#2321 - Slate
"What!?"
The hearts of the three Elder Sha Wus leapt. They hadn't expected Fang Heng to be so tenacious, able to make a decision in such a situation and strike with all his might!
"Bang!!!!"
The elder standing on the far right couldn't dodge in time and was immediately blasted away by Fang Heng's punch, crashing heavily to the ground with a thud.
"Chirp, chirp chirp…"
A large group of Lickers entrenched on the ground immediately swarmed towards the elder, frantically devouring him.
"Tzzt!"
Almost simultaneously, Fang Heng's body was pierced by hundreds of slender, dark wooden rods.
Fang Heng frowned.
He didn't feel the tearing pain he had expected.
This meant the skill also had paralyzing and poisoning effects.
However, Fang Heng thought this was good news.
Otherwise, such intense pain would have been unbearable.
A dense barrage of game notifications appeared.
[Hint: Player has received 50,000 piercing damage. Player is inflicted with poison, paralysis, bleeding status… Player's talent skill 'Life Siphon' is activated, the damage is shared by nearby clones…].
[Hint: Player has received 10,000 piercing damage…].
[Hint: Player's 'Undead Body' effect is triggered, removing some negative physical effects…].
Instantly, hundreds of damage notifications appeared on Fang Heng's retina.
Fang Heng's body was pierced through by hundreds of dark wooden thorns, his skin covered in layers of dense vines, making him look like a hedgehog. However, he quickly adjusted his posture and flashed into the black fog behind him at an even faster speed.
Sha Wu and the other elder exchanged glances, revealing expressions of extreme shock.
That person!
What exactly was going on!
They actually failed to kill him even with the combined efforts of the three of them!?
Although they couldn't sense Fang Heng's aura, they were very sure that Fang Heng was definitely not dead.
To be able to survive the skill cast by the combined efforts of the three of them, and even at the cost of one of the elders, how terrifying was that person's damage resistance?
"Don't mind him! Destroy the portal first."
Sha Wu shouted and quickly approached the teleportation channel gate.
In fact, it wasn't that they didn't want to use ranged attacks to destroy the portal. They had tried many times before, but all ranged attacks aimed at the portal were blocked by the Lickers with their flesh and blood!
They could only get close to attack!
Fang Heng retreated into the black fog, breathing heavily.
The skill cast by the three elders together had temporarily deprived him of his combat ability.
He was currently covered in a dense array of negative statuses, including "Power Seal", "Petrification", "Vine Entanglement", "Seed Parasitism", "Wooden Thorn Piercing", etc. All of these were negative magical effects and could not be removed by the "Undead Body" effect.
And the surroundings were currently shrouded in polluted black fog.
Switching to the Holy form in such an environment to dispel these negative effects would undoubtedly be courting death.
Fang Heng could only gulp down a bottle of potion and endure until the duration of the negative effects disappeared.
From afar, Fang Heng sized up Sha Wu and the other elder.
It was a bit presumptuous to deal with three Wood Clan elders alone, even with the help of the black fog.
However, all sixteen vampires had successfully completed the teleportation with the stone slabs.
It didn't matter even if the vampire teleportation channel was destroyed now…
Although he was currently affected by various disgusting negative effects, his health bar was not weakened at all.
He couldn't let them destroy the teleportation gate so easily.
He would disgust them again!
Consume them!
Thinking this, Fang Heng used the Blood Boil skill again, aiming at Sha Wu.
Sha Wu and the other elder were forcibly attacking the teleportation channel while enduring the Licker swarm and the black fog.
"Damn it!"
A large number of Lickers darting out from the darkness caused them a lot of trouble, and even more troublesome were the invisible mental piercing effect and the blood boiling effect.
The three Sha Wu elders had never experienced such a disgusting battle. They couldn't find a way to defend at all.
They could only endure it!
"Bang!!!!"
After forcibly enduring the Lickers and several waves of Fang Heng's attacks, the blood-colored teleportation channel finally exploded with a bang in front of the two, and then completely lost its effectiveness.
The continuous stream of Lickers pouring out of the teleportation channel finally stopped temporarily.
Sha Wu breathed a slight sigh of relief.
But the problem was still not solved!
A large number of Lickers and ordinary zombie creatures remained in the hall.
There was even Fang Heng constantly ambushing in the dark.
And they had to spare energy to protect the sapling of the Divine Tree.
After a series of bitter battles, Sha Wu's injuries became more and more serious, and he was already showing signs of being unable to suppress them.
"Go!"
The other guardian elder observed that Sha Wu's condition was extremely bad, reached out and pulled him, and frowned when he didn't move.
"Sha Wu! Staying here will only lead to your burial! What's the point of protecting the sapling in this situation? Only by going out will there be a chance!"
Sha Wu clenched his teeth.
He knew that what the other party said was the truth.
Staying here would only make them a living target for the enemy!
They couldn't even protect themselves, let alone protect the sapling of the Divine Tree.
One elder had already died, there was no need to waste their lives here and sacrifice themselves in vain.
Knowing that things couldn't be done, the two joined forces and broke through towards the outer perimeter of the Divine Tree Cultivation Hall.
Seeing this, the Licker swarm swarmed up, but they were still forcibly torn open a gap by the two and escaped.
"Too bad…"
In the dark, Fang Heng said softly, "Too bad."
If the two had stayed a little longer, and waited until the negative magic effects on his body had almost cleared, and then added the effect of Blood Boil, he would have been very confident in leaving them both behind!
It was a pity that the other party ran fast.
Fang Heng glanced again at the Wood Clan elder who had been seriously injured earlier.
Under the continuous devouring of the Lickers, the elder had lost his breath, leaving a few crystal bodies on the ground.
Prismatic crystals!
Even under the thick shroud of black fog, the prismatic crystals still shimmered with a faint light.
Fang Heng waved his hand forward, collecting the crystals that had dropped into his hand.
[Hint: Player has killed Wood Clan elder Kase, player has obtained Prismatic Crystal * 5, player has obtained 120,000 Tree Spirit Clan reputation].
Watching Sha Wu and the other elder escape, Fang Heng simply controlled the Lickers and ordinary zombies in the hall to rush forward and completely block the outer exit of the Divine Tree Cultivation Area.
Go!
Go see how Abe Chiye's teleportation magic array is being arranged!
"My Lord."
The group of vampires led by Gahr had already placed the sixteen magic array stone slabs in the corners of the room.
Seeing the figure emerging from the surging black fog in front, all the vampires saluted in unison.
"Continue to perfect the magic array, I will cooperate with you."
Fang Heng raised his hand and cooperated with the vampires to speed up the arrangement of the magic array.
After the sixteen stone slabs were combined, they formed the central part of Abe Chiye's teleportation magic array.
The remaining outer part of the magic array still needed to be arranged manually.
But the time it took to arrange only the outer circle was much less than before.
