Saine was right. The Jue Teng Tree Demon had already lost.
Yet when this heartbreaking fact was placed before it, the Jue Teng Tree Demon clearly refused to accept it.
"No!" the Jue Teng Tree Demon roared toward where Saine stood.
This Level-9 Giant Plant Tree Dominator condensed an enormous humanoid face and bellowed at Saine.
Though the Jue Teng Tree Demon's roar was loud, to Saine it sounded somewhat lacking in force, more like the rage born of humiliation after defeat.
The Jue Teng Tree Demon's enormous green tree face even bit toward the location of Saine's Ashes True Body.
Facing the steadily advancing Jue Teng Tree Demon, Saine gave a cold laugh. "Are you sure you can really bite me down?"
Saine simply stood there and allowed the Jue Teng Tree Demon's giant maw to swallow him.
As the Jue Teng Tree Demon swallowed Saine into its belly, scorching gray-white flames immediately surged within its massive trunk.
Exaggerated fire-element rule particles continuously scorched the Jue Teng Tree Demon's trunk, causing it to constantly display a Rule Anomaly where the origin powers of wood and fire intertwined.
Such an anomaly greatly drained the Jue Teng Tree Demon's Life Source Power.
Naturally, during this process, Saine, trapped within the Jue Teng Tree Demon's enormous plant-element maw, was also enduring crushing force from all directions, plant-element rule toxins, and the corrosion of some mystic-system attack method!
As expected, both generations of Level-9 Beings from the Dreadful Treant Civilization had achieved considerable accomplishments in the domain of "mystic-system" rules.
However, based on Saine's analysis of the several Civilization Supreme Treasures he had already seized, the black aura left behind by the Dreadful Treant, and the level of power currently unleashed by the Jue Teng Tree Demon...
Saine believed that, at least in