89: Chapter 89 Evil Tree

Tie Lanshan's figure shuttled through the county city like a streak of red light.

He went from East Street to West Street, and from South Street to North Street, slamming a bronze bell down wherever he landed.

When the bells in the temples were not enough, he used iron cauldrons and stone mortars.

As long as it was heavy and could cover a person, it became a prison in his hands.

Those martial artists parasitized by evil spirits were trapped underneath one by one; they tried to struggle, but could not break free.

Another patriarch of the Tieshan Sect, Tie Lanshan's younger brother Tie Lanshi, rushed from the north of the city to the south using the same method.

The two patriarchs of the Tieshan Sect covered, pinned down, and sealed those scurrying parasitical martial artists in place one by one.

The screams in the streets and alleys gradually diminished.

The commoners who were still running desperately stopped, turned back, and saw those bronze bells, iron cauldrons, and stone mortars quietly covering the middle of the road.

They panted heavily, leaned against the walls, and their legs were still shaking, but there was a light in their eyes.

"Wonderful! With these two patriarchs from the Tieyi Sect, we will definitely be able to suppress these fellows!"

"Tieyi Sect! Tieyi Sect!"

It was unknown who shouted first.

Then came the second, the third, the tenth, and the one hundredth.

That sound surged out from the streets and alleys, gushing from the mouths of the commoners hiding behind doors and windows, converging into a torrent that echoed over the county city.

Tie Lanshan stood on a bell tower, looking down at the cheering commoners and the martial artists rushing out from various martial arts academies to clean up the aftermath.

Tie Lanshi, another patriarch of the Tieyi Sect, stood on the eaves of a temple.

Separated by several streets, he exchanged a glance with his eldest brother, Tie Lanshan.

At this moment, the two brothers were the pillars in the eyes of all the commoners in Guanhai County.

Clerk Liu stood at the entrance of the county Yamen. Watching the two patriarchs of the Tieyi Sect turn the tide, his hand on the door frame relaxed as he let out a breath of relief.

Sunlight emerged from behind the clouds, falling onto Tie Lanshan who stood on the bell tower.

Overlooking the entire Guanhai County, Tie Lanshan shouted to the entire county city as his vital energy and blood churned in his throat.

"As long as I, Tie Lanshan of the Tieshan Sect, am here for a day, Guanhai County City will remain safe and sound!"

Driven by his surging vital energy and blood, Tie Lanshan's voice spread throughout the entire Guanhai County City.

The martial artists each stirred their vital energy and blood to begin counterattacking the parasitical martial artists.

The commoners cheered for Tie Lanshan's great name.

Right at this moment, a thick, pitch-black plant vine burst out of the ground beneath the bell tower.

The speed of this vine was too fast to see clearly; almost in the blink of an eye, it pierced through Tie Lanshan standing atop the bell tower.

Lowering his head, Tie Lanshan saw that his abdomen had been pierced by the pitch-black vine. His proud defense was like paper in front of this pitch-black vine.

Furthermore, Tie Lanshan could feel that this pitch-black plant vine was devouring his vital energy and blood at a crazed speed.

His skin was wrinkling, and his muscles were shriveling.

The surging vital energy and blood of a Third-turn Martial Artist were simply insignificant under the devouring of the pitch-black plant vine.

Beside the bell tower, the commoners who were still cheering still had their mouths open, but their voices had stopped.

They stared dumbfounded as pitch-black plant vines continued to gush out from the ground, and the number of these vines was terrifyingly large.

Densely packed plant vines continuously gushed out, forming a massive tree crown.

As the hole in the ground grew larger and larger, a huge, pitch-black Evil Tree appeared within Guanhai County City.

Its roots and stems spread almost all over Guanhai County City, and its huge tree crown shrouded the county city even more.

The entire county city was covered by this Evil Tree.

Standing on the roof of a temple, Tie Lanshi looked at his eldest brother, Tie Lanshan, whose vital energy and blood had been sucked dry and who was now hanging on the branches of the Evil Tree, his eyes filled with shock.

At the entrance of the East Street martial arts academy, the saber in a master's hand dropped to the ground with a clatter.

He did not pick it up, but simply raised his head, looking at the pitch-black Evil Tree that had risen from underground and completely obscured Guanhai County City.

The martial arts academy master swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down.

His disciples stood behind him; some slumped to the ground, their sabers sliding to the side, their eyes wide like copper bells.

Others leaned against the wall, shivering all over, their teeth chattering.

On West Street, the commoners who had just walked out of their homes because they saw the second patriarch of the Tieshan Sect exert force to suppress the parasitical martial artists all raised their heads.

Their pupils reflected that terrifying tree crown, which was filled with despair that was about to overflow.

At the entrance of the county Yamen, Clerk Liu still stood there.

This clerk, whose eyes usually radiated sharp light at all times, now had a vacant look in both eyes.

Even when his official hat became crooked, he did not bother to straighten it.

He raised his head, looking at that bizarre, pitch-black Evil Tree that had burst out of the ground.

He had stayed in Guanhai County City for twenty years, and in these twenty years, he had never imagined that the county city would one day become like this.

What on earth is this?

Throughout the entire Guanhai County City, only Tie Lanshi, who was a Third-turn Martial Artist, recognized at a glance that this pitch-black giant tree was the true body of the evil spirit.

It was not those parasitized martial artists, nor those roots and black flowers crawling out from the wounds.

It was this tree itself.

It was the evil spirit!

Tie Lanshi's hands began to tremble. Although he was a Third-turn Martial Artist, he was simply not worth mentioning in front of the immortal and indestructible evil spirit.

This point could be seen from the death of his twin eldest brother, Tie Lanshan.

Facing the evil spirit, there was only one way, and that was—

Run!

Tie Lanshi stood up, no longer looking at the corpse of his eldest brother Tie Lanshan, and no longer looking at the commoners and martial artists who were still struggling.

He turned around and dashed towards the direction outside the city.

The full-out sprint of a Third-turn Martial Artist was shockingly fast, leaving a blood-colored afterimage on the streets.

He knew that it was simply impossible for him to be an opponent of this Evil Tree; staying behind would mean serving as fertilizer for this Evil Tree.

Just as Tie Lanshi was about to pass through the city gates of the county city, something was surging at the top of the giant, pitch-black Evil Tree's crown.

Black and translucent, like a layer of curtain, it peeled off from the tree crown and extended in all directions.

The curtain expanded too quickly; it crossed the edge of the tree crown and crossed the city walls of the county city.

It crossed the fields and villages outside the city, spreading towards the entirety of Guanhai County.

After being obscured by this layer of curtain, the light below became dim.

Looking up, Tie Lanshi saw that closing curtain, seeing it like a giant palm pressing down from the sky, trapping the entire Guanhai County underneath.

Upon seeing this layer of curtain, Tie Lanshi stopped in his tracks.

He no longer even had the courage to continue running away.

"This is..."

"Evil Domain!"

Tie Lanshi's face was filled with despair, and he roared like a beast.

Even as a Third-turn Martial Artist, he had only seen accounts of this Evil Domain from some ancient texts.

Those ancient texts depicted—

Not all evil spirits were capable of deploying an Evil Domain.

But an evil spirit capable of deploying an Evil Domain must undoubtedly be one whose monstrous evil energy fills the heavens!