amaotonovel Chapter 370 Polar Region 1
Chapter 370 Polar Region 1
"Hey, get up, it's time to change shifts!"
A very young-sounding voice nudged the teammate next to him.
"Ugh! I really don't want to leave. Compared to this, that tent is practically a dilapidated place to live!" Another voice said lazily with a hint of dissatisfaction, "Why so early? Isn't there still some time before the shift change?"
"They say the Third Elder's youngest son has been poisoned. Captain Hatu, who is in charge, sent someone to invite a shaman, but we don't know the situation yet. The First Elder has already sent someone to hold someone accountable."
The young voice carried a hint of pity. Such a huge mess had occurred while Captain Hatu was on duty; the Third Elder would definitely not let him off the hook, and his entire team would probably be finished as well.
"What?" The lazy voice suddenly snapped out of its daze: "What happened?"
"You two! What are you dawdling about here for! Get over here now, something's happened in the dungeon!"
A stern voice, clearly belonging to a superior, coldly rebuked.
"Yes, yes, yes! Captain!"
Then came a series of quick, rustling sounds, followed by a flurry of footsteps quickly moving away.
A tiny bee slowly flew out from the corner.
Something happened in the dungeon?
Senior sister!
Cheng Jiu quickly followed the departing figure; this place seemed to be their barracks.
Flying along, the blond captain at the head broke down the door of every barracks he saw, urging people to hurry up, even waking those who had just fallen asleep fully clothed, including those resting and on duty.
Clearly, things were not simple. The blond captain led a large group of people, rushing towards one place in a great hurry!
The barracks were not far from the destination. We ran through a long corridor and went down two floors.
A damp, gloomy atmosphere filled the air, with black moss being the constant presence here. Its oily, pungent odor stimulated the sense of smell, while the dark orange flames flickered erratically.
Like a dark and damp snake, it sends chills down one's spine.
The iron gate, dotted with rust, was greeted by two guards who immediately saluted when they saw the blond captain leading a large entourage: "Captain Sk!"
"What's the situation inside? What did the High Priest say?"
"Reporting to Captain Sk! Captain Xue'ao and Captain Tulan haven't come out yet. Captain Fei Tu and Captain Yak just led their men in. The Great Shaman said it's extremely difficult and beyond their capabilities!"
The guard spoke in a measured tone, and just from listening to him, you could tell that the situation inside was extremely critical.
"How did that idiot Hatu manage things? She can't even handle a half-crippled guy! She managed to cause such a commotion. Idiot, good-for-nothing!"
Sk could easily tell that the guards, including those he had brought with him, were keeping their eyes down and their minds at ease.
The hierarchy in the tribe is very strict. Although they all know that Hatu is finished, he is still the captain. Sk can curse, but they cannot show it, otherwise they will be the ones punished!
"What did the clan chief say?"
After cursing for a while, Sk calmed down and asked the question that concerned him most now.
"The chieftain said to let the guards handle it first, and if they can't, he and the elders will help." The guard's voice grew lower and lower under Sk's gaze.
Sk was lucky he didn't burst into a tirade. Wasn't this just using them as cannon fodder? These pampered bastards wouldn't budge on any of the benefits, but would make them take the blame for everything!
"Saintess Quya has arrived!" the guard added.
Sk's gloomy expression instantly softened considerably: "You two stay here and guard this place. No one is allowed in, understand?"
"Yes, sir!" the guard saluted and responded loudly.
Cheng Jiu listened to the conversation between the two sides, constantly absorbing information about this clan's territory.
This poisoning must have been caused by my senior sister; she must be in their so-called dungeon.
"Run! We can't hold out any longer!"
"Anyone who dares to retreat will die!"
"Holy Maiden, save me! Holy Maiden, save me!"
Following behind Sk and the others, Little Nine Bee saw an utterly detestable sight: a narrow exit from which countless gnarled, intertwined tree trunks, resembling logs but not quite trees, continuously poured out.
Anyone who gets touched by it will suffer from mild poisoning, like the baby Cheng Jiu saw before, whose skin ulcerated and poison entered its body; or its body will be drained dry and turned into nutrients for the tree tumor.
The guards responsible for the resistance kept fleeing for their lives, and those who were even a little slower would be swallowed up by the tree burl. The four leaders responsible for organizing the resistance stood at the back of the column and kept cutting down the "deserters" who tried to escape.
With wolves in front and tigers behind, the guards could only try to resist, only to be swallowed up by the tree tumor.
Some with weak mental defenses collapsed under these circumstances, even raising their weapons to attack the cruel captain, ultimately becoming victims of his blade.
At the very center of the guard's archway stood an extremely alluring and beautiful woman, dressed in a simple black veil that could not conceal her exquisite figure.
This kind of attire and this kind of woman gave Cheng Jiu a very familiar sense of déjà vu.
Especially the black mist that she released from her hands, constantly resisting the tree tumor.
Demons!
How could they appear here!
Compared to the demons Cheng Jiu had encountered before, this demoness was even weaker. The last time Cheng Jiu met a demon, that demon was at the Dao Integration Realm, but in less than a few months, this demoness's cultivation had reached a level similar to Cheng Jiu's.
This means that the Heavenly Dao has a stronger control over the Xuan Tian Continent; otherwise, it probably wouldn't be able to suppress it so fiercely.
From the Mahayana Realm to the Nascent Soul Realm!
Cheng Jiu had the guts to fight the strongest boss when he was at his weakest, but after he became powerful, the boss was nerfed.
"who?"
"Saintess!"
A cold glint flashed silently in the eyes of these captains. A gleaming sword suddenly slashed through the air, piercing the heart and killing instantly!
Before she died, Saintess Quiya did not know how she died!
A red figure suddenly appeared behind the guards resisting the tree burls, bringing not righteous indignation, but a chilling aura.
When did this person arrive? There are so many of them, yet none of them noticed!
Cheng Jiu looked at the group of terrified guys and smiled like a villain.
"Kill her! Avenge the saintess! Kill her!"
At this moment, the tree stump behind them was no longer their main enemy, but the girl in red, the one who assassinated their saintess!
Cheng Jiu didn't take these weaklings seriously at all. Although he didn't know when they had colluded with the demons, they had no cultivation, no strength, and their only trait was their physical attributes. In Cheng Jiu's eyes, they were nothing more than easy prey.
The main force fighting the tree tumor was still the Black Veil Demon Clan. In front of the tree tumor, these guys were powerless to resist.
"No...don't kill them!"
Just as Cheng Jiu was about to make a move, a familiar voice, like the frequency of radio waves, rang in Cheng Jiu's ears.
It's Senior Sister Yingyue.
Cheng Jiu paused his killing intent, then swiftly knocked the group unconscious, along with the two guards outside, and threw them out.
The tree burl continued to spread outwards. Once it broke through this dungeon, those guys outside would surely become a flesh and blood paradise for this unknown monster.
Cheng Jiu went inside, surrounded by small green flames. These were top-tier spiritual flames, the Azure Flame Heart Flame, whose extreme high temperature caused the tree burl to continuously recede.
When finally a small opening, just large enough for one person to enter, appeared, Cheng Jiu fearlessly jumped down.
The cave was ten meters deep, and beneath this terrifying tree knot was a hollow, empty room.
"Crench!"
Cheng Jiu slightly lifted his foot, and three or four white skeletons were scattered messily in a corner of the room, as if they had just died and were swallowed up.
The stone slabs on the ground are covered with a grid-like network of veins, resembling mycelium, yet not quite.
There was only a green figure in the space, lying weakly on the ground, its chest rising and falling slightly, and a deep wound on its wrist that exposed the bone. Blood kept seeping out and was quickly and greedily devoured by the white net-like structure, and its hand was about to fall off.
"Senior Sister!" Cheng Jiu rushed over and helped her up.
Yingyue is in very bad condition. She has lost blood and is physically exhausted, but the most critical thing is that she has lost all her spiritual energy, which means that her cultivation has been destroyed.
The lips had an abnormal glow, and the person was poisoned!
Without any spiritual power to resist, the poison spread extremely quickly; it's safe to say that being alive now is a blessing from heaven.
Cheng Jiu took out healing pills and carefully fed them to Yingyue. Especially since Yingyue had lost all her cultivation, she simply couldn't withstand the effects of high-level pills.
Cheng Jiu carefully took Yingyue's hand, the surrounding grid structure completely burned away by the Azure Flame Jade Heart Fire.
Cheng Jiu couldn't believe how his senior sister could have made such a commotion in such a disheveled state!
"Master, Junior Sister!"
Cheng Jiu, holding Senior Sister Yingyue, heard that voice again.
"Senior sister, senior sister! It's me, I'm here!"
"Fruit, fruit! Please... please... please don't let it be sold cheaply..."
The sound came out intermittently, and when Cheng Jiu tried to listen again, there was no more. Fruit? What fruit? Where did this fruit come from?
Cheng Jiu looked around at what Senior Sister Yingyue was pointing to, then raised his gaze upwards, finally staring straight at something that was beating like a heart.
Cheng Jiu had a strange premonition that it must be the thing her senior sister was referring to!
"Kueya, that idiot, she can't even handle such a small matter! The shadow tree has already grown up on top of her."
"Hurry up! Although it's still a bit short, if the Shadow Tree grows up, we won't be able to escape either. Let's leave it at that! Take the fruit and go!"
"What about those humans? After all these years, I'm still quite reluctant to let them go."
"A bunch of fools who really think they are some kind of powerful descendants who have fled from disaster, and who are obsessed with restoring the glory of their ancestors."
They're just a bunch of brainwashed bastards. Don't they realize that with their genes, they can't possibly produce any exceptionally talented offspring?
What do you have to be reluctant about? You can have as many of these guys as you want!"
"Damn the Heavenly Dao of this small world, I haven't had enough of enjoying it yet!"
"Hurry up, I'm worried I need to poop!"
"A woman who has been rendered useless, and those good-for-nothings can't even be managed properly."
Look at you, you're such a coward, you see danger everywhere!
"Ku Qing! If the Shadow Tree Fruit changes, the Demon Lord will definitely not let you go. You may not be afraid of mine, but I am!"
Faced with his companion's sarcastic remarks, Jia, who had initially remained calm, instantly retorted with a warning.
The atmosphere instantly calmed down. Cheng Jiu discovered that the secret room allowed him to hear the sounds outside very clearly.
The fruit of the shadow tree?
It must be very important for this group of guys to value it so much!
My senior sister asked her to get it!
Very well, then she will accept it without hesitation!
Cheng Jiu carefully settled his senior sister in, summoned the little cloud beast to protect her, and flew up!
"Damn it, someone's there!"
"It's that new girl that old man brought! How did she end up here? I knew that old man was unreliable!"
"Shut up! Stop!"
You think you can just stop whenever you want? Who do you think you are?
Cheng Jiu ignored them and, with the two demons' eyes blazing with fury, she swiftly plucked out a heart-shaped fruit that instantly fell into her hand!
"Hand over the fruit!"
"Hand it over!"
The two demons couldn't hold back any longer and charged at Demon Cheng Jiu at once!
"Transformation Realm!"
"Still at the Sword Realm Nascent Soul stage!"
Pu Yi received the two demons' expressions and they changed. They had never taken them seriously before. Even if they were at the Great Ascension Realm, as long as they weren't the freaks from the Five Great Sects, they wouldn't take them seriously.
But ever since the Heavenly Dao began to compress their cultivation, their cultivation levels have been declining again and again, leaving them no choice but to be afraid.
They may have the strength, but without the cultivation, they simply cannot win!
Where did this little monster come from?
That Nascent Soul stage cultivator was troublesome enough; if their cultivation hadn't been suppressed to this level back then, they probably would have really been caught off guard and lost their lives.
Cheng Jiu showed no mercy to the two in front of him, his killing moves aimed to kill them one after another.
The two ugly creatures fought with extreme frustration, never expecting that one day they would be forced to this extent by a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator!
"I'll fight you!"
The tall, thin, ugly creature let out a shrill cry, while the short, fat man quickly retreated and fled. Although they were suppressed to the Nascent Soul stage, they were originally Mahayana cultivators. Once they self-destructed, it would be no different from a Mahayana cultivator self-destructing.
Even if we can't get the Shadow Tree Fruit back, it's not a loss to bring down one of the five great sects' geniuses. Perhaps, out of consideration for this, their families will be treated leniently.
The short, fat man noticed it, so how could Cheng Jiu not notice?
brush!
One sword.
Thick, dark blood fell from the sky.
"You actually killed him!"
The short, fat man was dumbfounded. Killing the demon wouldn't solve the crisis. Self-destruction was an extremely complex process. Only certain powerful beings could achieve spatial sealing and forcibly resolve the self-destruction.
Death is merely fuel that accelerates self-destruction.
A long silver rope appeared in Cheng Jiu's hand and flew quickly toward the body that was about to self-destruct, tightly wrapping around the spot where the Shadow Tree Fruit had been.
With a swift and clean knockout, he was about to escape when Cheng Jiu stunned him, realizing he hadn't managed to get away in time!
"Rainbow Dash! Quick! Let's go!"
"Waaah!"
The little cloud beast carried Yingyue and caught Cheng Jiu, escaping at a swift speed.
Everything happened in the blink of an eye.
"Help!"
"help me!"
"Who can save us?"
Cheng Jiu heard countless cries of agony—from children, men, women, and the elderly.
The shadow trees continued to wreak havoc on the land, and these guys, who had spiritual energy but no cultivation ability, had no way to escape.
Cheng Jiu remained expressionless, showing no intention of offering any assistance. When they aided and abetted the evildoer and harmed her senior sister in this way, none of them were innocent.
Including children!
demon!
The victims they trapped in the tent are demons!
How disgusting!
Cheng Jiu, carrying Yingyue, leaped down from the little cloud beast and landed on the waiting white giant beast.
"Run! We have to run!"
"Holy crap!"
The white behemoth asked no questions and obeyed Cheng Jiu's command to run wildly into the distance!