Kitano Nozomi of Ise Grand Shrine, using the Wood Escape technique from the Five Elements Escape, summoned three treants approximately four to five meters tall. These three treants then moved to surround Ling Tian!
While these three monsters were not fast, their strength and resistance to damage were astonishing. To summon these three treants, Kitano Nozomi had paid a considerable price; a cat's eye gem the size of a pigeon's egg on his staff had even cracked!
If a skilled craftsman couldn't be found to repair it, the gem would be ruined.
The reason for such a high price was that Kitano Nozomi felt the opponent before him, this "crippled immortal," was terrifyingly powerful. If he didn't go all out, he might meet a grim fate tonight.
After all, this madman, to frame the Ise Grand Shrine, didn't hesitate to go to war with the entire underground world of Yamato, even crippling the bosses of the top ten gangs in Yamato. Was this something an ordinary person would do?
Facing the three lumbering treants, Ling Tian still wore a smile.
They were just a few creatures; he hadn't seen them before!
With a flash of thought, in an instant, two colossal figures over ten meters tall appeared before Ling Tian!
The appearance of these creatures completely bewildered Kitano Nozomi. He saw that what appeared before him were actually two large willow trees.
However, these two willow trees, over ten meters tall, looked rather… unconventional.
These two giant willow trees reached a height of over ten meters, equivalent to the height of a three-story building.
Each willow tree had four branches. These branches were extremely sturdy, with dozens of thick willow strands at their ends.
These strands were also frighteningly thick, each as thick as a rolling pin.
Furthermore, two branches on each of these trees, at their tips, lacked willow strands and instead bore enormous woody galls, each nearly eighty centimeters in diameter!
The scientific term for such growths is gall. These galls form when plants are parasitized by fungi, insects, mites, nematodes, etc., causing mutations and hyperplasia in the woody structural tissues.
In fact, in the timber market, such galls were very valuable. On one hand, when the gall portion was cut, polished, and varnished, it formed incredibly beautiful patterns. On the other hand, the gallwood was extremely hard, much harder than other parts of the wood.
These two willow trees, with their giant galls at the tips of their branches, were like two oversized pestles!
These were willow tree spirits that Ling Tian had directly summoned from the spirit herb garden in his spiritual realm space!
Ling Tian had unlocked many functions of the spirit herb garden, including the ability to summon various strange trees. However, he had never paid attention to this function, letting these things fend for themselves.
It wasn't until a few days ago, while observing changes within his spiritual realm space, that Ling Tian remembered he possessed such powerful entities.
When he saw Kitano Nozomi summon these disgusting-looking treants, Ling Tian also remembered that he had similar things.
It had to be said that while these wood-elemental beings had extremely robust bodies, their intelligence was not high. Faced with the willow tree spirits, which were almost twice their height, Kitano Nozomi's treants still charged forward fearlessly.
The willow tree spirits also showed no mercy. Facing their smaller counterparts charging at them, the willow tree spirits swung the gall-wood hammers at the tips of their branches and smashed down with a whistling sound, striking the treants squarely on their trunks. Almost simultaneously, the wood hammers of the other willow tree spirit also hit a treant.
"Boom!" "Boom!"
A dull sound, akin to a cannonball being fired, echoed in mid-air. The two unfortunate treants were directly knocked to the ground by the willow tree spirits' wood hammers.
But that wasn't the end. The third treant, its branches flailing, charged forward. This one, however, was much smarter than its two companions. It actually drove its dense rootlets at the soles of its feet into the ground.
This way, even if it were hit by a wood hammer, it wouldn't be knocked over.
Kitano Nozomi, standing nearby, turned pale. He could only exert the simplest control over the treants he summoned, such as issuing a command to attack a specific target. That was all.
As for how the treants should attack, these matters were decided by the treants' combat instincts.
Now, it seemed that the willow tree spirits summoned by Ling Tian were almost double in size and strength compared to these damn treants.
Moreover, Ling Tian's willow tree spirits possessed higher intelligence, were more agile, and even faster than the treants!
Under such a vast disparity in strength, the treants should have focused on evasion, avoiding direct confrontation with Ling Tian's willow tree spirits as much as possible. Instead, this creature chose the most foolish approach.
The next moment, both willow tree spirits arrived before this treant and began to pound it directly with their wood hammers.
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Kitano Nozomi even turned his head away in despair, unwilling to watch the unfolding battle. If one had to describe the scene during the fight in four words, those words would be: utterly brutal!
The treant was being ganged up on by two giant willow tree spirits. The four massive wood hammers struck the treant one after another, causing leaves and broken branches to fly everywhere.
The branches on the treant's body were smashed off one by one by the wood hammers. Eventually, the treant's trunk, unable to bear the load, was split in half from the middle!
This severe damage rendered the treant's body immobile. Within a very short time, it turned into a piece of rotten wood. After all, this creature was animated by magical energy. Once the magical energy within it was depleted, it could only be used as firewood.
At this moment, the two treants that had been knocked away earlier wobbled back and rejoined the fray. These two brainless creatures, like their companion, also drove their rootlets into the ground.
The next moment, a brutal scene unfolded again. Kitano Nozomi watched with wide eyes as the remaining two treants were also smashed into firewood.
His eyes widened in disbelief. The three treants he had summoned, after sacrificing a gem, were so inexplicably and confusedly destroyed. Where could he even begin to complain about this?
Just then, a commotion could be heard from a distance. It turned out that the battle had created too much noise, alerting others at the Ise Grand Shrine, who rushed over to help.
Leading the charge were more than ten samurai. These samurai stopped about twenty meters away from the two willow tree spirits, drew their bows, and nocked their arrows. Arrows rained down upon the willow tree spirits like a storm.