Chi Xiao raised the blazing Sun. The flowers in the platform garden had turned to ash the instant it appeared.
The heat burned everything away. Even the white jade pillars and flowerbeds on the platform were destroyed in that moment.
Holding up the Little Sun, Chi Xiao slowly floated into the sky. She looked down at Andy, and at everything beneath her feet.
"Spell Formula-Flame Emperor. Die, insect!"
Boom!
The shock wave and flames swept over everything.
Andy was blasted backward, slamming heavily into the trunk of the Golden Radiance Tree.
The Golden Radiance Tree had originally been resistant to fire, but these flames seemed to ignite some substance inside it, causing it to burn rapidly.
Flames lifted Chi Xiao's hair. Standing in the fire, she looked like a true god, breathing at leisure.
More precisely, she was sucking in the traces left by the burning flames, the incinerated wood, and the rot that had been burned away.
Amid the raging flames, Andy spat out a large mouthful of blood. That shock wave had been far too powerful.
This woman's strength... had she already reached this level?
Andy pushed away from the trunk and dropped from the tree, returning to the blasted garden platform.
Her staggering figure looked somewhat frail. Gazing at the fireball before her, which resembled the Sun, she suddenly understood something.
"Your goal... is to burn the tree?"
Chi Xiao seemed to have no intention of hiding anything in response to Andy's question.
"The Golden Radiance Tree project has failed completely. As failures, you've already been abandoned by the Red Moon. Everything here must be burned away. The executor: the One-Eyed Owl."
Andy visibly froze at Chi Xiao's words.
"You... you know everything about this place?"
"The Golden Radiance Tree project was itself a seed project created