The old man was thin and shriveled. His head was slightly big, and a few strands of hair hung down. His eyes were bloodshot, and a fierce glare shone in them. Once he appeared, he immediately lay down on the ground and did not move.
After a moment, he got up and looked around him cautiously. He stared at the three-leafed grass on the one thousand feet tall tree, and a brilliant light shone in his eyes.
He moved, and in an instant, he appeared on the ground. He lifted his right hand and seized the ground. His fingers immediately sank into the ground, and when he closed his eyes, Su Ming immediately sensed faint tremors coming from the ground.
A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. At that moment, his body as a supreme treasure had already fused with the environment around him, so he was confident that he would not be easily discovered. After all, this treasure was created by a Sublime Paragon, and it was not something that a normal Master of Fate, Lives, and Death could see.
After a moment, when the tremors from the ground weakened and disappeared, Flame Fiends' Progenitor lifted his right hand from the ground. He licked his lips, and with one move, he instantly appeared beside the one thousand feet tall tree. His gaze moved from the three-leafed grass on the tree crown to the four people meditating under the trunk.
Su Ming could see Flame Fiends' Progenitor's expression completely from where he stood. He noticed that once Flame Fiends' Progenitor swept his gaze past the four people, his gaze landed on Progenitor Long Hai's body. He even licked his lips, and a hint of greed appeared in his eyes.
"What a body that has been nourished by the tree spirit for ten thousand years. To me, the value of this thing is even more important than the flower on the tree," Flame Fiends' Progenitor mumbled to himself.
"Their souls and cultivation bases are still around!" The more Flame Fiends' Progenitor looked at them, the brighter his eyes became. With one move, he instantly closed in on the tree, but at the instant he did so, the one thousand feet tall tree suddenly swayed.
Immediately, the world roared. The entire sky turned from light green to dark green. It was especially so for the ground. Countless grasses instantly appeared. At the instant they appeared, they spread out swiftly, as if they had turned into strands of hair that charged towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor, as if they wanted to wrap around him.
Flame Fiends' Progenitor grinned. Almost at the instant the grass came to surround him, he stretched his arms outwards, and a purple sea of fire immediately erupted from his thin body. That sea of fire instantly spread out, and once it crashed into the incoming grass, violent booming sounds spread out swiftly.
It also stirred up a wave of impact that swept through the area. Su Ming did not move in the distance. He stared at Flame Fiends' Progenitor's actions and saw that at the same time the purple flames on his body crashed into the green grass, he appeared behind one of the four cultivators in Solar Kalpa Realm.
Flame Fiends' Progenitor pressed down on the cultivator's shoulder. In the blink of an eye, Flame Fiends' Progenitor bit down on the cultivator's neck and sucked in a sharp breath. Immediately, the cultivator's body trembled violently. It was clear that he was in intense pain, but his expression was still apathetic, and there was still a dazed look in his eyes.
His body started withering rapidly, and after a moment, he was reduced to only skin and bones. A large amount of black spots also appeared on his body. These black spots spread out swiftly, and by the looks of it, they were not rotting. Instead, they were Brands left behind by fire. All of this happened in the span of a few breaths. When Flame Fiends' Progenitor lifted his head from the neck of the cultivator in Solar Kalpa Realm, there was still blood at the corners of his mouth, and excitement as well as pleasure appeared on his face.
As for the cultivator in Solar Kalpa Realm, his entire body was covered in black spots. He was like charcoal, and with a swing of Flame Fiends' Progenitor's right hand, he was reduced to powder.
At that moment, the one thousand feet tall tree seemed to have become enraged. When it swayed again, quite a large number of leaves fell off and turned into talismans. They shone with a thick green light and charged towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor.
A glint appeared in Flame Fiends' Progenitor's eyes, and he charged towards the other cultivator in Solar Kalpa Realm. Almost at the instant he closed in on that cultivator and the talismans closed in on him, Flame Fiends' Progenitor lifted his right hand and pushed his palm against the talismans.
The world roared. A gigantic palm immediately appeared in front of Flame Fiends' Progenitor and charged towards the talismans. At the instant they crashed into each other and booming sounds reverberated in the air, Flame Fiends' Progenitor had already closed in on the cultivator in Solar Kalpa Realm. This time, he did not bite down on the cultivator's neck. Instead, at the instant he closed in, he seized his chest with his left hand. When Su Ming saw this, his pupils shrank.
With his own eyes, he saw Flame Fiends' Progenitor's chest being torn open like a gaping mouth filled with flames. With this, he pounced on the cultivator in Solar Kalpa Realm. From the distance, it looked as if he was going to devour the cultivator with the gaping mouth on his chest.
With one bite, he swallowed the cultivator's head into his stomach. With another bite, the cultivator's body disappeared from the spot, completely devoured by Flame Fiends' Progenitor.
It was difficult to imagine that the thin Flame Fiends' Progenitor could devour a cultivator who was much larger than him, but that was the truth. As Su Ming's eyes sparkled, he watched Flame Fiends' Progenitor fighting against the tree. After a moment of hesitation, he gave up on attacking.
'If this tree only has this much ability, it would be impossible for it to trap an Almighty like Progenitor Long Hai here. By the looks of it, could it be that the tree hasn't used its full strength …
'Then its goal for doing this …' Su Ming's eyes focused, and he cast Flame Fiends' Progenitor a glance. Clearly, it was impossible for Flame Fiends' Progenitor to not know what he was thinking.
'That's why it chose the three cultivators in Solar Kalpa Realm.'
The one thousand feet tall tree swayed viciously. A large number of leaves floated down and turned into talismans that charged towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor. He laughed loudly, and with one move, he ignored the incoming talismans and pounced on the last cultivator in Solar Kalpa Realm.
The talismans were so quick that they touched Flame Fiends' Progenitor's body the moment he pounced on the cultivator. Booming sounds reverberated in the air again, and the last cultivator in Solar Kalpa Realm died in the Flame Fiends' Progenitor's mouth.
As for Flame Fiends' Progenitor, he swayed and took a few steps back, but a cold glare appeared in his eyes.
At that moment, a pair of eyes suddenly appeared on the tree's trunk. Those eyes were yellow, and they shone with a merciless glare as they stared at the Flame Fiends coldly.
"Have you eaten enough?" A buzzing sound came from the tree and reverberated between the heavens and earth, forming a thunderous rumble that swept in all directions.
"I have to thank you for intentionally letting me devour those three cultivators, but now, I only need one more." Flame Fiends' Progenitor licked his lips and laughed in a ghastly manner. The outline of his body was filled with a ghastly air.
When Su Ming heard this, he remained still not too far away. In fact, his gaze remained as calm as ever. All of this was just as he had guessed. The tree was the only ferocious spirit in the area. Everything just now might have seemed intense, but in truth, it was just a facade. It had intentionally let Flame Fiends' Progenitor devour the three cultivators.
With it, the blood essence of Flame Fiends' Progenitor would become even more abundant, and he would become a puppet like Long Hai.
"I lack an alien race member like you under my tree. You should stay." As the one thousand feet tall tree spoke, Progenitor Long Hai, who was sitting there, immediately opened his eyes. A fierce look appeared in his eyes, and he slowly stood up. His body floated into the air.
It could be clearly seen that there were branches that had crawled out of the ground under Long Hai's feet and fused with his flesh and blood, making Progenitor Long Hai look like a puppet whose strings were being pulled.
Almost at the same time he spoke, a glint appeared in Long Hai's eyes. He lifted his right hand, and the shadow of a green dragon surrounded his palm. As it roared at the sky, Long Hai swung his arm and charged towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor. At the same time, Long Hai charged towards the Flame Fiends' Progenitor.
Immediately after, the one thousand feet tall tree swayed. Cracking sounds rang out, and one thousand leaves danced in the air. Once they turned into a talisman that was ten thousand feet tall, another one thousand leaves floated down. When they fell down, they burned on their own. As the leaves burned, what spread out was not smoke, but thick resentment.
Once that resentment spread out, another one thousand leaves fell down, and they turned into human faces. They were the faces of all sorts of living beings. As piercing roars echoed in the air, the three thousand leaves charged towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor.
"I am the ancestor of all trees. I have existed since the universe was created. The three thousand leaves are the three thousand Great Daos in the universe. You … are still not coming?!" Buzzing sounds tumbled in the air like thunder. The three thousand leaves turned into a gigantic battle axe in midair and cut down on Flame Fiends' Progenitor.
When Su Ming saw this, a hint of surprise appeared on his face. He could sense the mighty pressure of those in Mastery Realm from the tree. If it could trap an Almighty in Mastery Realm, then it was clear that it was not weak.
As for Flame Fiends' Progenitor, his pupils shrank when he saw this, but not a hint of fear could be detected. Instead, he grinned. He did not even look at the incoming Long Hai and the axe formed by the three thousand leaves. Instead, he pushed his palms against the ground.
With it, he lifted his head and let out a piercing howl towards the sky. As he did so, a surging purple sea of fire instantly erupted from the Flame Fiend's body. That sea of fire surged into the ground through his palms.
"So what if you can trap an Almighty in Mastery Realm? If you were a human, I would still be a little wary, but you're just a tree, and trees … rely on the ground. I'll burn your foundation, the ground, to ashes and melt this world into nothingness. I'd like to see just how you'll make things difficult for me once you lose your foundation!" As the Flame Fiend howled, the ground burned, and a thick sea of fire filled the entire world in the blink of an eye.
As the ground burned, it swiftly disappeared. The sky was reduced to nothingness, layer by layer. The flames from Flame Fiends' Progenitor were his Origin Flames. He was a life form that was different from Dust Burners, but they were similar in that they were born from fire.
In the blink of an eye, the earth on the ground turned into ashes and disappeared. The sky was devoured by nothingness, and during that instant, the entire world no longer had a sky and no earth. There was only a tree that was one thousand feet tall floating in the air.
The tree had countless roots, and at that moment, due to the lack of earth, all of them started distorting. (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com and vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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