Rebirth: City Sovereign

After Berial finished speaking, a thick and transparent branch suddenly burrowed out from the ground, and pierced into his body.    

Loong Qingyun and Faang Yu watched fearfully as, in just a few seconds, Berial's body was instantly sucked dry by the tree branch and turned into a piece of human skin.    

Just at that moment, the ground beneath the two of them split apart. Loong Qingyun and Faang Yu were startled, and simultaneously jumped up, to the side.    

On the cracked ground, countless of the same tree branches sprang up like water snakes. The tree branches continuously wiggled, as if they were looking for something.    

"What? What's going on?" Looking at that scene, Faang Yu said in a daze. One must know that the Wood of Profaneness was thousands of kilometers away from here.    

Loong Qingyun shook his head and looked towards the very center of the Eastern Continent. He couldn't understand what Berial meant either.    

The Wood of Profaneness's growth process was divided into three stages.    

In the first stage, during the hibernation phase, one needed to artificially provide spirit energy and blood aura for it to absorb. There would be no Autonomous Consciousness, and it would only launch a counterattack against its target.    

The second stage, the awakening stage, the Autonomous Consciousness would recover and actively attack all the items in the space that contained spirit energy, in order to reach the third stage.    

The third stage, Annihilation, was also the final stage. The Wood of Profaneness absorbed enough spirit energy and blood aura and after growing into a complete body, it would self-detonate, destroying the entire space.    

Just at this moment, tragic wails reached Loong Qingyun and his ears.    

Both of them were startled as they heard the voice. They looked around.    

On the Immortal Gate Continent, tree branches broke out from the ground as if they possessed life. They killed all humans in the vicinity and absorbed them …    

Seeing this hell-like scene, Loong Qingyun and Faang Yu gasped for breath, their face filled with shock.    

"Go save them!" Leaving this sentence, a strand of Spirit Qi rose up from under Loong Qingyun's feet and directly flew to the location of the Wood of Profaneness.    

The Red Crystal Longsword and the Immortal Slaying Sword intertwined as they drew sword beams, and Ye Kai cut through all of the thousands of branches that were trying to attack him.    

As the strongest cultivator in the world, the moment the Wood of Profaneness entered the second stage, it had long since felt the dense spirit energy on Ye Kai's body.    

Actually, if Ye Kai had not been fighting with the Wood of Profaneness and crazily cutting off the branches the Wood of Profaneness was trying to extend to stop the growth of the trees, ten minutes ago, when Loong Qingyun was fighting with Berial, the Wood of Profaneness had already killed all of the residents of the Door of Immortality.    

Unlike ordinary trees, at the place where the Wood of Profaneness was cut off by Ye Kai, what was stuck at wasn't tree sap but fresh red blood. And after the blood sprayed for a few seconds, at the location of the cut, countless branches that looked exactly the same grew out from the middle of the cut.    

Every time a branch was cut, ten branches would immediately spurt out. Every time a hundred branches were cut, ten thousand branches would rush towards Ye Kai!    

Ye Kai's face darkened. Just as he was about to break through into the next few branches, Loong Qingyun appeared beside him.    

"Elder Brother Ye!" Loong Qingyun shouted as he cut apart the branches that were attacking him.    

Ye Kai didn't even turn his head as he coldly uttered a single word.    

"Let's go."    

Just as Loong Qingyun was about to say something, hearing Ye Kai's words, his entire body froze and he opened his mouth to speak.    

"Elder Brother Ye, although this Wood of Profaneness is terrifying, as long as it combines our strengths, it will definitely —"    

Ye Kai shook his head, his voice was terrifyingly cold.    

"It's useless. All the spells are just nutrients for the Wood of Profaneness."    

"Even if you appear here now, it will only become more excited and grow even faster."    

Ye Kai's words were like a heavy stone that was pressed deeply on Loong Qingyun's chest, causing him to be unable to breathe due to the discomfort.    

"Then, then do we just watch as this giant tree kills everyone within the Heavenly Portal of East and destroys the Immortal Sect?"    

"I will stop it, you bring Faang Yu back."    

"Impossible!" Hearing Ye Kai's words, Loong Qingyun's face sunk as he shouted harshly.    

He was very clear in his heart that Ye Kai had said as such. This meant that he was not sure if he could completely destroy this Wood of Profaneness.    

After all, Wood of Profaneness had the ability to absorb Spirit Qi and was immune to all kinds of attacks. If they wanted to destroy them, they could only do so through their body and weapons.    

"I am a Protector of the China. Even if the last person remains, the one who might die should still be me." Before the crisis, Loong Qingyun was so determined that he would not allow anyone to reject him.    

Unfortunately, Ye Kai was even more stubborn than Loong Qingyun.    

"Do you think you can stop it?" Ye Kai finally raised his eyes, turned and looked at Loong Qingyun, and said.    

"This …" Loong Qingyun was speechless.    

"I have faced the Wood of Profaneness before, so I know the way to deal with it. Let me do it." After Ye Kai finished speaking, he flicked his finger and a Spiritual Strength flew out from within the white robes and floated in front of Loong Qingyun.    

"If I fail, this thing is yours." Ye Kai's meaning was very clear, if I fail, this Legend of Deification will be handed over to you, and you will be the one to protect China.    

Loong Qingyun looked at the Legend of Deification, raised his hand and kept it inside his sleeves, then looked at Ye Kai and spoke solemnly.    

"I can take care of it for you. This is yours, I'll wait for you to come back to the China to take it."    

"Fine." Ye Kai sneered, and said.    

"Elder Brother Ye, I will wait for your return!" With that said, a strand of Spirit Qi rose up from beneath Loong Qingyun's feet, and his figure instantly disappeared.    

Thousands of tree branches immediately wiggled and shot out from the ground in the direction in which Loong Qingyun had gone.    

"Crack!"    

With a flash of his sword, Ye Kai's figure flashed and cut open all the branches!    

From the corner of his eyes, a spatial crack slowly opened, and Loong Qingyun and Faang Yu's figures disappeared into the Heavenly Portal of East.    

There was nothing they could do. Although the two of them really wanted to save the humans in the Heavenly Portal of East, the bodies of ordinary people could not withstand the spirit energy turbulence in the Immortal Gate's passageway. Even if they forced their way in, they would only be torn into pieces.    

Seeing Loong Qingyun and Faang Yu leaving the immortal gate, Ye Kai turned around and looked at the Wood of Profaneness with his green eyes and a grin.    

"I never thought that the small tree that my previous self could crush so easily would be so hard to deal with right now."    

"Ye Kai, oh Ye Kai, you really are living more and more."    

In the sky, spatial cracks were torn open by the Wood of Profaneness. On the surface of the transparent tree, one could see blood and spirit energy flowing through several bodies, converging at the eyeball at the center of the tree, and gradually forming a huge circular protrusion.    

Ye Kai understood that even if he had to stop it with all his might, after he had killed the majority of humans in the Heavenly Portal of East, the Wood of Profaneness had already moved from the second stage to the third stage and was prepared to self-destruct to destroy the space in the Door of Immortality.    

But even so, Ye Kai had no intention to give up.    

The Divine Light s in his dark green eyes suddenly flashed. A general holding a fiery red sword, a ghost figure surrounded by yin energy, and a deity that could summon thunder suddenly appeared behind him!    

This was the only way that Ye Kai could think of since the power of Soul Level did not contain any spiritual energy and could not be absorbed by the Wood of Profaneness.    

The Wood of Profaneness wrapped themselves around Ye Kai's waist and absorbed the Spiritual Strength in his body. It pulled Ye Kai towards itself forcefully, but Ye Kai did not resist anymore.    

"Come, let's see just who will survive to the end between you and me."    

In a space where no one was spared, when facing the Wood of Profaneness's figure that seemed to cover the sky, Ye Kai's eyes were only filled with endless fighting spirit.    

At this moment, Ye Kai had already given up his defense and was focusing all of his soul force on the sword blade.    

He slowly raised both his hands, and a refined Magic Formation appeared. The Red Crystal Longsword and the Immortal Slaying Sword fused together, and on the Red Crystal Immortal Slaying Sword's sword, black flames and purple lightning constantly flowed. They intertwined together, and emitted a crackling sound in the air.    

With both hands on the Red Crystal Immortal Slaying Sword's sword hilt, Ye Kai let each branch pierce into his body and raised the sword high into the air. The entire space started to fiercely tremble.    

The outcome would be decided by this sword!    

Both of Ye Kai's eyes erupted with a golden light as he gripped the sword hilt tightly and swung the strongest sword he had ever unleashed towards the center of the branch of the Wood of Profaneness!    

This sword was a gamble with everything!