Riding Kunpeng, Liang Zhaohuang swiftly caught up to the Black Banyan King fleeing underground. He sacrificed the Earth Mother Origin Pearl and activated the power of the earth element laws, immediately locking down the surrounding earth and pinning the Black Banyan King within it.
Though the Black Banyan King was powerful, with late-stage Demon King cultivation, the greatest dao it cultivated and wielded was the wood element. Its mastery of earth escape was already a gift of exceptional talent, but it had little cultivation or command over the earth element dao.
Therefore, it was simply impossible for it to break through the confinement imposed by the Earth Mother Origin Pearl's earth element laws beneath the ground and continue fleeing.
Liang Zhaohuang continued to drive the Earth Mother Origin Pearl, wielding the power of earth element laws to control the sealed earth around them. Invisible gravity collapsed inward from every direction, seeking to crush the Black Banyan King trapped inside outright.
Yet the Black Banyan King was, after all, a late-stage Demon King. Even without much study or mastery of the earth element dao, its sheer strength and combat power were enough to forcefully break the deadlock.
Roar!
An enraged bellow rang out from beneath the earth sealed by the Earth Mother Origin Pearl.
Rumble...
Then came muffled thunderous booms, like stifled thunder rolling beneath the earth.
The ground all around began to quake violently, as though an Earth Dragon had turned over. Cracks swiftly appeared across the surface, spreading and splitting apart.
The next instant, shadow after shadow, like thick dragon-serpents, burst through the shattered earth and swept toward the Earth Mother Origin Pearl and Liang Zhaohuang.
Liang Zhaohuang saw clearly that those black shadows were thick aerial roots. They broke through the soil and split the ground, stirring the