While I was chanting a curse, the system said I was Xiao Yan?

"But it's okay..."

She raised her head, her gaze passing over Tianyan and Shen'er, landing in a distant direction, as if looking at something only she could see.

Looking at Lu Suo's smile, Tian Yan felt a sense of unease.

This person is Lu Suo, a monster who has lived for a thousand years, a chess player who treats everything as a pawn.

She won't die that easily.

Shen'er's eyes narrowed slightly, a hint of surprise flashing in his lazy eyes. He shifted his gaze from Lu Suo to the ground.

"This is……"

Before they could finish speaking, the ground cracked open, and something suddenly burst out from underground, tearing the ground between them like paper!

"boom!"

Soil, gravel, and countless thick, python-like tree roots gushed out of the cracks, scattering in the air like a small volcanic eruption.

The moment they emerged from the ground, a strong, almost pungent, floral fragrance filled the air.

Tianyan's body reacted in that instant.

He took a powerful step, but not forward, but backward. His foot exploded on the ground, creating a shockwave, and he was propelled backward like a stone launched from a slingshot.

His body traced an arc in the air, landing on the canopy of a large tree behind him. His bony wings folded, and he crouched on a branch, his gaze piercing through the layers of leaves to the area where tree roots were still sprouting outwards.

The tree roots did not emerge from a single point, but rather from a circular area at least twenty meters in diameter.

The ground in that area was churning, like a pot of boiling porridge, with soil and gravel constantly being arched up, overturned, and thrown into the air, only to be pressed down by new tree roots and then lifted up again by even newer tree roots.

The roots did not stop growing after they emerged from the ground. They climbed upwards, extended to both sides, and stretched in all possible directions, like countless mating snakes, entwining, intertwining, and stacking, weaving a huge, airtight wall in the air.

The wall was growing taller and thicker at an extremely rapid pace, and in the blink of an eye, it had completely obscured Lu Suo's figure.

"This feeling..."

Shen'er's voice came from below Tianyan, low and hoarse, but with a rare seriousness.

Tianyan bowed his head.

He stood at the edge of the churning tree roots, his flip-flops crunching on the gravel and fallen leaves, one hand in his pocket, the other hanging at his side, holding the Heavenly Rebellion Blade.

With his body slightly turned to the side and his center of gravity low, he was like a spring compressed to its limit, ready to spring out at any moment.

Standing there, head tilted, looking at the wall of trees that was growing wildly, a dangerous glint flashed in his lazy eyes.

"...A cursed spirit?"

Tianyan's gaze had already passed over the growing tree wall and landed behind it, on the patch of soil turned up by the tree roots, where a huge figure was emerging from the ground.

Its body is large and robust, its skin is white with fine dark lines, and its right arm is wrapped in white cloth from shoulder to fingertips.

There are two strange tree roots at the eyes. They look blind, but if you stand there with its head facing you, you can feel it "looking" at you.

Some of the tree roots that emerge from the ground extend from its body.

Countless thick roots radiate outwards from where its body meets the ground, as if its body itself is the core of a huge root system.

Special-grade cursed spirit, Flower Guardian.

A strange sound came from its mouth. It was clearly not human language, but the moment Tianyan heard it, his mind automatically understood its meaning.

"Stop, humans!"

"That's enough! I don't want you to continue destroying this beautiful forest!"

Tianyan rubbed his head. The way it spoke made him uncomfortable, as if someone was talking inside his head, which was very annoying.

"Wow, it's an environmentally friendly spirit."

Shen Er scratched his head in annoyance: "A mere cursed spirit has quite the big mouth."

Tianyan raised his right hand, spread his five fingers, and pink flames surged from his palm. Five pink fireballs drew five different arcs in the air and flew towards Huayu from five different angles.

Three fireballs crashed into the tree wall.

"laugh!"

White steam rose from the tree wall, accompanied by a piercing hiss, and pink flames spread and burned across its surface, but...

It won't burn through!

Tianyan's pupils contracted slightly. The pink flames were burning too slowly on the surface of the tree wall, so slowly that they were almost negligible. It wasn't that the pink flames weren't strong enough, but rather that these tree roots themselves were real trees.

It is not formed from magical power, but is a real plant with flesh and blood that grows from the ground.

The burning effect of the pink fire on the cursed spirit is overwhelming, because the cursed spirit itself is made of cursed power, and the fuel of the pink fire is cursed power.

However, against real matter, such as wood, stone, and flesh, the destructive power of powder fire is far less than that of ordinary flames.

The two fireballs that were flying toward Hua Yu were intercepted by several tree roots that sprouted from the ground when they were less than five meters away from Hua Yu. The tree roots burned in the flames, but Hua Yu just tilted his head and ignored them.

It seems to have determined that the pink fire poses little threat to it.

"Using open flames in the forest... humanity is truly hopeless! Let's start with you!"

Then he raised his arm to face the two of them.

"Buzz!"

A deep sound, like the lowest note of a cello being pulled, came from the air.

The pebbles on the ground began to vibrate, the leaves on the trees began to fall rustling down, and even the sweet fragrance of flowers in the air became even stronger in that instant.

The tree roots, which had already piled up to five or six meters high, began to grow a second time the moment Hua Yu raised his right arm.

It wasn't moving upwards, but to the sides and forwards, towards Tianyan and Shen'er, like a moving city wall, crushing everything on the ground.

Tianyan leaped from the treetop, his purple-gold bone wings drawing an arc in the air as he swept over the tree wall, attempting to leap over the growing wall from above.

Just as his body passed the top of the tree wall—the top of the tree wall exploded.

Countless thin, hair-like vines burst forth from the top of the tree wall—not just one or two, but hundreds and thousands—like a net cast into the air, enveloping Tianyan.

They intertwined, entwined, and wove in the air, forming a huge, airtight cage that descended upon Tianyan from above.

Tianyan's purple-gold bone wings suddenly flapped, and his body came to an abrupt stop in mid-air. His upward momentum was instantly interrupted, and he was as if he had been pulled back by an invisible hand, abruptly stopping in mid-air.

The cage made of vines swept past him less than two meters away, its edge brushing against the tips of his bone wings with a soft "hiss" sound. A few specks of purple-gold light fell from the wingtips and drifted in the air.

Tianyan's body flipped half a circle in the air, turning from a sudden stop to a dive, and fell towards the ground.