Chapter 109: Ten Thousand Year Demon Ancestor

With a hum, golden light suddenly erupted around Su Yuanshan, and a phantom of a glaring Vajra instantly enveloped his entire body; then, with a series of *bang-bang-bang-bang* sounds, eight sharp bamboo swords snapped instantly.

Su Yuanshan suddenly glared at Zhuxian and shouted sharply.

"Extinguish!"

With a *bang*, this powerful demon immortal, the master of this bamboo forest, instantly fell apart amidst screams, shattering into pieces of wood shavings that splattered all over the face of the girl in red.

The girl in red was dumbfounded, seemingly unaware of what had happened, while the middle-aged scholar from Kaiyuan Academy, Xie Lingyu, Lv Qingshan, Huang Yang, Tian Ruoyun, Cailian, and the others were all stunned.

Seeing this, the three little bamboo people were also startled; just as they were about to flee, Su Yuanshan looked at the three of them and shouted loudly.

"Extinguish! Extinguish! Extinguish!"

Saying the word "extinguish" three times in a row, he directly annihilated the three bamboo people in the blink of an eye.

This was the power of the Vajra of Spoken Command—simply heaven-defying!

To tell the truth, everyone was truly shocked; having expected a certain death, they never imagined Su Yuanshan would suddenly turn the tables, and at this moment, almost everyone was bewildered.

It seemed hard to understand why Su Yuanshan, who had been listless all along, suddenly exploded with energy as if he had been injected with chicken blood.

In fact, the reason was quite simple; the key lay in the monk's staff left behind by the old monk of Wuyang Temple, which Su Yuanshan had picked up and tossed into his Spirit Void Ring at the time. It wasn't until the very last moment that Su Yuanshan suddenly remembered a prompt that had appeared in his mind when the Vajra of Spoken Command was unearthed and merged into his body.

That was that after the first time, a necessary condition for activating the Vajra of Spoken Command a second time was the blood of a monk, and the higher the monk's cultivation, the greater the power of the Vajra of Spoken Command that his blood could trigger; this was also one of the reasons why Su Yuanshan was able to kill Zhuxian in one blow.

Because the monk's staff Su Yuanshan had picked up happened to be stained with the blood of that old monk!

The truth of the matter was just that simple!

Having killed Zhuxian and the other three little bamboo people in one fell swoop,

Su Yuanshan sensed characters appearing on the spirit bead inside the Spirit Void Ring.

【Eroding Bamboo Demon (Large), Demon Core Great Perfection, remaining lifespan 119 years】

【Eroding Bamboo Demon (Small) Linglong High-grade, remaining lifespan

40 years】

【Eroding Bamboo Demon (Small) Linglong High-grade, remaining lifespan

31 years】

【Lifespan Bead formed, total lifespan of 190 years obtained, beginning conversion of lifespan incense...!】

Su Yuanshan did not remain idle; he quickly made plans for this 190 years of lifespan incense, directly injecting ten years of lifespan incense into his own Life-Bound Divine Lamp,

and injecting all 180 years of lifespan effect into the martial technique 【Green Waves Ice Dragon Art】.

Immediately, lines of golden text appeared again within the spirit bead.

"You used 30 years of time to upgrade the Green Waves Ice Dragon Art to mid-grade."

"You used 50 years of time to upgrade the Green Waves Ice Dragon Art to high-grade."

"You used 100 years of time to upgrade the Green Waves Ice Dragon Art to minor completion!"

Su Yuanshan put away Zhuxian's demon core,

but suddenly heard a strange sound arise.

He looked toward the sound and saw a very eerie scene: the green bamboo stalks were actually flying up, finally piling up layer upon layer to form a bamboo mountain that towered into the clouds, densely packed, completely blocking the path they had come from.

This movement not only caused his heart to sink, but the others were also greatly alarmed.

What was even more terrifying was that the bamboo was emitting wisps of strange mist, and no one knew the reason why.

Su Yuanshan tried to use the newly upgraded Green Waves Ice Dragon Art to shatter the bamboo mountain, but he soon discovered that this first set of the Ice Dragon Art, like the City God Mountain and River Seal, could not be used at all.

Strange, truly too strange! Su Yuanshan's heart seemed to sink even further.

The joy from just a moment ago had been washed away by this matter.

What was even more dire was that for some reason, he suddenly felt a wave of dizziness and intense heart palpitations!

He felt as if he were even weaker than before; although he had been somewhat unwell earlier, it had been better, but ever since defeating Zhuxian, this feeling had become increasingly obvious, as if his body were being hollowed out; not only was his spiritual power being consumed bit by bit, but the Golden Light Divine Power on his body also seemed to be weakening little by little.

Moreover, the time limit for the Vajra of Spoken Command had been reached, and it had begun to collapse and dissipate; that thing could be considered the last trump card in his hand!

At least, that was how it appeared within this Taoyuan Xujing!

Now, the Jade Waves Ice Dragon Art, the City God Mountain and River Seal, and the City God Demon-Slaying Sword seemed to be sealed by some invisible force.

Only the Baoqi Long Sword seemed to still be usable!

Additionally, the only other thing that could be used was the Profound Underworld True Fire Red Lotus!

Whether it was because its predecessor, the Profound Underworld Li Fire Curse technique manual, originated from Gumu Jinxu, or for some other reason, in any case, it could be used; this had been verified previously at Zhoutian Si.

At least for now, it could be used in this bamboo forest, though it was unknown whether it would still be usable after leaving this bamboo forest for other areas of Taoyuan Xujing!

Seeing Su Yuanshan's listless expression and flagging spirits, Cailian couldn't help but walk over and ask.

"Daoist brother, are you alright?"

Su Yuanshan managed to pull himself together and shook his head; at this moment, Cailian stared at his bamboo hat and suddenly asked.

"I have a friend named Su Yuanshan; I wonder if you know him?"

Upon hearing this, Su Yuanshan felt a bit surprised, thinking to himself, could it be that my disguised appearance has been seen through by Miss Cailian?

Her intuition was truly astonishing!

Su Yuanshan could tell that Cailian was not yet certain and was merely probing; just as he was about to speak, he heard Tian Ruoyun shout from over there.

"You all come over quickly and look, there is a very long cave here!"

The attention of the group was drawn by Tian Ruoyun's shout, and they all walked over.

………………………………。

Although Taohuawu was filled with ten miles of peach blossoms, pink as far as the eye could see, with waves of fragrance, it was like a fairyland!

However, the atmosphere around the ancient, large peach tree beside Ming Hu in the very center of Taohuawu seemed completely out of place with the rest of Taohuawu!

That old peach tree was at least ten zhang tall; looking at it, the flowering branches swayed, the twigs hung to the ground, and it had quite a towering, cloud-piercing feel.

The trunk was seven or eight meters thick, and it was wrapped with a large, thick rope that looked as if it were woven from straw!

The trunk of the Old Tree was massive, and in some places it had already rotted, forming tree hollows; yet, the inside of the hollow appeared quite spacious, unexpectedly forming a large room, though it was gloomy and very eerie.

The bed, couch, table, and chairs inside were all fully equipped.

The sky gradually grew late, and night began to fall; following gusts of chilling night wind, blue mist quickly permeated the entire tree-hollow room.

The wind blew the curtains in the tree-hollow room, making them flap loudly; the curtains were covered in spiderwebs, swaying left and right with the chilling wind, until finally, one spider could not bear the danger, lowered a strand of silk, and fled for its life.

Suddenly, a gale blew, the wooden door in the tree opened abruptly, and a strange shadow dragging long sleeves flew in from the sky and drifted inside.

Soon, the room was filled with eerie laughter, as if a man and a woman were conversing; one voice was shrill, and the other was coarse.

"Little Bamboo is dead; truly, a good-for-nothing thing!"

"Let the Pine and Plum Immortals go over; they can certainly handle those few little bugs!"

"Are you planning to go over and watch the battle as well?"

"That is only natural; caution is my nature! I will not allow anything to escape my control!"

"You are always so overbearing!"

"It is not me, but us! Do not forget your mission; seize the opportunity to finish them off, do not let your foolish kindness cause you to lose your identity, and do not let your ignorant conscience cloud your judgment!"

"That does not require your reminder!"

"I am not reminding you, but warning you; we are one in good and evil, traveling the same path in yin and yang. If the ten-thousand-year grand plan of the Ancestors is ruined because of this trivial matter, then let alone Baiehou, the Ancestors—no, even the Ancestors will not let us, oh no, me, off!"