Chapter 2061 - 2060: The Person Growing from the Tree, the Divine Emperor Turned to Stone

The Time-Space Ancient Clock doesn't get tangled with everyone.

This also resulted in when Xu Zimei and a few Three Corpses Strong Ones passed through, the Time-Space Ancient Clock could no longer hold them back.

But what about the people behind them?

There are many Great Emperors or Great Saints, they simply can't get through here.

Because the Time-Space Ancient Clock doesn't need to exert full power, just hiding its power is enough to suppress others.

"This is troublesome," said the Mountain-Controlling River Emperor.

"It seems the person behind the scenes has decided to play a travelogue mode with us."

"We can't continue wasting time here. Since they can't tread the void, let's climb the mountain," the Human Emperor said directly.

"And the main force against the Old Tree is us.

By then, they only need to guard the surroundings, preventing other factors from disturbing us during the battle."

Xu Zimei nodded.

He extended his divine sense; usually, it could stretch across tens of thousands of miles, not to mention a single mountain.

Even if it were ten, or even a hundred mountains, they could investigate them all in an instant.

But before this dead mountain, Xu Zimei felt as though his divine sense had fallen into a quagmire.

As soon as it touched the dead mountain, it couldn't be withdrawn.

"This Old Tree is indeed formidable," Xu Zimei thought to himself.

You should know that the Old Tree once rampaged across the Nine Domains. While it reached an invincible level, it could still hold its own against the Holy Court.

Leaving the Holy Court unable to do anything against it.

In the end, it was Heaven's divine punishment that ultimately killed the Old Tree.

This demonstrates the Old Tree's formidable nature.

Though it couldn't match Heaven Challengers of past, it was only a step away.

As a Heaven Challenger, one should not only hold their own against the Holy Court but crush it entirely instead.

...…

Xu Zimei and the other two opened the way at the front.

In fact, they weren't acting as nannies, just trying to avoid casualties.

The real battle with the Old Tree has yet to commence, and they didn't want to incur too many losses.

However, this dead mountain is quite peculiar.

Its entire surface is a marsh; when people step on it, they immediately sink in.

The more you struggle, the deeper you're pulled into the marsh.

Within the marsh, there were also evolved Man-Eating Flowers.

Anyone caught in it would become food for these flowers.

Everyone wrapped their legs with power.

Regardless of rules, principles, or profound meanings, the strong have their rules, and the weak have their profound meanings.

All to avoid sinking into the marsh.

They walked a long distance, and initially, nothing unexpected happened.

It was generally safe.

Though dangerous, as long as it didn't actively attack people, it was not to be feared.

But when they reached halfway up the mountain, crises within the marsh began to emerge.

The marsh's surface began to boil.

"Glug glug" went the bubbles.

Like boiling water.

A flock of vultures flew out from the marsh.

These vultures feared no humans, flying directly towards them, intending to feast on living people.

The vultures were powerful attackers, and even a slight mistake could have a neck pierced through.

After Xu Zimei decapitated a vulture with one strike, he discovered that these vultures were illusions created by the marsh's law.

There's no point in killing them, as they're endless.

The marsh is infinite and can transform into countless forms at any time.

The Human Emperor realized this too and quickly shouted, "Don't get tangled up here, wasting time. Everyone, hurry to the mountain's top."

The Human Emperor's expression was solemn, and the Power of Faith erupted from him, with the Wheel of Faith and the True Body of Faith manifesting behind him once again.

The True Body of Faith raged.

With each punch and palm, a significant number of vultures were destroyed.

The Human Emperor essentially escorted everyone up the mountain.

Along the way, besides the illusory vultures, there were countless other monster beasts, making the dead mountain not seem dead at all.

Instead, it resounded with shouts, and the killing aura shot through the clouds.

Every step was taken over countless corpses.

When nearing the peak, Xu Zimei looked down and saw it filled with bodies clustered around midway.

Initially, there were about twenty thousand people.

Now, only a little over ten thousand remained.

Even this number was considered good. If it hadn't been for Xu Zimei and a few others leading the way, it'd be a surprise to maintain even ten thousand.

Upon nearing the peak, the marsh's assault stopped, and it no longer approached here.

Almost as if the marsh knew they couldn't offend the mountain's summit.

Like an absolute monarch.

"I sense quite a few strong power fluctuations," the Human Emperor looked towards the peak, frowning.

"Quite a few, not just one."

Xu Zimei, with slightly stronger senses than them, said, "Besides a few formidable presences, there are many weak ones mixed in."

Keep in mind that "weak" to Xu Zimei may not truly be weak to others.

Perhaps they are Great Emperors or even Great Saints.

The summit is not ordinary!

Everyone prepared for a tough battle ahead.

And continued towards the summit.

The dead mountain may not seem towering, but the summit spans vastly.

Even accommodating tens of thousands wouldn't be an issue.

When reaching the edge of the summit, Xu Zimei saw countless withered branches all around.

These branches stretched endlessly, as if coiled around the summit several times.

The branches were thick and hard, and when Xu Zimei squeezed one, it shattered instantly.

The branches spiral like old dragons, much like the Cang Dragon in flight.

Upon reaching the summit, everyone was completely astonished by the scene before them.

It was reminiscent of the Terracotta Warriors.

Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of stone statues stood upon the summit.

These statues appeared lifelike, as if they were real people, astonishingly realistic.

Or perhaps it's more apt to say they were living people turned to stone.

Among the infinite statues, some were awe-inspiring, majestic, and some in heroic postures, proficient in horseback archery, or wielding swords pointed at the sky.

Amidst the countless statues, a few made people gasp in shock.

"Is that... the Divine Emperor?"

Someone, trembling, nearly unable to believe it, pointed at one statue.

"Is that the Wrathful Heaven Ming King?"

"One of the four protectors of the Divine Emperor back then."

"Around there is the Seven Swords Ming King, the Three Lives Ming King, including the Frost Ming King, they are all there."

"All dead, all dead, no wonder there's been no news. They've all turned into stone statues."

The scene before them was truly shocking, or rather terrifying.

"Look at the back," someone pointed behind the statues, shouting.

Everyone looked and saw a tree growing behind the statues.

The tree's shape wasn't peculiar, from a distance, just like an ordinary tree.

But at the root, a person was growing.

That's right, growing, not embedded.

Or rather, this person was the root of the tree.

This person had disheveled hair, half-kneeling on the ground, their hair covering everything.