The Tree tribe is unlike the Human Race; there’s no issue of kinship sentint.
Plants need sunlight and water to grow. These natural resources are needed by the Tree tribe, leading to competition.
Take the example of the Redwood Spirit that Feng Jun killed. It wanted to monopolize these resources and controlled its subordinate Redwoods, forbidding them from advancing to the Golden Core.
As for the relationships between different tree species, these might be worse than their relationships with the Human Race.
The Tree tribe has never been a unified group, completely different from the Human Race. Although internal conflicts among humans are not uncommon, they generally can unite against foreign threats—at least there’s this concept.
The Tree tribe lacks even the concept of uniting against outsiders. That’s why the Wood User doesn’t mind dealing with the Lingmu Sect.
The Dragon Scale Tree scheming against the Transpatial Vine doesn’t have any moral pressure. It even stated, "The Transpatial Vine is seriously injured, the Lingmu Sect will back it up, but if I’m seriously injured, you’ll need to provide Spirit Stones for healing."
It thought its reasoning was sound enough to persuade Elder Tiegu. In fact, it was a bit scared.
Elder Tiegu also had his own little calculations, but he understood trade-offs well, knowing when he could take small advantages and when he must prioritize the bigger picture. He knew this was not the ti for petty calculations!
He snorted coldly, "Enough nonsense. They are here to support our battle, and you aren’t lacking Spirit chanisms... Get on with it!"
At this mont, another roar echoed, but it ca from the Transpatial Vine, "Bastard, I’ll kill you!"
The Jade Spore Skyworm, however, blinked and had already moved five hundred miles away.
This was the first ti it had run so far during the fight, but it was genuinely evading, for it had taken advantage of the Transpatial Vine’s loss of control and delivered a vicious blow, controlling the mycelium to viciously strangle the main root near the ground.
The outside world talked about how terrifying the Jade Spore Skyworm’s spores were, but few noticed that the mycelium was highly toxic and had a certain parasitic ability.
Using this move, it imdiately turned around to flee; no predator likes facing a maddened powerful prey, and the Jade Spore Skyworm was no exception. It wasn’t necessarily afraid of confronting its opponent head-on, but if it could reduce so losses, why not?
So far, the opponent was essentially in trouble, giving it enough ti to slowly wear down its opponent.
anwhile, it continued to remotely control the mycelium, continuously inputting toxins—if the opponent wanted to break through the mycelium, they could go ahead. In this process, the Transpatial Vine would suffer more toxin erosion.
Facing such a rogue tactic, this Transpatial Vine was truly unlucky.
"Charge!" Elder Tiegu couldn’t care less now. His face darkened as he fought Yi Jue, yet in his Sea of Consciousness, he cursed the Longlin Wood, "Fool, don’t you understand that when the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold?"
The Dragon Scale Tree had no choice after being scolded. Just as it was about to blink forward, it found the Jade Spore Skyworm blink again, and this ti it ca towards it—indeed, to its left front and right front, there were Jade Spore Skyworms each.
I am trapped! The Dragon Scale Tree instantly retreated another two hundred miles: at least one of these two must not be an illusion!
However, this was still the Jade Spore Skyworm’s deterrence strategy. It circled around in front of the Dragon Scale Tree and then blinked from another direction to the side of the Transpatial Vine, launching another spore, followed by releasing mycelium for a second attack on the Transpatial Vine.
Feng Jun didn’t see the underground battles, but just from the surface manifestations, he couldn’t help but exclaim: this is truly a qualified hunter.
However, this ti, the Jade Spore Skyworm suffered a slight loss. The Transpatial Vine thrashed wildly, rapidly soaring into the sky while twisting its body incessantly, one of the small vines near the ground precisely swept across a pointy mushroom over ten ters high.
The pointy mushroom was swept up into the air, turning into a massive white fat worm, landing over ten miles away.
This strike seed fierce, but for the Skyworm, it was rely a scratch. After landing, it instantly transford into a mushroom and quickly vanished—once it could land, it could enter the earth anyti.
After knocking it airborne, the Transpatial Vine didn’t pursue but twisted its vines even more frantically, with more side vines growing, branches flying everywhere, hitting randomly without distinguishing between friend and foe.
Generally, a vine wouldn’t have many branches, and for the Transpatial Vine, it strived to grow straight upwards; what use were many side branches?
The current madness of sprouting side branches was rely a result of having too much life energy needing an outlet, and side branches were a good choice, allowing its internal spiritual energy to circulate quickly—it wasn’t accustod to this growth, but had no other choice.
Yet its troubles didn’t stop there; the rapid spiritual energy depletion facilitated the circulation of the Skyworm’s poison, causing its thoughts to beco chaotic—its main Divine Sense was very close to the ground.
Elder Tiegu’s face suddenly sank upon seeing this, inwardly exclaiming that things were bad, "Little Dragon, hurry, the Transpatial Vine has gone mad!"
The Transpatial Vine was a spirit plant artificially created by the cultivators of the Lingmu Sect. Initially, it wasn’t cultivated well, primarily due to a lack of control.
Over ten thousand years have passed, and through focused selection, the plants have beco relatively stable, though the process was extrely arduous.
Yet even so, in terms of "effective control," it’s only relatively stable, not absolutely stable.
Once faced with unbearable impacts, especially in terms of Divine Sense, the potential for the Transpatial Vine to go berserk remains significant.
Indeed, this is a Spirit Plant with flaws. However, since the Lingmu Sect currently mainly uses it to prevent spatial rifts, the danger isn’t too great. After all, the plants will continue to be selected, and in the coming ten thousand years, surely more stable plants will erge.
Elder Tiegu doesn’t know much about the Transpatial Vine—he’s not even aware of how many Transpatial Vines there are in the Lingmu Sect, but when he planned to use it in battle, other elders inford him that this thing has its minor flaws.
This ti, Yi Jue used "Thought of Life" in an inexplicable manner, and the Jade Spore Skyworm’s attack on the Transpatial Vine was unprecedented, with spores and poisonous threads, a combat technique far beyond the imagination of the Transpatial Vine.
Thus, it fell into madness, which is perfectly understandable.
Upon receiving Elder Tiegu’s Divine Sense, the Dragon Scale Tree mustered courage, "Why don’t you run?"
It has a contract with Elder Tiegu. Once Tiegu dies, it cannot survive alone. He’s already asked it to escape, indicating the most crucial mont, a ti to fight until the end!
"This lunatic woman is entangled with !" Elder Tiegu was also a bit frustrated. Seeing the state of the Transpatial Vine, Yi Jue the True Immortal seed to have guessed sothing and began attacking aggressively, "In a battle of life and death, I want to drag her down with !"
In truth, he really doesn’t want to run; it’s already a desperate situation where he himself can escape, but the Lingmu Sect cannot run on legs. His plan is to defeat Yi Jue first, to vent his anger and to eliminate a future rival, contributing to the sect.
If he achieves this goal, then the rest is just bonus.
"Fight!" The Dragon Scale Tree Blinked over. It had selfish motives but was absolutely uncompromising when it ca to fighting.
It tead up with Elder Tiegu to attack Yi Jue, taking advantage of the fact that the Transpatial Vine hadn’t been subdued yet. They needed a fast battle, or else once the Jade Spore Skyworm leapt into action, winning this fight would beco difficult.
Thus, their attack thods were extraordinarily fierce.
Yi Jue the True Immortal seed to guess their intentions, and instead began to defend, seemingly waiting for the Skyworm’s success.
When she focused on defense, she was stable like a Mystic Turtle of ten thousand years, defending while loudly speaking.
"Agreed to a duel, yet you use the Dragon Scale Wood, fine, but also using this external vine? Don’t you have any sha? I am curious why you haven’t summoned your Lingmu Battle Formation?"
She had long wanted to say this, but the battle had been too intense to spare any attention. Now, with an attack and defense phase, though fierce, it was a conventional combat tactic, just consuming a lot of Spiritual Energy, allowing her so mind to speak.
"Hmph," Elder Tiegu huffed coldly and responded boldly, "This object cos from our Lingmu Sect’s exclusive spirit woods, temporarily entrusted by our sect leader. To guard against sneak attacks; I use one to protect key areas, one for self-defense. Why can’t I use it?"
His choice of the Transpatial Vine was indeed significant. Otherwise, borrowing spirit woods from others was an option too. Despite knowing the Transpatial Vine had flaws, he persisted as he felt his actions were justified!
Even if destined for social death, he cared for his dignity. Spirit wood assigned by the sect was within his right to use. Was this reasoning justifiable? Judging by the onlookers’ eyes, roughly no, but it seed more reasonable than "other cultivators disliked you, hence lending help out of camaraderie."
"Actually, you could bring out the Lingmu Battle Formation," Yi Jue smirked disdainfully, "Feel free to try, to see if I have thods to restrain the Lingmu Battle Formation."
Everyone knows, the Spirit Plant Sect has always been researching ways to counter the Lingmu Battle Formation, and there’s been so progress—cultivating Spirit Insects, using poisons, and the Five Elents Pros and Cons Technique.
The Five Elents Pros and Cons Technique reportedly made considerable progress, though it’s not very stable and costs too much.
With Yi Jue saying so, maybe she carried sothing to test in actual combat.
However, Elder Tiegu didn’t fall into the trap, knowing perfectly well if he really deployed a battle formation against Yi Jue, aside from the sect’s loss of face, the watching cultivators wouldn’t consent.
He sneered, "Transpatial Vine, attack!"
Fatefully, this was when the Transpatial Vine got attacked again. The Jade Spore Skyworm didn’t approach but manipulated threads from afar, attacking the vine’s roots for the third ti—which stabilized everything!
As the Transpatial Vine was going berserk, receiving this command, it turned and spotted a towering tree nearby, thrashing its vines viciously—what attacked turned out to be a plant!
Watching the sky-full of vines sweeping over, the Dragon Scale Wood was dumbstruck, "Ah?"
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