Chapter 35 Little Tree Spirit... Is it dead?
Chi Li's rage transformed into phoenix flames that burned across the eight wastelands.
The ferocity of the demon army converged into a raging tide that engulfed everything.
The gap in the protective mountain shield rapidly widened under the relentless burning of Chi Li's phoenix flames and the fearless attacks of the demon army.
Finally, with a tooth-grinding cracking sound, it collapsed with a deafening roar!
"kill--!"
Having lost its greatest barrier, Xuantianmen was exposed to the iron hooves of the demon army.
The shouts of battle, the clash of weapons, the explosions of magic, and the screams of the dying transformed this celestial paradise into a bloody inferno.
Chi Li took the lead, and wherever she went, crimson-gold divine fire swept through. Whether they were Foundation Establishment disciples or Nascent Soul elders, they were all turned to ashes in the flames, and none of them could even stop her for a moment.
Her goal was clear—the Pure Void Immortal and the core inheritance site of the Xuantian Sect!
Tang Lu was firmly protected by the divine power shield behind her, her small face pale as she looked at the tragic scene below.
Although she hated the bad people who hurt Lili, seeing so many lives disappear before her eyes still made her feel uncomfortable and sad.
She could only close her eyes tightly, trying her best not to see or hear.
She could only focus all her attention on the war god-like figure in front of her, silently transmitting her weak wood spirit energy to him, hoping to alleviate the exhaustion from the battle and the lingering pain of her old wounds.
Despite their desperate resistance, the Xuantian Sect disciples' defenses crumbled under the overwhelming difference in strength and Chi Li's unreasonable and crushing power.
Corpses lay strewn across the fields, and blood flowed like rivers.
Master Qingxu's eyes were bloodshot as he watched his thousand-year-old legacy crumble and his disciples slaughtered. Finally, he abandoned all hope and a final trace of madness appeared on his face.
"Chi Li! You forced me to do this!" he roared, suddenly throwing out an ancient bronze array plate covered in cracks.
He spat a mouthful of blood onto it.
At the same time, he roared at the core elders behind him, "Form the 'Nine Nether Soul Devouring Array' and perish together with her!"
The elders' faces turned deathly pale instantly, but seeing the unstoppable Chi Li and the mountain gate on the verge of destruction, a ruthless glint flashed in their eyes. They all spat out their blood essence and threw it at the array plate!
"Buzz—!"
The array plate absorbed the essence and blood of several high-level cultivators, and suddenly erupted with a monstrous black aura.
The black aura was cold and filthy, filled with an aura of devouring and destruction, and instantly spread out, enveloping half of the main peak.
Wherever the black energy passed, whether it was a demon or a disciple of the Xuantian Sect, anyone who was touched by it would instantly have their flesh and blood wither, and their spiritual power and even life force would be forcibly drawn away and merged into the black energy, making the black energy grow stronger.
This formation actually uses living beings as sacrifices to nourish itself, and it cannot distinguish between friend and foe.
"Oh no! It's a forbidden formation!" a knowledgeable demon general exclaimed.
Chi Li frowned, she could feel the black energy eroding and devouring her divine power.
What alarmed her even more was that the core of the black energy seemed to have locked onto her... and Tang Lu, who was in the protective shield behind her.
The pure wood spirit vitality of Tanglu is the most tempting tonic in the world for this filthy and evil formation.
"Protect the young prince!" Chi Li ordered sternly.
At the same time, divine fire surged around him, transforming into a fiery tornado, attempting to force back and purify the spreading black energy.
However, this "Nine Netherworld Spirit Devouring Array" was a forbidden technique that the Xuan Tian Sect had kept hidden. It was extremely powerful and had devoured the power of many living beings, so for a time it was locked in a stalemate with her Phoenix Flame.
The black energy, like a leech, constantly eroded her divine power, and split into several tentacle-like strands that strangely bypassed her defenses and rushed straight towards the protective barrier where Tang Lu was!
"Lili!" Tang Lu was terrified when she saw the twisted, writhing black tentacles surging towards her, exuding an ominous aura. She instinctively shrank back.
The shield's light flickered violently under the erosion of the black energy.
Chi Li was extremely anxious and wanted to turn back to help, but she was held back by Qingxu Zhenren and several other elders who were desperately trying to stop her.
Knowing they were doomed, they fought recklessly, hoping to buy time for the formation to devour the little tree spirit!
"Get out of the way!" Chi Li roared, smashing an elder who rushed up into a bloody mist with a single palm strike, but another black tentacles had already slammed into the protective barrier!
"Crack!"
A tiny crack appeared on the protective shield.
Although it was instantly repaired by the divine power infused by Chi Li, even more black tentacles were surging forward one after another.
The shield's light dimmed at a visible speed.
This can't go on!
Chi Li's eyes flashed with a sharp look.
The core of this formation lies in that array plate; as long as the array plate is destroyed...
Her gaze pierced through the thick black mist and locked onto the bronze array plate that Master Qingxu was protecting tightly behind him.
However, in order to break through the desperate obstruction of these elders and the devouring power of the formation to hit the array plate, she must go all out, and may even need to withstand several attacks!
In that case, the protective shield behind her...
At this critical moment...
Tang Lu, who had always been protected, watched as Chi Li was forced into a passive position to protect her, and watched the black energy that kept impacting the shield and trying to devour her as well. After the fear, she was instead filled with a desperate courage!
She couldn't keep hiding behind Lili forever; she couldn't become Lili's weakness!
Last time, she blocked the heavenly lightning.
This time, she's going to do something too!
She didn't know where the inspiration came from; perhaps it was the wood spirit's natural aversion to filth, or perhaps it was the intention of Chi Li to break the formation that she sensed through soul resonance.
She pressed her hands firmly against the inner wall of the protective shield, closed her eyes, and instead of passively channeling gentle wood spirit energy, she poured all her spiritual consciousness and life force into the source of the filthy black energy—the bronze array plate!
She was about to do something extremely dangerous.
She wasn't fighting, she wasn't defending, she was purifying!
With her purest wood spirit essence, she purified the core of the formation, which was filled with countless filth and despair.
"Tang Lu! No!" Chi Li immediately sensed her intention and turned pale with horror.
That's too risky!
The power gathered by that array was so filthy and complex that Tang Lu's pure essence was like a drop of water trying to extinguish a forest fire. If she was not careful, she would be backfired, her spiritual consciousness would be severely damaged or even completely polluted!
She tried to stop it, but it was too late.
Tang Lu's spiritual consciousness, like a slender yet resilient green thread, pierced through the black mist, ignored the spatial barrier, and precisely touched the bronze array plate.
"Buzz—!"
The array plate trembled violently!
The filthy black mist emitted a piercing shriek!
The green purifying power and the black filthy power frantically annihilated and fought each other!
"Ah—!" Tang Lu let out a painful groan, her face instantly losing all color.
Her body slumped down, and fine blood seeped from her seven orifices.
Her spiritual consciousness was being frantically devoured and eroded by that filthy power!
"Tang Lu!!!" Chi Li's heart was instantly torn apart with pain!
When she saw the little one fall, when she saw her agonizing state, all her reason and all her consideration vanished in that instant!
Forget about preserving strength and taking things slowly!
All she wants is for her tree spirit to be safe!
"You...all of you, die!!!"
A phoenix cry, seemingly from the primordial era, resounded throughout the universe!
Chi Li's eyes turned completely crimson gold, devoid of any human emotion, only the most primal and violent desire for destruction remained!
No longer caring about the cost or suppressing her old injuries, all the Phoenix Divine Power within her body erupted like a bursting dam in a galaxy!
"唳——!"
A fiery phoenix, solidified as if a true divine beast had descended to earth, soared into the sky from within her body.
The phoenix was larger and more dazzling than ever before, and ancient and mysterious runes even began to appear on its wings.
The fiery phoenix opened its enormous maw, not to spew flames, but to devour directly!
It devours light, devours spiritual energy, and devours the filthy black mist that fills the sky.
Along with the bronze array plate, along with Master Qingxu and the elders, along with the space around them, everything was swallowed up by the fiery phoenix!
There was no explosion, no screams.
There was only a deathly silence and nothingness.
The fiery phoenix circled once before disappearing back into Chi Li's body.
In the center of the battlefield, which was originally filled with black mist and deafening fighting, a smooth, mirror-like blank area appeared.
Master Qingxu, several elders, the bronze array plate... everything disappeared, as if it had never existed.
The Nine Netherworld Devouring Spirit Array is broken.
The last resistance force of Xuantianmen was completely wiped out.
The remaining Xuantianmen disciples, witnessing this god-like scene, completely lost their will to fight, either kneeling in surrender or scattering and fleeing.
The war is over.
But Chi Li couldn't care less about any of that.
The moment she swallowed the array plate, she suddenly spat out a mouthful of dark red blood, her body swayed, and her face turned as pale as paper.
She forcibly activated her source, devouring such filthy and powerful energy, which placed a great burden on her. The tearing pain from her old wounds almost made her lose her balance.
But she didn't care about her injuries at all. She almost staggered to the dim and cracked protective shield and carried the unconscious and weak little tree spirit out of it with trembling hands.
"Tang Lu... Tang Lu!" Her voice was filled with an unprecedented panic.
Pure divine power poured into Tang Lu's body as if it were free, attempting to dispel the filth that had invaded her consciousness and repair her damaged origin.
Looking at the little one in her arms with tightly closed eyes and a pale face, Chi Li's heart felt like it was being scorched on a blazing fire.
She won the war and crushed her enemies.
But if this warmth in my arms were to be extinguished, what would be the point of all this victory?
"Hold on... I'll take you home..." She held Tang Lu tightly in her arms.
Ignoring the excruciating pain throughout her body and the emptiness of her divine power, she transformed into a streak of light and sped headlong towards the demon realm.
Behind them lay the Xuantian Gate, reduced to scorched earth and ruins.
Before him lay an unknown path to treatment.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com