I'll Chop You Down!!!

Wang Yi, clad in a gray-black combat uniform tinged with red, moved cautiously through the jungle thick with towering trees.

His target was the Willow Heart—or rather, the Ten-Thousand-Year Willow Heart.

After a month of training at the Training Camp, Wang Yi's physical strength had already risen to one hundred thousand kilograms!

In one month, he had gained nearly thirty thousand kilograms of strength!

On average, that was an increase of one thousand kilograms a day, equivalent to the physical fitness of a Quasi-Warrior.

That rate of improvement was nothing short of miraculous.

He had chosen to search for Willow Hearts for two reasons. First, their features were obvious, making them easy to locate. Second, among the Spirits of Grass and Wood on Fog Island, they were the only ones known to directly and harmlessly improve physical fitness, with a known method of use.

"An ordinary Thousand-Year Willow Heart has two effects after being consumed. First, it greatly increases a person's Cell Vitality and multiplies their recovery speed. Second, it also causes a leap in physical fitness." Wang Yi recalled the original story's description of the Thousand-Year Willow Heart.

As for that even more formidable Ten-Thousand-Year Willow Heart, its effects were surely even more miraculous and powerful.

However, even Li Yao, a High-level War God wearing the Black God Set, had been unable to defeat the Ten-Thousand-Year Willow Heart in the original story and had nearly died there. Wang Yi was not entirely certain whether he could kill it himself.

"My physical fitness has now fully reached the High-level War God level. With 2.1 times force exertion, my strength exceeds six hundred thousand kilograms. My Blade Technique and Body Movement are both top-notch. Handling this Ten-Thousand-Year Willow Heart shouldn't be a problem. Besides, I have Mental Power." Wang Yi steadied himself.

Mental Power was Wang Yi's true trump card!

Against Wang Yi, the Ten-Thousand-Year Willow Heart would effectively be facing a powerful High-level War God Martial Artist and a Mental Master nearly invincible among War Gods!

Of course, without the protection of the Black God Set, Wang Yi's own defenses were very weak. If he was entangled and trapped, he would be in danger.

"I only need that largest Ten-Thousand-Year Willow Heart and a few Thousand-Year Willow Hearts. I'll leave five... no, four Thousand-Year Willow Hearts for Luo Feng." Wang Yi felt a little guilty.

He did not know whether doing this would seriously alter the course of history.

This island was neither particularly large nor particularly small. Before long, Wang Yi had searched a third of it. Along the way, he also dealt with several Spirits of Grass and Wood that attacked him. With Wang Yi's current strength, disposing of those plants was naturally easy, and he obtained several Spirits of Grass and Wood whose uses were unknown.

Wang Yi naturally would not eat them blindly. He stored them away, intending to look up information after leaving.

"I wonder whether there are any Spirits of Grass and Wood on this island stronger than the Ten-Thousand-Year Willow Heart besides the Moyun Vine. I haven't encountered any."

A while later.

"Found them!"

Standing atop a large tree, Wang Yi looked at the nine exceptionally conspicuous, towering willow trees in the distance and smiled.

"Whoosh!"

He leaped from the tree. While still in midair, two war blades flew out and landed beneath his feet. Then Wang Yi glided swiftly toward the nine willow trees.

"One, two, three... That's right." Wang Yi swept his gaze across them again and nodded.

Even the thinnest of those nine willow trees stood thirty to forty meters tall. The thickest and most robust one, a giant willow three meters in diameter, was nearly one hundred meters high, its countless willow branches swaying in the wind.

Standing several hundred meters away, Wang Yi observed them for a moment and frowned.

"The nine willow trees are too close together."

"No matter which one I attack, the other eight will attack me as well."

Moreover, the central Ten-Thousand-Year Willow Heart, the thickest and tallest among them, had willow branches stretching hundreds of meters, completely covering the growth range of all the willow trees.

To cut down the willow trees, he had to first get through the Ten-Thousand-Year Willow Heart's attacks.

Smack.

Wang Yi cautiously approached one willow tree from the edge.

Whoosh! The willow branches that had been swaying in the breeze suddenly seemed to come alive. At astonishing speed, breaking the sound barrier, they lunged madly at Wang Yi.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh... Several streaks of light shot out of Wang Yi's body even faster than they did.

Six Throwing Knives spun rapidly, sharply slicing through the willow branches winding toward him.

For a moment, severed branches scattered chaotically through the air.

"Whoosh!" Wang Yi's figure flashed like lightning, evading every willow branch like a ghost. In an instant, he closed in on the Thousand-Year Willow Heart on the far left, and the twin blades in his hands became two blazing streaks as they slashed into its trunk.

Wang Yi's strength was now immense. Coupled with SS-grade war blades sharp enough to cut through the bodies of most King level monsters, dealing with a mere Thousand-Year Willow Heart before him was nothing.

The blade sank several centimeters into the trunk, and green sap flowed out.

The Thousand-Year Willow Heart trembled as though struck heavily, then its willow branches began lashing about even more frantically.

Like lightning, Wang Yi struck twice more at the opening.

"Crash!" The pale golden willow branches drifting from the thickest willow tree in the center suddenly rose upright. Tens of thousands of branches packed densely together swept down and tangled toward Wang Yi as he hacked at the willow tree.

Wang Yi controlled his Throwing Knives, cutting through those pale golden willow branches.

Wang Yi was now a Mental Master at the peak of the High-level War God level. Even while controlling six Throwing Knives at once, each knife carried over five hundred thousand kilograms of force—he was even stronger than Luo Feng in the original story after Luo Feng consumed a Thousand-Year Willow Heart and greatly increased his Mental Power!

Yet even so, he still found it somewhat strenuous to cut through those pale golden willow branches.

Screech, screech, screech...

A fierce barrage of air-splitting sounds rang out as the willow branches from every tree converged upon Wang Yi.

The Throwing Knives spun and cut at extreme speed, but a large number of willow branches still broke through the defense and reached toward Wang Yi.

Wang Yi swung his blades, instantly knocking those willow branches aside.

Screech! A pale golden willow branch wrapped around Wang Yi's left leg. He staggered, his body tilting as his footing became unstable.

There were too many of them!

What the hell... A spark of anger flared in Wang Yi's heart.

Power surged into his war blade as he slashed down violently. With two consecutive strikes, he cut the pale golden willow branch in two.

Seeing that the surrounding willow branches had become so numerous that he could barely see, Wang Yi's scalp tingled.

These willow trees were even more troublesome than Wang Yi had imagined.

"Damn it!" With an angry curse, Wang Yi controlled his Throwing Knives to spin and drill into the earth, while he himself, aided by Mental Power, burrowed away like a drilling machine.

"They really are vicious." Wang Yi emerged again not far away. Looking at the willow trees that had calmed down, a fierce glint appeared in his eyes.

"I don't believe it. I refuse to believe I can't deal with you!"

Wang Yi approached again.

Whoosh!

Countless willow branches instantly shot toward him.

Wang Yi calmly flew backward while controlling his Throwing Knives to cut through the willow branches.

In an instant, broken fragments of branches flew everywhere.

Once, twice...

As time passed, fewer and fewer intact willow branches remained on the trees, and they gradually grew sparse.

The Ten-Thousand-Year Willow Heart was Wang Yi's primary target of attention.

With patience, Wang Yi pruned the branches of these willow trees.

He was now stronger than Illusion Demon Caterlan and the others in the original story. As long as he was careful not to fall within the encirclement of the nine willow trees, there was no need to worry about anything happening.

Finally.

Several hours later.

Boom!

A Thousand-Year Willow Heart near the edge finally toppled under Wang Yi's relentless cutting with his Throwing Knives.