"Ideals matter, of course, but I never want my companions to die, no matter when. I've already seen you die three times before..."
"...Three times?"
"You've died too many times!"
"All right, then..."
"I'll go get Ding Ke."
"Okay."
Their conversation went no further. They had just broken through, and both had survived. Talking about such heavy things at a time like this felt somewhat inappropriate.
They were not sad, yet they had made the mood sad.
After Chi Xiao left, Xu Le looked at the Soul Devouring Tree. He could faintly sense its presence.
But that presence was already extremely weak, as though it might die at any moment.
The faded flames in the sky were still burning. Xu Le felt he should do what he could to salvage things now.
"Disperse."
The fading fire released a ring of energy. At the same time, the Soul Devouring Tree, already burned away, collapsed with a crash.
At least, most of the scorched areas collapsed.
The towering, magnificent Soul Devouring Tree World could no longer maintain its original form.
As the Soul Devouring Tree collapsed, Xu Le could even feel agonizing pain in his mental world.
That was because the Soul Devouring Tree and his mental world were connected to begin with.
Now that the Soul Devouring Tree had burned down, his mental world had also suffered tremendous damage.
Fortunately, although most of it had burned down, it had not burned away completely. Some of the Soul Devouring Tree's unique vitality still remained at the base of its trunk and among its roots.
That unique vitality was probably the sum of the power of chaos, the aura of death, the aura of darkness, and all sorts of other energies, forming chaos.
The vitality born within that chaos was very strange.
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