The slender clouds were pulling a silver basin slowly across the blue sky.

The watery moonlight sprinkled on the towering mountains. The thick water vapor on the mountaintops was dyed blue-green by the moonlight, pouring down the hillside like flowing water, and all the mountains were covered with a faint glow.

Boundless water vapor rushed along the steep mountains, and a huge basin with a diameter of a thousand miles in the mountains was filled with blue water vapor.

The clouds are billowing, the light is changing, the mountain wind is blowing, and the water vapor is rolling up into huge whirlpools. There are wisps of rapidly rotating water vapor rushing straight into the sky, as if they are about to merge into one with the slender and even clouds in the sky.

The moonlight and water vapor reflected each other in the distance. When a huge silver basin was hung high in the sky, a continuous "hissing" sound was heard. Countless tiny red electric flashes jumped out of thin air above the basin. The air distorted, revealing a bronze sacred tree that was ten thousand feet tall.

The whole body is cast in bronze, with a mottled color and a frosted look. The strong and twisted branches like dragons stretch out in all directions. There is not a single leaf on the branches. At the end of each thin branch, there is an old and colorful bronze lamp.

The lamps of different sizes did not move at all, and the bean-sized lights in the lamps emitted circles of green light. No matter how the mountain breeze blew, the lights remained motionless. The green lights were cold and the mountains around the basin turned into a dark green.

Countless tiny crimson electric flashes struck the bronze sacred tree, splashing countless tiny crimson spots of light, which made the suddenly appearing bronze sacred tree look even more bizarre and evil.

Suddenly, a thunderclap sounded, and countless red electric lights in the void quickly gathered together. The electric lights intertwined and woven like substance, condensing into extremely tiny red runes. Countless runes intertwined and condensed into extremely fine rune chains. Countless extremely fine rune chains intertwined with each other, and finally formed red chains as thick as fists.

The scarlet chains with dazzling electric light jumping all over them crisscrossed in the void and turned into a huge barrier that wrapped the entire bronze sacred tree.

The watery moonlight rolled down from the surrounding basins and mountains, and suddenly several figures separated from the clouds and floated down from the mountains. These people were wearing long robes with wide sleeves and high purple-gold crowns of extremely ancient style. They all had handsome faces and long beards, and at first glance they really looked like immortals.

A total of nine bearded men stepped on the floating clouds and quickly came to the bronze sacred tree. They looked at each other, squinted their eyes and smiled.

"You little brat, you don't know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is. You are so bold!"

"However, it is also a filial act, and it deserves some praise."

"However, it still needs some work before we can reuse it with confidence in the future."

Several people laughed and joked for some unknown reason, and one of them raised a purple gold seal and slapped it towards the red barrier, shouting "Open". Hundreds of fist-thick red chains split apart to the sides with a "boom", revealing a wide gate that was a hundred feet high.

The nine people walked into the barrier together, and hundreds of red chains crisscrossed behind them and quickly reconnected together.

After entering this blood-colored barrier, I saw countless red talismans floating in the barrier under the outer layer of red chains. The small ones were only three to five inches long, while the big ones were several miles high. Runes of all sizes were suspended in the void, and countless hideous and twisted purple talismans with dragon heads and phoenix tails could be seen circling and dancing.

These purple divine seals exuded an inexplicable sense of hideousness and distortion. Circles of black light continued to spread out from them, and the entire void was filled with ripples formed by the black light.

Occasionally, a strange whistling sound was heard from these black lights. The strange sound was like a zombie that had been buried underground for tens of thousands of years, suddenly letting out an unwilling long sigh, filled with a heart-pounding evil spirit.

When the nine people arrived at the barrier, they obviously became extremely cautious. They stared at the road under their feet, not daring to take a wrong step. They walked quickly and step by step for a long time before they arrived in front of the huge bronze sacred tree.

Looking at the bronze sacred tree from outside the barrier, this bronze sacred tree is only about ten thousand feet tall, and it does not have too many branches.

But when you really get into the barrier and take a close look at the body of the sacred tree, you will find that this sacred tree is ten thousand miles tall from top to bottom, with many branches. Hundreds of millions of bronze lamps are placed in an orderly manner at the end of the branches. The dim green light illuminates the entire sacred tree, making it look ancient and weathered, full of a sacred charm from the ancient times.

Natural bronze vines are wrapped around the trunk of the huge sacred tree, like huge spiral staircases winding their way upwards.

Arriving here, the nine people were obviously much more relaxed. One of them chuckled again: "What a bunch of daring little guys! However, their filial piety is commendable."

The other person also smiled brightly: "That's true. Recently, the situation in the territories of my Jin family has not been very good. If we can get the manpower to supplement these six great demon-sealing barriers, hehe!"

Only one person looked a little unhappy. "However, regarding the treatment of Jin Ao, please consider it carefully. Is it Jin Ao's fault that the ancient troll escaped? He has been on the run for who knows how many years. Before Jin Ao, the people guarding here were members of the Yu clan."

Nine people climbed up along a winding vine. They walked as fast as the wind and climbed thousands of miles in a few flashes.

After a long time, a man said in a gentle voice: "Regarding the handling of Jin Ao... that's all. He didn't cause any big trouble, so let's leave it as it is. It's better not to alarm outsiders if you can. If things here are handled properly, you can't write two 'Jin' characters with one stroke. We are all family, so it's easy to discuss."

The somewhat cold and lonely atmosphere between the nine people dissipated, and the group became talkative and laughing again, singing and laughing all the way as they climbed to a forked branch near the top of the bronze sacred tree.

Counting from top to bottom of the bronze sacred tree, on the highest point, a solitary vertical branch, stands a bronze lamp proudly; below this vertical branch, nine branches winding like dragons extend in all directions; below this layer of nine branches, there are sixty-three large and small branches; the forked branch where the nine people are located is on the third layer, and there are a total of 247 branches here.

"This level of ancient troll? It's not the most important character. If it's gone, it's gone." At this point, a man finally laughed out loud.