251: Conquer the Green Wilderness and Mountains

After gathering with everyone, Lu Tao closed his doors to guests and focused on breaking through to the Soul Transformation stage.

On the other side, Su Ling traveled between major war zones, searching for powerful corpses to refine even stronger corpse puppets.

Originally, the Seven Sects Cultivators thought they would have ten years of peaceful recovery, but only six years later, an emergency summon was sent from the Command Post to all garrisons.

The war in the Green Wild Mountain Range Plane was critical, requiring half of the forces from the Wild Beast War Zone to be redeployed for support.

Due to their outstanding performance in previous battles, Su Ling's group was specially ordered to end their rest early and head to the front lines.

Upon receiving the summon, Su Ling dared not delay. He immediately returned to the garrison to hand over all matters and rushed with the newly emerged Lu Tao and others to the Command Post to board an immortal ship.

After six years of seclusion, Lu Tao's Divine Soul power was still one step away from success; he failed to advance to the Soul Transformation stage.

Seeing this, Su Ling could only pat his shoulder and offer silent comfort.

The immortal ship rose through the clouds, carrying a large number of Seven Sects Cultivators and a vast army of War Slaves, speeding towards the Green Wild Mountain Range Plane... In the Green Wild Mountain Range Plane, mountains stretched endlessly, Peak upon Peak.

The native creatures of this realm were mainly various Demonic Beasts and demon plants; green-skinned orcs were actually a minority.

What truly left the Seven Sects helpless was a super vine demon plant favored by the plane's star core will, which had already reached the Peak of the Seventh-Rank.

This demon plant had long since grasped part of the true meaning of the Wither and Flourish Law, allowing it to control all demon plants within a range of tens of thousands of miles at will, and even deploy a Wither and Flourish Domain covering a thousand miles.

With one thought, vegetation flourished; with another, everything withered.

More troublesome was that all demon plants in the entire plane had a sliver of their Origin deeply rooted in this Wither and Flourish Domain.

Even if their exposed bodies were completely destroyed, as long as the Domain remained, these demon plants could revive in a short time, making it impossible to eradicate them completely.

Because of this, even when two Peak True Immortals from the Haoyang Sect joined forces, they failed to take down this Vine Demon.

Meanwhile, the Golden Immortal experts of the Seven Sects were all suppressing other rebellious planes and had no time to provide support in the short term, causing the war in the Green Wild Mountain Range to fall into a stalemate.

Currently, the main force attacking this plane consisted of Haoyang Sect Cultivators, supplemented by a large number of Loose Cultivators proficient in fire, metal, and wood Spells.

The number of Cultivators sent by the other Six Sects was small, with only over ten thousand Nascent Soul Cultivators and one thousand Soul Transformation experts, and after years of fighting, they had already lost twenty to thirty percent of their forces.

Half a month later, the immortal ship carrying Su Ling and the others arrived at the Green Wild Mountain Range Plane.

Before landing, the Command Post's campaign orders were already in everyone's hands: clear a forest surrounded by mountains in the eastern part of the plane.

Within a thousand-mile radius of this place, a massive number of tree-type demon plants and Demonic Beasts were gathered. The Command Post's strategic plan was to gradually clear the outer demon plants to consume the Origin power of that Vine Demon.

Fortunately, not all plants in the Green Wild Mountain Range Plane were demon plants.

If they were, the Seven Sects would likely have had to deploy Golden Immortal experts just to barely take this plane.

"They're just some demon trees. Your phoenix dance nine-fierce ruler perfectly counters them, Su Ling. You'll definitely show your Divine Might this time!"

Lu Tao stood on a towering boulder, looking at the dense, sun-blocking ancient trees in the distance, his eyes burning with Battle Intent.

"The bodies of demon trees are rare high-grade spiritual materials. Burning them directly with fierce fire would be too wasteful."

Murong Yue gently shook her head, a faint smile on her lips, her gaze towards Lu Tao full of tenderness.

At her feet lay a Fifth-Rank Early Stage Howling Wind Tiger corpse puppet.

This blockhead Lu Tao had finally wised up; the precious token he had previously asked Su Ling for was given to her.

But it was only now that Murong Yue revealed it.

This caused Chen Miaoyin to tease her incessantly.

"Let's go, finish the mission as soon as possible."

Su Ling scanned the crowd and shouted in a deep voice.

"Yes, Senior Brother Su (Junior Brother Su)!"

Everyone cupped their hands in agreement and then led their large army of War Slaves, majestically flying towards the depths of the forest.

Although these ancient tree demon plants could not move, their bodies were enormous, and the attack range of their innate Spells far exceeded that of Cultivators of the same rank.

During the six years of rest, Su Ling had not stopped, refining many Fifth-Rank corpse puppets to bolster the team's combat power.

In terms of the average strength of a Soul Transformation level squad, there was likely no one in the entire Seven Sects who could surpass them.

Over a hundred Cultivators led a massive army of War Slaves, stretching the battle line several miles long, advancing through the forest depths in a carpet-style search.

Song Moting and others activated their tokens, driving the corpse puppets to charge ahead and actively draw the attacks of the demon plants along the way.

Whenever a demon plant appeared, it would immediately be hit by an overwhelming barrage of Spells.

Several hours later, among the continuous mountains, a deafening roar of power suddenly rang out.

Three towering Fifth-Rank tree demons burst from the ground, waving thick branches that blotted out the sun, frantically lashing at everyone.

Countless emerald leaves, carrying extremely dense wood-attribute demonic power, condensed into a blade tornado that swept across the world, dancing wildly in the forest.

Various Demonic Beasts mixed in the green leaf tornado, relying on the magical protection set by the tree demons, launched continuous long-range attacks.

Occasionally, a War Slave would accidentally charge into the area covered by the green leaves and be instantly shredded into pieces.

Even the Fifth-Rank Bone Demon with its powerful defense could only barely advance a mile before its skeletal body became overwhelmed.

Only Lu Tao, relying on his Major Achievement Immortal Golden Body and Ten Thousand-Vein Golden Light Shield, boldly charged into the fray.

But facing the Fifth-Rank Late Stage tree demon with a sorrowful face in the core area, his attacks were like scratching an itch, unable to pose any substantial threat.

Song Moting, Qi Yunling, and others were fighting Demonic Beasts on the periphery. The primary task of the Fifth-Rank corpse puppets was to protect these Cultivators and guard against sudden ambushes from Demonic Beasts hidden in the shadows.

Su Ling hovered high in the sky, observing intently for a moment, and already had a plan in mind.

He shouted to Lu Tao below, "Lu Tao, pull back first!"

Lu Tao returned as ordered, his face full of resentment, "Dammit! This tree demon is really too difficult to deal with!"

This Fifth-Rank Late Stage tree demon was several times stronger than Demonic Beasts of the same rank.

Although the Golden Light Shield protected him and the tree demon's attacks couldn't hurt him at all, those branches were not only as dense as rain but also as hard as adamantite.

After a round of slaughter, he had only killed a few dozen peripheral Demonic Beasts. When he tried to push further in, he was directly knocked back by the sky-filling branches.

Even though using the swimming dragon sword could cut some branches, new ones would grow back in the blink of an eye.

The vitality of plant-type demon creatures was truly terrifyingly strong.

"No matter, I'll suppress it in a moment. You just be responsible for clearing those Demonic Beasts."

Su Ling smiled slightly, flipped his wrist, and a vermilion jade ruler suddenly flew out from his hand.

As soon as the jade ruler appeared, it burst with a scorching red light, and with a clear phoenix cry, it instantly transformed into a massive Southern Bright Fire Phoenix with a wingspan of a hundred zhang.

Seeing this, the Fifth-Rank Late Stage tree demon's already sorrowful old face turned even uglier, and its two cloudy green eyes were instantly filled with vigilance.

"Skree!"

The phoenix cry echoed through the clouds as the Southern Bright Fire Phoenix soared high.

As it flapped its wings, countless fiery red feather swords burning with raging flames poured down like a meteor shower, crashing towards the tree demon.

The tree demon's massive body suddenly burst with brilliant green light, and the sky-filling leaves instantly condensed into a huge torrent of blades, boldly meeting the falling fire feather sword rain.

Fire and green light collided violently, the roar shaking the mountains and rivers.

It seemed like an even match, but the tree demon, whose attribute was strictly countered, had to mobilize far more demonic power than usual to barely withstand the burning of the Southern Bright Departing Fire.