Chapter 848

The two doppelgangers finally arrived in front of the tree demon. They looked up at the towering tree demon, their eyes expressionless.

The tree demon's green eyes also saw the doppelgangers. Just as the doppelgangers were about to unleash a powerful attack to destroy the tree demon, the sky suddenly darkened. A thick tree trunk flew out from the side, like a sharp blade that emitted a green light, ruthlessly striking towards the doppelgangers.

The tree trunk came at an extreme speed, bringing with it a tremendous force. A sharp whistle sounded in the air. This kind of attack could be blocked by the doppelgangers at their peak, but at this moment, the two doppelgangers had consumed a great deal of energy. Whether it was speed or strength, they were lacking.

Zi Chen could see everything that the doppelgangers saw. Once the tree trunk arrived, the doppelgangers would be destroyed. He decisively shouted, "Explode!"

"Boom!" "Boom!"

The light on the two doppelgangers became increasingly dazzling, and then they exploded. The doppelgangers were pure elemental energy doppelgangers; they didn't have a Yuan Dan. Although their combat strength was comparable to a powerful Houtian realm martial artist, the power of their self-detonation was far inferior.

The self-detonation of a Houtian realm martial artist would probably immediately turn this place into a charred black. Although the doppelgangers' self-detonation power was weaker, the pure elemental energy explosion still contained an unimaginable destructive power.

The destructive power turned into a storm that swept out in all directions. The whistling tree trunk that came into contact with this destructive storm instantly exploded.

At the same time, the storm continued to spread. Some of the nearby branches fell on them, causing these tough branches to instantly explode. Nearly a hundred branches were broken, but the toughness of these branches was still terrifying.

Even more destructive energy swept towards the Tree Demon. As this energy wreaked havoc, a sharp and ear-piercing sound was emitted from the mouth formed under the Tree Demon's eyes.

Zi Chen heard two sharp screams and knew that the tree demon had been severely injured. Many of the branches that were wrapped around him automatically retracted after the screams.

This method was indeed effective. Zi Chen's eyes lit up. Although it was a bit slow, as long as he could kill the tree demon, it was fine.

Just now, he had consumed a great deal of extreme Yang energy. Around Zi Chen's body, extreme Yin energy began to spread. When this energy gushed out from the cracks of the tree and filled the entire tree, Zi Chen detonated this energy.

The tree burst open with a loud bang, and many of the branches burst into pieces. The broken branches struggled on the ground like broken green snakes. Zi Chen stood in place without moving, and a blinding light burst out from his body.

Amidst the strong light, a gold and a silver light shot out at high speed, one from the left and one from the right, heading straight for the injured tree demon.

It had only been a short time since he had arrived at the first level world, but the elemental energy in Zi Chen's body was constantly being consumed. In just a short period of time, he had used two clones, used several energy attacks, and maintained the light barrier. Zi Chen's energy was gradually running out.

As his energy was depleted, the golden light barrier was on the verge of collapsing. Zi Chen decisively took out a mid-grade Origin Liquid and swallowed it one drop at a time.

After the transformation of his elemental energy, Zi Chen's recovery rate was also astonishingly high. After swallowing a total of 63 drops of mid-grade elemental liquid, Zi Chen's previously undepleted elemental energy was finally restored to its peak.

While Zi Chen was swallowing the elemental liquid, the two clones finally slowly approached the injured tree demon. At the same time, according to Zi Chen's instructions, their bodies once again exploded.

Another two earth-shattering explosions rang out. The gold and silver destructive energy completely submerged the ancient tree. A mournful and sharp cry rang out in the next moment, accompanied by a cracking sound.

The tree demon had been injured previously, so there weren't as many branches blocking the clones as before. When the clones reached the tree demon's side, they didn't consume as much energy as before. They directly exploded, and the terrifying energy directly broke the tree demon's trunk.

After the trunk was broken, the thick trunk fell to the ground, letting out two booming sounds. When the ancient tree was broken, it meant that the tree demon was dead. The branches that had extended previously also exploded, and Zi Chen immediately felt a bit less pressure.

With a method to kill the tree demon, the next step was much easier. Zi Chen used his energy to break open the tree and send the two clones out. The task of killing the tree demon fell on the two clones.

However, this time, Zi Chen already had experience. In order to save resources and increase efficiency, when he released the clones, he signaled them to go in the same direction and attack the same target.

After the two clones flew out, they put up a light shield on their shoulders. One of them was in charge of defense, while the other was in charge of attacking the twining branches.

The two clones worked together with a clear division of labor. During the process of moving forward, they didn't need to stop and could reach the tree demon at the fastest speed possible.

When they arrived in front of the tree demon, the two clones attacked at the same time. This way, the two clones could kill one tree demon with a single strike, and at the same time, they could also seriously injure the second tree demon.

In this way, after repeated attacks, the number of tree demons decreased.

After two hours, Zi Chen's elemental energy had recovered three times. The fifteen tree demons were finally all killed.

The tree demon was already dead, and its branches either scattered or fell to the ground. The ground was covered with scattered branches and ancient tree trunks. Not far away, there was a thick tree trunk. Bursts of green smoke were coming out from the broken parts of the trunk.

Zi Chen's Dragon Soul Spear fell a few dozen meters away.

After the last tree demon was killed, Zi Chen had consumed more than half of his elemental energy. He sat down cross-legged and quietly recovered his elemental energy.

In order to save resources, he didn't continue to consume elemental liquid. Instead, he relied on the surrounding spiritual energy to recover. He transformed into a dragon that was dozens of meters long and laid down beside Zi Chen to protect him.

The spiritual energy in this place was denser, and Zi Chen used four hours to completely recover. After recovering, Zi Chen opened his eyes, stood up, and looked around.

After the fifteen tree demons were killed, Zi Chen was surrounded by a spacious area. The ancient tree closest to Zi Chen was still three hundred meters away from Zi Chen.

Zi Chen raised his head to look at the blue sky, but there was a helpless expression on his face. The Sky Restriction Domain was still in effect, and they couldn't fly. The two couldn't leave through the air, and the only way was to pass through the group of tree demons.

Obviously, the danger of this ancient road came from the tree demons. They were densely packed and endless.

The previous battle had already given Zi Chen some understanding of the tree demons. There were hundreds of thousands of tree demons here, and according to Zi Chen's speed, he wouldn't be able to kill them all and reach the transmission station even if he killed them all in dozens or hundreds of years.

Moreover, Zi Chen was deep in the forest, and he didn't know where the transmission station was. Therefore, pure brute force was useless. If he wanted to pass through here, he would need to have extraordinary control over his innate elemental energy to kill the tree demons in one strike.

Zi Chen didn't know if it was a coincidence that he appeared here, but he was sure of one thing. If he hadn't transformed his elemental energy on the Four Eight Ancient Road, he would definitely have died here today.

There were also fifteen tree demons in front of him. If Zi Chen attracted one, he would definitely alarm the other fourteen.

The Tree Demon's defense was not strong, but the branches were more difficult to deal with. The only thing Zi Chen had to do was to pass through the branches and kill the Tree Demon. However, he had not found a faster way to pass through the branches.

"Let's kill a wave and leave one to experiment."

Zi Chen's eyes flashed coldly as he strode forward. It was obviously useless to fight force with force, so the Dragon Soul Spear wasn't very useful here.

In fact, it couldn't be said to be useless. If he was strong enough, for example, when he reached the Mortal Origin Realm, Zi Chen could easily destroy this place, but this was just an example.

The torvosaurus didn't follow Zi Chen this time, but stayed in the distance. It stayed behind so that if Zi Chen was in danger, the torvosaurus could take the opportunity to help.

"Peng."

There was a thick tree trunk in front of the torvosaurus, which was the eye of the tree demons. The torvosaurus slammed down with its claw, and the tree trunk exploded, sending wood chips flying everywhere.

Zi Chen was thinking about how to quickly kill the tree demons when he was startled by the explosion. He turned his head to look at the torvosaurus.

The torvosaurus smashed the tree trunk, but its sharp claws reached for the broken tree roots and dug out a fist-sized hard object.

"This is the monster core of the tree demons." Seeing the torvosaurus digging out the hard object, Zi Chen walked back curiously.

The hard object was grey, like old skin, and abnormally hard. The monster core of a beast was transparent and emitted light. No matter how he looked at it, it didn't look like a monster core.

He didn't find anything with his spiritual senses.

During this time, the torvosaurus found the same thing on another tree demon, but there was only one monster core on each tree demon. There were a total of fifteen monsters.

Since there was one monster core on each tree demon, it shouldn't be much different from a monster core.

Looking at the fifteen hard objects and the endless ancient trees in front of him, Zi Chen wanted to find out more, so he used his strength to cut open the hard object.

As the hard object was cut open, liquid flowed out. The liquid emitted a dark green light and contained dense spiritual energy.

"Could this be the heart of the tree?" Zi Chen was puzzled.

The dark green liquid was contained by Zi Chen's elemental energy. Zi Chen dipped his finger in a drop and put it in his mouth. He found that the liquid was actually sweet.

The liquid contained dense spiritual energy and had a recovery effect on elemental energy.

"I can use it as a resource."

Zi Chen decisively kept it as a resource for the future. He was sure that it was the heart of the tree demons.

The torvosaurus beside him revealed a greedy look. Zi Chen gave the liquid in front of him to the torvosaurus. The torvosaurus swallowed it in one gulp, as if it had eaten a delicacy. Its eyes slightly narrowed, and its face was filled with enjoyment.

Zi Chen turned and walked towards the ancient trees. Sure enough, after waking up one of the tree demons, the other tree demons woke up one after another.

Numerous tree branches swept towards Zi Chen, and Zi Chen was instantly pulled to the center of the fifteen tree demons.

Just like before, Zi Chen used his doppelganger to kill the other tree demons. This time, the efficiency was very fast. In less than two hours, he killed fourteen tree demons.

As for the other tree demon, Zi Chen planned to kill it himself.

There were still thousands of tree branches surrounding Zi Chen. After exploding a wave, Zi Chen jumped out of the encirclement.

As soon as he jumped out of the encirclement, the tree branches were like long snakes, crazily rushing towards Zi Chen. Light flashed under Zi Chen's feet, and he used Extreme Speed Footwork to retreat. This retreat took him a hundred meters, until he was out of the tree branches' attack range.

Thousands of tree branches stretched out straight, one meter away from Zi Chen. They wriggled up and down, trying to attack Zi Chen.

With experience, Zi Chen knew that these tree branches were indeed an extension of magic energy. They weren't afraid of consumption at all. No matter how many he blew up, they could quickly regrow.