Hades forest

He wonder,

"Strange why there aren't any beast attacking me?"

"This is definitely odd, seriously....."

To low level to Peak grade level beast, Xiang Monji's existence is a predator in the jungle. By killing thousands of beast in one go, his killing intent has risen to the point where beast who follow their instinct can tell that they are just a mouse in front of a cat. It only applies to the weaker organism, and exceptional to dumb beast like white boar tusk and higher level beast from spiritual level and beyond.

After storing the huge leaves in his inventory, he went further south. As he go further south the hades forest can be seen at sight.

Pascue Valley and Hades forest is separated by chasm, below the chasm is like a pitch black never ending abyss. Unbeknowst what's deep down there.

Over the chasm is an old archaic bridge that has been there for who knows how many years, the rope has grown an algae and the old steeping wood in the bridge has grown moss.

After crossing the bridge, Hades forest welcomes their guest to their demise.

Xiang Monji cross the bridge by focusing his trinomous ki on his feet to keep him afloat, while crossing the old bridge. Instead of flying in the air he chose to cross the bridge afloat to observe the bridge for no reason,and which is nonsense without a cause.

After crossing the bridge he has now step foot in the Hades forest, a hell for those people who venture and didn't came out alive.

He move *two yards closer to a dead tree, touch it, knock it softly and feel whether there is moist inside. His conclusion, perfect for firewoods and bonfire.

(*2 yards = 3 feet)

The soil is black and dry, the dark brownish tree is leafless and no signs of vitality in it. The ray of the sunlight can't reach inside the forest, since above the forest is a gloomy dark clouds that cover the sunlight.To describe, the forest itself is visibly dim which is lightly dark, spooky, eerie and the branches entwined together that look like a maze of alternate dead trees.

The southern region is where the Hades forest can be found. It is describe to be hell, but in reality it's more fitting to call it death forest. No living creatures can be found, the soil is dead as if it is a scorch earth. The trees may look dead and lifeless, but each and every tree that are in hades forest are treant. They ambush their prey when they are inside and can never go out alive.

He didn't brought a sword, normal grade swords can't endure the trinimous ki, which has three times the fire power, compare to spiritual power.

Suddenly, he just remembered to replace the sword of soldier C, which he just broke a few days ago.

"I better get him a new sword, I guess a tooth from a sea monster will do, and enhance it with an additional rune to make it sharper and durable."

Instead of drawing near inside the the hades forest, he just abruptly unleash his trinomous qi on his palm and shape it into a scythe and swing the sycthe vertically, which cleanly cut the trees that disguise as a treant.

Suprisingly only a few hundred of trees were cut. On the first and second lane, and on third lane and beyond they were able to block the wave of spiritual power of Xiang Monji that shape like a half moon.

By merging themselves they were able to block the horizontal spiritual wave as if they are protecting something.

At the center of hades forest lies the Elder treant, the Elder treant is the brain and the cause of the trees dying and turn the soil dry and dead.

Turning trees into a living dead by sucking it's nutrients in it's sorroundings and revive the dead trees to be a corpse minion for it's army to protect itself.

["My instinct is telling me that this spooky and eerie enviroment are some sign of danger like haunted house" It was the right thing that I didn't get inside"]

The treants that were cut and died were stored in his inventory as he preceed to back off and try to study the phenomenon behind the anatomy and structure of the hades forest.

While observing in a safe distance, another suprising thing about this treants are it's stump.

After cleanly cutting a treant and turn it into a stump, a new life is form out from a stump and a newly treant tree is born as if nothing happen, in other words it's like cutting it's tentacle and regenerate after cutting it.

Xiang Monji use divine sense and cast domain to amplify scanning and expand the horizon to it's potential limit.

He has come to sense a strong driving force which is mysterious and clouded of mystery. He further focus his concentration at the center of the Hades forest.

At the center he found a huge black tree encircled with huge thick vines, on it's vines are glamouring red flowers, below the grounds are skulls of the humans and it's roots are connected to each and every tree in the Hades forest.

He assume, that the elder treant at the center sucks not only the nutrients of it's surrounding nature, but also living things to keep it living for how many years.

And it's a manipulative type of living tree, that controls the treants which Xiang Monji has named it to himself.

Upon observing further through divine sense, The elder treant awaken with it's glaring red eyes and look back at Xiang Monji. Xiang Monji didn't flinch thanks to divine blessed body which also effect the mentality.

It releases it's spiritual mind with a strong concentration shockwave towards him, fortunately he hastily cut off his divine sense. The rebound was strong and Xiang Monji bleed in his nose, and a little bit dizzy. The pain is only thirty percent thanks to the divine blessed divine body.

He had an another ephiphany, he is a big fish in a small pond, and at the vast sea countless big fish bigger than him are living in there.

After meeting the elder of the Ice labyrinth sect., he realize he is small, facing the elder treant he concur that he is smaller and when he battled Obelisk all the buffs he had stack were futile. In the face of absolute strength nothing he can do but acknowledge the strong.

"Nah..... let's test the water"

It may be strong but that doesn't literally mean it doesn't have a weakness.

Xiang Monji isn't planning to kill the elder treant which is stronger than him, he wants to know it's attack pattern, whether the Elder treant will move if being attack relentlessly, if fire magic will affect it. If their woods are perfect for firewood after dissecting the tree from the source and so on.