Chapter 25: 25,000-Year Demon Spirit Tree
After regaining consciousness, Lu Chen checked his body from head to toe and discovered that after absorbing his fourth spirit ring...
Nourished by this ten-thousand-year spirit ring, his physique had strengthened further. He clenched his fist tightly and felt an inexhaustible amount of strength within his body.
At the same time, his mental force had also been tempered. With the aid of his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, he could communicate with the surrounding Blue Silver Grass over a wider range.
In the past, he could at most communicate with Blue Silver Grass within a range of two to three hundred meters.
But now, he could already communicate with Blue Silver Grass within a range of two to three kilometers.
Whether it was searching for suitable Spirit Beasts or avoiding potential dangers in advance, this ability could play a greater role.
Lu Chen smiled with satisfaction at this.
Afterwards, he began to examine the torso of the Pure Heart Lotus, splitting it in two, cutting the whole thing in half, and looking it over carefully.
Finally, he sighed disappointedly: "No Spirit Bone. Thinking about it, that is normal. Spirit Bones are rare and hard to come by. Even if the Pure Heart Lotus is a ten-thousand-year Spirit Beast, the chance of it producing a Spirit Bone is less than one in ten thousand."
"I have already obtained a suitable spirit ring; I shouldn’t be greedy and hope the Pure Heart Lotus could also produce a Spirit Bone. One should be content."
Putting down the broken body of the Pure Heart Lotus, Lu Chen wiggled his body and squeezed out of the rock crevice, coming outside to breathe in some fresh air.
Lu Chen adjusted his mindset, rubbed his stomach, and said: "Time to get something to eat to celebrate obtaining my ten-thousand-year fourth spirit ring, and then it is time to set off to find my fifth spirit ring."
...
Half a month later!
Somewhere in the mixed zone of the Star Dou Great Forest, Lu Chen swung the Black Iron Sickle in his hand, hacking away the vines and thorns blocking his path.
While struggling forward in the forest, he communicated with the surrounding Blue Silver Grass: "You are saying there is an evil big guy ahead, very terrifying, that eats Spirit Beasts, and I should be careful?"
"Mm, I understand. In any case, as long as that evil big guy is a plant-type Spirit Beast, that is fine. I am just going to take a look from afar; I will not provoke it on my own."
Through communicating with the surrounding Blue Silver Grass, Lu Chen knew that not far ahead, there was a plant-type Spirit Beast that ate animal-type Spirit Beasts. It was a very evil big guy, extremely dangerous.
These Blue Silver Grasses had limited intelligence and found it difficult to describe the specific situation of that plant-type Spirit Beast.
But since it was a plant-type Spirit Beast, Lu Chen still decided to go take a look.
After half an hour of traveling, Lu Chen arrived at the territory of that plant-type Spirit Beast.
The moment he stepped in here, Lu Chen felt a chill. It was very strange; clearly, the sun was still hanging in the sky, yet it was unreasonably cold here.
Lu Chen looked at the surrounding soil, which presented a dark red color and gave off a rich, foul stench.
The plants growing on this land were a bit too lush compared to plants in other places.
But Lu Chen always felt that these vigorously growing plants exuded a sense of evil that made one feel uneasy from the bottom of their heart.
"Third Spirit Ability, Blue Silver Protection!"
Lu Chen was very vigilant, and the moment he felt uneasy, he summoned his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
He saw a stalk of Blue Silver Grass, glowing with a golden halo and exuding a holy aura, growing and circling around him.
And at his feet, the purple, purple, purple, black spirit ring configuration, which was extremely shocking to the heart, rose up from under his feet.
His third spirit ring suddenly lit up. After he poured his spirit power into the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul bloomed with light, propping up a blue barrier around his body.
With this energy shield, Lu Chen felt slightly at ease and then slowly continued to walk forward.
After walking less than a hundred steps, Lu Chen saw the true face of that plant-type Spirit Beast.
It was a towering giant tree reaching twenty-five meters in height, with lush branches and leaves. From the branches to the leaves, everything presented a dark red color. Looking from afar, that huge dark red canopy looked just like a heart, exuding evil.
Lu Chen widened his eyes in surprise: "Demon Spirit Tree, it really is just as the Blue Silver Grasses said, this is an evil big guy."
"The Demon Spirit Tree produces Demon Spirit Fruits. This kind of fruit has an exotic fragrance and will attract animal-type Spirit Beasts to eat it. Animal-type Spirit Beasts that eat the Demon Spirit Fruit will have their potential stimulated by the Demon Spirit Fruit, and their strength will directly increase exponentially."
"But correspondingly, the animal-type Spirit Beasts that eat the Demon Spirit Fruit will also have their inner killing instincts stimulated. Those animal-type Spirit Beasts with stimulated killing instincts will constantly kill each other."
"The Spirit Beast that survives to the end still has a chance to leave. The other Spirit Beasts that die will become the blood food for the Demon Spirit Tree. The Demon Spirit Tree devours the flesh and blood of these Spirit Beasts, obtains their life essence, turns it into its own nutritional fertilizer, makes itself grow vigorously, and produces more Demon Spirit Fruits the following year."
Lu Chen showed a look of hesitation, thinking about whether to hunt the Demon Spirit Tree to serve as his fifth spirit ring.
Judging from its cultivation, this twenty-five-meter-tall Demon Spirit Tree had a cultivation of at least over twenty-five thousand years. As his fifth spirit ring, it was undoubtedly very suitable.
However, the evil nature of the Demon Spirit Tree did not quite fit the direction of the spirit rings he had previously absorbed.
Therefore, Lu Chen was very hesitant!
After a long while, he made up his mind and thought: ’Although this Demon Spirit Tree is evil, that is because it constantly devours the flesh and blood of Spirit Beasts. The Demon Spirit Fruit of this Demon Spirit Tree is an excellent ability that can stimulate potential within the body and allow a Spirit Beast’s strength to increase exponentially.’
’Isn’t this exactly what I want, a skill that can amplify strength? The powerful inclusivity of Blue Silver Grass is enough to, to a certain extent, neutralize the evil nature of the Demon Spirit Tree.’
’And the best part is that my fourth spirit ring ability, Blue Silver Purification, does not originally have any attack capability, but it is extremely effective against evil Spirit Beasts like the Demon Spirit Tree, giving me the opportunity to calmly defeat it.’
’If it were another ten-thousand-year plant-type Spirit Beast with different attributes, with just my meager means, I might not necessarily be able to defeat them.’
Having comprehensively considered all aspects, Lu Chen finally decided to hunt the Demon Spirit Tree and let it serve as his fifth spirit ring.
Lu Chen raised his hand and pointed at the Demon Spirit Tree in front: "Go!"
The next instant, under Lu Chen’s control, his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul began to grow rapidly. Thick branches, like snakes and pythons, traveled forward, surrounding the Demon Spirit Tree.
Lu Chen’s Blue Silver Grass exuded a holy aura from its entire body, which made the inherently evil Demon Spirit Tree gradually feel a bit uneasy.
Rustle, rustle! The Demon Spirit Tree reacted instantly. One after another, thick root systems broke through the ground. On those roots, one could see dense barbs, making one’s scalp tingle.
Hanging on those barbs were the withered bones of various Spirit Beasts.
Having grown to twenty-five thousand years, in its lifetime, the Demon Spirit Tree did not know how many Spirit Beasts it had eaten; these withered bones were only a very small part of them.
Those root systems growing barbs quickly entangled with Lu Chen’s Blue Silver Grass, tightly wrapping around each other.
Lu Chen’s Blue Silver Grass suffered a small loss.
The root systems of the Demon Spirit Tree, carrying dense barbs, pierced the surface of Lu Chen’s Blue Silver Grass and began to devour Lu Chen’s spirit power.
Noticing this situation, Lu Chen immediately responded: "Fourth Spirit Ability, Blue Silver Purification!"
As his voice fell, his fourth black spirit ring lit up with dazzling light, emitting a terrifying fluctuation that made people feel oppressed.
Lu Chen’s spirit power was like floodwater from an opened sluice, continuously pouring into the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
His Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, from branches to leaves, bloomed with shining blue light, holy, pure, bright...
Ah! In Lu Chen’s ears, it seemed as if a faint, ethereal scream came.
Those Demon Spirit Tree roots that were originally still showing off their ferocity, under the illumination of that blue light, unexpectedly trembled violently one after another.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Strands of eerie, evil, black-tinged-with-red Qi volatilized from the root systems of the Demon Spirit Tree. That was the combination of resentment, Evil Qi, blood Qi, Death Qi... and other evil and filthy Qi.
Under Lu Chen’s Blue Silver Purification, it was practically meeting its nemesis, with absolutely no power to resist.
Seeing this, Lu Chen was overjoyed and controlled more Blue Silver Grass branches to surround the Demon Spirit Tree, layer upon layer.
Relying on the purifying power of Blue Silver Purification to suppress the power Origin of the Demon Spirit Tree, without those resentment, Evil Qi, blood Qi, Death Qi... the Demon Spirit Tree no longer had the ability to show off its ferocity, completely collapsed, and fell into a weakened state.
(End of Chapter)
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