"Itâs you!"
"Itâs me!"
As the words fell, the Sacred Body erupted, aura shooting straight into the heavens, making the sky itself change color.
Qingzhouâs strength made him wary in his heart, not daring to hold back in the slightest.
"Suppress!"
Qingzhou bellowed.
The ancestral tree shuddered, shooting out strands of terrifying aura like a spiderweb, suppressing the space, dozens of times more solid than before.
At this moment the ancestral tree was no longer merely activated; it had fully erupted.
The aura Chen Xuan unleashed had faintly reached the Peak of Eighth Layer, and he also commanded the Rule of Space.
To prevent any accidents.
He chose to reinforce the space once more.
Qingzhou had already thrown everything aside; he wanted Chen Xuan dead!
Chen Xuanâs expression tightened. With forty percent control over the Rule of Space, space was like a part of his own body.
But...
"What a solid space. Forget Divine Footwork, even the Rule of Space itself canât tear it open for a while!"
"Since thatâs the case..."
"Kill!"
Chen Xuan steeled his heart. If he couldnât escape, then heâd kill!
White jade staff in hand, he charged straight at Qingzhou.
Strike first to seize the advantage!
Even facing Qingzhou, he felt no fear at all, even...
"Die!"
Qingzhou stretched out both hands, ten fingers firing out ten green vines, sealing off all of Chen Xuanâs angles.
In an instant the vines behaved like living things, immediately weaving together, practically forming an independent space that enveloped the two of them.
Seeing this!
Chen Xuanâs Spiritual Power roared out, surging forth clearly, and poured into the white jade staff.
"Break for your daddy!"
He swung with full force; the white jade staff burst with a dazzling white radiance.
"Boom!"
The vines trembled, but... that was all.
Chen Xuanâs full-power strike hadnât even managed to damage a single vine.
"What?"
Chen Xuan froze, pupils snapping tight, unable to believe it.
"Just you?"
Qingzhou looked at him with contempt. These were left behind from the body of their ancestor; and he thought he could break them? Ridiculous!
"Fuck!"
Chen Xuan cursed, but it was aimed at the white jade staff.
Wasnât it supposed to be insanely strong in his memories?
It couldnât even handle a couple of vines.
"Hooâ"
He directly stowed it into his sea of consciousness, then looked toward Qingzhou without the slightest panic, completely calm.
"Even if youâve trapped me, so what? Youâre just at the Peak of Eighth Layer, thatâs all!"
"âThatâs allâ?"
"What a big mouth!"
Qingzhou looked at him with disdain. "Then let this old man see what strength you have to back that kind of tone!"
"Boom!"
His figure flashed, and in an instant he appeared just a step away from Chen Xuan.
He threw a punch.
Seeing this, Chen Xuan likewise punched out!
"Bang!"
Chen Xuan was blasted away by that punch, slamming into the vines.
"Fuck, that hurts!"
Peak of Eighth Layer was indeed strong. If not for having fifty percent Sacred Body, that one punch could have blown him apart.
But that punch had still left him heavily injured.
However...
A surge of pure energy appeared, and in the blink of an eye he was fully recovered.
Then he smiled brightly at Qingzhou.
At this moment Qingzhouâs right hand had withered like a dried corpse; his face was full of horror. His lifespan had dropped by a hundred years in an instant.
And his right hand actually couldnât recover!
Qingzhouâs expression changed drastically!
This was... the Rule of Time!
He instantly recalled a top expert of the Tree-man Race who had tried to forcibly take that strip of bark from the Primordial Spirit Wood, only to become a dried corpse in the blink of an eye.
"You took the bark our ancestor left on the Primordial Spirit Wood!"
Qingzhou jerked his head up, but now his eyes held none of the former confidence, only wariness. He, an expert at the Peak of Eighth Layer, almost at Ninth, actually felt wary of someone whose realm was only Fifth Layer.
Absurd as it was!
But the Rule of Time... and his corpse-like right hand reminded him that he absolutely must not have the slightest physical contact with him again.
Moreover, after taking his punch, heâd recovered in an instant.
That meant...
"Heh heh!"
Chen Xuan grinned. "Well? Surprised? Didnât see that coming, did you?"
He spread his arms, and an ancient, vicissitude-filled aura completely enveloped him.
Then he looked at him with extreme arrogance.
"Come on then, hit me!"
Qingzhouâs eyes were almost spitting fire. When had he ever suffered such humiliation?
But that ancient aura around Chen Xuan made him not dare step forward; even when Chen Xuan so much as moved, he quickly pulled back to open up distance.
"Werenât you going to kill me?"
"Whatâs wrong?"
"Iâm like this already, and you still wonât make a move!"
Chen Xuan tilted his head back, eyes closed, arms spread wide, a picture of someone offering himself up for slaughter.
Yet that act made Qingzhouâs face burn hot.
"Hmph!"
"Even so, you still canât get out of here!"
Hearing that, Chen Xuan slowly opened his eyes. The mockery from before was gone. Indeed, it was just as he said.
These vines came from the ancestor of the Tree-man Race. Even his full-power strike couldnât shake them, and even the Rule of Time couldnât affect them.
After all, theyâd long since lost any Life Qi, and besides that he could only draw on a very small amount of time aura.
"Whatâs wrong? That face is starting to look pretty ugly, isnât it? Trapping you here in the Tree-man Race...
Slowly torturing you would be even better, wouldnât it!"
Seeing the change in Chen Xuanâs expression, Qingzhouâs heart suddenly felt cheerful.
"Is that so?"
Just then, a familiar voice came into the space formed by the vines.
"Thatâs Elder Zhan!"
The next instant, a giant palm descended from the sky. Its appearance made even heaven and earth change color as it slammed hard into the vines.
"Bang!"
In only a brief moment, the vines were blasted open with a gaping hole.
"What?"
These were vines from the Tree-man ancestorâs body!
Chen Xuan seized the opportunity and instantly escaped.
As for Qingzhou, he was completely stunned. Another of the Human Race, and that aura... above Ninth Layer!
"Elder Zhan!"
Chen Xuan flashed to Zhan Tianâs side in an instant.