But after such a fierce encirclement, Yang Lingshu had little spiritual energy left.
If he had not swallowed the Origin Core and drawn on the Spirit Pearl's power to keep converting energy for him, he would have been running on fumes two hours ago.
"Will this ever end? Why is he so hard to kill?"
"He broke through twice in the middle of battle. That means he'd been suppressing his cultivation all along."
"Don't let up on Demon Cloud Protection. If that pollen and those spores on his body get inside us, cough... we'll be in trouble."
"Stop... talking! Hurry up and kill him together!"
The four Demon Children surrounded Yang Lingshu. By now, his body looked nothing like it had before.
He had sustained so many different wounds that most of his skin and flesh had been ruined.
Much of his body was now covered in a thick, hard shell like tree bark.
In this "treeman" state, even the Body Cultivator Demon Child, whose strength was his greatest asset, struggled to break through his defenses.
This was the trump card Yang Lingshu had honed through years of cultivating both the water and wood paths.
That hard wooden armor sprang from his one-of-a-kind Origin Core.
Yang Lingshu had used the Origin Core as a seed, watering it with his own lifeblood until it sprouted and took root. With the energy reservoir and Qi Meridians inside him as its soil, it had grown into a hard defense that could cover his entire body.
After a brief exchange, the two-headed Demon Child who cultivated both body and spells attacked first once more, closing in to grapple with Yang Lingshu.
The other three again channeled their spiritual energy into spells, searching for a way through Yang Lingshu's hard bark.
Though this round of