252: Tree Spirit's Life Domain

The Fire Phoenix let out a long cry, spreading its flame wings that blotted out the sun as it rapidly circled the massive Rank Five Late Stage Tree Demon.

With every flap of its wings, a large swath of crimson feathers fell like a meteor fire rain.

The Tree Demon commanded countless green leaves, forming a green barrier that enveloped itself.

The fire feathers bombarded the barrier, splashing ripples of light and flame across the sky in an attempt to find the slightest flaw.

At the same time, the thunder light around Su Ling's body exploded with a dull roar.

Wind and clouds surged between heaven and earth as countless lead-gray dark clouds were drawn and gathered from all directions by an invisible force.

In a few moments, they condensed above his head into a giant, ink-black thundercloud that blotted out the sun.

Within the cloud layer, blue-purple lightning snakes as thick as Dragons tumbled and flickered wildly, emitting a pure aura of destruction originating from the power of heaven and earth that made all things tremble, illuminating the lush mountain forest below in a deathly pale light.

A sharp glint flashed in Su Ling's eyes as he stood in mid-air, his figure as straight as a spear. He waved his large hand toward the Tree Demon and spat out a single word like muffled thunder:

"Fall!"

"Crackle!!!"

A giant blue-purple thunder pillar, several zhang in diameter and so blazing it was impossible to look at directly, fell like a Spear of Punishment thrown by a Heavenly God.

It boldly tore through the thick cloud layer and the frozen air, carrying a momentum that could destroy everything as it struck down toward the very center of the Tree Demon's massive crown, which covered a radius of over ten miles!

The Tree Demon's aged face suddenly twisted, and its pupils shrank into two dangerous points of eerie green.

Billions of roots, deeply rooted in the ground and spreading like a massive underground spiderweb, wriggled and sucked frantically at this moment.

It forcibly extracted the majestic Earth Magic Power from deep within the earth and the Life Essence of surrounding plants, turning them into torrents of green that surged upward, continuously pouring into the tree crown.

"Vwoom!"

At the critical moment, a massive barrier flashing with dense green life light suddenly unfolded above the tree crown.

Like an inverted emerald giant bowl, it firmly withstood that world-destroying thunder pillar!

"Boom!!!!"

Thunder fire and green light collided violently, erupting with a sun-like blinding light and a shockwave that swept across the fields.

The ground below cracked, and countless rocks and plants were shaken into fine powder.

After several breaths, the terrifying energy of the thunder pillar, which contained Su Ling's full-strength strike, was exhausted and slowly dissipated into the air.

However, although that emerald-like green light screen fluctuated violently, it still tenaciously existed, its color only noticeably dimmed.

"Indeed troublesome!"

Su Ling thought to himself, but his actions did not stop at all.

With a long roar, the green light around him surged, instantly transforming into a hundred-zhang long, majestic Azure Dragon with flying scales and claws!

The Azure Dragon, carrying the power of wind and thunder, dived down boldly. It was no longer a long-range bombardment, but a storm-like close-quarters attack using its powerful Physical Body and melee combat techniques!

One after another, the peerlessly powerful Azure Dragon Combat Techniques, carrying the power to shatter mountains and crack rocks, slammed heavily onto the same point of the green light screen.

The light screen was smashed into a deep depression, ripples spreading wildly, emitting an overburdened "creak" sound.

With almost every strike that fell, some ordinary plants at the edge of the Tree Demon's magic coverage area would wither and fade at a visible speed, eventually turning into fly ash.

This solid light screen was clearly not maintained solely by the Tree Demon's own accumulated magic power.

It was more like a cruel transformation core, constantly sucking and squeezing the life energy of all plants within its territory to offset Su Ling's terrifying attacks.

Seeing its "Green Domain," which it had managed for thousands of years and relied on for survival, being rapidly consumed, the Tree Demon let out a low, angry roar.

Dozens of thick branches, like giant pythons and harder than iron, tore through the air with a shrill whistle, lashing out from different angles at the Azure Dragon outside the light screen, attempting to crush this existence that brought it great threat and pain.

However, Su Ling, transformed into the Azure Dragon, had speed and flexibility that far exceeded the Tree Demon's predictions.

The Azure Dragon's body moved and flashed in the air, leaving behind streaks of green afterimages, always narrowly avoiding the lashing branches and using its sharp claws and Dragon tail to parry and counterattack.

Countless shattered branches and green leaves fell from mid-air, causing the Tree Demon to roar repeatedly.

For a time, the man and the tree were locked in an intense battle of attrition and stalemate.

Thunder, wind howls, the sound of breaking branches, and the roar of energy intertwined.

On the other side of the battlefield, Song Moting, Murong Yue, and the others were also fighting with all their might.

They commanded all the Corpse Puppets to gather together, forming a fearless vanguard that launched continuous concentrated assaults on another Rank Five Early Stage Tree Demon.

Various Spell brilliance, Sword Qi, blade light, and the brute force tearing of the Corpse Puppets also forced out the defensive green light, causing large areas of vegetation within its Domain to turn into fly ash.

The originally vibrant mountain forest was now rapidly becoming desolate, centered around the three Tree Demons for dozens of miles.

Only a few hundred Demonic Beasts attached to the Tree Demons and a small number of demon plants that had already gained intelligence remained, cowering and trembling within the shrinking range of the green light.

Lu Tao saw that although Su Ling was suppressing the strongest Rank Five Late Stage Tree Demon single-handedly, that shell-like light screen had not yet been broken, making it difficult for external attacks to truly harm its main body.

He made a prompt decision, his figure flashing as he flew near Murong Yue, who was struggling with another Tree Demon, and let out a clear shout, "Senior Sister Murong, I'll help you!"

Before his voice had even faded, he pressed his fingers together like a sword, and the pure Sword Yuan in his body erupted as he performed the fierce Great White Void-Breaking Sword Art.

Streaks of golden-white Sword Qi, condensed as if solid, slashed horizontally and vertically, precisely striking the weak points of the Rank Five Early Stage Tree Demon's light screen, greatly accelerating its energy consumption.

As for that third Tree Demon, since it could not move and its attack range was limited, everyone temporarily ignored it, concentrating their power to break one point first.

Time slowly passed in the fierce battle.

Two hours later, the Fire Phoenix, which had been serving the tasks of main attack and harassment, let out an exceptionally clear and high-pitched long cry.

"Cree!"

Its wings suddenly erupted with even more brilliant crimson light as its figure soared into the sky.

After circling slightly in the high altitude to gather momentum, it actually dove head-first, like a true flame meteor, crashing toward the top of the green light screen that had endured countless blows with a determined momentum!

"Rumble!!!"

This was not a simple collision; at the moment of contact with the light screen, the Fire Phoenix's entire body exploded!

Infinite Southern Bright Departing Fire lost its restraint, turning into a sea of fire that covered a radius of several miles, completely swallowing the Tree Demon and the light screen above it!

The extreme high temperature scorched the space, and the air twisted violently. Under the burning of the pure divine fire, that tough green light screen emitted a "sizzling" wail.

The light dimmed rapidly and began to fluctuate violently, like the surface of boiling water.

This was the perfect opportunity, when the old force was gone and the new force had not yet been generated, and the light screen was extremely unstable due to the burning sea of fire!

A sharp light burst from the Azure Dragon's eyes. Within its Dragon claws that had been moving and attacking, it had unknowingly grasped that phoenix dance nine-fierce ruler, which was brimming with divine light.

As the jade ruler entered its grasp, the thunder light and majestic magic power around the Azure Dragon's body were poured into it without reservation!

"Vwoom!"

The jade ruler expanded against the wind, transforming into a sky-propping giant ruler dozens of zhang long, entwined with blue-purple thunder patterns and crimson fire currents.

The Azure Dragon's claws tightly gripped the jade ruler, pointing it at the most violently fluctuating part of the light screen in the sea of fire below, and slammed it down heavily!