The Lingmu Sect has an abundance of spirit plants, often outnumbering their opponents in battles. If they truly pushed to the limits, the many spirit plants working together could overwhelm the Jade Spore Skyworm.

However, in the biological world, the suppression of an enemy’s aura is a real phenomenon. The Jade Spore Skyworm rarely shows itself; most spirit plants can’t even identify its origins, but they can sense it carries an aura of having devoured too many spirit plants.

As soon as it appears, even the True Immortals of Lingmu Sect turn pale. They can feel their own spirit plants developing an uncontrollable fear within.

Yi Jue merely gives a cold smile, reaching forward with his hand, "Though you are rebellious, I still respect you as a senior... Make your move!"

Elder Tiegu also offers a cold smile, raising his hand to form a seal, "Evil never prevails over justice. Do you really think I fear you?"

In the next moment, a giant tree over ten zhang high appears in the arena. Then, it rapidly climbs to over a hundred zhang, still reaching higher into the sky, growing to over a thousand zhang tall within a few breaths, with a trunk over fifty zhang in diameter, its straight, lush canopy blocking out the sky and sun.

Compared to this giant tree, the small mushroom over ten zhang high seems pathetically weak, yet everyone senses a strange intuition: the giant tree fears the small mushroom.

Elder Tiegu extends his consciousness, commanding the giant tree to attack the small mushroom. The Dragon Scale Tree is an exotic spirit plant, rumored to possess True Dragon lineage—though how a dragon, an animal, could have plant descendants remains a mystery.

Even if dragons are inherently lustful, they wouldn’t target plants too, would they?

However, there are rumors that the progenitor of Dragon Scale Trees was born from the blood of the Bathing Dragon Emperor. Of course, opinions on this vary.

In any case, the Dragon Scale Tree is known for its rugged beauty, dense enough that swords and knives can’t scratch it, its bark resembling scales. Among the combat spirit plants, it’s both aesthetically pleasing and combative, and brave enough to fight against the odds, hence the "dragon lineage" rumors.

It dreads the Jade Spore Skyworm, but with Elder Tiegu’s command, it reluctantly shakes its trunk, shedding countless circular leaves that spiral towards the small mushroom like arrows.

Dragon Scale Tree’s attack methods aren’t very diverse, often relying on branches for direct combat, though it has some ranged attacks as well. When facing natural enemies, starting with cautious attacks is perfectly normal.

Despite the fierce assault, a faint halo emerges from the mushroom over ten zhang high, a thin layer, holding all of the Dragon Scale Tree’s leaves at bay.

This defense isn’t rigid but has a bit of elasticity, absorbing the impact and cutting force of the leaves before reflecting them, while that miraculous halo acts more like a tenacious layer of callus.

Seeing this, the Dragon Scale Tree doesn’t alter its attack, controlling the fallen leaves to strike again, believing it can wear down the opponent until the halo weakens enough to allow for a direct attack, curious about what other tricks the foe might have.

As a Nascent Soul old tree living for tens of thousands of years, it’s seen and heard many things, but how to break the Jade Spore Skyworm remains unknown, and it isn’t even clear what abilities the skyworm possesses. Cautious exploration becomes necessary.

This time, however, the Jade Spore Skyworm doesn’t use a white barrier but directly turns its body into a phantom, allowing the leaves to slice through it, its entire form collapsing instantly.

"Hmm, does this creature leave afterimages?" Someone couldn’t help but mutter. In truth, while the Jade Spore Skyworm has a notorious reputation, few people know how it fights, and now everyone watches closely from up close.

By borrowing the skyworm for battle, Yi Jue inadvertently reveals some of its capabilities, offering many a valuable chance to observe and record the findings for future generations.

For this reason, Yi Jue’s use of the skyworm in combat faces no objections from the Lingmu Sect-aligned cultivators, partly because Elder Tiegu’s actions are overbearing, and partly out of a desire to glimpse the creature’s true nature.

The Jade Spore Skyworm vanished by instantly blinking away through its underground mycelium.

Its roots had woven a fine mycelium network underground, unaffected by the Dragon Scale Tree’s roots. Though toxic to trees, its mycelium is lesser-known compared to its infamous spores.

The Dragon Scale Tree is aware of this, discovered in years of Lingmu Sect research on the Jade Spore Skyworm—let’s be honest, a Lingmu Sect cultivator was indeed killed by the skyworm, diligently passing along this intel.

As for why the Lingmu Sect doesn’t pursue it, the deceased had acted excessively, angering the Lingzhi Sect and resulting in their covert elimination, making it awkward for Lingmu to publicize their lack of justification.

Elder Tiegu views the Lingzhi Sect with deep enmity, relaying all relevant info to the Dragon Scale Tree, which skeptically opts for a more controlled response, attacking the mycelium with its roots underground.

Its roots are incredibly strong, making the skyworm’s delicate underground mycelium seem laughable in comparison. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

However, its caution pays off by only undertaking controllable actions, leading to the discovery that the mycelium’s tenacity far exceeds its expectations. Its massive roots feel trapped like a bug in a web.

It requires a great expenditure of spiritual energy to destroy a section of the mycelial net, however, its roots will develop some rot from contact with the net, and the toxins on the mycelia will transmit to the main body with alarming speed.

It decisively severed some roots to get through the disaster, it even faintly sensed that the toxins slightly affected its soul. Although not particularly severe, neglect could possibly lead to negative impacts.

In such circumstances, its roots had to avoid the opponent’s mycelia, otherwise, if entangled, it would have to sever its roots again.

The Jade Spore Skyworm emerged once more, this time less than ten miles from the Dragon Scale Tree, a swift white mist sprayed towards the main body of the Dragon Scale Tree.

This is the dreaded spore of the Skyworm known among spirit plants, yet the Dragon Scale Tree was unsurprised, its densely packed branches and leaves drooped down perfectly blocking the white mist.

Although the Jade Spore Skyworm was at the Nascent Soul Peak, the spore attack wasn’t very strong, its main force was adhesion, so even if the Dragon Scale Tree blocked it with the tips of branches and leaves, it wobbled twice and still stopped it.

Then the Dragon Scale Tree decisively severed those branches — they had to be severed.

Fortunately, the Dragon Scale Tree has grown for tens of thousands of years, the extended branches are too numerous, and it is somewhat overwhelmed, consuming significant resources. Keeping them is mainly to guard against situations like this — being able to selectively abandon them in battle to protect the effective main body.

Of course, endless abandonment is impossible, but abandoning a considerable portion actually helps to reduce its load.

In other words, it also chose to consume, and for quite a long period, this consumption was beneficial for it, but for the Jade Spore Skyworm, such consumption probably wouldn’t satisfy it.

The two spirit plants entangled in battle, Yi Jue couldn’t sit idle, she cupped her hands towards Elder Tiegu, "Don’t wait any longer, strike now... Si Ganlin!"

Si Ganlin is her signature divine power, yet this time her strike was huge, covering not just over ten thousand miles, the boundless rain fell down, covering not only Tiegu, but also the main body of the Dragon Scale Tree.

If the root system of the Dragon Scale Tree is included, it surely exceeds ten thousand miles, but the main body is basically within this area.

Her Si Ganlin can ignore rules, whether or not the Dragon Scale Tree favors rain, encountering such an attack, teleportation and similar measures undoubtedly face limitations — yes, it does have teleportation ability, although hurriedly it can’t move far, it indeed has this means.

"Shameless!" Tiegu knew her intention, snorted coldly, and summoned a gray square limber, then lightly tapped with divine sense, followed by a crisp sound, making one’s consciousness tremble, the reverberations lingered long.

A True Immortal of the Lingmu Sect uttered in surprise, "Reincarnation Qing... Elder Tiegu really forged this item?"

The Reincarnation Qing is a True Treasure difficult to forge, but its power is great, capable of implementing sound and divine sense dual attack, if caught off guard, it might shatter the soul, directly obliterating it, even Nascent Soul would be scattered.

Thus, this treasure is called "Reincarnation," referring to its terrifying destructive power.

However, such a method very much emphasizes suppression by cultivation level, if Yi Jue had prior preparations, it’s unlikely she would be ensnared, yet as long as it can affect her state, even disrupt her spell cast, Tiegu would undoubtedly be satisfied.

Moreover, he had other thoughts, that this Reincarnation Qing is a range attack means, capable of affecting not only Yi Jue, but also the avatar of the Jade Spore Skyworm, spirit plants usually don’t possess strong divine sense.

As for the Dragon Scale Tree, it would generally not be affected, as Tiegu has trained it unafraid of such attacks.

Yi Jue sneered disdainfully, "Trick of a lowly worm!"

She thought it’s a trick, but for those onlookers, this range attack on an Nascent Soul level, is indeed rather terrifying.

Some people have taken shelter in a defensive formation, which wasn’t too demanding, but for True Immortals, who relied on their cultivation level and wouldn’t enter the formation, such attacks are also unfathomable.

Not less than one Nascent Soul True Immortal’s complexion changed, swiftly blinking toward distant places, inwardly cursing Tiegu’s move as too unscrupulous — as for complaining about the opponent shouldn’t attack like this? That’s impossible, True Immortals wouldn’t spare a thought about the feelings of ants.

Initially, they weren’t invited to witness life-and-death battles, just seeing it is good enough, why demand a bicycle?

Some distant onlookers, using merely Golden Core level defensive formations, upon Reincarnation Qing’s sound, several formations shook a few times, then violently shattered.