Upon the Primordial Parasol Tree, the many cultivators each performed their duties. The Protective Grand Array had already been activated, originally to guard against the coming assault of the many Origin Realm Half-Saints and Puppet Half-Saints. Yet with Lu Ye and Si Shengya striking out and Xing Zhou turning traitor, the previous crisis had been completely resolved.
But an even greater crisis was about to arrive.
At a command from the Primordial Parasol Tree, all the cultivators darted into the nearest Phoenix Nests in an extremely short time.
Every Phoenix Race member had their own Phoenix Nest. Each was almost a separate small world; it looked utterly unremarkable from the outside, yet contained its own mysteries within.
The Phoenix Race had been born from these Phoenix Nests. They cultivated within their own nests from childhood, comprehending the mysteries of space, so accommodating all these cultivators now posed no problem.
In fewer than a dozen breaths, no cultivators remained atop the Primordial Parasol Tree aside from the Phoenix Race led by the Phoenix Lord.
The enormous tree swayed as the surrounding space twisted and shifted. At the same time, Lu Ye, standing before the Primordial Parasol Tree, activated his Dao force, Power of Space surging around him.
Nor was that all. The Phoenix Lord and the other Phoenix Race members likewise activated the Power of Space, echoing Lu Ye from afar. In that instant, with the Primordial Parasol Tree at its center, the Power of Space in the surroundings grew rich to the extreme.
Faintly, a transparent light screen seemed to envelop the entire Primordial Parasol Tree!
The next moment, an astonishing sight appeared. Visible to the naked eye, the colossal trunk of the Primordial Parasol Tree slowly began to shrink.
What was shrinking was not the Primordial Parasol Tree itself,