Chapter 973

A strange laugh rang in Li Jingxi's ear.

"I can tell, you are the leader of this human group, right?"

Li Jingxi turned back violently.

The grass parted, revealing a huge tree face—

withered, shriveled,

with a beard made of leaves.

If one didn't know the identity of the tree face,

one would think it was a kind old man.

In Li Jingxi's eyes, the smile on the old man's face was incomparably creepy!

"Ding!"

A golden chime rang out.

Li Jingxi drew her thin sword

and rushed directly toward the tree face.

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"Bang!"

Before she could get close to the tree face,

Li Jingxi was bounced away by a transparent barrier.

"Swish!"

She waved her long sword,

and a golden halo slashed directly at it.

【-】

The shield's durability value didn't move at all.

And the tree face just looked at her.

That kind of look—

Li Jingxi knew very well:

it was like a human child observing an ant,

a curiosity toward a weak creature.

'Rustling' sounds rang out.

The surrounding grass parted,

and countless Min Insects arrived here.

Li Jingxi shouted coldly:

"Attack!"

"Ho, ho, ho!"

The tree face let out a grotesque laugh and floated slowly into the air.

"Higher now."

Li Jingxi looked up into the air.

The nutrients of countless insect swarms converged on this Demigod race member,

and this towering giant tree grew another double in height!

"Xiao Ju, come out and play with them."

"Boom!"

The ground shook.

A stone statue hundreds of meters high appeared out of thin air,

covered in vines,

like a green giant.

"A summon-type demon beast?" Li Jingxi asked suspiciously.

【Eye of Insight】 was still in effect.

Li Jingxi noticed at a glance

that there was a gray bar similar to a durability value on the green giant's head,

and it was shrinking at an extremely slow speed.

"The Tiger-Flame Insects haven't launched an attack yet."

"Why is the durability value decreasing?"

"Could it be..."

Li Jingxi's eyes lit up.

"This isn't a physical summon, but a duration-based summon?"

Li Jingxi instantly took out a dark yellow amber,

squeezed it in her hand, energy converging,

and shouted loudly:

"All insect swarms, retreat!"

"Do not clash head-on with the stone statue!"

"Delay as much as possible!"

Li Jingxi's voice naturally couldn't escape Ivern's ears.

"Ho, ho, ho!"

"Did you find out?"

"My Xiao Ju does have a duration."

"As expected of the leader of the human practitioners."

"Unfortunately, you can't retreat."

Ivern raised his arm,

his body bending as if shooting a basketball,

and threw out a ring of light.

The ring of light touched the grass range and instantly expanded!

In an instant,

it grew to an exaggerated size covering the entire grass patch!

The next second,

Li Jingxi froze in place.

【Affected by 'Rooted in Enemy', Strength judgment in progress.】

【Judgment successful! Strength attribute is lower than the caster's strength attribute; affected by 652 seconds of imprisonment!】

Not just Li Jingxi—

within the grass, all practitioners and all insect swarms

were trapped in an imprisonment state.

As the Valkyrie of the Kimchi Nation,

Li Jingxi's strength attribute far exceeded the other practitioners.

Even she was imprisoned for ten minutes;

the imprisonment time for the insect swarms and other practitioners would only be longer!

And what horrified Li Jingxi even more was

that between the targets in the imprisonment state and that green giant,

it was as if a transparent thread was pulling them.

The green giant could appear in front of the imprisoned target in an instant.

With a wave of its stone fist,

under its massive size,