Chapter 969

Star System 13157

Liang Long faced the overwhelming energy and simply waved his hand, tearing through it.

"I thought you were strong, but it turns out you are just empty."

Liang Long said, although it was only one round, he already knew what level his opponent was at-just recently becoming immortal, having swallowed at most a dozen or twenty dao auras.

Liang Long was much stronger; he had gathered nearly four hundred dao auras from several battles, and during those fights, he secretly collected many more dao auras.

"Can you escape?"

Seeing he was no match, the man immediately vanished. Liang Long waved his hand, and two unmanned ships launched from the Space Mother Ship, flying over the planet and beginning to drop bombs, specifically chosen incendiary bombs.

"Boom, boom…"

Bombs weighing five tons fell in dozens, exploding high in the planet’s sky. Fireballs appeared, and the treetops in the sky began to burn, but after a short while, the flames went out, and the burned parts quickly sprouted new branches.

"One tree fills an entire planet; that’s quite impressive."

Liang Long sighed; he didn’t understand what was happening on this planet. One tree had taken over the whole place, but this tree was quite powerful.

Ordinary weapons were no longer useful against it, so Liang Long quickly focused his main power on this Soul Fragment and stepped into the planet.

As soon as he entered the atmosphere, the tree demon immediately counterattacked. Countless vines appeared and lashed out at Liang Long. Unmoved, Liang Long shattered any vines that got within ten meters of him, turning them into dust.

Liang Long fell into the treetops like a crusher, and the branches and leaves around him were instantly smashed. The area of destruction quickly grew, expanding from ten meters to a thousand.

The broken treetops seemed to have opened a hole in the planet, through which sunlight poured down to the ground. Liang Long saw many buildings, already abandoned.

"Another destroyed civilization."

Liang Long sighed; those buildings were typical man-made structures, with a primitive style, suggesting that human civilization was not very strong.

The tree demon’s counterattack was still ongoing, more and more branches appeared, and they grew stronger. At the same time, colorful mist started to spread, clearly deadly poison.

However, Liang Long also knew that the colorful poison was not the strongest; the most powerful was the silent, colorless one. Just outside, the tree demon tried to ambush him, but there was no air in space, so the tree demon had to act, which gave him away.

Ten huge swords formed behind Liang Long, slicing through the branches, and he even split open the treetop. Liang Long originally wanted to find the trunk, but he realized he could not find it because the entire planet’s treetop was supported by countless giant trunks, making it impossible to tell which one was the main trunk.

The flying swords that Liang Long summoned began to reap along the treetop, the tree demon’s many tricks were useless against him; it was a direct display of strength.

However, the tree demon had a recovery ability just as overpowered as before; no matter how much was cut down, it quickly healed.

"Let me show you the power of technology!"

Liang Long chuckled softly; the Space Mother Ship was ready, and another unmanned spacecraft flew in.

Then dozens of bombs fell down; these were not incendiary bombs but chemical bombs. One of them was a bomb a hundred times stronger than traditional orange agents. It exploded midair, and the liquid fell onto the treetop, sizzling and corroding countless leaves, leaving it looking very ugly and blemished.

The tree demon began to scream; the power of these chemical bombs was very strong, and the tree demon’s recovery could not keep up.

"Drop a little more to damage the planet’s ozone layer, and let the sunlight come in stronger."

Liang Long gave the order, and soon the robots in the Space Mother Ship began preparing the ammunition. Two hours later, new chemical bombs appeared.

"Taoist friend, spare my life."

"Taoist friend, please spare my life, considering my difficult journey in cultivation."

The tree demon pleaded for mercy, and Liang Long ordered the attack to stop.

"Show yourself."

Liang Long said, and the tree demon quickly gathered its form and appeared again.

"Tell me, what happened, from the beginning to the end."

"Yes, Taoist friend…"

The tree demon told the story that this planet did not originally belong to the Demon Domain, but was a life planet without a master.

After the Demon Domain discovered this planet, they sent the demon race to take it over. Unexpectedly, the first wave of the demon race failed. Soon after the tree demon arrived in the Demon Domain, he spent a lot of money to bribe a powerful Demon Immortal, and then was approved to come here to claim it.

The tree demon was also a Demon Immortal, much stronger than the initial demon race, so he succeeded. He wiped out all the beings on the planet and filled his body completely with it.

This behavior was originally not allowed by the Demon Domain, because the Demon Domain was searching for life planets to provide homes for the demon race and allow more demon race to be born. However, the tree demon still acted out of greed.

He discovered that by rooting himself in the planet and relying on the earth and sky for nourishment, he could still grow stronger, so he continued his actions.

"Aren’t you afraid the Demon Domain will cause you trouble?"

Liang Long was also stunned. He knew the demon race was unruly, but was a tree demon also this bold?

"Not afraid, I have a strong backing."

The tree demon directly said that he had a strong backing. His tree demon clan didn’t have any powerful Demon Immortals, but the tree demon had strong connections with some mighty races.

Here, trees can produce some fruits after a while. These fruits are not useful to the Demon Immortals, but they are treasures for ordinary demon race. Many races need these kinds of treasures, so he can keep bribing those powerful Demon Immortals.

"Tsk tsk…"

Liang Long didn’t know what to say anymore; the demon race was so corrupt too, which he did not expect.

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Liang Long did not destroy the tree demon; if he killed it, he would attract the attention of the demon race. He never thought about being chased by the demon race across the universe.

Liang Long had just arrived on the ground of Tree Star. He wanted to see what the destroyed civilization was like. The tree demon helped him; it only wanted to send away this great being and dared not think of anything else.

However, after examining those ruins, Liang Long quickly changed his mind about thinking this planet’s civilization was weak, because he found out that this planet actually had developed technology, and its industrial level was between 30 and 40.

A civilization at this level had already begun to explore space and had the ability to explore the universe, but against the powerful tree demon, they still lost, and all life on the planet was ended. Even those cities that represented industrial civilization had mostly disappeared.

"This civilization is very interesting."

The more Liang Long discovered the ruins, the more he found this civilization interesting.

By deciphering those ruins, he learned much information; this planet has its own evolutionary history, and life has existed for billions of years, but it was all very primitive.

Until about a million years ago, humans appeared on this planet. No one knows how they came, only that humans became the rulers of this planet.

Then, for hundreds of thousands of years, they developed further, creating more prosperous civilizations, such as rules and regulations, the creation of written language, as well as martial arts and dynasties.

The dynasty evolved for many years, and martial arts advanced a lot, slowly moving towards the cultivation of immortality because martial arts continued to break limits, and the next step was the cultivation of immortality.

However, unexpectedly, thousands of years ago, technological civilization suddenly emerged, and its development speed surpassed that of martial arts civilization, leading to the decline of martial arts civilization; it declined, not disappeared, becoming exclusive to the upper class, while technology became the mainstream.

If there hadn’t been outside forces, their technological level could continue to improve, reaching something similar to Blue Star, but over a hundred years ago, extraterrestrial life arrived.

The first group to come was the ordinary demon race, and they fought fiercely against the civilization of this planet. They won, but the demon race was eliminated, paying a great price themselves.

However, this also brought the cultivation of immortality to them; the demon race was part of the cultivation of immortality, and many planets’ cultivation methods initially came from imitating the demon race.

But reality did not give them a chance to grow, because the tree demon came. The tree roots dug deep into the planet’s core, and countless branches grew into tall trees overnight. Many living beings were pulled underground by the roots and became food for the tree demon. The beings of this planet called this the end of the world.

The last living being was destroyed a hundred years ago, and then the tree demon took over the entire planet, ending a civilization that had lasted for who knows how many years.

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