The Martial Soul Skeleton, in Douluo Continent's Bone-Changing Susanoo

Chapter 87 Red-Eyed Treant King

After the red-eyed tree spirit dragged the human-faced spider's corpse to its front with its black vines, it did not eat it on the spot. Instead, it hid the human-faced spider's corpse in the huge, dense canopy above its head.

After surveying the surroundings to ensure that no soul beasts or soul masters had discovered his presence, the red-eyed tree demon hurriedly ran towards the distant valley.

The two legs formed from the roots and the two arms formed from the branches quickly switched back and forth as it ran, looking like an athlete sprinting 100 meters on a track.

Xia Liang was stunned and stood there, realizing that this red-eyed tree spirit was truly a spirit, mimicking human behavior in every move it made.

Using a food-type soul skill to shield himself from detection by spiritual power, Xia Liang activated the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone skill to fly, quickly chasing after the red-eyed tree demon in the direction it was running.

Since it possesses undead attributes, this red-eyed tree spirit was most likely attracted by the aura of the undead skeleton martial soul.

If you were to hunt it down as your fourth soul ring, what kind of soul skill would you grant to the Undead Skeleton Martial Soul?

It seems there's no information about this red-eyed tree demon among the knowledge of spirit beasts I've learned before.

However, the soul beast manuscript given by Yu Xiaogang records a plant soul beast called the Demon Eye Tree.

These kinds of spirit beasts are just rare high-level plants, unlike the Blue Silver Emperor which has a top-tier bloodline.

In the plant category section of the Heaven Dou Library, there are illustrated records of high-level plant soul beasts such as the Demon Eye Tree.

The red-eyed tree demon that just stole the corpse of the human-faced spider bears an almost 80% resemblance to the demon-eyed tree in appearance.

The only difference is their body color.

A typical Demon Eye Tree is dark blue-green, while the eyes growing on its trunk are golden yellow. It possesses three attributes: spirit, poison, and wood.

The Red-Eyed Treant, on the other hand, is entirely dark black with blood-red eyes, and so far it has only been found to possess undead attributes.

This special attribute is either inherited from one's parents or awakened by chance after dying once.

Besides Ghost Douluo, Xia Liang is the most familiar with this.

He felt that the red-eyed tree demon he was currently chasing was undoubtedly a mutated species of the Demon Eye Tree clan, and judging from the fluctuations of its soul power, it seemed to be somewhat similar to soul beasts like the Bone Dragon.

Bone dragons possess the attributes of space and darkness.

The fact that the Red-Eyed Treant chose to run away from its original spot instead of using spatial displacement indicates that it does not possess spatial attributes.

Therefore, the energy fluctuations in its soul power that are similar to those of the bone dragon likely originate from the dark attribute.

In other words, this red-eyed tree spirit, in addition to its undead attributes, should also possess a trace of dark power.

Considering the series of behaviors it just exhibited that mimicked human running and thinking, this red-eyed tree spirit is exceptionally intelligent, demonstrating its powerful mental attributes.

Mental attributes were originally one of the Demon Eye Tree's strengths.

Xia Liang was curious about how this red-eyed tree spirit could possess both the rare and powerful attributes of darkness and undead.

The Demon King, ranked fifth among the Ten Thousand Ferocious Beasts in the original work, is actually the Demon Eye Tree.

If this red-eyed demon tree were to cultivate to the level of the Demon King, with its dual attributes of darkness and the undead, it would likely become an even more powerful and troublesome being than the Demon King.

In the original story, the Demon King gained the potential to cultivate into a ferocious beast because he was lucky enough to eat a celestial herb growing next to him.

Could it be that this red-eyed tree demon also had such good luck, with a plant of immortal herb quality growing right next to it, and mutated into its current form after eating it?

Regardless of the speculation, Xia Liang was certain that the red-eyed tree demon he was currently tracking was definitely a top-tier plant soul beast with the potential to cultivate into a ferocious beast.

If we let it go now, given its almost supernatural thinking abilities, it will probably be very difficult to find it again in the future.

About ten minutes have passed.

The red-eyed tree spirit ran into the misty valley, surrounded by high mountains and low valleys, and inside the valley was a lush thicket.

The valley forest in front of us looks gloomy and gives one the feeling that we could be ambushed at any moment.

With his X-ray vision, Xia Liang wasn't afraid of being ambushed by spirit beasts; what he feared was suddenly encountering a troublesome, pack-dwelling spirit beast like the Gale Wolf.

In the Star Dou Great Forest, even if you are not highly skilled, you will be worn down to death by the agility of the wind attribute when facing a pack of Gale Demon Wolves alone.

After all, a Soul Master's physical strength and Soul Power are limited, let alone a Level 40 Quasi-Soul Master, who absolutely cannot withstand a group attack from the Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.

After placing five bone dragon daggers in the grass at the entrance of the valley forest, Xia Liang checked the food-type soul skills stored in the three-colored ring.

The chef's chicken legs were almost gone, and the food made by the other Soul Masters was also nearly used up, but it should be enough to sustain this Soul Hunt.

Actually, there's no need for a particularly intense battle. With the newly acquired Susanoo Bow and its ability to attack from a distance, plus the added benefit of the Undead Domain effect, we can unleash a full-force arrow when the Red-Eyed Treant is off guard.

Even if you can't kill the Red-Eyed Treant, you can greatly increase your chances of winning by severely damaging it before engaging it in a one-on-one fight.

In the valley forest.

In a cold and mysterious stone forest.

After escaping back to its lair, the red-eyed tree spirit used two black vines to throw the corpse of the human-faced spider, which was hidden in the canopy above its head, onto the ground.

As a poisonous plant, it used to feed on highly venomous spirit beasts. Now that its poisonous attribute has become undead, it still has the habit of eating highly venomous spirit beasts.

The human-faced demon spider is very cunning and agile, making it difficult to hunt such soul beasts for food.

Now that there's a ready-made opportunity, how could a soul beast, driven by its instinctive greed, possibly let it go?

Moreover, this is the corpse of a human-faced demon spider with two thousand years of cultivation. If you devour its flesh and blood, you might be able to break through to ten thousand years of cultivation.

Two branches extended forward, and the red-eyed tree demon's ten fingers transformed into sharp black vines.

With a loud whooshing sound, ten black vines shot into the corpse of the human-faced demon spider.

Under the influence of dark attribute soul power, the black vines began to extract the blood and flesh energy from the human-faced demon spider's body.

Three hundred meters away, Xia Liang could clearly see through his X-ray vision that the ten vines piercing into the human-faced demon spider's body were writhing like living things. With each thrust, the human-faced demon spider's entire body would shrink by one size.

The red-eyed tree demon's feeding method is comparable to the devouring ability of the human-faced demon spider.

Xia Liang finally understood. No wonder the Red-Eyed Tree Demon risked its life to snatch the corpse of the Human-Faced Demon Spider; it turned out that it also possessed the ability to devour, which must have been granted by the dark attribute.

Although it is unknown how it mutated, there is no doubt that this red-eyed tree demon, like the human-faced spider, is a nightmare for small soul beasts and an evil killer.

If a red-eyed tree demon can rapidly increase its cultivation by extracting the blood and flesh energy of its prey, then its own blood and flesh energy must be enormous.

The Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul just happens to need a soul ring that provides flesh and blood. It seems that this Red-Eyed Treant is more suitable than the Shadow Lord to become the fourth soul ring of the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul.

The process of swallowing it took less than three minutes.

The giant human-faced spider, which used to be 1.5 meters tall, had now withered into nothing more than a skin.

Not only flesh and blood, but also body parts and limbs were completely devoured by the red-eyed tree demon.

A chilling and dark energy burst forth from the red-eyed tree spirit's body.

A strange scene unfolded: the red-eyed tree spirit suddenly grew taller, and golden patterns appeared on every leaf of its trunk and crown; the veins of the black leaves turned completely golden.

The pair of blood-red eyes in the very center of the tree trunk were even more eerie than before.

Xia Liang could clearly see that the red-eyed tree demon, which was originally ten meters tall, had undergone a complete transformation, with its soul power aura and aura changing drastically after the transformation process was completed.

This is clearly a breakthrough in cultivation to the ten-thousand-year level, transforming into a tree demon king.

Since arriving in Douluo Continent, this was the first time Xia Liang had personally witnessed a soul beast breaking through its cultivation bottleneck and advancing to the next level.

With his X-ray vision, he could clearly see that the flow of soul power within the red-eyed tree demon had completely changed from dark purple to black.

This red-eyed tree demon king is already a true ten-thousand-year-old soul beast.

(End of this chapter)