Martial arts ascend to the gods

Chapter 677 Mission
The mother insect, over a thousand meters long, resembled an aircraft carrier and crashed into the mother tree at several times the speed of sound.

Wow…

The earth cracked open, and dark tree roots, resembling giant pythons or monsters with diameters of over ten meters, burst forth from the ground.

Densely packed, thousands upon thousands, like a forest, rising into the sky.

The protective energy that even a demigod couldn't break through was as fragile as if it didn't exist in front of the mother tree's roots.

The supple tree roots, like swimming dragons, wrapped around the mother insect's legs and coiled around her entire body.

A moment later, the mother insect let out a low growl, and white shockwaves erupted from her body.

The deafening roar spread to a distance of three kilometers.

Wherever the shockwave passed, monsters and treants, anything below the level of demigod, were pulverized into dust.

The demigod was sent flying backward, his entire body cracking open.

The shockwave ripped away large swathes of land.

Those plots of land, tens of meters in diameter and tens of meters thick, flew into the sky, disintegrated, exploded, and turned into dust scattered in all directions.

As the smoke cleared, a gigantic black tree root cage appeared on the ground, trapping the mother insect.

The dense tree roots launched their attack from within the enormous cage.

Sometimes as supple as silk, sometimes as hard as steel, sometimes as sharp as a knife, sometimes as pointed as an arrow...

Tree roots transform into eighteen kinds of weapons: entangle, twist, pull, stab, ram, push...

Each tree root moved at a speed exceeding fifty times the speed of sound.

It far exceeds the reaction limits of a demigod.

A tremendous, dense, and continuous series of explosions.

The mother insect was too large to escape all the tree root attacks.

But she was tough and resilient, withstanding the attacks of the tree roots, and opened her huge mouth.

Most giant insects have two pairs of mandibles, one pair of large mandibles and one pair of small mandibles, which they use to tear apart their enemies.

Inside the mother insect's mouth, from top to bottom, from large to small, there are nine pairs of mandibles arranged in layers, like nine pairs of sharp blades.

When she opened her mouth, her nine pairs of teeth separated layer by layer, like a giant scythe extending outwards, the blades sharp and gleaming with a metallic sheen.

As the nine-layered giant jaws expanded outward to their limit, suddenly, with a slight tremor, they abruptly grew larger and longer.

Nine pairs of 500-meter-long, sharp-edged fangs, resembling scythes, spread out.

Eighteen flashes of cold light appeared, the blades crossed and sliced ​​through, and in the blink of an eye, all the sharp blades and giant teeth returned to their mouths.

Even the grandmaster couldn't see what was happening.

In front of her, within a 500-meter radius, all the tree roots were broken and scattered.

Each tree root was cut into pieces less than half a meter thick. Hundreds of meters high tree roots were cut hundreds of times in an instant.

call……

Suddenly, a huge trumpet-shaped mouthpart emerged from the mother insect's mouth. With a gentle suck, fragments of tree roots scattered all over the ground flew into her mouth at an incredible speed.

Suddenly, countless tree roots pierced through the ground, thrusting towards the mother insect's mouthparts, while simultaneously sweeping away large fragments of tree roots.

Clang... clang... clang...

Then, a clanging metallic sound came from the edge of the giant insect's underbelly shell.

Then, blade-like limbs emerged layer by layer, reaching lengths of up to 100 meters.

From beginning to end, hundreds.

The edges of the carapace are sharp like centipede legs.

The mother insect hissed and sprinted through the cage of tree roots, leaving a trail of flashing cold light in her wake.

Large swaths of tree roots were cut into pieces.

Both sides were terrified and fled in all directions, occasionally glancing back.

They could hardly imagine the horror of the battle.

A single root of the mother tree could grind a demigod into mincemeat, but now, thousands of roots are being devoured by the mother worm as easily as harvesting wheat.

Wow…

The mother tree's canopy trembled slightly, and its branches grew rapidly.

Hundreds and thousands of giant branches burrowed into the root cage and landed on the mother insect.

Thousands of tree roots pushed and collided from the bottom up.

Countless tree branches transformed into giant hands, which suddenly flipped down from top to bottom.

Boom...

After a loud bang, the giant mother worm, several thousand meters long, was flipped over by the tree roots and branches, just like a turtle being turned over.

Dense branches and roots whipped the insect shells.

bang bang bang...

In the blink of an eye, it was more than 100,000 strikes.

The insect shell, which even demigods could not touch, was covered with dense cracks.

The mother insect roared loudly, her body seemingly flipping over, but suddenly accelerated, crashing straight into the huge tree root cage. Sharp blades flew, severing the tree roots and gnawing at them relentlessly.

The root cage is a gift from the mother tree; no matter how much the mother insects gnaw at it, it can grow back and repair itself in an instant.

Inside the cage, two colossal creatures battle.

Terrifying explosions echoed one after another, and a dense array of white shockwaves intertwined to form a thick wall of air.

Further away, the dissipating power altered the celestial phenomena and climate, forming a massive sandstorm tornado that swirled around the battlefield of the two, resembling a giant black pillar.

Below the level of a demigod, one can no longer see what is happening inside; all that can be seen is a pitch-black sandstorm tornado.

Upon witnessing this scene, the demon demigod completely abandoned his plan to attack the mother tree.

Even if all the demigods in the world were gathered together, they wouldn't be enough to withstand the blows from the roots of the mother tree.

The demigods of the Tree People Alliance looked at the Mother Insect and remained silent.

Those jaws that instantly expanded to hundreds of meters away, those densely packed bladed limbs all over the body—one touch and you'd be dead.

Only at this moment did the experts on both sides realize just how powerful the mother tree and the mother insect were.

I also understand what a false god is.

Even though the mother insect and mother tree are so strong, they only possess the combat power of a novice god, not the supernatural abilities of one.

On the trunk of the mother tree.

A beam of light shone down, and a crown of tree branches landed on Zhou Leng's head.

Along with it, a verdant tree branch descended from the sky. On the branch grew ten verdant leaves.

The Grandmaster Treant quickly caught the branch from the mother tree and waited quietly.

Inside the tree hollow, the intense power of the mother tree dissipated.

Zhou Leng opened his eyes and felt his blood surging like a flood within his body, and his heart pounding like a giant drum.

The strength of the muscles has reached a new level, but strangely, there is an illusion of exceptional softness.

Extend your hand and gently press on the bulging biceps of your left upper arm.

At the same time, you feel completely opposite sensations, both hard and soft, creating a distinct rebound force.

"If light has wave-particle duality, then muscles also have a dual nature of softness and hardness?"

With these thoughts in mind, Zhou Leng lightly leaped out of the tree hole.

The entire branch swayed gently.

The three tree-man masters were astonished. This was a branch of the mother tree. Even a master could not make it sway in the slightest, let alone jump lightly or strike with all their might.

"This is a gift from the mother tree," a treant master said, handing a branch of the mother tree to Zhou Leng.

Zhou Leng took the branch from the mother tree and then remembered what the demigod tree man had said earlier.

So, he silently used his martial arts perception.

Originally, in his perception, he only possessed the supernatural powers of his clan and his nation.

Now, I can even sense personal supernatural abilities.

These are the Light Chaser, the Power of Growth, the Power of Self-Healing, and the Tree God's Avatar.

The Light Chaser allows the body to absorb any light and heat energy, much like a tree-man.

The power of growth grants unique life characteristics, resulting in a significant increase in lifespan and all related powers.

All cultivation effects, pill effects, and anything related to growth will receive a multiplied or even greater boost.

The power of self-healing is simple, yet its healing ability is incredibly powerful.

The tree god's clone is the most direct and brutal method.

The power of the tree god will be determined by which tree god's branch is used in this clone.

You don't need to worry about anything, just plant it, and before long you will have a demigod mother tree avatar.

Furthermore, the level of his clones could grow along with Zhou Leng, until they reached the upper limit of the Tree God.

To break through the limits, it is necessary to fuse with a tree branch from a higher level of the Tree God.

In my perception, the limit of this branch is the level of a true god.

Because the direct ancestor of this mother tree was once a true god.

Zhou Leng looked at the branches of the mother tree, but his mind was thinking of another tree.

in case……

Just thinking about it fills me with anticipation.

After putting away the branches from the mother tree, Zhou Leng thanked the Grandmaster Tree Man and was about to ask what had happened when Xu Qingjin ran over from not far away.

"Zhou Leng!"

Zhou Leng sensed Xu Qingjin's emotional fluctuations, smiled, stepped forward, and hugged her tightly.

Xu Qingjin immediately fell silent.

The three Tree Man Masters recounted the events of the past few days to Xu Qingjin.

Zhou Leng looked into the distance, but the leaves obscured his view, so he couldn't see anything.

All that could be heard were dense sonic booms.

The three Tree Man Grandmasters looked at Zhou Leng with anticipation.

Zhou Leng originally thought that he came here for ordinary cultivation, but now he has obtained four kinds of supernatural abilities and a huge amount of power.

Even the most oblivious person could sense that the mother tree was being treated exceptionally well.

Before this, there was no record of the Mother Tree bestowing supernatural powers upon humankind; even martial saints had not received them.

Zhou Leng pondered for a moment and said, "I will send Qingjin back to the Shuizhou base. Once she is safe, I will come back to help in the battle. I dare not promise anything, but I will do my best."

The three tree-man masters breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank you, great... Zhou Leng. There is a teleportation array next to the mother tree that leads directly to the tree spirit base. You and your husband can teleport there, but you will need to return alone."

“No problem.” Zhou Leng said, looking at Xu Qingjin carefully from head to toe.

Xu Qingjin tilted her head back and asked with a smile, "What's wrong?"

"You improved so quickly?"

“Thanks to the mother tree, I feel my body is changing, and I have the potential to become a Grandmaster,” Xu Qingjin said.

"You're belittling the mother tree..."

Zhou Leng said half-jokingly as he followed the treant away from the mother tree and headed for the teleportation array.

A flash of light, and Zhou Leng and Xu Qingjin appeared at the Tree Man Base.

The treant guarding the teleportation array paused for a moment upon seeing the two, then bowed deeply to Zhou Leng.

To avoid being discovered and attacked, the two rode in a demonic carriage, leaving the Treant Base and entering the Water Island Demon City.

After a long journey, the two arrived at the Shuizhou base.

Zhou Leng was still worried, so he sent Xu Qingjin back to the Guhe Research Institute. He watched her wave goodbye from inside the door before turning around and boarding the magic spirit carriage to fly towards the Tree Man Base.

Sitting in the demonic carriage, Zhou Leng flipped through the messages and comments from the past few days.

Molten Hammer came to the human world and said a lot, but the main point was to warn Zhou Leng to be careful, that the Tree People world was doomed, and that he should never go there.

Other friends also left comments.

Finally, I received a message from Wang Boxiong.

"The world of the Tree People is extremely dangerous this time. If I go to provide support, I may not be able to return unscathed."

"I have already reported your mission. After you finish your training, ignore the war against the tree people and head straight for the Elephant Kingdom."

"Zhao Lianshuo remembers, right? Zhao Sheng gave him the broken sword, but he was tricked back by the Zhao family."

"He has an adopted son, the child of his comrade-in-arms, named Lu Weiqu, who also knows Dongfeng Fist."

"He infiltrated the Elephant Kingdom's Demonic Cult, cooperating with... some inside agents, to carry out an operation called 'weeding out'."

"You cooperate with him and work together to complete this operation. He is very important, so do your best to protect him."

"After you finish weeding, you can spend your time as you please, either traveling in the Elephant Kingdom or cultivating under the Bodhi tree."

(End of this chapter)