Lin Fan just stared at the situation in the clearing with a strange look.
He had watched Ye Qing Huan messing with the four groups this whole time with the wraiths, but he never thought that it would have this kind of effect.
It seemed that they were nothing more than puppets that had been dancing on Ye Qing Huan's palm the entire time.
They had been controlled by her using the wraiths, so their fate was actually quite sad.
But there was no need for Lin Fan to feel sympathy for them since they were his enemies all along.
Once the flames and dust settled, the vines and bugs slowly went back to their normal form.
The bugs started growing smaller while the vines turned back into the flowers that had been growing in this clearing.
It turned out that the real form of these vines were the stem of the flowers that grew there. It was just that the vines had been so condensed into a single form that they looked like the stem of these flowers.
But if one looked closely, they could see that there were countless stems that made up this singular stem for all of these flowers.
It was hard to imagine just what the situation under the ground was.
It was likely that there were roots that ran kilometers away from this clearing.
That should be how big the true form of these flowers were.
That was just how much life energy these flowers had absorbed from the Nine Lives Tree. At the same time, that was just how much life energy the Nine Lives Tree released in the first place.
It really showed how powerful and dangerous this seemingly clear clearing was.
But now that the four groups had been taken out, was there really a need to do anything else?
Ye Qing Huan raised her hand and gathered the wraiths once more.
It seemed like the answer was yes.
It seemed like Ye Qing Huan wasn't planning on letting the Nine Lives Tree get away.
Only how was she planning on taking it?
Even if she was a powerful cultivator, that didn't mean that she would be able to deal with this swarm. At the same time, it was clear that whatever was in this clearing hadn't used their full power.
The bugs and flowers that attacked the four groups had only come from the edge of the clearing. There wasn't a single one that came from the center of the clearing where the life energy was the strongest.
If the life energy was the most concentrated in that area, there was no doubt that this would be the place where the strongest creatures resided.
It was hard to tell just how strong they would be, but there was no doubt that they would be strong.
After all, all of that life energy wouldn't be absorbed for nothing.
Just the ones outside were this strong, there was no doubt that the ones in the middle would be even stronger.
Once Ye Qing Huan finished gathering the wraiths, she pushed her hand out.
It seemed that it was spreading away from them in all directions, as if it was about to fill the entire clearing.
As the chill spread from the wraiths, there was a layer of ice that formed on whatever the chill spread to.
It didn't take long before the entire area around the wraiths were surrounded in ice.
The plants couldn't do a thing since they were rooted into the ground, but the bugs could dodge out of the way.
It was just that if they dodged out of the way, they had no choice but to leave this clearing since the chill wasn't stopping as it spread across the entire clearing. At this rate, it seemed like everything in the clearing was about to become frozen.
There were a few bugs that did get encased in ice since they were too close to dodge.
They were the ones that had tried to attack the wraiths floating in the air.
They had been hit with the chill head on and they didn't have the time to dodge out of the way.
These bugs just dropped to the ground like rocks after being frozen like this.
The chill continued to spread until it covered the entire clearing.
The only part of the clearing that wasn't covered in the ice was the area around the Nine Lives Tree.
It seemed like there was a line that was drawn between the Nine Lives Tree and the ice that covered the clearing, but it didn't seem like it was drawn by the Nine Lives Tree. Rather, it seemed like the wraiths were stopping the ice from reaching the Nine Lives Tree so as to not harm it.
But the ice that surrounded it prevented all of the bugs and plants from reaching the Nine Lives Tree.
It completely cut them off from it.
Lin Fan turned to look at Ye Qing Huan with a curious look as he wondered how she would take the Nine Lives Tree like this.
Ye Qing Huan didn't seem bothered at all by the fact that the clearing was surrounded by ice.
She just calmly raised her hand and reached out towards the Nine Lives Tree.
The way that she did this was almost like she was grabbing it out of the air.
But as she did this, there was this invisible force that suddenly appeared around the Nine Lives Tree.
There were a few bugs that were left around the Nine Lives Tree that tried to stop this, but they couldn't break through the barrier of the invisible force.
In front of their eyes, the Nine Lives Tree suddenly disappeared into thin air.
Only Lin Fan knew where it went.
There was this strange ball of energy that appeared in Ye Qing Huan's hand, but that wasn't the important thing.
The important thing was the thing that was floating in the center of Ye Qing Huan's hand.
It was the Nine Lives Tree, but it had been made smaller than before.
Ye Qing Huan didn't seem to care about the shocked look on Lin Fan's face as she reached her hand out towards him and said, "Absorb it."