If the Bizarre Tree had been at its peak, its Absolute Life Domain combined with One Thought Annihilation would have been enough to overwhelm all but a handful of Star City's elite troops—and Jiang Yue was the only one who might have held out.
But the Bizarre Tree wasn't anywhere near its peak. It had also lost the support of the formation. It could now be said to have less than a tenth of its full strength.
Under Jiang Yue and the others' relentless attacks, the Bizarre Tree suffered one setback after another.
Once it failed to break through the predicament Jiang Yue and the others had set up in time, its defeat was already inevitable.
Either it escaped immediately, or it would eventually be defeated once its strength ran out.
In other words, by letting Jiang Yue and the others get close without noticing them, and then failing to escape at once, it had already lost most of the battle.
Without the formation's support, exhausted from the outset and caught off guard by Jiang Yue and the others, the Bizarre Tree had too many disadvantages to overcome.
Once San Gou and the others joined the fight, its defeat accelerated rapidly.
With no fresh reinforcements joining the battle, the balance of power kept shifting, like a scale tipping farther and farther to one side.
In the end, under Jiang Yue and the others' unceasing attacks, one root after another was destroyed, and the Bizarre Tree's reserves of spiritual power dwindled even faster in the fight.
Take the Bizarre Tree in Star City, for example. When Zhuang Han and the others returned to Star City, would they give it another chance to spread? Even without Jiang Yue there, Star City's elite had enough experience to stop the Bizarre Tree from evolving.