Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 549: The rejected thorn, the shadowy and deadly king!
The incarnation of the shadow tree is completely black, with a main stem, two "arms" made of vines, and a head shaped like a sunflower.

Of course, at the border, this flower is called "Shadow Wheel Grass" or "Golden Wheel Grass", and it is a plant that contains a little special power.

The Golden Wheel Grass is present in the original body, while the Shadow Wheel Grass is a specialty of the Shadow Land, but their overall shapes are similar. So when Li You saw the posture of the Shadow Tree incarnation, he was indeed a little surprised.

The shadow tree in front of us has a unique shape. It lives in this dark golden swamp, with a unique beauty of decay and incompleteness, which is very similar to the feeling given by the crooked and decadent black giant tree not far away.

And after getting closer, everyone realized that the swamp was actually black, and the golden color was the light cast by the shadow tree.

"Boom——!!"

The incarnation of the shadow tree did not give everyone time to appreciate the scenery, and immediately pounced towards Li You. Its sunflower-shaped head shrank slightly, and then crashed into Li You!

"Boom!!"

Before the Shadow Tree incarnation's attack hit, Yuzu had already rushed in front of Li You, his body suddenly expanded to three meters in size, with the dragon hunting shield blocking in front!
The big flower that was the incarnation of the shadow tree slammed heavily into Yuzu's big shield. Both sides were obviously shocked and then bounced back.

However, Li You seized this opportunity, stepped hard on Yuzi's back, leaped into the air, and smashed the Shadow Tree incarnation with the Fire Pattern Hammer!
"boom--"

The Shadow Tree incarnation retreated a short distance in advance, and at the same time swung out its arm vines to block, and collided with Li You's hammer. The Fire Pattern Hammer tore the vines entangled on its arm, and even ignited those dead vines, causing the fire to spread upwards.

But the shadow tree incarnation then shook its vine arms violently, shaking off all the burning dead branches, and then quickly grew new vines.

Li You landed lightly on the ground and looked at the incarnation of the shadow tree. He immediately realized that its trunk was much harder than it looked and was not easy to break. Moreover, it seemed to be able to regenerate quickly.

Moreover, the Shadow Tree incarnation's desire to attack was still very strong. After retreating slightly, it immediately pounced forward again, swinging vines in both hands towards Li You and Yuzu.

The way the Shadow Tree incarnation moves is very peculiar. The roots of its main stem are still connected to the land below the swamp. It seems to be using its roots to slide forward in the swamp, so its speed can be increased to an astonishing level.

The incarnation's left and right waves were blocked by Yuzu again, and Li You flashed out from behind him again. The Fire Pattern Hammer changed its shape in his hand, turning into a heavy large curved sword, and slashed out with rising flames!

"boom--"

At the same time as Li You, Youzi also swung the dragon hunting axe to fight back. The two of them each cut off large sections of vines on the left and right sides of the shadow tree incarnation, but there was still no obvious effect.

The Shadow Tree incarnation wanted to chase, but several black rockets fell and exploded violently on the incarnation's head!

The exploding flames burned the big sunflower head of the Shadow Tree incarnation, and this time it had a more obvious effect. The incarnation's body trembled noticeably several times, and even moved back a little, quickly extinguishing the flames on its head.

Li You immediately noticed the problem: "Edge, V! Attack its head! Use fire!"

"Fire is necessary for weeding. That's a given." V agreed. She quickly approached, tapped the rocket launcher that Pandora had transformed into on her shoulder, and then pulled the trigger again. This time, three dark red rockets flew out!

"Boom boom boom——"

The Shadow Tree incarnation was not a simple plant, it seemed to have the ability to think, so it was prepared this time, waving its arms to cover its head, and detonating the three rockets in advance. However, V did not use conventional explosive bombs this time, but adjusted incendiary bombs, so after the explosion, a large piece of flames fell down immediately!

The falling rain of fire more or less stuck to the head of the Shadow Tree incarnation. The shells fired by Pandora were also made of magic power, and the flames generated were enough to make the Shadow Tree incarnation feel pain, and it immediately trembled again.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li You jumped up again and swung his sword at the head of the incarnation of the Shadow Tree!

"Click——"

This time, the shadow tree incarnation failed to avoid or resist, and was hit hard on the disk of its head by Li You. The flames that spread out immediately made the incarnation's whole body twitch and shrink, and even the torso shrank and twisted, making a sharp sound similar to a scream!

"Squeak—!!"

A large golden light suddenly burst out from the flower disk on the head of the Shadow Tree incarnation, and spread rapidly in all directions, forcing Li You to stop chasing and could only draw his sword and leap back to avoid it.

However, this wave of attacks obviously caused a lot of damage to the Shadow Tree Incarnation. Li You and the other three instantly exchanged ideas through the mental link, and then unanimously decided to pursue. Li You, Yuzu and V aside, Edge had drawn his bow in the distance, intending to deal some damage.

However, at this moment, the incarnation of the shadow tree stopped retreating, raised its arms made of vines, and sharp gray-black thorns grew from the tips of its arms!
Li You's pupils shrank slightly: "That's... a flash mob!"

The Shadow Tree incarnation then thrust its arms into the ground!

The black swamp shook instantly, and with the shadow tree incarnation as the center, a large number of thorns covered with sharp thorns suddenly shot out from the bottom of the swamp!
These gray-black thorns suddenly rushed out at an extremely fast speed and were incredibly powerful. Li You and V dodged in time, but Yuzu was a step too slow and was directly hit by a large number of thorns!
"Pfft-"

And those black thorns actually pierced through the Molten Iron Dragon Hunting Armor on Yuzu's body and penetrated into his body. Large amounts of blood instantly burst out of Yuzu's body!
"Could that be... the thorn of rejection!?" Li You was shocked.

The Thorn of Rejection is born from the Golden Tree, representing its will to reject everything and blocking anyone from approaching the Elden Throne. This is also the fundamental reason why players have to choose to set fire to the tree in the main game.

Who would have thought that the Shadow Tree Avatar could actually summon and use the Thorns of Rejection?
“Yuzu!” Edge and V didn’t know what it was, but they were both a little panicked and almost wanted to rush over. Li You stopped them: “Don’t panic! Yuzu won’t get into trouble that easily!”

Just as Li You said, although Youzi was a step slow and his armor was pierced by layers of thorns, he immediately roared, struggled violently, and pulled the thorns off his body!

"Roar--!!"

With the thorns that had been torn off still on his body, Yuzu rushed towards the incarnation of the Shadow Tree!
He swung his shield to deflect all the vines thrown by the Shadow Tree incarnation. With golden arcs of electricity under his feet, he broke through to the front of the Shadow Tree incarnation at an extremely fast speed. Then, before it had a chance to escape again, he jumped high, and the Dragon Hunting Axe left a trail of afterimage and chopped the incarnation's head with all his strength!

"boom--!!"

Sudden heavy blow, the Shadow Tree Incarnation was unable to withstand it for a moment, and was smashed into the swamp by the axe, unable to climb up for a long time. Yuzu then threw down the shield, raised the Dragon Hunting Axe above his head with both hands, and gathered magic power on the axe blade, and chopped it down heavily with his movements!

As the dragon hunting axe fell, a loud thunder sounded in the sky. Golden lightning wrapped around the axe and mercilessly struck the head of the incarnation of the shadow tree!

"Boom——!!"

Golden arcs of electricity spread across the black swamp, and the head disk of the Shadow Tree Incarnation was almost split in half! The incarnation immediately lost all its power and fell into the swamp, never to move again.

"...Yuzu is angry." Edge looked at Yuzu who raised his axe and roared to the sky, and shook his head slightly.

"He has his own personality." V ​​nodded, "But we need to tell him not to imitate someone else and throw weapons around."

Edge expressed his approval of this statement very clearly.

Li You: "......"

This is a fucking group chat, I can hear it!
He wanted to complain, but then he sensed a fluctuation of magical power. He looked forward suddenly and saw that the body of the Shadow Tree incarnation had unknowingly sunk into the black quagmire and disappeared.

"No...Yuzu, back off!"

Li You also spoke through a mental link, so Yuzu reacted quickly. He glanced at the black swamp beneath his feet, which began to fluctuate violently again, and without hesitation picked up the dragon hunting shield that had been thrown at his feet before, and blocked it in front of him. "Bang--!"

The next moment, a black shadow suddenly rushed out from the mud!

The black shadow crashed into Yuzu's big shield, knocking him back, and then the black shadow stretched out its body, revealing its original appearance - it was the incarnation of the shadow tree that had been knocked down once!
"Can this thing... be resurrected!?" Not to mention his companions, even Li You was shocked. Could this thing be a mechanical BOSS?

After the resurrection, the Shadow Tree's attack method has changed significantly. It no longer simply swings its branches and hits people with its head, but instead releases a large number of rejecting thorns, which crawl along the swamp and pounce on everyone!
“Get out of the way!!”

Li You immediately saw clearly that the incarnation of the shadow tree actually threw out four thorns at once, which pounced on the four of them respectively, and even did not spare Edge who was far away.

It would be no joke if Edge, who was the weakest, was hit like this. Li You immediately pushed V and let her dodge by herself. Then he instantly transformed into a dragon, spread his four wings and flew back to the church exit. Before the thorn of rejection arrived, he picked up Edge and flew into the air.

V deployed Pandora, which turned into a flying turret and temporarily rose into the air, while Yuzu simply transformed into a demon form, with a more than ten-meter-long wooden dragon body flying in the air.

Yuzu let out a long roar, flew back quickly, picked up V and Edge on his back, then he and Li You each chose a direction and pounced on the Shadow Tree incarnation again!
Li You no longer hid his intentions. He held the big knife transformed from the spiral sword in one hand and pulled out the Blood Immortal Slash with the other hand.

You can revive, right? Then try this!

The thorns swung by the Shadow Tree Incarnation could only crawl and spread quickly on the ground. They had considerable power, but they could not reach the sky. But after it was reborn once, it still had new means that it had not yet shown.

The incarnation of the shadow tree saw that Li You and his group had all taken off into the air, so it immediately raised its head. Its head, which was like a sunflower disk, was raised, its petals closed, magic power condensed, and then its petals unfolded, magic power burst out!
The golden ripples spread out, and gravel with dim light condensed in the air. The gravel drew golden and black tracks, tracking towards Li You and Youzi in the air!

"Shhhhh-"

Li You was fine, as he was small and fast, so even if the Shadow Tree incarnation's spell had a tracking effect, he could still avoid it relatively easily. But it was difficult to deal with Yuzu since he was so big.

Fortunately, Edge and V were both sitting on his back. V directly transformed Pandora into two hand cannons, and he and Edge each held one, and they kept shooting at the flying rubble, scattering them in mid-air.

Yuzu also shot out black wooden thorns from his torso, and together with the two of them, he fended off the attacks. Even when the attacks of the Shadow Tree Incarnation were not so intensive, he took advantage of the situation to fly closer and breathed out a breath of fire directly onto the big head of the Shadow Tree Incarnation!

The flame breath condensed by magic power was released at the weak point of the Shadow Tree incarnation, the head, and the effect was extremely good. The leaves and flowers on the incarnation's head were immediately ignited, and it began to tremble and struggle violently again.

Li You seized this opportunity, instantly flashed to the top of the Shadow Tree incarnation, and stabbed his two swords into the incarnation's flower disk without hesitation!

"boom--"

The Fire Patterned Blade and the Blood Immortal Slash spewed out flames at the same time, but one was an inextinguishable flame containing the power of the primordial fire, and the other was a blood flame that extinguished all life. The two flames were clearly distinct and yet intertwined with each other, instantly completely igniting the head of the incarnation of the Shadow Tree!
Li You drew his sword and broke away to avoid being accidentally hurt by the two burning flames. The shadow tree incarnation, which was hit hard, fell down again and its body gradually sank into the mud.

V sat on Yuzu's back, watching the scene, and couldn't help but ask, "Is he not going to be resurrected again this time?"

Li You: "......"

What the fuck?
Why do you always like to plant flags at this time? Are you going to sing an opera?
Sure enough, as soon as V finished speaking, the swamp below began to shake again, and the shadow tree incarnation broke out of the ground for the third time!

V: "...You can't blame me for this, right?"

Li You: "......"

In fact, if we think rationally, we really can't blame V. We can only say that the vitality of this shadow tree incarnation is too tenacious, and it is basically a king of endurance.

Not only can the Shadow Tree incarnation be resurrected repeatedly, but it seems that it is not the same individual each time it appears, so even the Blood Immortal Slash cannot control it.

This time, the incarnation was even crazier. After it emerged from the ground, it began to rush back and forth in the mud at an astonishing speed, chasing Li You and Youzi. If the group stayed on the ground, the attack of the Shadow Tree incarnation would be quite threatening. Unfortunately, they had already flown into the sky. In order to avoid being hit by the rejection thorns of the Shadow Tree incarnation, they had no intention of landing.

Realizing that it couldn't catch Li You and the others after rushing back and forth, the Shadow Tree Incarnation stopped. After a moment's pause, it raised its head again and summoned golden gravel to attack everyone!

However, this time, Li You and the others were able to deal with it more easily. Yuzu even wanted to repeat the old trick and rush over to spit out a breath of fire at the Shadow Tree Incarnation, but Li You stopped her, "Wait, there's another trick!"

Sure enough, the golden gravel summoned by the Shadow Tree Incarnation this time was just a feint and soon stopped. Instead, the Shadow Tree Incarnation raised its arms and head, straightened its torso, and exposed its main trunk.

Then, an extremely strong golden light suddenly radiated from the middle of the stem, and strands of it pierced into the distance like sharp swords, and became brighter and brighter!

Finally, the surging magic power gathered by the Shadow Tree incarnation suddenly erupted, and while golden light radiated out like a sweep, a large amount of magic power exploded around it!
“BOOM—BOOM—BOOM!!”

The magic power exploded three times in a row near the Shadow Tree incarnation. It was conceivable that the power was quite strong. Even those golden beams were very powerful. Li You and Yuzu had to dodge at full speed, one of them, and simply increase their altitude to the maximum, to avoid the terrifying attack of the Shadow Tree incarnation.

However, the energy consumption of this move seemed to be exceptionally high. After the Shadow Tree incarnation was released, its entire body collapsed and fell into the swamp like a dead flower, without moving at all.

Of course Li You couldn't miss this opportunity, so he rushed forward and swung his two swords without hesitation!
“Crack!!”

The head of the shadow tree incarnation fell heavily, and Li You returned to mid-air again and looked at its body.

The companions were also a little worried: He won’t be resurrected this time, right?

If it can be resurrected, Li Youzhen will consider running away with his companions, because that probably means that this guy is a mechanical BOSS, the kind that cannot be killed unless certain conditions are met.

Fortunately, this time they waited for a long time, and the trunk of the Shadow Tree incarnation did not sink into the mud, and no new incarnation emerged. This thing was really dead.

Of course, the final confirmation is still the prompt that pops up by the system.

[Congratulations on completing the achievement: Incarnation of the Shadow Tree. Please claim your reward in the Achievements section. ]

Li You then fell back to the ground and touched the remains of the incarnation of the Shadow Tree. The dry limbs immediately shattered into pieces, finally revealing a golden big rune hidden inside.

"Finally done."

Yuzu had also landed on the ground and returned to her human form, and Edge and V also came over: "Is this the thing?"

Li You nodded: "This is Michaela's Great Rune."

This big rune is light golden in color, emitting an invisible attraction and carrying a sense of holiness.

However, Li You would naturally not be affected by this. He immediately raised the Fire Pattern Hammer and smashed it down with force!

"ha--!!"

(End of this chapter)