The End of the Extreme Dao: I Planted a Sacred Tree and Gained Immortality

Chapter 139: Ice Escape Activated, Ice Age
Huo Ying's Sharingan rotated.

The spiritual power remaining in White Zetsu's body is still there.

The illusion that controlled White Zetsu was not cleared, but Bai Qianzhi's mental sharing was blocked by the octopus.

Moreover, the moment he saw the octopus through White Zetsu's vision, Huo Ying was sure that the octopus also saw him.

"Fortunately, I didn't go to alarm the monster myself. This thing actually has the power to see through the soul directly!" Huo Ying secretly said that he was lucky. This hill-like octopus at the bottom of the river may have surpassed the category of a third-level mutant beast. It was the first fourth-level monster that Huo Ying encountered.

After thinking about it, Huo Ying selected another White Zetsu, used his divine ability to attach chakra to it, and then expelled it out of the spiritual space.

There was a ripple in the air, and Bai Jue suddenly appeared in Dongling Town, at the place where Huo Ying entered the spiritual world. Then his vision was shared by Huo Ying, who was looking far away in the direction of the river outside Dongling Town.

It was clearly dark night, but a huge white line suddenly appeared in the direction of the river.

That's a wave!
It is the huge waves caused by the river!

The waves surged high, like towering city walls, smashing down towards Dongling Town with overwhelming force.

It’s the octopus at the bottom of the river!

It could not locate Huo Ying's position, so it launched an indiscriminate attack on Dongling Town.

The waves arrived in an instant, destroying the ruins of Dongling Town like a rotten wood, uprooting the abandoned electric poles and trees along the road, rolling them high into the sky, and then dropping them heavily.

Lightning Release: Chakra Mode.

Lightning flashed on Bai Jue's body, and his toes kept falling on the waves to avoid the impact of the waves. In the water, countless parasites and microorganisms pounced on Bai Jue frantically, but it was discovered that Bai Jue's body contained poplar wood elements, and then followed the water droplets back into the waves.

"What a sinister mutant beast!"

Huo Ying frowned in the spiritual space, because the waves in the river were limited, and the octopus's simulated tsunami attack was not difficult to deal with. However, the octopus's real killer move was to attack by microorganisms in the water. If it were not for Bai Jue, Huo Ying himself would have found it difficult to cope with it.

"How can human level 3 infected people resist this kind of power?" Huo Ying finally understood why Lianhai City was breached so easily. Apart from the powerful infected creatures, what made the city defenseless was probably the waves raised by the monsters!
The river water gradually calmed down, and White Zetsu survived the impact of the waves without any danger, using chakra to stand steadily on the water.

boom!
Sensing that Bai Jue was not killed, a huge tentacle suddenly appeared in the deep river.

This tentacle was actually higher than the waves just now. The next second, the tentacle smashed towards Bai Zetsu like lightning. The giant octopus did not appear from the bottom of the river at all. It just stretched out its tentacles and actually reached Bai Zetsu.

Thunder escape·Raiche!

Huo Ying controlled Bai Zetsu to release all of Shen Kong's remaining chakra. Without dodging, the flashing lightning hit the giant octopus head-on.

puff.

The lightning release pierced the octopus's tentacles, but the octopus was too big and the lightning release could not cut it off. Instead, White Zetsu's body was smashed deeply into the octopus's wound.

With one blow, White Zetsu's body was smashed to pieces, while the octopus's tentacle was only cut with a cut as long as a person, but this injury was insignificant to the octopus.

Huo Ying put his hands together and exploded!

He thought that White Zetsu was no match for the octopus, but he imagined that the octopus would drag White Zetsu into the water and swallow him in one gulp. There was a gap between reality and ideal, and the octopus simply slapped White Zetsu to death. However, White Zetsu happened to be embedded in the octopus's tentacles, giving Huo Ying the opportunity to detonate the explosive escape.

boom!
White Zetsu's body instantly exploded in the octopus's tentacles.

The elements of the poplar wood ignited, and the Yang force burned in the octopus's arms.

Roar!
This time, the killing power was more effective than Raikiri. The octopus's tentacles were blown into a bloody mess, and the huge tentacles broke off directly from the explosion.

There was a roar in the river, but the octopus did not attack again after suffering a loss. Instead, it instantly retracted its injured tentacle into the water.

As a level 4 mutant beast, the octopus hid itself after only suffering minor injuries.

The river water slowly receded from Dongling Town, and the water surface became calm. Another White Zetsu returned to Dongling Town from the spiritual space. It went straight to the river and looked down at the river without any hesitation. The octopus at the bottom of the river seemed to have disappeared and ignored the provocation of White Zetsu.

"Is there not enough bait?"

Huo Ying hesitated for a moment, then made up his mind and released fifty White Zetsu. He then stood far away in the town to test whether the octopus would attack him. Once the octopus attacked, Huo Ying would immediately retreat back into the spiritual space.

The White Zetsu rushed to the bank in a show of force. Some of them threw stones into the water, some spit into it, and if they did not lack certain organs, the White Zetsu would even urinate directly into the water.

At the bottom of the river, the giant octopus moved. Instead of attacking, it moved to avoid White Zetsu's insult.

With the Byakugan there, the octopus's dodging was useless. The White Zetsu changed positions with the octopus and continued to taunt on the water surface. For some reason, the Mermaid, who had been evenly matched with the Destroyer before, also hid under the water and did not show up. There were only the White Zetsu by the river in the entire river, shouting non-stop on the water surface.

Boom.

A whirlpool appeared on the surface of the river. It was not the octopus attacking, but the octopus moved. It seemed to be tired of White Zetsu's provocation and decided to give up this area of water. After all, White Zetsu was not afraid of river water and parasites, and the waves raised by the octopus were ineffective. If it attacked with tentacles, White Zetsu had the attack method of human bombs. No matter how it attacked, the octopus felt it was at a disadvantage.

As a level 4 infected creature, the octopus still had many abilities that it had not used, but it was very cautious. It realized that it could not do anything to the White Zetsu under the water, and if it went ashore, it was not sure what other tricks Huo Ying had. So it avoided Huo Ying's edge and swam at the bottom of the river.

"Map, follow the river, where will the octopus go?"

The confrontation between Huo Ying and Octopus was like two old perverts testing each other. Huo Ying didn't want to get close, and Octopus didn't want to go ashore. The two guys were in a stalemate for a while, and finally Bai Zetsu's insults prevailed, so Octopus retreated.

Bai Zetsu recalled the map and then gestured. He continued to walk along the river. It was a straight line and would pass through XN city on the way.

"The octopus may enter XN City... If this level 4 monster enters, will XN City have any way to deal with it?" Huo Ying pondered for a while, then waved his hand: "Bai Jue, listen to my order, continue to harass the octopus monster, and make sure to drive it back to XN City!"

After receiving the order, the White Zetsu jumped even more happily. Using the chakra attached to Shenkong, the White Zetsu directly performed treading water and chased the octopus all the way. Only when the chakra was about to be exhausted did they give up the chase and return to Dongling Town along the river.

Huo Ying used his white eyes to look around. The huge octopus swam faster and faster, and soon it was out of the range of his white eyes' vision.

"I don't know if XN City will be destroyed like Lianhai City, but with Zhang Yuqi here, it should be able to hold out for a while. I can also observe the human's combat power."

Huo Ying silently calculated that if the giant octopus was quickly eliminated in XN City, it would prove that the power of his sacred tree was not enough and was far inferior to the current power of humans. In this case, Huo Ying would take Liang Yao and Bai Qianzhi to abandon their base and move to a more hidden town.

If XN City was destroyed by the giant octopus, it would prove that the power of human infected people is just so-so. Even Zhang Yuqi's power cannot match that of a level 4 infected creature. In that case, Huo Ying would not need to be afraid. He had just passed the test of Bai Zetsu. Both Explosion and Lightning Escape could hurt a level 4 infected creature. If Huo Ying fought the octopus, the octopus's injury would only be more serious. It was unknown who would win. By comparison, Huo Ying felt that his combat power should have reached the critical line of a level 4 infected creature. For safety reasons, Huo Ying did not approach the river, but called Bai Zetsu to his side and waited until dawn.

After making sure that the octopus had not returned, Huo Ying led the White Zetsu team, riding on the huge Destroyer, to the river bank.

The reason why they came to the river was because Huo Ying was attracted by the mermaid's strange abilities.

First of all, their scales can actually dispel the black fog and the attacks of flying insects. If we catch the mermaids and make clothes with their scales, we won’t need poplar wood and can walk at night.

In addition, Huo Ying was also attracted by the water plants at the bottom of the river. The water plants had a strange adsorption force. Once entangled, the energy on Bai Zetsu's body would be absorbed by the water plants. He was not afraid of the underwater creatures such as mermaids, but what about the land creatures? Huo Ying wanted to try to collect some water plants as shackles to seal the energy of the land monsters.

Looking at the red light representing microorganisms and parasites in the calm river water, Huo Ying frowned and went into the water to collect them. The monsters in it were easy to deal with, but the most difficult things to deal with were these things in the water. If only White Zetsu was arranged to go into the water, the chakra attached to Shenkong was too little, and it might not be enough for White Zetsu to catch the mermaids underwater.

Fortunately, Huo Ying still has one bloodline limit that has not been activated.

Concentrating his mind, Huo Ying looked at the sacred tree in his mind and moved the last ball of light at the root of the tree.

Slowly, Huo Ying pushed the ball of light between water escape and wind escape.

Ice escape activated.

【Ice Escape (Medium)】

[Freezing: Condensing moisture in the air to create ice out of thin air.]

[Freeze: Freezes everything it touches. The freezing distance and effect vary depending on the amount of chakra.]

Huo Ying stepped on the shore, and ice slowly formed on his wooden boots.

Ice Escape·Ice Age.

The terrifying cold air spread towards the river, and the river water was instantly paused.

The sound of rushing water came to an abrupt halt, and the surging waves were instantly frozen into various shapes of ice sculptures.

The river bank was also covered with ice crystals, like a beautiful border for the river.

Huo Ying did not stop, but continued to input chakra.

The ice continued to spread until it reached the limit of the Byakugan.

Taking Huo Ying as the starting point, the area within ten kilometers before and after was frozen tightly by Huo Ying.

"My chakra should be comparable to that of the tailed beasts."

Huo Ying's purpose this time was to test his chakra capacity. Freezing the river for 20 kilometers consumed about one third of Huo Ying's chakra. After the consumption, the chakra was still replenished rapidly. Huo Ying sensed that it would take less than an hour for the chakra to be automatically restored.

If it is a real battle, there is no need for Huo Ying to freeze such a long distance. If the range is concentrated within a few kilometers, Huo Ying feels that the damage of freezing can be increased, and the chakra consumption can be almost equal to the recovery speed. In a small-scale battle, even if combined with other escape techniques, Huo Ying's chakra is enough, and he is not afraid of a protracted battle.

Earth escape technique: light and heavy rock technique.

Huo Ying touched the ground with his toes and slowly floated up. Floating in the air, Huo Ying observed the ice surface with his eyes rolled up.

Wind Style: Vacuum Wind Blade!

The next second, Huo Ying opened his mouth, and the hurricane turned into a sharp blade, cutting into the ice from top to bottom. Observed by the Byakugan and controlled by the Sharingan, the wind blade was like a precision instrument, cutting the ice surface neatly without hurting the mermaids and water plants frozen in the ice.

"Okay, let's go down and mine."

Huo Ying landed on top of the destroyer's head and took charge of the situation. The White Zetsu turned into laborers, pulled out their spines or sternums, turned them into tools such as awls and chisels, and moved the ice out of the river bit by bit and threw it onto the shore.

The four hundred White Zetsu worked together, and the surface of the river was hollowed out in an instant. Soon, the White Zetsu went deep into the river and moved out the frozen mermaids.

The giant mermaid was sealed in the ice. Although they did not die, the extremely cold temperature and the ice restricted their movements. Except for their pupils which could still constrict, the mermaids had no power to resist.

Standing in front of the mermaids, Huo Ying felt their size more intuitively. Although they were smaller than the Destroyers, if the mermaids were made into materials, the scales of one mermaid would be enough to make clothes for ten people.

The White Zetsu and his companions made a groaning sound as they carried out the ice blocks that Huo Ying wanted. There were forty mermaid monsters in total, and the White Zetsu and his companions carried out hundreds of the water plants that the mermaids used to tie up the White Zetsu and sealed them in the ice.

Huo Yingxian put the water plants into the spiritual world, then stood in front of the mermaid, stared at the mermaid's pupils, and his Sharingan suddenly spun.

Huo Ying is trying to see if he can control the mermaids and turn the mermaid's weirdness into a sustainable weirdness like White Zetsu and the Destroyer.

The next second, Huo Ying's pupil power reached nothing.

The mermaid ghost has no soul or spirit, and its brain is empty, more like a numb puppet.

boom!
The mermaid's pupils suddenly turned into vertical pupils, and powerful mental power came out from the mermaid's pupils, staring fiercely at Huo Ying.

Huo Ying felt a flash before his eyes, and then he felt as if he was immersed in a strange ink. Webbed feet slowly grew on his palms and feet, and it seemed that he would turn into a mermaid in the next second.

Illusion·Explanation.

The three magatama turned over, Huo Ying regained consciousness, and stared coldly at the mermaid's pupils.

The giant octopus was actually plotting against him. It left on purpose to make Huo Ying feel that there was no danger, and then left the mermaid behind. Once Huo Ying tried to fight the mermaid, the octopus would control the mermaid puppet and cast an illusion on Huo Ying, turning Huo Ying into a mermaid as well.

"So, what exactly were the predecessors of these mermaids?"

Before Huo Ying could think, the ground shook violently like an earthquake.

It's the giant octopus.

In Baiyan's eyes, the octopus rushed back at a speed hundreds of times faster than when it left. It wanted to take advantage of the moment when Huo Ying was resisting the illusion to rush to the river in front of Huo Ying and pull Huo Ying, who was standing on the shore, into the water.

(End of this chapter)