Full-Time Magister: What kind of demonic tree is this? It's clearly a sacred tree!

Chapter 106 The Mysterious Demon Leaf

After waiting for a while and seeing that they still hadn't woken up, Mo Fan summoned the Howling Moon Wolf, secured the unconscious group to it, and headed towards the mountaintop.

Not long had passed since the battle, and the plant demons were still in a state of extreme anger and agitation. Zhang Chen held up a transparent barrier for everyone, blocking the demons' attacks as they moved forward.

They hadn't gone far when they saw the blue-purple demonic leaf disappear into the tree demon again, and then the scene before their eyes changed rapidly.

Mo Fan said, "Let me do it, you guys stay put! Let me verify my suspicions!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he swung his fist, which was covered in eerie white flames, heavily towards the original position of the blue-purple tree demon. Sure enough, the blue-purple tree demon was directly blasted in half by Mo Fan, and the surrounding plants instantly returned to their original positions.

Mo Fan seemed to understand the principle behind this illusion. It must be due to the refraction of light or some other principle, which causes people's vision to deviate or change. However, the position of the demon remains unchanged. It must be that the leaf strengthened or gave the Illusionary Blue Tree Demon its power.

After this test, Zhang Chen naturally understood how the demon operated. Didn't this mean that the more people there were, the more chaotic things became, and the less safe it was?

Jiang Shaoxu was somewhat confused: "What's going on?"

"Optics, do you understand it?" Mo Fan struck a pose like a top student. "No, I didn't expect you to know so much, Mo the Top Student!" Jiang Shaoxu covered her mouth and chuckled. "Of course!" Mo Fan was practically smug. Just then, a clear, cold voice rang out, almost shattering his facade: "Didn't I remember you were pretty bad at studying?"

"Oh my! Xuexue! I studied and trained day and night all my way through high school just so I could marry you—" Mo Fan said shamelessly. "Hahaha!" Zhang Chen couldn't help but laugh out loud. "Commander, what are you laughing at?! Isn't that right?"

"I just suddenly remembered someone's speech during their high school year-end assessment."

Once they understood, things became much simpler. They fought their way along, and although they completely alarmed all the plant demons at the foot of the mountain, fortunately, there were few plants at the top. After they cleared the plant demons off the mountaintop, they were able to continue their fight.

Having finally escaped the clutches of the eerie demonic leaf, Zhang Chen even managed to grab one of the strange leaves. However, it seemed to possess some intelligence; upon realizing it was being controlled, it immediately transformed into an ordinary blue-purple leaf. When Zhang Chen released it, it instantly came back to life and tried to escape, which was quite bizarre. Zhang Chen couldn't let it get away, so he imprisoned it again.

The group of people who had been unconscious on the mountaintop late at night finally woke up one after another. Guan Yu looked at the group of rather familiar plants next to him and said angrily to Henry and the others, "How could you not recognize them! Aren't these the plants that Lily from your national team grows?"

"You're just trying to kill us! —"

He guessed that he was still a bit groggy from just waking up, and subconsciously spoke in Chinese, leaving Henry and the other man completely bewildered.

Guan Yu was quite agitated, so Zhang Chen immediately offered him some emotional support, saying in Chinese, "Don't say anything more. I can sense that they don't know what's going on either!"

Guan Yu immediately calmed down, but still said, "No! I suggest we go back and ask that member of the Australian national team. Those strange plants are definitely targeting us!"

Mo Fan scoffed, "So what if they've got their eyes on us? Just fight them! You can go back if you want!"

Zu Jiming said, "I also think it would be better to go back and find out what that thing is before we come back."

"Coward!" Someone in the team said, which immediately ignited Zu Jiming and Guan Yu's anger, and they started yelling again.

"Who said that! You're too scared to admit it, aren't you, Mo Fan!"

"Are you an idiot?! Do I need to whisper this?!"

When Ai Jiangtu saw the team members arguing again, he gave Zhang Chen, who was still watching the commotion from the sidelines, a wink. Zhang Chen understood and used his mental ripples to suppress the crowd's agitated emotions.

Ai Jiangtu said, "Stop arguing! Let's ask Henry and the other man what they know!"

Because they were arguing in Mandarin, Henry and the others couldn't understand them. They only knew that the others seemed very agitated. Henry and the others looked at the pile of corpses of the Blue Tree Demons that were almost like a small mountain beside them. They were all general-level demons, and there were quite a few commander-level ones. They thought they were probably just too happy.

Ai Jiangtu, holding the leaf that Zhang Chen had restrained, asked the two men in International English, "You two really don't recognize this?"

Henry and the other man shook their heads repeatedly. Ai Jiangtu looked at Zhang Chen, who said, "From a spiritual point of view, they are not lying. Why don't you ask Lily from the Australian national team about this?"

Ai Jiangtu nodded and said to Henry and the other man, "Could you tell me about that Lily on the Australian national team?"

Henry frowned slightly, as if he was struggling with something, but considering that they had already won against his country, although he didn't know why they were asking this, it didn't seem like there was anything he couldn't say.

So she said, "We don't know much either. We only know that she seems to have lived at Sydney Academy since she was a child. Her parents seem to have left her very early, and Miss Grace has always taken care of her. So they are very close. Lily has called Miss Grace 'Mother' in many public places."

"Also, she's very introverted, so it'll be difficult for you to pursue her. She's not averse to men from other countries—"

Ai Jiangtu quickly stopped them from going off on a tangent and said seriously, "We've discovered that the plants attacking us have very similar characteristics to Miss Lily's plants. That's all I wanted to ask!"

Henry and his companion said with some disappointment, "So that's what you wanted to ask. We don't know much about it either. We only know that her plant species seem to have been left by her parents. Her parents were said to be famous plant-based mages in the country. Miss Grace seems to have studied Lily's plant species before."

Ai Jiangtu nodded and said, "Okay! I understand, thank you!"

After a moment of contemplation, he spoke to the Nationalist team members in Chinese: "Who among you wants to go back? You've all seen how dealing with these strange leaves is more troublesome with more people; fewer people are actually easier to handle."

"Me!" Guan Yu and Zu Jiming immediately spoke up. With the two of them taking the lead, everyone else who had been trapped in the illusion, except for Zhao Manyan and Nan Rongni, echoed them.

Since waking up, Nan Rongni has been secretly looking at Zhang Chen. She felt Zhang Chen's treatment while she was unconscious, and it was far more effective than her own.

She glanced at Mu Ningxue subtly, pondered for a long time, and said, "I'll stay too, otherwise who will treat you if you get injured."

"Whatever!" Mo Fan said. Although Guan Yu knew that Zhang Chen's Sacred Tree could provide them with unparalleled enhancements, he was really afraid of its illusionary abilities. What if someone in the team went too far and killed him? Wouldn't that be an unjust death?

Zu Jiming, purely out of cowardice, waited a while and seeing that no one else wanted to go back, pointed to the mountain of tree demon corpses and said, "Alright! Tomorrow I'll take these tree demon corpses back with you! We can hand in the mission first."

"But when we get back, we'll have to investigate the origins of this plant!"

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