Chapter 68: Silver Withered Demonic Tree

"Brother-in-law, why don't we go in and explore? Since Xuan Du said that there is only one commander-level demon in there, we can definitely deal with it!" Liang Shaokang said to Lang Xiuhai who was thinking there.

“Yes, it is not rational to enter a treasure mountain and return empty-handed. Moreover, once we are ready to collect soul seeds, we will have to fight with the commander-level demons guarding next to them. By then, it will be too late to come back here to collect them,” Liang Shaolan said with great interest.

What Liang Shaolan said made a lot of sense and directly shook Lang Xiuhai's thinking.

This is because creatures like demons are often unable to directly refine spirit seeds for their own use like humans can. They need to absorb the energy emitted by the spirit seeds and wait until their bodies are completely familiar with the spirit seeds. Only then can they refine the spirit seeds in one go and use them as their own power.

This is a very long process, so once a spiritual species appears, if it is discovered by a demon first, the demon will become the patron saint of the spiritual species.

The wind soul seed in the Yunlong Ground Fissure was only formed recently and has definitely not been absorbed by the monster yet.

Therefore, if Jiang Shang and his companions wanted to obtain the wind soul seed, they would have to fight with the commander-level demon living in the Yunlong Rift.

"You are right. We should go in and explore, but we should first investigate and deal with the demon in the side hall to prevent us from being attacked from both sides!" Lang Xiuhai finally agreed to the exploration plan.

"receive"

"good"

After receiving Lang Xiuhai's instructions, Liang Shaokang consciously stood in the first row of the team. The captain and Sister Lan stood behind him, leaving Jiang Shang alone standing at the end of the team.

Liang Shaokang slowly pushed open the stone door that had been sealed for a hundred years. The dust accumulated on it stopped in place due to inertia and fell to the ground due to gravity.

Just as Jiang Shang said, the entire gate no longer has any magical power and is no longer able to resist high-level magic as it once was.

The back of the stone door that was pushed open was covered with dense patterns, which looked like some kind of magic array. There were also a few magic stones that had lost their luster embedded in the small pit on the back of the stone door.

Jiang Shang stretched out his hand to take the magic stone down, wiped it carefully with his sleeve, and then rubbed a ray of lightning on his hand. Under the illumination of the thunder, the magic stone actually emitted an emerald green light.

If I had to describe the light, it would be the color of emerald.

The magic stone that had been exhausted of its magic power now lay in Jiang Shang's palm like the most precious jade in his previous life.

Sister Lan noticed Jiang Shang's actions, walked over and asked in confusion: "Did you find anything, Xuandu?"

"No, I just wanted to see what quality the materials used in this palace were. The magic stone inlaid on the stone door told me the answer."

"Look, Sister Lan, this stone glows emerald green when under direct sunlight, and it's extremely transparent as a whole, without any impurities! It's obviously a high-level magic stone. I remember learning in the magic array theory class in high school that this level of magic stone is generally used in arrays that can resist commander-level demons. And the gate of a palace can be defended with this level of magic stone. Obviously, this palace should have had a lot of good things in the past. I just don't know how much is left after all these years." Jiang Shang handed the magic stone in his hand to Sister Lan and said.

"That's true. It seems like we might have really found treasure!" said Sister Lan.

Then he happily ran to Lang Xiuhai in front of the team, handed the magic stone in his hand to him, and repeated Jiang Shang's words to Lang Xiuhai.

Lang Xiuhai looked back in surprise at Jiang Shang who was walking behind him, then nodded to indicate that he understood.

………………

Everyone crossed the long passage in front of the palace and arrived at the platform in the center of the palace.

The layout here is slightly different from Jiang Shang's description. For example, the one on the right is not a side hall, but an open-air garden with pavilions, pools, etc.

The ground of the garden was covered with yellow and black dead leaves and rotten leaves, and in the middle was a huge ginkgo tree. Its canopy had completely covered the sky of the entire garden. As long as you were on the platform and looked up, you could see its branches and leaves everywhere.

"Where is the demon?" Sister Lan asked puzzledly.

Jiang Shang looked at the empty garden with only a ginkgo tree and was a little confused for a moment. He did see a large energy source here before he came in.

The curvature of space cannot be faked.
Thinking of this, Jiang Shang's pupils turned into bright silver and he started watching again.

"!"

Wherever the silver eyes passed, the space always appeared to be curved.

"The demon is indeed here, but it's not an animal demon, but this!" Jiang Shang said affirmatively, pointing at the ginkgo tree standing in the garden.

"Fierce Fist - Earthly Evil!!"

After hearing Jiang Shang's affirmative words, Sister Lan, a girl from Northeast China, no longer hesitated and directly drew a red star map, then punched her fist on the ground.

Decisive and straightforward, without giving any time for nagging.

No matter whether it is a demon or not, let’s try magic first!

If it is, you will make a lot of money. If it is not, you will just alert the enemy and test the waters.

A dark red light spread from where Liang Shaolan's fist landed to the bottom of the ginkgo tree.

"Boom boom boom!!!!!!"

Suddenly, the ground cracked and a thick flame suddenly gushed out, transforming into a fire lotus filled with the breath of death that exploded with a bang! !
The Fire Lotus has a very large range, and pillars of flame are surging, completely surrounding the roots of the entire ginkgo tree.

Just as the fire lotus was surging, countless fallen leaves suddenly appeared in front of Jiang Shang's eyes. They seemed to be the leaves that were knocked down from the trees by the Fiery Fist.

Wow~~~
The sound of leaves shaking continued to be heard. Jiang Shang looked up and saw countless branches like spears thrusting towards where Jiang and the others were standing.

"careful!"

Liang Shaokang shouted loudly, and immediately clapped his hands on the ground, using ground waves to move several people to a farther place.

After everyone was safe, Jiang Shang and the others all looked at the monster in front of them that looked like a ginkgo tree with serious faces.

"It should be the Silver Withered Demon Tree, a demon that looks very similar to the Ginkgo Tree. I remember that many residents brought the young seeds of the Silver Withered Demon Tree back to their residences, leading to tragedies." Lang Xiuhai said, looking at the demon in front of him.

"No matter what kind of plant monster it is, I will use fire magic to turn it into ashes!" Liang Shaolan said unconvinced after hearing this.

"........."

Jiang Shang was speechless after hearing what Sister Lan said. It was true that people from the Northeast had a bad temper.

Lang Xiuhai paused and continued, "But this demon looks a little malnourished. If we have to distinguish among the commanders, it should be classified as a small commander. Its strength is much lower than the Wind Nightmare Commander we met last time. In addition, the Enshi Grand Canyon is now full of dry winds. This demon cannot get water to nourish itself, and its strength should decline!"

(End of this chapter)