Chapter Eighty: The Tree Demon of Southern Border

  These vines originally planned to quietly sneak up behind Wu Ming and then grab him. However, they were suddenly exposed by Shi Jingxuan's words, and Wu Ming didn't even turn his head before directly jumping away. In an instant, the giant vines struck like lightning, swiftly swinging towards Wu Ming with extreme speed.

  The giant vines moved with unusual agility, like several flying giant snakes constantly patrolling around Wu Ming. Meanwhile, dozens of giant vines continued to wrap around from all sides, surrounding the entire area.

  "Damn it! No wonder there are no demon beasts, turns out there's a terrifying guy like this!"

  Wu Ming kept jumping, the giant vines around him grew more and more, like a big net, sealing all around tightly. The surrounding area echoed with the sound of rustling leaves, seemingly quite lively.

  "Damn, you really think I'm easy to bully, don't you? All of you, break!" Wu Ming held the three-foot Clear Wind Sword, and with a flash of the sword's light, two giant vines were instantly cut off. From the severed ends, a faint red liquid oozed out. The remaining vines hesitated for a moment, seemingly intimidated by the Clear Wind Sword in his hand, and didn't dare to attack him directly.

  "My goodness, this tree... is so big!"

  Shi Jingxuan suddenly let out a cry of surprise and looked ahead.

  Through the dark space, through the dense woods, just not far from Wu Ming, a giant tree over 100 meters high stood among them. If only in terms of height, it was indeed high enough, but what caught people's attention most was its incredibly huge trunk, with a diameter of at least over 20 meters.

  To put it simply, with a diameter of 20 meters, the cross-sectional area is almost over 300 square meters. How terrifying is that? Think about how big a house with an area of 100 square meters is, and this tree's trunk is as large as three such houses.

  Is this still a tree? How did it grow?

  Wu Ming heard Shi Jingxuan's exclamation and his eyes widened, also stunned. Especially those so-called giant vines, turned out to be... the branches of this tree, and the shape of this tree was very similar to the common willow trees, except that these branches had no leaves, all the leaves were at the top, and could only vaguely see some green through the surrounding trees.

  This tree reminded Wu Ming of the legendary man-eating tree, wasn't the legend just like this?

  "This tree is probably a demon!" Wu Ming sighed, no wonder there were no monsters here, this guy was the biggest monster. It's also unknown how it grew, at least a thousand years would be needed to reach this scale.

  A thousand-year-old demon, a snake-necked beast that has cultivated for a thousand years can become a Jiaolong, but this tree demon is still growing on the outside of Nanjiang? Isn't Wanshou Mountain even more dangerous?

  In fact, this idea is wrong. Plants are born with defects and it's extremely difficult to open up spiritual intelligence. Moreover, trees, flowers, and grasses take root in the mud, making it hard to move. This tree demon is also a coincidence, but now this place has become a forbidden land, lacking a lot of flesh and blood as fertilizer. If it had legs to walk, I reckon this tree demon would have left long ago, why would it stay on the outskirts of the southern border?

  It's also their bad luck that they encountered this tree demon as soon as they entered. Experienced people all know that this is a path that cannot be taken, and will choose to detour instead.

  The tree demon didn't wait for Wu Ming to react, and in the instant he was distracted, the flying vines that filled the sky swung over, their speed more than twice as fast as before. The vines seemed to have a life of their own, surrounding him from all sides, leaving no gap, while also guarding against the Clear Wind Sword in Wu Ming's hand.

  "This is getting ridiculous!" Wu Ming yelled, his body flashing as he suddenly ran out of the trap alive. Qingfeng Sword instantly chopped off three tree vines that were attacking him head-on.

  The Xian Step Method is indeed unfamiliar to me.

  This was just Wu Ming's move, if it were Qing Yi Bat King, the tree demon might not have chosen to attack again. The speed is more than a hundred times faster than his. However, even so, when Wu Ming made this move, there was a faint afterimage that flashed by, and his body had already moved several feet away.

  "Little brother, get out of the way..."

  Shi Jingxuan's words only sounded after Wu Ming had already escaped. It wasn't that she spoke slowly, but rather this all happened in an instant; without such speed, it was likely he would have been caught already.

  That tree demon seemed to be somewhat unwilling, and also resented Wu Ming for cutting his branches. On the ground, on the surrounding trees, suddenly another hundred or so branches burst out, filling the sky with whistling sounds, one whip cracking faster than the last, coming at him in a flurry of attacks. The atmosphere was no longer lukewarm, the smell of gunpowder was extremely strong, as if it wanted to directly beat Wu Ming to death here, rather than capture him alive.

  Wu Ming's face turned solemn, among these vines, there were actually five roots of different colors, not the green color in front, but a strange golden color. Not afraid of Qingfeng Sword's sharpness, it directly knocked down. And he found that this sub-godly soldier in his hand could only leave a white mark on its surface, and couldn't cut it off thoroughly.

  Is this the trump card of the tree demon?

  Wu Ming said in a low voice, his hands didn't slow down, the Holy Spirit Sword Technique struck out, one sword faster than the other, chopping out. Countless vines on his hand all turned into withered and broken objects. But no matter how many he chopped off, there were still countless ones surrounding him, constantly closing in.

  This won't do, if it goes on like this, the true yuan will be exhausted. Thinking of this, Wu Ming shouted loudly: "I only want this stalk of Qingling grass, don't force me to desperation, believe it or not, I'll set everything here on fire and see how you survive?"

  After finishing, there was still no response. Those thorny attacks were still sharp, and that giant tree seemed to be somewhat annoyed, with a burst of green light emanating from the entire tree, and the leaves on the branches of the surrounding trees fell off one by one, instantly transforming into countless sharp blades, shooting towards Wu Ming.

  The leaves that looked weak and fragile at ordinary times had become a terrifying killer in this moment, just like the willow leaf knife in hidden weapons.

  This momentum, Wu Ming was startled, and he quickly stepped on the Chasing Fairy Steps, shuttling through the forest, using the surrounding trees to block the flying leaves and feather arrows. So many leaves, it's probably just like a storm of pear flower needles!

  "Little brother, shall we go?"

  Seeing such a terrifying scene, Shi Jingxuan's face turned white and he hastily shouted.

  "Hiss..."

  A gigantic vine suddenly sprang up behind Shi Jingxuan and quickly wrapped itself around her.

  The tree demon finally made its move after hiding for so long.

  The tree demon hunted, similar to ordinary demons, first lurking and waiting for the right moment to strike a fatal blow. When facing Wu Ming earlier, it was like this, but unfortunately, Shi Jingxuan saw through it with one glance. Later, the tree demon chose to be brutal, crazily surrounding and killing Wu Ming. In fact, this was just one purpose, another purpose was to distract Shi Jingxuan's attention, so as to capture her. However, a distance of several hundred meters is not short, only now did it take action.

  From this point on, it can be seen that even if it's just a plant-based spiritual tree demon, after thousands of years of tempering, its wisdom is not low.