Chapter 1059: Chapter 812 I’m Full
The development of the situation to this extent was completely unforeseen by Long Yi. The Tree of Destruction had always regarded life as its nourishment, but now, it had begun to control the Mountain Giants to fight. It was hard to say whether this was a choice made by the Tree of Destruction itself or merely a coincidence. But facing their former comrades, the Mountain Giants were at a loss.
It wasn’t that the Mountain Giants hesitated to strike down those they knew; they truly couldn’t beat them!
Fights between Mountain Giants rarely involved holding back because they all knew that even if they were killed, their adversaries could revive quickly. So when the Mountain Giants first discovered their kin being controlled through parasitism, their initial reaction was to strike with full force. However, those parasitized by the seeds of the Tree of Destruction displayed extraordinary strength. Their size increased, their rocky armor became even tougher, and, because of the Tree of Destruction, their recovery abilities were further enhanced.
The reality now was that they were completely unbeatable.
Of course, this wasn’t the most troublesome part. The worst thing was that the parasitized Mountain Giants, while unable to control themselves, still retained their consciousness. It was absolutely infuriating to see a group of apologetic Mountain Giants causing havoc.
"These bastards!"
Long Yi had originally planned to end the battle with a more direct method, but the Tree of Destruction did not give him the chance.
The Tree of Destruction completely abandoned the upper rock walls, dropping all of its seeds down, desperately attempting to parasitize the Mountain Giants. Despite a fight to the death, three thousand Mountain Giants were still parasitized.
Thanks to their numerical advantage, these three thousand parasitized Mountain Giants were driven into a basin. The surrounding attacks continued, and Long Yi absolutely couldn’t allow these seeds to absorb energy so wantonly by exploiting the natural gifts of the Mountain Giants.
The parasitized Mountain Giants protected the seeds tightly within their immensely heavy rocky armor, making it extremely difficult to harm the seeds themselves with usual combat methods. While the Mountain Giants in the front continued their onslaught, Long Yi was simultaneously working on another plan.
He intended to completely cut off the supply of the stone power here!
All roots of the Tree of Life left this place, countless Molten Beasts moved underground, completely isolating this stratum. Then Xiaodie unleashed her devouring instinct to its fullest, completely consuming all the energy here—whether it was Mana, Fighting Aura, or the so-called power of stone.
Deprived of their energy source, the parasitized Mountain Giants fell one by one. The Tree of Destruction’s seeds had intended to use the boundless energy of the Mountain Giants to reach full maturity, but once the energy was cut off, the Mountain Giants were just ordinary, large life forms. Despite their massiveness, they still fell short of the energy required for the seeds to mature.
All the seeds immediately abandoned the Mountain Giants, rushing in all directions. But the surrounding defenses had already been tightly set up; no seed would be allowed to escape!
Not only that, as soon as any Mountain Giant was freed from parasitism, the people of the Fire Rock tribe immediately rescued them from underground. The Mountain Giants who had been parasitized to the point of being riddled with holes and losing their lives began to rapidly recover the instant they reconnected with the rock, and in no time, they all reappeared before everyone, completely unscathed!
With shame on their faces, they rejoined the battle group, fighting harder than before, but also with more caution and care.
At this time, Long Yi saw anger in the eyes of the Mountain Giants for the first time.
The Mountain Giants didn’t regard life too seriously, but when the seeds of the Tree of Destruction seized their connection to the power of stone, they truly became angry. The encirclement shrank continuously, and the seeds of the Tree of Destruction were forced to retract further. The seeds, having absorbed strong energy, became even larger and more powerful, but they couldn’t resist the relentless assault from countless angry Mountain Giants surrounding them.
Some seeds tried to root themselves and escape, but the area below was filled with Magma, and the Molten Beasts along with the Fire Rock tribe were spreading the Magma upwards. The seeds emitted terrifying cries, like desperate creatures, just when all the seeds suddenly began to frantically attack each other!
"Have they gone mad?"
An Elder of the Mountain Giants asked.
"No! They are trying to ensure that at least one seed reaches maturity by devouring each other! Stop them!" Long Yi shouted.
Magic and Fighting Aura moves were continuously cast, and amidst the roar and explosions, seeds were successively shattered. At this time, on the rock face in the sky, all the roots previously hidden within the stone surged down, and trunks above the ground also rushed down. The Tree of Destruction was ready to use itself as nourishment to assure that at least one seed could reach maturity and sprout!
"Stop them!"
Long Yi roared as all the fruits of the Tree of Life sprayed out intense flames, igniting all the roots coming down from the sky. But still, some roots managed to touch the seeds in the midst of the flames, only to be devoured in an instant!
There were simply too many roots, and despite countless roots being destroyed and endless spells being cast, none of it prevented the final maturation of the seeds!
"This is bad!"
In that moment, Long Yi felt a slight spatial fluctuation!
This was a precursor to the seeds being about to mature!
"Stop right there! Time stop!"
In the most critical moment, Long Yi had no choice but to use his strongest move. He froze all time within the core area of the seeds. Beneath him, countless intricate gears creaked, but the hands couldn’t advance a single step.
However, Long Yi was now in a dilemma. Although using time stop to forcibly pause the maturation process of the seeds, this spell wasn’t permanent. And now, everyone could do nothing because doing anything within the range of the time stop would mean altering time, which would consequently consume Long Yi’s life span.
Unless...
Could this thing be stuffed into a private space? Long Yi gave it a try, but failed; time stop meant that space would also be interfered with, and things affected by time stop couldn’t be put into a private space.
However, things that were frozen in time could still be moved.
The Great Explorer appeared with a roar, and Long Yi immediately wrapped a huge rock shell around it just outside the range of time stoppage. The Great Explorer fired a tractor beam, pulling the enormous rock sphere into the air.
On the Giant’s tablet, the numbers representing Long Yi’s lifespan were rapidly diminishing, and Ai Lin watched with heart-pounding fear. Before long, Long Yi had consumed several lifetimes’ worth of a normal human’s time.
But Long Yi’s gaze was very determined; his only destination was the sun.
"Brother Long..." Little Zi looked at Long Yi consuming his own life to do this and was close to crying.
"Don’t worry, I’ve got a long life ahead of me," Long Yi said with a smile.
"No matter how long it is, you shouldn’t waste it like this," Ai Lin said with tears in her eyes.
"Stop crying, you two. Maybe there will be a few days when I’ll regret my impulsive action today, but if I don’t act on impulse now, I will surely regret it for a lifetime," Long Yi said.
The Great Explorer continued to accelerate, and when it finally approached the outer layer of the star with temperatures reaching hundreds of millions, Ai Lin took a glance at the Giant’s tablet, then said with a bitter smile, "You have managed to kill more than a dozen Giant Dragons with this."
Long Yi patted Ai Lin on the head and then controlled the Great Explorer to throw the rock sphere out.
The Array that protected the rock sphere disappeared, and the entire rock sphere vaporized instantly; Long Yi lifted the time stoppage and almost in an instant, all the seeds of the Tree of Destruction also vaporized and disappeared.
"It’s finally over."
Long Yi let out a sigh of relief, and a weight lifted off his heart, but Ai Lin was still looking at the tablet with a pained expression. Suddenly, Ai Lin made a sound of surprise.
"Brother Long, am I seeing things, or what’s going on?" Ai Lin handed the tablet to Long Yi, pointing to the number that represented his lifespan.
"What’s wrong?" Long Yi looked at the tablet, and both Little Zi and Xiaodie crowded around.
"I clearly saw the last digit of your life was a two, so why did it suddenly change to three?" Ai Lin said.
"It must have been... a mistake?" Long Yi looked down and, right before everyone’s eyes, the numbers actually changed to four!
No way, can it actually increase?
Minutes later, the digit unbelievably turned into five!
Long Yi had almost never cared about his own lifespan because, according to the figures on the Giant’s tablet, the lifespan of a Giant was astronomical. Of course, despite this, Long Yi still felt a bit pained after the recent string of consumption. Unexpectedly, this thing could actually recover, which was utterly surprising.
"Could it be because of getting close to the sun?" Long Yi wondered.
The sun is an extremely large source of energy, and compared to the energy of such a scorching star, any Mage is absolutely trivial.
"I’ll go try!"
Xiaodie immediately flew out of the Great Explorer.
Dazzling light and scorching energy immediately enveloped Xiaodie, who spread her wings wide, trying to absorb as much of this energy as possible. After a while, as if she wasn’t satisfied with the energy absorbed from the periphery, Xiaodie boldly moved even closer to the sun. The Great Explorer followed at a safe distance behind Xiaodie. Xiaodie’s powerful energy absorption ability actually created a massive energy-free zone behind her! The Great Explorer didn’t even need to activate its shields to avoid damage from the sun’s rays and heat.
After quite some time, Xiaodie returned to the Great Explorer, contented. Her originally pitch-black hair now showed a red-hot state at its tips, like metal being heated, but it didn’t feel hot to the touch. Xiaodie, who had always been pale-faced, was now rosy-cheeked with satisfaction.
"I’m full for now!" Xiaodie announced excitedly.
Ever since she had taken on human form, Xiaodie could consume food. But essentially, eating was just a way for her to taste flavors; she was always in a state of hunger, never having experienced satiety. Long Yi had once planned to fire the Great Explorer’s main cannon at Xiaodie so she could absorb a powerful force, but unexpectedly, Xiaodie found a suitable source of sustenance herself.
"Do you feel any discomfort?" Little Zi went over to check on her with care, with Ai Lin joining to examine her.
"No, and I feel warm all over, so comfortable," Xiaodie said with a satisfied expression.
"That’s good. It looks like we’ve found a source of food for Xiaodie," Ai Lin said happily.
"However, how often will you feel hungry?" Long Yi asked.
"I don’t know. I’ll find out when I get hungry!" Xiaodie said, still beaming with satisfaction. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it on Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)
