It sucked a lot of flesh and blood, causing its originally pure inner elixir to become mottled.

Wang An was in no hurry to absorb the energy from these two sacred stones. After dawn, he returned to the mountain village from Yuxiao Mountain.

“You’re back so soon, everything is done?” Li Xinzhu asked when Wang An came back.

 “It’s done.”

Wang An told Li Xinzhu what he saw on Fanghu Island.

"The jujube tree that eats people can talk. Wouldn't that make her a grandma? No, he hasn't transformed yet. Hey, I really should go and see it with you. It sounds wonderful." Listening to Wang An's experience , Li Xinzhu’s eyes sparkled.

"There will be opportunities in the future." Wang An said with a smile. He felt that something like this would happen again in the future.

“Before that, I have to work hard and accumulate strength, right? Otherwise, if I face such a terrible thing one day, the result will be one word - death!”

Wang An smiled and nodded.

That jujube tree is indeed terrifying. If he hadn't cultivated Wuji Qi, he wouldn't be able to deal with the tree that had become a spirit, so he could only retreat.

 Above the East China Sea, in a warship.

“What, let’s send people to that island, why?” The commander on the warship didn’t understand what it meant.

His people had just returned from the island, and the results this time were much better than the previous ones. At least a few people went and a few came back, but more than half of them were poisoned, and we don’t know what it was. The reason was poisonous, and now the higher-ups actually asked him to send people to the island again.

 “The risk is too high.”

"Excuting an order."

"yes!"

Hey, after hanging up the phone, the commander sighed and had no choice but to send another team to prepare to land on the island.

 Beijing, in a conference room.

 “Isn’t he very understanding?”

"That's natural. After so many people have been sacrificed, he must not be willing to send more people there. It can be heard that he has resentment, so the task assigned to him is to send people to attack the front line, and then there will be another The people went to complete the task of exploring Fanghu Island."

"Now we are not very sure whether Wang An has solved the threat on that island. Everything is just inference, we can only send people to take a look."

“He should have known about Fanghu Island for a long time, why did he want to go there suddenly?”

 “I’m afraid only he knows this.”

Wang An stayed in the mountain village for two days before going to Yuxiao Mountain for retreat. He needed to use those two sacred stones to see if he could advance his cultivation further.

Yuxiao Mountain is still as quiet as usual.

Wang An’s first choice was the large sacred stone, as the energy contained in it was more pure.

He wrapped the sacred stone with his own Wuji Qi, and then continued to rotate it, absorbing the energy emanating from it, and then re-entered the body and transformed into Wuji Qi.

The energy contained in this sacred stone is very huge. Absorbing this energy is a slow process and cannot be rushed.

Wang An quietly absorbed and refined it in the cave behind the house.

Within two days, guests came to the mountain village.

 “Sir, have you gone out?”

 “Hmm.” Faced with Lu Xiangyi’s question, Li Xinzhu just responded.

 Once Wang An goes to some special places, such as Shushan World and Fanghu Island, Lu Xiangyi or Xu Qi will come back after a while to inquire about the news. This is a rule.

“Sir, I went to Fanghu Island a few days ago.”

“I’m going.” Li Xinzhu ate a fried peanut, which was crunchy and fragrant.

 “Did you say anything, sir?”

"The Taoist priests on Fanghu Island used people to conduct experiments and make elixirs. There was also a jujube tree that became a spirit. It ate people and could talk. It was destroyed by the teacher." Li Xinzhu revealed a lot of information in a few simple sentences.

“Talking tree?” Lu Xiangyi was stunned.

“Yes, it’s just like the tree demon in the movie. It’s a pity that I didn’t have the chance to see it with my own eyes.” Li Xinzhu sighed and ate another peanut.

 “How can a tree speak?”

“After eating so many people, a human-like head can grow, so talking is nothing.” Li Xinzhu said disapprovingly.

“There must be a big secret hidden on that square pot island.” Lu Xiangyi took a sip of tea.

 “Big secret?” Li Xinzhu just smiled after hearing this.

So what? People like them always seem to be doing something better than others.

 “When will sir come back?”

“I don’t know, it should take a long time.” Li Xinzhu said truthfully. Wang An told him before leaving this time that the retreat would be longer this time.

“You should come back before the Chinese New Year, right?”

"Hard to say."

Lu Xiangyi chatted with Li Xinzhu for a while and left without even spending the night in the mountain village.

“I’m always in a hurry, I don’t know what I’m busy with.” Li Xinzhu shook his head.

 He is now even more grateful for his original choice. Otherwise, he would be like Lu Xiangyi now, trapped in that strange whirlpool, busy and unable to escape.

“Sure enough, practice is still simple!”

 What surprised Li Xinzhu slightly was that Xu Qi did not come in the next few days.

 After Lu Xiangyi left, he selectively reported the news he got.

By this time, the team sent by the Special Affairs Bureau had completed the search for the Taoist temple and had already gone up the mountain. However, they had not yet found the cave that Wang An mentioned, but they had already found the jujube tree on the bright side.

It’s just that now the leaves on this jujube tree have withered and fallen, and the jujubes full of the tree have also fallen to the ground. The big tree is bare and looks lifeless.

 “Can a jujube tree grow so big?”

 “This is not an ordinary jujube tree, is it?”

During the subsequent search, they found that a peak on the mountain collapsed.

“It looks like this mountain peak has just collapsed.”

 They saw a large number of tree roots among the collapsed rocks.

“Why are there so many tree roots in this rock?”

 They took a part of the root tissue to take back for study.

The alarm in a soldier's hand suddenly sounded.

 “Something is approaching.”

"What position?"

 “In this mountain.” The soldier looked at the rocks on the side.

The next moment, click, click, continuous crisp sounds, small holes appeared in the broken rock in front of them, and then rat-like monsters ran out of them, more than thirty centimeters long, and their bodies were fiery red.

 “What is this, a big rat?”

“Be careful, these little guys don’t look very friendly!” the captain said and made a gesture.

After a moment of stalemate, the monsters seemed to have received unified instructions and ran out of the rocks and rushed directly towards them. There were many of them, coming from all directions.

Puff puff puff, the automatic rifle equipped with a silencer was spitting fire.

The bells were ringing, and the bullet casings kept falling to the ground, making a crisp sound.

 “Retreat!”

Seeing the number of these rat-like monsters increasing, they decisively chose to retreat, but they could no longer leave.