While standing up through her trembling after the Moon-Type stopped tumbling, Nysera felt as if the sky was crumbling. Her mind couldn’t comprehend the sequence of events that had just occurred. "How is it possible? How is it possible? HOW IS IT POSSIBLE!?"

The World Tree, after destroying a few nodes, actually managed to reverse an S Rank Rune and Array Field? Nysera couldn’t even wrap her head around the logic behind this event.

In her mind, World Trees were just savage creatures who only thought of conquest. While they were incredibly intelligent, and Nysera never dared to underestimate this part of them, she also knew that World Trees didn’t delve into professions.

At most, they would look into politics a bit to superficially control their domains. However, most of their time was spent on expansion and making sure their strength increased.

"Lady Nysera! We need orders!"

The people piloting the Moon-Types who were not part of the clergy began shouting, their eyes desperate as they saw their surroundings manifest with countless roots. Escape was clearly not an opinion!

"Orders?!" Nysera, having lost her cool due to what just happened, screamed back with an unstable mind. "What orders do you want!? Fight! Kill the World Tree! What else do you need me to say!?"

Then, in her rage, her body flashed, and she screamed to the remaining 15,000 clergy members. "GO OUT AND DEAL WITH IT!"

Meanwhile, Liu Shu was feeling liberated. Her heart had been stuffed during all this time. The danger the S Rank Corruption Of Stars field posed to her was not low, so she had not dared pay attention to anything else other than it. She just used one Eternity Strand to apply her healing buff to important people and her summons fighting on the battlefield, and then she ignored that zone.

Now, while she had not taken complete control of Corruption Of Stars, she was absorbing information about it at an absurd pace. <World Tree Wisdom> had kicked in, and mixed with her already deep knowledge of runes, her eyes were opening to many new complex rune and array knowledge.

After all, Liu Shu didn’t just absorb knowledge—she digested it.

"Now, though..." Her eyes moved toward the thousands of people in religious clothes, and she became cold and ruthless. "You dare to come out? Inside the Moon-Type, you would’ve managed to survive for a while longer."

Nysera wrathfully glared at the roots. "Even if the array can’t deal with you, I will! <Dark Rose Bloom Of Corruption>!"

Countless Dark Aether Mana flowers bloomed around her, while the rest of the few thousand clergy members used their skills. However, it was useless.

Liu Shu, now free, didn’t pull back her punches in the slightest. "<Stop Domain>."

Every single person who was about to cast different skills froze in place, their energies stagnating as even essence stopped moving.

"<Elemental Willow Catastrophe: Frostfire Hell>."

Space bloomed with white flames, enveloping not only the group of clergy members but also the Moon-Types. She didn’t stop at that.

"<Mountain Soul Root Lance>."

Over two dozen giant root lances manifested, each of them aiming at the high-level clergy members and impacting with a shockwave.

The next second, Liu Shu’s roots lashed around wantonly, striking each and every creature in place several times over.

Three seconds later, the skill’s effects stopped, and everyone recovered their sight. However, what they heard were two frosty and indifferent words.

"<Temporal Fracture>."

Nysera didn’t even have to register what happened before her entire body felt a terrifying energy get a hold of her existence. A soul-tearing pain coursed through her entire body, and then, as if she were a piece of paper being ripped apart into pieces, her body exploded violently.

Even if all the damage Liu Shu dealt during the stopped time was reduced to 25%, she still had over six seconds to attack wantonly. Six seconds attacking defenseless creatures whose stats were less than half her own?

The damage she did to them was enough for them to kill them and then owe her several tens of thousands of Phoer Stars!

The Moon Types, following Liu Shu’s attacks, also collapsed as if they were being wrung by giant hands.

Everything within the <Stop Domain> collapsed, Eternal energy turning everything into nothingness. Nysera felt her gaze darkening under that terrifying force, her mind still unable to process it, even until her body burst into a gory firework.

Looking at this, Liu Shu didn’t feel triumphant. After all, the outcome was decided the moment she managed to get rid of the annoying formation.

Then, the reinforcements and Rhazor felt a change in the cosmos. It was as if the shackled beast had suddenly burst its chains. Rhazor, having a bad premonition, tried to communicate with Nysera. "Nysera! How is your side doing!?"

Xakira, in front of him, was about to die, so he was currently using all of his strength to fight her. Still, asking questions was not completely out of his current ability.

It wasn’t Nysera who answered him, but Liu Shu herself. "Rhazor, you lost. Nysera is dead."

Rhazor’s heart leaped to his throat. However, he gritted his teeth. "Even if she is dead, you are tied down by the <Corruption Of Stars> field! Her role has been fulfilled."

"Has it?" Liu Shu’s voice was mocking. "First, let’s make you and everyone else in this battlefield despair."

Hearing her words, Xakira’s bloody lips arched, her compound eyes shining.

Liu Shu’s voice struck the battlefield like judgment itself.

"<Eternity Strand..."

"...Reversal>."

BOOM!

Xakira’s aura suddenly surged, her mouth arching in delight as she felt her strength return once more to its peak. Her lacking vitality, her slashed arm, and even the deep sword wound that had almost pierced her heart, everything healed as time rewinded to the time <Eternity Strand> was latched onto her.

It wasn’t just Xakira.

Flor, Verdantia, Ignatia, Warlya, and over thirty more elites that had been exhausted after a prolonged battle exploded with renewed strength.

Rhazor was shocked, and then his voice boomed out through all communication devices and the void itself. "RETREAT! WE LOST!"

Liu Shu was surprised by his decisive actions. However, would she allow her prey to flee? Before Rhazor did anything else that might save his life, Liu Shu decisively unfurled her skill.

"<Stop Domain>!"

"<Star Shift Crystal>!"

Rhazor shouted at the same time, a crystal brightly enveloping his figure. However, as the energy around Rhazor covered him and tried to tear through space itself to move him away, the world came to a sudden stop.

Liu Shu ordered Xakira. "Attack with everything you have!"

Liu Shu quickly cast <Acceleration Domain>, and then she and Xakira rained an absolute barrage of powerful attacks onto him. Liu Shu didn’t bother with any other skill other than <Mountain Soul Root Lance>, a single-target skill she could cast almost 5 times per second.

Xakira flashed behind him, stabbing him with her stinger, and then casting countless hornets to attack him.

Giant root lance, Liu Shu’s normal root attacks, and Xakira’s powerful single-target skills fell onto him for 6 seconds straight.

Without defending himself, each attack dealt around 6 Phoer Stars of damage after surpassing his defenses, which then got reduced to 1.5 by the 25% reduction.

Liu Shu attacked with over 30 Root Lances, dealing a total of 30 Phoers Stars of damage. Then, she also hit him around 200 times with her roots, dealing less total damage but accumulating enough. Xakira’s attacks also piled up, dealing much more than Liu Shu’s attacks.

Time ticked once more, and Liu Shu shouted. "<Temporal Fracture>!"

As she shouted, Rhazor’s body disappeared from his current location.

Liu Shu’s heart stopped for a moment, and Xakira also looked at the place where Rhazor disappeared with a solemn look.

Suddenly...

[Congratulations! You’ve defeated <Moon Slicing Human Level 230>. You’ve earned 932,265 Experience Points!]

Seeing that message, Liu Shu’s heart relaxed, a sigh escaping even her real lips. Xakira also laughed. "I thought he actually managed to escape."

Liu Shu agreed. "Indeed. The temporal fracture should have depleted his essence, but he took quite a bit of time to die... Huh?"

Xakira was about to ask what was wrong when she heard Liu Shu’s angered shout. "You dare attack my home World!? Sneaky rats, I’ll destroy you!"

Back in Ceperet, Shademaster Velmira had heard Rhazor’s final order, and she was startled. It had taken a long time to evade Liu Shu’s detection and finally arrive at Ceperet.

Now, here, they could perfectly see where Liu Shu was, as her over 400-kilometer-tall body was easily visible from space. Even if her body was currently in another realm, as assassins, they naturally had the means to forcefully bring her out.

However, looking at that massive body, Shademaster Velmira was conflicted and shocked. "Such a massive World Tree... Were we deceived?"

Her right-hand man spoke solemnly. "First, update these images to the Nexus’s database. Once we update them, we will hit Ceperet itself and cause the World Tree to scramble to stabilize the world."

They, unlike the clergy members, had managed to sneak a World-Type to Liu Shu’s footsteps. While a single World-Type was not enough to destroy an entire world, the main cannon could heavily destabilize a single continent if it hit.

So, their current intent was causing heavy damage to the world and then to attack Liu Shu’s main body as best as they could.

However, they had not calculated that once the main cannon began charging and shot, the essence gathering spike completely revealed them under Liu Shu’s intentional surveillance.

It was here that Liu Shu angrily shouted.

However, a shout did nothing, Velmira ordered coldly. "Shoot!"

Liu Shu sneered, and once more, she used her cheat-level skill. "<Stop Domain>." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

This time, though, Liu Shu was in a pinch. Unlike the Moon-Types, which she had already struck shieldless, the World Tree’s shield was protecting them. So, her attacks could only land on the shield.

She was not hesitant. During the six seconds of preparation, Liu Shu manifested several thick and massive roots in front of the World Type, while her roots struck the shield several times over.

"<Temporal Fracture>!"

Velmira’s gaze, which was previously in full view of Ceperet, was suddenly covered by a massive root net, confusing her greatly.

However, what made her the most surprised was not the roots blocking the World-Type’s attack. It was the shout of one crew member.

"Shields are down! We are being attacked!"

As soon as his words fell, Liu Shu’s perfectly timed root lance struck the World-Type’s hull with terrifying power.

BOOM!

The massive root spike tore through the outer armor of the World-Type, startling Velmira once more. She shouted. "Use land teleportation and dimensional rupture on her main body before the ship is destroyed! We are going on land to kill her!"