Astride the head of the Cannon Fodder Crocodile, Yu Xian lightly hooked his finger.
A miniature dragon formed of lightning flew out of the explosion, landing right on his finger and coiling gently around it, the electric glow having no effect on him whatsoever.
Gazing at the little lightning dragon, he gained a new insight in that moment.
With the Power of Change, the easiest aspect to comprehend was motion, yet the reverse side of motion was actually stillness.
Only with both stillness and motion could there be change. Stillness without motion was constant stasis, while motion without stillness was constant movement. If the two lost their contrast, it would no longer be the Power of Change.
With this realization, Yu Xian had a single thought, and the lightning dragon coiled around his index finger instantly froze in place, looking just like a luminous ornament.
"Chaos, change... what lies beyond that?"
Yu Xian smiled faintly. Just as he turned to return to the pavilion, he suddenly sensed something.
He immediately jerked his head toward the sky. A drop of sweat rapidly seeped from his forehead and ran down his cheek. In that instant, he was struck by an instinct that there was nowhere to run, nowhere to hide—certain death awaited him.
At the same time, the Death Emperor sensed something as well, slowly turning its head toward the distance to its left.
"No, there's still a way!"
A sudden thought struck Yu Xian, and he immediately looked toward Little Nora in the pavilion.
"Don't resist!" meeting Little Nora's gaze, Yu Xian shouted.
The next second, before Little Nora and Fang Qinghao could react, a book suddenly materialized in Yu Xian's hands.
Yu Xian hurled the book forward. It flipped open rapidly midair, shooting out countless chains. Before Little Nora could even ask, chains bound her securely in the next moment and dragged her into the book.
Next was Fang Qinghao, followed by the Dimwitted Puppy, Mengmeng Fortune Cat, Xielina, and the Chaos Evil Beast.
Finally, Yu Xian shot the Death Emperor a look before sealing himself into the book as well. The entire book snapped shut and landed in the Death Emperor's hand.
Gripping the Book of Sealing with its right hand, the Death Emperor looked up and muttered inward, *Here it comes!*
BOOM!
The sky ruptured.
Dense clusters of green seeds rained down like a torrential downpour.
The Death Emperor leaped off the Cannon Fodder Crocodile, sprinting at full speed toward Jiangli City. The next second, emerald light crashed into the ground, shaking the earth. Though the seeds were merely the size of rugby balls, each blasted a crater over a hundred meters in diameter directly into the terrain.
Before the Cannon Fodder Crocodile left behind could flee, a seed struck beside it. The terrifying shockwave instantly pulverized its body, reducing the pavilion on its back to fine dust in an instant.
Rumble...
Rumble, rumble, rumble...
The Death Emperor ran at maximum speed, yet more and more craters appeared all around it. Finally, as it passed one crater, it was forced to leap into the air. Then it felt something and slowly looked up.
A seed was spinning downward. With nowhere to dodge midair, it had no choice but to activate a skill.
Death Qi Leak!
The bandages across its body tore open, and black qi coalesced into a colossal hand pressing upward toward the sky.
However, the surface of the seed also bore a layer of green radiance. The moment the Death Emperor's death qi contacted this green light, it melted away like snow.
*What?!*
The Death Emperor watched in shock as its giant hand of death qi was instantly neutralized, and then the seed crashed directly onto it, slamming its body into the earth.
Immediately, the seed sprouted and took root at astonishing speed, trapping the Death Emperor in place.
Avici Hell!
The Death Emperor naturally had no intention of staying trapped docilely—especially in a situation where it could neither live nor die, how was this any different from returning to Avici Hell?
Thus, it decisively unleashed its ultimate technique.
Pressing its palms against the ground, an immense surge of black qi poured forth. The entire ground instantly blackened, looking as though it had turned into the maw of some terrifying behemoth ready to swallow everything whole.
Yet before the entrance to Avici Hell could fully open, more seeds continued to fall.
Carrying green light, these seeds slammed into the black qi forming the entrance, melting it away on impact. At the same time, tree after tree grew at incredible speed, erupting with blinding green luminescence and shrinking the influence of Avici Hell even further.
In the span of a mere half-second, the Death Emperor's ultimate technique had been broken.
It was not that the Death Emperor's ultimate skill was weak; rather, these seeds and trees were even stronger, and their vibrant vitality happened to be the perfect counter to the Death Emperor's attributes.
Had the Death Emperor been able to drag them into Avici Hell, they certainly would not have outlasted it. But before they were pulled in, the Death Emperor was clearly no match for them.
Seeing its ultimate skill broken, the Death Emperor immediately tore off one of the Talismans of Death affixed to its body and directed it to blast the tree trapping it.
On the trunk of this tree, however, a stern face slowly emerged. With a light flick of a branch, a cascade of leaves flew downward, shredding the Death Emperor's Talisman of Death before it could even touch the trunk.
*Hmph!*
With a cold snort, the Death Emperor tore off another talisman. This time it did not fling it away, but gripped it and pressed it directly toward the roots binding it.
As long as the Talisman of Death touched the roots, this tree would undoubtedly perish.
The tree clearly sensed the danger as well, and its roots were immediately shrouded in green light. The Talisman of Death was fatal upon contact, but as long as it never made contact, that was enough.
The Death Emperor pressed the talisman against the roots, but with the barrier of green light in the way, the talisman could not touch the tree's actual body at all.
Only at this moment did it realize it was completely powerless against a single seed. If a treant formed from just one seed was already this formidable, what about the main body that had launched them?
All around, more and more seeds took root and sprouted, transforming into massive treants.
Just then, the Book of Sealing flew open, and Yu Xian leaped out. The moment he emerged, he beckoned with his hand, and the Book of Sealing flew into his grip. He turned his gaze toward the Death Emperor, stepping backward as a chain shot out to wrap around the Death Emperor, instantly transforming it into black qi and pulling it into the Book of Sealing.
As the master of the Book of Sealing, he naturally possessed absolute control over it.
After advancing to King of Chaos, he had already tested sealing himself inside the book, and he had even brainstormed a whole slew of trick plays back then.
"Execute without mercy!" upon seeing Yu Xian, the treant immediately rasped in a gruff, heavy voice.
The surrounding treants all turned their gaze upon him. In the next second, however, Yu Xian sealed himself back into the book. Right at that moment, a branch lashed out, striking the Book of Sealing and sending it hurtling through the air.
"Thanks!"
"That's my escape route!"
Midair, the Book of Sealing snapped open again. Yu Xian emerged in an instant, still gripping a chain in his hand.
Towed forward by the book in this manner, he looked down at the countless treants below and laughed aloud.
Yet in the next second, the smile vanished from his face.
Looking ahead, as far as the eye could see, the earth was riddled with craters from the falling seeds, and inside every single crater stood a treant.
There was no end in sight, nor were there any survivors to be found.
Evidently, the moment the seeds fell, every living creature outside the cities had suffered a catastrophic blow.
"What's going on?"
"Could this be some new event from a version update?"
Staring at the treants on the ground, Yu Xian thought in sheer shock.
Chapter 499