Chapter 94: 92. Earth-Wood Element Cultivator (1/3)

92. Earth-Wood Element Cultivator (1/3)

Fearing that delay would lead to complications, Chen An looted the corpses very efficiently.

As soon as he touched a Storage Bag, he put it away without even looking, having no intention at all to check what was inside.

As for whether there was anything else of value on the corpses, he dared not waste any time searching.

At most, he would snatch their Wuji and store them in his Storage Bag.

It took only a few breaths of time.

Chen An had already gotten his hands on the Storage Bags of the five Bamboo Leaf Gang Elders.

Afterward, he did not linger, leaving quickly and heading straight in the direction where his wife and daughter were.

As for Shen Qingyi.

They were not that close.

There was no need to risk his life to save her.

"Hum—"

Before Chen An had walked ten meters, a roaring sound of something breaking through the air suddenly came from behind him.

He spread his Divine Sense and sensed a high-energy mass in the sky approaching at high speed.

Gang Leader Zhu had arrived!

Chen An realized this and immediately erupted with Spirit Power, his legs turning into afterimages as he sprinted away.

He was very self-aware and knew that a great expert at the third level of Foundation Establishment was far from someone like himself, who only had the cultivation of the first level of Foundation Establishment, to provoke.

"Do you think you can run!"

Behind him, the angry voice of Gang Leader Zhu suddenly rang out.

The next second!

Chen An was incredibly shocked to discover that the grass and trees all around him had actually started moving!

Looking as if they had become spirits, they pulled themselves up by their roots one after another and converged into a thick wooden wall, blocking the path he was moving toward.

Chen An wanted to change direction and run.

But upon closer inspection, thick wooden walls had already formed in the other three directions as well.

Walls on all four sides!

Nowhere to escape!

"Being able to control grass and trees, this Gang Leader Zhu is a Wood Spirit Root cultivator!"

Chen An thought to himself.

At this moment, Gang Leader Zhu arrived via Sword Flight and landed on top of the wooden wall.

He stood with his hands behind his back, looking down at Chen An below, his eyes bloodshot as he said:

"Who exactly are you?"

"Why did you hide your strength and lurk in the Bamboo Leaf Forest?"

"Are you from the Black Iron Villa!"

Gang Leader Zhu's voice was full of anger and wariness.

Because on his way here, he had seen those five Elders whose heads and bodies were separated.

He was angry that the Bamboo Leaf Gang, which he had spent decades painstakingly building, had now been half-destroyed by Chen An in the blink of an eye.

He was wary that Chen An had actually been able to kill five great experts at the first level of Foundation Establishment one-on-five, and for a moment, he could not gauge Chen An's strength.

He suspected that Chen An's strength was already enough to threaten his life.

Therefore, he chose only to block the person for now and did not rashly approach to attack.

"Swish—"

Chen An did not say a word; he directly condensed a Light Sword at his fingertips and struck the wooden wall in front of him with one blow.

In an instant, the wooden wall collapsed, opening up a gap.

Without the slightest hesitation!

Chen An quickly held his sword and left.

"Do you think you can get away!"

Following the sound of Gang Leader Zhu's voice.

The next instant!

The grass and trees around Chen An swayed like a chaotic dance of demons, and thick vines shot out from the dense branches and leaves, attempting to bind and entangle him.

"Whoosh!"

The sound of flames igniting rang out.

Chen An could not care about so much; he directly ignited a wisp of Pill Fire at his fingertips, setting fire to the surrounding grass and trees.

This move was very effective.

Those ignited plants were instantly burned into retreating, not daring to get close to Chen An at all.

Unfortunately, this scene lasted only for a brief moment.

After just a short while, these plants rushed toward him like moths to a flame.

"Fight it is!"

Knowing he could not escape, Chen An immediately turned around and lunged forward, his feet turning into afterimages as he stepped on the wooden wall to charge at Gang Leader Zhu on top of it.

The speed was so fast!

So fast that Gang Leader Zhu had no time to react at all!

Only a "swish" sound was heard!

Gang Leader Zhu was directly decapitated by a single sword strike!

Head and body separated!

"Hmm?"

Chen An was stunned for a moment.

A great expert with a cultivation as high as the third level of Foundation Establishment was actually killed by me with a single sword strike just like that?

So weak?

Or am I too strong?

Just as he was thinking this, Gang Leader Zhu's corpse, which had been separated from its head, suddenly turned into two pieces of wood and fell down from the high wall.

They hit the ground one after another, making two dull thuds: "Thud! Thud!"

At the same time, Gang Leader Zhu's voice came from the wooden wall on the other side.

"Running up the wall?"

"Can't perform Sword Flight?"

"Are you really Foundation Establishment?"

Gang Leader Zhu's face was full of astonishment; it was his first time seeing a Foundation Establishment expert who couldn't perform Sword Flight, which was simply unheard of and inconceivable.

Chen An didn't make a sound; he turned and lunged forward with a stride, slashing at Gang Leader Zhu again.

"Swish—"

A slashing sound rang out.

Gang Leader Zhu was decapitated by a sword strike once more.

But just like before, his corpse, separated from its head, quickly turned into two pieces of wood and fell from the wall.

Chen An frowned deeply; this was troublesome, he couldn't deal with this Gang Leader Zhu at all.

"Although I don't know how you killed those five, I can be certain of one thing now: you cannot cause me any harm at all."

Gang Leader Zhu's voice rang out from the wooden wall on the other side.

Then, before Chen An could make a move, he had his Spirit Power erupt within his body, controlling countless sharp branches and leaves to turn into blades, shooting toward Chen An like a sky-filling rain of arrows.

Chen An didn't dare to resist head-on; without a word, he jumped down from the wooden wall, landed safely with a "thud," and fled toward an area with sparse vegetation as his Spirit Power erupted throughout his body.

Gang Leader Zhu is a Wood Spirit Root cultivator.

He has mastered several types of wood-element Dharma Spells.

Chen An knew clearly in his heart that as long as he was still in the forest, it would be impossible to defeat Gang Leader Zhu.

It was very frustrating, but that was the reality; this is the disadvantage of a rogue cultivator when facing a second-generation immortal.

If Chen An were also a second-generation immortal who had learned various fire-element Dharma Spells since childhood, then it would be Gang Leader Zhu who was at a disadvantage now.

After all, among the five elements, fire can overcome wood.

"Alchemist Chen, I won't kill you; I will capture you alive and send you to my father to refine your seven souls and six spirits and extract your memories."

Gang Leader Zhu pursued him while performing Sword Flight, applying psychological interference to Chen An, who was sprinting wildly below.

He maintained a safe distance from Chen An the entire time, not giving Chen An any chance to attack.

He kept controlling the vegetation from above to attack Chen An, testing his strength.

At the same time, he intended to exhaust the Spirit Power in Chen An's body before going down to harvest him.

Chen An ignored Gang Leader Zhu's words; he didn't even use Gold Light Projection, just sprinting at extreme speed in silence with his Spirit Power erupting.

He sensed a cave ahead.

As long as he could get inside the cave, he could level the playing field and negate the disadvantage of the forest terrain, giving him a chance to kill Gang Leader Zhu despite the gap in cultivation!

Gang Leader Zhu also sensed that there was a cave ahead.

But he did not stop Chen An.

He just let Chen An approach the cave.

Soon, Chen An rushed into the cave, completely shaking off the entanglement of the vegetation.

Gang Leader Zhu floated in front of the cave entrance on his sword, saying with a playful expression: "Alchemist Chen, do you think that by entering a cave without vegetation, I can't do anything to you?"

"You might not know, but I am actually an Earth-Wood Dual Spirit Root cultivator."

"And the earth-element Dharma Spells I know are far stronger than my wood-element ones."

As he finished speaking, Gang Leader Zhu leaped off his sword, reached out to grab the hilt, and walked into the cave.

By this time, he had more or less figured out Chen An's strength.

He was nothing more than a freakish first-level Foundation Establishment cultivator who had practiced his Golden Finger Dharma Spell to the fourth level, knew no other Dharma Spells, but possessed physical strength far exceeding that of cultivators at the same level.

A mere first-level Foundation Establishment cultivator, no matter how invincible he was at his level, could not possibly be an opponent for him, who had a cultivation as high as the third level of Foundation Establishment.

Inside the cave, Chen An heard what Gang Leader Zhu said at the entrance.

However, he did not panic; he simply took various medicine bottles from his Storage Bag in silence, pulled out the stoppers, and scattered all the medicinal powder inside into the air, causing it to permeate the entire cave.

The cave was a naturally enclosed space, an excellent place for creating a Dust Bomb.

PS: Setting out my bowl, begging for monthly tickets and recommendation tickets!