Lin Xiao’s expression changed drastically. He hurriedly activated the Floating Heaven Palace and positioned it at his side, just in time to block several incoming branches.
When the branches touched the floating-cloud prohibition, they emitted a fierce “sizzling” sound. The tips of the branches were continuously eroded and annihilated by the prohibition.
Yet they kept extending, flooding into the floating-cloud prohibition.
“What!”
At this moment, the two half-step Martial Saints pursuing from behind, along with a group of ninth-level Martial Emperors and hundreds of experts from the two major forces, were all shocked.
A massive tree had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and it was attacking?
Countless branches, apart from those targeting Lin Xiao, also spread out and charged towards the crowd.
“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” …
Everyone hastily unleashed their attacks. Waves of powerful energy blasted towards the branches. Peerless sword and blade lights slashed down, severing and shattering countless branches.
However, some branches still pierced through from undefended spots or weaker areas and continued rushing towards the crowd.
Even the severed branches kept growing forward.
Some branches soon reached the crowd. People swung their swords and blades, constantly cutting the branches, but a few were still pierced through the body by the branches and died on the spot.
“Sizzle! Sizzle!”
Lin Xiao controlled the Floating Heaven Palace while retreating violently towards the crowd. Several branches behind him kept pounding against the Floating Heaven Palace.
After flying only a short distance, branches also began extending towards Lin Xiao from both sides of the Floating Heaven Palace. He brandished the Yaoguang Broken Sword in his hand, successively slashing and severing those branches.
Lin Xiao’s speed was no slower than when he had previously fled in this direction.
Others might only find this giant tree strange, but in his eyes, beyond being strange, it was an absolute danger.
What was a Yin Demon?
It was a true demon in the truest sense. Even a Yin Demon was trapped inside the tree, which showed how terrifying that giant tree was.
Moreover, releasing the Yin Demon would be equally terrifying.
Of course, if it were just the Yin Demon, he had the skeletal palm that could subdue it.
But that giant tree was something he could not contend with.
At this moment, far away, the sounds of the Martial Saints’ battle suddenly ceased. Three figures, as if teleporting, rapidly flew towards this direction.
The distance of over a thousand li was covered in mere moments, and they arrived near the crowd.
Long Tutian flew past Lin Xiao, while Zhan Meng and Ji Lian flew towards their respective forces.
Several hundred li away, the people from Canglong Gate and the two major forces who had been fighting also stopped.
The unaffiliated cultivators who had not joined the battle also appeared in various places, all focusing their attention on the giant tree.
“Boom!” “Boom!” …
At this point, Zhan Meng and Ji Lian acted. They swung their blades and raised their swords, directly slashing towards the ancient tree.
The power of Martial Saints was terrifying beyond compare. Peerless blade and sword lights severed countless extending branches and leaves, bombarding the towering giant tree.
More precisely, they struck towards the neither-human-nor-corpse body in the middle of the giant tree.
They all assumed that the corpse was the cause of the disturbance.
“Rumble!” “Rumble!” “Rumble!” …
Earth-shaking sounds rang out. The blade and sword lights struck the Yin Demon and the thick trunk beside it, erupting with heaven-soaring shockwaves. The terrifying force caused even the towering giant tree to tremble.
The branches and vines that had been spreading towards the crowd and had not been cut were instantly halted.
At this moment, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief and gazed at the rolling shockwaves ahead.
No one knew what new strangeness had occurred, but with Martial Saints suppressing it, they assumed the anomaly could not resist.
“Could it be a tree demon, an ancient tree that has lived too long and developed intelligence?” Ji Lian looked ahead and said with some doubt.
“This is the first time I’ve seen something like this,” Zhan Meng also said, puzzled.
However, Lin Xiao said with a strong sense of foreboding, “The thing in the middle is not a tree demon. It is a Yin Demon that has been fighting the giant tree, a true demon. If the balance between the giant tree and the Yin Demon is broken, we will be in danger.”
The two Martial Saints’ expressions hardened slightly.
Yin Demon? A true demon?
They did not know what it was, so how could a mere junior like him know?
Moreover, he said breaking the balance would put them in danger. Did he think Martial Saints like them were useless?
With three Martial Saints present, no matter what demons or monsters appeared, they could suppress them.
Not long after, the rolling shockwaves dispersed, and the centre of the giant tree once again appeared in everyone’s sight.
The giant tree was completely unharmed, not even its bark damaged, and the figure inside it showed no change either.
However, the corpse-like figure seemed to have been awakened. It raised its head and looked towards the crowd.
Everyone’s gaze was instantly drawn to that body with missing internal organs.
All eyes stared fixedly at that body. An inexplicable feeling of terror arose in everyone’s hearts.
Everyone’s hair stood on end. The sense of terror grew stronger and stronger.
Yet the more terrified they felt, the more they wanted to keep staring at that body, unable to look away.
“Sizzle! Sizzle!”
At this moment, towering demonic qi surged out from the body, covering the entire sky ahead and rolling towards the crowd.
“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” …
Zhan Meng, Ji Lian, and Long Tutian all attacked. Each sent out enormous palm strikes, bombarding the oncoming demonic qi.
At this point, shock and alarm appeared on Zhan Meng’s and Ji Lian’s faces. In that instant, they had felt an inexplicable terror. The body stuck in the tree was very likely a true demon.
Even Martial Saint experts like them had felt that terror.
The “Yin Demon” Lin Xiao had mentioned made them sense danger.
Long Tutian’s face was also filled with shock. No matter how strong his mental state or how fearless he was, he could not help feeling fear. That sensation made him extremely uncomfortable.
“Retreat!”
After unleashing their attacks, Long Tutian immediately swept Lin Xiao up and retreated violently backwards.
Zhan Meng and Ji Lian also swept up their respective forces and retreated rapidly.
“Rumble!” “Rumble!” “Rumble!” …
Bursts of rumbling sounded. The towering demonic qi was struck aside. The three mountain-like palm forces slammed into the position of the Yin Demon. The area hundreds of zhang above and below the giant tree was within the attack range of the three palm forces. After being struck, the tree shook violently.
A vast storm of energy like an ocean erupted in front of the giant tree, engulfing the entire area.
The intense tremors caused the whole earth to shake as if an earthquake had occurred.
The crowd kept retreating outwards. In just a short while, they had withdrawn more than a thousand li away, watching the commotion ahead from afar.
The eyesight of Martial Emperors was not actually that far-reaching, so they naturally could not clearly see the situation of the Yin Demon and the tree trunk.
However, the ten-thousand-zhang-tall giant tree and the rolling shockwaves were still visible even from a thousand li away.
Only the Martial Saints could describe the specific condition of the Yin Demon. A distance of a thousand li was still clearly visible to them.
“Sizzle! Sizzle!”
The ocean-like shockwaves ahead had not yet dispersed when, within a hundred li around the crowd, countless red flower petals suddenly appeared in the high sky for no reason and drifted down.
Under the moonlight, the countless red petals suddenly gave off a strangely beautiful feeling.
Everyone was startled. Flowers blooming in the void, could yet another strange phenomenon be occurring?
