Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

The demonic tree was utterly enraged, its demonic energy growing increasingly violent, and its demonic domain expanding outwards, breaking through a radius of a hundred miles.

Wherever the demonic energy passed, the land rotted and weathered, the rocks decayed layer by layer, and even the wandering spiritual energy in the world was stained with a filthy gray-black color.

On Lin Zhao's side, the flames on the thick red earth wall flickered under the heavy demonic energy, and the spiritual power of the wall was gradually eroded and swallowed up by the demonic energy, causing the crimson patterns to dim and become ineffective one after another.

Lin Zhao took a deep breath and summoned the Five Prisons Suppressing Heavenly Dragon.

The five prisons unfold, covering fifty miles. The five prisons rotate to form the Blazing Sun Prison—an inextinguishable fire burns fiercely in mid-air, which is responsible for incineration and purification.

The blazing sun enveloped the thick, red earthen walls, surrounded by flames, transforming the entire high wall into an unbreakable crimson wall of fire, standing firmly in place.

The surging demonic energy crashed into the domain of law, like a tidal wave hitting a solid dam, making it impossible to take another step forward.

The battle thus reached a stalemate.

The four Core Formation cultivators on the outer perimeter simultaneously unleashed their domains, locking down the leaking demonic energy from all four directions and completely pinning the demonic tree to the capital.

Inside, Master Gu seized the opportunity and struck again. The Black Iron Seal descended from the sky, breaking through the Demon Tree's defenses once more.

He followed the black iron seal and plunged into the tree trunk, whereupon the blood flames exploded once more, igniting the demonic tree for the second time.

Then a fixed cycle was formed. Every time Master Gu's spiritual power was fully restored, he would break through the defenses, rush into the interior, and ignite the ancient tree with blood flames, repeatedly and continuously consuming the essence of the demonic tree.

The battle lasted until the tenth day.

Master Gu emerged from the tree for the tenth time, the blood flames on his armor much fainter than at the start of the battle.

The magic tree's recovery speed has also slowed down considerably.

The ancient tree struggled and howled frantically in the flames time and time again, relying on the continuous supply of demonic energy from the ground to repair its wounds and forcibly recover.

Even though he had seen it many times before, Lin Zhao was still secretly amazed by the terrifying vitality of this demonic tree.

Perhaps it was the repeated trauma that gave rise to a sliver of vague intelligence, for the demonic tree no longer remained steadfast in its place and began to attempt to break through and escape.

The entire ancient tree was uprooted from the ruins, its roots twisting and turning, its thousands of vines coiling and twisting, transforming into a giant demonic tree nearly a thousand feet tall. It then charged straight towards the north side guarded by Su Luo.

Master Chenyuan reacted instantly and rushed to meet up with Su Luo.

The couple joined forces to create a sword and book domain covering a hundred miles.

Countless runes swirled and condensed in the sky, forming a sky full of magical swords, densely packed like an inverted galaxy.

On the ground, Chen Yuan Zhenren concentrated his power in the void, and a massive amount of invisible sword energy continuously gathered within the domain.

The magic sword and the invisible sword energy merged together, transforming into a massive sword energy storm that slowly rotated around the two of them. With each rotation, thousands of sword energies slashed at the demonic tree giant.

The demon tree giant was covered in countless wounds, from which gray-purple demonic energy continuously spewed out. Yet it did not stop, braving the storm of sword energy as it forced its way forward step by step.

The sword energy storm and the demonic tree giant collided with a deafening roar. The shockwave directly overturned the land within a radius of dozens of miles, sending soil and rocks hundreds of feet into the air, only to be pulverized by the sword energy and demonic energy before they even hit the ground.

The two sides remained locked in a stalemate for several hours. Master Chenyuan's face turned pale, and Su Luo's hand holding the pen trembled slightly.

A crimson beam of light pierced through the sky from the direction of the royal city.

Master Gu finished his meditation and arrived, delivering a heavy punch to the back of the Demon Tree Giant, instantly causing countless blood flames to explode. The massive body of the Demon Tree was knocked back.

The black iron stamp followed closely and slammed into the back of the giant's head, causing half of his skull to cave in deeply.

The demonic tree giant let out a furious roar, abandoned its attempt to break through, and turned to retreat in disarray back to the ruins of the royal city.

Master Chenyuan withdrew his domain, exchanged a glance with Su Luo, and was filled with lingering fear.

If they had held out for a few more hours during that intense, life-or-death battle, their magical domains would have been crushed.

The thirteenth day.

The Demon Tree Giant broke through the encirclement once again.

This time, the target is directly aimed at Lin Zhao's defense line in the east.

Lin Zhao stood on the Crimson Sun Wall, watching the colossal figure, nearly a thousand feet tall, approach him.

But he's no pushover.

He pulled out his trump card attack.

The Heavenly Dawn Golden Wheel merged into the Golden Phoenix Bow, golden patterns appeared on the bow's body, and its aura was temporarily elevated to the middle grade of the third rank.

An arrow, shimmering with five-colored light, materialized on the Golden Phoenix Bow.

The Five Elements Extinction Divine Arrow.

The arrow streaked across the sky and struck the demonic tree giant in the chest.

First, a bright light exploded, followed by a violent collision and intertwining of five-colored spiritual energy, resulting in a deafening roar!

Five-colored spiritual energy swept across an area of ​​several miles.

Wherever it passed, the demonic energy melted away like ice and snow meeting boiling water, the vines broke apart inch by inch, and the demonic remains turned into ashes.

Then came the second arrow, the fourth arrow, and the seventh arrow.

Seven Five Elements Extinction Divine Arrows were fired in succession, one after another, and all hit their mark.

Five-colored light layered and exploded repeatedly on the ruins of the capital.

When the last arrow fell, the entire kingdom was engulfed by a five-colored pillar of light, which shot into the sky and illuminated the horizon for miles around.

Zhao Kun, who was in the south, stopped circulating his sword domain, looked up at the pillar of light, and was filled with shock.

Chen Yuan and Su Luo turned their heads simultaneously from the northwest, their eyes filled with surprise.

The Demon Tree Giant was brutally blasted in half by the seven arrows, its nearly thousand-foot-long body was blown to pieces, and a huge hole ran through its trunk.

Demonic energy surged from the wound, but it no longer healed as quickly as before.

It dragged its broken body and retreated in a sorry state back to the ruins of the royal city.

The nineteenth day has arrived.

Even with the continuous supply of demonic energy from the demonic tree to revive it, the massive amount of demonic remains in the city were eventually exhausted, and the demonic tree itself was dead.

The five reunited, each with a heavy look of exhaustion on their face, even Gu Zhenren's eyes were filled with weariness.

Nineteen days of non-stop high-intensity combat, even the most powerful Core Formation cultivators could not withstand such exhaustion, and the spiritual light of everyone's personal magical treasures dimmed considerably.

The group looked at Lin Zhao, and they were all secretly shocked. He was only at the early stage of Core Formation, yet he had managed to withstand this long battle, far exceeding everyone's expectations.

What they didn't know was that Lin Zhao's Five Mountains clones were formed from the fourth-order magic treasure, the Spirit Gathering Pearl, which also possessed a fourth-order spiritual vein.

In terms of long-lasting endurance, it is inherently invincible.

Seeing that the Demon Tree's essence had been worn down to its limit, the group made a decision to unleash their final attack to completely annihilate the demon.

The group prepared to unleash their most powerful methods.

Master Gu stripped away all the blood flames from his armor, and the blood flames gathered and compressed in the air, finally condensing into a massive blood flame thunderbolt.

Crimson lightning flowed across the surface of the lightning sphere, and with each flash of lightning, the surrounding space would slightly distort.

Supernatural power: Blood Flame Thunder.

Chen Yuan Zhenren and Su Luo Zhenren exchanged a glance and once again unleashed their sword and book domains, this time completely merging their domains into one.

All the floating runes converged, and the magic sword and the invisible sword energy merged into one, forging a giant sword a hundred feet long.

The sword was covered with densely packed characters, each one glowing and exuding immense power.

Supernatural power, the Divine Sword of Danqing.