The moment Xiao Yan shouted, the world around them began to twist wildly. At last, like a shattered mirror, it instantly collapsed without a trace.
Buzz—
As his vision blurred, the void-like scene vanished in an instant, replaced by a space filled with emerald green and deep azure.
Within that space stood an ancient tree roughly thirty zhang tall, as though it had existed since time immemorial. Its entire body was jade-green, without vines or branches, as if sculpted from the finest jade, radiating astonishing vitality.
It looked exactly like a miniature version of the ancient tree outside.
Clearly, the previous illusion had been a trick created by it!
"Those are... the people who entered the Bodhi Ancient Tree earlier?!"
As his gaze swept over the surroundings, Xiao Yan abruptly discovered that within the bubble-like spheres of light around the Bodhi Ancient Tree lay Xun'er and the others who had entered the Bodhi Ancient Tree alongside them!
Without question, they too had already fallen into the Bodhi Ancient Tree's illusion.
"That ancient tree's illusion was extraordinarily realistic. If not for one slight flaw, even we might have found it difficult to break free."
A trace of coldness flashed through Hun Ruoruo's eyes, though she had already formed an initial judgment in her heart.
The Bodhi Ancient Tree.
As a supreme existence that had once rivaled a Dou Di, trapping ordinary cultivators like them, who had not even reached the Half-Saint level, would naturally be effortless. Even if they were refined into Tree Slaves, it would not be the least bit surprising.
The reason she and Xiao Yan had been able to escape the hands of such a being could not possibly be due to their Heavenly Souls alone.
There had to be laws capable of contending with it.
Thus, the