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Third Arc: Immortal Spirit II
He Chunhua raised his mandate token high and proclaimed, “I am He Chunhua, Grand Administrator of Qiansong Commandery in Jin Province, appointed Governor-General of Xia Province! We require your aid to repel the enemy. If you refuse, I will order this redwood forest cut down to block their path!”
The guardian spirit roared with fury, “You dare!”
Dawn redwood trees grew slowly[1]. The five felled already were all over a century old, and one of them was even more than two hundred years old. They were saplings that it had personally watched grow into towering trees.
“What would I not dare?” He Chunhua’s expression was impassive. “Strike me, and you will lose your place as guardian spirit of this land.”
The guardian spirit fell silent.
The truth was, the post granted by the kingdom was an easy one. Mortals rarely came to ask anything of it. What the post gave in return was a steady stream of origin energy, which was invaluable to its cultivation.
It owed its extraordinary size, which was over ten meters taller than its kindred, entirely to that origin energy. Having tasted such a gift, it had no wish to lose it.
“At most, I can hold them off for two hours and no longer than that!” the...
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