Ye Yuqiao and Chen Hao turned around together, only to see a bizarre figure standing before them.

More precisely, he should not be considered a person. No human's body is half flesh on the left side, while the right half is cobbled together from countless intertwined roots, withered trunks, and tender green leaves.

The entangled roots merged with the veins in his fleshly left side, ensuring his blood could circulate normally; the withered trunks became his left arm and leg, allowing him to stand upright like anyone else; the tender green leaves did not completely cover the twisted roots and trunks, serving as his skin instead.

"Hmph!" The man's face suddenly contorted into a ferocious expression, "Are you surprised to see me like this?"

Judging by the youthful and refined features on what could temporarily be called the "tree-person's" face, Chen Hao deduced he must be only about fifteen or sixteen. Chen Hao was curious about what exactly had happened to this tree-person to cause such a transformation.

"I used to be normal, just like you!" the tree-person said, his tone laced with a hint of anger. "I was a villager from a nearby mountain, living carefree days. But not long ago, a group arrived in their cars at the entrance to our village, proclaiming they would dig up and take away a thousand-year-old locust tree from behind our mountain!"

"A thousand-year-old locust tree?" Chen Hao was taken aback, "Was it the tree spirit that attacked me just now?"

"Correct!" The tree-person glared at Chen Hao with narrowed eyes, "It's her! She is my mother, and you just killed her!"

"Your mother?" Chen Hao was startled once again.

In an instant, two red beams of light flickered across the tree-person's eyes! Then, taking slow steps, the tree-person advanced towards Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao, saying, "To all of us living in these mountains, she was our mother, especially so to me!"

The more the tree-person spoke, the angrier he became, his face growing even more vicious.

"I will kill you to avenge my mother!" the tree-person roared in rage.

No sooner had his words fallen than the tree-person raised his right arm pieced together from two sections of a tree trunk, joined by thin roots that allowed blood to circulate between them! At the end of the upper limb's trunk, a hand with fingers was meticulously carved out, with the growth rings in the wood forming fingerprint-like patterns on the palm.

After suspending his right arm in the air for a second, suddenly, the tree-person's arm stretched out, lunging at Chen Hao like a striking serpent.

As the elongated arm came within half a meter of Chen Hao, with the sound of wood splitting, "pop pop," another arm identical to the first split from it and struck at Ye Yuqiao beside Chen Hao.

"Be careful!" Chen Hao exclaimed, catching the arm before it could pierce Ye Yuqiao's chest, while the other arm aimed at him plunged into his own chest like a sharp knife.

"Ugh!" Chen Hao cried out in pain. However, he was unaffected by the stabbing injury, instead urgently said to Ye Yuqiao beside him, "Be careful, don't get hurt!"

"Hmph!" the tree-person sneered coldly, "How touching, to still care about the one you like even at the brink of death!"

No sooner had he spoken than another arm split from the one Chen Hao firmly grasped, attacking Ye Yuqiao once again.

"Moan!"

At the crucial moment, the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword appeared, severing the attacking arm.

"It's truly disheartening!" Chen Hao gritted his teeth, enduring the pain as he looked at the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword, flickering with purple light, and said, "This broken sword of yours, your favoritism is just too blatant."

"Ugh!" Chen Hao pulled the arm that had pierced through his chest out with his left hand, followed by a bone-piercing intense pain that spread throughout his body, then a brief numbness.

After a short while, the wound on Chen Hao's chest healed, and the bloodstains on his coat disappeared as the blood retracted back into his body.

"The wound has actually healed!" The Tree Person was greatly shocked. "Do you have an immortal body? Who on earth are you?"

Chen Hao cracked a smile and said, "Guess?"

Then, in a single step, Chen Hao reached for the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword that hovered in front of Ye Yuqiao and gripped it in his hand.

"Ying ying ying!" The Evil-Banishing Moon Sword let out a strong protest, clearly unwilling to join forces with Chen Hao.

"What's with all the fuss from a broken sword!" Chen Hao said, displeased. As soon as his words fell, he used his qinggong to appear in front of the Tree Person and stabbed the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword into the heart of the Tree Person's fleshly side.

"Drip drip drip!" Fresh red blood dripped down the slender willow-like blade of the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword onto the ground.

"Hmph!" The Tree Person's mouth curled up in an arc. "My heart has long been dead, only left in my body as an ornament. Now, my life is entirely bestowed by my mother; she gave me all the Yin Soul she cultivated for thousands of years!"

"Bibi bobo!" At that moment, countless vines split from the Tree Person's right arm and leg, wrapping around Chen Hao's body. Then, dozens of roots crawled out from the chest the Evil-Banishing Moon Sword had pierced, some twining around the blade while others pierced into different parts of Chen Hao's body like needles, sucking the blood and Yang Energy from him.

"I will drain all the Yang Energy from your body!" The Tree Person sneered at Chen Hao. "If it were not for you killing my mother and provoking my rage, I might not have become a demon so soon!"

After speaking, a mysterious force Chen Hao had never encountered before was forced out from within the Tree Person, then injected into Chen Hao's body through the roots. Instantly, his body began to expand and swell, his muscles, blood vessels, and organs tearing apart from the force streaming in.

Suddenly, a black and purple column of light shot out from Chen Hao's left eye, striking the Tree Person directly. Since the demonized Tree Person was no longer a single-soul entity, the Nether Light couldn't scatter the soul within his body.

"Haha!" The Tree Person twisted his face into a hideous laugh. "I never expected your body to possess so much Yang Energy. After I drain your Yang Energy and Yang Spirit, I will tear your flesh and Yin Soul into pieces!"

"Is that so?" Chen Hao said with a hoarse voice, his body having swollen to twice its original size. "Haven't you realized yet? This old man doesn't have a Yang Spirit at all!"

"Huh?" A gleam of light flickered in the Tree Person's blood-red demonic eye.

"Ahh!" A heart-wrenching scream echoed through the mysterious cave. However, it was not Chen Hao who let out the scream, but the Tree Person.

"Where did this Spiritual Power come from?" The Tree Person trembled, a look of disbelief on his face!

At this moment, the Magic Power it had injected into Chen Hao had already been...

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