The Soul Devouring Hand crushed everything before it.
But the instant Xu Le crushed the Blue Maid, his body stiffened.
Everything devoured by the Soul Devouring Tree would dissipate.
Not Spirit Energy, not flesh and blood, and not fate.
It was this world.
It was the rules of this world.
Under this world's rules, the longer Xu Le became entangled with Puppet, the more he would be eroded by those rules.
That was why the Blue Maid had not harmed him. Instead, she had kept conversing with him, talking to him, deepening his interaction with this world.
With the Gundo Mother Tree's validation, Puppet's rules gradually invaded his world.
Puppet had incorporated her own rules into this Mother Tree Realm, and this Mother Tree Realm, in turn, kept influencing everyone...
Only when Xu Le killed the Blue Maid completely did he complete his full interaction with Puppet's rules.
Control was achieved at that very moment.
Xu Le raised his hand somewhat stiffly, turning it over and back.
After carefully adjusting to the feel of his hand, the corners of his mouth twitched upward.
It was probably a smile, but a very strange one.
With a light wave of his hand, the Soul Devouring Trees began twisting incessantly. They seemed to be resisting something, yet they could not disobey Xu Le's command.
A sense of awkwardness had actually appeared in plants like the Soul Devouring Trees.
Even if they were exceedingly terrifying plants.
Xu Le took a deep breath, then let it out slowly.
After this brief adjustment, his control over his body had become much smoother than before.
Feeling the power inside his body, Xu Le slowly closed his eyes.
"This feels even better and more powerful than I imagined. With this vast amount of Spirit Energy, I could even