Heavenly Dao Child 199 Meeting the 'árbol que chupa sangre' again

Even after Ryuu had placed the barriers preventing them from being detected the trio had kept a vigilant eye open for anything unusual with the help of various arrays Ryuu had created, to some it may seem like an overkill having so many arrays being placed here but to experienced cultivators they od not know about such words.

At the crack of dawn next day the trio began preparations to leave, Ryuu: "I will keep the barriers activated so that no one may enter, also this place will also hold a few emergency items have you prepared them in advance?", Aliyah nodded as she handed him a bundle which Ryuu placed on a specific spot as he spoke, "Is there anything else you wish to leave out here?"

Alhma: "No not at this moment fellow Daosit last day we were lucky that we already knew about this place from before but now we would venture out into the unknown and from what we know the place should be at least a few thousand miles from here."

Ryuu nodded and soon they left into the shelter venturing into the unknown.

Under the yellowish sky as the further they moved towards the city the more scars of destruction greeted them, corpses of various beings were all lying around and more they reached towards the city, the skeletons became much less and less as mostly intact corpses were to be found, even the flora was twisted by all the yin energy produced by the corpses not to mention all those poison and acidic pits.

But even after all this they had gained a lot from looting the corpses.

Alhma: "Hey this one's spear is laying beside him, the armor is badly damaged so it is of no use but the helmet is still salvageable check for any space rings."

Ryuu went and touched the space ring as he sends his ki inside it, most of the other's space ring had some form of security which made it impossible for them to open it but this one was open.

Ryuu checked the ring as his face broke into wide grin, "This one is open Aliyah space bags."

Before they had left, each of them had been provided by at least 300 space bags courtesy of Shangri-la pavilion, top of the line quality with each having 100sq.feet of area, unlike his space ring which has 500sq.feet of area, but unlike him the other two had only space rings with 50sq.feet of area.

Ryuu smirked as he shoved the things inside it, and due to constant danger they had to face it was decided by them that they will only divide their spoils when they are at a safe place and if it means back in Shangri-la Pavilion outside this place then so be it.

Normally they had no problem shoving so many space bags inside their space ring but they were warned not to put any space ring inside the space bag which could cause problem as such Ryuu put the ring as he pored the contents inside before throwing the empty ring away.

They quickly left the place as Alhma questioned Ryuu, "So what did you get from the space ring?"

Ryuu: "There plenty of metals and what not, some precious herbs and medicines but mostly techniques and cultivation methods this person seemed to be walking talking library."

The others nodded as they left the place, as they were moving Aliyah suddenly pointed towards a plant as she spoke, "Daoist Brother is that not a 'Human Faced Flower'?"

Ryuu looked towards the flower before hissing loudly as his voice held a little bit of hatred in it as he spoke, "It is but is near a very troublesome plant, 'árbol que chupa sangre', I almost once died by one of such things hands.", he spat out the last sentence with clear disgust evident in his voice.

Alhma grimaced as she heard the name and Ryuu's tone as she spoke, "Seemed as if all this death around it has given it quite a lot of nutrients. Let us leave Daoist Ryuu."

Once again the trio started moving only to be stopped by Ryuu, "It seems or way is blocked by a forest of 'árbol que chupa sangre'."

Alhma: "Who in their right mind would build forest of 'árbol que chupa sangre' like that?"

Aliyah: "It seems they are mass grown for specific purposes may be they were planning to use them as some form of barrier, but why?"

Ryuu: "We do not know but we have to find a way around it, there is something wrong on the air current, see that bird over there,"

They looked up to see a bird got too near only to be pulled from the air as it crashed towards the ground near the trees which wasted no time to feast on the poor bird."

Ryuu: "See the air above the forest is weird we have to take a detour now."

They sighed as such they started moving towards East hoping to see the end of the forest.

Ryuu: "There it is the end of the forest let us move from that part."

As such they raced towards the end of the forest, as Alhma spoke sadly, "There are so many precious loots but because of the tree we cannot go near it such shame."

Aliyah: "So true sister, Daoist Ryuu the place feels a bit funny over there."

Ryuu just glanced back at Aliyah as he spoke, "Then let us descend here and see."

As they spend more time with each other, Ryuu learned that Aliyah has gained a sliver of enlightenment in the Supreme Dao of Earth as such she was able to detect precious metals underneath the surface as long as it is a bit near the surface.

As they landed she crouched on the soil with her eyes closed before she clicked her tongue in annoyance, "It is nothing just a superheated lava tube filled with lava nothing to see about.", with that the two sisters flew up in the air leaving behind Ryuu in deep thought.

Alhma could not help but ask with wariness in her voice "Daoist Ryuu is there any problem?"

Ryuu gave a grin as he spoke, "Nothing much just thinking that this place is like on a higher position than the 'árbol que chupa sangre' forest if we are to puncture the lava tube from here and let the superheated lava to flow out and if I am not wrong the magma of this place is surprisingly Yang oriented while most things on the surface are yin oriented and if we take the slope of this place as well as the way the forest has been build the lava will take care of it."

The twins grinned as they descended beside as Alhma spoke, "What do you need Daoist Ryuu?"

Ryuu: "Find the place where the distance is the least and leave the rest to me."

Aliyah nodded an within a few minutes located the place which Ryuu wanted her to find as she spoke, "Here it is only 2800meters from the surface."

Ryuu nodded as he began working magic with his arrays and a few minutes later the trio had moved at least a few kilometers form that place as Ryuu used a talisman the place where Aliyah pointed out a gigantic array shown for the first few minutes nothing happened then the ground shook hard and with a large boom the surface erupted, it was loud enough for trio to cover their ears as magma spewed out of the hole on the surface before it flowed down towards the forest in a mad rush to destroy anything on their path.

The trio grinned before the resumed their journey.

Chapter end

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