Time rewound by a moment.
Amid a forest of white bones, a land of flesh and blood, ghastly pale souls, a sea of deep-red flowers, and skies of utter gloom, an incomparably bizarre Flesh and Blood Mother Tree that seemed to occupy the entire world was rising from the earth!
It used countless corpses as soil, flesh as branches, blood as irrigation, and internal organs, eyeballs, intestines, mouths... It seemed that every organ of every living being could be found upon it.
Every fork of its branches and every line upon it seemed divided according to the golden ratio, even surpassing humanity's narrow understanding. Any race, any lifeform, would become intoxicated by it, as though beholding the most exquisite artwork in the world! They could feel a beauty that transcended reason!
The instant they saw it, every cultivator inside the room felt as if they had seen something indescribable—life!
Yet what truly changed the expressions of the cultivators was not the demonic tree's savage might. Rather, its leaves, crimson like flesh, and its trunk, like stark white bones, had begun to flower and bear fruit. But after flowering, it bore not fruit, but one flesh-and-blood embryo after another. Within those embryos were countless indistinct figures.
They knew those figures' faces very well: the dead Golden Core Cultivators, the vanished Nascent Soul True Lords, and the people present... Mister Mist, Celestial Maiden Gu Yue, Shadow Kill True Lord, and... Lin Chen!
"What, what?!"
At this scene, everyone's expressions changed.
They were clearly standing inside the room. Why, then, were their figures hanging upon the Flesh and Blood Mother Tree?
"Hehehe, you filthy fools! The moment you entered the island, you were already captured by the great Tree of Life." Lord of the Celestial Being Path had long since turned into a