Xu Mu needed someone to draw away the estranged spirits, making Liang Chen the best candidate.
Although the fellow's strength was lacking and his character was terrible, he was a mutant, after all.
Seeing Xu Mu's serious expression, which didn't seem like a joke, Liang Chen also forced himself to calm down.
In fact, if he thought about it carefully, if Xu Mu really needed his help, it wasn't entirely impossible.
Since the source of pollution hadn't fully activated yet, he could take this opportunity to bury the hatchet with Xu Mu. It wouldn't hurt to take a risk.
—Just staying at the edge should not cause too much trouble.
There was one more crucial point. A flush of red appeared on Liang Chen's pale face.
Xu Mu was going there himself, so if he died unexpectedly, wouldn't everything that happened before vanish into thin air?
Even... Wu Peihuan wouldn't escape his grasp.
When Liang Chen thought that he could cause Xu Mu's death and achieve two goals with one stroke, he suddenly gained some courage to fight desperately.
He pretended to be conflicted and said,
"I can... but I can only guarantee five minutes."
"So short,"
Charles murmured.
Xu Mu also smiled, revealing two rows of white teeth,
"But it's enough. I only need three minutes."
"You can dig it out in three minutes?"
Charles looked at Xu Mu with some disdain. He had just told him the whole story about the source of pollution in Fengqing Village.
It turned out that the pollution here was related to a foreign object called the Yi Wu Totem.
The totem cult's black-robed figure with a cane, the one whose sniper rifle had jammed.
He sealed this thing under the tree, and then periodically opened the seal to inject some dark energy.
The solution was simple: extract the dark energy from it.
It might be difficult for ordinary people to do this, because, like Liang Chen, psychics were afraid of dark erosion. However, Xu Mu had no such worries.
...
Xu Mu rushed out, his hunting knife slicing through the night sky.
"Brother Xu, please charge forward with confidence. I will definitely provide you with the strongest support!"
Liang Chen shouted, and at the same time, he controlled the earth element psychic power with both hands, raising a giant rock from the ground and smashing it towards an attacking tree demon.
"Bang!"
The giant rock broke the tree demon in half, but Liang Chen's face showed no pride.
"Crack."
With a crisp sound, the tree demon he had just killed began to reassemble, its speed of revival even faster than his second attack!
"Good, good, good," Xu Mu replied with a wry smile, listening to Liang Chen's shouts.
If outsiders heard what this guy was saying, they would think they were good friends. But Xu Mu knew in his heart that Liang Chen said this because he wanted Xu Mu to go deeper and then hoped he would die.
Seeing that Liang Chen had attracted the attention of those estranged spirits, and the skeleton guards seemed to be charging over, Xu Mu immediately circled to the side of the ancient tree and then rushed forward quickly.
"Crack!"
Occasionally, when an estranged spirit blocked his way, Xu Mu would swing his hunting knife. Just like what Xu Mu had seen on Mount Mudi, these estranged spirits couldn't even withstand a single blow!
"So fierce?"
Liang Chen controlled his psychic power while looking at Xu Mu in surprise. He could kill estranged spirits with his physical body alone, like slicing vegetables.
"Fortunately, I didn't fight him before." Seeing this, Liang Chen felt a bit fortunate. Such a fierce person, with mental psychic powers, would almost certainly become a Huacai Realm mutant if he developed smoothly.
"Earth Dragon Technique!"
Seeing that the number of estranged spirits around was increasing, even exceeding one hundred, Liang Chen directly used his ultimate move.
Liang Chen placed his right hand on his left wrist, his psychic power surging. Earth-yellow elemental energy gathered in his palm, and then he slammed it onto the ground.
"Rumble!"
The earth trembled, and a massive earth dragon composed of giant rocks burst out from the ground. The estranged spirits were as small as ants compared to it. Under the charge of this earth dragon, all the estranged spirits on the ground were vulnerable and were smashed to pieces in an instant, even the stone man was no exception!
"Crack!"
In an instant, all the estranged spirits around the ancient tree fell to the ground, and the earth dragon retreated underground.
Xu Mu sensed this fluctuation and was a bit surprised.
This move was almost comparable to the water snake that Yin Shui'er had summoned back then.
But perhaps the only difference was that Yin Shui'er hadn't used her full strength at that time, and judging by Liang Chen's flushed, almost suffocated face, he had used his strongest move!
Liang Chen's face was pale. He didn't want to exert himself so much; this move consumed a lot of his psychic power.
However, if he hid his strength any longer, he would be surrounded and eaten by the estranged spirits before Xu Mu could even die!
The earth dragon passed through, crushing countless estranged spirits, and Xu Mu successfully reached the ancient tree.
Using a hunting knife as a shovel, he began to quickly dig up the soil from the surface of the ancient tree.
If one only looked at Xu Mu's actions, he would seem like a diligent farmer digging to grow grain.
"Just digging it out!"
Liang Chen, who was organizing the attack from behind, was stunned when he saw this. He thought Xu Mu had some special method, but it turned out he was just digging with his hands?
How long would that take!
"Damn it, they're alive again!"
Liang Chen snapped back to reality. Dozens of estranged spirits had stood up again. Forced to act, he had to use the Earth Dragon Technique for the second time.
"Rumble!"
The rear was constantly shaking. Xu Mu's arms showed extraordinary strength. Each time the hunting knife was inserted, it would bring up a large chunk of soil when it was pulled out. Charles exclaimed repeatedly:
"If you traveled to Blue Star, Lan Xiang could close down."
"Heh heh..."
Xu Mu didn't understand what Charles was saying. He only knew that he had dug to the tree roots, and he was getting closer and closer to the totem!
"Boom!"
"I can't hold on anymore!"
Xu Mu looked back and saw a giant stone dragon in the sky collapse with a loud bang. Its massive body turned into countless huge stone blocks, which fell onto the ground one after another.
Standing not far away, Liang Chen's face was pale, his chest heaving continuously, clearly having exhausted his psychic power.
Or he might be faking it.
"Brother Xu, good luck!"
"Damn it, you promised to hold them for five minutes."
"This isn't even two minutes, is it? Being a man this fast is not good!"
Seeing Liang Chen flee, Xu Mu cursed under his breath, and then increased the force of his hands.
"Quick, quick, quick!"
"I've dug it out!"
Feeling that the tip of the hunting knife seemed to have touched something hard, Xu Mu's face lit up with joy. That should be the Yi Wu Totem!
"Whoosh!"
At this moment, the instant Xu Mu touched the Yi Wu Totem, the surrounding dark energy seemed to have intensified several times. Hundreds of estranged spirits received a new boost and instantly pounced on Xu Mu.
A sharpness flashed in Xu Mu's eyes, and he roared:
"Order!"
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