Enslaving the Elemental Spirits

Peng Yue's vassals directly used the legacy of the Wanxiang Star Palace to restrain, capture, and slay the sixth-tier earth elemental spirits in the star. Liang Ji's vassals, empowered by the strength of ghosts, gods, and earth deities, were likewise more than a match for these native sixth-tier elemental spirits.

On the other side, although Mu Qingyuan had been surrounded and suppressed during the earlier battle with the Elemental Nest, nearly meeting his end in this stretch of space,

he had come from the Zao Hua Star Palace and was no ordinary scion. Though his vassals had suffered grievous losses as well, they now charged into Earth Origin Star and put on a dazzling display.

His vassals didn't search for and hunt down the sixth-tier earth elemental spirits one by one. Instead, after claiming a territory on Earth Origin Star, they planted a sapling right away.

The sapling grew at astonishing speed, transforming in the blink of an eye into a World Tree whose canopy stretched across thousands of miles.

Soon, great numbers of earth elemental spirits of all kinds were drawn to it. They surged toward the World Tree and the vassals beneath it, launching an assault.

Mu Qingyuan's vassals switched from offense to defense. With their backs to the World Tree they had planted, they easily subdued and bound the many earth elemental spirits that attacked. Even the sixth-tier earth elemental spirits were restrained and bound by the World Tree's branches and roots, then slain on the spot by his vassals.

As inheritors of the Star Alliance's Nine Great Star Palaces, the vassals of Peng Yue, Liang Ji, and Mu Qingyuan each had their own dazzling strengths. All three had easily managed to fight across tiers and slay the native elemental spirits on the star.

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