A Sect from a Spirit Vein

Double swords, double hammers, double knives, flashing in the sky, in the blink of an eye turning a Tree-Man into dust.

The Cyan Rainbow’s brilliance was dazzling, the green light swept across the sky, and with the sound of the sword’s cry, Tree-Men were inevitably cleaved in two.

Luckily these Tree-Men at Foundation Establishment only had slightly stronger spiritual pressure, but their techniques were quite impoverished, merely swinging weapons in a brute force charge, or flinging chains. Although their attacks were far stronger than those of Qi Cultivation Level Tree-Men, with the power to split metal and stone, and they were more resilient, aside from that there was no qualitative improvement.

𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

The two positioned themselves left and right, their techniques fierce, hindering the encirclement trend of the Tree-Man tide. At the front, the Vast Sea Star Battle Array’s spiritual power vibrated, followed by a few Starlight Crescents, sweeping away all the blood-colored Tree-Men blocking the path.

In an instant, the people of Yun Mountain had counter-charged through the Tree-Men’s onslaught, stepping onto the hillside!

The moment their feet touched the mountain, Tan Yunxing’s entire body surged with spiritual power, and the spirit vein within the mountain sensed it, emitting a high cry like a dragon or a tiger!

This is one of the top four Foundation Establishment phenomena, Tiger Roar Dragon Chant.

The better the phenomenon, the higher the cultivator’s compatibility with the treasure land, ensuring the subsequent Foundation Establishment process will be smoother.

It was truly worth it, traveling for twenty days, crossing fifteen thousand miles, twenty-one prefectures! Standing on the treasure land, feeling the rolling spiritual qi filling his body, Tan Yunxing felt extremely excited, utterly joyful.

This Foundation Establishment will definitely succeed!

At the moment of Celestial-Human Communication, when the spirit vein vibrated, in the depths of the mountain, a person suddenly widened his eyes, spurting out a mouthful of vibrant green blood.

"Damn it, damn it! Despicable human cultivators!"

"My Ten Thousand Spirits Curse Embryo, my Curse Embryo is going to be destroyed!"

In front of him was the mountain’s spirit vein, a mass of light mist constantly changing shapes. Below the spirit vein was a huge pit filled with all sorts of corpses!

Beasts like lions, tigers, rhinos, elephants, deer, horses, bears, leopards...

Birds like eagles, herons, falcons, cranes, gulls, storks, owls, ibises...

Scale Armors like snakes, pythons, boa constrictors, cobras, carp lizards, crocodiles, turtles...

Of course, inevitably, the leader of ten thousand spirits—humans!

Countless corpses filled this pit, and at the edge of the pit, a Golden Core was desperately deploying a secret technique, its withered hands buried in the pit, with dense roots growing and deeply piercing each corpse, transporting cold, ominous, black air filled with countless cries and pains upwards.

Eventually these roots entwined, delving into the spirit vein mist, tightly binding a small embryo, injecting all the black air drawn from the ten thousand spirits’ corpses within!

This embryo was smooth all over, without any hair, except it was entirely black-red, resembling a human infant in shape.

At the instant the spirit vein vibrated, the roots entwining the embryo, seemingly nurturing and powering it, suddenly shattered, and the Golden Core, striving to maintain its influence, was pulled by the cultivation technique’s fluctuation, spewing a large mouthful of fresh blood, suffering serious injuries.

"Ah!!!"

A hundred years’ effort was mostly wasted, and the Ten Thousand Spirits Curse Embryo trembled, with countless tiny faces of ten thousand spirits suddenly emerging beneath its black-red skin, struggling desperately to break free from the Curse Embryo’s body, looking extremely terrifying.

Its eyelids trembled, seemingly trying to open, but forever lacking the final breath. Worse yet, its aura was continuously weakening.

Just seven days short, seven days short!

At this moment, the Golden Core’s fury and resentment soared, eager to burn everything in existence.

Originally, he was a thousand-year-old Spirit Wood in this mountain, infused by the spirit vein, gaining spiritual wisdom and cultivating into a demon, overcoming immense adversity to achieve Golden Core cultivation, earning the Daoist Name Blood Tree Zhenren.

However, as a spirit of wood, other than long lifespan and strong will to live, his methods were very feeble, suffering greatly in combat.

Especially in this chaotic frontier of the continent, after much reflection, Blood Tree Zhenren began refining this coincidentally acquired Ten Thousand Spirits Curse Embryo, waiting for the secret technique to finish, to shed his original form, replacing it with the Curse Embryo to wield uncanny and fierce methods to dominate a region.

But who would have thought, while the tree thrives in the mountain, disaster strikes from above, encountering such a group of despicable human cultivators today!

The Ten Thousand Spirits Curse Embryo was heavily damaged, now its aura was weak; if left unattended, it would immediately die.

Blood Tree Zhenren had no choice but to use the secret technique again, reconnecting the roots to the Curse Embryo. However, such damage was irreversible, and reconnecting could only temporarily stabilize the injury.

With the Curse Embryo highly compromised, there’s no way to replace his true body with it. For now, he could only deal with these reckless human cultivators, then return to contemplate and see if there’s any remedial method to salvage even a little.

On the other side, Li Da’s loud voice suddenly snapped Tan Yunxing back to reality from his imagination.

"Defend!"

At this moment, standing on the hillside, Tree-Men rushed from all directions, encircling everyone in an instant.

The Vast Sea Star Battle Array flashed, the star marks on the disciples’ foreheads growing brighter, seemingly ethereal and floating, yet exceptionally tenacious, forming a luminous veil, swiftly rotating to create a circular protective barrier around everyone.

Rumble! Tree-Men recklessly collided with it, the barrier oscillating elastically, bouncing many Tree-Men away, rolling into clusters.

"Rotate!"

The starlight shield vibrated, with sharp serrations suddenly emerging at its edges. With Li Da’s command, the entire light shield rotated abruptly, the serrations transforming into a flowing light, severing dozens of approaching Tree-Men into two segments!