Black Flame's legion, the undying Children of Flame, had already gained some renown in the multiverse.
During Otherworld Exploration, Lu PingAn would sometimes send them out to hunt. Just as darkness stood opposed to light, the other side of many Life-types was death.
Life-types grew stronger by creating life, while Death-types gained "life" by turning life into death.
Only after possessing both sides of this whole could a top-tier Life-type truly be considered complete.
This was a circle. If one only created without drawing sustenance, even Mother of Life was destined to wither away. But if one only plundered instead of producing and dividing, that enormous body would eventually crush itself.
Lu PingAn wanted to become an even more colossal "lifeform." Trading with his own side and plundering others might both be links in the ecological chain, accumulations he had to make over these years.
Lu PingAn was a peaceful Trader, but he was also the most vicious merchant of war. It was simply that, most of the time, he had no reason to unveil that most hideous reality on Earth. But now, there was no need to hide it any longer.
Boom!
Towering giant trees rose from the earth. Countless ancient war trees bloomed with the radiance of the sun, yet their bark was draped in eerie Black Flame.
The next moment, those trees uprooted themselves and transformed into flaming war treants.
And this was still only the beginning.
Not every ancient tree transformed into a treant. Under the will of the Life-type controllers, simple, brutal weapons of war appeared one after another—chariots, catapults, siege engines, ballistae. Though their principles were simple and crude, the otherworldly alterations to various natural laws generally did not affect such fundamental mechanical rules.
These weapons of war were already dozens of meters, even