The Tree Demon sensed the threat, and the twisted face on its trunk opened its gaping mouth.
Countless roots burst from beneath the ground.
Dense vines blotted out the sky as they whipped toward Lin Tian.
Lin Tian raised his head, his gaze fixed on the Tree Demon.
The reason his physique had grown so much was the Tank Engine.
Every time his Soul Power increased by one level, the Tank Engine enhanced all of his attributes once.
Lin Tian now possessed Level 10 Soul Power.
The Tank Engine had also completed ten enhancements.
Those ten enhancements were not simply added together; each one continued to build upon the previous enhancement.
His vitality, strength, agility, and defense had risen layer by layer.
Lin Tian's body could no longer be measured by the standards of an ordinary Soul Master.
The Pearlglow Gauntlet could also cause explosive Martial Soul power to trigger critical hits.
More importantly, the Prismatic Attribute Forger had granted Lin Tian a fixed thirty percent true damage.
This portion of damage ignored defense.
No matter how many years of cultivation the Tree Demon possessed, Lin Tian could still injure it.
"Perfect. I'll use you to see just how strong I am now."
Lin Tian stepped forward.
Boom!
The ground beneath his feet exploded.
His massive body became a black shadow as he charged toward the Tree Demon through the vines filling the sky.
More than a dozen vines struck first.
Lin Tian did not dodge. He raised an arm and swept it across them.
Bang!
The vines collided with his arm.
The thorns covering the vines shattered one after another, while the thick vines themselves were snapped apart on the spot.
Foul-smelling sap splashed across the ground.
More vines attacked from both sides, wrapping around Lin Tian's legs and waist.
The Tree Demon suddenly exerted force.
Power great enough to uproot ancient trees erupted at once, seeking to tear Lin Tian to pieces.
Lin Tian planted his feet into the ground.
He spread his arms outward.
The vines around his body snapped apart one after another.
The next moment, Azure Divine Light blossomed from within Lin Tian.
The Primordial Chaos Azure Lotus slowly bloomed at his right.
Its lotus leaves unfurled.
The powers of earth, water, fire, and wind swirled around the lotus pedestal.
The Nine Nether Beast stood to his left, its savage destructive aura crushing all grass and trees in its path.
Two god-tier Martial Souls appeared at the same time.
Destruction Power and Life Force intertwined around Lin Tian.
Shui Bing'er leaned against a broken ancient tree, her beautiful eyes filled with shock.
"Twin Martial Souls?"
She had never seen the Nine Nether Beast, much less the Primordial Chaos Azure Lotus.
Yet her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul was conveying instinctive reverence to her.
That nine-tailed behemoth needed only a glance to make the Ice Phoenix afraid to spread its wings.
The Primordial Chaos Azure Lotus was so beautiful that she could not look away.
Its azure petals were crystalline and translucent, while countless divine rays spilled from its core, restoring life to the withered vegetation around it.
Shui Bing'er stared at the tall figure standing between the two great Martial Souls and momentarily forgot the injury on her shoulder.
"Both of his Martial Souls are above the Ice Phoenix."
At the center of the battlefield.
Lin Tian had already charged before the Tree Demon.
The Tree Demon mobilized all of its roots, forming several layers of barriers around its trunk.
Every layer of roots was covered in hard wooden armor.
Lin Tian clenched his right fist.
The Nine Nether Beast raised its savage wolf head as Destruction Power gathered completely upon Lin Tian's fist.
He threw a punch.
The outermost layer of wooden armor exploded instantly.
Hundreds of roots snapped one after another.
Lin Tian's fist passed through every obstruction and crashed heavily into the Tree Demon's thick trunk.
Boom!
The Tree Demon, dozens of meters tall, slid backward a hundred meters.
Ancient trees along the way were smashed apart one after another by its enormous body.
A clear fist mark appeared in the center of its trunk.
Dark red blood flowed from the crack.
Qian Daoliu's expression froze completely when he saw this.
A Level 10 Soul Master.
He had injured a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast with one punch.
This had completely surpassed Qian Daoliu's understanding of Soul Master cultivation.
Even if Lin Tian possessed two god-tier Martial Souls, he should not have been able to cross such an immense gap in cultivation without a Soul Ring.
"How could something like this possibly exist in this world?"
The injured Tree Demon went completely berserk.
A vast number of roots burrowed underground, and the vegetation within several miles rapidly withered.
The life force it absorbed flowed into its trunk through the roots.
The cracks around the fist mark began to heal.
Above its canopy, thousands of vines rose at once.
The ground beneath Lin Tian suddenly split open.
A sharp wooden spike shot from the soil and slammed into his chest.
His black clothes tore apart instantly.
Lin Tian's body was thrown into the air.
Dozens of vines followed close behind, lashing continuously against his body.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Every collision unleashed massive shockwaves.
The surrounding ancient trees could not withstand the battle's aftermath and fell in droves.
Broken branches and leaves were swept into the air.
The battle's shockwaves rapidly spread, and every Soul Beast within several miles fled into the distance.
Lin Tian crashed down from the sky.
His body smashed a massive crater into the ground.
The Tree Demon did not stop.
Countless vines rushed into the crater and continuously hammered at the same spot.
Qian Daoliu raised his right hand.
Golden Soul Power had already gathered in his palm.
But in the next moment, a large hand reached out from the crater and grabbed a vine.
Lin Tian rose from the rubble.
His chest was covered in wounds, and blood dripped continuously from his torn black clothes.
The Primordial Chaos Azure Lotus swayed gently.
Azure Divine Light merged into Lin Tian's body.
His torn wounds closed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In only a few breaths, more than half of Lin Tian's injuries had recovered.
The golden light in Qian Daoliu's palm gradually faded.
"So that's how it is."
The Tree Demon's strength still held the upper hand.
But it could not truly inflict severe injuries on Lin Tian.
As long as the Primordial Chaos Azure Lotus remained, Lin Tian's injuries would rapidly heal.
In contrast, every attack the Tree Demon endured from Lin Tian left behind wounds that could not be ignored.
Qian Daoliu did not intervene further.
He stood at the edge of the battlefield and chose to watch this utterly unequal battle.
Lin Tian grabbed the vine and abruptly exerted strength with both arms.
The Tree Demon's enormous body was dragged forward directly.
He charged along the vine, raining punch after punch upon the trunk.
Destruction Power exploded without end.
The Pearlglow Gauntlet triggered critical hits continuously.
Every time his fist landed, the Tree Demon's body shook violently.
Its bark shattered.
Its roots burst apart.
Dark red blood flowed endlessly down its trunk.
The Tree Demon swung its vines, knocking Lin Tian back time and again.
The wounds on Lin Tian's body continued to heal beneath the light of the Primordial Chaos Azure Lotus.
As time passed, the situation between them began to reverse.
The Tree Demon's vine strikes grew slower and slower.
Yet Lin Tian's vitality remained as vigorous as ever.
He stepped on a vine sweeping toward him and used the momentum to leap into the air.
The Nine Nether Beast spread nine enormous tails behind him.
The Primordial Chaos Azure Lotus cast down countless divine rays.
Destruction Power and Life Force surged into Lin Tian's right arm at the same time.
The Tree Demon withdrew all of its roots.
Heavy wooden armor covered the front of its trunk layer after layer.
Lin Tian descended from the air.
"Break for me!"
His fist pierced through the first layer of wooden armor.
Then came the second layer.
The third layer.
All the roots exploded at once.
Lin Tian's fist did not pause in the slightest and directly pierced through the Tree Demon's enormous body.
Destruction Power erupted from inside the trunk.
Boom!
The Tree Demon's body split apart from the middle.
Its trunk, dozens of meters tall, crashed to the ground.
The vines filling the sky lost their support and fell one after another onto the shattered earth.
A black Soul Ring slowly rose from the Tree Demon's corpse.
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