Chapter 639 – Live Bai (2/2)

“I should say feeding the vines to be more accurate. It’s quite a long story, so I’m not going to bother with explaining myself. I’m going to go, so you better go and converge with everyone else!” Li Qingshan stepped onto the cloud. Hua Chenglu grabbed him by the sleeve. “Big brother Li, can I come with you?”

“Hmm? There might be danger if you come with me!” Li Qingshan said. Who knew when those people would rush over to kill him.

“I’m not afraid. I’m begging you!” Hua Chenglu brought her palms together and pleaded.

“Fine then. Get on!”

Li Qingshan thought about it and felt it was rather unsuitable for Hua Chenglu to cross through so many battlefields alone. He had seen along the way that the battles between the cultivators had suddenly become extremely intense. He had to collect the tree sap as quickly as possible before sending her over to Liu Zhangqing.

He let Hua Chenglu onto the cloud and flew over to the great banyan tree. Collecting tree sap was anything but easy. He had to pass through the crazy sun vines first.

However, as a cultivator, he was not exactly faster than the dwarf in terms of speed. He was much larger and taller too, which only made it even more difficult to maneuver between the sun vines. Moreover, he did not have a good understanding of the attack patterns of the sun vines yet, so he refused to make an attempt rashly, just in case he accidentally used his powers as a daemon and gave himself away.

As a result, he came up with this idea. He would use these people as bait to draw away the attacks of the sun vines, and then he would strike while they covered him.

Hua Chenglu gasped. “So big!”

“Throw this guy over and see what happens!” Li Qingshan picked up the man in black and handed him to Hua Chenglu. He wanted to test out how responsive the sun vines would be, and this would basically be letting her kill her enemy with her own hands!

The man was immobilised, but his eyes were filled with fright. He obviously understood the terror of the sun vines.

“Is this feeding the tree?” Hua Chenglu lifted up the man in black happily before lowering him again. “Can you climb a little higher with the cloud?”

“Why?”

“There are trees underneath to soften his fall. I’m afraid he won’t fall to his death!”

“Haha, don’t worry. He’s guaranteed to die. If he survives, you can just toss him again!”

Hua Chenglu adjusted the man in black’s position so that he faced the tree. With a yelp, she tossed him towards the great banyan tree as hard as she could. After all, she was also a cultivator. Even though she was only a Qi Practitioner, tossing out something that weighed a few dozen kilograms was still very easy. The man in black hurtled towards the tree.

Swish! A sun vine as thick as an arm pierced him immediately, wrapping around him a few times and reducing him to a dried corpse in the blink of an eye.

Hua Chenglu covered her mouth. Never did she expect the vines to be so powerful, and it had only been a relatively thinner sun vine that had responded earlier. The huge sun vines that wrapped around the tree trunk like dragons did not even move. It was as if they could not be bothered with such small prey.

“That’s a little unideal!”

Li Qingshan rubbed his chin in thought. Suddenly, he came up with an idea and picked up a prisoner, tossing him out. He threw out the person even slower than Hua Chenglu. The prisoner in the air let out a roar of despair and circulated his true qi desperately, wanting to escape in the opposite direction.

When Li Qingshan threw him out, he released the seal on him as well.

Immediately, over a dozen sun vines responded. One of them was as thick as Hua Chenglu’s waist—of course, it was only so thick, but it was still an improvement.

“I see!” Li Qingshan smiled and kicked the cloud, springing all the people into the air. He struck out several times, sending them off in different directions while releasing their seals. They knew they were probably done for, but all of them put up a fervent struggle before impending death, circulating their true qi at full strength.

Several hundred sun vines began to dance about madly. Li Qingshan was about to charge in when he heard a bellow from behind, “Li Qingshan!” When the first syllable had been yelled out, the voice was still far away, but it had already pressed to five kilometers away by the last.

Li Qingshan looked back. The Foundation Establishment cultivators from the marquis’ estate had arrived. Seeing how Li Qingshan was using their subordinates and disciples as live bait to feed the golden vines, they were all furious.

The dwarf used a movement talisman and shot off towards Li Qingshan as a streak of light. He could tell what Li Qingshan was planning at first glance. He could not allow him to collect the tree sap and recover his spiritual qi.

As long as he kept him busy for a moment, he could stop him right before the great banyan tree and cut off all of his escape routes. If he tried barging in recklessly, then all the dwarf had to do was interfere with the movement patterns of the sun vines a little, and he would not be emerging again. This was a move he had learnt from the duel last time.

Li Qingshan never expected them to arrive at such an inconvenient time either. He frowned slightly, grabbing Hua Chenglu and rushed towards the great banyan tree.

The dwarf lit up with delight and cursed, “Idiot!” He was about to interfere with the sun vines a little, only to see a strange sword suddenly appearing in Li Qingshan’s hand, being swung at him from afar.

The sword qi that absorbed half of Li Qingshan’s spiritual qi flowed from his dantian to his arm. Then it headed to the Traitorous Demon sword, becoming even sharper before whistling towards the dwarf.

“Do you think a move like that is effective against me?” He was about to dodge when he felt a terrifying sword intent directly enter his sea of consciousness, making him seize up for a moment. He experienced life-threatening danger. He activated his protective arcane artifact instinctively and brought his dagger before him to block.