Demon seeds and Innate Origin Qi were inherently forces that counteracted each other.
Without other vessels concealing them, they would long since have been locked in a vicious struggle, rather than coexisting as harmoniously as they had seen before. The spiritual qi and demonic qi here worked the same way.
Innate Origin Qi was clearly of a higher order than demon seeds on the verge of birth.
Thus, once that restraint was broken, the demon seeds would swiftly be devoured by Innate Origin Qi.
The Defensive Barrier was shaking harder and harder, but Su Jiu felt that the tremors were not caused by the impact of the spiritual qi and demonic qi.
Instead, the interior of the Life-and-Death Tree itself was shaking.
On reflection, that made sense. The demon seeds had been wiped out, and the balance had been utterly broken. It would have been strange if the Life-and-Death Tree had shown no reaction.
"The tree should be about to collapse..." Chu Luohen said calmly and coldly.
For the Enforcement Hall, those words merely prompted greater vigilance and mental preparation, but they gave some of the rogue cultivators quite a fright.
"What do you mean, the tree's about to collapse? What does a collapsing tree have to do with us?"
Some of the slower ones clearly had yet to grasp where they were. Coupled with their fear of the tremors, their already inadequate minds became even more muddled.
Naturally, the rogue cultivators who understood their predicament looked even grimmer.
"If the tree collapses, won't we all be buried down here?"
Only Feng Qi's thoughts took an unusual turn. "If the tree collapses, does that mean the formation eye of the Thousand-Absolute Demon-Summoning Formation will be destroyed too?"
Su Jiu did not answer, but began to ponder.
With the Life-and-Death Tree