Chapter 825: Killing the Replica, Coalescing Arcanus (III)

The coconut tree then saw the little tree; the latter erupted with violent mental ripples the second they encountered each other and rushed its opponent.

“Kill!” Li Hao growled as well.

BOOM!

Everyone acted in the same instant, bringing blade, spear, sword, and halberd to bear!

The coconut tree froze with incomprehension for a split second, finding the scene incredulous. It snapped back to its senses—

they... want to kill me!

“Bastard!” It flew into a towering rage. What did this represent if Li Hao wanted to kill it? That meant that the human had been lying about everything before!

The coconut tree ignored the Black Armor and immediately transformed into a towering tree. It even showed hints of becoming humanoid with its branches forming the limbs. It was much stronger than the group of replicas that Li Hao had faced last time.

“You court death!”

Bam!

A massive explosion sounded with an eruption of mental strength. The ensuing ripples churned through the area. Although the little tree shook, it didn’t summon the imperial palace. This was just a test of their skills against the coconut tree. If they needed to utilize the imperial palace projection for even this, how were they to face the primary body?

The powerhouses present jerked backward with dismay as they felt their heads spin and awareness turn groggy. All of them immediately summoned their supernatural characters to withstand the mental invasion.

Chen Zhongtian looked curiously at them out of the corner of his eyes, baffled by the sight. What was that?

There was no time to ponder further as he shouted ferociously and manifested a set of armor glittering with golden light. Countless tree branches churned toward them.

BOOM!

The void seemed to shatter as another ‘sword’ character manifested, transforming into a sword mountain and reflecting the Earthturner Sword out of it! But even so, the potent technique and defensive mountain formed out of the supernatural character was instantly pierced through by numerous branches!

Hong Yitang grunted, blood leaking out of the corner of his lips. He was taken aback by the sight. Was this what was meant by the Apex level?

A desperate wail sounded as Master Iron Shirt transformed into something akin to a golden Buddha and solidly planted himself in front of the group. A massive character hovered in front of him—defend!

KABOOM!

Countless branches whipped through the air and shredded it to pieces.

Chen Zhongtian’s reaction had been a second too slow—not because he was weak, but because he was thrown off balance by the group’s methods. What were those things?

But soon enough, he was shaken out of his reverie. Having reserved a bit of his strength, he punched with a shout. A weapon erupted from his fist and pierced through two layers of branches, snapping some of them.

Hou Xiaochen and the rest attacked at the same time! Yao Si punched forward with the might of five element Arcanus. The circulation of his five organs was in full force and the five elements were completely melded as one. The world shook from his punch and he punctured all of the branches in front of him, obliterating them by himself!

The spear, blade, and sword materialized in the void. Sky Sword, Tyrant Blade, and Hou Xiaochen engaged in their attacks of mind intent and ripped through the air with domineering force!

“What is this??” The coconut tree was aghast with dismay. What were these humans using? It’d never witnessed it before!! Dismay was rapidly setting in. Although it was strong enough to pierce through the defenses of three powerhouses in a split second, its defenses were also erased in a split second. These guys were all very strong!

There were multiple at six element Arcanus and even the weakest of Manager Yu was between two and three elements. Meanwhile, Li Hao and Deputy Zhou were yet to make their moves. They were silently observing all this while. The collision between the little tree’s branches and the coconut tree’s branches ripped through the void!

This indicated that their clash exceeded the Apex level and was sufficient to tear through the void. That made this kind of conflict very dangerous for both plant spirits.

Despite the overwhelming show of force, Li Hao frowned. He had so many powerhouses on his side, yet their target instantly broke through the first layer of defense. One had to keep in mind that the little tree was acting as the main offensive force and keeping the coconut tree preoccupied! And yet, their target still had the capability to attack the rest.

As expected, the gap between the two sides was substantial.

Deputy Zhou looked at Li Hao. The young man rumbled, “Try taking the field. I want to gauge your level of strength so as to make better preparations to come!”

Deputy Zhou laughed and broke through the air. He didn’t attack the big tree from a distance like the others, but shot straight at it. His actions enraged the coconut tree—where did this ant with a death wish come from?!

An incredibly thick branch shot through the void, aimed at Deputy Zhou’s heart. The quiet old man suddenly howled with ferocity, sending his blood qi soaring to the heavens!

The Black Armor had been enjoying the show when its head snapped to Deputy Zhou with surprise. The martial dao of New Martial!

BOOM!

Blood qi flooded out and became a long dragon of blood qi. Deputy Zhou’s body shimmered with golden light as countless branches whipped across him. He stumbled back, but was wholly unscathed. Incredible!

“A golden body?” The big tree paused. “You are a cultivator of New Martial...”

But that was impossible!

Momentary surprise found all of the participants. Deputy Zhou usually presented himself with a genteel demeanor, but was now a frenetic martial cultivator as if a demon god. He howled with resolution and punched forward, snapping a branch with his moment!

A powerful presence emanated from the glittering old man as he howled again, bringing another punch down with a loud rumble! He stood on the frontlines and encircled the big tree, pummeling their target alongside the little tree.

Aureate light glimmered in Li Hao’s eyes—what an incredibly strong body! Was this the martial dao of New Martial, their golden body? It did not exist in the modern age, no one could cultivate such a forceful physical body.

Nine revolutions of the golden body!

Even the Black Armor was surprised at this point. There were levels of differences to golden bodies and this guy who walked the dao of New Martial possessed one of the highest level!

“Who’s heritage do you have?” asked the surprised Black Armor. This wasn’t one available to any regular person; nine revolutions of the golden body wasn’t common back in his day either. He saw a personage of the new age in front of him, but this one possessed such a strong golden body!

“Is it... the heritage of the exalted emperor from Capital Martial?” The Black Armor could barely fathom that possibility. When did Silver Moon Territory ever come about that one’s heritage? He stared at Deputy Zhou, then at Li Hao. Had the Sword Sovereign left it behind?

That wasn’t out of the question as Martial Uncle Eternal was very close to these exalted emperors. It was very possible.

Rumble!

A ray of golden light flashed through the air—Deputy Zhou charging the enemy! Li Hao watched raptly, the old man had such strong defensive capabilities and his offensive power was quite up to speed as well! He absolutely possessed the strength of six elements, maybe even peak six elements! There was nothing wrong with the ranking that the Wind and Cloud Pavilion had given this one. He had the right to be part of the top ten and looked to be even stronger than number nine, Chen Zhongtian!

Chen Zhongtian was likewise surprised and stunned at this moment. How was this guy so strong?

“Show me your strength, Minister Chen!” Li Hao shouted. “This is just a replica. If this is all the strength that you have to your name, then you’re not worth such a high price!”

Chen Zhongtian cursed to himself and also streaked into a ray of golden light. He vanished on the spot and reappeared next to Deputy Zhou. As he thrust a palm strike forward, the coconut tree whipped several branches through the air and swept the premises with enormous mental strength.

Chen Zhongtian shouted and grabbed one of the branches with his bare hands, erupting with formidable internal force. The branch split apart!

This was the second person to independently break one of the branches after Deputy Zhou demonstrated his abilities. The rest needed to work together to break any of the branches. Li Hao’s eyes widened, the old minister was very strong!

Mental ripples surged from the coconut tree and its furious voice echoed in everyone’s minds, “How dare a bunch of ants attack this seat! You desire death!”

BOOM!

The sky darkened as a towering tree manifested from another locale. It split into countless replicas in the blink of an eye and appeared in everyone’s mind!

The little tree also erupted with energy and its mental ripples undulated violently, “This is a core origin method. Be careful, everyone! Protect your mind and use the aura to defend against it!”

Everyone’s mind intent flared and they retracted their supernatural character into their bodies. The auras of martial masters burst forth! The towering tree in their minds exploded. It should’ve obliterated their minds, but it failed catastrophically in this moment. The impact caused many to vomit blood and their characters to fracture, but they’d held on!

Li Hao was also attacked by the tree’s mental strength. He instantly summoned his ‘sword’ character and slashed through the shadow!

“Impossible!” The big tree shook, dimming from its failure. “How can this be... What are these characters of yours...”

They contained mental strength and aura! It’d wanted to obliterate their minds—without their minds, these people would be the walking dead. They were all so much lower level than it that they couldn’t possibly have withstood the attack.

And yet, the humans still stood! All of them, not just one or two! What kind of freaks were they?

The Black Armor was likewise surprised; he was truly intrigued by the supernatural characters now. They could hide the marks of life and contain everything within them. The cultivators were undying so long as the characters were not destroyed.

They were a clear counter to core origin dao. Or rather, their negation of those who practiced mental strength dao were very clear to see. Attacks of mental strength were terrifying in New Martial, but in this age... the mental strength of an Apex was held back by a group of weaklings!

They should’ve died in large swathes in the past!

The Black Armor was taken aback, to say nothing of how dumbfounded the coconut tree was. How could this be? It’d expended a great deal of effort to kill these people, but none of them had died!