Each Breakthrough

Rumble!

The World Tree shook violently, its thick branches swaying wildly as the clusters of light still hanging from its boughs rained down like a torrential downpour. Lu Changsheng lightly tapped the last slanted branch with the tip of his foot. His Thunder Roc Wings gave a slight flutter, and he landed steadily before retreating several zhang.

Murong Taxue, Lin Qingxuan, Tu Jiao, Shi Jingtian, and the others landed in succession as well. Shi Jingtian still clutched that jar of Earth-Mother Divine Brew tightly in his arms. He staggered upon landing and nearly dropped the wine jar.

"Ow!" Shi Jingtian steadied himself, lowered his head to inspect the clay jar in his arms, and could not help letting out a breath of relief. "Good thing it didn't break."

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The members of the other factions also leaped down from the treetops one after another, landing around the World Tree. Some patted their chests with lingering fear, while others stared unwillingly at the divine tree as it sank.

The World Tree withdrew the flowing five-colored radiance around it, and the golden patterns on its trunk dimmed one by one, like a colossal beast that had exhausted all its strength. Then, with a rumble, the ground collapsed. The World Tree's thick roots plunged fiercely underground, earth churning like waves as the entire tree sank at a rate visible to the naked eye.

In barely a dozen breaths, the thousand-zhang divine tree had completely burrowed beneath the earth, leaving behind only an enormous, bottomless pit hundreds of zhang wide. Threads of earthy yellow terrestrial vein qi still drifted from its edges.

The various factions gathered around the pit, gazing at the pitch-black abyss with a burst of sighs.

"What a pity. There were still so many treasure light clusters on the