Bai Yueguang's stand-in cries all over the realm of comprehension

The next day.

The disciples who were watching the uprooting of the hibiscus tree had already taken their positions. They were surrounded by three levels inside and three levels outside the barrier, looking in with wide eyes.

In order to ensure the safety of the disciples, Taixuan Sword Sect took precautions and set up barriers around them in advance to prevent any disciples from getting too close and accidentally injuring them.

Jiang Yanlu stood at the front of the crowd and looked up as well.

I saw the leader of the Taixuan Sword Sect and all the elders surrounding the fusang tree, making seals with their hands facing the fusang tree.

Ming Wei stood next to Jiang Yanlu and scanned the surroundings. He didn't see Qi Yue and asked in confusion, "Junior sister, why didn't you see your junior brother?"

Qiyue has been staying in Qinglu Garden during this period, and all the brothers and sisters know about it.

Therefore, during this period, they were too embarrassed to disturb them.

I thought I would see Qiyue today, but unexpectedly, he didn't come.

Jiang Yanlu replied: "Qiyue has something to do and is not in the sect."

Qiyue was originally going to come here with Jiang Yanlu today, but his subordinate named Yanwei came over and said he had something to report.

Qiyue went to see him.

Mingwei nodded, that's it.

Just as he was about to continue speaking, he heard an exclamation from behind him: "Look, the hibiscus tree is about to be pulled out!"

For a moment, everyone's eyes fell on the hibiscus tree, and their chattering stopped.

Several strands of spiritual energy of different colors poured out from everyone's palms, and all fell on the hibiscus tree, encircling it layer by layer. From a distance, it looked like long and strong chains.

The leader of Taixuan Sword Sect's robes moved automatically without any wind, and he shouted in a deep voice: "Pull it out!"

Elder Yin Zheng and others instantly rose up from the ground, hanging in mid-air, and quickly changed the seals on their palms, pulling up the hibiscus tree that was deeply rooted in the ground!

The trees are full of flowers, falling like a grand rain of flowers.

The hibiscus tree, which had been standing here for thousands of years and had never been touched by anyone, was pulled out bit by bit.

At the same time, the ground centered on the hibiscus tree instantly cracked in all directions, and large chunks of soil rolled up from the bottom.

The crack once spread outside the barrier, and even continued to extend rapidly outward.

The disciples crowded outside the barrier were startled and quickly retreated.

The senior steward who was on duty in the Discipline Hall today hurriedly ran out of it, looking panicked, and shouted loudly to the people inside the barrier:
"Sect Master, Elder Yin Zheng, the Discipline Hall seems to be collapsing!"

Jiang Yanlu quickly turned his head and looked!
The Discipline Hall is the closest place to the Fusang Tree in the Taixuan Sword Sect.

It was only one step away from being classified into the barrier.

Now, this Discipline Hall, which has a special status in the hearts of many disciples, is shaking because of the large cracks in the ground below.

If it weren't for the special reinforcement of the wall, it would completely collapse into ruins at this moment!
Jiang Yanlu's consciousness spread out instantly, and he frowned when he saw the extent of the cracks on the ground.

The hibiscus tree has grown for thousands of years and has tangled roots.

If this hibiscus tree is pulled out by force, the entire building on the peak will be destroyed!
In mid-air, Sect Master Cui and the elders looked solemn.

Naturally, they took this into consideration, and their movements slowed down a lot.

The roots of ordinary thousand-year-old trees do not occupy such a wide range!

Is it really necessary to destroy an entire peak just to pull out the hibiscus trees?
Elder Yin Zheng turned his head to look at Sect Leader Cui, waiting for him to make up his mind.

"Sect Master, do you want to continue pulling out?"

The leader of Taixuan Sword Sect was silent for a moment.

Since he had already promised Jiang Yanlu that he would pull out the hibiscus tree, he must not go back on his promise and change his mind about not pulling out the tree halfway through pulling out the tree.

If so, where does his reputation as a suzerain lie?How can he establish his authority within the sect in the future?
But if all of them are pulled out by the roots, the entire peak will be unsafe.

The only way now is to start from the hibiscus tree, cut off all the roots that spread outside the barrier, and discard them, leaving only the roots in the center.

The leader of Taixuan Sword Sect sighed lightly.

In fact, he did not advocate uprooting the hibiscus tree. Even if he agreed to uproot the tree because he lost to Jiang Yanlu in a bet, he still wanted to uproot the hibiscus tree, including the trunk and roots.

If there is nothing under the hibiscus tree, he will plant it back again.

In the current situation, this is the only last resort.

He summoned his natal sword, and stood the long sword in front of him from top to bottom. With a pinch of the sword technique, thousands of sword shadows appeared in front of him in an instant. With an unstoppable momentum, they spread out and penetrated into the ground. The outer roots of the hibiscus tree were cut off in one fell swoop!
Then he ordered the elders: "Pull it out!"

After most of the tree roots were cut off by Sect Master Cui, the process of pulling out the fusang tree was still very difficult.

It seems that there is some suction inside, which keeps sucking the hibiscus tree and prevents it from being pulled out.

At this time, Elder Yin Zheng also began to doubt whether there was really something under the fusang tree.

Otherwise, even if the hibiscus tree is hailed as a sacred tree, it is still just a tree in the final analysis.

How difficult can it be to pull up a tree?
They tried all the strength of the elders, but it was still so difficult.

It's really not normal.

At the moment when the roots of the hibiscus tree were cut off, a man who was sitting cross-legged and meditating somewhere in the world of cultivation seemed to sense something, and he opened his eyes suddenly, with a fierce flash in his eyes.

……

The moment the fusang tree was completely pulled out, before Elder Yin Zheng and the others had time to retract the chain made of spiritual energy from the tree, this sacred tree, known as a sacred tree that can protect the world of cultivation, suddenly exploded!

There was a loud "bang" sound, and the shocking energy fluctuations instantly rushed towards the group of people closest to it!

The accident happened suddenly. Fortunately, everyone took Jiang Yanlu's words to heart and remained vigilant at all times. The moment the fusang tree exploded, they immediately formed a thick defensive shield of spiritual energy in front of them and exploded backwards!

However, the energy generated when the Fuso tree exploded was too powerful. Even though they had taken every precaution, it still broke through the aura defense shield and defensive magic weapon, injuring the inside.

Several people's faces suddenly turned pale, and they spurted out a large mouthful of blood, and were knocked away more than ten steps.

Even the barrier specially set up by Sect Master Cui has a faint tendency to break.

Jiang Yanlu quickly circulated the spiritual energy in his body and printed it to strengthen the barrier.

When the disciples outside saw this scene, their hearts were in their throats and they couldn't say a word.

The originally noisy venue suddenly fell silent.

The barrier isolated the energy inside, but it didn't isolate the sound.

Jiang Yanlu seemed to still hear the huge explosion of the hibiscus tree in his ears.

She looked at the several elders who were still lying on the ground and couldn't help raising her voice with concern: "Sect Master, Elder Yin Zheng, how are you doing?"

Elder Yin Zheng wiped the blood from the corners of his lips, waved his hand in Jiang Yanlu's direction, and replied, "No problem."

Although they were all slightly or seriously injured, fortunately they were all still alive.

No one expected that the danger was not under the hibiscus tree, but the hibiscus tree itself.

If they hadn't reacted quickly and had many life-saving means on them, they would have been blown to pieces at this moment.

Jiang Yanlu was temporarily relieved.

The energy fluctuations in the barrier would be difficult to dissipate for a while. Elder Yin Zheng ordered Ming Wei to take several stewards from the Discipline Hall to evacuate all the sect disciples surrounding here to other peaks.

Within a moment, Jiang Yanlu was the only one left outside the barrier.

The sect leader then removed the barrier.The Elder withered Bones came in a hurry to ask questions, and wanted to take several elders who were seriously injured and unconscious to Chengchuntang.

Jiang Yanlu stepped forward, saluted and said hello to everyone, then lowered his head and said with an apology in his voice: "Disciple did not know that the hibiscus tree will explode after being pulled out."

She took out a large handful of rare spiritual plants from her jade bracelet that were specially used to refine high-level healing elixirs and handed them to the old man withered bones:
"This is a spiritual plant picked by the disciples in the secret realm. If you don't mind it, take it to the elders for use."

When Elder Dry Bones saw the spiritual plant in Jiang Yanlu's hand, his eyes instantly lit up, and he accepted it without any hesitation. Then he nodded with the sect leader and others, and left with the injured elders.

Elder Yin Zheng also stuffed a pill into his mouth. Seeing Jiang Yanlu purse her lips with a guilty look on her face, he raised his hand and patted her shoulder, comforting her:

"You also said that you didn't know that the hibiscus tree would explode after being pulled out. This matter is not entirely your fault. You don't need to feel so guilty."

The sect leader also nodded.

After the fusang tree exploded, the doubts he had about Jiang Yanlu's previous guesses were completely gone.

The tree cannot explode on its own.

Unless someone tampered with it.

I just don't know if this trick was done secretly just now, or if it was already involved.

Elder Shi Chun stood in front of the dark cave and said, "Come and take a look!"

Jiang Yanlu and the others heard the sound and went over.

This hole was left after pulling out the hibiscus tree. The diameter of the hole is very long, black and deep, and you can feel the rich spiritual energy emanating from it.

Elder Yin Zheng felt the spiritual energy coming out of the cave and hissed softly: "We have uprooted the fusang trees, but there is still so much spiritual energy here."

Jiang Yanlu was right, there really was something under the hibiscus tree!
Jiang Yanlu withdrew his spiritual consciousness and said in unison with Sect Master Cui: "It's a formation!"

Deep in the black hole under the fuso tree, there is an ancient large-scale formation.

The formation is still in operation today.

Talismans and formations are indistinguishable. When Jiang Yanlu was learning how to use talismans to arrange talisman formations, he also studied the formation method quite a bit.

She said firmly: "It's not that the spiritual energy came up from under the formation, but that during the operation of the formation, the spiritual energy was sucked into the formation by using the fusang trees outside."

The elder who heard this statement for the first time spoke in shock:
"You mean, it's not that the fusang tree has been providing spiritual energy to our sect over the years, but that it has been absorbing the spiritual energy of our sect through the operation of the formation?!"

Jiang Yanlu nodded: "Exactly, the disciple had noticed something before, so he begged the sect master to pull out the fusang tree and find out what was going on."

Looking at it, it turned out to be true.

Elder Shi Chun was puzzled:
"I remember that this hibiscus tree grew here before our Taixuan Sword Sect was established."

"Over the years, our sect has been guarding it as a sacred tree. How could someone hide such a large formation under the fusang tree without being noticed by all of us?"

As he spoke, his mind was racing at the same time.

"Is it possible that someone set up this formation in advance before the sect was established?!"

Elder Yin Zheng glanced at him: "It's possible."

Elder Shi Chun was still puzzled: "But why does this formation hide under the fusang tree to absorb the spiritual energy of our sect? What does it do to absorb so much spiritual energy?"

The sect leader shook his head: "The top priority is to break the formation first to prevent it from absorbing our sect's spiritual energy."

Shi Chun instantly drew his sword out of its sheath: "I'm here to break it!"

He instantly injected the spiritual energy in his body into the sword in his hand, and used [-]% of his strength to slash at the formation in the cave.

The sword energy cut through the air and drew an arc of white light, slamming into the formation.

The ground shook violently for a moment, but the formation was not affected at all and continued to operate normally.

His face changed slightly.

Elder Yin Zheng's expression was equally solemn: "It's not as easy to break this formation as we thought."

Jiang Yanlu withdrew the spiritual consciousness that he had released again, and said, "The formation-breaking method...disciple can give it a try."

There seems to be something about formations in her miscellaneous inheritance.

The entire sect is a sword cultivator and knows nothing about battle tactics.

Especially this ancient formation.

Hearing that Jiang Yanlu offered to take the job, the sect leader immediately agreed.

After this incident, he had great trust in Jiang Yanlu:
"Okay, then I'll leave this to you."

But he was too embarrassed to put all the burden on Jiang Yanlu alone, which seemed like the people in power in his sect were incompetent, so he said:
"This sect will immediately inform Sect Leader Ke about the fusang tree. He has studied the formation method very deeply, and he might be able to find a way."

What's more, the hibiscus tree is not just owned by the Taixuan Sword Sect.

There is also one in Wuxiang Sect.

When the leader of the Taixuan Sword Sect passed the news to the Wuxiang Sect, he didn't know that someone was one step faster than him and contacted the leader of the Wuxiang Sect.

……

The large hole where the fusang tree was pulled out was completely guarded. Except for the sect leader, the elders and Jiang Yanlu, no one else was allowed to approach.

Jiang Yanlu stayed in front of the cave for an hour, and only after he had memorized all the formations in the cave, he withdrew his consciousness and left the place.

During this period, she asked Cheng Xinglan and others to go to the Scripture Collection Pavilion to find all the classics related to the formation and bring them to Qinglu Garden.

Several brothers and sisters had spent a long time in the Sutra Pavilion under Jiang Yanlu's urging.

He is much more familiar with the Sutra Pavilion than other disciples.

Therefore, within an hour, they borrowed all the classics related to formations that could be found in the Scripture Pavilion and brought them to Qinglu Garden.

Knowing that Jiang Yanlu would be very busy next, they did not stay here to disturb him too much, put down the books and left Qinglu Garden.

When Jiang Yanlu returned to Qinglu Garden, she saw several piles of classics about her height filled with books in the room.

She took out a blank scroll from her jade bracelet and completely drew the ancient formation she had memorized.

As soon as the formation was drawn, Qiyue came back.

Jiang Yanlu raised his eyes and saw the young man standing at the door with a slightly gloomy expression.

She stood up: "What's wrong?"

Qi Yue: "Yan Wei said that a large number of demon cultivators have disappeared in the Demon Realm recently, and something is wrong. I plan to go back to the Demon Realm."

A large number of magic cultivators disappeared?

For some reason, Jiang Yanlu always felt that this matter was closely related to Ji Dynasty.

She said: "Do you want me to go back with you?"

It will take a few days to know where the master is and rescue him.

Qiyue controls the fast passage from the cultivation world to the demonic realm.

She had plenty of time to get back.

Qiyue immediately agreed: "Okay."

(End of this chapter)