Sea Heart Flame

Boom! The once calm, windless illusory ancient tree suddenly erupted the instant it touched the pure blood.

It was like a gigantic beast suddenly awakening, or an ancient god being offended.

The illusory ancient tree's hundreds of millions of branches abruptly unfurled!

From afar, it looked as though the illusory ancient tree had expanded tenfold.

In truth, the dormant remnant consciousness of the Galuo Ancient Tree had been awakened by the domineering instinct of the pure blood. To protect its remaining consciousness from being erased, the Galuo Ancient Tree instinctively launched a counterattack! This was not a retaliatory strike born of rage.

The Galuo Ancient Tree's primary consciousness had long since died. Its remaining consciousness no longer possessed emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow, or fear.

This counterattack was more like a knee-jerk reflex, like the convulsions of a centipede's corpse when it was touched before it had fully died.

Yet given the immense power at the foundation of the Galuo Ancient Tree, even an instinctive convulsion was terrifying enough.

Bai Pu's pure blood was almost instantly blasted and squeezed out, flying beyond the barrier in the blink of an eye.

Like a bullet, the pure blood grazed Bai Pu's cheek and, with a slap, embedded itself deeply in the palace ceiling.

"Are you all right?" Dongbo Cheng Zhi looked at Bai Pu with some concern.

The pure blood had sliced open Bai Pu's cheek, and blood faintly seeped from the wound.

"It's nothing."

Bai Pu smiled slightly. He had not expected the pure blood to subdue the Galuo Ancient Tree's consciousness in the first place...

The reason was simple: the difference in their ranks was far too great.

Bai Pu was like an ant, while the root of the Galuo Ancient Tree was a giant elephant that had not