The Eighth Tree

Chapter 1666 The Eighth Tree

"The locations of the World Tree and Guixu are eternal and unchanging in the universe."

The old man said: "After determining the location of the World Tree and Guixu, we can have a reference to match the distribution map of the Dao Trees in the 16th Epoch with the Ultimate Void in the 17th Epoch. With these, it should not be difficult to find the location of Taiyi."

Qin Mu nodded, feeling relieved, and said with a smile: "We have found Taiyi, and Taiyi should be able to wake up the paralytic. After I deal with this forest of steles, I can rescue the paralytic."

Although he said it easily, the old man and the old woman both knew the difficulty involved.

Taiyi was not suppressed here, he must have been suppressed somewhere else. Taiyi broke the restriction here, but not there, so Qin Mu needed to break the restriction.

"This trip may be dangerous, let Xiao Shang go with you."

The old man said, "Although Xiao Shang achieved enlightenment through killing, he is not a person who kills indiscriminately. With him accompanying you, you will be less in danger. Moreover, he is familiar with the distribution of trees and can help you find Taiyi faster."

Qin Mu nodded. It shouldn't be too difficult for him to take Shang Jun away from here.

"So……"

He looked around and smiled, "Can you tell me, gentlemen, whose Tao tree is the eighth Tao tree?"

There are only seven people in the village, including the pig and the paralytic, but there are eight Taoist trees. Obviously, there is an eighth person besides these seven people.

The woman laughed and said, "Young Master, you are joking again. There are only us here, so where is the eighth person?"

Qin Mu was surprised and looked at the others. The girl with pigtails said, "There is indeed no eighth person here."

The pig head on the plate said, "We will not deceive you, sir. There is indeed no eighth person as you said. Not only is there no eighth person, there is no eighth Dao tree either."

The old woman's heart was slightly moved, and she hurriedly said: "Young Master has been talking about eight Taoist trees before, could it be that you are not deceiving us?"

Qin Mu laughed and said, "I've told you before that I'm kind and generous, and I'm a compassionate person. How could I cheat you... Wait a minute, don't you know there are eight trees in your village?"

The old woman looked solemn and nodded.

The others nodded as well, and the atmosphere became somewhat depressing.

The old man said, "We have always thought that you were deceiving us, so you said there were eight trees. But in our eyes, there are only seven trees here, and there are only seven of us who are suppressed here."

Qin Mu felt something was wrong and asked in a deep voice, "Can't you see the eighth tree?"

Everyone shook their heads.

The atmosphere became more depressing.

Qin Mu was able to see the Dao tree because his eye between his eyebrows was so powerful that it could even see through the chaos. But they did not have such a powerful divine eye.

The girl suddenly laughed and said, "Master, you are joking, right? Don't scare Yaya..."

The pig head on the plate shivered suddenly, its two ears pressed against its eyes, leaving a line of open, and it looked around secretly.

Qin Mu's mind moved slightly, and he retracted his sword. The pig god immediately felt that the sword wound that blocked the recovery of his body disappeared, and he quickly pieced his body together.

Qin Mu smiled and said, "It's possible that my numerology was taught by Wudou Tianshi Zhuocha, and I made a mistake. I can take one person away from here, but to take all of you out, I need to break through the obelisk forest, and I don't have the strength to do that yet. I can only trouble you all to stay here until I have enough strength, and then I will come back to break through the obelisk forest and rescue you."

The old man walked under a tree, frowning, and said with a wry smile: "The reason I stayed here is to protect the paralytic. I can't leave until the paralytic wakes up. Even if you crack the stele forest, I can't leave this place."

He sat on a rock, lit a piece of tobacco, and puffed on the water pipe. From time to time, he glanced at Qin Mu with his dim eyes.

The old woman trembled as she came under another tree and said with a chuckle, "Old monster, I'll stay here with you." She sat down, basking in the sun lazily, and raised her hand to take off the hairpin on her head.

Shang Jun walked out of the village and said, "I'm waiting for you outside the village, please don't delay too long."

Zhu Santong carried his own Dao tree and said with a smile: "This battle is a battle of friendship. I, Old Zhu, have wrongly accused you before. Please forgive me. I will go and plant my tree first."

The girl held her own Dao fruit in her hands, skipped and came to her own Dao tree, and said with a smile: "I still have to hang my own Dao fruit on the tree."

The woman sighed, "I wanted to treat you to a simple meal, but so many things happened. Sir, I need to pack the clothes of the paralytic. When the clothes are washed, I will hang them on the tree to dry."

She picked up the basin, came to the paralytic's tree, and hung the paralytic's clothes on the tree.

After doing all this, the woman went to the tree next to the old well and took out the mallet to beat the other clothes.

At the entrance of the village, Shang Jun stood under his own Dao tree, veins popping out on his hands. Only half of a knife was left in his hand. Although the knife was cut off by Qin Mu, it had little effect on his strength.

The girl poked her head out from the crown of her own Taoist tree, looking nervous and staring at Qin Mu's actions.

The old man was smoking a water pipe and the old woman was combing her hair. Zhu Santong planted his own Taoist tree and transformed himself into a black wild boar, using his nose and fangs to dig up the soil and tamp it down, but his little eyes were rolling around.

The woman was tapping her clothes intermittently, but forgot to add water.

In their eyes, Qin Mu moved his feet and came to an open space where there was nothing. However, Qin Mu raised his hand and gently stretched it forward.

Everyone became extremely nervous, and suddenly, Qin Mu seemed to have touched something.

The hidden eighth Tao tree!

As soon as Qin Mu's fingertips touched the Taoist tree, six figures suddenly jumped up!

The girl pounced down from the tree, like a swallow skimming the water, her body close to the ground, and she flew up with a tip of her toes. She bit her tongue hard, and Taoist blood spurted out, smearing it on the Taoist fruit in her hand, which shone brightly!

The woman swung the hammer, moved her feet, spun like the wind, shouted loudly, and swung the hammer hard towards the place where Qin Mu touched!

Zhu Santong roared, pulled up the Dao tree he had just planted, and transformed into a black wild boar standing upright. He stood up, and swung the Dao tree towards where Qin Mu was pointing!

At the same time, Shang Jun's broken knife, the old man's hookah, and the old woman's hairpin all attacked at the same time!

The six people exerted their full strength, and their power was no less powerful than when they besieged Qin Mu just now!

They knew very well that they only had one chance to strike. The Dao Tree hidden between them had been hidden for billions of years and had never been noticed by them. This showed that the opponent's strength was truly unfathomable!

If the other party is prepared, I'm afraid they won't be able to do anything to them even if they join forces!

Therefore, with this attack, they must destroy the opponent's Tao tree, destroy the opponent's Tao fruit, and ruin the opponent's Tao practice!

boom!

An extremely violent wave came, and the storm swept through, causing Qin Mu's clothes to rustle as he stood next to the Taoist tree, and he was forced to retreat continuously!

Qin Mu retreated all the way to resist this powerful attack. When the storm subsided, he had retreated out of the village.

He opened his eyes and looked, only to see that the Taoist tree was still standing there, motionless, and there was no human figure around the tree.

Qin Mu was shocked and searched carefully, only to see the girl hanging on his Taoist tree with one foot exposed. She was still holding his Taoist fruit in her hand and had fainted.

The woman fell into her own well, clinging to the mallet tightly, which was stuck at the mouth of the well.

Shang Jun sat sprawled under his own Taoist tree, his hand holding the knife bleeding from the knuckles, his eyes blank, the broken knife in his hand shattered into pieces, the handle turned into debris.

The old woman's hairpin was stuck between her eyebrows, her breath was weak, the old man's hookah broke, and his head hit the big rock where he often sat, causing blood to flow from his head.

Zhu Santong's fangs were all broken off, and he fainted while hugging his Taoist tree.

Qin Mu was stunned. In just this short moment, the six great masters were all defeated and injured!

"Young Master!"

The old man sat up tremblingly, his arms shaking, and tried hard to fill the hookah with tobacco, but the hookah broke and the tobacco flowed out.

His voice was hoarse, with fear and anger in his eyes: "It's the eldest son's Dao Shu! He has been here all the time! Hehe, this old bastard..."

Qin Mu looked around and his eyes suddenly fell on the sun hanging high in the sky.

That sun is burning with blazing power, and has probably been burning for ten cosmic eras, or who knows how many billions of years, from the seventh era to the present!

According to the laws of nature, the sun should have gone out, died, evaporated, and eventually turned into nothingness long ago. However, this sun is still alive today, which cannot but arouse suspicion.

"The eldest son is not here."

Qin Mu suddenly said: "He just left his eyes and his Dao tree here."

The old man struggled to get up, looked up at the sun in the sky, sighed dejectedly, and said in a hoarse voice: "I have been suppressed here for too long, and I am no match for him. Hehe, I was as famous as him back then, but now I am not as good as one of his eyes..."

He was very lonely.

Because of a promise, he took care of the paralytic for ten cosmic eras. During these ten cosmic eras, he had neglected his cultivation and was far inferior to the eldest young master who was as famous as him in the past. One can imagine the loss in his heart.

In fact, Qin Mu could also see that the old man was respected as an old weirdo by the people here. He should be a very famous figure in his time, so much so that many people had heard of his legend.

However, among all the people in this small village, the strongest one was not him, but Shang Jun.

Although Shang Jun only has one Tao fruit and one Tao tree, his strength is already superior to other Taoists in the village!

This is also the reason why Qin Mu wanted to take Shang Jun away.

Qin Mu stepped forward, pulled out the hairpin from the old woman's forehead, treated her injuries briefly, and patted the old man on the shoulder.

The old man came back to his senses and said sadly, "I can't send you off, young master."

The others struggled to get up and sent Qin Mu to the village entrance.

Shang Jun stood up reluctantly, and after a moment of silence, he said, "I no longer have my sword, so I'm afraid I can't do much for you. Besides, I'm too murderous, and I have many enemies. I'll only bring disaster to you."

Qin Mu smiled and said, "What a coincidence! I have many enemies, probably even more than you do."

Shang Jun hesitated for a moment, and Qin Mu looked at him calmly: "Shang Jun, who achieved enlightenment through killing, you are timid. The reason you are afraid of the outside world is not because you lost to the eldest son, but because you are afraid of returning to the outside world."

Shang Jun was silent.

"Even if you achieve the Dao through killing and cultivate to the thirty-sixth level of the Dao of Killing, you still lack the Dao Heart."

Qin Mu's eyes were sharp, and he said, "You feel that the Sixteenth Epoch was ruined by you, and you feel guilty and self-blaming because of this, and you feel ashamed to leave here. The one who sealed you and suppressed you was not the eldest son, but you found a cage for yourself and imprisoned yourself. You are no longer the Shang Jun who achieved enlightenment through killing. Even if you leave here, you will not be able to make your Dao imprint the ultimate void and become an enlightened person."

Shang Jun said in a hoarse voice: "Then do you still need me?"

Qin Mu walked past him and said with a smile, "Of course I need you to help me find Taiyi, and I also need the sharpest knife in the world. You are no longer that knife, but I can sharpen you into that kind of knife. Follow me, and I can help you get out."

Shang Jun followed him closely, like his shadow.

Soon, they walked into the forest of obelisks. Shang Jun hid in his shadow. The two of them walked in the same pace, taking steps at the same time and landing at the same time, with the same rhythm, and gradually disappeared in the forest of obelisks.

Outside the village, everyone watched the two disappear, and Zhu Santong suddenly said, "The Seventh Young Master of Miro Palace is a strange person."

"He is indeed a strange man."

The old woman sighed, "He is clearly a hostile force, but it is hard for us to hate him. Not only can we not hate him, but we actually want to be friends with him."

The woman laughed and said, "This is the first time I've seen such a strange person. It's a pity that she got married, otherwise Yaya could have found a good husband..."

The girl spat and hid behind a tree with a blushing face.

Everyone burst into laughter, and then started coughing violently.

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