The World Tree's Resonance—No Different from a Moth Flying into Flame?
The World Tree’s Resonance—No Different from a Moth Flying into Flame?
“At this point, you still won’t call upon your Founding Ancestor to show himself?”
Gu Changge shook his head lightly, his words carrying a hint of regret.
He didn’t quite understand Lin Qinglong’s behavior—preferring to sacrifice his entire clan rather than summon the Ancestor to act.
Of course, there was another possibility: this was an order from their Ancestor himself—that even in death, they had to buy him time.
But regardless of which possibility it was, choosing to fight to the death at this moment was anything but wise.
“As long as my father doesn’t die, my Lin Clan will never perish. Everything you’ve done is futile.”
High in the sky, Lin Qinglong roared in fury, his face twisted, his body drenched in blood, his wounds horrifying as he coughed up blood continuously.
There was a terrifying sword wound that had nearly cleaved him in two.
Opposite him, Ni Shang’s figure drifted ethereally, a Dao Sword materializing in her jade hand, its sword light blooming like brilliant, crystalline petals, each one containing peerless killing intent.
Even so, he continued his desperate resistance, ceaselessly channeling his magic power, burning his life Source, battling against numerous experts.
It had to be said—as a True Daoist, the strength he displayed had already surpassed many beings of the same realm, and could not be underestimated.
But the True Daoists facing him today were all terrifyingly powerful. When they struck together, the world filled with vast, boundless supreme laws, like divine light capable of washing away everything.
Under such circumstances, the fact that Lin Qinglong had held on this long spoke volumes about his strength.
However, no matter how strong one was, there would always come a moment of exhaustion.
Boom!!
The next instant, wave after wave of law and order swept in from all directions.
Numerous supreme experts struck out, unleashing their strongest blows—transforming into heavenly blades, long spears, divine swords—all crushing down upon Lin Qinglong together.
Endless light surged skyward. This stretch of the universe instantly exploded, becoming utterly ruined, Chaos Energy bursting forth and submerging the surrounding star domains.
His weapon was the first to shatter, breaking into countless dazzling fragments that scattered out of this universe.
Immediately after, his entire body was struck by that terrifying force, torn apart into pieces, pale white bone fragments scattering everywhere, before gradually falling silent.
“Ancestor Qinglong has fallen...”
“How is that possible? Ancestor Qinglong was the second strongest after the Prime Ancestor himself...”
Many Lin Clan members still resisting couldn’t help but tremble, their faces filled with terror. Witnessing this scene, they finally fell into despair.
In their eyes, Lin Qinglong was a figure comparable to the Lin Family’s Prime Ancestor, the most valued descendant of the Ancestor.
He was also the second strongest expert of the entire Lin Clan.
Now that even Lin Qinglong had fallen, what hope did they have left?
“Why hasn’t the Ancestor appeared? Has he abandoned us?”
“Impossible. How could the Ancestor abandon us? But why would he watch us being slaughtered without showing himself...”
Many Lin Clan members wailed, unable to stop themselves from kneeling toward the depths of the clan grounds, praying in that direction, begging the Ancestor to appear.
However, in the face of their prayers, the depths of the clan grounds remained deathly silent, without the slightest ripple.
This sight only deepened their despair, their faces turning ashen.
“It seems your lives and deaths mean nothing to your Ancestor.” “As long as he doesn’t die, the Lin Clan won’t be destroyed...”
“What a pity for all of you, buying time for him here.”
Gu Changge’s figure descended from the sky. He shook his head lightly, speaking with what seemed like regret.
Behind him followed the Bone Ancestor, Ni Shang, and the others.
Terrifying pressure swept in all directions, causing the remaining Lin Clan members to collapse to their knees, prostrating themselves on the ground, their very skin seeming to crack apart, utterly unable to withstand such an aura.
This battle had been without suspense from beginning to end—whether in the strength of peak experts or the numbers of the armies, the two sides simply couldn’t compare.
The entire star domain had been sunk, life-bearing stars exploding one after another, the buildings and pavilions ahead all collapsing into ruins.
As Gu Changge and the others walked past, the surrounding Lin Clan members all glared at them with hatred.
However, this situation didn’t last long. Numerous Gu Family iron cavalry arrived and took them all into custody.
“Lin Wu, at a time like this, instead of protecting your family, where do you think you’re going?”
At that moment, Gu Changge’s somewhat amused voice rang out, his gaze falling upon another area of collapsed mountain peaks.
Among them, a figure was carefully concealing his aura, preparing to slip away quietly.
Hearing these words, Lin Wu’s entire body stiffened, his hands and feet turning cold. He hadn’t expected Gu Changge to have been watching him all along.
But since Gu Changge had already discovered his whereabouts, there was nothing left to hide.
He immediately walked out from among the peaks, his eyes red, his expression ugly as he looked at Gu Changge.
“Gu Changge, you despicable, shameless, faithless villain.”
“You’ve committed every evil imaginable. Sooner or later, you’ll get your retribution,” Lin Wu gnashed his teeth.
When the Gu Family Army had descended earlier, he had already planned to flee.
But True Daoists were battling in the high skies, and the ripples of their auras spreading downward—just a wisp was enough to collapse everything.
Worried about being caught in the crossfire, he had been hiding carefully all this time.
Moreover, some enraged Lin Clan members were also searching for him, intending to pin all their hatred and fury on him.
As he was now, he was truly a rat crossing the street—betrayed and abandoned by all. After being used by Gu Changge, he no longer had any value.
Lin Wu wished he could grind Gu Changge to dust and scatter his ashes.
“I’ve grown tired of hearing such words. Why don’t you take this opportunity to say some last words instead? If I’m feeling generous, I might just listen to the end.”
Hearing this, Gu Changge shook his head lightly, a faint smile on his face.
Then, crimson light emerged in his palm, condensing into a crimson spear that abruptly pierced through the void. Peerless heavenly sounds rang out as—with a boom—it ran through Lin Wu, whose face was pale with terror and despair, blasting him into a sky full of blood mist.
Lin Wu’s eyes were wide open, filled with despair.
He had never imagined that Gu Changge wouldn’t even give him the chance to speak, ending his life just like that.
Weng!!
The instant Lin Wu perished, Gu Changge raised an eyebrow slightly. With a sweep of his sleeve, he collected the Heavenly Gift Treasure Chest that only he could see.
This could be considered Lin Wu’s final value.
As for what was inside this Heavenly Gift Treasure Chest, Gu Changge was in no hurry to check.
Right now, there was another matter waiting for him before his eyes. “At this point, even your son is dead, yet you’re still hiding? It seems you’re at a critical juncture, unable to break away.”
After finishing off Lin Wu, Gu Changge looked toward the depths of the collapsed ruins, somewhat thoughtful.
Then he reached out with a palm strike. Terrifying fluctuations spread out, enough to make one’s Physique explode. Faintly, a Great Millstone of World Destruction wreathed in Chaos Energy seemed about to descend from the sky, suppressing that area.
As this vast fluctuation fell, all the mountains and land split apart, dust and smoke surging skyward, terrifying great ravines appearing and stretching out for dozens of miles.
Boom!!
Suddenly, radiant light shot skyward from that spot. Within the great ravine, an ancient altar emerged, while glass-like cracks appeared in all directions, splitting apart with cracking sounds.
One could imagine that during the great battle here just now, the Lin Clan’s Ancestor had been hiding within this small world.
But now, the small world hidden there had its Array Patterns blasted open by Gu Changge’s palm strike, revealing itself.
“This aura... is he attempting to forcibly break through that step...”
The Bone Ancestor’s gaze narrowed slightly. With his discernment, he could naturally tell that the figure seated cross-legged on this ancient altar was none other than the Lin Family’s Prime Ancestor.
The other’s strength seemed even deeper than his own.
“It seems I’ve interrupted his grand undertaking.” Gu Changge smiled faintly, unsurprised.
His gaze was mainly focused on the black ocean deep within this small world, where black rivers converged, forming a deathly silent sea like the Yellow Springs.
It was incomparably calm, and black in a way that chilled the heart. Strange laws interwove within it, utterly different from the environment of the outside world.
One could even see quite a few spectral spirits, like the unextinguished Original Souls of Cultivators, wandering along the banks of the black rivers, descending from distant dimensions, finally turning into motes of light and walking into the ocean.
The ocean was vast, its end nowhere in sight, exuding an incomparably mysterious and profound aura.
Looking out, one could see an ancient tree rooted within the ocean, its branches and leaves withered, wrapped in wisps of light.
“So this is the Tree of Epoch. It’s about to bear fruit.”
Gu Changge’s gaze fell upon a verdant green fruit nestled among the sheltering branches and leaves.
It looked most mysterious, with wondrous ripples spreading from it, and fine fragments of time emerging around it.
He could even see faint traces of the River of Time, as if through this fruit, one could trek within it.
At this moment, Gu Changge also faintly sensed the Mirror of Wonders and the Spacetime Stone, influenced by that fruit, emitting resonating hums.
“These are traces of time and space...” He somewhat understood now.
At that moment, the figure that had been sitting cross-legged on the ancient altar finally opened his eyes and rose to his feet, vast fluctuations sweeping forward like a blanket over the sky.
The Lin Family’s Prime Ancestor had appeared. As the former Blood Dragon War God, his mighty name had suppressed the world in his era, possessing unimaginably terrifying prestige across the Eight Wastelands and Ten Domains.
Though he looked rather aged, his physique was robust, his black hair lustrous, immortal radiance shrouding him, like an invincible immortal war god, wisps of chaotic lightning coiling around his palms.
His entire being was like an ancient divine thunderbolt crashing down upon the universe, brimming with heart-palpitating power.
He walked step by step from the depths of the Lin Clan. When his gaze swept over the clan grounds that had already turned to ash, there wasn’t the slightest ripple in his eyes—as if those who had died were not his clansmen. The great Lin Clan had been destroyed this day, numerous True Daoists all suppressed and killed, yet he, the Lin Family’s Prime Ancestor, seemed at this moment to stand apart from it all, like an outsider.
Especially since amid the blood mist and bone fragments drifting not far away lay the corpse of his own descendant.
Yet he acted as if he hadn’t seen it at all.
This sight caused many Gu Family experts to show strange expressions, feeling that this man could certainly keep his composure—catastrophe was already upon him, yet he had endured and refused to appear.
If it were them, they would have been unable to hold back long ago; it would be impossible to watch their clansmen being massacred without reacting.
“What a bunch of useless trash. They couldn’t even buy this much time.”
“What a pity. I was half a step away, and you disrupted all my plans...”
“You truly deserve death.”
The Lin Family’s Prime Ancestor was named Lin Zhan. His face was extremely cold, his battle armor gleaming with brilliant light, dazzling and resplendent runes interweaving across it.
And as he spoke, a layer of dawn-like light enveloped him, the fluctuations of time swirling around him.
His aged face rapidly recovered, becoming young and vigorous.
Terrifying blood qi power surged from his body, containing unimaginable momentum, like rolling heavenly thunder, like chaos exploding.
“This is quite different from a simple technique of returning to one’s peak.”
The Bone Ancestor frowned slightly. Without needing Gu Changge’s instruction, he had already stepped forward, the hand hidden beneath his robes reaching out—ghastly white bone, blotting out the sky and sun, eerie and terrifying—striking toward Lin Zhan.
“Ancestor of the Bone Clan, you and I met several times back in the day.”
“I never thought even you would aid a tyrant in his evil, casting righteousness aside.”
Lin Zhan looked coldly at the Bone Ancestor, his eyes even colder.
At the same time, he raised his palm and struck out. Vast aura swept through this universe, shattering star domains in all directions, overwhelmingly domineering.
He had been waiting for that Epoch Dao Fruit to ripen, but alas, he was still short on time.
If Gu Changge hadn’t come to kill him, he would have had great hope of breaking through the shackles of this world, recovering his former peak, becoming a true immortal above the Emperor Realm!
But now, the timing had not yet arrived, and his clansmen had already been slaughtered to the last—even his descendant had died in battle.
This made his face incomparably cold. How could he not hate? He wished he could tear Gu Changge into ten thousand pieces.
Gu Changge paid no mind to the great battle between the two. He still had some confidence in the Bone Ancestor...
Of course, if the Bone Ancestor proved no match, it wouldn’t be too late for him to act then.
Right now, his attention was on that Tree of Epoch emanating faint green light. To be precise, this Tree of Epoch was in the midst of transformation—many of its branches and leaves were still withered and lifeless.
But on the other side, there was a vast and mighty aura filling the air, permeated with astonishing life force.
That Tree of Epoch stood at the very center of this small world, incomparably enormous, adorned with cyan immortal light, shrouded in thick chaotic mist. A single leaf could bear cascades of Astral Rivers—a magnificent sight.
At this moment, before the Gu Family members could even approach, they felt the vast will of a world, as if it would crush their entire bodies to pieces.
On those branches and leaves radiating green light, every star hanging down rumbled and rotated, emitting terrifying sounds.
Gu Changge’s gaze shifted slightly. The void blurred as he transformed into a divine rainbow, approaching the Tree of Epoch, intending to seize the opportunity to take it away. But at that moment, he suddenly sensed unusual movement from within his Inner Universe.
The complete world laws within it were making contact with the world laws of this place.
The World Tree Seedling, formed after the World Seed he had obtained earlier sprouted, was resonating with the heaven and earth laws of this place.
Boom!
At this moment, between heaven and earth, an even more terrifying Force of Law seemed to press down, followed by a violent collision. The Tree of Epoch began to shake, as if the sky were collapsing and the earth splitting.
Everyone was somewhat shocked, their souls trembling, feeling that at this moment, some inexplicable law was descending—of the same origin as the laws of the Beyond, yet carrying the meaning of new life.
Brilliant world light burst forth from there, like immortal flames, reborn through fire, cascading down like a waterfall, submerging everything, rushing toward the four seas and eight wastelands.
Gu Changge’s figure also trembled slightly, like a boulder beneath a waterfall, but a wondrous sound rang out in his heart.
It was the scripture of the world, resounding through his mind.
The hazy Force of Law, incomparably brilliant, submerged everything in all directions.
In a trance, he saw a World Seed falling into a Great Universe, taking the Astral Rivers as soil and chaos as nourishment, continuously taking root, sprouting, and growing strong—the process of forming a World Tree.
During this process, Gu Changge’s World Tree Seedling was also undergoing frantic transformation!
At the very center of his Inner Universe, an incomparably enormous sapling rose up, as if propping open heaven and earth, containing supreme and paramount meaning!
At this moment, a phantom even appeared, vast to the extreme, pressing down until people could hardly breathe, their skin about to split, about to descend upon the present world and become a true myriad of worlds.
Rumble!!
In everyone’s eyes, at this moment, the myriad worlds rose and fell behind Gu Changge and above his head—he seemed to single-handedly hold up these myriad worlds.
This was unparalleled mighty power, even giving one the feeling that Gu Changge could easily wield this World Tree, sweeping away all enemies of the myriad worlds, suppressing and killing everything!
“What is this...”
“Impossible...”
Although Lin Zhan was battling the Bone Ancestor, he had been keeping watch on the Tree of Epoch behind him. When Gu Changge charged toward it, he had sensed something was wrong.
Now, witnessing this scene, his expression changed drastically, unable to conceal his horror.
“Daring to be distracted while fighting this old man.”
Seeing this, the Bone Ancestor snorted coldly. His world-shaking giant hand swept across, landing on Lin Zhan, sending him flying while coughing blood, nearly smashing through this universe.
Soon, that area became blurred, utterly chaotic, with no laws or aura visible.
A battle between beings of the Bone Ancestor’s and Lin Zhan’s level—even ordinary Emperor Realm experts dared not spy upon it.
This great battle lasted a long time, becoming increasingly chaotic toward the end.
Gu Changge watched this scene without intervening. He ordered the other True Daoists of the Gu Family to go assist the Bone Ancestor.
Meanwhile, he kept his attention on the Tree of Epoch, enveloping this area with great magic power, attempting to completely relocate it and bring it into his Inner Universe.
Boom!!
In distant lands, all living beings could only feel a world-shaking supreme aura sweeping across from beyond the heavens.
Great stars trembled one after another, like sieves. The firmament shook, the universe warped, collapsing into ash.
Roars of fury came from there, shaking countless living beings. One could imagine what kind of terrifying battle was unfolding there.
Strips of incomparably blurred rivers of time emerged, upon which the figures of peerless experts from ages past manifested, coming to lend their might in this singular era—only to be instantly shattered.
Boom!
Roars came from there. Both Lin Zhan and the Bone Ancestor were coughing blood, their bodies repeatedly exploding, finally forced to reveal their true forms.
Bang!
Finally, a war spear charged forth, wreathed in supreme laws, wielded like a great staff, its brilliant shaft as if forged from hundred-million-fold refined Immortal Gold.
A True Daoist of the Gu Family struck out, his face cold, sweeping the war spear across. The indescribably heavy force smashed into Lin Zhan’s back, sending him flying while spewing great mouthfuls of blood.
But before he could hit the ground, from another direction, a Gu Family True Daoist strode forward, traversing the limits of space—with a squelch, pierced him through front to back, blood splattering, nailing him to the war spear.
“Aaaahhh...”
Lin Zhan roared in fury, covered in blood, wretched to the extreme. Even in his true form, he was no match, already at the end of his rope, his lamp running out of oil.
There were simply too many opponents. The Bone Ancestor alone was troublesome enough, let alone the other True Daoists present.
“I’ll kill you!!”
In the end, he began burning his own Source, incomparably resentful and unwilling, fixing his gaze on Gu Changge in the distance, intending to drag him down with him.
Lin Zhan burned, his light more dazzling than the sun, heedless of everything, charging toward Gu Changge.
“Senseless resistance—how is it any different from a moth flying into a flame?”
Gu Changge had been attempting to relocate the Tree of Epoch. Seeing this, he raised his eyes to glance at Lin Zhan, shaking his head lightly with great pity.
The next moment, a vast and weighty world will emerged behind him, followed by the manifestation of the World Tree’s phantom, which he swung forth with a flick of his hand, sweeping down directly.
Boom!!
Endless chaotic light surged skyward. That place exploded, blood mist billowing, submerging this ruined borderland of the universe.