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Chapter 623: Severely Wounding the Giant Tree, Reaping the Benefits
Chapter 623: Severely Wounding the Giant Tree, Reaping the Benefits
The Ice Crystal Colossus violently trembled, but at this moment, it showed no signs of launching an attack.
Seeing this, Chu Ning remained vigilant and did not let his guard down.
He casually took out a long spear from his storage bag.
This spear was the treasure he had obtained when he killed Lu Xuedao, and although its power couldn't compare to Chu Ning's Chaos Spirit Sword, it was still formidable.
At this moment, Chu Ning infused his spiritual power into the spear, and it shot out, striking towards the Ice Crystal Colossus.
"Whoosh!"
Seeing Chu Ning daring to take the initiative to attack, the Ice Crystal Colossus became even more furious.
The golden spear had only flown halfway when a wave rippled through the snow mist underground.
The next moment, a massive ice-blue tree root rose and coiled towards the golden spear.
This tree root appeared extremely suddenly and with unparalleled speed.
However, Chu Ning was prepared, and with a slight movement of his mind, the spear shifted sideways by ten zhang, avoiding the tree root.
Then, it flew back!
Only the tree root remained dancing in the air.
At the same time, Chu Ning raised his hand, and several flames appeared in the air.
These flames fell like meteors, striking the snow below.
The location was precisely around where the tree root had just risen.
Accompanied by the meteor-like flames, the thick layer of ice and snow began to melt.
But immediately after, six massive ice-blue tree roots, emitting a cold blue glow, broke through the ice.
As they rose, a thick mist of ice formed, and the falling Heavenly Fire Meteors were all shattered and scattered.
From a distance, Chu Ning calmly observed everything, a hint of a smile flashing across his mind.
One hundred zhang!
After consecutive probes, Chu Ning had roughly determined the attack range of these tree roots of the Ice Crystal Colossus.
The location about one hundred zhang away from him was also exactly one hundred zhang away from the Ice Crystal Colossus.
Having a rough estimate in mind, Chu Ning remained extremely cautious.
He hadn't forgotten that the first time he was attacked by the Ice Crystal Colossus, a tree root had suddenly emerged from below and struck him.
The spear that had flown back now flew out again, but this time, it didn't fly to a distance of one hundred zhang.
Instead, it stopped at around eighty zhang.
Then, from the spear, streaks of golden light resembling the spear itself shot out.
These golden lights formed a golden wall in the air, slashing down heavily.
The attack covered almost the entire horizontal surface of the ice cave.
With such a wide-ranging attack, the power of the golden lights was naturally weaker than a single, focused strike.
However, most of the golden lights easily pierced the snow below.
An eighty-zhang-long gorge formed in front of Chu Ning.
But this gorge had two breaks in it.
The ice-blue glow flashed, and when the golden lights from the strike came into contact with the ice-blue glow, they all disappeared.
The next moment, two long ice-blue tree roots emerged from the snow and waved in the air.
"As expected!"
Chu Ning's eyes flashed slightly as he observed this.
He had been thinking that the Ice Crystal Colossus might have longer tree roots hidden, waiting to suddenly attack when he got closer.
He hadn't expected his guess to be so accurate.
At this moment, as the two massive ice-blue tree roots appeared, Chu Ning no longer hesitated.
The golden spear shot out in the air, slashing towards one of the tree roots.
Seeing this, the Ice Crystal Colossus didn't retract the tree root but instead directed it towards Chu Ning's spear.
At the same time, as the giant tree trembled, numerous leaves fell from the treetops and shot towards Chu Ning.
There were nearly a hundred of them.
These ice crystal leaves flew in the air, and then three by three, they merged into one.
They transformed into more than thirty ice crystal cold beams, attacking Chu Ning.
"Here it comes!"
Chu Ning's expression turned serious as he saw this.
The third volume of the Nine Transformation Body Cultivation Art drove the essence energy, forming a defensive shield outside his body.
He fully activated the Purple Sun Spirit Flame, creating a deep purple flame shield around him.
In Chu Ning's hand, a giant hammer appeared—the Annihilation Hammer!
Having been injured by the cold beams condensed by the ice crystal leaves before, Chu Ning knew that essence energy was condensed on these beams, making them not so easy to deal with.
The Annihilation Hammer, which could be driven by essence energy, should be more effective than the Xuan Xuan Spirit Turtle Shield.
Just as Chu Ning finished these preparations, the cold beams formed from the ice crystal leaves driven by the Ice Crystal Colossus also attacked.
At this moment, Chu Ning held the Annihilation Hammer and infused it with essence energy, then struck towards the several blue beams in front of him.
"Ding ding dang!"
Accompanied by a series of crisp striking sounds, the ice-blue beams fell to the ground one after another.
The Essence Energy attack above the cold light was shattered, and as it fell to the ground, it transformed into ice crystal leaves.
In the blink of an eye, over ten ice crystal leaves had appeared before Chu Ning.
The blue light behind these leaves was already approaching.
Chu Ning swung his Annihilation Hammer.
He struck the blue-cold light, shattering it into ice crystal leaves that fell to the ground.
In just a blink, half of the blue-cold light was knocked down.
The distant Ice Crystal Colossus seemed to realize that these ice crystal leaves couldn't threaten Chu Ning.
As the tree swayed, another wave of leaves shot out.
This time, over a hundred blue-cold rays of light shot towards Chu Ning.
Just as Chu Ning had finished knocking down the previous wave of leaves with his Annihilation Hammer, the hundred blue-cold rays of light attacked.
These rays of light were scattered, attacking Chu Ning from all directions.
Their speeds varied greatly.
Despite Chu Ning's continuous swings of the Annihilation Hammer, creating wave after wave of Essence Energy attacks, he could only knock down seventy percent of the blue-cold light.
Nearly thirty rays of blue-cold light pierced through the Annihilation Hammer's defense and struck towards Chu Ning.
Feeling the forest's chill in each blue ray, Chu Ning's eyes turned solemn, and his Purple Sun Spirit Flame ignited fully.
The deep purple flames outside his body surged, transforming into balls of purple light that met the blue-cold light.
At the same time, his body flew backward.
Fine strands of Purple Sun Spirit Flame flew towards the blue-cold light in the air.
"Ding ding dang dang!"
A crisp sound rang out again as the balls of blue-cold light were struck by the Purple Sun Spirit Flame in midair, falling to the ground and transforming into ice crystal leaves.
Only five rays of cold light broke through the Purple Sun Spirit Flame's defense and attacked Chu Ning again.
However, as they touched the protective shield of Purple Sun Spirit Flame surrounding Chu Ning's body, they fell to the ground.
In two rounds, nearly four hundred ice crystal leaves were knocked down.
The Ice Crystal Colossus became increasingly furious, and all the leaves on the tree started to sway, pointing towards Chu Ning.
However, just as Chu Ning's expression changed and he prepared to retreat quickly, the Ice Crystal Colossus, for some unknown reason, did not launch all its leaves at Chu Ning.
It was unclear whether it was because Chu Ning was too far away for an effective attack or because the tree cherished its ice crystal leaves.
Seeing this, Chu Ning secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but he couldn't help feeling a bit disappointed.
If the Ice Crystal Colossus didn't attack, he wouldn't be able to collect its leaves.
After some thought, Chu Ning didn't retreat but instead advanced, returning to his original position. He tentatively asked, "Fellow Daoist, can you understand me?"
Chu Ning thought that with such formidable strength and obvious consciousness, the Ice Crystal Colossus should be able to comprehend his words.
However, to his surprise, after he finished speaking, there was no response.
He considered trying to communicate with his Divine Sense, but the Divine Sense in this area was heavily suppressed, and Chu Ning couldn't reach the range of the Ice Crystal Colossus.
Moving forward further, Chu Ning still felt it was too dangerous. He didn't think it was necessary to take such a risk.
With a thought, Chu Ning took a few steps forward and raised his hand, and an ancient small mirror appeared in his palm.
It was the Celestial Mirror!
Infusing Essence Energy into the Celestial Mirror, Chu Ning held it and aimed it at the distant Ice Crystal Colossus.
Instantly, a white beam shot towards the Ice Crystal Colossus.
The white light shot out, and in the blink of an eye, it approached within a hundred zhang of the Ice Crystal Colossus.
The Ice Crystal Colossus, just like before, directly lifted two ice-blue roots and whipped them towards the white light.
The next moment, a bizarre scene unfolded.
As the two ice-blue roots touched the white light, they disappeared into thin air.
It wasn't like decades ago when Chu Ning had severed them with his Demon Shadow Halberd; they simply vanished.
"What a domineering power of destruction!"
Chu Ning was secretly astonished.
The Ice Crystal Colossus seemed to realize something was wrong because, at that moment, the white light, after encountering resistance from the two roots, didn't completely dissipate.
"Huala!"
The next moment, several loud noises resounded.
Dozens of ice-blue roots rose from the ground, but they didn't directly touch the white light.
Instead, each root shot out fine, root-like rays of blue-cold light.
Nearly a thousand fine rays of blue-cold light struck the white light from the Celestial Mirror, and then they all vanished into nothingness.
However, at the same time, the white light from the Celestial Mirror also completely dissipated.
Before Chu Ning could react, the dozen or so tree roots danced once more.
Once again, they emitted blue tendrils like root hairs, which quickly converged in the air.
In the blink of an eye, they transformed into a massive ice-blue trunk, hurtling towards Chu Ning!
At the same time, hundreds of ice crystal leaves fell from the ice crystal colossus, converging into a blue glow and rushing towards Chu Ning.
Chu Ning, without hesitation, waved the Celestial Mirror in his hand, releasing a beam of white light.
He directed it towards the enormous ice-blue trunk!
The next moment, Chu Ning retracted the Celestial Mirror.
Before him, three treasures suddenly appeared.
They were the Chaos Spirit Sword, Demon Shadow Halberd, and Annihilation Hammer.
Holding the Chaos Spirit Sword and Demon Shadow Halberd in both hands, he quickly infused them with his spiritual power.
In the next instant, the transparent Chaos Spirit Sword, akin to crystal, and the Demon Shadow Halberd, radiating with overwhelming demonic energy, flashed and disappeared into the air.
Simultaneously, Chu Ning wielded the Annihilation Hammer in his hand, once again countering the ice-blue cold glow condensed from the ice crystal leaves.
Various sounds reverberated throughout the entire ice cave.
The white light from the Celestial Mirror struck the massive trunk formed by the root hairs first.
The white and ice-blue lights simultaneously vanished in the air.
Two powerful forces collided and disappeared, as if nothing had ever happened.
However, an invisible shockwave spread out from that spot.
Below, in the icebound snowfield, a vast gorge appeared, over ten zhang wide and several dozen zhang deep.
At that moment, ice-blue cold beams shot towards Chu Ning.
Chu Ning, employing his previous combat strategy, used the Annihilation Hammer to strike and defend against the first wave.
Immediately, clusters of Purple Sun Spirit Flames erupted, knocking down the ice-blue cold beams one by one.
Just then, a tiny figure emerged from Chu Ning's sleeve, landing on the snowy ground. It collected the ice crystal leaves that Chu Ning had knocked down earlier.
This time, the ice crystal colossus launched more attacks with its leaves than in the previous round.
Even with Chu Ning's full power, nearly three-tenths of the attacks still struck his Purple Sun Spirit Flame shield.
Despite the formidable power of the Purple Sun Spirit Flame, after two waves of ice crystal cold attacks, it couldn't completely withstand them.
Several cold beams hit Chu Ning, ignoring his Immortal Golden Aura and Primordial Divine Art shield, and directly penetrated his body.
A bone-chilling cold emanated from the ice crystals.
However, Chu Ning could clearly sense that their destructive power wasn't as strong as it had been decades ago.
It wasn't enough to prevent him from channeling his spiritual power.
This was because his cultivation had become more robust after breaking through the late-stage Essence Incarnation.
Chu Ning skillfully manipulated the remaining Purple Sun Spirit Flames within his body, enveloping the ice crystals that had entered.
In an instant, all discomfort completely vanished.
Chu Ning's gaze shifted towards the distance.
The Chaos Spirit Sword and Demon Shadow Halberd, which had just been summoned, had already broken through the air and appeared eighty zhang ahead.
They were precisely at the location of the ice crystal colossus' longest roots.
The sword and halberd slashed downwards, severing the two roots.
The ice crystal colossus seemed to vaguely sense something amiss, and these two roots tried to retract quickly.
But it was already too late.
"Crack!"
The Chaos Spirit Sword and Demon Shadow Halberd each cut through a root, emitting two crisp sounds of breakage.
The next moment, under Chu Ning's control, the two treasures pierced the severed roots.
Dragging the roots, they flew back towards Chu Ning.
"Bai Ling, let's go!"
Chu Ning shouted, and his figure flashed as he swiftly flew back the way he had come.
Bai Ling, who had collected all the ice crystal leaves, immediately jumped onto his shoulder.
In the blink of an eye, Chu Ning's figure disappeared into the distance.
The ice crystal colossus, at that moment, began to shake violently once more.
The crisp sound of leaves colliding echoed throughout the ice cave.
The thick ice-blue roots danced wildly, displaying the anger of the ice crystal colossus.
However, one could vaguely see that the range of the giant roots' movements had significantly decreased.
It seemed as if the tree was afraid of extending its roots, fearing another strike from a sharp blade.
This ancient and powerful tree, after being heavily wounded by Chu Ning, seemed to unconsciously develop a trace of fear towards him.
Nevertheless, in the empty ice cave, no one noticed this.
(End of Chapter)
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