"Six."

The shaman of the wood spirits gritted their teeth. "The wood spirits will fight with you. We can only control trees and plants, but we'll do so at your bidding wherever necessary."

This was one of the reasons Zhang Lie believed that the wood spirits distrusted them.

It was true that the wood spirits were eminently unsuited for a direct confrontation: if the corrupted creatures' claws were to strike the trees they occupied, the trees would become corrupted and swiftly blacken. If the wood spirits didn't extricate themselves from the trees in time, they would die within them.

The wood spirits' true forms were almost as fragile as those of the rock...