But the Purple Dusk Demon Soldiers fired several more volleys from their Immortal-Slaying Crossbows, leaving the World Tree even more badly wounded.
Then the Purple Dusk Demon Soldiers withdrew like a receding tide.
More Purple Dusk Demon Soldiers poured from the Nightmare Shells, forming another Army Formation of eight million that unleashed a fresh barrage at the World Tree.
Explosions rang out without pause. In the blink of an eye, countless branches had been blasted from the World Tree. Its trunk was riddled with wounds, and golden sap flowed from it without end. The damage had reached its very roots.
But under the World Tree's counterattack, this Army Formation of Purple Dusk Demons suffered terrible losses and retreated once more.
Just as another wave of Purple Dusk Demons seemed ready to charge out, the situation suddenly changed.
The Purple Dusk Demon Soldiers emerging from one Nightmare Shell fired on a neighboring Army Formation of their own comrades.
Caught completely off guard, the nearby Army Formation of Purple Dusk Demon Soldiers was almost wiped out.
Then that maddened Nightmare Shell rammed into the Nightmare Shell beside it.
The turn came so suddenly that no one had imagined such a thing could happen. Nearly everyone stood stunned.
The World Tree seized the opening, broke through the encirclement, and escaped.
The maddened Nightmare Shell was the one Tang Changsheng had infiltrated. He had already taken control of it.
Tang Changsheng could easily have controlled a mere Nightmare Shell back when he was only a True Immortal, let alone now.
The moment he slipped into the depths of the Nightmare Shell and touched its consciousness, the outcome was sealed.
Nightmare Force swept through the Divine Kingdom. Countless frail Purple Dusk Demon Soldiers were dragged into the abyss of nightmares, never to wake again.
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