Chapter 850: Lin Moyu Joins The Battle
The trees throughout the forest lashed out with their branches, relentlessly striking the undead army.
It was futile.
Their levels ranged from level 97 to Transcendent God-level, but attacks of that caliber posed no threat to Lin Moyu's undead forces.
He continued advancing without pause, his army swelling with every step.
Then he noticed something.
The number of resurrected had reached the limit.
Each time a new one was created, an older one disappeared.
“Five hundred thousand…”
Lin Moyu silently calculated the maximum number of resurrected he could currently maintain.
After a full day of marching, he had already pushed three hundred kilometers into the forest.
Only two hundred kilometers remained.
At last, both Lin Moyu and Emperor Di caught sight of the forest's deepest region.
A spatial barrier.
Beyond it shimmered the boundless starlight of the greater world.
After a quick calculation, Emperor Di reached a conclusion.
"The Dragon Bead is right at the edge of the spatial barrier."
The edge?
Lin Moyu frowned. Something was off.
The deep layer was unimaginably vast. How could the Dragon Bead just happen to be located precisely at the edge?
Was it really a coincidence?
Doubt stirred in his mind.
The odds were too low. Whenever something seemed abnormal, there was usually a hidden reason behind it.
Combined with the lesson of the Swamp Lizard and the failure of Detection, Lin Moyu became even more convinced that something was wrong.
Meanwhile, the undead army continued its advance.
The deeper they went, the stronger the trees became. Their combat power had already surpassed that of the undead.
Although they still couldn't inflict real damage, they were beginning to slow the undead army's progress.
Lin Moyu immediately cast new law arts.
Fused law art: Death Dragon Knight.
Fused law art: Skeletal Divine General.
Death Knights merged with Bone Dragons, creating Death Dragon Knights.
The three skeleton types fused into Skeletal Divine Generals.
An army that had once numbered more than a million condensed into more than 300,000 Skeletal Divine Generals and 50,000 Death Dragon Knights.
Both possessed Transcendent God realm combat power.
They were Lin Moyu's strongest undead.
Trading quantity for quality was well worth it.
The battlefield shifted once more.
The trees that had barely managed to hold the undead army at bay were pushed back into a disadvantage.
Emperor Di stared in disbelief.
"How many trump cards does this kid have?"
"Why is he so powerful? The realm I've spent my life pursuing is nothing more than one of his summons.”
"And he commands over 400,000 of them."
Once again, Emperor Di felt as though he were witnessing a legend come to life.
Deep within the forest stood colossal trees over a thousand meters tall.
Sensing danger at last, they began to awaken.
Lin Moyu felt powerful consciousnesses stirring one after another.
Any monster that reached a certain level of power eventually developed self-awareness.
Even if that self-awareness was weak and its intelligence limited, instinct would remain.
And the strongest instinct was survival.
Faced with an existential threat, the forest's most formidable beings finally rose.
The thousand-meter giants shook as enormous branches surged skyward before crashing down.
The descending canopy blotted out the sky.
Like gigantic hands, they slammed numerous Death Dragon Knights into the ground.
The force behind the attacks had reached the limit of the Transcendent God realm
The Death Dragon Knights shattered and burst under the impact.
Yet a moment later, they revived.
Lin Moyu narrowed his eyes.
He sensed what was happening.
The colossal trees deep within the forest were linking the power of every tree together.
As plant-type bosses of the same species, their energies were naturally compatible.
Beneath the ground, countless root systems interconnected into a single vast network.
The wood element spread through the forest.
Every wounded tree began healing at an astonishing rate.
Even those Lin Moyu had already destroyed dissolved into the law of wood.
Boundless vitality gathered and condensed.
In places where nothing had stood moments earlier, towering hundred-meter trees erupted from the earth.
At the same time, all the tree resurrected froze.
Then they exploded.
Their bodies crumbled into ash, leaving behind only the purest wood element.
The thousand-meter giants were responsible for it all.
The entire forest was regenerating—awakening.
Massive branches transformed into vines saturated with wood element. Wherever those vines spread, new trees sprang into existence.
In mere seconds, the restored forest closed in from all directions, completely encircling the undead army.
"How is this possible?"
Emperor Di hadn't expected the situation to change so drastically. Everything had happened far too quickly.
Lin Moyu fixed his gaze on the deepest reaches of the forest, more than a hundred kilometers away.
There, over a hundred trees towered into the sky, each exceeding a thousand meters in height.
Everything had begun the moment they awakened.
"Those giant trees are the true core of the forest. The countless trees around us are merely their descendants—or more accurately, extensions of their bodies."
"As long as they're alive, this forest can never truly be destroyed.”
"That's why Detection returned nothing."
"And what I did earlier only damaged the surface. It never touched the real foundation."
Lin Moyu muttered to himself, yet every word cut straight to the heart of the matter.
His conclusion wasn't based solely on what he saw before him. There was another crucial clue.
Today alone, he had destroyed nearly a million trees.
Yet he hadn't gained a single point of EXP.
No EXP meant no soul force.
But if he had truly killed them, why had he received no soul force?
The answer had puzzled him until the thousand-meter-tall giants awakened and the battle took a sudden turn.
Then he understood.
The trees and monsters he had destroyed were never independent beings.
They were merely manifestations of the thousand-meter giants hidden in the depths of the forest.
What he had been destroying were little more than extensions of their bodies.
How could that possibly grant EXP?
Realization dawned on Emperor Di, "Then how do we deal with them?"
Lin Moyu smiled faintly, "Simple.”
He locked onto a Transcendent God 1st tier tree.
Instantly, every undead focused its attacks toward the target.
The Undead Eye opened.
Lin Moyu pointed a finger, and Time Curse activated.
Among countless Transcendent God trees, this one was insignificant.
To Lin Moyu, however, it was the key.
A seed.
The seed that would destroy the entire forest.
Since the battle began, Lin Moyu had never personally intervened, leaving everything to the undead army.
Now, he finally joined the battle.
Under the concentrated assault of the undead, the Transcendent God 1st tier tree was instantly obliterated.
Before it could even collapse, the undead severed its trunk and delivered the remains directly to Lin Moyu.
At the same time, Lin Moyu released a low shout.
Planet-grade law art: Enhance Troops.
The attributes of every undead instantly reached the peak, pushing their combat power to even greater heights.
The undead army was already incredibly powerful.
Its greatest limitation had always been Lin Moyu's soul rank.
The enhancement from Enhance Troops was merely icing on the cake
What Lin Moyu truly wanted was the law art's 500% damage increase.
With his current soul force, he could maintain the law art for two full minutes.
Two minutes was more than enough.
Holding the fresh tree corpse, Lin Moyu unleashed his soul force to its fullest and locked onto an enormous number of trees.
Planet-grade law art: Corpse Explosion.
A soft whoosh echoed through the battlefield.
Countless trees disintegrated instantly.
None could withstand the devastating force of the explosion.
The earth shook.
Soil and debris blasted into the sky as enormous craters dozens of meters deep tore across the landscape, exposing vast networks of roots beneath the surface.
"The results are better than expected. Let's continue."
With a smile on his face, Lin Moyu descended like the Grim Reaper.