Sister, I don't want to be a furnace anymore. I'm about to become an immortal.

Chapter 59: News from Ye Xingchen’s Clan

As the sword light flashed, dozens of spirit swords were like the scythes of the god of death, quickly reaping the lives around them. One after another, intermediate-level magical beasts in the Body Tempering Realm died under the swords, and their blood soaked the grass. After each magical beast was killed, a brown-green smoke would float out of its body.

Xiao Yichen walked slowly towards the depths of the forest with a cold gaze, controlling the spirit sword to continuously kill the enemies rushing towards him. Xiao Zi on his shoulder kept poking his head out and looking around, not understanding why these monsters kept coming to die.

When the last wind-howling dog nearby fell to the ground after having its head pierced, Xiao Yichen slowly walked towards the big tree in front of him. Looking up, he saw that the branches on it were twisting like snakes and pythons. Human heads were hanging on the tips of the branches, with extremely hideous expressions. They must have suffered extremely painful torture before their death.

"It seems that the demon tree that Master was talking about is you. It's so hard for me to find you." Xiao Yichen looked ahead calmly with a very cold tone. He clenched his right hand, which was condensed by energy, and the surrounding spiritual swords were transformed into energy and retracted into his body. Instead, a large fire dragon was hovering in the air.

As if sensing a threat, the roots of the demon tree were pulled out of the ground, bringing up large chunks of soil, and then it couldn't stop moving backwards. However, Xiao Yichen had been killing in this forest for three days just for this strange tree in front of him. Now that he had finally found it, how could he let it get away so easily?

"Hmph... a strange tree at the initial stage of the Qi Refining Realm. If I let you get away with this, I really won't be able to report back."

The next moment, he flashed to the front of the strange tree, and before the other party could react, he waved his hand upwards, and the fire dragon rushed directly towards the dense leaves above. In just a moment, the leaves above were burning with flames, and the heads hanging on the branches fell down one after another, but under such high temperature, they turned into deep white bones before they hit the ground.

The demon tree shook its huge body, trying to escape from here, but it was surrounded by fire dragons on all sides and could not escape. It could only target the humans below. The branches above its head extended wildly and stabbed towards Xiao Yi on the ground quickly.

In response, Xiao Yichen didn't even move. Xiao Zi on his shoulder had already rushed out. Although it was small in size, its strength even amazed Xiao Yichen. It was hard to tell that this little guy was born less than half a year ago.

Just as Xiao Zi in the air was about to hit the branches, he swung his tail forward with force, and a strong wind suddenly blew up out of nowhere, blowing the branches away from their original attack trajectory.

The next moment, Xiao Zi rushed to the front, wrapped around the branches, and gently exerted force with his body. There was a crisp sound of "crack", and the branch he was wrapped around broke directly, followed by the second and third branches.

"Okay, Xiao Zi, come back. It's too slow for you to deal with them one by one." Xiao Yichen shouted upwards, then aimed his palm at the roots of the strange tree. When Xiao Zi jumped back onto his shoulder, a ray of light shot out from the center of his palm.

With a loud 'bang', the soil flew everywhere, and a big hole was blown out directly under the trunk of the strange tree. As the roots were destroyed, the strange tree fell down with a bang, and the thick trunk hit the ground, raising a cloud of dust. The branches and leaves trembled violently, as if making its last struggle.

Xiao Yichen walked forward slowly, looking at the strange tree that still wanted to attack him, and directly shot a few more fire dragons at the opponent. Not long after, as the struggling noise became smaller and smaller, the monster that was endangering the nearby villagers was finally killed.

"How powerful did I think I was?" With a snort, Xiao Yichen stepped on the tree trunk that had turned into charcoal on the ground. After a while, he found a light green bead in the charcoal. He held it in his hand and kept absorbing the wood element inside. After a few minutes, the bead became transparent. He threw it into the bag behind him and slowly returned to the original path.

When he returned to Qingfeng Pavilion, he walked directly towards Xuanqing's courtyard and happened to see Ye Xingchen soaking in a medicine jar filled with crimson liquid. Seeing someone coming, Ye Xingchen opened his eyes and shouted to Xiao Yichen.

"Brother, please save me! Master wants to boil me."

Hearing the cry for help, Xiao Yichen just smiled faintly and casually threw the bead he had taken out from the strange tree into the jar. When the bead touched the medicinal liquid, it melted instantly, and the spiritual energy inside rushed into Ye Xingchen's body frantically. The next moment, another scream was heard.

Ignoring him, Xiao Yichen slowly walked up to Xuan Qing who was drinking tea, and bowed respectfully with his fists clasped.

"Master."

"Why did you take so long this time?" Xuan Qing motioned him to sit down, took a sip of the tea in the cup, and kept his eyes on Ye Xingchen who was yelling in the jar.

"Master, when I arrived, the strange tree had already retreated back into the forest. The area was quite large, and it took me three days to find it." Xiao Yichen replied. To be honest, if he hadn't been lucky, he might not have been able to find it even after three days of searching.

"Well... practice your insight skills when you have time. It will be of great help if you encounter this kind of situation again." Xuan Qing nodded and said no more. Xiao Zi jumped onto the table and slowly approached the teapot. His little head moved back and forth in front of the steaming mouth of the teapot, trying to see clearly what was inside.

The two chatted idly like this until Ye Xingchen finally climbed out of the jar and came to them with a tired look on his face.

"Master, you just don't like me. Why doesn't my senior brother use that medicine?" Ye Xingchen sat down on the stone block with his whole body wet. He didn't say anything and directly picked up the teapot to pour himself a cup. Unexpectedly, he didn't see Xiao Zi, and his arm was instantly wrapped around it, which scared him and made him scream again.

Ever since he was bitten last time, he was filled with fear of Xiao Zi. He called Xiao Zi back, took a drop of the spilled tea and fed it to Xiao Zi's mouth. After tasting it, Xiao Zi retreated into his arms with a look of disgust.

Watching the farce, Xuan Qing said with a smile on his face: "If you could have your senior brother's physique, I wouldn't have to shamelessly ask Lao Si to make medicine every day. The key is that you don't have it. Rest for a while, and then go to the back mountain to continue climbing the cliff."

"Alas...what a miserable life. Senior brother, how did you train in the beginning?" Ye Xingchen sat back in his seat and asked with a worried look on his face.

"Being struck by lightning. If you want, you can try it." Xiao Yichen replied with a smile.

Hearing this, Ye Xingchen rolled his eyes, looking disbelieving.

Seeing this, Xiao Yichen said no more. After all, he was really struck by lightning. At this moment, the rumor stone in Xuanqing's arms shook slightly, and the next moment, the voice of the second senior brother came out from the rumor stone.

"Master, we've found out. Junior Brother's clansmen have been imprisoned in a valley outside the Spirit Sword Sect. There are only about seventy survivors left. As for Junior Brother's parents and sister, we haven't seen them yet. Luo Yao and I are still investigating..."

After the call was disconnected, Ye Xingchen, who was standing aside, held the teacup tightly in his hand with a very ugly expression. A family of hundreds of people now had only more than seventy members left. This would be a difficult situation for anyone.

After a long silence, Ye Xingchen said with bloodshot eyes: "Master, I think..."

Before he could finish his words, Xuan Qing interrupted him, "Don't think about it. Go ahead, Yichen, you should come with us. If anything happens, your Second Senior Brother will take care of it."

"Yes." Xiao Yichen nodded calmly. Although he looked calm on the surface, he was very agitated inside. His eyes unconsciously became fierce, and bloodshot kept gathering in his pupils.

"Spiritual Sword Sect... can finally collect some interest."