Chapter 986 Demonic Vine Tree
"Shut up," Xie Shiyuan rolled her eyes, the silver knife in her hand swirling cautiously between her fingers. "Last time you said 'this level is easy', and we were almost dragged into the abyss by the Bone Hand."
Xuan Mu was walking at the front of the team and suddenly stopped.
He squatted down and touched the ground with his fingertips: "It seems like something has been here."
There were several strange traces on the soil, like the marks left by some multi-legged creature crawling, but each trace was about the thickness of a person.
Feng Wuhen leaned over to observe, his brows slightly furrowed: "It's not formed naturally."
He gathered a bit of soul fire at his fingertips, illuminating the depths of the trace—there was a barely visible residue of slime, which glowed a strange purple in the firelight.
Luo Li frowned: "It seems to be some kind of reptilian monster."
She raised her eyes. "These traces are still fresh. This at least means that there are monsters in this forest, but we haven't encountered them yet."
"Let's keep going forward."
As the night deepened, the campfire made a soft crackling sound.
Luo Li suddenly opened her eyes, and the Phantom Orb felt slightly hot in her palm.
"Something is approaching." She whispered, and the sound woke up everyone who was lightly sleeping.
Shen Fuzhou jumped up with a long sword in his hand: "Finally, something exciting?"
The ground began to shake slightly. Xuan Mu's ears moved and he frowned, saying, "From all directions. We are surrounded."
The soul fire at Feng Wuhen's fingertips suddenly became brighter, illuminating the surroundings of the camp - countless purple-black vines were emerging from the ground, each vine was covered with barbs, and the tip secreted a familiar purple mucus.
Luo Li raised an eyebrow, "Is it a special plant-based monster?"
She stood up and said, "Be careful."
Before he could finish his words, a vine as thick as a human waist suddenly broke out of the ground and hit Xie Shiyuan in the face.
The silver knife collided with the tentacles, making a sound of metal clashing.
Luo Li's Magical Spirit Pearl shone brightly: "Back off!"
The barrier formed by the power of chaos barely blocked the second round of attacks, but more vines were pouring in from all directions.
Xuan Mu suddenly groaned as his calves were entangled by vines and the purple slime instantly corroded the fabric.
"It's poisonous!" Luo Li gritted her teeth, and the chaotic soul fire turned into a long whip, burning the vine in half.
What spurted out of the fracture was not blood, but a purple mist with a sweet fragrance.
Wen Xingyan's expression suddenly changed: "Hold your breath! This fragrance will—"
Before he finished speaking, Luo Li already felt slightly dizzy.
The forest before him began to twist and deform, countless eyes appeared on the branches of the trees, and the ground turned into wriggling flesh.
The most terrifying thing was that she saw something crawling under her companions' skin.
“Hallucination…” She bit her tongue to force herself to wake up, only to discover that the Phantom Spirit Pearl was absorbing the purple mist. “No, this is a real soul pollution!”
Wen Xingyan's sword moves became chaotic, and he slashed wildly at the air: "Get out of the way! These damn vines!"
Xie Shiyuan stabbed his arm with a silver knife, using the pain to stay awake: "I must find the real body!"
Luo Li suddenly noticed that all the tentacles were extending from the same direction.
She injected the power of chaos into the Phantom Orb, and the dazzling white light temporarily forced back the vines.
"Five hundred meters east!" she yelled, "Cover me!"
Feng Wuhen and Xuan Mu immediately cleared the way on both sides of her.
When Luo Li broke through the last barrier of vines, with the help of the light of the Phantom Spirit Pearl, she could clearly see the scene deep in the forest.
A hundred meters away, a giant purple-black tree was slowly wriggling, its trunk covered with vein-like lines, and what hung from the crown were not branches and leaves, but countless twisting vines.
What was even more terrifying was that a crack appeared in the middle of the trunk, revealing a huge mouth full of sharp teeth.
"It's the Demonic Vine Tree!" Luo Li shouted sternly, "Ninth-rank Lord level, its juice can corrode the soul!"
The magic vine discovered Luo Li, and his voice was hoarse, "Fresh... nutrients..."
Feng Wuhen's soul fire suddenly surged, transforming into a flaming phoenix and swooping towards the demon tree: "I'll lead the way!"
Wherever the flames passed, the vines let out a sharp scream, but more vines came one after another.
Shen Fuzhou’s sword cut off three attacking vines, and he laughed while panting: “This is really devastating!”
The wound on Xuan Mu's leg had already turned purple and black, but he still forced himself to form seals: "Wild Wind Formation, rise!"
A strong wind suddenly arose, temporarily dispersing the pervasive poisonous fog.
Luo Li took the opportunity to leap up, and the Phantom Spirit Pearl streaked a streak of white light in the air: "Cover me!"
Her body was as fast as lightning, rushing straight towards the main body of the magic tree.
The demon tree seemed to sense the threat, and the huge mouth on the trunk let out a deafening roar. The ground suddenly cracked, and dozens of vines as thick as beams broke out of the ground!
"Be careful!" Wen Xingyan's sword light poured down like the Milky Way, cutting off the vines in front.
Xie Shiyuan's silver knife turned into cold stars in the sky, temporarily blocking the attack from the other side.
Luo Li shuttled between the gaps in the vines, with the whistling wind and the shouts of her companions in her ears.
Just when she was only a few steps away from the magic tree, the ground suddenly collapsed -
A giant hand made of vines stretched out from the ground and suddenly grabbed her ankle!
"Luo Li!" Feng Wuhen's eyes were bloodshot and his soul fire was burning wildly.
At the critical moment, the Phantom Orb in Luo Li's hand suddenly burst out with a dazzling golden light.
She gave a clear shout, and the Xuanming True Water turned into a sharp blade, cutting off the giant vine hand at the root.
With the force of recoil, she flipped in the air, and the Phantom Pearl flew out of her hand, smashing into the giant mouth of the magic tree like a meteor!
"boom--!"
Golden light exploded, and the demon tree let out a shrill wail.
All the vines stiffened instantly, and then began to twitch wildly.
The blood vessels on the tree trunk burst inch by inch, splashing out a fishy-smelling purple slurry.
Luo Li stumbled when she landed and was supported by Wen Xingyan who came rushing over.
She gasped as she looked at the dying demon tree. Suddenly, her pupils shrank. "Stand back! It's going to explode!"
The moment everyone retreated rapidly, the demon tree expanded to its maximum size as if inflated, and then—
"Bang!!!"
Purple-black liquid fell from the sky like rain, rotting all the grass and trees wherever it touched.
Xuan Mu put up the shield in time, but a few drops still penetrated the defense and splashed on Xie Shiyuan's shoulder.
“Ahh——!” She fell to her knees in pain, strange purple lines appearing under her skin.
Luo Li tore open her collar, and the light of dawn poured directly into the wound.
The two forces clashed in Xie Shiyuan's body, her whole body convulsed, and blood foam oozed from the corners of her mouth.
"Hold on!" Cold sweat broke out on Luo Li's forehead. He activated the Light of Dawn and extracted the corrosive venom bit by bit.
When the last wisp of purple mist was cleared away, the eastern sky had already turned pale.
The exhausted crowd sat or lay down, surrounded by the withered remains of the magic tree.
Shen Fuzhou kicked the vines that had turned into charcoal and said with a wry smile: “Now I’d rather continue on my boring journey.”
Luo Li sighed and took out some pills, "Let's recover first."
Fortunately, she had the foresight to prepare a lot of pills in her space ring.
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