Chapter 1095

"This is... an alien corpse?" Xu Jingming immediately realized.

Although the woman looked lifelike, as if sound asleep inside.

Yet he sensed not the slightest breath—this was undoubtedly a corpse!

And her pointed ears proved she was not human at all.

More crucially, on her ivory-white ring finger, like a tender shoot, rested a space ring.

An alien corpse from ten thousand years ago—a space ring!

Together, these two facts meant this was an opportunity no less valuable than the Breakthrough Tower!

But her face... why does it resemble that ice queen, Eva?

'Eva, you don't have another mother, do you?' Xu Jingming teased mentally with his spirit power.

He immediately noticed Eva's condition through their shared spirit link was unusual.

Her adorable little face bore an expression of longing.

A frantic mental voice echoed in Xu Jingming's mind:

'S-class—get this corpse! I feel a special pull toward her!'

A special pull?

Xu Jingming's heart tightened.

Eva was an artificial lifeform—how could she be connected to a corpse ten thousand years old?

'Fine.' Despite his doubts, he quickly agreed inwardly.

Undoubtedly, Eva and this corpse hid a great secret!

But all these mysteries could only be solved once the crystal coffin was seized.

'That's right! This is an alien corpse!'

Philip's eyes gleamed ahead, 'But this crystal coffin isn't so easy to take.'

We already tried—those tree branches lash out like whips; even we can't withstand them.'

To get it, we must work together.'

Otherwise, Philip and his group would have taken the coffin long ago.

'Oh? This tree has reached the Supreme level?' Xu Jingming lifted his eyelids.

'Not quite, but it's more than enough to handle us.'

Philip shook his head, 'Also, don't think of using spatial abilities to retrieve it.'

The space around the coffin is riddled with spatial rifts—Amir already tried; teleportation is impossible.'

Amir was the middle-aged man beside the EU's Barton siblings.

He possessed an A-class spatial ability, Rank Nine Mid-tier.

'I've sensed many spatial rifts,' Ling Shuang nodded slightly.

'See? I told you so.'

Philip laughed, looking at Xu Jingming, 'Come on, let's team up and take the coffin first.'

We'll sort out the division later—worst case, we share the intel.'

As he spoke, Xu Jingming received Ling Shuang's mental transmission:

'The spatial rifts aren't a problem—Amir failed because his ability is too weak.'

'I can take it directly. Should I go now?'

Hearing this, Xu Jingming's eyes lit up—he wanted to scoop Ling Shuang up and kiss her fiercely.

Taking the coffin directly would save immense trouble.

Then, whether to fight or retreat, he alone would decide.

'Take it now.' Xu Jingming didn't hesitate.

If no surprises, this must be the opportunity Emers mentioned.

Naturally, grab it first, worry about everything else later.

'Alright.' Ling Shuang nodded slightly.

The next instant, her slender figure vanished from where she stood.

Appearing beside the crystal coffin in the treetop, to the shock of Philip and the others.

Her jade hand gently touched the coffin—and the entire coffin vanished into thin air, absorbed into her space ring.

'Spatial teleportation?! How did she do that?' Amir, the EU's spatial user, cried out.

'Just because you can't doesn't mean I can't.'

Ling Shuang's elegant form vanished from the treetop and reappeared beside Xu Jingming, her voice icy and detached.

'Just taking the coffin like that? That's inappropriate.'

Philip's face darkened, glaring fiercely at Xu Jingming.

Not just Philip—the EU's Barton siblings, the Lei Ding family's Gavin and Luke—all wore hostile expressions.

Gavin's voice turned glacial: 'Leave the coffin, or you won't leave alive.'

'You think you can stop me from leaving? Besides, when did I say I was leaving?'

Xu Jingming snorted, immediately entering Lei Shen Mode.

Crackling—!!

With a piercing shriek of electricity, endless black thunder erupted outward from him.

The aura, like a god descending, made Philip and the others flinch.

This power level... was stronger than any one of them!

After him, Su Qingli, Hearing Ling Shuang, and the Moon Shadow Hierophant each activated their abilities, entering battle stance.

But at that moment, a branch like a giant serpent shot upward like lightning!

"Puch—"

A burst of flesh and bone erupted; the head of an American Rank Nine Lower-Stage Wu Sheng was reduced to mist by the branch piercing through it.

Before the indestructible substance could fully reassemble, a second wave of branches twisted his body into pulp!

Shuashuashua—!!

Amidst the grating sound of wood warping, a shadow rose like a dark cloud from below.

But this was no cloud—it was hundreds of thousands of pitch-black, colossal tree branches!

"The Great Tree has awakened!" Philip's face darkened instantly.

Abandoning his struggle with Xu Jingming over the crystal coffin, he swiftly flew higher into the sky.

Although Xu Jingming wanted to test the Great Tree's strength, he decided to observe first and likewise ascended into the sky.

Boom—boom—boom~~~~

A deep, massive sound rang out, before the eyes of Xu Jingming and the others in stunned silence.

The colossal tree, over two thousand meters tall, rose from the earth, its countless branches sweeping toward the sky like living things.

Given that a single branch could pierce through a Rank Nine Lower-Stage Wu Sheng, the strength of these branches was terrifying!

Not just the Great Tree—throughout the entire forest, countless War Ancient Trees erupted from the ground, frantically hunting nearby humans.

"Sss?! What's going on?"

"Run! Flee now!"

Shouts of panic echoed from afar.

The Rank Nine experts originally within the forest were all forced to ascend into the sky.

In this moment, the entire forest seemed to become one, expressing a single emotion.

That emotion was rage!

"So the crystal coffin is being guarded by the Great Tree," Xu Jingming realized upon seeing this.

It reminded him of elves from Western mythology.

They dwelled within forests, protected by them.

This situation matched the scenes of Western myth perfectly.

"Could this be the origin of Western elf mythology?" Su Qingli asked curiously.

With Hearing Ling Shuang's spatial ability, they could leave anytime—they weren't worried about the forest's uprising.

In contrast to Xu Jingming's group's calmness, Philip and the others were growing desperate.

Unlike the real world, the secret realm had a maximum height limit.

When they ascended to over three thousand meters, they discovered they had reached the very top of the secret realm!