Chapter 974 - Empowered Remotely
The twelve fiends formed an encirclement around Liu Wuxie without a word.
There was no need for conversation; both parties knew each other's purpose. Any extra word would've only wasted breath.
The twelve fiends swung their weapons together, unleashing a powerful shockwave that wove into laws belonging to the divine race.
To Liu Wuxie's surprise, their divine energy began suppressing his true essence.
"This is interesting," Liu Wuxie muttered. "When I fought the other divinekin, their divine energy was ineffective against my true essence. Could it be that they've found a way?"
All divinekin regarded the ancestral tree as their bane. They had already researched the ancestral tree for hundreds of thousands of years, trying to nullify the suppression.
As the first tree born at the dawn of the universe, its significance needed no explanation; everyone instinctively understood its importance. When the divine race had emerged and discovered the ancestral tree's natural suppression over them, their first instinct was to destroy it.
Eventually, the divine race had birthed an almighty being and forged a godly artifact, spending five thousand years chopping down the ancestral tree. The divine race had preserved the ancestral tree's largest trunk, while countless branches had scattered into the three thousand worlds.
They had relied on that trunk to research the tree's mystery, eventually managing to weaken its suppression over them.
Then again, the effects remained subtle, and Liu Wuxie quickly stabilized his true essence, perhaps because the twelve fiends were too weak to do anything to his true essence.
Even so, Liu Wuxie felt immense pressure facing the twelve fiends. He had just made his breakthrough and needed a battle to consolidate his cultivation. As for the intruders, they couldn't even pose a challenge, and he didn't even have to raise a finger to kill them.