Chapter 72: Dragon Pendant Suppresses Evil, True Fire Burns Evil Roots
"Hahaha... a trapped beast fighting!" The elder's withered face was filled with a smug grin. "Give up! Hand over that girl, and I'll give you a quick death!"
Xiao Yu said nothing, but swung out another sword, and the sword energy was three times stronger!
Ah Jiu, in her arms, was now in excruciating pain. The sea of fire in her head grew fiercer, and her cries grew clearer. She seemed to see a blurry shadow, shouting something at her. She couldn't hear it clearly, but an instinct, a memory deeply ingrained in her blood, was madly assaulting her mind!
What is that? What is that thing that you are most afraid of?
Fire... yes, fire!
And...where did that thing come from?
Roots...its roots!
"Ah!" Jiu raised her head suddenly, her tear-stained face filled with pain and confusion. She almost used up all her strength and screamed out with a broken instinct:
"Trees are afraid of fire! The roots! Burn the roots—!"
This shrill scream, like a flash of lightning, cut through the noise in the entire cellar!
Chu Xuanyi, who was struggling to break free from the vines, was suddenly stunned!
A flash of lightning flashed through his mind!
That's right! All things are interdependent and mutually exclusive! No matter how strange this sacred tree is, it is still essentially wood! Wood is afraid of fire! Especially afraid of his authentic pure yang fire!
And… those candies and powder Ah Jiu threw earlier! The "Seven Bone-Dissolving Candy" had already corroded the surface of the sacred tree, greatly reducing its defenses! The insect repellent powder had even suppressed its insect-killing properties!
Everything is ready, except for the fire!
But... the old monster's vines were so tightly defended that his talisman fire couldn't reach the roots at all!
"Xiao Yu!" Chu Xuanyi roared with all his might, his voice distorted with excitement. "She's right! Its root is the vital point! I'll use the most powerful 'Samadhi True Fire Talisman', but I need you to create an opportunity for me! A gap that allows me to inject the talisman fire! Just one breath! One breath is enough!"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yu, who was surrounded by vines, instantly became extremely sharp!
He glanced at the little girl in his arms who was trembling all over and with a dazed look in her eyes due to exhaustion, and then glanced at the impenetrable wall of vines.
Without the slightest hesitation.
"good!"
He took a deep breath, the dull pain of his old injury pricking him like a needle, but he didn't care.
"Get out of here...!"
Xiao Yu roared angrily, and his voice was filled with a hint of the domineering dragon's roar!
He stopped defending and poured all his internal energy into the long sword in his hand! The originally simple and plain long sword now shone with a dazzling silver light, as if holding a galaxy drawn down from the sky!
"The Wolf Howls Alone!"
He held Ajiu in his arms and advanced instead of retreating. Man and sword merged into a shocking rainbow, rushing towards the densest part of the vines!
“Puff, puff, puff—!”
Unstoppable!
The incredibly tough vines were torn and severed like rotten wood by this sword! Black juice sprayed all over the sky, and he had forcibly split a straight path to the roots of the sacred tree!
But this strike almost drained all his strength. A mouthful of blood rushed to his throat, which he forced down.
"Now!" Chu Xuanyi saw it clearly, his eyes flashing with brilliance!
He bit his tongue and used his blood to draw an intricate talisman in the air! The talisman was entirely red gold, emitting a scorching aura that seemed to ignite the air!
"Go!" He pointed his finger, and the "Samadhi True Fire Talisman" turned into a phoenix bathed in fire, carrying the momentum of burning everything, and headed straight for the passage split open by Xiao Yu!
"Don't even think about succeeding!" The elder of the tribe didn't expect Xiao Yu to be so brave. Seeing that the talisman fire was about to hit the tree roots, he let out a strange cry, and his dry figure flashed, appearing in front of the talisman fire as if teleporting, and stretched out the ghost claw, trying to intercept it!
At this moment, time seemed to slow down.
Xiao Yu was exhausted, and Chu Xuanyi took out the talisman. The two of them watched helplessly as the old monster was about to succeed, and their hearts felt cold.
However, at this critical moment!
Ah Jiu, who had been protected in Xiao Yu's arms and whose consciousness was already a little blurred, relied on her last instinct to feel that a huge danger was approaching her "fierce brother".
Not knowing what to do, she fumbled around in her arms until she felt something hard and cool. It was the jade pendant with a dragon pattern that the emperor had given her to wear around her neck.
"Don't...don't bully Brother Xiongxiong!" She cried, and with her last bit of strength, she threw the jade pendant fiercely in the direction of the clan elder!
The child didn't have much strength and his throwing was not accurate.
But the jade pendant seemed to have eyes, and it hit the elder's chest squarely!
There was a soft "bang" sound.
The jade pendant did not break.
However, the moment it touched the elder's body, the dragon pattern on the jade pendant suddenly burst into a golden light! A high-pitched dragon roar resounded throughout the cellar!
"hold head high--!"
That's the Imperial Dragon Qi! It's the natural nemesis of all evil spirits and monsters in the world!
"ah--!"
The elder let out a shrill, inhuman scream. His chest felt as if it had been burned by a red-hot iron, and a large cloud of black smoke billowed out! He felt as if struck by lightning. His body suddenly stiffened, and his movements stopped instantly!
It was this moment of stagnation that determined the outcome of the battle!
The fire phoenix flew around his stiff body and slammed hard into the huge exposed roots of the sacred tree!
"boom--!"
There was no violent explosion, only dead silence.
A second later, golden flames, as if possessing life, suddenly shot up from the roots of the sacred tree, and spread wildly along the vines at an incredible speed!
"No--!"
The elder of the clan came back to his senses from the shock of the dragon's energy, and looked at the sacred tree that he had painstakingly cultivated for hundreds of years being ignited by the real fire, and let out an extremely unwilling roar!
The golden Samadhi True Fire was the nemesis of the evil tree. Wherever the flames touched, all vines were reduced to ash. The enormous sacred tree twisted and wailed in agony within the flames, and the entire cellar began to shake violently, sending earth and rocks crashing down!
"Let's go!" A fierce look flashed in the elder's eyes. He knew the situation was hopeless! He grabbed the Yaksha guardian on the ground who had been severely injured by Xiao Yu, chanted a spell, and the remaining power of the entire sacred tree gathered towards him!
“Boom!”
A huge force tore a big hole in the top of the cellar!
The elder, along with the guardian, transformed into a puff of black smoke that soared into the sky. As he left, the sacred tree, having lost its power and support, could no longer maintain its shape. With a loud bang, it completely collapsed, and was burned into a pile of charcoal by the blazing golden flames.
"Ajiu!" Xiao Yu didn't care about anything else. He looked anxiously at the little girl in his arms with a pale face and closed eyes. His voice was full of panic that he himself didn't even notice.
Chu Xuanyi staggered over, checked Ah Jiu's breath, and felt her pulse before heaving a sigh of relief: "It's okay, it's just excessive mental stimulation, coupled with blood induction, she fainted due to exhaustion."
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