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Facing the violent threat and angry glare from Wei Yang and Xiao Yan, the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree trembled once more, and another glowing sphere floated out.
Inside the sphere, an image flickered continuously. It showed a Bodhisattva Ancient Tree towering ten thousand zhang high.
But at this moment, Wei Yang and Xiao Yan's eyes were not focused on that sky-reaching giant tree. Their gaze was locked onto the space before the tree. There, in midair, a black-clothed figure stood, stepping on air, facing the ancient tree.
A type of aura that felt like the supreme ruler of heaven and earth spread slowly from this person's body. Under this aura, even the colossal Bodhisattva Ancient Tree, thousands of zhang high, seemed incomparably insignificant.
"This is... Dou... Dou Di!?"
Xiao Yan's eyes were filled with disbelief and shock.
He stared fixedly at the black-clothed silhouette, his voice trembling. Even though it was only the image of a back, that terrifying aura was enough to make his very soul tremble.
In this heaven and earth, other than the Dou Di who existed only in ancient legends, who else could possess such a terrifying presence?
Wei Yang's expression was equally solemn. This wasn't the first time he had sensed this aura, but even now, it still made his heart quiver uncontrollably.
An Emperor was simply too powerful. It felt like a lifeform from a higher dimension altogether. Such supreme pressure was indescribable.
Within the glowing sphere, the black emperor's silhouette stood before the colossal Bodhisattva Ancient Tree. Suddenly, that emperor figure began attacking the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree!
Facing the assault of an Emperor, the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree unleashed a terrifying, sky-shattering power of its own.
The two sides collided instantly!
Under such a terrifying exchange, even the heavens and earth collapsed completely. Wei Yang and Xiao Yan both watched, completely stunned. The sight of the collapsing heavens inside the glowing sphere was unbelievable.
No one would have imagined that the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree had once battled a Dou Di!
Inside the sphere, the images sped up, the battle continuing fiercely. Until finally, everything paused on the last scene.
The black-clothed Emperor was suddenly ambushed by a terrifying destructive force that shot in from outside the glowing sphere, striking him brutally. Then, the Emperor's figure, along with his body and that entire region of space, exploded into pure nothingness.
There was another Emperor!
Taking advantage of the moment when the black-clothed Dou Di was fighting the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree, he launched a sneak attack!
"Hiss..."
Watching the black silhouette that exploded into nothingness along with heaven and earth, both Wei Yang and Xiao Yan sucked in a cold breath at the same time, their hearts pounding violently.
There was actually a second emperor hiding in the dark, secretly watching, not even caring about honor. In the end, under the joint efforts of the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree and that mysterious Dou Di, the black-clothed Dou Di fell!
Today, the two of them had actually witnessed the terrifying moment of a Dou Di from ancient times falling.
"Two Emperors!"
Xiao Yan's eye twitched uncontrollably.
Existences that were practically only legends. Yet today he had seen two of them in an instant. Even though they were only images, that unique, heaven-and-earth-supreme aura still made his soul tremble. There was also the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree!
"This Bodhisattva Ancient Tree was actually able to fight an Emperor." Wei Yang's expression stiffened. He quietly turned his hand and put away the raging small black sun he had summoned earlier.
There was no point fighting. Fight what? They could barely even scratch it. Damn it, the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree was this strong?
Back when he read the original story, what the hell was he reading? How did he not remember this part clearly? Wasn't this Bodhisattva Ancient Tree basically the strongest being on the continent now?
Damn, he had only been thinking about Hun Tiandi, completely forgetting the true hidden boss that was the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree.
Seeing this, Xiao Yan also silently dispelled the purple-brown fire dragon coiling around his body. Facing a Bodhisattva Ancient Tree capable of battling a Dou Di, the two brothers looked no different from two tiny puppies baring their teeth for nothing.
With its body towering ten thousand zhang tall, even if it simply stood there without moving, letting the two of them attack however they wanted, they would probably exhaust themselves to death without being able to harm it in the slightest.
The brothers exchanged a quiet glance, then immediately withdrew all their auras and obediently stood still. They silently and very wisely chose not to fight.
Inside the glowing sphere, the image did not stop just because the black-clothed Dou Di had fallen. Within the void where everything had exploded, thin streams of black qi suddenly appeared. The moment these streams emerged, they shot straight toward the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree.
As the black qi entered, the pure aura surrounding the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree visibly took on a faint, hidden coldness. Seeing this scene, Wei Yang and Xiao Yan both showed thoughtful expressions.
Because the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree after being invaded by the black qi felt exactly the same as when they first encountered it back outside.
Swoosh.
The glowing sphere dimmed, then split into two, shooting like lightning into the foreheads of both men. Finally, it transformed into a strange flow of information that spread throughout their minds.
Both of them closed their eyes slightly, silently digesting this strange information within their minds. A long while later, they slowly opened their eyes again. A new layer of understanding had clearly appeared within them.
From this information, they learned many things, and also understood why the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree had brought them here.
The Bodhisattva Ancient Tree had existed for an unknown number of eras, unimaginably ancient, able to trace back to the age of the Emperors, perhaps even earlier. It was practically a living fossil of the continent.
However, what surprised Wei Yang and Xiao Yan was that despite surviving through so many eras, the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree had still never fully evolved proper intelligence.
Perhaps it was due to its species, or perhaps some other reason, but its intelligence remained incomplete, inferior even to certain Heavenly Flames. It was truly strange.
No matter the reason, although the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree was called the Knowledge Reincarnation Tree, it did not actually possess complete higher intelligence. It only had the basic instincts of a living being. For example, instinctual defense or counterattacks.
As for the battle they saw within the glowing sphere, it happened in an extremely distant era. A seriously injured Dou Di tried to forcibly extract the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree's spiritual essence to heal himself, which ultimately led to the great battle.
In the end, that Dou Di was slain by his opponent together with the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree. Of course, even though they did succeed in killing the black-clothed Dou Di, the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree suffered an unimaginably severe wound.
This was obvious from how the once ten-thousand-zhang form shown in the image had become the much smaller form it had now. However, even after paying such a tremendous price, the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree still did not truly destroy the black-clothed Dou Di.
Because at the moment of the Dou Di's fall, some of his negative emotions, unwillingness, resentment, and so on condensed together and invaded the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree.
These negative emotions were like a curse. Over countless years, instead of dissipating with the passage of time, they gradually corroded the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree. As a result, the tree's already limited intelligence slowly shifted toward darkness and coldness.
In other words, the Bodhisattva Ancient Tree had been eroded by the negative emotions of that Dou Di, gradually transforming toward the evil side.
Slowly blackening.
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