Chapter 358: Ancestor Xu Jia Pulls Out the Voodoo Wood

Xu Jia did not hear the content clearly, because Guo Zhanghai seemed to have entered a secret realm isolated from time and space.

However, good news came from this side as well: the disciples' crusade against the Voodoo religion in Haiti had reached the point of a siege. The sacrificial Dharma Altar was completely constructed, and the disciples were just waiting for Xu Jia to descend in person.

Xu Jia was thinking about the Thousand-Year Wood Core of the Voodoo Wood, and since his time to descend into this realm was reaching its limit, he turned to respond to those disciples in Haiti.

In Haiti, the disciples had constructed an altar and offered Incense Fire. Over a hundred Voodoo cultists had their physical bodies bound and their mouths stuffed, kneeling before the altar with expressions of terror.

It was not until a golden light appeared on the altar that Xu Jia broke through the Dharma Realm and saw these circumstances.

It could only be said that it was almost a "beating of primitives." In the place of Haiti, there was almost no national defense force, or the national defense force had been left to other countries to deploy and had not yet reacted.

After all, a large number of armed mercenaries had set out from within America, and America also needed time to inquire: "Was oil discovered in Haiti? Who dispatched the regular army?"

The sorcerers of this Voodoo religion could not withstand resisting rocket shells with their physical bodies.

Just as Xu Jia descended, a yellow-haired man excitedly stepped forward to livestream: "Family, our Ancestor has come directly with us to deal with the Voodoo religion."

Xu Jia knew that his suppression of the Voodoo religion was not of a "righteous" nature, so he waved his Dharma Power: "Do the real work first! Where is the entrance to the Cave Heaven?"

The yellow-haired man's equipment malfunctioned and he became dejected, but a "Voodoo traitor" stepped forward to report. She was a Black woman who had now converted to the Black Christ Profound God, Archbishop Hong Xiuquan. She would not say no when Hong said yes, and she would not go west when Hong said to go east.

It was likely the charisma of Hong Xiuquan that made people fall in love with him; one can only say the power of love is truly great.

She said: "The entrance to the secret realm is at the Ancestor Altar. The Great Elder and Second Elder have retreated into the secret realm. The tribe's gold and silver treasures have also been collected by them. They have exploited and oppressed us for many years; today it is finally our turn to turn the tables. Hua Army, please follow me!"

Xu Jia did not fear an ambush and shifted his form to the great altar. His Dharma eyes converged, and he saw an illusory and blurry ancient mural revealed.

Crossing into the mural, he entered a layer of space, which was the so-called "Cave Heaven Blessed Land."

But this Cave Heaven Blessed Land was very eerie, filled with Curse Power everywhere. A group of Curse Power Black human souls had long been waiting for Xu Jia, and they suicidally rushed up, self-destructing to stain Xu Jia with Curse Power and curse everything.

Vitality withered, plagues spread, death descended...

A towering ancient tree stood not far away. The monster on the tree holding a magic staff looked somewhat like an enlarged version of a "Smurf." Streams of powerful Curse Power transformed into knives, spears, swords, and halberds, all heading toward Xu Jia.

Xu Jia dodged them one by one with great elegance and steadily moved forward.

"I only want your three-foot-six-inch Thousand-Year Wood Core. Spit it out yourself, and I will spare your life. You will only lose some Daoist Practice, and a good Cause and Effect will be formed. In the future, when this poor Daoist ascends, I will surely return the good fruit. If not, it will be the enmity of blocking the Dao. Evil Cause and Evil Effect—even if my Divine Ability cannot overcome the karmic force, if you add an external tribulation to me in the future, I will still have to kill you and cut off the sacrifices."

Before Xu Jia's words had faded, he saw the tree transform into a Voodoo spirit of the God Immortal Realm. To be precise, it was a Voodoo God. That thing had long since gathered Divine Nature and gained worship, but the primitive worship was crude, and the mythological system was chaotic and lacked structure.

That Voodoo God was entirely cyan-green, so green it looked black. Besides the head, there was also a head at the navel, with eight arms, looking like a large spider, and there were a large number of poisonous insects, snakes, and rats acting as Protectors, each also possessing Divine Nature.

"This thing is evil and entirely made of Curse Power. How can it serve as a sword sheath? Or is it that when things reach an extreme, they reverse? That Thousand-Year Wood Core must have some special qualities."

Xu Jia sacrificed his Magic Tools and treasures here: a Thousand Soul Banner, in which the souls had been replenished quite a bit, and a Nine Heavens and Ten Earths skull, filled with squid Divine Nature.

"Collect!"

Those curses, or rather the spirits of the curses, were all absorbed by the Thousand Soul Banner. The Curse Power hung down, the bottom of the banner was colorful, and all the evil spirits were entangled by curse seals.

The divine fire within the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths skull combined with Xu Jia's Samadhi Divine Fire, raising many flames. "Burn!"

"Burn!"

Among the Five Elements, fire overcomes wood. This spiritual fire of Divine Nature combined with Xu Jia's Samadhi True Fire was the best at subduing external demons.

Although this Voodoo God spirit had eerie methods, it could not break his defense.

Xu Jia also felt it was too easy. His mind shifted, and various thoughts arose, as if he could see through thousands of Causes and Effects and penetrate time and space.

"Not good, this thing is playing a 'golden cicada shedding its shell' trick!"

This Voodoo old wood, hearing that Xu Jia wanted the Thousand-Year Wood Core, intended to wrap most of its cultivation around the wood core to escape the body, abandoning those gu-curses and Voodoo spirits to delay time and burrow into the ground.

For plant spirits and the like, if they truly burrowed into the ground, they would be truly difficult to find.

It is just as the saying goes: as long as the green hills remain, one need not worry about firewood.

Xu Jia had not expected this thing to be such a coward.

Actually, it had to be a coward; this thing also understood Cause and Effect, otherwise how could the art of cursing reach the Dao? Evil Cause and Evil Effect are not just like this.

How could Xu Jia let it escape easily? He pointed at the ground: "Steel!"

The ground instantly became as hard as refined steel. The Voodoo Wood was stuck within its original body, unable to move, emitting a howl of impotent rage.

Xu Jia took a step and arrived at the top of the tree. He pulled with both hands and shouted: "Watch me pull you out by the roots."

A great force was exerted, and the tree roots were shaken. It shifted left and swayed right. The fragile roots were broken countless times. The tree demon let out a painful roar, releasing the Voodoo curse miasma it had accumulated for a thousand years, polluting Xu Jia's Golden Body, wanting to wither everything with deadly poison.

But Xu Jia's Golden Body was originally just a dried corpse covered in gold. That withering poison could not affect the gold, nor the dried corpse. Unless it was the poison of the Primordial Spirit, but Xu Jia's Primordial Spirit was also a Pure Yang Primordial Spirit, dyed and transformed by Taiyi Green Yang Qi. Although this Voodoo Wood was in the God Immortal Realm, it could not dissolve the Green Yang Qi; instead, it was controlled by the Green Yang Qi. Faintly, many green parasitic lotuses grew upon the tree bark.

Within the parasitic lotuses, there was a force of purification, struggling to absorb the origin of the Voodoo curses and the vitality of the plants, turning the curses into "blessings."

This was precisely Xu Jia's ability: great desires lead to great vows; if a great vow is not fulfilled, it becomes a Great Resentment; from resentment, curses are born. But if one holds a heart of compassion, no resentment is born.

But Xu Jia did not have a heart of compassion right now. Compassion is not being a saint; one should kill when one should kill, and killing is just killing, without needing to justify it.

Right now, Xu Jia just wanted to kill it and take the Thousand-Year Wood Core.

There is no solution.

"Boom!"

The entire giant tree was pulled out. The root system below transformed into two human legs and part of a torso. If it had completely transformed into a human shape, it would have escaped, leaving only an empty shell behind.

Fortunately, Xu Jia's Daoist Practice was profound, and he saw through the illusion.

(End of chapter)