Mercury Poisoning
Upon discovering that Shisui was about to take away the Tree Spirit Heart of the clan, the Long-Life Elder immediately tried to stop him.
But the next moment, he found himself unable to move.
The roots of the Long-Life Elder are connected to the entire forest.
Therefore, when he mobilizes his Psychic Energy significantly, the energy of the entire forest will naturally flow towards him.
This is why the Long-Life Elder's internal energy far surpasses that of other Heaven-Controlling Realm, and it is also his weakness.
The Long-Life Elder remained frozen in place, strangely immobilized.
Somewhere in the forest, the White Owl Arakawa Jiushu, who had been hiding there for a long time (Chapter 266), opened her eyes and instantly broke free from her state of suspended animation.
He first glanced in the direction Shisui had left.
Only after confirming that the aura of the Heaven Realm Awakened had disappeared did he leave the cave where he was hiding.
As she stepped out of the cave, dappled sunlight fell upon Arakawa Jiushu.
Amidst the interplay of light and shadow, one could see that his face was, as always, covered in elaborate makeup.
He casually tidied the black highlights on his forehead, and the single braid of his long white hair swayed gently as he walked.
"Finally it moved! We've been waiting so long!"
Arakawa Jiushu made a sarcastic remark and then tossed some cinnabar she carried with her to the roots of a nearby tree.
The cinnabar shattered on the ground, quickly spreading and blending into the surrounding environment.
The cinnabar had an extremely high mercury content and was worn by awakened individuals year-round to absorb Psychic Energy.
Therefore, once it is deliberately destroyed, it will disperse easily, just like Psychic Energy, and be easily absorbed by living beings.
Then it easily interferes with cellular function and damages protein structure within organisms.
This is Arakawa Jiushu's method for dealing with these people's forests.
He has not yet ascended to the Heaven Realm, and the gap between him and the Heaven-Controlling Realm is so vast that it cannot even be described as a chasm.
However, to advance, one must obtain a Tree Spirit Heart of a sufficiently high level.
Therefore, he had no choice but to provoke the Long-Life Elder again.
A direct confrontation is obviously impossible, but he can resort to underhanded tactics.
For example, poisoning.
The Long-Life Elder stood frozen in place, forced to watch helplessly as the Shisui beast took away the "heart" of his clan.
Long-dormant anger surged within the Long-Life Elder.
He collected the mercury from all directions at an extremely slow pace.
He wanted to minimize the loss of forests as much as possible.
However, the trees surrounding him all suffered the consequences.
The leaves began to yellow and wither.
In addition, the trees in the forest are not very close together.
Therefore, on windless, sunny days, the air circulation here is generally poor.
Mercury poisoning then broke out in the Long-Life Elder and the surrounding trees.
The Long-Life Elder was, after all, a cultivator at the Heaven-Controlling Realm; even after being poisoned, he was merely unable to move freely.
But the trees connected to him weren't so formidable.
Only the stronger trees or those with low levels of poisoning wither; some tender seedlings and ordinary trees will die on the spot.
Arakawa Jiushu felt no remorse whatsoever for the innocent lives that were affected.
On the contrary, they are happy to let the casualties and chaos escalate further.
The wings of a raptor silently spread behind him, carrying him swiftly across the forest toward the pre-determined target.
As for the cinnabar that Arakawa Jiushu always carried, it was activated by Psychic Energy.
The wind that swept past him quickly dispersed in all directions.
In just three seconds, the White Owl, which has genes from both the peregrine falcon and the snowy owl, leaped a kilometer.
Immediately afterwards, they landed directly in front of a Tree Spirit Species near the Long-Life Elder in the center of the forest.
At this moment, less than ten seconds had passed since the mercury poisoning incident was triggered.
The Long-Life Elder is still absorbing mercury from the environment, so he can no longer care for his people here.
As a core member of the Tree Spirit Species located a kilometer away from the Long-Life Elder, the Tree Spirit Species in front of them, barely clinging to life, could be described as extremely weak.
Despite possessing the strength of the Heaven Realm Second Realm, he was utterly powerless against Arakawa Jiushu, who was at the Earth Realm Ninth Realm Peak.
His Tree Spirit Heart was easily extracted.
Having obtained what she wanted, Arakawa Jiushu didn't linger and immediately fled in a direction far from the forest.
He knew that the reason mercury poisoning could bind the Long-Life Elder was not because the toxicity was so terrifying.
Rather, it was because the Long-Life Elder did not want his territory to be ravaged by war.
However, the amount of cinnabar that Arakawa Jiushu secretly sprinkled during this period was ultimately limited.
Given the speed at which the Heaven-Controlling Realm absorbs and filters energy, the residual mercury in the forest will not be fatal in a little while.
If he remains in the forest at that time, he will face the Long-Life Elder, who will be completely unrestrained.
Moreover, besides him, there were others who took the Tree Spirit Heart today.
If this attack, amplified by his rage, were to strike him, he would surely die.
With that thought in mind, Arakawa Jiushu sped up her escape even further.
In just five seconds, he covered more than three thousand meters, rapidly approaching the edge of the forest.
However, Arakawa Jiushu underestimated the strength of the Long-Life Elder.
Or rather, he underestimated the extent of the Long-Life Elder's anger at losing two members of his clan in succession.
Tree spirits are long-lived species, not very sensitive to the passage of time, and also find it difficult to reproduce.
This is an inevitable constraint imposed by the planet on long-lived beings.
The Long-Life Elder expressed his understanding and had no intention of changing this racial characteristic.
But precisely because of this, he also attached great importance to the small number of people in his tribe.
Not only will they connect their Tree Spirit Hearts with themselves, but they will also initiate negotiations with the Planetary Will on their behalf.
This is why there are two Heaven-Controlling Realm Tree Spirit Species.
Even though Dragon Whisker was later forced into a deep sleep, this cannot be denied.
This shows the extent of the Long-Life Elder's anger at this moment.
"Boom--!"
Just moments before Arakawa Jiushu flew out of the forest, the central part of the entire Lantiao Continent began to tremble violently.
The tremors grew increasingly violent, beginning to spread across the entire Lantiao Mainland plate.
The waving tree roots surge forth, stirring the earth's veins.
Leaves danced in the air, forming a storm that swept towards the intruders.
Arakawa Jiushu was swept away by the violent Psychic Energy wave and slammed heavily onto the ground.
Then, tree roots suddenly sprouted, pierced his abdomen, and suspended him in mid-air.
Blood flowed from the tree roots, Arakawa Jiushu lowered her eyelids, seemingly giving up the struggle.
In the distance, Shisui, clearly sensing that he was being locked onto by some kind of gaze, raised his eyes, his Psychic Energy surging, and neutralized the incoming Psychic Energy wave.
An immense pressure enveloped Lantiao Continent, carrying with it an aura of reckless madness.
Within the Beastfolk Main Lineage, the disturbed Beast King did not open his eyes.
It merely drew upon a wisp of Psychic Energy to protect the area where the Beastfolk were located.
"What's gotten into this old man all of a sudden?"
After making a sarcastic remark, the Beast King shook the cyan-gold chains binding him and continued.
"Hey, aren't you going to do anything about this?"