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"Ah!"

Xi Keyao was taken aback by the sudden appearance of a pair of eyes, screamed, and subconsciously threw a punch!

Bang!

Although she was the girl in the team who needed protection, her own strength was also formidable. Her punch hit the pair of eyes and sent the entire tree flying!

That tree was truly uprooted by her punch!

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The locust tree was yanked out of the soil and quickly flew backwards, crashing into the trees behind it, disappearing into the darkness.

"What happened?" Xiang Beifei asked.

"That tree... had eyes!"

Xi Keyao looked uncertainly into the dark, and what was strange was that although she could see twenty meters away in the dark, that tree had disappeared!

Xiang Beifei quickly rushed forward to inspect the area ahead. There were friction marks on the forest floor and dirt scattered about, but the tree that had flown out had vanished.

"What did you just say you saw?" Xiang Beifei asked.

"The tree, the outline, sprouted a pair of eyes! It might be some plant-type desolate beast!" Xi Keyao said nervously.

The scene just now had truly frightened her—the sudden opening of eyes on a perfectly normal tree, and so close, barely three inches away, would scare anyone.

"A plant-type desolate beast?"

Xiang Beifei quickly thought it over and could not recall any record of such beings. Plant-type desolate beasts were mostly man-eating flowers and Ghost Vines, but he had never heard of ones disguised as trees.

Swish!

Something seemed to spring out of the darkness, sweeping rapidly towards him with a sharp whistling sound, carrying powerful, eerie fluctuations straight at him.

Xiang Beifei did not hesitate and threw a punch to the left.

Bang!

The exploding fist flame surged up, colliding fiercely with the thing on the left, the blazing flames lighting up the figure attacking him—Xiang Beifei was shocked to find that it was a person still smeared with mud!

Or perhaps not a person.

Because Xiang Beifei did not see the system interface above his head.

Was it the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage?

Xiang Beifei could not be sure because there was no eerie aura about the figure, and the limbs extended during the attack were not tentacles but more like—

Hard tree trunks?

"You... you..."

The shadow's voice was very hoarse, like a person who hadn't spoken for a long time suddenly speaking, utterly imprecise in tone.

With the aid of Witnessed by All brought by Long Guocheng, Xiang Beifei quickly saw the appearance of this mud-covered man. It was not a real human but more like a tree person, with visible skin that was woody.

It did not wear human clothes, only sporadic tree leaves grew on it. The eyes were yellow but the irises were green. Apart from that, every part of its body, even the features on the nose, were eerily similar to those of a human.
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At first glance, it was completely a person.

A tree person!

"Mong..."

While the tree person made strange noises, it charged at Xiang Beifei again, using its fists in attack, but its fists were covered in a green mist. The mist seemed to have a bizarre tearing force, colliding with Xiang Beifei's fist flame, causing a vibrating explosion.

Whir!

Xiang Beifei's fist flame burned, trying to suppress the other's momentum. However, this mud-covered man seemed not afraid of Xiang Beifei's fist flame, on the contrary, he absorbed it.

And with this strange devouring force, Xiang Beifei suddenly realized something on the tree person seemed to be slowly awakening. Its arms had patches of tender green leaves sprouting, which appeared to be devouring Xiang Beifei's Spiritual Power and growing increasingly powerful.

Xiang Beifei immediately delivered a kick to the opponent's chest, sending him flying backwards, but he quickly stabilized, landing on the ground, bending over staring at Xiang Beifei.

At this time, another poplar tree trunk nearby suddenly also opened a pair of eyes!

The canopy of the poplar tree slowly contracted and shrank into disheveled hair, while roots on the ground slowly rose up and came together into two feet.

Another tree person.

"Tree person-type desolate beast?"

Xiang Beifei had no records of such a desolate beast, as the current textbooks rarely mention such things.

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At this time, the sound of leaves colliding violently continuously emerged, different types of trees were contracting, and pairs of eyes soon appeared on tree trunks all around.

All the withered trees were rapidly reviving, then transforming into tree people. In less than ten seconds, no fewer than ten tree people appeared, surrounding them completely!

"Be careful!"

Xiang Beifei shouted loudly, Li Zimu and the others also realized what was happening. They quickly gathered together, watching the sudden appearance of tree people nervously.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

All the tree people charged at them, attacking directly with brute force.

Long Guocheng and the others also quickly counterattacked, the powerful Vision Pressure blasting on the foremost tree person, a level of Vision Pressure that could blow a hole through an iron wall!