After the tree demon fell, Chen Rong and Chen Meng finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Chen Rong clasped her fists with a bold air and said, "Many thanks, Fellow Daoist Lü. Otherwise, Chief Steward Chen and I might have fallen at the hands of this Ancient Pagoda Tree Demon."
Chen Meng still looked shaken. "We originally heard that Ancient Sophora Town was haunted and thought it was only some ordinary minor demon. Who would have expected a great demon to be hiding here? Luckily, this great demon had yet to recover its vitality. Otherwise, it would have been even harder to deal with."
"This great demon hadn't recovered its vitality?" Bai Xiaowen asked.
Chen Meng nodded. "I've seen true great demons. They genuinely possess the power to shatter mountains and split the earth, and they are versed in all manner of demonic arts. They are far harder to deal with than this one."
Chen Rong added, "Precisely because this tree demon was injured and needed to rely on human blood essence for a long time to nourish itself and heal, it didn't dare plunder people on a large scale and create a ghost city. Otherwise, the senior experts of the righteous sects would certainly have come to subdue it. It would not have been a training mission that a mere inner disciple like me could accept."
Bai Xiaowen understood. He too had felt that, as a level 14 Lord, the tree demon had gone down a little too easily.
Although Bai Xiaowen possessed strategic deception and True Essence Force comparable to King Tier, the saber techniques he used with the waist saber in his hand were rather low-level, and he himself was only level 11.
A single Seven Blades as One had severely wounded the tree demon Lord and