The Chaos Treasure Mansion opened before Li Mu, its gates revealing a surging, boundless Chaos Qi Sea, where endless Chaos Qi roared and surged.
Several pale white beams, tearing through star rivers and imbued with the annihilating will of the Strange Tree's core, plunged into the Chaos Qi Sea!
Boom! The Law level vibrated.
The beams were like hot irons piercing profound ice; the Chaos Qi Sea instantly boiled.
Endless Chaos Qi enveloped the pale white core, furiously dissolving the defilement.
The beams struggled, rushing left and right, tearing out huge whirlpools, with towering Qi waves, causing the Chaos Treasure Mansion to tremble violently.
Li Mu's expression was solemn, his body radiating the light of the Chaotic Dao Domain, steady as a rock.
Behind him, the formation of three thousand Disciples shook violently, and the light of the Dao Net dimmed abruptly.
"Stabilize!"
Li Mu bellowed, forming a hand seal, and the Treasure Mansion glowed brightly as the will deep within the Qi Sea awakened.
Endless Chaos Qi pressed inward, viscous and heavy, transforming into billions of Chaos chains that tightly bound the core of the pale white beams, dragging them into the depths of the Qi Sea!
The beams' struggle weakened, and the pale white light of the core, enveloped by Chaos Qi, seemed to sink into a quagmire, rapidly dimming and shrinking.
The Chaos Qi Sea churned and surged, and the annihilating will that tore through everything was being forcibly decomposed and brought to stillness by this endless Chaos Qi!
The pale white giant eye at the top of the Strange Tree suddenly contracted, its dead pupils reflecting shock and fury!
Its core killing move was being devoured and ground away!
"Hiss—Awoo!" The Strange Tree's shriek grew fiercer, its main trunk shaking wildly, and billions of holes spewed thick strange mist, engulfing the Treasure Mansion.
Within the charred wound of the main trunk, thick, defiled pulp violently ignited, rising into pale white flames!
These flames, carrying extreme decay, temporarily suppressed the Chaos lightning arcs at the edge of the wound!
Several of the thickest, most rotten giant roots, entwined with defiled flames, boldly abandoned their struggle with the tribulation lightning, ignoring the charred marks exploding on their surface.
Like colossal pillars burning with pale white ghostly fire, they carried the power to collapse star rivers, tearing through space, and lashed out at Li Mu and the open Chaos Treasure Mansion!
Where the roots passed, space melted into viscous white smoke cracks, their power overwhelming!
The Chaos Treasure Mansion hummed and trembled; deep within its gate, the Chaos Qi Sea churned, and a black light tore through the Chaos, bursting forth fiercely!
The black light receded, revealing the outline of a giant axe.
The axe body was dark and heavy, its blade flowed with Chaos aura, and its handle was entwined with the patterns of the Remnant Branch of Jianmu—it was indeed a Chaotic Giant Axe!
The weapon patterns on the axe body flowed, the Origin aura of nine-rank divine objects like Primordial Yuan Qi, Return to Void Crystal, and Remnant Branch of Jianmu melted into one.
Before the axe blade moved, the surrounding space had already collapsed and shattered on its own!
The rotten giant roots, burning with pale white flames and carrying the power of collapse, had already torn through the Void Realm and lashed down upon Li Mu's head!
The defiled flames scorched space, viscous white smoke diffused, and the aura of death froze Divine Souls.
"Chop!"
The Chaos whirlpools in Li Mu's eyes spun rapidly, and a metallic sound burst from his mouth.
The Chaotic Giant Axe fell in response!
There was no fancy trajectory, only a straight, world-splitting chop!
The ten-thousand-foot axe blade expanded, splitting the defiled flames; the flames shrieked piercingly like snow poured into boiling soup, being forcibly annihilated by the Chaos world-opening intent contained within the axe blade!
The axe blade did not pause, savagely chopping into the burning body of the rotten giant root!
"Hiss—Crack!!!"
Where the axe blade struck, the defiled pulp, pale white flames, and rotten wood instantly turned to dust, as if meeting their nemesis!
A bottomless black crack spread like lightning along the surface of the giant root!
At the edge of the crack, Chaos aura entwined and eroded, preventing the defilement from regenerating!
This thickest burning giant root was actually split almost in half by one axe strike!
The pupils of the pale white giant eye at the top of the Strange Tree suddenly contracted!
Its furious strike, burning its Origin, was actually split open by brute force, and several other burning giant roots had already lashed out!
The Chaos Treasure Mansion's gate was wide open, its Qi Sea churning, directly confronting the giant roots' strikes!
"Boom!!!"
A dull impact shattered stars!
The Chaos Treasure Mansion's gate shook violently, its light flickering wildly, and the Qi Sea within erupted into ten-thousand-foot tidal waves as several burning giant roots smashed heavily onto the Chaos vortex of the gate!
Defiled flames and Chaos Qi furiously interwove and annihilated each other, space shattering inch by inch!
Though the Treasure Mansion was not broken, it was pushed backward by the immense force, crashing through a belt of meteorites behind it!
After the Chaotic Giant Axe split the first giant root, its momentum was not exhausted!
Li Mu flicked his wrist, and the giant axe swept horizontally!
The dark axe blade carved a Chaos arc that tore through star rivers, sweeping towards the other two burning giant roots that were close at hand!
Where the axe light passed, defiled flames extinguished, and rotten root bodies shattered!
"Awoo—!"
The Strange Tree let out an unprecedented scream of pain, its pale white giant eye staring fixedly at the dark giant axe.
Deep within its whites, billions of defiled forces circulated madly, and at the wound of the split giant root, pale white flames mixed with thick pulp surged wildly, attempting to mend the terrifying axe mark entwined with Chaos aura!
The Strange Tree suffered continuous heavy damage, its main trunk scarred and hideous, the flowing strange white pulp emanating a defiled force field.
The Deva Race army completely went berserk; countless stitched giants and strange shadow monsters let out piercing shrieks, like a turbid tsunami, ferociously pouncing on Li Mu, who was isolated at the front of the formation!
"Kill!"
On the Immortal Dynasty's side, witnessing Li Mu heavily wound the Strange Tree, their suppressed morale erupted like a volcano!
The suppressed Battle Intent surged straight into the Milky Way!
"Immortal Dynasty's sons and daughters, follow me—kill the enemy!" The Immortal Dynasty army commander roared, and the engines of the remaining fleet roared, artillery firing in unison, fiercely crashing into the surging Deva Race torrent's flank!
Blood light soared to the sky!
Blood Slaughter Divine Lord stepped through the Void Realm, a sea of blood surging behind him, thousands of blood shadows shrieking forth.
Wherever he passed, Deva Race monsters were like wax figures thrown into a furnace, their flesh dissolving, their bones melting!
He himself transformed into a blood rainbow, piercing deep into the enemy formation, his target locked onto several stitched giants with the most ferocious auras!
"Zheng—!"
Sword cries tore through the air!
The Sword Cultivator Ancestor pointed a finger, and behind him, ten thousand swords flew out in unison!
Billions of chilling sword lights converged into a surging, roaring river of Sword Qi, tearing through the turbid strange mist, fiercely cutting into the core of the Deva Race army!
Wherever the Sword Qi passed, strange monsters were minced like straw, their defiled energy forcibly annihilated by the sharp Sword Intent!
The river's target was precisely one of the Strange Tree's massive, swinging roots!
"Amitabha!"
The Buddhist chant was deep, yet like a great bell, reverberating through the universe!
Kushan Buddhist Lord sat cross-legged in the Void Realm, a golden lotus beneath him blooming with immeasurable Buddha Light.
The Buddha Light shone universally, and the turbid strange mist melted like snow; countless low-level strange shadow monsters that rushed forward let out mournful wails, their forms twisting, burning, and turning to dust in the pure Buddha Light!
Behind the Buddha Lord, the Buddhist Disciples formed a formation and chanted scriptures; the Sanskrit sounds transformed into tangible golden ripples, spreading layer upon layer.
Wherever they reached, the strange mist receded, the monsters' movements became sluggish, and the defiled aura was forcibly purified!
The Immortal Dynasty's remnant army, the raging sea of blood, the river of Sword Qi, and the immeasurable Buddha Light—these four torrents erupted simultaneously, fiercely crashing into the ferociously pouncing Deva Race army!
The tribulation lightning, formed by the Immortal Dynasty's Heaven and Earth Will, struck down continuously.
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For a time, the vast Star Domain was like a shattered glass lamp; star fragments, burning wreckage, and frozen Cultivator corpses, mixed with defiled strange creature remnants, floated silently in the cold Void Realm.
Every moment, dazzling energy beams tore through the darkness, the brilliance of Magic Treasures collided with the defilement of strange arts and annihilated, and silent death spread like dust, devouring tens of thousands of lives.
At the core of the battlefield, the Chaotic Dao Domain was like the eye of a storm, and the formation of Li Mu and the three thousand Disciples behind him was like a reef, firmly holding this turbulent Star Domain in place.
Within the Chaotic Dao Domain, the Chaos Treasure Mansion's gate was wide open, its inner Qi Sea surging and roaring, engaging in the most perilous clash of will and Origin with the towering Strange Tree!
The pale white giant eye on the Strange Tree's main trunk almost solidified with venomous light.
At its charred wound, thick pulp wrapped in pale white flames burned madly, actually temporarily suppressing the Immortal Dynasty's tribulation lightning!
Several of the thickest, most fiercely burning rotten roots, like dying venomous Dragons, abandoned all defense, ignoring the river of Sword Qi and purifying Buddha Light attacking from the sides.
With a madness of mutual destruction, they tore through space, leaving long-lasting pale white scorch marks, and once again fiercely lashed out at Li Mu and the open Chaos gate!
"Boom—!!!"
The burning giant roots violently collided with the vortex outside the Chaos Treasure Mansion's gate!
A dull roar shattered the nearby floating debris!
The Treasure Mansion's light flickered violently, and the gate deeply caved inward!
Inside the mansion, the already surging Chaos Qi Sea instantly erupted into world-ending tidal waves; ten-thousand-foot Chaos giant waves roared and crashed against the mansion walls!
The immense impact pushed the Treasure Mansion and Li Mu backward, crashing through a dense asteroid belt behind them, sending debris flying like rain!
The Void Realm beneath Li Mu's feet shattered like a spiderweb, and the light of his Chaotic Dao Domain circulated to its extreme, like a rock taking root, he stubbornly resisted this world-destroying impact.
In Li Mu's hand, the dark Chaotic Giant Axe's blade flowed with condensed Chaos aura, as if containing the power to open up Heaven and Earth.
The axe body turned slightly, pointing remotely at the Strange Tree's giant eye, poised to strike!
At the same time, the entire battlefield completely boiled under the pull of the core battle!
The wedge formation of the Immortal Dynasty's remnant army, led by the flagship, fiercely crashed into the flank of the Deva Race army.
Dense artillery fire and the light of Cultivator Magic Treasures interwove into a net of death, instantly shredding large numbers of pouncing strange shadow monsters and stitched giants!
Metal fragments and defiled flesh splattered in the bright light of explosions.
A blood rainbow pierced the sky!
Blood Slaughter Divine Lord penetrated the enemy formation; wherever he passed, defiled monsters melted like ice and snow, heading straight for the huge root node coiled beneath the Strange Tree's main trunk.
Behind him, a sea of blood surged, thousands of blood shadows shrieking forth, furiously tearing and devouring defiled energy.
"Tear—!" The river of Sword Qi surged forward, billions of chilling sword lights precisely cutting into the wound of a burning giant root that had been split almost in half by the Chaotic Giant Axe and was desperately wriggling to regenerate!
The sharp Sword Intent and the Chaos world-opening intent remaining from the giant axe attacked from both inside and out!
That giant root let out a soul-shattering cracking sound, defiled pulp gushed out like a broken dam, and the pale white flames flickered violently, almost extinguishing!
The Buddha Light shone universally, and Sanskrit sounds surged like a tide; the golden lotus beneath Kushan Buddhist Lord radiated boundless light, forcibly expanding an increasingly large pure land.
Countless low-level strange shadows shrieked and dissipated in the Buddha Light.
Golden Sanskrit chains lashed at high-level monsters, defiled energy hissed, and the monsters' movements became sluggish and stiff.
The tribulation lightning of the Immortal Dynasty's Heaven and Earth was furious, thick Dragon-like lightning tore through the sky, continuously striking the Strange Tree's main trunk and those massive swinging roots, charred and carbonized marks spread beneath the defiled pulp, and black smoke rolled.
The Strange Tree's massive body trembled violently under the encirclement of lightning fire, Sword Qi, sea of blood, and Buddha Light.
Its pale white giant eye at the top locked onto Li Mu, and deep within its pupils, defiled whirlpools spun madly, brewing its final frenzy!
The Strange Tree's giant eye suddenly bulged, and billions of defiled strange spores exploded deep within its whites!
All holes on the main trunk simultaneously spewed thick blood mist; the blood mist, carrying billions of shrieking Deva Race remnant souls, condensed into a star-like, bloody white orb of light, blasting towards Li Mu!
Where the orb passed, space silently dissolved, leaving a festering, bloody white rift valley.
"Open!"
Li Mu roared, and the Chaotic Giant Axe, facing the bloody white orb, fiercely swung upward!
The axe blade's black light surged, and an extremely condensed Chaos line mark tore through the Void Realm, silently chopping into the orb's core!
Hiss—!
There was no loud bang, only the piercing shriek of Law annihilation.
The bloody white orb was split in two by the axe mark!
Inside the split orb, there was no defiled energy, but countless screaming Deva Race faces, wrapped in thick blood pulp, transforming into two defiled strange white rivers that fiercely washed over the Chaos Treasure Mansion's gate!
The Treasure Mansion shook violently, the Chaos vortex of the gate was furiously eroded by the strange white rivers, hissing, its light rapidly dimming!
The Qi Sea within the mansion stirred up turbid blood waves, and the Chaos will let out a dull roar of fury.
Li Mu's tiger mouth cracked, golden blood seeped out, the light of his Chaotic Dao Domain fluctuated violently, and the three thousand Disciples behind him all groaned, several turning pale, blood oozing from their mouths, their Dao Net flickering erratically.
"Suppress!" Li Mu stepped on the Void Realm, and the Chaos formation diagram beneath his feet spun rapidly, forcibly stabilizing their position.
The Chaotic Giant Axe hummed, and the Jianmu patterns on its handle lit up, drawing upon an older Chaos Origin flow deep within the Treasure Mansion.
Deep within the Qi Sea, Chaos Origin Qi, viscous as lead and mercury, surged upward, washing over the defiled strange white rivers!
The screaming faces in the strange white rivers twisted, blurred, and finally fell silent under the washing of the Origin Qi.
Taking advantage of this gap, several burning rotten giant roots, carrying their last flames, like dying venomous pythons, tore through the Buddha Light and Sword Qi obstruction, fiercely lashing out at Li Mu's body!
Before the roots even arrived, the defiled flames already sizzled against his protective Chaotic Dao Domain.
Li Mu's eyes were icy cold; he neither dodged nor retreated.
His left hand, with fingers like a sword, condensed a faint image of a Chaos Dao Tree at his fingertip, and pointed it at the nearest giant root!
The Chaos light at his fingertip pulsed, seemingly slow, but it arrived first, touching the surface of the burning root!
Pop!
With a soft sound, the touched root instantly stiffened, its surface flames extinguished, its defiled pulp solidified, and a gray, decaying Chaos Death Qi spread upward like lightning along the root!
Wherever it passed, the giant root turned to dust inch by inch!
At the same time, his right hand swept the Chaotic Giant Axe horizontally, the dark axe blade carving a semicircle, severing the other two incoming giant roots at their base!
Chaos aura entwined the severed ends, and the defiled regeneration power was completely stifled!
"Hiss-Awoo—!"
The Strange Tree let out a wail, its main trunk convulsed violently, the pale white giant eye at its top covered in spiderweb-like strange threads, staring fixedly at Li Mu.
Deep within its pupils, venom and terror intertwined.
On its massive body, the charred wounds continuously expanded under the sustained bombardment of the tribulation lightning, the flowing strange white pulp became thinner, and the burning pale white flames flickered, almost extinguishing.
The Immortal Dynasty army, Blood Slaughter Divine Lord, Sword Cultivator Ancestor, and Kushan Buddhist Lord seized this fatal gap, their offensive intensifying by three points!
The shattered Immortal Dynasty fleet approached and fired in unison, artillery tearing through the Strange Tree's root defense net;
the blood rainbow pierced into the root node, the sea of blood madly eroding the defiled Origin;
the river of Sword Qi minced the regenerating roots;
and the Buddha Light and Sanskrit sounds advanced layer by layer, continuously expanding the purification Domain!
Tribulation lightning, like a waterfall, continuously struck down.
At the charred part of the Strange Tree's main trunk, it finally let out an unbearable, teeth-grindingly loud tearing sound; a terrifying, bottomless crack, running through the entire main trunk, violently opened in the lightning fire!
Thick strange white pulp gushed out like a bursting dam!
(End of Chapter)
