Chapter 105: Illusionary Black Coffin

Thick fog rolled in.

Strange ghosts and angry Shura appeared one after another, with different postures but full of oppression.

The sound of chanting from nowhere hit Yu Ke's defense.

The vajra in Shura's hand and the three-pronged fork pressed in front of his eyes. The scarlet blood pupil just stared at Yu Ke, and the fangs protruding from his lips trembled, as if to question his actions and judge his sins.

In a trance, Yu Ke's forehead was shocked by the shock.

Inexplicable irritability and depression rose to his heart, and his mind was full of illusions.

It was at this time that a cool vitality surged from his right arm and spread over Yu Ke's whole body. Then the spiritual awakening characteristics began to receive this energy and play its role, regulating Yu Ke's emotions and resting his mind.

'This is an illusion, wake up quickly. This is an illusion! ’

Closing his eyes, the scripture in his ears suddenly disappeared. When he opened his eyes again, the evil ghost Shura also turned into ashes and disappeared without a trace.

Yu Ke was glad that he had obtained the profession of [Investigator] in advance and completed the upgrade and spiritual awakening in the Pandora incident, otherwise he would be trapped in this illusion and it would be difficult to use his skills.

There is no doubt that the lake island was set up by those tomb robbers, or now it should be said that the cultists set up an illusion array. It looks calm on the surface, but in fact, the moment you step into the island, you will be dragged into the illusion and suffer a mental shock.

Even Yu Ke, who has the forest spirit and spiritual awakening, almost fell into it. If it were someone else, I'm afraid that their psychological defenses would have been broken long ago, and they would have become zombies and could no longer make any progress.

Discarding the illusion in his mind, Yu Ke continued to move forward. At this time, he had given up using perception to find the way and let the forest spirit guide him instead.

The reason is very simple.

The illusion set up by the cultists here is likely to deceive his perception and make him go in circles, but the forest spirit will can sense the location of its body, which is something that the illusion cannot do.

"Forward, left, stop, right, forward."

Under the control of the forest spirit, Yu Ke was like a puppet, doing a somewhat funny circle in his own eyes, until the black shadow appeared again in the fog in front of him.

But this time it was no longer those terrifying illusions, but dozens of skeletons hanging under the tree.

Gray fog surged out of their bodies, passed through the jagged animal bones, and spread to all parts of the island in the middle of the lake.

They were all wearing tattered black and yellow Taoist robes full of scriptures. The skeletons that should have drooped down were treated in some way, and they were in various twisted and threatening postures. In their hands were the vajra and trident that Yu Ke had seen before. It was unknown how they were treated, and they were all stuck in the bones.

The lives of the believers were used as materials for the formation, so that their souls would wander in the formation and could not be reborn.

What exactly did this group of cultists want to hide?

"Destroy them!"

The reminder of the forest spirit sounded in his mind. Yu Ke stepped on the ground with his right foot and flew into the air. The Leviathan Axe chopped in the air, smashing all the hanged ghosts and completely breaking the center of the illusion.

Accompanied by a sharp scream, the surrounding fog quickly dissipated, and the outline of the giant tree emerged in the gradually dispersing fog.

However, Yu Ke had no intention of looking at the giant tree at this time. His attention was attracted by the horrific scene in front of him. His expression became more and more solemn, and his right hand holding the battle axe suddenly tightened.

Just below the dozen hanged ghosts, on the grass about three meters in front of the giant tree, a wooden forest spirit statue of the size of an ordinary person stood in the center of the island in the middle of the lake, and its posture was similar to the bronze statue in the temple.

Yu Ke's previous speculation was correct. This giant tree was one of the incarnations of the forest spirit, controlling the majestic natural energy.

However, the forest spirit statue that was supposed to be worshipped now had its limbs and trunk engraved with twisted and weird blood-colored scriptures except for its head. It was bound by twelve chains that were also engraved with spells and seemed to be soaked in blood. The ends of these chains were connected to the giant tree behind and fixed with human spines and steel nails.

Not only that, if you look closely, you will find that the places covered by the chains and scriptures have undergone different degrees of changes. Not only has it lost its original charm, but it seems that some force has forcibly plundered its spirituality and replaced it with strange things.

It's just that the natural energy has been fighting against the evil magic, which has prevented the statue from being completely eroded.

No, that's not right.

If you just want to erode the statue, why bother? Who can wait for hundreds of years?

Yu Ke's eyes fell on the statue's mutated limbs and torso, and another conjecture emerged in his mind. Just like the ancients worshipped the forest spirits to use the natural energy of this place to cast tools that could suppress disasters, the cultists who broke into this place might have similar ideas.

It's just that they never thought of worshipping the forest spirits devoutly, but planned to enslave the latter in a more sinister and evil way!

The only thing that didn't change in the statue in front of him was the head. It wasn't that the cultists couldn't do it, but they needed the statue to remain normal and continue to absorb natural energy.

"Chains, cut them off!"

The forest spirits living in the mark could no longer bear to see their statues being desecrated like this.

Yu Ke also had no good feelings towards the things left by these cultists. He picked up the Leviathan Axe and walked towards the nearest chain. He wiped the axe with his left hand, and the frost air attached to it, and swung the axe down.

Clang!

The expected situation of the axe breaking in two did not happen.

The moment the axe blade touched the chain, Yu Ke felt a reverse force that shook off his attack. The surface of the chain even showed a bloody light, and the spells engraved on it twisted like insects.

Even the frost air did not break through the defense and was forcibly dispersed by the dark energy.

After hundreds of years, the seal still had this level of defense, which was beyond Yu Ke's expectations. However, this difficulty was not enough to make him retreat. He had already known the best way to deal with this dark energy on the farm.

"Sen Ling, I need your help!"

Previously, when facing the red-faced ghost, Yu Ke used the mark to passively fight the enemy. Now that he had Sen Ling by his side, he didn't have to bother so much.

As soon as the words fell, a light green light emanated from the mark, spreading along Yu Ke's palm to the Leviathan Axe, and he also retreated half a step, lowered his body and exerted his strength, and chopped down with two axes.

The vibrant natural energy crushed the dark blood wrapped around the chains.

The axe blade hit the chains, and Yu Ke's violent power was released.

Without the protection of the dark blood, the chains broke with a sound, and the back half of the chains wrapped around the torso of the statue also collapsed. Yu Ke did not intend to miss this opportunity to pursue the victory, and swung the Leviathan Axe in succession, cutting off two chains again.

But just when Yu Ke was about to attack the remaining nine chains, they swung as if they sensed danger, trying to avoid the chopping of the Leviathan Axe.

At the same time, the three broken chains touched the ground, and the dark blood hidden inside them immediately penetrated into the lake island, causing a small range of vibrations and continuous ripples in the lake water.

Yu Ke stabilized his body and continued his offensive. No matter how frequently these chains shook, they were limited in range, and the perception given by the calculation analysis was best at dealing with this kind of target.

There was no need to even spend time aiming. Yu Ke swung his battle axe and easily predicted the trajectory of the chains, cutting off two more.

The continuous destruction affected the seal formation on the lake island. The forest spirit had begun to gather natural energy again, trying to regain control of this place and liberate the statue that had been bound for a hundred years.

But how could the evil cultists let the forest spirit escape so easily?

Just as Yu Ke cut off the sixth chain and turned to the seventh chain, he saw scarlet blood mist oozing out of the lake island at his feet, and then dark red vines broke through the soil and rose up, like a colorful venomous snake with its head held high in the jungle, with a strange blood lotus blooming on the top, releasing a brown-red halo.

Obviously, the chain was cut off, and the stagnant dark energy triggered the second trap left by the cultists. The illusion could not stop Yu Ke, the intruder, and the next step was the most direct attack.

They would never allow anyone to help the forest spirit escape!

With the spread of the dark blood, the natural energy that the forest spirit had finally gathered was dispersed.

The lake island suddenly became a dangerous place.

Yu Ke's ears were filled with resentful roars, and a strong sense of crisis forced him to speed up his actions. He must help the forest spirit break free before the danger comes!

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Three more chains were cut off. Yu Ke looked at the last three remaining and jumped forward.

But at this critical moment, the vibration of the lake island became more and more violent.

Yu Ke frowned and jumped out, slashing at the nearby chains in mid-air. He tried to end it all before the obstacles came.

Bang~

The axe fell, but before the chains were cut off, a piece of soil in front of Yu Ke collapsed, and a pale, thick bone arm stretched out from the ground of the lake island and slapped Yu Ke's body, trying to intercept his attack.

Yu Ke didn't intend to give up the attack, but the next second, the ground around him cracked one after another, and more bone arms stretched out, slapping the front from all directions, like a cage made of bones, trying to lock him in.

Seeing that the way forward was blocked, in order to avoid being trapped in the encirclement, Yu Ke had to lift his foot and step on a bone arm to temporarily distance himself and look for other breakthroughs. His paused attack also gave the trap time to fully activate.

Dozens of bone arms broke through the soil layer, and then they drooped in a ring around the gap, supporting the ground to pull the body connected to them out from the depths of the lake island.

Yu Ke thought it would be a deformed skeleton monster, just like the trap arrangement he had seen before. The cult that broke into this place seemed to be very good at this evil secret technique.

Unexpectedly, what finally appeared under the protection of these bone arms was a giant black coffin.

The bottom of the coffin was glued with a bloated meat ball, and these dozen bone arms were connected to it by secret techniques.

When the chains that sealed the forest spirit were broken by external forces, they would be activated.

Let the black coffin reappear in the light of day!