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Chapter 133 Sword-and-Shield Treants and Spear-wielding Treants

Although the tree spirit was cut down, it did not fall. Instead, it was held up by the greenhouse above and hung below it.

But Fang Si leaped up, this time his blade was even sharper, slicing through most of the tree trunk and severing the two arms and head above with a single stroke.

Faintly, the two suddenly heard a muffled groan, but it quickly disappeared.

The thick tree trunk lay to one side, crashing to the ground with a dull echo, but Erhu lifted the trunk and found that it wasn't too heavy.

"It's very light, much lighter than ordinary trees!"

Fang Si cut off the extending branch again with one stroke, then raised his hand and made another cut towards the base of the tree: "This root is like an old tree that has been growing for many years. It actually went in like that, and it went in so deep."

"Do you think this thing might sprout new tree people later?"

"I suspect it's possible. It's too strange. Let's clean it up first, lest something weird appears."

Erhu no longer found it amusing. This thing was some kind of plant-based source beast, which he had never seen before, but Jiang Cheng should have.

If not, I'll try asking around at the trading company tomorrow; maybe then I'll find out.

The two men swung their knives in quick succession, each on one side, cutting only the top of the head and the arms, and soon all the sheds built by the tree spirits were cut down.

Without its support below, the massive wooden roof crashed to the ground, kicking up clouds of dust.

Fang Si casually slashed at the mesh canopy roof with his knife and immediately noticed something unusual about the feel: "This canopy is actually much sturdier than the tree trunk."

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Erhu also tentatively made a cut, and just as Fang Si had said.

"It seems that the trunk is actually the weak point of this thing."

A burst of fire struck from behind, startling the erhu player.

Sui An continued to use the Fire Phoenix to clear away the tree spirits, and the three sword star totems completely suppressed the slow-moving tree spirits.

"Let's go back!" Fang Si casually chopped off a section of tree trunk, picked it up, and the two of them ran back to their territory.

Seeing how quickly the two cleaned up, Sui An roughly guessed that this peculiar tree spirit must be some kind of fire-type plant, which is why its fire resistance was so high that it was almost impossible to be ignited by his initial attack mode.

Since it has high attributes, but as a level three source beast, it's unlikely that its other attributes are all so overpowered, such as its toughness.

As soon as Erhu entered, he asked, "Are all the ones coming out so far still these giant tree-men?"

"I haven't seen any others yet, not even a single level two; they're all level three."

Sui An estimated the number and suddenly noticed something was wrong: "This number seems a bit off. Compared to the last beast tide, isn't this number a bit too small?"

"It seems there are a few, probably because they are moving slowly, so the number emerging from the cracks is more evenly distributed."

Fang Si replied softly, and then he put the more than two-meter-long tree trunk on his shoulder onto the ground.

"Try blowing up the elemental statue. If you can, I suggest you wait for them to come; it will consume less energy."

Sui An nodded and casually connected to the nearest elemental statue. In his field of vision, he could vaguely see that the source stone seemed to be in the middle.

"boom!"

The lightning ball struck the tree trunk, and just as Fang Si had predicted, a single ordinary lightning ball shattered the trunk into pieces, even causing the source stones to fall out.

"That's much easier. I'll open up the defenses and let them come over and see."

But something unexpected happened to Sui An. After the sheds in the front row were cut down, the tree spirits coming from behind stopped building more sheds and continued walking towards him.

Sui An simply waited for them to arrive at their leisurely pace. When they were about sixty or seventy meters away from his territory, Sui An summoned the illusion to appear.

The illusions were as effective as ever. Even the slow-moving tree spirits seemed to be completely enraged, and they ran towards the illusions much faster than before.

Each tree spirit that entered the illusion's range ran while raising its arms, its twelve fingers transforming into thicker, longer whip-like branches—far more robust than the branches that had just tried to bind Fang Si and the others.

The thick whip lashed out along the illusion, but only struck the yellow earth. However, its power surprised everyone in the distance. The whip even carved a narrow trench in the ground, sinking into the yellow earth like a blade, clearly demonstrating its formidable power.

But obviously, such an attack was not very effective. In fact, as the branches lashed at each other, they broke off one another and even became entangled together without anyone noticing.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Sui An quickly pulled the illusion into the attack range of the elemental statue.

The rumbling sound began to rise. The effect of the elemental statues locking onto the source stone was still powerful. The automatically attacking lightning balls were all locked onto the tree trunk. Almost every lightning ball could blast open the trunk of a tree spirit.

Even those who were close to each other could be killed by the area damage. So Sui An wasn't in a hurry anymore. He simply waited for more of these old men to arrive before starting to clear them all out at once, which would be more efficient.

As time passed, the rift had probably been open for fifteen or sixteen minutes, and Sui An's first illusion was estimated to dissipate in another minute or two.

However, the number of these tree spirits did not decrease, and they continued to emerge from the cracks very steadily. It seemed that it was really because they were too slow that only a few could come through the cracks each time, and they did not compete to squeeze through.

"Looks like it was just a false alarm."

Erhu leaned against the railing of the turret, feeling a bit bored. Since the Broken Gold Cannon was not very effective against such a huge creature that did not feel pain, they simply stopped using it and let the Elemental Statue handle everything.

After all, there are now 14 elemental statues in the territory, and Sui An doesn't even need to move them all to one side; the firepower is already sufficient.

As for the scattered wandering source beasts that gathered from all around, they were all handed over to Wang Hu's manual crossbow.

In fact, Erhu Fangsi and the others also lacked soul essence, but this low-level soul essence was of little use to them. What they needed more was the soul essence of mid-level source beasts.

At this stage, they are not trying to steal Sui An's mid-level source beast kills. Sui An has a relatively high probability of getting green loot from killing these mid-level source beasts, and even occasionally a blue one. When they kill them, they basically get white loot, and they may not even get any loot at all.

These are the implicit rules of the Origin Realm, which have been explored and discovered by generations of professionals.

Once the territory reaches level four, there will be plenty of mid-level source beasts to fight over, and the territory will no longer matter much.

Sui An subconsciously raised his binoculars to look into the distance. Although there was no change at the moment, there was definitely more to come, and the intensity of this attack was probably not even comparable to that of the previous few days.

"I have a feeling there's something big hidden behind that!"

Erhu pouted and rolled his eyes: "No, you used to tell me not to talk nonsense, saying it was easy to make a bad example and then suffer a backlash. How come you're now hoping for it yourself?"

"This isn't an expectation; it's just that I feel the intensity level doesn't match the gap that much!"

Sui An pointed to the battlefield ahead. Due to the treants' powerful bodies, there were many piles of wood outside, seemingly filling up the southern battlefield of his territory, but in reality, the amount was not as much as imagined.

"I just estimated that the rift has been open for about seventeen minutes now. Excluding those that are still on their way, there are probably only four or five hundred of them. Last time, it would have already exceeded a thousand."

"Four or five hundred? That's so few!" Erhu was a little incredulous. He tried to count the huge logs in front of him, but obviously, he couldn't count them.

"You bastard, how did you count that?"

"puff!"

Sui An admitted that he couldn't hold back anymore. He was so uncomfortable trying to suppress his laughter that he could only throw the binoculars in his hand over.

"Look at the frequency of these things coming out of the fissure. Two or three of them come out at a time, but the time interval is about four or five seconds. That means on average, one comes out every two seconds. It's only been seventeen minutes. If you take away the two minutes on the way, then there are four or five hundred of them."

"Even at this rate, if the rift is open for half an hour, it will only yield around a thousand beasts. This number is less than half of what we got last month. However, they are all level three source beasts, so the harvest shouldn't be too much less."

Erhu got a headache listening to Sui An's account: "We didn't study like in the old days. We grew up together and played around. How come you're so good at accounting?"

"You call this kind of calculation 'accounting'? You're just lazy." Sui An was also somewhat helpless. You might say that Erhu doesn't like accounting, but he's been running around all these years and I've never seen him suffer any losses.

Perhaps it's because if you don't care about yourself, you're too lazy to think about it.

Although the accounts were giving him a headache, Erhu obediently took the binoculars and counted the cracks for a while: "Hey, it really is just like you said, but why does this thing that suddenly appeared look different?"

"Damn, why is he holding a wooden sword in one hand and a wooden shield in the other?!"

The erhu player's exclamation immediately attracted everyone's attention, but the distance was too far for the naked eye to see clearly.

"One, two, three—six now! And there's an even bigger one!"

"The bigger one was wielding a giant spear!"

Erhu, holding up binoculars, kept reporting the situation to the crowd: "These weapon-wielding tree people are so agile and fast; they've already charged over!"

Sure enough, orange dots appeared on the detection projection. Even though, according to Erhu, one of the seven was very large, all the dots on the projection were orange.

"They're all just level four source beasts!"

Sui An's voice immediately eased the atmosphere in the arena. They had killed nearly forty or fifty level-four source beasts in this territory, including both ordinary level-four and elite level-four beasts.

Everyone's gaze was drawn to the distance of the territory, where they saw a crimson tree-man about five meters tall leading the way. Its color was so vibrant, like flames.

Compared to the previous level three tree people, it was more like a giant, with limbs of uniform thickness, and it ran very fast, dragging a wooden spear that was almost as tall as itself.

Following behind it were six darker brown tree-men, who, although relatively short, were still nearly five meters tall. Just as the erhu had described, they held shields in their left hands and had grown into giant wooden swords in their right.

They charged straight into their territory, their ranks orderly and their steps steady, like a well-trained army.

Sui An naturally wouldn't let them rush over like that, and began to probe with the giant flaming sword.

The Crimson Treant stopped abruptly, while the six Sword and Shield Treants behind him rushed forward, their six shields combining to form a massive shield in a very short time.

"boom!"

The flaming greatsword struck the shield, the dull thud sending dust flying. The giant flaming sword, which could have pierced the roof and sliced ​​through the treants, was now being forcefully stopped by the massive shield.

Apart from some black scorch marks, the shield was almost completely undamaged.

"Whoosh!"

As the sword of fire struck, a wooden spear shot up from behind the shield, creating a loud explosion that dispersed the rings of flames in the air before crashing into the Thousand Winds Barrier.

The spear pointed straight at the dazzling sword star in the sky!

The Thousand Winds Barrier, which had once been able to stop fourth-level professionals, collapsed almost instantly. The two barriers that rose below tried to merge together quickly, but it was too late.

"Bang!"

The white dandelions scattered in the wind, but the spear's remaining force was also insufficient, its momentum somewhat weak. It crashed into the two-in-one barrier below, stirring up slight ripples, and then fell down along the barrier.

Holy crap!

"Oh my god!"

The crowd gasped in surprise. This was the first time they had ever seen Sui An's single-layer Thousand Wind Barrier shattered by a single blow from a distance by a level four being!

"A level four source beast of lord caliber!"

The two level-four professionals, who had been somewhat relaxed, sat up almost instantly and exclaimed in surprise.

Only powerful source beasts with explosive racial stats can possess such destructive power. This nearly humanoid, five-meter-tall crimson tree-man is a tree-man lord with such terrifying strength!

The two exchanged a single glance and instantly understood each other's meaning.

We must not allow it to attack the barrier directly like this!

The two of them jumped up from the cannon platform at the same time and instantly arrived outside the barrier to begin their defense.

They didn't choose to rush in directly. For Sui An, having two people rush in would only limit his attack methods.

Their job is to help defend the territory!

The fire phoenixes in the distance soared into the sky. Originally capable of flying twenty meters, the fire phoenixes were only pushed back three or four meters by the incredibly heavy six-sided shields before quietly dissipating.

Although the impact was limited, the terrifying high temperature of the fire phoenix was not entirely ineffective; flames shot up on all six shields, but they were quickly extinguished.

"Is this what a truly powerful Source Beast is like?"

As Sui An watched the seven Source Beasts charging toward the territory again, he realized why various Source Energy items in the world were graded. It was because there really were such terrifying Source Beasts. Without high-grade weapons and equipment, how could professionals deal with them?

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