Lying Low from Immortal Official to Celestial Venerable
Chapter 154

Ten Thousand Trees Return to the Origin, Life Without End

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Chaos Bone Ridge The originally oppressive silence was completely torn apart at this moment!

"Kill--!"

Following the signal for Chu Bai to land, two hundred guards who had been preparing for a long time burst out from the shadows in all directions like a torrent of bursting embankments.

"Officers! They are from Demon-Suppression Office!"

"Damn it, how did they get in? Where are the sentries?"

The screams, the sound of magical weapons and the shouts of killing were intertwined.

In Wasteland that cannot be covered by Law Net, these usually lawless Rogue Cultivator felt for the first time the cold murderous intent from the iron law of Great Zhou.

"There! Kill him!"

Deep in the camp, a strong blue-black Demon Qi suddenly erupted from the dry well.

Immediately afterwards, an old man wearing a lacquer Black Sheep leather robe and a withered face rose into the sky. His eyes were long and narrow, and his pupils shone with a green light like a will-o'-the-wisp. He was the leader of True Spirit Society here - Black Sheep.

As soon as Black Sheep appeared, he saw Chu Bai already standing at the edge of the camp, watching him indifferently.

At one glance, he saw the lifeless sentry lying in the snow, and his old and new hatreds instantly surged into his heart.

"How dare you, junior, ruin my big job!"

Black Sheep shouted loudly, and Ninth Layer of Qi Refining's perfect pressure was released without reservation, causing the surrounding dead trees to explode.

He suddenly raised his withered hands, and the green light bloomed in his palms:

"Wood Wraith Soul-Eater, go!"

As he shouted angrily, the withered grass on the ground grew wildly in an instant, turning into dozens of blue-black vines as thick as a bowl and covered with barbs and poisonous thorns.

These vines traveled through the ground like giant pythons, causing bursts of sounds of earth and rocks falling. In an instant, they blocked all Chu Bai's escape routes and shot at his vital points!

This move is a stunt that he has been immersed in for decades and is enough to instantly Strangulation many monks become famous.

However, in the face of this overwhelming wood-type killing move, Chu Bai did not move, and he did not even draw the long knife from his back.

His 220-foot Divine Sense has already clearly seen the direction of each vine and the connection point of spiritual power.

From the [Subtlety]-level perspective, Black Sheep's seemingly powerful blow is actually full of loopholes.

"Broken."

Chu Bai pointed like a sword, with colorful streams of light swirling on the fingertips.

"Whoosh whoosh--!"

Dozens of dark blue [Spirit Water Needle] condensed instantly in front of him.

Each needle was as thin as an ox's hair, but it accurately hit the weakest point in the vine's spiritual power.

In a series of extremely dense muffled sounds, the menacing poisonous ivy suddenly froze in mid-air, and then like dead grass that had lost its support, it disintegrated inch by inch three feet in front of Chu Bai, turning into spiritual energy residue scattered throughout the sky.

"Huh?!"

Black Sheep's pupils suddenly shrank and his face changed drastically.

He could feel that the other party's cultivation level was only Qi Refining Eighth Layer. Even for an elite from a resource-monopolized land like Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty, the gap in cultivation would be difficult to bridge.

But with that move just now, the other party actually deconstructed his Spell Arts with an extremely subtle control that even made him feel creepy!

"How can such Spell Arts attainments... be possessed by a monk who looks so young?"

Black Sheep felt a storm in his heart, but after all, he was the leader of Rogue Cultivator who had been fighting for a long time. At this moment, the screams of his subordinates kept coming from his ears, and he knew that an encirclement was coming.

If the leading young man in front of them cannot be killed quickly, their entire stronghold will be wiped out today.

"There must be a secret method with you... No wonder you dare to show off in front of me!"

Black Sheep gave a ferocious laugh, his eyes murderous intent filled with joy, a deadwood stick suddenly appeared in his hand, and the gloomy green aura at the tip of the stick almost solidified:

"Since you want to die, I will make it happen for you!"

Black Sheep not only did not retreat, but swooped down like a goshawk, and the strong Ninth Layer of Qi Refining spiritual power filled his whole body.

He will rely on the suppression of his realm to crush Chu Bai completely in the shortest possible time in a head-to-head manner!

Chaos Bone Ridge In the ruins, the air was torn apart by two completely different spiritual pressures.

On one side is the blue-black wood spiritual power that is as deep as the roots of a dead tree, cold and violent.

On one side is the Five Phases aura of five intertwined colors, mellow and brilliant, and extremely precise.

Every time the two collided, a thunderous sound erupted, and the surging air waves shook all the surrounding ruins within a few feet into powder and turned into smoke and dust all over the sky.

Black Sheep looked ferocious at this time, and the original contempt had long since disappeared.

He has been trapped in Ninth Layer of Qi Refining for many years, and the spiritual power in his body is as strong as a deep pool. Every move contains poison that can corrode Divine Sense. Ordinary Qi Refining Late-Stage monks can't even resist it. If they get even a trace of it, they may have been sucked dry by Essence Blood by now.

"Junior, I want to see how long your spiritual power can last!"

Black Sheep screamed sharply, and the deadwood stick in his hand slammed to the ground.

[Secret Technique: Ten Thousand Trees Prison!]

In an instant, the ground surface with a radius of fifty feet exploded, and countless vines as thick as pythons and covered in pitch black burst out of the ground.

These vines twisted and twisted crazily in the air, forming a huge spherical cage in just a short moment, trapping Chu Bai in the center.

A foul-smelling green mucus oozed from the surface of the vines. Wherever it landed, deep pits were corroded into the hard frozen soil, and the air was filled with harsh hissing sounds.

"Hanging!"

Black Sheep held his hands empty, and the huge wooden cage began to shrink rapidly inward. Each vine weighed more than ten thousand kilograms, and carried a terrifying force that could crush Refined Steel.

However, Chu Bai, who was in the eye of the storm, had eyes as clear as cold stars.

Under the cover of the two hundred and twenty-foot Divine Sense, every movement of Ten Thousand Trees Prison and the frequency of spiritual energy flowing inside each vine were as clear as palm prints in his sea of consciousness.

The [Fire Element Ring] under Chu Bai's feet suddenly erupted into a dazzling red fire.

Origin Return Formula is running vigorously in the body, and the circulation of Five Phases is reaching its extreme at this moment.

The spiritual power that was originally as calm as water completed an astonishing transformation from water to fire in an instant, and a fierce and destructive aura came out of the body!

[Firestep Dash]!

Chu Bai's figure swayed, and his whole body turned into a red thunder.

At the moment when the cage was completely closed and the sharp tooth-like barbs were about to touch his body, he went against the current and moved forward instead of retreating!

Under the control of extremely powerful spiritual power, Chu Bai did not waste its spiritual power to perform large-scale explosions. Instead, it condensed all the fire spiritual power in the palms and fingertips, turning it into a few points of extremely high-temperature flames that were blazing white.

[Formless Cloud Hand]!

Every time he struck out with his palm, the movement seemed gentle, but in fact he accurately hit the woody core where the vine's energy circulated.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The evil wood that was originally indestructible and could even withstand ordinary Earthfire, when it came into contact with Chu Bai, which was tempered by Earthly Treasure [Mountain-Pacifying Platinum] and had the advantage of Five Phases's restraint, was struck with precision. It was as if it had encountered a natural enemy. It dried up and blackened in an instant, and then exploded.

"How is that possible?!" Black Sheep groaned, and the backlash of spiritual power made his throat feel sweet.

His secret tree was cultivated by gathering Yin Qi from mass graves for hundreds of years, and it specializes in the Five Phases fire method. How could the opponent find his Qi node in an instant and burn it?

"It's my turn."

Chu Bai stepped down, and [Firestep Dash] came instantly.

With the help of Fire Element Ring's amplification, he was able to cross dozens of feet of ruins. The afterimage remained in place, and his true body appeared three feet in front of Black Sheep!

"Looking for death! How dare you fight me in close combat!"

Black Sheep laughed ferociously, thinking he had found an opportunity to fight back.

Ninth Layer of Qi Refining's spiritual power instantly filled his body, and the skinny nails on his right hand expanded three inches, turning into a ghost claw covered with blue scales. With a sharp roar that ripped through the void, he clawed hard at Chu Bai's chest.

This is his trump card in close combat. Combined with the corrosive spiritual power of wood, it is enough to tear apart high-grade armor.

Chu Bai did not dodge or dodge, the red light in [Hundred-Battle Armor] in his arms flashed, instantly resonating with the secret technique in his body.

[Secret method: Iron-Bone Body Tempering!]

Chu Bai has a dark, dark gold luster all over its body.

A loud sound, as dull as a heavy hammer hitting the Kui Niu drum, shook the entire audience.

Black Sheep's claw, which could Mountain-Splitting Fist crack a stone, grabbed Chu Bai's chest hard.

However, under this claw, only a few shallow scratches were left on the dark red armor, not even the black-gold skin.

On the contrary, Black Sheep himself felt an extremely terrifying and indestructible counter-shock force bouncing off the opponent's body as if Refined Steel was made of concrete. The shock made half of his arms almost unconscious, and his finger bones made an overwhelming crunching sound.

"Is your body... a magic weapon?!" Black Sheep was horrified. At this moment, he even suspected that the young man in front of him was a machine puppet wearing human skin.

"It's a weapon to kill you."

Chu Bai's eyes were cold, and his right hand stretched out like lightning, [Formless Cloud Hand] bringing up many shadows. Before Black Sheep changed his moves in fear, he had accurately locked the opponent's wrist like a dead branch.

At the same time, [Jade-Nurturing Gourd] on Chu Bai's waist bloomed with rich verdant green.

A lot of spiritual energy was originally consumed due to continuous attacks, but it was fully restored in an instant with the replenishment of this spiritual liquid.

[Golden Eye Illusion-Breaker]!

Now, this Spell Arts has officially entered the [Subtlety] level after the breakthrough of Chu Bai.

Chu Bai's eyes were filled with golden light, and his vision, which was originally used as an auxiliary sight, actually condensed the sharp meaning of the metal element at this moment. The spiritual power of the metal element condensed on the fingertips, turning into a three-foot-long, almost white substance Sword-Ray!

Black Sheep felt an unprecedented death threat. He screamed and frantically threw out a pitch-black shield.

In the face of the extremely powerful penetrating power, in front of the Five-Element Perfection and the flawless Foundation Depth, the black shield was torn open like fragile paper.

Black Sheep screamed, twisted his body desperately and leaned back.

But Chu Bai's Divine Sense had already locked all his dodge directions.

The golden light brushed past Black Sheep's shoulder. Although it avoided his heart, the Geng Metal Force that exploded in that moment directly crushed half of his shoulder's bones and meridians into smithereens.

Black Sheep fell to the ground, vomiting blood, and his withered face was now as pale as paper.

He, Ninth Layer of Qi Refining's perfect Foundation Depth, was defeated so cleanly when faced with Chu Bai, who was fully clothed in divine armor and whose every move was accurate to an inhuman level.

Chu Bai stood on the ruins, his clothes swaying lightly in the wind, and he did not give the other party any chance to breathe.

Several dark blue [Spirit Water Needle] condensed on his fingertips again.

In the two hundred and twenty-foot Divine Sense like a god overlooking it, all the remaining vitality of Black Sheep is already in the bag.

On the Chaos Bone Ridge ruins, the cold wind became more and more biting, and the air was filled with a strong smell of withered grass Mu Ku.

Black Sheep was half-kneeling in the gravel pit. The wound on his left shoulder was deep enough to show the bone. Geng Metal's spiritual power was raging in the broken meridians.

However, as an old demon who has been in the Qi Refining Perfection realm for decades and wanders on the edge of Great Zhou Law Net, the fear in his eyes was replaced by a determined ruthlessness at this moment.

"Junior... you want to kill me, but you are still a little short of the mark!"

Black Sheep let out a roar like an old crow weeping blood, and slammed his blood-covered right hand to the ground.

Secret method: [Ancient Wood Suppresses the Origin]!

In an instant, the ground with a radius of tens of feet shook violently, and countless roots as thick as a baby's arms and as black as ink burst out of the soil. They did not attack Chu Bai, but like crazy poisonous snakes, they circled up Black Sheep's legs and pierced directly into his flesh and blood.

Chu Bai's Divine Sense clearly captured that the cold Killing Intent that had accumulated for hundreds of years deep in the earth was pouring into Black Sheep's body like a tide along these roots.

"Click! Click!"

There was a heart-wrenching sound of bone reorganization.

Black Sheep On the crushed shoulder, countless tiny granules mixed with blue-black wood grains grew wildly. In just three breaths of time, the serious injury that could kill an ordinary person was actually repaired by a hard lignified shell.

Not only did his aura not fade, but because it was connected to Earth Vein, it gave off a sense of oppression as thick as a mountain.

"He actually made himself a part of this Earth Vein?"

Chu Bai frowned slightly, and Divine Sense's perception made him realize that Black Sheep at this time was more like a Ten-Thousand-Year Evil Wood rooted here than a person.

Although this secret method will greatly damage his lifespan after this battle and even cause his cultivation to regress, at this moment, he is the "Lord God" within a hundred feet radius.

Black Sheep slowly stood up, with sawdust flying around him. His sinister gaze swept across the two teams of guards, Demon-Slaying and Demon Suppression, who were gradually becoming besieged, and finally landed on Chu Bai.

He knew very well that the young man in front of him was not the ordinary Qi Refining Eighth Layer at all. The precise control of spiritual power at his fingertips made him feel more desperate than ever before.

"Escape! Take that treasure and fight out from the west side immediately!"

Black Sheep's voice was hoarse and rich, with an unquestionable majesty, "I stay here to break up the queen! Go to Prefectural City and ask for help from the adults!"

"Yes!"

In the ruins of the dry well at the rear, more than a dozen Rogue Cultivator, who were originally frightened by the overwhelming army, felt as if they had been amnesty after hearing this order.

Two of the Qi Refining Late-Stage masters looked at each other and took out a long box covered with pitch black talisman from the tent.

"Anyone who stands in my way will die!"

The two Rogue Cultivator leaders shouted violently and led the remaining dozen or so desperadoes to activate the magic weapon frantically.

For a moment, the dark wind roared, and all kinds of mixed and cruel Rogue Cultivator Spell Arts turned into streams of light all over the sky, launching a desperate charge towards the western encirclement where Feng Qin and Hu Hao were located.

"Want to leave?"

Chu Bai's eyes were cold, and the [Jade-Nurturing Gourd] on his waist once again spurted out a strong fresh air. The slightly fluctuating aura that had been caused by breaking through the opponent's defense instantly calmed down.

The steps under his feet changed, and he was about to use [Firestep Dash] to cross Black Sheep to intercept the long box, but he felt a heavy weight under his feet.

Countless roots under the ground wind up like spiritual snakes, sealing every inch of space.

Black Sheep opened his arms and turned into countless thorny blades several feet long, blocking Chu Bai like an insurmountable barrier.

"Your opponent... is me!"

Black Sheep smiled ferociously, and the wooden armor all over his body shone with a strange green light in the moonlight. He exchanged his life for his life in order to leave a fire for the organization in the ruins of Chaos Bone Ridge.

Chu Bai stopped, Divine Sense glanced slightly, and noticed that Feng Qin and others on the west side had engaged Rogue Cultivator who had broken through.

"Don't think about dying today. You still need to follow me back to Sizhong to recover your life."

In the center of Chaos Bone Ridge, the battle has entered its most brutal stage.

Black Sheep At this time, his body had swelled to more than ten feet tall, and his skin had completely turned into pale black wrinkled bark. Countless roots were like chains, tightly locking him to this land full of yin energy.

Around him, the soil within a radius of thirty feet was rolling violently, forming a death Forbidden Zone composed of thorns and spikes.

"Feng Qin, Hu Hao! Lead people around and hold on to that valuable treasure. Don't let any of them escape!"

Chu Bai stood in the aftermath of the swooping down in mid-air, and his voice exploded like thunder over the battlefield, "Leave this old thing to me alone!"

"Take care, sir!"

Feng Qin and Hu Hao knew the strength of Chu Bai, and this was not the time to be pretentious. They immediately led two hundred elite guards, transformed into two steel torrents, avoided the root range of Black Sheep, and chased the group of Rogue Cultivator who were trying to break through.

"Hehehe... junior, you are too arrogant!"

Black Sheep made a dull roar, and a cruel sarcasm appeared on his already wooden face, "I turned on 'Ancient Wood Suppresses the Origin', and now I live and die with this Chaos Bone Ridge and Earth Vein."

"As long as the earth is full of ideas, I will be immortal! Before your spiritual power is exhausted, you can't even take off a layer of my skin!"

Chu Bai's face was as deep as water, without a word of nonsense, he put his fingers together, and the spiritual power was compressed crazily on his fingertips.

"Fire up!"

Boom!

With the help of [Fire Element Ring], fireworks were produced. Under the control of the [Subtlety] class, the fire wave did not disperse, but condensed into a slender whip-like line of fire, accurately hitting the thick wooden armor of Black Sheep.

A harsh scorching sound sounded, and wherever the line of fire passed, the dark bark of the tree instantly carbonized.

But then, a strong Green-Black Yin Qi surged out of the ground, and the carbonized wound regrown green buds in the blink of an eye, and then hardened into skin again.

"It's useless! Come again!" Black Sheep laughed arrogantly.

Chu Bai's eyes were cold, his figure changed unpredictably in the air, Spell Arts poured down like a violent storm.

One round, two rounds, ten rounds...

Chu Bai's Spell Arts was almost uninterrupted, and every move hit Black Sheep's spiritual power node accurately.

Ten breaths passed.

Black Sheep The originally proud and evil smile gradually became stiff.

He discovered that the aura of the boy opposite him did not fade at all even under such high-frequency and high-intensity Spell Arts bombardment.

Logically speaking, Spell Arts, even Qi Refining Perfection, which is so powerful, should feel empty of spiritual power after being used more than ten times in a row.

But the five-color aura around Chu Bai is still dazzling, and even under that Five-Element Cycle, every trace of leaked spiritual power will be reabsorbed and transformed.

Five Phases is mutually reinforcing and perfect.

With the support of [Origin Return Formula]Subtlety Realm, although the total amount of spiritual power in Chu Bai's body is Qi Refining Eighth Layer, its quality and recovery speed have already reached a shocking level.

To him, such an intense fight was just a matter of spiritual energy circulating through his meridians again and again, and the speed of consumption was even comparable to the speed of recovery!

"How is it possible... is the spiritual power in your body endless?!"

Black Sheep finally felt fear. He discovered that although he could heal instantly, each healing required consuming a large amount of Essence Blood and Earth Vein Yin Qi.

And the opponent's Spell Arts is like a sharp knife that will never go dull, chipping away at his roots bit by bit.

"I don't believe it! Come and die!"

Black Sheep knew that he could no longer sit still and wait for death. He suddenly let out a shrill roar, and countless roots shot out from the ground, turning into vine whips all over the sky, trying to drag Chu Bai in the air into the abyss.

However, another hundred breaths passed.

The ruins of Chaos Bone Ridge have been flattened three feet by Chu Bai's Spell Arts.

Black Sheep The wooden body like a hill is riddled with holes at this moment.

The originally pale black bark was burnt black, and large areas of woody tissue were broken into pieces by Geng Metal Force. Even the roots connected to Earth Vein were penetrated and corroded by Chu Bai's Subtlety level Water Method.

Black Sheep screamed in pain. The protective ability he was proud of was on the verge of disintegration under the continuous blows from Chu Bai.

"What a terrifying lethality... what kind of monster are you?!"

Black Sheep's heart is full of despair.

He originally wanted to rely on his realm and defense to drain the opponent, but he did not expect that his own Ten-Thousand-Year Evil Wood would be crushed by a Qi Refining Eighth Layer boy using the simplest basic Spell Arts.

Chu Bai stands in the void, [Jade-Nurturing Gourd] around his waist is flowing with emerald green, and his eyes are still as calm as the frozen lake.

"That's all."

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