447 The price is only his life, he can afford it
Astral world.
The tree spirit clings to the world barrier like a leech, constantly absorbing the spiritual power and vitality of the two worlds.
Gong Zhe was unable to get closer because of the obstruction of the protective formation.
Seeing that his spiritual power and vitality were being rapidly absorbed by the tree spirit, he seemed to have a sense of crisis and slammed into the protective formation even more violently, trying to break through the formation in order to compete for the spiritual power and vitality.
The counterattack of the protective formation became more and more intense. Jiang Xin's body floating in the star realm became blurred and disappeared.
She had to use all her strength to resist the Devourer's attacks, and she couldn't even retain the strength to communicate with the tree spirit.
As this consciousness returned to the formation, lightning and thunder roared like a dragon above the formation, not only targeting Gong Zhe, but also attacking the tree spirit.
The tree spirit thought highly of itself and never expected that the formation would attack it. It was caught off guard and was torn off the protective formation by Jiang Xin and shaken far away.
His mind, which had been occupied by greed due to absorbing a large amount of spiritual power and vitality, became a little more sober, but when he saw Gong Zhe rushing towards the protective formation regardless of anything, resentment once again filled the tree spirit's body.
“Don’t get in the way!” The tree spirit roared, waved away the lightning that came from the protective formation, and tried again to absorb the vitality and spiritual power of the two worlds.
However, Jiang Xin did not give him this opportunity.
The power of vast living beings covered the protective formation, and attacked the tree spirit and Gong Zhe like thousands of arrows piercing their hearts, pushing the two back a long distance and preventing them from getting close.
Facing the power of all living beings with the same aura, the tree spirit, filled with anger and resentment, could not distinguish whether the person controlling the formation in front of him was Jiang Xin or Mingchen Immortal Venerable. He only knew that the other party had ruined his plans: "You failed to kill Gong Zhe back then, and now you are no match for him! Get out of here! Wait until I drain these two spirit realms, then I'll kill Gong Zhe!"
Before he finished his words, a faster figure passed by him from behind and headed straight for the two worlds. It was Gong Zhe.
Gong Zhe's sanity had long since collapsed, and his devouring instinct made him desire the nearby spiritual world and demon world even more than the tree spirit.
Because he was unable to swallow the two worlds into his stomach, Gong Zhe even went crazy enough to move the body of the World Tree and crash the entire giant tree into the two worlds, shaking the two worlds so much that they almost shattered during the fusion.
A crack appeared in the protective formation, but it quickly healed.
A light so bright that it was difficult to look directly at flew out from the formation and headed straight towards Gong Zhe, piercing him through.
A big hole appeared on Gong Zhe's body, cutting his body, which had turned into a "human-shaped snake", in half.
No blood flowed out of the cut, only some wooden organ fragments floated out of the hole and scattered in the sea of skeletons between the tree roots, and were scrambled by the skeletons inside to be chewed and swallowed.
The two halves of his body were like a broken bow, flying in opposite directions due to inertia, but were quickly stopped by him and controlled by Gong Zhe to gather in the same direction, trying to connect again.
"Oh, waste!" The tree spirit sneered. Looking at his miserable appearance, he felt so happy in his heart.
Gong Zhe, who was passing by him, suddenly turned his head and looked at him straight, as if he finally realized his existence.
The look was so familiar that it frightened the tree spirit.
His heart skipped a beat and he stepped back subconsciously.
However, before the tree spirit could react, the severed front half of Gong Zhe's body sprang up like a poisonous snake and rushed towards him, wrapping around him layer by layer.
The dense vines penetrated into his body as fast as lightning, madly sucking away his vitality and spiritual power.
"Get out! Get out!" The tree spirit roared in pain and rolled desperately trying to shake off Gong Zhe.
But it's totally useless.
Gong Zhe's sinuous body swung along with him, and even became tighter and tighter, as if he wanted to strangle him to death.
At the same time, Gong Zhe was rapidly absorbing the vitality and spiritual power of the tree spirit.
The tree spirit struggled desperately, but to no avail.
His spiritual power continuously flowed into Gong Zhe's body, and his vitality along with death and corruption was also completely taken over by Gong Zhe.
Despair emerged in the tree spirit's hateful eyes, and soon it didn't even have the strength to resist.
Gong Zhe’s head was so close and so unfamiliar that he could only see the other party’s fangs flashing with cold light and piercing his neck.
"You finally see me now." The tree spirit's lips moved, his voice was thin and extremely bitter.
He stared at the person in front of him without blinking, but did not see any emotional fluctuations in the other person.
When Gong Zhe devoured him, he didn't dare to look him in the eye.
Now Gong Zhe devoured him again, just like he devoured others.
It turns out that he had been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years just to pave the way for his own complete death.
He thought he could take revenge in one go, but he didn't expect that the gap between him and Gong Zhe had already become so big that it was difficult to catch up.
He really didn't have the strength to struggle, and subconsciously wanted to ask Jiang Xin for help.
But the other half of Gong Zhe's body was controlling the main body of the World Tree and crashing into the Tiancheng Spirit World and the Demon World. Jiang Xin's whole mind was drawn into it and she couldn't spare any strength to save him.
He was unwilling to accept it.
I really can't accept it.
But there is nothing we can do.
The tree spirit's body, which contained both vitality and corruption, gradually dried up and withered, turning into fine dust and dissipating into the starry sky.
He was left wandering around in the same place for three circles with unwilling obsession, and then fell into the protective formation below. It was like a raindrop falling into the water, creating a ripple that disappeared in the blink of an eye.
By devouring the tree spirit, Gong Zhe obtained all the power of the World Tree.
The two broken body merged into one, and Gong Zhe's aura surged, even causing the entire star realm to tremble.
His body, transformed into a "human-shaped snake", continued to stretch and repeatedly coiled around the World Tree, exuding a vibrant vitality filled with a decaying scent.
The World Tree was corroded by these strange life forces, and Gong Zhe's "human-shaped snake" body melted into liquid and seeped into the World Tree.
The tall and straight World Tree began to melt, and its trunk and the sea of skeletons melted together, transforming into countless vines with human faces, which flew towards the Tiancheng spiritual world and the demon world like facehuggers.
The protective formation shone brightly, blocking Gong Zhe's real body.
Countless vines with human faces rushed towards the surroundings along the protective formation, completely enveloping the merged Tiancheng spiritual world and the demon world.
In an instant, looking from inside the realm, one could only see countless bloody mouths gnawing at the protective formation frantically, as if the next bite would swallow them at any time.
Xiao Mi and Xiu Gou were helping to clean up the newly born cloud beasts in the demon world. After finally clearing out the cloud beasts within a hundred miles, the sea of clouds dissipated. When they looked up, they saw this scene. They were so scared that the cat and dog tucked their tails between their legs and ran towards the Taoist Master Zhu Yue: "Tao Master, help me!"
At this moment they even regretted that they were too hasty and cleared the cloud beasts too quickly, which led to seeing this scene.
If there was still the sea of clouds to cover them, they would not be able to see the situation in the star realm, and they would not have to look directly at the Devourer and face the terror.
Just as they were about to pounce into the spirit beast bag on Taoist Master Zhuyue's waist, something unexpected happened. The ground suddenly rose up, and a mountain appeared out of thin air, separating the two sides.
Xiu Gou couldn't dodge in time and crashed into it head-on, creating a big hole. He climbed up without caring about the pain and ran forward cursing, "Where is the mountain?"
Xiao Mi looked even bleaker. She looked around as she ran, and felt incredible: "It seems that the demon world is compressing, and the flat ground has risen and turned into a mountain."
"What?" Xiu Gou didn't understand and raised his head subconsciously, and saw the strong and powerful human-faced vines squeezing the protective formation.
A strange dark green sticky liquid covered the protective formation, corroding holes in it.
A pure white light flashed, and the formation repaired itself and returned to its original state.
But in the time difference created by the two, corrosive liquid has already flowed into the two worlds through the hole, corroding everything around it.
Xiu Gou asked fearfully, "Could this be the Devourer's gastric juice? Could we have been swallowed by the Devourer?"
Xiao Mi thinks so, but she doesn’t dare to say it.
It tried to hide back in the spirit beast bag, but before it could reach Taoist Master Zhuyue, it was knocked away by the human-faced vines that emerged from the cracks in space.
Xiao Mi was so angry that she yelled, "It has already swallowed us, why are you hitting us with vines!"
Xiu Gou whispered, "Maybe it's to make digestion easier. Don't you have to chew your food into pieces before swallowing it?"
Xiao Mi glared at it: "Which side are you from?"
Xiu Gou's cultivation level was not as good as its counterpart, so he did not dare to force it anymore. He could only secretly hope that Taoist Master Zhuyue would soon be promoted to the Mahayana stage and quickly clear away the human-faced vines.
However, the human-faced vines that entered the demon world this time were much more powerful, and even Taoist Master Zhuyue, who had previously dealt with them as easily as cutting melons and vegetables, found them difficult to deal with.
As if knowing that he was difficult to deal with, the Devourer regarded Taoist Master Zhuyue as his number one opponent in the realm, and human-faced vines kept emerging from the cracks in space to attack him.
Xiao Mi had already flown to the vicinity of Daoist Master Zhu Yue with the dog, and saw that the human-faced vines were as dense as a wall, trapping Daoist Master Zhu Yue tightly inside. She was so scared that she slammed on the brakes, turned around and ran: "Daoist Master, please reach the Mahayana stage quickly! Otherwise, you will be beaten to death!"
In the middle of the rattan ball formed by vines with human faces, Taoist Master Zhuyue stood holding a sword. The sword energy surged around him, ruthlessly destroying all vines that approached him.
The spiritual consciousness at the peak of the Tribulation Period spread out, and the demon world was filled with human-faced vines.
As the fusion of the two worlds continued to intensify, Taoist Master Zhuyue could even sense that the same situation was happening in the Tiancheng Spirit World.
Immortal Master Mingchen failed to kill the Devourer back then, and now it would be difficult for Jiang Xin alone to wipe it out.
Moreover, Jiang Xin had to use some of his strength to suppress the human-faced vines that had infiltrated the realm, ensuring that the power of these human-faced vines was controlled to a level that the cultivators in the realm could handle.
If Jiang Xin could take back this part of his strength and focus on dealing with the Devourer, he might still have a chance of winning.
Thinking of this, Taoist Master Zhuyue looked at the sword in his hand.
He tried many times to advance to the Mahayana stage but all failed. He might not be able to reach the Mahayana stage in this lifetime.
Now that the Devourer is attacking, Jiang Xin and Jiang Xiao are both in the Star Realm. He is probably the only person in the realm capable of putting an end to the human-faced vines.
It's just a pity that all this cultivation is wasted.
That's all.
It's just a form of cultivation.
He was originally just an ordinary white rabbit in the mountains. If he had not been lucky enough to take the elixir and transform into a human form, he would have long been eaten by others, and now not even a bone would be left.
Having lived for tens of thousands of years, and having been the strongest warrior in the Tribulation Crossing Period for so many years, he has already lived enough.
Taoist Master Zhuyue closed his eyes, and a pure white light shone around him. He transformed into his original form as a white rabbit and crashed headfirst into the human-faced vines.
Blood splattered everywhere.
Taoist Master Zhuyue's figure collapsed, and countless bloody white rabbits emerged from his warm, bright red blood, pounced on the vines that formed a ball of human faces, and frantically bit them, leaving one hole after another.
Afterwards, the blood-stained white rabbit ran to every corner of the Demon Realm, madly biting the human-faced vines that continued to occupy the space of the Demon Realm, and even crossed the barrier between the two worlds and entered the Tiancheng Spirit Realm.
These human-faced vines are filled with resentment, and also carry the death and corruption of the devourers. Once infected, it is easy to lose reason, be corroded by death and corruption, and completely perish.
By doing this, Taoist Master Zhuyue has clearly put life and death aside.
The price of expelling the human-faced vines from the two worlds is just his life, and he can afford it.
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