Chapter 39: Holding Ye Fan hostage to pick the holy fruit

On the top of a low hill, a group of people stood together, looking at the surrounding scenery.

In the distance are winding and beautiful mountains, ancient trees and dense forests, lush and green, showing vitality. It looks like a peaceful pure land.

Many visitors from Earth jumped up excitedly and sang loudly to praise this beautiful new world.

"Kang Dang"

Suddenly, the huge bronze coffin behind them made a clear, vibrating sound, interrupting everyone's shouting.

Nine dragon corpses were slowly sliding down, dragging the huge coffin, and falling towards the cliff together.

"Rumble~"

The huge bronze coffin slid along the mountain, making echoes, and fell into a bottomless abyss.

Without the obstruction of the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin, everyone could see the entire terrain around them.

It actually looks like a huge crater!
There were nine interconnected mountains around, forming an unfathomable valley. The bottom of the valley was pitch black, but in just a few breaths, the shadow of the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin could no longer be seen.

After getting familiar with the environment, Hua Tiandu said to the dozen people around him: "Find a place to wait for a while. I will go around to check the situation. When I come back, I will take you away."

After saying this, without waiting for everyone to react, he directly activated his magic power and carried Ye Fan, who was not far away, into the sky together.

Looking down at the vast land from a high vantage point, Hua Tiandu discovered a spring pool and a fruit forest not far away. He was delighted and immediately swooped over with Ye Fan.

The spring pool is not big, with a surface area of ​​only about one square meter. There is a huge rock on the shore, like a resting white tiger.

Next to the White Tiger Stone, there are more than a dozen half-meter-high fruit trees, and on the top of each tree hangs a red fruit shaped like a cherry.

Hua Tiandu used his magical power to pick all the red fruits, thirteen in total.

He threw four fruits to Ye Fan and said, "Eat these fruits immediately."

Then, he put the remaining nine fruits into his Wanfa robe and did not choose to eat them on the spot.

"Taoist Priest..."

Ye Fan, who had been in a daze, looked at the red fruit in his hand, then looked at Hua Tiandu, and suddenly hesitated.

“Are these fruits poisonous?”

Hearing him ask this, Hua Tiandu asked back with a half-smile: "Why? Are you afraid that I will use you to test the poison?"

"Master, you misunderstood me." Ye Fan smiled and explained immediately, "These fruits were picked by you, so you should eat them first."

Looking at his sincere look, Hua Tian smiled faintly and didn't care about his little thoughts.

He rolled up his magic power, and lifted the opponent up again, flying towards a holy mountain nearby.

"This is a forbidden area. It will shave off several decades of your lifespan. If you don't eat these holy fruits to replenish your essence, you will become a white-haired old man. Don't blame me for not warning you in advance."

Hearing this explanation, Ye Fan was stunned. Thinking back to the entire flight process, he finally noticed something unusual.

In this wooded mountain range, no insects or birds were heard, nor were any animals seen.

"I believe the Taoist priest will not harm me."

Ye Fan reacted and first said a nice word to Hua Tiandu, then he chewed the four red fruits coolly and swallowed all of them. At the end, he did not forget to put the cores into his pocket.

Next, the two of them quickly visited the other eight holy mountains, picked all the fruits, and collected a lot of pool water.

Just like before, every time Hua Tian got a new kind of fruit, he would give four to Ye Fan and ask him to eat them immediately.

The entire process of collecting the holy fruit went very smoothly without any accidents. About twenty minutes later, the two returned to the original low mountain and met up with the others.

"Master, something is wrong with this place!"

"We just found a broken stele lying on the ground, with three large characters 'Ancient Forbidden' engraved on it."

"Yes, Taoist Priest, this is probably not a good place!"

……

During the time when Hua Tiandu was collecting holy fruits, the people who stayed in the low mountain, after taking care of their personal hygiene, walked around and found a lot of things. At this time, when they saw Hua Tiandu returning, they immediately felt relieved and reported the situation immediately.

"Don't worry, I will take you away from here now."

Hearing this, everyone relaxed a lot.

A vast amount of magic power surged out and turned into more than a dozen huge hands, which tied up everyone and flew to the outskirts of the mountain together.

They galloped all the way, and in just over ten minutes, they had covered a distance that would take a mortal two days to complete.

After flying out of the ancient forbidden land, Hua Tiandu put everyone down next to a stone wall with four big characters "Ancient Forbidden Land" engraved on it.

"Everyone, all good things must come to an end. Now that the crisis is over, I should go do my own thing. Let's say goodbye here."

"When we meet next time, if you still want to become my disciple, I will accept you as my outer disciples according to the agreement and teach you the unique skills of my Yuhua Sect."

Before everyone had time to rest, they heard this farewell, and immediately a feeling of reluctance and panic surged in their hearts.

"Master, can't we leave in a few days? We haven't had time to repay you yet."

"Yes, Taoist priest, why don't you rest here for a few days? It won't be too late to go and do things later."

Looking at the many people who wanted to persuade him to stay, Hua Tian shook his head and refused, "There is no room for slackness in cultivation."

Then, he looked at Ye Fan who was standing next to him and said, "Come with me, I need to tell you a few things."

After saying that, the two of them walked to the stream in the distance, one after the other.

The stream gurgled as Hua Tiandu set up a magical shield around to prevent others from eavesdropping.

"Master, what do you want to tell me?" Ye Fan asked with a smile, with some doubt in his eyes.

"I am going to tell you three things. The first two are related to your life and death."

Hearing this, Ye Fan immediately became serious.

"When the Nine Dragons pulled the coffin away from Mars, the demon saint Crocodile Ancestor split a strand of his soul and sneaked into the coffin. Now it is possessing one of your classmates. I don't know who this person is."

At this point, Hua Tian paused and said jokingly: "Of course, it is also possible that it possesses you."

As soon as these words came out, Ye Fan shuddered all over, feeling uncomfortable all over, and said unhappily: "Master, at this time, you still have the mood to make fun of me?"

He crossed his arms, rubbed them, and then asked, "Master, what about the second one?"

"The second thing..." Hua Tiandu deliberately lowered his voice and said, "There was also a fierce ghost that ran into the coffin, and now it has disappeared."

"I need to remind you that this evil spirit is coming for you."

"It wants to take over your body and revive itself."

Two consecutive pieces of bad news left Ye Fan completely stunned.

(End of this chapter)