17: Longevity Fruit

Subtracting the consumption of ten True Qi restorations, this action caused Li Jiangchen's Demon to skyrocket to two thousand three hundred and ninety years.

Under the illumination of the golden light, a willow tree in the back hall of the county office grew wildly, its thousands of willow branches forming a dome that blocked the Sealing Yuan golden light from penetrating.

At the top, a tender white fruit shaped like an infant grew, emitting a faint fragrance that spread throughout the entire city.

Li Jiangchen took a slight sniff, and the blood and Qi within his body boiled, while an inexplicable desire rose in his heart.

Sweeping his gaze across the city, he saw that the remaining Demon seemed to have lost their minds, rushing desperately toward the back hall of the county office, only to be pierced one by one by the willow branches and drained into dried corpses.

"What exactly is that fruit?" Li Jiangchen wondered. The Demon were fighting for it regardless of their lives, and as a member of the Human Race, he felt his Bloodline boiling just from catching a whiff of its scent.

Stamping his feet, he arrived in front of the county office within a few breaths.

Before him, Military Guard after Military Guard clad in mysterious armor and holding sharp swords blocked his path, with the Military Guard commander, Chen Yi, at their head.

However, the eyes of the other party were unfocused, and their bodies were stiff.

"Kill!"

With a sharp shout, Chen Yi led the Military Guard in a pounce to kill.

"Have you become a Demon Puppet?" Li Jiangchen said indifferently. "It is a pity, my demon slaying sword does not wish to be stained with the blood of the Human Race."

He took a step out, and the ground quickly became stained, transforming into a dark vortex three hundred zhang in diameter.

The five hundred Military Guard were instantly like clay oxen entering the sea, all swallowed by the darkness.

Demon Kingdom in the Palm!

Although this technique belongs to the Realm of illusions, it is not something these Puppet can break through.

With another step, Li Jiangchen's figure suddenly appeared in the back hall of the county office. Before him, the willow tree towered, its thousands of branches stained with blood, wriggling like living creatures, constantly transporting nutrients to the canopy.

"Such a dense scent of blood." Li Jiangchen frowned slightly.

How much blood of the common people must have been used to water this fruit.

Glancing over, he saw an old man in official robes climbing the willow tree, his movements slow and difficult, appearing extremely disheveled.

He could only hear the County Magistrate murmuring: "Longevity Fruit... My Longevity Fruit..."

"Longevity Fruit?"

A cold voice came from behind the County Magistrate.

"Li Zhiyi, so this is your reason for colluding with Demon and sacrificing the entire city for your own selfish desires."

In an instant, the County Magistrate Li Zhiyi trembled all over, turning his head back in terror to meet Li Jiangchen's cold and murderous gaze, his legs shaking as he fell onto the treetops.

"Spare me. I... I just wanted to live..." Li Zhiyi knelt on the ground, snot and tears streaming down his face. He hugged Li Jiangchen's leg as if grabbing a life-saving straw: "Take it, take it all. Eating this Longevity Fruit can extend your life by three hundred years, as long as you spare me."

Only when a Martial Artist Breakthrough their Realm can they extend their lifespan.

Even an Innate Martial Artist only has a lifespan of two hundred years.

No wonder this County Magistrate, who was on the verge of death, had the delusion of sacrificing the lives of the entire city in an attempt to condense this one Longevity Fruit.

Pfft!

A beam of Sword Qi pierced through Li Zhiyi's skull, which instantly burst like a watermelon, red and white matter splattering everywhere as his headless corpse fell straight to the ground.

"Killing you would soil my sword."

Li Jiangchen retracted his finger expressionlessly.

He then looked at this Willow Tree Demon, feeling that there was something strange about it.

Ever since it condensed this fruit, this Demon had not made another move.

"I will slay the Demon first and talk later."

Clang—

The demon slaying sword was unsheathed, and a crescent moon rose into the Void Realm. The sword-like Sword Qi slashed across the tree trunk, cutting the entire willow tree in half.

【Slayed the remnant body of the Dao-entering Willow Tree Demon *1, obtained the Low Grade Daoist Magic Wood Nurturing Method.】

A willow tree light orb appeared in his mind, and the mysteries of the Wood Nurturing Method emerged in his consciousness.

This method turned out to be an auxiliary Daoist Magic. By planting spiritual wood and a Magical Artifact at the same time and activating the Daoist Magic, one could nourish the Magical Artifact with the Yimu Essence Qi gathered by the spiritual wood, thereby increasing the grade of the Magical Artifact.

"In this way, my demon slaying sword can continuously improve its grade in the future; it might even become a spiritual sword, accompanying me to slay all the Demon in the world." Li Jiangchen felt joy in his heart.

Suddenly, he looked at the heart of the tree, his face showing confusion.

Unlike the previous Yellow Locust Tree Demon, whose heart remained brimming with vitality even after being slain.

The interior of the willow tree's branches was already rotten and withered, with no Life Qi at all, as if it had been eaten by worms.

He couldn't help but think of the Willow Tree Demon's remnant body on the panel just now.

"Could it be that this Demon fused its entire life essence into the Longevity Fruit just to nourish it?" Li Jiangchen frowned.

This was clearly unreasonable.

That Longevity Fruit...

There is a problem!

As his nose caught the faint fragrance, that feeling of Bloodline palpitation surfaced again. In the darkness, it seemed as if a voice was bewitching him in his ear, urging him to pick the fruit as soon as possible.

Looking at the Longevity Fruit in the distance, he took a step forward involuntarily.

The next moment, a sharp light flashed across Li Jiangchen's pupils, and his Immortal Sword Intent slashed through that thought, bringing him back to his senses.

"Something is wrong."

"This Longevity Fruit is tempting me."

"Is this really a Longevity Fruit?"

True Qi permeated Li Jiangchen's palm, and a wisp of remnant soul drifted out, transforming into an old tree-man with green twigs on its head; it was the remnant soul of the Willow Tree Demon he had just slain.

At this moment, it had been captured and refined by the Demon Kingdom in the Palm Daoist Magic.

"Is this fruit truly a Longevity Fruit?" Li Jiangchen asked.

The old willow tree's expression was dull, clearly lacking much intelligence. Upon hearing Li Jiangchen's words, it remained silent for a moment before speaking mechanically: "Longevity Fruit... Conspiracy..."

"Conspiracy?" Li Jiangchen caught the key point and continued to ask, only to find that this tree Demon could only repeat this one sentence simply.

Putting away the Demon Kingdom, Li Jiangchen looked at the Longevity Fruit, his eyes filled with vigilance: "If that is the case, I will simply destroy this fruit."

Whoosh—

A beam of Sword Qi was swung out. Just as it was about to strike the Longevity Fruit, the fruit suddenly transformed into a strange, eight-legged, pearly-white insect. The Sword Qi struck the insect's body, sparking fire and hacking it to the ground.

"Sure enough, there is a problem." Li Jiangchen looked over, and there was only a scratch on the armor-like shell of the Longevity Fruit insect.

The next moment, the eight-legged insect let out a strange cry and turned into a white light, fleeing rapidly outward. However, it had only flown a few dozen zhang when it was blocked by a golden light screen.

"Sealing Yuan, suppress!"

Li Jiangchen activated the golden buddha hanging high in the sky, and Innate True Qi gushed out like it was free. Instantly, the golden light screen contracted, transforming into a golden bell, trapping the strange insect inside.

No matter how the strange insect struggled, it could not escape.

Who would have thought, the next moment, the strange insect spat out a grey mysterious light, which corroded a large hole in the golden bell, and it turned into a white light and attacked Li Jiangchen.

"It can actually break through the Sealing Yuan Divine Ability!" Li Jiangchen raised an eyebrow, his palm transformed into the Demon Kingdom, the Willow Tree Demon was summoned, and it grew thousands of willow branches to form a tree wall.

At the same time, green Astral Essence covered his body surface, greatly increasing his defense.

Boom—

The Willow Tree Demon's branches were shattered, but the strange insect's speed also decreased sharply, and its aura became withered.

Apparently, activating that grey mysterious light just now consumed a huge amount of energy.

"Crescent Moon Sword Rain, slash!"

He swung his sword, and a crescent moon rose.

Under the blessing of the Demon Kingdom in the Palm, its power suddenly skyrocketed.

In an instant, thousands of crescent moons turned into raindrops, each drop containing Immortal Sword Intent.

After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.

The strange insect's body was shattered, turning into a pile of meat paste, with no original shape left to be seen.

【Slayed the Dao-entering Ancient Demon *1, obtained one thousand two hundred years of Demon.】