A colossal tree…

Its aura was terrifying, its pressure immense.

A Demon race?

Upon the peak of the mysterious Late Cloud Mountain, there existed a Demon of such gargantuan size?

Late Cloud Mountain was clearly a land of inheritance for human cultivators. Within a human inheritance ground, how could a Demon exist?

And a Mountain Guardian Spirit… what was a Mountain Guardian Spirit?

Jiang Wang stepped forward, instinctively shielding Ye Qingyu behind him, although at this moment they were both still under the protection of the Seven-Colored Flag Cloud Carriage.

Merely the immense stature of this Mountain Guardian Spirit was enough to inspire awe.

Should a conflict arise, he had no half-measure of certainty.

“Your Excellency the Mountain Guardian Spirit, we have no intention to offend!” Jiang Wang called out, admitting his caution.

However, after the initial tremor, the giant tree settled down, offering neither response nor further action.

“Your Excellency? Your Excellency?”

Jiang Wang tentatively prodded a few times, but still, there was no reply.

It seemed that the “Mountain Guardian Spirit” had merely awakened for a fleeting moment.

Jiang Wang turned his head and asked Ye Qingyu, “Do you know what this is?”

Ye Qingyu controlled the Seven-Colored Flag Cloud Carriage to slowly retreat. “I’ve never heard of a Mountain Guardian Spirit.”

Regarding the situation within Late Cloud Mountain, Ye Lingxiao truly hadn’t revealed anything. Was he simply broad-minded, or did he have other plans?

“In ancient times, a Mountain Guardian Spirit was a spirit that guarded the mountain gate. It was a kind of rank, an identity, requiring a proper conferment and obtaining the acknowledgment of Heaven and Earth,” Jiang Nightmare’s voice echoed from within the Nether Candle. “Only truly great sects possessed the qualification and the ability to confer a Mountain Guardian Spirit.”

It was rare for him not to wait for Jiang Wang to inquire before actively dispelling his doubts.

Jiang Nightmare had been listless in the Seven Star Building secret realm, even appearing to have fallen asleep, remaining silent for a very long time. Yet, in the Late Cloud Mountain secret realm, he was so spirited. Could it be that Late Cloud Mountain still existed in the present world, even if it possessed a different flow of time?

“Your meaning is to say that Late Cloud Mountain is the station of a certain great sect inherited from ancient times?” Jiang Wang asked.

“Here, your gains might surpass imagination,” Jiang Nightmare’s voice held a trace of expectation.

He seemed particularly interested in Late Cloud Mountain and was intentionally guiding…

Jiang Wang suppressed the various conjectures in his heart, knowing he must maintain sufficient patience and vigilance towards Jiang Nightmare. He turned and asked Ye Qingyu, “Your Cloud Sparrow didn’t find a Divine Ability Fruit before? Where was it?”

“The Cloud Sparrow saw it, just behind this large tree, growing on a branch,” Ye Qingyu replied.

Could this large tree truly be a Divine Ability Tree? A Divine Ability Tree Demon?

That seemed unlikely…

If such an existence as a Divine Ability Tree Demon truly existed in this world, all the great top-tier powers would surely contend for it and find ways to cultivate it. How could it remain unheard of?

The Heavenly Dao is flawed; the Divine Ability Fruit itself is already a rare and extraordinary treasure. If it were to grow on a tree, and that tree itself possessed spiritual intelligence, having been born as a tree demon, how powerful would it be? Would it be born with countless divine abilities? Such power was simply unimaginable.

One must know that a cultivator’s Inner Mansion limit was only the Heavenly Mansion, possessing five divine abilities was already the peak. That was almost an insurmountable innate gap. If a race like the Divine Ability Tree Demon truly existed, perhaps the outcome of the great war in the distant ancient era would have been rewritten.

Jiang Wang was more inclined to believe that the Divine Ability Fruit was simply “deposited” on the body of the Mountain Guardian Spirit.

The problem now lay in the lack of movement from the Mountain Guardian Spirit before their eyes. Was the earlier utterance a warning? Or had it fallen silent once more?

But they couldn’t simply wait.

Once the Welcome Guest Pavilion side decided the victor, the Divine Ability Fruit on this side was likely to undergo a change.

“Let’s try to pick it,” Jiang Wang thought, forming a hand seal. A pitch-black chain drilled out from the void.

The Divine Ability Fruit was on the body of this Mountain Guardian Spirit, whose depth was unknown. Jiang Wang certainly couldn’t rush forward to pick it, but using the Imprisoning Body Chain to test the waters was no impediment.

If it succeeded, then it succeeded; if not, he would find another way.

Ye Qingyu operated the Cloud Sparrow to “guide the way” for the Imprisoning Body Chain while tightly clutching the green flag, ready to escape with the Seven-Colored Flag Cloud Carriage at the slightest sign of trouble.

The Imprisoning Body Chain drilled out of the void and circled towards the back of the immense Mountain Guardian Spirit.

“Stop!”

Suddenly, a furious shout rang out.

An array disk hidden underground suddenly emitted a brilliant light. Above the array disk, an ancient, simple light door appeared in the empty space. Dou Mian then leaped out from within the light door.

His right hand gripped a saber and chopped down, bringing forth a saber light like a bolt of silk.

Clang! Clang!

The saber light and the Imprisoning Body Chain collided.

This was a saber with an exaggeratedly large blade, abruptly protruding from two-thirds of the way up the body of the saber. The saber’s shape was savage and fierce, appearing both ruthless and heavy.

With just a casual saber strike, it seemed to have already split the space in two, preventing the Imprisoning Body Chain from advancing an inch!

Originally, Dou Mian had arrived at the mountaintop first, but for some unknown reason, he hadn’t yet picked the Divine Ability Fruit. Instead, he had placed a teleportation array disk here to guard against the Divine Ability Fruit being seized by others.

And he himself had rushed into the small pavilion on the south of the mountain to search for something.

At this moment, Dou Mian glared angrily at Jiang Wang. “What do you all want to do? Once the Divine Ability Fruit is picked, the time of Late Cloud Mountain will end!”

“The time of Late Cloud Mountain ends… what does that mean?” Jiang Wang frowned and asked.

At this point, an old and decrepit voice sounded from behind.

“Are you all pretending not to know, or pretending not to know?”

Without knowing when, the Cloud Wanderer Old Man had also rushed to the mountaintop.

He and Dou Mian each had their preparations, almost simultaneously rushing to the mountaintop, restraining each other, leaving behind means of response, and then each searching for secrets according to their respective clues.

On the contrary, Jiang Wang and Ye Qingyu, knowing nothing about Late Cloud Mountain, had indeed wasted a significant amount of time.

By attempting to pick the Divine Ability Fruit first, they seemed to have simultaneously aroused the hostility of both sides.

Jiang Wang pressed his sword in his hand and turned to stare at the Cloud Wanderer Old Man. “What if we truly don’t know? And what if we falsely don’t know?”

He fundamentally didn’t want to explain, nor was there any need to explain. Everyone in Late Cloud Mountain had their own demands; it was a struggle involving fundamental interests, a contradiction that couldn’t be resolved by sitting down and discussing the Dao.

Whoever showed hostility first, he would strike first. It was as simple and straightforward as that.

The Cloud Wanderer Old Man’s face was hidden under a bamboo hat, his voice trembling. “Lingxiao Pavilion is truly overbearing! This is overturning the chessboard, just like Ye Lingxiao thirty-three years ago?”

“I don’t know what Pavilion Master Ye did thirty-three years ago, but you can freely make me your target,” Jiang Wang drew out his longsword, the Autumn Water like a pool in his hand. He looked at Dou Mian, then turned towards the Cloud Wanderer Old Man. “At most, you’ll both come at me. What do I have to fear?”

Ye Qingyu’s eyebrows furrowed slightly. She might not know what her father did thirty-three years ago. But she was very dissatisfied with this sinister Cloud Wanderer Old Man.

No matter how old the Cloud Wanderer Old Man’s voice was, being able to enter Late Cloud Mountain indicated that his age must be below thirty-three. He was a junior to Ye Lingxiao. And when he spoke of Ye Lingxiao, his tone was contemptuous, lacking respect.

Hearing Jiang Wang’s declaration at this moment, Ye Qingyu directly took out two ink-colored squares from her storage jade pendant and threw them into the air!

The squares expanded rapidly in the air.

Swish, swish, swish, swish.

Four wings unfolded, black helmets, black armor, black sabers, black crystal eyes, floating in the air, their faces cold towards the Cloud Wanderer Old Man.

Four-winged Ink Warriors!

Initially, in the Seven Star World, Tian Yong of the Tian family had a double-winged Ink Warrior, which he treasured so much he was reluctant to use it easily. A double-winged Ink Warrior possessed the combat power of the Soaring Dragon realm, while a four-winged Ink Warrior possessed the combat power of the Inner Mansion realm…

Ye Qingyu took out two at once!

Jiang Wang had originally been glaring with cold eyes, fearless of facing two opponents, feeling quite heroic. But with Ye Qingyu throwing out two four-winged Ink Warriors, it suddenly felt a bit like relying on brute force to bully others…

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