At the beginning, I cleaned the Sutra Library and completed the incomplete skills.

Even from such a distance, borrowing the spiritual senses of the Spirit Bean Soldiers, Li Lan observed everything carefully.

The rough, yellow talisman paper was exactly the same as the one he had obtained from Ah Hua.

Both were engraved with a blue longsword, brimming with spiritual energy.

It was likely that this item was bestowed upon Ah Hua by him.

Thinking of this,

Li Lan immediately perked up and paid full attention.

He meticulously observed every action of Elder Jian Chen, unwilling to miss even the slightest detail.

This was an excellent opportunity for him to further understand this magical talisman.

After Elder Jian Chen summoned the talisman treasure,

he didn't make any superfluous moves.

Vast magical power was poured into the talisman, instantly activating it.

The speed, compared to Ah Hua in the Qi Refining stage,

was simply worlds apart.

As the magical power was injected,

the Azure Rainbow Water-Severing Sword on the talisman trembled even more violently.

The crisp sound of the sword echoed around, lingering for a long time.

It was about time.

The Azure Rainbow Water-Severing Sword seemed to have completely come to life,

breaking free from the talisman's restraint, streaking across the sky like a rainbow, and fiercely shooting towards the old sandalwood tree.

The latter seemed to sense the danger as well.

Like a tide, the vines disregarded their previous suicidal attacks, diverting a large portion to sweep towards the azure sword, seemingly wanting to intercept it with sheer numbers.

The patterns on the old sandalwood tree's dark-colored trunk also suddenly lit up with extraordinary light.

On the surface, there seemed to be no change.

But at this moment, the Spirit Bean Soldier located beneath the tree roots noticed that the tree was缠绕 wrapping the spirit stone mine even tighter.

Some vines even deeply penetrated into the spirit stones.

It began to frantically extract all the spiritual energy around it.

The surrounding soil began to dry up, as if the moisture had been instantly evaporated.

The flowers and plants around the old sandalwood tree also quickly withered.

It concentrated all its power and erected a dark green spiritual energy shield around itself.

The Azure Rainbow Water-Severing Sword seemed to possess immense power, its blade exceptionally sharp.

Wherever it passed,

the dark vines were chopped into several pieces by the sword energy before they could even get close.

Almost in the blink of an eye,

the surroundings were empty, the ground littered with the remains of vines oozing green liquid.

The efficiency was even far greater than that of the Fire Spirit Peak elder.

Li Lan also witnessed the power of the talisman treasure for the first time,

and couldn't help but be slightly shocked.

It was fortunate that Ah Hua had failed to activate this treasure at the time,

otherwise,

he really wouldn't have had any decent means to withstand the might of this talisman treasure.

While secretly feeling lucky,

a hint of joy flashed in Li Lan's eyes.

Through Elder Jian Chen's demonstration,

he had now roughly figured out the usage and specific power of this talisman treasure.

This meant that,

in the future, if he encountered another moment of crisis,

in addition to the Qinghao Burning Sky Talisman, Li Lan would have another trump card to protect himself.

It was just that while this trump card was quite powerful,

with his current Qi Refining stage cultivation, it would still take some time to activate it.

Compared to the Qinghao Burning Sky Talisman, it was much more troublesome.

Just as Li Lan was secretly contemplating how to maximize the advantages of this talisman treasure and minimize its disadvantages in the future,

the rainbow light had already pierced through the layers of obstacles formed by the dark vines,

and collided with the spiritual energy shield.

It was about time.

The magical power fluctuations were like tangible waves, rippling outwards.

This time,

the seemingly indestructible talisman treasure was blocked.

The Azure Rainbow Water-Severing Sword trembled slightly, as if emitting unwilling hums.

As the sharp light of the sword became more and more dazzling,

the dark green spiritual energy shield became much dimmer,

swaying like a bubble, as if it would shatter completely in the next moment.

But very quickly,

the old sandalwood tree once again frantically extracted the surrounding spiritual energy and poured it into the spiritual energy shield.

The originally precarious shield immediately stabilized again.

Elder Jian Chen took everything into his eyes,

he stared closely at the roots of the old tree, feeling the rich spiritual energy emanating from within,

narrowed his eyes slightly, and thought to himself, as expected.

Without completely severing the connection between this tree and the spirit stone mine,

even if they used all their talisman treasures, they would probably find it difficult to move it even a bit.

For now,

they could only wait for the Spirit Severing Array to be set up, as the Grand Elder had said, cut off the supply of all spiritual energy in the array,

and then harvest this tree.

Elder Jian Chen turned his head slightly.

The Bean Maiden had already placed the array flags around,

and was preparing other array materials.

It seemed that the great array would be completed soon.

Next,

he only needed to hold back this old tree as much as possible, and not let it hinder the Grand Elder.

Elder Jian Chen and the Fire Spirit Peak Elder clearly understood this, and their attacks were no longer as relentless as before, focusing on stalling.

As time passed,

perhaps because they had been unable to drive these invaders out of their territory for a long time,

or perhaps because the aura emanating from the Spirit Severing Array flags made the old sandalwood tree feel threatened,

it gradually became more and more manic.

The dark vines once again surged out like crazy, not only sweeping towards the Grand Elder, Elder Jian Chen, and the Fire Spirit Peak Elder,

but also simultaneously slapping towards the Spirit Severing Array flags.

Elder Jian Chen reacted quickly,

with a single hand seal, he blocked the old sandalwood tree's offensive,

and conveniently chopped off all the vines extending towards his array flags.

"Haha, it seems that this fiend is about to collapse.

This material for an external avatar, this old man will impolitely accept!"

Upon seeing this, the Fire Spirit Peak Elder was overjoyed.

With a flip of his hand, he took out a spirit stone to replenish his magical power,

while urging the flames spewing from the gourd to rise even higher.

Seeing that the attacks had been fruitless for a long time, the old sandalwood tree trembled.

Several jade-like tender green leaves fell.

Swept by magical power, these leaves quickly took root and sprouted before they even touched the ground,

and in the blink of an eye, they turned into seven-foot-tall puppets.

Upon seeing this, the smile on the Fire Spirit Peak Elder's face disappeared, replaced by a layer of stunned expression.

"This—this tree has really become a spirit, it can actually cast the Fallen Leaf Rooting technique of puppetry?!"

Li Lan was also slightly surprised in his heart.

The technique used by this old sandalwood tree was surprisingly similar to Spreading Beans into Soldiers.

The spirit leaf soldiers summoned by this Fallen Leaf Rooting technique were clearly far stronger than his bean soldiers.

Picking out any one of them,

they were all in the late stage of the ninth level of Qi Refining.

The Bean Maiden, on the other hand, was not surprised by this.

"What's so surprising about this? This tree has grown for over five hundred years, although it can't compare to those heavenly treasures that seize the creation of heaven and earth,

it has already successfully shed its mortal form like our Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, and it is not surprising that it has comprehended a few lost techniques.

If we let it grow to a thousand years, it might be able to awaken its intelligence and transform into a human like those demon beasts.

I only have one set of materials for setting up the Spirit Severing Array, if it is destroyed, I'm afraid we will have to return empty-handed today."

Upon hearing this, Elder Jian Chen and the other became even more serious again.

The two of them had paid a considerable price in order to successfully take down this old tree.

Naturally, they were unwilling to return empty-handed.