Chapter 371: The Strategy to Seal the Demon

"Miss Luo..." Yan Qing murmured, "You asked me before how to deal with it using the Privy Council method, and the answer was to run."

"...Run?" Luo Qing was startled.

"If you cannot understand the ability of the devil, it means that the evil spirit is far beyond the scope of your response. Faced with such a situation, the Privy Council has only one suggestion, save your life."

"But aren't we going to take the Silver Star Tree Boat back?" Li touched the goosebumps on her hands - now the feeling of being stared at was so strong that she almost didn't want to look at the demon's face again. "And the surrounding area is the sea. Even if the dragon girl can carry us, what should we do with so many elves?"

"The elves can be transported away with a large green shuttle, and the imperial ship can be sunk as planned." Yan Qing raised her voice slightly, "You have also seen that this thing is waking up, and the source is the energy of the living! In other words, it will be a matter of time before it wakes up - we have to evacuate the tree boat before then!"

Ordinary attacks have no effect on it. Once you get within three feet of it, you can't escape on your own, not to mention that within two steps is an absolute restricted area, and even lightning can't move forward. It doesn't need to have other abilities, just being able to move is scary enough.

"Don't worry, we haven't reached that point yet." Luo Qingqing thought quickly, "Living people have varying degrees of Qi. There shouldn't be many Qi-sensing people like mages on the tree boat. We still have time to think about it. plan."

Just as she said, although the demon's upper body was lifelike and its robes had a grayish-brown color, the lower half was still pitch black.

"First notify the people at the ceremony site and ask them to try to capture them alive, especially those who are sensitive to Qi like the Iron Knight, and save their lives first." Luo Qingqing said to Li.

The latter immediately complied, "I understand."

"What do you want to do?" Yan Qing frowned.

"Those black lines... I now understand where the other end of them points. The living people on the entire island, including you and me, are the devil's food." Luo said softly, "But as long as they don't die, it will There is no way to forcefully plunder the Qi of the living.”

In an instant, she felt a strong hostility.

There was so much resentment and hatred in it that even she, who had gone through all kinds of hardships, felt a little dazed. The acid in her stomach went straight to her throat, and she almost vomited it out.

She covered her mouth, gritted her teeth, and continued, "Although we can't get close to the devil, it doesn't mean we can't change the environment around it. If we can sink the devil to the bottom of the sea, it will remain in this posture forever."

"In the deep sea, it is impossible for a person to persist until he is close to its suction range before dying."

"This sea...is the most suitable seal for it."

Luo Qingqing endured the discomfort and expressed his thoughts intermittently.

"I see." Yan Qing couldn't help but look at the other person twice. Faced with such a strange situation, he could still calm down and think about his next move. It was a rare talent among the new batch of alchemists. No wonder she became the listener. "However, towing and hoisting are difficult to work on it. If you want to open the channel, you can only start from one place."

"That's right." Luo gently looked at the ground at the demon's feet, "I think so too."

…

Taking advantage of the gap when Li and Yan Qing went to the ceremony site for reinforcements, the new acting elder of Silver Star Tree Boat, Philo Matney, was brought to Luo Qingqing by Fann.

"Are you the person who knows the spirit tree best in Shuzhou now?" Luo Qing asked.

Vann then translated the words.

"So be it." Speaking of this, Ferro looked extremely sad. "I should have followed the elders and fought against the imperial people to the end, but when I saw them arresting innocent people in front of the spiritual tree and executing them one by one, I chose to submit and replace the elders. The mission resonates with the spiritual tree."

When the Noah elf broke the iron lock and rushed into the house inside the spirit tree, the people imprisoned inside could not believe that Silver Star would actually get support from other tree boats.

It wasn't until they withdrew from the big tree and saw a pile of corpses of Imperial soldiers lying on the ground with their own eyes that they finally accepted this fact.

Ferro is one of them.

Therefore, when facing the savior Fan En said, a young girl from the City of Humanity, his attitude was particularly low, "I wonder what your orders are?"

"Did you see the evil spirits over there?" Luo pointed lightly at the other side of the cave.

Ferro's expression changed drastically after just one glance, and he bent over and retched. After a while, he gasped and said, "Is this also something created by the Empire?"

"good."

"They're just—crazy!"

This is also the thought that most people will have.

Evil does not lie in how evil its actions are, but in that it is essentially contrary to the living.

After Luo Qing briefly narrated the situation, he asked the key question, "If a hole is cut at the bottom of the tree boat, can the spirit tree still survive?"

"This...are you going to sink it into the sea by falling?" Ferro quickly understood her idea, "If you want the lower part of the evil object to fly into the air, the spiritual tree may also be able to help."

"How to say?"

"In fact, what the tree boat looks like is decided by the elders. In other words, the elders can control the direction of the root veins, turning the hillside into flat ground, and turning the tree stand into a watchtower. But this change is relatively slow. , and it consumes the magic power of the spiritual tree, and the span is usually measured in years.”

Luo raised his eyebrows slightly, "It's not considered helpful in terms of years."

"I understand this." Ferro nodded in acknowledgment, "But if we just move the roots and shut down the magic power supply in the orchard, weaving field and other areas, and put all the magic power into the activity of the spirit tree, this process can be greatly shortened. Perhaps... a cave can be expanded in one or two hours."

It will be dawn in two hours, and before that, the threat of the imperial warships must be eliminated. Luo weighed the pros and cons and made a judgment, "It will only take one hour at most. You start with the roots below, and I will figure out the rest when the time comes."

...

Accompanied by a violent tremor, the center of the tree boat, which has not changed for nearly a hundred years, began to reorganize. The dense roots began to shrink layer by layer from bottom to top. Because the range of movement is not large, and there are many gaps in the bottom layer, it is not too difficult for the tree boat to achieve.

The battle at the sacrificial field has also been declared over. In the absence of reinforcements, a large number of pirates in the guard force collapsed first. Faced with the angry island captives, they knelt down and surrendered without much resistance, and their speed was much faster than the objects they despised. Without the help of the pirates, more than 200 imperial soldiers had almost no resistance in front of Jinxia's reinforcements. If it weren't for Li's message requesting to reduce unnecessary casualties, none of these people would have survived.

When the sky was slightly bright and the morning light was about to break, Luo gently opened his eyes and recovered from his meditation.

"It's time."

"Are you sure you can do it?" Yan Qing confirmed again.

She nodded in affirmation, "We have to give it a try."

"Okay." Qing Jian turned his palm and let the chain rise from the ground, forming a large circle around the demon. "The area indicated by the chain is the approximate range of the spread of the tree roots. However, the root veins below are still more than three feet thick, and the influence of the demon still exists below the surface."

"Thank you." Luo took a deep breath, raised her hand to summon the dragon scales, and then clasped her hands together in front of her chest - this was a new use she had mastered while practicing and exploring the dragon scale magic. "Magic, Dragon Slaying Sword!"

I saw six dragon scales entangled with each other, removing their shells and re-melting, and at the same time bursting out brilliant golden light. When the light dissipated, a huge sword blade that was several people tall appeared in front of everyone.