novelraw Chapter 201 : Senior Brother's Brain Always Becomes Flexible at the Right Moment
Chapter 201 : Senior Brother's Brain Always Becomes Flexible at the Right Moment
There were simply too many demon vines and plants here, filling the entire canyon. They were impossible to guard against completely. To kill them all would take an unknown amount of time.
Moreover, these things couldn't be killed off entirely. Apart from wasting time and spiritual energy to exhaust themselves, giving these demon plants opportunities to take advantage, it was of no use at all.
While everyone was at a loss, Tantai Ming, the clever one, suddenly had an idea. He vigorously shook Chu Sang's shoulders, "Little Junior Sister, Little Junior Sister! Your Wood Essence Spirit can promote plant growth. Conversely, can it inhibit plant growth?"
"Seventh Senior Brother, you..."
Chu Sang suddenly turned her head to look at him intently. Tantai Ming felt a bit uneasy under Little Junior Sister's direct gaze. As he was scratching his head, wondering if he had said something wrong, he saw the young woman grip his shoulders and shake them, "Seventh Senior Brother, I have to admit, your brain always becomes flexible at the right moment."
!!!
Does that mean his brain isn't usually flexible?!
Chu Sang clenched her right fist and struck her left palm. That's right, opening up her thinking, Wood Essence Spirit was essentially an energy converter.
When used normally, it would convert her spiritual power into wood spiritual power that could promote plant growth. But if she reversed the process, converting the plants' spiritual power into her own spiritual power, wouldn't that inhibit the plants' growth or even cause them to wither?!
Theoretically, it could work. Now it was time to put it into practice.
Without another word, Chu Sang began to circulate the Wood Essence Spirit within her body.
Everyone watched in amazement.
A faint green light emanated from the red-robed young woman's body. Then this green spiritual power slowly covered the area in an overwhelming manner. All the vines and plants covered by it began to wail violently, as if all the spiritual power within them had been instantly drained. They visibly began to wither at a rapid pace!
The demon vines in the valley all frantically writhed in resistance.
If they were ordinary demon beasts, they might have had a chance to run. However, the demon vines were all rooted plants that couldn't escape. They could only watch helplessly as this terrifying, strange green light covered them all, slowly extracting their internal spiritual power and causing them to wither rapidly.
The demon vines naturally wouldn't sit idly by and wait for death. They frantically resisted, with thousands upon thousands of green vines rushing towards Chu Sang, the instigator, attempting to kill her.
Seeing this, Gu Chang'an and Wu Wo immediately rushed to the forefront. Their swords left their sheaths, sword light flashing brilliantly. Thousands upon thousands of sharp sword shadows attacked with space-breaking momentum, cutting those vines into mud.
The vines grew quickly, but their sword strokes were even faster!
The others also diligently assisted on the side.
Tantai Ming thrust his heavy sword fiercely into the ground, endless killing intent spreading out, protecting the rear.
Mu Changqing transformed into a dragon, coiling above the young woman to block countless sneak attacks.
Wen Renyue, Mu Chihuai, and Tang Yanling, whose attack power wasn't strong, provided support attacks.
Su Chen'an also threw out many defensive spirit tools, thoroughly protecting the fully concentrated Chu Sang. Si Kou Qiu also frantically added buff formations. Little Junior Sister was now their team's greatest hope! They must protect Little Junior Sister well!
With the support of her senior brothers and sisters, Chu Sang didn't need to consider other matters. She closed her eyes and focused, wholeheartedly refining the nearby demon vines and plants.
The originally ferocious demon vines visibly withered rapidly.
And all the extracted spiritual power gathered around her body.
This seemingly simple energy conversion was actually extremely difficult to perform in practice!
Chu Sang had to expend even more spiritual power to support each conversion of spiritual power.
Her dantian's spiritual power was consumed in large amounts. Fortunately, she was now at mid Nascent Soul stage. The dantian of mid Nascent Soul stage had expanded several times compared to early Nascent Soul stage. Otherwise, the spiritual power in her dantian wouldn't have been able to support such a vast project.
After draining most of the demon vines in this valley, the spiritual power in her dantian was also completely drained, leaving not a trace. Her entire body swayed, as if she were an empty box hollowed out of flesh and blood.
However, in the next moment, even more extremely pure spiritual energy frantically gathered in her dantian, nourishing her, and it was several times, even tens of times more abundant than the spiritual power she had used!
Too much spiritual power nourishment almost burst her dantian and meridians.
But to force it all out would be too wasteful.
Chu Sang could only use even stronger divine sense to compress this overly surging spiritual power... compress... and compress again! Compressing the spiritual energy into a liquid substance, a thin stream appeared in her dantian, flowing gently, nourishing silently.
Materialized dense spiritual energy!
Stored in the dantian, whenever she needed spiritual energy, she could extract it from there at any time. This was even more useful than spirit-replenishing pills.
Chu Sang had a premonition that this spiritual energy was very likely to allow her strength to break through another stage. However, she had just broken through to mid Nascent Soul stage. Breaking through too quickly could cause an unstable foundation, which would be harmful to future cultivation in a hundred ways without a single benefit.
Chu Sang longed for powerful strength but was not a person who sought quick success. Therefore, she only compressed this vast spiritual power into liquid form and stored it in her dantian. Although it wouldn't cause her strength to make a substantial breakthrough, it could make her recently broken-through realm more stable, powerful, and resilient, far surpassing those at the same level. She could even beat those across realms!
The surroundings quieted down again. Everyone thought it was over after dealing with these vines. As they crossed most of the bridge and were about to reach the other shore, the entire valley began to shake violently again.
Boom—
Large chunks of rock fell.
The solid bridge surface also began to disintegrate.
Si Kou Qiu, with the weakest strength, slipped and almost fell. Chu Sang reacted the fastest and grabbed her, but the vines under their feet snapped instantly.
The two fell together.
This place had special restrictions; they couldn't fly on swords or fly at all... Falling down was almost certain death!
Chu Sang immediately took out the Mystic Spirit Sword. The falling speed was extremely fast; in the blink of an eye, they would be smashed into a pulp. The Mystic Spirit Sword was connected to her will; it didn't even need her verbal command. The moment it sensed her survival instinct, it quickly extended its blade into a long rope. At the other end of the rope was an iron hook that firmly grasped an exposed rock on the cliff face, temporarily stabilizing their bodies.
Unfortunately, this rock wasn't large and couldn't support the weight of two people for long. In an instant, many small stones fell from it.
Below were those hungry carnivorous flowers, emitting excited and strange howls.
As they got closer, the mist in the valley also became clearer. Chu Sang looked down and felt her scalp tingle. She was surprised to find that the number and area of those carnivorous flowers were far more than she had imagined!
The entire valley below was densely packed with carnivorous flowers, all with open mouths. Inside their mouths were rows of sharp teeth. It seemed endless at a glance. To use Wood Essence Spirit to drain them would waste who knows how much time. Moreover, these things didn't have much spiritual energy; it wouldn't be worth it. And she really didn't have much time...
The long rope quickly shortened to zero, pulling the two up several dozen meters. Just as the supporting rock beneath their feet was about to crumble, she quickly used Mystic Spirit again to hook onto a higher part of the rock wall, bringing Si Kou Qiu up another big step.
Using the same method, they quickly climbed to a higher boulder. The two persevered like this, leaping up bit by bit like Spider-Man, and actually managed to slowly climb to the middle of the valley!
Si Kou Qiu's originally pale face, filled with panic, suddenly became full of wonder. Her beautiful almond eyes sparkled brightly, full of admiration for Little Junior Sister. So they could play like this!
Seeing that at this rate, the two would reach the opposite shore in at most half an hour, the thing secretly causing mischief behind them finally couldn't remain patient. How could it let food that had almost been in its grasp escape?!
It immediately launched an attack.
"Whoosh—"
The moment countless vines took advantage of the mist to launch a sneak attack, Chu Sang was already prepared. Innumerable divine sense threads quickly retracted. Her fingertips swiftly raised a flame and flung it out.
When the flame collided with those vines, there was a loud boom. However, the vines didn't burn up like the previous ones but instead charged through the flames.
She quickly threw out a Golden Bell, covering the two of them, barely withstanding this powerful attack from the vines.
The two finally saw the appearance of the thing behind them.
Si Kou Qiu exclaimed, "Is it a person?"
"No, it's not a person," Chu Sang shook her head, also somewhat curiously saying, "It's a... tree demon?"
A slender human figure appeared in the mist. That long green hair, moving without wind, directly made the two hallucinate about Fifth Senior Sister, also allowing them to confirm this demon beast's identity.
It was an extremely rare plant-type demon beast that could cultivate into human form.
Its strength was surprisingly high, at the peak of late Divine Transformation stage, almost comparable to the Ten Great Demon Kings.
They hadn't expected such a creature to be hidden in this valley.
When Chu Sang had used her divine sense to probe the valley bottom earlier, she had discovered that not only was there a full patch of carnivorous flowers, but also a peculiar, flourishing ancient tree.
The towering ancient tree occupied a vast area, its branches and leaves hanging down like a willow tree. The thick trunk was covered with intertwining vines. Most eye-catching were the large, abundant flowers hanging on the tree crown. The shape of the flowers was very similar to those carnivorous flowers. It should be a mutated demon beast that had obtained some opportunity, becoming even more powerful.
The flower buds covering the treetop were tightly closed, almost as large as a person. In some flower buds that hadn't closed completely, one could see the shapes of humans and demon beasts... It seemed they had just been swallowed recently and hadn't been fully digested.
In other words, what the flower buds ate were all cultivators or demon beasts. This was a true man-eating flower tree!
And now, that peculiar flower tree had disappeared, replaced by this mysterious and eerie green-haired man before their eyes.
It went without saying.
Chu Sang hadn't expected this man-eating flower tree to have the power to transform into human form, with strength reaching late Divine Transformation stage. It was not an opponent to be underestimated.
"Ah, what is that thing? How did a human figure suddenly appear at the bottom of the valley? It looks quite malicious. Are Little Junior Sister and Fourth Senior Sister in danger?" Tantai Ming was extremely anxious, wanting to go down to rescue them. But this damned place had some kind of taboo set by someone; they simply couldn't use spiritual power to fly on swords.
If he went down to rescue them, forget about saving the two; he'd probably send himself to the ghost realm first.
"That's a... demon beast." Wen Renyue frowned. As a beast tamer, she was very sensitive to demon beasts. That thing's aura wasn't human at all, but a thoroughly powerful demon beast!
And it was a plant-type demon beast similar to Fifth Junior Sister.
It was truly rare, but unfortunately, it was on the opposing side, which made things difficult.
The attack power of ordinary plant demons was already very strong. Their only weakness was their inability to move, making them easy to be cut down at the roots. But this plant demon that had cultivated into human form had completely eliminated even this sole weakness. It could come and go freely like ordinary demon beasts, not restricted at all.
Wen Renyue wanted to control this plant beast for a while to give Little Junior Sister and Fourth Senior Sister a chance to escape, but she sadly discovered that the difference in cultivation levels was too great. That demon beast was completely beyond her control.
Indeed, her current strength was still too low. If she could break through to Divine Transformation stage, wouldn't this little demon beast be easy to capture?!
By now, the others had also understood. The commotion on the bridge just now was caused by this demon beast.
After Chu Sang and Si Kou Qiu fell, the tree demon's attention was fully on the two of them and no longer paid attention to this side.
It was still relatively safe on the bridge, but below the bridge was fraught with danger.
Big Senior Sister didn't say anything, looking around and thinking with lowered eyes.
She was usually the quietest and most reticent among the group, but few words didn't mean little action. Wu Wo had always been extremely action-oriented. She immediately jumped down from the cliff like the wind.
"Big Senior Sister!"
Everyone was startled and quickly looked over, only to find that she had stabbed two swords into the rock wall.
The falling force caused the long swords to carve deep marks more than ten meters long on the rock wall, after which she hung in mid-air, motionless.
After stabilizing herself, Wu Wo quickly found a foothold, spun around with both feet on the sword blade, using it as a springboard to jump to the next foothold. Just before falling, she took out two more swords, imitating the previous method to stabilize herself before finding the next foothold. Soon she was about to reach the bottom of the valley.
As expected of Big Senior Sister with many swords, she could use them freely.
The springboard sword was left on the cliff.
Others wanted to imitate her.
"Your cultivation levels are too low. Going down won't help much, and it's too dangerous down there. You guys stay up here safely, find a chance to quickly cross the bridge to the other side. I'll go down to help them," Gu Chang'an stopped the junior brothers and sisters, then went down himself.
Meanwhile, at the bottom of the valley, the tree demon was extremely furious. It stared at Chu Sang with eyes almost spitting fire. It had never seen such a shameless human!
Over the years, all those human cultivators who had sneaked in had become its nourishment! Without exception, yet she had reversed it and used it as nourishment to enhance herself!!?
"I want to taste what flavor you, cunning human cultivator, have!" It smiled viciously and attacked.
"Originally, seeing you bloom nicely, I thought about keeping you as a knockoff wife for Fifth Senior Sister. Since you're so violent, don't blame me for being impolite," Chu Sang gave the Mystic Spirit Sword to Si Kou Qiu, telling her to go up first, while she rushed down again to block this tree demon.