23 Assessment 2
Large amounts of blood gushed out of the spirit dragon's body, and were immediately absorbed by the tree roots without a drop left.
Hua Lang blinked slowly, the blood red almost burned her eyes!
A feeling of absurdity and anger suddenly surged in her heart.
She rushed forward, trying to stop it, but it was too late...
The spirit dragon's neck softened and its body gradually shriveled, revealing the figure of the tree demon.
The tree demon sighed with satisfaction, and its branches flipped flexibly to avoid Hua Lang's attack. Then it slowly withdrew the roots that were deeply embedded in the belly of the spirit dragon.
The dragon corpse lost its footing and fell straight from the air, and was caught by Hua Lang.
The spirit dragon's originally smooth and shiny skin became dull and wrinkled, clinging tightly to its skeleton, making it look somewhat terrifying.
Hua Lang stubbornly transferred spiritual energy into the corpse, but like water into a bamboo basket, the spiritual energy flowed out of the body of the spirit dragon without any reluctance. Its demon pill had been dug out!
The corpse of the spiritual dragon gradually condensed and dissipated. In the hazy and dazed state, bits of spiritual energy flew out of its body like light butterflies. When the last butterfly flapped its wings and flew away, the spiritual dragon had already turned into a half-foot-long dragon corpse, lying quietly in Hua Lang's arms.
"Hahaha, finally, I finally broke through the Heavenly Stage!" The tree demon twisted its trunk, and as it moved, faces appeared on the trunk -
Rabbit monsters, tiger monsters, snake monsters... and even human faces, alternating between them, with the bark raised high, looking extremely terrifying.
It was as if countless resentful ghosts were trapped in the tree, struggling to escape.
"The spirit dragon's magic pill is indeed delicious. It's worth it that I've waited for hundreds of years. Hehehe." In just a few words, the tree demon's voice repeatedly switched between shrill and innocent and rough and heavy. When it echoed in the pool, it was as terrifying as a ghost's voice.
Hua Lang let it chatter to itself, lowering her eyes as she carefully placed the dragon corpse into her ring. She tightened her grip and finally looked at the tree demon. She said solemnly, "Did you deliberately lure the cultivators to Fanhong Mountain by telling them that there was a snake demon causing trouble on this mountain?"
"Hahaha, you're talking about those idiots? I followed this dragon all the way, devouring several villages along the way. I thought I'd never have the chance to taste this dragon pill. I didn't expect that group of humans would actually believe what I said and gather so many people to fight the monster. Thanks to you guys who exhausted the spiritual energy of this spirit dragon, I was able to succeed!"
Although Hua Lang had guessed the truth, her heart still sank when she heard it. She clenched Tian Shu tightly, choking for a long time before saying coldly, "You have caused chaos in the world and treated all living beings as worthless. Today is the day you die!"
Hua Lang attacked the dense tree roots where the tree demon was coiled at the bottom of the pool. The sound of the flute was as stirring as a morning bell. With several loud explosions, wood chips flew into the air!
"What a boast! If it were before, I might have been a little bit afraid of you, but now that I have eaten the Spirit Dragon, would I still be afraid of a mere golden elixir like you?"
Before the fine dust dispersed, the tree demon's voice came along with countless dead branches. Dozens of thick, long, dark brown branches moved strangely, like a giant python pouncing on its prey.
Hua Lang held Tian Shu and swept across with the sound blade, cutting the nearby twisted dead branches into pieces. A strong fishy and foul smell emanated from the broken ends.
Demonic energy?
Is this... entering the devil's way with a demonic body?
No wonder it relies on swallowing inner elixirs to practice!
But since it is a demon, it should be punished by heaven every time it advances a level. It just swallowed the Jiao Pill and advanced several levels, so why did nothing happen?
Hua Lang looked up at the sky and saw several dark clouds covering the sky, a sign of thunder punishment. However, there was no thunder falling here. She frowned and murmured softly, "Where is the thunder?!"
Seeing this, the tree demon laughed heartily, "Hahahahaha, give up on that thought, there won't be any thunder!"
"The thousands of trees on these mountains are all my clones. Under the Absorption Technique, the demon core transformed into the clones. The clones have already suffered the lightning punishment on my behalf. Today, even the Heavenly Dao cannot help you!"
The broken pieces of wood gathered together, and the branches that were twisting and waving in the air returned to their original shape in an instant and attacked Hua Lang again.
Afterwards, more slender tree roots exploded from the ground.
Just as the tree roots were about to wrap around Hua Lang's ankles, she used the force to fly into the air. The tree roots chased her unwillingly, pulling out layer by layer from deep inside, tearing an abyss in the ground!
Thousands of branches shot towards Hualang in front, and tree roots like devil's claws grabbed at it from behind.
She made the decision in the blink of an eye, and her body flipped like a light swallow. As she turned, her waist twisted into an incredible arc. She turned downward and transformed her energy into a sword. With the weight of her whole body, she tore open the huge tree roots like an axe.
She chopped down all the way, and the spiritual energy and the tree roots almost sparked!
The crackling and shattered wood chips flew around like stray bullets, tearing her dress and piercing her body.
Behind Hua Lang, countless branches chased after her in anger, trying to grab her and stop her from cutting the tree roots, but for a moment, they were unable to catch up with Hua Lang who had poured all her spiritual energy into this move.
Across the sky and earth, all one could see were countless waving shadows chasing after one person!
Hua Lang was unstoppable and completely crushed the thick tree roots.
She reached out and picked up the flying wood chips, recalling Xie Hanjing's moves in the ghost pool, and brought her spiritual skills to life in the wood chips, then sent them out with her backhand.
The wood chip was like a sharp blade. When it hit the branch chasing Hua Lang, it was only slightly blunted, and then completely cut through the dry branch!
The sky was full of flying wood chips and the sound of crackling was endless. Hua Lang fell into the pool and staggered half a step.
"Damn you, human cultivator! How dare you destroy my cultivation!" the tree demon roared. "Today, I will tear you apart first, then take away your golden elixir and replenish it!"
The tree demon waved its roots, and under the dark sky, it seemed as if countless snake shadows were dancing wildly.
It roared hoarsely, and the tree crown suddenly expanded. Countless branches grew rapidly, forked and connected, and the ends of the branches intersected and stuck together tightly, forming a black mass, like a canopy.
It actually wrapped up the flower!
The environment instantly darkened, and what was worse was that the spiritual energy in the air was also cut off.
It wants to drag it out until Hua Langling is exhausted!
By then, Hua Lang will be like a fish on a chopping board, at the mercy of others!
The branches spread out in an overwhelming manner, all aimed at the flower in the middle!
Hua Lang's spiritual palace was empty. She tried her best to cut off the branches in front of her, but the branches grew wildly as if they would never stop. New dead branches immediately filled the gaps and attacked her.
The slender black shadows are endless, like falling into a snake cave!
The spiritual energy was blocked for only a moment, and Hua Lang's right shoulder was immediately pierced by a tree root!
The enormous force knocked her back a few steps. The roots in her body clung to her flesh and blood like living things, and the remaining spiritual energy was continuously sucked away along with her blood.
Hua Lang's spiritual energy was cut off, and she instantly lost the power to resist. Even Tian Shu slipped from her palm and fell into the pool with a splash.
"Hahahahahahaha!" The tree demon became proud instantly when he saw this.
It moved slightly, and the tree roots, which were emitting a faint fluorescent glow of spiritual energy, directly lifted Hua Lang up.
More blood spurted out of Hua Lang's shoulder as it moved roughly, almost staining half of her body red.
The tree demon lifted Hua Lang in front of him. The bark twisted and turned for a moment, then condensed into a wrinkled old face. "I like this face of yours. I'll peel it off first, and then eat your golden elixir!"
Hua Lang lost too much blood, and her lips turned slightly pale. Like the spirit dragon before its death, her skin visibly wrinkled!
The sharp pain in his shoulder became numb, and Hua Lang's thoughts shifted slightly -
She thought of many people, and their faces flashed through her mind one by one, finally settling on one sentence -
Is she going to die too?
Seeing her eyes gradually dim, the tree demon proudly stretched out its branches, pressed them against Hua Lang's face, and considered where to start.
No one knew that a drop of rain was seeping out from the gap between the trees tangled in the air.
More rain hit the tree canopy, and more and more water droplets seeped in, and the droplets gradually became rounder.
Finally, the water drops broke off, falling lightly and crisply.
“Tick-tock.”
Raindrops hit Hua Lang's face, leaving a transparent water mark.
Like being caressed by cold fingers, Hua Lang miraculously regained consciousness.
"Huh?"
The tree demon was puzzled for a moment, then paused for a moment before laughing nonchalantly, "Still want to resist? This will only make you die faster!"
Hua Lang was actually practicing his mental skills, but in the empty spiritual palace, this only accelerated the speed at which his spiritual energy was absorbed by the tree demon.
But soon, the tree demon discovered something was wrong. It paused for a moment and looked up in disbelief.
An extremely overbearing pressure pressed down from above his head. This oppressive feeling made him feel instinctively uncomfortable, and his body uncontrollably wanted to escape from here immediately.
Hua Lang laughed weakly, "I'm sorry, but I'm not going to die yet."
As the words fell——
A purple-black thunderbolt fell from the sky, almost illuminating the entire Fanhong Mountain. Wherever the thunder passed, everything turned to ashes!
The tree roots wrapped in the sky were like white paper, being shattered lightly.
Tearing the treetops apart was not enough, the thunder continued to move downwards, piercing into Hua Lang's body, and then along the tree roots on Hua Lang's shoulders. The powerful thunder power lashed at the tree demon like a whip!
"ah!"
The tree demon let out a scream. This woman actually broke through at this moment!
For cultivators, heavenly thunder is nourishment and rebirth, but for demons, it is the cruelest punishment from heaven!
The tree demon subconsciously wanted to pull out its roots and escape from the thunder area.
Unexpectedly, Hua Lang had learned its mental method at some point, and the moment he realized that he wanted to escape, the absorption technique started to work, and the endless demonic and evil energy in the tree demon's body was uncontrollably absorbed by Hua Lang!
The tree demon was in control and was unable to pull out the tree roots from Hua Lang's body!
As soon as the demonic energy entered Hua Lang's body, it was completely wiped out by the thunder tribulation. The tree demon had no way to escape and could only scream helplessly. Inch by inch, lightning patterns crawled up its body, stripping the tree demon of its vitality bit by bit...
When the thunderstorm finally dissipated, all that remained was a pool of burnt charcoal and Hua Lang half-kneeling in the pool.
Hua Lang struggled to get up, moved his shoulder that had been repaired by the thunder tribulation, kicked away the charred wood, found the broken body of the tree demon, and dug out several inner cores of different sizes from its body.
The tree demon was dying. Watching her movements, he suddenly laughed: "Ahem... this thing is... a good thing... Since you have already learned my skills, why not try it...!"
Hua Lang stood up and, before the tree demon's eyes, he grasped the inner elixir firmly in his palm.
Bits of ash fell from her hands.
"Ahhhh you bitch! Do you know how long it took me to collect this? Ahhhh I must kill you!"
The tree demon roared in pain, twisting its broken body, trying to catch the fine ash floating in the air.
Hua Lang stepped on it with his foot, leaned over and carefully wiped off the remaining dust from his palm, then opened his five fingers and neatly caught the Tianshu that broke through the water.
Hua Lang looked at the tree demon struggling at her feet and sighed with regret, "Unfortunately, I just can't like your face."
Then, she shaved off the tree demon's skin completely. Amidst the tree demon's shrieks, the last trace of demonic energy dissipated.
At the same time, thousands of dead tree branches on Fanhong Mountain swept away the stale air.
As the new snow fluttered, tender green buds sprouted out, shivering in the cold wind.
Hua Lang raised his head and took a look at the sky after the clouds faded.
The demon king has been eliminated, now it's time to return to Qinglai.
【Author’s words】
It's time to go home and marry (?) Xiao Xie in style [Keep it up]
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