After eating a leaf, many white insects crawled along the branches to other leaves and quickly dispersed.
Seeing these insects, Yang Tian suddenly understood the Talisman Lord's plan.
If Yang Tian had killed all these insects for the purple crystals, the black tree wouldn't have been destroyed.
Yang Tian didn't stop the white insects from eating the black leaves. Soon, another leaf was bitten open.
The space of this leaf also contained a space that imprisoned some cultivators. Once the space of the leaf was broken, hundreds of cultivators gained freedom and flew out.
It was unknown what happened in the space of the leaf, but the moment these cultivators came out, they began to kill each other. In the blink of an eye, dozens of people were killed or injured.
Yang Tian didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but soon, someone came to find him.
The range of the hundreds of cultivators became wider and wider. One of them was sent flying by a punch from another. When he stopped, he looked up and saw Yang Tian. He opened his mouth and roared, charging at Yang Tian and Huie Miaomiao.
This was an illusion realm cultivator. His eyes were blood red as if he had gone crazy.
Yang Tian didn't move. The Little Blue Dragon jumped up from his shoulder and opened its mouth, spewing golden dragon flames at the charging person.
The dragon flames wrapped around this person and burned him into black powder in the blink of an eye.
What happened next shocked Yang Tian. After this person died, a light blue energy with life aura rushed out of the golden dragon flames and flew towards the black tree, entering the trunk.
The Little Blue Dragon was already stronger than cultivators of the same realm. Moreover, it was one realm higher. Killing this person was too easy.
This was clearly a strand of consciousness left behind after a cultivator died. It was the so-called soul.
This was the first time Yang Tian saw a 'soul'.
Because it was close, this person's soul could be seen by Yang Tian. Then, the souls of those who died before must have been absorbed by the black tree.
Suddenly, Yang Tian thought of a possibility and could not help but be shocked.
This black tree seemed to need to absorb people's souls. These hundreds of cultivators had blood red eyes and crazy expressions. Clearly, they were confused by the space of the black tree's leaves.
The black tree, or rather, the Talisman Lord's goal was to make them kill each other …
Another leaf was bitten by the white insects and hundreds of cultivators appeared. The situation was the same as before. Yang Tian hurriedly pulled Huie Miaomiao back.
At this time, he didn't want to fight with these people. He didn't want to become the Talisman Lord's accomplice.
After moving some distance away from the giant black tree, the black tree became smaller and they could now see its full appearance.
This space was truly wondrous, Yang Tian only felt that he had retreated a few hundred meters, but it felt as though he had traversed several dozen kilometers.
There were simply too many leaves on the giant black tree. Almost every leaf had its own unique space.
Every time the white bug bit through a black leaf, a group of cultivators would rush out, as well as a large number of … mutated beasts!
Be it cultivators or mutated beasts, they were all crazy. Once they appeared, they started killing each other.
Yang Tian focused his eyes and saw that the mutated beasts' souls would also fly out and enter the black tree.
During this process, Yang Tian realized that the stronger the cultivator or mutated beast, the more blue and powerful the soul energy that flew out after death.
"Those people, they seem to be from the three temples!"
Huie Miaomiao pointed at them and said in surprise when another black leaf broke open and a group of people rushed out.
The black-robed disciples of the Everlasting Temple, the blue-robed disciples of the Cosmic Temple, and the white-robed disciples of the Sky Domain Temple. There were close to a thousand people in total. Even the sects were killing each other.
Ever since he came underground, Yang Tian had not gone out. However, he could guess that something must have happened on the surface that attracted a large number of cultivators here.
"Let's go!"
Seeing that more and more people and mutated beasts came out, Yang Tian pulled Huie Miaomiao and quickly retreated.
Yang Tian could only hide in this situation. If he went forward, he would be in trouble if he was entangled by those cultivators and mutated beasts who had lost their minds.
After moving further away, the black tree became smaller in Yang Tian's eyes.
Looking at the black tree with their current vision, it was like looking at a potted plant.
The cultivators and mutated beasts that came out of the black leaves were moving points.
This vision made Yang Tian feel like he was in control.
But Yang Tian knew that it was just an illusion.
To test it, Yang Tian gathered a stream of mind energy and rushed toward the black tree.
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The mental energy naturally contained a hint of Yang Tian's conception.
Sure enough, as he expected, the seemingly small tree grew at an extremely fast speed when his mental energy moved forward. The space around it also spread infinitely. Yang Tian felt like his body was shrinking at an extremely fast speed.
When Yang Tian's mental energy was within a certain range from the black tree, the wisp of consciousness attached to the mental energy was attracted by a powerful attraction force from the black tree, and it rushed toward the tree uncontrollably.
Normally, one's consciousness must be carried by energy to leave one's body.
For example, Yang Tian would use his mental energy to carry a wisp of consciousness whenever he wanted to inspect an item.
Without his mental energy, he could not have released his consciousness, or it would have dispersed as soon as it left his body.
In this environment, after the wisp of consciousness left the mental energy, it did not disperse. Instead, it was extremely condensed.
Yang Tian originally wanted to cut off the connection with the wisp of consciousness, but he did not do so out of curiosity.
He really wanted to know what would happen after his consciousness entered the giant black tree.
Curiosity killed the cat, and of course, it could also kill people. Following that, Yang Tian almost fell for it.
When the wisp of consciousness was about to approach the trunk of the black tree, a powerful attraction force suddenly added to Yang Tian's body, trying to pull his consciousness out of his body.
Yang Tian's brain rumbled. The energy in his body boiled, and the Origin Realm in his body began to shake.
Yang Tian could not help but be shocked. He quickly cut off the connection with the wisp of consciousness.
Fortunately, Yang Tian did it in time. As soon as he cut off the connection with the wisp of consciousness, the powerful attraction force of the black tree disappeared.
"Phew ~"
Yang Tian was terrified and could not help but let out a long breath.
At this moment, his face was pale, and his body, which had not sweated for a long time, was covered in sweat.
"What's wrong?"
Huie Miaomiao asked with concern when she saw Yang Tian's strange behavior.
Yang Tian smiled bitterly. "I was almost done for just now …"