The golden figure that towered between heaven and earth was like a lofty god from on high. As it shattered endless branches, its massive hand suddenly plunged toward the ground.
A surge of indescribable energy, furnace-like in nature, blasted into the earth.
Han Yan widened her beautiful eyes. Several pitch-black, savage roots were being violently pulled out, and the sky-shrouding Demonic Tree began to collapse.
Immediately afterward, a figure shot out like a cannonball, crashing toward the Golden Mask figure like a comet.
"You dare!"
A furious roar exploded, and terrifying energy erupted.
Yet in merely an instant, the Demonic Tree suddenly burst apart section by section, rapidly collapsing and disintegrating.
A figure smashed heavily into the ground, sending layer after layer of earth sinking as clouds of dust billowed.
When the thick smoke dispersed, Han Yan saw black blood pouring from the Golden Mask figure's body. Lin Fan was holding him up by the scruff of his neck like a chick, leaving him utterly bedraggled and miserable.
The Golden Mask slowly cracked open. A tiny blood-red branch, as thin as a worm, crawled slowly out of the masked figure's head like a living insect.
Before it could crawl very far, a cold flying sword nailed it to the ground.
The blood-red branch let out a shrill scream and said, "Damn you! You actually hid your strength so deeply!"
The blood-red branch was both furious and enraged.
Han Yan was utterly shocked, finding it almost impossible to believe.
But she quickly came back to her senses.
Ever since she had been dragged into the secret realm, she had been controlled by Shi Tao, who was manipulated by that strange branch. Her opponent was mysterious and powerful, not only possessing insight into much of the secret realm's information but also helping