Chapter 52

It was exactly the same as the warning voice when entering the Glory Battlefield.

"Is this a rule warning?"

"When did I attack friendly forces?"

Zhao Xing was a bit confused.

However, he quickly found the reason.

Looking at the team members at his feet, they were looking at the Soul-Eating Tree with infatuation.

Unknowingly, they had surrounded it from afar.

"So that's how it is." Zhao Xing suddenly realized.

Subsequently, he ordered the Soul-Eating Tree to completely restrain its power.

Immediately, team members like Luo Ying and Aina broke free from their immersed state.

"I... what happened just now?"

"Eh, how did I walk here?"

"Phew, why do I feel so tired, like I've been working all night?"

"Me too, I feel like I just did a day of hard labor."

"..."

The team members were all extremely strange; how could they have had a dream in broad daylight?

"Stay away, and no matter what happens later, do not look directly at the tree at my feet."

Zhao Xing did not explain, just gave the order.

Only Luo Ying and Aina, after breaking free from the Soul-Eating Tree's effect, immediately realized what had happened.

"I, was I influenced by Brother Expert's tree just now?"

"Brother Zhao's tree, he didn't even deliberately target us, just leaked a little power, and it made so many people unknowingly sink into it mentally?"

Aina and Luo Ying looked at each other, both seeing shock in the other's eyes.

Then they quickly organized the personnel to retreat far away.

…………

After the Soul-Eating Tree was imbued with spirit, its level also reached level 60.

At this time, it had only one function: Soul Devouring!

"Withdraw!"

Zhao Xing took the Soul-Eating Tree into his internal world.

Then he cast [Jungle Jump], and before long, he appeared at the forefront of the battlefield.

Behind a patch of Explosive Iron Trees.

"Rise!"

The Soul-Eating Tree was released again, breaking through the soil.

Hidden behind the Explosive Iron Trees.

"Boom~"

At this time, Elic commanded more than two thousand undead lords to launch a full-scale attack.

With transcendent bone behemoths as the vanguard, they pushed forward hard against the Golden Sunflower's life purification.

There was no other way; without transcendent-grade bone creatures, they couldn't hold on.

Even elite-quality bone creatures couldn't last 10 seconds in the golden light of life purification.

Elite quality, in other circumstances, might be able to counter transcendent troops with numbers.

But in this duel of mutually restraining powers, there was no way.

This was a qualitative gap that could not be made up for by quantity.

"A total of 30 transcendent-grade bone lifeforms."

"The highest level is 60, the lowest is 40."

"That alien commander only left two transcendent-grade ones guarding his side."

Zhao Xing understood at a glance that the other side intended to have a showdown.

Either he would be forced to activate emergency teleportation and leave.

Or the alien lords would fail their attack and use battle achievement points to flee.

But there would always be a portion of undead lords who had no achievement points and had lost their transcendent troops.

Bound by the rules, they could only carry out suicide attacks.

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In the gloomy undead cemetery, a large number of bone creatures surrounded the rear.

30 transcendent-grade bone creatures, some like behemoths, spewing death energy, burning with soul flames.

Some were in giant form, holding huge bone blades.

Joining together, they formed a protective shield and charged toward the glowing oasis.

4 kilometers, 3 kilometers, 1 kilometer...

The transcendent bone creatures were fast; even though their soul flames trembled constantly, they approached rapidly.

The undead lords in the rear also stared nervously at the battlefield.

At this moment, they desperately longed for their clansmen to be able to force that imperial genius to leave under Elic's leadership.

Otherwise, at least half of them would have to Hua Hua Hua Hua Hua Die.

Whoosh whoosh~

There was only the cold, howling wind all around.

The bone creatures couldn't make a sound, and Zhao Xing's plant troops had no conditions for making sound.

The war proceeded in a dull sense of oppression.

The team members on Zhao Xing's side also seemed to forget to breathe.

Staring at the terrifying bone creatures gradually approaching the Explosive Iron Tree defense line.

"It's about time, now!"

Seeing the 30 bone creatures approach the Explosive Iron Trees, the distance was less than 400 meters.

Zhao Xing suddenly withdrew all the Explosive Iron Trees!

"Hmm?"

The undead lords watched from afar, feeling some doubt in their hearts.

Could it be that the enemy had given up?

Only Elic felt his heart pounding wildly, and he roared loudly, "Turn around, all of you!"

"Make them retreat!"

However, it was already too late.

The Explosive Iron Trees withdrew, and the defense line became empty.

On the vast, empty land, only a pitch-black, circular tree remained, swelling in the wind.

It soon exceeded 20 meters in height!

The pitch-black leaves and trunk swayed, set against the golden light.

It seemed to have become a black hole.

"Soul Devouring, activate!"

The 30 transcendent-grade bone creatures suddenly froze in their tracks.

The undead lords, even more so, had their eyes seemingly fall into the suddenly appearing black vortex.

They couldn't even manage to give any orders to their troops in time.

Although Elic reminded his subordinates at the first opportunity, it was still too late, because he himself had also been affected.

When he broke free, many of the subordinate undead lords had already directly fainted.

Elic only managed to stabilize his clansmen's souls.

"Buzz buzz buzz~"

The transcendent bone creatures, having lost their masters' control, had their soul flames dim instantly.

Afterward, a large amount of soul flame from within the bone bodies detached and rushed toward that Soul-Eating Tree!

Even the elite-grade and ordinary-quality bone creatures in the distance were affected. ===== CHAPTER 103 =====

It was as if a 'meteor shower' composed of soul fire had appeared in the sky.

The source toward which all the meteors rushed was none other than the Soul-Devouring Tree!

"Soul-Devouring Tree! It's a Soul-Devouring Tree!"

Eli Ke’s face turned pale as he stared blankly at this scene.

He finally understood what the source of the panic he had vaguely felt earlier was.

Eli Ke used soul manipulation, desperately trying to pull back the soul fires of 10 bone creatures to stabilize the bone army.

Then, he painfully issued the order.

"Retreat."

"Eli Ke, we can't retreat!" Batu looked at Eli Ke in horror. "If we retreat, who will protect those clansmen who have no battle points?"

Eli Ke shook his head. "There's no way; if we continue to attack, everyone will Hua Hua Hua Hua Hua Die."

"That plant lord has no ability to pursue!"

"When it's time to give up, one must give up."

Eli Ke’s expression gradually turned cold. "All those who have obtained the authority to flee, retreat immediately!"

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Base City No. 10005.

Hum~

Zhao Xing’s figure appeared in his room.

The moment Eli Ke ordered the retreat, the battle was over.

The transcendent bone creatures had suffered heavy losses, and he couldn't help those clansmen who had no battle points and hadn't completed their tasks to survive.

He could only take the clansmen who were able to leave.

The remaining undead lords, after their suicide attacks, also fell one after another before the Soul-Devouring Tree and the Golden Sunflower.

"Although it's cruel, this is racial warfare."

"Weak races, when captured into the Primordial Realm to serve as our whetstones—that is their fate."

"If one day the Empire is conquered, our fate won't be any better."

"Only by becoming stronger, and having the entire race become powerful, can we avoid such things from happening!"

Zhao Xing recalled the resentment and cursing of those undead lords before they died, and shook his head.

He gathered his thoughts and opened his smart brain.

"I wonder how many points I gained this time?"

Zhao Xing opened the leaderboard with anticipation.