However, after thinking for a moment, there were still no clues. At present, there was too little information, and making assumptions out of thin air was meaningless. Lynch could only temporarily suppress these chaotic thoughts in his heart.

The immediate priority was to gather the materials he urgently needed.

Lynch's goal in coming to Strange Tree Island was clear: he needed to gather three types of materials: a portion of Dark Old Tree root, a few Monster Tree Hearts, and one Rule Fruit.

These three are precious resources at the third-level Domain level; the first two roughly correspond to the early Domain stage, while the final Rule Fruit is a genuine late Domain material, crucial for his understanding of the mysteries of the Soul Law.

"Where is it?"

Focusing his mind, Lynch ignored the continuous small-scale elemental conflicts around him, swiftly moving through the bizarre forest. He avoided the activated plants that had become highly aggressive due to elemental disorder while matching the precise coordinates marked on the Magic Map.

Soon, he passed through a fungus forest filled with pungent acidic mist, and his sight suddenly opened up to reveal a strange swamp area.

The swamp's mud was as black as ink, constantly bubbling with turbid bubbles, emanating a putrid aura.

Above the swamp, a forest of withered trees strangely grew; dense, twisted, and struggling to emerge from the mire. Their branches were bare and grotesque, like a forest of death's tombstones.

"This is the place!" Lynch looked at the dark trees exuding a strong aura of Shadow and Decay and confirmed his target. This was a type of demonized tree species known as the Old Crow Tree, which essentially was more like a special plant-type demon, roughly at the early Domain level.

Almost the moment Lynch approached the edge of the swamp—

"Clatter!"

The entire forest of dead trees seemed to awaken instantly! All the dark trunks swayed violently, emitting a screeching sound.

"Intruder! Intruder detected!"

"Intruder! Intruder detected!"

A sharp, grating sound, like a knife scraping glass, emanated from the trunks of those dead trees. The coarse bark cracked open, forming twisted, wood-grained mouths, opening and closing to emit shrieking hostility.

Then, mutations occurred abruptly!

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!"

Thousands of black vines, hidden beneath the swamp mud or originally disguised as dead branches, suddenly broke through the mud and air, like a horde of enraged giant pythons, rushing toward Lynch with astonishing speed!

The surfaces of these vines were covered with hard, scale-like bark, and the edges even glinted with metallic cold light. As they swept through the air, they created a violent sonic boom, sealing all possible escape routes for Lynch, determined to strangle and devour the intruder who dared encroach upon their territory!

Faced with the thousands of black vines sweeping in like a disaster of raging pythons, Lynch's eyes were calm and unruffled, not making any evasive actions. He simply moved his thoughts slightly, like a king issuing an indisputable command.

Space, time, decay.

The power of the three invisible Domains did not spread rudely but instead, like a masterwork of intertwined silk threads, instantly covered this small swamp area, precisely enveloping all incoming Dark Old Tree vines.

At this moment, the terrifying control of the Domain at 100 levels (MAX) was vividly demonstrated!

Those black vines, imbued with the savage power of the early Domain stage, upon entering the range of the Triple Domain, seemed to fall into an invisible quagmire, or as if frozen in amber of time. Their speed abruptly slowed, and the fierce momentum of their charge was forcibly curtailed, as if the film had been put in slow motion.

And the more shocking scene occurred at the microscopic level of each vine.

Although invisible to the naked eye, within Lynch's Spirit Perception, each attacking vine, with their extremely hard surfaces usually able to withstand ordinary Domain attacks, was forcibly branded with three different nature yet perfectly fused Law runes!

The silver rune representing space, like the sharpest carving knife, ignored the energy defense and physical hardness of the vines, directly penetrating their surface, precisely anchoring onto their energy core and structural nodes.

The sand-like rune representing time followed closely, entwining around the space rune, making the material movement of the marked area nearly halt, temporarily "detaching" it from the time flow of the entire vine, making it extremely fragile and easily manipulated.

Finally, the ashen rune representing decay, like ink dripping into clear water, seeped silently along the "path" opened by the space rune and the "stasis field" created by the time rune, rooting deeply to reach the core life pulse and energy center of the vine.

These runes did not stop at the surface but directly penetrated the tough surface of the Dark Old Tree, comparable to Domain defense, rooting in the central, core energy pathways and life source of each vine!

It's important to know that these vines of the Dark Old Tree, in essence, were powerful demons in the same Domain level as Lynch! Their defense was not just physical hardness but also contained resistance in terms of their own Domain Rules.

What Lynch was doing at that moment was akin to performing a micron-level "surgery" on the "living" creatures rushing towards him with Domain power, ignoring all their self-defense mechanisms, and accurately targeting each "finger" (vine) on their core nervous system simultaneously!

The difficulty of this was far beyond just crushing these vines with sheer force. It required the Spellcaster to reach the ultimate synthesis of understanding three Laws, precise mastery of Strength, and a deep insight into the enemy's energy structure.

Any slight miscalculation would not only make it impossible to successfully brand them but could also trigger a violent counterattack from the opponent's energy.

This is precisely what the absolute dominance and delicate manipulation ability of Rules power bring after Domain Cultivation reaches the MAX level! This had evolved beyond simple energy confrontation to the level of "defining" and "modifying" existence itself!

The completion of the root embedding of the Triple Law Rune meant the life and death of the previously menacing Dark Old Tree vines were entirely at Lynch's whim.

Then, only this could be heard—

"Snap."

A particularly faint, yet seemingly soul-resonating, crisp sound.

It wasn't the sound of physical breaking, but more like some "bond" or "core" that maintained existence being simultaneously and precisely severed.

The many black vines, which had been fiercely attacking like doomsday tentacles just a moment ago, suddenly dissipated without a trace. They seemed to have their entire Life Force and energy suddenly siphoned away, becoming as brittle as charred withered branches.

The previously covering hard scale-like tree bark quickly lost its luster, turning gray over large areas.

Soon, the entire withered forest began to shake uncontrollably and violently. The cracked, screaming tree mouths emitted one last brief and twisted wail, then became completely stiff, turning into dust.

"Clatter—!"

As if ground over by an invisible giant force, all the dark trees, from the canopy to the roots deep in the swamp, completely collapsed and disintegrated in an instant! They turned into countless black fragments and powder devoid of any activity, like a sudden rain of death, gently sprinkling back into the pitch-black swamp, covering the surface with a thick layer.

The terrifying, twisted forest of dead trees disappeared within the span of a single breath, leaving only a dead swamp covered with black remnants.

The Domain demon, Dark Old Tree, had its core utterly obliterated by the Triple Law Rune.

Lynch remained calm, raising his hand to grasp at a void in the swamp. An invisible force parted the thick remnants and mud, and a section of tree root, about the thickness of an arm, wholly black and shiny yet still containing pure Shadow and Decay origin Strength, emerged from the ground and lightly landed in his hand.

It felt cool to the touch, yet inside seemed to have countless fine Law patterns gently flowing.

The root of the Dark Old Tree, collection complete.

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