Divine Lord Giant Wood truly had no intention of fighting Shi Zhu here. Outside, earlier, he might have, but his main reason for inviting him into the palace for a meal was to seek his cooperation.
He merely saw that Shi Zhu's present temperament was utterly different from his previous life's, and wanted to help undo the seal so that he could recover his past-life memories.
Divine Lord Giant Wood knew Old Man Withered Bamboo's former temperament inside out. How could he possibly think highly of a sinful dragon that had cultivated into a spirit? And willingly take it as his master? It was disgraceful!
Although Divine Lord Giant Wood regarded the Two Elders of Great Wilderness as followers of the unorthodox path, he actually acknowledged their strength. Shi Feiyang, on the other hand, he looked down on, and he believed the Two Elders of Great Wilderness would look down on him too.
Once the seal within Old Man Withered Bamboo's primordial spirit was removed and his old memories and temperament restored, he would surely find it shameful to have become that dragon spirit's disciple in this life.
Divine Lord Giant Wood would not even need to persuade him. Old Man Withered Bamboo would consider it an intolerable humiliation and go back to kill the dragon spirit himself!
Yet he had never expected Old Man Withered Bamboo to resist so fiercely. Right from the outset, he shattered the Jade Ring that Divine Lord Giant Wood had painstakingly refined, then united the Xuanyuan Nine Swords into one to destroy his Heavenwood Divine Needle!
The Heavenwood Divine Needle was a supreme treasure bound to his very life. He absolutely could not allow anyone to destroy it.
The Xuanyuan Nine Swords were now immensely powerful. Beneath the heavens, only Purple-Green Unity could offer