Ten Thousand Soul Banner: Deceased, do you have any unfulfilled wishes?-Chapter 1034 - 1030: Tree Ghost

Dou Dou saw these trees all hiding underground and couldn’t help feeling a bit troubled. She scratched her little head with the small axe in her hand and asked Shen Siyuan, "What should we do now?"

"Let me handle this, you all step back a bit."

Shen Siyuan looked at the black skeletons piled all over the ground. The cold Yin Qi at his fingertips hadn’t dissipated yet, but a sharp glint had already formed in his eyes.

This place was entangled with Yin Sha, and there must be a greater hidden menace beneath the bones. If not thoroughly eradicated, it would be a future threat.

Moreover, he didn’t think the four of them could pass through here safely.

So without any hesitation, he raised his hand and touched his chest.

In an instant, a five-colored stream shot out from his chest. Accompanied by the buzzing of a trembling sword, a resplendent Divine Sword was steadily grasped in his hand.

It was the Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Sword, infused with the Five Elements Power and the Magnetic Power.

On the sword’s blade, the colors of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth intertwined. At the sword’s hilt, magnetic light faintly flowed, causing the surrounding air to distort slightly due to this special magnetic field.

"Rise!"

Shen Siyuan shouted in a low voice, his arm swinging in a full circle. The Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Sword, enveloped with boundless Sword Intent, slashed hard at the ground.

Before the sword’s edge reached, the Primordial Magnetic Power carried by the Divine Sword erupted first.

This power was like an invisible tether, instantly connecting with the ubiquitous primordial magnetism in the Netherworld’s void. A harsh buzzing sounded between heaven and earth, visible magnetic storm ripples spread crazily from the point where the sword struck, like waves on water.

Where the magnetic storm power passed, the ground seemed to be plowed by an invisible giant, the soil layers rolling and tumbling. The overwhelming magnetic force carried a melting power that plowed directly towards the area where the Black Forest had been.

The black withered bones buried underground were silently crushed to powder under the Primordial Magnetic Power, without a chance to make a sound, scattering with the wind, leaving only a fine dust on the ground.

"Ow~"

A shrill scream erupted from underground, woven from the howls of countless black trees.

They had intended to hide using the underground Yin Sha, but didn’t expect Shen Siyuan’s Primordial Magnetic Power to pierce through the earth, directly striking at their source.

With the screams rising and falling, pitch-black branches frantically drilled out from soil holes, their human faces twisted and deformed in extreme agony, features almost merging into one.

These black trees seemed driven to desperation, entangling and clinging to each other.

Thin branches coiled like venomous snakes, while thick ones stacked like giant arms. In just a few breaths, the originally scattered individuals coalesced into a huge wooden monster.

This monster was entirely black as ink, its body formed by countless twisted branches, towering several zhang high. Dozens of thick branch arms clawed at the surroundings, covered all over with faces wailing in pain. Each face wept black and red tears, exuding a chilling aura that filled the sky, even freezing the surrounding air.

It looked down at Shen Siyuan and his group on the ground, countless faces simultaneously letting out venomous hissing, shaking the nearby black dust into a violent upheaval.

"Wow, it’s so ugly, so fierce..."

Dou Dou darted behind Xiao Yue, peering out.

"You’re the Vanguard General, how can you be so timid?" Xiao Yue said helplessly.

"What’s timid?" Dou Dou looked confused.

Xiao Yue didn’t want to waste words with her, especially since the tree demon—no, precisely speaking, the Tree Ghost, the Tree Spirit—was already attacking.

Dozens of branch arms as thick as giant pythons swung out, bringing with them the howling Yin Wind. The tips of the branches were still coated in pitch-black venom, emitting a pungent stench even before reaching them, as the black dust on the ground was whipped into a whirlwind, blotting out the sky.

"Be careful!"

Shen Siyuan shouted a warning in a deep voice, flipping his wrist, making the Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Sword hum and the five-colored spiritual light surge.

He tapped his toes, his form shooting into the air like an arrow, the sword’s edge slashing obliquely, a five-colored sword aura infused with Primordial Magnetic Power whizzing out, striking precisely at the foremost branch arm.

With a crisp "crack" sound, the branch arm, as hard as refined steel, was sheared through, black juice splattering from the cut, and black smoke rising from the ground where it fell.

Yet the monster seemed unfazed by pain, sprouting several small tendrils from the cut, continuing to bind like tentacles.

Meanwhile, other branch arms divided to the sides, reaching out toward Xiao Yue, Dou Dou, and Duoduo, the offensive overwhelming, seemingly intending to encircle all four at once.

Just moments ago asking what being timid meant, Dou Dou was now not a bit afraid but rather blazing with battle spirit.

She stomped her feet, Divine Fire surged around her, her axe burning red, resembling a small sun.

"Watch the might of my little old axe." The little one shouted, leaping up to evade the sweeping branch arm, her axe chopping fiercely onto another branch reaching for her.

Divine Fire spread along the axe blade, instantly igniting the branch, "sizzle" sounds as the black wood quickly carbonized, that branch arm collapsing limply, flames spreading along the branch to the monster’s body.

Duoduo, still hidden in the Qiankun Umbrella, saw a branch arm breaking through the Divine Fire’s line towards herself. The umbrella surface spun rapidly.

A soft green spiritual light burst from the umbrella surface, forming an invisible barrier, barely holding back the branch arm’s impact.

Following that, Duoduo manipulated the Qiankun Umbrella in the air, that black branch coiling back, twisted into a knot.

Xiao Yue’s movements were even more swift and fierce.

She lightly flicked her wrist, the Soul-hooking Chain darting out like a Spirit Snake, tinkling with the crisp sound of the Three Pure Ones Bell, instantly binding an attacking branch arm.

The Three Pure Ones Bell vibrated intensely, its clear ring turning into invisible sound waves spreading across the branch arm. The faces clinging to the branch arm let out pained screams, even blurred a bit by the sound waves. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Xiao Yue shouted lowly, exerting strength to yank the Soul-hooking Chain, shattering the branches directly.

Seeing the four of them each with their abilities, the wooden monster’s attacks were continuously broken. Countless faces simultaneously showed rage as its body swelled a few sizes, countless tiny black spikes shooting densely from the branches, pouring down on the four like a rainstorm.

These black spikes were all wrapped in black energy, full of Polluted Energy, would contaminate the soul if touched, extremely dangerous.

Seeing this, Dou Dou immediately opened her mouth wide to the sky.

"Watch my power, awoo..."

A blaze of bright red flame shot from her mouth, instantly reducing those black spikes to ashes.

Duoduo manipulated the Qiankun Umbrella to spin faster, its surface forming an invisible barrier, deflecting all the incoming black spikes back, twisting and turning.

Lucky for them, they were only wooden; if they had been flesh and blood, they might have harmed themselves before harming Duoduo.

Xiao Yue tapped her toes lightly, her form flitting as lightly as butterfly wings, while the Soul-hooking Chain swung quickly in front of her, knocking down any missed black spikes.

Shen Siyuan saw this, a cold light flashing in his eyes, the Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Sword in his hand stabbing into the void, vibrating the magnetic energy, a massive sword Qi slashing across the sky.

"Slash."

With his low shout, the Divine Sword burst into brilliant five-colored radiance, the Magnetic Power vibrating the void, the space seeming to distort from its power.

Under this force, the ground was split into a huge gorge, the wooden monster even cleaved in two directly.

But it wasn’t completely dead, its branches entangling, even showing signs of recovery.

Meanwhile, Shen Siyuan’s radiant Primordial Magnetic Divine Sword began to emit faint arcs of purple lightning.

His months of painstaking study of the Thunder Skill finally had a place to be put to use.