Versatile Mage: Lord of Space

The Winged Clan will soon begin their grand ceremony, which presents a perfect opportunity for logging!
"Mo Fan, you stay down here. Zhao Manyan, come up with me," Lin Lan whispered. "This Heavenly Crown Purple Linden Divine Tree is an extremely cunning old hunter. It won't even bother to look at one or two small prey that have fallen into its trap, let alone easily reveal its true nature."

“Lin Lan should definitely go first. This devil doesn’t know him, but why is he pulling me in? I’m not a super-level mage! He knows me too!” Zhao Manyan said.

"Know what?! It's just a tree, what, does it have facial recognition capabilities?" Lin Lan replied irritably.

“Uh…that makes sense. It’s like when we look at our African friends, we always think they all look pretty much the same.” Zhao Manyan stroked his chin, agreeing with the statement.

He remembered clearly that a huge, gaping hole was hidden in the lower part of the top of the Devil Tree's canopy. Unless one had seen it with their own eyes, who could connect this sacred and beautiful purple linden tree with that ugly, greedy tree demon?

"You're putting on quite a show! You've been drinking blood and eating meat these past few days, your time to die is coming!" Lin Lan looked up and was already close to the entrance of the tree hole.

Lin Lan went in first, followed by Zhao Manyan.

The tree hole was tightly closed at the moment, and looked no different from an ordinary tree crevice.

Countless demons, great and small, have basked in the moonlight here, only to be quietly devoured by it the next moment, turning into nutrients that nourish the leaves to make them even brighter.

But the most disgusting thing about the Heavenly Crown Purple Linden Divine Tree is its bewitching power!

It will never reveal its carnivorous nature unless absolutely necessary. It always disguises itself as a selfless and devoted sacred tree, attracting creatures to inhabit it and forming a small ecosystem.

Once it has amassed a sufficient number of creatures, it secretly incites them to kill each other. When the final victor believes itself to be the chosen "king," it is swallowed whole. Even as it dies slowly from digestion, the "winner" probably never understands that it was the ultimate prey it was hunting…

This tree's patience is terrifyingly astonishing. It can spend ten, twenty, thirty years slowly cultivating its "home." If it hadn't been exposed by Iwa back then, who could have predicted that the next victims wouldn't be human cities easily deceived by its sacred appearance?
……

Once Yu Shishi reached a higher position, Lin Lan, to ensure everything went smoothly, sent Bai Hongfei up to assist her. Although the Feathered Demons were focused on their upcoming ascension, there was no guarantee that a few wouldn't try to sabotage them; they had to be extremely cautious!
"We've arrived," Bai Hongfei signaled.

Lin Lan also unleashed a crackling bolt of lightning, signaling to the waiting crowd below that the tree-felling plan was officially beginning!
"Keep pretending! Give me an eighteen-fold super-level spell!"

"Thunder Dragon Pool!"

Golden lightning crackled across Lin Lan's entire body.

With a low shout, a space hundreds of meters in diameter suddenly unfolded beneath his feet! The surging golden lightning almost completely engulfed all the branches and leaves on this level!

The Heavenly Crown Purple Linden Tree remained unresponsive. Its bark was extremely resilient.

Who would attack a tree for no reason? There are so many winged demons outside; fighting among creatures is the norm!
Lightning transformed into a dragon, which bit down on the Purple Forged Divine Tree!

Boom! ! !
The entire tree trembled violently! It could have used the tips of the devil's wood to weave a mountain-like wall of defense, but the problem was that it had never expected that this group of humans had targeted it from the very beginning!
A tree is still a tree, its thinking far less flexible than that of living beings; to be precise, it has no brain at all. This creature merely tasted the sweetness of battle among living beings over thousands of years, and then endlessly repeated this pattern to nourish itself, eventually cultivating into a spirit!
"Long!!!!!!"

A deafening roar shook the heavens! With overwhelming force, the thunder dragon ruthlessly shattered the hastily assembled wooden defenses and slammed solidly into the gaping maw of the tree hole!
The Heavenly Crown Purple Linden Divine Tree twisted its massive body in panic, but for a tree of its size, such dodging was futile!
Despite its extremely thick bark, the raging flames still scorched it black, leaving a shocking fire hole in the "forehead" where the tree cavity was located!

"Roar!!!!!"

Its disguise was completely torn off; the Heavenly Crown Purple Linden Divine Tree was no longer in disguise! Countless branches instantly transformed into deadly weapons, raining down like arrows from above Lin Lan's head!
Even though it is only one of nine trees, the dense, impenetrable tip of the devil's tree still covers an astonishingly large area.

Lin Lan used a constellation-based teleportation technique to instantly teleport to Zhao Manyan's yo-yo while Zhao Manyan used the Giant Bear Grip to block the first wave of attacks.

……

"It's here! It's really here!" Yu Shishi's voice trembled, her eyes gleaming with barely suppressed excitement.

When the disguise was completely removed, the Divine Leaf of the Purple Linden was finally fully revealed.

The Heavenly Crown Purple Linden Tree, currently under attack from multiple sides, was clearly unaware that Yu Shishi, Bai Hongfei, and Zhang Xiaohou were hiding higher up. The sharp wooden spikes lashed out downwards, but they missed them entirely.

"The location of the Purple Linden Leaf is the central point of the Wood Tip. We can't rush over there, or we'll be riddled with holes," Bai Hongfei cautiously warned.

“Wait a little longer, let those devil wood tips break off a few more.” Zhang Xiaohou nodded in agreement. “Okay, okay…” Yu Shishi replied nervously, her hands unconsciously clenching. This purple linden leaf was related to the future of the entire spirit moth clan. As long as the moon silkworm could successfully transform into a little moon moth phoenix, her spirit moths would truly be protected!
"Strange, why are there suddenly so many white demon wolves down below?" Bai Hongfei suddenly asked, pointing downwards.

Zhang Xiaohou looked down and, sure enough, saw countless white demonic wolves frantically slithering across the Heavenly Crown Purple Linden Divine Tree. They opened their blood-red mouths and began to devour the trunk. The combined attack of hundreds of demonic wolves and the Scaled Winged Serpent caused branches of the Heavenly Crown Purple Linden Divine Tree to fall like raindrops, and its once lush and verdant canopy had become much sparser!

"It's Brother Fan's high-level summoned beast!" Zhang Xiaohou was overjoyed.

"This number is outrageous! There seem to be a few commander-level ones among them!" Bai Hongfei exclaimed in shock.

Under the wolf pack's frenzied devouring, almost all the leaves of the Heavenly Crown Purple Linden Divine Tree had fallen. Seeing that the protection around the Purple Linden Divine Tree was almost gone, Zhang Xiaohou and his two companions, who were high up, immediately seized the opportunity to approach.

Zhang Xiaohou took the lead, stepping on the dry branches to reach forward. Just as he was about to touch the purple linden leaves, the surrounding purple leaves suddenly began to writhe strangely!
"Could these leaves also attack?" Zhang Xiaohou asked in surprise.

As he continued deeper, the purple leaves indeed came to life, stretching out slender legs and revealing dense, hedgehog-like thorns...

"They're not leaves at all, they're parasites!" Yu Shishi shouted to Zhang Xiaohou after realizing the truth.

Countless purple parasites tumbled down from all directions, swarming towards Zhang Xiaohou along the branches. Their jumping ability was astonishing; once within attack range, they launched themselves like dart balls, their deadly stingers striking Zhang Xiaohou from every angle!
"Wind blows!"

Zhang Xiaohou spun in place, instantly creating wisps of wind around him. These wind wisps rapidly coiled, forming a solid protective barrier around him. Any parasites that approached and collided with the wind wisps were immediately and violently repelled!

"There's more below!" Yu Shishi exclaimed in horror as she discovered that the "leaves" on the lower levels were also beginning to wriggle.

Bai Hongfei looked down and saw that the dense swarms of leaf hedgehogs were surging up like a purple tide, about to completely engulf them!

"Leave it to me!" Bai Hongfei immediately cast a high-level fire spell.

Six fiery stones, carrying devastating flames, slammed into the surging swarm of parasitic leaf hedgehogs. The raging fire burned the parasites into charred lumps of coal, but they continued to climb upwards relentlessly.

Bai Hongfei unleashed a barrage of hellfire, turning the upper canopy into a sea of ​​crimson flames. Yet, the number of leaf hedgehogs remained unchanged; they nimbly darted through the flames like venomous, rotating saws, forcing Bai Hongfei to frantically retreat while protecting Master Yu.

"We can't get through at all!" Bai Hongfei shouted anxiously.

These leaf-herding hedgehogs are practically suicide soldiers raised by the sacred linden tree. If anyone attempts to steal a leaf from the sacred linden, they will launch a suicidal attack. While their defenses are weak, their astonishing speed and deadly venomous stingers are enough to repel any intruder, even if it means mutual destruction!

“Your blue and red hellfire is effective against them, but the firepower is too scattered!” Zhang Xiaohou analyzed calmly.

“I know, but…” Bai Hongfei said helplessly.

"Continue using Hellfire," Zhang Xiaohou commanded briefly.

Bai Hongfei dared not be negligent and immediately activated the demonic artifact, raising the temperature of the Hellfire to its extreme. The enhanced Hellfire was incredibly powerful; any leaf-dwelling hedgehog that remained in the flames for even three seconds would be reduced to ashes. Unfortunately, this state could not be maintained for long…

"Wind suction!"

At this moment, Zhang Xiaohou was still moving among the swarm of parasitic hedgehogs. With his exquisite control over the wind and sand, these parasitic assassins could not harm him in the slightest.

He quickly changed tactics, placing over a dozen wind marks in the areas where the fire was most intense. When the flames reached their peak, he immediately activated the marks, transforming them into raging whirlwinds!
These whirlwinds possessed a unique suction force, drawing in all the surrounding flames as they spun. In the blink of an eye, all dozen or so whirlwinds transformed into cyan-red hellfire whirlwinds!
"Wind Harmony!"

Zhang Xiaohou exerted all his control over the whirlwinds, causing them to rotate and merge in the same direction. He was clearly adept at this; the dozen or so whirlwinds converged perfectly, forming a breathtakingly large hurricane!

All the flames absorbed by the cyclones were concentrated, causing the giant hurricane to burn with bluish-red hellfire both inside and out. A colossal entity with astonishing destructive power was born!
"Destroy them all!"

Zhang Xiaohou thrust his palms forward with tremendous force, unleashing a roaring hurricane of hellfire that swept forward. Wherever it passed, whether it was dense branches and sharp wood, or the parasitic leaf hedgehogs that stood in its way, they were either torn to shreds by the hurricane or burned to ashes by the hellfire…

Where the hurricane passed, only scorched earth remained.

"Can we just pick it directly?" Zhang Xiaohou asked, gazing at the purple linden leaf so close to him. The mysterious leaf, ten meters away, radiated an alluring luster. (End of Chapter)