Fierce Battle with the Tree Demon

Huo Hai wondered whether this strange tree simply had no interest in tiny insects. Even with so many Star Gu approaching, it showed no reaction at all. It looked just like an ordinary tree, which was very strange.

"In that case, let's try attacking it." Huo Hai smiled faintly and ordered one Star Gu to attack. In an instant, its speed reached the limit. Almost in the blink of an eye, it pierced a vine lying on the ground. That vine happened to be one that had attacked a Spirit Beast earlier. After the Star Gu passed through, a small hole remained in it.

Unlike ordinary wood, besides the shower of bark and splinters, the strangest thing was that blood actually flowed out.

It was not blood absorbed from Spirit Beasts or wild animals, but blood that truly belonged to the tree itself. Red and green mingled together, making it clearly abnormal. Yet judging by how thoroughly they blended, it obviously was not merely sap mixed with blood.

A tree like this could no longer be called a tree. It should be called a Tree Demon. Huo Hai's heart tightened. This Tree Demon was something that stood squarely between animal and plant. Before he could finish that thought, the Tree Demon moved.

Perhaps even the Tree Demon itself had never expected to be injured. A strange, furious roar emerged from the holes in its trunk, sounding eerily chilling. Then the entire ground stirred. Countless vines rose up. Having never been attacked before, the Tree Demon might have been enraged by the injury, or perhaps this was merely instinct.

"Could these all be roots?" Huo Hai frowned. He had originally thought the vines on the ground were some special kind of vine the tree had grown. But when they all lifted