Chapter 815: Burning the Devil Trees
Sun Mengmeng entered the devil trees' world via the wormhole. As reported, before her lay a forest of pitch-black trees, so densely packed she couldn't see its borders. The trees were pitch-black and dozens of meters tall, the trunks so thick it would take five or six grown men holding hands to encircle them.
Even more shockingly, there was a tree so tall it seemed to extend straight into the clouds, and its trunk was so thick that one could carve a city into it, a veritable metropolis of the world. Its branches were like the spokes of an umbrella that shaded the world.
This had to be the king of the realm.
The moment Sun Mengmeng stepped into the forest, all the trees seemed to rustle at once. An eerie smile formed on the bark of the nearest trees as roots pierced the ground like feelers. Branches twisted and morphed into the trees' arms as the trees in the forest turned into devil trees.
The trees swarmed toward Sun Mengmeng.
According to the draconians' information, when the devil trees were in their tree forms, their roots were intertwined into a network that could rapidly transmit information. As a result, all the trees would immediately learn when an intruder stepped into their world.
The devil trees, as numerous as the tide, flocked over to Sun Mengmeng—but despite their steep numerical advantage, Sun Mengmeng remained calm. She summoned her garuda bow and activated her fire-attuned genetic energy.
"[Lunarflame Shot]!" Fire-attuned genetic energy burst from Sun Mengmeng's body as her body erupted in flames. She pulled her greatbow taut.
Only a series of afterimages were visible of her hand as she shot countless arrows of purple flame of her bow, producing what seemed like a meteor shower that tinted the air purple and gave the valley a phantasmagorical appearance. The air turned dry and arid, as though a cataclysm was nigh.
Under the brilliant purple sky, the devil trees burst apart in spectacular explosions.
As the purple flames burned on and on, the devil trees' world morphed into purgatory. The devil trees cried out as their bodies turned to ash. The purple flames were manifestations of Sun Mengmeng's genetic energy, and were hundreds of times hotter than ordinary flames.
As Zhang Lie had said, Sun Mengmeng was a perfect counter to the devil trees. The purple flames spread quickly among their number, and they were all consumed by fire.
They screeched shrilly but continued to rush at Sun Mengmeng, willing to sacrifice their lives for this one attack.
"[Baptism of Hellfire: Full Moon]!" Sun Mengmeng whirled her daggers all around her as a black moon rose into the air. The moon glowed, causing purple flame to explode and clearing out a whole patch of devil trees.
As though they didn't fear death, more and more devil trees tried to crowd around Sun Mengmeng, as though all of them had simultaneously gone mad.
Sun Mengmeng cast [Black Sun], forming a cordon of purplish-black flame around her. Next, she activated her most impactful soulshards for battle, transforming from a young woman to a fierce warrior with a chitinous carapace, wreathed in black flame. Her flames were so intense that they were burning even the ground at her feet, causing it to turn red.
"[Netherworld's Gaze]!" Hundreds of arrows, like beams of moonlight, shot toward the devil trees. The scorching heat twisted the air and turned the devil trees into nothing more than ash.
The black flames from Sun Mengmeng's technique absorbed the purple flames that continued to burn and spread even further, without any sign of stopping—almost as though they would stop at nothing to burn the whole world down.
The scene in front of Sun Mengmeng was apocalyptic.
"I'll kill any of you that approach," Sun Mengmeng called out, gripping her bow tightly in her hands.
Upon sensing the remarkable heat and Sun Mengmeng's insolent threat, even the devil tree king couldn't stand still any longer. The world tree itself made a move.
As the king invoked the authority of the realm, a cyclone manifested around the world tree, stirring up fallen leaves and branches and blowing out the black flames. The world tree's leaves were no joke—a single leaf had a serrated edge sharp enough to cut steel apart.
Kings of the realm were at a level at which their bodies had no weaknesses to exploit. The world tree's leaves were sharp, piercing projectiles in their own right. As the storm raged, a volley of leaves flew toward Sun Mengmeng.
"[The Nine Moons of the Underworld]!" Nine flaming moons appeared in the sky, overshadowing the sun's radiance and falling from the sky one by one, each a meteor.
The two attacks nullified each other. One moon blocked the world tree's leaves and exploded in black flame, followed rapidly by the other moons. Black flame crept closer to the world tree, devouring everything in sight.
The storm that the world tree had summoned spread the fire and spurred it onwards. Quite a few sparks landed atop the world tree's leaves and began burning it.
The world tree's storm was almost more a hindrance than a help. As the surroundings filled up with black flame, the remaining three moons that Sun Mengmeng had summoned fell toward the world tree.
The world tree waved a branch and caused all three moons to explode, leaving scorch marks on the surface of its bark. The ground trembled and cracked as a thick root emerged from the ground, slicing toward Sun Mengmeng like a sharp sword.
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As it struck, thunder resounded in the air. The pressure from the strike alone was sufficient to extinguish the flames on the ground.
"[Baptism of Hellfire: Full Moon]!" Sun Mengmeng whirled her daggers around her as she stomped on the ground.
The ground exploded. Flames burst into the sky. Cracks of lava spread across the ground.
Wreathed in black flame, Sun Mengmeng took to the air. In her chitinous armor, she looked like a warrior who had just opened the gates to the underworld. Black flame surrounded her, scorching hot, making her look like a star that was falling to the ground.
Her flaming arrows struck the world tree's roots and exploded in mid-air. The explosion was strong enough to crack the roots and branches and send them flying off, leaving green sap that sizzled as it landed on the flames.
A face appeared in the world tree's bark as the devil tree king shrieked in agony, its cries causing sound waves to billow around the tree, almost as though a cyclone had been summoned. Since becoming a tree, it hadn't experienced such pain for decades...
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