The branches grew rapidly, while the darkness Xu Le released rapidly corroded them.
The speed of corrosion and the speed of growth reached a strange equilibrium.
Mo Chen's soul left Wang Shu's body at that moment. Still in his tree-like state, Wang Shu fell stiffly to the ground with a thud, kicking up dust.
In his soul form, Mo Chen radiated golden light. To an ordinary person, that state of being covered in golden light would surely have looked holy.
He walked through the air, taking one step after another.
It felt as though he were climbing a stairway to divinity, slowly approaching Xu Le.
As for Xu Le, his entire body was filled with an ink-like blackness.
Darkness spread everywhere around him. Calling him an evil demon king or something of the sort would hardly have been a stretch.
"Level 5?"
Xu Le quietly entered the Tranquil State. He already had a vague guess about Mo Chen's Promotion.
Mo Chen had arranged so much and prepared for so long. If all he wanted was a way to survive, Xu Le felt there was no need for all that.
Before coming here, he had already wondered whether Mo Chen had made so many preparations because he was about to undergo a Promotion.
To be honest, Xu Le was quite curious about witnessing a Promotion ritual at such close range.
A Warlock's Promotion was a breakthrough in the very essence of life, in the truest sense.
Xu Le did not even have a basic understanding of Level 5, because he was still searching for a path to Level 4.
As for his Spirit Energy reserves and Spell Formulas, he had already reached the limit without even having to do anything.
After he reached LV3, his Spirit Energy had entered a virtually