Chapter 868: Tree Person
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Xue Xuanle gritted her teeth hard and looked sorrowful.
Nonetheless, after looking resentfully at the unpredictable giant tree, she made the wisest choice by turning around and running toward the forest’s periphery.
Xue Boren’s face changed, but he immediately used his body technique to catch up to her. Although they were going out of the Forest of Death, the periphery was still full of danger. Without the protection of Ou Yangming—a formidable formation master—even the Advanced Spiritualist must be careful and advance step by step. If they were careless, they would only suffer a miserable end.
Once they left, 2 figures walked out from the dark.
King Kong and Big Yellow widened their eyes and looked at the queer tree, but they were not worried. This was because they did not sense Ou Yangming seeking their help through the spiritual connections between them.
Big Yellow blinked and asked, “King Kong, what’s this?”
The king kong scanned the giant tree but could not figure out its species. It could only shake its head and answer, “I have no idea.”
Big Yellow stuck out its tongue and said, “It’s a pity that the goshawk left, or it can take a look at this, lest it falls into a similar trap in the future.”
The goshawk was a high-rank spirit beast, but it suffered a lot when it entered the Forest of Death.
After becoming a Venerable One, King Kong had grasped the Changing Art and became the size of a human, hence it could move in the forest with ease. Big Yellow did not have any problems as well since it was much smaller than most spirit beasts.
On the other hand, the goshawk had a different size and was sadly a bird, so it had wings that were larger than its body.
Due to the dense dead Qi that was lingering above the forest, the environment here did not suit it at all.
Therefore, King Kong and Big Yellow were the only ones that followed Ou Yangming deeper into the first, but they were more than enough help for him.
Big Yellow went around the tree and asked, “This thing’s strange indeed. Should we go inside?”
King Kong answered after a moment of hesitation, “Master asked us to wait outside.”
Even though Ou Yangming was swallowed by the tree, he was clearly not in danger and could communicate with King Kong, so they did not need to worry about him.
Nevertheless, Big Yellow blinked and uttered, “Oh no, oh no.”
King Kong was puzzled. “What?”
“Hmph, Lil’ Ming left me here while he’s having fun inside. He’s not being a good friend at all!” While Big Yellow spoke, it suddenly pounced on the giant tree.
King Kong’s eyes lit up, and it moved but stopped in a split second. Through its strength as a Venerable One, it could sense that the giant tree did not have the kind of unusual change from before.
Big Yellow jumped on the tree for some time, but the tree was still not moved. Not to mention that weird entrance, even the tree itself did not shake at all.
King Kong frowned. “Big Yellow, stop fooling around. This tree must have a secret activation technique, so Master must’ve accidentally triggered it and was sucked inside.”
If another spirit beast was jumping up and down in front of the king kong, it would have slapped that beast so that the beast would respect it. However, it was helpless against the big yellow dog.
This was because Ou Yangming had a special relationship with Big Yellow, thus the king kong dared not do anything to the bold fellow.
Big Yellow blinked and said, “Since Lil’ Ming could do it, I can surely do it too.” It squinted its eyes and released its mental power.
King Kong twitched its mouth and thought, ‘What’s Master’s identity? He’s the Phoenixes’ messenger, so how can you compare with him?’
Despite that, the giant tree suddenly moved after a brief moment.
Quickly after, a deep and dark hole appeared and released an enormous suction force that seized Big Yellow right away.
Not to mention that Big Yellow was unprepared, even if it was ready for this, it could not have resisted the forceful suction force.
“Woosh…”
It took only an instant for Big Yellow to disappear from the giant tree, and the entrance even closed after it went inside.
The whole process was as swift as a sudden clap of thunder, so much so that King Kong could not even react at all.
By the time it reached out its massive hand to grab Big Yellow, the fellow had long disappeared.
King Kong was startled for some time, and it was furious.
‘Is this giant tree playing tricks with me?’
It extended its hand and was going to hit the giant tree when it halted halfway. This was because it was suddenly struck by a thought. ‘If I destroy this tree, where am I going to find Master and Big Yellow?’
King Kong changed its mind and scoffed, then it simply placed its palm on the tree.
‘Master didn’t let me follow him but now that Big Yellow’s also devoured by this tree, I can’t just wait and watch here.’
With that, an immeasurable power was channeled into the tree. It was a Venerable One’s valiant power, which was far greater than that of Ou Yangming and Big Yellow.
Even so, King Kong could only withdraw its hand angrily after 15 minutes, and it looked rather frustrated.
It had released all of its power, but the giant tree was still unmoved and was not going to open up its entrance. Instead, the tree seemed to show signs of crumbling because it let out too much power.
Feeling helpless, King Kong could only curb its power.
It wanted to reunite with Ou Yangming and Big Yellow, but the tree’s entrance was its only path. If it were to destroy the tree, who knew where it could find Ou Yangming and Big Yellow?
King Kong walked around the giant tree twice then helplessly communicated with Ou Yangming through their spiritual connection.
Fortunately, the connection was not cut off, which meant that they were not too far apart.
After a brief moment, King Kong settled down because Ou Yangming was still not in danger. Having said that, just as it sighed a breath of relief, another peculiar change happened.
The giant tree began to shake intensely, and it shook in such a huge margin that one would worry that it might break.
King Kong was dumbfounded. After a while, the giant tree actually uprooted itself. Following that, its roots became entangled with each other to form 2 thick, human-like feet, then it walked in front with its humongous body.
“This… A tree person? I must’ve seen a ghost!” King Kong twitched its mouth and waved its hand but put it down again.
Tree people belonged to an incredibly bizarre race, such that they never even appeared on the 10,000 Beasts Ridge before.
In any case, the fact that this tree person had a mysterious space inside its body only made it more abnormal.
King Kong stomped its food and followed the tree as it could not do anything else, but it was infuriated. ‘Once Master and Big Yellow are out, I’ll surely stomp you into bits of wood.
The impatient king kong did not notice that the soil behind the tree person surged strangely and went back to normal after some time while it kept moving forward. Moreover, by looking at the ground, nobody could tell that something had passed by.
It was worth noting that the tree person had a distinguished and unprecedented ability in hiding its tracks.
King Kong and the tree person walked further away and finally went deep inside the forest before they disappeared.
At this moment, a tiny bamboo rat jumped out from the burrow that was left behind because the tree person left.
The bamboo rat did not look back nor did its eyes have lusters, but it was noticeably nimble.
It leaped into the sky and landed on the 2 top-grade ferocious beasts, which suffered together and ended up being killed by Ou Yangming.
Subsequently, the bamboo rat widened its mouth, which was not proportionate to its size, and bit one of the beasts hard.
The fierce beast did not have wisdom, but its body was as tough as or even tougher than that of equal-ranked spirit beasts. That said, its body seemed to have lost its toughness when the bamboo rat ripped off a big part of it without any effort.
At this moment, the little bamboo rat was merciless, fast, and ruthless. Its tiny body was similar to a bottomless hole as it slowly swallowed the 2 mountainous creatures.
The beasts were far bigger than the bamboo rat, but it still managed to swallow their carcasses without missing any bits.
At last, the bamboo rat swung its short tail as though it was very satisfied with its meal. It later looked up to glance in a certain direction, which was where King Kong and the tree person left.
Putting aside the tree person, the bamboo rat was afraid of the king kong. While the king kong had tried its best to curb its aura, a Venerable One was a Venerable One, after all. Even without saying a word or making a move, it was a being that could not be ignored at all.
The bamboo rat could not perceive the king kong’s real strength, but a voice inside its head kept warning it not to provoke that fearsome fellow.
It shook its head and turned its body to jump into the burrow again.
Before long, the burrow surged as the soil at the bottom quickly surged up to fill up the burrow. Furthermore, the soil that moved up did not look new but was black soil that seemed to have withstood countless years of wind and storm.
Additionally, several leaves fluttered in the wind while some fallen leaves on the ground were also stirred up. Nobody could tell if it was a coincidence, but they eventually fell and covered the flattened burrow. At this point, even if an experienced hunter was present, one could not have imagined that a giant tree was previously here.