Just as Li Qing was pondering, unusual movements had already appeared beyond Condensing Light Lake.
His Void Refinement stage divine soul was no mere decoration; he noticed it at the first instant.
Far out on the earth, waves of soil churned open, and one enormous green plant after another burst from the ground.
Rumble!
The Treant Race had arrived!
Sensing the disturbance, Li Qing's pupils suddenly contracted. Beneath the solid ground, vigorous auras pierced upward in waves.
In an instant, a truly towering tree rose from the earth. Its crown covered nearly half the sky, dimming even the daylight.
It was a treant, with twisted limbs growing from its trunk like tangled roots.
The gigantic treant scattered a vast swath of fallen leaves. Countless leaves drifted with the wind, filling the sky.
Then, these leaves took root where they landed and rapidly grew into short trees, sealing off the entire region around Condensing Light Lake.
"Only a few humans are here?"
"Fine. I'll sweep them all away together."
The enormous treant spoke in a deep voice, then immediately launched an attack against Li Qing's group.
He was exceedingly arrogant—or perhaps he simply looked down on humans. He intended to fight three alone.
Boom!
Immediately afterward, hundreds of branches shot toward Li Qing and the other two at terrifying speed.
Yet how could anyone who had reached this place be ordinary? The treant's attack struck nothing. Li Qing and the others each used their own methods and easily evaded it.
However, this scattered the three of them apart.
"Breath of the Earth!"
After separating Li Qing's group, the treant had no intention of stopping. He turned wood into soldiers, driving the newly grown small trees to transform into little treants and surround Li Qing and the others.
"Attack together. Cut down