“These are Blood Locust Trees, and have grown from absorbing the essence of the blood and flesh of the True Dragon. And among them, some Blood Locust Trees have even become capable of cultivation, and are able to uproot themselves and walk to kill others. They are called Blood Locust Tree Men!” Helian Xun Xue warned.
“Before the Blood Locust Tree Men make a move, they won’t look any different from the trees nearby. Thus, we have to be careful. Every time the Ghostly Dragon Cave opens, those who die here number the most.”
Ling Han nodded. This was just like how they had previously ambushed Jia Ming. Caught unawares, even the most powerful prodigies would die with a grudge.
However, at the same time, the Blood Locust Tree Men were also treasures. They had developed tree heart, and had condensed a sliver of the essence of the alternate dragon, so the effects were more or less similar to those of the Dragon’s Blood Grass, and they were items to be fought over. Faced with treasures, even if everyone knew that this was a very dangerous place, a considerable number still chose to walk under the trees to lure the Blood Locust Tree Men into attacking them so that they could turn the tables on them and snatch their treasures.
Ling Han was planning to do so as well. In any case, because the three of them were highly skilled, they were brave. They would only have to be careful and avoid Blood Locust Tree Man King to avoid any kind of danger.
Chapter 800 - Blood Locust Tree Men
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Shua!
A tree root suddenly shot out to twist around Xianyu Cai. It was extremely fast, and furthermore, it had taken her by surprise.
Even if Xianyu Cai had been on the alert all this while, the sneak attack was still successful because this tree root was right underneath her foot, and was able to twist around her foot in a mere one move. Pa, the tree root pulled upwards, and she was hung upside down.
At this moment, at least more than ten tree roots twisted forwards, and tied her up like a rice dumpling.
“Ah!” Xianyu Cai could not help but exclaim in shock.
Ling Han turned around, and laughed in spite of himself as he said, “I dare to bet that this is a perverted tree!”
The method of tying up was really too artistic. The tree roots actually trussed up Xianyu Cai, yet actually outlined the enchanting shapeliness of her entire body, especially her breasts, which were presented as two protruding high peaks.
Helian Xun Xue, meanwhile, wore an expression filled with displeasure. Didn’t it know that what she hated the most was another showing off the size of her bountiful breasts in front of her? She asked, “Are you still not planning to save her?”
“Why don’t we just leave her here so that she won’t keep following us!” Ling Han said laughingly.
Xiu , another tree branch shot out, aimed directly at Xianyu Cai’s heart. This time, it was not to twist around her, but to shoot right through her heart and absorb her life essence.
“Hmph!” Ling Han flicked a finger, and weng , that tree root was instantly bounced backwards.
Xiu, xiu, xiu . A consecutive seven branches shot out, heading to ***** Xianyu Cai.
“Have you still not learnt your lesson?” Ling Han used the Earth Overturning Seal, and slapped down on those tree branches. Pa, pa, pa . Those tree branches were all broken; upon a closer look, there was actually green-colored liquid spraying out of them as if it was blood.
“Ang!” A bellow filled with rage was heard, and they saw a huge tree uproot itself. Colossal vines wound around each other to form two legs. Xianyu Cai was hanging upside down from one of the tree trunks, waving from side to side with its movements.
A Blood Locust Tree Man!
“Help! Help!” After two times wandering on the verge of death, Xianyu Cai finally learnt to be afraid, and asked for help from Ling Han and the others in a trembling voice.
Ling Han did not rush to save her, and decided to let this delicate little princess experience a little suffering so that she would learn to be more obedient. He looked at this Blood Locust Tree Man with a laugh, and said, “Fighting does not depend on bellowing.”
Hong!
The Blood Locust Tree Man directly twisted its vines to form an incredibly large and thick palm, which shot to slap down on Ling Han. The swift movement whistled, but the sound had not reached them before the palm arrived, which demonstrated how fast this blow was.
“About seven Stars of Heaven Tier of battle prowess,” Ling Han estimated. In this place where Shattering Void Tier elites were unable to enter, seven Stars of Heaven Tier was extremely powerful.
He still used Earth Overturning Seal, and shot a strike at the Tree Man.
Peng!
In this exchange of heavy blows, the Tree Man was instantly sent flying, and Ling Han followed closely behind. Peng, peng, peng . Another few strikes of Earth Overturning Seal shot out, shaking this Blood Locust Tree Man to the point of falling apart.
Hu Niu darted out, and very quickly dug out a blood-colored crystal the size of a fist from amongst the vines. She said happily, “Ling Han, Ling Han, Niu found the tree heart!”
Xianyu Cai, meanwhile, was rubbing her bottom in dismay. Although the fall did not cause her pain, these three people treated her like empty air, which made her feel very wronged. At the very least, she was the princess of a clan, tender and delicate, yet she was actually ignored like this.
Ling Han stored the tree heart away. Now was not the time to refine it. Their time was limited, so it would be best to first find the True Dragon’s Tooth.
They did not deliberately look for the Blood Locust Tree Men, and journeyed on. If they were ambushed by the Blood Locust Tree Men, then they would not be reserved, either, and moved directly to kill them as well as gather a tree heart.
There was a really considerable number of Blood Locust Tree Men here, and they had gathered about thirty tree hearts along the way. However, these were battle rewards that they managed to get as they occasionally saw abandoned weapons and torn fabric on their way. These were remains of people who had died with grief under the Blood Locust Trees.
A day later, they heard a huge bang coming from somewhere ahead of them. From afar, they could see a huge tree was turning around, and its vines had transformed into thick arms, which were raining endless attacks downwards.
“This huge tree is close to the Shattering Void Tier, right?” Helian Xun Xue said in shock. Even if she acted, she might not be able to dominate over this demonic tree.
Ling Han nodded, and answered, “Very strong, it is indeed very strong. If it was not for the fact that it so hard to break through to the Shattering Void Tier, it would probably really possess the battle prowess of the Shattering Void Tier.” Even he felt that it was a thorny problem. He would definitely be unable to defeat this kind of existence… unless he used the Ice Dragon Ground Blast Formation.
However, they were fearless. Even if they could not defeat this Tree Man, they would be able to retreat calmly. Furthermore, Ling Han still had the Ice Dragon Ground Blast Formation up his sleeve.
They went closer, and saw that this Tree Man was currently engaged in a fierce battle with twenty-plus people
“The Xianyu Clan,” Ling Han said. He had recognized a few of them, and Pang Xin was shockingly amongst them.
Although there were over twenty of them, they still appeared to be in a difficult situation facing this colossal Tree Man. A majority of them could only scramble away when they saw the Tree Man shooting out a fist. Only Pang Xin dared to take this Tree Man head on, and with his turtle shell as a shield, even if he received a blow from the Tree Man, he would only be sent backwards, and did not suffer any heavy injuries.
It was very extraordinary. This kind of defensive ability was really a bit shocking.
Turtle, huh? As expected of the race with the strongest defenses; there was practically no match for it.
Pang Xin was responsible for impeding the Tree Man, whereas the others sho
t out their respective attacks. However, the Tree Man’s defense was not weak, either; when blades penetrated its body, they merely managed to slice off some wooden chips. It was very difficult to harm its roots. Furthermore, Wood-aligned creatures’ strength lay in their recovery ability. Soon, those wounds that had been sliced open would recover.
“Help them!” Xianyu Cai said hurriedly. She drew her sword, and charged into the battle ranks.
Although she was rather tsundere on the surface, her real strength was considerably strong. She was in the Deity Transformation Tier, yet her battle prowess had reached the Heaven Tier. While it was impossible for her to turn the situation around with a single move, her battle prowess was not to be overlooked, either.
“Princess Cai!” Pang Xin and the others cried out in pleasant surprise.
Ling Han did not interfere, and said, “There should be some life-preserving trump cards on these people, so it would not go so far that they would die here. Just right, we can finally toss off that willful little girl.”
“She looks beautiful, and her breasts are so big, so what are you being reserved about?” Helian Xunxue said with a hump. She was still very bothered about the fact that the Xianyu Clan wanted to marry Xianyu Cai off to Ling Han.
Ling Han laughed loudly, grabbed her with a single move, and ran forwards swiftly. He said, “Don’t be so unreasonably jealous, let’s go!”
“Carry, Niu wants to be carried too!” Hu Niu quickly broke into a run and chased after them.
Their target was the colossal tree that stretched up to the skies that could be seen from all corners of the second floor. And if they wanted to advance to the third floor, they definitely had to reach the colossal tree and climb it to reach the third floor.
The space here was a little haphazard, but that was normal. After all, it was the inside of an alternative dragon. In the past, it could not be sliced apart even when Immortals descended into the Lower Realm. Even though it had now died of old age, it could still give form to amazing Mystical Powers.
They had encountered some bumps on their way, and slashed a great number of Blood Locust Tree Men. This caused their advance to slow down a slight bit, but they still managed to arrive underneath the great tree in about less than half a day’s time.
“Is this really a tree?” Observing it from a closer distance, one could still discover that this great tree that was as wide as a mountain actually seemed to have formed its own bones.
Chapter 801 - True Dragon’s Bloodstone
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“According to the deduction of our predecessors, this is the backbone of the alternative dragon,” Helian Xunxue said.
The backbone, whether for humans or Demonic Beasts, was the very most important bone. It was even more important than the skull. If this was the backbone of a dragon, then no wonder it was capable of connecting the heavens and the earth.
“The dragon’s might is gone.” Ling Han pressed his hand down on the “colossal tree”. The bone patterns were translucent white, and even though it had experienced who knew how many millenia, it was unscathed. Yet, there was no longer any little sliver of the aura of an elite circulating within.
Otherwise, if such an important part like the backbone randomly released a sliver of aura, most likely any ordinary cultivator in the ninth layer of the Shattering Void Tier would be suppressed so much that his legs would become weak.
“Don’t be careless. Although this place does not have dragon’s might, as long as you ascended to a certain level, there would be an intimidatory effect. Furthermore, the higher you go, the more terrifying this intimidation would be,” Helian Xun Xue warned.
As if giving a demonstration for her words, peng , they saw a person fall down from above. He landed solidly, and was directly shattered into pieces. He was a member of the Sea Race, but was not one of the True Dragon Bloodline. Instead, he was a prodigy of the Willow Octopus Race. There was not a single bone in his entire body, and his race was known for being hardy and possessing strong recovery abilities. Yet, he had lost life here.
“Ah!” Another person fell down, but this time, he did not die. However, at least half of all the bones in his body had still shattered, and blood poured from him like pillars. Soon enough, his blood had dyed the ground underneath him crimson.
He struggled to get up, and forcefully used his Origin Power to condense his broken bones. He took out a few alchemical pills and swallowed them before he sat down in a cross-legged position and began to refine the medicinal effects to heal his wounds.
This bone tree was really too big. Perhaps there would be people falling down from it at every instant, and they merely had not seen them due to their limited field of vision.
“Do you want to enter the Black Tower?” Ling Han asked Helian Xun Xue.
“Heng, are you looking down on me?” Helian Xun Xue asked with displeasure. In any case, she was the bright pearl of the north sea, and her current battle prowess was possibly even superior to Ling Han’s.
Ling Han raised his hands with a smile, and said, “Ai, you are unable to tell good from bad. I just care about you, so I wanted to let you have the chance to take a rest.”
“No need!” Helian Xun Xue immediately began to climb up the bone tree. Her speed was extremely fast, and in a short while, she had rushed up to more than three hundred metres in height. However, very soon, her speed slowed down.
“Hu Niu, let’s go too.”
“En!” Hu Niu nodded crisply, and together with Ling Han, started climbing.
As expected, when they had reached about three hundred metres, there was a slight pressure exuding from the bone tree. Because no one could fly here, and they could only climb up the tree, they had to hold onto the branches tightly, and were forced to withstand this kind of pressure at every single moment.
Facing pressure of this level, Ling Han and Hu Niu naturally paid it no heed. They both transformed into lightning, and quickly climbed up the tree trunk as fast as if they were lightning.
Helian Xun Xue was not slow, either. She had not only learnt the Thunderclap Ninth Heaven, but she herself was a super genius, and the height of her talent was in no way inferior to that of Xu Xiu Ran and his group.
Over two hours later, they had passed a considerable number of people on their way. Some were still okay, and merely concentrated on climbing the tree. However, there were some that actually attempted to attack Ling Han and the others. Then, Ling Han would naturally have no reservations, and moved with no mercy. He shook these people that could not control their hands down the tree, and it would be up to fate whether they lived or died.
Ling Han and the others became slower and slower. By now, they had already climbed up two-thirds of the tree, and the dragon’s might was becoming stronger and stronger, which caused even Ling Han and Helian Xun Xue to sweat bullets.
Only Hu Niu was completely nonchalant. At one moment, she would scuttle high up, and in the next, she would climb down and urge Ling Han to pick up his speed.
Ling Han thought that if one was to lay an ambush at the entrance to the third floor, the effects would be extraordinary, and the chances of falling for the trap was possibly more than ninety percent. However, this backbone was really too big, so who knew where the target would climb up from. Thus, if one wanted to lay an ambush, they would at least need a few thousand people to form a circle.
Furthermore, every single one of them would have to have battle prowess at the peak of Heaven Tier, or still would not be able to do anything against Ling Han.
However, Hu Niu was completely unaffected by the dragon’s might, and with this scout, who would be able to ambush them successfully?
Their speed became slower and slower, but after another two hours, the three of them still reached the top of the bone tree and entered into the third floor of the Ghostly Dragon Cave.
The environment here was different again. All around them, they were surrounded by bare mountain roc
ks, but every rock was crimson in color—from afar, it looked like a land of blood, but also like a burning sea of flames.
Crimson was the main color tone of this place, and aside from it, there was no other color here.
“Dragon’s Blood Grass would also grow in the cracks of the rocks here,” Helian Xun Xue said. Although they had already gathered over a hundred, and furthermore, also had an abundant supply of tree hearts from the Blood Locust Tree Men, this kind of treasure would never be too much.
Ling Han nodded. As the tree of them journeyed on, they continued to search, but did not waste too much time on their way. After all, the main focus of this journey was the True Dragon’s Tooth. This was the most valuable treasure. If they wasted too much time here, when the closing time of the Ghostly Dragon Cave arrived, they would be thrown out. Then if they wanted to come in again, that would be something for five hundred years later.
Their luck was not too bad, and they had quite a considerable harvest on their way. This naturally was because Ling Han had used the Eye of Truth, and could see through everything—big or small—clearly, which naturally contributed greatly.
In this way, their speed would definitely be affected, but the Ghostly Dragon Cave would be open for at least half a month every time. And they had only spent five days here by now, so no matter what, they still had about ten days left.
“There’s a big guy up ahead!” Ling Han withdrew his gaze, and rubbed his eyes. He had been using the Eye of Truth continuously these few days, which made his eyes feel slightly sore, which in turn was quite uncomfortable.
“Could it be the Demonic Ape?” Helian Xun Xue mumbled to herself. When she saw Ling Han’s questioning expression, she explained, “The monsters on the third floor mostly look like a kind of ape or monkey. However, according to deductions, these are possibly the fleas of the alternative dragon, and were formed after absorbing the dragon’s blood.”
Ling Han could not help but wear a strange expression as he asked, “Such a powerful creature like the alternative dragon would still have fleas?”
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