With a thunderous crash, the entire tree body collapsed, smashing viciously into the ground.
"You went back on your word!" An unwilling roar came from the remaining stump. Though it had survived by relying on its powerful vitality after its tree body was destroyed, restoring this trunk would take who knew how many years.
Ye Yu rose into the air and looked down. With a sweep of his hand, a streak of azure light descended into the earth, sealing off everything around them.
"Y-you... what are you trying to do?!" A terrified voice came from within the stump.
Ye Yu ignored it. Black-and-white Pill Fire gradually formed in his palm before he finally tossed it onto the stump.
Amid a shrill scream, the entire stump immediately erupted in raging flames.
The fire spread, gradually burning even the roots buried deep underground.
After a long while, as Ye Yu looked at the nearly charred ground, the tree demon's final trace of life force finally dispersed.
It had wanted to kill him, and it had also seen the Void Sky Cauldron. Those two reasons alone meant Ye Yu could not possibly spare it, much less when it might go warn that "Green Lotus."
The scorching heat waves gradually faded. Seeing that Zou Yitian and Zhou Sheng were about to awaken, Ye Yu turned around, found a spot, and hid himself.
Zou Yitian was the first to wake. He sprang to his feet and glanced at the surrounding devastation, his expression instantly turning ugly as he hurriedly shouted, "Junior Brother! Junior Brother!"
As Zou Yitian called out, Zhou Sheng woke as well. He shook his groggy head, then suddenly recalled what had happened before he lost consciousness, and his face instantly turned deathly pale.
That terrifying tree!
Soon afterward, everyone gradually woke up.