The dark space dissipated. Abruptly, Xiao Heng arrived once more before the Bodhi Ancient Tree, but this time, things were different.
Xiao Yan and the others were gone. Medusa and the others were gone as well. On this desolate plain, there were only him and the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
"Is this still an illusion?"
Xiao Heng murmured. The Bodhi Ancient Tree's branches swayed faintly, as though responding to him. Then, in an instant, the heavens and earth changed color, and Xiao Heng's vision shifted.
A man dressed in black appeared before his eyes. Looking at him and sensing the aura of a man whose every gesture seemed capable of splitting heaven and earth apart, Xiao Heng's heart suddenly tightened.
"That was... a Dou Di!"
In a daze, Xiao Heng seemed to return to an unknown number of years ago. From the Bodhi Ancient Tree's perspective, he saw everything: Hei Zi Dou Di, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree, which had likewise possessed the strength of a Dou Di all those years ago.
The Bodhi Ancient Tree of that time was still over ten thousand zhang tall, more than ten times larger than it was now, and the power it possessed was countless times more vast.
The Black-clothed Dou Di looked toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree. In the next instant, he attacked it. With every move, the heavens and earth changed color and the continent trembled, as though the world were about to be destroyed.
The Bodhi Ancient Tree likewise erupted with incomparably powerful strength and fought the Black-clothed Dou Di. At that level of battle, every casual movement carried enough power to destroy a continent. Splitting the heavens and cleaving the seas became reality in their hands, no longer merely an exaggerated description.
At that moment, another Dou Di appeared and