Transcendent Dawn

Chapter 631: Chapter 0631: Willow Tree (Third update, asking for subscriptions)

“So many Evil Trees?”

“It seems… they are indeed the minions or food of ghosts and ghouls!”

“The actions of Zheng Sanqi last time, did it provoke them?”

…

Various thoughts flashed through Pan Shu’s mind.

Just then, he saw the leaves of the locust tree rustling.

“Whoo whoo!”

“Yi yi!”

The heads of men and women on it began to make various strange noises, forming a unique chorus.

In an instant, he felt dizzy, and the other inspectors around him felt the same.

‘If they were ordinary people… they would have walked over there by now, chopped off their heads and hung them on the tree…’

Pan Shu gritted his teeth, and a severe pain came from his abdomen.

“Ah!”

He roared, coming to his senses, and his hand covered his stomach.

This was the side effect of him using the ‘Magic Artifact’. Every time he used it, it would gnaw away some of his flesh and blood, even if he just slightly triggered its power!

“Order… fire!”

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Pan Shu took a step forward, and a red amulet in his hand exploded, turning into a bright ball of fire, hitting the locust tree.

Boom!

The flame wrapped around it, engulfing the human heads, burning fiercely.

Many human heads let out human screams, gradually melting in the fire.

“Sure enough… demon objects are most vanquished by fire.”

Pan Shu laughed, and looked at Xu Changqing next to him: “What do you think, Brother Xu?”

“I think… the peach and willow trees behind it may be more difficult to deal with, don’t be too aggressive from the start…”

Staring at the peach tree with his eyes in the middle of his brow, Xu Changqing suddenly said, “It seems… to be capturing our breaths.”

In this aspect, he had the reminder of the Heavenly Eye, and he was a master of the ‘Weird Elixir’, he had already taken back his breath.

But through the Heavenly Eye, Xu Changqing saw that apart from Pan Shu, the ‘breath’ of the four inspectors had been captured by the peach tree, establishing a mysterious connection.

“Inspector Li, you try.”

Pan Shu pointed to an inspector.

The other person was a man in his thirties, his face as black as the bottom of a pot, but unable to defy military orders, he could only stride forward.

Shasha!

Many branches of the peach tree, like human arms, blocked the way.

Inspector Li’s face hardened, he drew his saber from his waist, and cut it forward.

Puff!

A section of the peach branch was cut off and fell to the ground. A large amount of blood seeped from the wound, and the broken branch was still twitching.

“Sir… this tree seems easy to deal with.”

Seeing the blood, Commandant Li seemed to be emboldened and sliced repeatedly with his sword.

In an instant, peach branches and blood splashed everywhere.

“Something’s wrong, come back.”

Pan Shu’s eyelids twitched, and he immediately ordered.

But Inspector Li at this point seemed frenzied, suddenly roared, and cut towards a peach that suddenly grew out…

Puff!

The peach split in two, revealing the bloody peach core inside, with a clear cut on it.

Inspector Li suddenly clutched his head and fell down.

He was dead!

“Inspector Li?”

Pan Shu looked at Xu Changqing.

“This peach tree seems to have a method of cursing, hurting it is like hurting oneself… Inspector Li was hacked to death by himself.”

Xu Changqing sighed, stepped forward, and brought back Inspector Li’s body.

Pan Shu went forward to take a look, and his face suddenly became gloomy.

The corpse’s skin was pale, as if a large amount of blood had been lost from the body, and there was a clear cut on the head.

“This tree… is evil in nature!”

He mumbled, feeling that during his previous decades at the Demon Bureau, there were few demons he encountered that could compare with the strangeness of this peach tree.

“The peach tree has taken the three of them, as hostages to deter us.”

Xu Changqing looked back, “Can these three inspectors be released?”

“This mist, enters but doesn’t leave…”

Pan Shu shook his head, looking at the pale faces of his three subordinates, “Could it be that Mr. Jiang also fell into such a dilemma, thereby creating a standstill?”

“This is merely a demon manipulated by the opponent, the real vengeful soul has yet to be seen…”

Xu Changqing took a step forward, “I’ll do it.”

In his mind, Su Lu said, “Demons have souls. Although the peach tree can curse ordinary people, it will be powerless as long as its soul is taken. In this respect, your talismans are very effective.”

“Capture Demons and Arrest Ghosts, Charge!”

Xu Changqing acted accordingly, took out a talisman that was three fingers long, and cast it into the sky. This talisman was the strange one obtained from the Immortal Daoist in the deep mountains.

This was the first time he used this talisman since he had mastered it!

Woo Woo!

As soon as the talisman was released, a ghostly whistle came from within the void.

Pan Shu shivered, feeling a sharp pain in his eyes as if he was seeing something he shouldn’t. Even the magic artifact within his body was sounding an alarm.

“This talisman… is it a summoning one?”

Xu Changqing mumbled to himself.

It was only now that he knew this talisman was of the summoning type!

He could feel that he had summoned an unknown invisible entity, which was now following his order, entering the peach tree.

The gigantic peach tree shivered, and peach pits exploded one by one. Blood flowed out from the cracks in the tree.

But it was useless!

The three inspectors behind Pan Shu were unharmed.

Under Xu Changqing’s gaze, the trunk of the peach tree split open, and an object resembling a wooden heart flew out from within, rolling to a stop in front of him.

“The peach tree has spirituality… This peach wood heart, although not a Weird Creature, is a material rich in spirituality. Keep it well,” Su Lu reminded him.

Without needing him to say it, Xu Changqing picked up the wood heart and tucked it into his breast pocket.

“Brother Xu, your Dao skills are indeed profound.”

Pan Shu took a step forward. Just as he was about to smile, he was suddenly startled to see an eyeball appearing on Xu Changqing’s cheek staring at him.

“What did you say?”

Xu Changqing wiped his own cheek and pushed the eyeball back in.

Using such a talisman was a heavy burden on his body; he felt a bit tired.

“No…nothing…”

Pan Shu laughed dryly a few times, feeling the other party was even more strange than the magical artifact in his own stomach.

“Huh?”

At this moment, he noticed that the blood talisman in his hand suddenly bloomed with a layer of bright light.

“Mr. Jiang and the others are not far ahead.”

Pan Shu’s face lit up with joy. He immediately looked in the direction indicated by the talisman, which was astonishingly a willow tree!

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Xu Changqing’s expression turned serious.

Through the Heavenly Eye, he could see more clearly and further than Pan Shu.

Beyond the peach tree, the giant form of the willow tree could already be seen.

Thousands of branches hanging down, fluttering in the wind.

Under the willow tree, there were hundreds of densely packed silhouettes standing like statues.

Among them, some had totally lost their life force, becoming human dries pierced by dozens of willow branches.

Only a few people, relying on the light from their own magic artifacts, were resisting the willow tree.

One of them, wearing dark red armor, with a handsome appearance and a determined face, must be Jiang Yufeng.

“It really is a tree!”

Xu Changqing nodded, recalling the previous warning.

Upon taking a few steps forward and finally seeing the whole scene, Pan Shu felt a chill down his spine.

Looking at this situation, even Jiang Yufeng had fallen; was he walking into his own death?