Chapter 150 - 145: The Divine Wood Sect’s Grand Elder! Total Destruction

Chapter 150: Chapter 145: The Divine Wood Sect’s Grand Elder! Total Destruction

"I’ll take you on!"

Lin Huayang roared, his body erupting in green light as he donned a cyan-green Vine Armor.

Relying on this Vine Armor, Lin Huayang shot toward Jiang Zuo like a bolt of lightning, intending to engage him in close combat.

Jiang Zuo knew these three were no match for the disciples from before. He didn’t dare to be careless. With a thought, he too unleashed his full power.

Blood God Skill, Life Essence Returning Skill, Golden Qi Jade Body Skill, and Nine Revolutions Returning Essence Skill—all four Cultivation Techniques activated at once!

In an instant, Jiang Zuo’s body swelled to nearly two and a half meters tall. Auras of crimson, cyan, gold, and earthen yellow—all sorts of incredibly powerful energies—swirled around him!

At a glance, he looked like a Demon God descended to the mortal world!

But what was truly formidable was the powerful physical body forged by his Body Freedom Technique.

The four Cultivation Techniques could erupt with such astonishing power only because Jiang Zuo possessed such a formidable physique.

’This is his full power? How could a mere mortal possibly reach this level!’

Lin Huayang was closest to Jiang Zuo and felt the aura radiating from him most intensely.

He felt that if he got any closer, his life would be in danger!

But Lin Huayang had no path of retreat; his task was to tie down Jiang Zuo.

Besides, he wasn’t wearing this Iron Bone Vine Armor for nothing. No matter how powerful the man before him was, he could withstand a blow or two.

BOOM!

Jiang Zuo threw an overwhelmingly powerful punch. Lin Huayang didn’t dare to meet it head-on, merely crossing his arms to block.

An immense force struck him, driving Lin Huayang’s feet deep into the earth. The Iron Bone Vine Armor on his body flashed wildly, looking as if it was about to give way.

Fortunately, however, Master Jianqin had gotten close enough by then.

Master Jianqin silently pointed at Jiang Zuo, and in an instant, vines as thick as wrists sprouted at his feet.

The vines rapidly grew up along Jiang Zuo’s legs, binding him completely in a flash.

"Trying to trap me? Break!"

Jiang Zuo roared as a brilliant golden light flared from his body.

Streams of Gold Qi condensed into small blades that slashed wildly from his body.

The vines instantly shattered, inch by inch.

But Jiang Zuo was still trapped by the vines for that single instant.

Seizing that momentary opening, Master Jianqin produced a Talisman.

"Nine Wood Celestial Prison!"

A square cage made of nine ancient logs descended from the sky, trapping Jiang Zuo within.

’They’re this desperate to trap me. What are they planning?’

Jiang Zuo took a deep breath, gathering all his strength to shatter the cage.

"Well done!"

Fang Changtao floated over at that moment.

He watched Jiang Zuo with a strange smile and tossed a small, dark-green bead at him.

Before the bead could even touch Jiang Zuo, it burst apart with a POP.

A sinister, dark-green mist instantly enveloped Jiang Zuo.

"Junior Brother Fang, what is that?"

Sensing the sinister and unusual aura, Lin Huayang’s expression changed.

This wasn’t what they had agreed upon earlier.

He had never heard of the Divine Wood Sect possessing such a technique.

In his eyes, this method was no different from those of demonic practitioners.

"Lin, don’t worry. This was given to me by Elder Ge before we entered the Secret Realm. If you don’t believe me, Lin, you can ask Elder Ge yourself after you leave."

"Now that he’s been hit by this, he’s no longer a threat. You can rest easy, Lin."

Fang Changtao said with a smile.

Not far away, Master Jianqin frowned at the cloud of dark-green mist enveloping Jiang Zuo.

Fang Changtao had said there was no need to worry, but she felt a faint sense of foreboding.

Whether it was from the dark-green mist or the outsider it shrouded.

Inside the mist, the moment he was enveloped, Jiang Zuo held his breath.

But he still felt a stinging pain on his skin.

The dark-green mist had directly broken through Xiaoqing’s invisible protection, then shattered his Golden Qi Jade Body. Even the formidable physique he had cultivated with the Body Freedom Technique, which was comparable to a Dao Foundation, offered no defense.

Then, Jiang Zuo felt a sharp pain in his mind.

"Hahaha! What a powerful body! What terrifying talent!"

"To think that I, Wu Zhonghai, could obtain such a powerful body with limitless potential!"

"Not only is the body this powerful, but he has even opened a Sea of Consciousness!"

"The heavens are truly helping me! If you hadn’t opened your Sea of Consciousness, I wouldn’t have been able to possess you!"

An ecstatic voice echoed in Jiang Zuo’s mind.

Immediately after, the figure of an old man appeared in Jiang Zuo’s Sea of Consciousness.

The old man had an ethereal, immortal-like air about him, giving off an unusual feeling. One look and you could tell he was someone who had long been in a position of high authority.

"Sea of Consciousness, here I come... what is that?"

The old man had just entered the Sea of Consciousness, intending to use it to seize control of this body that satisfied him so greatly.

But the moment he entered, the old man stared at the unmoving stele in the center of the Sea of Consciousness, and a cold sweat suddenly broke out all over him.

He had a strong feeling that if he made even the slightest wrong move in this Sea of Consciousness, his soul would be scattered to the winds in an instant.

’Possession?’

’Someone almost possessed my body?’

Jiang Zuo was both shocked and enraged.

He had never imagined that he would encounter an old cultivation monster trying to perform a possession in a mere Dao Foundation Secret Realm.

But the fact that he was nearly possessed by this treacherous old bastard named Wu Zhonghai still infuriated him, even though he knew he had probably been set up as a scapegoat for some Divine Wood Sect disciple.

’What a Divine Wood Sect! What a Ten Great Sects!’

Jiang Zuo ignored Wu Zhonghai in his Sea of Consciousness, steadied his mind, and focused all his strength into his hands.

He then ducked down and burrowed into the ground.

In that instant, Master Jianqin sensed something.

"Watch out!"

she warned urgently.

But Fang Changtao, assuming Jiang Zuo would certainly be possessed by Wu Zhonghai, had already lowered his guard.

Hearing Master Jianqin’s warning now, he was stunned for a moment.

Then, a figure violently erupted from the ground in front of him, grabbed his neck, and lifted him into the air.

"No—"

A terrified look appeared on Fang Changtao’s face.

But before he could finish his sentence, Jiang Zuo had already smashed a fist into his head.

CRACK!

In an instant, Fang Changtao was a headless corpse.

"Flee!"

Without a second word, a green light appeared beneath Master Jianqin’s feet, and her entire body vanished into it in an instant.

On the other side, Lin Huayang saw Fang Changtao die. His expression changed, but he also knew that if he didn’t leave now, death was the only path left.

He then followed Master Jianqin’s example and left the Secret Realm.

This was a Secret Realm that the Divine Wood Sect had managed for thousands, even tens of thousands of years. As long as one wasn’t trapped by an isolating Array, they could leave at any time with a Talisman.

"Fang is dead!"

"We have to escape too!"

Seeing Fang Changtao dead and Master Jianqin and Lin Huayang fleeing, the distant Divine Wood Sect disciples were horrified and chose to leave as well.

Wen Yusheng, in particular, left the Secret Realm almost at the same time as Master Jianqin.

In a flash, the bustling Cyan Wood Secret Realm was left with only Jiang Zuo.

"Old man, who are you in the Divine Wood Sect?"

Jiang Zuo tossed Fang Changtao’s body aside.

He had calmed down considerably by now and spoke coldly to Wu Zhonghai in his Sea of Consciousness.

"I have but one name, and I do not hide it. I am Wu Zhonghai, the Grand Elder of the Divine Wood Sect!"

In the Sea of Consciousness, Wu Zhonghai was initially alarmed and uncertain. But after confirming that the Mysterious Stele in the Sea of Consciousness wouldn’t do anything to him as long as he didn’t try anything rash, he temporarily set his mind at ease.

Hearing Jiang Zuo’s question, Wu Zhonghai immediately replied with arrogance.

"Grand Elder of the Divine Wood Sect? I’ll give you one choice: get the hell out of my Sea of Consciousness right now! I might consider letting you live."

Jiang Zuo said in a low voice.

"Little brother, you are still too young. If you had any way to deal with me, would you still be talking to me so civilly?"

"While I admit I can’t possess your body for now, your Cultivation is too shallow to do anything to me either."

Hearing this, Wu Zhonghai chuckled sinisterly.

’Considering letting him live? That’s complete nonsense. Anyone who was nearly possessed would, if they had the means, kill the one who tried to possess them at the first opportunity. If he actually listened to me and left my Sea of Consciousness, he would truly be signing his own death warrant.’

"Not leaving? Are you planning to wait until I die of old age and then possess my body?"

His intentions exposed, Jiang Zuo wasn’t the least bit embarrassed. Instead, he asked the question.

"Haha, that is exactly my plan."

"Although your talent is astonishing, with me here, you can forget about cultivating peacefully. In a few hundred years at most, I’ll outlast you!"

Wu Zhonghai laughed drily.

’He admitted it so readily? This is probably just a front. This old bastard most likely has other tricks up his sleeve. The most likely possibility is that the higher-ups of the Divine Wood Sect have a way to track my location through Wu Zhonghai! If I fall into the hands of the Divine Wood Sect, even the Mysterious Stele won’t be able to help. After all, when a person dies, their lamp is extinguished. If I were killed, the Mysterious Stele might even fall into Wu Zhonghai’s hands.’

This possibility was very high. Jiang Zuo instantly formed a plan, but for now, he pretended not to know.

"How about this? Why not make a deal with me?"

"I will no longer try to possess your body. I can even help you with your Cultivation, making your progress faster than ever before!"

"Before I lost my body, I was a great senior expert at the late-stage Perfection of the Dao Fruit Realm, just one step away from advancing to the Manifestation Realm!"

"As for you, you only need to join the Divine Wood Sect and become a pillar of support for the sect once your Cultivation is accomplished."

"This way, my goal is achieved, you don’t have to lose your body, and you even gain endless benefits!"

Wu Zhonghai said to Jiang Zuo in an extremely tempting tone.

Wu Zhonghai’s words were indeed very tempting.

The Divine Wood Sect was one of the Ten Great Sects of the Human Continent. Agreeing to Wu Zhonghai’s offer would be equivalent to gaining access to endless Cultivation resources.

Ascending to godhood might be an exaggeration, but reaching the Dao Fruit Realm would be no problem at all.

Unfortunately for him, Jiang Zuo just sneered at the offer.

Ignoring Wu Zhonghai, Jiang Zuo had a thought and released twenty Mutated Pangolins and ten Mutated Gray Rock Rats from his Pet Beast Spirit Garden.

These Mutated Pangolins and Gray Rock Rats had all been taught the Blood God Skill by Jiang Zuo, and every one of them had reached Grandmaster Cultivation.

"How do you have so many Pet Beasts? What else are you hiding?"

Seeing Jiang Zuo’s action, Wu Zhonghai was shocked and couldn’t help but ask.

But Jiang Zuo paid him no mind, simply ordering the Mutated Pangolins and Gray Rock Rats to start digging into the ground.

Originally, with that Daoist Array in place, Jiang Zuo had only planned to search for treasures on the periphery, let his Pet Beast Spirit Garden absorb some more Spiritual Qi, and then leave when the three-day limit was up.

But now, the Divine Wood Sect had angered him, and they had even gotten rid of the Array themselves.

This was the perfect opportunity for Jiang Zuo to dig up the entire Secret Realm and wreak some serious havoc.

’If this Cyan Wood Secret Realm were gone, the Divine Wood Sect would surely be heartbroken, wouldn’t they?’

And by digging through it all, perhaps he might unearth some good things for himself.