<h4>Chapter 815: Burning the Devil Trees</h4>


    Sun Mengmeng entered the devil trees'' world via the wormhole. As reported, before hery a forest of pitch-ck trees, so densely packed she couldn''t see its borders. The trees were pitch-ck and dozens of meters tall, the trunks so thick it would take five or six grown men holding hands to encircle them.


    Even more shockingly, there was a tree so tall it seemed to extend straight into the clouds, and its trunk was so thick that one could carve a city into it, a veritable metropolis of the world. Its branches were like the spokes of an umbre that shaded the world.


    This had to be the king of the realm.


    The moment Sun Mengmeng stepped into the forest, all the trees seemed to rustle at once. An eerie smile formed on the bark of the nearest trees as roots pierced the ground like feelers. Branches twisted and morphed into the trees'' arms as the trees in the forest turned into devil trees.


    The trees swarmed toward Sun Mengmeng.


    ording to the draconians'' information, when the devil trees were in their tree forms, their roots were intertwined into awork that could rapidly transmit information. As a result, all the trees would immediately learn when an intruder stepped into their world.


    The devil trees, as numerous as the tide, flocked over to Sun Mengmeng—but despite their steep numerical advantage, Sun Mengmeng remained calm. She summoned her garuda bow and activated her fire-attuned gic energy.


    "[Lunarme Shot]!" Fire-attuned gic energy burst from Sun Mengmeng''s body as her body erupted in mes. She pulled her greatbow taut.


    Only a series of afterimages were visible of her hand as she shot countless arrows of purple me of her bow, producing what seemed like a meteor shower that tinted the air purple and gave the valley a phantasmagorical appearance. The air turned dry and arid, as though a cataclysm was nigh.


    Under the brilliant purple sky, the devil trees burst apart in spectacr explosions.


    As the purple mes burned on and on, the devil trees'' world morphed into purgatory. The devil trees cried out as their bodies turned to ash. The purple mes were manifestations of Sun Mengmeng''s gic energy, and were hundreds of times hotter than ordinary mes.


    As Zhang Lie had said, Sun Mengmeng was a perfect counter to the devil trees. The purple mes spread quickly among their number, and they were all consumed by fire.


    They screeched shrilly but continued to rush at Sun Mengmeng, willing to sacrifice their lives for this one attack.


    "[Baptism of Hellfire: Full Moon]!" Sun Mengmeng whirled her daggers all around her as a ck moon rose into the air. The moon glowed, causing purple me to explode and clearing out a whole patch of devil trees.


    As though they didn''t fear death, more and more devil trees tried to crowd around Sun Mengmeng, as though all of them had simultaneously gone mad.


    Sun Mengmeng cast [ck Sun], forming a cordon of purplish-ck me around her. Next, she activated her most impactful soulshards for battle, transforming from a young woman to a fierce warrior with a chitinous carapace, wreathed in ck me. Her mes were so intense that they were burning even the ground at her feet, causing it to turn red.


    "[Netherworld''s Gaze]!" Hundreds of arrows, like beams of moonlight, shot toward the devil trees. The scorching heat twisted the air and turned the devil trees into nothing more than ash.


    The ck mes from Sun Mengmeng''s technique absorbed the purple mes that continued to burn and spread even further, without any sign of stopping—almost as though they would stop at nothing to burn the whole world down.


    The scene in front of Sun Mengmeng was apocalyptic.


    "I''ll kill any of you that approach," Sun Mengmeng called out, gripping her bow tightly in her hands.


    Upon sensing the remarkable heat and Sun Mengmeng''s insolent threat, even the devil tree king couldn''t stand still any longer. The world tree itself made a move.


    As the king invoked the authority of the realm, a cyclone manifested around the world tree, stirring up fallen leaves and branches and blowing out the ck mes. The world tree''s leaves were no joke—a single leaf had a serrated edge sharp enough to cut steel apart.


    Kings of the realm were at a level at which their bodies had no weaknesses to exploit. The world tree''s leaves were sharp, piercing projectiles in their own right. As the storm raged, a volley of leaves flew toward Sun Mengmeng.


    "[The Nine Moons of the Underworld]!" Nine ming moons appeared in the sky, overshadowing the sun''s radiance and falling from the sky one by one, each a meteor.


    The two attacks nullified each other. One moon blocked the world tree''s leaves and exploded in ck me, followed rapidly by the other moons. ck me crept closer to the world tree, devouring everything in sight.


    The storm that the world tree had summoned spread the fire and spurred it onwards. Quite a few sparksnded atop the world tree''s leaves and began burning it.


    The world tree''s storm was almost more a hindrance than a help. As the surroundings filled up with ck me, the remaining three moons that Sun Mengmeng had summoned fell toward the world tree.


    The world tree waved a branch and caused all three moons to explode, leaving scorch marks on the surface of its bark. The ground trembled and cracked as a thick root emerged from the ground, slicing toward Sun Mengmeng like a sharp sword.


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    As it struck, thunder resounded in the air. The pressure from the strike alone was sufficient to extinguish the mes on the ground.


    "[Baptism of Hellfire: Full Moon]!" Sun Mengmeng whirled her daggers around her as she stomped on the ground.


    The ground exploded. mes burst into the sky. Cracks ofva spread across the ground.


    Wreathed in ck me, Sun Mengmeng took to the air. In her chitinous armor, she looked like a warrior who had just opened the gates to the underworld. ck me surrounded her, scorching hot, making her look like a star that was falling to the ground.


    Her ming arrows struck the world tree''s roots and exploded in mid-air. The explosion was strong enough to crack the roots and branches and send them flying off, leaving green sap that sizzled as itnded on the mes.


    A face appeared in the world tree''s bark as the devil tree king shrieked in agony, its cries causing sound waves to billow around the tree, almost as though a cyclone had been summoned. Since bing a tree, it hadn''t experienced such pain for decades...