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Chapter 148 - 5: Clearing the Ruins, the Dao Mark Appears! (6k words, please subscribe, more tonight)

Chapter 148: Chapter 5: Clearing the Ruins, the Dao Mark Appears! (6k words, please subscribe, more tonight)

[The Chang Tree Demon was being attacked by your teammates.]

[With the strength it originally possessed, a troop of over a hundred first-order Yin Soldiers, two second-tier Chang Demon night watchmen, such power could’ve easily crushed the six of you underfoot, and it could have sat on its throne and watched the play.]

[However, a Yin General was entertaining you with grace beneath you, and during this time, all the Yin Soldiers fell into dead silence, so now the Chang Tree Demon had no choice but to join the battle personally.]

[Under its command, two Chang Demons attacked from left and right. Their faces were pale green; their strength formidable. One used paper talismans to send out electric shocks: Five Thunders Heavenly Heart Palm! The other held up a gourd spirit vessel and spouted fire: Fireball Technique!]

"Brother Yan, one each."

In the midst of the battlefield, Xie Xiaochan didn’t speak another word, flung her giant brush, and with a golden body hung upside down, she created a "gold" character in the air and smashed it down.

The gold character collided with the fireball released by Chang Demon·Yan Qianyun and suddenly turned into a massive amount of water.

She let out a great deal of "gold produces water" to counteract the flames!

"Protective magic! Break evil spirits!" Yan Wumo banged a bronze gong and threw out two talismans, taking on Yan Qianhe’s offensive with the protective magic to counter the other’s lightning technique.

"Why, why must you humans treat me like this, I merely want to live well!"

Watching the goddess of his dreams being savagely intimate with a human, while his two Chang Demon underlings being held back, powerless to stop it, the Alien Species·Chang Tree Demon nearly shed blood tears.

He felt like he was a pitiful victim.

He’d completely forgotten how many humans he had killed and devoured; it was countless, if not five hundred then at least half of that.

But he also had no power to stop Xu Shu because what he was about to face was an attack from an Iron Armor, a Weapon Master, and a witch.

Knowing it was in peril, the Tree Demon immediately revealed its true form, resembling a giant octopus over six meters tall, with thick and large wooden tendrils that swept around with fearsome force.

"Iron wall and bronze rampart!"

Li Fengtian concentrated his power and created a huge shield in front of him, protecting his teammates while actively weathering the lashes from the Tree Demon in front of him.

The Tree Demon’s attack was still strong, and the shield would have been destroyed in moments.

But in Xu Shu’s team, there was a healer, a second-tier Mother Goddess witch.

"Big brother, I’m here to heal you! Mine are really big, so brace yourself."

Zheng Qianrou held a whip made from animal hide in her right hand, and a candlestick with a goat’s head at the base in her left hand.

"Damn it!"

Li Fengtian inwardly cursed as the Chang Tree Demon relentlessly whipped him with its tendrils in front, while behind him, Zheng Qianrou was whipping him with a leather whip, caught between attacks from front and back.

Smack, smack, smack, smack, smack, smack, smack!

The witch, while whipping Li Fengtian enough to break his skin open, also dripped wax on him.

Blood-colored candle wax fell into the wounds, emitting a rich essence of life that surged back and forth, flesh knitting back together, only to be torn again and again, healing Li Fengtian’s strength to enable him to fight the Tree Demon more enduringly.

At the same time, this repeated torture and pain enabled Li Fengtian to maintain clarity in the face of illusion techniques and mind-bewitching skills.

Of course, at this moment the Tree Demon didn’t have these abilities—his awareness was merely to feel the pain more acutely.

Whipping, wax dripping, an endless cycle; this was the confidence the witch brought him!

"Damn it Song Nianhui, aren’t you going to engage the boss already!"

Poor Li Fengtian, a broad-shouldered man nearly two meters tall, was hard beaten until he was wailing; the Tree Demon couldn’t kill him, but he was nearly cried out by Zheng Qianrou.

"Less crap, I know!"

Song Nianhui, as a ’Weapon Master’, wielded a sword as well.

Just as Xu Shu deduced, his swordsmanship was powerful and rigorous, with grand sweeping strokes.

"Swoosh!" Like a spinning top, he grasped the gap in the attack, diving into the forest of flailing tendrils from the Tree Demon, his sword light flickering continuously, cutting down the thick wooden vines one after another.

Xu Shu glanced and saw the annotations by the Tai Chu Scroll:

[Boundless fallen leaves rustle down, endless river surges forth—Song Nianhui practices the Great River Sword Technique!]

[The Chang Tree Demon was indeed formidable; even under such a siege, it didn’t show any signs of weakness.]

[Just then, you arrived, riding your black steed Hei Shan, charging in. Your steed neighed and whinnied.]

[You launched a sneak attack on the howling Chang Tree Demon, which was a Chasing Sun Golden Spear charged to the utmost!]

[A fiery spear descended from the sky, booming into its body and igniting a raging fire.]

[Chasing Sun Golden Spear, devastating in power; though you were only a First-tier Warrior and your opponent a Second-order Wood Demon, much higher in level than you.]

[But fire overcomes wood, you caused approximately a thousand points of damage to the Chang Tree Demon’s body.]

[That wasn’t all, the most critical aspect was the massive psychological trauma your actions inflicted on it.]

["Goddess, your boiling sheep is ready." You taunted the Yin God·Desire while running, speaking cheekily.]

["What is ’boiling sheep’?" Hei Shan asked you,

[You smiled without answering... The Tai Chu Scroll has detected a new term, now recorded.]

["Goddess, look at me, look at me..." The Chang Tree Demon cried; severely hit by you, it suffered a double blow, physically and psychologically, as Song Nianhui laughed, "Brother, well done!" He penetrated the core area, wreaking havoc.]

["Eh? Ah, my husband, wait a minute... wait, let me see..."]

[Monstrosity! She told you to wait, how dare you still brazenly challenge the Goddess, you don’t respect her at all.]

[And the Chang Tree Demon finally reached its end, in utter desperation it took one last look at Hei Shan, witnessing her delicate cries in front of you, seeing the peerless beauty it had never beheld in over a decade of residing in the ruins, it shed two lines of verdant tree sap tears.]