Chapter 539: Detoxification

"You're saying it sent you a private message because it wants you to help it detoxify?"

When Lu Ming heard Li Luo voice this guess, a hint of surprise couldn't help but surface on her cheeks. She then turned to examine the black thorns embedded in the massive silver tree-heart before her. The toxic aura emanating from them was clearly terrifying—even at a distance, she could still sense an extremely intense sense of danger.

"Li Luo, I'm not trying to put you down, but this level of deadly poison—are you sure it's something you can handle?" she couldn't help but ask.

The Thunder Roar Tree possessed considerable power, yet even so, it had been weakened and suppressed by this special thorn-poison. One could see just how fierce the toxicity was. If Li Luo, a mere Resonant Master realm cultivator, wanted to purify this toxic aura, it would undoubtedly be risking his life—one careless slip and he'd be utterly doomed.

Li Luo paced back and forth, glancing left and right at the poison thorns on the silver tree-heart, and murmured, "This toxic aura is indeed terrifying. For me to try to neutralize it with my ability would be nothing but a fool's dream."

"Moreover, these poison thorns seem to form some kind of specific poison array. This way, the toxic aura can be completely sealed and suppressed within the tree-heart, gnawing and eroding it. That's quite an ingenious method."

"But I think the Thunder Roar Tree probably wasn't really expecting me to completely neutralize the toxic aura for it."

"Its purpose... is perhaps hoping that I'll loosen a gap in this tight poison array for it."

As Li Luo muttered these words to himself, the trembling of the silver tree-heart before him actually intensified. A strange humming sound reverberated through the area, as if responding to his words.

Lu Ming's bright eyes were filled with astonishment.

Li Luo rubbed his chin, lost in thought. His detoxification technique was actually rather ordinary, but he had one very special trait—he possessed three kinds of Resonant Force that carried detoxifying power.

Water Resonance, Light Resonance, Wood Resonance.

All three of these Resonant Forces possessed detoxifying ability, and when these three detoxifying powers fused together, they could indeed affect many rare deadly poisons. He had personally tested this many times.

Because in a certain sense... this could be considered a simplified, detoxification-targeted version of the "Power of Three Resonances."

Although due to the limitations of Li Luo's own ability, he couldn't directly neutralize those rare deadly poisons, if it was merely a matter of alleviating their toxicity or weakening them a little, he could still manage it.

The reason the Thunder Roar Tree had specifically sought him out to deliver a message was probably because it had sensed this point during their contact. After all, these extraordinary trees of heaven and earth sometimes perceived things far more keenly than humans.

"However..."

Li Luo looked at the black poison thorns on the silver tree-heart, scratched his head, and said, "Tree bro, this poison array seems incredibly intricate—I can't make heads or tails of it. If you really want my help, honestly, I don't even know where to start."

The poison array formed by these black thorns was something he had never seen before. He hadn't even known that toxic aura could be used this way—today had truly been an eye-opener.

He had a feeling that the poison array before him couldn't be casually disrupted. If he couldn't find the pattern, the moment he intervened, it would instead trigger the array's eruption, and at that point, even he wouldn't be able to escape.

And as if it had heard Li Luo's words, lightning suddenly began leaping atop the silver tree-heart. Then, Li Luo saw strands of lightning begin converging toward one spot, where a pitch-black poison thorn was deeply embedded.

Lightning danced atop the poison thorn, occasionally dissolving into the pitch-black toxic aura.

"Tree bro, is this poison thorn the key? As long as you weaken the toxic aura on it, you'll be able to gain some initiative?" Li Luo's spirits lifted as he asked.

The silver tree-heart rumbled.

Seeing its response, Li Luo pondered briefly, then turned to look at Lu Ming and said, "I'm going up to try. You help me keep an eye on the surroundings, and remember to keep your mind clear at all times."

The main reason he had brought Lu Ming along was to prevent any accidents befalling him—at which point Lu Ming could still crush the Spirit Mirror in time to save both their lives.

"Mm, be careful."

At this point, Lu Ming naturally wouldn't hold Li Luo back, but nodded seriously in agreement.

So Li Luo took a deep breath, stepped forward, and arrived before the poison thorn covered in lightning. He pressed his palms together and directly activated the three streams of detoxifying Resonant Force within his body. Given his strength, the Resonant Force he condensed was rather weak compared to the Thunder Roar Tree, but the detoxifying power emanating from those three streams of Resonant Force did indeed have its unique effect.

Several minutes later, a crystalline drop of liquid dripped from Li Luo's fingertip and landed on the poison thorn.

Then an intense reaction occurred on the poison thorn. The pitch-black, viscous toxic aura churned, and within it, a bizarre human face seemed to appear. The face let out a piercing shriek and cast a venomous glare at Li Luo, but the clarity of the face clearly faded somewhat under that single drop of detoxifying liquid.

Clearly, Li Luo's detoxifying liquid had still taken effect.

"It actually worked?" Lu Ming was somewhat shocked.

The terror of these poison thorns—she hadn't come into contact with them,

but she could clearly sense it. This level of deadly poison was something even Heavenly General rank experts wouldn't dare touch lightly. Yet Li Luo, a mere Resonant Master realm cultivator, could actually weaken it?

Although this weakening was rather insignificant from an overall perspective, that was only because Li Luo's own Resonant Force was too weak. If Li Luo were at the General Conferring realm, wouldn't he be able to easily neutralize this deadly poison outright?

"The detoxifying effect after fusing Water Resonance and Wood Resonance can be this strong?" Lu Ming found this rather puzzling. She herself was also a dual-resonance possessor, so she understood dual-resonance power more clearly. But precisely because she understood it so well, she was all the more astonished by the strength of Li Luo's detoxifying effect.

Yet she probably couldn't have imagined that within Li Luo's powerful Water Resonance and Wood Resonance force, there was also hidden a relatively much weaker Light Resonance force.

Although this strand of Light Resonance force wasn't strong, it caused a qualitative change in the detoxifying effect.

However, Li Luo's detoxifying ability being this strong did secretly relieve Lu Ming. As long as it was effective, then as long as Li Luo gradually weakened the toxic aura on that poison thorn and pried open even a tiny gap in this tight poison array, the Thunder Roar Tree would be able to gain some initiative, and the entire situation would tilt in their favor.

"It's going fairly smoothly."

And the instant this thought flashed through Lu Ming's mind, suddenly, violent tremors came from the tree-body region where the tree-heart was located.

Boom!

At the silver tree-wall ahead, astonishing power erupted like a flood, directly tearing the tree-wall apart by force.

"You little rats from the Academies Alliance—you're really haunting us like persistent ghosts."

A cold, hoarse voice came from beyond the shattered tree-wall. Then Li Luo and Lu Ming watched their expressions change drastically as a burly figure in black armor slowly walked in from beyond the tree-wall. Violent, terrifying Resonant Force churned around him, and that pressure of Resonant Force, like a storm, swept directly toward the two of them.

"Earth Fiend General rank?!"

Lu Ming felt that powerful Resonant Force pressure, and her pupils contracted instantly.

Deep within this Thunder Roar Mountain, there was actually an Earth Fiend General rank expert hidden?!

Hum!

And the instant this black-armored figure appeared, he didn't give Li Luo and his companion much time to react. With a raise of his palm, the heavy spear in his hand shot out like thunder, carrying terrifying force, and in an instant appeared right before Li Luo.

Boom!

The heavy spear whistled through the air, ruthlessly piercing straight through Li Luo's body.