Below the altar, countless tree people had gathered, rooted in the soil and scattered in all directions, transforming into a lush, green, and reckless forest.
Zhang Ruochen used his Wood Spirit True Qi, condensed into a tree man, and passed by those thousand year old tree men without causing too much commotion.
Zhang Ruochen secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said in his heart that cultivating into the Wood Spirit Treasure Body was indeed able to conceal the truth from the world.
He unfolded his spiritual energy and cautiously spread it out to start probing.
When he withdrew his spiritual energy, he was somewhat surprised. The strength of the Tree People Clan far exceeded his prediction, and there were as many as thirty-five Tree People Kings that had grown for more than three thousand years alone.
Among them, there were even a few Tree People that exuded an even more terrifying aura that sent shivers down one’s spine. According to Zhang Ruochen’s guess, they should be tree people that had grown for four thousand years, and their strength was comparable to that of a cultivator of the Fourth Transformation of the Fish Dragon.
It could be imagined that if he accidentally exposed his movements and fell into the siege of the tree people clan, even if Zhang Ruochen had three heads and six arms, he was afraid that he would be torn apart.
It was imperative to proceed with caution.
“Wow!”
Xiao Hei’s figure, which became the size of a mosquito, flapped a pair of wings and flew out of the hole in the tree trunk, landing below the altar and began to study the patterns on the altar.
“It does have a few real skills, it can actually shrink its body to such an extent.”Zhang Ruochen said in his heart.
One must know that even a cultivator of the Fish Dragon Ninth Transformation who had cultivated the Glazed Treasure Body would only be able to shrink his body by a maximum of ten times, or expand it by ten times, before it would reach its limit.
Xiao Hei’s body had definitely shrunk by more than ten times.
Zhang Ruochen controlled the tree people’s body and continued to move forward, and when he reached the bottom of the altar, he stopped and muttered to himself, “Right now, the bottom of the altar is full of tree people, and if I just blatantly ascend to the altar like this, the strongest amongst the tree people will surely become suspicious. It is necessary to create chaos first to lure them away.”
Zhang Ruochen closed his eyes and secretly mobilised the power of his spiritual energy to communicate the aura between heaven and earth.
“Puffing!”
Under the influence of the spiritual power, gradually, a thick layer of dark clouds appeared in the sky above the altar.
The clouds, getting thicker and wider, completely covered the blazing sun in the sky, not a single ray of light could penetrate through, and the entire world was completely darkened, unable to reach out and see the five fingers.
In the dark layer, there was a “crackling” sound, and the spiritual qi of heaven and earth converged into strands of thunder and lightning, transforming into electric snakes that rapidly travelled across the sky.
“What’s going on? How did day suddenly turn into night?”
“I sense a powerful energy that is condensing in the clouds, if that energy explodes out, it will definitely form a huge disaster.”
“That’s that’s the means of the God of Extraterrestrial Death, the God of Extraterrestrial Death is coming, the God of Extraterrestrial Death is coming!”
The Tree People who had once seen Zhang Ruochen display the power of thunder and lightning all became terrified and began to panic.
Only the Thousand-Year Tree Man and the Tree Man King acted calmly, yet they were also very grave, as if they were on the verge of a great enemy, looking around for traces of the Extraterrestrial God of Death.
No one noticed that just below the altar, the trunk of that one Tree Man slowly cracked open a gap.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhang Ruochen immediately stepped out from the tree man’s trunk, performed Spatial Shift, and disappeared in place. Immediately after, he passed through space again and appeared at the top of the altar.
The moment he ascended to the top of the altar, Zhang Ruochen immediately felt a powerful gravity that acted on his body.
The sudden heavy pressure caused his legs to bend slightly, and the bones in his entire body rattled. However, he quickly adapted and stood straight again.
“At the top of the altar, twenty times gravity unexpectedly appears. It’s a bit interesting, it seems that Little Black was right, this altar is indeed a bit extraordinary.”
Soon, Zhang Ruochen discovered a stone door leading to the ground at the top of the altar.
On the surface of the stone door, there were arcane patterns carved on it, as well as one odd little dot.
At a glance, those patterns and dots looked very much like they had converged into a starry sky.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t carefully study the patterns on the stone door, and revolving his true qi, he struck out with a palm, hitting the stone door.
“With a bang, the stone door shook for a moment, but was not shattered.
Instead, the patterns on the stone door gradually lit up.
Zhang Ruochen let out a light eep and looked at his palm, somewhat surprised.
With his current strength, not to mention a stone door, even an iron door could be shattered with a single palm strike.
However, when he struck down with his palm, on the stone door, there wasn’t even a dent left.
“Use spatial shifting.”
The power of space was the most mysterious, not to mention a stone door, even the hardest substance could penetrate through. After all, any matter, was part of space.
“Boom!”
There was a loud bang.
Zhang Ruochen executed Spatial Shift, but with a jerk, he slammed into the top of the stone door.
Instead of penetrating the stone door, he slammed himself to the point of pain and dizziness.
“Still, my cultivation level is too weak to utilise the true power of space, and I was actually blocked by the inscription on the stone door.”Zhang Ruochen rubbed his aching shoulder and couldn’t help but observe those lines on the stone door once again.
Spatial power could, indeed, pass through all substances in the world, but some powerful inscription patterns could affect space. Unless, Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation reached an even more profound realm, with a deeper understanding of space, he would be able to pass through the inscription patterns.
“Could it be that Murphy Murphy needs a sacrifice in order to open the stone door?”
Zhang Ruochen’s heart gave birth to such a conjecture.
Thus, from inside his storage ring, he took out the Ruyi Treasure Vase, and from the vase, he poured out the blood of the Thousand-Year Tree Man and showered it on top of the stone door.
The blood landed on top of the stone door, emitting a giggling sound, and surprisingly immersed.
The stone door was really absorbing the blood of the Thousand Year Tree Man.
Zhang Ruochen revealed a joyful expression and poured more blood, pouring it down.
The lines on the stone door, absorbing the blood, gradually turned into blood-red lines and marks, spreading out towards the entire altar.
“Rumble!”
The cylindrical altar, which was slowly moving, rotated, erupting into an ear-shattering sound.
A Tree Man King that was closest to the altar was the first to notice the movement of the altar and looked over, just in time to see Zhang Ruochen standing at the top of the altar. It cried out, saying, “Not good, the Extra-terrestrial Death God is on top of the altar, we must stop him, we can’t let him break into the altar.”
That one Tree Man King immediately rushed over and was the first to mount the altar, striking out a branch one metre thick in diameter and sweeping it towards Zhang Ruochen.
“Whew!”
Just the movement of the tree branch set off a strong wind.
On the surface of the tree branch, a layer of metallic light flowed, and each leaf was like a sharp blade. The Tree King’s power was so strong that a single branch swept out, like striking thousands of blades at the same time.
The stone door had already opened a crack, Zhang Ruochen could not possibly escape again at this time, and could only fight the Tree Man King hard first. He could only hope that he would be able to hold out until the stone door opened completely.
Zhang Ruochen stood beside the stone door, cupping the Ruyi Treasure Vase in one hand as he continued to pour down blood. With the other hand, he held the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and swung it out, fighting with that one Tree Man King.
“Boom Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen’s swordsmanship was very skillful, as a sword aura flew out, guarding the airtight area.
The entire top of the altar was filled with sword shadows.
The sword qi chopped off a leaf and severed a branch, all of which flew out, some falling onto the altar while others were shattered into powder by the sword qi.
By the time that one Tree King stopped attacking, it had become bare, not a single leaf, not a single branch left, only a trunk.
“Extraterrestrial Death God you have bullied people too much,” roared the Tree Man King.
Zhang Ruochen stood with his sword in hand and said indifferently, “If you don’t retreat, I’m afraid it’s hard to escape death.”
“What a big mouth, Extraterrestrial Death God, let’s meet you.”The voice of another Tree Man King plant rang out.
A total of nine Tree People Kings rushed onto the altar at the same time, attacking Zhang Ruochen in a closed circle.
Even though Zhang Ruochen had cultivated the Dual Spirit Treasure Body, he still wasn’t arrogant enough to take on nine Tree People Kings at the same time. Moreover, besides those nine Tree Man Kings, there were other Tree Man Kings at the bottom of the altar that were charging upwards.
It could be said that Zhang Ruochen was already in danger, surrounded by the Tree People clan.
“Set up the Heavenly Wood God-Exterminating Formation, absolutely do not allow the Extra-Terrestrial Death God to escape.”
Below the altar, a Tree Man King was presiding over the situation, and together with all the Tree People, they were setting up the formation.
Zhang Ruochen held up his protective Heavenly Deity and continuously executed sword moves while engaging the nine Tree People Kings. However, it only lasted for a single breath before Zhang Ruochen’s Sword Circle and Body Protecting Heavenly Deity were broken.
A tree branch, which struck his left shoulder heavily, directly sent Zhang Ruochen flying.
“Die!”
The attacks of the three Tree King plants struck towards Zhang Ruochen at the same time.
Right at this moment, the stone door at the top of the altar opened completely.
“Wow!”
From the stone door, a blood-red intense light rushed out, transforming into a pillar of light that pierced through the dark clouds in the sky and flew into the vastness of Zeus.
Zhang Ruochen immediately executed Spatial Shift, his body disappearing in mid-air. In the next moment, he appeared beside the stone door and entered it with a flash of his body.
The attacks of the three Tree King plants all fell short, failing to strike Zhang Ruochen’s body.
“How did the Extraterrestrial Death God suddenly disappear into thin air?”One of the Tree People Kings froze for a moment and inquired.
“He he has entered the stone gate,” a Tree Man King said.
“What?”
“What now?”
The stone door, had re-closed.
All the Tree Man Kings all looked at each other, not knowing what to do next?
A Tree Man King that had grown for four thousand years let out a pale voice and said, “Everyone doesn’t need to worry, Lord Tree Ancestor is cultivating in the depths of the altar, and the Extra-Terrestrial God of Death is just looking for death by barging in.”
“Right, the power of the Lord Tree Ancestor, how powerful it is. An Extra-terrestrial God of Death going up against its old man would only end in death.”
That one Tree Man King, who had grown for four thousand years, said, “However, we still need to set up a formation, just in case.”
All of the Tree Man Kings, all of them, retreated from the top of the altar, and began to set up the Heavenly Tree Severing God Formation.
As long as there was a formation, even if the Extra-Terrestrial Death God, by some fluke, escaped from inside the altar, they would be able to deal with it calmly and subdue it.
