lowered his head and meditated, a fist-sized gray light cluster floated out from the dense gray canopy of the Tree of Death. The light ball circled around the tree and then drifted out unsteadily, aiming directly at the depths of the distant forest.

Due to the recent development of Death Valley, not a single complete tree can be seen within 30 miles of the surrounding area. Looking down from a high altitude, you can still see many ghouls crawling on the ground, carrying thick wooden slats on their shoulders, coming and going between Death Valley and the distant forest.

The expansion of Death Valley does seem to require a lot of wood.

Under Li Xun's waving gesture, a corpse witch floated up, stalking behind the light group, to see what it was going to do.

An hour flies by.

The mysterious light group floating at an extremely slow speed finally came to a jungle.

Due to the invasion of Death Valley's pervasive dead air, this is already the closest jungle to Death Valley.

Perhaps it sensed the exuberant vitality of the tall ancient tree, and the mysterious light group floated up without saying a word, and blended into the ancient tree after only a little hovering.

Since then, there has been no movement.

Li Xun, who saw this scene with the eyes of a corpse witch, was inexplicably astonished, but before he turned his head to think about anything, Li Xun suddenly withdrew his attention, and turned his attention to the tree of death in front of him. Just now, shortly after the mysterious light group merged into the distant trees, Li Xun actually noticed a fleeting life force in the tree of death in front of him.

Uh... remote life suck? Not only can it absorb the vitality of living things, but it can also absorb the natural plants?

And when Li Xun was inexplicably surprised, another mysterious light cluster floated out from the crown of the tree of death. But this time Li Xun was prepared, and silently waved at the mysterious light group. Where the consciousness rippled, the light group hesitated in the air, and then reluctantly floated into Li Xun's hands under the command of the tree of death.

Have a sense of self?

Li Xun was stunned for a moment, and noticed something strange from the subtle actions of the mysterious light group just now.

The old corpse witch Kel'Thuzad came over without saying a word, and together with Li Xun penetrated into the light group with mental power, and began to slowly investigate.

To be honest, the basic model of this tree of death was indeed figured out by Lao Li Wu Hui and hundreds of Li Wu researchers, but magical life often has huge uncertainties. Although the old corpse witch gave it a starting point, how it will develop in the future is completely out of his control. However, only Li Xun, relying on the authority of the soul of the master of the cemetery, and relying on his overall control over the sea of ​​bones in Death Valley, can have a sideways and indirect understanding of the development of this new species of tree of death.

Seriously speaking, the mysterious light group in front of me is a newborn soul body that has just sprouted instinctive consciousness, and has not yet given birth to a complete soul consciousness, and what occupies the core consciousness is still a ray of consciousness fragments differentiated from the tree of death. It is no wonder that they are so far apart but can share life energy with each other.

But it is said to be shared, but it is still unilateral plunder.

The tree of death is their body, and they can only be regarded as small clones of the tree of death. The purpose of their existence is to go out to plunder the life force needed for growth for the tree of death.

From this point to that point, Li Xun couldn't help thinking, could it be that the elves call the tree of life the mother tree, and they are full of spiritual dependence on it, and there is such a reason? If that's the case, isn't what I'm holding in my hand at this moment an authentic elf?

Li Xun grinned stupidly, and threw the "little elf" to the old Lich to continue studying, while he closed his eyes and concentrated, trying to communicate with the real master in front of him—the tree of death.

For the penetration of Li Xun's spiritual consciousness, the tree of death showed great repulsion and malice. Not only did it keep Li Xun's spiritual consciousness out of the body, a thick tree root was raised high like a long whip, apparently intending to kill Li Xun with one blow.

The expressions of the Lich and Dracolich surrounding the Tree of Death changed in unison. Hundreds of long skeleton staffs were raised high, and dazzling gray fluorescent lights began to condense in the mouth of the skeletons on the staff heads.

Offending the lord of the cemetery is a crime that cannot be punished!

Thousands of surging murderous intentions converged into an irresistible will to death, etching the threat of death into the core of the tree of death's consciousness.

But Li Xun smiled coldly.

Under the fluctuation of his soul, the sea of ​​bones that had been docile before suddenly churned.

The sea of ​​bone dead air that was previously in harmony with the tree of death has now turned into poisonous bone rotting gas. Countless tree roots and stems stuck in the boiling dead air are as if soaked in high-purity strong acid, corroded The sizzle sounded. The main body of the tree of death was shaking like a sieve, the rustling gray leaves fell like raindrops, and the wrinkled bark continued to burst, and a black blood-like viscous liquid sprayed out from it.

The tree of death was severely injured, and it was painful to die.

A soft, sharp sound resembling a baby's scream floated in the air, and immediately Li Xun sensed the weak conscious subject of the tree of death begging for mercy.

"I don't know how to live or die!" Li Xun snorted coldly with disdain: "You think my sea of ​​bones is so easy to swallow? After eating mine, you still want to refuse to listen to me, you are courting death!"

The ontological consciousness of the tree of death has also just sprouted. Although it has left a lot of inherited knowledge in the source of life, knowledge is knowledge, and it still needs a long growth experience to transform knowledge into a real "tree" life experience. .

The original form of life is so nonsensical, longing for unfettered and free growth and development. Only after experiencing cruel and cruel reality, it may understand that the pressure of survival sometimes far overwhelms the instinct of life.

After being hit hard by this, the tree of death can be regarded as initially understanding its own situation. The previous publicity and indulgence were swept away immediately, and the roots were honestly retracted into the sea of ​​bones, and the body was whirling, constantly sending out waves of consciousness showing weakness.

"You're so good!" Li Xun snorted softly, "For you, I paid for the entire cemetery city. If you dare to commit an assassin again, I don't mind letting Gu Hai explode and blow you up to the sky!"

Although Li Xun's words were light and futile, the coldness in them made the tree of death hiss and scream in horror. To be honest, none of the people present could understand the strange language that the ten-meter-high tree of death kept rubbing its bark and branches, but everyone could understand the slow and sluggish fluctuations in consciousness!

The old Lich held the "little elf" in his hands, and sneered with his terrifying big mouth.

On the ground of the large cemetery, there are still "hairy children" who dare to resist the control of the cemetery's owner. I really don't know how to write the word "death"! A newborn consciousness is a newborn consciousness, without even a little insight to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and deserves to suffer this great crime!