132: Dead Ancient Tree

The power of that bone claw far exceeded his imagination!

Lin Feng only felt as if his ankle was clamped by a ten-thousand-ton hydraulic press, and the icy, bone-chilling power of death rules, like a venomous snake, drilled into his meridians, frantically eroding his vitality.

His right arm bulged, dark golden patterns surged under his skin, and a punch, gathering all his strength, slammed heavily onto the churning sand below!

Boom!

Sand waves, like an enraged dragon, shot into the sky, forming a huge circular pit. The violent force penetrated the sand layer, and a dull 'crack' sound, like decaying wood breaking, came from below.

The bone claw gripping his ankle trembled violently, its grip seemingly loosening.

"Now!"

A sharp glint flashed in Lin Feng's eyes, his primordial cells within him spun frantically at an unprecedented speed, and a vast torrent of life energy, mixed with the power of rules bestowed by the Alien Queen, transformed into a scorching flood, fiercely crashing into the death rules that had invaded his body!

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!

Like a red-hot branding iron plunged into ice water, a violent energy conflict erupted within Lin Feng's body.

He grunted, a trace of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth, but that insidious, bone-deep death qi, like maggots clinging to bone, was temporarily forced back and suppressed by this overbearing torrent of vitality!

The loosening grip on his ankle was the perfect opportunity to break free!

"Riftwing Blade!"

Lin Feng roared, simultaneously pulling his body sharply upwards!

The Lie Kong Blade Wing Alien had long been poised and ready!

The moment Lin Feng broke free, its massive body, covered in dark silver metallic luster, appeared beneath Lin Feng as if teleporting, its broad, cold back precisely catching its falling master.

Immediately after, its wings vibrated violently at a frequency beyond their limit, a high-pitched hum tearing through the air, unleashing a powerful upward thrust!

"Roar—!"

From the churning sand below, an earth-shattering roar, filled with endless fury and malice, erupted!

That sound did not come from a living creature's throat; it was more like the amalgamation of countless bones rubbing together and the howling of decaying winds, carrying a death will that could freeze the soul!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The entire yellow sand earth surged and collapsed violently, like a boiling sea!

Centered on the spot Lin Feng had just struck, a massive funnel-shaped pit, over a hundred meters in diameter, suddenly formed, with the quicksand at its edges pouring inward like a waterfall!

And at the bottom of this bottomless sand abyss, Lin Feng and Riftwing Blade saw a sight that made their scalps tingle... It was not the remains of some colossal creature.

That... was a tree.

A White Bone Giant Tree of unimaginable size!

Its main trunk was as thick as a mountain, entirely composed of a ghastly white, lusterless bone material, covered with countless twisted, grotesque tree knots and cracks, as if forcibly melted and piled up from the skeletons of billions of living beings.

Countless ghastly white branches of various shapes, some as thick as giant pythons, some as slender as spears, some twisted like ghostly claws, extended from the main trunk like living things, wildly dancing and lashing about at the bottom of the deep pit, stirring up the rolling yellow sand.

The tip of each branch penetrated the overlying sand layer, like roots embedded in the earth—no, they *were* roots!

It was just that these roots had grotesquely pierced through the 'ground,' transforming into the Transcendent-level skeletal legions that Lin Feng had seen on the sand earlier!

Lin Feng understood instantly, a chill shooting from his spine to the top of his head!

There was no army of thousands upon thousands of Transcendent skeletons at all!

Beneath that vast sea of sand, there was only this terrifying White Bone Giant Tree!

Every branch it extended pierced through the sand layer, exposed on the surface, disguised as individual bone skeletons emitting the power of death rules!

They appeared independent, but in reality, they were extensions of this ancient tree's will, its predatory tentacles!

No wonder their attacks were so coordinated and unified; no wonder their auras were of the same origin and nature!

At this moment, this ancient tree of death was completely exposed beneath the abyss.

Its massive canopy almost filled the entire bottom of the deep pit, and the dense, almost material power of death rules transformed into viscous, ink-black mist, coiling around every branch and every leaf.

This black mist churned, emitting a nauseating aura of decay and despair; merely making eye contact was enough to wither one's soul.

The huge crack caused by Lin Feng's strike appeared at the base of the White Bone Giant Tree's main trunk, a dark golden fist print deeply embedded in the ghastly white bone.

The surrounding area was covered with spiderweb-like cracks, and viscous black liquid continuously seeped out like foul blood, dripping onto the sand, making a continuous 'sizzle' sound and corroding deep pits.

This injury clearly enraged this terrifying existence that had been dormant for an unknown number of years.

"Hiss-ga!"

The Lie Kong Blade Wing Alien let out an unprecedentedly sharp hiss, filled with extreme vigilance and... a trace of unconcealed dread!

Its cold compound eyes were locked onto the churning black mist of death below, its blade-wings fully spread, the spatial cutting cold light flowing on its edges more dazzling than ever.

It felt a fatal threat!

An absolute suppression stemming from the level of life and rules!

Its power of rules, capable of tearing space, which it had awakened upon advancing to Transcendent-level, was now firmly suppressed by the vast, abyssal death rules below, making its operation incredibly difficult!

Hum!

The main trunk of the White Bone Giant Tree suddenly trembled!

A wave of deathly pressure, ten times denser and a hundred times heavier than before, like an invisible heavy hammer, slammed fiercely onto the minds of Lin Feng and Riftwing Blade!

Lin Feng's vision went black, his brain felt like it was being pierced by countless steel needles, and Riftwing Blade let out a painful wail, its massive body shaking violently in the air, almost losing balance and falling!

"Not good!"

Lin Feng forcibly steadied his mind, the 'little man' in his crystal core frantically outputting life energy to resist the mental erosion, and at the same time, he commanded sharply.

"Riftwing Blade! Spatial teleportation! Get out of here!"

However, Riftwing Blade's wings vibrated frantically, but the high-pitched hum only stirred up circles of chaotic spatial ripples around it and Lin Feng, utterly unable to tear space!

"Space... is completely locked?!"

Lin Feng's heart sank to the bottom.

The death rules emanating from the White Bone Giant Tree below were so powerful that they distorted and imprisoned the spatial laws of this area!

Even the Transcendent alien, known for its spatial abilities, couldn't break through!

"Roar!!!"

The White Bone Giant Tree seemed to be completely enraged by Lin Feng's escape and the injury he had inflicted.

At the bottom of that deep pit, countless wildly dancing ghastly white branches suddenly straightened, like billions of bone arrows released from a bowstring, accompanied by a piercing shriek that tore through the air, shooting from all directions, overwhelmingly, towards Lin Feng and Riftwing Blade, who were suspended above the pit!

The tip of each branch condensed a point of extremely dark black light; that was death rule power concentrated to its extreme, enough to penetrate the defenses of Transcendent creatures and annihilate their vitality!

Too fast!

Too wide a range!

No escape!

Riftwing Blade let out a desperate hiss, its blade-wings transforming into a dark silver storm of death, frantically slashing at the incoming bone spears.

Clang!

Clang! Clang! Clang!

A dense shower of metallic clashes exploded!

Sparks flew!

Riftwing Blade's blade-wings were incomparably sharp, imbued with spatial cutting power, and indeed cut down many of the incoming bone spears.

But the number of bone spears was simply too great!

Too dense!

And each one contained terrifying death rule power!

Pfft!

Pfft!

Several bone spears that slipped through instantly pierced through the defensive net of Riftwing Blade's spread blade-wings!

One thick bone spear violently impaled the base of one of its relatively fragile secondary wings, spraying viscous black blood!

Another grazed Lin Feng's ribs, drawing a streak of blood, and the contained death rules instantly eroded the wound, his skin and muscles visibly turning gray and necrotic at a rapid pace!

"Ugh!"

Lin Feng grunted in pain, life energy frantically surging towards the wound, resisting the spread of death rules.

Riftwing Blade let out an even more shrill wail, its massive body violently tilting due to the intense pain and disrupted balance!

Just at this critical moment, more bone spears, like a school of sharks that had smelled blood, changed direction and launched an even more deadly volley at the injured and unbalanced Riftwing Blade and Lin Feng!

They were about to be pierced by ten thousand spears!

Just as Lin Feng thought he was doomed, and even Riftwing Blade would be completely pierced and annihilated in this bone purgatory, at that very instant... Hum!!!

An indescribable tremor suddenly exploded from the depths of his soul!

It did not come from the outside, but originated from his own contracted Spirit Beast Space!

The feeling was as if an ancient demon god, dormant in the chaotic abyss, had suddenly opened its cold eyes!

Within the Spirit Beast Space, the massive dark golden cocoon, which had always floated quietly, woven and entangled by countless rule threads, suddenly lit up with countless fine, unstable cracks on its surface!

A cold, overbearing, terrifying aura, filled with the intertwining of destruction and rebirth, like a breached flood, instantly broke through the boundaries of the Spirit Beast Space, brutally descending into the real world!