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"Hey——" the boss jumped anxiously, "An explosion of this level can't kill him!" After finishing speaking, seeing Shutra's resolute appearance, he wailed, and immediately huddled up and hid behind the fountain to prevent "The real delicate and frail self" was bombed.

The blasting device used by the Abyss Council is temporary. Shutla despises this kind of poor workmanship. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a piece of machinery on him now, and he doesn't even wear a protective device. He has to rush over and use his body as a meat shield. Yang actually reacted faster than him, turned over and pushed him down, taking the blow himself.

Qi Yang stood up against the flames, wiped the blood off his face, and flew out with a sword. Chang Ning stabbed into the heart of the mage who detonated the bomb, and hung him on the tree. Qi Yang waved his hand indifferently, and the sword flew away automatically. When I came back, there was no blood on it.

Qi Yang turned around and walked to the fountain, and pulled out the boss who was squatting in the corner: "Senior, why did the Abyss Council come to attack this ruin?"

"Also, what are you doing sneaking in in the middle of the night?" Shutla followed up and asked aggressively, "If the two of us hadn't followed, wouldn't you have been poisoned like this?"

The boss stood up, patted his clothes, and said calmly: "If you don't come, I will naturally have my own way!"

"What's in the woods?"

Qi Yang's question made the boss who was arranging his clothes pause for a moment, subconsciously looked back at the statue, Qi Yang suddenly had a flash of inspiration——

"Elves? The three things you want me to find are related to elves?"

Qi Yang just looked at the statue and talked nonsense, but the boss's sudden change of expression made Qi Yang feel that maybe he was really right.The boss was silent for a while, looking carefully at Qiyang, while Shutla looked back and forth at the courtyard and thought for a while.

Although the thousand-year-old dragon clan was born after the disappearance of the elves, his knowledge is far more than ordinary people, so after he had a general direction, he suddenly thought of something and said: "There is a tree of life in the center of the sanctuary of the elves. That is the source of life for the elves—and there is a wonderful pool in the half of the tree, just on the crown of the tree. The water is called the 'Water of Life', and it is said that it has very strong vitality. But the most important point—this Where does the water on the tree come from, there is no source...so the 'river water in the sky' you want is the water of life of the elves?"

"Correct." The boss nodded frankly, "The water in the holy spring is actually the sap at the core of the mother tree, which is guarded by the holy tree elves who live on the holy tree."

This kind of thing... Not to mention that the elves have long since disappeared, even if they are still there, it is said that the water in the holy spring is also a holy thing, how can they be obtained casually!

There are two remaining... Shutla looked at the statue of the elven priest. If he remembered correctly, this elven priest was a holy tree elf—that is, the kind that lived on the tree and was full of light. It's very beautiful, but this is not the only kind of elf in the elves, even under the tree, there is a huge underground palace made of complicated tree roots, in which lives...

"I know! Dark elves, flames in the rocks!" Shutla suddenly called out, "It is said that the skin of dark elves is black, but their eyes are fiery red, and their palaces are made of rocks and the roots of sacred trees , so the flame in the rock you mentioned refers to the dark elf's eyes?"

The boss shrugged, "Well, the last one is left, let's keep guessing."

"The ballad from the tree." Qi Yang said slowly, "That's the singing voice of the holy tree spirit."

"How do you know?" The boss looked at Qi Yang in surprise, "The population of another world actually knows so much about our Diana race that has disappeared?"

Even Shutla didn't realize this, Qi Yang smiled: "Just now you said that the holy tree elves live on trees... and I saw the words engraved on the base of this elf statue, that is his The name of this elf? The name of this elf is 'Song of the Morning'? I think the holy tree elf should sing very nicely?"

The boss followed Qiyang's finger and saw the line of small characters on the base.

"The handwriting is very clear. There must be someone who often fixes this name. Is it you, senior?"

The boss squatted down slowly, and touched the line of words with his hand, "The real name of this elf is 'Xi Yao', 'Song of the Holy Tree in the Morning Sun'." He stood up, smiled at Qi Yang, "Go ,follow me.

Walking forward, the forest became denser and darker, like a barrier. The boss walked a very narrow road, and traces of years of walking could still be seen. Qiyang and Sutra followed closely behind him, and the forest was strange at the moment And quiet, silent, not even the sound of the wind can be heard.

The road in the forest was difficult, so the three of them walked all night. When Shutla asked vigilantly for the seventh time, "Where are you taking us?", the scene in front of him suddenly changed.

There is a long and winding path in the dense forest. There are some delicate pillars on both sides of the road, which are probably lampposts. They are inlaid with a kind of blue-purple luminous stone. The shape is not uniform, but it is very beautiful. Remnants of flag fragments can be seen.

Continuing along this road, the trees in front of you are not so dense, but the paper strips of these trees are thick and connected with each other, like strips——

"The road on the tree?" It's like a road, connecting these tall trees, the trees are thick, most of them are comparable to a small house, and Qi Yang looked carefully, it is indeed a small house—— The trees are built together to form a delicate and elegant cabin.

This is the city of elves!

Shutla was astonished. This is the ruins of the elf city that people have been unable to find for thousands of years?Since the elves gradually began to withdraw from people's field of vision, there have been human messengers trying to enter the dense forest to find the elves, but no one can find the hidden elves. As for later, people are busy with the huge changes brought about by technology. In the new century, if someone wants to contact the elves, or wants to mine resources or cut down trees, not only will they not be able to find the territory, but anyone who enters this dense forest will either die or be injured—otherwise why would they The title of the Forest of Death?

And this mysterious land is right in front of you?The giant dragon felt that the whole dragon needed to calm down, but Qi Yang didn't see the abnormality of Shutla. He just looked at the surrounding buildings. The buildings of the elves were elegant and exquisite. Most of them were built by the natural growth of trees, and the walls were mostly painted. It is white, or not painted at all, and the outer wall is decorated with flower vines.Qiyang saw all kinds of exquisite tree houses, fountain pools and gardens, as well as small vegetable gardens-now full of weeds, all of which have been preserved.

——So the elves did not leave due to accidents. Qi Yang could even imagine the beautiful and elegant elves walking among the trees and talking to them. The whole ruins did not show any traces of violence or other emergencies.

listen carefully...

"I feel the trees are singing, elegy." Qi Yang looked at the tall trees surrounding the city, "How did the elves disappear?"

The boss let out a long sigh and continued to walk forward.

The front suddenly opened up, like a square, and the emerald green lawn was now stained with a heavy ink black, which made people feel very depressed, and made Qi Yang want to beat someone up again.

"The Abyss Council?" Qi Yang suddenly saw a few people lying in the bushes, wearing black robes, and apparently just died.

"These people entered the sanctuary the night before yesterday. I couldn't control them, and they were all played to death." The boss said quietly, "You came here before I had time to deal with it."

When I looked up, the thick fog in the forest gradually dissipated due to the rising sun, and a huge black shadow appeared in front of me——

"Brightness above, this—" Qi Yang and Xiutra Qiqi were shocked, Xiutra couldn't help exclaiming, "This is—"

"Sacred Elf Tree—Tree of Life."

In front of him is an extremely huge tree. This tree almost reminds Qi Yang of the Tianti Taodu and Jianmu that still existed in the ancient times of the cultivation world, but this tree does not go straight up. Its crown is huge and curved. Stretching out, forming an air city based on tree trunks and paper strips—it turns out that the elves really live on trees, but their tree is too big, and it is no problem to move the entire Royal Academy to it .

There are many tree roots protruding from the ground, looking closely, it looks like a palace dome exposed to the surface, and the vines naturally form a ladder, going up around the trunk - such a scene, Qi Yang can hardly help worshiping the magical creator of Diana.

"But... this tree, is it dead?" Qi Yang walked under the big tree, stretched out his hand and gently touched a vine, the vine was dry and gray, without a single leaf.

"Yes, it's dead."

The boss stood not far away, looking up at the dead tree of life, "The life of the elves depends on this tree, and the soul also comes from and will return to this giant tree. It is dead. Why do you think the elves disappeared?"

The light of life slowly extinguished from the body, there was no accident, no disaster, but the tree died, and the elves sat quietly under the tree, holding hands and singing an elegy, which belonged to the tree and themselves.

"Why does the tree die?" How could such a huge tree just die?Qi Yang couldn't see any disease or anything wrong with the tree, except for one thing, it died.

"When you get old, you die." The boss took it for granted, "It is said that the tree was planted by the God of Light and supported by nature, but it will also get old, but the new seeds it leaves cannot be planted alive, so It died, the new tree did not grow, and the elves naturally lost their vitality."

"Why don't the tree species live?" Qi Yang turned around, "No matter how big or magical it is, it is still a tree. The elves are not very good at natural spells, so they can't grow a tree?"

This time the boss didn't answer, but Shutla said on the sidelines: "Do you remember that I told you about the development of machinery? The birth of technology is not all about benefits and no disadvantages. When technology was first born, human beings were ecstatic. To develop and extract the energy of this world to a great extent... So naturally, there is no way to breed such a tree."

"That's right." The boss smiled. "Human beings' mistakes have caused all this. Of course, it's not just human beings' mistakes in the past. The temperament of the elves has always been relatively indifferent. They are gentle, although they are calmer and wiser than humans. Impulsivity is much better, but it's also too reclusive, stuck in its own forest, unwilling to interfere with the outside world, and unwilling to contact, had the opportunity to dissuade humans in the first place, but they didn't—until they realized that human behavior gave them It has caused harm, and it cannot be undone.”

"This...isn't the fault of the elves." Qi Yang touched the trunk, and the dead tree was rough and dry, showing no signs of life.

"Yeah, although people have long realized their mistakes and made amends, it's a pity that the power of nature still can't raise the next holy tree." The boss said, "So this is what I want you to do for me."

Qi Yang turned around, a little surprised: "You let me... plant trees?"

The boss nodded.

Qi Yang leaned on a tree vine and looked at the boss suspiciously: "So the three things you asked me for were actually produced after the recovery of the elves. Your real intention is to ask me to plant a A tree, to revive the elves... This is not an easy task, especially, I don't know your purpose for doing this."

The boss tilted his head like a cute boy: "Purpose?"

"Well, your purpose?" Qi Yang grabbed Shutla and made him stand beside him, then he smiled a little and asked, "Why did seniors spend so much time trying to revive the elves? This junior is blind, if you don't see Wrong, Senior Boss doesn't seem to be a living person, so, if you didn't joke with us on the spur of the moment, can you tell this junior about your identity first."

The boss put away that cute smiling face, and slowly sat upright. They were not nervous when Qi Yang said that, only Xiutra immediately growled and made a protective gesture.

"Don't be nervous." The boss raised his hand, "How did you tell?"

"In my eyes, you are like an unfathomable abyss, exuding an aura that does not belong to the living." Qi Yang said, "Besides, you didn't do anything at the ruins of the temple just now, and it seems that you have no way to fight back." strength, but you have killed so many abyss apostles in the domain by yourself, many of them are high-level, so you probably will show the characteristics of undead when you do it?"

The boss was quiet for a while, then suddenly laughed, and even applauded.

"That's right, I have been the one who has been preventing humans from entering the realm of elves for so many years, and the rumors of the death forest were also deliberately done by me." The boss said, standing up, the color of fresh flesh and blood receded from his face little by little, turning into A kind of bleak paleness, the blue-purple blood veins are clearly visible on the extremely white face, the color of the hair has also become gloomy, and the purple soul fire is slowly burning in the eyes.

Immediately afterwards, the boy's body flew into the air, scales covered his limbs, and huge bone wings spread out from behind, much larger than his body, the bone wings were covered with some small and sharp scales, and pitch-black flames floated on the wings.

Shutla was extremely nervous, and pulled Qi Yang behind him, blocking him.

The undead creature in front of them exuded a terrifying breath of death, far surpassing any lich they had ever seen, even scarier than Ronan.

The boss raised his wings and said with a smile: "I am an undead, or people call me the Lich King in legends, I am the monarch of the undead, maybe you have heard of my name when I was a human. My name is Asius Tifa."