135: Angel of Death

The heavy stone door of the temple had silently opened a crack at some unknown point.

A vast, irresistible suction force suddenly erupted from within the temple!

Its target was precisely the severely damaged White Bone Giant Tree, whose power had collapsed!

The White Bone Giant Tree gushed forth the primordial power of the Death Rule, flowing like a black river. In front of this suction, it was like a river encountering a black hole, forcibly pulled and transformed into thick, black torrents, surging wildly towards the open crack in the temple door!

"Roar... no..."

The massive body of the White Bone Giant Tree trembled violently under this suction, letting out a final, unwilling, and despairing wail.

Its body, seemingly pieced together from countless skeletons, actually began to disintegrate and weather away!

The pale tree trunk rapidly lost its luster, becoming gray and brittle, as if it had undergone millions of years of weathering, turning into falling bone dust. Together with its vast primordial death essence, it was mercilessly devoured by the temple!

This sight was bizarre and shocking!

It was as if this terrifying White Bone Giant Tree was merely "nourishment" cultivated by the temple over its long existence, and now the time for harvest had come!

In just a few breaths, the White Bone Giant Tree, as massive as a mountain and exuding endless death aura, along with the vast majority of the primordial Death Rule it gushed forth, was completely devoured by the temple!

Only a huge, empty deep pit remained, along with the hard, ink-black earth at the bottom of the pit.

However, at the very center of the deep pit, where the suction had scoured and should have been empty, a small piece of something stubbornly remained... It was a root segment, about the length of an arm, entirely emerald green, with intricate, mysterious natural patterns covering its surface!

It lay there quietly, like the most ordinary withered branch, yet subtly exuding an indescribable aura of life... The Death Desert fell into a deathly silence.

The lead-gray sky remained oppressive, but the bone-chilling aura of death had thinned considerably.

The Lie Kong Blade Wing Alien, dragging its injured body, landed beside Lin Feng, letting out a low hiss, warily watching the temple, which had once again fallen silent.

The Alien Queen's massive figure also slowly descended, landing in front of Lin Feng.

On her dark gold and abyssal black carapace, several wounds pierced by bone spears were rapidly healing under the flow of dark gold patterns.

She restrained her terrifying aura, but her dark golden compound eyes remained coldly fixed on the open crack of the temple door, her phantom constantly shifting behind her, maintaining a posture ready to launch a fatal strike at any moment.

Lin Feng clutched the still faintly aching wound beneath his ribs, looking at the empty deep pit before him, his gaze lingering for a moment on the inconspicuous emerald green root segment.

With a thought, a Xeno-Rift Alien had already brought the emerald green branch before Lin Feng.

The moment he took it, a surge of powerful life energy instantly poured into Lin Feng's body!

In an instant, all his injuries were completely healed.

"This..."

Lin Feng was somewhat surprised. This branch and the previous White Bone Giant Tree were two completely opposite existences. He didn't understand why, after the White Bone Giant Tree disappeared, such a life-filled branch would remain in its place.

"Could it be that things turn into their opposite when they reach an extreme?"

Just as Lin Feng was wondering, a strange feeling suddenly flashed through his mind. He then looked towards the temple, which seemed even deeper and more mysterious after devouring the White Bone Giant Tree, and a storm surged in his heart.

Within the open crack of the temple's stone door, there was a profound darkness, as if even light could be swallowed.

Just as Lin Feng looked at it... another anomaly occurred!

Boom!!!

The heavy stone door, which had only been ajar, suddenly and completely burst open without warning!

It was as if an overwhelming force had violently slammed it open from within!

The two door panels crashed against the stone walls on either side, emitting a deafening roar and raising a cloud of stone dust!

An aura of death, far purer, more ancient, more domineering than that of the White Bone Giant Tree before, as if it condensed all the essence of termination and annihilation in the world, surged out from the fully opened temple door like a world-ending flood breaking its dam!

This aura was so terrifying that the entire Death Desert trembled because of it!

The lead-gray sky was instantly tinged with an ominous inky black!

The earth wailed, the air solidified, and even space seemed unable to bear this power, emitting a groaning "creak"!

Lin Feng was hit as if by a heavy hammer, letting out a muffled groan, his face instantly turning ashen, his body stumbling uncontrollably backward!

Just as he was about to collapse, a faint surge of life energy instantly flowed from the emerald green branch in his hand, forming a green barrier in front of him, helping him block the terrifying pressure of the aura.

Riftwing Blade also let out a painful wail at this moment, directly falling to the ground under the pressure of this aura, its blade-wings trembling violently, completely unable to lift.

As for the Alien Queen, her massive body suddenly shook. On her dark gold and abyssal black carapace, countless mysterious patterns instantly lit up, erupting with dazzling light, forming a tough barrier that stubbornly resisted this terrifying flood of death!

The constantly shifting phantom behind her suddenly spread open, like a giant hunting net, her dark golden compound eyes locked onto the temple door, burning with an extremely cold fighting spirit and... a hint of solemnity!

Amidst this overwhelming aura of death, a "figure" enveloped in an impossibly thick, inky black Death Rule power, burst forth from the depths of the temple, like a peerless fiend demon breaking free from ancient shackles!

"Hahahahahahaha—!!!"

A deafening maniacal laugh, filled with endless ecstasy, malice, and liberation, like the shriek of billions of Revenant, echoed throughout the entire Death Desert!

This laughter contained terrifying rule power, directly assaulting the soul!

"I! Samael, the Angel of Death! Am finally free!!!"

Amidst the mad laughter, Samael's gaze, like two tangible death rays, instantly pierced through the dense black death mist and landed on Lin Feng, who was suppressed below.

That gaze carried a sense of condescending scrutiny, as if looking down at ants, and a hint of... a charitable "boon"?

"Insignificant and lowly creature..."

Samael's voice was like the grinding of nine nether ice, carrying a soul-freezing majesty.

"Was it you who broke the seal and helped me escape? Although it was unintentional, this 'favor,' the great Samael, will surely repay you 'handsomely'!"

Before he finished speaking, an even more concentrated and terrifying death will, like an invisible sky collapsing, descended with a roar, locking onto Lin Feng!

"Feel this supreme Death Rule! This is power beyond the mundane! It is one of the ultimate truths of the universe! Kneel! Submit!"

Samael's voice was full of temptation and authority.

It was as if, at this moment, he was the master of heaven and earth.

"As a reward for helping me escape, I shall bestow upon you... 'eternal life'!"

"To become my most loyal and powerful death puppet, to wield the authority of death with me—what an honor that would be!"

"Accept this purification! Ant! Merge into the embrace of death, and obtain an eternal form of existence!"