"Where there is victory, there is naturally defeat." The old oddity sighed.
Sure enough, not long after, they encountered tens of thousands of people. Half of them were carrying coffins, their bodies covered in blood.
"So many people died!?"
"Yes. These are only the bodies that could be brought back. Otherwise, there would have been even more." The old oddity sighed.
Last time, reinforcements from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths had arrived, multiplying the number of warriors in the city severalfold. Yet the daily casualties had also been horrifying.
For a time, all the young people fell silent.
After a long while, they approached the center of the inner city but did not go any farther, for it was a forbidden ground that ordinary living beings were not allowed to enter.
From afar, they could see a section of withered tree trunk. It was so thick it was terrifying, far more massive than Star-Skeleton Mountain. Though it was merely a broken stump, it was still unimaginably enormous.
Chaos energy surged there, obscuring the area in a hazy blur, but parts of the colossal stump could still be seen.
It did not possess the slightest trace of life. It had died who knew how many tens of thousands of years ago.
Now and then, black lightning would emerge from the cracks in its dry, aged bark. It made no sound, merely flickering there.
"Immortal lightning!" an old oddity sighed.
"This tree stump... what happened to it?" Shi Hao asked, for his heart had suddenly trembled.
"Legend has it that this is the remains of a supreme expert from the Immortal Ancient Era. It was once a tree, and after dying in battle, only this section of stump remained. Even now, the lightning power of the Foreign Realm's Immortals still rages