Amid the violent shaking, Blood Vine continued spreading downward, finally lowering Xu Rui's group and Su Bai's companions to the ground.
Standing on the ground and gazing up at the entire Weird Tree felt even stranger.
The twisted, diseased giant tree towered like a mountain, its visual impact far more immediate and oppressive than it had been when they were suspended in midair.
"It" had said earlier that one of its abilities was to isolate them from the outside world, but Su Bai had never expected to see that ability made tangible. Beneath their feet lay soft, barren earth, and before them stood the terrifying Weird Tree. There was nothing else. A gentle white curtain of light separated them from the outside world.
Su Bai had thought that once the Newborn Ward's building collapsed, they would find themselves in Hospital No. 666, or surrounded by impenetrable dense fog. He had never imagined that the Tree of Life, eroded to its limit by eerie forces, could still create such a soft, glowing white barrier, so unrealistically "holy."
"What... are those?" Though she had escaped the freezing space, Tian Yue stared upward, dumbfounded.
Reflected in her eyes were flames and strange phenomena locked in fierce combat with the giant tree's branches. Invisible forces severed and shattered those twisted branches one by one. Several places were even burning and exploding, sending up bursts of unusual blue flame and flashes of electricity.
"Am I about to die, so this damned hallucination disorder decided to show me something good at the end? Let me see that rotten tree get ganged up on?" Tian Yue muttered involuntarily.
"Ah!" A second later, Feng Xuelan, standing beside her, gave her cheek a hard pinch.
Startled, Tian Yue was dragged back to "reality." She sucked in a breath from