Listening to Sheng Lin's frenzied words, Li Xiaotian frowned, then sneered. Just a madman.
"Boom!"
The next moment, he moved. In an instant, boundless sword light roared out, like eternal flowing light, dyeing the sky a silver-white, dazzlingly so.
"Pfft!"
Sheng Lin's face changed drastically. He dodged madly, but many sword lights still pierced his body, severely wounding him.
The sword lights, one after another, flashed with cold radiance, seeming endless as they streaked across the sky, constantly attacking Sheng Lin. Each strike possessed unimaginably terrifying power.
"Bang!"
Sheng Lin resisted relentlessly. His body kept exploding, and mushroom clouds rose one after another. His body was riddled with holes, a tragic sight.
"Bastard!"
Sheng Lin roared, his expression filled with unwillingness. At this moment, his connection to the World Tree was severed, and his strength greatly diminished, making him no match for Li Xiaotian.
He struggled desperately, but it was futile. Under Li Xiaotian's fierce assault, his defenses gradually crumbled.
Finally, Li Xiaotian threw a punch. The fist wind was overbearing, radiating the power of world destruction, and directly pierced Sheng Lin's chest.
"Ah..."
Sheng Lin let out a shrill scream, the madness in his eyes intensifying. He roared and bellowed, frantically urging his soul power and World Tree projection to counterattack, but it was all in vain.
"Bang!"
With a loud bang, Sheng Lin's body exploded directly, turning into ashes and perishing completely.
Li Xiaotian stood in the sky, looking down at the dissipating dust below. A mocking smile played on his lips. The victory in this battle had been decided from the beginning. Sheng Lin was nothing more than a clown.
Without the World Tree's support, the opponent was simply no match for him.
"Rumble!"
Suddenly, dark clouds rolled in the sky, accompanied by lightning and thunder. Waves of vast and oppressive aura enveloped heaven and earth.
Stars emerged, their brilliant silver radiance spilling onto the land. The entire secret realm became hazy and beautiful, like a traditional ink wash painting.
Immediately after, a thunderclap sounded, and a golden branch suddenly tore through the sky, carrying the power of divine punishment towards Li Xiaotian.
The World Tree's main body had acted. Sensing its clone had been killed, it finally stopped hiding. Its enormous branch almost occupied the entire firmament.
"Boom!"
Li Xiaotian's pupils contracted sharply, and he moved his body rapidly to evade this astonishing strike.
"Swish!"
The next moment, he looked up at a certain point in the void, his gaze sharp, killing intent surging.
"Attacking me so openly, aren't you afraid of being discovered?"
Li Xiaotian sneered mockingly. He had expected the World Tree to send another clone, but who knew it would be so impatient and attack him with its main body, disregarding the risk of exposure.
He knew that during the previous battle, Sheng Lin was in a separate world, and the World Tree had deliberately concealed all fluctuations, so the outside world had no idea what had happened.
But now, with the World Tree's main body acting, if there was any carelessness, it could be discovered by other trial-takers. By then, the situation would be different. All the trial-takers would likely turn against the World Tree.
"It doesn't matter. After I kill you and turn you into my strongest clone, what does it matter if I'm exposed? All the trial-takers will become the nourishment for my rise!"
The heavens and earth roared, a sound of the Great Dao, indistinct in gender, grand and solemn, filled with mystery.
"Every ten thousand years, you trial-takers come to my body to undergo trials, plundering my foundation. But this time, it's over!"
"This time, it's my trial, and you are my pass condition. Kill all the trial-takers, and I will pass!"
The World Tree's tone was filled with dominance and arrogance, regarding the killing of all trial-takers as its pass condition to achieve victory.
Of course, this was also because it was sufficiently prepared. It now had numerous clones, and what it lacked was the strongest clone. Clearly, Li Xiaotian had been targeted, to be possessed and thus kill all trial-takers.
Li Xiaotian's eyes flickered upon hearing this. Sensing that the world he was in was completely isolated from the outside, he immediately guessed the World Tree's plan.
The other party had completely sealed off the world he was in, which was why it acted so unscrupulously, unafraid of being discovered by outsiders.
"Rumble!"
Thunder rolled, and destructive power vibrated. The entire void trembled, and the World Tree's main body in the sky erupted with an extremely terrifying aura.
The trunk flickered with light, as if alive. A vague figure slowly emerged, exuding an unparalleled pressure that was suffocating.
"Crack, crack..."
Thick lightning snakes coiled around the trunk, making the entire tree look particularly menacing.
The firmament trembled, densely packed with thunder. The World Tree's main body unleashed infinite divine light, covering the sky and pressing down towards Li Xiaotian.
"Hmph, if your main body were to kill me regardless of the consequences, you might succeed. But now, you're merely controlling a part of a branch. You underestimate me!"
Li Xiaotian sneered. His entire body radiated terrifying light, and he shot upwards, meeting the torrent of lightning.
The firmament trembled, and strands of divine radiance descended like waterfalls, smashing down, destroying heaven and earth, incredibly formidable.
"Kill!"
A chilling voice echoed. The World Tree's branch charged down with incredible speed, instantly arriving. A thick vine, accompanied by sky-covering divine light, swept towards Li Xiaotian as if to obliterate him in an instant.
"World Destruction!"
Li Xiaotian roared, his entire body bursting with unparalleled light. His boundless qi and blood surged like a sea, burning the sky and boiling the ocean. A terrifying temperature permeated all directions, distorting the entire void.
In a trance, everything around seemed to freeze, time and space stagnated, and Li Xiaotian unleashed a punch.
"Boom!"
A fearsome collision occurred. The void shattered, and destructive power rippled outwards. The branch swayed violently, as if unable to withstand that terrifying force.
"Hmph!"
Immediately after, the World Tree snorted. It was a truly ancient existence, possessing countless secret arts, with an endless stream of mysterious divine abilities.
Although it was only using a portion of its strength at this moment, and not its main body descending, it could still display transcendent combat power with these.
For a time, the two powerful beings engaged in fierce combat, causing this area to boil.
Heaven and earth cracked, and the lightning in the sky intensified. Terrifying lightning tribulations descended, completely sealing off the area. Li Xiaotian, however, grew stronger as he fought, the power of his World Destruction Fist fully unleashed. Such a confrontation was too terrifying, almost unheard of.
At this moment, the World Tree's main body outside remained calm. All the trial-takers were searching for the conditions to pass, and no one knew that a world-shattering battle was unfolding in some corner.