Chapter 178 Guardian (Subscription Request)
The red fruit tree is also a spiritual fruit, and it is a spiritual fruit of fire attribute. If it bears fruit, there will definitely be monsters occupying it and claiming it for themselves.
The last time the female cultivator picked a spiritual fruit from her body, I don’t know whether she killed the guardian monster or the team fought and led it away, so that the female cultivator took the opportunity to pick it.
But Wu Tao didn’t know the specific situation.
The only thing he knew and participated in was that the female cultivator was chased by two male cultivators. When she saw Wu Tao, she tried to divert the trouble and involve Wu Tao so that she could survive.
If it were other casual cultivators who were not strong enough, they might really be succeeded by the female cultivator and die.
But who is Wu Tao? He is a dual cultivator of Dharma and body, invincible in the same realm, not to mention that he had the soul-eating insect by his side at that time.
The female cultivator’s trip was really a self-defeating one.
“Go and have a look. If the red fruit is still there and there are fruits, pick them. If not, forget it.” Wu Tao did not force it. He was casual in character.
After all, this thing cannot be forced.
Thinking of this, Wu Tao memorized the location of the Zhuguo on the animal skin, and then stood up and returned to the place where the Three-Polar Water and Fire Sword Formation was set up. He put away the Three-Polar Water and Fire Sword Formation and moved forward to the location of the Zhuguo.
The location of the Zhuguo is a canyon in a place 200 miles away.
The canyon is full of fog and miasma.
And don’t think that the activity range of the casual cultivator adventurers has penetrated into 300 miles or even 500 miles, but the vastness of the wilderness cannot be explained by depth. Even if it is 100 miles or 200 miles, there are some dangerous places that casual cultivators dare not go to casually.
Gu Mingsheng’s notes to Wu Tao recorded that there was a dangerous place 100 miles away, and the most powerful casual cultivator adventurer team did not dare to go there.
Wu Tao moved forward slowly, still with a cautious attitude, letting the soul-eating insects go forward to act as vanguards and scouts, so as to avoid many unnecessary troubles.
Half an hour later, Wu Tao finally saw that canyon.
There are high mountains on both sides, gathering the canyon in the middle. White fog rises from the canyon. It looks like a dangerous place.
There is also miasma in the fog.
When walking in the wild, with Wu Tao's personality, how can he not carry detoxification pills with him?
Wu Tao looked at the fog and immediately took out a bottle of detoxification pills from his storage bag and swallowed two pills. Then, he commanded the soul-eating insect to enter the canyon first. He wanted the soul-eating insect to be his eyes.
After the soul-eating insect entered the canyon, Wu Tao's divine consciousness attached to the soul-eating insect and could also sense the situation in the canyon. The fog was not very thick. In addition, he was at the ninth level of Qi Refining. His divine consciousness had reached the limit of the Qi Refining period and was extremely condensed, so he could sense the surrounding situation.
Seeing that there was no danger, Wu Tao stepped into the canyon.
Walking carefully in the canyon, the Soul Devourer encountered three first-level intermediate monsters, but in front of the Soul Devourer, a high-level monster, it was like paper, vulnerable, and instantly devoured its soul, leaving only a body.
Wu Tao picked up the monster corpse behind him.
After entering the canyon, Wu Tao found that the canyon was really big. Although there was a red fruit tree in the canyon 200 miles away, no casual cultivator had found it. That was because if there was no map left by the female cultivator, he would also get lost.
Following the route on the map, Wu Tao finally arrived at his destination after about half an hour.
On the cliff, there was a three-person-high red fruit tree growing obliquely, with six flame-like red fruits hanging on the tree, which looked ripe.
Wu Tao was delighted. He had no hope at first, because it was very likely that the red fruit tree would be dug away by the person who found it, or all of them would be picked.
But at this time, there were still six red fruits on the red fruit tree that had not been picked.
Then, there is a very strong possibility that the last time the female cultivators' team did not have enough time, they could only pick one red fruit, and were driven away by the monster guarding the red fruit.
Wu Tao carefully observed and indeed found some human remains under the red fruit tree, but they were just some remains. Humans eat monsters, and monsters will also eat cultivators, which can also increase their cultivation.
This shows that the red fruit is guarded by monsters.
But Wu Tao did not find any traces of monsters, and did not even sense the breath of monsters.
Wu Tao immediately released his divine sense and scanned the red fruit tree, but did not find any traces of monsters. In desperation, he spread out again and detected the area ten miles around the red fruit tree, but did not sense the breath of monsters.
There must be something wrong when things are abnormal.
Wu Tao did not believe it. With his divine sense tempered by Ding Ye, how could he not detect the existence of monsters.
Moreover, it is impossible that there are no monsters occupying wild spiritual fruits.
Thinking of this, Wu Tao ordered the Soul Devourer to go and detect. As a demon beast, the Soul Devourer would be more sensitive to the breath of demon beasts than he was.
The Soul Devourer flew to the Zhuguo tree and soon sent a thought to Wu Tao that there was a demon beast on the Zhuguo tree.
Wu Tao's eyes moved and he quickly extended his divine sense. This time he was more careful. He really found that there was a Zhuguo, which just looked like a Zhuguo, but it was not a Zhuguo. Instead, it was a snake demon beast hiding in the Zhuguo tree. It was very good at hiding. There was a tumor on its head similar to the Zhuguo. Because it occupied the Zhuguo and devoured the Zhuguo, the tumor actually exuded the same breath as the Zhuguo.
So Wu Tao thought there were six Zhuguo before, but there were actually five.
"What a demon beast, so good at hiding and camouflage, if I didn't have the Soul Devourer, I would have been deceived by you." Wu Tao was just terrified.
Even with his divine consciousness tempered by Ding Ye, he couldn't detect it, let alone other casual cultivators. If they really thought there was no monster, they would definitely suffer a great loss if they went forward to pick it.
Since Wu Tao had already discovered it, and the soul-eating worm was a monster that was better at hiding than the snake monster, the snake monster did not find the soul-eating worm.
Therefore, Wu Tao suddenly came up with a plan. He wanted to take advantage of the situation and pretend that he didn't find the snake monster, and then directly give it a fatal blow.
Having made up his mind, Wu Tao pretended to be overjoyed and flew to the red fruit disguised as the tumor of the snake monster. Just when Wu Tao's hand was about to touch the 'red fruit'.
The snake monster was overjoyed, and its body bounced, and it pounced on Wu Tao and bit him. The aura of the monster on its body was all radiated. It was a first-level high-level monster, or a late-stage one.
Seeing this, Wu Tao was not in a hurry. A smile of success appeared on the corner of his mouth. He had already given orders to the soul-eating insect. Then, with his other hand, he instantly grasped the wind and thunder spear in his hand and fired at the monster.
The snake monster felt a pain in its soul, and its long body suddenly stiffened. Then, the long spear, accompanied by the sound of wind and thunder, had already hit its seven inches.
Under this shot, the snake monster's seven inches was immediately shattered, and it fell to the ground unwillingly, twisted a few times, and then died.
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