That bloody joke interrupted Lu Shiyan's illusion.

The confusion and tenderness in his eyes faded away in an instant, replaced by a scarlet rage that could burn the whole world to ashes. Not towards Su Wan, but towards the monster who dared to hurt her and fool him.

He didn't go to see Su Wan, nor did he help her.

The air around him was shaking. The lightning in his left hand was no longer spherical, but turned into a spear made of pure lightning, with a destructive aura at the tip. The flame in his right hand turned into a lion, and the shrine was ablaze.

"Ashi..." Su Wan looked at his back, and her heart moved. The cramps in her abdomen and the bloody taste in her throat seemed to ease.

"Stand back!" Lu Shiyan ordered in a low voice.

Xiao Han and A'mo did not hesitate. They immediately carried the weak Su Wan and tried their best to retreat towards the entrance of the ancestral hall.

The huge plant heart seemed to have sensed an unprecedented deadly threat. Its beating frequency reached an extreme speed. The painful human faces beneath the epidermis screamed and twisted, as if they were about to break out of the body.

All the surviving vines in the ancestral hall swept towards Lu Shiyan, forming green waves.

Lu Shiyan turned a blind eye to this. The flaming lion in his right hand pounced out, burning the vines into charcoal, and the flames spread along the vines toward the mother body.

He took the second step, raised his left hand, and the lightning spear flashed with arcs. He looked at the tumorous heart and threw the spear with force.

There was no loud noise, just a moment of silence.

The lightning spear was driven into the center of the plant's heart.

Lightning exploded inside the heart, tearing the tissue apart. Then, fire set it off.

"Boom!" A loud noise occurred.

The heart exploded, and the energy shock wave spread in all directions with flames and lightning.

The beams and walls of the ancestral hall shattered under the shock wave, and the burning vine debris was thrown into the sky and then fell down.

The entire Evergreen Village trembled. After the mother plant was destroyed, the vines in the village quickly withered and rotted.

At the entrance of the ancestral hall, Xiao Han and A'mo protected Su Wan so that she was not blown away by the shock wave.

Xiao Han and A'mo let go of each other's hands and stepped aside. Xiao Han swallowed his saliva and muttered softly: "Is this... Is this the end?..."

"cough……"

Her vision went dark. She held on to the cold wall tightly to avoid falling down.

Although the familiar, tearing pain in her abdomen was slightly alleviated by the lingering effect of the energy stone, every breath involved her internal organs, making it almost impossible for her to think, and her whole body was so weak as if all the bones had been pulled out.

This light cough was like a switch.

The huge consumption of supernatural powers made Lu Shiyan have difficulty breathing, and he slowly raised his face.

Su Wan watched him approach and subconsciously tried to shrink back, but her back pressed against the cold wall and she had nowhere to retreat.

"I……"

She wanted to say something like, "I'm really fine," or, "Look, the problem is solved."

But Lu Shiyan was already standing in front of her, his tall figure completely covering her.

He said nothing, but reached out his hand and gently wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth with his fingertips.

He stretched out his hand, his fingertips trembling slightly, and gently wiped the blood at the corner of her mouth with his fingertips. His low and hoarse voice was filled with suppressed emotions: "Su Wan, you..."

Just as he was about to say something, Ah Mo, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly spoke in a serious voice: "Brother Lu, we have to leave quickly. The noise here is too loud, and I'm afraid it will attract something else."

Lu Shiyan's eyes became fierce, but seeing Su Wan's weak appearance, he could only suppress his emotions temporarily.

Lu Shiyan let go of Su Wan, picked her up and said to Xiao Han and A'mo, "Go and see if there is a crystal core in that pile of ashes, quickly!"

"Okay!" Xiao Han responded, and immediately ran over and dug in the thick ashes with his feet.

"Nothing... There's nothing, all ashes!" Xiao Han searched for a long time but couldn't find even a scrap.

Lu Shiyan frowned. Such a powerful mutant plant could not possibly not have a crystal core. The only explanation was that the "Silent Purple Flame" he had just used was too powerful and annihilated the crystal core.

"Forget it, let's go!" He no longer hesitated and strode out holding Su Wan.

Hongdou, who had been very quiet in Su Wan's space, suddenly became extremely agitated again, scratching the inner wall of the space with its little claws desperately, making sharp and rapid "squeak" sounds.

Its target seemed to be the shrine in the temple that the plant mother used as its foundation. The shrine itself had been shattered into pieces by the aftermath of the battle and scattered all over the ground.

"Wait!" Su Wan grabbed Lu Shiyan's arm, "Red Bean...it seems to have discovered something."

"Squeak! Squeak!"

In the space, Hongdou's voice became more and more urgent, as if she was giving directions to Xiao Han outside.

"A little to the left! Yes, under the largest piece of rotten wood!" Su Wan gave instructions based on Hongdou's reaction.

Xiao Han followed his instructions and laboriously lifted up a half-burnt heavy altar piece of wood.

At the moment the altar was moved away, a soft and pure green light shone through the dust underneath.

"Oh my god! It's real!" Xiao Han shouted in surprise. He didn't care about the dirt and dug away the loose soil with his hands. A fist-sized, emerald green crystal core, as if carved from the finest jade, appeared in front of everyone.

This crystal core was different from any crystal core they had seen before. It seemed to have liquid flowing slowly inside, emitting an incredibly rich life energy. Just looking at it made people feel refreshed and their fatigue was reduced a little.

Wood Crystal Core! And it is such a pure and powerful Wood Crystal Core!

"It's rich!" Xiao Han picked up the crystal core excitedly and was about to hand it to Lu Shiyan.

“Boom——!”

At this moment, the entire ancestral hall, no, the entire village, suddenly shook violently!

Without the support of the mother plant, the root network underground in the village began to wither and collapse on a large scale, causing ground subsidence!

"Oh no! This place is going to collapse!" Lu Shiyan's face changed, he hugged Su Wan tightly, and shouted, "Everyone, retreat immediately! Get back to the car!"

The four of them didn't dare to stay any longer and immediately turned around and rushed out of the crumbling ancestral hall.

The scene outside was even more shocking. Huge cracks appeared on the originally flat village road, and countless houses were tilting and collapsing, stirring up smoke and dust. The withered vines were like huge dead bones, scattered everywhere.

The road they came from was cut off by a rift several meters wide.

"Go this way!" Lu Shiyan quickly identified a relatively complete path and led everyone to run towards the village entrance.

Li Kui and Li Xinhu had been anxiously waiting beside the car. They heard a huge noise coming from deep in the village, but they didn't dare to go in rashly, so they could only wait anxiously.

When they saw Lu Shiyan and three others rushing out from the smoke and dust, the two brothers were overjoyed.

"Brother Lu! Sister Su Wan!" Li Kui hurriedly got out of the car and greeted them, "You finally came out!"

"Get in the car!" Lu Shiyan didn't waste any words and carefully put Su Wan into the back seat.

Xiao Han and A'mo also quickly got into the car.

However, just as Li Kui was about to get on the car, something strange happened again!

The ground beneath my feet suddenly arched upwards without any warning! A main root vine that was thicker than a bucket and buried deep underground - I thought it had completely died along with its mother plant, but now it broke and rolled up in the violent ground collapse, and was pushed out from below by the huge pressure from the ground, like a devil's claw reaching out from hell, suddenly breaking out of the ground!