"Come out, come ou..." Du Yu's face was stiff, doing his utmost to activate the Shadow Gu Tower in his hand.

From within the dark gray giant tree, thick Demon Soul surged out like a river, forcibly drawn forth!

Unlike low level Demon Souls, no one could see the full form of the Heaven Returning Wood's Demon Soul, nor imagine its true scale.

All that was visible to the crowd was an illusory great river rushing outward!

"Kill!" Shu Qinghe bellowed coldly, her voice icy and piercing.

In an instant, the Red Mud Fire Stove swaying beside her head shot out several stoves identical in size to the original, charging straight at the Demon Soul.

Demon Skill·Fire Furnace Burning!

"Rumble!"

"Rumble..." One after another, Red Mud Fire Stoves bombarded the Demon Soul like mad.

Meanwhile, Shu Qinghe grabbed the "Ghost Skull Necklace" hanging at her neck and sharply flung it upward.

As the Ghost Skull Necklace spun, all five skulls snapped into alignment, aiming straight at the Heaven Returning Wood's Demon Soul!

The hollow eyes and mouths of the grim skulls suddenly blazed with dazzling brilliance.

Swirling Wind Pillars, thrusting Flames, rushing Water, explosive Thunder, and a deep green Fluorescent Beam...

Demon Skill·Five Skulls Pilgrimage!

What pilgrimage? This was clearly a "Saint Slaughter"!

While Shu Qinghe's Demon Pet unleashed at full power, Yang Qingqing's Demon Pets were no less formidable.

Especially that Dream Dance Flame Butterfly Du Yu had never seen before—its output was terrifying!

On its huge, splendid wings, flaming patterns suddenly lit up, streaming from the wing edges as fiery whips, lashing crazily at the "Demon Soul River."

Demon Skill·Dream Dance Whip!

The enormous Rose General Spirit, under her master's orders, wrapped Du Yu—who was extracting the Demon Soul—with her flower vine and soared upward with him.

"Oh~" Du Yu gasped lightly.

From the Spirit Contract came the solemn voice of the Shadow Gu Tower: "Focus!"

Ever since acquiring the Shadow Gu Tower, this was the first time it had been so stern.

Du Yu stopped minding anything else, letting his small body be set into the rosebud head of the Rose General Spirit.

The Rose General Spirit's flower head was in a half-bloom state.

Tiny Du Yu was stuffed right into the crevice between rose petals, and behind him, at the center of the rose, clusters of petals drifted out.

Each petal blazed with flames, like spinning Flaming Blades, shooting into the Demon Soul River.

Under the terrifying output of multiple Demon Pets, the Demon Soul River was torn and blasted over and over!

Yet Du Yu and his Shadow Gu Tower held steady!

No matter how battered the Demon Soul River became, from start to finish, he never let it break. The Heaven Returning Wood's Demon Soul was still being relentlessly absorbed by the Shadow Gu Tower.

Little Fen Yang: "Suck it~ Defeat the big tree! Sister Ta is awesome, keep it up, keep it up!"

"Hiss!" The Heaven Returning Wood howled in pain. Clearly a tree, but it let out a shrill, miserable wail.

All this time, the Heaven Returning Wood's attention had been on its roots, trying to kill the pesky humans at its feet.

But now that Demon Soul was being drawn from its upper body, it immediately shifted its attention...

"Bang!"

The battlefield of flower vines spread by the Rose General Spirit was smashed apart by a giant tree bolting out of the earth!

The massive log shot skyward, hard as steel and iron.

Demon Skill·Heaven Returning Fury Wood!

"Hiss~" The Ghost Skulls abruptly scattered, remaining in a circle but leaving a gaping hole in the middle for the giant tree to shoot through.

Above, the Dream Dance Flame Butterfly, wildly assaulting the Demon Soul River, scrambled to evade.

"Dream!" Yang Qingqing thrust a hand forward with a jerk.

"Jingle~ jingle~" A faint sound came from within the plush coat's sleeve. The Dream Dance Flame Butterfly darting and dodging in midair was yanked hard to the left.

"Crack!" The Heaven Returning Fury Wood grazed the edge of the Dream Dance Flame Butterfly's wing and thrust out.

Even though the log missed its main target, the Dream Dance Flame Butterfly's Demon Breath Battle Robe was still torn to shreds.

Demon Skills cast by a Demon Saint—such terrifying power!

The Heaven Returning Wood's body shattered with a single blow, but that was only on the physical level.

The Demon Skills Heaven Returning Wood unleashed were truly top-tier!

Though its inner reserves of Demon Breath were pitiful and its body battered, nearly destroyed by the Jade Gourd refining it to submission, it still had a last vestige of strength...

In fact, the Heaven Returning Wood had always been trying to cast Demon Skills—it's just that its targets had always been the Cheng Feng team at the roots.

"Puff~ puff~" The Dream Dance Flame Butterfly scattered endless powder, tiny sparkles, dreamlike and illusory.

And the instant Yang Qingqing yanked it back, the Heaven Returning Fury Wood suddenly changed color.

The gray wood abruptly turned into a jade giant tree?

Jade-green, crystal clear.

On the jade trunk, faintly silver flowers bloomed—beautiful, almost unreal...

Demon Skill·Jade Tree and Silver Flowers!

Yang Qingqing's eyes flew wide; Shu Qinghe's face instantly changed!

Heaven Returning Wood was indeed in a sorry plight, fighting on two fronts, with more hatred for Cheng Feng's side.

It had attacked Du Yu's team with merely two Demon Skills.

But... that was enough!

In that moment, both Yang Qingqing and Shu Qinghe issued orders in their minds.

"Hiss!" From behind the Mud Po Goddess Sculpture, ten thousand Bodhisattva Hands were finally activated, leaping forth rapidly.

Endless mud hands, enveloped in thick Demon Breath, rapidly entangled, instantly constructing a defensive shield.

Demon Skill·Mud Bodhisattva!

At the same time, the Rose General Spirit unfurled a burning thorn wall in front of everyone.

Demon Skill·Fireworks Thorn!

Almost simultaneously, the jade tree blossomed with blinding light, exploding with a roar!

"Rumble!"

"Hiss..." The Mud Po Goddess Sculpture let out a wretched wail. The Demon Breath Battle Robe snapped cleanly, the thousand mud hands blown into shredded fragments.

The seven-layered Mud Hand defensive wall in front was shattered—six layers gone with a blast!

Only the final layer of mud hand wall hung on desperately, but was badly battered.

The shockwave ripped through the broken mud hands and slammed into the Flame Thorns Shield with all its fury.

In the roaring gale, the flames trailed long lines and the whole battle group was blown back over ten meters!

"Heh." Yang Qingqing's breath quivered; she felt as if a thread in her mind... snapped!

Shu Qinghe's pupils contracted slightly; a thread in her mind also snapped—the spiritual thread of the Demon Pet Contract!

"Rumble!" Overhead, a mountain-shaking thunder roared, blanketing all of Gourd Mountain.

It seemed intent on shattering the souls of every living creature under heaven!

"Aaaaah!" On top of the Rose General Spirit, Du Yu's face twisted, bellowing angrily—almost as if to relieve his inner fear by shouting.

Wedged among the flower petals, he reached forward, the Shadow Gu Tower in his palm shaking violently.

No matter what happened outside—be it the trees exploding or the heavens rumbling—

At this moment, Du Yu couldn't care about anything else; he was giving it his all!

This was a Demon Saint!

Having drawn the bow, there was no turning back!

The Demon Soul River of the Heaven Returning Wood surged through the shattered mud hand wall, through the blazing thorn bushes, nonstop gathering atop the Rose General Spirit, pouring into Du Yu's tower.

Meanwhile, atop Gourd Mountain, in the military encampment—

The soldiers, faces aghast, backed off, staying away from the Gourd Mouth.

Night sky laden with clouds rolling layer upon layer.

Endless electric currents crisscrossed the ocean of clouds.

"Rumble..." Another earthshaking peal of thunder shook hearts, intimidating all living things.

"Retreat! Everyone fall back!"

"This, this..." Even the best-trained soldiers, faced with such a calamity, couldn't help but panic.

"Crack!"

"Crack!" Countless thick bolts of lightning shot from the seething clouds, lighting up the night sky.

In those few seconds, not just Gourd Mountain but all of Jingu City was as bright as day!

Many citizens awoken by thunder stood at their windows, gazing south at the horror unfolding upon the night sky.

Endless currents interwove into an electric current waterfall, immense and sweeping, crashing toward the Gourd Mouth!

And amid the blinding current waterfall, the vague shape of a gigantic Divine Weapon appeared.

Was that... Heaven-piercing Halberd?

Meanwhile, deep below Gourd Mountain—

"Hiss...roar!" Water Charm Du Yu howled, fighting to control the shattered body of the Heaven Returning Wood.

He was refining and imprisoning the last of the Heaven Returning Wood's Demon Breath, trying his best to stop it from casting more Demon Skills.

Beside Water Charm Du Yu grew a patch of bizarre and terrifying trees.

These trees varied in size, and it seemed some Demon Beasts were trapped within them?

One of the trees even had a humanoid outline on its trunk.

The person trapped inside struggled in agony—a truly horrifying sight.

Demon Skill·Tree Binding Cage!

On the other side of the Heaven Returning Wood, another humanoid tree twisted even more violently, dead bark desperately pulling it backward.

"Crack!"

The Heaven-piercing Halberd fell, carrying thunder's wrath!

The massive Heaven-piercing Halberd stabbed forcefully into the shattered body of the Heaven Returning Wood.

From top to bottom, trailed by a surging thunder waterfall, it drove downward inch by inch!

"Watch out!"

"Du Yu!" From the upper body of the Heaven Returning Wood came two startled cries.

Yang Qingqing and Shu Qinghe shielded Du Yu, along with Rose General Spirit and Mud Po Goddess Sculpture, blown far, far away by the explosion of electric flashes and shockwaves...

At this moment, Du Yu no longer knew where he was.

Yet the river of Demon Soul was still being dragged by the Shadow Gu Tower, pouring through the defensive web of mud hands and flower vines, endlessly flooding the tower.

"Buzz!" The Shadow Gu Tower trembled sharply. "Now!"

Du Yu summoned every ounce of strength, yanked the Shadow Gu Tower back with his left hand: "Get the fuck in here!"

"Screeeeeee..." A harrowing scream echoed in everyone's ears.

Little Fen Yang shouted anxiously, "Put it in your body! Quick, put the tower in your body! Quick!"

Without hesitation, Du Yu shoved the Shadow Gu Tower into his Spirit Ruins Acupoint.

Inside the tower, the woman of black mist stared intently at the concentrating Demon Soul, her face grave beyond measure.

The real task was about to begin!

The Heaven Returning Wood Demon Soul inside the Shadow Gu Tower was now shrunk countless times. Even in its battered state, one could still make out its true form.

It was a spectral wooden stake, colorless, with only a pair of crimson glowing eyes!

"Sister Ta, move aside!" came a voice from outside the tower.

For the first time, the black mist woman did not stop Little Fen Yang.

She stepped aside a few paces, turning slightly.

A mysterious black-and-gold Golden Crow, flapping magnificent wings and trailing endless fiery Demon Breath, swooped in!

The Burning Sun Golden Crow dove headlong through the doors of the Shadow Gu Tower, aiming straight for the Heaven Returning Wood Demon Soul!

"Tree! Burn~ burn burn burn!"

And just as Du Yu succeeded, the Heaven Returning Wood, bereft of its Demon Soul, entered a new state.

Clearly, the Demon Soul hadn't captured its entire "soul." It still possessed some lingering consciousness—whether that consciousness was steeped in Cold Qi or had cognitive capacity, it could still move!

In this state, the Heaven Returning Wood was the last gasp of a dying beast—yet even more perilous than before!

"HISSSS!!!" Suddenly, a terrifying roar erupted from the underground battlefield.

At the root of the Heaven Returning Wood, Cheng Feng—imprisoned in wood—had the Flame Soul Imprisonment inside him bellow in fury at last, shattering the wooden cell.

The hundred-meter-tall Flame Soul Imprisonment stood revealed to the world!

Cheng Feng no longer possessed a human body.

This towering Flame Soul Imprisonment was now his true form!

"Die!" With Cheng Feng's furious roar, his blazing claws seized the descending Thunderbolt Halberd and stabbed down, piercing straight to the Heaven Returning Wood's root!

Great Xia Seven Saints·Blazing Fire Thunderclap!

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