Please read Chapter 0 for trigger warnings!
Rich spiritual energy floats in this world. This is a new world where the strong run rampant, a new ghoul feeding ground yet to be explored.
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When he found out that Zi Sui was going to take away the tree spirit heart of the tribe, Old Man Wanshou immediately wanted to stop him.
But the next moment, he found himself unable to move.
The roots of the Wanshou Man connect the entire forest.
Therefore, when he mobilized his spiritual energy on a large scale, the energy of the entire forest would naturally flow towards him.
This is the reason why the energy in Wanshou Lao Ren's body far exceeds that of other people in the Yutian Realm, and it is also his weakness.
Old Man Wanshou stayed where he was, strangely frozen in place.
Somewhere in the forest, the white owl Arakawa Jiusu (Chapter 266), who had been hiding there for a long time, opened his eyes and instantly came out of his suspended animation.
He first glanced in the direction where Zi Sui left.
After confirming that the breath of the celestial awakener had disappeared, he left the cave where he was hiding.
Walking out of the cave, scattered light fell on Arakawa Kyuso.
In the interweaving of light and shadow, one can see that his face is still covered with complicated oil paint.
He casually adjusted the black highlights on his forehead, and the single braid of his long white hair behind him swayed slightly as he walked.
"Finally it's moving. I've been waiting so long."
Arakawa Jiusu complained and threw some cinnabar he carried with him to the roots of a tree nearby.
The cinnabar shattered on the ground and quickly dispersed and blended into the surrounding environment.
The mercury content of the cinnabar is extremely high, and the awakened ones wear it on their bodies all year round to be immersed in spiritual energy.
Therefore, once it is deliberately destroyed, it will disperse easily like spiritual energy and be easily absorbed by living things.
Then it can easily interfere with the cell functions in the body and destroy the protein structure.
This is Arakawa Kyuso's method for dealing with these human forests.
He has not yet been promoted to the celestial realm, and the gap between him and the Heaven Control Realm is so great that it cannot even be described as a chasm.
But if you want to advance, you must obtain a tree spirit heart of a high enough level.
So, he had to provoke Wanshou Old Man again.
Of course, a head-on battle is impossible, but he can use a sneak attack.
For example, poisoning.
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Old Man Wanshou stood frozen in place, and could only watch Zi Sui take away the "heart" of his tribe members.
Anger, which hadn’t been seen for a long time, rose in the heart of the Wanshou old man.
He collected mercury from all directions at an extremely slow speed.
He wants to minimize the loss of forests as much as possible.
However, the trees surrounding him suffered.
The leaves begin to yellow and wither.
In addition, the distances between trees in the forest are not very large.
Therefore, on a clear day without wind, the air mobility here is average.
Mercury poisoning completely broke out on the body of Wanshou Old Man and the surrounding trees.
After all, Old Man Wanshou was at the Yutian realm, and after being poisoned, his body just couldn't move flexibly.
But the trees connected to him are not so powerful.
Only the strong trees or those with low poisoning levels will wither; some young seedlings and ordinary trees will die on the spot.
Arakawa Kyuso did not feel the slightest bit of guilt towards the innocent lives affected.
Instead, they are happy to allow casualties and chaos to further expand.
The wings of the bird of prey behind him opened silently, carrying him quickly through the forest towards the predetermined target.
As for the cinnabar carried by Arakawa Kyuso, it was driven by spiritual energy.
The wind blowing past his side quickly spread all around.
In just three seconds, the white owl, which has genes from both the peregrine falcon and the snowy owl, flew a thousand meters.
Then, it landed directly in front of a tree spirit seed near the Wanshou Old Man in the center of the forest.
At this moment, less than ten seconds remained until the mercury poisoning incident was triggered.
Old Man Wanshou is still absorbing mercury from the environment, so he has no time to care about the tribesmen here.
As a core member of the tree spirit species that is a thousand meters away from Wanshou Laoren, the tree spirit species in front of him that is struggling to survive can be described as extremely weak.
Although he had the strength of the second level of the heavenly realm, he was completely unable to fight back against Arakawa Jiusu, who was at the peak of the ninth level of the earthly realm.
His tree spirit heart was easily cut out.
After getting what he wanted, Arakawa Kyuso did not stay and immediately fled away from the forest.
He knew that the reason why mercury poisoning could bind Wanshou Lao Ren was not because of its terrible toxicity.
But it was Old Man Wanshou who didn't want to see the people in his territory suffer.
But the cinnabar that Arakawa Kyuso has been quietly spreading during this period is ultimately limited.
With the speed at which Yutian Realm absorbs and filters energy, the mercury remaining in the forest will not be lethal in a while.
At that time, if he still stayed in the forest, he would face the Wanshou Old Man who had completely let go.
What's more, besides him, there were other people who took the tree spirit heart today.
If this attack with the rage added to it hits him, he will definitely die.
Thinking of this, Arakawa Kyuso fled a little faster.
In just five seconds, he had covered more than three thousand meters and was rapidly approaching the edge of the forest.
However, Arakawa Kyuso still underestimated the strength of the old man Wanshou.
In other words, he underestimated the extent of Old Man Wanshou's anger at the successive loss of two members of his tribe.
Tree spirits are immortal species and are not very sensitive to time. At the same time, it is difficult for them to reproduce the next generation.
This is the shackles from the planet that the immortal species must suffer.
Mr. Wanshou expressed his understanding and had no intention of changing this racial characteristic.
But because of this, he also attaches great importance to the small number of members in the tribe.
Not only will it connect their tree spirit hearts to themselves, but it will also initiate negotiations with the planet's will on their behalf.
This is why there are two people in the Sky Control Realm among the Tree Spirits.
Even though Longxuzi was later forced into a deep sleep, this cannot be denied.
This shows how angry Mr. Wanshou is at this moment.
“Boom—!”
Just before Arakawa Jiusu flew out of the forest, the entire central part of Lantiaozhou began to shake violently.
The vibration became more and more violent and began to spread to the entire Lantiao continental plate.
The waving tree roots emerge from the ground, pulling at the earth's veins.
The leaves in the sky were flying, forming a storm, and killing the invaders.
Arakawa Jiusu was swept away by the violent psychic energy wave and fell heavily to the ground.
Then, a tree root suddenly shot out, pierced through his abdomen, and hung him in mid-air.
Blood flowed out along the tree roots, and Arakawa Kyushu drooped his eyes slightly, as if he had given up struggling.
In the distance, Zi Sui, who clearly sensed that he was being locked in some kind of gaze, raised his eyes, and his psychic energy surged, offsetting the incoming psychic energy waves.
A huge pressure enveloped Lan Tiaozhou, carrying with it a reckless and crazy momentum.
In the main territory of the beast clan, the disturbed beast king did not open his eyes.
Just mobilize a trace of spiritual energy to protect the area where the beastmen are.
"Why did this old guy suddenly go crazy?"
After complaining, the Beast King shook the cyan-gold chains on his body and continued.
"Hey, don't you care?"