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Chapter 240 'I'm Actually Not That Good at Fighting'

"Mutant beast? Where is it?"

The other party's words made the three of them a little nervous. There weren't many fifth-tier beasts among them at the moment. Apart from those who entered the Daizong Secret Realm, they were all here. At this time, the appearance of a fifth-tier mutated beast anywhere would be considered a major crisis.

"On the outskirts." The tree spirit wasn't yet familiar with the place names used by humans, so it gave only a vague answer.

Xiao Zhenru said, "Then can you give us directions? We'll go and take a look ourselves."

"No need, I can take you there."

"deliver?"

Even Su Xun was curious about this. The three of them saw the treehouse they were in rapidly transform, and a door appeared on the wall, with a downward slope leading down into the deep, endless darkness.

"This is... an underground passage?" Xiao Zhenru stared wide-eyed in surprise. Everything she had experienced today was completely beyond her comprehension.

"I guess so..." Su Xun looked on in astonishment. He could clearly feel a strange fluctuation in the passage in front of him.

To verify his thoughts, he went in first, and the two behind him exchanged a glance and followed.

After walking only a few dozen steps, a light appeared before us, the slope turned uphill, and we could hear the sound of ocean waves!
"This is...we've arrived at the beach!?"

They remembered clearly that they entered the trunk of the tree from the original site of Qibaoshan, which was hundreds of miles away from the nearest coastline!
The three of them quickly walked out and found that the exit was a tree root protruding from the ground. Even Su Xun was shocked by the scene in front of him.

The massive canopy in the sky has stabilized, extending across the coast and into the sea, but relative to its enormous scale, this can basically be considered its boundary.

That was the tree canopy that penetrated deep into the gale layer, where endless gales relentlessly baptized it, striking its surface and creating a dazzling brilliance, making the entire giant tree seem to be on fire.

Clearly, although it is still at the fifth level, the body of the Peach Tree can be regarded as a seventh-level existence.

Looking back at the treetops from here, one feels as if the sky and earth are almost upside down. This enormous creation defies human common sense, and the shock it brings is indescribable!

Su Xun took a deep breath and was the first to come to his senses. After all, he had seen enough. Judging from their size alone, the top-tier alien species deep in the secret realm were much larger than those in Taodu now.

The near-teleportation experience he had just gone through was not the first time he had seen it. The distance that the oracle bone from Fuxi had taken them across was unimaginable.

He was simply surprised that someone at this level possessed such abilities.

Putting these aside for the time being, Su Xun looked at the distant sea. Although it was some distance from the area of ​​confrontation, he could still see the situation clearly.

However, upon seeing this, the three understood why a fifth-tier mutated beast had appeared here, and they breathed a sigh of relief.

Countless roots emerged from the seabed, tightly binding a gigantic octopus... Of course, "giant" is only relative; the octopus's size might be comparable to several large cruise ships combined, but in front of Taodu, it was no bigger than a grain of rice.

Upon seeing the octopus, Su Xun frowned, feeling a slight sense of familiarity. He called to the two people behind him who were still looking around, and hurried towards the scene.

"Who goes there! Halt!" A soldier shouted a warning as soon as they approached, but the other person looked incredulous upon seeing who it was: "Commander-in-Chief?"

Su Xun nodded to the other party, already recognizing the place as the one he had visited with Xue Hui and the others before. Xue Hui was likely stationed here at this time. As expected, Xue Hui soon arrived in front of Su Xun.

"Commander-in-Chief, how come you arrived so quickly?"

Clearly, he had already reported the situation here, but Su Xun hadn't even received the news yet. He waved his hand and said, "Let's not talk about that now. What's the situation here?"

Xue Hui nodded and said, "When this tree appeared before, I noticed that the two pistol shrimp were very scared, but they weren't scared of the tree, but of something in the sea."

He pointed to the giant octopus that was locked up and protruding from the sea: "That should be it. It seems to be observing that tree here. Later, it was preparing to come ashore and attack us. Then these tree roots grew out of the sea and trapped it here."

Speaking of this, Xue Hui still felt lingering fear. At this moment, he was still in pain. This octopus was extremely powerful, probably one of the best among the fifth-tier creatures. It only took the opponent a casual strike to hit the position, and he had to fight with all his might to defend against it.

If it weren't for the appearance of these tree roots, Xue Hui estimated that he and the soldiers on the position would probably not have survived.

That's why people are less afraid of the giant tree above them and are now full of curiosity.

Su Xun walked closer, his gaze passing over the octopus and looking into the distant sea. The Peach Tree Spirit said there were several fifth-tier creatures here, obviously in a more distant place, perhaps intimidated, and had not surfaced.

His gaze returned to the octopus, which looked rather wretched. Its massive body was deformed by the dense root system, and many sharp splinters had pierced its flesh, making it difficult for even a mollusk to break free from its confinement.

Judging from the aura emanating from this creature, it is an outstanding expert among mutated beasts, an extremely powerful individual among fifth-tier beasts.

Yet this being was quietly sidelined by Tao Du, becoming an octopus on a chopping board, while the tree spirit on the other side was still calmly conversing with him, saying that he wasn't very good at fighting...

Su Xun shook his head, gaining a completely new understanding of Taodu's combat strength.

However, this is not surprising. Mutant plants are the most fearless supernatural creatures when surrounded. Some of them are so large that they can easily take on multiple opponents, not to mention individuals like Tao Du, who have the foundation of the tenth rank and were chosen by a being of the level of Fuxi.

The current record looks impressive, and it certainly is impressive, but it can't be said that they have strength beyond this level.

To use an imperfect analogy, one could say that while several roots of a plant might each possess the strength of a fifth-tier plant, their combined strength wouldn't reach the sixth tier.

However, Su Xun asked himself honestly, given the size of Taodu, even if he were in its core area, it would probably be difficult to break out—it would be equivalent to facing an endless number of opponents of the same level.

Fortunately, this tree was on their side.

As Su Xun approached, the giant octopus in front of him rolled its eyes, as if it had sensed danger. Its body twitched in vain, but it still could not break free.

Perhaps it was fear that triggered an instinctive reaction, and its body instantly turned the same color as the roots. Of course, this change only seemed clumsy in Su Xun's eyes.

But then he remembered where he had seen this guy before.

He leaped to the front of the giant eye and asked, "You come from Izumo?"

(End of this chapter)