Above the mage

Chapter 799 The Five-Ring Mage (Part 2)

In the eyes of Gao De and even the other Northern mages, the current situation is extremely dangerous.

The Void Leader launched a fierce frontal assault, while a group of fifth-tier minions flanked and surrounded it.

Ice Jade Wutong, on the other hand, was alone and unable to provide any help, as the "younger brothers".

Among the group, the highest-ranking mage was only fourth-level.

Facing high-level void creatures, rashly casting spells will not only fail to break the deadlock, but will also disrupt the ancient tree's defensive rhythm and increase unnecessary casualties.

The same worry lingered in everyone's mind:

Although the Ice Jade Wutong is a sixth-order guardian ancient tree, it has only recently been upgraded and has not yet fully accumulated its foundation.

Faced with such an offensive, they probably won't be able to hold out for long.

However, everyone ultimately underestimated the upper limit of Bingyu Wutong's abilities.

Everything in the world has its advantages and disadvantages.

As an immovable magical tree, its range of movement is locked, preventing it from teleporting and maneuvering like a mage or other extraordinary creature.

In return, they possess formidable combat power far exceeding that of their peers within their established activity areas.

It's its territory, and it rules.

The countless roots of the Ice Jade Wutong tree, buried deep in the frozen soil, stretched out with all their might, frantically absorbing magical power.

The icy blue light that had been flowing across the surface of the tree trunk suddenly froze for a moment.

After only a brief pause, the tree trunk burst forth with spiritual light, its flow rate increasing several times over, completely disrupting its previous steady rhythm.

The faint light that had been slowly moving along the bark's texture has completely faded away, replaced by a dazzling icy blue radiance that illuminates the entire tree's veins in unison.

Every line was instantly filled with magic, and the entire ancient tree instantly entered a full-power combat mode.

Faced with the close-range and encirclement attacks of these fifth-tier void creatures, the Ice Jade Wutong unleashed a killing intent that crushed the lower-level beings.

Without any further accumulation of power, a continuous and immense surge of ice elemental energy erupted from the tree trunk.

Swish!

The moment these ice elemental forces left the tree trunk, they condensed into ice jade blades.

Each piece is about a finger's length with sharp edges.

The surface is covered with a very thin, constantly flowing layer of icy blue aura.

A sudden burst of tiny, fragmented ice jade blades erupted.

The speed of the projectiles was so fast that Gaode's vision could only capture streaks of icy blue afterimages flashing through the air.

The absolute difference in rank was on full display at this moment.

These ice jade blades pierced the mutated bodies of those fifth-order void creatures with almost no resistance, penetrating them precisely.

Then, the Ice Jade Blade exploded inside the void creature's body.

A chill is creeping in.

The void energy within the void creature's body instantly condensed over a large area.

The dozens of strangely clustered eyeballs on the body surface simultaneously began to shrink and tremble violently.

The light in his pupils dimmed rapidly.

Immediately afterwards, the areas in the middle section of the torso that had been hit by the ice jade blade began to turn grayish-white in large swaths.

That layer of grayish-white spread outwards at an extremely rapid pace.

Remaining instincts drove the void creatures to struggle and flee, their deformed limbs desperately shifting laterally.

But his body moved less than a foot before freezing completely in mid-air, like a rigid ice sculpture.

The dark purple light that originally symbolized the vitality of the void on the body surface gradually faded and disappeared from the core of the torso outwards.

The first one was completely annihilated.

The second one, the third one, the fourth one —

The Ice Jade Blades erupted one after another, like a harvest, freezing all the fifth-order void creatures that had come to the vicinity of the barrier through the void traversal method.

The entire process is exactly the same.

The icy jade blade slashed in, unleashing a burst of chill that froze the energy in the void.

Any void creature whose void energy is frozen is like an alchemical machine that has lost its magic crystal supply; its eyes lose consciousness and it can no longer move.

Then the dark purple light on his body began to fade.

Generally, from the time it is extinguished to the time it is completely extinguished, it will not exceed ten breaths.

As one fifth-tier void creature after another "extinguished," the dark purple energy that filled the entire core spiritual land area rapidly decreased.

In this single burst of attacks, all the fifth-tier void creatures were wiped out by Ice Jade Wutong.

Gao De's pupils constricted slightly as he stood at the front, a sense of unease rising within him.

For a moment, he couldn't even tell whether Bingyu Wutong's outburst was a last-minute, decisive counterattack or a tactical maneuver that deliberately allowed lower-level void creatures to get close, shorten the attack distance, and clear the field quickly.

After the Ice Jade Wutong tree completed this burst of energy, the spiritual light on the surface of the trunk slowly faded, restoring its original brightness.

The wandering sparks returned to their normal flow rate.

Its canopy swayed slightly, as if it were a natural retraction after releasing an extremely large amount of energy.

However, the sixth-tier Void Leader was unaffected.

Its dozen or so strangely shaped and differently sized eyes slowly shifted away from the barrier in front of it.

Then, he scanned the completely stiffened, lifeless bodies of his kin in the flank airspace one by one.

Its eyes showed no emotion; the indifference of a void creature was unmistakable.

After a brief scan, all eyes quickly returned to their original positions, locking onto the Ice Jade Wutong tree and Sunafa within the inner barrier.

Ice Jade Wutong smoothly brought down her offensive.

It gathered its branches back together, forming a dense, semi-circular defensive surface that completely concealed Sunafa's figure, leaving no gaps in its defense.

Ice Jade Wutong ceased its offensive and instead maintained a purely defensive posture, channeling all its power into maintaining the barrier and the branch shield.

As a guardian tree, the Ice Jade Wutong is an extraordinary life form that excels in defense.

When facing void creatures of a lower rank, it can use its superior rank to clear the field.

However, facing a Void Leader of the same level and with tenacious vitality, it knew that its offensive would not be very effective, so it simply focused on defense, not revealing any flaws and not giving its opponent any opportunity to exploit.

The Void Leader made a move.

Its three tentacles extended forward simultaneously, their filamentous forks fully extended, striking the same spot on the barrier at extremely high speed.

The whiskers retracted and then extended again, the rhythm extremely fast.

Each strike left a brief, dark purple mark on the surface of the barrier.

The icy blue aura at the edge of the mark dimmed noticeably in that area.

Even with such a ferocious attack, its dozens of eyes remained motionless, piercing through the barrier and locking onto Sunefa, who sat calmly inside.

Ice Jade Wutong's approach to dealing with the situation was completely different from before.

It absorbs every impact through the barrier itself.

The dim areas that appeared on the surface of the barrier were replenished by icy blue light after a brief interval.

This state lasted for several breaths.

Inside the barrier, Sunefa's body began to shimmer with tiny, dazzling silver-white light.

At the same time, her aura began to rise steadily.

Sunefa has already entered the final stage of its transformation from the fourth ring to the fifth ring.

The Void Leader naturally noticed it as well.

In desperation, it did something extremely strange.

Of the dozens of eyes of varying sizes on its body, a dozen or so near the middle of its body suddenly began to spin rapidly.

The rotation speed increased, and the muscles around the eyes trembled violently, twisted, and became congested.

Bang bang bang!

Several muffled cracking sounds suddenly rang out as more than a dozen rotating eyeballs burst open at the same time.

At the moment of the explosion, an extremely thick, dark purple void elixir gushed out from the wound, churning and spreading rapidly.

In less than a breath, the dark purple mist covered an area several feet around the Void Leader, forming a highly concentrated, almost liquid, dark purple mist barrier.

The mist enveloped the Void Leader's entire body.

Then it moved.

Its speed nearly doubled in that instant.

Three tentacles spread out in a fan shape in front, striking the same point on the barrier surface simultaneously, with a striking force a level higher than before.

hum!

The barrier's surface was instantly smashed, creating a deep dent.

The icy blue aura was forcibly compressed, and the speed at which the aura healed and replenished itself was greatly slowed down, unable to keep up with the speed of the void energy's erosion and destruction.

The Void Leader's arthropods exerted continuous force on the ground.

Its entire body repeatedly rammed into the same area of ​​the barrier in a frenzied manner.

There was no pause after each impact; the next impact followed immediately.

The depression on the surface of the barrier deepened, and fine cracks reappeared on the surface of the ice-blue aura, spreading rapidly to both sides.

Gaode's heart clenched at that moment.

Clearly, the Void Leader realized that Sunefa was about to complete her Ascension and became desperate, resorting to some forbidden methods to force an attack, which yielded considerable results.

The barrier was teetering on the brink of collapse, and the defense line was in danger of crumbling at any moment.

Gao De gritted his teeth and took a step forward, subtly raising his right hand with his palm facing the void leader shrouded in dark purple mist.

The next instant, a silvery-white holy light surged forward along his outstretched arm and shot out.

The silver-white beam pierced through the air and accurately struck the dark purple mist on the surface of the Void Leader's body.

The moment the beam of light touched the mist, it was like a drop of clear water falling into thick ink, rapidly spreading out within the dark purple mist.

In the areas that were affected, the fog was thinning at a visible rate, and the violent void energy was gradually calming down.

The violent energy flow around the Void Leader's body noticeably decreased at that moment.

It reduced the frequency of its thumping and slowed down the movement of its whiskers.

The explosive boost gained from self-destructing the eyeballs suddenly disappeared, returning to the previous state.

【Yuan Jing】, Dragon Magic Technique!

However, Gaode only lasted for a moment.

In the mere instant of the spell's effect, the magical power of the two magic crystals within Gao De's body was completely drained, leaving not a trace.

A series of sharp, stinging pains emanated from the magical energy channels throughout his body, and a feeling of emptiness from the depletion of his magical energy swept over him.

His body swayed suddenly, his body went limp, his blood surged, and his vision blurred with a grayish-white layer. He almost collapsed to the ground.

The effects of spells are fleeting.

After Gao De's mana was exhausted, the forcibly sealed Void Amplification was revived.

The dark purple mist surged again, and the Void Leader's berserk combat power quickly returned to its peak.

On the battlefield, even a brief opening can decide the outcome.

Bingyu Wutong perfectly seized this fleeting opportunity to win.

The thousands of branches that had previously remained steadfast in their defensive posture and never launched an offensive suddenly erupted with unprecedented speed and force.

Several thick and tough main branches rapidly emerged from the edge of the barrier, precisely entangled the root nodes of the Void Leader's three tentacles, and locked down the source of its core attack.

More branches followed closely behind.

It wraps around its articular joints, around the middle of its trunk, and around all the nodes where it can move.

In an instant, all of the Void Leader's limbs were simultaneously locked by the branches, unable to move forward even half a step, completely immobilized.

A layer of icy blue aura clung to the branches, counteracting the void distortion energy emanating from the void leader's body.

Then the Ice Jade Wutong began to tighten its branches.

The Void Leader was enraged and struggled desperately to resist.

The filamentous forks at the ends of the tentacles trembled wildly, and the deformed limbs exerted all their strength to push outwards from the entwined branches.

The dark purple energy on its surface became increasingly violent and turbulent, constantly impacting the branches that were restraining it.

However, the Ice Jade Wutong silently and persistently output ice elemental power to fight against the void energy and firmly lock the void leader in place.

Gaode's breathing rate is gradually recovering.

He looked at Sunefa within the field barrier.

Sunafa sat upright, her shoulders level, her posture unchanged from when she started.

There was no fluctuation despite the close call just now.

The branches of the Ice Jade Wutong are still tightening.

It used its most effective method—continuously relying on its roots to draw energy from the ground—to enter into a sustained standoff with the locked-down Void Leader.

The roots of the Ice Jade Wutong are deeply embedded in the frozen soil, providing it with a continuous supply of energy.

This is the most powerful aspect of the extraordinary creatures of the Demon Tree class.

Time passed slowly.

One minute, two minutes, five minutes...

The Ice Jade Wutong maintained its entwined posture, following the rhythm of the Void Leader throughout.

If the opponent struggles more, the outflow of void energy increases, and it also increases its energy output.

But there was absolutely no additional power; it maintained a slight increase in energy output compared to its opponent, without loosening any branch or leaving the Void Leader any possibility of escape.

Within the core of the barrier, the silver-white ascending aura surrounding Sunafa completely stabilized, no longer fluctuating or swaying.

The dazzling silver-white light surged to its peak on Sunefa's body before completely receding.

boom!

After all the silvery-white light was contained within Sunafa's body, a brighter and more stable, vibrant cyan-green glow suddenly burst forth from Sunafa's body.

At that very moment, Gao De suddenly felt a warm and powerful force surging within his bloodline for no apparent reason.

The aura that had been weakening due to the depletion of magical power suddenly intensified. What was going on?! Gao De was startled.

At this moment, Sunafa slowly opened her eyes.

Two kinds of light flowed simultaneously deep within her pupils.

One is the silver color inherent in the bloodline of the Iceborn, and the other is the turquoise color of the "Azure Wood Longevity Scripture".

The two lights coexist in a stable, non-intersecting manner, each maintaining its complete form.

Behind her, the Ice Jade Wutong tree, which had been guarding her throughout, relaxed and tightened the delicate branches that had not participated in the direct combat.

These ice crystal branches slowly droop, stretch, coil, and intertwine.

Like flowing moonlight, it surrounded Sunafa in layers, arranged in a staggered pattern.

The translucent ice crystal leaves shimmer with shimmering blue light, and the branches curve gracefully and neatly.

The warm wood tones and the clear, icy light intertwine to create a serene and exquisite scene, firmly setting Sunefa's aloof figure at the core.

As Gao De gazed at that slender, tall, and aloof figure, a hint of undisguised joy finally appeared on his face, which had been tense for a long time.

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