[Buddha's Heart Passes on the Lamp] Wu Song Receives Spiritual Empowerment; the [Emergency Headband] Is Developed! (Continued)

All the Ghostly Willows were burned to ashes.

The once-lush demon cavern was now nothing but a scorched, blackened wasteland with smoke rising from it.

"Now!"

Lin Chen had been staring fixedly at the fire. The moment the flames began to die down and the exposed Earth Vein appeared,

he suddenly shoved Nie Xiaoqian beside him and roared,

"Xiaoqian, go!

Use your [Divine Willow Rooting].

Take this territory for me!"

The frail look in Nie Xiaoqian's eyes turned incomparably sharp at that moment.

She gazed at the scorched earth, sensing the Earth Vein's spiritual energy beneath it—weak, yet still vast.

That was the foundation of her path to enlightenment!

"This place... is mine!"

Nie Xiaoqian gave a delicate shout. Her figure transformed into a streak of emerald-green starlight and plunged into the still-warm scorched earth.

Behind her, the void suddenly lit up with the Willow Star Map.

Countless enormous willow branches, crystalline and translucent like jade, burst forth behind her.

Like a green Heavenly Net, Earthly Net, they ruthlessly drove into the scorched earth beneath her feet.

The roots pierced through the scorched soil and plunged deep into the Earth Vein.

"Eek, eek, eek—"

Countless strange, shrill cries suddenly rang out from underground.

They came from the remnants of Ghostly Willow roots deep beneath the earth, along with the unwilling anomalous wills that refused to perish without a struggle. They were making their final resistance.

Black resentment surged from underground like wolf-smoke, attempting to corrode Nie Xiaoqian's roots.

"Hmph! A bunch of beaten stragglers!"

Nie Xiaoqian snorted coldly. If this had happened before, she might still have been afraid.

But now, she was the orthodox Willow Mansion Star Spirit.

"[Drunken Life, Dreamy Death], [Earth Burial]!"

With a thought from her, a dense, wine-scented starforce erupted from the roots thrust into