The true body of the Strange Tree descended, and the turbid strange mist instantly solidified, heavy as lead, crushing space, and an invisible force field steamed up from the strange white sap flowing from the Strange Tree's main trunk.
The destructive light streams launched by massive numbers of Spiritual Ships crashed into the viscous vortex, their speed delayed and their forms distorted.
The blazing white radiance was infiltrated and nurtured by the pale white energy, causing the entire destructive torrent to become defiled and transmuted, transforming into pale white light streams emitting an aura of decay, which then coiled around the Strange Tree's roots, dissipating powerlessly and merging into the turbid strange mist.
"Attack ineffective! Target energy field… distorting attack!" The detecting Cultivator's voice was filled with despair.
"Roar!"
As the Strange Tree descended, the roar of the strange Soul shattered the consciousness of billions of living beings, and the countless pores on the Strange Tree's main trunk suddenly expanded, as its massive, gnarled, twisted, and rotten Dragon Corpse-like roots surged forth!
The rotten roots broke free from the mist sea's shackles, like countless giant whips tearing through the Void Realm, carrying the power to collapse stars, striking fiercely towards the Immortal Dynasty's main fleet!
The root tendrils tore through space, leaving defiled cracks! Laws twisted and broke apart!
"Evade! Emergency evade!" The alarm shrieked.
However, it was already too late!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Dull impacts resounded through the Star Domain! A rotten root tendril, thick as a mountain, smashed through the gigantic fortress ship's Spiritual Energy shield, which shattered like glass!
An ear-splitting sound of metal tearing! A huge gash was ripped in the side armor of the fortress ship, and cabins, pipelines, and Cultivators were instantly crushed! The explosion's fire was swallowed by the strange mist.
A root tendril coiled around a high-speed cruiser, and the strange white sap corroded the armor, making a "sizzle" sound.
The engine spewed flames from overload, unable to break free from the rotten immense force, and the root tendril tightened sharply!
With a "crack!" the cruiser snapped in half instantly, as brittle as paper, its wreckage tumbling into friendly forces, causing successive explosions!
Ten thousand root tendrils rampaged and danced wildly within the fleet formation, stirring up a storm of steel and flesh!
Warship explosions bloomed like pale white fireworks in the turbid mist sea, the sturdy formation was completely torn apart, desperate shouts, dying screams, and the roar of warships disintegrating, mixed with the viscous churning strange mist, played a dirge of doomsday.
As the root tendrils danced wildly, the countless expanding pores on the Strange Tree's main trunk erupted with a terrifying torrent!
Surging strange white dense mist! The mist condensed into a viscous, rushing pale white sap! Billions of defiled waterfalls poured from the Strange Tree's main body, engulfing vast areas of the Star Domain!
When the dense mist touched the Immortal Dynasty's warships, regardless of the size of their shields, pale white pulsating veins appeared on their armor surfaces, the metal groaned and softened, rusted, and disintegrated, the Spiritual Power circuits were polluted and twisted, and the core of the control formation erupted with chaotic pale white electric sparks.
The Cultivators' protective spiritual light dimmed like a candle in the wind, and when their skin touched the mist, pale white marks appeared, their flesh turned gray and stiff, their screams cut short, the dense mist devoured life, their bodies shriveled and decayed, turning into twisted skeletons covered in pale white mycelia within the mist!
The strange white dense mist swept through, turning steel into rotten iron, living beings into withered bones, and stars lost their light. The breath of death, the power of annihilation, under the furious will of the Strange Tree's main body, the defiled torrent was unstoppable, dragging the starry sky behind the Immortal Dynasty's fleet into eternal strange white silence!
The remnants of the Immortal Dynasty's fleet, under the turbid torrent and the dancing myriad roots, completely disintegrated like withered leaves in a strong wind!
Gigantic fortress ships, dragging their torn hulls, burned and disintegrated in the dense mist; cruiser groups were shredded and flung away by the rotten roots, their metal wreckage mixed with the withered bones of Cultivators, tumbling and sinking in the viscous strange white sap.
The steel torrent of the main fleet, the war will accumulated over thirty years, was like a sandcastle before the true body of the Strange Tree, instantly shattered and swallowed by the defiled waves!
"Retreat! All fleet, cover the rear and block the enemy! Main force... retreat to the Second Star Chain!"
The desperate order from the commander of the three armies spread through the interference communication to all ships.
The remaining warships erupted with a final frenzy, their engines overloaded, spewing dazzling tail flames, pushing through the sky full of rotten root tendrils and surging strange white sap, retreating awkwardly towards the rear Star Domain.
The covering ships unleashed self-destructive firepower, attempting to impede the invasion, like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, exploding one after another into pale white light clusters in the turbid torrent, then being swallowed by the dense mist.
With the obstacles removed,
the Strange Tree's gnarled, rotten, massive main trunk, flowing with thick, pale white viscous sap, slowly crushed through the broken boundary gap, completely invading the Immortal Domain!
Its roots greedily burrowed into the Immortal Domain's starry sky, like billions of poisonous pythons sucking vitality, frantically absorbing the Origin energy of heaven and earth, as the turbid strange white dense mist surged in, its concentration rapidly increasing, and wherever it passed, starlight was extinguished, and Immortal Spiritual Qi was polluted and assimilated, turning into a decaying pale white.
The Void Realm groaned, the entire Star Domain twisted and deformed under the strange mist's erosion, forming spreading patches of strange white mire.
The Great Qianyuan Immortal Domain, this fertile land that nurtured countless living beings and flowed with ancient Dao Laws, was being forcibly dragged into the abyss of corrupted silence!
The entire world teetered on the brink, the Divine Souls of billions of living beings were being ground down by a terrifying will, nearing collapse!
"Om...!"
A vast and ancient will suddenly awakened from the endless stars, mountains, rivers, seas, and wisps of Spiritual Qi within the Immortal Domain, the will of the Immortal Domain's heaven and earth materialized, and the ancient territory faced the crisis of complete annihilation, instinctively launching a tragic ultimate resistance!
Endless thunderclouds materialized out of thin air, instantly covering hundreds of millions of miles of the Star Domain. These thunderclouds were pitch black, heavy as lead, and within them, billions of dazzling, blindingly bright white electric snakes rolled! Deep within the cloud layer, terrifying destructive aura furiously gathered and brewed, as if the entire Immortal Domain's wrath and Law power were concentrated there!
The thunderclouds surged, like a boiling ink sea, and a purple-gold Lightning Tribulation, with a diameter comparable to a star, tore through the thick cloud layer, carrying the supreme will of judgment and purification, and fiercely struck down, its target directly pointing at the terrifying Strange Tree that had invaded this realm!
Wherever the Lightning Tribulation passed, the defiled strange white dense mist seemed to encounter its nemesis, emitting an ear-piercing "sizzle" sound, being forcibly evaporated and torn apart! The power of thunder, imbued with the Laws of heaven and earth, heavily struck the Strange Tree's main trunk, which was flowing with pale white viscous sap!
"Sizzle—!!!"
Dazzling electric light exploded! The part of the Strange Tree's main trunk that was struck, its thick pale white viscous sap instantly boiled and evaporated, and the rotten material forming the trunk charred and carbonized! A wisp of greenish smoke carrying a decaying aura rose, and the Strange Tree's main body emitted a Soul-tearing shriek! Its entire massive body that had invaded the Immortal Domain trembled violently!
This was only the beginning!
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!..."
Billions of Lightning Tribulations, of varying thickness, poured down like a heavenly river from the terrifying thunderclouds covering the Star Domain, engulfing billions of strange white root tendrils that had burrowed into the Immortal Domain's starry sky, frantically sucking its Origin, as well as the stitched giants roaring in the strange mist!
Lightning exploded, illuminating the turbid starry sky!
The Strange Tree's root tendrils struck by the Lightning Tribulation, like poisonous snakes burned by a red-hot branding iron, twitched and spasmed violently! The pale white viscous sap on their surface was instantly purified and stripped away, revealing the charred, rotten interior beneath! Large numbers of root tendrils directly broke and disintegrated under the violent power of the thunder, turning into ashes!
The stitched giants wailed in the lightning, their combination of metal and rotting flesh was torn into pieces, and the defiled energy was forcibly dispelled and annihilated!
The strange white dense mist violently churned and retreated under the dense Lightning Tribulation bombardment, like snow exposed to the scorching sun, being evaporated and purified in large swaths!
The counterattack of this realm's heaven and earth will descended in the form of the most violent Lightning Tribulation. This thundercloud was the Immortal Domain's last barrier, the ultimate judgment of order and Law against annihilation and defilement!
The Strange Tree's main body let out a furious roar amidst the Lightning Tribulation's surge, its massive roots that had invaded the Immortal Domain danced wildly, like billions of pale white rotten giant pythons, carrying even more intensely defiled strange white sap, fiercely striking towards the terrifying thunderclouds covering the Star Domain. Wherever the root tendrils passed, space was forcibly corroded, twisted, invaded, and polluted by the defiled power, affecting this tribulation cloud that represented the will of this realm's heaven and earth!
The thunderclouds churned, and even more violent thunder brewed deep within the clouds! Billions of Lightning Tribulations, like an angry Dragon swarm, met the striking rotten root tendrils, striking fiercely!
"Rumble—!!!"
Purple-gold thunder collided violently with the defiled strange white!
A destructive energy storm erupted at the point of impact! Blazing white lightning and decaying strange white sap furiously intertwined and annihilated each other! The most direct confrontation at the Law level! The purifying power of thunder and the annihilating power of the strange mist fiercely bit and wore away at each other on the shattered edge of the Immortal Domain!
The thundercloud was struck by the defiled root tendrils, its peripheral areas violently churned and dimmed, as if a part of it had been forcibly polluted, while even more violent Lightning Tribulations were forming in its core area!
The Strange Tree's root tendrils charred and broke under the lightning bombardment, the defiled sap evaporated, emitting a foul odor, and its massive trunk trembled under the Lightning Tribulation's cleansing!
Thunderclouds churned, Lightning Tribulations rained down, the Strange Tree danced its roots, and defilement surged wildly!
The Immortal Domain burned its last Heaven and Earth Origin, using this world-ending Lightning Tribulation covering the Star Domain, to firmly hold back the invader that sought to drag everything into eternal strange white silence. Two great powers representing opposing cosmic rules fiercely collided and tore at each other on the shattered edge of the Immortal Domain!
At this moment, Li Mu, with his three thousand Disciples, streaked into the battlefield like meteors.
The charred wound on the Strange Tree's main trunk, struck by the Lightning Tribulation, still churned with defiled greenish smoke, and billions of root tendrils, entwined with thick sap, were fiercely battling the sky-filled Lightning Tribulations. The edge of the thundercloud already showed signs of decay, while the Strange Tree's dancing root tendrils were also continuously disintegrating under the thunder.
"Form the formation!"
Li Mu's expression was grave, and he commanded in a deep voice.
The more than three thousand Disciples behind him responded. The Sword Cultivators pointed their fingers like sharp blades, drawing forth the sharp Qi to cut through the defilement; the wood-attribute Cultivators swayed with green shadows, their vital Dao rhyme transforming into invisible barriers, resisting the strange mist's erosion; the earth-attribute Cultivators stepped on the Void Realm, and the phantom of the Nine Mountains Suppressing Hell Seal appeared, stabilizing the violently shaking spatial nodes… The three thousand Dao Seeds, each displaying its unique abilities, though of varying strengths, all originated from the same source. Under Li Mu's command of the Chaotic Dao Domain, they instantly formed a colossal Dao Net covering the Star River!
The Chaotic Dao Intent, the beginning of all Laws, now became a bridge connecting the Laws of this realm with the Lightning Tribulation!
Li Mu stood at the core of the formation, his eyes reflecting the dim yet tenacious Origin will deep within the thundercloud's core. He pressed his hands down virtually, and the majestic phantom of the Dao Tree from the Chaos Treasure Mansion, for the first time, manifested without reservation in the Immortal Domain's starry sky!
The Dao Tree phantom took root in the Void Realm, its branches and leaves spreading, each leaf flowing with the aura of Chaos's beginning. It gently swayed, and an immense, irresistible Chaotic Dao rhyme silently poured into the world-ending thundercloud, which was being eroded by the strange mist and appeared somewhat fatigued!
"Boom—!!!"
Nourished by this Chaos Origin, the dim core of the thundercloud erupted with an unprecedented blazing light, as if molten lava had been poured into it! The polluted, decaying areas at the edge were forcibly dispelled and purified! The thundercloud covering the Star Domain suddenly expanded and thickened, and the light band brewing within it gained a hint of the gray color of Chaos's beginning and the destruction of all Laws!
In the next instant, billions of Chaotic Lightning Tribulations, entwined with a gray aura, like giant axes splitting heaven and earth, carrying ten or even a hundred times more destructive and purifying power than before, tore through the turbid strange mist, and fiercely struck the Strange Tree's main body and its billions of wildly dancing roots!
"Sizzle—Aow—!!!"
This injury was far more severe than before! Where the Chaos-infused Lightning Tribulation struck, the Strange Tree's pale white main trunk emitted a grating tearing sound, and the charred, carbonized wound instantly expanded, deep enough to reveal its internal, writhing core structure, like rotting organs! The thick, defiled sap was no longer merely evaporating, but was directly annihilated and turned into nothingness!
Billions of root tendrils, moreover, were like wax poured into a furnace, melting and dissolving in large swaths under the Chaotic Lightning Tribulation! The boundless strange white dense mist that had invaded the Immortal Domain was like being violently slapped away by an invisible giant hand, being compressed and purified at a visible speed!
For the first time, the Strange Tree's massive, boundless, twisted body let out a sharp howl that shook the Universe, filled with shock, anger, and pain, under the pure, combined strike representing the will of this realm and the Chaos Power!
The terrifying wail pierced through the Divine Souls of this realm's living beings, instantly killing billions, making all the strong individuals of this realm turn pale, yet also filled with pleasant surprise.
"The Chaotic Great Dao is indeed its nemesis!" Qianyuan Emperor was overjoyed.
Blood Slaughter's eyes blazed with blood-red light, Sword Cultivator Ancestor's fingers gripping his sword hilt turned slightly white, Kushan Buddhist Lord softly chanted a Buddhist mantra, but his aura could not hide its fluctuations; ... Ji Yu stared intently at the Star Instrument's light screen, his face ashen, yet with a hint of excitement.
Before that Soul-piercing shriek had faded, a sudden anomaly occurred deep within the surging strange white dense mist! Near the charred, torn wound on the main trunk, which had been heavily damaged by the Chaotic Lightning Tribulation, the impossibly thick strange mist suddenly formed several profoundly deep vortices!
At the center of the vortices, an indescribable malice suddenly condensed and locked on!
"Om—!"
An aura thousands of times more terrifying than the stitched giants, like billions of cold poisonous needles, ignored spatial distance and instantly pierced towards the core of the battlefield—Li Mu!
At the top of the Strange Tree, the twisted, writhing core suddenly opened a pale white giant eye. The eyeball had no pupil, only a dead, light-devouring pale white, coldly reflecting the phantom of the Chaos Dao Tree and Li Mu's tiny figure.
"Roar!"
Deep within the dense mist, accompanied by a dull roar that shook the Star River, several extremely condensed pale white light beams burst forth from the core of those collapsing vortices, with only one target—Li Mu!
The annihilating power contained in these light beams was far beyond that of the previous strange mist. It was a decisive strike condensed from the Strange Tree's core will, firmly locking onto its greatest threat!
Before the light beams even arrived, Li Mu's surrounding Chaotic Dao Domain violently vibrated, like a calm water surface into which a huge stone had been thrown. The immense Chaotic Dao rhyme was actually suppressed and eroded by this pure, ultimate annihilating power!
The three thousand Disciples behind Li Mu all groaned, as if struck by a heavy hammer. Those with weaker cultivation, their Dao Seed's light instantly dimmed, and blood overflowed from their noses and mouths. The Chaotic Dao Net, which covered the Star River and connected heaven and earth, groaned under the terrifying pressure brought by the light beams' lock-on, unable to bear the burden!
"Teacher!"
A Disciple shrieked in alarm.
Li Mu stood at the core of the formation, his expression calm. A Chaos vortex appeared deep within his eyes, which reflected Chaos, as he faced the several decisive light beams that tore through the Void Realm and arrived in an instant. (End of Chapter)
