Chapter 81 End of the Road

As his voice fell, Mr. Nanshan directly crushed the jade pendant in his hand. Then, he sat cross-legged on the ground, his whole being seeming to have undergone a primordial spirit projection, even his breathing becoming extremely smooth and faint.

At the same time, the plum blossom trees that had merely been moving according to the array formation actually raised their roots one after another.

The roots of the trees intertwined and twisted together, rapidly forming an extremely large whole.

Ye Chuxiao, also a dual practitioner of array cultivation, still felt incredibly amazed when he saw the scene before him.

Mr. Nanshan had integrated the methods of array formation and spirit control, consolidating the originally scattered power.

"However, if the immense power consolidated in this way lacks flexibility, it will still only be an enlarged, stationary target. At most, it can only delay time. If he wants to defend against the enemy, it's still far from sufficient," Ye Chuxiao thought.

He wondered what Mr. Nanshan planned to do about this flaw.

As the roots intertwined, all the plum blossom trees in the plum garden twisted together, transforming into a giant tree demon that seemed to prop up the sky.

If the surroundings hadn't already been shielded by an array formation, the appearance of this giant tree demon would have alarmed the entire Wenjia Mountain City.

The giant tree demon wielded branches that were harder than refined steel, fiercely lashing at the surrounding barrier, stirring up ripple after ripple.

Clearly, Mr. Nanshan's goal was very clear. As long as the blockade was broken and the matter was made bigger, the Wen family might compromise and end it.

Wenjia Mountain City was the Wen family's foundation. If this city, which mainly focused on commerce for cultivators, lost its impartiality and tolerance, it would cause a large number of traveling merchants and travelers to flee in panic.

Imagine, if they could ruthlessly harm Mr. Nanshan, who had devoted twenty years to the Wen family, how would merchants with huge sums of money dare to continue living and trading in this city?

Although the reasoning wasn't exactly the same, the emotions were the same.

It could only be said that Mr. Nanshan probably knew too much; otherwise, the Wen family would never have taken the risk of launching such an attack.

Similarly, since they had already made their move, they would definitely have complete certainty.

At this moment, no matter how the giant tree demon wielded its vines, branches, and roots, trying to pierce the restraining barrier, the barrier remained strong. The ripples that stirred up ultimately failed to tear through this seemingly thin layer of obstruction.

At this time, the Wen family's subsequent methods of attack had also arrived.

A clear wolf howl rang out.

Then, a silver-white giant wolf suddenly leaped out.

It was, without a doubt, a ferocious and savage wolf demon.

In the Barren Struggle Realm, not only human lifespan was greatly reduced, but also the lifespan of the demon race.

This led to the demon race in the Barren Struggle Realm exhibiting extremely disproportionate characteristics in terms of strength and intelligence.

Frenzied and easily angered, mostly driven by instinct, yet possessing great power, these demonic beasts would often madly invade human cities, causing terrible consequences.

At this time, the Wen family didn't use their familiar methods of strong attacks.

Instead, they drove the demon beasts to attack, obviously planning to shift the blame to the demon beasts even if they were exposed afterward.

Along with the silver demon wolf's howl, several gray giant wolves rushed over first.

However, the giant plum blossom tree demon possessed a flexibility unlike that of a 'puppet.' With the waving and lashing of its tree vines, it easily entangled these giant wolves.

Sharp branches pierced into the bodies of the wolf demons, instantly draining their essence and blood.

As the branches swayed, the scattered plum blossom petals seemed to bloom even more brilliantly.

The air was filled with a fragrance tinged with the scent of blood.

"This tree demon, formed by the combination of ten thousand plum trees... Its core should be controlled by Mr. Nanshan!" Ye Chuxiao looked at the agile tree demon, then glanced at Mr. Nanshan, who seemed to have turned into a living dead man. How could he not understand the truth?

"As expected of a trump card. Mr. Nanshan's cultivation was crippled, which is a physical deficiency. But from the perspective of his root soul, he is still a Great Cultivator at the Intent Realm, possessing an Intent Realm mind. So, when he forcibly sends his own spiritual sense out of his physical body and into that tree demon, it is equivalent to changing into a shell sufficient for him to exert his power."

"Indeed, no one at the Intent Realm can be underestimated, even if they appear to be crippled. They are not necessarily without means," Ye Chuxiao temporarily breathed a sigh of relief, but was secretly warned by this.

On the other side, more gray giant wolves pounced out under the urging of the silver wolf demon, using a completely desperate posture to entangle the giant tree demon's energy.

They tore and entangled with the tree vines and roots, creating gaps to allow their companions to break through and enter the core protected by the tree demon... which was the location of Ye Chuxiao and Mr. Nanshan.

As long as they could find Mr. Nanshan's physical body and destroy it, the soul without physical support would only be forced to return to the aurora.

It had to be said that this tactic of group wolf sacrifice was quite effective.

The giant tree demon, controlled by Mr. Nanshan, even if it used its numerous tree vines to perform exquisite whip techniques, even forming a whip array, still couldn't stop this pure flesh-and-blood tactic.

Under the entanglement, some gaps were indeed revealed.

However, Mr. Nanshan was also very clear about the weaknesses. The tree demon's huge body spanned the sky above Ye Chuxiao and his physical body. The surrounding area was filled with tree vines, wrapped into a large, circular ball.

Any force that wanted to attack them had to first defeat the tree demon's main body.

At this time, a burst of hurried flute sounds rang out. Along with the fluctuations of the flute sounds, more ferocious demon beasts seemed to be roaring fiercely around.

Passing through the gaps created by the giant wolves, a black bear with wings on its back descended from the sky, waving its huge and heavy bear paws, and slammed them fiercely against the tree demon's thick trunk.

At the same time, more than a dozen demon beasts of varying sizes rushed out.

Among them, the larger ones were responsible for containing, and the smaller ones were responsible for finding gaps and advancing deeper.

Such coordination obviously required artificial manipulation.

Otherwise, with the wisdom of the demon beasts in the Barren Struggle Realm, it would be difficult to organize such a rhythmic offensive.

The giant tree demon controlled by Mr. Nanshan began to rotate.

The large number of tree vines wrapped around its body, like ten thousand pythons, began to roam freely.

They nimbly whipped through the tree branch jungle, forcing back those demon beasts of all sizes.

Only the flying bear, which was close to the body, was difficult to deal with.

Although the giant tree demon's branches were harder than refined steel, striking the thick-skinned and fleshy flying bear couldn't cause it much damage.

A layer of earthy-yellow heavy armor appeared on the flying bear's body. The Wen family had actually added thick armor to this flying bear, which was already thick-skinned and highly defensive.

This made the giant tree demon's ordinary attacks, when they landed on it, seem more like tickling.

The bad situation didn't stop there.

The silver demon wolf, which hadn't moved all along, also joined forces with a three-tailed fire fox and began to charge at the giant tree demon from the left and right sides.

The wolf demon and the fire fox were both good at driving wind and snow and poisonous fire, destroying the branches and vines that stood in their way, pointing directly at the place where Ye Chuxiao and Mr. Nanshan were located.

Ye Chuxiao didn't know if Mr. Nanshan had other means.

But at this time, he couldn't just stand by and do nothing.

A jade flute appeared in Ye Chuxiao's hand. The music cultivation methods, which he had rarely used since learning them, were now being used by Ye Chuxiao.

He first played a piece of music with a slow rhythm and a melodious tune.

As the music vibrated the energy of heaven and earth, it formed a powerful hypnotic effect. Most of the demon beasts, whose minds were already simple, were appeased, and their frenzied emotions were pacified, causing them to become lazy.

The originally fierce offensive came to a stop.

After a moment of pause, Mr. Nanshan didn't hold back. He controlled the tree demon to instantly pierce these demon beasts into blood gourds.

One wave took away nearly one-third of the invading demon beasts.

On the other side, the flute sounds responsible for commanding and manipulating these demon beasts became sharp.

Along with the sharpness of the flute sounds, the demon beasts that had been paused and lazy seemed to have been greatly stimulated and felt extremely intense pain.

They more frantically impacted and patted everything around them.

The offensive that had been slightly disintegrated was instantly caught up.

"Change to more stimulating music. These demon beasts have all been implanted with Gu worms in their bodies. As long as they stimulate the Gu worms, they can make these demon beasts go crazy."

"Since the demon beasts have gone crazy, then let them go even crazier!" Mr. Nanshan's voice sounded in Ye Chuxiao's ear.

However, this voice didn't come from Mr. Nanshan's physical body.

Ye Chuxiao changed his tune and switched to impassioned and high-pitched music.

Under the impetus of the music, the heaven and earth spiritual energy, vibrating at a faster and denser frequency, also affected those demon beasts that were already going crazy.

Their eyes were completely red.

In their blurred consciousness, the target of the attack was no longer just the tree demon.

It was everything.

When Mr. Nanshan manipulated the tree demon to guide an 'exit' for these demon beasts.

They rushed into the location where the Wen family cultivators were hiding.

Before long, the location where the Wen family cultivators were hiding flashed with the spiritual light of spell explosions.

At the same time, the array formation that enveloped and concealed everything rippled densely again.

The demon beasts' frantic impact had obviously shaken the stability of the closed array formation again.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the tree demon once again launched a fierce impact on the array formation's obscuration above.

Even if the broken branches splashed and flew around, the tree demon didn't stop in the slightest.

Clearly, Mr. Nanshan's train of thought was very clear.

The short-term defeat of the Wen family cultivators' attacks, and even the seeming occupation of the upper hand, were all false.

If they continued to be trapped like this, it was only a matter of time before the defense was breached.

"It seems that you have also invited helpers."

"Good at rhythm, with profound skill... There is no such person among your past close friends."

"It seems that you have long harbored disloyal intentions, and have been harboring sinister intentions to this point. If we hadn't come to test you, what would you have intended to do?" Wen Xianfu's voice rang out again, shamelessly occupying the angle of a questioner, questioning Mr. Nanshan's 'disloyalty.'

Mr. Nanshan didn't have the need to argue with Wen Xianfu, but only manipulated the tree demon, continuing to lash at the barrier.

"Don't waste your effort! You should have already discovered that this closed array formation is actually interlocked with your Myriad Plum Array. If your array doesn't break, how can the array I set up break?" Wen Xianfu said.

At this time, Mr. Nanshan finally couldn't bear it any longer and angrily questioned, "You say I have sinister intentions. The Myriad Plum Array was built up little by little by me over the years. If I wanted to set up another array formation that was interlocked with my Myriad Plum Array, I would have to leave a backdoor when the foundation was initially laid."

"From the beginning, you never treated me sincerely. Now, instead, you ask me if I am loyal?"

Wen Xianfu said, "Brother He! You are also a person who has experienced the world, how can you say such naive words?"

"Little Nanshan belongs to the Wen family, and the Myriad Plum Garden naturally also belongs to the Wen family!"

"Whatever you want to do is naturally under the supervision of the Wen family."

Mr. Nanshan laughed angrily, "Good! Good! Good! I never thought that Wen Zhongda, Senior Wen's uprightness, would have descendants who are all like jackals."

Wen Xianfu said, "Of course, my father was as pure as the moonlight, but if we, the descendants, want to maintain the ancestral property left by our ancestors, if we only produced someone like my father, I'm afraid we would have been unable to sustain it long ago."

"You ask yourself, when my father was the city lord, was Wenjia Mountain City as prosperous and lively as it is today?"

"Senior, be careful... Don't argue with him too much. He's delaying time. Since the two array formations are connected, he may reverse the array formation and forcibly disintegrate the Myriad Plum Array," Ye Chuxiao quickly reminded him.

Wen Xianfu said, "This little brother is right. I think he should also be a young hero. I have dozens of grandchildren, but none of them have your kind of insight. They are all like stupid donkeys."

"However, your reminder is still a bit late."

As soon as he finished speaking, the array formation reversed.

The giant tree demon, transformed from ten thousand plum blossom trees, immediately began to collapse and wither.

Ye Chuxiao felt the strong aura of death permeating the surroundings. Even if he was unwilling, he had already planned to use the Dao Rhythm Shuttle to escape this world.

However, at this moment, Mr. Nanshan slowly opened his eyes to the side. His bright eyes clearly showed no fear.

He put his hands together, turned them over, and pressed down.

The originally collapsing tree demon transformed into hundreds of millions of arrows and shot out.

The array formation that should have blocked all of this was now scattered into a sky full of flower petals.

The array formation was connected, which was an advantage for the Wen family, but for Mr. Nanshan... wasn't it the same?

After realizing that a backdoor had been left in the array formation and that it came from the same source as the array formation that obscured this place, Mr. Nanshan had been waiting for this opportunity.

At this time, the arrows piercing the sky pierced through the curtain covering the sky.

The endless flying flowers, following the slopes of Little Nanshan, blew towards the unsuspecting Wenjia Mountain City.

The people living in the mountain city all raised their heads and looked at the plum blossom petals scattered all over them, and couldn't help but reveal happy smiles.

The beautiful scenery was a sudden surprise, and in an instant, it suddenly broke into their unprepared lives.

Mr. Nanshan stood up in the rain of flower petals, standing with his hands behind his back, and nodded slightly as he looked at the old man walking over from the other end.

The old man smiled, looked at Mr. Nanshan, and then looked at Ye Chuxiao, nodding in acknowledgment as well.

"Congratulations, you won! Won by half a move," Wen Xianfu said.

Mr. Nanshan said, "Is that so? I don't think so."

In a low and unheard voice, the two brushed past each other.

"Thank you!" Mr. Nanshan said.

"Take care!" Wen Xianfu said.