Chapter 462: Counterattack

This was the real deal.

Looking at those enormous pythons, Xiao Shou felt that the heavenly tribulations he had experienced in the past were practically child’s play. Compared with this, they were not even worthy of being called toys.

Could it be that the Heavenly Dao had actually gone easy on him before?

That thought flashed through Xiao Shou’s mind.

However, his concern about how the Star Demon Mother Tree would withstand this tribulation quickly overwhelmed it.

His worry was unnecessary as far as the Star Demon Mother Tree was concerned.

As the only immortal and indestructible existence in the entire Demon Abyss Realm at this moment, its strength was monstrously powerful.

Faced with the enormous attack of eighty-one giant pythons, despite their light attributes naturally countering it, the Star Demon Mother Tree merely divided one-tenth of its enormous roots, which were wrapped in dense purple radiance, and fiercely lashed them outward.

The attack instantly scattered all those light-attribute giant pythons, transforming them into fragmented spiritual particles that dispersed into the heavens and earth.

It seemed that even the Star Demon Mother Tree’s strength had exceeded the Demon Dao’s expectations.

The pure-white clouds and pure-black clouds in the sky fell silent for a moment before moving again.

In an instant, the surrounding black clouds that had originally covered the sky and earth all transformed into pure white.

The white clouds twisted and churned, rapidly forming eighty-one enormous white flood dragons that were ten times larger than the previous giant pythons.

They simultaneously lunged toward the Star Demon Mother Tree.

Behind them, the pure-white clouds churned once again.

They actually formed another eighty-one white dragons that were ten times larger than those giant flood dragons, chasing after them and lunging toward the Star Demon Mother Tree together.

As expected of the Demon Dao. Its way of doing things was practically identical to the Heavenly Dao.

But what was the Star Demon Mother Tree going to do this time?

Xiao Shou thought worriedly.

If the Star Demon Mother Tree could not withstand this attack, what would happen to the body he had residing inside its trunk?

In principle, light-attribute power was harmless to the human body and could even be highly beneficial.

But if there were too much of it...

He had no idea what the result would be.

He simply had a feeling that it probably would not be good.

Xiao Shou did not know that because he was residing within the Star Demon Mother Tree, just as he could sense some of its intense emotions, some of his own emotions and thoughts could also influence and be transmitted to it.

Therefore, when he began worrying about this, facing the attack of eighty-one enormous light-attribute flood dragons and eighty-one white dragons that were ten times larger and also composed of light-attribute power, the Star Demon Mother Tree’s leaves began rustling violently.

All of its roots paused slightly as they lashed outward.

Then, eighty percent of its roots scattered most of the giant flood dragons and white dragons.

The remaining twenty percent of its roots, however, suddenly wrapped and coiled around them.

Amid the sizzling sounds produced when the purple radiance collided with the light attribute, the roots forcibly captured ten enormous white dragons and pulled them into the extremely thick trunk of the Star Demon Mother Tree.

What was the Star Demon Mother Tree doing?

Why was it willing to endure the pain of an opposing attribute just to capture the white dragons formed from compressed and condensed light-attribute power?

Xiao Shou was filled with confusion.

Because he wanted to know the reason, he unconsciously saw something else.

Perhaps he had borrowed the Star Demon Mother Tree’s abilities and changed the angle of his perception.

He saw the ten white dragons formed from condensed light-attribute spiritual particles struggling desperately as they were bound.

As they were dragged deeper into the Star Demon Mother Tree’s trunk, they left a trail of scorched marks behind them.

They continued until they reached the very center of the trunk, the place where Xiao Shou’s body was located. 𝑓𝑟ℯℴ𝓂

There, the roots of the Star Demon Mother Tree carefully dragged one of the white dragons closer and gently brought the least harmful part of its body into contact with Xiao Shou’s body.

At the same time, a fragmented and indistinct consciousness entered Xiao Shou’s mind.

"Light attribute... is beneficial to the Creator... but... not too much... Be careful..."

Had it sensed his thoughts and deliberately endured the pain of being eroded by the light attribute to capture the white dragons containing light attribute power and nourish his body? It even remembered that there could not be too much.

At this moment, Xiao Shou’s emotions surged intensely, and his confidence in the Star Demons he had created increased greatly. If they were truly like this, then even if they were demons, they would definitely be completely different from the Demon Abyss Clan.

Even if there were things about them that caused other beings to fear them, there would certainly be even more qualities that others could appreciate and love.

Just as Xiao Shou was thinking this, the white dragon that had been touching his body suddenly began shrinking rapidly. His complexion also seemed to become slightly rosier.

At the same time, an inexplicable pulling sensation caused his consciousness to spin wildly. After a moment, it suddenly returned to his body.

Only then did Xiao Shou clearly sense just how terrible the condition of his body was.

There was no vitality left, and his entire body was covered in injuries. There were holes everywhere, as though his body had been riddled with gaps that allowed air to pass through. Apart from his Nascent Soul, there was not a single intact part of him.

The reason he was still alive was entirely because the Star Demon Mother Tree had been continuously injecting vitality into him, allowing him to maintain his life and repair the wounds on his body.

However, this method of healing was not actually beneficial to his body.