238: Bodhi Secret Realm, Wood of the Five Elements

It's naturally good that his Physical Body can recover.

This also means that the safety of the upcoming trials will increase significantly.

Being severely injured and being in Peak condition are two completely different things.

Jiang Lan looked around, observing his surroundings.

Through the dense forest, a narrow path was faintly visible.

He couldn't see further, but Jiang Lan instinctively felt that to pass the second stage of this Five Elements Trial, he just needed to follow this small path to its end.

He tentatively tried to circulate his True Qi again.

But the result was the same as before.

Jiang Lan's Dantian showed no reaction, as if he had truly become an ordinary person.

He felt a bit helpless.

Still no good?

Actually, by now, he had a vague understanding.

The purpose of this Five Elements Trial should not be to kill people, but a form of tempering.

Only by Breaking through one's limits could one pass the trial.

If he could use True Qi, these trials would not have any effect.

Just as Jiang Lan was pondering, a sharp whooshing sound suddenly came from mid-air.

“Whoosh!”

Jiang Lan was startled and instinctively looked up.

He widened his eyes slightly.

The large trees in front of Jiang Lan seemed to possess life, their slender branches seemingly conscious, whipping towards him at high speed.

Judging by the sound of the wind, the force of these branches was incredibly absurd; if he were truly hit, it would probably not be very comfortable.

Although Jiang Lan couldn't use True Qi, his Physical Body's reaction speed was still fast.

Timing the gap as the branches whipped over, Jiang Lan directly rolled on the ground, tumbling forward nearly a zhang (about 3.3 meters) to narrowly avoid countless branch attacks.

But the branches did not let Jiang Lan go; instead, they changed direction and violently attacked his landing spot again.

It seemed to have an Aura of relentless pursuit, as if it wouldn't stop until he was dead.

Jiang Lan felt a bit helpless.

A bunch of tree spirits, if they were outside, he could destroy not just one or two, but even this entire forest with a mere wave of his hand.

But unfortunately, this place was not the outside world, but the Bodhi Secret Realm.

He didn't know who designed this place; it seemed to be designed to take lives at every turn.

There wasn't much time for Jiang Lan to complain, as the branches behind him were already catching up again.

Helplessly, Jiang Lan had no choice but to compose himself and continue running along the narrow path, which only allowed one person to pass at a time.

As long as he ran out, he should be able to pass the second stage of this Five Elements Trial.

And at his speed, even without the augmentation of True Qi, the branches behind him couldn't catch up.

But facts proved that Jiang Lan had still thought things too simply.

Although the branches behind him, limited by their length, couldn't catch him.

But beside him, there were dense, towering trees.

As Jiang Lan moved forward, the surrounding branches along his path also attacked him.

Although he was almost exerting his full strength, he was only slightly faster than the branches.

Moreover, Jiang Lan also had to constantly pay attention to dodging.

After running for a quarter of an hour, although Jiang Lan's Physical Body was not very tired, without True Qi assistance, he was also unable to keep up with his reactions due to constant high concentration.

Mainly, there were just too many branches.

Behind Jiang Lan, hundreds of thousands of branches attacked him almost constantly.

He suddenly dodged to the side again, barely avoiding the branch attack.

But just then, to his right-rear, a fast-approaching vine, like a long whip, lashed directly at Jiang Lan.

By the time the vine was close, Jiang Lan had reacted.

However, it was already too late to dodge now.

Each branch of these tree spirits had the speed and attack power equivalent to a Peak Core Formation Cultivator.

Even with Jiang Lan's powerful Physical Body, being unable to use True Qi made him feel somewhat powerless at this moment.

“Snap!”

The vine lashed fiercely across Jiang Lan's back.

His clothes on his back instantly ripped, and his skin was torn open, leaving a bloody gash.

Intense pain swept through Jiang Lan's Physical Body.

Normally, in such a highly tense situation, even if injured, one wouldn't feel pain.

But Jiang Lan had already discovered that in this Secret Realm, it was completely different.

Just being touched once resulted in bone-deep pain.

At this moment, he finally understood what those prisoners he whipped in the Demon Suppression Division felt like.

Using the force of that whip, Jiang Lan darted forward another section, barely avoiding the vine's second attack.

Now, at the end of Jiang Lan's sight, it was no longer a dense jungle.

In less than a li (about 0.5 km) more, he would be able to escape this forest.

However, it seemed that these trials were always simple at the beginning and difficult at the end.

With only a short distance left, the speed of the branches and vines had increased even more than before.

Jiang Lan was already barely holding on, and this made him even more bruised and battered.

Branches rained down like raindrops, lashing densely across his Physical Body.

Some vines even coiled, seemingly trying to wrap him up.

Jiang Lan gritted his teeth and dodged again.

Being whipped a few times was nothing, but if he were wrapped up, he would probably be finished.

Seeing the finish line getting closer and closer, Jiang Lan took a deep breath.

He was already nearing his limit; if the finish line were two or three li further, he might not be able to get out of this forest.

Jiang Lan even suspected whether this Secret Realm was custom-made according to each person's situation?

Otherwise, why was he always pushed to his limit every time?

A vine lashed towards Jiang Lan's back.

He noticed it, but he did not dodge.

“Snap!”

A crisp whipping sound rang out, and Jiang Lan also used this force to lunge forward a large distance.

When he landed, he happened to land in the area outside the forest.

The moment he exited, the entire forest instantly returned to calm, the branches and vines all retracted, as if everything that had just happened had never occurred.

In fact, if it weren't for the wounds on his Physical Body and the intense pain, Jiang Lan would probably have thought that everything that had just happened was just his hallucination.

This time, although Jiang Lan was still exhausted, he didn't lie on the ground like he did at first.

It's okay to hurt a bit now; he'll recover in a while anyway.

His guess was correct.

Just over ten breaths later, the scenery before Jiang Lan's eyes changed again.

The temperature plummeted.

The world seemed to be frozen, a vast expanse.

Everywhere Jiang Lan looked, there was thick, solid ice.

He was currently in the depths of a huge flat surface, surrounded by nothing but ice, without even a reference point.

At the same time, Jiang Lan's previous injuries instantly recovered.