Seeing her in such a panic, it could already be determined that with the peach tree damaged, Master Ning would definitely be affected.
The Nine-Headed Female Ghost's strongest ability was the Ghost Mirror, which could reflect damage, and it belonged to her most powerful head.
Although her other heads had various abilities, they were all auxiliary.
At this moment, Akainu ignored the Ghost Mirror summoned by the Nine-Headed Female Ghost, leaped high, and went straight for the peach tree.
Magma Hell!
A massive, scorching magic circle covered the entire backyard of Lanruo Temple, with the peach tree at its very center.
The next second, as if the earth had torn open, underground magma erupted like pillars, submerging the peach tree.
High temperature, scorching heat, burning.
The peach tree, like a bloody arm, emitted crackling burning sounds as its dry bark peeled under the magma's scorching heat.
The bark fell off, followed by the heart of the tree.
The lifeless peach tree, like a living being engulfed in a sea of fire, continuously let out shrill wails.
"You will regret this!"
The Nine-Headed Female Ghost frantically lunged towards the magma pillars, consumed by anxiety.
However, as she approached the peach tree covered by the magma pillars, the anxious expression on her face suddenly vanished.
It was replaced by a strange smile.
"I told you... you will regret this!"
As her words fell, Smoker suddenly felt his arm burning and quickly lifted the arm pouch on the side shoulder of his Navy uniform.
Inside it was the piece of skin Master Ning had torn off as a sign of sincerity.
The wrinkled, blood-stained skin moved without wind, and Smoker couldn't grasp it at all; the extremely dense demonic energy, like sulfuric acid, instantly corroded his palm down to the bone.
Whoosh...
Master Ning's skin ignored the intensely burning magma pillars and adhered to the peach tree trunk.
"Damn scholar, how dare you?!"
A large section of the peach tree, now reduced to ash, suddenly spoke, its voice both male and female, belonging to Grandma Tree Demon, who hadn't completely died back then.
Master Ning's voice came from the thin piece of skin: "Since things have come to this, there's no point in futile resistance; it's just losing a peach tree branch."
"Thanks to these self-proclaimed clever fools, who burned your peach tree seal, I was able to break free."
"Grandma Tree Demon, once I kill them, I will go find your true body..."
Wild laughter continuously emanated from the skin.
Master Ning didn't even bother to hide his intentions from the five people; he was completely open about it.
"Congratulations, Master Ning, on breaking the seal!"
The Nine-Headed Female Ghost floated over, bowed low, and congratulated him in a sweet voice.
This was a world apart from her ferocious demeanor when fighting the Navy Alliance team, like a docile dog.
Just by looking at this posture, one could tell that Master Ning's methods and strength were beyond words, to be able to make the Nine-Headed Female Ghost so submissive.
"To be injured like this?"
The thin piece of skin trembled violently, continuously oozing blood, and finally coalesced into Master Ning's body.
He gently caressed the Nine-Headed Female Ghost's broken wounds, saying with heartache, "These were all your sisters whom you ate; it's very troublesome to find them again. I will avenge you and kill them all!"
Seeing this, Orochimaru and the others had already reacted; they had all been deceived by the Nine-Headed Female Ghost's superb acting.
This peach tree in Lanruo Temple was Grandma Tree Demon's seal, intended to seal Master Ning, who had eaten her heart, within this special space.
Destroying the peach tree would free Master Ning.
The cunning female ghost first pretended to be an enemy of Master Ning, but deliberately showed flaws to make them suspicious.
Combined with Master Ning's quest, she misled everyone into breaking the seal.
"Shall we start with you?"
Master Ning raised his wrinkled eyelids, and his cloudy gaze fell upon Orochimaru.
It was he who had inflicted the most damage on the female ghost Nie Xiaoqian.
The moment his gaze locked onto him, Orochimaru's hair stood on end, and both his body and mind instinctively began to warn him.
Master Ning's body was pressed tightly against the scorched peach tree, and through the gaps, thin, lotus-root-like tendrils frantically absorbed energy from Grandma Tree Demon's branch.
The ground heaved.
Master Ning waved his hand, and the peach tree roots buried underground broke through the soil.
Crack!
The roots, moving flexibly like octopus tentacles, lashed down.
The branches of the Dark Gold-level boss, Grandma Tree Demon, could easily shatter the defenses of [Tier 2] tank players.
The root struck Orochimaru's waist and abdomen without any delay, cutting Orochimaru in half.
Rustle...
Orochimaru, collapsing limply to the ground, had countless black cursed snakes crawling out of his severed torso, biting each other and pulling his broken body back together.
"No wonder you could hurt her; you indeed have some tricks."
Master Ning, having broken free from the seal, had heightened senses and smelled the aura of death emanating from Orochimaru.
Just as he was about to continue controlling the roots, he noticed a layer of pitch-black, snake-shaped black marks adhering to the root that had just severed Orochimaru's body.
Puff...
The root rapidly rotted, emitting a pungent stench.
And the decay continuously spread upwards along the root, rushing towards Master Ning's main body.
The four members of the Navy Alliance seized the opportunity to rush forward.
Magma and light flames, as well as a fiery poisonous dragon and an iron fist...
In a brief interval, Master Ning was actually suppressed, unable to retaliate.
Rip!
Master Ning seized a gap in the four people's attack, straightened his arm, and plunged it into the charred peach tree trunk.
He roughly pulled out a rusty sword fused within the peach tree trunk.
The rusty short sword looked unremarkable, but when Master Ning grasped the hilt, the place where his hand touched it seemed to be scorched, continuously emitting white smoke and a foul odor.
Whoosh!
The rusty short sword cut through the air, striking the top of the rotting root.
Orochimaru, in his half-snake form, slithered out from inside the broken root, narrowly avoiding being struck by the rusty sword.
Even with two inches of distance from the blade, Orochimaru's death aura, which had spread around him, felt like cream meeting fire, completely incinerated.
"All of you, die!"
Master Ning swayed from side to side, shaking his body, and the charred peach tree tightly pressed against him also began to shake.
As if pulling legs out of mud, the entire Lanruo Temple, including the surrounding dead leaf forest, had its ground all bulge up.
The peach tree roots, like an ocean, wildly danced, crushing the wandering Dark Treants; even some Dark Treants approaching Gold-level strength had no right to struggle, being crushed by the writhing roots within two seconds.
"How terrifying."
At the critical moment, Akainu summoned a [Tier 2] Hellfire Demon, a Flame Demon Lord comparable to a Gold-level boss.
The Flame Demon's body, forged by lava into an obsidian-like form, was continuously crushed by the roots underfoot, as if it had met a shredder.
Cold sweat beaded on Akainu's forehead as he continuously supplied Flame Demon energy to the Flame Demon Lord, ensuring its body was constantly repaired.
If this continued, once Akainu's Flame Demon energy was exhausted and the Flame Demon Lord was devoured, the Navy Alliance team would face a total wipeout.
"I can only last two minutes; there's no time to escape this sea of roots."
"Escape?"
Orochimaru's lips curled into a cold smile, and he said in an icy voice, "Haven't you noticed that Master Ning, formed by this piece of skin, doesn't have strong demonic energy? After controlling the sea of roots, the remaining demonic energy is probably barely enough to protect himself, right?"
His gaze swept over the four people.
"Who do you think I am?"
"Move the Flame Demon closer!"
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