Venerable Supreme of Myriad Dragons

"What? We’ve been walking in circles?"

"Look! The distance to that Demon Mountain hasn’t changed at all!"

"There’s something strange about the mist around here."

The crowd instantly shuddered, breaking into an uproar.

Chu Guifeng held out his hand and pressed down, signaling for everyone to be quiet. He then crouched down, picked up a few stones, and stacked them into a small pagoda.

Then, he led everyone onward.

The surroundings were still terrifyingly quiet. There was nothing but a stretch of crimson earth, with roiling black mist in the distance.

A gentle breeze swept by, slowly parting the mist ahead of them. At the same time, a pagoda made of stacked stones appeared before their eyes—it was the marker Chu Guifeng had just made.

"We really have been walking in circles!"

Chu Guifeng stopped in his tracks.

"How can this be?"

"Damn it! This godforsaken place!"

"I don’t want to die in a hellhole like this!"

The group once again erupted in an uproar.

Just then, someone in the group raised their foot and, as if to vent their frustration, kicked a withered tree by the side.

Seeing this, Chu Guifeng quickly shouted, "Don’t!"

But it was too late. The man’s foot had already slammed heavily into the withered tree.

In an instant, a rustling sound arose from the crimson earth, as if something was slithering beneath.

The next moment, a dozen or so roots shot out from underground. They coiled gently, ensnaring the man’s arms and legs, then pulled taut, abruptly dragging him into the earth.

It all happened in an instant; no one had time to react.

Immediately after,

"WAAAAH! WAAAAH!"

A sound like a baby crying rang out without warning, sending shivers down everyone’s spines.

A withered tree began to move. Thin roots burst from the ground, writhing.

The trunk of the withered tree suddenly split open, revealing the man who had just been taken. He was inside, his body bound by countless roots.

Before anyone could process what was happening, the man began to struggle and tremble violently, as if something was being drained from his body.

The man’s skin rapidly turned dark brown and shriveled. In just a few moments, he had turned into a humanoid, withered tree.

"!!!"

Chu Guifeng realized something was terribly wrong and shouted, "Quick, get away! Stay away from these withered trees."

Everyone immediately scrambled to their feet and began to run.

But at that moment,

"WAAAAH! WAAAAH!"

More sounds of crying babies echoed around them.

All the surrounding withered trees came to life. Thin roots shot out from the ground like eerie tentacles, lashing out at the group with lightning speed.

"Ma Wan, Luo An, flank us and protect everyone."

Spiritual Power erupted from within Chu Guifeng’s dantian. With a great flash of light, he swept his spear out, severing a dozen incoming roots, all while shouting commands to his team.

Ma Wan and Luo An leaped high into the air at the same time. They brought their weapons crashing down, unleashing a hundred-zhang-long slash of sword and saber energy that carved a massive trench in the ground.

Even Luo Xi wasn’t idle, quickly deploying a Magical Treasure from her robes to blast apart the incoming roots.

However,

The roots of these withered trees seemed to possess infinite life. After being severed, they would just twitch slightly before regrowing and surging forward again, blanketing the sky in a swarm even denser than before.

They closed in from all directions, forming a cage of roots that blotted out the sky. The group was powerless to stop them.

Seeing this, Shen Daoxing, who was running in the middle of the formation, simply tapped his foot lightly on the ground.

ZZZT!

Black arcs of electricity sparked at his feet.

Spreading out from him like a spiderweb, they shot out in all directions.

KRRRACKLE!

The arcs flashed. Black electricity suddenly crackled over all the surrounding roots. They twisted for a moment before vanishing, as if they had been erased from existence.

Chu Guifeng stared in a daze, then quickly shouted, "This is our chance! Everyone, run! Now!"

Shouting, Chu Guifeng cut down a massive root and broke through the encirclement.

As they ran, the group noticed that although the bizarre withered trees had attacked ferociously, their assault grew weaker and weaker after the initial, most violent wave.

After a short while, once they had run for more than half a li, the surroundings fell completely silent.

Chu Guifeng wiped the sweat from his forehead, feeling only relief.

Shen Daoxing quietly drew back his foot. A few black arcs of electricity flickered over it before disappearing.

However, just as the group had come to a stop, their vision suddenly blurred. The ground was shaking violently.

The next moment, the earth before them began to bulge upward, as if pierced by something from below.

A colossal, hundred-zhang-tall withered tree suddenly burst from the ground.

"WAAAAH! WAAAAH!"

It let out that same eerie, baby-like cry.

Hanging from its withered branches was a string of grotesque, humanoid husks—the drained corpses of its victims.

After the giant withered tree emerged, a massive root immediately shot out. It rose high into the air as if to split the heavens and the earth, bisecting their field of vision before slamming down violently.

"Break!"

Chu Guifeng roared, his aura surging. A cold glint of light flashed as his spear shot out like a dragon, and he soared into the air.

However,

The massive root’s strike seemed deceptively simple.

The light around Chu Guifeng instantly dimmed.

A spray of crimson blood flew high into the air. Chu Guifeng coughed up a large mouthful of blood and was sent flying backward like an arrow.

"Leader Chu."

Ma Wan shouted, leaping up to slap a palm against Chu Guifeng’s back.

BANG!

The two of them skidded across the ground, carving a trench dozens of zhang long before they barely managed to stop.

Ma Wan was stunned. "What kind of monster is this?"

Chu Guifeng shook his head in a daze. He had roamed the Jiuli Mountain Range for many years, but this was the first time he had ever seen something so strange.

Chu Guifeng’s expression turned grim as he said slowly, "But... its power is definitely at the Earth Profound Realm."

"The power of the Earth Profound Realm!"

At his side, Luo An froze, taking an involuntary step back in fear. Although he always boasted about how powerful he was and how he wouldn’t even fear the Four Great Fierce Beasts, it was all just empty talk.

’If I really met an Earth Profound Realm beast!’

’Forget defeating it, I might not even have the courage to make a move!’

"WAAAAH! WAAAAH!"

The giant withered tree’s eerie cry rang out again.

Immediately after, the group felt another violent tremor. The ground beneath them suddenly swelled up high, and they scrambled back in shock.

The next moment, another thick root erupted from the ground, appearing in the middle of the group. It stood tall like a sky-propping pillar, swaying unsteadily.

Everyone was instantly stunned, and they fled in a panic.

And that thick root, like a Tianze descending from the heavens, blotted out their entire field of vision as it fell with immense force.

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