It hurt so much!
The black-robed creature being sliced apart screamed, wailed, and begged Chu Qing to spare him.
Chu Qing smiled. "Letting you go is no problem!"
"The problem now is—what realm is this thing of yours? It can actually link all your cultivation realms together."
"That is simply too profound!"
The black-robed creature wailed and cried. "I don't know either. My realms are things like Nonhuman, Flesh and Blood, Ascension, and so on."
"There is absolutely no realm shaped like tree roots!"
"Stop pulling that thing—it really hurts!"
"It hurts even more than being sliced apart!"
The moment those words were spoken, Chu Qing and the other black-robed figures all changed expression.
These people were powerful and terrifying.
Chu Qing felt they were on par with the kings who had entered before.
Yet within such top-tier powerhouses, there was something even they themselves did not know about.
That made it exceedingly frightening.
Even more frightening was this:
This inexplicably appearing thing went unnoticed during ordinary cultivation as it slowly replaced the cultivator's power.
If one day, this tree-root-like thing replaced all of the black-robed figures' power... would that black-robed creature still be himself?
A black-robed creature suddenly gave a bitter laugh. "My lord, slice me apart too and see whether my realms contain this tree root."
Chu Qing nodded.
His ten fingers danced, transparent threads appearing as they sliced in every direction.
Tens of millions of slices appeared.
The others all saw that tree-root-shaped thing within the slices.
This thing likewise ran through every realm and every scrap of flesh in that black-robed creature's body.
With a crash!
Chu Qing used his methods to restore the first black-robed creature who had been sliced apart.
The creature looked at the tree-root thing inside his companion, then thought of how