Chapter 192: Chapter 192: Demon Wood Divine General, Prelude to the Final Battle

Inside the small alley.

Space inverted.

The rustling sound of stretching branches and leaves echoed in Su Ye and He Muyun’s ears.

Jet-black branches and vines grew out from Zhong Qi’s residence, snaking past the wooden door and spreading outward to cover the alley’s walls and ground.

And within the gloomy doorway, gnarled branches twisted downward, forming a staircase that seemed to lead straight to the center of the earth.

A bizarre aura—warped, withered, yet brimming with life—wafted out from it.

"This is..." Su Ye’s eyes narrowed.

Just then, a vicious glint appeared in He Muyun’s eyes.

Without hesitation, she summoned her Escape Light and charged down the staircase!

"Hmm...?" Su Ye was taken aback for a moment.

Due to the influence of the ’Soul-Stealing Demon Charm’, he could faintly sense He Muyun’s state of mind.

Of course, it wasn’t mind-reading; he could only get a slight sense of her emotions.

But in that instant, what He Muyun had revealed was the purest, most incandescent rage!

She hadn’t even been this furious when Su Ye had ordered her to strip...

’Her disposition is very strange, as if it’s being influenced by something...’

Su Ye’s thoughts raced.

This state of her mind being influenced concerned Su Ye.

Especially because of their spiritual connection.

Su Ye knew that He Muyun, like Luo Qing’e, had used an external force to achieve her breakthrough and had likewise developed the ’southward-facing thought’!

’South, Reverse World, natives...’

Su Ye furrowed his brow slightly; he seemed to have grasped something.

But he also had a nagging feeling that he was missing a crucial piece of evidence.

Like scattered pearls that couldn’t be strung into a necklace.

Meanwhile, He Muyun’s figure was already about to disappear from his sight.

After a moment’s thought, Su Ye activated his Escape Light and followed her from a distance.

He had planned on exploring anyway.

Besides, wasn’t there now a Crystallization-level cannon fodder who had volunteered to charge ahead?

...

Su Ye followed the wooden staircase, venturing deeper.

He walked on the tough, dry bark of the tree, which paradoxically seemed to teem with a hidden vitality.

He maintained a distance of about a hundred zhang from He Muyun.

Su Ye could feel that he was continuously heading downward.

And as he went deeper, the surrounding blood-colored leaves became sparser, replaced by thicker and wider branches.

Furthermore, the aura of the current world diminished, replaced by the more decayed and ancient aura of the Reverse World!

’The crown... in the current world. The trunk... in the Reverse World?’

Su Ye muttered to himself.

A flash of insight struck him, and a scene appeared in his mind like a bolt of lightning!

A sapling sprouted and grew in the Reverse World.

Over countless ages, it continuously grew ’upward’.

However, its ’upward’ growth was not in the physical sense, but rather toward the current world!

And as it grew, the crown of the tree had already neared the current world. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

’If... it continues to grow and pierces through both the current world and the Reverse World, what will happen?’

At this thought, a shadow fell over Su Ye’s heart.

Just as Su Ye was lost in thought, a powerful fluctuation of Magical Power came from ahead—or rather, from below!

It was He Muyun, the Crystallization Adept, casting a spell!

"Hm?"

Su Ye’s heart stirred, and he accelerated his Escape Light.

A moment later, he arrived at a slightly inclined platform as wide as a schoolyard!

Su Ye sized it up and came to a conclusion. ’This place is the junction between the branches and the trunk!’

It only looked like a platform because the tree was so immense!

Clad in a fluttering pink dress, He Muyun’s figure appeared in his line of sight.

The Crystallization Adept was forming a hand seal for a Technique, her expression cold and her eyes filled with fury.

"Vile creature, die!"

She manifested a sky full of azure energy, creating countless Wind Blades!

The Wind Blades howled, frantically bombarding a huge, gnarled, tumor-like bulge on the trunk of the tree!

"Su Ye, hurry and help me!" He Muyun said urgently.

"What is that?" Su Ye frowned slightly.

"I don’t know... but my intuition is telling me that I have to destroy it!"

Just then...

THUMP-THUMP!

The gnarled bulge trembled.

A massive, brooding evil seemed to be convulsing within!

It felt as if the heart of a hibernating giant whale had just given a powerful contraction!

Su Ye’s pupils contracted. His keen spiritual sense flared with a warning, like an electric shock!

"Look out!"

BANG!

The gnarled bulge suddenly burst open!

Countless splashes of a pale yellow, amniotic fluid-like liquid flew in all directions!

"Hm?" Su Ye’s heart stirred.

Within his Dantian Qi Sea, the Ghostly Flood Dragon Dao Foundation manifested, and he felt a wave of desire coming from it!

’The Ghostly Flood Dragon is desperate for... this liquid?’ Su Ye thought.

At that moment, from within the ruptured bulge, a humanoid creature slowly emerged, its entire body covered in the liquid, its facial features and skin seemingly dissolving!

RUSTLE.

The surrounding vines and branches, like a hundred rivers flowing to the sea, coiled around its body and formed into a suit of battle armor!

At the same time, branches intertwined by its hand, forming a dusty-gray greatspear adorned with blood-red leaves!

"A Tier 3?" He Muyun said with a hint of surprise.

And then!

SHING!

A silver gleam flashed across the platform under the tree’s canopy!

Frost Thorn Spear!

Whale-Hunting Spear!

The humanoid creature’s body suddenly stiffened as the Frost Thorn Spear pierced into it.

It stumbled back several steps, the wound leaking not blood, but more of the pale yellow liquid!

Then, the monster actually spoke.

"Dare... offend... Divine General... die!"

It spoke in the tongue of the Divine Continent.

It was similar to the native tongue.

"Divine General?" Su Ye knew some of the native tongue, so he roughly understood.

"I don’t care what Divine General you are, just die first!" Su Ye’s expression was grim, his killing intent overflowing!

"Kill!"

Without another word from Su Ye, He Muyun’s desire to attack was already incredibly strong!

SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!

Her hands danced, and from her fair, jade-like fingers, numerous nearly-transparent threads extended!

These threads were also a magical artifact, possessing terrifying cutting power!

SLICE!

The threads tightened, and one of the ’Demon Wood Divine General’s’ arms was sliced clean off!

The cross-section of the arm was perfectly smooth and flat, and pale yellow liquid gushed out!

"Die..." It raised the greatspear in its hand, about to counterattack.

But at that moment, Su Ye recalled the Frost Thorn Spear.

A second Whale-Hunting Spear shot out with a howl!

[Soul Suppressing]

BANG!

The Demon Wood Divine General was blasted backward and pinned to the trunk of the Divine Tree!

"You..."

SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!

With a flick of He Muyun’s fingers, the threads filled the air, wrapping around its limbs and torso.

Tighten, pull, dismember!

It was all done in one smooth motion!

She displayed the outstanding combat prowess of a Crystallization Adept from a major sect!

With Su Ye and He Muyun’s coordination, this underdeveloped ’Demon Wood Divine General’ died a swift death!

After the ’Demon Wood Divine General’ died, its corpse collapsed and disintegrated, melting into a puddle of pale yellow liquid.

And from within this puddle, a pale golden orb of light slowly rose!

Sacred, pure, and vast.

It was completely out of place with its surroundings!

"This is..." Su Ye’s eyes flickered.

The Ghostly Flood Dragon Dao Foundation emanated an unprecedented sense of craving!