In Carideri continent a struggle between two dominant faction has been going on for serval milion years.
At first it was simple conflict over the ideologies of several sects.
Later, many righteous sects began to transform into demonic sects creating two sides of conflict between demonic and righteous cultivators, where the highest zone of cultivation was that of a false immortal.
This conflict lasted for thousand years, but neither side could gain the upper hand.
This was until one of the most powerful demonic sect's ancestors secretly gather the resources needed to create an immortal source.
The righteous cultivators learned about it from their spies and decided to join forces to attack the demonic ancesor together while he was creating the immortal source.
Demonic ancesor spat of blood.
"How did you all manage to get together and get past my barriers?" - Asked the demonic ancesor Quren Sarredis but in his heart he already had the answer.
Quren looked like a dred-up man with deep crimson hair, gray eyes and bloody scratches on his forehead. He wore blood-gray robes with magical symbols.
Despite his wounds, his terrifying aura gained thought millennia of being an old demon didn't diminish.
Demoin ancesor Quren Sarredis was surrounded by righteous cultivators whose lowest level was at early zone of false immortal, among them. Quren Sarredis noticed several people with demonic aura.
"I always suspect that there are traitors among us, but I didn't think it would be you."
He said looking at the leader of his sect whom he had controlled for most of his life using various techniques.
"Enough talking." - Said Kyle Xuaris the sect leader one of the most powerful righteous sect.
He was always known for his effectiveness.
Quren Sarredis know as the supreme bloody demon knowing that he wouldn't be able to talk in time, he decided use his hidden cards.
He released the bloody ghosts he had creating though his entire life.
The bloody ghosts will occupy this group for a while, but Quren didn't let his guard down at all, he knew his old friends were still hiding.
He expected to be surrounded and betrayed, even if not as that scales, but old wound made him susceptible to aging despite being a false immortal. That's why he decided to take the risk anyway because it was his only hope.
Quren activated the hidden formatio god of the bloody river, his proud creation.
His demonic power increased tenfold, and for a moment even his wounds disappeared.
"I will use all of you as materials to create an immortal source." - shouted the Quren
He started attacking everyone.
Powerful spells at the perfection level of false immortal strengthened by the formation were thrown everywhere by demonic ancesor.
Many cultivators with lesser power was killed in one hit.
The cultivators were surprised for a moment but quickly began to form their own formations enhanced with various spiritual artifacts.
Although their formations were weaker, their numbers made up for it.
There were also those who did not create formations but tried to weaken the formation of Quren.
The fight continued but neither side gained an advantage and both were losing energy.
Quren, however couldn't afford to exhaust his spiritual energy, so he decided to use his second hidden card. The demonic sword of scarlet stone.
With the help of the demonic artifact, the demonic ancestor's victory was certain, but then suddenly a large holy place formation appeared.
Quren knew he was in trouble.
This formation has powerful suppressing effect on demonic cultivators and it's strength depends on it's strength depends on the strength of his creators.
His old friends made their move.
Suddenly portals appeared and a group of cultivators with a perfect stage of false immortal emerged.
However, before they could do anything, a second group with demonic aura appeared that carried high-level destroyed formation talismans.
Under the influence of talismans the holy place formation was severely damaged.
This group consisted of the more important demonic ancestors.
The faces of the first group didn't change when they appeared.
They knew their movements wouldn't escape the eyes of the other demonic ancestors.
They also knew that demonic ancestors wanted Quren resources more than they did otherwise, the formation would be completely destroyed.
As member of the Demonic Path, they are cursed by world. The longer they practice demonic techniques the greater power of their curses.
Unlike righteous cultivators, who cultivate by connecting with world and "borrowing" it's power. Demonic cultivators steal every energy in the world and transform it into a demonic power that is nasty to the world and that's why they are hated by world.
Their only hope for eternal life is to move on to the next level where they don't need to collect energy from outside to prolong their life and slowly pay of their debts to the world or escape from this world.
(The demonic cultivators mainly choose the second option if they thoughts that they have enough strength)
Demonic ancestors looked at the Quren they didn't even have to say what they wanted.
"Forget about it." - Said Quren knowing what they wanted to say.
At these worlds the demonic ancestors stopped smiling.
Seeing all the the important players Queen no longer hid his most powerful card.
It's time to use the thing. - That thought passed through Quren.
However, a deep-seated fear was felt withing this thought.
He pulled out from his hidden spacious pocket something that looked like a charred and dried branch that had blood vesselsand it was covered in bloody runes.
At the sight of this, all the cultivators raised their guard because they couldn't recognize this thing. Which was quite frightening.
As one of the most powerful and oldest demon ancestors, he was the owner of serval very powerful artifacts created many eras ago.
That's why no one doubted the danger of this thing not as old and experienced monsters.
When Quren poured huge amount purified blood onto the branch the branch transformed into a strange tree.
At first glance, this tree could be mistaken for a demonic creature.
The tree had fifty meters height dark bark, fourteen thick dark red branches with purple leaves and countless roots.
All cultivators, regardless of whether they were from the demonic or righteous path, felt fear emanating from their divine instincts as soon as they saw this form of tree.
Among them was a person who recognized this tree.
"Fragment of Vaqur, the fallen king of the bloody forbidden zone"
All the cultivators trembled with fear when they heard about it origin.
The Vaqur affair and the forbidden zone were taboo on this continent.
Where was one thought in the minds of all the cultivators except Queen.
Has this old monster gone mad?
However, before they could do anything, the roots shot out and killed most of the cultivators closed to him except Quren.
Those who were lucky enough or highly skilled survived, but that was only the beginning.
The tree's roots began to absorb cultivation, life essence, and any energy familiar to it. This energy caused the tree to grow rapidly and at the same time, it attacks the next cultivators with their roots.
One hundred meters.
Two hundred meters.
Five hundred meters.
One thousand meters.
One mile.
Two miles.
Three miles.
The tree stopped growing.
When Quren saw that the tree wasn't making any further movements, he decided to escape as quickly as possible while the runes on the tree were still active.
He knew that once the branch was activated, he wouldn't be able to control them even for moment. He could only make the runes temporarily protect him from the fragment of Vaqur, but it was only a matter of time before they lost their power.
Therefore, this was his hidden ace, which he hadn't intention of using.
However, when he was mile away from the tree, the roots suddenly sprang out at him, piercing his body.
Queen was surprised because he could still sense the runes.
Suddenly, a terrifying thought flashed through his mind, the only one, that could explain such a sudden attack without destroying the runes.
"Vaqur had foreseen everything."
However, he couldn't think any further because he lost consciousness and became fertilizer for the tree.