The Demon Soul couldn't help but watch. No matter what, he just couldn't believe it. It had only been a few hours at most.
Yun Jin, a mere human, actually dared to claim she had learned the Heaven-Devouring Soul Codex, the secret art of devourer demon race?
This isn't a joke!
He stared at Yun Jin, eyes wide.
At this moment, Yun Jin had already ascended into the sky. She drew her sword and swung, tearing open a massive rift in the air.
The Demon Soul's expression shifted slightly.
In the next instant, the rift expanded. The entire outer-realm space seemed like a shattered eggshell, and with a deafening crack, it split apart completely!
The whole world shook violently.
The next moment, the tiny alternate-dimensional space was forced to manifest in the real world. Dust and soil flew everywhere, and the enormous Life Tree crashed down onto the demon domain's land.
On the battlefield, everyone instinctively looked up.
Through their gaze, a massive tree suddenly appeared in the distance, its canopy blotting out the sky. The tree towered into the clouds, its branches spreading endlessly, almost engulfing the demon domain itself.
From the tree, a terrifying surge of demonic energy leaked out continuously.
"What is that?"
The humans' expressions shifted slightly.
Within the demon domain, there really existed such a terrifying demon tree.
The demon race, once on the brink of destruction, suddenly felt hope rekindle.
"It's the Mother Tree!"
"This must be the legendary Mother Tree of the demon race!"
"I thought the Mother Tree was just a myth… and yet it's real?"
"Some of the demon generals must've used a method to summon it."
"We're saved! We're saved!"
The demons roared in excitement.
The humans' expressions darkened.
The Mother Tree… what the hell? The demons still had backup?
"Heh, what tree? Sect Master Yun and Sect Master Ji have already gone after them. No tree can cause trouble now!" Hong Ye sneered, her great blade ignited with flames as she swung at the demons.
She had absolute confidence in Yun Jin. With the Sect Master on site, no tree could make waves!
The others snapped out of it too.
"Right, that tree can't affect us. Let's keep wiping out the demons!"
"Leave the other matters to Sect Master Yun and Sect Master Ji!"
The two races clashed again in fierce combat.
The demons seemed emboldened, fighting with unexpected courage.
Amid the chaos, suddenly…
Liu Li Zhēnzūn looked up at the sky, her pupils narrowing slightly. "Look! The Blood Moon…"
Everyone turned their gaze upward.
The Blood Moon hovered high in the sky. Now, two figures shot directly toward it.
Faintly, one could make out who they were…
Yun Jin and Ji Wusi!
Hearts trembled.
It was well known that the closer one got to the Blood Moon, the stronger the corrupting crimson light's influence.
What were Sect Master Yun and Sect Master Ji doing?
"Ha ha ha ha! You humans' strongest are walking straight to death! This must be the Mother Tree intervening!"
"When the Mother Tree takes action, all of you will die, all of you!"
The demons roared themselves hoarse, their battle fervor surging.
"No… wait…" Qing Yun murmured, "Xiao Jin… she seems to be absorbing the crimson light!"
Absorbing?
Everyone flinched slightly.
This energy could actually be absorbed?
"Absorbing the Blood Moon's power? Stop dreaming! As long as the Blood Moon exists, the demon race survives!"
"The demons are eternal!"
"The Mother Tree is everlasting!"
The demons shouted in madness.
Qing Yun and the others, however, were grim. They activated their techniques and clearly saw that Yun Jin was indeed absorbing the crimson gases swirling around the Blood Moon.
Originally, the Blood Moon had been wrapped in countless layers of crimson matter, hazy and unclear. Now, that dense crimson substance was visibly being reduced!
The demons could normally draw power from this matter. After a while, they realized something was wrong. What's happening?
The crimson light shining down is weakening…
The benefits they should be gaining are diminishing…
Horrified, the demons looked up. In mere moments, the crimson matter surrounding the Blood Moon had already vanished by more than half!
The crimson energy from all directions surged violently toward Yun Jin at the center. The energy was immense, even Yun Jin couldn't digest it all at once. She used the Heaven-Devouring Soul Codex to absorb as much as she could, compressing the rest with her Demon Soul.
The Blood Moon, once veiled in layers of crimson mist, had its shrouds peeled away layer by layer.
Finally, a fully formed blood-red moon floated in the sky.
"Master!" Yun Jin shouted.
At that instant, she unleashed the Yin-Yang Chain, locking the Blood Moon firmly in place.
Ji Wusi, prepared in advance, drove his sword forward with a sharp whistle, piercing the Blood Moon.
The Tai'a Sword followed with its momentum, slicing through the crimson light.
The two human masters struck with their full might.
The Blood Moon swelled violently, then, in the next instant, shattered completely into fragments, scattering across the demon domain's land.
The Life Tree's essence had dissipated. The once sky-covering Life Tree, drained of its essence, withered instantly. Its trunk shrank until it became an ordinary tree, about ten meters high. Still taller than usual, but only barely.
Fragments of the Blood Moon fell everywhere.
All the demons froze.
They felt it.
They had lost something forever.
Their demonic energy wavered and began dissipating.
The Blood Moon, the very foundation of their survival, had been split apart.
The Mother Tree… had withered too.
The demon race… had no hope left.
The humans exchanged a glance.
Now was the perfect moment to exterminate the demons.
"Strike with everything!"
"Destroy the demons!"
"The Blood Moon's gone. The demons will fall!"
The battlefield became completely one-sided. The remaining demons had even lost the will to fight.
Under the Life Tree, the Demon Soul muttered, "…"
What the hell…
He had offered three solutions.
But all three were clearly impossible, so he thought he had lucked out. Yet Yun Jin, a mere human, had ridiculously mastered the Heaven-Devouring Soul Codex and destroyed the Blood Moon!
With the essence gone, the Life Tree's spirit was gone too. It wouldn't survive much longer before withering completely.
Yun Jin and Ji Wusi descended back to the ground.
The Demon Soul couldn't help but watch them warily.