Chapter 1300: Sword City Alive (III)
As Li Hao made his way toward the rear of the school campus, a nearly annihilated tree abruptly stopped all motion. It returned to a state of absolute stillness, like it’d completely died out. The only sight it presented was a tattered stump covered with sword marks and a set of roots split down the middle.
A person appeared a moment later—Li Hao!
He likewise saw a tree, one that’d been severed into two and left with only a few tree roots. The roots had been further hacked apart. They stabbed into the ground like each of them were sharp blades.
“The sword tree?” Li Hao blinked. The guardian plant spirit of Sword City wasn’t anywhere else but the newly built school grounds!
And it was dead!
There seemed to be the barest sliver of its stump left. The roots were broken and cracked in a messy disarray. They would be valuable treasures to most people, but to Li Hao... they were worthless.
This location was the densest concentration of sword intent that he’d detected in the city. When he extended his senses, he detected vague hints of two types of sword intent clashing against each other. Clearly, Li Daoheng had paid a price to kill the sword tree. The two had fought here.
The Sword Sovereign himself had nurtured the sword tree to maturity. He’d apparently practiced his sword beneath its shade. The tree could be considered as a direct disciple of the Sword Sovereign. Technically speaking, it could even call the Human King its senior brother!
“Peak Saint? He’s killed even the roots of the sword tree planted by the Sword Sovereign... This guy’s pretty scary!” Li Hao murmured to himself with some regret. “What a pity that the Lis have been eradicated. Not even this tree could save Sword City at the end of the day. It looks like the Sword Sovereign miscalculated! We’re one hundred thousand years too late, Stellaris. Otherwise, we could’ve taken on Li Daoheng ourselves!”
There was no sound and no response. There was only that ruined tree to be found.
“It looks like there’s no hope of that!” Li Hao sighed with utmost grief. “How we can get back to our world is already a big enough problem. The Silver Moon world bestowed by the Human King is about to fall into the hands of the enemy! What a pity, what an utter pity!
“I’d thought that I’d be able to find some ways or ideas to use against Zheng Yu, the exalted emperor, and Li Daoheng. But there’s nothing here!”