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This Corpse Tree contained countless inner cores from Demon Beasts of the Primal Chaos Heavenly Court period, and some were even already extinct. But they had already become nutrients for the corpse tree. The powers of the inner cores were practically all absorbed by this ancient tree.
It exuded divine might that covered Heaven and Earth.
Several hundred corpse trees sprouted like grass nearby. Su Xuesha’s expression was like a new light as she moved to repel the corpse tree.
“Five Perils, so what, eat This Old Sun’s staff.” Qi Qi retrieved the Meteoric Iron Divine Staff from Qi Lin and suddenly launched an attack without any warning. The girl’s seemingly frail body leapt over a distance of several kilometers. She was faster than lightning, and the surrounding Corpse Trees were relentlessly ripped apart. Before they could react, the Meteoric Iron Divine Staff in the Great Sage Equal of Heaven’s hands cut towards the immense hill-like corpse tree with force to topple mountains and overflow seas.
A ghastly evil qi appeared in the sky!
Evil qi soared, dark clouds rolled. A hundred thousand divine soldiers seemed to emerge from the evil qi and attacked the corpse tree at once.
Hundred Thousand Heavenly Soldiers Break!
This Five Perils Corpse Tree’s defenses could be rated as wild and brutal. Its gnarled, seemingly burning branches met force with force, resisting this attack. The power of the Demon Cores contained in its body made it erupt with energy that did not lose out in the slightest to the power of the Great Sage Equal Of Heaven. Even more terrifying Fiend Qi devoured the hundred thousand heavenly soldiers; it seemed only tis type of uncivilized fighting style could unleash its fury.
The moment the standoff reached its climax, a dazzling light finally exploded from the middle. A pervasive cloud of dust immediately billowed from the ground.
Her first attack was her strongest Destined Skill. Great Sage Equal Of Heaven Sun Wukong evidently realized her opponent’s might and did not hold back. She swung the iron staff continuously, smashing the countless corpse trees to pieces. Right now, every attack from the Great Sage Equal Of Heaven contained swift, earth-shattering power.
A strange and gloomy scream echoed around. The corpse tree’s entire trunk lurched, and the omnipresent tree canopy rustled. Leaves fell, and the surrounding several hundred meters immediately were alight with arrows of black flame shooting towards Qi Qi. However, this attack failed.
Qi Lin and Su Xuesha worked in concert to repel the fire arrows.
But the attack was far from over. The space in front of the corpse tree abruptly split open like a sinister set of jaws, and a terrible and fierce storm blew out.
The group seemed to be caught in the currents of the open ocean, helplessly crashing into everything under the sky.
“Just what is this Five Peril?”
Having been thoroughly suppressed by the Corpse Tree, Qi Lin was already a bit stifled. Qi Qi was also hard-pressed to maintain the situation.
The Demon Beast in front of them was already beyond Qi Lin’s imagination.
“I do not know. I once heard of the Five Perils from an ancient text.” Su Xuesha shook her head. The Primal Chaos Heavenly Court period’s Immemorial Royal Family was extremely fond of geomancy, where inauspicious and auspicious were the most sublime topics of the clan. With the Immemorial Royal Family exploiting geomancy arts to nurture objects that were greatly inauspicious or greatly auspicious, such Demon Beasts could turn supreme “Vermilion Bird soaring dance” fengshui into an inauspicious “Vermilion Bird sunken wings.” This could also make the greatly inauspicious “Black Turtle crouching corpse” turn into the auspicious “Black Turtle lowered head,” an extremely miraculous Demon Beast.
The Immemorial Royal Family raised the Five Perils – this Corpse Tree was just one of them.
This tree’s background was already beyond consideration, but once grown, it could kill countless cultivators. Only very powerful cultivators could reliably avoid it. The Corpse Tree was able to absorb the essence of all cultivators and Demon Beasts it killed and turn it into its own power. Its tricks were frightening, but what made people feel even more dread was that this Corpse Tree was reportedly immortal and indestructible. Its roots ran deep into the earth and received nourishment. So long as ground existed, it was unkillable.
Could it be that the Earth Sacrifice level was to offer tributes to it?
Qi Lin was depressed to hear f this. What did White Emperor Shaohao hide away in Changliu. If all of this was merely to hide the Illusionary Flying Snow…
That indefatigable Corpse of Xia Geng from before and now the indestructible Corpse Tree Peril were both unprecedentedly cruel.
This absolutely was no simple, ordinary ruin.
“What now?” Su Xuesha was also a bit flustered.
Once in the territory of the Corpse Tree, there was practically no chance to escape. If it could use Divine Energy against them right now, even Great Sage Equal Of Heaven could not possibly be a match.
Qi Lin was in the middle of devising countermeasures in his mind. At the same time, the ground suddenly erupted with countless black pythons that shot straight into the sky. These black pythons combined into a dragon that was like a sword able to cut apart even Heaven and Earth.
Countless rays of black light ripped apart the air, spiraling around the rising black sword, very quickly forming a vortex that blotted out the sky. Heaven and Earth shook under the unbelievable contorting power of the flaring airstream, as if something was charging.
Then, when the concentrated stream of light finally reached a critical point, the eddy that was at the highest point seemed to split open. Then, a dragon-like Demon Beast phantom that was slender as a blade charged out.
It surprisingly contained the Divine Energy of the “Yazi.”
The dragon had nine sons, and among them, the Yazi was the most fierce, carrying a sword in its mouth and an angry glare in its eyes.
This Yazi Saber wrapped up the fragmented bits of killing intent and rolled over in an instant. Despite the dusky darkness of the ruins, this body of darkness that this “Yazi” possessed nevertheless made all of its surroundings appear even dimmer, like a black hole. Its body was like a large blade, slicing apart the thick air, slicing apart the terrible earth, paring away the terror in the hearts of insignificant cultivators.
Practically after the Yazi Saber attacked, it was plainly obvious that even a Golden Core Late Stage cultivator would have died without an intact corpse and become nutrients for the trees.
Qi Qi was struck head-on by this Yazi Saber and was surprisingly sent flying. A cut appeared in her impervious body.
“Twang-twang!”
Qi Lin drew the Heaven-shaking Bow and loosed an arrow.
The Cloud-piercing Arrow struck home on the Yazi. The Dark Heaven magic treasure’s power finally disturbed the opposing power, blowing away the sinister and malevolent Yazi phantom.
But in the next moment, the Demon Cores in the Corpse Tree glowed again. Then, countless Fierce Beasts charged forth.
This was already beyond what they could handle.
“Perfect.”
Qi Lin yelled. He forcibly activated the incompletely refined twelve banners.
The sky glowed, and the Ten Thousand Beasts Unbounded Banners became twelve gates that appeared in twelve directions. The Corpse Tree had the Demon Cores of ten thousand beasts, and it just so happened that Qi Lin’s Ten Thousand Beasts Unbounded Banner could handle myriad beasts. Qi Lin forced its activation, pointing his finger.
The twelve banners expanded, and the qi of primordial chaos shot out, completely trapping the incoming ten thousand beasts.
The Corpse Tree apparently sensed the might of the Ten Thousand Beasts Unbounded Banner. It let out an eerie screech, and its power grew and grew to break through the confinements of the Ten Thousand Beasts Unbounded Banner. Qi Lin used his magical energy at full power, not holding his Three Yins Three Yangs back at all.
In an instant, he clashed with the Corpse Tree.
Meanwhile, the Ten Shamans Of Spirit Mountain were hurrying along.
“Something is wrong!”
Wu Xian reckoned and wrinkled her brow.
“Elder Sister, what is the matter?” Wu Pan asked.
“Someone is facing the Corpse Tree.” Wu Xian sensed tremors in the Earth Sacrifice level; there was an anomaly.
“Facing it? Are they suicidal?” Wu Pan disagreed.
Wu Xian’s expression glowered. She flipped her wrist, and a tortoise shell appeared. The woman’s expression was serious as she looked at this shell. Her Divine Intent moved, and a flame ignited on the shell and burned, immediately emitting a sizzling sound. Many cracks appeared in the tortoise shell; those cracks formed by the flames seemed to have a kind of magical trajectory, portending something.
The Great Shaman clan had tortoiseshell divination arts. Reportedly, it was able to foresee fortune and misfortune; Yang Jian was not surprised.
“It seems I am overthinking…” Inspecting the patterns, Wu Xian sighed and pushed aside her unease just now.
“Great misfortune. The one fighting the Corpse Tree is dead for certain. Seems we can seize this chance to enter the third level.”
Wu Xian faintly grinned.
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