Chapter 1002: Chapter 688: Azure’s Breakthrough (2)
Azure’s consciousness sank into a state of slumber.
Dim golden patterns rose along the trunk and branches, and the Primordial Energy and soul aura of the entire tree became blurred.
A long, three-days-and-three-nights wait, without the slightest movement.
The watching insects gradually lost patience and went off to their own business.
Dragon Cypress led Round Cypress, Black Peach, and Black Sophora to keep watch by the lakeside.
They waited for a full half month more, still with no movement.
"It seems that using God-Level Shining Gold to break through to King-Level is different from a normal breakthrough. The time needed is quite long."
Dragon Cypress analyzed, then ordered: "Round Cypress, Black Peach, Black Sophora, call over Black Persimmon, Black Leaf, and Rainbow Tea. You pair up in twos, three shifts in rotation, take turns on duty here."
"Got it!"
"Understood, Great King!"
"You can rest easy leaving this to us. Great King, go handle your other matters."
...
...
Dragon Cypress really was very busy.
Molan Mountain, where the Ocean God’s Scepter was rooted, was covered with scattered rocks, dry and barren, not suitable for practicing Wood Element Ability.
And once Azure completed the Evolution breakthrough and had stored enough Primordial Energy and nutrients into the Shining Gold within, it had to be moved over in time, and after that, for the long years to come, it would be rooted in Molan Mountain.
The Life Seed was a matter of life and death; Dragon Cypress only felt at ease guarding it personally.
So,
Dragon Cypress needed to condense at least three Wood Element Ability Divine Patterns as soon as possible.
The difficulty wasn’t high.
There was a reason why both Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid placed the Wood Element last among the seven-element system to strengthen.
The Natural God System had the most Wood Element plants. Across the Northern Hemisphere and the southern hemisphere, there were about 200 Divine God-Given Seeds in total, of which as many as 37 were Wood Element.
Among them, 32 granted Wood Element Ability.
Which meant Dragon Cypress, through Divine-Grade Fruit, had gained as many as 32 Wood Element Abilities.
And as many as 18 of those were Growth-type abilities.
Similar to ’Bean Vine Entanglement’, there were as many as 14 abilities that needed to be activated via a specific type of plant.
For example: Thorn Whip, Wisteria Prison, Bitterwood Grove, Pine Needle...
Taking ’Growth of All Things’ as the core, Dragon Cypress integrated these abilities that required specific plants into one. With more types of specific plants available, in almost any stretch of jungle, most plants could be called upon, greatly reducing restrictions.
There were also some general-purpose abilities suitable for combining with Growth of All Things, such as Flying Leaf, Poison Stinger, Tree Burial, Jungle Warrior...
Dragon Cypress used 24 Wood Element Abilities to form a super-complex, offense-and-defense-all-in-one, super Wood Element combat ability: [Wild Growth].
Specialized Green Soldiers only needed to inherit this one Divine Mark Ability to master extremely advanced jungle combat capability.
Wild Growth could also be combined with the Zhen Beast’s Carnivorous Flower form for coordinated combat, which meant Specialized Green Soldiers could coordinate with Dragon Cypress for jungle warfare.
A Super Ability came with super-high difficulty. Dragon Cypress spent seventeen years just to complete the ability-combination stage.
As for the other two Wood Element Divine Mark Abilities:
The first was Forest Symbiont combined with a Wood Element Carapace color-changing stealth ability from a creature called "Assassin Bug", forming a special Survival Type ability, still named ’Forest Symbiont’.
The second was four Wood Defense Abilities combined to construct a stronger Defensive Ability: [Bone Wood Shield].
Dragon Cypress had been painstakingly training in the three Wood Element Divine Mark Abilities he’d conceived for nearly twenty years already.
Bone Wood Shield was almost done.
Wild Growth progressed slowly because the combination was too complex.
Forest Symbiont, on the other hand, was hard to condense into a Divine Pattern because the combination was too monotonous.
...
After sleeping for a month, Azure still hadn’t awakened.
Dragon Cypress gradually lost the mind to keep paying attention.
...
Another month later,
In the afternoon as the sun was about to sink into the sea horizon.
The island’s northern natural ecological forest.
Ink Orchid, bored out of its mind, was hanging upside down on the trunk of a Golden Light Fruit Tree, silently watching.
Dragon Cypress was leading Black Persimmon and Black Peach, strolling through the forest, their Carapace colors changing back and forth.
Dragon Cypress was training the ’Forest Symbiont’ Ability together with the two Assistant Kings who had Wood Element Talent.
—What clumsy Ants~
—Shouldn’t this kind of Ability be something you’re born knowing?
Ink Orchid felt uncomfortable just watching, silently sighing helplessly in its heart: maybe it was just too outstanding itself.
Suddenly,
Ink Orchid sensed something, activated the Soul-Setting Ability, and its consciousness pounced straight toward Azure Lake to check the state of the Deep Blue God-Given Seed Azure.
"Great King!"
"Great King! Great King! Azure’s awake!"
Ink Orchid cheered and spread its wings, its figure flashing several times in a row before landing beside Dragon Cypress. The Carapace colors rapidly switched between red, yellow, blue, purple, and green in a simple bit of showing off, then it vanished into the forest, hidden.
"..."
Dragon Cypress, Black Persimmon, and Black Peach were briefly choked speechless.
Dragon Cypress shook his Tentacles and called out: "Let’s go take a look!"
They ran back to Azure Lake at full speed.
"Dragon Cypress!"
Azure took the initiative to call out, happily explaining: "Third Trace Realm! But I have to keep borrowing the ability of God-Level Shining Gold, and while blocking Law Perception, I must suppress my soul and Energy Field at a level between King-Level and the Scar Realm."
"Oh——"
Dragon Cypress stepped forward, spiritual power and Soul-Setting Ability unfolding at the same time, scanning and sensing at close range, then asked: "Azure, if you’re using God-Level Shining Gold all the time, that means you need to continuously consume Primordial Energy, right?"
Azure: "Yes. But the consumption is very small. Normally, I can maintain it just by absorbing Natural Primordial Force as usual."
Dragon Cypress: "Then do you still have spare capacity to store Primordial Energy into the Shining Gold?"
Azure: "If I stop flowering and fruiting, then that’s definitely not a problem."
Dragon Cypress: "Got it."
"Then stop flowering and fruiting! Get ready. After the next time the Ocean God’s Scepter activates, we’ll transfer you to Molan Mountain to take root."
"Alright."
"Azure, what about the Nine Traces Realm? How do you break through?"
"I already have enough Divine Marks. I just need a certain amount of time to recuperate and grow. That period shouldn’t exceed a hundred years."
"Oh——"
"Then by that calculation, we still have plenty of time! Azure, stop flowering and fruiting and focus on Growth."
