And what is the result of such a costly strike?
Everyone in the Blue Sea, in heaven and earth, was closely watching the space ahead.
The attack and kill divine technique fully unleashed by three experts was an terrifying offensive that no king-level being could possibly withstand.
Yet their opponent was emperor-level!
The spirit light instantly vanished, and in the void that had collapsed beyond repair, Gui’s figure again appeared before everyone’s eyes.
Covered in scars, his face slightly pale, with a fist-sized charred blood hole right in the middle of his chest, his aura had quietly diminished somewhat.
"Damn it, can’t we kill him yet!" Sect Master Yang couldn’t help muttering under his breath.
Everyone outside felt a chill in their hearts, yet they understood that emperor-level beings are not that easy to kill.
Ye Xiaose said solemnly, "However, enduring this attack, he has likely suffered considerable consumption."
At the emperor level, the external body is merely a vessel of life; even if hit in critical areas, it won’t die immediately unless the origin is completely depleted.
Simply put, it’s like a "health bar" in a game.
The previous damage to Gui was negligible, probably less than one percent.
But now, although Ling Xiao and the others’ combined strike could not kill Gui, it inflicted some damage.
It’s just that... after exhausting all their efforts, they still couldn’t severely wound him, an outcome obviously unsatisfactory for everyone.
And on Gui’s side, he also seemed quite displeased.
Just watching Gui’s expressionless face, he raised his hand and pressed it against his chest, the green light flowing to erase and repair the numerous wounds, yet a surge of increasingly intense killing intent brewed in his eyes.
"Impressive, impressive..."
Gui clapped his hands, his cold and killing gaze sweeping over everyone.
"I admit, you all indeed possess the slightest possibility to kill me.
Even though this slightest possibility is ’one percent’, or even ’one in a thousand’, ’one in ten thousand’, it nonetheless exists.
However... congratulations, you have succeeded in angering me."
The previous attack may have caused some harm, but not seriously, just some "surface wounds". Yet the combined strike just now truly made Gui "break defences"!
Such wounds, if inflicted dozens of times, could indeed kill Gui!
Gui was not frightened by this, but a group of king-level beings truly acting as if they could slaughter an emperor? This, as a high-ranked life form having just ascended to emperor-level, Gui could not tolerate!
Slaughtering an emperor would be a legendary event in the Great Thousand Universe, sung by everyone.
Yet for the emperor-level beings slaughtered in the story, it would forever be recorded in the universe’s history, circulating across countless worlds as a "pillar of shame"!
Gui was not yet slaughtered and did not believe he would be slaughtered afterward, but the mere possibility of being slaughtered already filled Gui with enormous rage.
These lower lifeforms struggling like trapped beasts wouldn’t really think they could slaughter an emperor, would they?
"As a response, next, I shall completely eliminate that ’possibility’!"
In the words, green light surged from Gui’s eyes, his hands joined as he hailed: "Sky-reaching!"
With Gui’s low roar, the entire Tree Heart City began shaking violently, and even the Secret Realm of Chaotic Star Domain seemed somewhat unstable!
"Hmm? What’s this?!"
"Look below!"
Everyone exclaimed in shock, seeing the ground shattered, countless crystal-clear, glazed-like Divine Tree branches breaking through the earth, their leaves soaring to the sky, root hairs filling the city, indeed forming a colossal Divine Tree!
"It’s the Sky-reaching Divine Tree!" Everyone’s expressions turned grave.
Gui is the essence and intelligence of the Sky-reaching Divine Tree, so for him, it’s like a "companion divine artifact".
Only, the Sky-reaching Divine Tree is used to maintain the stability of the Chaotic Star Domain, especially after Gui ascends to emperor level.
Now Gui has summoned the Sky-reaching Divine Tree without restraint, clearly furious to the extreme, with an overwhelming intent to kill!
For everyone, this is not good news!
Gui walked to the Divine Tree trunk, green light flowing from his palm, probing into the trunk as if grasping something.
The next moment, spirit light flickered on the Divine Tree, trembling once sharply, and as Gui withdrew his hand, a fist-sized, gem-like "Heart of the Divine Tree" appeared in his palm.
Everyone exclaimed, "What’s he doing?!"
In the astonished gazes of the crowd, Gui directly pressed the Heart of the Divine Tree to his chest.
"Buzz!"
The void trembled, dazzling green light erupted like the sun, blinding everyone so they couldn’t see clearly, only vaguely witnessing the Heart of the Divine Tree merging with Gui’s chest, countless Divine Tree powers spreading like green veins throughout his body...
Within a few breaths, the spirit light of the Divine Tree dimmed, and Gui surfaced again before everyone.
His eyes surged with green light, his entire skin lush with verdancy, and at the center of his chest, a heart of divine tree entwined with green threads and flowing divine light.
In an instant, not only did an even more terrifying aura fill the air, but Gui’s original depleted origin also began to recover visibly.
"Oh no!"
The faces of the Blue Sea crowd changed drastically; after all the efforts, they had barely inflicted some damage on Gui, but now that Sky-reaching Divine Tree could replenish his origin?