The Tree tribe is unlike the Human Race; there’s no issue of kinship sentiment.

Plants need sunlight and water to grow. These natural resources are needed by the Tree tribe, leading to competition.

Take the example of the Redwood Spirit that Feng Jun killed. It wanted to monopolize these resources and controlled its subordinate Redwoods, forbidding them from advancing to the Golden Core.

As for the relationships between different tree species, these might be worse than their relationships with the Human Race.

The Tree tribe has never been a unified group, completely different from the Human Race. Although internal conflicts among humans are not uncommon, they generally can unite against foreign threats—at least there’s this concept.

The Tree tribe lacks even the concept of uniting against outsiders. That’s why the Wood User doesn’t mind dealing with the Lingmu Sect.

The Dragon Scale Tree scheming against the Transpatial Vine doesn’t have any moral pressure. It even stated, "The Transpatial Vine is seriously injured, the Lingmu Sect will back it up, but if I’m seriously injured, you’ll need to provide Spirit Stones for healing."

It thought its reasoning was sound enough to persuade Elder Tiegu. In fact, it was a bit scared.

Elder Tiegu also had his own little calculations, but he understood trade-offs well, knowing when he could take small advantages and when he must prioritize the bigger picture. He knew this was not the time for petty calculations!

He snorted coldly, "Enough nonsense. They are here to support our battle, and you aren’t lacking Spirit Mechanisms... Get on with it!"

At this moment, another roar echoed, but it came from the Transpatial Vine, "Bastard, I’ll kill you!"

The Jade Spore Skyworm, however, blinked and had already moved five hundred miles away.

This was the first time it had run so far during the fight, but it was genuinely evading, for it had taken advantage of the Transpatial Vine’s loss of control and delivered a vicious blow, controlling the mycelium to viciously strangle the main root near the ground.

The outside world talked about how terrifying the Jade Spore Skyworm’s spores were, but few noticed that the mycelium was highly toxic and had a certain parasitic ability.

Using this move, it immediately turned around to flee; no predator likes facing a maddened powerful prey, and the Jade Spore Skyworm was no exception. It wasn’t necessarily afraid of confronting its opponent head-on, but if it could reduce some losses, why not?

So far, the opponent was essentially in trouble, giving it enough time to slowly wear down its opponent.

Meanwhile, it continued to remotely control the mycelium, continuously inputting toxins—if the opponent wanted to break through the mycelium, they could go ahead. In this process, the Transpatial Vine would suffer more toxin erosion.

Facing such a rogue tactic, this Transpatial Vine was truly unlucky.

"Charge!" Elder Tiegu couldn’t care less now. His face darkened as he fought Yi Jue, yet in his Sea of Consciousness, he cursed the Longlin Wood, "Fool, don’t you understand that when the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold?"

The Dragon Scale Tree had no choice after being scolded. Just as it was about to blink forward, it found the Jade Spore Skyworm blink again, and this time it came towards it—indeed, to its left front and right front, there were Jade Spore Skyworms each.

I am trapped! The Dragon Scale Tree instantly retreated another two hundred miles: at least one of these two must not be an illusion!

However, this was still the Jade Spore Skyworm’s deterrence strategy. It circled around in front of the Dragon Scale Tree and then blinked from another direction to the side of the Transpatial Vine, launching another spore, followed by releasing mycelium for a second attack on the Transpatial Vine.

Feng Jun didn’t see the underground battles, but just from the surface manifestations, he couldn’t help but exclaim: this is truly a qualified hunter.

However, this time, the Jade Spore Skyworm suffered a slight loss. The Transpatial Vine thrashed wildly, rapidly soaring into the sky while twisting its body incessantly, one of the small vines near the ground precisely swept across a pointy mushroom over ten meters high.

The pointy mushroom was swept up into the air, turning into a massive white fat worm, landing over ten miles away.

This strike seemed fierce, but for the Skyworm, it was merely a scratch. After landing, it instantly transformed into a mushroom and quickly vanished—once it could land, it could enter the earth anytime.

After knocking it airborne, the Transpatial Vine didn’t pursue but twisted its vines even more frantically, with more side vines growing, branches flying everywhere, hitting randomly without distinguishing between friend and foe.

Generally, a vine wouldn’t have many branches, and for the Transpatial Vine, it strived to grow straight upwards; what use were many side branches?

The current madness of sprouting side branches was merely a result of having too much life energy needing an outlet, and side branches were a good choice, allowing its internal spiritual energy to circulate quickly—it wasn’t accustomed to this growth, but had no other choice.

Yet its troubles didn’t stop there; the rapid spiritual energy depletion facilitated the circulation of the Skyworm’s poison, causing its thoughts to become chaotic—its main Divine Sense was very close to the ground.

Elder Tiegu’s face suddenly sank upon seeing this, inwardly exclaiming that things were bad, "Little Dragon, hurry, the Transpatial Vine has gone mad!"

The Transpatial Vine was a spirit plant artificially created by the cultivators of the Lingmu Sect. Initially, it wasn’t cultivated well, primarily due to a lack of control.

Over ten thousand years have passed, and through focused selection, the plants have become relatively stable, though the process was extremely arduous.

Yet even so, in terms of "effective control," it’s only relatively stable, not absolutely stable.

Once faced with unbearable impacts, especially in terms of Divine Sense, the potential for the Transpatial Vine to go berserk remains significant.

Indeed, this is a Spirit Plant with flaws. However, since the Lingmu Sect currently mainly uses it to prevent spatial rifts, the danger isn’t too great. After all, the plants will continue to be selected, and in the coming ten thousand years, surely more stable plants will emerge.

Elder Tiegu doesn’t know much about the Transpatial Vine—he’s not even aware of how many Transpatial Vines there are in the Lingmu Sect, but when he planned to use it in battle, other elders informed him that this thing has its minor flaws.

This time, Yi Jue used "Thought of Life" in an inexplicable manner, and the Jade Spore Skyworm’s attack on the Transpatial Vine was unprecedented, with spores and poisonous threads, a combat technique far beyond the imagination of the Transpatial Vine.

Thus, it fell into madness, which is perfectly understandable.

Upon receiving Elder Tiegu’s Divine Sense, the Dragon Scale Tree mustered courage, "Why don’t you run?"

It has a contract with Elder Tiegu. Once Tiegu dies, it cannot survive alone. He’s already asked it to escape, indicating the most crucial moment, a time to fight until the end!

"This lunatic woman is entangled with me!" Elder Tiegu was also a bit frustrated. Seeing the state of the Transpatial Vine, Yi Jue the True Immortal seemed to have guessed something and began attacking aggressively, "In a battle of life and death, I want to drag her down with me!"

In truth, he really doesn’t want to run; it’s already a desperate situation where he himself can escape, but the Lingmu Sect cannot run on legs. His plan is to defeat Yi Jue first, to vent his anger and to eliminate a future rival, contributing to the sect.

If he achieves this goal, then the rest is just bonus.

"Fight!" The Dragon Scale Tree Blinked over. It had selfish motives but was absolutely uncompromising when it came to fighting.

It teamed up with Elder Tiegu to attack Yi Jue, taking advantage of the fact that the Transpatial Vine hadn’t been subdued yet. They needed a fast battle, or else once the Jade Spore Skyworm leapt into action, winning this fight would become difficult.

Thus, their attack methods were extraordinarily fierce.

Yi Jue the True Immortal seemed to guess their intentions, and instead began to defend, seemingly waiting for the Skyworm’s success.

When she focused on defense, she was stable like a Mystic Turtle of ten thousand years, defending while loudly speaking.

"Agreed to a duel, yet you use the Dragon Scale Wood, fine, but also using this external vine? Don’t you have any shame? I am curious why you haven’t summoned your Lingmu Battle Formation?"

She had long wanted to say this, but the battle had been too intense to spare any attention. Now, with an attack and defense phase, though fierce, it was a conventional combat tactic, just consuming a lot of Spiritual Energy, allowing her some mind to speak.

"Hmph," Elder Tiegu huffed coldly and responded boldly, "This object comes from our Lingmu Sect’s exclusive spirit woods, temporarily entrusted by our sect leader. To guard against sneak attacks; I use one to protect key areas, one for self-defense. Why can’t I use it?"

His choice of the Transpatial Vine was indeed significant. Otherwise, borrowing spirit woods from others was an option too. Despite knowing the Transpatial Vine had flaws, he persisted as he felt his actions were justified!

Even if destined for social death, he cared for his dignity. Spirit wood assigned by the sect was within his right to use. Was this reasoning justifiable? Judging by the onlookers’ eyes, roughly no, but it seemed more reasonable than "other cultivators disliked you, hence lending help out of camaraderie."

"Actually, you could bring out the Lingmu Battle Formation," Yi Jue smirked disdainfully, "Feel free to try, to see if I have methods to restrain the Lingmu Battle Formation."

Everyone knows, the Spirit Plant Sect has always been researching ways to counter the Lingmu Battle Formation, and there’s been some progress—cultivating Spirit Insects, using poisons, and the Five Elements Pros and Cons Technique.

The Five Elements Pros and Cons Technique reportedly made considerable progress, though it’s not very stable and costs too much.

With Yi Jue saying so, maybe she carried something to test in actual combat.

However, Elder Tiegu didn’t fall into the trap, knowing perfectly well if he really deployed a battle formation against Yi Jue, aside from the sect’s loss of face, the watching cultivators wouldn’t consent.

He sneered, "Transpatial Vine, attack!"

Fatefully, this was when the Transpatial Vine got attacked again. The Jade Spore Skyworm didn’t approach but manipulated threads from afar, attacking the vine’s roots for the third time—which stabilized everything!

As the Transpatial Vine was going berserk, receiving this command, it turned and spotted a towering tree nearby, thrashing its vines viciously—what attacked me turned out to be a plant!

Watching the sky-full of vines sweeping over, the Dragon Scale Wood was dumbstruck, "Ah?"