Above the Great Dao
Chapter 483 - 230: Demonstration: Yanmu Hanging Corpse

Chapter 483: Chapter 230: Demonstration: Yanmu Hanging Corpse

Chen Shi left a Nightmare Wood Talisman on the fortune teller’s body, which would detonate in three hours, provided no one touched it.

Should anyone attempt to remove the talisman without knowing the proper method, it would activate immediately.

The Talisman Master from the Banshan Sect named Huo Shanting, was also a well-known figure there. When the Banshan Sect engaged in grave-robbing, faced with tomb protections like talisman arrays or zombie traps, his expertise was sought to break through them.

In his earlier years, he too was a scholar who had passed the imperial examination, but after waiting five or six years, the court still granted him no official post, leaving him idle at home.

Still needing to make a living, he delved into talismans, becoming a Talisman Master, traveling far and wide, his proficiency in talisman gradually improving.

However, as a Talisman Master, he couldn’t earn much, so when he accidentally came into contact with the Banshan Sect and was asked a few times by gentlemen of the sect to lend his hand, Huo Shanting, seeing how lucratively they compensated, joined the Banshan Sect.

He had studied the talismans of both the northern and southern schools, having mastered the Southern Taoist Talisman to the fourth grade and understood the third grade as well.

Although not a master of the Nightmare Wood Talisman, he anticipated that all talismans in the world follow the same fundamental principles, and considering the caster was but a twelve or thirteen-year-old child, even if he had practiced talisman arts since the womb, how profound could his mastery be?

Unexpectedly, as soon as he made his move to break the Nightmare Wood Talisman, he made a mistake, activating the power of the talisman.

As the name ’Nightmare Wood’ implies, it is a tree capable of inducing nightmares.

Chen Shi planted the talisman on the fortune teller, which, using him as a seed, took root and sprouted in a moment, the fortune teller’s flesh and Nascent Soul completely absorbed, becoming the first human devoured by the Nightmare Wood!

Huo Shanting was the second.

He had no chance to escape before a branch pierced through the back of his head, immediately sending him into a deep sleep, entering a nightmare.

That shout just now was his attempt to forcibly awaken from the nightmare, only to find that this strange tree had penetrated his brain and was absorbing his brain matter, a cry of despair escaping him.

Afterward, he entered another nightmare.

The Nightmare Wood connects to one person after another, each person it links to involuntarily falling into nightmares, with their deepest fears manifesting in dreams.

The dreamscapes it creates are interconnected.

Different people’s nightmares merge together; the more people it connects to, the more horrifying the nightmares become, and the injuries suffered in the dream affect both spirit and flesh.

Ultimately, all those connected by the Nightmare Wood will die in one nightmare after another.

Even if one doesn’t die in the current nightmare, there will always be another, until death.

It is by these connectors that the Nightmare Wood feeds, continually absorbing their fear and nightmares, drawing power from their physical and spiritual essence, thereby growing stronger.

It doesn’t root itself in the earth; its earth is the bodies of individuals.

Trees root in the soil because it contains nutrients and water; the Nightmare Wood roots in human bodies for the same reason.

Unlike other trees, it actively seeks humans, hunting and connecting them one by one, turning them into its sustenance.

It can move, and at an incredible speed.

At this moment, it was rapidly moving at the entrance of Niandu Hall within the Banshan Sect, crashing through the front hall’s wall, and charging right into the White Tiger Hall.

Inside White Tiger Hall were over a dozen of the Banshan Sect’s elite. Some conjured Golden Cores and Nascent Souls, others activated talisman treasures and talismanic weapons, and in their panic, some leapt into the air.

The Nightmare Wood’s roots, like agile tentacles, swiftly moved along the ground, scaling the walls at an astonishing pace, carrying along individuals with tubing inserted into their heads, evading incoming spells, talisman treasures, and talismanic weapons with the speed of the wind.

"Hissing sounds."

Its branches accurately penetrated each cultivator’s rear skull.

Those dozen or so cultivators touched by its branches immediately fell into a state of dreaming, experiencing various terrifying nightmares.

They were like rag dolls hung on the tree branches, carried along with the Nightmare Wood.

The strange tree burst out of White Tiger Hall, crashed into the garden corridor, tore through it, jumped up to the roof of the corridor, and raced along the rooftop, carrying off a hundred or so Banshan Sect cultivators, still running with extraordinary speed.

Its branches wildly grew, chasing after other cultivators of the Banshan Sect.

Cultivators continually had their brains pierced, instantly taken up into the air by the branches, dancing in the sky.

With each person it connected to, the Nightmare Wood received nourishment, rapidly sprouting more roots and branches from the back of that person’s head, allowing it to capture more individuals.

For a time, both above and below the hall entrance, the Banshan Sect was thrown into chaos, with cultivators fleeing in all directions. Yet they wouldn’t get far before their bodies shuddered, freezing on the spot, falling into a slumber, and immediately being picked up by the tree.

The Nightmare Wood grew larger and larger, the number of cultivators hanging from its branches increasing.

Although not a demon but merely a Demon Level creation, it grew in strength rapidly, and even ordinary Nascent Soul Realm cultivators could not withstand a single strike, swiftly being captured!

Baili Mu was both shocked and angry, leapt up into the air, and arrived above the Nightmare Wood, snorting coldly as he extended his hand and a spell, massive as a mountain range, crushed down!

Just at that moment, atop the Nightmare Wood, hundreds of cultivators from both the Golden Core Realm and Nascent Soul Realm simultaneously opened their eyes, staring at Baili Mu, their eyes snowy white devoid of any pupils.

Simultaneously, they raised their hands, unleashing mana to counter Baili Mu’s attack!

A dull thud resounded in the air, and each cultivator hanging from the Nightmare Wood was shaken violently, their bones broken, their limbs exploding with a snap, turning utterly mutilated.

But Baili Mu’s Shaking Dragon Scripture spell was still forcefully withstood!

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