Chapter 246: Power of the Cold Flame! (1/2)

A sword light descended from the sky, and as it flew, it constantly expanded.

The sword light that could slash out a canyon on the ground collided with the thick tree root that was waving in the air. Half of the tree root was directly severed.

However, that sword light was also shattered by the Yin Burial spiritual qi.

These shattered sword qi landed on the ground. The solid soil and rocks were still as unbearable as tofu. They were easily penetrated, creating a small hole dozens of meters deep.

Another huge flaming boar was summoned.

As it ran on the ground, everywhere it passed, all the plants and corpses turned to ash. The flames that ignited were absorbed by the flaming wild boar, helping it continue to grow.

In the end, the flaming wild boar's head collided with the huge root of the Nine Nether Branch. The exploding flames shot into the sky, burning a large area of the swamp into scorched earth.

However, under the cover of the Nine Nether spiritual qi, an ancient Spiritual Root like the Nine Nether Wood was actually not that afraid of flames.

Cold spiritual qi spread out, and soon, the monstrous fire was suppressed.

The charred surface shattered, and more roots crawled out. Soon, they returned to their original size, number, and even more.

The root that was cut by the sword light quickly sprouted thicker and stronger new buds. Even the severed root twisted and grafted back to the other roots after touching them, continuing to attack the cultivators.

The vitality of this Nine Nether Wood was ridiculously powerful. Most of the attacks of the cultivators landed on it without any pain or itch.

Occasionally, it would unleash a powerful move. After dealing with one or two tree roots, it would grow even more at an exaggerated speed.

The more they fought, the wider the range of the tree roots and the greater the number. It brought immense pressure to the top cultivators of the Great Mountain Region.

In the beginning, the top cultivators mainly attacked, but soon, they only had the strength to protect themselves.

Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Yin, and Yang. Among the seven attributes, only Metal and Yang attribute attacks could cause relatively considerable damage. To a certain extent, it could delay the resurrection of the Nine Nether Wood, but the extent was very limited.

In particular, Yin and Yang countered each other. Yang-attribute cultivators were also suppressed by the Yin Burial spiritual qi.

Soon, they were reduced to a situation where they could only defend. They could only rely on the metal attribute sword cultivators of Shu Mountain to barely counterattack.

In theory, no matter what kind of divine object it was, it was impossible for the energy to really reach an infinite amount.

However, judging from the size of this thing, it could be seen that if this continued, the Great Mountain Cultivators would definitely suffer losses.

The power of this Nine Nether Wood was definitely not ordinary.

Jiang Li was very glad that he did not come to find trouble with it alone at that time. That kind of behavior was practically no different from courting death.

Of course, at this moment, he was not much better. Half of his shoulder was sliced open, and his body was covered in burnt blood. He looked extremely miserable as if he was about to die in the next moment.

In fact, if it was an ordinary Core Formation cultivator, such injuries would be enough to kill them several times over.

These injuries were not caused by the giant Nine Nether Wood. Instead, when he approached the center of the battlefield, he was accidentally injured by the aftermath of the top cultivators' attacks.

Those were terrifying attacks at the Nascent Soul or Soul Formation realm.

His defense and resistance that he was proud of was broken almost instantly.

The high-quality and extremely stubborn Soul Formation spiritual qi still left negative statuses such as [Near-Death], [Internal Organ Damage], [Ambitious Burning], and [Body Splitting Sword Energy] on him.

Although he had many recovery statuses, his injuries were still worsening every moment.

If not for the fact that the effects of the One Day Death Pill allowed him to ignore the limitations of his injuries, he would have long been lying on the ground and unable to move.

Breaking into such a battlefield was indeed too dangerous. Even Nascent Soul cultivators did not dare to say that they were confident in protecting themselves, let alone him.

However, if they had not attracted the attention of this huge wooden head with the Nine Nether clone, it would not have been possible for him to run to this position.

He temporarily stopped and pressed the minus button behind [Body Splitting Sword Energy]. One second, two seconds, three seconds… After a full five seconds, the shattered sword qi that was wreaking havoc in Jiang Li's body finally dissipated.

He heaved a sigh of relief and raised his hand to poke his chest. A blood sword immediately shot out.

After expelling the blood inside, the internal organs that had been cut into pieces in the chest and abdomen finally began to return to their original positions and quickly healed.

The half of the cut shoulder also quickly sprouted flesh and reconnected.

Then, it was the burn status.

It was no wonder that even Jiang Li could not withstand the flames of a Soul Formation Ancestor even with his resistance.

Looking at the situation on the interface, it would take at least half a year to wear down the fire poison and recover from this burn.

If it was an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator, they would have turned to dust on the spot.

He decisively removed it as well.

Jiang Li found a relatively safe place and stopped for about 20 seconds to eliminate the few worst statuses on his body. Then, he jumped off the tree root and plunged into the murky water.

”Old Pig, that was… was I seeing things?”

The Shu Mountain sword cultivator watched in disbelief as the figure jumped into the water and asked his old friend from the Scripture Storage Valley.

”Damn it! Tell me I was wrong. Does that kid Jiang Li want to die? Why has he come here! He even dared to enter the water!”

”Old friends, help me block the roots. I'll go and rescue that kid. The Great Mountain Alliance can't lose the Alliance Leader on the first day!”

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The Nine Nether spiritual qi entered his eyes. Through his observation of the same spiritual qi, he could see that in the murky water, it was a huge ancient tree that was growing inverted.

The tree trunk was different from the others.

The shape was two statues of gods sitting with their backs to each other.

One was a kind and benevolent immortal while the other was a fiendish demon with vicious fangs.

However, the two statues, one big and one small, had yet to fully mature.

Jiang Li gasped when he saw this scene.

The growth of this Nine Nether Wood Branch required a total of three stages. In other words, three statues would grow on the tree trunk.

At that time, it would have the ability to open the passage to the Nine Nether Underworld and find the main body of the Spiritual Root of Heaven and Earth, the Nine Nether Wood, to defeat and replace it.

The Nine Nether Wood in front of him had already formed a second statue. Its progress had clearly already left Jiang Li's clone far behind.