Published: February 13, 2025
The massive treant was not as colossal as the previous planet, but its momentum charging forward was equally formidable.
Maybe it was due to battling in the universe, the treant bore several small scars on its body, appearing as if they were deliberately carved.
These wounds were slightly open, as if saying that the treant couldn’t hold on for much longer.
The Old Dean lowered his head, watching the approaching enemy with a stoic expression.
Behind him, a gigantic shadow emerged without anyone noticing, a tripod of limbs, one of which kicked out at the giant.
A fragment of a planet that was still in front of the giant suddenly exploded, shattering into countless thick stone spikes.
As the Speaker had charged forward after devouring its companion, and since the planetary fragments flew toward it, the stone spikes almost simultaneously pierced into the treant's body as they formed.
The enormous treant, like a Sky Pillar demon, was abruptly halted, its main body filled with stone spikes.
Of course, these hundred-meter-long stone spikes on the treant looked like mere toothpicks.
The Speaker treant let out a silent roar, and all the stone spikes shattered as it continued to charge forward, brandishing its limbs.
Another leg from the phantom shadow behind the Old Dean kicked out as well.
This time, all the fragments surrounding the treant exploded like bombs, producing a massive shockwave that caused the treant to tumble backward, retreating a short distance.
The treant steadied itself and, unwilling to give up, charged forward again. After this period of struggle, there were no more planetary fragments between it and the Old Dean.
A third leg kicked out.
Without any planetary fragments, the immense force directly impacted the treant's body, causing a part of its torso to explode, and the treant flew backward.
When it reestablished itself, the frequency of its limb movements had noticeably slowed, and a large amount of liquid seeped from various places, clearly indicating serious injuries.
“The three legs have ended, and there are still three punches left. If you can reach my side, you can leave without giving me the Wood Spirit,” the Old Dean coldly conveyed to the treant.
After transforming into a treant, the Speaker's facial features had vanished, relying solely on perception to control everything.
However, it was still an intelligent lifeform, accustomed to a humanoid shape, so it was unaware that several cracks would appear in its body, revealing structures resembling eyes.
Various eyes appeared on the branches and torso, differing in number and size; some were as small as a car, while others were as large as a building, creating an exceedingly eerie impression.
Upon hearing the Old Dean’s words, the Gu Rui Star Clan's patriarch, the Speaker, stared at him with several eyes, but did not respond immediately.
It was weighing its options, calculating.
It already understood the difference in strength between itself and the Old Dean; even the combined forces of three forebears could not contend with him, rendering any further discussion pointless.
However, just moments ago, it had devoured its second forebear, experiencing a rapid surge in strength. In that instant, it felt it was capable again, which was why it had fiercely charged at the Old Dean.
Yet, the Old Dean's three legs had calmed it down significantly.
Now, the patriarch was weighing the odds; could this new version of itself stand against the Holy Father?
“I can let you try one more punch before you decide,” the Old Dean said, and without waiting for the patriarch's agreement, one of the three hands from the phantom behind him moved.
A simple and unadorned punch; the patriarch only had time to wrap all its branches around itself before the space around it shattered like a mirror, and it, being the shadow in that mirror, also shattered.
“I concede!”
The branches wrapped around the patriarch were sliced into segments, floating in the universe, mirroring the shattered patterns of the space around it, but its body remained relatively intact.