Chapter 74: Vine
As he walked, a wooden sign on the tree caught Yan Moying's eye. On the sign were seven words: "The sound of the jade flute calls back my shadow."
Yan Moying immediately took out the small jade flute given to him by the old man he met in the dead wood forest and started to play it. For a moment, the beautiful sound of the flute resounded through the clear sky, and several flying birds lined up and circled in front of Yan Moying. Yan Moying stopped and looked at them, only to see them circle a few more times and then began to lead the way for him. The birds led Yan Moying to the back of a big tree in front of him, and then they dispersed.
"Senior, where are you?" Yan Moying couldn't see any figures around the tree and didn't know what to do next, so he had to try to call the old man he met in the dead woods.
Just as he called out, a vine quickly sprang out and instantly wrapped around Yan Moying, wrapping it tightly, throwing him into the air and immediately pulling him back. Then, another vine also stretched out from a different direction and also wrapped around Yan Moying. Immediately afterwards, the third and fourth vines also stretched out and wrapped around him.
From time to time, some metal fragments fell from the nearby trees and scattered to the ground, but they did not fall on the vines.
Yan Moying struggled while blaming himself for not being more careful. He felt that the surroundings were so peaceful just now, and he was careless for a moment, not expecting that danger could still occur in this situation. Now that he was tightly entangled by those vines, how could he get out? Yan Moying found that the more he struggled, the tighter the vines seemed to be. According to this trend, if he continued to struggle, he would be strangled to death by those vines.
He found that only his left hand could move within a limited range, so he took out the Hunyuan dagger from his body and cut the vine. To his surprise, there was not even a scratch on the vine where he cut, but the one-inch range with the cut point as the center line turned into the same metal material as the Hunyuan dagger. He pulled out the sword with great effort and found that when the blade touched the vine, an inch of the vine also turned into the same material as the blade. He was glad that he didn't just chop with a dagger or sword in a fit of excitement, otherwise many parts of the vine would have turned into the material of a dagger or sword, and the consequences would be disastrous.
Yan Moying looked up at the tree and found the source of the metal debris floating on the ground - it turned out that there were several pieces of unknown metal rubbing against each other on the tree. Those metal blocks seemed to be quite soft, and it seemed that the debris could be wiped off with a light wipe. Seeing this, he immediately tried to find a way to spread the debris on the vines wrapped around him, but no matter how he moved, he was still not close enough to where the debris fell. He picked up the sword and stretched out the front end of the sword to catch it. When beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, the sword finally caught some debris. He sprinkled the debris on one of the vines to test it. Sure enough, the area within an inch turned into a softer metal material. As soon as he exerted force, the vine broke from that place. Yan Moying saw that since this could break the vines, he did not hesitate to sprinkle the metal debris on the vines that were wrapped around him. With a few "clicks" and "pops", all the vines were broken, and Yan Moying fell from the sky.
In order to prevent himself from falling to the ground, Yan Moying somersaulted in the air. But after the somersault, he did not land on the ground for a long time.
(End of this chapter)
