"Life force from hundreds of level-eight star systems?" Jiuyan Gui's pupils contracted as she said, trembling.
"Doesn't that mean it was far more than the Divine Treasury Clan slaughtered by the Emperor? What kind of terrifying strength and immense resolve would that take..." Jiusiheng said, his eyes wide.
Jiuyan Gui covered her slightly parted red lips in astonishment. "So Elder Wei was the true god of slaughter, slaughtering so many just to enhance his Dao plants..."
The Netherworld Star-Devouring Lotus was almost entirely black, periodically dripping black liquid that corroded all things.
Its appearance gave off a dark, eerie feeling, embodying the traits of decay and death.
Yet before Jiusiheng and the others could recover from the shock brought by the Netherworld Star-Devouring Lotus—
Another towering tree wrapped in golden light emerged from the tunnel Elder Wei had opened!
In truth, what coiled around the tree was not merely light, but terrifying golden lightning of destruction!
Crackle!
Lightning flashed across the golden tree, its radiance stretching ten thousand zhang, the complete opposite of the star-devouring glow of the Netherworld Star-Devouring Lotus.
The charcoal-colored trunk seemed covered from top to bottom in countless cracked patterns. But upon closer inspection, one could see that they were all golden lightning sigils, each blazing with endless electric light!
Its leaves were entirely purple, while their veins shone a dazzling gold. The purple-gold lightning born from their union was precisely the product of tenacious vitality fused with destructive thunder!
Elder Wei looked at the thunderous giant tree before him, even more proud as he said, "This is the Ten Thousand Tribulations Thunderchant Bodhi Tree, which I once found in a sea of thunder calamities, where all life had vanished. Its former self was merely ordinary thundergrass, yet it tenaciously survived through the strength of its