A steep, towering mountain was covered in grayish-white rocks, with sparse vegetation that made it look somewhat desolate.
At the mountain top stood a Golden Fruit Tree over a hundred zhang tall, bearing more than twenty golden, oval-shaped fruits. A cyan Azure Oriole with wings spanning over ten zhang was frantically attacking a towering giant tree over a thousand zhang tall.
The towering giant tree was entirely golden, with luxuriant branches and leaves and an enormous crown.
A nine-zhang-tall Golden Shirt Youth stood beneath the tree. He had regular features and fair, clean skin, while faint golden light was reflected in his eyes. Judging by the fluctuations of his magic power, he was astonishingly a Spirit Transformation Great Perfection cultivator.
Yan Linlang was at Spirit Transformation Great Perfection and was an Elite Disciple of the Mystic Azure Sect.
The Azure Oriole fiercely flapped its wings, sending gusts of azure wind sweeping out and striking the Golden Fruit Tree with a clang of metal colliding with metal. Yet not a single leaf fell.
The Golden Fruit Tree seemed to come alive, its trunk constantly waving like golden whips as it lashed toward the Azure Oriole.
The Azure Oriole reacted quickly and was just about to dodge when the ground began to shake violently. Thousands of thick Azure Vines burst from the earth and shot toward it.
Some of the Azure Vines wrapped around the Azure Oriole's claws. The Azure Oriole flapped its wings and released countless Azure Wind Blades, which struck the vines one after another, but only severed some of them.
The golden trunk lashed over. With a shrill cry, the Azure Oriole plummeted from the sky and crashed to the ground. Large numbers of feathers fell away, its body drenched in blood and its aura feeble.
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