"Candle-Illuminated Undying Tree... has blossomed?"
Gu Yunzhi's words left An Jing stunned. But before he could carefully consider what it meant for such an ancient divine tree to "blossom," he sensed a transmission from his other companion star.
[Boss, look, look! It's truly unbelievable!]
The sender was naturally Cang Linzu. The Child of Calamity, who had already infiltrated Da Chen's army, was now beside Gu Yunzhi. What he transmitted in sync was his own vision—the sight of the divine tree blooming, witnessed with his own eyes!
Far away, at the other end.
At the center of Beixuan Jizhou.
Deep within Youli's Nether Sea, atop a mountain at the heart of an unnamed continent.
Gu Yunzhi and Cang Linzu stood together atop the nameless peak of that nameless land. A scorching wind of bitter pain and regret, carrying rain of tears, swept across the entire netherworld, whipping the young martial artists' robes.
They were gazing out, toward the far end of the Nether Sea, toward the sole shining capital within that gray-black world.
Yet the distance was too great. Even the resplendent Shenjing appeared hazy and indistinct, its details veiled by drifting gray mist. But from beginning to end, neither man's target had been Shenjing.
In their eyes, there was only the Undying Tree.
Only the Zhu Zhao Yao Ming Ying Tian Immortal Tree!
The divine tree that linked heaven and earth had once been silent. Its ancient, rough trunk was dark as stone, mottled gray-brown and concealed amid the shadows of mist, dim and nearly invisible. But now, it erupted with light—accompanied by a deafening roar like shifting tectonic plates and collapsing mountains that tore apart the dead stillness of the netherworld. Strands of blue-violet luminous patterns suddenly lit up and burst forth from deep within the Undying Tree, like