Time flowed slowly, and the ancient tree returned to its original state, its branches and leaves swaying gently, and the flower of concept quietly blooming within its canopy.
If one hadn't witnessed the massacre firsthand, no one would believe that hundreds of cultivators had been swallowed up here, yet the three wooden giants were still patrolling.
Their steps were heavy and slow; with each step, the ground would tremble slightly, and their hollow chests would constantly turn around, as if sensing some trace in the air.
Just then, one of the giants suddenly stopped. It stood not far to the right of the ancient tree, its body slowly turning around, its bottomless chest cavity facing a seemingly Emptiness void.
Within the higher-dimensional interlayer, Qin Yu's pupils contracted slightly because that location contained an extremely subtle Transcendent Five-Dimensional Space rift.
The giant slowly raised the giant hammer in its hand. The hammer was originally just a rough wooden structure, but at this moment, the ancient patterns on the hammerhead suddenly lit up.
Fine, intricate runes moved like living things. Then, the giant spirit made an extremely strange move: it did not swing its weapon.
Instead, it slowly raised the giant hammer, its head gently touching the air. In the next instant, the dark crack in the giant's chest cavity suddenly expanded.
An invisible wave surged from its body. The wave had no light or sound, yet it resembled some kind of extremely high-level detection ability.
Every dimension in space was simultaneously touched, causing the air to distort. The force swept through the real space, higher-dimensional space, and void folds.
Like someone dropping a pebble into a calm lake, the ripples spread rapidly, and then, "Crack!" a crisp cracking sound rang out.
The sound was like a glass shattering, the void suddenly cracking open, and three figures were forcefully ejected from the spatial rift. "Bang!!"
The three cultivators crashed heavily to the ground, their protective divine light instantly shattering, and they rolled around on the ground in a disheveled state.
The dust rose as the three were all cultivators at the Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme. Clearly, they had been hiding in the high-dimensional rift.
They hadn't expected to be forcibly shaken out by this wooden behemoth. One of them turned pale, "Damn it!"
"It can actually detect higher-dimensional rifts!!" However, before they could even get their footing, the wooden behemoth had already moved.
"Boom--! The giant spirit took a step and cracked the ground. It swung its huge wooden hammer with both hands, and the hammerhead cut through the air."
With a deep, rumbling sound, "Boom--!" the air seemed to be compressed into a giant wave as the giant hammer, carrying terrifying weight, crashed directly down on the three of them.
That attack, devoid of any fancy techniques, contained an extremely terrifying power, causing the space itself to distort and ripple. The pupils of the three cultivators suddenly contracted.
"Scatter!!" The three retreated simultaneously. "Boom!!!" The giant hammer landed and the ground instantly cracked, sending Shi Lin and rubble flying in all directions.
A crack several tens of feet long appeared directly on the ground, and the three cultivators landed in a sorry state some distance away. However, this time they did not flee.
Because the pollen in the air had long since dissipated, the power that had frozen their primordial divine power had vanished, and their power had been restored.
One of the black-clad cultivators roared, "Attack!" In the next instant, all three simultaneously unleashed their primal divine power, and a terrifying aura instantly soared into the sky.
The first person formed hand seals, and a massive lightning array instantly unfolded. "Lightning Prison - Heavenly Punishment Descends!" The sky exploded with a deafening roar.
Dozens of bolts of lightning struck the wooden giant spirit simultaneously, while the second person summoned a long spear, which burst forth with crimson light.
His figure flashed, transforming into a streak of light as he charged towards the giant spirit. "World Burning Spear!" The spear's light tore through the air as the third person struck out with both palms.
Countless runes converged in the air, forming a massive seal called "Realm Suppressing Seal!" The three divine powers blasted towards the giant spirit almost simultaneously.
Thunder, spear light, and magic seals intertwined in the air, and terrifying power instantly swept across the entire area, yet the wooden behemoth did not retreat.
It simply raised its giant hammer slowly, preparing to meet the attack. In the higher dimension, Shen Qingchen took a deep breath. "Brother Qin..."
"It seems we're not the only ones hiding." Qin Yu's gaze was calm; he didn't speak, but his eyes had already fallen on the ancient tree again.
Because the real target was never these giants, but the heart of the tree.
The battle between the wooden giant and the three Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators had just begun, with lightning, spear light, and magic seals exploding in the air, causing the entire Shi Lin to tremble.
However, at this moment, another wooden giant suddenly stopped its patrol. It slowly raised its head, and its empty chest once again turned to a seemingly Emptiness void.
Within the higher-dimensional interlayer, Shen Qingchen's expression changed slightly. "Damn it..." Qin Yu's gaze also turned cold instantly, and the giant hammer in the giant spirit's hand slowly rose.
The ancient patterns on the hammerhead lit up again, but this time, it didn't touch the air; instead, it held the giant hammer horizontally in front of its chest. The next instant—
The dark rift in the giant's chest cavity suddenly expanded, and an invisible wave suddenly spread out from its body, like a transparent ripple.
But at the same time, the air in the real space and the higher-dimensional rift began to distort, and the spatial folds were peeled away layer by layer, as if someone was forcibly dragging out something hidden in the dimensional interlayer.
The next moment, a crisp cracking sound rang out, and the high-dimensional rift shattered, instantly blasting Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen away.
Shen Qingchen lost his balance and was almost thrown away by the spatial tremors, but at the same instant, Qin Yu's figure had already disappeared. "Buzz!" An extremely subtle spatial ripple flashed by.
Qin Yu used his teleportation technique and in the next moment, his figure appeared on the ground. He landed lightly, and his robes fluttered gently.
He stood steadily in the clearing of the Shi Lin. The moment Qin Yu landed, the third wooden giant spirit also moved, turning to another void.
The hollow chest cavity erupted with the same probing wave once more, and the spatial rift was forcibly shattered. "Bang!!!" Five figures were blasted out simultaneously.
They tumbled down from the higher-dimensional rift in a sorry state; some rolled on the ground, while others barely managed to stand. Suddenly, five powerful auras filled the air.
Including Qin Yu and Shen Qingchen, plus the three Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators who were forced out earlier.
At this moment, there are a total of ten cultivators on the scene, seven of whom are at the Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme, and they are at the back of the crowd.
The two auras were exceptionally heavy; they belonged to two cultivators at the Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage, while Qin Yu was only at the Realm Breaking Realm · Middle Stage.
They stood there, their gazes icy, clearly powerful figures who had previously hidden within the spatial rift.
The three wooden giants slowly turned around, and they reassembled like three moving mountains, their heavy footsteps leaving deep cracks in the ground.
The air in the open space suddenly became oppressive. The ten cultivators looked at each other, none of them making the first move.
Finally, a cultivator in Qingyi spoke up. He looked at the crowd, his voice low but firm, "Fellow Daoists."
"There's no way out now. The area within ten miles has been completely sealed off by the demon tree," he said, pointing to the three giant spirits.
"If we don't join forces to kill him, we—" "will surely perish here." A moment of silence fell, but everyone understood.
He was telling the truth. The next moment, several cultivators quickly gathered together, and the ten of them gradually stood on the same side, their divine power aura slowly rising.
Meanwhile, the three wooden giants on the other side also stopped and stood together, their hollow chests slowly turning towards the ten people.
The giant hammer was lifted simultaneously, and the ancient patterns on the wooden body lit up again, revealing three giant spirits and ten cultivators, three against ten.
A true battle to the death is about to erupt. High above, the ancient tree stands silently, and deep within its canopy, the Flower of Concepts sways gently.
It seems to be waiting for a new origin.
In that instant, the battlefield seemed to be torn into countless fragments of chaotic space and time. The five cultivators at the Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme erupted almost simultaneously. They already knew that if they hesitated even for half a breath, they would become the next skeleton in this ancient forest.
One of them suddenly spread his arms wide, and behind him appeared a massive ancient bell formed from bronze runes, its surface engraved with patterns representing the myriad realms. He roared and slammed his palms down, causing the bell to vibrate violently.
The roar was like billions of thunderbolts exploding at once, and the rolling sound waves transformed into visible bronze ripples that swept towards the three-headed tree spirit. Wherever they passed, the earth cracked layer by layer, and space shattered inch by inch like glass being struck by an iron hammer.
Another cultivator suddenly rose into the air, nine fiery discs rising behind him. As the discs spun, the temperature of the surroundings skyrocketed, each disc transforming into a hundred-foot-long blazing blade. He clasped his hands together and then abruptly separated them, sending the nine blazing blades crashing down like divine punishment.
Trailing a long, fiery tail, it slashed at one of the tree spirits, instantly evaporating the air and leaving trails of blazing white light.
The third person then brandished a gray-white spear, the shaft of which seemed to be pieced together from countless spatial rifts. With a thrust of the spear, the entire space instantly collapsed into a straight black line, which, like a void rift piercing through the universe, went directly toward the tree spirit's chest.
The fourth and fifth people also made their moves at the same time. One summoned countless rune chains, while the other condensed a palm print as large as a mountain. The five different divine powers bombarded the three-headed tree spirit almost simultaneously. The entire ancient forest was instantly swallowed up by the destructive storm, and the space shook violently.
At that very moment, Qin Yu slowly stepped forward. He did not unleash his violent power like the others, but instead quietly raised his palm.
A silent light slowly shifted in his eyes. The next instant, Qin Yu's right hand suddenly clenched its five fingers.
"Heavenly Cause Judgment Sequence, Six Severances Seal." A deep voice rang out from his lips, "First Seal— Fate Cause Sealing Mirror, Logic Abyss Core."
In an instant, the space around the battlefield distorted, as if the entire world had been dragged into a giant mirror abyss.
Countless silver-white mirrors emerged from the void, each reflecting the image of the tree spirits and the trajectory of their power.
Within the mirror, chains of causal light suddenly lit up, tightening simultaneously like billions of cold chains, directly locking onto the power logic operating around the tree spirit.
A dark blue star core slowly condensed in the center of the Mirror Sea. The star core vibrated gently, and a deep hum spread out.
In an instant, the boundary patterns growing around the three-headed tree spirit were forcibly frozen for a moment.
In that brief instant, the other cultivators' five divine abilities had already descended with a deafening roar. Boom—
The terrifying power of the explosion instantly engulfed the entire battlefield. However, the next moment, the three tree spirits simultaneously let out a low roar like the tremor of the earth.
Their three enormous bodies trembled simultaneously, and countless tree patterns on their trunks lit up. Then, the three tree spirits raised their heads at the same time, and three hollow tree holes lit up.
The purple flames that had ignited in the tree hollow in the middle spun around, and the moment the three colors of light intertwined, an indescribable roar suddenly came from the depths of the earth.
Billions of roots burst forth from the earth, intertwining, weaving, and merging together, instantly transforming into a terrifying root network covering thousands of miles of land.
The sky was instantly obscured as the phantoms of three ancient trees slowly overlapped in the void. The three tree spirits spoke simultaneously, their voices ancient and heavy.
"You shatter all realms." "All realms take root." Boom—a three-colored vortex suddenly formed in the air, and a phantom "World Tree" slowly grew from the center of the vortex.
Roots penetrated spatial rifts, branches pierced through time faults, and leaves borne fragments of cause and effect. The domain of Myriad Worlds Root Fixation the Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme cultivators who had just shattered space at the forefront.
However, countless silver roots instantly sprouted from the crack. These roots spread wildly like living things, directly burrowing into their bodies.
The next moment, golden branches grew out from the time rift, hooking the past and future of those people like grappling hooks.
The purple causal vines erupted simultaneously, binding every ounce of their will, and the five didn't even have time to scream.
Their bodies were pierced by billions of roots, yet they neither exploded nor bled; they were simply "fixed" in place.
Then the World Tree slowly contracted, and the five figures were directly dragged into the "World Seed" the next moment.
The World Seed suddenly exploded, instantly Annihilation five cultivators at the Realm Breaking Realm · Supreme. At the same time...
Shen Qingchen and another cultivator at the Realm Breaking Realm were thrown back by the shockwave and crashed heavily to the ground, their chest bones shattered, and they immediately lost consciousness.
The two cultivators at the Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage turned pale as they simultaneously unleashed their Origin Treasures.
A dark ancient tower and a star-patterned shield instantly unfolded, enveloping the two, but the terrifying impact still caused them to cough up blood.
Qin Yu was also blasted back dozens of feet by the terrifying shockwave of that domain at that moment. His blood and qi surged, and a trace of blood slowly spilled from the corner of his mouth.
However, at that moment, Qin Yu's gaze suddenly sharpened. He saw that Shen Qingchen had completely lost consciousness, and the three-headed tree spirit was slowly approaching them.
Without any hesitation, a black light suddenly appeared between Qin Yu's brows, resembling a drop of solidified black divine blood.
The void cracked slightly in the next instant, and an invisible black void unfolded before him— the Annihilation Devil Pupil and the Final Spirit Core.
Silently, the black void opened, gently swirling like an abyss, instantly swallowing the unconscious Shen Qingchen. The next moment...
The black void closed again as if it had never existed, while in the distance, the three-headed tree spirit slowly approached them.
At the same time, the air around Qin Yu completely froze, leaving only Qin Yu and two Mystic Void Realm Initial Stage cultivators on the battlefield, all of whom were covered in wounds.