After Vanguard Power - Shattered Formation Holder succeeded, he did not stop. The longsword in his hand swung out again, chopping off sections of trunk and branches from the fallen tree with every strike.
With the final blow, he even tore up the ground itself, digging out the tree's roots.
Only after the Holder had finished all this did Gu Xi jump down from the Holy Silver Evil Coffin and walk over to the tree that had been chopped into pieces.
"Huh?"
When Gu Xi picked up a small piece of wood, he had initially expected to encounter an extremely dense aura of life, or perhaps some unusual eerie aura.
After all, most life auras or eerie auras would affect plants, causing them to mutate and frantically attack everything around them.
Yet these fragments of wood contained neither a life aura nor an eerie aura.
They held only the natural scent of vegetation that suited this tree. There was clearly nothing unusual about them.
However, when Gu Xi picked up the wood fragment, he felt as though he had picked up a Soul Shard.
The sensation lasted only an instant, but Gu Xi caught it precisely.
After thinking for a moment, Gu Xi was about to open the City Gate closest to the Magic District and send these wood fragments inside as experimental materials to investigate what was going on.
Just then, the distant Gargoyles and Fear Bats suddenly flew toward him.
"Something happened?"
Gu Xi immediately changed his mind. The Troop Stockade City Gate opened, and Shi Li swiftly set out with his Godslayer Army.
Gu Xi had already treated the tree's attack on the Holy Silver Evil Coffin as a planned roadside ambush.
He had heard of such things before—someone would fell a tree to block the road,