Chapter 119: Pear Ancestor Wood Heart

"Dead?"

A young Daoist from Xianyuan Temple looked at the tree demon with suspicion, wanting to go over to check.

"No! Careful!"

The young Daoist retreated immediately.

Sure enough—

The tree demon was suppressed by the Mountain God Order and couldn't move; seeing that its magical power and vitality were being rapidly suppressed, knowing that if this continued, it would die under the hands of that group of Daoists, it didn't care about anything anymore and released the magical power and death energy it had cultivated for many years.

That was a black smoke that rose into the sky.

Originally, there were still some spiritual fires burning on the tree, but they were extinguished instantly in the black smoke. Under the moonlight, one could clearly see this black smoke rushing straight into the firmament, bypassing the spiritual flag magic array, and dispersing in all directions.

Some also overflowed.

"Careful!"

Several Daoists of Xianyuan Temple gathered together immediately, standing with Lin Jue and the other, and also standing with the young Daoist who had fallen to the ground, many Daoists exerting force together, resisting the black smoke with pure yang spiritual power.

Everyone resisted easily, but couldn't help but lift their heads, following this black smoke, and turning their heads to look behind them.

They immediately knew where this black smoke was going—

It was distributed to other tree demons in the mountains!

Pear Ancestor pear trees, originally of the same origin, they can accept it.

This is a practice of damaging one's own cultivation.

But at this time, rough and strange sounds came from the mountains, then there was a booming sound, as if the sound of branches and leaves rubbing in the forest when a hurricane passed, and the whole mountain forest was moving.

It is imaginable what those tree demons in the forest looked like at this time; no need to look at the distance, no need to wait for them to arrive, just look at the outside of the spiritual flag magic array—the dead tree yaoguai that were originally blocked outside were all going crazy, their five features twisted, spitting black smoke, crazily bumping and squeezing into the magic array.

The spiritual flags were trembling, and even tilted slightly.

"This is not good!"

The middle-aged Daoist of Xianyuan Temple was somewhat terrified.

"What to do?"

The remaining two young Daoists were also terrified.

It's just that seeing Lin Jue and the junior sister looking at each other, seemingly quite calm, they looked at each other, forcing themselves to calm down, not wanting to be weaker than them.

"There are two ways now." Lin Jue thought for a moment, but was not panicked, "One is for us to fight out a path, rush out, and wait until tomorrow daytime to come back to clean up these tree demons, which will be very simple. We can even leave the Mountain God token inside the old tree; I think even if it doesn't die, it can't run away, and we can eliminate it when we come back at dawn."

"No!" The young Daoist named Yun Yi denied it instantly, "This small slope is Gong Village!"

"Yes!" The middle-aged Daoist also said, "We originally wanted to wait until daytime to clean them up, but we can't wait until tomorrow daytime!"

"Is that so..."

Lin Jue nodded, acknowledging it, then continued: "Then we can only set fire to the mountain! These tree demons are mostly dead trees, most afraid of fire; although there are many forests here, there are no large mountains or forests, so even if we set fire to the mountain, it won't spread too far. It's better than yaoguai wreaking havoc."

Setting fire to the mountain and digging graves at noon have always been good ways for mortals in this day and age to deal with yaoguai and ghosts.

Often when there were yaoguai in the mountains, there was no need for Daoists or high-level people; the government would either send constables and soldiers or invite experienced hunters to clean them up, and if they couldn't, they would set fire to the mountain, which worked every time.

But just at this time—

A sword light appeared in the dark night!

The sword light didn't know who it came from, I fear it was nearly a zhang wide and two or three zhang high, coming from far to near in the dark night, and reached the spiritual flag magic array in an instant. Almost all the tree demons along the way were stirred into broken branches and leaves.

It seems someone else came?

Everyone looked at each other.

Between the broken branches and leaves, yaoguai were crazily gathering toward that side.

It seems the dead tree spirits were squeezing and jostling, many branches colliding and waving, and there were rough and strange roars, and faint silver light and spear light could be seen among the branches and leaves, and occasionally a few flickering, unclear armored human figures could be seen.

Like martial artists? But in this day and age, where are there such martial artists in the world?

But then a distant shout came from that direction:

"Fellow Daoists, we are here to help you!"

"It's the Fulu Sect!"

The middle-aged Daoist was indeed knowledgeable.

Sure enough, that side soon revealed human figures and rushed into the spiritual flag magic array.

It was the Daoists of Qiyun Mountain.

Lin Jue saw Daoist Jiang among them, and also saw Daoist Qingxuan, and two middle-aged Daoists, and then two trembling villagers, and several horses carrying corpses behind.

But there were only these few people, and the wooden swords, iron swords, and whisks held by the Daoists were just ordinary ones; I don't know where that sword light and the spear shadow that came later came from.

"Daoist brother Qingxuan!"

Lin Jue and the other went to welcome them immediately.

"Eh? Daoist friend Lin! Daoist friend Qingyao! These are... Daoist friends of Xianyuan Temple?" Daoist Qingxuan came over first, moved, "You really went down the mountain to eliminate yaoguai! Thank you, thank you!"

"It should be so."

"Several Daoist friends, setting fire to the mountain is indeed a good way, but pear trees have been planted here for many years, which is not easy. Those that have become spirits and are stained with evil energy are only a few. We happen to have a Daoist talisman, so we will save the Daoist friends from this spiritual fire."

Daoist Jiang Ning walked over holding a silver sword:

"Leave it to us!"

"Please."

Lin Jue was naturally happy to save magical power, and just happened to see how they did it.

At this time, although the spiritual flag magic array could still barely support it, the old tree demon was constantly dividing its magical power, summoning tree demons, and then he saw Daoist Jiang Ning take out a golden talisman, throw it casually, point with his long sword, and the long sword pierced the talisman folded into a triangle on the sword, and she chanted incantations to pray to the gods in a low voice, without a few sentences, the talisman paper burned.

Then she slashed out horizontally with one sword.

"Whoosh..."

A golden divine fire was like a crescent moon, rushing straight into the dark night.

A few zhang away from the sword, the flames were already several zhang wide, and by the time they left the spiritual flag magic array and hit the tree demon group, they were already more than ten zhang wide, covering almost a large area of tree demons ahead.

With a boom!

The tree demons seemed to be covered with fire oil, and a large area burned up at once.

Lin Jue just wanted to say isn't this still using fire, but after looking carefully with his eyes, he saw that this fire was actually a bit empty—

Empty in that where the flames passed, besides the tree demons, everything else was unaffected.

Even when the spiritual flag magic array they were in was filled with raging flames in all directions, they didn't feel a trace of heat, only those tree demons struggling and wailing in the flames, being quickly burned to ashes.

"This is Li Fire, the fire that only the true gods in the sky will cultivate, its power is extremely great, but it only burns yaoguai and evil spirits, and does no harm to ordinary things in the world." Seeing his doubt, Daoist Jiang Ning explained to him, "Therefore, it is difficult to use it in the battle between cultivators or divine beings."

"This should be divine fire."

Lin Jue praised, and then turned around.

A middle-aged Daoist looked at the old tree demon in the middle, seeing that its vitality had not dissipated, so he took out a talisman paper from his bosom, chanted an incantation, and threw it toward the tree demon ahead.

"Boom!"

A divine thunder descended from the night sky, hitting the tree demon.

The tree demon's whole body trembled, and the trunk was split by the thunder, revealing red glowing cracks, white smoke rising, but its vitality was still not broken.

The middle-aged Daoist was about to take out the second one, when he was called by Daoist Jiang Ning behind him.

"Uncle Chongqing, save a few divine talismans, the Daoist friends have already beaten it like this, it's just a matter of hand to eliminate it."

"Okay!"

Upon

Lin Jue walked up to the tree demon with his sword drawn, and seeing that it was already on the verge of death, he reached out and chanted an incantation to retrieve the Mountain God Token, then smashed it against the demon, completely shattering the brittle, withered trunk.

"Eh?"

He saw that the tree demon's life force was severed, and its entire body was covered in traces of lightning strikes and fire burns, emitting black smoke and even flickering with sparks, yet the wood in the center of the trunk was fresh and filled with spiritual energy, clearly different from the outside.

There were even layers between the inner and outer wood.

Lin Jue was surprised for a moment, and only then did he remember.

Although this tree demon had entered the evil path, it had after all attained the Dao and practiced for many years; according to his Third Shixiong, such plants and trees were no longer ordinary, and even if it were just some common tree, having cultivated to such a state, it was not inferior to the rare wood found in those heavenly treasures.

It was also good material for making bean soldiers.

Especially when plants and trees become spirits, they will, like humans or animals, develop facial features and a wood heart; the facial features are used to perceive the world, and the wood heart is used for thinking and storing the Dao.

Is this likely the wood heart?

So he decisively raised his sword to retrieve it.

Xiao Shimei did not know what he was doing, but seeing her Shixiong busy at work, how could she not go and help?

Even the fox came to help, its claws digging frantically.

The two of them and the fox soon retrieved a section of the wood heart.

It was about as thick as Xiao Shimei's wrist, and its length was about the same as her height; it was filled with mysterious spiritual charm, with faint traces of lightning strikes on it.

This would be of great use to the Lingfa Sect.

When Lin Jue turned around, the flames outside had already extinguished, and all the tree demons had turned into fly ash; only the mountains, rivers, plants, and trees remained as they were, and the Daoist priests of the Xianyuan Temple were conversing with the Daoist priests of Qiyun Mountain.

Lin Jue took the wood heart back and first handed it to the fellow Daoists of Xianyuan Temple; they naturally felt embarrassed to accept it, and after the two sides declined each other twice, Lin Jue used force to cut it into two segments, one long and one short, handing the long one to the fellow Daoists of Xianyuan Temple and keeping the short one for himself, thus completing the distribution.

"This fellow Daoist..."

Lin Jue looked down at the young Daoist priest on the ground and realized he had forgotten his name, but that did not affect his concern for him:

"I fed him a life-saving pill refined by my Shixiong; although it has a life-saving effect, if he is not treated quickly, it will only be a brief moment of clarity before death. He must be treated as soon as possible."

"We are just about to send him back overnight."

"You may send him to my Fuqiu Temple; my Fifth Shixiong is staying at the temple and is skilled in medicine."

"We are aware of this."

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"Then take care on the way!"

Lin Jue held the tree demon's wood heart he had just obtained in his hand, first speaking to the middle-aged Daoist priest, and then bowing to the remaining two young Daoist priests: "Take care on the way."

Xiao Shimei followed him in bowing and speaking.

"Daoist brother, please take care as well!"

Daoist Yun Yi also returned the bow to them.

Several Daoist priests retrieved the spiritual flags from the four corners, found a mule, and took advantage of the night to return to Mount Yishan.

Soon, only the two people and one fox from Fuqiu Temple, several Daoist priests from Qiyun Mountain, and two villagers along with a few corpses remained in the mountains; Lin Jue roughly guessed that the people here, besides going to Fuqiu Temple on Mount Yishan to invite them, had probably also gone to the Xuantian Temple on Qiyun Mountain to invite people, and thus had them invited over.

But where did these corpses come from?