Deacon Zhou Jiaqian made a hand seal and used his own spiritual power to condense a bowl-shaped cover to block the front, like a heavy stone wall.
More than a dozen vines pierced the surface of the shield, making a "dinging, clanking" explosion.
But the tree demon was not stupid either. He manipulated the vines to bypass the cover and continued to stab everyone present.
"Challenge us all, so crazy!"
Seeing this, Ye Feng stretched out his hand and easily grasped several vines that were stabbing at the Piaomiao Sect disciples.
"Slash to the ground!"
At this moment, Deputy Commander Zhou Jiacai jumped up, holding the long sword of the spiritual weapon with both hands, the muscles of both arms bulged, and he chopped it down with all his strength.
A five-meter-long sword fell to the ground and successfully cut through the vines of the century-old tree demon.
However, the tree demon was not injured. Instead, he was angered by everyone's obstruction. His body rose to five meters high, and his hands turned into huge wooden hammers and hit everyone.
"Hide quickly!"
Everyone retreated one after another.
"The tree demon should be afraid of fire and attack with fire!"
Mo Ying said rationally, and then she used the spell "Flowing Sword Qi" to slash down with her sword.
"Fire Cloud Palm!"
Shi Lei, Huo Yunjie, and Li Jiaojiao took action at the same time, using all their strength to cast this spell, creating a blazing flame.
"Colorful falling flowers!"
Jia Yulan made a secret with her hands, and countless petals were like sharp blades, slashing towards the century-old tree demon.
Everyone else also took action together.
Two ninth-level Qi Refiners, several seventh-level Qi Refiners, plus Wang Dachui and other members of the escort team who came after hearing the news, released dozens of spells at the same time.
Even though the hundred-year-old tree demon was very strong, it was still blown away by everyone's spells. His whole body cracked, broke through the brick wall of Zhou's courtyard, and fell to the street.
Ye Feng and others chased him out and found that the century-old tree demon had fallen in the ruins? It was motionless, most likely it was cold.
Everyone raised their eyes and looked around.
There were many wounded lying scattered on the street? Some were members of the Black Guards, and some were passers-by.
Just now, they were the ones who made the first wave of resistance, but unfortunately they were all severely damaged, or even perished.
"Strange? How could this tree demon bypass the guards of our Baifu City? And then appear here?"
Ouyang Hao looked worried and confused.
Baifu City is a one-star city and is heavily guarded. If the defense line can be crossed so easily, then this place is no longer safe.
"Look here!"
Long Tianxing waved to everyone and pointed to a tree pit beside the street, "I found that there are residual aura patterns here, which are very close to the aura of the tree demon."
The others quickly turned their spiritual eyes and looked at the obviously newly dug tree hole. They did see subtle spiritual energy patterns, which should have been left just now.
"As expected of the Blue Spirit Eyes? Observation is meticulous." Ye Feng looked at Long Tianxing with admiration in his eyes.
He walked over, pointed to the street trees on both sides of the street, and said, "Deacon Zhou, are the trees around here all transplanted from outside the city?"
Zhou Jiaqian was stunned.
Such a trivial thing? How could he know?
"I remembered! Were these trees planted here just this morning? I heard they wanted to plant more trees on both sides of the road to beautify the streets."
What did the old lady of the Zhou family remember? "I got up early at that time and was walking with my maid, and happened to see a group of strangers planting trees? I asked casually, and I just remembered it now."
When everyone heard this, they had different expressions.
"Could it be a coincidence?"
Zhou Jiaqian muttered.
Ye Feng looked around and fell into deep thought.
"After a century-old tree demon was dug up, it was transported here, and it didn't wake up until now. It was not discovered by anyone. There may be something fishy in this."
"The tree demon arrived in the city in the morning. At that time, no one knew that our Piao Miao sect would come to the Zhou family."
"So, if this incident is not a coincidence, then it is a conspiracy against the Zhou family."
"We, the Piaomiao Faction, should have been involved by chance."
Thinking of this, Ye Feng secretly worried about the Zhou family.
He felt that this was probably a conspiracy, and who was behind it was unknown.
Click!
Suddenly, the centuries-old tree demon that fell to the ground heard the sound of wood breaking, and it stood up again. A large amount of wood fell off the surface, revealing a gray demonic mist half as tall as a man, which was constantly churning.
"It's the soul of the tree demon."
"Be careful of being possessed by it!"
Each of the Zhou brothers burst out with their strongest auras, preparing to block the tree demon's spirit body.
puff!
The soul body of the tree demon ignited a strange flame, and everyone on the street suddenly felt as if they were being stared at by a terrifying beast, and their scalps instantly became numb.
This is the spirit body of the tree demon choosing a target to seize the body!
The next moment, the spirit body of the tree demon moved.
It flew straight to the little white fox in Li Jiaojiao's arms, trying to snatch it away.
"Don't be touched by the soul of the tree demon, otherwise, your own soul will be injured." Zhou Jiaqian reminded loudly.
"ah!"
The little white fox was stared at by the spirit body of the tree demon. His hair exploded on the spot and he lay trembling in Li Jiaojiao's arms.
"You even dare to touch the mountain-guarding spiritual beasts of our Miao Miao sect. Are you looking for a fight?"
Ye Feng rushed forward, blocked the front, pushed with his hand, and pulled out the Lingyuan Bell that expanded to two meters high. With a "dang" sound, the soul of the tree demon was trapped in it.
Due to the special sealing effect of the Lingyuan Bell, the tree demon's soul quickly fell into a deep sleep and turned into a special flame, floating next to the huddled Brother Flathead.
Ye Feng waved and took back the Lingyuan Bell.
"What kind of spiritual weapon is this? It can even absorb the soul of a century-old tree demon." Zhou Jiaqian looked shocked.
"This is the spiritual weapon of our Piao Miao sect, and its power is not bad." Ye Feng said.
Hearing this, Zhou Jiaqian scratched his head.
He had heard before that the Piaomiao Sect was very poor, but now it seemed that those were all rumors. How could a very poor sect have such a special spiritual weapon?
However, Zhou Jiaqian didn't think much about it. He cupped his hands towards Ye Feng and said, "Thank you so much, Master Ye, for taking the initiative. Otherwise, once the tree demon soul takes over or escapes, our Zhou family will definitely be severely punished by the deputy city lord."
"You're welcome."
Ye Feng looked at the bright moon in the sky, then looked around, and felt that there should be no other tree demons, so he said: "It's getting late, we should go back to the sect."
"good."
Zhou Jiaqian nodded.
Being attacked by a century-old tree demon tonight, he and Zhou Jiacai still had many things to deal with, such as reporting the situation to the deputy city lord and tracking down those who planted the trees, so they could no longer care about entertaining guests.
"Farewell!"
Ye Feng left with the disciples of the Miao Miao Sect and quickly walked out of the east city gate.
…
Half an hour later.
Ye Feng lay on the roof of the head hall to enjoy the cool air, resting his head on his hands, preparing to sleep.
"Ding, it is detected that the sect's reputation value exceeds 100, and the side mission is started." The system prompt suddenly sounded in Ye Feng's mind, startling him.
"Nah! Is this dog system trying to scare me to death?"
Ye Feng rolled his eyes and saw a few more lines of light blue text in his sight.
[Side mission: Increase the reputation of the sect to 1000]
[Task period: one month]
[Task reward: The sect receives a small amount of luck blessing, the cultivation speed of all creatures is increased by one-third, and the difficulty of breakthrough is reduced by one-third; small gift pack × 1]