Jiang Kai step by step walked into the mist zone.
When the mist touched Jiang Kai, his outer armor, inner armor, and the skin on his face began to wither rapidly!
Soul-Eater underestimated Jiang Kai's spiritual power. Just now Jiang Kai had already recovered part of his consciousness, only he still couldn't control his own body, and could only watch helplessly as he walked into the poisonous mist.
And at this moment, the severe pain spreading through his body made him even more clear-headed!
"So painful…" Jiang Kai tried to run away, but his body did not obey his command and continued walking deeper into the mist.
"What kind of talent is this, that it can actually control another person's body!" Jiang Kai thought in alarm.
Right now, his body was quickly withering, Jiang Kai watched with his own eyes as his hands turned like those of a dried corpse.
Yet, though he could feel the searing pain, he still couldn't control his body!
Jiang Kai remembered that just now that woman said she was a seventh-rank eerie profession.
Seventh-rank profession!
Currently the highest transcendent profession in Huaxia was only seventh rank, and that was with job-change materials Jiang Kai had obtained from the Global Domination Tournament.
And that woman was actually a seventh-rank eerie profession!
It was almost certain that even if that woman didn't play tricks, Jiang Kai still would not be her match. Yet she went to such trouble to lure him into the Bewitching Mist Zone—just what exactly did she want!
"Damn it, my body won't listen at all, still walking deeper inside!"
Strangely, even though Jiang Kai's body was visibly withering and blackening at a speed visible to the naked eye, Jiang Kai still did not die.
"Could it be the effect of that so-called Soul-Locking Liquid?"
From around him came some strange sounds, different from what he heard outside the mist zone.
Inside the Bewitching Mist Zone, this sound was more like an ancient deep voice, repeating something over and over, only Jiang Kai could not understand the language.
Inside this mist zone, what exactly was hidden!
Just then, suddenly from within the mist zone shot out four vine-like tendrils, piercing Jiang Kai's four limbs.
The vines moved extremely fast, even before Jiang Kai could see them clearly, they had already pierced his limbs and yanked him violently into the air.
After being dragged for about a hundred meters, Jiang Kai was pulled before a towering giant tree.
This tree's overall shape resembled a willow on Earth, extremely thick, with a trunk diameter reaching over a hundred meters, roots twisting everywhere, bark especially hard, branches hung full of vines—and the vines binding Jiang Kai were four of them.
"This is…" Jiang Kai had no strength to break free, staring in shock at the tree before him.
The mist zone had destroyed almost all plants, yet in the center of the mist zone, there was such a towering, flourishing tree?
Just then, a voice rang beside Jiang Kai's ear, still speaking in a language he couldn't understand.
Since he couldn't understand, naturally Jiang Kai couldn't comprehend, only staring blankly at the great willow.
"That sound came from you? What are you saying, I don't understand…"
Suddenly Jiang Kai felt the vines around him tighten sharply, and next his whole body was dragged toward the tree trunk.
Once Jiang Kai was pulled against the trunk, countless vines wrapped tightly around him.
Some thinner vines pierced into his fingers, chest, skin, and then began drawing out some kind of fluid from his body.
Through the green vines, he could see red liquid from his body flowing through the vine stems into the great willow.
And Jiang Kai's whole body was already half sunk into the trunk of the great willow, completely unable to move.
Jiang Kai only felt his spiritual power weakening bit by bit, as he looked at the vines all over him madly sucking his blood and flesh, his heart was filled with indescribable horror.
This great willow was treating him as fertilizer!
Gradually, Jiang Kai's consciousness blurred again, his eyes finally closing, while the vines around him still kept feeding on his flesh and blood.
Just as Jiang Kai was about to faint, he suddenly saw beside him, countless hair-thin willow twigs whipping rapidly through the air.
The blood and flesh sucked from his body was sent over there, merging into those thin willow twigs, and then the twigs rapidly twisted together, as if constructing something.
"This… what is this doing…" Jiang Kai's heart trembled with shock.
But at this moment Jiang Kai could hold on no longer, and fell unconscious.
......…
Soul-Eater returned to the cave in the northern zone.
Liu Yuanxiang had his back to her. Seeing her return, Liu Yuanxiang turned around, "Is it done?"
The Soul-Eater woman gave a cold snort, "You guess."
Liu Yuanxiang quickly reacted, hurriedly smiling flatteringly, "It was redundant for me to ask. With your strength, Jiang Kai could never escape your grasp."
The displeasure on the Soul-Eater woman's face slightly eased, she walked over to Liu Yuanxiang's side and sat down on the stone chair.
"I've already sealed Jiang Kai's mind, ordered him to enter deep into the Bewitching Mist Zone. At that time, he will inevitably encounter the Life Evil Willow, and then he will never escape."
Hearing this news, Liu Yuanxiang finally let out a long sigh of relief.
"Once Jiang Kai misses the National War, by then he'll become a rat on the street, everyone shouting to beat him. At that time, Huang Jianguo can let his imagination run wild and think of ways to deal with Jiang Kai."
Thinking a moment, Liu Yuanxiang then said, "Soul-Eater, are you sure Jiang Kai can't possibly escape from the Life Evil Willow midway?"
Soul-Eater gave a cold snort, "Even I couldn't escape, do you think he could?"
Liu Yuanxiang frowned, "Since you didn't escape, then how did you come back?"
The Soul-Eater's eyes swept toward Liu Yuanxiang. At this time her eyes were no different from ordinary people's, yet they were still quite bewitching.
"I knew you'd go in circles. Isn't it just that you want to pry into this matter?"
Liu Yuanxiang gave an awkward laugh, "No, no, I was only curious, nothing else. Who doesn't know that Soul-Eater woman's strength is unmatched in Huaxia, I admire you very much."
The Soul-Eater woman smiled faintly, "Liu Yuanxiang, don't pretend to be a weakling. I know your strength clearly. Deliberately showing weakness in front of me is only to make me lower my guard."
"Unfortunately, we're not children. You treat us eeries as chess pieces, but aren't we treating you as stepping stones as well?"
"But I advise you, if you still want to keep working with us, it's best you put away your little schemes, otherwise don't blame me for killing you!"
Liu Yuanxiang was silent a moment, then suddenly laughed loudly, "Worthy indeed of being the leader of eerie professions. Not only is your strength peerless, but your mind is meticulous as well."
"It was my rudeness, I shouldn't have tried to pry into your strength."
"As long as you can make sure Jiang Kai misses this National War, the rest, I don't care."
The Soul-Eater woman turned her head, gave a cold snort, a trace of chilling color flashing in her eyes, "Rest assured, I guarantee he won't get out!"
......…
A few days later, Jiang Kai slowly opened his eyes.
His whole body was wrapped in vines, unable to move, countless vines still pierced into his body, sucking his flesh and blood, spreading outward.
Jiang Kai strained to turn his head, catching a glimpse from the corner of his eye of the scene beside him.
Just two or three meters away from him, there was actually a blurry human figure.
Strictly speaking, it wasn't a person yet—it had just formed its own bones and meridians, but overall its shape already looked very much like a human.
The vines over there were still nourishing and enriching this half-finished human's body, bit by bit refining its flesh.
Jiang Kai was utterly terrified.
Between him and that thing, countless vines were connected, and those vines were feeding on his flesh and blood, supplying that thing.
"This… this willow is trying to replicate another me?!" A terrifying thought flashed in Jiang Kai's mind.
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