Chapter 39 - Chapter 39: Chapter 34 Mobilize All Forces to Save the Master 1 (2/2)

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Under this Ancient Banyan Tree, the speed of cultivation was more than twenty times faster than outside.

At this rate, as long as he cultivated under the banyan for another six hours, his cultivation would directly break through the Mortal Realm onefold.

This was something he dared not even dream of.

Many people never reach such heights of cultivation in their lifetimes, and now it seemed within arm’s reach.

He looked up at the canopy overhead, and where the treetop had been at least seven or eight meters above ground before, it was now less than three meters above his head.

That oppressive feeling made him sense that a great danger was imminent.

“Perhaps when the canopy completely presses down, something terrifying will happen.”

Qin Niu had this premonition.

He hoisted the basket onto his back, gripped the Treasured Sword in his hand, and stood up to try walking outside again.

He no longer wasted time and energy hacking at the sinister Ancient Banyan Tree.

Instead, he adopted a new strategy and started to cut down the smaller trees and weeds on the ground.

To see if he could forge a bloody path and break out.

With a swing of his sword, there was unexpectedly the sound of a sword cry.

“Is this… because my cultivation has greatly improved, or because the

Treasured Sword has absorbed the green blood of the Ancient Banyan Tree and become stronger?”

Qin Niu couldn’t help but ponder.

There had never been a sword cry when he slashed before.

And now, with each swing of his sword, he easily cut down a large swath of brushwood and weeds in front of him, a power he had never experienced before.

He blazed a trail forward, ruthlessly cutting down the smaller trees and weeds under the banyan.

Qin Niu couldn’t deal with the Ancient Banyan Tree, but it was completely within his capability to take care of its offspring.

The small weeds and trees under the banyan, once cut down, also leaked ‘green blood,’ though much paler in color, demonstrating that they had become as malevolent as the Ancient Banyan Tree.

However, when he had made his way almost a hundred meters forward in one breath and then looked up again,

he saw the tree’s canopy pressing down even lower.

It was now less than two meters above his head, utterly unaffected by any of Qin Niu’s actions, pressing down steadily at a uniform speed.

“This damned tree-bottom prison!”

Qin Niu cursed, truly feeling on the verge of collapse.

He had prepared to fight against the oncoming branches and leaves of the banyan as it pressed down.

As the canopy continued to close in above his head, his scalp began to itch, his soul trembled, and even his eyelids started twitching.

The fear and shadow of death enveloped him.

The next day, there might be another body lying under the tree, or perhaps just another skeleton.

Or maybe no trace would be left at all.

Qin Niu remembered Xu Jiu from his village who had gone into the mountain to gather medicine for his sick mother and never came back. Many people rumored that Xu Jiu had been eaten by wild beasts in the mountains.

Now it seemed very possible that Xu Jiu had been devoured by this Ancient Banyan Tree.

Just when he was feeling afraid and desperate, he suddenly felt a faint connection.

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It’s Fourth, and the Ant Queen!”

Qin Niu was overjoyed, like a drowning man who had just grabbed a lifeline in his desperation.

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I’m here, I’m here!”

Qin Niu quickly calmed his excited heart and focused his mind to send a signal to the Ant Queen.

He swung his sword again, hacking at the weeds and small trees in front of him, picking up speed as he moved forward.

“No, that’s not right; it seems I’m getting farther away from them.”

Qin Niu could clearly feel the presence of the Ant Queen, Fourth, and the other worker ants and soldier ants.

They had probably all come out in full force to save their master.

Fourth was rapidly closing in on him, but the Ant Queen was not moving.

Qin Niu worried that his random wandering would make it harder for Fourth and the others to find him. Based on the faint connection he had felt earlier, he knew that although he was supposed to be moving forward, he was actually getting further away from the Ant Queen.

He simply stopped and waited patiently on the spot.

This moment was a test of his wisdom and that of the entire ant colony, as master and servants joined hands to confront this terrifying Ancient Banyan Tree.

The wait was excruciating.

Seeing a glimmer of hope for escape while awaiting Fourth, Qin Niu picked two relatively good small trees and dug them out, roots and all.

Then he put them in his basket.

If he could survive this ordeal, he planned to plant these two trees himself. Even if it took decades to grow them, they wouldn’t be as formidable as the Ancient Banyan Tree, but they would still be quite powerful in their own right.

The canopy of the Ancient Banyan Tree overhead pressed even lower, now less than half a meter from the top of Qin Niu’s head.

Chilling dark energy fell like a drizzle, bone-piercingly cold.

He could feel his blood qi becoming somewhat sluggish, and he was growing increasingly drowsy.

“Master, Master!”

At that moment, Fourth finally found him, climbing onto his foot, waving its single remaining antenna, calling out to Qin Niu in ant language..