Chapter 485: Chaotic Battle

It was completely unbelievable, in but a moment that deathly quiet and silent place had turned into a chaos of fighting sounds, swords, halberds, spears, tree branches.

But while the powerful people at the front were fighting while knowing what they were doing, and where they were, the people in the back were quite the opposite.

They were fighting blindly in the darkness, without even having the tiniest bit of idea of where they were or what they were doing.

The pressure in this place was so heavy that even their colorful attacks were nothing more than some colorful sparks flying around, as they attacked and defended in the dark.

They were using their skills, and techniques without understanding upon who they used them upon, the only thing they could think about now was that the enemy was around them, and they couldn't lower their guard down.

This place was really scary! It was a good thing that there was no light around, otherwise, people would see them trembling and crying with snot coming out of their noses.

No matter how strong a person was, when he was faced with uncertain death, and darkness they all turned into scared toddlers.

It is really rare to find mentally strong people who can stay calm in such a situation, and clearly unknown figures like them wouldn't be anything special.

Most of them were probably people to have already reached their potential, or just grasshoppers grown into the warm environments of their family and organizations.

After all, Earth was a relatively peaceful place, the survival of the fittest rule didn't apply as much as it should in here, as generation after generation people were falling in depravity, and derision.

Every family and organization was extremely protective of their descendants, even if they were at fault they would destroy others just to abide by their sense of 'justice'.

Most of these descendants were grown up by eating all the possible resources, boosting their levels but not their strength.

As they had passed most of their lives by following and fooling around with ladies, with escorts, or just gambling their ancestors' riches.

One didn't even need to take a good look at them to understand that they were nothing more than 'good-for-nothings' or second-generation silk-pants that knew nothing of the real-life struggles.

For that reason, the situation at the moment was just like a small particle of chaos where no one understood who hit who.

There were people on all sides trying to announce their names, and surnames out loud in order to scare away their attackers, but in that chaos, and pressure their voices were totally drowned.

Their position, their standing, their background was totally inexistent right now, all that mattered right now was their strength, which was completely inflated.

It was total chaos between them at the moment, and if someone didn't sort this out they would most probably end up killing each other until the last one.

While the weak couldn't really look at who they were hitting and blocking hits from, those guys at the top could easily sense what was going on.

Seeing those weaklings kill each other was certainly not a bad thing, as a matter of fact, it was more than welcomed normally, but right now the situation was different.

They could sense the presence of those level 3 and level 4 trees in front of them, and knew that it was certainly not going to be easy to take care of them, so they needed cannon fodder.

Right now, their cannon fodder was self-destroying though so they couldn't allow it to happen anymore.

Furthermore, since the local's groups cultivated their Soul and Soul Power, their Spirit Sense was much better than their counterparts cultivating in Qi.

So, the local's side had much fewer casualties than they had, and this wasn't a good sign. After all, the moment they got to the finish line they would once again turn to be enemies.

No one believed that they would leave on good terms once they reached their goal, so each side was planning with that in mind.

Thinking like this the 5 powerhouses of the Earth group couldn't let those weaklings die so they immediately used their cultivation, and pressure to create some sort of cover upon them, as one said,

"Calm down! Don't create unnecessary panic, look at the people by your side, and create teams with the people you trust, and create distance with the others.

Don't waste your energy uselessly, and even less injure each other!"

Since they were in the level 2 trees territory still, 4 of them were more than enough to keep the trees busy, as one of them made the speech.

But soon things would get much more difficult as the level 3 trees were on their way, and at the same time 3 level 4 trees were coming towards them.

Things had long taken a turn for worse, and it didn't seem like it would get any better soon. In fact, it seemed like it could only get worse.

As a matter of fact, these sly old things would certainly not fall into such an obvious trap from Tianlong Yun, and they were thinking of pulling back immediately.

They were smart enough to understand that Tianlong Yun was using them to gather the attention of the higher-level trees, so they were thinking of doing exactly the opposite.

They were thinking of pulling out from this obvious trap and let Tianlong Yun deal with the whole formation of trees himself.

Like that he would understand that not everyone was stupid enough to fall into his traps. Then when he had attracted the attention of the forest, they would attack with all their strength in one fell swoop.

Their counterplan was certainly really good if it was set in action, but there were a few things, a few variables that they hadn't taken into consideration.

First of all, Tianlong Yun was dealing with these trees as opponents for much longer and had much more information on them.

He knew their attack and movement patterns, so he could easily dodge any attack coming towards him with ease.

Second of all, they didn't know how the trees selected their targets. If it were some brainless trees then certainly they would go after the closest target.

But these trees weren't like that, level 3 trees had already started to gain sentience, so level 4 trees were even more developed.

Not to mention their senses were developed in this place and pressure, and could easily use their network of other trees to sense and scan their enemies.

As sentience beings they didn't go for their closest target anymore, but for the most dangerous between them.

In their look of things most probably Tianlong Yun looked like some kind of bait, that was being used to attract their attention, and then suffer the attack of the big group.

Certainly, they wouldn't fall for such a trick, as they immediately used more than 75% of their strength to deal with the group at the border, and the rest to deal with Tianlong Yun.

Looking at Tianlong Yun's strength, and rich battle experience 25% of their formation was more than enough to deal with him.

Not to mention, that he didn't even have those annoying ants he kept with him all the time, so he was even less of a danger to the mother tree.

The true danger was the group outside, only they could have a chance of dealing with the formation surrounding the mother tree.

Especially a few of the people in there were truly dangerous in its eyes, it made the mother tree feel truly endangered.

For the above reasons, no matter how much they wanted to pull back, the group of people outside the formation couldn't pull back.

In fact, before they could even think of pulling out of the situation, they were already surrounded by the level 2 trees, as the rest spread around to block their possible escape routes.

While this surrounding wasn't much of a big deal for the powerhouses to escape from if they all decided to break through from one point, but then they would lose the weaklings.

The moment they thought about this the 5 powerhouses at the front only had to look each other in the eye for a single look, and immediately decided.

The same person of earlier once again took the lead as he said,

"Don't falter, we might be surrounded, but we are going to turn this thing around. Just keep fighting until our last breath!"

Even though the people behind couldn't see or sense anything in the dark, they could still feel they were being surrounded, and endangered.

Even the rats could sometimes feel that they were being trapped, not to mention cultivators like them, so their morale was really low, and the majority was thinking to make a run out of this shit.

But with the words of one of the powerhouses leading them, they all gained some moral, and determination to come out of the battle victorious.

No matter how bad the situation got, those guys could always make a way for them and they could come out, the rest would depend on their abilities.

With this line of thought, they all embraced, and prepared themselves for the upcoming battle, as they took their weapons and decided to attack first.

Immediately sounds, and noises of metallic weapons crashing to the wood branches spread through the place, as they were all decided to take down those trees.

Having the advantage of attacking first, one had to say that they caused quite a bit of damage to the surroundings even though they weren't able to see it. Still, their morale was high.

But, everything changed the next moment though, as they heard a big explosion happen on the east side, lightening the place, as…