The moment Long Feng entered the surrounding of Womb Woods, a hint of corruption quickly felt from all over his body. Looking at the surrounding ground and vegetation, not even a single edible and usable herbs remain. Within the whole ground area, countless numbers of Hive Looking plants and also few different kinds of Wooden Beast's burrows could be seen around the area.
"This corruption is totally overboard! I shall destroy their roots around this area, and allows the other few section to slowly start purifying the land around here." Long Feng decides on what he should do. And since the Corruption and the Fertile lands is almost the counterforce of Yin and Yang, Long Feng could easily determine that if he managed to weaken the source of Corruptions within this land, the purifying process will slowly begin naturally, and perhaps before the end of the seventh Moon, the land is already fully purified, allowing some of the tribesmen to slowly born once again in this land of Womb Woods.
[Xuan Wu Sword Flash + Wind Element's Foundation]
Long Feng perform his martial arts as he tried to destroy the whole Hive before him, and with the aid of the Wind Element Foundation, Long Feng able to create a blade of the wind that would scatter and slice through the obstacles without difficulties. Since the Hive is not specially created to join in a fight, Long Feng only need one normal slash, and the hive is destroyed into small little rolls of woods. But because this kind of wood is corrupted, before Long Feng could decide to harvest this material or not, it was already started to slowly evaporate.
Long Feng continues to destroy all he could as he explores deeper into the forest. Under the guidance of the density of the corruptions, Long Feng could easily identify the source of the It's and head towards it to see if he could try to get rid of the source. In just a short period of time, Long Feng easily increased the number of Brown Crystal Beads within his hand from less than a thousand into about nine thousand and still increasing. In the same time, he actually felt slightly shocked, because just in the period of few Suns, and the Womb Woods Corruption could actually be turned into such a degree of damage.
"Just how potent and dangerous is this [Curse of Fruit Mantra] actually? Not only it could totally corrupt the whole forest when it was fallen into the hands of the Wooden Beast, they could actually turned most of the vegetation into a totally different kind, that is suitable and could be used by the Wooden Beast to breed."
Long Feng finally arrived at the "Core" of the corruptions, and before him, a sight of unforgettable images is shown to him without any reservation. Before Long Feng is an open space with at least ten different kinds of Insect is seen wrapped around the Tribesmen head, and as the Insect breath in some air and essence into its body, a kind of corrupted source is created within and been transferred into the Tribesmen through its mouth.
The body of the tribesmen is completely wrapped with vines and thick arteries like roots, that slowly allows all the corrupted source that entered its body to be spread into the ground and thoroughly corrupting the land without remorse. "This is totally over the limit of one person could handle!" Long Feng is totally pissed with such a kind of treatment he saw towards the tribesmen.
He withdraws his sword, and without any hesitations, the [Xuan Wu's Might] is performed, and the blows of slicing wind came on strong towards the centre of where the ten different insect and the tribesmen hosts are deeply rooted. [Wraww!] one of the insect howls as it was injured by Long Feng's strike, but unexpectedly, it actually doesn't die from such a strong attack! It was even in a undefended condition!
Long Feng knows that no matter what, he will have to take action and get rid of all this. This means the usage of Vermilion Lord Pills will be justified! With the howl from the injured Insect, a small group of Wooden Beast quickly came into where Long Feng and the Rooted Hosts, and starts to get aggressive, as it Long Feng had invaded their sacred territories. Long Feng toss the Vermilion Lord Pill without any hesitation, as he ignites it in a sequence that will kill off the Wooden Beast in a line of explosions, controlled and beautifully arranged like a performance of fireworks.
"Bam Bam Bam!" the explosions totally separate Long Feng and the Rooted Hosts from its surrounding as a crater had already formed. The vines and arteries like roots had already been blasted into smithereens, and some of the hosts had fallen to the ground, lifeless but still wriggling around because of the insect is struggling to detach itself from being held up from moving because of the weight of the dead host.
"Do you think that you could run after doing such thing towards the people of Prosperity Tribe!" Long Feng "Drills" his sword into the insect's flesh, and thoroughly killing that strong defensive strength but weak Insect. The others start to struggles and try to escape as well, but without any mercy within his eyes, Long Feng repeats the same action, and drills his sword into each single Insect, killing them in that instant.
The moment all this is over, a continuous howl could be heard far from where he was located. The tone seems likely to be similar to what he heard earlier from the Insect when it was injured, but this time, instead of giving out a sense of pain, it seems more like it was summoning for protectors to protect them from being annihilated. "These kinds of howl means that there will be more within this forest! If I don't get rid all of them, then where is the face for me to meet the Ancestor Mu Dao when I could have the chances to do so?"
Long Feng put on the [Carapace of Xuan Wu] on himself as he charges towards where the sounds came from, and like a launched arrow, he strike downs all the Wooden Beast he managed to sees within his sight. The way Long Feng is looked from the sight of the Wooden Beast is as if the god of death is visiting them, and whatever appears before him will be torn apart like being chopped by a vine slicer.
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[Stop what you are doing!] a figure went down from above the trees as it delivers a lethal punch towards Long Feng. "What the hell? This is a Late Earth Adept Realm strength!" Long Feng is shocked with the strength delivered from the deadly blows, as he was pushed backwards for around four trees distance.
[Who are you and why are you stopping me from destroying these parasites?] Long Feng communicates with the figure as it speaks in the native Prosperity Language previously as it delivers a blow. [I am Tulujin, how dare you try to destroy all this (Corrupted Formation Heart) that we spend such a long effort to get it done!] the figure name Tulujin speaks. This Prosperity Tribe member bears the resemblance similar to Tulumi, with an exceptionally strong life force is spreads from its body.
[You are a member of Prosperity Tribe yet you don't possess the appearance like them. You are much more... Humanized.] Long Feng couldn't believe his eyes that this member of Prosperity Tribe actually evolved and being so different from the usual tribesmen. [We are the purer breed, not like that lousy reborn trash! You destroyed two of my formation that I spend around two Suns to create, Pay with your life!] the figure named Tulujin does not wish to continue to communicates as it starts to get even aggressive.
[If that what you're looking forward, then I, Long Feng, will accompany you to enjoy it!] Long Feng who started to lost his temper, begins to lose even more into his anger as he had seen how important is this formation he destroyed, to this evolved tribesman. Since it is a fight it was looking for, Long Feng will not hesitate to cripple this figure before he starts to ask for the details.
[Limbs of Xuan Wu!] Long Feng creates his pairs of claws along with the [Carapace of Xuan Wu] he had it activated earlier, and like a raging beast, he strikes directly without even bothered to check his opponent's fighting preparations. But in advantage, this trick managed to do some good for Long Feng, as his lack of Hesitation decision managed to caught Tulujin off-guard, and accept a direct fist towards its face instantly.
[Hateful!] Tulujin howls loudly, and like an anger Warcry, all the nearby Wooden Beast immediately escapes from 1 kilometre from their distance in afraid of losing their dear lives. Tulujin starts to deliver a chain of fist towards Long Feng, and like a strategist in war, Long Feng deviates his plan and tactics, and with each fist delivered by Tulujin, a Sealing Sphere appears before the fist, and force its momentum to be destroyed before the next could be executed.
In the eyes of opportunity, Long Feng even managed to catch the off-guard Tulujin, as he gave a few slashes each time Tulujin is wide open with weaknesses. [Rah!! Hateful Human!] Tulujin ignites all his Wood Element Energy outwards and explodes it like a few burst of waves, but how would he knows that Long Feng possess the Element Wind within his disposal?
Fighting Waves with Winds, Long Feng easily hover across the few waves of Wood Element burst, before a Sealing Pill with few Vermilion Lord Pills is activated together with Tulujin is sealed within. [Human!!!!] Tulujin could only shout, as the Pills explodes within the Sealing Sphere. As the dust and smokes disappeared, a wounded figure of Tulujin with some green coloured substance flowing out from throughout its body slowly appears.
[You force me! You are the one to force me to do it!] Tulujin stabbed his hand into its chest as he pulled out the heart deep within its chest. He pumped the heart for a few times before it starts to crack with gaps and wounds, and weirdly, Tulujin who supposedly possess the heart does not have a hint of pain from his current action at all.
Then next thing happens, is that the corrupted essence from their surrounding started to gather slowly towards where the two is standing still, the heart begins to leak a green coloured substance, and as it flows into the hand of Tulujin, the corrupted essence starts to being sucked into the heart, and turns into a violet coloured heart.
The heart quickly absorbs all the corrupted essence surrounding them, and with the void of Corrupted essence, the woods quickly vanished, becoming a barren land without any vegetation at all. Just in that instant, the whole 10 Kilometres wide area become barren and dry from any nutrients and life, except the two of them.
Long Feng looked at the appearance of Tulujin, whom already transformed as if he just went through a metamorphosis. The humanoid body that once injured became even bulkier and stronger, with a double body mass compared to previously when he is fighting with Long Feng. Each joint of Tulujin is glowing with a violet coloured crystal, and on its forehead, a pair of horns that seems like a goat begins to appeared from its skull and started to glow in violet coloured hue as well.
[Human, Die!] Tulujin charge towards Long Feng with a speed double compared to before. That instant, Tulujin appears before Long Feng and gave him a punch directly on the chest, and force Long Feng to be thrown backwards for almost 500 trees before he finally stops. "Argh!" Long Feng vomits two mouthfuls of blood, as he is deeply injured from that one single punch. "I have to be more careful, this guy not only has almost tripled increment in his strength, his speed is even deadlier!" Long Feng quickly scattered three Sealing Pills by his side, and in that instant, a punch came through that three sphere, and still managed to reach Long Feng.
Once again, Long Feng was thrown back a hundred more trees distance, and this time, he forcefully swallowed the mouthful of blood as he slammed his claws on the ground and prepares to fight seriously as well. "You want a fight? You damn freak?" Long Feng anger had reached its peak, as the Red Fire Stage Foundation quickly appears around him, and thoroughly wrapping up the pair of Claws, causing it to be as if the Claw is made with Fire.
"Its been too long that I haven't had such a fun fight, you are going to be a good practice target for me to exceed my mastery in the Xuan Wu Sword Sect Martial Arts! Since you are so durable, I wonder could you handle this strike when I got serious!" Long Feng activates all his Xuan Wu Sword Sect Arts without a sign of stopping, and like a deformed essence figure, the shape of his Essence Energy keep changing again and again.
Sometimes, It became like a standing tortoise, while sometimes, it becomes a deformed tortoise with huge claws and a small pair of short legs. The essence even formed into a shape of a long neck tortoise for a moment, before it deformed again as it started to shift into a smaller, denser figure. Soon, it seems like the essence energy finally obtains a figure it wished to possess before a green jade coloured hue started to appears before Long Feng's Essence Energy.
[The name Tulijin, am I correct? I will let you have the first taste of my ultimate technique that combined all four mastery of the Xuan Wu Sword Sect Martial Arts. This is the first stage, (Xuan Wu's Stampede!) Long Feng's waves of Essence Energy explodes, as the Fire, Wood, Wind and Sky element starts to pour out without any hint of stopping in between. The area around them is thoroughly covered by Long Feng's mist of Element Essence, as he moves swiftly like a tortoise in the water.
At this moment, Long Feng had totally become a weapon of his own.