Many children, many blessings: Stealing the offspring of powerful figures to cultivate immortality.

On the silver airship, the inspector stood with his hands behind his back, a sneer of utter contempt playing on his lips, as if he were looking at a group of bugs struggling in boiling water: "Overestimating yourselves?"

"The strength is good, but unfortunately, the foundation is too weak."

However, just as he was about to order a general offensive to completely wipe out the city, a sudden change occurred!

Rumble—!

The entire Desolate Abyss City, and even the ground within a radius of a hundred miles, trembled violently at this moment.

It was as if some enormous creature was awakening, bursting forth from the earth, about to roar at the heavens!

"Who told you we're fighting alone?"

A clear, cool voice echoed distinctly in everyone's ears.

At the top of the city tower, Jiang Yining slowly opened her eyes, and deep in her pupils, she saw a vast expanse of emerald green reflected in them.

She suddenly raised her hands, her ten fingers like wheels, and pressed them hard into the void!

"open!"

Click! Click! Click!

Countless cracks burst open in the streets, walls, and even the void of Desolate Abyss City, bursting forth with countless green plants!

Those were incredibly thick vines that shot straight up into the sky in an instant.

They intertwined, spiraled, and grew, and in the blink of an eye, the phantom of a towering tree, large enough to blot out the sky, suddenly appeared above the desolate abyss.

The tree canopy was so large that it completely covered the entire city, like a giant umbrella!

"What is this thing?!" The star guards in the sky all froze in their tracks.

The next moment, the nightmare began.

"Go!" Jiang Yining endured the burning pain in her soul and pointed with her fingertip.

Countless vines, like venomous snakes with supernatural powers or arrows released from a bow, pierced into the densely packed star guards with a shrill sound that tore through the air.

"Puff puff puff—"

A series of chilling thuds followed one after another.

The silver armor that the Star Guardians were so proud of was as fragile as tofu in front of these emerald green vines, and was easily pierced!

Then, a terrifying scene unfolded.

The Star Guardian, pierced by the vines, didn't even have time to scream before his once full body withered away in an instant, as if the vines had forcibly plundered and drained his flesh, spiritual power, and even life force!

Just one breath! Only one breath!

Hundreds of Star Guardians with the cultivation level of the Integration Stage were transformed into dried corpses wearing empty armor, falling from the sky like rain and shattering into pieces.

As the devouring was completed, the originally emerald green vines instantly turned a strange red light, and streams of pure energy, visible to the naked eye, rushed back along the branches of the divine tree and directly injected into the bodies of the people who were fighting bloody battles.

While catching his breath, Ye Wuhen felt a jolt in his dantian, and a surge of scalding heat exploded out. The originally parched demonic energy instantly surged, becoming even more violent than at its peak!

"This is……?!!"

Ye Wuhen felt a chill run down his spine. He really wanted to turn back and ask Jiang Yining if using this heaven-defying ability would have any effect on her.

But the battlefield is not a time for sentimentality; life and death can be decided in an instant.

Suppressing the grief in his heart, Ye Wuhen roared to the sky: "Brothers, the city lord's skills are even stronger than those of the old man up there! Don't be afraid, keep charging!!"

The demonic blade in his hand instantly shone with boundless demonic light. With a single slash, the blade's aura surged three thousand feet, directly splitting a small flying boat in front of him in two.

A burst of fire erupted, accompanied by the terrified and desperate screams of countless Star Spirit cultivators. The flying boat disintegrated in mid-air, turning into two enormous fireballs that plummeted toward the earth, trailing billowing black smoke.

This scene was incredibly impactful.

The cultivators on the city wall, who had been filled with despair and whose spiritual energy was exhausted, stared wide-eyed and breathed heavily as they looked at the blood-red vines flying everywhere and the figure of the Demon Lord who had cleaved the flying boat in two with a single slash.

That's... their city lord! That's... their guardian deity!

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

It's unclear who roared first, but soon the roars of tens of thousands of cultivators converged into a sound wave powerful enough to overturn the heavens.

"The City Lord is invincible!"

Amidst the deafening shouts of battle, the women of the Jiang family did not back down.

Although her legs were trembling, Tan Lanxin, the second aunt who had no spiritual roots, bravely led the other mortals to rush forward and rescue the injured cultivator back to the city.

Third Aunt Yu Yuxue was already bloodthirsty. Although her cultivation level on the battlefield was not high, her ruthlessness was no less than that of a man.

The longsword in her hand was already dulled, but her gaze followed a red figure on the battlefield.

That was the Third Elder, who had transformed into his original form and was fighting desperately.

You old fox, if you dare to die, I'll pluck all your fur and make you a scarf!

Yu Yuxue gritted her teeth, tears mixed with blood streaming down her face, her hands continuing to perform incantations.

Not far away, Jiang Wensi had already been slashed six or seven times. If it weren't for Jiang Yining's timely intervention, she would have been dead by now.

The girl who once hid behind her family has gradually become resilient through the trials of war.

"I'll fight you to the death!"

On the other side, Chu Jinglan's originally depleted Confucian and Taoist spiritual heart was healed at an astonishing speed under the infusion of this vitality, and his withered righteous energy also became vast and magnificent again, with dazzling golden light.

"Ningning...you always manage to surprise people..."

Chu Jinglan choked back tears and murmured softly, a fleeting tenderness in his eyes replaced by a chilling aura capable of suppressing mountains and rivers.

He took a sudden step forward, and lotus flowers bloomed in the air beneath his feet. His righteous energy transformed into a long golden river, encircling his body.

Confucius said: "It is impolite not to reciprocate."

"Since you've given us such a generous 'gift,' then I, Chu, will naturally reciprocate!"

Chu Jinglan slammed his folding fan shut, pointing it towards the sky. His voice was clear and resonant, like a great bell, echoing throughout the heavens and earth.

"In the name of the sage, I command—the wind and snow here, transform into swords!"

Om-!

Words become law!

As soon as he finished speaking, the snowstorm that filled the desolate abyss froze instantly. Each snowflake transformed into an incomparably sharp ice crystal sword, carrying golden righteous energy, and turned into a storm of sword rain that surged upwards, annihilating the Star Spirit army that poured in through the gap!

Thousands of star satellites were smashed and fell like dumplings, and were precisely captured by the waiting vines while still in mid-air, instantly sucked dry.

Reverse slaughter.

Where is Desolate Abyss City now, or is it some besieged, isolated city?

This has clearly become a perpetual motion machine fortress that operates by devouring the flesh and blood of its enemies!

The more enemies die, the stronger the defenders become. This bizarre cycle, which defies the common sense of the cultivation world, plunges the entire battlefield into a frenzied atmosphere.

"More!"

Bai Ze licked the blood from the corner of his mouth, his red fox eyes filled with greed and fighting spirit.

With the blessing of this divine tree domain, the side effects of burning his demon soul were actually suppressed, replaced by a continuous sense of power.

High above the sky, the inspector inside the flagship could no longer maintain his aloof demeanor.

He abruptly stood up from his throne, the glass wine cup in his hand shattering with a "crack," and for the first time, his silver eyes revealed disbelief and... a deep-seated fear.

"What...what the hell is this thing?!"

He stared intently at the eerily large tree below, watching the star guards die like dumplings, then turn into nutrients to nourish the swarm of "ants".

"Devouring life force? Converting cultivation power? This is definitely not a method that exists in the lower realms! This is not even an ordinary demonic cultivation technique!"

The inspector's voice trembled: "Even in the upper realms, such a heaven-defying divine object exists only in legends..."

He suddenly felt a chill run from the soles of his feet straight up to the top of his head.

"Retreat! Quickly!!!"

The inspector roared in disarray. He had underestimated the enemy this time, bringing only low-ranking star guards and failing to report to his superiors.

If he had known this earlier, he would have definitely invited an elder at the Void Realm to oversee things.

But it was too late.

On the city tower, Jiang Yining's long hair danced wildly. At this moment, surrounded by the five-colored divine light and the green vines covering the sky, she resembled a goddess who controlled life and death.

She slowly raised her head, her gaze locking onto the inspector on the largest flying ship across the vast void.

"Since you're here, don't be in a hurry to leave."

Jiang Yining's lips curled up slightly, revealing a chilling smile.

Before the words were even finished, the entire Myriad Spirits Divine Tree trembled violently, and its enormous canopy expanded once more. Countless vines, like giant pythons soaring into the sky, ignored the airship's defensive light barrier and fiercely grabbed at it!

At this moment, the roles of hunter and prey are completely reversed!