A high altitude a thousand miles from the city.

Nearly ten Legendary Level creatures were caught in an intense battle, each displaying their magical powers, making the heavens and earth change color.

Suddenly, a blinding sunburst of light erupted, scorching the land within a hundred miles to ash.

In the ashes, a World Tree wrapped in copious amounts of black qi stood tall and unyielding, unaffected by the scorching sunlight.

It was the black qi that protected the World Tree.

The black qi absorbed the sunlight, saving the World Tree from the torment of incineration.

Boom—!

Suddenly, the earth violently shook.

The ground cracked open with dozens of fissures, oozing strands of chillingly cold death qi.

The next second!

From within the cracks, massive numbers of grotesque shadows crawled out, forming a vast legion of the dead that rushed towards Qin Chuan and the other city defenders.

Shangguan Yuehua, the Deputy City Lord, saw this and immediately manipulated the vast stretch of land to move, forcibly closing the cracks above.

No sooner had the cracks closed than countless thick thorns burst from the earth, shooting towards the sky, peppering the sealed ground with holes and once again oozing strands of black qi, reforming into a legion of the dead.

"Hmph, mere low-level undead,"

Qin Chuan snorted coldly, and then, his profound eyes emitted a golden radiance, making the sun above him blaze with even greater heat.

In an instant, the golden shine illuminated the land, dispersed all the black qi, and incinerated the legion that had emerged from the cracks to nothingness, dissipating completely.

The World Tree, enveloped in black qi, rapidly began to carbonize under this terrifying golden radiance, its life force swiftly ebbing away.

"City Lord Qin is indeed powerful,"

Above the World Tree, the Thorn Fairy, with her flirtatious eyes, said in a seductive voice, "But... no matter how powerful City Lord Qin is, can he really be stronger than the avatar of a Mythical Level creature?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the World Tree beneath her, now completely charred, suddenly swelled with countless writhing blood vessels.

Upon their appearance, the originally dead and charred World Tree instantly came back to life with vigor.

Under the gaze of Qin Chuan and the others,

The World Tree suddenly grew numerous blood-red thorns, which fiercely pierced the earth to suck in nutrients, causing the trunk to grow rapidly before their very eyes, transforming into a World Tree that blotted out the sun.

"Sssla... sssla... sssla!"

Accompanied by a series of crisp cracking sounds,

Numerous bloodshot eyes opened on the trunk of the World Tree, their chilling gazes sizing up everyone present.

Upon seeing Qin Chuan and the others, the World Tree uttered an ancient and time-worn voice:

"Just a city stronghold, yet it managed to produce four Legendary Level beings in a mere hundred years. I must say, you Earthlings' Evolutionary Talent is indeed formidable."

Listening to this familiar ancient and time-worn voice, Qin Chuan, as the City Lord, furrowed his brows tightly, his expression turning extremely grave.

It was Elder Tree!

One of the only two Mythical Level Creatures of the Sun-Moon Sacred Land!

Such a powerful being had actually come to this battlefield in the form of an avatar!

Was the Sun-Moon Sacred Land ready to break into all-out war with Earth?!

Qin Chuan was utterly perplexed.

All this time, the Mythical Level Experts of the major powers had always remained behind the scenes, never taking action themselves, like the nuclear weapons on Earth, serving only as a deterrent.

But now, the Sun-Moon Sacred Land had deployed a Mythical Level creature, breaking the unspoken rules.

This was unbelievable to Qin Chuan, and it filled him with a chilling sense of foreboding.

If someone who always followed the rules suddenly flips the table and disregards them one day, it means that person is ready for everything to come crashing down.

And the rule-breaking by the Sun-Moon Sacred Land now filled Qin Chuan with fear that it would lead to an unprecedented great war with Earth tearing asunder any facade of peace.

Though Earth also had Mythical Level Experts, they were extremely few in number, and most were not stationed on Earth.

If a war of annihilation were to suddenly break out, Earth would face complete conquest.

"Buzz... buzz... buzz!"

A deafening tearing through the air suddenly exploded.

Countless thorns tipped with venom, carrying vast amounts of Origin Force, furiously shot towards Qin Chuan and the others.

They were so fast that Qin Chuan and the others had no time to react; their bodies were immediately penetrated by thorns, leaving behind horrifyingly large holes.

"City Lord, save, save me!"

Deputy City Lord Bai Wubian, with a thorn piercing through his Heaven's Gate, was rendered immobile as his life force rapidly drained away, forcibly crying out for help to Qin Chuan not far from him.

However, at that moment, Qin Chuan was unable to save even himself, with seven thorns piercing his body, rendering him just as immobile as Bai Wubian, only able to watch helplessly as the thorns devoured his life force.

It's over.

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We're all going to die...

Despair filled Qin Chuan's heart; he never expected to die on this battlefield.

Mythical Level creatures are too powerful, and even just an avatar was a terror that he, a Legendary Level being, couldn't contend with.

"Your Sun-Moon Sacred Land is breaking the rules. Our Mythical Level Experts will surely repay you tenfold. Even if it means our own extinction, we'll pull your Sun-Moon Sacred Land down with us to accompany Earth in death..."

Knowing he had no chance of survival, Qin Chuan used the last of his strength to stare down the avatar of Elder Tree and make his threat.

Hearing this, the Thorn Fairy perched on the avatar of Elder Tree simply laughed aloud:

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