Two hours later.
A vast number of demon beasts had swum from the shores of Serpent Dragon Lake into its waters, completely encircling Serpent Dragon Lake Island at the center of the lake.
The great formation that continually swayed atop the island, resisting the Demon Race's invasion, was the defensive grand formation jointly set up by some of the more than five thousand cultivators on the island.
At that very moment, a flash of azure light suddenly appeared amid a lush patch of aquatic grass deep beneath the waters where the demon beast horde gathered in Serpent Dragon Lake.
Immediately afterward, a towering tree dozens of zhang tall silently emerged there. Its bark and leaves were snow-white, and an icy aura surrounded its entire body.
A vast aura at the peak of the Golden Core Initial Stage spread from its body.
Countless roots at the base of the tree then gradually wriggled like arms, carrying it swiftly toward the lake's surface.
Because it was deep underwater and enormous in size, its rapid ascent stirred up towering waves, causing some demon beasts on the lake's surface that were poor swimmers to flail about constantly in the water and choke down quite a bit of it.
The towering tree still beneath the water unleashed its might at that moment. Its body swayed, and a vast chill spread in every direction, freezing the lake water within nearly a hundred zhang around it solid in the blink of an eye.
With a thought from it, that enormous hundred-zhang block of ice immediately shoved aside countless gallons of lake water and smashed toward the innumerable demon beasts on the surface a thousand zhang away.
Serpent Dragon Lake not only spanned ten thousand zhang, but was also a thousand zhang deep.
Before the thousand or so