CHAPTER 407: CHAPTER 187 SPIRIT-EATING TREE

"This vase is quite peculiar," Li Xiu slightly frowned, summoning the Black Death Demon King.

One by one, black halos appeared on the ground, and several Black Death Demons crawled out from them.

Under Li Xiu’s command, the few Black Death Demons approached the large vase, grabbed the Vase Monster’s head, and attempted to pull his corpse out of the large vase.

After a few tugs without success, they exerted a powerful force, unexpectedly tearing off the head completely.

Gazing at the bloody and gruesome scene below, Li Xiu felt a wave of nausea, yet continued to instruct the Black Death Demons to dig out the corpse within.

The sight inside was extremely horrifying, with the Vase Monster’s body filling the entire vase.

The bottom of the vase had a narrow opening, into which the Vase Monster’s body was crammed, with its neck stretched long, filling the bottleneck, and the body and limbs twisted and crammed together, making it almost indistinguishable what was what.

No wonder it couldn’t be pulled out; now, with the Black Death Demons forcibly extracting it piece by piece, parts and blood were scattered everywhere.

Once the entire body was excavated, Li Xiu glanced into the bloodstained vase, and his expression changed slightly.

Inside the large vase grew a bizarre plant, resembling a single bamboo shoot, growing straight within the vase. The bamboo joints were particularly thick, about arm’s width, but the middle was very thin, with the thinnest part only as wide as two fingers.

The blood-stained bamboo joint stood upright within the vase; its tangled roots could be seen penetrating into the bottom of the vase, melding with it completely.

Li Xiu was shocked in his heart; this strange bamboo had apparently grown within the body of the Vase Monster, making it unimaginable how they coexisted inside the vase.

Suddenly, Li Xiu noticed that the blood and flesh residues falling inside during the corpse excavation were disappearing at a visible speed.

Meanwhile, the Blood Bamboo inside the vase seemed to grow slightly thicker.

In just a moment, the bloodstains within the vase completely vanished, the inside turned back to a clear white, yet the Blood Bamboo became even more translucent and crystalline, like blood-dyed crystal.

"Is this Blood Bamboo also a demon spirit?" Li Xiu did not sense any demon spirit aura from the Blood Bamboo.

However, the demon spirits he’d encountered before didn’t resemble plants; perhaps their auras differed, explaining why he couldn’t detect a familiar demon spirit aura.

Just like the Yellow Leaf Tree nearby, he couldn’t detect any demon spirit aura from it either.

As he pondered, Li Xiu glanced at the Yellow Leaf Tree, immediately frowning again.

At this moment, the yellow leaves on the Yellow Leaf Tree revealed green veins resembling blood vessels.

Li Xiu watched for a while, witnessing those green veins multiply, with some leaves turning entirely green.

"I clearly eradicated the Vase Monster’s consciousness, so why is it clinging to the tree?" With this thought, Li Xiu signaled the Jedi Knight to draw his sword and slash at the tree.

Like a Sword Light Slash, the Blood Light Slash carved a deep groove in the black tree trunk.

Seeing that the tree could be hacked, Li Xiu ordered the Jedi Knight to keep chopping, sending wood chips flying with each slash, although breaking the tree would still take time.

While the Jedi Knight hacked at the tree, more yellow leaves transformed into green ones, and what was even eerier was the growth of the tree trunk wherever it was cut, often outgrowing the sections lopped off within a single slash.

Before long, all the leaves on the Yellow Leaf Tree had turned green, emanating a faint green light.

The freshly grown wood on the parts wounded by the Jedi Knight already exceeded what was originally cut away.

With bizarre protrusions, it appeared as a scar on the tree bark.

Li Xiu watched for a while, noticing more and more that the scar resembled a human face, and it continued to grow.

Before long, facial features like a mouth, ears, eyes, and nose appeared on the trunk, forming a human face grown on the tree.

Suddenly, the eyes on the tree face opened, revealing green, jade-like eyeballs, lacking pupils and wholly jade-like, similar to an insect’s compound eyes.

"Boy, you think you can truly kill me? I had long fused my consciousness with this Spirit-Eating Tree; that flesh body and consciousness within were merely the last remnants," the tree face uttered in an ancient voice.

"That body may be useless now, but the vengeance for killing me shall be repaid in blood and flesh. I will turn your body into fertilizer, nourishing my Spirit-Eating Tree form," the tree face continued, as bizarre green light blossomed from all the green leaves, casting the surroundings into a ghostly and sinister ambiance.

Li Xiu immediately realized what this entity intended, and turned towards the mountain below, witnessing the forest below trembling, with the occasional roar of Frenzied Beasts echoing.

Before long, hordes of Frenzied Beasts charged up from the mountain below, coming from all sides, leaving it unclear how many Frenzied Beasts the forest harbored.

Observing his environment, Li Xiu knew it was too late to flee, but he had no intention to run.

Previously, he had to search everywhere for Frenzied Beasts, and now they were presenting themselves, wasn’t it much more convenient?

Summoning Demigod Shana, the Black Death Demon King with a roar summoned all fifty of his minions, and combined with the Jedi Knight, the three demon spirits stood guard on the mountain peak, launching a fierce battle against the Frenzied Beasts charging from below the mountain.