Chapter 608 Stalling for time
?The wood woman revealed a deep frown when she heard this.
She was about to stab that wooden hand of hers into Lin Li Zi's neck to draw some blood to show that she meant business, but she found that there was nothing there.
She had been so focused on Lin Fan that she didn't even notice that Lin Li Zi had suddenly disappeared.
When the wood woman looked at Lin Fan again, she found that Lin Li Zi was actually in Lin Fan's hand.
He was carrying her in one hand while holding the sword in his other.
She hadn't even seen him move or pull out this sword, but here he was having done both.
Just how had he done it?
Lin Li Zi also had a shocked look on her face when she saw this.
One moment, she had been staring at Lin Fan, but then the next, she was in his arms.
She didn't even know how it had happened.
The look on her face seemed like she wanted to ask Lin Fan about what had just happened, but she saw that Lin Fan wasn't even looking at her. Even though he had saved her, his attention wasn't on Lin Li Zi at all.
Instead, his full attention was on the wood woman standing in front of them.
The wood woman revealed a very ugly look when she saw that Lin Li Zi was in Lin Fan's hand, but there was nothing that she could do about this situation.
She had lost their only hostage, so this matter couldn't be settled as easily.
Though she didn't seem like she was panicking at all.
It was almost as if she had some kind of hidden trump card that she had been hiding the entire time. This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com
The other tree men just stood there, it didn't seem like they were in a hurry to attack.
After a long silence, the tree woman said, "You should have just surrendered, we would have treated you kindly and given you a quick death. Why do you want to prolong your suffering like this?"
Lin Fan didn't say anything in response to this as he waited for the tree woman to explain.
After all, villains loved their monologue.
Seeing that Lin Fan didn't say anything, the tree woman didn't seem to mind as she said, "The wine that you drank, don't you know better than to accept drinks from strangers?"
Lin Li Zi looked up at Lin Fan with a shocked look when she heard this as she could guess what the tree woman wanted to say.
But she found that Lin Fan had a calm look on his face, as if he wasn't bothered by this at all.
The tree woman revealed a wide smile as she said, "Even now, the poison in that wine is passing through your system. Why do you think that I'm stalling for all this time?"
Lin Li Zi grabbed Lin Fan's arm and wanted to say something, but Lin Fan just shook his head as if he was telling her to remain silent.
"Attack! Surround him and take them down!" The tree woman suddenly shouted.
All of the tree men who had been standing still suddenly started charging forward at Lin Fan.
They had been waiting for the poison to work, but they had heard everything that had been said and knew that they had to seize this chance.
It was just too bad that Lin Fan didn't leave a single opening for them.
From the very beginning, there was a reason why he had been stalling for time as well.
With a single swing, there was a long flame condensed blade that came out from the sword that he swung.
This flame blade cut through everyone around him, cutting through the tree men and the tree woman, splitting them in half at the torso.
Since they were trees, the bottom half remained firmly planted on the ground while the top half fell with heavy thuds.
Lin Li Zi looked on in shock as she saw the tree men and tree woman suddenly fall before turning to look at Lin Fan's sword.
At this point, the flames had scattered and only a few flames clung to his sword still.
Lin Fan didn't care about this as he put her down and put the sword away.
He had been stalling this entire time to gather his flames around his sword so he could release it all in one slash like this. He had wanted to make sure that the flames would be strong and long enough to take down all of the tree creatures around him in one swing, so he had to stall for quite a while.
Still, he had stalled long enough and had been able to cut them down just like this.
After they all fell down, Lin Fan walked forward towards the top half of the tree woman.
As he walked past her bottom half, he couldn't help looking at the top part of that bottom half.
He found that there was no blood flowing from the top half, there was just scorched sap that condensed around the part that had been cut.
After he walked over, he stood over the tree woman and said, "So, do you want to tell me who the one controlling you all is?"
The tree woman revealed a surprised look when she heard this, but then she suddenly gave a cough and spat out some sap.
Lin Fan couldn't help being surprised to see this.
He had already thought that the sap replaced their blood when he saw the bottom half, but seeing her cough up sap like this really was a strange sight.
The tree woman looked up at Lin Fan after coughing out this sap and said, "You think that you'll be able to escape now that you've done this?"
Lin Fan just ignored this question and said, "You're not willing to tell me?"
The tree woman spat out some sap and said, "Just wash your necks and wait for your..."
Before she could finish, there was a flame dagger that suddenly stabbed right into her head that pinned her to the ground and she fell silent.
Lin Li Zi had slowly walked over while Lin Fan was talking to the tree woman and she couldn't help being surprised by how decisive Lin Fan was.
"Didn't you want information from them?" She couldn't help asking.
Lin Fan shook his head and said, "She wouldn't have given it, so there was no point. We shouldn't stay here for long."
Lin Li Zi looked at the mist that surrounded them and slowly gave a nod in agreement.