Chapter 1540: Wood Domain

With a soft "bang," the round bead shone with green light and sprayed out a mass of cyan glow.

Within the glow, an object was faintly visible. As the spiritual light converged, it revealed its original form.

It was actually a pitch-black giant pine tree standing there.

This tree was exceptionally massive, but its appearance was very strange. From the middle of the entire tree, there was an invisible boundary line; one half of the leaves were lush and dense, while the other half was withered and shriveled, without a single leaf, as if it were a dead tree.

It was actually Mu Qing's spirit-wood main body.

This woman looked at the tree, her expression complex, and flicked her ten fingers incessantly.

One spell after another shot out, submerging into the black tree in a flash.

And this wood trembled abruptly, plummeting toward the ground below, actually submerging a small portion of its trunk into the ground, standing steadily and motionless.

But Mu Qing didn't stop there. She opened her mouth again and spat out a mass of emerald-green essence blood.

As this essence blood was urged, it flew toward the black wood before her, and after a flash, it submerged into a slightly bulging part of the trunk and vanished.

Mu Qing chanted incessantly.

Raising both hands, two green light pillars shot out, also submerging into the black wood and vanishing.

But the next moment, a mass of green light erupted where the essence blood had submerged. The light was dazzling and eye-catching, and the surface of the trunk actually twisted and deformed, manifesting a lifelike wooden-carved face.

This face squirmed incessantly, revealing a look of pain, as if it were alive.

Looking closely, it was the face of the Golden-Ape Golden Spirit.

"Why haven't you woken up yet!" Mu Qing raised her eyebrows, let out a sharp shout in mid-air, and cast another spell.

With a "crack," a small part of the black giant tree's main trunk actually split inch by inch from the middle, and a golden-furred ape leaped out from the trunk.

"Greetings, Master! Master has summoned me; could it be..." The moment this golden ape appeared, it immediately knelt on the ground.

"Jin Lao, get up. It is fortunate that when we set out, you left a strand of split consciousness within my main body. Now that the Golden Spirit's main primordial spirit has fallen, you are the Golden Spirit." Mu Qing let out a light sigh.

"So it truly has fallen. I was wondering why I couldn't sense the existence of the main body. Since that is the case, from now on, Golden Spirit will continue to serve Master with the loyalty of a dog! But Master has summoned me at the cost of essence blood; there must be something that needs Golden Spirit to do, right?" The ape's expression moved, but it said respectfully.

"Hmm, I have destroyed the mark in the Han brat's body, but I have lost track of him. I am prepared to unleash the 'Wood Domain' to find their whereabouts. But doing so will consume a massive amount of my main body's power. And once unleashed, I won't be able to use it a second time within a thousand years. Does Master truly want to do this?" The ape was shocked.

"I fear it is necessary. The bead I saw in the Demon Tomb last time contained power that was exactly the same as my main body's origin power, but in terms of purity and quantity, it was over ten times that of my main body. As long as I obtain this treasure and spend some time absorbing the power within, not only can I immediately break through my current realm, but advancing to an even higher level is also very possible. In terms of effect, this object is even more important to me than the so-called Nether-River Divine Milk." Mu Qing said solemnly.

"Since Master has said so, Golden Spirit will definitely take good care of Master's main body." After hearing this, the ape knew Mu Qing's intention was set, so he didn't try to persuade her further, but said with a stern face.

"Hmm, having Jin Lao's word is enough. You originally had your physical body destroyed; now your body is a wood-ape body transformed with the help of my main body's power, but your cultivation level is only at the early Spirit Commander stage, which is slightly weak. How about this: I will leave this object with you." Mu Qing pondered for a moment, then suddenly opened her mouth and spat out a cyan-hazy mirror.

It was only the size of a palm, with emerald-green wood patterns on the back. As it swirled slightly in mid-air, ten thousand rays of glow and auspicious energy soared into the sky.

This object was clearly an extraordinary supreme treasure.

"Isn't this Master's Heavenly Wood Mirror! This treasure is a treasure that Master has cultivated since the day she attained the Dao. How can I take it! Master is going to the Demon Tomb; you need this treasure to repel enemies and protect yourself." Seeing this mirror, the ape waved his hands incessantly in shock.

"If the main body is not preserved, how can I exist in this world? And Jin Lao, you are not unaware that I obtained another spiritual treasure some years ago, whose power is not inferior to this mirror, and it is even more effective in restraining demonic energy than this mirror." Mu Qing said so.

Hearing Mu Qing say this, the ape hesitated for a good while before finally agreeing.

He raised his hand and tapped the mirror, and instantly, this object transformed into a streak of cyan light and submerged into his body.

"Besides the Heavenly Wood Mirror, these two Long-Green Wood-Spirit Swords are far superior to the original two; you should take them as well." Mu Qing thought for a while, and grabbed into the void toward the black giant tree.

Two branches trembled and fell, and after a flash of cyan glow, they transformed into two cold, shimmering cyan swords that fell down.

The ape was overjoyed. This time, he didn't refuse, leaped up, grabbed the two flying swords, examined them slightly, and strapped them to his back.

After making these arrangements, Mu Qing felt a sense of relief, and after giving Jin Lao a few more instructions, she ended the wood-transformation of her body and restored her body to its original state.

Following this, a cyan rainbow flew out of the valley through the air, and after a few flickers, left the mountain valley.

And not long after Mu Qing left, Jin Lao triggered the array restriction Mu Qing had set up.

The space around the mountain valley distorted and blurred, actually transforming into an empty, ordinary scene like a reflection on water, and even from far away, not a single flaw could be seen.

Mu Qing was flying in a hurry, and there was another unusual scene around her.

She saw that at this moment, within ten zhang of her, green light was dotted everywhere, and phantoms of flowers, grass, and trees were floating and dancing, radiating a strand of exceptionally pure wood-spiritual energy.

Mu Qing's body was glowing with green light, and a massive emerald-green tree shadow was faintly visible behind her, making her look like a grass-and-wood immortal spirit.

It was as if within the green light, there was another small world.

After a moment, Mu Qing returned to the hill where she had discovered Han Li's tracks, dropped her escape light, and stood on the peak.

Raising both hands, the green light around her suddenly expanded outward. In just a few breaths, it engulfed the entire hill.

Those phantoms of trees and flowers actually transformed into real objects in this instant, taking root in the ground one after another and swaying in the wind.

The area around the hill instantly became a world of grass and wood.

At the same time, countless roots from the base of the giant tree behind Mu

At the same time, at the roots of the giant tree behind Mu Qing, several roots suddenly transformed into countless green threads and shot out.

Some submerged into the thicket of trees and disappeared without a trace, while others flashed and vanished as they drilled into the ground.

This woman closed her eyes at this moment, her expression solemn, her beautiful brows tightly furrowed, as if she were searching for something.

After a full cup of tea's time, she suddenly opened her eyes and muttered a sentence:

"So it was the mark destroyed with the help of the power of the two women under the Ghost Soul Sect. It seems that even the Ghost Matriarch doesn't know that her own subordinates understand this secret technique. But since I know the direction they fled in, I will eventually find the three of them."

After Mu Qing finished speaking to herself, she suddenly pinched a spell, and the green light screen that had dispersed all around shrank back from the vicinity of the hills once more. Where the light screen withdrew, all the illusionary trees and flowers collapsed and disappeared one after another.

When everything near the hills returned to its original state, the woman soared into the sky, actually following the direction Han Li had originally left in to pursue him.

Han Li naturally did not know that Mu Qing, the Six-Legged Beast, and others had all set their sights on him at the same time. But to be on the safe side, after he took the two women away from the hilly area, he kept changing his direction of travel along the way.

In his view, even if there were any traces or flaws left behind, they were not worth worrying about.

Clearly, he seemed to have underestimated the divine abilities of those Demon Kings.

Now, Han Li was flying with the two women over a land of yellow sand, and while flying, he was saying something to Yuan Yao and the others:

"What? Brother Han still intends to find a spatial node to return to the Spirit Realm!" An exclamation came from Yan Li's mouth, appearing greatly astonished.

"That's right. Through my research on the Dao of space in the Mortal World and the Spirit Realm, I have long discovered that regardless of the size of the space, any space will have some nodes. And the smaller the space, the easier it is to discover these spatial nodes. Those so-called spatial rifts are actually just a mutation of spatial nodes. As long as we can find a spatial node in the Underworld River land and take some risks, there should be a great chance of returning to the Spirit Realm." Han Li's unusually calm voice drifted slowly from the air.

"But Brother Han, although there are not many spatial nodes, my Junior Sister and I have heard of the dangers within them. Not only do spatial storms often appear, but the exits of the nodes are also uncontrollable. Isn't the danger a bit too great?" Yuan Yao also said hesitantly.

"Risks naturally exist. But if I lead the way, there is at least a seventy to eighty percent chance of passing through safely. After all, this Underworld River land is just a slightly larger spatial territory attached to the Spirit Realm, not a true realm. Unless the two fellow Daoists do not intend to leave and truly want to live here in the Underworld River land for a long time." Han Li said with a frown.

"Actually, it wouldn't be a bad idea for us to hide for a while and wait for those people to leave before practicing here. The Yin Qi and spiritual energy here are extremely abundant, which is also of great benefit to our cultivation." Yan Li blinked her beautiful eyes in the escape light and smiled sweetly.

"That probably won't work! Miss Yan, have you forgotten about the people of the Mayfly Clan? Who knows when the reinforcements of those puppets will arrive and descend upon this place. Even people like Mu Qing and the Ghost Matriarch are extremely wary of this Mayfly Clan, which shows how terrifying this clan is. And since this Underworld River land is the holy land of this clan, their understanding of this place is definitely far above ours. Even if we hide in the most secret place, it is not safe. There is one more thing: do the two fellow Daoists not intend to return to the Human Race and find a way to restore your human bodies?" Han Li narrowed his eyes and slowly analyzed.

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