After forcibly breaking free of the illusion, Liu Yu found himself in an emerald-green space brimming with life.
Before him stood an ancient tree roughly several dozen zhang tall, exuding an air of age and weathered antiquity, as though it had existed there since time immemorial.
The ancient tree was emerald-green throughout, as though carved from the finest jade, and radiated astonishing vitality. It looked exactly like the nearly thousand-zhang-tall Bodhi Ancient Tree outside, only shrunk countless times over.
As Liu Yu slowly approached, the emerald-green Bodhi Ancient Tree suddenly began to tremble faintly. An enormous orb of light floated out of its trunk and hovered before him.
Within the orb stood a Bodhi Ancient Tree ten thousand zhang tall. Before it, a black-robed figure stood in midair, a terrifying aura that seemed to proclaim him supreme over Heaven and Earth slowly spreading from his body...
Beneath that aura, even the ten-thousand-zhang-tall Bodhi Ancient Tree seemed somewhat insignificant...
"A true Dou Di...?"
Gazing at the black-robed figure, Liu Yu murmured to himself. Even this mere image sent a faint tremor through his heart.
Within the orb, the black-robed figure suddenly launched a ferocious attack on the Bodhi Ancient Tree. The tree instantly unleashed sky-swallowing energy in response, and beneath those terrifying attacks, even Heaven and Earth began to collapse...
As the images within the orb sped up, the black-robed figure was suddenly struck hard by a destructive blast of wind that hurtled toward him. In the end, his body and that entire stretch of Heaven and Earth exploded into nothingness...
The images did not stop with the Black-Robed Dou Di's death. Within that void, wisps of black air swiftly sank into the Bodhi Ancient Tree. As they poured in, the pure aura surrounding its trunk faintly acquired a hidden trace