Sitting and forgetting longevity

Chapter 1988 Between Creation
A fierce wind howled across the battle platform, swirling up fallen leaves, but it could not sweep away the vibrant life that rose against the odds.

Not long ago, this place was a purgatory where lightning whipped through the sky and electric fire swept across the battlefield. The entire battle platform was scorched and broken by the power of the heavenly tribulation, as if the end of the world had arrived.

As soon as Liu Qinghuan's Dharma form appeared, the world changed. Towering trees supported the sky, and everywhere one looked were lush green leaves that shimmered with a soft light, making one feel as if they were in a vast forest.

As the wind blows, the leaves sway gently, and the fresh scent of grass and trees washes away all the killing and violence, leaving one with a sense of peace and tranquility.

However, the discussions among the practitioners below the stage were not without merit. Few people would cultivate plant-based Dharma forms because such Dharma forms are indeed more defensive than offensive.

Xuan Yin quickly realized this as well. Seeing that his full-force inhalation had failed to shake the giant tree in the slightest, he opened his mouth and spat out a ball of dark green demonic fire.

As soon as the demonic fire appeared, the surrounding space was instantly burned, distorted, and collapsed, emitting a piercing "sizzling" sound.

The flames suddenly surged, like a ferocious fire beast lunging at the nearest branch!

A loud sizzling sound suddenly arose, and the jade-green leaves were surrounded by flames, curling, withering, and turning to ash at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Wood fuels fire, making the fire burn even more fiercely, and it looks like it's about to get out of control.

Xuan Yin Dharma Image roared with laughter, spewing out even more balls of demonic fire that rained down on the giant tree like falling meteors!

An aura of destruction swept in all directions like a hurricane, the giant tree trembled in the wind, and fiery clouds spread rapidly from its branches.

Just then, a slender figure suddenly stood atop the giant tree; it was Liu Qinghuan.

He held a blue wooden bottle steadily in his palm, his aura was profound and unfathomable, and he seemed to blend into the giant tree.

Xuan Yin Fa Xiang's gaze suddenly sharpened, locking onto the wooden bottle.

The bottle was no more than half a foot tall, its body plain and unadorned, with a piece of withered wood sticking out at an angle inside, bearing only a few tender leaves.

It looked ordinary, yet it was surrounded by an indescribable aura of the Great Dao, which stirred his mind and made him unable to look away for even a moment.

Liu Qinghuan lowered her eyes to look at the surging demonic fire below, and sighed inwardly.

Xuan Yin's strength was indeed unparalleled, forcing him to use his trump card, the Creation Universe Bottle.

The Law Artifact, made from the Dew Bottle of Ten Thousand Trees and imbued with the Immortal Root of Creation, is his most relied-upon trump card and ultimate weapon for survival, aside from his natal artifacts of "Heaven, Earth, and Man".

On the bottle, five strong and winding ancient root patterns are coiled, each representing a fundamental law of life.

The next instant, Liu Qinghuan gently pinched two fingers together and slowly pulled out the Immortal Root of Creation from the bottle, with a few drops of clear and lustrous water dripping from the root.

The water droplets had barely left the immortal root when they swelled in the wind, instantly transforming into a sky full of drizzling rain, gently sprinkling across the world.

Where the rain passed, the raging, man-eating demonic fire in the sky was instantly extinguished, like ice and snow meeting the scorching sun.

Raindrops fell on the charred and broken giant tree, and the branches that had just been burned by the demonic fire grew and regenerated at a speed visible to the naked eye. The branches became more vigorous and powerful, and the new leaves were as lustrous as jade. In the afterglow of the remaining fire, it exuded an even more magnificent and overwhelming vitality.

In the blink of an eye, destiny changes.

The giant tree stretched out all its branches in the rain, becoming even more magnificent.

Xuan Yin stood there, stunned, his pupils shrinking, his eyes filled with disbelief.

That bottle...

The cultivators below the stage were also in an uproar.

Before anyone could react, a series of whooshing sounds rang out, and countless branches broke off from the trunk. After being burned by demonic fire and nourished by sweet dew, these branches became somewhat different, turning a deep blue-green like iron and sharp as arrows, shooting towards Xuan Yin!

The earth suddenly began to tremble violently, and a rumbling sound came from underground. The next moment, countless tree roots, like giant dragons, burst out from the ground!

These tree roots were no longer in a defensive posture, but rather like countless sharp blue spears, shooting towards Xuan Yin's Dharma form from all directions with unparalleled sharpness.

With a fierce attack, Xuan Yin sneered, swung his large hand out, knocking away many wooden arrows, and then grabbed a few roots and pulled them hard!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Those tree roots were forcibly torn off, and then he threw them into his mouth, making crunching sounds as he chewed them.

"It tastes good!" Xuan Yin sneered. "You didn't come here to bring me some snacks, did you?"

It's just a bit too hard...

He frowned slightly, unable to chew it, and simply swallowed it whole.

He opened his mouth wide and inhaled deeply—a rain of wooden arrows fell into his mouth as if into a bottomless black hole, swallowed whole.

But there are always some who slip through the net.

Those tiny wooden arrows, as small as toothpicks, pierced his body like needles, causing a dense, stinging pain.

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"

Despite Xuan Yin's best efforts to devour and evade, the sound of piercing continued to ring out.

Neither the tree roots nor the wooden arrows are now particularly afraid of his demonic fire; they are only charred on the surface when burned.

Wooden arrows kept piercing his charred, hard body, embedding themselves deep inside, while tree roots coiled around him, also drilling into his body.

Xuan Yin had never encountered such a situation before. He could devour the heavens and earth, but he could not devour those seemingly endless small branches.

So, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Xuan Yin was almost turned into a hedgehog by the needles.

"This...this...this is outrageous!" Li Shan covered his face and chuckled, "Brother Liu is too mean. His move doesn't seem very harmful, but it's quite insulting!"

Taiqing, however, saw through the trick and solemnly said, "You're wrong. This is probably Fellow Daoist Taiwei's killing move..."

Before he finished speaking, a hint of green suddenly appeared on the surface of Xuan Yin Dharma Image's body, and a tender sprout grew out from its charred black lines.

The next moment, countless green shoots sprouted wildly, taking root, sprouting and spreading rapidly, nourished by the flesh, blood, fire and even magic of the demonic figure!
"what--!"

Xuan Yin let out an extremely shrill scream. He could clearly feel that his Dharma form was being frantically eroded and disintegrated from the inside!
Those tender shoots were like maggots clinging to bones; no matter how he burned them with demonic fire or crushed them with demonic power, he could not get rid of them at all. On the contrary, the more he suppressed them, the more wildly they grew.

His proud Great Devouring Technique could devour everything, both tangible and intangible, but he simply couldn't devour this omnipresent, ever-renewing life force!

The more he swallows, the more wood seeds accumulate in his body, and the more severe the backlash becomes.

Xuan Yin was really starting to panic!

He never imagined that his invincible Great Devouring Technique would be so thoroughly countered by such a tree.

The crowd below the stage was stunned by this amazing reversal, and then burst into cheers that shook the heavens and the earth!
Liu Qinghuan remained standing on the treetop, with the Creation Universe Bottle placed on the trunk beside him, as if he had become one with the giant tree.

He raised his hand and gently shook it.

The thousand-foot-tall demonic figure, covered in green branches and leaves, collapsed into sand amidst the surging blue light filling the sky.