As Azure Saint Primordial Lord's Dharma Body was completely suppressed by the All-Heaven Star Array, the calamities across the nine realms of Horn Wood Flood Dragon gradually subsided!
Yet the tree demons scattered throughout the nine realms did not vanish along with the disasters. Instead, they grew ever more rampant. More savage and powerful tree demons were born, wreaking havoc upon the mortal world while constantly attacking spiritual lands, cities, and the towering pillars in every corner.
Unlike the plant spirits and great demons born from vegetation in the local worlds, these tree demons possessed extremely low intelligence and cruel, violent natures. Each also bore bizarre and uncanny abilities, like miniature Evil Spirits.
As the All-Heaven Star Array absorbed and refined the Primordial Lord's Dharma Body, the pure spiritual energy within its origin power was extracted and fed back into the nine worlds, as well as becoming nourishment for Zhao Lingyin's cultivation. Yet a great quantity of difficult-to-refine "dross" seeped bit by bit into the nine worlds—the Dragon Heart, Dragon Claw, Dragon Horn, and the rest—as the grand array operated.
This "dross" consisted of the lingering imprints of the Primordial Lord Dharma Body's cultivation, the will of a True Immortal, the residual echoes of her thoughts, and the "foul qi" Shen Mo coughed out while refining demon corpses. They all came from the same source.
Though the Primordial Lord's Dharma Body had been completely sealed by the array, she still refused to give up. Relying on this dross, she enlightened vicious tree demons, attempting to destroy the array patterns and erode and dismantle this grand array at its source!
Before long, the Nanke spiritual land issued a heavenly-tier mission: slay the tree demons ravaging the mortal world.
Tu Lin and Fan Rongrong of the Dragon Claw world naturally accepted the