Little Black had long ago set up a concealment formation at the top of a three thousand metre high mountain peak in advance. It rushed towards the cliff wall, exerted force with all four claws, and lunged upwards, instantly rising up into the sky, jumping to the top of the mountain peak and rushing into the formation.
“Wow!”
Its figure, as if swallowed by the void, disappeared in an instant.
Subsequently, Zhang Ruochen, Ao Xinyan, and the Orange Moon Star Envoy also ascended the mountain peak and entered the formation, temporarily hiding themselves.
“Rumble!”
The Tree People army rushed past the bottom of the mountain peak, then split into two groups, heading in both the northwestern and southeastern directions, disappearing at the end of the forest plain.
Ao Xin Yan let out a sigh of relief and said, “Luckily, we weren’t discovered, otherwise, we were afraid that we would be trapped.”
“The Thousand-Year Tree Man’s perception of the heaven and earth aura is very sensitive, and setting up a concealment formation will definitely cause some subtle changes to the surrounding heaven and earth aura. If we encounter some Millennium Tree People with high cultivation, we won’t be able to hide from them so easily.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Little Black stood at the top of the mountain and calmly said, “The concealment formation that this Emperor has set up is so brilliant that unless it is a Tree Man King that has grown for more than 5,000 years, it would be impossible to discover any traces of the formation.”
Ao Xin Yan said, “As far as I know, after the discovery of the Wood Essence Ruins Realm, the First Central Empire once launched a purge and captured all the Tree People that had grown for more than seven thousand years in the Wood Essence Ruins Realm.”
“So, Team Leader, you don’t have to worry, there are only a handful of beings in the Wood Essence Market Realm that can see through the formation that Xiao Hei has set up, so to speak.”
“I hope so!”
Without further ado, Zhang Ruochen took out the Ruyi Treasure Vase, drank a mouthful of Wood Spirit Red Stillwater, and began to heal his wounds.
The Wood Spirit Red Stillwater, which could replenish a martial artist’s blood qi and help them heal their injuries, had a better healing effect than any healing elixir.
As, continued to refine the Wood Spirit Red Stillwater, Zhang Ruochen’s injuries gradually recovered.
The Wood Spirit Red Stillwater was the blood of a thousand year old tree man and the essence of a thousand year old tree man’s cultivation for a thousand years, containing a strong wood aura. As Zhang Ruochen drank more and more, even his own blood seemed to undergo some subtle changes, getting closer and closer to the Wood Spirit Treasure Body.
“Swallowing the Wood Spirit Red Stillwater can really help me cultivate the Wood Spirit Treasure Body.”
Zhang Ruochen had already absorbed eight pounds and five taels of Purple Cloud Sunken Fragrance Wood, and was not far from cultivating into a Wood Spirit Treasure Body.
Now, swallowing a large amount of Wood Spirit Red Stillwater had brought his physique closer and closer to the Wood Spirit Treasure Body.
If he was able to cultivate into a Wood Spirit Treasure Body, then he would be able to communicate with flowers, plants, and trees, and even, through the wood-attribute aura, change some of the structures of his body, transforming into grass and trees, and transforming into a tree person.
“In the Kunlun Realm, Wood Spirit Red Stillwater is also quite a precious spirit medicine, only the heirs of the Sage Clan are qualified to take it, moreover, the quantity they get is also very small, and it is simply impossible for them to swallow a large amount of it like I’m doing right now.”
After taking the Wood Spirit Red Stillwater, Zhang Ruochen felt that his cultivation was growing extremely fast, making huge progress every day.
The Ruyi Treasure Bottle contained a large amount of Wood Spirit Red Stillwater, and Zhang Ruochen wasn’t afraid to drink it all at all.
At the same time, he was also prepared, to collect some more and bring them back to the Kunlun Realm, to gift them to Huang Yichen, Duanmu Xingling, Luo Shuihan, Si Xingkong, Chang Qiqi, and the others.
Moreover, Cold Snow and Kong Xuan could also drink a large amount of Wood Spirit Red Still Water, which would be of great benefit to them. With all sorts of the best resources being provided to them now, in the future, their achievements would definitely be quite intimidating as well.
Especially Cold Snow, her speed of cultivation was so fast that it even surpassed Zhang Ruochen and Chi Yao from eight hundred years ago.
Earlier, Zhang Ruochen had killed a Tree Man King, a Thousand Year Tree Man, and seven Thousand Year Fire Vines, amassing a total of eleven seventeen thousand points of Military Merit Value.
Adding the previous military merit value, Zhang Ruochen’s total military merit value reached seventy-one thousand two hundred points.
“With my current military merit value, my ranking on The Heavenly Ranking should have improved quite a bit.”Zhang Ruochen smiled.
Since his injuries had healed, it was time, then, to continue going out to earn Military Merit Value and collect Wood Spirit Red Still.
The Tree People Clan, there were many strong people, and before he had cultivated his Wood Spirit Treasure Body, it was almost impossible for Zhang Ruochen to sneak into the depths of the Blackwood Plains quietly and silently.
Therefore, he could only play sneak attack now, constantly weakening the overall strength of the Tree People Clan. Of course, he was also using this opportunity to raise his own cultivation level, striving to cultivate into a Wood Spirit Treasure Body as early as possible.
As long as he cultivated into the Wood Spirit Treasure Body, he would be able to mobilise a large amount of wood-attribute aura, and even transform into a Tree Man to quietly and silently break into the depths of the Blackwood Plains and collect the Origin Qi of the Wood Essence Market Realm.
Therefore, Zhang Ruochen was very eager to successfully cultivate the Wood Essence Treasure Body at an early date.
This time, Zhang Ruochen chose to act alone.
Walking out of the Concealment Formation, Zhang Ruochen stood upright on top of the cliff at the top of the mountain peak, casting out his Heavenly Eyes, and looking into the distance, he cast a glance.
Six hundred miles away, in the southeast direction, there was a thousand year old Tree Man.
“Try to avoid the tree man army and specialise in dealing with these single Millennium Tree Men.”
Zhang Ruochen leapt and jumped from the top of the mountain peak, and when he was about to land, his arms spread out and he executed his Royal Wind Flying Dragon Shadow.
Stepping out nine steps in a row, each step was a distance of one mile, quickly rushing towards the location of the one thousand year old tree man that was six hundred miles away.
A single Thousand Year Tree Man was certainly no match for Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen killed it with just a single sword strike, and after collecting the Wood Spirit Red Stillwater, he immediately vanished and went on to kill another Millennium Tree Man.
Throughout the day, Zhang Ruochen killed nineteen Millennium Tree People that had grown for a thousand years, and killed three Millennium Tree People that had grown for two thousand years, earning a total of forty-nine thousand military merit points.
After nightfall, Zhang Ruochen stopped moving and returned to the concealment formation at the top of the mountain peak, and began to take the Blood Spirit Red Stillwater again, continuing his cultivation.
The next day, he then entered the Blackwood Plains again and continued his hunting operations.
“Yesterday, killing twenty-two thousand year old tree people and dealing a heavy blow to the tree people clan. Today, the Tree Man clan has indeed been much more cautious, and actually couldn’t even find a single single fallen Millennium Tree Man. Since this is the case, then we can only go after the Tree People army.”
The Tree People army was filled with experts, and Zhang Ruochen would not fight them head on until he had no choice.
Zhang Ruochen unleashed the Spatial Domain, and the space in front of him distorted.
Zhang Ruochen wasn’t really able to be invisible, but rather, the distortion of space caused a distortion of vision, and thus, the average tree people couldn’t see him at all.
At this moment, the tree people army had temporarily stopped, transforming into a black forest that stood in the middle of a vast wilderness.
At a glance, there were all thick, tall trees in front of them. However, as long as there was the slightest breeze, they would immediately transform into tree people and launch a furious attack.
Among the army of tree people, there were a total of five Tree Man Kings, all of which stood at the centre of the forest, like five giant trees in the sky, emitting a powerful aura.
Under the concealment of the spatial domain, Zhang Ruochen carefully dived into the black forest, walking underneath one of the Tree People and rushing over in the direction of a Thousand Year Tree People.
The sharp senses of the Tree People Kings would, most likely, discover Zhang Ruochen’s aura before he could even strike. Moreover, the Tree Man Kings were all in the centre of the forest, close together. Once discovered, Zhang Ruochen would likely be surrounded by five Tree Man Kings.
Even though Zhang Ruochen was confident in his own strength, he was not arrogant enough to the extent that he could single-handedly take on all five Tree Man Kings.
Therefore, Zhang Ruochen didn’t choose to take on the Tree Man King, but instead targeted a thousand year old Tree Man that had grown for two thousand.
Killing it would result in ten thousand points of Military Merit Value, which was already quite a lot as well.
“That one Extraterrestrial God of Death, is simply too abominable, yesterday, he killed dozens more of my clan members, this hatred is not shared.”A tree man that had grown for eight hundred years said.
A thousand year old tree man said, “Right now, apart from the two tree man armies, all the other tree men have converged to the centre of the Blackwood Plains, and won’t give the God of Extraterrestrial Death any more chances to strike.”
“What if the Extra-dimensional Death God, comes to deal with the tree people army?”
There was silence for a moment, and then, in the forest, all of the tree people all burst into laughter.
“In the army, there are five Tree People Kings, and hundreds of thousand year old Tree People, if the Extraterrestrial God of Death comes and directly opens the Heavenly Wooden God-exterminating Formation, even if his cultivation is high, he can’t escape death.”
Zhang Ruochen, who was walking below, suddenly, stopped in his tracks, his expression grave, “Heavenly Wooden God-Exterminating Formation.”
He hadn’t thought that the Tree People Clan, actually knew how to set up formations as well.
If that was the case, then it was even more important to be cautious.
That one thousand year old Tree Man that had grown for two thousand years, sneered, “That’s right, the Heavenly Wood Divine Formation is an Absolute Divine Formation that erupts from five Tree Man Kings presiding over it, assisted by one hundred and eight thousand year old Tree Men. Not to mention one Extra-terrestrial God of Death, even ten Extra-terrestrial Gods of Death would have to be subdued by the formation. Haha!”
Right at this moment, the space below the Thousand Year Tree People fluctuated, and Zhang Ruochen jumped out, swinging his sword out.
“Not good!”
The thousand-year tree man, sensing the danger, was about to dodge.
However, how fast Zhang Ruochen’s sword came out, and in the blink of an eye, the sword blade had already chopped on top of the tree trunk.
“Wow!”
Chopping off the tree trunk, Zhang Ruochen was very decisive and immediately executed Spatial Shift to vanish into the distance. He didn’t even bother to collect the wood spirit red still of that one thousand year old tree man.
That one Thousand Year Tree Man, screamed miserably, and then, with a loud bang, fell down heavily.
Those surrounding tree people, all of them were stunned.
“Another clan member has been killed …… The Extraterrestrial God of Death has appeared, the Extraterrestrial God of Death has appeared again ……”
In the forest, panicked, shrill, and fearful cries rang out. Those tree people were all in disarray, fearing that the Extra-dimensional Death God would continue to strike, they rushed out in all directions and began to flee.
In the depths of the forest, a terrifying roar rang out.
“Extraterrestrial Reaper, this time, you won’t be able to escape.”
The five Tree People Kings released a powerful force, creating a violent aura fluctuation. Among them, two Tree People Kings, stayed behind to pacify the frightened tree people.
The other three Tree People Kings, rushed out. They unfurled their fastest speeds and chased after Zhang Ruochen, who was escaping.
