“Break, you childish parlor trick!!”
The muscular Ogre Clan brute ripped off his outer robe, revealing granite-like muscles.
Boom! A single punch!
The transparent barrier shuddered violently!
Boom! A second punch!
The concealment spell shattered with a bang, forcing an ancient, simple wooden 【Hidden Gate】 to materialize!
“Turn into wood chips!!”
He roared with wild laughter as he threw a third, decisive punch. However...
Bonk!!!
A comical rebounding sound echoed through the valley.
“Huh?”
The Ogre Clan brute's wild laughter was instantly choked back.
Not a single splinter fell from the wooden door. Instead, his right arm was trembling violently from the recoil.
“Pfft... Hahaha! Hey, Ogre, did you spend all your strength on women last night?”
The demon beside him clutched his stomach, laughing mercilessly.
“You can't even break a lousy wooden door. What an embarrassment to Lord Demon Prince!”
“Shut up! There's something weird about this door!”
Flushed with embarrassment, the brute roared and pulled a handful of blood-red alchemy potions from his breast pocket, stuffing them into his mouth.
“Damn long-ears, take this!!”
As the potions took effect, the wild mana caused his body to swell in size, his aura forcefully surging to the level of an Advanced Rank magical beast!
Boom!!
Under the crushing weight of sheer, absolute power, the Hidden Gate was violently shattered!
“All forces, counterattack!”
Hidden behind the gate, the Wood Elf Chief, her silver hair fluttering, led her elite guard to unleash a torrential downpour of natural spells and magic ballista bolts!
“Oh my, what a warm welcome.”
“But did you really think this child's play of mana could hurt me?”
With a mocking sneer, a black robe was shredded by surging mana!
Revealed beneath was another demon with skin like cracked, parched earth, hot lava continuously flowing through the crevices.
One of the demon sub-races—a Flame Demon!
He thrust both hands forward.
“Flame Demon Fiendish Fire! Burn to ashes!!”
Boom!!
A sea of fire swept forward, engulfing and incinerating all incoming attacks.
The Wood Elves, who were previously dismissed as useless, darkened their expressions. Several High-tier Intermediate elites stepped forward, their green light transforming into an airtight barrier of thorns that actually blocked the raging flames!
“Damn it! Why isn't it burning through? Didn't the intelligence say these long-ears had dropped in rank??”
The Flame Demon spat out a mouthful of fiery saliva, his eyes growing feverish.
“Haha, they've definitely obtained a new Sacred Spirit! It shall be mine!”
“That's wonderful news. Hehehe, then I'll dig in too, shall I?”
The black outer robe of the last demon was also ripped away.
Revealed was a gaunt figure with a pair of nearly transparent, cyan wind wings on his back—a Wind Spirit Demon, a demon sub-race specializing in assassination!
The Wind Spirit Demon compressed the wind elements around him, executing the blindingly fast 【Wind Shadow Flash Step】!
Whoosh!!!
Three streaks of light cut through the air as he refracted like a beam of light, appearing directly behind three of the elite Wood Elves and plunging his daggers into them!
Yet, the stabbed Wood Elves did not bleed. Instead, they dissolved into a shower of withered leaves amid a flash of green light—【Falling Leaf Shift】!
“What?!”
The Wind Spirit Demon gasped in shock. What met him instead were the cold sneers of the three Wood Elves ten meters away, sending a storm of brutal leaf blades flying right at him!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The three demons were forced back in embarrassment. They exchanged glances, and without any hesitation, each pulled out a handful of potions and swallowed them!
The pressure of three Advanced Rank magical beasts merged into a terrifying whole. But just as they prepared to counterattack, they were utterly dumbfounded.
Dozens of Wood Elves had vanished into thin air in the blink of an eye!
“Damn it! Where did they all go?!”
“Forget it! Go straight for their treasury and Mother Tree!”
But when they rushed into the valley with aggressive momentum, they were completely stupefied.
They couldn't find them. They couldn't find anything at all!
Let alone the treasury, even the original site of the thousand-year Mother Tree held nothing but a colossal crater with freshly overturned soil. The place had been picked clean.
“Where are the people?! Where are the treasures?! How is even the tree gone, ahhhh!!”
The Flame Demon completely lost his mind. Waves of blackish-red fire erupted furiously from his palms, turning the entire valley into a churning sea of flames.
Crackle, crackle.
As the surrounding vegetation and treehouses turned to ash, the Wood Elves lost their cover. Their 【Forest-Hidden Walk】 was forcibly broken, and the situation instantly turned critical!
Seeing the demons begin to slaughter the ordinary guards, the Chief's eyes nearly split with rage. She had no choice but to lead her elites out of hiding for a desperate, life-or-death struggle.
But three Advanced Rank opponents were far too troublesome. The Wood Elves could only desperately trade their lives to buy time.
In truth, Qimeng's original plan was to use the emptied valley as bait.
There was absolutely no value in defending this place to the death.
Yet, to the stubborn, traditional Chief and Elders, this was the sacred ground where the previous generation's Mother Tree was enshrined. They would rather die here than run away.
When Qimeng, who was micromanaging the outer battlefield with her global radar view, learned of the situation inside from the retreating young Wood Elves, her beautiful loli face darkened.
“Huh? Staying behind to drag them down with them?”
And their reason was actually to lighten the pressure on the outer main battlefield for her, the Sacred Spirit?
“How incredibly foolish. Did I ask you to make decisions on your own?”
Qimeng cursed under her breath in annoyance.
By now, the battle inside the valley had turned brutal. The Chief activated the secret art, 【Heavy Forest Bind】, summoning massive trees to lock the three demons within the sea of fire.
But the physical bodies of the Advanced Rank opponents were too strong. Within moments, the Elders were heavily wounded and knocked down one after another.
“Die, old hag!!”
The Ogre Clan brute raised his warhammer.
“Then let us perish together!!”
The Chief roared with tragic sorrow. She activated a self-destruction art, sacrificing her physical body to transform into a majestic, overbearing natural spirit entity, forcefully elevating her strength to the level of an Advanced Rank magical beast!
【Myriad Wood Collapse】
The high-level spell crashed down. Hundred-meter-tall giant trees fell like meteors, collapsing half of the forest created by the Heavy Forest Bind.
Fighting three against one, the Wood Elf Chief actually beat the potion-buffed trio until they coughed up blood, on the verge of crushing them completely.
Rip!!!
Suddenly, the sky above was torn open by two pale, massive hands. Two tall figures radiating superior, high-ranking pressure slowly stepped out.
“Three useless trash. Even with Lord Demon Prince's potions, you were beaten to this state by a dying old hag?”
The leading demon merely waved his sleeve coldly. A wave of grey mana rippled outward, instantly extinguishing the sea of fire and the green light enveloping the valley like melting snow!
The natural spirit entity the Chief had transformed into trembled uncontrollably, her eyes filling with despair.
These two newcomers were absurdly powerful!
“Vanish, eyesore.”
The high-ranking demon raised his hand indifferently, a destructive lightning bolt condensing in his palm.
Yet, just as the lightning was about to pierce through the Wood Elf Chief...
Snap.
A little loli with silver hair and emerald eyes appeared out of thin air. Raising her fair, tender little hand, she lightly squeezed her fingers. With a loud pop, the destructive lightning bolt was crushed to powder!
Qimeng stood in front of the Chief, tilting her head slightly, her voice cool and brimming with absolute arrogance.
“I said... why didn't you follow orders? Who gave you permission to act on your own?”
“Spir— No, that... We are terribly sorry! We acted on our own!!”
The Chief and the Elders trembled in fear. Remembering that they had to hide her identity as the Spirit Lord, they quickly changed their words to apologize.
“Enough. All of you, withdraw from the valley.”
Qimeng waved her hand, then looked coldly at the demons opposite her.
“Your opponent is me.”
The two newly arrived high-ranking demons looked at Qimeng with interest, while the Wind Spirit Demon, who had caught his breath nearby, gnashed his teeth in anger.
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