Chapter 68: Spring Departs and Autumn Comes

Over the next two days, they challenged it several more times, all ending in failure. This Foundation Establishment wooden man was very fond of kicking butts, kicking them into the lake many times!

After a few times, Lin Jing felt that his butt had turned into a lotus flower; perhaps he wouldn't even need to sit on a lotus when he transformed into a Buddha in the future.

Besides that, the wooden man's combat experience was also unusually rich. They controlled leaves to fly into the sky, and the wooden man would throw stones from the ground, fast and accurate.

Lin Jing summoned the Dragon Carp, using the Fire Control Art to control flames, wanting to restrain it with attributes, but the wooden man would shake out lake water to resist.

The wooden man was also vegetation. The Pine Needle Rat wanted to use the Green Emperor Longevity Art to balance it, but the opponent only stiffened for a moment and then immediately broke free.

As for ghost fire and illusion techniques, they were even more out of the question. The wooden man had no soul to burn, nor would it be affected by illusion techniques.

Fortunately, the wooden man was not a real enemy, otherwise, Lin Jing and the others would have died a dozen times already.

However, although they had failed many times, Lin Jing could still see the hope of winning.

According to the combat process, the wooden man should be afraid of fire; otherwise, it could have completely resisted the attacks like it did with the Flying Leaf Art and Water Arrow Art, rather than dodging or shaking out water flow to resist.

"Improve the Dragon Carp's cultivation."

"Improve my own cultivation and the proficiency of the Fire Control Art."

"On the Pine Needle Rat's side, continue to cultivate the Green Emperor Longevity Art. The Green Emperor Longevity Art does indeed have a restraining effect on vegetation, but because the Pine Needle Rat's magic power is currently insufficient, it can only control it for less than a second in battle. But if it reaches Minor Success, it might be able to freeze it for longer."

Lin Jing analyzed and found that to defeat the wooden man, their existing magic power and skills needed to have a great improvement.

"Cultivate."

Food could be self-sufficient, and spirit stones were unusually abundant. It was just cultivation. Lin Jing and the others immediately began to cultivate bitterly, testing the results of their practice with the wooden man every day. Time passed, and the only thing Lin Jing regretted was that the Blood-Sucking Vine was of a somewhat high rank, and he could not synthesize it with his Glazed Immortal Pupils for the time being. Otherwise, he would have liked to see the effect of the mutated Blood-Sucking Vine.

Spring departed and autumn came. In the blink of an eye, three months passed.

The battle between Lin Jing and the others and the wooden man had escalated to a fairly intense degree. However, after so long, they still could not defeat the wooden man.

By the lakeside, the wooden man was fixed in place, unable to move. In three months, the Pine Needle Rat had long reached the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining, and the demon art had already reached Minor Success.

After the Green Emperor Longevity Art reached Minor Success, the effect of devouring the Blood-Sucking Vine became much worse, approaching invalidity.

At this very moment, the Pine Needle Rat no longer liked to use the mechanism bamboo gun as a weapon, but had changed to an ordinary tree branch!

Its Daoist robe fluttered. After fixing the wooden man for a moment through the Minor Success demon art, at the same time, under the urging of its Green Emperor true qi, the branch in its hand grew and mutated frantically, soon turning into a thick tree trunk moving forward, binding the wooden man!

Vegetation Control!

When the wooden man struggled, Lin Jing, holding the "Dragon Carp Zen Staff," had already formed seals with one hand, controlling the flames spat out by the Dragon Carp to attack!

In three months, the Dragon Carp's cultivation reached the Eighth Layer of Qi Refining, and Lin Jing's cultivation also reached the Seventh Layer of Qi Refining. The breakthrough in cultivation made the Dragon Carp's flame temperature higher. The powerful flames, supplemented by Lin Jing's more precise control, compressed into fire bombs the size of pills shortly after being spat out of the Dragon Carp's mouth, flying toward the wooden man!

Under the cooperation of Lin Jing and the Pine Needle Rat, the fire bombs followed the gaps in the tree binding and all smashed onto the wooden man. With a few rumbles, they could already cause a certain amount of damage to the wooden man.

However, what made Lin Jing and the others feel most frustrated was that after enduring a round of bombing, the wooden man could still act while charred all over, and with the help of the aftermath, it broke free from the tree entanglement and rose to counterattack.

This kind of opponent that didn't know pain or fatigue was really hard to deal with.

After a battle, the Dragon Carp, Lin Jing, and the Pine Needle Rat were all short of true qi and were defeated. The wooden man, although burned over a large area and having endured multiple rounds of attacks, with half of its head blown to pieces, could still fight.

"No more fighting!" Several months of fighting also made Lin Jing and the others change their mentality, no longer wanting to rely on accumulated resources to win, but wanting to see if they could defeat the enemy with their own magic power.

Of course... the real reason was because the Pine Needle Rat didn't want to waste its stock in daily training.

"Senior Mo Song, how come I feel the wooden man's strength has become stronger again? You didn't secretly adjust the data, did you?"

"Didn't you say it would maintain the combat strength of the early Foundation Establishment stage? I feel... its defense has definitely improved."

Lin Jing lay on the ground, panting heavily. The Pine Needle Rat and the Dragon Carp fell one by one, also having this feeling.

"Have you noticed? It is reasonable for your opponent to become stronger over time, just like you. It has already grown very slowly."

"On the path of demon cultivation, not only must you be stronger than your opponent for a moment, but your growth speed must also always be faster than your opponent's. Only in this way will you not be killed by the righteous path." Senior Mo Song did not deny it.

Lin Jing rolled his eyes, knowing something was wrong.

"Let me give you another lesson. As a demon cultivator, never believe other people's words, otherwise, you won't have enough lives. You believed me when I said it; you are too young."

"Understood." Lin Jing no longer wanted to refute that he was not a demon cultivator.

"Give us a few more days, and we should be able to defeat it."

"Just relying on the trees spawned by the Pine Needle Rat to entangle the wooden man, it won't be long before it breaks free! Divine Wood Seal, if I and the Pine Needle Rat can also skillfully use the Divine Wood Seal taught by Senior in actual combat, we can better block its actions and then severely injure it!"

Senior Shen Song said: "The Divine Wood Seal is cumbersome to prepare, not to mention that you need to work together to cast it. If you want to use it in battle, it won't give you time to prepare."

The Divine Wood Seal, the sealing magic technique that sealed the Ice Soul Gu, was essentially the use of spiritual power. It required branding bloodline-like divine patterns on wood-attribute creations with spiritual power, making the wood-attribute creations contain divinity, just like one's own will attached to the Divine Wood, suppressing everything.

Lin Jing could not control vegetation, but having lived two lives, his spiritual power was powerful, and his control over power was more precise. And the Pine Needle Rat, while controlling vegetation, could not be distracted to brand spiritual divine patterns with its energy, so currently, they could only cast it by working together.

However, as the Divine Wood said, even so, it was not easy, because Lin Jing just meditating to mobilize and release spiritual power required an extremely quiet environment, and then the branding process was extremely difficult. When practicing before, it took several minutes to do it. This was still the time after his mind had been strengthened by Buddhist light, which showed that the Divine Wood Seal was simply not something a Qi Refining cultivator could play with.

In a few minutes of battle, the Dragon Carp would have already cooled down.

"Senior Mo Song, since there is no time to prepare in battle, just prepare dozens or hundreds of Divine Woods branded with divine patterns in advance before the battle, and then let the Pine Needle Rat take them out to control them." Lin Jing said.

Senior Mo Song asked: "Didn't you say not to use pre-accumulated resources to fight the enemy in battle?"

"Senior, as a demon cultivator, never believe other people's words. I went back on my word." Lin Jing applied what he had learned.

"Then I also went back on my word. I won't give you a chance to defeat the wooden man. Now I want to change the assessment content and give you another lesson. As a demon cultivator, don't reason with the person who makes the rules. Fists are the hard truth."

Lin Jing:???

Good, good, good, ginger is still old and spicy.

After Senior Shen Song finished speaking, the Pine Needle Rat and the Dragon Carp were also like being struck by lightning. Beaten for three months and not given a chance to take revenge? Vicious demon tree!

"I sense that a spirit plant containing spatial attributes is about to be born in the Great Wilderness. It should be good for that squirrel. You go and snatch it."

"Squeak?" The Pine Needle Rat, which originally felt that life was loveless, suddenly had true qi surging out like a spring in its body, quickly climbed up, its eyes shining.

"Spatial spirit plant???" Lin Jing was startled.

"Hmm, there should be a few great demons at the Demon Core stage and Golden Core cultivators who have also set their sights on that spirit plant. I will not act. You think of a way yourselves. After finishing this job, go to the academy."

"Senior, why don't we just fight the wooden man." ===== CHAPTER 69 =====