Chapter 30: Demon Guard

"Do you think I'm a fool? Either you agree now or die immediately and become my blood food."

Seeing that the surrounding vines were attacking him again, Zhou Chen quickly changed his words and said, "Wait, until I think about it, I promise to be your slave."

"Haha, well, in that case, I'll spare your life today." Then a black gas floated out from the tree. Looking at the black gas in front of him, Zhou Chen asked curiously, "What is this?"
"Suck him into your body, and from now on you will be my slave. You will never regret it in your life. If you regret it, you will explode and die."

Zhou Chen hesitated when he heard this. He originally thought that he had only agreed to it verbally, but he didn't expect that this tree demon actually had this trick.

Seeing that Zhou Chen was not moving, the tree demon asked impatiently, "Why are you unwilling?"
Just when Zhou Chen was hesitating, a voice came from behind him, "Damn it, little brother, don't listen to him."

Then, a hole suddenly appeared in the tree net above and behind, and a man jumped in from outside.

The man came to Zhou Chen with a dry straw in his mouth, patted Zhou Chen on the shoulder and said, "Don't be afraid, little brother. I am here today. This tree demon can't hurt you."

"Big brother, you have to be careful, this tree demon is no ordinary one."

The tree demon also spoke up and said, "Who are you to dare to ruin my good things?"

"Hmph, a mere seventh-rank tree demon dares to act so presumptuously in front of me."

Zhou Chen took a look at his attributes and found that his strength had reached 200. According to his guess, a strength of was at most rank eight. He actually dared to say this to a mere rank seven tree demon. No one knew where his confidence came from.

The tree demon also laughed, "Haha, a mere eighth-rank warrior dares to talk to me like that."

"Hmph, I'm not qualified, but I don't know if the three words 'Demon Suppression Guard' are enough."

This was the first time Zhou Chen had heard the words "Demon Suppression Guard". However, when the tree demon heard these three words, Zhou Chen clearly saw his tree body tremble, and he was obviously afraid.

"Since you are the Demon Suppression Guard, I will give you a favor today and you can take this kid away."

Zhou Chen was delighted after hearing this, but the next words from the Demon Suppression Guard made him feel cold, "You misunderstood. I am not here to save him, but to rid the people of this demon, you."

In an instant, the entrance to the cave behind him was blocked by the tangled roots of trees again. "In that case, the two of you should stay. How could I, a great seventh-rank demon, be afraid of an eighth-rank demon-suppressing guard like you?"

In an instant, Zhou Chen saw that everywhere he could see was covered with vines, and the vines covered the entire sky and earth and rushed towards the two of them.

"I'm not saying anything bad to you, brother, but we should have stopped while we were ahead."

"Hmph, don't be afraid, it's just an injured seventh-grade monster. It's not a problem. Just wait and see how I get rid of the monster."

Just as Zhou Chen was looking astonished, the Demon-Suppressing Guard slowly drew out his sword. The moment the sword came out, the blade emitted a blood-red light. The vines were illuminated by the red light and exploded instantly when they were three meters away from the two of them.

After the long sword was fully out of its body, Zhou Chen found that the blade was covered with strange words, "Hmph, today I will let you see the power of the Demon-Suppressing Sword."

After saying that, he roared and swung his sword at the tree monster's body. A red sword energy instantly flew towards the tree monster.

The tree demon controlled the surrounding vines to resist the red sword energy, but the vines were instantly shattered when they touched the red sword energy.

All the vines were unable to withstand the red sword energy. The tree demon saw this and bursts of black mist surged out from the tree trunk. The tree demon roared, "Magic power corrosion mist", and saw the black mist floating towards the sword energy.

The invincible sword energy was instantly corroded after touching the black fog, and then the black fog slowly floated towards Zhou Chen and the others.

The demon-suppressing guard yelled "Not good", he didn't expect that the tree demon could still use its magical powers after being so seriously injured, follow me closely, little brother. Then he turned around and ran away, Zhou Chen was shocked to see this and followed closely behind him.

"Hahahaha, hahaha, you've pushed me to this point and you still want to run away? Stay here."

Then, vines from all directions quickly grabbed the two of them. Fortunately, the Demon-Suppressing Guard had the Demon-Suppressing Sword in his hand. Although there were many vines, the Demon-Suppressing Sword could deal with them as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.

When they were about to run to the door, they were finally surrounded by black fog. The black fog was highly poisonous, so the two naturally did not dare to get close.

The Demon Suppression Guard cursed, "Damn these good-for-nothings. The information they provided was actually wrong. If they manage to escape this time, I'll show you how I'm going to deal with them."

The black fog was getting closer and closer. In just one minute, the area within five meters around the two of them was completely filled with dark fog.

At this moment, the Demon Suppression Guards are helpless. They are a special agency of the empire, specifically used to deal with the demons in the empire. However, the Demon Suppression Guards are divided into different levels. The higher the level, the stronger the strength. The Demon Suppression Guard in front of Zhou Chen is the lowest level Demon Suppression Guard.

It's OK for dealing with ordinary monsters, but it's still a little lacking against this seventh-rank tree monster. "Brother, we two will not be lonely on the road to the underworld today because we have a companion. We'll be together next week."

"My little brother is Zhou Chen."

"Haha, I didn't expect you and I are from the same family." As he spoke, the black fog approached again. At this time, the black fog was less than two meters away from the two of them, so they had to lean against each other.

"Haha, after I suck the flesh and blood of you two, my strength will be even greater than before. Who in Qinghua County will be my opponent?"

At this moment, Zhou Chen looked at the black fog approaching in front of him and slowly closed his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, a strong wind began to blow beside him.

The approaching black fog was blown back several meters by the strong wind. Zhou Lei was overjoyed when he saw this and said, "Brother, I didn't expect you to have this skill."

"I didn't expect it to be so useful. Then he waved his hand, and a breeze blew in all directions with the two of them as the center, and the black fog around them was directly blown away by the breeze."

Soon the door behind them appeared in their sight, "Brother Zhou, quickly break open this door."

Zhou Lei laughed loudly, "Haha, Brother Zhou, with you here, there's no need for us to run away. Come with me to get rid of the monster."

Zhou Chen thought about it and nodded, "Okay, today I will have a good fight with this tree monster with you, Brother Zhou."

After saying that, the two of them rushed towards the direction where the tree monster was. A breeze blew wherever they passed, and the poisonous black fog was instantly blown away, and the tree monster's true form soon revealed.

Seeing this, the tree demon also burrowed into the ground, "Brother Zhou, this is bad, he is trying to escape."

"Humph, it's not that easy to escape." Zhou Lei held the knife in his right hand and wiped the blade with his left hand. A red light instantly appeared on the blade, and then Zhou Lei threw out the Demon-Suppressing Knife fiercely.

The Demon-Slaying Sword flew towards the tree demon's body at an extremely fast speed and pierced his body before he completely burrowed into the ground.

Then a heart-wrenching howl was heard, and the tree monster's body broke out of the ground. At this time, the Demon-Slaying Knife was inserted into the tree monster's body, and the place where the Demon-Slaying Knife was inserted began to wither at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The withering spread quickly, and in just a dozen seconds the big tree had withered.

Zhou Lei quickly stepped forward and pulled out his Demon-Slaying Sword, then kicked the tree. The thirty-meter-tall tree instantly shattered into countless pieces.

Except for this tree demon, Zhou Lei was in a good mood and walked towards Zhou Chen with a smile.

(End of this chapter)