After binding the investment system, I began to cultivate the empress

"What's going on?"

Tieqi hit his head.

There are no living things, but you can smell blood.

He took a few more steps forward and finally found the source of the smell of blood.

Several pieces of torn clothes were hanging on the branches, but the owner of the clothes had long disappeared.

"strangeness."

Tieqi was about to get closer.

Then I discovered that every ancient tree in this dry jungle had a big mouth cracked on its trunk at some point.

The branches also began to wriggle wildly.

"Tree demon?"

The thought just came to mind.

woo-

A branch, with a shrill sound, sucked the air away like a poisonous snake coming to life.

Snapped!

Tieqi staggered after being hit, and his blood was boiling.

He circulated his internal energy rapidly, and the halberd in his palm became impenetrable to water.

After fighting with the branches for several moves.

"break!"

The energy within Tieqi's halberd condensed into a strong energy, and the figure of a general in armor and armed with sharp weapons vaguely emerged behind him.

With one shot, the tree demon was pierced through.

however.

Tieqi was about to breathe a sigh of relief when his expression suddenly turned ugly.

Crunchy——

The whole forest came alive, and the shadows of the trees danced wildly, like hibernating poisonous snakes awakened.

Cover the sky.

“Trouble…”

Tieqi was in a tough fight.

Every tree demon here is at the Inner Breath Realm, but there are simply too many of them.

Moreover, his body was surprisingly as strong as the one he had trained in, making him very difficult to deal with.

Even though the shadow of the general appeared behind him, the speed with which he swung the halberd became slower and slower.

.....

Half an hour later.

"We can't delay any longer, otherwise by the time we get out, I'll be completely exhausted."

Tieqi made a prompt decision and slapped his thigh.

His upper body suddenly shot out, trying to fly away from here.

however.

The branches suddenly wove a dense net in the air and covered him up in mid-air.

It is a tree demon king.

The aura was surprisingly stronger than his.

"My exploration of the Blood Phoenix Secret Realm ends here..."

Tieqi was filled with bitterness.

The physical fatigue and pain made him see the scenes from the past in a trance.

A lame man might be able to practice martial arts.

What about a person without even legs?

He has to put all his effort into things that ordinary people can do easily, even going to the toilet.

Compared with other brothers and sisters, he is just a cripple.

All he can do is work harder than ordinary people.

While others were running, he supported himself with his hands, went down the mountain, and then climbed back up little by little. At first, it took him several days to complete a round trip. When he was hungry, he ate the bread tied around his neck, and when he was thirsty, he drank dew.

Later, he successfully opened up half of his meridians, and his master specially made a pair of mechanical legs for him.

After he stood up.

The ridicule, despair and confusion he once experienced were all left behind.

But it wasn't his leg after all.

His body was still only half.

Now in the Blood Phoenix Secret Realm, there might be a kind of Earth-Melting Fruit that can make up for the defects in his body.

It seems that the distance between them cannot be made up by perseverance?

The tip of the branch that hit him on the head was extremely sharp, and it rapidly enlarged in his pupils.

That was a tree demon king.

"Could this ending be..."

"Am I not working hard enough?"

There was no resentment in Tieqi's calm heart, only confusion.

click-

There was a sound of branches being cut.

Tieqi opened his eyes blankly.

The tree demon in front of him had been ignited by the flames and was twisting in pain.

"Ok?"

Tieqi also tried to set fire to it, but even with kerosene, he couldn't light the tree demon.

Who?

He just looked up.

A figure had already grabbed the long sword, and with a light touch of his index finger, the entire sword caught fire.

Behind the boy, a scorching sun seemed to appear.

Sun Sword Canon.

"die!"

In the blink of an eye, countless sparks appeared from the halo and swept down following the guidance of the long sword.

Chi Chi Chi!

The exploding rain of fire penetrated the body of the Tree Demon King.

After a series of teeth-grinding sounds, the Tree Demon King fell to the ground with a loud bang.