Passing through the invisible barrier, Jiang Yuebai was transported onto a floating island.
The ground was crimson, flas rolled like waves, with scorching heat pervading everywhere. A pitch-black tree stood in the center of the fiery floating island, its branches full of leaves resembling orange-red flas.
"Endless Wood?"
Jiang Yuebai recognized the tree as the current Demon King of the Grass and Wood Clan.
Endless Wood, born in the land of fire, burns every April and extinguishes in November, and its fire is unending and inexhaustible.
The environnt here made Jiang Yuebai extrely uncomfortable, as the vine leaves all over her body curled up, feeling like they were about to be burned dry.
The leaves on the Endless Wood trembled, and Jiang Yuebai was pulled by a force to the base of the tree. Approaching it, she instead felt a refreshing coolness throughout her body.
Orange-red leaves descended from the tree, gently landing on Jiang Yuebai’s forehead. In an instant, she ignited with flas like the Endless Wood, as its Divine Thought poured into her Sea of Consciousness.
The Endless Wood told her this was the Second Layer of the Divine Tree, the real trials lay in the three layers ahead, reaching the top required talent, perseverance, strength, and wisdom without missing any.
The first layer screened for talent, and the second was for little demons of all clans to receive gifts from the Demon King, aiding them in gaining certain advantages in the latter three layers.
"For survival, as nature dictates, inner conflicts within the Demon Clan have existed since ancient tis, hard to cease. Little Immortal Ganoderma, focus on yourself, avoid aningless conflicts, constantly grow toward the sky, and capture more sunlight and rain, that is your mission."
Without many words, the inextinguishable fla on Jiang Yuebai’s body slowly transford into an orange-red leaf in her head’s crown. A tree vine dropped from above in front of Jiang Yuebai, its branches and leaves of the Endless Wood swayed, signaling her to hurry on the road.
Jiang Yuebai touched the leaf on her head, retracted her hand from the heat, summoned the scattered Green Armor Bees into hiding among the white hair behind her back, and grabbed the vine in front of her.
Rumble!
The sound of thunder shook in her ears, the surrounding environnt suddenly changed, from hot to cold in an instant, with a torrential downpour hitting her face.
The feeling of falling with nowhere to rely made Jiang Yuebai cling tightly to the vine in her hand, swinging and spiraling in the gale and rain.
It was pitch-black all around, with nothing visible except for the tree vines swaying in the storm.
No sight of the Divine Tree trunk or floating island, beneath was endless darkness, above was a sky densely filled with clouds.
Lightning tore through the sky, illuminating the world, and Jiang Yuebai saw many little demons showcasing their Divine Skills, climbing upward along their respective vines.
Close to her, a Heaven-Swallowing Frog used its tongue to bind vine as thick as a wrist, leaping upward one step at a ti.
And the Dragon Carp she had seen before, thriving in the storm, using its Demon Art to gather water around the vine, swimming upward against the current.
Further away, Jiang Yuebai saw the Extraordinary People of Sand Scorpion Country, with a scorpion tail retracted, using its two pincers to grip the vine and climb.
Roar!
The Black Mountain Tiger suddenly lunged from the darkness, biting off the Sand Scorpion Extraordinary’s arm in one snap.
"Ahhhhh!!"
Screams echoed through the sky, blood mixed with the heavy rain, the Sand Scorpion Extraordinary fell into the darkness, life or death unknown.
The Black Mountain Tiger, with wings, scanned the surroundings provocatively, flapping its wings, it soared into the darkness above.
The Black Mountain Tiger carries Qiongqi blood, enjoys eating humans, and those extraordinary it ets can hardly escape.
Jiang Yuebai dared not delay, transforming her arm into White Vine, entwining around the Divine Tree’s vine upward. Her demon body of transformation was as light as a leaf, not resisting the raging wind but swinging with its force, saving demonic power, a survival skill learned during her ti in Ten Thousand Wood Forest.
As she climbed upward, shrieks occasionally erupted from above or below, small demons sotis fell, those lucky enough to grab another vine and continue, the unlucky would drag others down too.
Jiang Yuebai focused on climbing, camouflaging herself with demon art as the vine’s protective color, an eerie force in the air, caused her body to beco heavier the higher she climbed, gradually suppressing even her Divine Thought.
This place is dangerous, best to leave quickly.
The chill grew stronger, rain turned into hail as large as soybeans. Jiang Yuebai tightened the leaves on the White Vine to reduce contact with the hail, seeing two little demons fall from high, bleeding, not knowing who attacked them.
After nearly two hours of climbing, to avoid a major battle, Jiang Yuebai changed vines several tis.
Her breath exhaled as ice, cold penetrated her body, the White Vine beca stiffer, her Divine Thought and movents slowed unconsciously.
Since starting immortal cultivation till now, a rarely felt weariness waves over her.
"Can’t sleep!"
Jiang Yuebai slapped her own face, touching a layer of frost, her Green Armor Bees hung frozen in the ice on her hair, the vine beneath her hand started to ice over too.
Further up, Jiang Yuebai saw the wolf-headed Extraordinary from Night Wolf Country clutching the vine, frozen into a statue.
Complete the climb this high was already impressive, unsure if this level could gain the Divine Tree’s recognition, the joining of Extraordinary People with the Demon Clan had no standards, purely luck-based.
Jiang Yuebai shivered, her demon body of Cloud Mushroom Grass unlike her true form, unable to gather Fire Spiritual Energy for warmth...
"Fire!"
Jiang Yuebai suddenly rembered the leaf Endless Wood gave her, a hint of Divine Thought toward the leaf brought warmth throughout her body.
The original protective color vanished, she turned into a fla-wrapped White Vine, fearless of the wind and cold.
Jiang Yuebai reford into her white-haired little demon shape, the fire enveloping her head’s crown and the white vine coiled on her right arm, lit up a small patch of darkness, making her quite noticeable.
Jiang Yuebai glanced overhead, where flash and thunder continued, the clouds were getting closer, likely marking the boundary to the next layer.
Malicious auras emitted from the darkness, those reaching this height weren’t trivial individuals.
Jiang Yuebai scrambled upward, using both hands and feet to speed up.
Roar!!
"Mountain Lord!"
A tiger’s roar resonated with cries of alarm, a dark shadow plumted from above, it was clearly Shen Huaxi.
The situation critical, Jiang Yuebai couldn’t afford to think, instinctively casting her White Vine to ensnare Shen Huaxi’s waist, the imnse drag force caused her arm intense pain, her frail body truly irked her!
Shen Huaxi swung aimlessly mid-air, his face pale, his left shoulder covered in blood, his condition looked dire.
Roar!
Black Mountain Tiger howled, tearing into the air with four Wind Blades, encircling them.
Jiang Yuebai resisted with the Green Armor Bees with all her might, deflecting two, dodging one, the last grazed her head’s vine.
Clutching Shen Huaxi, the two plumted downward, the vine breaking by more than half!
Shen Huaxi’s insides churned, body convulsing, on solid ground, he feared the Black Mountain Tiger demon not, but here in midair, his capability was severely hampered.
As Shen Huaxi moved, they dipped again, the vine held steady by its final thread, the earlier wind blade severed all surrounding vines, Jiang Yuebai couldn’t swap even if she wanted to.
Seeing the Black Mountain Tiger charging in for the kill, Jiang Yuebai furiously shouted.
"Shen Huaxi, if you can’t fly up, crawl back to your Chicken Feather Country!"
For the Iron Feather Country’s Mountain Lord, having wings and potentially dying from a fall was absurd!
Without hesitation, Jiang Yuebai severed her own White Vine, Shen Huaxi’s eyes widened, plunging into the abyss.
"Mountain Lord!"
The Black Mountain Tiger and Jiang Yuebai wrestled, the edge of the cloud platform above them, Yu Xiao reached down, helplessly watching as Shen Huaxi disappeared.
Withdrawing his hand clenched into fists, teeth gritting, Yu Xiao stood, without hesitation pressing into the clouds.
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