Urban Peerless Expert
Chapter 645 - 665: Break Out, This Tree Has Turned into a Spirit! _1

Chapter 645: Chapter 665: Break Out, This Tree Has Turned into a Spirit! _1

"There’s blood here!"

Someone shouted from a distance, instantly drawing everyone’s attention, and they all flew over quickly.

It was a fairly flat bluestone slab, with a pool of fresh blood on it, and no other obvious traces.

Chen Bingquan frowned and surveyed the surroundings without a word.

Murong Feng shared his opinion: "Looking at this smooth stone slab, there is a faint trace of someone sitting on it. Perhaps the person seeking help was resting or cultivating here and was suddenly attacked. The victim had no time to react. They managed to send out a distress signal, and then they were killed..."

Someone asked, "But there are no signs of battle. All four sides of this area are quite spacious. If there was an ambush from a demonic beast, it should have been discovered, or at least there would be some traces of battle."

Murong Feng answered confidently, "If the attacker was a demonic beast, the victim’s body might have been eaten directly. If the attacker wasn’t a demonic beast, the body would naturally be stored in a spatial ring and taken away."

Su Mubai furrowed his brow: "So you mean the attacker was a cultivator?"

"Inside the Cave World, everyone is bound by rules, so there won’t be much fighting or casual killing. But in this Secret Realm, there are no rules to restrain us. Whoever gets a hold of valuable natural treasures and is then killed and plundered is not an uncommon occurrence," Murong Feng explained his view.

"It is possible that the person who attacked was the victim’s fellow disciple or companion. Driven by envy, they attacked the victim while they were unprepared, and although the victim managed to send out an alert, the killer panickedly stored the body in a spatial ring and fled."

Someone asked, "Uncle Chen, what should we do now?"

Chen Bingquan said solemnly, "Search again. If we still can’t find anything, give up the rescue..."

Before Chen Bingquan could finish speaking, he suddenly turned his head to stare at a certain part of the towering tree in the distance. His eyes shone brightly, and his gaze seemed to become tangible. He shouted loudly, "Who’s there?"

Lin Chen followed his gaze and just caught a glimpse of a piece of clothing disappearing into the dense bushes, vanishing in an instant.

A chill ran down Lin Chen’s spine. Someone had been watching them from the sidelines without being detected by everyone. Was this person the perpetrator?

Chen Bingquan took to the air, his figure like lightning. He quickly approached the bushes and grabbed at the air with one hand while shouting angrily, "Show yourself, you despicable sneak!"

With this grab, Spiritual energy surged like raging waves, and a giant hand of light hundreds of meters large materialized, grabbing at the clump of tree branches with astounding force.

"Wow!"

Tree trunks were snapped and leaves were shattered into debris. The entire area within a hundred meters was completely cleared, but there was no sign of anyone retaliating or escaping.

Chen Bingquan frowned, sent out his flying sword to hover in front of him, and flew into the dense branches of the towering tree to search for traces of the perpetrator.

Lin Chen and the others scanned the tree in search of possible traces.

Lin Chen’s gaze shifted, but he suddenly felt that something was not right.

He abruptly looked up, and his expression changed drastically.

Originally, the towering tree had blocked the sun and covered at least half of the valley. But now, as he looked up, countless trunks and branches had extended so far that they completely blocked the sky.

Looking at Chen Bingquan, Lin Chen found that behind him, countless red roots reached out as if they had suddenly come to life, swaying gently like underwater plants, silent and traceless.

Not just Lin Chen, but the others also saw this horrifying scene. Murong Feng shouted, "Uncle, be careful! This tree is strange — it’s alive!"

As Murong Feng yelled, the tree branches that were originally slowly extending in the air suddenly accelerated. The floating roots suddenly straightened, and their tips seemed to turn into arrows, all shooting towards Chen Bingquan at once.

Chen Bingquan was shocked, and a Spirit Qi Shield suddenly appeared around him. His flying sword quickly flew out, slashing at the branches that extended like serpent heads. At the same time, he threw a handful of Explosion Talismans into the air, which instantly flew in all directions like a swarm of bees.

After throwing the Explosion Talismans, Chen Bingquan shouted softly, "Explode!"

"Boom!"

"Bang! Bang!"

Hundreds of Explosion Talismans detonated simultaneously, each as powerful as a full-strength attack from a peak Foundation Building Cultivator. This attack was equivalent to hundreds of peak Foundation Building practitioners striking with full force.

Huge explosions and boundless blazes instantly engulfed an area of several hundred meters. Countless roots turned to flying ashes, and numerous branches were broken.

Eerie moans echoed throughout the air, making the scene feel even more sinister.

Chen Bingquan shouted, "Get out of here! This tree has become a spirit!"

Lin Chen really wanted to slap himself. Had he jinxed it? He had just said the tree was old enough to become a spirit, and now it actually had!

With a mid-Yuan Ying stage expert like Chen Bingquan present, there shouldn’t be any problems, right?

As soon as this thought crossed Lin Chen’s mind, Chen Bingquan’s scream of agony suddenly rang out from above.