The ck-robed young woman’s control over nts and vegetation had to do with her Dao of medicine. Coupled with the technique she cultivated, it created something like an innate divine ability that she could use tomunicate with and manipte all types of nts.


    Although the Sky River Court was adept with spatial maniption magic, their ultimate reserve power was the Dire Skybanyan. It was only natural for people who practiced cultivation on the huge tree to develop a connection with nts and vegetation. In fact, all disciples of the Sky River Court eventually formed a bond with a lesser skybanyan, which they could use as a weapon in battle!


    Such an arrangement was less of an external maniption of the nt, and more of a bonding in which the nt assisted the cultivator!


    However, Bai Xiaochun’s abilities werepletely and utterly different. Using his skill in the Dao of medicine, and the Magic nt Arsenal, he didn’t seek to bond with or gain assistance from the nts, he sought total control!


    He was skilled with techniques of mutual augmentation and suppression, and was familiar with how to fuse different types of nts and vegetation together. Coupled with his Heaven-Dao Foundation Establishment cultivation base and nine crystallized spiritual seas, he was capable of domineering feats that were beyond other Foundation Establishment cultivators!


    This young woman was a Chosen from a Middle Reaches sect. Were it not for that, she would have long since been crushed by Bai Xiaochun. Even still, her struggles were proving useless!


    “Begone from me!” he said, voice echoing like thunder, his eyes shining with strange light. With that, he waved both hands.


    In response to his berating words, the tempest of nts and vegetation had no choice other than to turn in ce and shoot back toward the ck-robed young woman.


    Complete incredulity could be seen in her remaining eye, and she almost seemed incapable of epting the situation. By this point, she also realized that she had been tricked into the situation with the ck parasol.


    She was already bing terrified of Bai Xiaochun’s battle tactics, especially that parasol. However, what was worst of all was that Bai Xiaochun hadn’t given her any chance to effectively utilize her spatial maniption magic. His third eye made her feel like she waspletely and utterly exposed no matter what she did.


    Without spatial maniption magic, it was difficult to utilize any assassination techniques, and also impossible to be invisible. It was almost like trying to fight with a limb having suddenly been crippled. She felt weaker than ever.


    After experiencing so many setbacks, she finally decided to resort to her magic of nts and vegetation to kill Bai Xiaochun. And yet, contrary to anything she could have imagined, he wrested control over her nts and vegetation as well!


    “I refuse to ept this!!” she shrieked, her remaining eye more bloodshot than ever. She was almost on the verge of going crazy. As a Chosen of the Sky River Court, she had always been a proud and arrogant person, someone who could easily crush anyone in the same cultivation level as her. In fact, she was only a hair away from Gold Core. Never before had she ever encountered a situation in which someone in the same stage as her could control her so easily!


    As the tempest closed in on her, she let out a miserable shriek. Then, she suddenly dropped to the ground and nted both hands down in front of her. Looking up, she shouted, “Treesoldier Incantation!!’


    Suddenly, brown tendrils began to spread out from her feet and bore into the ground, tendrils that almost looked like roots!


    At the same time, every portion of skin visible on her body was suddenly filled with bulging green veins, to the point where her skin looked like the surface of a nt!


    As her skin turned green, her life aura suddenly erupted, transforming from that of a cultivator to that of a treant!


    The Treesoldier Incantation was a legendary secret magic of the Sky River Court that allowed a cultivator to transform into a treant!


    “I refuse to believe that you can wrest away my control of nts and vegetation!!” she yelled hoarsely. As of this point, she hadpletely transformed into a huge treant!


    Rootlets spread out from her feet into the ground, causing the energy of the nts and vegetation to surge toward her.


    In the blink of an eye, she was huge, fully 300 meters tall. From a distance, she almost looked like a true skybanyan!


    When the tempest of nts and vegetation hit her, it instantly submitted to her, swirling around her before converging onto her right hand, where it formed the shape of a battle-axe!


    It was a green battle-axe formed from countless types of nts and vegetation, and it radiated power that caused the surrounding jungle to tremble. By this point, the battle between this young woman and Bai Xiaochun was starting to attract quite a bit of attention.


    “Time to die!!” she roared in a sonorous voice, her killing intent surging. With that, she lifted her tree-like arm into the air and then shed the battle-axe down toward Bai Xiaochun.


    As it descended, the power of nts and vegetation surged and grew, until nearly half of the power of the entire jungle was converged into that deadly blow!


    An intense sensation of deadly crisis erupted inside of Bai Xiaochun. By this point, his control over the Blood Annihtion World had weakened to the point where it had copsed. The resulting st caused even more people to take notice of what was happening.


    “That’s Sect Uncle Bai!!”


    “Elder Sister Tong!!”


    As cultivators on both sides of the conflict began to cry out in rm, Bai Xiaochun took a deep breath and then closed his eyes. Then he raised his right hand, not to perform an incantation gesture, nor to rotate his cultivation base. Instead, the image of a huge spike appeared in his mind!


    As that spike appeared, the water vapor in the area began to swirl, growing denser and thicker, filling an entire 50-kilometer area.


    Within that area, cultivators of both the River-Defying Sect and the Sky River Court trembled as a sensation of crushing pressure began to weigh down on them.


    Even the Gold Core cultivators up in midair looked shocked!


    The young woman in treant form was also shaken. However, there was no time to ponder the situation at the moment. Instead, she focused fully on sending the battle-axe shing down toward Bai Xiaochun.


    Closer and closer it neared....


    Bai Xiaochun’s clothing and hair were even being destroyed by the power of the iing battle-axe....


    When the axe was only about nine meters away from Bai Xiaochun, his eyes suddenly snapped open, and when they did, a terrifying wind sprang up as the entire 50-kilometer area was filled with a watery swamp!!


    “Waterswamp Kingdom!” he murmured, almost as if he were calling out to something or someone. Although his words were spoken softly, they caused even Nascent Soul cultivators to tremble.... A roar suddenly echoed out, a roar like that from ancient times, a roar that filled the world with profound ancientness!


    Heaven and earth trembled as the roar increased in intensity. In the blink of an eye, heaven-shaking, earth-shattering rumbling filled all creation. Every cultivator in the area was trembling, and the young woman in treant form had a look ofplete and utter incredulity on her face.


    The moment that look appeared on her face, and even as her battle-axe descended, the image of a huge spike suddenly appeared around Bai Xiaochun!


    30 meters. 300 meters. 3,000 meters. 30,000 meters!


    Rumbling sounds echoed out in all directions as the spike rose higher and higher. Furthermore, after it reached 30,000 meters in length, more rows of spikes became visible beneath it. All light dimmed, and a huge wind screamed across thends!


    The young woman had no chance tond a blow on Bai Xiaochun. The spike stabbed through her, and she screamed as she was pushed higher and higher into the sky!!


    Even as despair washed through her, the young woman reverted from treant form back into human form. Blood sprayed out of her mouth, and her eyes began to grow dim. She was panting on the verge of death!


    Powerful fluctuations rolled out across thends. Just barely visible within the dense water vapor were row upon row of spikes, as well as an enormous body!


    However, even the 50-kilometer wide swamp wasn’trge enough to contain that enormous body, making it impossible for anyone to tell exactly what type of creature it was!


    In any case,pared to that enormous creature, the young woman impaled on its spikes was almost too small to see....


    All cultivators in the area looked on with total shock. The process didn’tst long, only a few breaths’ worth of time. Then the Waterswamp Kingdom creature let out a bellow before slowly fading away. The water vapor vanished, and everything returned to normal. The pressure disappeared, and the body of the young woman fell down from the sky andnded in front of Bai Xiaochun with a thud.


    Blood was oozing from wounds all over her body. She was now hovering on the brink of death, her eyes filled with bitterness and rage as she stared at Bai Xiaochun. Using herst bit of energy, she opened her mouth to curse him.


    However, even as her lips moved, he waved his sleeve, and the blood sword which he had formed from Elder Zhou’s blood shed down and took off her head!


    Her head tumbled off to the side, her remaining eye growing dim. She was dead in body and soul!


    The blood sword slowly faded away....


    Just as Bai Xiaochun had said, he used that sword to take her life away. Blood for blood!


    Without saying a word, he collected her bag of holding, then sighed and turned to leave. However, it was in that very moment that an anguished howl echoed out from off in the distance.


    “Junior Sister Tong!”