The situation had already reached this point. The Maha Divine Tree had been contaminated, and even Lan Hong did not know what to do.
"Bright Sword, perhaps I can only rely on you now."
The Bright Sword let out a sword cry, and Lan Hong then poured spiritual power into it.
The Bright Sword bloomed with intense radiance and pointed at the Maha Divine Tree.
The Maha Divine Tree's own purifying light was actually resisting the Bright Sword's Purifying Power.
The Maha Divine Tree was also a strange existence. It was connected to the origin of the Great Thousand World and possessed formidable Purifying Power.
Yet it had still been contaminated by the power of the Outer Realm Demons. Moreover, Lan Hong felt that the Outer Realm Demons' power was closer to the origin of the Great Thousand World.
Perhaps the Outer Realm Demons, the lower planes, and the Great Thousand World had originally been one whole, only separating at some unknown time.
The power used by the Outer Realm Demons was also a part of the world's origin.
After all, chaos was the world's original state.
However, this was not the time to think about such matters. The power erupting from the Bright Sword grew ever stronger, forcing back the Maha Divine Tree's own Purifying Power.
The souls and memories of the Outer Realm Demons that had been devoured by the Maha Divine Tree were also purified beneath the Bright Sword's radiance and vanished.
Meanwhile, Xiao Yan had fallen into the Nine Thousand Pure Lotus Illusory Body, and he saw the thing he feared most.
What he feared was not Gu Xun'er leaving him, nor the death of his father or Teacher.
What he feared was that everything he had experienced was a dream—that when he woke from it,