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Chapter 290 - 176: +50,000 Demon Points
It didn’t matter that Zhong Tianlong had escaped.
SWISH SWISH SWISH!
[Demon Points +2]
[Demon Points +1]
...
The seemingly endless vines attacked relentlessly, overwhelming the entire ruins.
Gu Zheng pushed through the attacks and searched the entire ruins.
Aside from the three God-Hunting Arrows he’d found at the beginning, he didn’t discover any more.
He had, however, harvested four thousand Demon Points.
And that number was still growing.
’Good, keep it coming. I need two hundred thousand Demon Points to break through to the King’s Body realm!’
Previously, Gu Zheng had been wondering how he was going to kill enough Demon Fiends.
Now, things were perfect. These vines were just like Demon Fiends. Their numbers were unknowable, and he could kill them as he pleased, reaping a joyful harvest of Demon Points.
After searching the ruins, Gu Zheng didn’t leave. He continued to walk slowly out of the wreckage, the 360 blades flying around him shredding and mincing one vine after another.
Spirit Capturing, Spirit Capturing, Spirit Capturing!
His Demon Points quickly grew from four thousand to five thousand.
Six thousand.
Seven thousand.
...
Ten thousand!
He kept walking, kept shredding, kept harvesting.
Twelve thousand, thirteen thousand, fifteen thousand...
Twenty thousand!
Twenty-three thousand, twenty-six thousand...
Thirty thousand!
Once his Demon Point harvest surpassed thirty thousand.
The Vine Demon finally realized it was helpless against Gu Zheng; instead of harming him, its vines were being shredded to pieces in massive numbers.
Leaving the landscape littered with severed pieces, the vines began to recede like a tide, rapidly retreating.
"Trying to run now? Too late!"
Gu Zheng let out a short cry and gave chase, his 360 blades continuing to cut and shred the vines.
Then, Spirit Capturing, Spirit Capturing!
His Demon Points continued to rise.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
The vines immediately quickened their retreat.
The vines, which had once covered the landscape like a nest of snakes, now retracted with equal speed.
Gu Zheng pursued them into a dense forest where Yin Qi, baleful energy, and Death Qi mingled with another peculiar aura, all drifting slowly through the air.
The ground of this forest was bare of flowers and grass. The tree branches had no leaves, looking instead like sharp, sinister spikes.
The vines that had retreated into the forest vanished in an instant—or rather, they had all burrowed underground.
Gu Zheng floated just above the ground as he slowly entered the forest.
HUMMM~
The Reversed Soul Scale on his body suddenly began to vibrate and spin rapidly on its own, warding off waves of an invisible Spirit assault.
Gu Zheng activated his Eyes of Golden Flame, ignoring the layers of Illusion Techniques as he ventured deeper.
Soon, the menacing, thorn-covered trees began to move.
This was no Illusion Technique!
Just like the Vine Demon from before, the thorny trees had come alive!
RUSTLE RUSTLE~
WHIP! WHIP! WHIP!
Thick, long, and menacing branches all whipped through the air, striking at Gu Zheng.
SWISH SWISH SWISH!
Glints of cold light flashed as the 360 blades soared to meet the attack, severing branches and piercing the thorny trees’ trunks.
THUNK! THUNK! THUNK!
"SKREEE~!"
A piercing shriek suddenly erupted, like that of a vengeful ghost, echoing and lingering throughout the silent, gloomy forest.
The vibration of the Reversed Soul Scale on Gu Zheng’s body instantly accelerated, pushing back against a Spirit assault that had grown even stronger.
SWISH SWISH SWISH~
Flashes of light erupted from the blades as dozens of them tore through the air, boring into the trunk of the shrieking, thorny Tree Demon.
Within a single breath, they shot back and forth dozens of times, dicing the entire trunk into scores of pieces.
Its roots, in particular, were ground to pulp.
The shriek came to an abrupt halt.
Spirit Capturing!
[Demon Points +49]
’That many?’
A single thorny Tree Demon provided a whopping 49 Demon Points—more than even a third-tier Demon Fiend.
The crucial part was that, based on its aura, this thorny Tree Demon was only first-tier.
’Is this a special trait of Demon Plants?’
Gu Zheng mused as he directed his blades to attack a second thorny Tree Demon.
Then a third, a fourth, a fifth...
Followed by Spirit Capturing each time.
[Demon Points +51]
[Demon Points +50]
...
Each thorny Tree Demon yielded nearly 50 Demon Points.
Ten Tree Demons meant five hundred points.
One hundred Tree Demons, five thousand points!
Gu Zheng moved through the forest, destroying one Tree Demon after another in a ceaseless harvest.
After he destroyed the four-hundredth thorny Tree Demon, dicing it into pieces and absorbing its Demon Points...
A great wind suddenly swept through the entire forest.
RUSTLE RUSTLE~
WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!
A series of strange noises and the sound of the ground vibrating followed.
Gu Zheng ignored the wind and watched as the remaining thorny Tree Demons retracted one by one, disappearing underground.
The entire area was suddenly vast and empty.
"THUMP~"
A soft thud suddenly sounded out.
As Gu Zheng looked over, he saw an earthen mound abruptly explode as a ball of flame shot out from underground.
It had an outer flame of grassy green with a platinum-like core.
The moment it emerged, it released the rich fragrance of fresh grass. The scent was invigorating to the Spirit; it felt as if every cell in one’s body had been activated, leaving an indescribable feeling of comfort and clarity.
’Fire of Life?’
’Oh, wait. Should it be called the Holy Wood Essence Flame?’
Gu Zheng scanned the flame with his Eyes of Golden Flame, the corners of his mouth turning up in a smirk.
Anomalous Fire!
The Vine Demon and the Thorny Tree Demon Fiend had been slaughtered into hiding underground, only to now send out a ball of Holy Wood Essence Flame. It was almost comical.
’They’re offering me a gift, trying to get me to stop.’
It had to be said, the abilities of an Anomalous Fire like the Holy Wood Essence Flame were quite miraculous.
Anyone or anything touched and ignited by it wouldn’t be harmed. Instead, they would be healed. Hidden wounds, poison damage, aging organs, and diseased tissue could all be fully repaired in a short amount of time, restoring the subject to perfect health.
This was because the fiery power contained within the Holy Wood Essence Flame was the Power of Life itself!
Under the influence of such immense Vitality, wouldn’t any living being receive the ultimate baptism?
For this reason, the Holy Wood Essence Flame was also known as the Fire of Life.
With it, severed limbs could undergo Rebirth with ease.
The Vitality from the Giant’s Heart was simply incomparable.
Of course, the Holy Wood Essence Flame was merely an Anomalous Fire; it could not aid in one’s cultivation insights.
Gu Zheng floated toward the flame, and at close range, he felt the rich, surging Power of Life wash over him.
The next moment, he shot backward, then leaped into the air and rocketed toward the sky.
High in the air, his Divine Wondrous power surged. He unleashed his Water Manipulation, a Demon Technique, gathering water vapor from all around and condensing it into a large mass.
The Vitality and Power of Life contained within the Holy Wood Essence Flame were undeniably immense and powerful.
But to collect it, he couldn’t just grab it with his hands, nor could he contain it with his other Divine Wondrous abilities. He certainly couldn’t touch it with a weapon.
The Power of Life was simply too immense; touching it directly would cause a person to literally burst from the overwhelming energy!
It was like taking a nutritional supplement so potent that it became a deadly poison; an ordinary physical body simply couldn’t withstand it.
Even with his Heroic Body, Gu Zheng didn’t dare to try.
There was simply no need.
Gu Zheng had a better way to collect the Holy Wood Essence Flame.
That was to collect Rootless Water!
By using the Essence of Water, condensed from Rootless Water that had never touched the ground, he could collect the Holy Wood Essence Flame and transfer it into another container.
Using his Water Demon Techniques, drop after drop of Rootless Water quickly condensed.
Then, all of the Rootless Water condensed into a sphere.
Gu Zheng controlled the sphere of water as he descended back to the ground. Still using Water Manipulation, he split the sphere into four parts, which then closed in from four directions until they enveloped the Holy Wood Essence Flame at their center.
FWOOM~!
The fist-sized, grass-green flame entered the sphere of water, where it pulsed gently like a scene captured within a crystal ball.
’Success!’
With a surge of his Divine Wondrous power, Gu Zheng examined the Holy Wood Essence Flame floating within the sphere of water. He then fashioned an Earthenware Jar on the spot, perfectly sized to hold the sphere.
He then capped it with a stone lid and placed it in his Storage Leaf.
The Vine Demon and the Thorny Tree Demon Fiend weren’t lacking in intelligence, offering up an Anomalous Fire to make Gu Zheng stop.
SWOOSH~
But with a flicker of his body, Gu Zheng dove straight into the ground.
His Divine Wondrous power surged as he unleashed Earth Manipulation, another Demon Technique, and burrowed deep underground.
’There’s no need for morals or rules when dealing with Demon Fiends and other evil creatures!’
Collecting two hundred thousand Demon Points was no small feat for Gu Zheng.
’Now that I’ve found a target I can harvest so quickly, I’m not about to give up just for one ball of Anomalous Fire.’
But after descending less than two hundred meters, Gu Zheng stopped.
’Danger?’
A subconscious premonition warned him that danger awaited if he went any deeper.
Extreme danger, at that!
"...Fine."
Gu Zheng’s sharp brows lifted, and he descended no further.
’Fifty thousand Demon Points isn’t a small amount, anyway.’
’Besides, I also got the Holy Wood Essence Flame.’
With that thought, Gu Zheng turned and headed back up, returning to the surface.
The moment he emerged, the scene before his eyes suddenly changed.
The gloomy forest had transformed into a world of ice and snow!