No abstraction, no cultivation

Chapter 162 Rescue
As Xu Shun panted heavily, he sat cross-legged in meditation, pretending to quickly recover his magic power.

Suddenly, a tree root as thick as a bucket appeared behind Xu Shun and stabbed into his chest.

Xu Shun didn't notice it until the tree root was almost behind him. He rolled to the side in embarrassment and brushed past the tree root.

His face changed and he ran away with the sword in his hand, trembling.

Life is like a play, it all depends on acting. He killed the banished immortal, in fact, he had magical powers.

He pretended to have no magic power at this time in order to trick the locust tree demon out.

In the village, this tree demon escaped by some unknown means. Now, we have to find a way to eradicate it.

When Xu Shun saw the canyon from which the exiled immortal came out, his eyes lit up.

I'm running on the flat ground, and the tree demon is hiding underground. So when I get to the top of the canyon, you can't still be underground, right?

So he pretended to stumble and fall to avoid the tree roots and branches behind him, and then climbed up the canyon in two steps.

Shugen also pursued relentlessly, determined to kill Xu Shun.

Unfortunately, climbing upwards is not something that tree roots are good at. Many times, the tree roots give Xu Shun a place to step on, allowing Xu Shun to quickly climb to the top of the canyon.

"Ha..." Xu Shun panted and said proudly, "Now... you can't catch up with me, right?"

The tree demon looked at Xu Shun in an embarrassed tone and tried to mock him, and he immediately became furious.

The ground cracked, and his body staggered out from underground. It was a locust tree root several feet wide.

For a tree, the most important thing is the roots.

As long as it has roots, it can continue to absorb nutrients from the earth and continue to grow into a towering tree next year.

Without roots, there is nothing.

The roots of the tree are densely packed with roots. If the roots are regarded as tentacles, then the tree monster is still very Cthulhu.

Occasionally there were white skeletons on the tree roots with green eyes. It was obvious that he had gained a lot of benefits by following the banished immortal.

The roots drilled into the rocks in the canyon, allowing the tree roots to climb up the mountain. It wanted to hunt down Xu Shun and get the benefits from Xu Shun.

Xu Shun looked at the white bones on the tree roots, sighed, and said, "This must be your true form!"

"It's so ugly!"

After saying that, he took out the Chishou sword and jumped down from the canyon!

The surging magic power suddenly elevated the realm, causing "I, the Tiger" to let out a huge roar!
The improvement of his cultivation and the squeeze of the "Dao Dragon" made him feel as if he was in mercury! He knew that this was all his "feeling"!
"Feelings" can be deceiving, but reality cannot!

The sword is the blade of the heart!

There is only killing in his mind!

As Xu Shun leaped, black sword energy appeared out of thin air, as if a giant black sword appeared between heaven and earth, carrying destruction, and slashed at the roots of the tree demon!
"!!!" The tree demon was still wondering, could it be that the cultivator in front of him was fighting to the death?
Unfortunately, it estimated wrong!

The black sword energy easily broke through the roots of the locust tree monster, breaking its core and truly splitting it in half.

Xu Shun still felt that it was not enough, so he turned around and the sword energy swirled, and countless sword energies crushed the huge tree roots into pieces!

The tree monster is not difficult to kill, it’s just hiding too deep!

"Hey! Why do I feel like I'm not a good person!" Xu Shun said. He looked at the debris of the tree monster, touched the sword energy gourd, and felt the surge in his cultivation. He knew that the tree monster was dead.

Killing people will gain cultivation and magic power, plus the sword energy gourd...

In other words, as long as there are people to kill, he can keep killing until he reaches the Mahayana stage!

Become the top monk in this world!
No wonder Taoist Lan gave him the Sword Qi Gourd. Only then did he realize Taoist Lan’s good intentions.

Restraining his thoughts, Xu Shun came to the canyon to look for the cave of the exiled immortal.

The exiled immortal's cave was very hard to find. Xu Shun searched for a long time and finally found a cave in an inconspicuous corner of the canyon.

My goodness, are you born in the Year of the Rat? Xu Shun couldn't help but complain.

If the banished immortal could speak, he would definitely say, I don’t want to either, but this is the only way to avoid being hunted down by the monks in heaven!

The cave is relatively small at first, but becomes more spacious as you go deeper, until at the end, there are several huge stone chambers.

The cave was lit by green flames, with occasional ghost lights floating by. It was cold and deserted, as if no one was alive.

He practiced Taoism and cultivated immortality until he reached the point where he had to hide in a hole in the ground and become a mouse.

Really... I don't know what they are trying to do.

Xu Shun turned around and actually found that there were actually living people!

Or a living immortal!

It was a white-haired man tied to a black iron pole with his limbs spread out like a big Chinese character.

His body was covered with strange red symbols and black needles. His eyes were closed and his face showed pain.

He seemed to be in very bad shape.

"Hey...are you still alive?" Xu Shun called out to him, but the man didn't respond, as if he had fainted.

Or maybe you can't speak at all.

Save or not?
Xu Shun hesitated for a moment, touched the black iron gourd around his waist, and decided to save him.

Although there is a high possibility that the person being rescued is a bastard, but what if?
What if it was them?
Even if the chance is one in ten thousand, Xu Shun will try it.

So Xu Shun carefully studied the black needles on the man's body and figured out some of the clues.

The black needle seemed to have blocked this person's cultivation.

As for the blood-colored spell on his body, it was actually stimulating this person's cultivation. Combined with being tied to a black iron pillar, it can be clearly inferred that this person seemed to be used for a ritual.

After understanding the trick, Xu Shun still didn't know how to crack it.

He chanted a magic spell to wash away the blood-colored talisman on the man's body, and then added a "peiyuan spell" to the man to help him regain some of his complexion.

After that, he started to pull out the black needles from the man's body.

When the first needle was pulled out, the man couldn't help but groan in pain.

"Bear with it, you're a real man, why would you cry out in pain just by having a needle pulled out?" Xu Shun soothed him.

After that, he pulled out the black needles one after another. Every time he pulled out a needle, the man groaned. In the end, he seemed to have recovered a little. He clenched his teeth and made no more sound.

But... tears don't lie.

His big tears flowed out.

When Xu Shun pulled out the last needle, he was finally able to speak.

"I've lived so long..." He said with a hoarse voice, "This is the first time I've seen someone forcibly pull out a soul-stealing needle!"

"That guy tortured me for so long, but he didn't kill me."

"You almost sent me away with those few pulls!"

Xu Shun was quite embarrassed and said, "I'm sorry, this is the first time I've seen this thing. Does it really hurt?"

The man originally wanted to say it hurt, but as a grown man, it seemed a bit pretentious for him to keep saying it hurt.

So he said with a look of deep sorrow: "It doesn't hurt!"

"Does it really not hurt?" Xu Shun asked, "If it doesn't hurt, why are you crying?"

"That's all the kindness of the benefactor!"

(End of this chapter)