"Fellow Daoist Gong, you... you can suppress them?"
Luo Jingwei and the others stared, dumbfounded. This fellow had been nothing more than an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator not long ago. How had he become so powerful?
Someone like him might enjoy a measure of dignity as an immortal master in the eyes of mortal people, but in the cultivation world, such people were a dime a dozen. At best, he could only be considered mediocre.
But they soon realized what was happening.
This was precisely the power he had gained from his earlier fortuitous encounter-the power of laws born from the same source as the woodblight!
Without a teacher, Gong Chi had mastered the power to command the Wood Dao. These demons formed from plants and vines were all transformations of divine ability, and he could control them at will!
All he needed to do was withdraw the power within these demons and spirit monsters, or even slightly disrupt its circulation. No matter how powerful a creature spawned by the woodblight was, it could not withstand a casual blow from him. There was no need for a strenuous battle.
True great powers likewise wielded the authority of the laws of the Dao, rather than relying on brute force.
"Heh, we really were lucky this time. Fortunately, Fellow Daoist Gong has the power to suppress these monsters. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to get in here anytime soon," Elder Xiu said beside them, smiling broadly.
They explained what had happened. It was indeed thanks to this that they had the strength to spare to come over.
Li Ling had previously ordered them to withdraw promptly, but before they could leave completely, they had seen the plants here mutate, and Gong Chi happened to be able to suppress them.
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