Chapter 106: The Death Demon God

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Su Yuanshan was aimlessly searching the bamboo forest for the traces left behind by Xie Lingyu of the Jade Light Sword Sect, Lv Qingshan of the Azure Cloud Temple, Cailian, Sima Wuhen, and the others.

As for the group from the Heavenly Dao Sect, including the girl in red, Hongxiu, Su Yuanshan had no interest in following behind them, so they had parted ways.

To tell the truth, this bamboo forest was truly strange! Not only did whispers drift over from time to time, making him feel irritable, but he also had to guard against the open spears and hidden arrows shooting out from within the bamboo forest.

Of course, these open spears and hidden arrows were not throwing darts, locust stones, copper coins, poison needles, or other such hidden weapons, but rather individual bamboo leaves—bamboo leaves so verdant and dripping with color that they looked as if they had been carved from jade!

The hardness of these leaves was comparable to iron and stone, and their sharpness was comparable to a keen blade!

Although they could not cause him any serious injury, they were certainly an endless nuisance.

What was even more fatal was that the sky here seemed completely gloomy; one could not even see the sun, let alone the sun, moon, and stars.

Furthermore, the mist that drifted over from time to time was also a source of danger; naturally, this mist was dangerous for human cultivators, but for his current body, while it had a slight effect, the impact was not significant.

In order to find the traces of Xie Lingyu, Lv Qingshan, and the others as quickly as possible and rendezvous with them, Su Yuanshan took that long sword out from his Spirit Void Ring—though it was not the City God Demon-Slaying Sword, but rather that treasure tool.

As the long sword swept across, a patch of bamboo fell, but very quickly, at a speed visible to the naked eye, tender shoots sprouted, and before long, they grew back into long stalks of bamboo.

Just like this, Su Yuanshan walked forward while using the long sword to hack at the bamboo, all the while guarding against the open spears and hidden arrows that attacked from time to time.

And the bamboo he had cut down was growing back behind him with a sizzling sound; if an ordinary person saw this highly incongruous scene, they would surely be greatly shocked, but at this moment, Su Yuanshan was basically indifferent!

As he swept his long sword across, he heard two sounds, "Chi-la" and "Qiang." Su Yuanshan felt the hilt of his sword vibrate slightly. He hurriedly withdrew his sword to look, only to discover that what he had struck were actually several tattered monk's robes and a monk's staff!

One of the monk's robes seemed to even belong to a child.

Su Yuanshan was slightly stunned, a bad premonition rising in his heart, and he thought to himself.

"Could these be the things left behind by those few monks from Five Yang Temple? Could it be that they met with some accident?"

For some reason, Su Yuanshan's heart began to grow heavy. He hesitated for a moment before putting the monk's staff into his Spirit Void Ring.

Su Yuanshan raised his long sword, intending to continue hacking through the bamboo to clear a path, yet as a gust of wind blew by, he seemed to hear the sounds of fighting coming from not far away.

Su Yuanshan's spirits lifted, and he followed the direction from which the fighting sounds came, walking forward. Of course, if he encountered even denser bamboo blocking his way, he would still use his sword to hack it down.

One tree, two trees, three trees....

The sound grew closer and closer. Finally, Su Yuanshan quietly put away his long sword and slowly crept over.

He parted the bamboo leaves and finally saw Xie Lingyu of the Jade Light Sword Sect, Huang Yang, Tian Ruoyun, Lv Qingshan of the Azure Cloud Temple, Cailian, and the middle-aged scholar from the Origin Opening Academy,

as well as Sima Wuhen, the girl in purple, and others; only the group of monks from Five Yang Temple and the rest of the loose cultivators were nowhere to be seen.

Su Yuanshan thought to himself that it seemed his deduction was correct; those monks from Five Yang Temple had clearly already met with disaster.

This was also imaginable; after all, this place was far too dangerous!

Thinking of this, Su Yuanshan could not help but sigh. He noticed that it was not just Xie Lingyu and the others present, but also that girl in red from the Heavenly Dao Sect, Hongxiu, and other disciples.

Besides the girl in red from the Heavenly Dao Sect and the others, Su Yuanshan discovered that there were also several strange bamboo people in the clearing. Although three of them were wearing human clothes, inside they were just clusters of bamboo! It looked extremely eerie.

But the most eerie one was that tall bamboo person. That fellow was a full two meters tall, and although it was a thick stalk of bamboo,

it had already grown human-like brows, eyes, hands, and feet.

At a rough glance, it was not much different from a human; the only difference was that its eyes were like two green emeralds, its skin color was also emerald green, and its entire body shimmered with a jade-like luster. A single glance would involuntarily make one's whole body turn cold!

To tell the truth, that tall bamboo person was truly formidable.

The group of disciples from the Heavenly Dao Sect had already been crippled by him; only that girl in red, Hongxiu, was still struggling to hold on, and it was clear she could not hold on for much longer.

Although Lv Qingshan, Xie Lingyu, the middle-aged scholar from the Origin Opening Academy, Situ Wuhen, the girl in purple, and the others all wanted to go up and help,

unfortunately, they were blocked by the other three relatively smaller bamboo people and were unable to attend to anything else, with danger appearing frequently.

Because Sima Wuhen's cultivation was lower and his strength was weaker, he was careless and was struck on the shoulder by the branch of a bamboo person. Immediately, blood flowed and his face turned pale; the branches of that thing were actually sharper than steel blades.

Fortunately, Lv Qingshan blocked the fatal blow for him in time, allowing Cailian to help him down to bandage the wound.

Sima Wuhen was still alright, but the girl in red, Hongxiu, appeared quite miserable. It could be said that facing that tall bamboo person, she had almost no power to fight back.

It could be said that she was being pressed to the ground and rubbed by the other party!

Facing that tall bamboo person, besides dodging, she was desperately dodging!

In fact, the reason that tall bamboo person was so fierce was that he was the master of this bamboo forest, the Zhuxian, one of the three Great Demons under the Taohua Xianren.

This fellow's strength was formidable. Just as Hongxiu had said, the cultivators who had died at his hands while searching for opportunities were not just one or two, nor one or two groups; to cultivators, he was simply a nightmare-like existence!

He was known as the "Death Demon God."

The vast majority of teams searching for opportunities had stopped here!

That Hongxiu could hold on until now could be considered a miracle!

But this miracle, I fear, would not last much longer!

Although it was very obvious that the sweat on Hongxiu's forehead had already soaked her hair, her breathing was rapid, and her dodging speed had clearly slowed down.

It was clear that her stamina was nearly exhausted. She looked toward Lv Qingshan and the others, clearly wanting to ask for help, but she opened her mouth and could not say a single word.

Perhaps it was out of self-esteem, or perhaps she also saw that Lv Qingshan and the others were also unable to attend to themselves.

The trace of determination in her eyes gradually vanished; her gaze became somewhat flustered, and she even began to feel somewhat desperate.

"Perhaps I am truly going to die here!"

She thought to herself in this manner, but as soon as she thought of her young younger brother and her parents who had died early, her heart felt somewhat sour. She did not want to die; she truly did not want to die, did not want to die at the hands of this demon.

But unfortunately, she had already exhausted all methods and means and had fallen into a desperate situation. She had not a single way to think of, nor did she see a single hope of escaping alive.

Therefore, at the very moment her strength was exhausted and she was about to fall into the hands of the Zhuxian!

Hearing two "sha-sha" sounds, the Zhuxian actually abandoned her, suddenly turned his head, and lunged straight toward the place in the bamboo forest where the sound had originated.

As his long sleeves brushed and swept, a human figure flashed out.