Nine Dragons Saint Ancestor

”Look, what is that?”

Not far outside the west gate of Guanshan City, a cultivator, who was fighting countless strange spirits, suddenly exclaimed, pointing toward the north. It seemed he had discovered something extraordinary.

This exclamation drew the attention of many nearby human cultivators. They all turned their gaze towards the distant north, where a towering tree, dozens of feet tall, had somehow appeared.

The cultivators who had been in Guanshan City for years clearly knew there had never been such a large tree there. Even if there was, it would have been cut down long ago to allow a clear view of the movements of strange spirits outside the city.

”It should be the true form of that ninth-grade high-level otherworldly being leader!”

Ultimately, it was the more knowledgeable and powerful individuals at the middle stage of the Earth Bending Realm, such as Duan Gen, who sensed the unusual aura of the towering tree. Moments later, a look of anticipation appeared on their faces.

In general, strange spirits do not reveal their true forms when facing low-grade human cultivators. They can easily defeat their enemies with their humanoid transformations.

Only when encountering opponents of the same level will they fight in their true form. In this situation, it was clear that Lord Yun Xiao had approached the otherworldly being leader closely enough to force it to reveal its true form.

”Hmm?”

However, just as Duan Gen was about to look away, he suddenly noticed a flash of blood-red light emanating from the location of the giant tree, the true form of the strange spirit.

In the next moment, that blood-red light burst into brilliance. Even from such a distance, Duan Gen and the others could clearly see that it was a cloak of blood-red flames.

In just a moment, the once weak blood-red flames engulfed the towering tree, the true form of the strange spirit. From afar, it looked like a dazzling and mystical fire tree with silver flowers.

”He actually did it?!”

Seeing this scene, Duan Gen muttered to himself. To be honest, even after Yun Xiao swiftly killed Liao Qiguang, who was in the late stage of the Earth Bending Realm, he had never thought the beheading operation would truly succeed.

Moreover, the speed was astonishingly fast. How long had it been, half an hour? Watching the fire tree that seemed to set the sky ablaze, Duan Gen no longer had any doubts.

”The lord succeeded, everyone, put more effort into eradicating these strange spirits!”

Compared to the shock of the Earth Bending Realm cultivators, the low-grade cultivators were simply thrilled.

Now that the north’s strange spirit leader was defeated, the strange spirits’ army was in disarray, and they clearly sensed it. This shifted the balance, instantly boosting the morale of the human side.

Although the southern strange spirit army still maintained a relatively orderly formation, with Yun Xiao having slain the leader of the northern army, it might now become possible to bring the fight to the southern strange spirit army.

Before the fire tree, Yun Xiao watched the ancestral vein fire, which had ignited the entire tree in an instant, and couldn’t help but feel a twinge of awe. He marveled at how merging the Chaos Sub-fire had made the ancestral vein fire much more formidable than before.

Even with the advantage of fire over wood attribute, it was still a ninth-grade high-level strange spirit. To have it so easily reduced to charcoal was something Yun Xiao had not anticipated.

In fact, had the wood attribute strange spirit not revealed its true form, Yun Xiao might not have been able to subdue it so swiftly. But since it showed its true form as a towering tree, it provided Yun Xiao with the perfect opportunity for the ancestral vein fire to shine.

”The northern strange spirit army is no longer a concern. Next, it’s time to move south!”

Yun Xiao collected the ninth-grade high-level spirit crystal, and casually defeated a few remaining ninth-grade intermediate strange spirits. He then turned his gaze south, spread his thunder wings, and soared into the sky, drawing cheers from many human cultivators.

At this moment, Yun Xiao had become the spiritual beacon for all cultivators of Guanshan City. Numerous human cultivators who had rushed over from various places, even if they hadn’t witnessed the strength of this plainly dressed youth, had heard of the extraordinary feat he had just accomplished.