The Taiji Divine Image stood in the void, the Six Extremes Heaven-Pounding Staff in its hand extending thousands of miles under the surge of magical power.
As the Taiji Divine Image exerted its power, the Six Extremes Heaven-Pounding Staff smashed into the Evergreen Divine Tree again. The incomparably violent staff pulverized the Evergreen Divine Tree completely, plunging deep into the earth and blasting out an enormous crater tens of thousands of miles across.
Earth, stone, and dust burst into the sky. The roots buried deep underground were exposed as well, like hundreds upon thousands of intertwined azure giant serpents. Their bodies writhed and rose and fell, countless runes gleaming across them.
Two consecutive strikes from the Six Extremes Heaven-Pounding Staff had already blasted the Evergreen Divine Tree to pieces. Even its root system, spread throughout all directions, had suffered devastating damage.
If the Six Extremes Heaven-Pounding Staff had attacked Golden Cicada directly, he could still have employed all manner of divine abilities to evade it. But when it struck the Evergreen Divine Tree, Golden Cicada had no way to stop it.
Golden Cicada had cultivated in Evergreen Heaven for hundreds of thousands of years and had long since refined the Evergreen Divine Tree, using it as the foundation to establish a powerful formation.
Yet his formidable true body had just been slain, and he had lost two thousand Pure Yang divine consciousnesses. Relying on the Celestial Cicada Mirror's divine ability, he had only barely escaped disaster. This was precisely his weakest moment.
Though Golden Cicada noticed that something was wrong, he was temporarily unable to mobilize the grotto-heaven formation.
The Taiji Divine Image seized that very opening. Two consecutive staff strikes directly shattered the Evergreen Divine Tree and destroyed the core of Evergreen Heaven's great formation.
The Evergreen Divine Tree