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

Chapter 68 Trapped Beast
The purification of the weirdness consumed a lot of Liang Yao's energy. With Huo Ying patting her gently, Liang Yao soon fell asleep.

Listening to Liang Yao's even breathing, Huo Ying suddenly frowned. He felt his body getting heavier again, and the symptoms similar to those of a fever appeared again.

"Could it be that the virus I was infected with has a very strong reproductive ability, and the part that Liang Yao purified has grown again so quickly?"

"No, if it is really a virus, this speed is too fast."

Huo Ying could clearly feel that the heaviness in his body came suddenly, and it happened when Liang Yao was weak and fast asleep.

It was as if the virus had consciousness. It ran away when Liang Yao was evolving, and attached itself back when Liang Yao fell asleep.

Liang Yao was too weak, so she had to use it sparingly.

Huo Ying thought about it and decided to try to see if he could solve it. Then he quietly got up from the stool, picked up the Yang Dao, opened the door of the basement, and walked in alone.

The basement was filled with supplies.

Poplar wood and yang stone even filled up half of the wall.

The strange child sat on Huo Ying's shoulder, sometimes hugging Huo Ying's neck, sometimes pulling Huo Ying's hair, and didn't care about the poplar wood and the yang stone at all. Huo Ying didn't feel any of these little actions it did to him.

Huo Ying frowned and patrolled the basement. He walked to a large barrel filled with stream water purified with charcoal. Huo Ying picked up the water scoop at the side of the barrel and poured it on himself.

The strange child looked at what Huo Ying did with curiosity. The stream water could not touch the strange child at all. The strange child was like a ball of air, invisible and intangible. The stream water passed through the strange child and soaked Huo Ying all over.

"Give it a try. If it doesn't work, we'll work it out with Liang Yao tomorrow."

Huo Ying looked at the wooden box in the basement that sealed the mirror ghost. On the wooden box were several small wooden boxes, each of which contained the gray shadows that had separated from the corpse ghost.

The next second, Huo Ying stuck the Yang Dao into the ground and took a step back.

Wood Release: Wood Prison Technique.

Under Huo Ying's feet, poplar trees grew out of thin air and instantly weaved into a tightly fitted wooden prison, like a carnivorous plant, swallowing Huo Ying in one gulp.

This time, Huo Ying sealed himself in a seamless wooden prison.

The strange child sitting on Huo Ying's shoulder was stunned for a moment. It looked at the poplar tree beside it curiously. It didn't react for a moment how the poplar tree appeared, nor did it know what Huo Ying wanted to do.

Standing in the wooden cage, Huo Ying took a deep breath of oxygen and then held his breath.

Having killed a corpse ghost and the gray shadow that injured the corpse ghost, Huo Ying began to doubt whether he was infected by the ghost or not, or whether some invisible and intangible ghost wanted to parasitize him.

Just like the gray shadow in the corpse ghost's body, it can be trapped to death in a wooden cage.

Wood Release: Mummy Technique.

The huge wooden prison began to shrink, and every wooden board fit tightly against Huo Ying's body.

It was not until then that the ghost child discovered something was wrong. It suddenly jumped off Huo Ying's shoulder, but hit a poplar tree head-on and was bounced back by the yang force inside. The ghost child and the gray shadow of the parasitic corpse ghost had the same attributes. They had no corpses and were difficult to kill, but once trapped, they became lambs to be slaughtered.

The wooden cage continued to shrink, and Huo Ying's entire body was wrapped up little by little.

Finally, on Huo Ying's shoulder, the trapped ghost child in the wooden cage pushed out a bulging tumor shape. Just like the gray shadow in the body of the sealed corpse ghost, whether it is a turbid shadow or an invisible ghost child, both of them occupy volume. Huo Ying could not see where the ghost child was, but he could see clearly where the mummy technique had an abnormality.

"found it."

Huo Ying's face looked very ugly. He didn't expect that after just slashing Hu Caigen with a knife, there would be a strange thing on his shoulder.

Lightning Release: Thunder Flow.

The purple electric light ignited the poplar wood, and the flames instantly enveloped the strange child. Outside was a seamless wooden prison, and inside was Huo Ying who had performed a hardening technique. The strange child had no way to go up to the sky or down to the ground, and could only struggle continuously in the flames.

In the basement, a new branch grew out again. The branch rolled up the Yang Sword that was inserted into the ground like a tentacle. The Yang Sword stabbed straight at Huo Ying's shoulder. Roasted by the flames, the Yang Sword turned red in an instant. The next second, the Yang Sword passed through the wooden cage and nailed the struggling strange boy.

"mom!"

The ghost boy let out a howl, but no real sound was heard and everything disappeared in the flames.

The mummy cracked with a snap, and Huo Ying hurriedly jumped out of the burning mummy.

The flame did not burn for too long. Huo Ying had been soaked in stream water and had the benefit of hardening technique, so his skin was only roasted red by the flame, but there was no large area of skin burned like the first time he used this trick.

As the strange child melted, Huo Ying's premonition of catching a cold disappeared, and his body felt much more relaxed. Sensing the sacred tree in his mind, Huo Ying discovered that after burning a strange child to death, the progress of the sacred tree actually increased by 1%.

[The sacred tree, rooting stage.] [Progress: 12%]

Seeing the changes in the sacred tree, the worry in Huo Ying's eyes instantly turned into surprise. Since the sacred tree was promoted, it could only grow by 0.1% if it completely killed a corpse ghost. However, after being infected by He Lili and Hu Caigen only once, the slow growth rate of the sacred tree suddenly increased again.

What if I am infected a few more times by He Lili and Hu Caigen?

Huo Ying was very excited.

If the sacred tree cannot make any progress in growth, then He Lili and Hu Caigen will be in danger and need to avoid it.

But now, the two of them are no longer simply dangerous, but risks that need to be solved!
"The plan is feasible!" Huo Ying thought about it and realized that although He Lili was very strange, she was definitely not fatal.

First of all, Hu Caigen has been alive until now and has never died.

Secondly, Huo Ying had been infected once in the library. After being purified by Liang Yao, He Lili did not react at all, but infected herself again today.

This proves that He Lili's means of attack are very simple, and she can only rely on weirdness to infect the opponent, or in other words, He Lili has some concerns and it is not convenient for her to kill Huo Ying directly.

No matter what the reason is, it is an opportunity for Huo Ying to make progress!
Even if He Lili was annoyed, in battle, Mu Lao and fire could definitely kill the weirdness, and in recovery, Huo Ying and Liang Yao could remove the infection. If a real fight broke out, Huo Ying didn't think he would lose.

Huo Ying was quite excited after finding a way to quickly upgrade the sacred tree. He did not sleep well all night. At dawn, he hurried out fully armed and headed towards the playground.

Since He Lili's ability is to infect others, no matter what He Lili's purpose is, the playground must be the most suitable place for He Lili to display her ability, because only gatherings held on the playground can bring together the villagers in the town.

Huo Ying was not wrong. Shortly after dawn, five people were already on the playground.

(End of this chapter)