The giant peach tree was nearly a hundred meters tall. Its lush, leafy branches were filled with a rich, intoxicating scent of Taohuang.
However, the peaches hanging from its branches were long-rotten and infested with maggots. A single glance was enough to make one’s stomach churn.
It stood silently outside Cangxuan City. Several python-thick roots quickly spread out, slithering like snakes toward the people inside the city and the walls themselves.
If the peach tree broke through the city’s defenses, Cangxuan City would be completely finished. All the effort and ambition Li Chang’an had invested here would be destroyed in an instant.
This was clearly an outcome Li Chang’an could not accept.
Therefore, the moment the peach tree lunged its dense, snake-like roots toward Cangxuan City, Li Chang’an shot from the top of the city wall like a cannonball.
The Nine Heavens Chaos Technique activated.
In an instant, he seemed to transform into a sun.
"Break!"
Li Chang’an roared. His body swelled in size, and wisps of flame erupted from his fist as he threw a mid-air punch at the curtain of descending roots.
Flames surged.
Energy poured madly from Li Chang’an’s body.
Sensing the threat, a considerable number of the peach tree’s roots recoiled.
However, there were simply too many roots descending from the tree. Li Chang’an blocked a portion of the dense mass, but some still landed on the canopy above the city wall.
Cangxuan City had an Energy Protection Shield above it, which had been activated earlier to filter out the rotten stench of the Dark Walkers.
Now, upon sensing the roots falling from the sky, the Energy Protection Shield automatically materialized, attempting to block their assault.
However, against a peach tree whose Evolution Level likely surpassed Tier Five, this Energy Shield was like an eggshell. It couldn’t even hold for a single second.
"CRACK... CRACK..."
The Energy Shield shattered inch by inch, and the roots descended.
Some of the roots pierced the heads of the city guards. As if sucking out juice, the guards caught by the roots only had time to let out a bloodcurdling scream before being drained into withered husks.
More roots burrowed into the city walls, which soon cracked and began to visibly erode and crumble.
A few more peaches appeared on the tree, and the scent of Taohuang grew richer. The shriveled human faces on its branches were also nourished, instantly seeming to come alive as they silently sneered at the still-fighting Li Chang’an.
"BZZZZZZZZZZ..."
"WHOOSH! WHOOSH!"
Below, the engineers in the barbican had come to their senses. All ten Energy Particle Beam Cannons fired, spewing intense white light.
This time, the Particle Beam Cannons charged much faster than before, because the engineers had switched their mode to Penetrating Shells.
The peach tree’s body was simply too massive.
This meant it couldn’t dodge and weave like other Exotic Beasts.
Thus, brilliant beams of white light, sharp as scalpels, precisely struck the peach tree’s trunk.
"PFFT... TCHHHH!"
The penetrating beams severed many roots in their path.
The peach tree cried out in pain. Its branches shook wildly, and peaches fell from them, splattering on the ground.
The juice was black, and maggots flew everywhere.
The surrounding scent of Taohuang grew even richer.
These broken peaches seemed to hold an unparalleled attraction for other ordinary Exotic Beasts, and more and more of them began appearing around Cangxuan City.
The shells burned through countless flailing roots, shooting toward the peach tree’s trunk at a speed difficult to see with the naked eye.
However, just as the shells were about to hit the peach tree’s trunk, it seemed to teleport, suddenly reappearing ten meters away.
The penetrating beam shells had no explosive effect.
Therefore, once the tree moved ten meters, the shells missed, having no effect at all.
Seeing this, the engineers in charge of firing felt their scalps tingle with dread.
They froze on the spot, unsure whether they should continue attacking.
[Heaven-defying Comprehension: You have witnessed the power of chaotic laws on the peach tree and gained new insights into the rules of the Main World...]
[Heaven-defying Comprehension: You have witnessed the power of chaotic laws on the peach tree and gained new insights into the rules of the Main World...]
[Heaven-defying Comprehension: You have witnessed the power of chaotic laws on the peach tree and comprehended the Chaos Realm, which can also disrupt space-time!]
Li Chang’an had witnessed the peach tree’s teleportation firsthand.
His Heaven-defying Comprehension activated, and drops of inspiration flowed into his mind.
’The Chaos Realm... which can disrupt space-time...’
’Is this the Extraordinary Realm that one can touch upon at Tier Five and above?’
Li Chang’an finally understood why this peach tree could suddenly appear and disappear, as if it weren’t bound by any rules.
It wasn’t that the peach tree was truly unbound by rules.
It was because the tree’s own time and space were in a state of chaos!
He tore away a few roots that were trying to entangle him.
Li Chang’an turned to the engineers and shouted, "Don’t attack the trunk! Hit the branches or the roots directly! If that doesn’t work, aim for the peaches!"
’The tree’s own time and space are in chaos, but its branches and roots are clearly still bound by time and space.’
Hearing Li Chang’an’s command, the dumbfounded engineers quickly snapped out of it and hurriedly recalibrated the firing trajectory of the Energy Particle Cannons.
They currently only had the authority to operate ten Energy Particle Beam Cannons; the remaining ten Super Electromagnetic Cannons were Li Chang’an’s trump card.