The locust tree spirit's voice was sometimes male, sometimes female, sometimes yang, sometimes yin, emitting a chilling and eerie laugh that sent shivers down one's spine.
"You're probably the one facing imminent death!"
A sharp glint flashed in Li Yao's eyes. His figure flickered and erratically, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, leaving countless shadows in the air.
"ah?"
Which one is him?
The locust tree spirit felt a blur before its eyes, and countless figures of Li Yao appeared before it, making it impossible to distinguish which one was the real Li Yao.
However, she immediately gave a sinister smile and said, "Do you think that means I can't do anything to you?"
Before he finished speaking, more roots broke through the soil, and more branches stretched out from above, wrapping around all of Li Yao's figures.
"impossible!"
The locust tree spirit suddenly screamed.
She discovered that all her roots and branches had been entangled in nothingness, and all those figures had vanished into thin air.
Meanwhile, Li Yao's true form had appeared before her original form, the locust tree, at some unknown time.
She was immediately startled and quickly mobilized countless roots and branches to weave a large net, which she used to block her own body.
"It's too late to realize it now!"
Li Yao smiled lightly, and the Overlord Divine Spear suddenly thrust out. A dazzling azure light pierced through the air, like an indestructible thunderbolt, instantly shattering and withering countless roots and branches.
Suddenly, a chilling atmosphere descended upon the world.
Time seemed to freeze at that moment, with only the blue light bursting from the divine spear and the terror on the face of the locust tree spirit.
"ah……"
The divine spear, crackling with azure lightning, pierced straight into the trunk of the locust tree spirit. Azure sap spurted out, and the locust tree spirit let out a hysterical scream.
The next moment, the locust tree spirit could no longer maintain its human form, and with a sway, it returned to its original form, the locust tree.
On the deeply wrinkled tree trunk, human faces sometimes appear and sometimes disappear, changing unpredictably, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.
"Your roots and branches are indeed strong and flexible, able to extend for tens of miles. Unfortunately, your body cannot move, which is your fatal weakness."
Li Yao smiled faintly.
"Who...who exactly are you?"
"What...what kind of magic is this?"
"No...it's impossible! I have thousands of years of cultivation, how could I...how could I..."
The locust tree spirit looked terrified.
Her roots, branches, and leaves are visibly drying up and withering away.
The spear stuck in her tree trunk was gleaming with a bright blue light, frantically draining the life force from her entire body.
She no longer had the strength to struggle and became a lamb to the slaughter.
She watched helplessly as her entire body withered away rapidly.
Divine Soul +21!
Physique +20!
Spiritual energy +23!
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Chapter 414 Is He Really a God? (Revised)
The system's notification sounds rose and fell in succession.
Li Yao was surprised to find that he not only gained a lot of physical and spiritual attributes from the locust tree spirit, but also a lot of divine soul attributes.
As the locust tree spirit withered away bit by bit, wisps of black resentment swirled around her original form, the locust tree.
As the Overlord Divine Spear shone brightly with azure light, the black resentment transformed into hideous, distorted ghost faces that continuously vanished.
Li Yao guessed that these resentful spirits were the vengeful souls of innocent people who had been devoured by the locust tree spirit, who were now destined for endless reincarnation.
The large number of divine souls he obtained came from these vengeful spirits.
To his even greater surprise, as the Divine Spear frantically absorbed the locust tree essence, his cultivation level rose once again, reaching the third level of the Golden Core Realm.
Soon, after a cloud of smoke cleared, the enormous old locust tree finally turned into ashes and disappeared.
Silence, deathly silence.
There wasn't a sound in the entire temple; even the wind had stopped at some point.
The surrounding air seemed to freeze.
A group of female ghosts covered their mouths with their hands in terror, their eyes wide open.
Grandma is dead?!
The powerful and infamous Tree Demon Granny was actually killed?!
If anyone had dared to say something like "kill the Tree Demon Granny" before this, they would have thought that person was crazy.
Grandma is a thousand-year-old locust tree spirit with boundless magical power. Who could be her match?
But now, they have witnessed Li Yao kill Grandma with just one move, as easily and casually as stepping on an ant.
Is this... a deity descending to earth?
Suddenly, such a thought popped into their minds.
"Immortal, spare my life! Immortal, spare my life..."
A group of female ghosts knelt before Li Yao once again, kowtowing and begging for mercy.
"Is he... really a god?"
Nie Xiaoqian, standing to the side, stared blankly at Li Yao, her eyes flashing with a complex expression.
"Get up, all of you!"
Li Yao glanced at the female ghosts kneeling on the ground and put away the Overlord Divine Spear.
Only then did he notice that there was a stranger in the temple.
This man had a full beard, straight eyebrows, eyes as black as lacquer, hair as bushy as a dragon, lips as red as blood, and a beard as sharp as a halberd. He held a three-foot-long Xuanyuan Divine Sword in his hand, as if he were the reincarnation of Zhong Kui.
Clearly, this person should be Yan Chixia.
At this moment, Yan Chixia glared at him, his face filled with shock.
He had fought with the locust tree spirit many times and knew that the locust tree spirit was highly powerful. He himself had been injured by the locust tree spirit many times.
Therefore, even though he stayed at Lanruo Temple for half a month, he did not take any action to get rid of the locust tree spirit.
It wasn't that he was unwilling to get rid of the locust tree spirit, but rather that he genuinely couldn't do anything about it.
Just now, he returned to Lanruo Temple and found a young man fighting with the locust tree spirit.
He was just about to step in to help.
However, before he could make a move, the locust tree spirit had already been stabbed to death by the young man.
Even more shockingly, the spear actually drained the locust tree spirit's essence, turning it into ashes.
Clearly, that spear must be an unparalleled magical artifact.
"My name is Li Yao, and who are you?"
Li Yao bowed to Yan Chixia.
"Yan Chixia!"
Yan Chixia also cupped his hands in greeting and said, "Fellow Daoist is truly amazing! You actually killed this thousand-year-old tree demon!"
"Brother Yan, you flatter me!"
Li Yao smiled slightly.
At this moment, a group of female ghosts bowed gracefully to Li Yao and said, "Thank you for sparing our lives, Immortal."
Li Yao glanced at Nie Xiaoqian beside him, then said, "You aided and abetted the evildoer, helping the locust tree spirit harm innocent people; you deserve to be executed..."
"Your Excellency, please understand that we were all coerced by the spirit of the locust tree and had no choice but to commit this grave mistake. We beg Your Excellency to spare our lives."
The group of female ghosts were terrified and begged for mercy.
Li Yao remained expressionless and said calmly, "Considering that you were coerced by the locust tree spirit, I will spare you this time. I will perform a ritual to help you pass on to the afterlife and allow you to be reincarnated."
"Thank you, Immortal! Thank you, Immortal!"
The group of female ghosts were overjoyed and repeatedly thanked them.
"Young master, I..."
Nie Xiaoqian looked at Li Yao with complicated emotions, hesitating to speak.
Li Yao looked at Nie Xiaoqian and said, "You must be Miss Xiaoqian..."
How do you know my name?
Nie Xiaoqian was surprised.
Li Yao ignored him and said, "I still have some questions to ask you, so I won't perform a ritual for you this time."
"It is entirely up to you, young master!"
A hint of joy seemed to flash in Nie Xiaoqian's eyes. She quickly lowered her head and whispered something.
Li Yao shook his head slightly; it seemed that Nie Xiaoqian had misunderstood something.
The reason he didn't perform a ritual to help Nie Xiaoqian pass on to the afterlife this time was because he wanted to use Nie Xiaoqian to lure out the Black Mountain Demon.
The locust tree spirit promised the Black Mountain Demon that Nie Xiaoqian would marry him.
Although the locust tree spirit is dead, the Black Mountain Demon will certainly not let Nie Xiaoqian go.