Nie Tian’s face split into a brutal smile.

As powerful as Grand Monarch Blood Axe was, fear and astonishment appeared on his face as he lost his demonic tool and had his body penetrated by the seventy-two tree branches.

“Grow.” As Nie Tian spoke with an icy expression, wisps of wood power flew out of him into the tree branches.

After the wisps of refined wood power fused into the tree branches, countless mysterious patterns were activated and manifested on their surface.

The seemingly common tree branches instantly started growing at an alarming rate, as if they had received the Tree of Life’s blessing.

They became as solid and sharp as steel thorns. Even Grand Monarch Blood Axe’s tough body couldn’t stop them from growing deeper and deeper into him.

POOH!

Grand Monarch Blood Axe looked down, and discovered that the madly growing tree branches had pierced through his chest and into his internal organs and bones. He was bleeding incessantly.

Furthermore, he sensed a strange aura that only Floragrim...