Chapter 52: Still Crushed Them
"Not good!"
"There are more than a dozen Malevolent Spirits here! They suddenly emerged from this Great Scholar Tree!"
"More than that! This locust tree is also a legendary Tree Demon! And it is in league with these Malevolent Spirits!"
"That's right! These dozen or so Malevolent Spirits actually hid inside this Great Scholar Tree during the day!"...
After advancing for a while, the Youth Camp soldiers arrived beneath the Great Scholar Tree beside an ancient well near the village entrance. Then, a sudden change erupted!
They had never imagined that, under the sweeping Qi and Blood Wolf Smoke raised by their formation, more than a dozen Malevolent Spirits would emerge from the enormous locust tree nearby!
Even more terrifyingly, this exceptionally tall locust tree had actually become a Tree Demon!
Zhang Xianzhong had not mentioned this abnormal situation beforehand.
He had probably never come beneath this great tree to investigate, which led to this oversight in intelligence and left Li Dingguo and the others without any mental preparation!
The main reason was that ghosts and monsters of this sort rarely came out during the day. Most of them only left their hiding places to wander at night.
Thus, when Zhang Xianzhong had come to investigate, he had likely deliberately chosen to come at night. He had discovered many Malevolent Spirits wandering through this deathly silent village, yet failed to find that there was actually a Tree Demon here.
Moreover, this Great Scholar Tree was where those Malevolent Spirits hid from the sunlight during the day.
Fortunately, the Great Scholar Tree demon's aura was not particularly strong. It had likely only recently gained sentience and become a demon. Under Li Dingguo's perception, it possessed only the aura of a peak Level One.
Li Dingguo guessed