It was Su Bai's first time seeing such an enormous Light Gate, but the peculiar connection he felt to it left him certain that this was the entrance to the Mist Shop.
Unlike last time, when part of the Fog City Lord's power had been drawn into the Mist Shop, they were trying to devour the entire Weird Tree this time. A gate this large would indeed make the process more efficient.
Su Bai instinctively looked toward the other players accompanying him, only to find A Yao, the female ghost with a flower pinned in her hair, standing beside Chi Yan and the others. Whatever drug she had given the other players, they stood motionless, as though petrified.
They clearly had not noticed the enormous Light Gate appear, nor were they aware of what was happening here.
Indeed, although Su Bai had openly summoned several Puzzle Pieces in front of these players, he could not let them learn any more about the Mist Shop or the "gate" yet.
The moment "its" branches touched the edge of the Light Gate, they were dragged inside, broken down completely into pure Red Moon energy as the Mist Shop devoured them.
Su Bai could hear the Weird Tree's hoarse screams, but they were rapidly growing weaker.
As more branches were pulled into the Light Gate, the Weird Tree left behind withered further. The more power the shop's entrance devoured, the weaker the remaining Weird Tree became.
The branches that had barely managed to hold their structure began to collapse and fall away, their outer layers rapidly losing color and revealing dry, grayish-white grain.
"Boom-!"
Finally, with an explosive crash, the enormous but utterly withered crown snapped and began to topple heavily backward.
The falling crown was now little more than a ruined husk, with