Chapter 187: Spirit-Eating Tree



"This vase is a bit strange." Li Xiu frowned slightly and summoned out the Black Death Demon.

Black halos appeared on the ground, and several black death demons crawled out from them.

Under Li Xiu's command, the black death demons came to the big vase, reached out to grab the vase monster's head, and tried to pull his body out of the big vase.

After pulling several times, he failed to pull the body out. Finally, he exerted too much force and actually pulled the head off.

Looking at the bloody scene below, Li Xiu felt like vomiting, but he still commanded the Black Death Demon to dig out all the bodies inside.

The scene inside was extremely horrifying, the body of the vase monster filled the entire vase.

The thick mouth of the vase is very thin at the bottom, and the body of the vase monster is squeezed inside. His neck is stretched, filling the bottleneck. The body and limbs below are twisted and squeezed together, making it almost impossible to tell what is what.

No wonder it couldn't be pulled out no matter how hard they tried. Now it was dug out piece by piece by the Black Death Demon, leaving corpses and blood everywhere.

After completely digging out his body, Li Xiu looked into the blood-stained vase and his face suddenly changed.

There was actually a strange plant growing inside the big vase. The plant looked like a single bamboo, growing straight inside the vase. The joints were particularly thick, as thick as arms, but very thin in the middle, with the thinnest part only as thick as two fingers.

The bamboo joints stained red with blood stand upright in the vase, and you can see the tangled roots underneath have penetrated into the bottom of the vase, becoming one with the vase.

Li Xiu was shocked. This strange bamboo should have grown inside the body of this vase monster before. It was really hard to imagine how they could coexist inside the vase.

Suddenly, Li Xiu discovered that the blood in the bottle and the remaining flesh that fell when the corpse was dug out were disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

And the blood bamboo in the bottle seemed to have become a little thicker.

In a moment, the blood stains in the bottle completely disappeared, and the bottle body returned to its bright white color. The blood bamboo became more crystal clear, like a blood-stained crystal.

"Is this blood bamboo also a demon spirit?" Li Xiu did not smell any demon spirit on the blood bamboo.

But the demons he had encountered before did not look like plants. Perhaps the auras of the two types of demons were different, so he could not smell the familiar aura of demons.

Just like the yellow-leaf tree next to him, he could not smell the scent of the evil spirit.

While thinking about it, Li Xiu looked up at the yellow leaf tree, and when he saw it, he couldn't help but frowned.

At this time, the yellow leaves on the yellow leaf tree actually revealed green meridians like blood vessels.

Li Xiu looked for a while and found that there were more and more green meridians, and some leaves had turned green.

"I have clearly destroyed the consciousness of the vase monster, so how come it is attached to the tree again?" Li Xiu's mind moved, and the Jedi Knight drew his sword and chopped down at the tree.

The blood-slashing blade slashed across the black tree trunk, leaving a deep cut in the bark.

Seeing that the tree trunk could be chopped down, Li Xiu ordered the Jedi Knights to chop the tree continuously, one cut after another, causing wood chips to fly everywhere. However, it would probably take some time to cut the tree down.

When the Jedi Knights cut down trees, more and more yellow leaves on the trees turned green. What was even more strange was that the tree trunks that were cut open by the Jedi Knights were actually growing. Often, there was more growth than what grew after one cut.

Soon, the leaves on the yellow-leaf trees turned green and emitted a hazy green light.

The place where the Jedi Knight cut was more wood than what was originally cut down.

Like a tree scar, it protrudes beyond the bark.

Li Xiu looked at it for a while. The more he looked at it, the more it looked like a human face, and the scar was still slowly growing.

In a short while, mouth, ears, eyes, nose and other organs appeared on the tree scar, and you became a human face growing on the tree.

Suddenly, the eyes of the human face on the tree opened, revealing green eyeballs like jade. There were no pupils in the eyeballs, and the entire eyeball was jade green, like the compound eyes of some insect.

"Boy, do you think you can really kill me? I have already merged my consciousness with this soul-eating tree. That body and the consciousness inside are just my last remnants." The human face on the tree made an ancient voice.

“Although that body is useless now, the revenge for your death must be repaid with flesh and blood. I will turn your body into fertilizer to nourish my body, the soul-eating tree.” The human face on the tree said, and a strange green light bloomed on the green leaves of the tree, making the surroundings eerie as if in a horror movie.

Li Xiu immediately realized what this guy was trying to do, and immediately turned around to look down the mountain. He saw the woods below the mountain shaking everywhere, and the roars of mad beasts could be heard from time to time.

Not long after, groups of berserk beasts were seen rushing up from the foot of the mountain, everywhere in all directions. No one knew how many berserk beasts there were in the forest.

Li Xiu looked at the surrounding environment and knew that it was too late to run away, but he had no intention of running away.

Before, we had to look for berserk beasts everywhere, but now the berserk beasts come to our doorstep. Isn’t it much easier and more convenient?

After summoning the demigod Setsuna, the Black Death Lord also roared and summoned all fifty of his younger brothers. Together with the Jedi Knights, the three great demons guarded the top of the mountain and fought a fierce battle with the berserk beasts that rushed up from the bottom of the mountain.

In the sky, there were also berserk beasts with wings on their backs flying over. Fortunately, their levels were not high, and they were killed instantly by the demigod with a single shot.

More and more frenzied beasts rushed up from the mountain, like a zombie siege, rushing up regardless of life and death. When one frenzied beast fell, more frenzied beasts would rush up, stepping on the corpses.

A Jedi Knight can kill several berserk beasts with just one bloody slash.

At this time, the advantage of the Black Death Demon Lord was revealed. Fifty of his glorious brothers formed a battle formation, protected the top of the mountain, and forcibly blocked the herd of frenzied beasts under the top of the mountain.

"You sinister boy, actually possess so many top-grade magic spirits. Who are you?" Tree Face couldn't help but asked in amazement when he saw the three magic spirits displaying their divine power.

Li Xiu did not answer, but took the opportunity to pick up the magic cores and other things that fell nearby.

He only picked up high-quality magic cores and threw them to the Jedi Knights and the demigod Setsuna, allowing them to continuously devour the magic cores.

Suddenly, blue flames burned on the body of the demigod Setsuna. After eating several high-quality magic cores, he was finally promoted to C-level.

The demigod Setsuna was able to fight frantically while being promoted in level, and the gun and sword in his hands never stopped.

After he completed the promotion, the power of his bullets became greater, and the sword light on the greatsword became sharper. When he concentrated all his strength on the sword light, the sword body could drag out a sword light more than three meters long.

Li Xiu sensed the information of the demigod Shanshan, and after being promoted to C-level, he awakened a talent skill called "Half-Sky Demon".

The skills of the demigod Setsuna are all weird, and the use of the previous God-devouring skill is still unclear.

God Devouring is neither an active skill like Blood Light Slash nor a passive skill like Desperate Situation. It has never been seen used by the demigod Setsuna.

The innate skill he awakened now is called "Half-Sky Demon", but he is clearly a demigod, so how can the word "demon" be included in the skill?

"Could it be that the demigod Shatan really has only half of his bloodline as a god and the other half as a demon? He should also be called a half-demon. What does this half-sky demon mean? Is it half god and half demon?" Li Xiu also didn't understand what the use of this half-sky demon's innate skill was.

Just when Li Xiu was wondering, something happened on the side of the demigod Shanna.

A Class A shining double-winged berserker swooped down from the sky, and the demigod instantly fired a bullet, hitting the chest of the double-winged berserker.

There is a difference of two levels between C-class and A-class. Although the quality of the demigod Setsuna is superior, his bullets cannot penetrate the body of an A-class Shining Winged Berserker.

But this bullet actually penetrated the chest of the winged beast, and then disappeared just like that.

The next second, blue flames were seen burning inside the body of the winged berserk beast, instantly covering the entire body.

The mad winged beast fell down with a scream, struggling and flapping on the ground. Soon it was burned to ashes by the blue flames, leaving only a magic core on the ground.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Any berserker beast that was hit by the demigod's bullets or sword would immediately have its body burned with blue flames. Even if it was only slightly injured, the blue flames would quickly spread over its body and it would be burned to ashes in a short time.

"Is Bantian Yao a burning skill?" Li Xiu was a little surprised.

Although this ability does not seem to be special, its effect is very practical. When fighting with the demigod Setsuna who possesses this skill, you cannot get hurt. Getting hurt is the same as being dead.

Soon Li Xiu discovered that this was not the effect of Bantian Yao's skill, but the ordinary attack of Banshen Shanna itself had this burning effect.

The real Bantian Yao skill was not activated, and this discovery made Li Xiu even more surprised.

"Isn't this burning ability equivalent to a skill? There is such a good thing." Li Xiu did not force the demigod Shanna to use Bantian Yao, because he was not sure what kind of skill it was. What if it was a skill that needed time to recover? If he used it now, he would be unable to use it when he needed it later.

There is no telling how many frenzied beasts will be attracted by the Spirit-Eating Tree, so it is better to take it easy now; it is not time to fight with all your strength yet.

The hordes of frenzied beasts were unable to break through the defense line on the top of the mountain. Seeing that the Jedi Knights still had some strength left, Li Xiu withdrew his gaze and looked at the Soul-Eating Tree and the vase with blood bamboo growing on it.

The vase man said that he had already merged his will with the Soul-Eating Tree, and the flesh in the vase was no longer useful.

But no matter how I think about it, this doesn't make sense. If it's really useless, why doesn't he merge all his will into the Soul-Eating Tree?

Could it be that he thought his will was too strong and wanted to disperse some of it? This was obviously not reasonable.

The only reasonable explanation is that the vase monster does not have the ability to transfer all of his will to the Soul-Eating Tree, or he does not dare to do so.

There are only two reasons. One is the spirit-eating tree, and the other is the vase and the blood bamboo.

Li Xiu had tried it just now, and it might be difficult to destroy the Spirit-Eating Tree, so he turned his attention to the blood bamboo in the vase.

Li Xiu came to the mouth of the vase holding the Fire Lotus Sword. Fortunately, the inside of the vase was already spotless. He pressed the mouth of the vase with one hand and poked the Fire Lotus Sword into the vase with the other hand, trying to break the blood bamboo inside.

After stabbing several times, the sword blade collided with the blood bamboo and made a tinkling sound, but it failed to leave any scratches on the blood bamboo.

Li Xiu turned to poke the roots underneath the blood bamboo, but it also didn't hurt them at all.

When Tree Face saw Li Xiu's actions, he couldn't help but sneer and said, "Don't waste your time. You can't cut the Demon Bamboo."

"Demonic Bamboo? Could it be that this bamboo is the demonic wood grown with the body of a demon?" Li Xiu immediately knew what this thing was.

The reason why he didn't think about it in this direction before was because the vase contained a vase monster, not a demon spirit, so he didn't expect that the blood bamboo was actually a demon spirit wood.

"You actually know about the Demonic Spirit Wood, but you still refuse to admit that you are from Changshengtian." Tree Face said sternly, as if he felt that he had been deceived by Li Xiu.

"If you're not from Changshengtian, can't you know about the Demonic Wood?" Li Xiu said as he poked, without stopping the work in his hands.

"The Demonic Spirit Wood is something created by Changshengtian. It is a secret in Changshengtian and not many people know about it. You are not from Changshengtian, so how could you know about the Demonic Spirit Wood?" Tree Face said in a deep voice.

"Didn't I tell you? It's a different era now. The Demonic Wood is no longer a secret. I've seen large ships built with the Demonic Wood that were able to cross the Black Dead Sea. What can a mere Demonic Wood do to a person?" Li Xiu saw that he had stabbed so many times but failed to cause any wounds, so he had to stop.

"Building a ship with magic spirit wood?" Tree Face's expression slightly changed. "You are talking nonsense. How many magic spirits would be needed to build a ship with magic spirit wood? Not to mention that we can't catch so many usable magic spirits, even if we have so many magic spirits, we can't have so many seeds."

"I didn't ask you to believe it. Anyway, I have seen it. What does it matter whether you believe it or not?" Li Xiu continued to study the vase and the blood bamboo inside. He always felt that the blood bamboo must have some connection with the vase monster.

"Hmph, even if you have really seen a boat made of magic wood, it is definitely not grown by Changshengtian, unless it is something from the Demon Country." Tree Face seemed to think that Li Xiu really had no need to lie to him, so he changed his words.

"Didn't you just say that the Demonic Wood was created by Changshengtian? How come it suddenly becomes something from the Demonic Kingdom?" Li Xiu said with a sneer.

"You know shit. The magic wood planting technology that Changshengtian researched came from the remaining information of the Demon Country." Tree Face said hatefully, "I was the one who researched this technology. I didn't expect that old man was so insidious and cunning that he actually used this technology on me and trapped me in the Paradise Bottle of Eternal Life. I can neither live nor die."

"Since this bottle is called the Paradise Bottle of Longevity, it must have the ability to make people immortal. No wonder you have been able to live in the bottle until now. You should thank the person who sent you into the bottle. They are giving you the great fortune of immortality." Li Xiu said with a smile.

"If you like, when you are about to die, I will put you into the Paradise Bottle of Longevity, so that you can also enjoy the great fortune of immortality." The tree face said grimly.

"So, this bottle can really make people immortal?" Li Xiu asked in surprise.

"It's more than immortality, it's simply shining with the sun and the moon, and living as long as the heaven and earth." Tree Face smiled creepily, "The Paradise Bottle of Eternal Life was dug out from a ruin in the Demon Country. It originally contained a kind of strange seed. Only those seeds can grow the Magic Wood. There are only so many seeds. Not to mention the low chance of growing them alive, even if all of them survived, the Magic Wood grown cannot be used to build a large ship."

"So, the demon wood ship I saw should also be a relic from the Demon Country." Li Xiu looked at the blood bamboo in the Paradise Longevity Bottle and said, "Where did the blood bamboo here come from?"

"Of course it was originally growing inside. After we found the Paradise Bottle of Longevity, we took out all the seeds inside. Only one seed could not be taken out. It actually took root on the bottom of the bottle, so we just left it there. But I didn't expect that the old thing would actually plot against me and get me into the Paradise Bottle of Longevity. The blood bamboo kept growing and drilled into my body, sucking my blood and flesh to grow. At the same time, the energy it emits can sustain my life... If I hadn't encountered this soul-eating tree and thought of using the soul-eating tree to transfer consciousness, I would have been trapped in the Paradise Bottle of Longevity for the rest of my life, unable to live or die..." The tree face's teeth were clattering, and sawdust kept falling, showing that he was filled with hatred.

"But now everything is over. God finally gave me a chance to turn things around. He let me meet the Soul-Eating Tree and you. Your mental strength is so strong that it's almost like that of a human, but your body is so weak and pitiful. When you are about to die and lose consciousness, I can use the Demonic Spirit Tree to transfer my consciousness into your body. By then, with your body as the foundation, there is no worry that I can't surpass that old thing. Revenge is just around the corner."

Tree Face was so proud of himself that he laughed wildly and said, "Thank you for preparing so many top-grade magic spirits for me. I will definitely use them well for you."

"You have a nice idea, but unfortunately these berserk beasts can't take my life." Li Xiu glanced at the increasing number of berserk beasts at the foot of the mountain. The woods were full of blood-red eyes. He didn't know how many berserk beasts were surrounding the foot of the mountain, waiting to rush to the top of the mountain.

The demigod Setsuna and the Jedi Knights were killing and devouring magic cores, but there seemed to be no signs of promotion again.

"Don't worry, it's almost here, and you will soon see the truly terrifying things in this forest." Tree Face said with a sneer.

Li Xiu did not say much and was still studying the Paradise Longevity Bottle and the Blood Bamboo. After a while, he felt something was happening at the foot of the mountain. He stood up and looked down. He saw that the mad beasts that were crawling all over the mountain had actually made way for a passage. At the end of the passage, a demon was coming up the mountain.


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