BXBX NOVEL Chapter 116: There's a Play!_i
Elder Qingfeng pondered for a moment, then nodded with a smile, “Thankyou for your kindness, our esteemed guests. After we fend off the Demon Human Clan, please come and have a look.”
“Oh dear, I can hardly wait! You go ahead; I’ll handle things here!” Monkey Kongxu took out his big machete, propped it on his shoulder, and upon finishing his words, charged out of the Formation to confront the Demon Human Clan.
The Demon Human Clan had obviously attacked many times before; the entire Wood Elf Clan was not panicked but calmly operated the Formation to face the enemy.
Li Cheng sensed that the heart of the Formation was beneath the cluster of Floating Peaks.
“Well then, the Demon Human Clan won’t be able to break through the Formation, let’s go and take a look at the Life Divine Tree!” Elder Qingfeng said.
Under Elder Qingfeng’s lead, everyone leaped down from the Floating Peak, descending straight down.
Moments later, after passing through layers of mist, they landed on a vast platform.
“Such a rich Life Law, but it’s tinged with an aura of death…”
As Li Cheng spoke, he released his Immortal Sense to see the full scope of the platform, showing shock in his eyes.
The platform had a diameter of a thousand miles, shrouded in bark, indicating that this massive platform was a tree stump!
On one side of the platform, there was an ancient tree ten thousand meters tall, clearly a new sprout from the tree stump that had grown.
“At the end of the last era, the Life Divine Tree was felled, but fortunately, it sprouted anew. Now it has become the new Life Divine Tree. Although it’s not as magnificent as the previous one, it can still preserve the lineage of the Wood Elf Clan,” Elder Qingfeng spoke.
“So you’re saying that it has only grown this much after hundreds of millions of years?” Li Cheng said.
The new Life Divine Tree stood ten thousand meters tall and several hundred meters thick, making it hard to imagine that it took hundreds of millions of years to reach this size.
Elder Qingfeng nodded, “Come, you’ll understand once you see it.”
Approaching the new Life Divine Tree, Li Cheng could clearly sense that the Life Law was even more concentrated, breathing it in felt like drinking ambrosia.
The Divine Tree was lush, bearing more than three hundred fruits, but each leaf and fruit had black spots containing hidden death energy within them.
One of the branches, several meters thick, had even turned completely black, filled with death energy!
“The Divine Tree itself is channeling the death energy towards that branch and leaves, but at this rate, it would take tens of thousands of years to complete the process. Moreover, the death energy is becoming increasingly concentrated, I worry that it might not succeed.”
“Do you see those fruits? The moment they mature, they will split into yin and yang; the yin fruit will birth our tribe members, and the yang fruit is key to the growth of newly born tribe members.”
“Those more than three hundred fruits were supposed to give birth to over one hundred and fifty tribe members, but now, they’ve been destroyed by the death energy,” Elder Qingfeng said with a deep sigh.
Li Cheng understood that not all Wood Elves were born from the Life Divine Tree; some were born through normal biparental reproduction. There wasn’t much difference between Wood Elves born through these two methods.
But relying solely on the latter wouldn’t work, as the bloodline of the tribe would weaken with each generation, until it disappeared.
Therefore, the Divine Tree must recover as quickly as possible.
“Li Cheng, you must have a way, right?” FengWanli asked.
Li Cheng approached the trunk, touched it with his hand, and began to intricately sense with the Life Law activated.
Upon sensing, he discovered that the trunk hid an abundance of Life Laws, but they had not condensed into Laws.
Under the influence of his Life Law, all the Laws became as if summoned and suddenly came to life. The death energy began to flee in terror, all converging towards the pitch-black branch.
Feng Wanli and the others sensed the change and looked at Li Cheng in astonishment, “This might work!”
Elder Qingfeng was even more overjoyed, his body trembling slightly with excitement; there was hope yet!
“At this rate, when will it be complete?”
Li Cheng withdrew his hand, slightly shaking his head.
It wasn’t just the branches and leaves, but also in the roots where death energy resided. To drive them all to one place would take months, if not longer.
“Why have you stopped? It’s not slow at all, just keep at it and you’ll be able to completely gather the deathly aura. Then you can simply cut down that branch,” FengWanli said, puzzled.
Elder Qingfeng steadied himself, “Li Cheng, I’m entrusting this to you. My Wood Elf Clan will definitely reward you generously!”
Li Cheng was taken aback and quickly said, ” Senior, that’s not what I meant, I was considering a faster method!”
How awkward, stopping like this made it look like he was trying to secure his benefits upfront.
He simply didn’t want to waste several months.
After a brief contemplation, Li Cheng flew to that dark branch. Unlike the others, it was filled with an abundance of the Law of Death.
If he understood the Law of Death, then he could certainly draw out the deathly rules like he did with the Life Law earlier and extract them!
Once that was done, without the reinforcement of the Law of Death, the deathly aura would naturally be easily expelled by the Divine Tree.
With this thought, Li Cheng looked at his panel.
[Current remaining enlightenment opportunities: i.]
One, that was enough!
The deathly aura on this branch was concentrated, with the Law of Death coalescing; a single moment of enlightenment would definitely yield a few strands of the Law of Death!
However, Li Cheng was somewhat puzzled. Twenty days had passed, and inside the Universe Mystery Tower it had been six hundred days, yet his four disciples hadn’t provided any enlightenment chances?
“No, that’s not right. System, where are the rewards from my four disciples? Give them to me,” Li Cheng thought to himself.
[Separate by several layers of space, unable to sense the disciples’ gains, thus unable to determine rewards.]
The system’s response made Li Cheng feel that it was pretty weak in terms of sensing; taking disciples could only sense within one percent of his own Immortal Sense range. Now that he had entered this Ancient Ruins, it couldn’t even sense his disciples’ gains.
“A weak system,” Li Cheng shook his head slightly, feeling helpless. If his disciples ascended one day, would he still receive any rewards?
[The host has only a hundred Space Laws, incapable of crossing multiple spaces to determine rewards.]
The system added another reminder.
Li Cheng raised an eyebrow, so it was because he was too weak?
Alright, let’s not trouble ourselves with the number of enlightenment chances. There’s still one left, and that’s all that’s needed!
He ran his Cultivation Technique to give it a try, and Li Cheng discovered that the Chaos Yuan Heavenly Scripture also indiscriminately accepted the deathly aura. He nodded in satisfaction, sensing the deathly aura and began his enlightenment.
“Enlightenment!”
The crowd was astounded to find that Li Cheng had entered a state of enlightenment again!
Just standing on that branch engulfed in deathly aura, he actually had an enlightenment!
At that moment, the deathly aura surged into Li Cheng’s body, causing everyone to feel shocked to their core.
That was deathly aura, after all; taking it into one’s body could attack the vitality within and at the least lead to death, or at worst turn one into a Dead Spirit!
Contrary to everyone’s expectations, however, the deathly aura was absorbed and refined by Li Cheng while he was in an enlightened state. Moreover, everyone could clearly sense that after refining the deathly aura, Li Cheng’s cultivation was rising rapidly!
“Li Cheng, truly extraordinary!” Elder Qingfeng murmured in surprise on his aged face.
Feng Wanli nodded, “Of course… Hmm? Senior, why do you say ‘as expected’? Did you already know Li Cheng was extraordinary before?”
Ye Chenfeng took over the conversation with a smile, “Master Li’s extraordinariness, with the cultivation of a senior like you, must have been sensed long ago!”
Although Feng Wanli was puzzled, he reckoned it made sense. But then…
“Taoist Friend Feng, weren’t you looking to rebuild your Immortal Body? Perhaps you could ask Elder Qingfeng if there’s a way,” Ye Chenfeng said, seeming to shift the topic, apparently not wanting to give Feng Wanli too much to think about.
Feng Wanli snapped back to reality, looking at Elder Qingfeng with anticipation. The elder smiled, “Reconstructing an Immortal Body is but a minor issue, but there’s a major issue I must warn our esteemed guest about.”