ATPnovel Chapter 587: I'll Be Borrowing This Body of Yours
Chapter 587: I'll Be Borrowing This Body of Yours
Beneath the night sky, a deathly stillness fell.Whether cultivators of the Human Alliance or the demon alliance, everyone who witnessed that Immortal realm demon cultivator pierced through by the Moon Spirit Tree's vine found themselves frozen in shock.
The Human Alliance's cultivators were utterly baffled, unable to understand why the demon alliance would suddenly turn on its own kind.
Likewise, the demon alliance's cultivators were equally at a loss, unable to fathom what exactly Tushan Meng intended to do!
"Tushan Meng, have you gone mad?" The Serpent clan's chieftain, Kongsheng, spun around abruptly, roaring furiously toward Moon Spirit Peak yet what answered him was nothing but silence.
"Tushan Meng! Say something!"
Kongsheng's heart burned with unquenchable fury.
At the same time, an inexplicable unease quietly rose within him as well.
He could not fathom, at all, what exactly Tushan Meng intended to do.
"I already told you all, none of you will die in vain. You will become part of my Tushan clan's great enterprise, and the stepping stones for the demon race's grand ambitions as well!" Tushan Meng's voice remained as icy as frost.
And that Immortal realm demon cultivator, pierced through the chest by the Moon Spirit Tree's vine, struggled with everything he had to save himself but he found that no matter how he struggled, he could not free himself from that vine.
He could even clearly feel his own life essence and spiritual energy being ceaselessly drained away by that vine.
Moreover, some inexplicable law seemed woven around that vine, binding his very soul tightly in place, so that he could not even abandon his physical body to let his Nascent Soul escape!
"Save me... save me... save..."
That Immortal realm demon cultivator reached his hand out desperately toward Kongsheng and the others, his voice growing weaker and weaker, ever more hoarse and his physical body was withering away, visibly, at a rapid pace yet everyone present could not help but instinctively take a step back, and not a single one dared step forward.
The Moon Spirit Tree's vine suddenly heaved with tremendous force, lifting that man high into the air.
In the end, that Immortal realm demon cultivator hung suspended from the Moon Spirit Tree's thick branch, like a lantern, swaying gently in the night wind.
Right after, even more vines from the Moon Spirit Tree burst forth violently, lashing out simultaneously at every cultivator of both the demon alliance and the Human Alliance!
"Tushan Meng! I see now that you truly have lost your mind!"
Kongsheng roared furiously, transforming at once into his true serpent form, his massive body flying swiftly toward the Moon Spirit Tree.
Kongsheng raised his head and spat forth black flame, burning toward the Moon Spirit Tree.
The Serpent clan's black flame was, in its own right, one of the world's ten great extraordinary flames, not to mention that it came from an Ascension realm serpent's breath yet that black flame failed to so much as scorch a single leaf of the Moon Spirit Tree, not leaving even the faintest mark of char upon it!
"Heh heh... a bunch of ants!"
Beneath the Moon Spirit Tree, Yuan laughed coldly, the corners of her mouth curving into a look of contempt.
The next moment, ever more vines wound their way toward everyone present!
The Upper Three Realms cultivators of both the Human Alliance and the demon alliance dodged desperately, each employing their own methods, attempting to force open a breach in the formation array but it was all in vain.
In the blink of an eye, two more Jade Simplicity realm cultivators were pierced through by the Moon Spirit Tree's vines.
Their spiritual energy and life essence were greedily drained away entirely by the vines, like water pouring through a broken dam, and they, too, were hung high upon the Moon Spirit Tree's branches and moreover, each time an Upper Three Realms cultivator had their life force drained by the Moon Spirit Tree, that barrier grew thicker still, ever more difficult to shake.
"The array's core lies in the Moon Spirit Tree!" Yun Xi shouted to everyone present.
The moment Daoist Master Yun Xi's words fell, the cultivators of both the Human Alliance and the demon alliance stopped fleeing in every direction, and instead turned as one, charging together toward the Moon Spirit Tree with combined effort!
At this moment, the elders and stewards of the Tushan clan also appeared one after another, blocking everyone's path toward the Moon Spirit Tree.
Bolstered by this invisible formation array covering the entire heavens and earth, the cultivation levels of the Tushan clan's elders and stewards had risen by an entire tier all at once.
Spell after spell exploded in the night sky, one after another, the deafening roars ringing out ceaselessly.
That violent aftershock of spiritual energy was like an invisible giant hammer, smashing down mercilessly upon every inch of the Tushan clan's lands.
Towering mountain peaks collapsed one after another, rubble flying, dust filling the sky.
In that moment, countless numbers of the Tushan clan's fox cultivators, caught in the aftermath of this great battle, were instantly reduced to mist of blood, leaving not even bones behind and those slain fox clan cultivators, their flesh, blood, spiritual energy, and even their very souls, were all transformed into nourishment for the Moon Spirit Tree yet Tushan Meng stood high atop Moon Spirit Peak, looking down upon all of this, seeming entirely unconcerned by any of it.
At the same time, Tushan Jingci, still trapped within her courtyard's formation array, furrowed her brow tightly, gritting her silver teeth, raising her head to look up at that chaotic battle unfolding in the night sky.
The moment she saw Xiao Mo locked in combat with an Immortal realm cultivator, her eyes trembled violently.
She wanted, more than ever, to break through the formation array before her yet she still could not manage it.
What alarmed her even more was that some ceaseless, continuous stream of spiritual energy seemed to be gathering, converging into this very courtyard.
"What's happening?"
Suddenly, Tushan Jingci felt that spiritual energy pouring ceaselessly into her own body.
A heart-rending, excruciating pain surged through Tushan Jingci's body, as though every inch of her meridians were being scorched by raging flame.
She clutched at her own chest tightly, that heart within her chest pounding heavily, violently, each beat as though it might shatter her chest apart entirely!
Large beads of cold sweat rolled ceaselessly down Tushan Jingci's pale forehead, soaking into the hair at her temples.
Roughly a quarter of an hour later, the pain finally began to ease but what followed was a spiritual energy, pure to an almost extreme degree, that began surging wildly through Tushan Jingci's body.
Inexplicably, Tushan Jingci vaguely sensed that her own cultivation level was, without her quite realizing it, gradually loosening.
That Ascension realm now seemed to lie right before her, no more than a single step away.
"Where is this..."
Just as Tushan Jingci's heart filled with confusion, deep within her mind, a woman's voice suddenly rose, without any warning at all.
This woman's voice was extraordinarily pleasant to hear, and extraordinarily vast and distant as well, as though drifting from the very end of ancient, ancient ages, having weathered countless upheavals, carrying within it an indescribable heaviness.
"I've seen your memories. You are of the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox clan, Tushan Jingci... is that your name?"
Before long, that woman's voice rose again within her mind, its tone distant and drifting, as though speaking to herself, and yet also as though seeking confirmation from her.
"Who are you? Get out of my body!" Tushan Jingci gritted her teeth, roaring fiercely at that woman within her own mind.
"I see... now I understand... Yuan, so it was you all along..."
That woman seemed entirely unconcerned by Tushan Jingci's fury and resistance, continuing on as though speaking only to herself, her words carrying, faintly, a note of pity.
"Little girl... I'm sorry..."
"I'll be borrowing this body of yours."