As Li Mu and the others were detoxifying and healing Xiao Chenzi and Xing Yu, the Demon Gods and Ultimate Realm experts relentlessly pursued the Mysterious Tree of Deceit, following its escape trajectory.
“Boom—!”
The dark Starry Sky trembled violently, and ten thousand bolts of lightning roared and exploded!
The Mysterious Tree of Deceit tore through the Void Realm, fleeing frantically. Its roots penetrated countless planes, and wherever it passed, the Laws of Heaven and Earth were twisted and broken, Spiritual Qi withered, and all things perished! Its trunk was covered with distorted faces, some wailing and roaring as if enduring Eternal torment, others grinning sinisterly as if mocking the powerlessness of all beings.
“Evil creature! You won’t escape!”
Celestial Venerable Fentian roared, his body ablaze with nine great sun true fires, transforming into nine Golden Crows that flapped their wings across the sky, incinerating thousands of miles of the Void Realm! The scorching flames burned through the Strange Tree’s afterimage, even scorching black cracks into space itself.
“Amitabha!”
Mind Clarity Holy Monk pressed his palms together, chanting Buddhist scriptures. Buddhist light illuminated everything, transforming into endless swastika Buddhist Seals that sealed off all directions. Along the Strange Tree’s escape path, countless golden chains emerged from the Void Realm, wrapping around it, attempting to restrain it.
However, the Strange Tree was unpredictable. The illusory image of Mind Clarity Holy Monk’s Heart Demon from his past Undergoing Tribulation appeared on its trunk, actually counter-eroding the Buddhist light, causing the Buddhist chant chains to break inch by inch!
“Hehehe… you can’t kill me!”
A strange voice echoed between heaven and earth, like the simultaneous wailing of ten thousand souls, making one’s hair stand on end.
“Noisy!”
Eternal Night Demon God stepped out, darkness enveloped heaven and earth, his figure like an endless abyss, devouring all light. The Void Realm around the Strange Tree suddenly collapsed, and countless shadowy tentacles stretched out from the darkness, fiercely strangling the Strange Tree’s main trunk!
“Crack—!”
A section of the Strange Tree’s branch was violently torn off, but the broken part instantly regenerated, twisted flesh wriggling madly, recovering in the blink of an eye!
“Hmph! Undying and Eternal? This Lord wants to see how many times you can Rebirth!”
Blood Hell Demon God sneered, raising a hand. An endless sea of blood surged, transforming into billions of blood blades that covered the sky and chopped down! Each blood blade contained the ultimate Law of killing, severing life force and annihilating the Divine Soul!
“Puff, puff, puff—!”
The Strange Tree’s trunk was cut with countless wounds, and gray-white sap spurted out, transforming into countless gray-white strange powers that scattered throughout heaven and earth.
“Boom—crack!”
Eternal Night Demon God’s lightless Demon Domain suddenly contracted, transforming tens of thousands of miles of Starry Sky into absolute darkness. In this Domain, which could even devour Divine Sense, the Strange Tree’s main trunk emitted a harsh scraping sound—that was the tens of thousands of human faces on the tree bark roaring simultaneously.
Each face twisted and deformed, finally transforming into the appearance of enemies Eternal Night Demon God had once devoured.
“Using this Lord’s demonic thoughts as a mirror? You seek death!”
Eternal Night Demon God formed a hand Seal, and the darkness suddenly materialized, condensing into billions of barbed shadow spears that pierced through the Strange Tree. However, the spear tips strangely bloomed into blood-colored mandalas—precisely the manifestation of his most secret obsessions.
Blood Hell Demon God grunted, and the sea of blood beneath his feet boiled and surged. The blood water contaminated by the Strange Tree’s sap actually condensed into translucent embryos. Each embryo contained an infant curled up, identical in appearance to him. The moment they opened their eyes, the entire sea of blood rolled back!
“It even contaminated this Lord’s blood offspring!”
Blood Hell Demon God was both shocked and enraged, forced to sever his left arm to form a blood gate. The severed arm fell into the sea of blood and grew seven hideous heads, madly tearing at the mutated blood embryos.
The nine Golden Crows were now a burden. Celestial Venerable Fentian was startled to find that each divine bird’s eyes reflected different versions of himself: the regret of a youth who accidentally killed a close friend, the decisiveness of burning down his Sect during a Breakthrough… The central Golden Crow suddenly split open, and what fell from its wings was not flames, but the flickering soul light of his Dao Companion at her death.
“What a Strange Dao, it can even twist this Venerable’s true sun fire!”
Celestial Venerable Fentian gritted his teeth and crushed his vital fire essence, and the nine great suns exploded simultaneously. Under the pure Law of fire, the illusions temporarily receded.
Bone Emperor Demon God’s white jade Dao bones were covered with gray patterns. He was horrified to discover that these patterns were precisely the inverse operation trajectory of the “Myriad Bones Withered Art.” Even more terrifying was that the Void Realm contaminated by the Strange Tree’s sap actually began to spontaneously condense incomplete bone fragments—each bone engraved with the totems of the tribes he had once slaughtered.
“Replicating this Emperor’s Karma?”
Bone Emperor Demon God summoned his vital spine sword, but the sword body grew dense mycelia midway, forming mocking faces—precisely the ninety-nine Personal Disciples he had refined into soul bones.
Profound Fiend Demon God tore open the demonic patterns on his chest, revealing the Nine Nether Yellow Springs suppressed within his body. Soul Devouring Demon God inverted his vital demonic pot, releasing the ancient fierce souls imprisoned for ten thousand years. The two Demon Gods jointly kneaded the Yellow Springs and fierce souls into a Nether River Spear entwined with soul-locking chains.
“Take this!”
The moment the Nether River Spear pierced through the Strange Tree’s main trunk, the entire giant tree suddenly stiffened. All the twisted human faces simultaneously let out infant cries, and the tree trunk’s surface was covered with dense “Scripture of Salvation” characters—these salvation scriptures were now operating in reverse, transforming the power of salvation into venomous curses.
The wound spurted out colorful pus and blood, each drop of blood encapsulating miniature versions of various Cultivation Techniques. Celestial Venerable Fentian’s “Great Sun Glazed Scripture,” Mind Clarity Holy Monk’s “Prajna Heart Sutra”… These supreme scriptures twisted and mutated in the pus and blood, reorganizing into new Strange Dao scriptures.
“Quickly retreat! It’s trying to devour the Origin of our Dao Lineages!”
Mind Clarity Holy Monk’s Arhat golden body suddenly cracked, and the illusory image of the Demonic Buddha he had suppressed eight hundred years ago appeared behind him. The old monk decisively cut off the Buddhist Law Domain, thereby severing the Strange Tree’s erosion of the Great Buddha’s Ultimate Dao.
The Strange Tree suddenly dismembered itself, its myriad branches transforming into gray-white quicksand. Each grain of sand reflected different spacetime fragments, and the Demon Gods were horrified to discover that some sand grains contained scenes of their own unexperienced demise.
“Damn it! What a troublesome thing, everyone, let’s join forces to Seal this heaven and earth, don’t let it escape!”
“Join forces to Seal!”
Eternal Night Demon God roared, his voice like an abyssal roar, shaking the Void Realm.
The eight Ultimate Realm experts simultaneously unleashed their Peak power, and the entire Star Domain instantly changed color!
Celestial Venerable Fentian’s nine great suns reignited, condensing into a true “sun,” its scorching flames transforming into a golden light pillar. He formed hand Seals and chanted an ancient forbidden curse: “Primordial Fire, burn all heavens!”
Mind Clarity Holy Monk’s Buddhist light surged, and the illusory image of a thousand-armed, thousand-eyed Great Buddha appeared behind him, each hand forming a different mudra, his mouth continuously chanting Buddhist scriptures: “Namo Amitabha—Prajna Paramita!”
The Buddhist Domain unfolded again, golden light illuminating everything, purifying all evil.
Eternal Night Demon God pushed his Demon Domain to its limit, darkness devouring light, time seemingly stagnating. His figure transformed into a ten-thousand-zhang demonic shadow, his eyes as deep as black holes, devouring heaven and earth.
Blood Hell Demon God roared, severing his left arm again for regeneration. The sea of blood surged, and billions of blood souls condensed into a blood pool. An ancient altar appeared in the pool, and on each altar knelt a blood shadow identical to him in appearance, chanting a blood curse in unison.
Bone Emperor Demon God held his white jade spine sword, reversing the “Myriad Bones Withered Art,” drawing upon Death Qi and Vengeful spirit, transforming them into white bone chains that wrapped around all directions, sealing the Strange Tree’s broken branches.
Profound Fiend Demon God’s demonic patterns flickered, invoking the power of the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, transforming it into a dark swamp, nailing the Strange Tree’s roots into the Void Realm.
Soul Devouring Demon God inverted his demonic pot, releasing ancient fierce souls, fusing them into a “Myriad Souls Co-body” battle spirit, roaring heaven-shatteringly as it lunged towards the Strange Tree’s core.
Formless Demon God revealed his illusory form, gently raising a hand, and the Laws of Heaven and Earth instantly twisted, controlling space, time, Karma, life, and death. He said coldly: “This realm does not tolerate your insolence. Today, I will Seal you in eternity.”
Fiery Owl Demon God revealed his true form, transforming into a sky-obscuring, sun-shrouding crimson flame giant bird, flapping its wings to burn the heavens and boil the seas, dyeing the battlefield crimson!
Eight completely different powers, at this moment, converged into an unprecedented terrifying pressure, causing heaven and earth to lose color and stars to dim!
“Seal—!”
With a command, the eight Ultimate Dao powers intertwined, forming an “Ultimate Dao Seal Formation” composed of light, darkness, fire, blood, bone, soul, curse, and time, completely sealing off the entire Starry Sky, preventing any spores carrying strange power from escaping.
Within the Formation, the Strange Tree struggled violently, its myriad human faces roaring and wailing, its branches twisting madly, releasing endless gray-white spores. However, as the Seal Formation closed, its power was slowly drawn away, and the gray-white sap evaporated into strange smoke, absorbed by the Formation.
“You… can’t kill me… When the Mother Tree descends, it will be your doomsday… devouring everything about you…”
The Strange Tree’s voice grew weaker and weaker, finally falling silent.
“Rumble—!!”
The Seal Formation completely closed, and the entire Starry Sky seemed to be compressed into a illusory spatial cage. The Strange Tree was completely suppressed within it, no longer able to escape!
The Demon Gods and Ultimate Realm experts were all panting, their faces pale, clearly indicating that this battle had almost exhausted all their Origin Qi.
Celestial Venerable Fentian looked at the Star Domain cage, a hint of apprehension appearing in his eyes, and said worriedly: “Can this thing be sealed?”
“Certainly not. However, with our strength, we cannot completely destroy it. We can only wait for Little Friend Li to come and let him try if he can wield the Chaotic Great Dao to completely refine it!”
Mind Clarity Holy Monk pressed his palms together and softly chanted a Buddhist name, but weariness was hard to hide between his brows: “This object is extraordinarily strange, capable of reflecting human obsessions and the Origin of Dao Lineages. If Little Friend Li had not received the Chaos Legacy, I fear there would be no other way to subdue it in this world.”
Eternal Night Demon God stood in the Void Realm, black mist swirling around him, his voice echoing like an abyss: “Chaotic Great Dao? Heh… that brat hasn’t even stepped into the Ultimate Realm, yet you dare to suggest he refine this Mysterious Tree of Deceit? This matter is extremely perilous; a slight mistake, and he might even suffer a backlash himself.”
Blood Hell Demon God snorted coldly, blood light flickering at his severed arm as it slowly regenerated: “But besides this, what else can we do? In that battle just now, we all caught a glimpse—this Mysterious Tree of Deceit is not an ordinary ‘life.’ It should be a separated entity of the Strange Dao will that is eroding the Demon Abyss, or rather… a Clone of the ‘Mother Body’.”
Bone Emperor Demon God gently stroked the white jade bone sword in his hand; the gray patterns on the sword body had not yet completely faded, and his tone was solemn: “What’s more terrifying is that it can even replicate our Karma and summon those we’ve killed in the past… If I hadn’t timely cut off the operation trajectory of the ‘Myriad Bones Withered Art,’ I would probably have already become its Puppet.”
Profound Fiend Demon God whispered: “It’s devouring, it’s evolving… Every injury is its way of understanding us. If we let it grow to its Peak, perhaps one day, it will truly be able to replace us.”
“So, let’s wait for Little Friend Li to arrive. With our Dao principles, we can’t deal with it!” Celestial Venerable Fentian said in a deep voice.
As soon as these words were spoken, all the Demon Gods and Ultimate Realm experts fell silent.
The powerful beings stood guard around the Star Domain, all looking behind them, quietly waiting for Star Dome Old Ancestor and the others to bring Li Mu. Now, only Li Mu, who cultivated the Chaotic Great Dao, could restrain this terrifying Mysterious Tree of Deceit.
Just at this moment, a strange phenomenon suddenly appeared!
The Star Domain cage, which had been firmly suppressed by the Ultimate Dao Seal Formation, now emitted a strange fluctuation. At first, it was just a slight tremor, like a candle flickering in the wind, but within a few breaths, the entire Void Realm began to twist violently, as if some colossal entity was about to break out of its cocoon!
“Something’s wrong!” Eternal Night Demon God suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils as deep and dark as abyssal whirlpools: “The Seal… is collapsing!”
Before his words finished, the illusory spatial cage suddenly let out a harsh “creaking” sound, like millions of bone spurs rubbing against each other, making one’s hair stand on end.
Immediately after, a gray-white light burst forth from the core of the Formation, like a sharp blade cutting through the sky!
“Boom—!!”
With a loud bang, the Seal Formation jointly laid down by the eight Ultimate Realm experts actually cracked open with several fissures in an instant, the cracks spewing out countless strange white Qi.
“Boom—crack!”
Gray-white cracks spread like a spider web, and the entire Star Domain shook violently, as if unable to withstand the awakening of some terrifying existence.
“Not good! It’s about to break the Seal!” Celestial Venerable Fentian roared, and the nine great sun true fires instantly erupted, his Extreme Fire Domain unfolding.
The next instant—
“Crack!”
The Seal completely shattered!
The Mysterious Tree of Deceit’s branches, like billions of gray-white giant pythons, surged out from the shattered Formation. Each branch had distorted faces appearing on it, some wailing, others grinning sinisterly, their voices overlapping, transforming into a harsh mental impact that shook the Primordial Spirits of the powerful beings!
“Be careful!” Mind Clarity Holy Monk’s Buddhist light surged, the thousand-armed Buddha illusory image formed a hand Seal, and Buddhist chants transformed into a golden light shield, barely resisting the sound wave’s invasion.
But at this moment—
“Pfft!”
A sharp gray-white branch pierced through Blood Hell Demon God’s chest as if teleporting!
“Ugh ah—!” Blood Hell Demon God grunted, looking down, horrified to find that the branch was madly devouring his Blood Sea Origin. At the same time, tree bark-like patterns rapidly appeared on his skin, as if to assimilate him into a part of the Strange Tree!
“Get lost!”
Eternal Night Demon God was enraged. His dark Demon Domain contracted to an extreme point, transforming into a pitch-black demonic blade that fiercely slashed at that branch!
“Hiss!” The branch snapped, but gray-white sap spurted from the break, splashing onto Eternal Night Demon God’s arm. In an instant, his flesh began to mutate, and dense, tiny roots appeared beneath his skin, madly eroding inwards!
“It’s devouring my Dao principles!” Bone Emperor Demon God roared, his white jade bone sword unleashing ten thousand Death Qi, attempting to strangle the Strange Tree’s main trunk. However, the moment the sword light touched the tree bark, billions of deceased souls he had once slaughtered appeared on the sword body, each reaching out to grab his wrist!
“Hehehe… you can’t escape…” The Strange Tree’s voice came from all directions. The giant mouth on its trunk slowly opened, spewing out gray-white mist. Within the mist, the Heart Demon illusions of the powerful beings actually condensed!
Before Celestial Venerable Fentian’s eyes appeared the Sect he had once burned down, countless charred corpses standing up, roaring and lunging at him; in Mind Clarity Holy Monk’s Buddhist light, the Demonic Buddha he had once suppressed was reflected, now grinning sinisterly; within Eternal Night Demon God’s dark Domain, countless deceased souls he had devoured crawled out, tearing at his demonic body! (End of Chapter)
