Luo Feng pricked up his ears and indeed heard a rumbling sound.
“It should be the Bolenas family people jumping down from midair and landing on the ground,” Luo Feng judged. At the same time, he quickly retracted his spiritual force from a 100 metre radius down to only 30 metres. For experts at the level of high level Battle Gods, if spiritual force scans over them, they will sense it.
Suddenly.
Luo Feng heard a very faint conversation coming from the mist in the distance.
“Caitlan, ahead is the nine willow tree type flora spirits,” Li Yao’s voice came from the fog, speaking fluent English.
“The attack power of flora spirits is generally not strong. Li Yao, how could you not handle them?” A cold voice rang out.
As he spoke, four figures walked out from the fog.
Luo Feng narrowed his eyes and looked through the gaps in the grass.
The leader was a man in a black robe, looking strange and eerie.
Li Yao was beside him, speaking, clearly taking a lower position in attitude. Behind the black robed man was a burly barbarian like man and a thin white man. From the looks of it, the barbarian and the thin man showed no respect toward Li Yao at all and were clearly not afraid of him.
“Looks like the leader among these four is the black robed man,” Luo Feng thought to himself.
The four figures gradually became clearer in the distance.
“Handle them? That Willow Tree King is three metres in diameter. Back then, the willow type flora spirit that produced the ‘Thousand Year Willow Heart’ was only one metre in diameter. This Willow Tree King is far stronger. Especially its pale golden willow branches, each one is extremely tough. Once you are tightly bound by them, even I would die!” Li Yao pointed toward the nine willow tree type flora spirits in the distance. “Over there!”
Li Yao and the others walked about 120 metres away from Luo Feng and moved toward the nine willow trees.
Because it was night and the fog was thick, and Luo Feng only had half his head exposed in the grass, even Li Yao and the others did not notice him at all.
“Just the four of them dealing with the Willow Tree King?” Luo Feng watched silently.
It would probably not be realistic for these four to cut down the Willow Tree King.
…
Li Yao and the four stood about 50 metres from the nine willow trees. One of the barbarian men said in a deep voice, “Li, you are saying all nine of these willow trees are flora spirits?”
“If you do not believe it, you can move closer and try,” Li Yao sneered.
“Caitlan,” Li Yao said seriously. “Look, those nine willow trees, the core one, the thickest one, is the Willow Tree King. It is the strongest. Its pale golden branches also cover the surrounding willow trees, so I cannot even attack the others.”
Caitlan observed carefully. “Pale golden branches, where are they?”
“Look, wrapped around the main trunk of the entire tree,” Li Yao pointed.
“Hmm,” Caitlan also felt that this Willow Tree King was not ordinary.
“This willow tree only has one type of attack, using its branches to strangle people to death. Its trunk cannot move, and its roots are deeply buried underground absorbing nutrients, so they cannot attack either. This is the same as the willow tree that once produced the Thousand Year Willow Heart,” Li Yao said.
Caitlan nodded. “There are two ways to kill this Willow Tree King.”
“First, destroy its roots completely.”
“Second, cut down its trunk.”
Li Yao nodded. “Correct, but those pale golden branches are two to three hundred metres long and can penetrate underground to protect the roots. And for a tree this large, its root system must be extremely developed. Destroying the roots is even harder than cutting the trunk.”
“Two to three hundred metres long?” Caitlan frowned slightly.
After thinking for a moment.
Whoosh.
Caitlan’s black robe suddenly retracted and disappeared, revealing a black combat suit underneath. On his combat trousers were many daggers, a total of twelve black daggers. On his combat vest, behind his back, were spears, six in total, like a shield made of spears.
“He has Black God Suit?” Luo Feng, watching from afar, was shocked. There was only one possibility for the black robe disappearing instantly. The robe itself was a transformation of the Black God Suit, which could change shape freely according to the wearer’s will.
“His weapons are spears and daggers?” Luo Feng frowned slightly.
…
At this moment, Caitlan’s expression was cold. The silver grey spears and black daggers gave off a chilling aura. Even Li Yao narrowed his eyes slightly.
“The Willow Tree King is mine!” Caitlan said coldly. “I will attack it. Li Yao, Keita, Ivan, the three of you will attack the other willow trees from the outside. Remember, your priority is your own safety. Once I fully restrain the Willow Tree King, then you go all out and cut down the others.”
“Understood,” the barbarian man licked his lips.
“Mm,” Ivan nodded slightly.
“Alright,” Li Yao agreed.
Caitlan smiled faintly.
Sizzle.
His entire body was instantly covered in a black membrane that wrapped over his skin completely, including his face. In other words, his entire face was also covered in black, with eyes, nose, and mouth all sealed. Smooth and featureless. It could be said that Caitlan no longer needed to rely on vision to fight.
“Spiritual masters do not need eyes to fight,” Li Yao thought inwardly when he saw this.
“Begin.”
Caitlan’s voice rang out.
Whoosh.
He shot forward like lightning, rushing straight toward the Willow Tree King. In an instant, he was less than ten metres away. The Willow Tree King immediately began a furious counterattack, countless branches sweeping toward him, including the pale golden ones.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
Li Yao, Ivan, and Keita also turned into afterimages and attacked a nearby willow tree together.
“Three of the four are Black God Suit users,” Luo Feng was shocked.
Caitlan held a dagger in each hand, while nine more daggers floated in front of him.
Sizzle.
Like a force of destruction, the floating daggers struggled to cut through the pale golden branches. Meanwhile, Caitlan’s dual daggers in his hands moved with terrifying speed, cutting through dozens of branches in an instant and breaking out of the encirclement.
“That’s the Willow Tree King,” Luo Feng was stunned.
The battle escalated further.
Caitlan suddenly transformed, his arms extending to seven or eight metres long, black and monstrous, sweeping aside the branches like opening a curtain.
Then he hurled a silver grey spear.
A streak of lightning.
A rotating lightning spear.
It pierced through the Willow Tree King’s trunk completely, like a drill boring through wood.
“Impossible,” Luo Feng was shocked.
But at that moment, the green light of the Thousand Year Willow Heart was taken, and Luo Feng made his move.
His spiritual force instantly wrapped around it and pulled it away.
A clash of spiritual forces occurred.
And the green light flew straight toward Luo Feng, as he retreated underground.
“Luo Feng!” Li Yao shouted.
“Is he… that Luo Feng from the Elite Training Camp?” Caitlan asked.
“Yes, it is him,” Li Yao said.
“Spiritual master,” Caitlan said coldly.
“We must leave within two hours,” Caitlan ordered.
Meanwhile, deep underground, Luo Feng held the Thousand Year Willow Heart tightly, his blood boiling with excitement and ambition.